Medicine Girl Jingjing

Chapter 323 Li Bing's 1-strong army is missing ([-])
They can only take advantage of Li Jingjing and wait for her to go to Lishan to follow her.

In the morning of the next day, more than [-] civil servants jointly signed a memorial, saying that Ouyang Xiushi would substitute inferior ones for better ones in order to cover up the fault of ordering less food, and her character was not correct, and she sued Ouyang Fanshan for her injustice.

Ouyang Fanshan was staying on probation at his post, and the matter of his direct daughter Ouyang Xiu was actually used as a weapon by his political opponents to attack him.

The Liu, Ouyang, Wang, and Hu clans of the four major families in Chang'an were headed by the Liu clan in the past. In recent years, the power of the Liu clan has not been as good as before. The Ouyang family wanted to replace it, but the royal and Hu clans were not reconciled. .

He Dong has benefited the most from the internal struggle among the four clans. He has gradually regained control of the court.

This time He Dongzhang didn't take the opportunity to directly dismiss Ouyang Fanshan from the Ministry of Rites, but fined him three months' salary.

After Ouyang Fanshan returned to the mansion, he scolded Ouyang Xiu, fined her to kneel in the ancestral hall for a day, confiscated her monthly silver for three months, and ordered her to be banned from leaving the mansion.

After the civil servants learned about it, they took turns to visit Ouyang Xiu, but when they met, they returned what she had said.

"Aren't you talking about how favored you are in the mansion? If you were punished and knelt for a day and withheld the moon money, you'd even be banned."

Two days later, Qu Shi, He Shi, Li Jingjing, and the twins took a carriage to the royal family in the northern suburbs of Chang'an.

Today is the [-]th birthday of Yun's wife, the head of the royal family. People from the Yun family and the royal family came early, and then the wives of the civil and military officials and the ladies from the mansion arrived one after another.

"The old lady has an order that no one without an invitation will be allowed in."

"You have come from a long way to celebrate your birthday. The old lady has taken it. Please bring the gift back. This jar of wine is brewed by the workshop in our clan. The old lady said it is birthday wine. Please take it home and drink it."

In front of the bronze gate with two big stone lions, the eight royal family slaves, well-dressed and energetic, and several handsome young men and young masters of the family are welcoming and sending them off.

The guests who did not have invitations were persuaded to return with a jar of fine wine and gifts, so they would not complain.

The guests with invitation cards saw with their own eyes that so many were unable to enter, and they felt that it was a great honor to be invited to a birthday banquet by Yun.

A middle-aged man dressed as a butler in a gray satin gown came to the gate with a servant on horseback.

"I am the steward of Prince Qing's Mansion. On the order of our princess, I will send a birthday gift to the old lady of your mansion. I wish the old man a long and happy life."

King Qing is He Qing, the fifth younger brother of He Dong's direct relative.He has only one princess Kong Ye.

Concubine Kong is He Qing's direct cousin, that is, the cousin of He Dong brothers, and the late Empress Dowager's direct niece.

Concubine Kong has a distinguished status, and the Yun family sent her an invitation card for her birthday.

It's just that she didn't come, and sent a housekeeper to bring a birthday gift.

The servant presented a red brocade box and handed it to a young man from the royal family dressed in noble manners.

The young man smiled and said, "Please go inside and have a cup of tea."

"No need. I'll go back and report to the princess." The butler rode away with his servants.

The young man quickly walked into the mansion holding the brocade box and handed it over to the royal family steward who was in charge of registering birthday gifts.

"Concubine Kong of Prince Qing's Mansion, a pair of Ruyi." The royal housekeeper opened the brocade box to take a closer look, and registered it in the book.

The four little servants took turns to inquire about the visitors, and informed their masters—the two wives of the royal family—as quickly as possible.

The two wives were sitting in the side hall with all the female relatives, and looked at the slim and unengaged daughters-in-law and concubine who were sitting not far away.

"It's been a few years since I heard that Princess Kong attended any banquet."

"Except for the palace banquet on the first day of the new year, Princess Kong doesn't go to places with many people."

"A wife is more expensive than her husband, and a mother is more valuable than her son. Concubine Kong has both. She is a truly blessed person."

"Concubine Kong is too low-key."

Concubine Kong has a beautiful appearance, but her personality is introverted and weak.

She gave birth to two sons and a daughter.The eldest son He Jingyan is 21 years old this year, the second son He Jingxin is this year, and the youngest daughter He Jingmiao is 15 years old this year.

Needless to say, He Jingyan is handsome, well-versed in civil and military skills, and his reputation spread far and wide after defeating the Huns army a few years ago.

Although He Jingxin is shameless, he is also a majestic first-rank county king.

As long as the daughter marries one of the two, she will be the princess of the first rank of the county, and the eldest son will be the eldest son, who will be prosperous and rich forever.

Not only the two wives of the royal family, but also the wives of many wealthy families have such wishful thinking.

It's just that all the wives couldn't see Concubine Kong at public gatherings except for the palace banquet on the first day of the new year, so they posted a post to Prince Qing's Mansion, and were told that Concubine Kong was ill.

A young servant who looked very clever walked in quickly and reported: "Two ladies and ladies, the wife of Taishi Li has entered the mansion with her eldest daughter-in-law, granddaughter, and grandson. The old lady asks you to follow her immediately." Let's go out together to greet each other."

The Yun family led 37 wives and [-] ladies from the royal family, and welcomed Qu, He, Li Jingjing and the twins at the second gate.

Qu Shi was very happy to receive such attention, and smiled to Yun Shi: "You are the birthday star today, why did you come out to meet me in person?"

"The weather is hot, I didn't expect you to come in person." Yun's actually took Qu's hand affectionately and walked forward.

The Bai family and the He family walked side by side.Wang Yanyu took Li Jingjing's arm naturally.

The twins were directly picked up by two young women from the royal family who had been looking forward to having children for several years.

There are more than [-] women and young ladies who can sit in the hall, all of whom are distinguished.

Princess Niu, Princess Li, He Xiu, Princess Deng, He Jingfu, and He Jingyun of the royal family, the mistresses, eldest daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law of the three major families in Chang'an, the Yun, Niu, Hong, and Bai families with hundreds of years of history Concubine, Miss Concubine, etc.

All the girls looked at Qu Shi, and said in their hearts that she was younger and much better looking than the three dukes and wives, but they just didn't know how to behave.

Then they all went to see He Shi, Li Jingjing and the twins.

The He family's appearance and temperament are all good, and this person came to the birthday banquet, dressed in a manner that is not disrespectful, not worse than the concubine of the family for hundreds of years.

Li Jingjing is already well-known in Chang'an because of her two poetry meetings and the rescue of Deng Shiqilang. She is wearing a pink dress today.

I saw her eyebrows like ink painting, her big eyes were black and energetic, her pupils were as clear as water, her nose was full of cherry, her lips were like rouge, she was extremely beautiful and aura.

The twins were similar in appearance and [-]% followed the He family. They wore the same sea blue short shirt and silver gray trousers.

The women guessed which one was He Jiye and discussed in low voices.

"I don't know which one is Xiao Lang, whose adoptive surname is He?"

"The Li family is really willing to give such a good young man the adoptive surname of He."

"County Master He is deeply favored by the Li family. Otherwise, how could the master adopt the surname of County Master He as the third grandson?"

(End of this chapter)