Nine-fold lotus of the famous family

Chapter 429 Loyal and Yong Pei’s Family, Upstart in the Court (2)
Fortunately, the inner courtyard was far away from the street, so the sound coming here was not too loud, otherwise it would only wake up the children.

"Let Huanzi take Sister Shuang to bed first, and I'll take you out for a walk."

Pei Yan shook Ji Chonglian's hand with great interest, "It's Chinese New Year today, and there's no curfew in the city, so it's very lively!"

Ji Chonglian also wanted to go out to have a look at such a lively scene. After thinking about it, she agreed to Pei Yan, called Huanzi in, handed Sister Shuang, who was about to fall asleep, into her hands, and gave her some instructions before changing After shedding her clothes, she put on a dark purple satin cloak with squirrel fur inside and followed Pei Yan out the door.

The west city is still very quiet. Occasionally there are a few children in the south city with a bunch of maids, women or servants, and they set off fireworks at their gates, but they don't dare to make too much noise for fear of making noise The nobles next to the west.

The East City and the North City were lively. Pei Yan and Ji Chonglian got off the carriage at Fangshikou in the North City, and strolled along the streets.

Although it was night, the entire street was covered with lanterns, making the street as bright as daytime. Snack sellers, jugglers, and spectators were bustling with people on the street.

There is Wan'an Temple at the end of the northern city, and many people rush to Wan'an Temple to celebrate the first stick of incense in the New Year with paper money for joss sticks.

There are also river lantern releasers gathered by the inner river, and river lanterns of different shapes and exquisite workmanship float by, just like stars in the sky falling into the mortal world, which is amazingly beautiful.

Pei Yan took Ji Chonglian's hand and strolled along the inner river, pointed to the river and said, "In order for the common people to place lanterns on the river, the emperor ordered the soldiers from the five cities to smash the ice on the river ahead of time. The broken ice melted in the water, otherwise you wouldn’t be able to see such a beautiful scene tonight.”

Ji Chonglian smiled and nodded, "The emperor is sympathetic to the people."

After such a bloody coup and fighting, the people living in Shangjing should be desperate for peace and tranquility, and hope that the new emperor will bring a new scene. The people don't care who the emperor is, they only care about life Whether they can live a good life, whether they can live in peace, their wish is as simple as that.

Pei Yan turned to look at Ji Chonglian, the light from the river lamp seemed to fall into her dark pupils, shining little by little, her facial features were soft and beautiful, and the corners of her slightly pursed lips carried An indescribable coquettishness warmed his heart, and something slowly rose up, filling his heart bit by bit.

Pei Yan suddenly clenched Ji Chonglian's hand and pressed it against his chest, the smile on his lips slowly pulled up, perhaps this feeling is called happiness!
After the New Year's Eve, Ji Chonglian roughly selected some families from the gift list, and asked Guanshi Zhu to send out invitations one by one, inviting everyone to have a small gathering in the afternoon before the [-]th of the first lunar month, just a small gathering, no banquet, no stage, just a drink Drink tea, have some drinks, snacks, melons and fruits.

Those who received the invitation were naturally overjoyed and rushed to make new clothes. Although those who did not receive the invitation were envious, they did not dare to complain.

The Pei family is now an upstart in the imperial court, and only others are rushing to curry favor.

Ever since the King of Lingnan beheaded the adult men of thirteen honorable families, the talents of the high-ranking families have withered. If you don't want to be shuffled in this power shift, you have to hurry up and get rid of all kinds of relationships. As the emperor's close ministers, the Pei family is naturally the object of everyone's eager attention.

When the first emperor was there, there were originally two auxiliary ministers, one Marquis of Wuyi and the other Marquis of Wenjin.

Nie Pingyuan, the son of Marquis Wuyi, favored Princess Chaoyang in his early years, but he was tricked by Princess Chaoyang to death. Marquis Wuyi found out about it later, but he had no evidence, so he never dared to do anything to Princess Chaoyang. After that, King Lingnan occupied Shangyang. After the capital, Princess Chaoyang also came to persuade him to surrender as a lobbyist, but was immediately kicked out by Marquis Wuyi.

Princess Chaoyang was naturally very angry, and she turned around and said in front of Lingnan King that the thirteen noble families who were beheaded were counted as Marquis Wuyi.

At that time, Wen Jinhou realized that the situation was not right and he retreated bravely. Zhang Jiran, the chief assistant, led a group of officials to support the King of Lingnan, but he stayed at home sick and did not participate in any political affairs.

But now that the overall situation is initially determined, no one knows whether this Wen Jinhou will be able to climb up to the present emperor again.

In the twinkling of an eye, it was the twentieth day of the first lunar month, and the front of Pei's residence suddenly became lively. Horse-drawn carriages arrived in twos and threes as soon as noon passed.

All the guests who came today were distinguished guests. Although it was only a small gathering of the female relatives, Manager Zhu did not dare to neglect at all. The outer courtyard parked the carriage, and the inner courtyard Caiqiu had already arranged maids to receive and guide each family one by one. The ladies lead into the main hall where guests are received.

For this small gathering, Ji Chonglian still did enough homework and memorized the book.

Mrs. Tan of Dali Temple Qing's family is a typical northern woman, in her thirties, tall and fit, with a round face, she looks very friendly, she is wearing a royal blue double-breasted long jacket with ten patterns of brocade makeup, and only her feet are exposed. The two-inch silver edge of the inner long skirt rolled.

Mrs. Tan is very talkative, as soon as they met, she held Ji Chonglian's hand and talked non-stop, her words were very kind.

Mrs. Jiang, the left deputy supervisor of the historian of the Procuratorate, was born a little thin. Her thin body could not even hold up the long sleeved jacket with golden trimming satin all over her body. She didn't look very energetic. During the conversation, there was only Weiwei, Ji Chonglian only talked to her for a few words and then stopped with a smile.

Taichang Temple Qing Lord Qi's mansion is also related to Ji Chonglian. Ji Chonglian's fourth aunt Ji Mingyao married Qi Feiyang, the third son of Qi Lord's mansion. However, Qi Lord was only Taichang Temple Shaoqing back then. , but now he has secured his position as Minister of Taichang Temple.

And Qi Feiyang was also transferred from the review of the Imperial Academy back then to the Langzhong of the Ministry of Officials, and now it seems that his future is limitless.

Of course, if civil servants want to be promoted, they either have to wait for their qualifications, or they have to do some achievements as officials outside Beijing, otherwise it is really not easy to get promoted.

Military officers, on the other hand, can only be promoted to ranks by making military achievements, conferring wives and cute children, the two routes are different, but in the minds of ordinary people, gentle scholars are naturally much more respected than bloody men.

Mrs. Qi's wife in Taichang Temple heard that she had a stroke and was bedridden not long ago. This time, it was the third grandma of the Qi family, Ji Mingyao, who took the post and came to Pei's mansion.

"I thought Cousin Nuanyu was coming with Fourth Aunt, why didn't I see her?"

Ji Chonglian greeted her with a smile, and glanced behind Ji Mingyao, except for the two maids who had cleverly stood under the verandah, there was no one else in Qi's mansion.

"Nuanyu...we'll talk about this later."

(End of this chapter)