Just when Zhang Zhen looked helpless, his aunt walked in with Zhang Lei wrapped in thick layers on his head.
Seeing that Zhang Zhen didn't care about her son's injury, her aunt not only asked sharply: "Zhang Zhen, what do you mean by staying in the study? Don't you want to stand up for your brother, so you just let others trample the Zhang family's face on the ground?" ?”
Zhang Zhen turned around, glanced at the two of them, and said calmly: "Second brother, do you know who the person who hit you is?"
Zhang Lei didn't say anything when he heard this, but just shook his head. If he knew, he would have told his elder brother long ago. Why would he wait for his elder brother to ask?
"His name is Han Du." Zhang Zhen said helplessly.
Han Du? Zhang Lei thought about it carefully and determined that he had never heard of this name. He looked up at his elder brother with a puzzled expression.
The aunt on the side didn't care, and shouted loudly: "Who is Han Du? No matter he is Han Du or Li Du, he is just a sixth-rank official. What, what do you mean, you don't want to give me anything?" Is your brother coming forward?"
Zhang Zhen was also very angry at his aunt's words. He laughed at himself and said: "It seems that Er Niang and Er Brother are really deaf to what is going on outside the window. Some time ago, there was an uproar in the capital because of an incident. Someone asked the Emperor Ask for a marriage."
After hearing this, the aunt said with a look of disdain: "You don't mean to say that the person who asked the emperor for a marriage was just for Han Du. He is a mere sixth-grade official, is he worthy?"
Zhang Zhen shook his head and said: "Er Niang really underestimated him. Not only did Han Du personally ask the emperor for a marriage, but the person he asked for a marriage to was Princess Anqing."
"Princess Anqing? Isn't Princess Anqing already engaged? How is this possible? How dare he?" After hearing this, the aunt was completely stunned. Isn't it a slap in the face of the royal family to ask for a marriage to a princess who is already engaged? This is courting death.
"Yes, this is a slap in the royal face." Zhang Zhen sighed helplessly, "I heard that the emperor was furious on the spot, but the strange thing is that after the emperor was furious, he just drove Han Du away. What's even stranger is still Later, the emperor only suspended Han Du from his post as punishment, but within a few days, he personally issued an order to promote Han Du as the secretary of the Jiaofang."
"This, is this true? How is this possible..." Auntie looked shocked and didn't know what to say.
Zhang Zhen sighed even louder and said slowly: "Yes, no matter who seems to think it is impossible, who doesn't know what the emperor's temper is? But such an impossible thing is real. What happened..."
One sentence made the three of them fall into silence.
In the end, Zhang Zhen murmured to himself: "How big a crime is it to ruin the royal family's face? If it were on my second brother and I, we would have been beheaded eight times, but it fell on Han Du's head." But he lifted it up high and put it down gently, it was just a suspension that was neither light nor serious. Just like that, within a few days, he was asked to do the Jiaofang Secretary Lift again..."
Zhang Zhen also prides himself on being an outstanding person, but why is the gap between people so big? As expected, there are people outside the mountains and people outside the mountains, and the comparison between people is so irritating.
"Forget it, Er Niang." Zhang Zhen said with a low expression: "The face of our Zhang family is nothing compared with the face of the royal family. Then Han Du has lost the face of the royal family, won't he still be alive and kicking? Like this People, let alone the current Zhang family, even if my father becomes a marquis in the future, our family will still not be able to offend him."
There is one thing Zhang Zhen didn't say, that is, he didn't see that Han Du had ruined the royal family's face. Did even the emperor have to grit his teeth and endure it? Although he didn't know what the reason was. But since the emperor can tolerate it, what can't the Zhang family tolerate?
After all, if you endure the calm for a while, you can take a step back and the sky will be brighter. If he went down with Han Dugang, he might be in disaster. Compared with life and death, what is face?
Seeing that Er Niang and Er Di were both silent, it was obvious that they all realized the seriousness of the matter.
Zhang Zhen was not polite to them and waved his hand and said: "Second mother and second brother, you should go back. Also, second brother, please stay at home and don't go there."
If you let yourself be suffocated at home, why don't you suffocate yourself to death? After listening to his elder brother's words, Zhang Lei realized that he couldn't go to Han Du to settle the score, but it didn't mean that he had to stay at home.
"Brother, don't do it. I promise you, how about not going to Jiaofangsi again? Isn't it okay if I go to other brothels? Just let me out." Zhang Lei begged Zhang Zhen.
But Zhang Zhen would listen to him, and directly ordered outside the door: "Uncle Lie, look at the second brother, and he is not allowed to go out for three months."
A burly old man walked in, bowed to Zhang Zhen, and replied: "Yes, eldest son."
"No, brother. One month is good, or two months. No three months, three months is too long, it will suffocate me to death..." Zhang Lei was pulled by Uncle Lie. He walked out and wailed at Zhang Zhen.
But no matter how he wailed, Zhang Zhen had no intention of changing his words.
When Er Niang saw Zhang Zhenzhen using Uncle Lie, she didn't dare to say anything more and left here.
Although Uncle Lie is a servant of the Zhang family, he has a life-long relationship with the master. Even when the master was at home, he never looked down upon his immediate family, and always regarded him as a brother. When the master went out, he asked Zhang Zhen to take charge of the house, and also asked Uncle Lie to take care of Zhang Zhen.
Therefore, Uncle Lie would not listen to anyone except Zhang Zhen. And once Zhang Zhen asked Uncle Lie to take action, even if this woman was Zhang Zhen's elder, she would not dare to say another word and could only leave in anger.
...
The Jiaofang Division is closed!
Although Jiaofangsi is about to be unable to operate, it is the result of those shameless officials who come here every day for free. If we look at service and quality alone, Jiaofangsi still firmly occupies the leading position in the brothel industry in Beijing.
This sudden closure will naturally dissatisfy those officials who want to come to Jiaofangsi for entertainment. There are those who have a hot temper and want to go on a rampage and rush in by force. After all, the former Jiaofangsi didn't dare to offend them at all. They asked for anything from the Jiaofangsi, so why would they obey the Jiaofangsi's arrangements? Now if I want to play, Master, your Jiaofang Division must be open for business. Can you say that it goes bankrupt when it goes bankrupt?
But before these officials could rush in, they saw Han Du sitting in the hall with a golden sword, and they couldn't help but stay away. Although those junior officials of the seventh and eighth grades did not know Han Du, they knew Han Du's official uniform.
