The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

To be favored and arrogant, the four words are very unfamiliar to Fang Wenhui, even if she had the support of the old lady Fang when she was in the Fang family, she would not dare to be arrogant.

There was a drizzle at the fifth watch, and when it was dawn, the courtyard was wet, and raindrops slowly slid down the lush vegetation.

Fang Wenhui sent Shui Mu away, and after freshening up, with only two wooden hairpins in her temples, she wore a pale yellow satin double-breasted armour, and a water-blue skirt, and went to pay her respects to the lord of the palace, Concubine Qi Gui.

The delicate and thin silk shoes under the feet stepped on the wet path, as if they were soaked within two steps.

Fang Wenhui was careful, so she went outside Qi Guifei's room and waited for someone to invite her before she went in. Seeing Qi Guifei dressing up, she hurriedly took a comb to tie his hair.

Concubine Qi's complexion was not very good, she coughed lightly in the mirror, looked at Fang Wenhui's young and fresh face, and sighed: "Sure enough, time is not forgiving."

Fang Wenhui said with a smile: "Your Majesty, why do you say that? Last night, the Lord kept asking me how my Majesty's diet has been for the past few days. It can be seen that my body is recovering."

Concubine Qi smiled lightly, "The lord came to me this morning to take a look, but I didn't live up to my expectations and didn't get up to see him." Seeing Fang Wenhui wearing only two wooden hairpins between her thick black hair, she slightly frowned and said: " Why did you dress up so plainly? If someone else sees it, wouldn't they suspect that I have withheld your share?"

Fang Wenhui held the jade comb, looked at Qi Guifei's charming silhouette with slightly lowered eyelids, and said, "The hairpin is not in good condition, it's not as good as the one I used to use at home."

Concubine Qi Gui was startled, thinking that Fang Wenhui has become so proud of being favored so quickly?She has only been pampered for a few days, and she dares to be picky about things, "Is the one made in the palace not as good as the one made by your family in the past?"

Fang Wenhui said with a smile: "It's not made in the palace, it's made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs outside." Because Dai Quan reminded her of another tribute from the Xue family last night, he said: "Not only this, but also There was the bird's nest from last night, I didn't feel very good after eating it, so I specially made porridge with some bird's nest from home and served it to the Lord. After the Lord ate it, he said that the things that should have been brought into the palace were all the best. Alright, never thought it would be inferior to those outside the palace.”

Concubine Qi frowned slightly. It turned out that Fang Wenhui was a calm person. I didn't want her to raise her tail within two days after gaining power. She coughed softly, and didn't have the heart to pursue the trivial matter of her privately bringing bird's nest into the palace. If you want to speak, you can hear the little eunuch outside the door screaming: "Your Majesty, the Lord rewarded Fang Meiren with a box of red hairpins."

The corners of Concubine Qi's mouth were tightly pursed, seeing that she had just left now, the rewards came on her back, she picked out a magnolia hairpin and asked Fang Wenhui to wear it for her, and then said: "Fang Meiren, go and thank her."

"Yes." Fang Wenhui backed out slowly, and when she went out, she saw Qi Guifei's son, the Fifth Prince, coming to pay her respects, so she stood aside with a big smile, "Hello, Fifth Prince."

The fifth prince nodded, and when he was about to enter Concubine Qi's room, he stopped and asked Fang Wenhui: "I just wrote an article and asked Father for advice, when will I show it to Father?"

The five princes are only seven years old, and they are born ice and snow smart, they can be regarded as the best among all the princes.

Fang Wenhui said with a smile: "The lord will come to Yuxiu Palace in the afternoon, the fifth prince can just come over at that moment."

The fifth prince nodded, and went into Concubine Qi's bedroom.

Concubine Qi Gui was listening in the room, and felt that she was no longer young, and she needed to support her right-hand man. Fang Wenhui couldn't hold back for a while and was arrogant because of pampering. In the way of keeping a low profile and keeping a low profile, if you are so open-minded with her, if you really win over her, you are not afraid that after she goes, the fifth prince will have no one to help and talk, so that he will be forgotten by now.

Outside the corridor, Fang Wenhui kept seeing the Fifth Prince entering Concubine Qi's palace, and then immediately went to her own room, telling the maidservant as she walked, "I have invited the Chief of the House of Internal Affairs, Mr. Chang, to come."

"Yes."

There is a saying that the King of Hades loves to deal with little ghosts. Fang Wenhui knew that her actions would surely offend a group of people, but she had to go back to her room because of her fate. She sat on the bed and embroidered with an embroidery frame. Holding a lotus flower, thinking of someone trying to assassinate Jia Lian, he thought about how he could secretly help him in the future. Judging from what he said last night, it helped Jia Lian and also left a way for her in the future.

"Beauty, Eunuch Chang is here."

"Tell him to wait outside. Tell him about the bad hairpins and the bad bird's nest. Tell him to stop offering these two houses," Fang Wenhui said.

"Yes." The maid Chuntao agreed and went out.After a while, he came back and said: "Beauty, Eunuch Chang said that the Empress Dowager and Empress use these two things, and I think there is nothing wrong with them."

Fang Wenhui deliberately raised her tone and said: "So I made trouble for no reason?" Then she deliberately raised her voice and asked, "Where is the Lord now?"

In Chuntao's eyes, Fang Wenhui is a person who is better at doing more than doing less. Seeing her anger now, she hastily said, "I think she hasn't retreated yet."

Fang Wenhui sneered and said: "I borrowed the small kitchen of the imperial concubine and made ginseng soup. When the Lord has retired from the court, I will go to the imperial study and give it to the Lord in person."

Chuntao was taken aback, thinking that the queen mother would not dare to go, so why did Fang Wenhui come so boldly all of a sudden?No matter what happened, she just agreed with her, hurriedly withdrew, and said to the chief of the Ministry of Internal Affairs: "It's just a seller of hairpins and bird's nests. If you don't buy theirs, don't you have nowhere to buy things?"

If Fang Wenhui hadn't been in the limelight recently, Chang Sheng, the head of the House of Internal Affairs, would not have come here at once by her. At this moment, he heard Fang Wenhui's arrogant words outside the door that he didn't take the queen mother and queen seriously, and laughed. Said: "It's not such a reason, this matter is of great importance..."

"Forget it, you can't make the decision, so I'll go talk to Eunuch Dai." Chuntao pretended to go out.

Every needle and thread purchase in the palace is very involved, and Chang Sheng didn't dare to make decisions on his own. Seeing that Fang Wenhui's master and servant were about to make a scene, he secretly winked at a little eunuch and asked the little eunuch to move Qi Guifei to suppress Fang Wenhui. The eunuch left, and when he came back, he said helplessly, "The fifth prince is serving the imperial concubine to take medicine, and he doesn't dare to disturb the imperial concubine."

Chuntao sneered and said, "I don't think my father-in-law puts beauty in his eyes anymore..." Seeing Shui Mu from a distance, who had not been away from Yuxiu Palace for an hour, striding forward in a dragon robe, she immediately felt aggrieved. In the past, he rushed to Shui Mu and knelt down, completely ignoring the traces of water on the ground, and said: "Please, my lord, let the beauty be the master!"

"What's wrong?" Shui Mu pretended to be stupid.

Chang Sheng was about to step forward and tell Fang Wenhui's fault-finding and unreasonable troubles in a tactful manner, when he saw Fang Wenhui holding the door frame with tears all over her face, and Lihua said with rain: "Chuntao, stop making trouble. I have too much to do , I used to be frugal when I was at home, but now I see that the palace spends so much but only buys the poor quality things sent by the Xue family, so I dared to invite the head of the House of Internal Affairs to speak."

Chang Sheng hurriedly looked at Fang Wenhui quietly, seeing that she was already very beautiful and attractive without makeup, secretly thought that the heart of the most vicious woman, she was so arrogant just now, now she is pretending to be pitiful?

Shui Mu immediately reprimanded Chang Sheng angrily and said: "If Fang Meiren says something is bad, no one's stuff will be allowed to enter the palace again!"

"Master, but this..."

"What else is there to say?" Shui Mu walked quickly to the corridor, supported Fang Wenhui with her own hands, and said softly: "I know that you have a hard life because you were born at home, so you have a frugal temperament. This matter can be done according to your wishes." After finishing speaking, he took the water blue handkerchief from Fang Wenhui's hand and personally wiped her tears.

The emperor was so angry that he became a beauty, and Chang Sheng couldn't justify himself, so he had to respectfully agree, thinking in his heart that the Xue family had offended Fang Meiren for some reason, so he immediately sent an order to the outside, and went to the Ministry of Household Affairs in person Once, the name of Xue's family was revoked, which would offend others, so they went out of the palace in a sedan chair and went to Xue's family in person.

When he arrived at the door, Xue Pan came out to meet him.

"My father-in-law is here, and I am really disappointed." Xue Pan smiled boldly, thinking that Chang Sheng was here to "borrow" money, thinking about how much money he should give him.

Inevitably being blamed by the Xue family for taking the money from the Xue family for nothing, Chang Sheng sneered preemptively with his hands behind his back: "Your family did a good job! Because of the prince, our family has always regarded your Xue family as our own family. Now you Let me tell you, how did your family offend Fang Meiren?"

Xue Pan was stunned, and said in a daze, "Elder-in-law, what are you talking about? Our family is very close to Fang Mei's family. I just had wine with Fang's son-in-law a while ago."

"If that's the case, how could Miss Fang be so pitiful and beg to get rid of your name now!" Chang Sheng said with a forceful tone.

Xue Pan was stunned, and hurriedly said: "Don't scare me, father-in-law. Sure enough, the household department has removed our family's name?"

"Why am I bluffing you? Now the hairpin business is gone, and the bird's nest business is also gone! I have the guts to intercede for your family, but when that beautiful woman cries, even I will almost suffer!" Chang Sheng sneered. .

Xue Pan was stunned, thinking that he had no enmity with Fang Wenhui, why did she want to make trouble with Xue's family?He hurriedly sent someone to tell Aunt Xue and Wang Xifeng that Chang Sheng was chattering, and although he suffered a loss, he wanted to appease Chang Sheng gratefully, and asked him to sit in the chair in the main seat in the front hall, and then asked him to make a drink. Waiting for good tea.Seeing Ping'er helping Wang Xifeng come over, her eyes were red with anxiety, waiting for Wang Xifeng to make up her mind.

"Look, father-in-law, if we go to ask the Fang family about this matter, is there any room for recovery?" Wang Xifeng said with a smile. In her heart, it doesn't matter if she loses the name of the household department, what matters is that she offends the people in the palace. I'm afraid that the sales outside the palace will also be hindered.

Chang Sheng sneered and said, "Last night, I was resting in Fangmei's room, and this morning I went to court, and went again without taking off the dragon robe. According to my opinion, that Fangmei's momentum is in full swing." After all, he complained that the Xue family had troubled him. When he saw Wang Xifeng for the first time, he couldn't help but sneak a glance at her. He sighed in his heart that Grandma Xue had such a romantic and enchanting appearance. If she entered the palace, she would be pampered for a while with this appearance.

Wang Xifeng hurriedly gave Xue Pan winks, and Xue Pan hurriedly gave Chang Sheng the bag of silver that Ping'er had prepared.

Chang Sheng put the silver on the high table at hand, but refused to accept it right away.

Wang Xifeng walked two steps, took the tea bowl from the little girl's hand and put it in Chang Sheng's hand, and said with a smile: "Could it be that the father-in-law won't give us a good face because he sees that we have no face?"

Chang Sheng refused to cut off the Xue family's wealth, and deliberately sneered and said: "I'm afraid I will give you good face, and I will lose face when I go back to the palace." Then he glanced at Wang Xifeng's clothes and decorations in the hall, and saw that her clothes were half The new ones are not old ones, and the decorations in the hall are not very rich, so I secretly wondered if the Xue family is poor?

Wang Xifeng smiled and said: "Eunuch, don't worry, our family doesn't do business in the palace. Doesn't Eunuch know that the things we sent to the palace may have gone wrong, and they would rather spend more money than tell the Ministry of Household Affairs. Ask for more money. Since the palace doesn’t do our business, then we just concentrate on doing business outside. In the future, we need to ask my father-in-law to help me more.” He then signaled Xue Pan to take more money.

Xue Pan endured the pain and made people take another 200 taels, and smiled reluctantly: "Take this money and buy a little girl for my father-in-law to wait on."

When Chang Sheng saw Yinzi, he felt happy, and said in a babbling way: "It's a big taboo to do business with the lady who is favored in the palace. If Fang Meiren doesn't mention this matter in the future, I will intercede for you again, and I will still hang my name. Go up." Ling the little eunuch collected the money, then got up and went out.

Xue Pan hurriedly sent this very respectable eunuch out of the mansion in person, turned back and went back to the room dejectedly, saw Wang Xifeng lying on the bed with a quilt on her side, and said hurriedly: "What should I do now? I lost it suddenly In name, others will only think that our family has made a mistake in the palace, and they must not even do business with us outside the palace."

Wang Xifeng came back to his senses, and also looked worried, and said to Xue Pan: "It's useless to say these things now, you should hurry up and talk to Lian's second brother, and find out how we offended Fang Mei to be serious. , Otherwise, this is the head. If Fang Meiren blows the pillow wind one day, our house will be like Ningguo Mansion..." I felt that this was unlucky, so I let out a piss.

Although Xue Pan had some contacts with the Fang family and the Xu family, they did so only through Jia Lian. Hearing what Wang Xifeng said, he nodded his head hurriedly and went out immediately.

Seeing him going out impatiently, Ping'er pulled the red quilt for Wang Xifeng's sons and grandsons, and said in a low voice: "Master is too impatient, maybe he offended Fang's family outside."

"According to me, our girl is too juicy, which made Fang Mei feel jealous, so Fang Mei acted preemptively and wanted to cut off our girl's way to enter the palace." Wang Xifeng said plainly, since Xue Baochai If she wanted to intervene in the affairs of the Xue family, she told Xue Baochai to be involved in all the affairs of the Xue family.

Ping'er was startled, and seeing Wang Xifeng winking secretly, she nodded, straightened the quilt for Wang Xifeng, went out, called Wang's daughter-in-law, and told Wang's daughter-in-law what Wang Xifeng said just now.

After hearing this, Wang's daughter-in-law knew that Wang Xifeng and Xue Baochai would not deal with each other, so she quickly agreed, and went to talk to the gossiping women and daughters-in-law in the mansion.

At dusk, Ying'er's mother heard about it from a woman who planted flowers, so she called Ying'er and whispered to Ying'er outside Xue Baochai's courtyard.

Ying'er was always well-behaved, but she felt that if she didn't tell Xue Baochai about this matter, Xue Baochai would be kept in the dark, and she might be disqualified in a daze, so she hurried into the room and saw the empty and undecorated room , Xue Baochai was sitting on the kang cutting a piece of rose-red silk gauze, and hurried to her, telling Xue Baochai what her mother had heard.

"The eunuch said that?" Xue Baochai was stunned.

Ying'er immediately said: "The eunuch said that just after he left, isn't it true? Fang Meiren must be jealous of the girl's good temper and good temper."

"Nonsense, how have I ever seen her?" Xue Baochai shook his head.

Ying'er said: "Maybe it's because the girl's good name has spread? It's not that the Fang family has no relationship with our family. Back then, Fang Mei became a beauty. Didn't the uncle and grandma always say that the girl will definitely come to the palace once she enters the palace?" Comparing Fang Meiren?"

Xue Baochai shook her head again, it wasn't because she underestimated herself, it was because she didn't believe that someone would come to suppress her when there was only a shadow of her entering the palace, "Go and see if the uncle is back?"

"Hey." Ying'er agreed, and hurried to the front to inquire. After a cup of tea, she came back and said, "The uncle just came back from outside and was talking to the old lady."

Xue Baochai hurriedly got down from the kang, stretched out her hand and flicked away the velvet sticking to her dress, straightened her temple hair a little, then went forward to listen to what Xue Pan had to say, and walked gracefully to the door of Aunt Xue's room, ordering Yinger to wait outside , I lifted the curtain and walked in lightly. Seeing Aunt Xue and Xue Pan talking in the east room, they didn't show up immediately, but stood by the Baibao Pavilion in the compartment and looked towards the east room through the gap.

I saw Aunt Xue, Xue Pan, mother and son sitting opposite each other on chairs, both moaning and sighing.

Aunt Xue said anxiously: "Your uncle is in Guangxi, and he can't quench his thirst in the distance. What should we do? The Ministry of Households really doesn't give your uncle any kindness? The Ministry of Households is the territory of the Xu family. Brother Lian, why don't you go to Xu's house and say good things?"

Xue Pan sighed and said, "Nowadays, I am so angry that I am a confidante. Who dares to speak up? It's just that Lian's second brother went to Xu's and Fang's for me to ask, and he said that there is no grudge. Even the young master of the Fang family heard about it. , and came here specifically to talk to me, everyone said that this matter was Fang Mei's own idea."

"What can our family have against Fang Meiren?" Aunt Xue asked doubtfully.

Xue Pan muttered, "Second Brother Lian also said it was a personal grievance, but he didn't know what it was. Second Brother Lian told us to think carefully about how we offended someone, otherwise Fang Meiren will do it again, and we'll all be ruined."

Standing behind the Baibao Pavilion, Xue Baochai unconsciously lowered her head, thinking to herself that Fang Meiren really feared her?I couldn't help being a little discouraged, I just felt that before I entered the palace, Fang Meiren, who was so powerful and rampant, could defeat Xue's family, so she walked out from behind Baibao Pavilion, and said to Xue Pan: "Brother will go to Rongguo Mansion in two days Go around and try to let Fang's family know that I will not enter the palace, there is still room for redemption."

Xue Pan was stunned, "My sister doesn't want to enter the palace anymore?"

Xue Baochai kept silent, she naturally wanted to enter the palace; Aunt Xue quickly asked Xue Baochai, "Could it be that you know something?"

Xue Baochai looked at Xue Pan and said, "Mother just ask brother. Now everyone in the house says that Fang Mei is afraid of me, so they want to use Xue's family as a raft."

Xue Pan listened to the people talking about their personal grievances for a day, and when they heard Xue Baochai's talk now, he immediately felt that Xue Baochai was the most beautiful woman in the world, and after entering the palace in two or three years, he would definitely surpass Fang Wenhui, so he nodded and said: "That's the only way it could be."

Aunt Xue was so frightened that her heart was pounding, she hurriedly said: "No way, if you don't enter the palace, the previous hard work will not be in vain? Fang Meiren..."

"Let's talk about housing beauties first, and then we'll think about countermeasures." Xue Baochai secretly sighed that a little beauty could get rid of the Xue family's name with just a few words, and she would be on the rise after entering the palace.

Aunt Xue understood that Xue Baochai was planning to slow down the army, so she said to Xue Pan: "Just follow your sister's words and tell Brother Lian. After all, it was born by an aunt. Mei Fang is too narrow-minded."

Xue Pan hurriedly agreed, resigned from Aunt Xue's side, and immediately strode towards Wang Xifeng's yard. From a distance, she saw Wang Xifeng walking down the corridor holding Ping'er's hand, and hurriedly went over and said, "It's amazing, it turns out that Fang Meiren is targeting our family because she is jealous of her younger sister's beauty!"

Wang Xifeng's eyelids twitched, and he said, "I'll just say, if you have the Tao, it's mediocre to not be envied by others. My sister is such a good person, it's only natural for someone to be jealous."

Hearing that what she said made sense, Xue Pan became more and more convinced that it was Xue Baochai who caused the loss to the Xue family. He just said, "The wind is getting stronger, let's go back to the room and rest", and helped Wang Xifeng back into the room.

There was nothing to say all night, and the next morning, before Xue Pan got up, he heard Ping'er come in and followed the tent and said to Wang Xifeng with him: "Master, grandma, some masters sent someone to say that the bird's nest and satin that had been ordered earlier No more."

Xue Pan opened the curtains violently, and said with a sneer, "Sure enough, they are acting on the basis of the wind. The palace says our things are not good, even if they use them well, they still have to say they are not good!"

Wang Xifeng also propped herself up and sat up, and said to Xue Pan: "Go to Rongguo Mansion and talk to Brother Lian, there is nothing to count on from Uncle - if he can use it, our name will not come easily. No more. When you propose a deal with Brother Lian, it doesn’t matter if you let him take [-] to [-] percent.”

Xue Pan agreed, got up, took the clothes from Ping'er, put them on, washed hastily, ate a bowl of japonica rice porridge, and went out immediately, leading the people to Rongguo Mansion, and arrived at the gate of Rongguo Mansion , saw Lin Zhixiao leading a man carrying a box of things into the mansion, and entered the Rongguo mansion through the corner gate. Seeing Jia Lian standing in the gatehouse and inspecting it, he smiled and said, "Second Brother Lian, what did you buy?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "Preparing things for marriage." He waved Lin Zhixiao to send the firearm that Chen Yejun quietly gave him in the box to the outer study, and said to Xue Pan: "You don't have to worry too much about the household affairs. Worry. After a while, the rumors will subside, I begged Mrs. Xu to hang it up for you again."

Xue Pan nodded gratefully, took two steps forward and awkwardly told Jia Lian that Fang Wenhui was jealous of Xue Baochai, and said to Jia Lian solemnly: "Second Brother Lian, you know that we are reluctant to let Baochai enter the palace. You just Take this and tell Fang's family, tell Fang Meiren to let us go."

Jia Lian thought to himself that this idea was suggested by a woman, and another man would not be able to think of such an explanation, so he agreed with a smile.

Because relying on Wang Ziteng's name in the household department is useless, Xue Pan stopped counting on Wang Ziteng, and followed Jia Lian to the study with a smile, saying as he walked, "Now we are counting on the second master Lian to replace him." We have made the decision, Second Brother Lian must not leave Brother alone!"

"Of course, if you still say this now, it would be too outsider." Jia Lian laughed.

Just after entering the study yard, I heard Lin Zhixiao say: "Second Lord, everything is ready for Prince Zhongshun's mansion, but there is only one pot of fine wine that Prince Zhongshun loves, so it's not easy to give it away."

Xue Pan hurriedly said, "Just go to my shop and get it."

Jia Lian said angrily, "What are you talking about? Am I someone who takes advantage of you like your uncle?" If you want to take advantage, you can't directly ask for things from Xue's family.

Xue Pan smiled honestly, and then asked Jia Lian: "Why did Lian's second brother think of sending wine to Prince Zhongshun's mansion?"

Jia Lian said with a smile: "The situation is stronger than people." Now he is going to be an undercover agent in Prince Zhongshun's mansion by order, and he doesn't know how many generous gifts he will send to Prince Zhongshun's mansion.

Seeing that Jia Lian also had helplessness, Xue Pan entered Jia Lian's study and saw a guqin in the hall, and papers with reminder poems scattered everywhere, and immediately said, "Second brother Lian really does everything by himself. There's a piano here, don't tell me you have to play the piano for your new sister-in-law when you're urging on makeup?"

Jia Lian rubbed his fingers on the strings of the qin, and said with a light smile, "It's not enough to play the qin. It's just that I didn't pay attention when I was engaged. You should pay more attention when you get married." I don't know that Erheng was taught a lesson by him, and now What does it look like, don't overcorrect it, it's better to be lifeless.