The son of the red mansion is unscrupulous

Who is Fang Wenhui?A little concubine, if you give me a chicken feather, she will be an arrow, and dare to point out the offerings in the court without shame?

Shui Mu did not doubt Fang Wenhui because of the secret loyalty of the Fang family and the Xu family.Not so the Queen Mother.

So after sunset, the crowd dispersed, caught in a dilemma between the Supreme Emperor and the Emperor, and finally determined not to betray the Supreme Emperor and not take the initiative to deal with the Emperor, the Empress Dowager returned to her Buddhist hall, changed into homely clothes and sat on the couch with Buddhist beads , frowning slightly, staring at Fang Wenhui, who looked downcast and pleasing to the eye, not at all cynical.

"Did you do this at the emperor's will?" asked the empress dowager.

Fang Wenhui nodded and looked at the empress dowager suspiciously, rejoicing that the relatives of the Fang family were so involved and the empress dowager would not do anything to her, so she shook her head after thinking about it.

"Don't do this kind of thing again in the future, a woman should be worthy of her husband first." The empress dowager taught, because she was concerned about the emperor, she made up her mind to only restrain Fang Wenhui and stay away from the emperor.

"Yes." Fang Wenhui was inexplicably relieved. Seeing that the Empress Dowager wanted to drink tea, she washed her hands and brought tea for her. She carefully observed the Buddhist hall and saw that it was not like the old lady Fang. The arrangement is very deserted.There is a sewing basket next to the Buddhist table in the Buddhist hall. On the couch where the queen mother sits, there is a half-made tiger puppet. There is only half of the chestnut roll left.

"Queen Mother, Eunuch Chang is here." A hale and hale old nanny came in.

Fang Wenhui hurriedly stood beside the Empress Dowager with her hands down. She knew that Chang Sheng regarded her as a thorn in her side, and now she was preventing Chang Sheng from making trouble.

After the old mother's words fell, she saw Chang Sheng, who was smiling and brisk, came in briskly. After entering, she immediately flattered and said: "The little one pays his respects to the queen mother, the emperor asked the little one to come and ask you if there are any nephews who are idle at home, call me They were ordered to go out of Beijing to select merchants." Quite a few villains glanced triumphantly at Fang Wenhui, and thanks to Fang Wenhui, another chance to make a fortune fell at his feet for no reason.

The empress dowager knew that the emperor had found a way to expand her private treasury, so she smiled kindly: "My family is full of useless things, so I shouldn't pay attention to them."

"But the Supreme Emperor said..."

"Tell the Supreme Emperor that my family is useless, so ignore them. What kind of eyesight do they have? Don't ask them to get involved." The Empress Dowager turned cold, and then asked: "The Supreme Emperor should still be led by the Zhongshun Palace. People from the household department will take care of this matter?"

"The empress dowager is wise." Chang Shengdui laughed, lamenting that the empress dowager was too careful, and now she was afraid that her family would get rich with the emperor and hinder the emperor's eyes.He also secretly thought about retiring in two years and getting out early, so as not to be wiped out by the emperor in the future.

"Go, if you let me know that you pushed the empress dowager behind my back and told my natal family's blind people to mess around with me, I will find my own way to deal with you." The empress dowager waved her hand.

Chang Sheng bowed his body and agreed, then secretly glanced at Fang Wenhui, and hurried to the Taishanghuang's bedroom to answer the Taishanghuang.

When the Supreme Emperor heard that the Empress Dowager still refused to ask her natal nephew to do things for him, he was not annoyed, and said to Chang Sheng: "The emperor doesn't like you at this moment, so you can go to the south for a while to choose."

There is a saying that wealth can pass through the gods, not to mention, if he controls the House of Internal Affairs, he can prevent the emperor from secretly attacking, so why would he not do it?

Chang Sheng agreed, and after he withdrew, he was afraid of being called in by the emperor for questioning, so he went out of the palace overnight and went to rest in the house built outside the palace. The merchant who wanted to be an imperial merchant made as much money as he could, so he lay down in the warm fragrance and warm jade and fell asleep. The next morning, after breakfast, he took a sedan chair and rushed to Zhongshun Palace.

After entering the corner gate of Prince Zhongshun's mansion, he followed the boy to the garden stage, seeing Kou Guan in tune and teaching Qi Guan how to pour tea for Prince Zhongshun, he went over with a lot of smiles and said, "My lord is overjoyed!"

Prince Zhongshun had heard about the matter in the palace a long time ago, sat in the grand master's chair and slightly arched his hands, "We are happy together."

"The lord is indeed a noble man, and he always wants to come true." Chang Sheng smiled, glanced at Qi Guan, and looked at Kou Guan again.

"It's not that the prince's wishes come true, it's because someone is willing to make it happen." Kou Guan said cleverly.

Chang Sheng doesn't know why.

Only Prince Zhongshun proudly crossed his legs, stroked his beard and laughed boldly. Fang Wenhui is the daughter-in-law of Li's daughter-in-law, and the Li family is as close as the same family as Xu's family; Lord Zhongshun taught him once, and after he was named on the gold list, he secretly called Lord Zhongshun twice as a teacher.In this way, when Prince Zhongshun heard Kou Guan's words, he immediately felt that the Fang family, Xu family, and Li family were all his people, and none of these people did not want to facilitate his good deeds.

"What do you mean by that?" Chang Sheng slyly looked back and forth between Guan Kou and Prince Zhongshun.

Prince Zhongshun shook his head, and was unwilling to tell Chang Sheng immediately.

Chang Sheng hurriedly asked again: "Then, will the Xue family want to give Mr. Wang some face and put his family's name back on?" After speaking, seeing Prince Zhongshun's gesture, he sat down on the low stool under him.

"No need, Jia Lian of Rongguo Mansion has already begged me not to allow the Xue family to hang up." Prince Zhongshun laughed at Jia Lian's villainous heart, and even guarded against the Xue family's swaying to the Wang family's side.

"The fans, sweet-scented osmanthus flowers, signing papers and other odds and ends, who does the prince intend to entrust to make them? These seem to be inconspicuous things, but seriously, they all cost a lot of money." Chang Sheng sighed. , All of a sudden, the Taishanghuang's private treasury was filled up.

Prince Zhongshun waved his hand and said: "Don't say such things again, it is serious to select carefully." If you are not serious, first decide on the merchant, where can you collect the bribe money?

Chang Sheng took it for granted.

Guan Kou stood aside all the time, and after Chang Sheng had finished talking to Prince Zhongshun, he bowed to Chang Sheng and said, "I need to ask my father-in-law to take care of you on this journey."

"Is Kou Guan going too?" Chang Sheng asked in surprise.

Prince Zhongshun pointed dotingly at Kou Guan and said with a smile: "He said that he is getting old and wants to find a serious job. He is going to be the team leader and bought boys for me to train and teach."

Chang Sheng laughed and said, "Guan Kou is only nineteen." After finishing speaking, he remembered that Guan Kou was old in this industry, so he said with a smile, "It's good to serve the lord. In two years, the lord will be kind enough to replace you." You marry a good wife, and the whole family stays in the palace, where the wind and the rain won't blow, even I envy you."

Guan Kou scolded the old eunuch in his heart, and smiled like a spring breeze on his face: "I accept your auspicious words." Then he went to serve tea to Chang Sheng in person, and listened to Chang Sheng discussing the itinerary to the south with Prince Zhongshun, thinking about it. He wondered when he would run away, and when Chang Sheng finally left, he offered tea to Prince Zhongshun himself, and humbly apologized with a smile: "My lord, there is one thing that I dared to agree to others first, and now I say it to my lord." Listen, I don't know if the prince will agree."

"What's the matter?" Prince Zhongshun asked casually.

Guan Kou smiled and said: "Brother Qiang who came from Ningguo Mansion is now spending his days with his mother and little aunt. I promised to support him, but now I don't know if the prince will let him follow us to the south to sell some things to Beijing." sell here."

Hearing that it was the Ningguo Mansion, Prince Zhongshun immediately turned cold. If Jia Zhen hadn't hid the matter of taking in a pair of orphans in Prince Yizhong's Mansion because of lack of greed, she wouldn't have asked them to borrow money from the house now. If the government earns some money, it will be complacent - if the emperor hadn't forced the empress dowager to come forward, if the emperor hadn't given the empress dowager some face, how could it have happened?

"My lord, the little one agreed to this first. If I ignore it, I'm afraid that the little one will have no face to see the people in Beijing again." Kou Guan said, his eyes turned red, "What kind of people are we? If people are happy, they will shout "Brother, if you're not happy, you can scold anyone who insults you!"

"Forget it, tell that Brother Qiang to follow." Prince Zhongshun said impatiently, Jia Zhen was in prison, and there were only a few people left in the Ningguo Mansion, so it was not worth worrying about them.

"Thank you, my lord. I'll talk to Brother Qiang in two days." Guan Kou said triumphantly. His lord loyal and obedient had become suspicious of him. When he returned to the backyard, he led Qiguan back to the room where he was resting. Seeing that Qiguan was cautious and envious of him, he wrung the handkerchief in the basin by himself, wrung it dry and wiped his hands. Without looking at his face, he asked Qiguan: "Why don't you go back to the theater troupe to see when the prince is out on errands?"

Kou Guan's house is very delicately organized. In the three small rooms, one bright and two dark, from the curtains to the tables and chairs, everything is exquisite, just like a daughter's boudoir.

Qiguan muttered: "The leader of the class didn't treat me very well. I finally came out. Why bother to go back?"

"Confused! I have completely cut off contact with the outside world. Could it be that I will be trapped here for the rest of my life?" Kou Guan sneered, fearing that his words would reveal his flaws, he sat down on a mother-of-pearl yellow rosewood chair by himself. For a few days, I couldn't bear to see him spend his whole life in Zhongshun's mansion, so I said: "I only got to know a few brothers who treat me sincerely by going out to sing operas every now and then. Loyalty is a matter of course, but wouldn't it be good to leave a way? In the future, when you get old, the prince will show you kindness and reward you as a class leader, wouldn't it be good?"

Qi Guan heard that what he said was very reasonable, and when he was about to serve him again, he saw Kou Guan's own two youngest sons coming, so he had to retreat out tactfully.

Guan Kou was suspicious of Prince Zhongshun, so he didn't dare to talk to Feng Ziying immediately. For the next two days, he carefully waited by Prince Zhongshun's side, and listened carefully to Prince Zhongshun's instructions to go to the officials in Jiangnan to "borrow money", as if he only cared about this matter. The fat officials who weaved and salted had to borrow a lot of money.

Hearing these words, Guan Kou pretended to promise to bring some soil and objects for the stewards in the mansion who were not allowed to go to the south of the Yangtze River, so he chose the day when Prince Zhongshun entered the palace, and rode out to Ningrong Street, intentionally Walking along the noisy restaurant, he was stopped by Xue Pan at the bottom of a restaurant, and stopped his horse.

"Where are you going? After the farewell that day, I remember it very much. I hate that you are in the palace and I can't see you." Xue Panhou came out of the restaurant with a face.

Kou Guan knew that Xue Pan didn't dare to do anything to him, so he sneered and said, "Look at the day when I will go all out, go talk to your grandma, and see if she doesn't peel your skin."

When Wang Xifeng was mentioned, Xue Pan didn't dare to speak nonsense anymore, grabbed Kou Guan's rein, and asked, "Where are you going?"

"I promised Brother Qiang to help him before, but now I finally agreed to him for nothing, and I am going to talk to him." Guan Kou said.

Xue Pan immediately said: "He's at the Rongguo mansion right now, I'll take you there." After that, he asked the boy to lead his horse, and when he got on the horse, he followed Kouguan to Ningrong Street. On the way, he naturally wanted to ask what was going on in the palace first, and gloated and gloated: "I heard that the merchants deliberately bury their own things and dare not send them to the palace. The Emperor is too emperor, but now he doesn't even have pork to eat?"

"It's not as powerful as you said, but it's just missing a few bells and whistles." Guan Guan said, fearing that Xue Pan's question about their household affairs would make him speechless, so he deliberately ignored Xue Pan.

Fortunately, Xue Pan had already listened to Jia Lian's words of self-reliance, so he didn't ask this question out of self-indulgence.

When the two entered the Rongguo Mansion, they saw that Jia Lian's marriage was approaching. As soon as they entered the house, they saw the servants coming and going orderly decorating the inside and outside of the house, especially the outer study area. A hundred pots of fresh flowers were sent.

Seeing Jia Qiang standing by the wall counting the flower pots, Xue Pan deliberately picked a flaming rose flower in front of him, and was about to tease Jia Qiang when he saw Youshi leading a little maid from the study When he came out of the door, he resentfully called out "sister-in-law" embarrassingly.

Youshi was wearing a half-worn apricot-colored thong, with only two golden hairpins awarded by Jia Mu in his black hair. Seeing that Xue Pan was playing tricks on purpose, he smiled and said, "Brother Pan likes this flower, I'll see you when I turn around." Send some to your home."

Xue Pan hurriedly said he dared not.

Youshi smiled, seeing that Jia Qiang stayed to settle the accounts, he went to Jia Mu's place to take Xi Chun home, and heard Chaodouer say: "Grandma brought the second and third aunts to the house."

Hearing that Mrs. You's mother and daughter had come, You's face was a little unhappy, and because of Xue Pan's presence, she asked in a low voice: "Has someone entered the house?"

Chaodou'er nodded hurriedly, Youshi hesitated for a while, and then said to Chaodouer: "I am here to pay my respects to the old lady, you send someone to call two debt collectors to come to the door, no matter how much, if grandma pays the money Send the debt collectors, you come back to me, I will go home immediately; if they are okay, ignore them, have a tea and dinner, and ask a few debt collectors to scare them away."

"Hey." Chaodou'er agreed quickly, and went out smartly without taking the carriage.

Youshi gave these instructions, only to see Xue Pan and a gentle and kind man looking at her, and said with shame: "I made you two laugh, I really have to be so shy." After finishing speaking, he went straight into the inner corner door Go to Jiamuyuan.

Kou Guan found it interesting. In the past, he only heard Jia Qiang's mother yelling and said Youshi was a middle-aged woman, but now he saw that she was a young woman with a strong charm.

Jia Qiang was afraid that Kou Guan would look down on Youshi, so she hurriedly said, "It's not that my mother doesn't want to support grandma, it's that grandma married halfway, and brought two young aunts with her. In the past, they left because they saw us as bad, but now they are afraid of us. I heard a little bit of rumors, and thought our family was rich again, so I rushed here. If we really took them to live at home, it would be easy to provide for the elderly, and I don’t know where to find the dowry money of the two aunts.”

Kou Guan nodded again and again, thinking that their mother and son have clear grievances and grudges, so he smiled at Jia Qiang: "Now it's all over, you follow the people who are loyal to the palace to the south of the Yangtze River, for the sake of the palace, who would dare to sell your things at a high price? No matter what it is, I bought a boat, but just running errands, I can earn a lot of interest."

When Jia Qiang heard this, she immediately bowed to Kou Guan and thanked him repeatedly. Seeing that Kou Guan wanted to talk to Jia Lian, she sent Kou Guan to the yard of Jia Lian's study outside.

Officer Kou went in and saw Jia Lian reading the accounts on the porch in the shade. He made a bow and said with a smile, "Second Master Lian is so arrogant, he is reluctant to put down the account books when people come."

"It's really expensive, and it's a headache to read. If you don't believe me, take a look." Jia Lian intentionally handed the account book to Guan Kou.

Kou Guan glanced at it and saw that it was a land deed in Suzhou. Since there is land, he should be a small villager. He sighed in his heart that Feng Ziying did not lie to him, and said with a smile, "But you also feel sorry for this little money?"

"It's not this 01:30 o'clock. You can see that there are many." Jia Lian collected the account book, and deliberately opened a page to show Guan Kou.

Officer Kou scanned it hastily, and saw that it was a Suzhou account stamped with the official official seal, he immediately felt relieved, and said with a smile, "Although the price is a bit higher, the profit is also great."

Jia Lian took the account book and smiled, but Xue Pan and Jia Qiang didn't know what Jia Lian wanted to make money when they got married, and they didn't understand what Guan Kou said.