Record of ups and downs in troubled times

"Then that's the end of the matter." Cheng Nan also stood up, reached out to pat Fu Xiyuan on the shoulder, and comforted him, "It's been many years, and it's useless to think about it."

Speaking of this, Fu Xiyuan also went down the donkey, not wanting to mention the second place.

For one thing, if someone else's daughter was appointed as the empress, Cheng Nan would definitely not have to deal with him like this.Since she is so unwilling to let go, it means... Chao Guo's post is reserved for the daughter of the Cheng family.How can he ask Fu Xiyuan?

Secondly, the prime minister promoted Fu Xiyuan to be a royal doctor, which actually meant to compensate the Fu family.With the prime minister's penny counting, he would never give the Fu family another post.

But, didn't the prime minister always think that the emperor had no future, and never wanted to waste his time and effort to marry his daughter to the palace?Why have you changed your mind now?

"As for the later position mentioned earlier," Fu Xiyuan was not going to ask, but for some reason, the Prime Minister took the initiative to bring this up. "My daughter is ignorant and has a deep affection for the emperor, so I have no choice but to obey her thoughts. I really feel ashamed of you for this matter. If you still want, how about I protect your daughter to be a Zhaoyi in the palace?"

Let Cheng's daughter and Fu's daughter enter the palace together, is it to use Qizhen as a pledge to control the Fu's family?

Poor Fu Xiyuan, whether he wants to or not, even if he knows it's a tiger's mouth, he still has to send his daughter in.He pretended to think for a moment, weighed some pros and cons, and responded: "It's a good way out. Then I will trouble the prime minister."

After Fu Xiyuan finished talking about business, he exchanged pleasantries with Cheng Nan for a while, and then drove away.Cheng Nan was the only one who was still lazily leaning against the pavilion, pouring out the tea in the pot, and sipping the coolness of late autumn alone.

"The old master is not very happy." A hunched old man slowly stepped up to the third floor with his arms crossed.His two wrinkled eyes looked unsteadily at a blade of grass beside the steps, as if he was concentrating on studying the crystal clear dew drop on the blade.

"I'm happy." Cheng Nan spat out three words lightly, making the old man choke and didn't know what to say.

This old man was Wang Quan, the servant who followed Cheng Hanfeng, the old master of the Cheng Mansion and Cheng Nan's father.He stayed in the mansion for many years, and he dispatched all the top and bottom of the Cheng mansion, so he could be regarded as an old confidant of the Cheng family.

It's just that he's not Cheng Nan's confidant.

"You know the old master's temper. You really shouldn't disobey him behind his back."

"What do you mean by disobeying him?" Cheng Nan narrowed his eyes and smiled slightly, "Why didn't he say 'disobedience' to me? I have warned many times before, no matter how insidious the trick is, I can use it, but I only use 'love' ' This word is a trick, the most despicable and shameless."

Wang Quan looked at Cheng Nan, the wrinkles on his face were deep and shallow, and even his happiness and anger were hidden in them, so it was hard to see. "In the past, the old master was also doing it for your own good. How can you use the words 'despicable' and 'shameless' to describe it? Besides, you just mentioned the daughter of the Fu family, didn't you also fancy Zong Zhengqing's beloved daughter? Feelings?"

"How do I plan, has something to do with you? As for the incident in the Changchun Pavilion, it will never pass me. He asked me to recite the charge of 'disobedience', and I will recite it." Cheng Nan stood up and said, One smoothed the wrinkles on his clothes, and said with a sneer, "I don't need to say these words a second time, do I?"

"It's just a man who sells jokes in the hall. Young master, you have gone against the old master's wishes and protected him like this. The loss is not worth the loss. Could it remind you..." Wang Quan faced the "little master" in his mouth , but there was no respect in his tone.

"Shut up!" Cheng Nan clenched his fist hard, and the veins on his wrists burst out, "Do you really think that you are my savior, Cheng Nan? Do you deserve to mention her name?! What I owe you , only the flesh and blood of this body. Shall I peel and debone and return it to you?!"

Wang Quan sighed, lowered his eyes and lowered his eyebrows, it seemed that he wanted to calm down and stop arguing with him.

The Cheng family's son and daughter are not easy-going lamps.

The empress dowager in the palace, for the sake of the emperor's reputation, helped the emperor suppress the "short-sleeved" rumors, and sent the kid from the Tan family away from the capital many days ago; Cheng Nan, who was thinking about the people around him, not only didn't want to find a way to seize the handle after learning the news, but actually messed up the old master's arrangement!

With so many eyes and ears in the palace, one or two outsiders were placed in Jingren Palace, but Changle Palace was kept clean and strictly guarded against death.The old master had doubts for a long time, but with this pair of unreasonable sons and daughters making troubles, he couldn't grasp the key point.A few days ago, after the second son of Tan Tan left the palace, the staff of Changle Palace moved a little looser, and the Cheng Mansion sent people to find out one or two of the situation.

The fact that the emperor likes men is by no means unfounded.But this is a big matter, if you want to say it, you have to have evidence.The former Second Young Master Tan had already followed Uncle Feng, and the Cheng family didn't want to offend Uncle Feng, so this way was impossible.But since one of the emperor's favored people has left, why not install another one for him?

Coincidentally, the Cheng family just picked a young lady in the Changchun Pavilion, named Rufei, who looked oddly like the second son of Tan.He was about to take care of him and send him to the palace, but he was interrupted by Cheng Hanfeng's own son.

"Isn't it? The prime minister sat with me for a long time last night, scaring me... In the past, you were with him day and night. I really admire you."

The speaker was wearing a Robe shirt, with a string of goose yellow Xiyuan beads around his neck, with a shrewd look on his face, one could tell at a glance that he was a businessman who traveled far and wide.

He is the owner of "Four Seasons Village" in the capital - Xu Dongyang.He kept a low profile in his life, even if he was walking on the road, people would not know that this old man, who was so ordinary that he couldn't see him in crowds, was actually holding a fortune in his hands.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Fu Xiyuan, who was sitting cross-legged across from him, complained rudely.

"Hey, it's not that you don't know that the business of Four Seasons Village is handled by me, but Fengchun Pavilion and Changchun Pavilion are all handed over to Wanshu. Besides, from morning to night, I don't know how many people do business here. It's not something that can be put on the table, can I take care of it one by one?"

"What the Cheng family does, you can see that it's uneasy and kind. You don't even have the slightest sense of sight. How did you do business for so many years?" Fu Xiyuan and Xu Dongyang are old friends for many years, and they are familiar with each other regardless of you and me. The time has long since ceased to matter so much.

"Tsk! You don't know anything about the market. There are many high-ranking officials in the capital who have this habit. The colleagues in the court who talk and laugh with you in a serious manner may secretly come here to have fun after the court. The old man of the Cheng family sent When someone came to me, he was sneaky, and I just thought he was tired of playing with a beautiful lady and wanted to taste something like a young man... so I didn't tell you."

If it wasn't for young master Fu and Lu's boy who happened to catch a glimpse of someone from Cheng's residence when they were hanging out in Fengchun Pavilion, the news wouldn't have reached the Fu family.

"All right! It's all my fault, I owe you, okay? Then tell me, how should I deal with this matter? If you teach me to regret this business right away, then I will regret it. You should first Tell me something."

"Why do you regret it? It's just what a wise person does."

This matter now is the old man Cheng's idea, and Cheng Nan is unwilling.When the enemy is impenetrable, it is the most difficult to attack; now that they have cracked themselves, they will be sorry for the title "Fu Shu" if they don't drill.Cheng Nan just approached Xu Dongyang yesterday, and made it clear that he wanted to fight against the old man. Sending the young lady Rufei to the palace at this time will only worsen the relationship between the two of them, and it will be of great benefit to the Fu family. .

Furthermore, how difficult can it be to deal with a young lady who only knows how to serve others since she was a child?After sending him to the palace, and then biting the Cheng family back, insisting that the Cheng family has ulterior motives, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving him a slap in the face of the Cheng family?It's even more joyful.

"Then why don't I replace Ru Fei? I'm afraid he has joined the Cheng family and won't listen to you and me anymore."

Of course it has to be changed.

I heard that this person, Rufei, looks very much like the second son of Tan.If the rumors that the emperor and the second son Tan are in love are true, if the emperor really loves the house and Wu and likes Ru Fei, then he will jump into the Cheng family's trap, which is tantamount to losing his wife and losing his army.

"Change someone else, you can figure it out. If you really can't do it, put the matter on that Rufei's head, or kill him completely."

Both of them have been in high positions for a long time, and they didn't even bat an eye when they talked about killing people and losing their heads.

"Okay. By the way, that little son of yours runs to me every day. My son looks for flowers and asks Liu, and you don't care about him as a father? Isn't it because of this that the Lu family boy is laughed at by everyone in the capital? You If you didn't listen to other people's gossip, it would be ugly, but General Lu is far away at the border, otherwise he would have to vomit blood!"

Fu Xiyuan put his hands on his forehead, sighed, with a helpless expression on his face.

"How fast can he run with his legs? Can I catch up with him? My son is grown up, and I can't help him. As for the youngest son of the Lu family, I think it's pretty good. He has a clever mind and a chic life. If you are tired and not disturbed by profit, you will be a real celebrity."

It's not my son, so of course I'm not in a hurry.Xu Dongyang knew Fu Xiyuan's temper, so he just twitched his lips.Judging by how worried he was, it seemed that he was his son. "Why don't you marry Chen'er a daughter-in-law? There is a woman at home, so he can take care of him. I'll touch one for him and find him a dominatrix to discipline him!"

"Don't," Fu Xiyuan put a porcelain bowl of medicine soup on the table into his mouth, and gave Xu Dongyang a sharp eye by the way.He was a little afraid of the cold, and Xu Dongyang knew it, so he specially ordered someone to ask for a stomach-warming prescription from a famous doctor, and would come out and beat him up whenever he had the chance. "Those who don't have wives stay in brothels every day; when they get married, don't they want to open a brothel like you?"

Xu Dongyang was also a prodigal son in the frontier city before, but his father married him a Hedong lion into the house.Unexpectedly, after getting married, this guy stopped visiting brothels and opened brothels instead.

The Four Seasons Villa under him are Fengchun Pavilion, Xixia Tower, Nianqiu Court, and Yingdong Hall.Except that Fengchun Pavilion is a brothel, the other three are engaged in serious business.But even so, Xu Dongyang's father was so angry.

"Hey, I remembered something..." The two opened their mouths at the same time, choking together for a moment.The two of them have been friends for so many years, and they already have a good understanding of each other, so as always, Xu Dongyang gave in first: "You talk first."

"I just mentioned the Lu family, and I suddenly remembered, how is the border situation, but is it still safe? Your business route also has a door at the border, and it should be faster than I know the news."

A well-behaved wealthy businessman of the Xu family is almost becoming a subordinate to collect news for Fu Xiyuan.

Usually when the two get along, although Xu Dongyang always makes concessions, the concession does not mean blindly accommodating.Sure enough, Xu Dongyang pretended that he didn't hear what Fu Xiyuan asked, but thought to himself: "I was clearly hiding it tightly, but the Cheng family sniffed it out and chased me for clues. Originally, the world only knew about Fengchun Pavilion. It belongs to my family, but let him find out that the Changchun Pavilion is also mine, what should I do?"

"What's the matter? You're a businessman, you're still shameless?" Fu Xiyuan didn't think so.

"It's easy for you to say! He can find out about me, and he can also find out about my relationship with you. I don't want to be punished by the Cheng family because of you! People make friends for money, and I'll make you a friend. It's terrible." !"