Femme Beauty

It was already evening when Mu Chengze received the report from the Inner Government Order.He came out of the Queen's Palace, and it was already approaching the spring ceremony.Fasting and bathing are all necessary, so even if it is fifteen, he has to be alone in his bedroom.

Sitting on the low kang, looking at the transcript brought by Joan, his brows were deeply frowned.He leaned against the kang table on one side, covered his upper lip with his hand: "You said... what kind of idea does this Jia Shishi have?"

"After all, the Zhen family was involved with Prince Zhongyi, and it just made sense to add another boy. Anyway, as long as it is raised well, it is a merit. And that Jia Baoyu is different from Zhen Baoyu, Then Jia Baoyu was recorded in the family tree under Jia's name. After all, it is not an inaccurate record. If there is no investigation in the future, it means that there is an extra child in the family. If there is an investigation, it will be recorded. Even if the emperor wants to investigate, I am afraid It is also necessary to find another reason. After all, the treasure left by the sea is always better than the king in exile. It's just that the Qin family may have another kind of calculation." Qiao An wanted to tell Mu Chengze what he thought. Actually, Mother Jia asked Lai Da's mother to take over the Zhen family. In fact, Lai Da didn't know much about it.But she handled the matter, and Mother Jia always wanted to give a reason.This truth is still clear now.

Mu Chengze put down the notes and looked at Qiao An who was standing aside: "You also said that the treasure left by the sea is better than the king of the city in exile. Then the identity of the Qin family is definitely determined?"

"Where is Lai Er's daughter-in-law, I heard it clearly." Qiao An nodded: "It's just that at that time, I heard that the old lady of the Jia family disagreed, but Jia Zhen said that she is an identity no matter what. So I agreed gone."

"Hmm..." Mu Chengze nodded at the table, his eyes flashed sharply: "You said, after February [-], should Jia Yuanchun be promoted or demoted?"

"If it's Jia Yuanchun..." Qiao An's eyes flashed, and he took two steps forward: "I have an idea, I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Talk!" Mu Chengze tilted his head and looked at him, with an evil angle on his mouth.Qiao An followed with a hey smile: "As far as I know, the emperor did not accept the daughter of the Zhen family because of Concubine Zhen. The Taihuang accepted the daughter of the Zhen family because of Old Wang Rong. This Jia Yuanchun was promoted, so many empresses Unfavorable. Since the emperor was able to invite Jia Yuanchun on the first day of the new year...why couldn't he accept the daughter of the Zhen family during the Huachao Festival? The Zhen family and Jia Shi's lineage are now tied together as grasshoppers. Jia Amnesty is basically Take yourself off, why not let this pot of oil..." He said, using his fingers to make a motion to stir the circle.Mu Chengze looked at his fingers, narrowed his eyes and smiled:

"That's right...do as you said. However, Jia Yuanchun still needs to be promoted, so let's promote Zhaoyi from a nobleman! Isn't there two talented people in a yard and one Zhaoyi? When the time comes, the daughter of the Zhen family will be promoted to a talented person." Put it in. You tell the queen, I'll wait and see the excitement."

Leaving the emperor's bedroom, Qiao An slapped himself on the shoulder with Buddha dust and looked at the sky outside: "What time is it?" He asked the little eunuch who was following him.

"Back to Eunuch, it's Haishi now."

"Let's go, go to the Supreme Emperor's place." He exhaled and got on his little sedan chair.The servant carried it quickly through the ditches and alleys of the palace, and soon arrived at the residence of the Supreme Emperor, which usually took a long time to walk.At this time, the emperor hadn't fallen asleep yet, but just lit the lights all over the courtyard.He was alone with a small servant, and he was sitting on the kang in a golden inner garment, his feet were soaking comfortably in the hot water, and he closed his eyes to rest his mind.

Hearing the servant's announcement, he nodded: "Let him in!" He waved his hand to make the servant beside him thicken the quilt behind him, and he leaned comfortably without opening his eyes again.

Joan went in alone, holding another identical transcript in his hand.He respectfully handed over the transcript: "Old Sage, this is the transcript issued today. Please read it!"

"Well...read it!" The Supreme Emperor didn't reach out, but asked Joan to read it to him.Joan nodded, and read the content clearly word by word in a low voice, then lowered her head and waited for the question.

I don't know if the Supreme Emperor is asleep or thinking.After two quarters of an hour, when the little servant brought him a pot of herbal soup to re-warm his legs and feet, he opened a slit and squinted his eyes to look at Qiao An with a hoarse and lazy voice: "What did the emperor say?" ?”

"It's just that Jia Yuanchun will be promoted on February [-]. However, the minister said that if there is already a girl from the Jia family, he is not afraid to have another daughter from the Zhen family. All of them are women."

"Hmm... that's a good idea!" The Supreme Emperor waved his hand and pointed to the servant on the side: "Didn't the set of Luo Jin Zisha sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs a few days ago break a cup? I rewarded him for everything. If you can repair it, you can fix it and use it." , it can be used even if it can’t be repaired.”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Qiao An was delighted to hear that, it must be possible to fix it.Otherwise, it won't be broken and kept.

"Hmm..." The Supreme Emperor opened his eyes with a long moan and saw that he stretched out his hand, and Joan quickly handed over the transcript.After looking at it at a glance, the Supreme Emperor stroked his beard: "The person sent to Zhen's house, has there been a reply?"

"Not yet. After all, the Jinling area is the place where the Zhen family has been operating for many years. If you want to make no alarm, I'm afraid it will take some effort." Qiao An put away her smile, and Gong Jin replied.

"Bring them all back!" The Supreme Emperor thought about the times he went there, as well as the ones who were there during this time, they were all in the same situation as Tietong.Just throwing people down, I'm afraid it won't be easy.He tapped the names of some people on the record with his fingers, and after thinking for a long time, he ordered: "How long has Jia Zheng been in... the Ministry of Industry?"

"11 years! I just changed positions not long ago..."

"Look for an opportunity to move around in the future. It doesn't look like a fool." The emperor twitched his lips: "Let the emperor draw up an edict, Jia Daishan, to spare no expense of the emperor's favor, and seek the imperial order with the succession of the same generation. Deprive Duke Rong of his posthumous title, and change him to a first-class general. Turn back Let the queen mother make a decree, saying that Jia Shishi was unkind to her mother, making the family house restless and the back house not going well. Mingping's wife did not follow the etiquette and law, and violated the holy grace. Deprive her of the imperial order of Mrs. Chaopin and demote her to the fourth rank Congratulations, this matter can be settled before the Dragon Boat Festival. Then Jia Amnesty really went to raise horses?"

"The spies who followed said that they really seem to be knowledgeable. This is not the place yet, but the maintenance of horses on the road seems to be more proficient than that." Joan said this, and the corners of his mouth twitched.He has seen so many that he can pretend, and the most indispensable thing in Beijing is that dude.Even if it is not, it is forced by the family environment to act like it.This one is the best at pretending, looking at Si Liu doesn't understand.I am afraid that if you tell him that poor people can't afford wheat, he will definitely tell you the master who eats meat if he can't eat wheat.In the end, there were still two hits!

"Then keep watching and see if it has anything to do with the Zhen family in the south. If not, let him raise horses somewhere!" The Supreme Emperor let the little servant wipe his feet clean, and Qiao An waved him to clean up things go down.Put on the socks for the Supreme Emperor himself.The Supreme Emperor didn't watch his movements, but continued to click on the note.He nodded and said, "What is Jia Yuanchun's promotion?"

"Zhaoyi." Qiao An straightened her garter and stood aside.

"You should be promoted to a talented person first, and you should go step by step. After two days, find a reason to be promoted to a talented person. When she is promoted to Zhaoyi, you send someone to send four nuns to Ningguo Mansion. Say that the queen mother rewarded her Yes, after all, it is rare for a poor woman to marry into a rich family. Let alone a housekeeper's wife! From now on, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will send one or two pieces of princess-level jewelry every month, and the pattern should not exceed the limit. "

"Yes!" Joan nodded, this girl is the only sure one right now.He pursed his lips and smiled: "After all, it is the emperor who thinks everything! The emperor's little one will go back tomorrow, and I am afraid it will be too late at this time."

The Supreme Emperor threw the transcript aside: "You have been busy all day, go and rest! These things are not busy..."

"Yes! The minister has resigned!" Qiao An didn't stop, leaving the blank paper behind.

After the fifteenth day of the first lunar month in Beijing, the atmosphere of the festive lantern year weakened.Jia Mu sent someone to pick up the Lai family's body from Jingzhao Mansion, saying that Dadu sealed the coffin and dug the grave and buried it in a random grave in the suburbs of Beijing.There are sixteen members of Lai's family, the elderly are all dead and clean, and the youngest are all young and just over three years old.She took them all into the mansion one by one, saying that she was raised as a cousin and young master.It's just a son and a daughter, and the people around look at it as a bustling scene.It's just that in a place she didn't know, at the mouth of the canal, a family of sixteen surnamed Qian was urging the men to move to the boat, saying that the business in Beijing couldn't be done, and the family went back to their hometown in Haizhou.

After Wang Xifeng visited Xue's house, it was mid-March, and Jia Lian decided to visit Lin Ruhai after passing the provincial examination.Wang Xifeng just thought that it took more than a month to go here, and many things were known on the boat.Now that he was going to take the exam, he could only follow his idea.I just prepared another gift, and made a birthday present with a warm topaz Sanding Fudou pendant selected from the debris in the space, and someone gave it to him.

She wasn't at all nervous about Jia Lian's participation in the township examination. In her opinion, she was just a junior, so she didn't feel nervous at all.After the maids and women who brought her had spent the day nervously, she only asked Jia Lian to settle the matter after seeing Jia Lian come back.

Seeing her like this, Jia Lian smiled and leaned over to find a joss stick: "Are you so assured that your husband and I will be able to live?"

Wang Xifeng looked at him sideways: "If you say you can't pass, my father could let you go? Not to mention anything else, it is Mr. Yuan's demeanor. My aunt also told me in detail. If you spend so much time strict teacher Teaching, but there is no one scholar, does it mean that my uncle is blind and misjudged the wrong person?"

"You can't say that. It's the first time for me to see your husband in the scientific examination. Nervous mistakes may not be uncommon. I am a person who can clearly see the big scene, even the old man in his sixties. Yes." Jia Lian let go of her, took a sip from the teacup handed over by the servant girl, sighed, turned to look at Wang Xifeng, and said amusedly, "Don't tell me, when I went in, I was really nervous. My palms, collar and back were sweating, but when I saw a white-haired old man, I didn't feel nervous."

"Why is this?" Wang Xifeng got up and got out of bed and went to the back room to take a stack of melon seeds that she calmly put away in front of him, bypassing the thick cotton quilt he was sitting on the other side of the kang table, piled up on one side superior.

"Why?" Jia Lian grabbed a pinch of melon seeds, put them in his mouth, and then said, "Look, I'm not a weak crown, so I'm nervous. I'm afraid I won't make it once. I'm afraid I don't even know that I'm an old man in his sixties. How many times have I done it. I can come again and again, so how can I worry about this. Besides, I have done the corresponding exam questions before, and it is not difficult. Thinking about it this way, it will go smoothly. Looking at it again, I feel good. It's not that difficult."

"Second Master's raft is good, but I don't know if Second Master will still be like this when it comes to the palace examination." Wang Xifeng covered her lips with a handkerchief, narrowed her eyes and smiled.Seeing her smile, Jia Lian also smirked: "Do you really think that I, your second master, can enter the Golden Luan Hall? If I can get a Juren, then I will be a magistrate for four or five years."

"Second Master, do you think clearly or are you self-confident?" Wang Xifeng threw him a veil: "Let's not talk about these things, anyway, it's over. It's okay to pass it, but it's also not good to say that you can do it now." Forget it. It's tomorrow, Second Master has to take care of the field for me. I'm afraid Second Master has forgotten about the matter that was entrusted to Second Master last time."

"How can I forget... my second grandma!" Jia Lian yelled, "I just forgot about it because the exam was approaching. It's only half a month since you and I went back to our hometown. I can forget it." Jia Lian was sitting sideways, and pointed at the table: "I really asked someone to ask about the land you mentioned. It is indeed the land of your mother's dowry. It’s not a short-term thing. In fact, even our family’s ancestral land has been abandoned a lot. The main reason is the epidemic four years ago. Now there are not many dealers who can hold a hoe. From the north Those who come here will not be able to plant this paddy field. It’s just that those who are in charge have to find a way to manage it. It’s just that the family has just been divided, and the people who were in charge of it all went with the second uncle, second aunt, and old lady. I’m afraid it will be a while. It will be difficult for us to find people at hand."

"It's not difficult!" Wang Xifeng got up and knelt sideways: "I saw that there are still some old residents above Zhuangzi. I originally thought that I would build a new house for them and change their residences. Such a small piece of land can be connected together. Big one. At that time, some new farmers will be recruited, and the old ones will be able to teach new ones. I just asked the second master to find out. If the people below commit crimes, we can’t blame us if we sell them. It’s not about the master’s family. It’s just that the second master should have a charter for the family’s ancestral land. This land is all flat and good land, and it will be abandoned if it is left unused. Although we don’t rely on the income from those lands It’s silver. But it’s a pity.”

"Who says it's not? It's just that the head of the village and the steward said it. I don't know very well. Besides, I will leave the officialdom in the future, and my father and wife will also stay in the north. It depends on the fields. Grandma, yours." As he spoke, he leaned over with a flattering smile, hooking Wang Xifeng's cheek and smacking.Wang Xifeng spat at him, and glanced at his face: "Second Master said this before, and gave me the land deed and everything. It's just that it was before, and I'm waiting for the boss to say what Second Master said at this time! Now that Second Master said, I'm not afraid that the second master will return in the future. Anyway, my son must inherit these things in the future. I'm here to explain to the second master."

She took out two rolls of paper from the small study on one side, and asked her servants to clean up the coffee table and spread it with white linen.She opened the scroll, and inside were pictures of fields and surroundings.This picture was drawn by Jia Lian during her preparation for the exam in the past ten days.Compared with the current inaccurate pictures, this picture is clear at a glance.

She pointed to the first and second pictures: "The first of these two Zhuangzi is my dowry. The other is my mother's dowry. The two Zhuangzi are adjacent to each other. The hill in the middle separates me. Thinking about having people build new villages under the hills, build roads and water conservancy. I won’t plant this year, and now each household will be given 30 taels of silver to make them happy for the New Year. When the next year comes, they will be re-divided into pieces Planting. At the same time, we also recruit some new farmers. After all, the benefits we give are not those who have exploited and waited to sell."

After saying this, she rolled up the two sheets and opened a new one. The field on it was also a large area, but the shape was not very standard.The village is in the middle of the field, she pointed to the village and said: "This is the ancestral land of our family that the second master gave me, but this land is not our sixth room right now. I heard that the old lady took care of it. The fourth and fifth houses were operated. The proceeds were used to sacrifice and clear the grave, but I looked at the account books for these years. It said that 4000 taels of silver were given every year for the sacrifice and clearing of the grave. Calculated over the years, there must be 10,000+ taels less. However, I have calculated the income of this land. If a good land of more than 600 mu is well managed, it can bring more than 3 taels of income. Here Head, please tell the second master to tell the fourth and fifth bedrooms that we have separated."

"En!" Looking at the picture, Jia Lian remembered the child raised in the village.Nodding his head: "I'll deal with this matter later, I'm not in a hurry for now." He knew about this land, but he didn't know why the land deed came into the hands of that child.He can't take it back even if he wants to, and the title deed is still in his hand.That is [-] mu of high-quality paddy field, so we can't just take advantage of other people every year.

Seeing that Jia Lian agreed, she didn't say much, but put away the picture and put two overlapping ones together, all of which were trivial field ridges: "These are trivial field ridges, most of which are left unused. I thought about it. Thinking, before going to my aunt's place, I might as well sell all these fields and replace them with new ones. Even if I bring the forest or something, it's worth it. Not to mention that there are more mountain products in the forest, even if the arrangements are made, there will be more in the future. Good earnings are not."

"You can do it by yourself. What you do now is for our son in the future." Jia Lian pursed her lips and looked at Wang Xifeng with a smile: "Isn't what our ancestors did for us today? What we do is also for the future, you and my husband and wife You don’t need to show me the original ones. You can arrange it, but it’s not easy to arrange the time to go to my aunt’s. I want to wait for the results of the rural examination before going, which means seven or eight days. This way you can be serious Arrange it, just follow what you said before, I'm afraid it will cost a lot of money."

"That's not scary." Wang Xifeng smiled and tilted her head to look at the pictures carefully: "I still have 14 taels of silver to move. I said that if you want chickens to lay eggs, you have to feed them well." Yes. Isn’t it the same for me? I’ve thought about it all. There are peasant women and children in the village. I build schools for them, invite teachers and doctors. I build houses so that they can all live in a stable house. I can use clean water. I don’t have to worry about the future. The climate in Jinling is good and there are few natural disasters. If I don’t have a bumper harvest after coming to the mountain for three to five years, they will be sorry for me, right? Besides, how talented am I with this money? Just go out with a hundred taels of money , My set of hair is much more expensive than this."

"You're talking about rituals. You manage your dowry by yourself so I can't say anything. But for this family, if you go on like this... I'd be embarrassed. You have seen the shopkeeper for the jade pendant I gave you. If you need it in the future, just go and get it. Besides, in two or three years, I'm afraid I will entrust all the business in my hand to you." Jia Lian lowered his head as he said, he did have some property in his previous life .But when he gave the private money to Second Sister You, he never believed her.I just blamed myself for not being able to figure it out at the beginning, they were originally married couples.If you are not good for the other party, or for your children and grandchildren, who can you be good for?

Seeing him bow his head, Wang Xifeng didn't know if he meant to test or something else.A sharp light flashed in Fengyan's eyes: "Don't say what Second Master said. Whose man doesn't have a few pennies in his hands? In the future, Second Master will be an official, and he will be a noble person. But if you don't have enough money Money can't support the scene, so it can't be said that it's expensive. Besides..." The corners of her eyebrows and mouth drew a beautiful arc: "I'm still waiting for the second master to come, give me some flowers and powders ……Woolen cloth!"

She spoke eloquently, with the tone of a whispering voice, which seduced Jia Lian and wanted to put her to death immediately.But he still restrained himself, just raised his head and smiled foolishly.Wang Xifeng watched him smirk, and burst out laughing.She smiled and cursed coquettishly:

"Idiot!... What a idiot..."