The horseshoe walks on a vertical avenue, the road stretches straight from north to south, it is also very quiet, the tall peach trees and plum trees on both sides of the road and the Pinpo trees mixed in between them are coquettish, the abundant sunshine pours down from the top of the sedan chair, even if the curtain is closed, it can still shine into the sedan chair, Zhang Zhaohua is asleep in it, it is also half asleep, not because the sedan chair is not steady, Beiping City is square and vertical, the road in the southeast and northwest is very clear, so there will be no sharp turn or pause in the march, and the people who carry the sedan chair at every corner will shout in advance: "You're walking—" so that there was never a collision with a pedestrian. On the contrary www.biquge.info I have sat in a sedan chair in the capital, that is, Nanjing, and encountered a sudden stop, Zhang Zhaohua's own analysis is a city with the development of coastal rivers, and the roads are not very straight.

So the reason why she couldn't sleep in the sedan chair was just because she had something in her heart, she remembered why she went out of the palace in a sedan chair, or because of the fallen basin stand of the county lord of Ancheng, there was really an aftermath of this matter, because the county lord of Yongping knew about it, and made a good appeal in front of the princess, thinking that the manufacturing office and the businessmen who handled it were wrong, and even blamed Ge Changshi, thinking that he did not do her dowry with heart.

"They don't have to do things, but they fool the palace with such goods, we are all kept in the dark, and we are only played as monkeys!" Yongping was very unrelenting, "If it is said that the utensils are defective, there are knots, cracks, warping, twisting or something, this is not to blame them, it is inevitable that there will be a small number of defects, but this shelf has fallen apart directly, can this still be said to be a defect - this is the rotten wood!" I think my father and mother felt sorry for me at the beginning, and they chose a good wood of rosewood and rosewood, and they went down to the south to make it, how could they make such a thing, and it showed its original form in less than a few months!

The princess didn't speak, Zhang Zhaohua stood aside and felt a little embarrassed, so she heard Yongping turn her head and ask her: "Sister-in-law has also counted large pieces of furniture, why didn't you find such rotten wood, I'm afraid that my sister-in-law is the same as me, and there are people in the boudoir on the left and right, where can I understand these deceptions! I just look at it well, the color is good-looking, and the texture is clear, but I don't know that I am afraid that it has already been eaten by insects!"

Zhang Zhaohua was also angry, of course she understood that this was not the cause of worm-eaten as Yongping said, but she understood that Yongping didn't care what the reason for this shelf was destroyed, she played with such fanfare, there was always a reason, and Zhang Zhaohua quietly watched what she was going to say.

"This shelf can cut corners to become like this," Yongping said: "What about the other utensils, tables and chairs, beds, couches, screens and mirrors, I don't know what it looks like! If you don't send someone to inspect it, who knows if this thing can be used!"

Princess Xu asked Zhang Zhaohua, "Did you send the things to the Gongzheng Institute for the craftsmen to see?

Zhang Zhaohua bowed and said: "I asked, it seems that the tenon is not very strong, the county lord said that the insect is a joke, the shelf is just two finger-thick thin shelves, if there are really insects, where can you cover the ground." ”

Before the princess could speak, the lord of Yongping said angrily: "It's not moth-eaten, it's the reason for the tenon, it must be that the craftsman didn't do a good job, and the sister-in-law must have been fooled by them, and the people in the office are responsible for the purchase of part of the furniture, and the responsibility should also be counted on their heads, they want us to think that this is an accident, and they don't want us to pursue other furniture!"

Zhang Zhaohua frowned slightly, she found that Yongping had mixed up the Gongzheng Office and the manufacturing office, but the Gongzheng Institute actually had no responsibility because they did not handle this batch of rosewood, and the manufacturing office should be able to count as a procedure, in fact, the big head was still with Ge Changshi, because he was responsible for the purchase - and looking at Yongping's meaning, he felt that no matter how bad this thing was, it was broken in short, and all the furniture in that batch of rosewood was broken.

Zhang Zhaohua's speculation in her heart was more than half confirmed, so she asked Yongping: "What does the county lord want to do, if this batch of furniture really has problems?"

"Oh, isn't it uncertain," Yongping said quickly: "You have to see it with your own eyes, and if you sit down, there are indeed problems with this batch of furniture, and you can be held responsible." ”

Zhang Zhaohua was stunned, Yongping said such a thing, which was not in her speculation and expectation.

She originally thought that according to Yongping's character, she knew that a piece of furniture was broken, and she was afraid that that batch of furniture would not make her happy, so she must replace this batch of things, even if it was made of the most precious wood, she couldn't look down on it - now it seems that Yongping really thinks that this batch of furniture is an eyesore, but she doesn't think of replacing it. If she really didn't want it, she would have said it directly without disdain, so why bother saying anything after seeing it with her own eyes.

Zhang Zhaohua asked tentatively: "Does the county lord want to re-inspect the furniture - will he dismantle the furniture placed in the county lord's mansion and bring it back to the palace, or will the palace send someone to the mansion to inspect it?"

"Naturally, the palace sent someone to look at it," Yongping said: "The furniture has already been placed in the county lord's mansion, why bother moving back and forth?"

When Zhang Zhaohua was in charge of counting the dowry before, he once proposed to boast of the dowry, and even the route was set, but he encountered the funeral of the King of Qin, so he did not carry it out, and the dowry went out of the Duanli Gate in a regular manner and was carried directly to the county lord's mansion, without going around the city - but the princess liked Zhang Zhaohua's plan very much, and carried the dowry around the city for a week, and sprinkled candy by the way, so that Beiping City was happy and happy, which was a good thing to enjoy with the people. In fact, Zhang Zhaohua also knows why the princess likes it, because the marriage of the three princes has to go to Nanjing, and it will be done in the palace of the kings in Beijing, and what the princess can handle is the marriage of several daughters, so naturally she hopes to do it well.

"Then who should be sent?" Zhang Zhaohua then asked.

The county lord of Yongping looked at the princess's expression and said, "Mother, I want to see it in person!"

Zhang Zhaohua was slightly startled, and the princess also frowned and said, "How can you go in person!"

"There's something wrong with my own dowry, why don't you let me see it for myself!" Yongping said unconvinced: "The county lord's mansion and the Yibin mansion have been built, but I don't even know where they are, can't I take a look?"

Looking at Yongping's defensive look, Princess Xu suddenly remembered that in the spring of the eighteenth year of Hongwu, their family was scattered without warning, she only hurriedly brought her three sons, but left her three daughters in the palace, and she didn't even have time to tell them all the causes and consequences, and she didn't even say when she would be able to come back.

Thinking that this is a kind of protection, in fact, it is they who suffer, Princess Xu can't even imagine how in the days when there is no father and mother by her side, in the palace city with the door closed, full of whispers, surrounded by prying eyes, how an eight-year-old and a six-year-old girl spent such a year in anxiety and fear, no one took care of her, but had to take care of the younger An Cheng, and no news came but went to the capital again and again with news- This year's time has left a deep mark on everyone's hearts, and the Yongping she saw again when she came back was not the Yongping who loved to talk and dance before.

Because of this, when she saw Yongping, whose temperament became more and more prominent day after day, she couldn't bear too much harsh criticism after all, because in the final analysis, she would think of the place that everyone was least willing to think of, because it was her fault, in the heavy snow of Hongwu's eighteen years, she just urged the coachman over and over again, wanting to see her father for the last time, but she forgot that behind her, there were still people who depended on her.

Princess Xu lowered her eyes: "Then you can go." ”