Chapter 189: The Mansion
When Chen Xinhua returned home, Murong Wei, surrounded by a group of people, personally sent her eldest cousin to the door of the weeping flowers, took her hand and said goodbye, and was really a little reluctant. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info
When Murong Wei left for Beijing, Chen Xinhua came to see him off, and Murong Wei kissed the pink face of her little nephew again, and then reluctantly sent her eldest cousin to board the carriage.
A large group of palace servants and servants followed, the two sisters said goodbye, and Chen Xinhua lifted the curtain of the car and waved to Murong Wei frequently, signaling her to go back.
Looking at the carriage moving away, Murong Wei stood silent for a long time under the blooming oak flowers, she pinched her handkerchief to wipe the tears in the corners of her eyes from time to time, and watched her eldest cousin's carriage gradually fade out of her sight.
Under the dense rose frame, the county keeper and the aunt and nephew of the sticky clan hid behind the lush branches and leaves, and quietly watched the scene of the send-off through the gaps between the branches.
I thought that this visit was just a formality, who would have thought that the sisterhood of others would be so deep.
Sticky Yixian was still timid, and grabbed her aunt's hand tightly, her face was as pale as snow, and she was trembling all over.
"Auntie, will Chen Xinhua settle accounts after the autumn? After staying in the eldest princess's room for so long, will she sue me?"
The sticky family had the heart to complain about his niece, and he didn't blame her for thinking about it, even he and his husband did things according to the instructions of his brother-in-law in Beijing, so he could only sigh secretly in his heart, hoping that Chen Xinhua would be merciful.
She put her arm around her niece's shoulders and said lovingly, "Now it's time to believe my aunt's words, go back and get along with my eldest sister-in-law, and don't act according to my own temperament anymore." If there is a dispute, say it to the small one, it is your two concubines' business, and to say the big one, it is not known if your two uncles will be affected. ”
The implication is that if there is a dispute between the two concubines in the future, the sticky family will not come to help again. On the contrary, they try to get rid of themselves. Although she was comforting, she was reminding her niece to do it herself.
Mrs. County Shou's face is not good-looking, how can she not know that it is precisely because of herself that Chen Xinhua was excluded from the circle of Yangzhou official eunuchs. Her mind was already racing, thinking about how to turn around. Thinking that after the eldest princess set off, she hosted this year's flower viewing party in advance, and then invited Chen Xinhua as the guest of honor to show her attitude.
After listening to the answer between the two aunts and nephews, Mrs. County Shou did not reflect on herself, but slightly despised the sticky family in her heart: "Sure enough, when the disaster comes, they fly separately, but some wind and grass are blowing, and there will be a lot of noise here." ”
The sticky family didn't feel that she was alarmist, at most she thought that Murong Wei was a scene when she saw her eldest cousin, but now that she saw it with her own eyes, people were inseparable, and the eldest princess couldn't stop crying when she saw the carriage leaving, it was really a deep sisterhood.
On the way back home with Sticky Yixian, Sticky taught carefully, and Haosheng comforted her niece, taught her how to lower her posture and get along with Chen Xinhua, and taught her how to be filial in front of her mother-in-law and mother-in-law, don't ask Chen Xinhua to find faults.
In the past, sticky and slender were most annoyed by these rules and etiquette, but this time they listened carefully and carefully, and looked at their aunt pitifully, as if they were children who had done something wrong, begging for forgiveness from adults.
Only if there is no mistake here, it will not affect his whole family. Sticky doesn't think he talks too much, just like pulling a cart, turning around, reversing again, back and forth and chattering, thinking of where to talk to Sticky Yixian.
The county keeper sent these two gods away, thinking about this spring's flower viewing party, and busy with the dinner of Zhang Luo Murong Wei and others. But when he saw that the henchman of the county guard in his house came to ask for a meeting, saying that he had something important at home, the lord asked his wife to go back to the house quietly in the evening.
The husband and wife discussed, because the distinguished guest was a female dependent, and the county guard's wife also accompanied her to eat and live in the post station during Yangzhou, so that she could flatter at any time. The husband obviously knew that he was busy, but now that this word came again, the county guard's wife was full of heart, for fear that something would go wrong.
The county keeper has something in her heart, but she can't show it on her face. She took the time to write the menu and stared at the kitchen herself. After waiting for everyone's dinner, he carefully described the light makeup, changed his clothes again and went to greet Murong Wei and Chu Zhaohui, and waited for everything to be cleaned up before he said goodbye.
The moon and stars are scarce, the post station is silent, and a carriage is hidden behind a green tree at the back door of the post house, quietly waiting for the county guard.
The carriage was simple, with a curtain of white flowers on a blue background, and two ordinary lanterns were lit on the front of the carriage, as if ordinary people were traveling. The county guard, accompanied by the personal girl, quietly went out the back door and boarded the carriage directly, and the girl closed the curtain tightly.
Xia Yuzhi had already been instructed by Murong Wei to pay attention to the words and deeds of this county guard lady, and had already ordered her subordinates to be secretly vigilant.
The county watchman thought she was secretive, and she did not notice that anyone was following. She got into the carriage with her front feet, and some of the people who came out of Xiu followed her heels.
The county guard's carriage drove all the way back to her house through the back door.
Outside the walls of the county's guard's mansion with blue yards and red tiles, masked men in dark night clothes gently and skillfully rise and fall, climb up the high courtyard wall like a harrier, and quietly land on the square terrazzo bricks in the backyard, the whole process is crisp and neat.
Someone had already greeted Mrs. County Warden at the back door, saying that she was waiting in the outer study. Afraid that her husband would be anxious, the county guard's wife did not go back to the room to change clothes, and went directly to her husband's outer study.
The county keeper was making a pot of tea, dismissing the idle people, etc., and was carefully looking at the official documents that had just arrived in the capital, when he saw his wife come in, he stood up with a smile, first took the cloak she put on his wrist, and handed him a cup of warm fragrant tea.
After everyone retreated, the county guard showed Fang Cai's official document to his wife, and took a large ticket of 800,000 silver from the secret compartment under the bookcase and handed it to his wife.
"A few years ago, I wrote to my husband, requesting the repair of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the dredging of the river, and the construction of the Yangzhou moat. Household allocations have also been implemented. ”
800,000 silver tickets, this has to be exchanged for silver, and the entire backyard of the house will be full. The county warden's face shone brightly, and her thin eyes were brighter than the bronze lamp burning on the desk.
The county guard was also happy, seeing that no one in front of him took Mrs. into his arms, kissed her lightly on her hair, and said with a low smile: "The matter is urgent, so I have to run this trip tonight." I still need to bother Mrs. Zhen, take a trip to the exchange pass number tomorrow, meet Mrs. Zhen, and then exchange these silver bills. ”
At the mention of Mrs. Zhen, Mrs. Zhen's smile was a little restrained, her hand holding the silver ticket trembled, and her words revealed a little unwillingness: "Master, this time I want to dredge the river, and a lot of real money has to be spent, is it still the old rules?"
Qian Weizhen privately had an unwritten agreement with the Yangzhou County Shou.
The silver allocated to Yangzhou, Qian Weizhen drew three and left seven each time, and the county guard must send it to the exchange pass number issued by Mrs. Zhen as soon as possible. (To be continued.) )