Chapter 185 Bad and Good

The princess put down the cup in her hand, looked at him a few times, and asked slowly:

"I heard that the dim sum of this year's Chung Yeung Festival is different from previous years, what is going on?"

Ping'an bowed slightly, and replied neatly:

"Back to the princess's words, it was the prince who ordered it, this year's Chongyang node in the house, a dim sum in the house, and an aftertaste, all of which were sent out with the help of the princess, and the small one was afraid that something was wrong, so I asked the prince to show it, and then sent it out according to the instructions of the prince."

The princess's face instantly relaxed and smiled,

"Is this the master nodding?"

"Yes"

The princess let out a long sigh of relief, nodded and smiled:

"That's good, it's nothing, I'm just asking, you go get busy."

Ping An respectfully withdrew from the long confession, and Mama Qiu stood with her hands down, looking at the princess who was leisurely leaning back on the pillow, and pressed back with a full stomach.

Early the next morning, Cheng Ke accompanied Li Xiaonuan out of the courtyard gate, watched her get into the sedan chair, stood with her hands behind her back for a moment, and turned to the inner study to talk to King Runan.

Cheng Ke talked to his father for a quarter of an hour with the door closed in the inner study, came out to the gate, got on the horse, and went straight to the household.

was busy until almost noon, and Cheng Ke called Yuanshan in and ordered:

"Go to the Ministry of Industry and ask Lord Jing where to eat at noon."

Yuanshan promised to go out, and after a while, he turned back and bowed down to report:

"King Jing said, I will go to his house to eat at noon, and he has already ordered people to prepare in the morning."

Cheng Ke nodded, and just after the beginning of the afternoon, he left the household yamen and went to King Jing's mansion.

The two ate and sat in the inner study drinking tea, Zhou Jingran leaned back on the rocking chair with a stunned face, slowly shaking his eyes closed, Cheng Ke slowly shook the folding fan, looked at Zhou Jingran and asked:

"The princess went to Fuyongji Temple to pray for blessings?"

"Hmm."

Zhou Jingran said "um", continued to close his eyes and slowly shake, Cheng Ke put away the folding fan, looked at Zhou Jingran, and said with a grin:

"Xiao Nuan saw the Sun family and Miss Dai yesterday, and said that both of them were born very well, Chunlan Qiuju has their own strengths, and they all have good temperaments and personalities, and they all look like good girls, you are blessed, there are two concubines on this side, is there a good day?"

"Blessings? Why don't you take two of them tomorrow and add blessings together? ”

Zhou Jingran opened his eyes, turned his head to look at Cheng Ke and said, Cheng Ke shook his head with a smile,

"I'm not that blessed, Xiao Nuan's temperament ......"

Cheng Ke frowned and sighed exaggeratedly,

"Alas, Xiao Nuan has a big temper, those who think about it are different from others, I don't have that blessing, is the day set? These two, are they brought in together, or are they divided into sizes? ”

Zhou Jingran slanted at Cheng Ke, who was sighing and proud, closed his eyes and shook for a while before he said slowly:

"Bring it in together, what size, let my mother go regardless of the day, just these two days."

Cheng Ke looked at Zhou Jingran, who looked listless, with some surprise, and asked with a frown:

"These two girls, aren't they all your own favorites? Did you overnod your head and be satisfied? ”

Zhou Jingran nodded again and again, as if he didn't want to talk about it anymore, looked at Cheng Ke, and changed the topic,

"The dim sum you gave to your house during the Chung Yeung Festival this year, was your idea?"

Cheng Ke's brows furrowed, turned his head to look at Zhou Jingran and asked:

"What gossip have you heard?"

"Me too? Who else hears gossip? You? No one dares to say a word in front of you."

Zhou Jingran squinted his eyes, and suddenly became interested, Cheng Ke glanced at him, and said sullenly:

"Little Warmth"

Zhou Jingran raised his eyebrows, became angry from surprise, and pointed at Cheng Ke and said:

"This is what you did bastard, what does it have to do with Xiao Nuan? Who is such a bastard to dare to say such gossip to Xiao Nuan? ”

Cheng Ke snorted and said vaguely:

"Xiao Nuan won't let me care."

Zhou Jingran paused, looked at Cheng Ke obliquely, slowly raised an eyebrow, "hummed" lightly, spread his hands and said:

"It seems...... In the inner court, I can't control the affairs of your family. ”

"Tell me, what did you hear?"

Cheng Ke asked with a frown, Zhou Jingran shook off the folding fan, shook it slowly, and said slowly:

"What else can be said? It's just that Xiao Nuan is a businessman's nature, light and profit-seeking, this must be spread by someone with a heart, but it must be carefully investigated. ”

"Hmm,"

Cheng Ke looked at Zhou Jingran, laughed lightly, lowered his voice and said:

"If this thing can reach you, it will be spread far enough, and it will not need to be ...... Cough, let's do this, I pondered it all night last night, but it can be used, think about it, let's go to Jiebei Town to collect grain, I can't say it, even if my aunt knows, it's even harder to say, as soon as I say it, there is a suspicion of inviting merit, even if this thing is done in vain, but if no one knows, wouldn't it be a brocade night walk, we still did it in vain. ”

Zhou Jingran nodded again and again,

"That's what you're talking about."

"This gossip, even if the root cause is found, the word has spread, the rumor of this thing, there is no way to wipe it clean, the more it is smeared, the darker it becomes, it is better to simply borrow a momentum, let it spread more powerfully, and infiltrate the matter of collecting grain in Jiebei Town, and spread it out together, saying that Yuweizhai took advantage of the momentum of the palace and took advantage of the flooding disaster to rob the people of Jiebei Town."

Cheng Ke said gloomily, Zhou Jingran squinted at Cheng Ke, and said slowly:

"This is Xiao Nuan's reputation"

"Little Warm ......"

Cheng Ke paused, muttered a few words, and then said:

"Xiao Nuan is not the kind of person who is stingy and ignorant, and if you talk about it, it won't hurt your reputation, only benefits"

Cheng Ke clapped his palms heavily with a folding fan, his eyes flashed with excitement, Zhou Jingran stared at Cheng Ke for a long time, squinted his eyes,

"This idea is full of evil, you will only break people's hands and legs, this is a matter that makes people feel that she is wronged, Xiao Nuan is the most convenient, it is her idea, right?"

Cheng Ke coughed lightly a few times and said seriously:

"How can you say that, Xiao Nuan is a **** in an inner house, the door is not out, the second door is not stepping, and she naturally doesn't know anything about the outside"

Zhou Jingran took a breath in his throat, lit Cheng Ke with a fan, and only after a while did he say a sentence,

"I don't know anything, she really doesn't know anything"

Zhou Jingran leaned back and let out a long breath,

"I don't know this, it's really what people want, let people go out of the Ministry of Rites first, and if you can't catch a big fish, that's it."

"Alas, in the end, I was still wronged."

Cheng Ke said with a long sigh, Zhou Jingran suffocated in his throat, lit Cheng Ke with a fan, and said hatefully:

"You two, can you still suffer a loss in this matter? It's only a few days of hard work, and you've turned it over, your little warmth who doesn't know anything about it, you don't know how much advantage you have to take advantage of, what do you call it? ”

Cheng Ke raised his foot and looked twice, the place where he was stepped on by Xiao Nuan yesterday was still aching, Cheng Ke let out a long sigh and said sadly:

"I'm also aggrieved"

Zhou Jingran squinted his eyes and looked at Cheng Ke's raised foot, and suddenly laughed,

"Kicked by Xiao Nuan again?"

Cheng Ke turned his head to look at Zhou Jingran, didn't answer his words, frowned and asked:

"What kind of charter do you have? Now you don't have anyone in this house who can take charge......"

Zhou Jingran became irritable, waved his hand and said:

"Let the internal divisions go to the Nanhe River and just burst the embankment, how can I have the heart to do such a thing?"

Cheng Ke wrinkled his brows, looked at Zhou Jingran, and said with concern:

"These two side concubines, if you are not satisfied, it is too late to change them now, and the emperor has promised you that the matter of this side concubine is only as you like, and you can carefully pick a pleasant one."

"That's it, it's not the same again, like you said, it's all papier-mâché beauties, what's the difference? Forget it, so be it, as long as it saves me snacks. ”

Zhou Jingran waved his hand dejectedly, and said listlessly, Cheng Ke's eyes flashed slightly, looked at Zhou Jingran, and said slowly:

"This beauty is papier-mâché, or made of water, whether it can be lively and bright, it all depends on how you treat her and how you look at her, the girl's family is all different, just see if you can see it."

Zhou Jingran turned his head to look at Cheng Ke and laughed,

"What did Xiao Nuan say?"

Cheng Ke nodded, Zhou Jingran looked at Cheng Ke, smiled and whispered:

"That Meng is a different one"

Cheng Ke turned around and picked up the cup with some embarrassment, concentrating on drinking tea, Zhou Jingran sighed sadly, was silent for a moment, waved his hand and said:

"This thing, it's not for anything else, first, the Nanhe River broke the embankment, it's too festive and easy to provoke, and second, the Meng family went to the temple to pray for blessings, and there was no one at home, no matter what, it's not easy to publicize, let's do it quietly, it's not good in the future, it's not how I treat them, it's how they treat themselves."

Cheng Ke nodded in response, no longer talking, the two of them gossiped for a while without a word, and when they saw that the hour was almost up, they got up and came out, and went back to do their errands.

Li Xiaonuan waited for the princess to eat, went out of the main courtyard, and went back to Qinglian Courtyard, Lan Chu stood in the gate, saw her come in, smiled and stepped forward to salute, took out a thick letter from his arms, and handed it over,

"Young lady, the young grandmother of the Jin family made a special trip to bring a letter to you, which was sent by Zhou Daqing, the companion of the young grandmother, saying that it must be handed over to the young lady by hand, and the porter naturally refused to let him in, so I went to the second gate, that Zhou Daqing recognized me, so he was willing to take out the letter, I asked him to wait for a while before going back, and let people take him down to rest, I am afraid that the young lady will have a letter to take back."

Li Xiaonuan nodded, took the thick letter in surprise, and looked down at the familiar handwriting on the envelope, it was Gu Yunshan's words, such a thick one, and it was so cautious to let the companion send it over, what happened?

I came back at more than eleven o'clock, and there were many things to do in the past few days, and there were more troubles, life, that's it, always unsatisfactory, and I had a good mentality and treated myself leniently.

Listen to the falling flowers and sit and watch the clouds rise.