"Fourth sister, what did you say?" Du Siniang's voice was very low just now, and Du Peng didn't hear her last sentence clearly.

Du Siniang shook her head, "It's nothing." Hiding Xu Yong's jealousy and unwillingness turned into raging anger at this moment, filling her entire mind and making her completely unreasonable.

Even though he encountered some unpleasant things and was followed all the way, Su Yan still had a very happy time on this Shangyuan Eve, especially His Royal Highness the Prince, in order to please the beauties, personally won a beautiful marquee and came back, earning enough eyeballs for the two of them.

When Su Yan returned to the Guogong Mansion with the lamp, it was not very late, and it was not the time for the banquet in the palace to end, but the group of people from the Yasukuni Mansion actually came back, and the grandparents' expressions were a little peculiar, seven points of joy and three points of sadness, and it was her father, his brows were tightly locked, and he looked preoccupied.

Su Yan entered the house and bowed around, sat down beside her mother obediently, and asked her for the first time, "Auntie, did you have fun today?" ”

Su Yan smiled: "I'm very happy." ”

Yasukuni smoothed his beard and smiled very kindly, "It's good to be happy, it's good to be happy." ”

Grandmother Wang's cousin was more direct, beckoned Su Yan over, took her into her arms, and asked in a low voice: "Is the prince easy to get along with?" ”

"Hmm." Su Yan nodded, her little face a little red.

Wang stroked her long hair and said lovingly: "It's late, Ah Shu go back to sleep." "At today's palace banquet, Du Guifei treated her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law very affectionately, and even rewarded her niece who had not entered the palace with a whole pearl head, a pair of dragon and phoenix jade pendants with excellent mutton fat and jade, and ten gold-woven makeup forgings. When things were given, Wang saw that many people had envy in their eyes.

Su Yan looked at his father and mother, and when he saw that his mother signaled to him, he got up and saluted and took people back to the hospital. She knew that something must have happened at the palace banquet to make the atmosphere at home so weird.

Su Zhoucheng saw that his daughter was gone, so he spoke: "Daddy, I haven't been long since I took over the position of Zuo Servant, and the sage won't let me be a scholar so soon." ”

Yasukuni waved his hand in disbelief, "Why should my son be arrogant, now in the DPRK and China, besides you, who else has the qualifications to take over Shang Shuling." ”

Although Su Zhoude said that his mood was a little complicated, he also knew that his younger brother's promotion would only be good for his family, and he also smiled and said: "Daddy said yes, fourth brother, you just wait for the will of the saint." ”

Yes, at the Shangyuan banquet in the palace today, Yuan Shangshu Ling fell down with a sudden illness, and although he was rescued, he was already unable to move and unable to speak. He is like this, he can only retire from illness, and it is impossible for him to hold office again. Shang Shuling retired from illness, and who was the one who was appointed was a question that everyone was concerned about.

You must know that Shang Shuling, like Zhongshu Ling and his servants, is a veritable prime minister. The Great Xia court was in the previous dynasty, set up three provinces and six departments, and the Zhongshu order was in charge of the government decree of the state; the deliberation of the decree of the subordinate squire; The Shangshu Province leads hundreds of officials, governs six ministries, and is the general leader. Being a scholar is equivalent to being in charge of the six ministries of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and is in charge of most of the government affairs.

Such an important position, a little qualified want to grab it. Yasukuni took it for granted that Shang Shuling should be in charge of his own son. After all, the previous Shangshu Zuo servants are the default successors of Shangshuling, and the current Shangshuling is old and sick, and his son has been back for more than a year, and Shangshu Province is actually under his control.

Su Zhoucheng had a different idea from his father, and he thought that the current Shang Shuling's illness was really difficult for him. His tenure as a left servant is too short, and he is not enough to fully control Shangshu Province, and his prestige in the court is not enough, if he really wants to take over Shangshu Ling, in a short period of time, he will be severely suppressed by the current Zhongshu Ling and his subordinate servants. But if he doesn't take over Shang Shuling, a new boss will be even more troublesome. In order to gain a firm foothold in Shangshu Province, at least two of the first three fires will come at him, and if the person who comes is deep enough, it is possible to unite the right servant and the six Shangshu to set him up. In that case, he would probably stay in the position of left servant for many years, which was not something he would like.

The father and son of the Duke of Yasukuni had a dispute over the position of Shang Shuling here, and the emperor in the palace also called his son to discuss it after knowing that the prince had returned to the palace.

The emperor put his hands behind his back, drew circles in the room, and sighed as he walked: "The time for Xinzhi to return to Beijing is too short. "The prestige is not enough, I'm afraid it will be difficult for the two of Zhongshu and Menxia to compete, he doesn't want Zhongshu and Menxia to suppress Shangshu Province.

According to the emperor's previous idea, he let his junior brother stay in Shangshu Province for three years, anyway, Shangshu Ling was not in good health and often asked for sick leave, and Shangshu Province was basically his junior brother who had the final say. After two or three years, Su Zhoucheng completely controlled Shangshu Province in his own hands, and also had prestige in the court, it was logical to take over Shangshuling. It's a pity that people are not as good as heaven, and the current Shang Shuling's illness has disrupted his deployment.

The prince felt that his father was worried too much, "Uncle Shi is capable enough, and he is enough to take over Shang Shuling, which is enough to convince people." And, Cui Xianghe ......" The crown prince glanced up at the emperor who had stopped, and said meaningfully: "Recently, his temperament has been very gentle. ”

Old man Cui is almost seventy years old, and he looks old day by day, and for the future of his children and grandchildren, he is not as tough as before. If Uncle Su takes over, this old man will definitely take advantage of the situation to do a personal favor.

The emperor raised his eyebrows and looked at the crown prince, and when he saw his son's calm face, he scolded with a smile: "You are a virtuous person who does not avoid relatives." ”

The prince said confidently: "The son's father-in-law is also Daddy's junior brother, of course he has to take care of it." ”

"Hehe, not yet." The emperor saw his son's determined appearance and wanted to hit him in particular.

Without saying a word, the prince got up and went to the side of the imperial case, laying paper and grinding.

"Shichiro, what are you doing?" The Emperor asked curiously.

The prince said in a sullen voice: "Daddy, you dictate, and my son will draft the decree." ”

"What is the purpose?" The emperor was a little confused.

Prince: "The will of marriage." ”

Emperor: "Bastard, get out!" ”

Emperor Yongping, who was in turmoil, drove his son out of the palace, only to remember that the father and son had completely crooked the building just now, and the previous topic had not been discussed.

He walked around the house a few more times, and simply stomped his feet: Forget it, anyway, it was decided to register the ten mothers of the Su family as the crown princess. As a future in-law, what happened to him promoting the prince's father-in-law, it's too normal, okay.

The emperor has a plan in his heart, and the holy decree is also fast. The Shangyuan Festival had just ended, and the will to appoint Su Zhoucheng as the new Shangshu Ling was made, and the Yasukuni Mansion was jubilant.

Su Zhoucheng, as one of the three prime ministers of Great Xia, and then live with his father and brother, it is a little inconvenient, the emperor has always been generous to this junior brother, and with a stroke of his hand, he gave Su Zhoucheng the house next to the Yasukuni Mansion.

That mansion was originally the princess's mansion, because the princess died early, and left no heirs, and after the concubine married another, the princess's mansion was taken back by the royal family, and it was never given to others again, and this time it was given to Su Zhoucheng as a new home.

Although the parents are not separated, the residence of the prime minister of a country has a fixed guard, and with the guards of the original Yasukuni Mansion, the number of this private armed force exceeds the prescribed limit. In addition, the house was given by the emperor, and the two mansions were very close to each other, as long as a door was opened on the wall of the two houses when it was rebuilt, it could be completely connected.

The new house is the princess's mansion, and it is necessary to rebuild it when it is changed to the prime minister's mansion, and the part that exceeds the system must be changed, although the amount of work is not particularly large, but it will take a while.

Su Zhoucheng wants to move to a new house, and the area of the new home is still very large, and the servants originally brought back from Wu County are a little insufficient. What the Yasukuni Gong and Wang families mean is that they can take some servants from home and then buy another batch. Just when the mansion was being rebuilt, the initial training was done to save them from moving over, and it was good that the subordinates were not well served, in case they took advantage of the master's momentum to do something bastard, it would not be good.

The Yasukuni Gong has been inherited for four generations, and the family has always been very prosperous, and there has never been a time when people are bought and not sold. Therefore, there are many servants in the Yasukuni Mansion, and only a few of them can be reused by the master. This time, Shiro-kun is moving, and many people want to follow Su Zhoucheng's family. Those who trust relationships, find people, and send money are all in a mess.

Su Yan felt that many people had been courteous in front of her recently, and even the maids around her said that once they went out of the Yutang Courtyard, they would be like being held by the stars, surrounded by a group of people.

It's no wonder that the Su family hit Su Yan with their ideas, and the fact that the prince invited her to go out to travel together on the Shangyuan Festival was spread all over the family. Even the palace concubines and concubines have rewarded a lot of things, and her father has recently been promoted again, and everything shows that this girl must be the crown princess.

If she is lucky enough to be her personal maid, she will definitely bring her confidants into the palace when she gets married in the future. When she arrived in the palace, there were many beauties around the prince, and the princess wanted to fix her favor, for example, on her inconvenient days, if she chose someone to serve the prince, she would definitely choose her side, so she could rest assured. If you are lucky enough to pick your own daughter and then be able to give birth to a boy and a half girl to the prince, then when the prince succeeds to the throne, he will also be the prince's foreign family.

It can only be said that these people have a good dream and a big brain. However, they do have a point. The biological mother of the saint's eldest prince was not born to the queen's personal maid. Although the eldest prince died early, and his biological mother lost his favor, her parents and brothers were all freed from slavery, and now there is a brother and a brother who are prefects and county magistrates. At the beginning, he wanted to bow his head and bow his waist to serve his master, but now he is also the master of the slave and the servant.

Su Yan was annoyed enough, but the Liu family also gave Su Rong and Su Yan a problem.

Things are the same, recently everything in the family has been complicated, Liu's and Lu's concubines have discussed, the girls in the family have grown up, and they should know about housework or something. Although they have been taught before, they can't succeed if they don't practice optics, and now it's time to ask them to practice.

Moreover, the maids around several girls are a little old and need to be replaced. It just so happened that the family bought another batch of subordinates, and the Liu family called Su Rong and Su Yan to teach them how to choose people on the spot.

When Su Yan was invited to Songfeng Courtyard by Liu's maid, he found that Su Rong had arrived. Her mother, Lu, sat leisurely with tea. Hey, didn't you say that you've been busy at home lately?

Su Yan sat beside Su Rong with puzzlement.

Liu glanced at the people around him, and the maid went out, and soon brought back a team of teenage girls.

These little girls had obviously been preliminarily taught, and when they entered the door, they lined up in four rows in order, and knelt down and kowtowed in unison.

Liu smiled at a few girls, "The big girls around you have also reached the age of marriage, and when they get married, there will be fewer people around them. ”

Su Rong turned his head to look, "Ah Niang, is this our original maid?" ”

Liu said: "Yes, the one I bought is in the back." ”

Su Rong has been very experienced in selecting people around him. For her, the maid who serves by her side is the most important loyalty, the color does not have to be too good, and the person does not have to be too smart, just be honest.

She also picked according to this standard, asked a few words at random, and after taking a rough look at these girls, she had a conclusion in her heart.

Liu glanced at his daughter, "There are still people outside, so don't be in a hurry to choose someone." ”

Su Rong smiled coquettishly at her mother, and then turned her head and whispered to Su Yan, "Tenth sister, do you have anything to look forward to?" Tell me first, lest the two of us choose against. ”

Su Yan, this girl likes to look at beauties, her standards are completely different from Su Rong's, "Seventh Sister is just casual, there is no one I like among these people." "But no, these twenty people don't have a particularly outstanding appearance, just now Su Rong asked, she also listened, and there is no literacy, there are so two who say that the female celebrity is very good, and two say that they can cook, and the answer is modest, and there is not much aura.

Su Rong was slightly surprised, "The tenth sister didn't pick it?" ”

"Hmm." Su Yan nodded.

As he was talking, the little girls in the house withdrew, and twenty more people came in, this time there was a girl with double eyes like cutting water, Su Yan was quite interested in her, and specially called someone to ask: "What is your name, what will you do?" ”

The girl saluted timidly, and her voice was thin, "If you go back to Shi Niang, the slave is called Ruoshui." ”

Su Yan said: "Ruoshui, this name is good." She turned her head sideways and asked Su Rong, "Seventh sister, do you want to choose her?" ”

Su Rong shook his head and persuaded him: "Tenth sister, aren't you looking at it?" There should be more later. "That little girl looks like a standard white lotus, how can Su Yan put her by her side.

"No, I think she fits her very well." Su Yan shook her head, she just likes beauties.

The Liu family prepared one hundred and twenty little girls for the two sisters to choose from, and the last twenty were all purchased from outside the house, and they were relatively older. There are many good-looking people, and many of them are literate and hyphenation, and there is even a rough calligraphy and painting.

Su Rong didn't choose any outsiders, and she picked out all the servants of the family, with good facial features, delicate appearance, and a little girl who looked docile and honest. Liu nodded secretly when he saw it, but his daughter still understood in her heart that it was like a niece. She swept around the people standing beside her niece, and frowned secretly, Shi Niang is too willful, who is this choice.

Su Yan's girl chose all those with good faces and aura, and even bought them from outside the house, she also picked four, including the girl who was rough in poetry and painting. There were ten girls of all sizes in a circle, and the twelve on Su Rong's side were forced to be without any brilliance.

"Tenth sister, A-Niang said that there are twelve of us, and you are missing two?" Su Rong was also speechless about Su Yan's behavior of choosing people to look at his face. However, she is used to it, and this girl was used to it in her previous life. If it suddenly changes, she won't be used to it.

Su Yan frowned and thought for a while, "No, I don't like the rest." ”

Liu looked at Lu, hoping that she, a mother, could teach her children, after all, she was an aunt, and there were some things that were difficult to say. Who knew that Lu looked at his daughter with a smile on his face, and he was very satisfied with his daughter's choice. Liu Shi was so worried that he really didn't know what to say, so he simply didn't care.

After choosing the maids, let them send them to the courtyard of the two sisters, and let the two big maids teach, and Lu took his daughter back.

"Ashu, why aren't you like Qi Niang?" Lu asked his daughter with a smile.

Su Yan was also strange, "Seventh Sister picked twelve wooden people to go back, what's the point." ”

Lu smiled, "Your seventh sister chooses the safest one, where is like you, choose the beautiful one." ”

"It's only eye-catching to put it around like this." Su Yan said as a matter of course. Who doesn't like to look at beautiful people, her maid must be beautiful and smart.

Lu teased her: "Aren't you afraid that a beautiful maid has a big heart? ”

Su Yan said: "If your heart is big, change it." "Anyway, there are a lot of people serving, and she doesn't have to do it.

Lu Shi said: "Smart people also have a lot of thoughts. ”

Su Yan: "But smart people know how to choose what is best for her." ”

"What if I make the wrong choice?"

"Then swap it out." What a simple thing.

Lu touched his daughter's head lovingly and didn't speak again.

Su Rong and Su Yan's different ways of selecting people reached the ears of the Wang family, and the old lady of the Yasukuni Mansion was silent for a long time before sighing, "Fortunately, the sage chose Ah Shu, not Ah Yue." ”

Wang's bridal grandmother knelt on the pedal, gently beating Wang's legs, she carefully looked at Wang's face, pondered for a long time in her heart, and then smiled: "Why does the old slave think that Qi Niang is more appropriate?" ”

Wang didn't open his eyes, "Qi Niang, this child has been very cautious since she was a child, she is appropriate everywhere, and she refuses to offend a person lightly, so she has to be said to be good." But in the world, how can you be appropriate everywhere and let everyone say that you are good, this is simply impossible. She is like this every day, and she is not afraid of being tired and flustered. ”

"Look at the girl this kid chose, she is preventing the people around her from climbing the bed in advance. Oh, men love sex, it's true. But the color around you or the color he found back from the outside, which is easy to grasp? Personal girl, personal girl, life and death are in your hands, and you must be single-minded. If she has an outside heart, she can deal with it immediately, because she is your wedding girl, even her husband and mother-in-law can't control it. If this were an outsider, would you be able to do that? ”

"Sigh, forget it, one person has one character, after all, if you want to marry into the royal family, you should be cautious."

Mama Fang didn't dare to say more, she thought about begging the old lady to send her granddaughter to the Shiniang Courtyard to be a third-class girl, but she didn't dare to mention it again, and the house was quiet for a while.

Su Rong waited for a while, and saw that there was no movement in the room, so he slowly walked out of Wang's courtyard, thinking about Wang's words in his heart. Could it be that she really thinks too much? No, grandmother doesn't think right, the personal girl serves you every day, knows your personality and preferences too well, and if you have an external heart, it is really impossible for you to guard against it. For example, the cheap man who will take revenge. If it weren't for her, there would not have been such a quarrel between her and King Zhou.

After that, she had a memory. After that, she was able to protect her children in the hands of the Xiao family, sit firmly as the princess, and was not framed by her and succeeded in plotting, which was inseparable from the loyalty of the maids around her.

On the contrary, it is Xiao Shi, just like Su Yan, who thinks he is smart and can control the people around him. What was the result, wasn't it calculated by her girl, not only successfully climbed into King Zhou's bed, but also gave birth to two children.

Su Rong closed his eyes, once again convinced that his way was right, and then he opened a gentle smile and returned to Fangyuan.

On the third day of March, kites flew all over the sky. The spring light in March is just right, all kinds of spring flowers bloom bright smiling faces in the warm spring breeze, and the grass on the ground is still clinging, and the ground has been covered with a layer of tender green lichen.

"Shi Niang, what have you been doing at home lately? I don't always come out to play. Song Wan asked with some grievances. Since the Shangyuan Festival, she has looked for Su Yan I don't know how many times, and every time she was rejected, she was almost heartbroken by the rejection.

Su Yan casually folded a peach blossom and played with it in his hand, and said with a smile: "I helped my grandfather tidy up the study." Her grandfather's private study had recently been plagued by rats, which had bitten several boxes of books and several ancient books on his grandfather's books, which made his old man feel distressed. deliberately looked for her mother and borrowed the two brave cats in her father's study to kill rats. It just so happened that she was also annoyed by the overly attentive servants at home, so she simply took someone to live with her grandfather's house, and helped him tidy up the study by the way.

Song Wan lost interest when he heard this, "What's so interesting about the study, you have been at home for so many days." ”

"My grandfather's study was a lot of fun." Su Yan still mentions it, and his eyes are still shining.

"Stop." Song Wan gestured, "We're out to go out." ”

Su Yan spread his hands and said that he would not say any more, "By the way, what about Ah Duan?" "Duan Jiao didn't come out with Song Wan today.

Song Wan wanted to get angry when he mentioned this, "Don't mention it, Ah Duan's mother wants to kiss her, and she is not allowed to come out." Duan Jiao's mother is particularly partial to her little daughter, because there is not much harmony between her youngest daughter Duan Yan and Su Yan, she refuses to let Duan Jiao associate with the two of them, and locks her at home.

Su Yan pursed her lips and asked in a low voice, "It's because of me." "The Duan family wants their youngest daughter Duan Yan to be the crown princess, and the whole capital knows it, but the saint and the prince didn't choose her, so it's strange that the Duan family will feel comfortable.

Song Wan pulled Su Yan, "When you become the crown princess in the future, you have to take good care of Ah Duan, she is about to be bullied to death by her sister." ”

Su Yan: "......" She thought that she would avenge Duan Jiao now.