Chapter 5: Phil's Dowry

In the next two days, Cai Wei was very busy, she not only had to deal with the backlog of things in the palace, but also took care of her own shops outside the palace, she didn't come back for several months, many of her shops were out of stock, such as her ginseng line, now she doesn't even sell a single ginseng beard, there are only shelves left, she has to dig a batch of ginseng in the space to make up for it; There is also the Treasure Pavilion, the current Treasure Pavilion is mainly selling jade, jadeite, and beads, and in the months when Cai Wei was away, the jade, jade, and beads hoarded by Zhenbao Zhai were basically sold out, and she had to go to Lingxi to fish out a batch of them.

The vegetables in the hot pot restaurant have long been used up, and a month and a half ago, I had to buy them at a high price in the hands of the vegetable sellers, but unfortunately, the high-priced dishes bought are not only expensive, but also far less delicious than those provided by Cai Wei. Today, she transported a few truckloads of vegetables out of the space and sent them to Bafu Hot Pot City and Bafu Restaurant respectively, saving a lot of money from spending that unjustly.

The rouge of Mi Fang Zhai was also sold out, because the most basic raw materials for making zuò rouge - flowers were provided by the queen mother, Cai Wei was not there, there was no basic raw material for making rouge, rouge naturally could not be made, Cai Wei asked Changmei to pick a few carts of flowers, sorted them in boxes, and ordered Yang Yong to send them to Mi Fang Zhai......

After two or three days of hurrying, not only her, but even Changmei was tired, it went down to Lingxi to fish for jade and jade, went to pearl picking for a while, picked vegetables and ginseng for a while, and went to pick flowers and pack boxes for a while, and was so busy that it had no time to rest.

At this time, it remembered its old friend Parrot, although the bird always quarreled with it and robbed it of its things, but sometimes it was still very righteous, for example, when it was working, the parrot brother would often come to help, if it was there, at least, it could help it pick pearls, box flowers, and save it a lot of labor.

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After two or three days of busyness, when it was almost done with the things explained by its master, its old friend Parrot finally came back from Liaodan, and also brought back letters from many ministers of the court and Nangong Shimi.

Now that the evidence is conclusive and ironclad, Li Kaifeng and others are dumbfounded, and they can't be allowed to quibble!

After Nangong Yi received the letter, he immediately summoned the ministers of the court and passed them the letters written by the criminal ministers to Nangong Shi.

So, the emperor listened to the advice of the ministers, and immediately ordered the arrest of these criminal ministers, the general Li Kaifeng and his henchmen, as well as the network of relations established by Jin Guifei in the court over the years, as well as the forces established by Nangong Shi herself, under Nangong Yi's order, suddenly collapsed.

On the day he returned to the palace, the reason why Nangong Yi did not immediately arrest those criminal ministers was to convince the courtiers after obtaining conclusive evidence, and to clean up those rebellions in one fell swoop, of course, it was also to separate them and strictly monitor them, so that they could not contact each other, and it was difficult to unite against Nangong Yi, and Nangong Yi easily broke them apart.

Li Kaifeng has been powerful for many years, and once he was imprisoned, he was naturally unwilling, however, as Cai Wei said, in the face of absolute force, his dare and resentment were just children's feelings. His comrades, like him, were imprisoned in a prison awaiting Marble's trial.

The interrogation time was extremely long, after more than a month, after many investigations and evidence collection, Li Kaifeng and others colluded to abolish the crown prince, and the crime of attempting rebellion was finally exposed to the world, and the crime of rebellion should have been punished by capital punishment, but Nangong Yinian and Li Kaifeng supported meritorious service when he ascended the throne, and rebelled at will, also because he wanted to avenge his daughter Li Ruizhu, so he couldn't bear to hurt his life, and only ordered to take back his military power, confiscate his family property, and imprison him in the prison to live for a long time. And his family members were expelled from the General's Mansion and demoted to concubines, fending for themselves.

His henchmen were not so lucky, and after being found guilty of crimes, they were all punished by the palace, demoted to slavery, and sent to Lingbei, and were not allowed to leave for life.

For men, the palace punishment is a punishment that makes them more painful than death, * The pain is secondary, the mental torture and the humiliation of the personality have made many people collapse, and on the day of the execution, someone actually went crazy without waiting for the knife to come down.

During the investigation, the Empress Dowager's maiden family was also involved with Nangong Shi, Nangong Yi saw the letters written by the British Duke to Nangong Shi, and was furious, and immediately issued an order to deprive the British Duke of the title, put the family in prison, and send Lingbei as a slave after being punished by the palace.

The Empress Dowager is the most protètic, and when she heard that Nangong Yi was going to castrate all the men of their Ji family, she immediately took off her hairpin and begged bitterly in front of Nangong Yi, Nangong Yi was already disgusted with her, and the reason why the British Duke dared to contact Nangong Shi was that she had nothing to do with her, but she was lucky and didn't leave any tricks.

Therefore, Nangong Yi rejected her mercilessly and sent her back to her palace. Seeing that her pleas were fruitless, Empress Dowager Ji ran to Qixia Palace in desperation, shouting like a shrew, forcing Emperor Taishang to issue an order to pardon her mother's family.

Emperor Taishang was so troubled by his mother that he couldn't clean up, so he had no choice but to ask someone to bring a message to Nangong Yi and ask him to pardon the Ji family's crimes.

However, the Emperor Taishang already regarded himself as a person outside of Hongchen, and would not interfere too much in the affairs of the court, he only said that he had exempted the Ji family from their crimes, and did not say much else.

Nangong Yi had to obey his father's will and exempt the men of the Ji family from the palace punishment, but they confiscated all their family property and expelled the whole family from Beijing.

During this period, Cai Lian went to the Mu Mansion more than once to intercede, and figured out that Guò Mu Mansion met Cai Wei so that she could intercede with Cai Wei.

However, in the past month, Cai Wei has been busy with the draft, and she has no time to go back to her parents' house, so naturally she has not seen Cai Lian, and Cai Lian herself has no seal on her body, and she has no right to hand over the sign to the palace to see Cai Wei.

Therefore, she cried and wiped her tears and begged Mrs. Mu Du Shi to hand over the sign into the palace, and said good things to their family in front of Cai Wei, so that the emperor exempted them from punishment, and let her father-in-law still be a British prince, and her man was still a British prince......

Although Du Shi is a kind-hearted person, he is not the kind of person who can't be clear, Cailian's in-laws are guilty of rebellion, she didn't avoid her, she is already benevolent and righteous enough, how can she let her daughter consume the emperor's favor for her, to intercede for a treasonous sinner?

Besides, this family is not worth their plea at all.

So, she categorically rejected Cailian's request, but promised Cailian that if she wanted to reconcile with Ji Wanfu, she would personally intercede with Caiwei and let Caiwei help.

Who knows, Cai Lian disagreed, she wept and said: "Auntie, I didn't listen to the advice at the beginning, I insisted on marrying the eunuchs, Cai Wei already despised me, now their family is in trouble, I ran to ask for peace and leave, Cai Wei will definitely look down on me even more, besides, the ancients, marry a chicken with a chicken and marry a dog with a dog, since I married him, I will be born as his person, and death is his ghost, and I have no other thoughts." ”

Seeing that she was so stubborn, Du Shi refused to listen to the advice, so he had to let her go.

Cai Lian knelt down in Mu Mansion and begged to no avail, so she had to go back with tears in her eyes.

The British government was taken back by the imperial court on the day of the verdict of the British public crime, all the family property and domestic slaves were confiscated, and even the aunts and concubines of Yingying Yanyan in Ji Wanfu's courtyard were also confiscated, and the Ji family was torn apart, and in the end, only the old man and his wife Ji and Ji Wanfu were left, and the four of them had nowhere to live, so they had to temporarily live in Cailian's mother's house.

Reasoning, when it comes to such a field, the Ji family should be honest, but Ji Wanfu is a person who is used to being domineering, and he looks down on Uncle Mu and Aunt Mu San's peddler background, and when he arrives at Uncle Mu's house, he still has the uncle's shelf, calling and calling for Uncle Mu and Aunt Mu San, and commanding them, either because the house is not warm enough, or because the food is not exquisite enough, and he doesn't treat them as father-in-law and mother-in-law at all.

Third Uncle Mu and Aunt Mu saw that he was so unbearable, and knew that their daughter would suffer if they followed him, so they secretly discussed with Cailian, wanting to ask Caiwei to give an order to let Cailian and Ji Wanfu reconcile.

As a result, Cai Lian said what she said to Du Shi again, saying that she would not reconcile with anything, and Uncle Mu and Aunt Mu persuaded her several times, but she was completely unmoved, and Uncle Mu and Aunt Mu had nothing to do, so they had to sell the little property they had managed to buy in the capital, and left with them on the day they were expelled from Beijing.

There is no way, they only have Cailian, a child, who has always loved her as an eyeball and a tip of their hearts, and they have never taken a bite of the atmosphere, knowing that Lian'er will suffer with that Ji Wanfu, the couple couldn't bear it, so they had to follow them.

The Ji family saw that the emperor was guilty, naturally no one dared to take them in, and the Empress Dowager Ji wanted to secretly send them some plates to entangle, but unfortunately the old lady was completely disgusted by the emperor because of the collusion between her mother's family and the abolished prince, and she was already grounded in her own palace and was not allowed to contact the outside world.

Therefore, the Ji family can be said to have left the capital empty-handed, because there is nowhere to go, Uncle Mu Santi went back to Qingyun Town, and the Ji family has no place to stay, since the in-laws have a house in Qingyun Town, they will also follow......

Jun Li Kaifeng, the matter of colluding with the former abolished prince to make a rebellion was finally understood, and the people involved were all punished as they deserved, leaving Nangong Yi, Jinzhong and Master Le Ji and his two disciples, who have been locked up in Cai Wei's space.

Cai Wei didn't want to kill people, but she was afraid that they would reveal the secrets of her space, so for safety, she asked Brother Parrot to find an isolated desert island thousands of miles away, and let Changmei tie them up and throw them on the back of the white-haired tiger, and the white-haired tiger and long-eyebrow sent them there.

The deserted island is thousands of miles away from Dajin, far away in the hot place in the south, the white-haired tiger carried these five people, climbed the mountain, crossed the water, ran for half a month, and finally arrived at the desert island in the middle of the sea that Brother Parrot said.

The island was overgrown with weeds, snakes and rats, and there were no inhabitants on the island, and no one had ever been here in its pristine state, so the white-haired tiger and the long-eyebrow bong threw them to the island, untied their ropes, and left.

They are in the middle of the sea, without ships or shipbuilding tools, and they can only spend the rest of their lives on this island......

Brother Parrot didn't go with the white-haired tiger because the owner gave it a new task to find the lost Du Yueniang.

Du Yueniang is Du Yongqi's sister, Aunt Liao's daughter, and Du's sister and Cai Wei's sister-in-law, so for the sake of this little blood and family affection, Cai Wei intends to let Brother Parrot find it well, which can be regarded as a relative's affection.

Brother Parrot quickly found Du Yueniang, and when she heard Brother Parrot say where she was, Cai Wei almost slammed on the table, Du Yueniang was now in the palace of Liaodan, and she was pregnant!

Cai Wei is not the kind of biological mother who sacrifices herself to save others, she has finally drawn a clear line with Saknu, and she will never have anything to do with him for an estranged relative, let alone go to Liaodan for her own stomach to take risks.

However, for the sake of her relatives, she took a string of priceless dragon balls and ordered her parrot brother to send them to her, saying that she was rich and easy to do, and she was alone in the harem of Liaodan, and Saknu was such a beast, her life must be difficult.

With these beads, she sold them and used them to buy people, and she could also improve her own life, so that she could live a good life for a lifetime.

Brother Parrot was ordered to leave, but when she returned, she brought back news that Cai Wei did not expect.

It turned out that Du Yueniang not only followed Saknu's side willingly, but also enjoyed this kind of glorious and wealthy day very much.

She is demure and quiet, quick-witted, not like other concubines in Saknu, and never compete for favor, using the word "clumsy" to best interpret her beauty, she has poetry and books in her belly, calm and atmospheric, and those women who can only be coquettish and dissolute are very different, therefore, Saknu has a lot of respect for her, even Mrs. Xiao treats her very well, it can be said that Du Yueniang is like a fish in water in Saknu's harem.

Hearing the news, Cai Wei put her mind at ease, everyone has their own ambitions, although she hates Saknu, but it doesn't mean that others can't appreciate him, since Yueniang likes him, she can't take people's ambitions, so let her go.

Cai Wei wrote a letter to Du Yongqi, described Du Meiniang's situation to him, and sent the letter to Lingbei. Originally, she wanted to go to Lingbei in person, but Nangong Yi didn't agree to anything, and threatened her that if she dared to run around casually, she would also point Chaoyue to Mo Ziqi.

Although Cai Wei knew that he was just scaring herself, but Fei'er was going to marry Mo Ziqi next month, and there were still many things she needed to deal with, after thinking about it for a while, she didn't insist, and sent someone over according to the man's wishes.

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Time flies quickly, and in the blink of an eye, spring is coming unconsciously, in the warm spring breeze, the grass quietly comes out of the ground, the branches also pull out tender leaves, birds are jumping on the branches, chirping happily, and everywhere is a thriving look.

The weather is warm, and there are more people on the road, and at this time, people have taken off their thick cotton clothes, changed into light jackets, and walked unhurriedly in the streets and alleys, walking, releasing birds, and gossiping and wonders.

At the moment, the people in the capital are talking the most, not the just-concluded Li Kaifeng's rebellion, nor the fact that the son of the Duke of Liguo was exceptionally promoted to the general of the country, but the fact that the queen's sister is about to marry the new general of the country.

Everyone said that the daughter of the Mu family is really a blessing, one is a queen, and the other is the wife of a general who protects the country, I really don't know which life she has accumulated virtue and received such a great blessing. Some people also say that the daughters of the Mu family were born with a shy look of a closed moon, a sinking fish and a goose, and it is not surprising that they marry the emperor and the general with this good color.

At this time, the Mu family is no longer the original Mu family, and it already has a pivotal position in the court, although Mu Zhongqing is only a five-grade petty official, but because of a certain relationship, many first- and second-grade officials in the court have taken the initiative to make friends with him, plus Mu Zhongqing is humble and courteous, and has a degree of advance and retreat, so he is very popular in the DPRK and China, and is quite popular.

Because of this, there is still more than a month before Fei'er's wedding, and there is already a lot of traffic in front of Mu's mansion, with people who come to visit, report good news, and those who want to help, which is more lively than when Cai Wei got married.

According to the rules of the Great Jin Kingdom, the girl can no longer go out for activities a month before she gets married, and she should stay at home to embroider wedding dresses, happy quilts, happy accounts, etc.

Embroidery is a matter of ease for Fei'er, so this month's time, even the cloth village did not go, only stayed in the house with Mama Qi, embroidered her red wedding dress, happy quilt, happy tent, etc., the glass and pearls around her, as well as Yuanchun, Yingchun, Tanchun, Xichun and others also followed her, getting up early and greedy to help make purses.

When it comes to the wedding, there must be a lot of guests, and the purses that need to be rewarded have to be made thousands, eight hundred, so the whole house, as long as the people who are free, are all busy making purses.

Mu Zhongqing has prepared a rich dowry for his daughter, most of which are the dowry gifts sent by the Liguo Mansion before, in addition to those dowries, he has also prepared some of his own, such as Bafu Restaurant, Nongfu Zhuang, as well as Bafu Dim Sum Shop and Zhuangzi in the hunting ground on the outskirts of Beijing, these industries that Caiwei gave him were all included in Fei'er's dowry.

Cai Wei also prepared a thick dowry for Fei'er, and the richness of the dowry was not inferior to that of any princess: four boxes of high-quality mutton fat white jade ornaments and jewelry; four boxes of high-quality jadeite jewelry and ornaments; Black, white, purple, pink, gold, pearl each, longan size dragon ball one; 4 branches of 300-year-old ginseng; There are also four jars of flower wine and fruit wine produced in the other space; There are four pieces of floating brocade, weft brocade, Shu brocade and soft smoke luo, forty pieces of fine snow wolf skin, mink skin, otter rabbit skin, and fox skin, and forty thousand taels of silver and eight thousand taels of gold......

In fact, in this marriage, she has always been a little inferior, not only because she is not as good as Mo Ziqi, but also because she has always thought that her family will not be able to get a dowry matching the dowry of the Liguo Mansion, and she will be underestimated after marrying.

However, her sister's action saved her self-confidence in time, so that she could marry to the Liguo Mansion with confidence in addition to her self-confidence!

A few families are happy and a few are sad, here, the Mu family is lively and happy, preparing to marry a daughter; In the palace, Princess Chaoyue hadn't eaten for several days, she was lying on the couch, heartbroken, and faint to death.

The man she has in mind is about to get married, but the bride is not her, this kind of pain is not something that others can understand. When Empress Dowager Mo came to visit her again, she saw that she looked like she was in despair, and heard the palace maid say that the princess hadn't eaten yet, and Empress Dowager Mo couldn't help but sit on the edge of the couch and weep.

"Yu'er, since you don't have you in your heart, why do you bother to drill this bull's horn? Do you have to hang yourself from a tree? ”

Hearing this, Nangong Yu slowly opened her eyes and said quietly with tears: "Queen Mother, you know all these daughters you said, so the daughter didn't go to others to annoy people, she was just sad on the side... ”

Empress Dowager Mo said: "What's the use of being sad? Even if you grind yourself to death, he won't change his mind in the child's period, rather than this, it's better to forget him, you are the only princess of the Great Jin Kingdom, and your brother will definitely find you a satisfactory husband. ”

"No need, mother, eldest cousin, he used to be so good to me, but now he dislikes me, who else can afford me?"

Nangong Yu twisted her face to the side sadly, sobbed and said: "I am a person who has lost my virginity, I shouldn't have the luxury of marrying, not to mention that a man as good as my eldest cousin should be matched with a famous lady who is ice clear and jade, but I can't do it myself, and I'm bored with myself." ”

She gave up on herself so much, which made the Empress Dowager Mo very distressed, she comforted her daughter and said: "Yu'er, you are a golden branch and jade leaf, even if it is a little flawed, it is also incomparable to ordinary women, don't be arrogant, the queen mother promises you that she will definitely help you find a good man to be your husband!" ”

Nangong Yu wiped away the tears on her cheeks, choked up and said: "The queen mother doesn't have to be for me, I have already decided, no one will marry in this life, and I will live a clean life by myself!" ”

"Yu'er, why are you doing this? There are many good men in the world, so why do you have to stare at a person in the child? Your eldest cousin is stubborn, and the queen mother can't do anything about her, even if she has a way to take him, the queen mother doesn't dare to let you marry her, so how can you afford to mess with the queen's own sister? The queen is so powerful, if you make her sister unhappy, her little life will be taken away at any time! ”

Chaoyue had already heard about Cai Wei's power from Empress Dowager Mo, and naturally she didn't dare to mess with her, besides, after being told by Cai Wei in the hunting ground last time, she also reflected for a long time and got a lot of enlightenment, so for so long, she has been staying in the palace in a proper manner, and has not harassed Mo Zili, that is, during Mo Ziqi's recuperation in the palace, she couldn't help but not visit, and only pressed her deep thoughts in her heart.

Hearing about Mo Ziqi's wedding, although she was heartbroken and sad to death, she had no intention of replacing Fei'er. It's just that her hopes are dashed, her heart is too painful, there is a lot of hope, there is no love, she has not slept for a few days, she has not eaten, and people are quickly emaciated and haggard, like a piece of paper, it seems that a gust of wind can blow her away.

Empress Dowager Mo accompanied her, persuaded her for a long time, forced her to drink a bowl of porridge, and watched her fall asleep before leaving physically and mentally exhausted.

As soon as she went out, she didn't go back to her Yukun Palace, but sat on the phoenix and went directly to the imperial study where Nangong Yi was temporarily staying.

Chaoyue is her only daughter and her lifeline, she can't bear to watch her depressed and depressed, she must let the emperor think of a way to make her happy and face life again.

Feng rushed to the outside of the imperial study, and a eunuch had already gone to report, but the emperor and the queen did not come out to greet them, only the emperor's big eunuch Yang Yong took it out.

Empress Dowager Mo glanced at the imperial study and said, "Aren't the emperor and the queen in the imperial study?" ”

Yang Yong smiled unnaturally with an unnatural expression, and said, "The Empress Dowager, the emperor and the mother, uh..." At.... ”

When Empress Dowager Mo heard this, her face sank, and she said, "Since you are here, why don't you come out to pick me up?" ”

Yang Yong wiped the sweat from his head and said in a whisper: "The Queen Mother, the Emperor and the Niangniang...... When he sleeps, he commands that no one should go...... Excuse ......"

When Empress Dowager Mo heard this, her face suddenly turned red, it was daylight, and it was not noon, how could she sleep at this hour? Eighty percent of them were young, and they couldn't hold back for a while, so they ran to the tent to do that.

In the past, Empress Dowager Mo would definitely walk in majestically and reprimand her son and daughter-in-law harshly, but now that she knows how powerful Cai Wei is, she doesn't dare.

Quietly turned back to Feng Yuan, Empress Dowager Mo gave an order and left.

Yang Yong saw that the Queen Mother didn't care, and he was a little surprised, reasoning, the Queen Mother found out that they were prostituting during the day, and she would definitely teach them a lesson with a strong voice, and then she left quietly, if so, wouldn't the emperor and the queen have to go even more?

In fact, since the emperor and the queen came back this time, it has become very excessive, except for the time of the last dynasty, the rest of the time, the emperor and the queen basically spend the rest of the time on the couch, sometimes they don't even want to eat, and every time the two come out of the tent, they are in good spirits and full of energy, I really don't know what they have done in it, can make them so energetic!

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