==Chapter 52==

King Zhao has been a little bad in the past two days.

It's not a little, it's very bad, and anyone with a discerning eye can see it these days, King Zhao's face is unshaven, and his eyes are bloodshot, as if he hasn't slept for a few days. Even Emperor Chengyuan, who had never cared about this son, couldn't help but look at King Zhao a few more times.

King Zhao naturally saw his father's eyes, but what could he say? Could it be that there is that despicable and shameless person who handed him something in his house that he couldn't see people, and asked him to take 500,000 yuan in three days in exchange for the other party not to poke out these things?

He wouldn't tell it unless he had in his head.

Of course, if you don't say it, it doesn't mean that you won't solve it, in the past two days, King Zhao and Liu Guifei have launched a qiē force to find out the details of the other party, but that person is too cautious to find out at all.

There is no way, seeing that the deadline is getting closer and closer, King Zhao can only raise money to buy peace.

King Zhao scolded that despicable and shameless person thousands of times in his heart, but at the same time, he was very jealous of the other party in his heart, all because of the little things handed over by the other party. These things have never been known to outsiders, and King Zhao also feels that he has always done it carefully, but he doesn't know when he will be known by the other party. It's like having a pair of eyes staring at you all the time, and it makes people shudder to think about it.

King Zhao naturally guessed the details of the other party, except for his own brothers, probably no one could have this ability. But who is it? On the surface, nothing can be seen, and King Zhao has secretly ordered someone to check the movements of these people, which is normal.

Of course, King Zhao also has an object of suspicion in his heart, that is, King Cheng. Among these brothers, probably only King Cheng has the ability to do this, and King Cheng has never dealt with him.

This kind of speculation made King Zhao and Liu Guifei secretly do a lot of things to prevent it from happening. Putting these aside for the time being, according to the time and transaction method provided by the other party, King Zhao raised 500,000 yuan and handed it over to the other party. This money has almost hollowed out the family funds of King Zhao and Liu Guifei, but what should be distressed at present is not the money, but who the other party is.

King Zhao also played a trick on this, since the other party said that it was 500,000 yuan, he exchanged all the money for copper coins, filled nearly dozens of boxes, and shared more than ten cars. At the same time, he ambushed people in secret, wanting to take this opportunity to find out the person who was cheating on himself behind his back.

However, the other party is not unprepared, since the king of Chu dares to say this, he naturally has his own weight.

In the end, the money was transported away, and King Zhao didn't find anything. Therefore, King Zhao was furious, and he was in a bad mood for many days, of course, this is a later story.

On the other side, Jiu Niang is there.

The note said that day to wait for three days, so Jiuniang has been full of anticipation for these three days.

According to Jiu Niang's understanding of the King of Chu in her previous life, the King of Chu is actually quite protective, although he is not obvious, but he is indeed a person who protects his shortcomings. Of course, the premise is that he summarizes you as his own, and now he should be his own.

When the third day came, Xiao Cui, who had never come to the main house, reappeared and handed Jiuniang a box.

The box contained a stack of Jufeng Qianzhuang 'silver tickets', the amount was no more, no less, just 100,000 yuan.

The coins circulating in the market are copper coins, which have always been 1,000 yuan, of course, gold and silver, but they are rarely circulated in the market. Fortunately, there are many dignitaries and nobles in Chang'an, and some high-end places also accept gold and silver, but most places still only recognize copper coins.

However, the face value of copper coins is small, the amount of demand is large, and the money has always weighed almost a few catties, which has caused great inconvenience to people to carry, so there is the appearance of this kind of silver ticket.

This kind of silver ticket was not circulated in the market at first, but was only used as a voucher for the owner to deposit money in the bank. A few years ago, Jufeng Qianzhuang sprung up in Chang'an City, and many cities in Daqi have developed the semicolon of Jufeng Qianzhuang, Jufeng Qianzhuang has always launched a law that has always benefited the people, that is, people who save money in Jufeng Qianzhuang can take the silver ticket issued by Jufeng Qianzhuang to exchange huàn silver money of the same value in any Jufeng Qianzhuang in Daqi.

This method of convenience does not have much effect on ordinary people, but for merchants, it is greatly convenient for themselves, and they no longer have to worry about the inconvenience of transporting a large number of copper coins, gold and silver, and worry about being robbed by robbers on the road, which is extremely popular among merchants, and even slowly popularized.

Xiao Jiuniang has never seen a silver ticket in her life, but she has seen it in her previous life.

If 100,000 kan is exchanged for silver, it is about 100,000 taels, of course, because the market price is different, it may vary, but it is about the same.

This is a huge wealth for Jiuniang.

Let's put it this way, Jiu Niang has never seen so much money in her two lives combined.

Jiu Niang was both surprised and surprised, and the note under the stack of silver tickets explained the origin of the money. It is still the handwriting of the king of Chu, and he only wrote two sentences, which probably means that the king of Zhao gave Jiuniang a recuperation fee, but it is good to know this kind of thing, and don't spread it to others.

Jiuniang didn't need to guess, she knew that it must have been King Chu who had cheated King Zhao.

Inexplicably, the mood has become extremely good, maybe Jiuniang has the potential to be a wealth fan in her bones, and she can't help but squint happily.

After two lifetimes, Jiuniang naturally knows the meaning of silver money.

Jiuniang is also a county lord with a food estate, but because she is not married and young, the food is taken care of by the Xiao family. Jiu Niang's treatment in the house is good, not only the maids waiting around her are more than others, and all food, housing and clothing are better than others, but the silver money that can reach her hand is not much, every month is that little monthly money, and the place where the silver money is used in the house is a lot, the 'recuperation fee' sent by the king of Chu directly relieved Jiu Niang's embarrassment, and even with these money to do a lot of things.

The master is really generous, and he knows what he lacks. Jiuniang sighed in her heart.

The world is bustling, all for profit.

This principle is common to anyone, just like the subordinates in this Anguo Mansion, why the subordinates are willing to do things for you, either you control their life and death and have supreme power, or you can throw out irresistible money. If you have money, you won't have fewer people to do things for you, Jiu Niang understands this truth too well.

Waving her hand to let Xiao Cui go down, Jiu Niang easily stuffed the box into the secret cabinet on her bed, and didn't even handle the lotus branch.

*

As time passed, Jiu Niang's injury slowly improved.

The ointment sent by the king of Chu is very useful, at least stronger than the medicinal wine given by Dr. Zhou, not only has the effect of invigorating blood and removing stasis, but also has no pungent and unpleasant smell.

You must know that Jiu Niang just rubbed the medicinal wine once, and she couldn't stand the weird smell. The smell was extremely pungent to the nose, and I couldn't wait for the entire Cuiyun Pavilion to smell of medicinal wine.

Seeing that Jiu Niang was slowly getting better, Lian Zhi saw that the weather outside was good, so he would instruct a few maids to put a soft couch under the porch, and let Jiu Niang lie on it to bask in the sun and breathe.

Jiuniang didn't do anything all day long, only occasionally came down to walk around, and brought delicious food and drink to the front every day, except for the right arm still can't make too much movement, the days are quite leisurely.

On this day, Jiuniang was breathing under the corridor, and Xiao Siniang suddenly came.

As soon as Shi Niang walked into the courtyard gate, she saw Jiu Niang sitting leisurely under the porch from a distance, she walked to Jiu Niang, asked her about her injuries, and then explained that she had not come to see Jiu Niang in the past few days.

It turned out that Han Yunniang's condition had suddenly worsened in the past few days, and Shi Niang had been taking care of her mother in the small cross courtyard of Chongyue Pavilion during the day.

Hearing this, Jiu Niang hurriedly asked Han Yunniang how her condition was, and when she heard that Shi Niang said that there was no big problem, she was relieved.

Shi Niang didn't stay in Cuiyun Pavilion for too long, after all, she was not without trouble, and when she left, Jiu Niang asked Lianzhi to wrap her with some supplements to replenish her body.

These tonic herbs are all saved by Jiu Niang over the years, Jiu Niang has been weak since that time after falling into the water, and the bird's nest and ginseng are constantly in the day, and the house has also given special examples. Of course, this is on the surface, but in fact, Jiu Niang has long stopped taking tonic medicine to replenish her body, and she still knows that supplementing too much is also harmful, so she saved these supplements.

Shi Niang didn't want it, but then accepted it under Jiu Niang's persuasion.

Since then, Shi Niang will take time to come to Cuiyun Pavilion to talk to Jiu Niang every day, so that Jiu Niang's time will be better passed.

After more than ten days, Jiu Niang's injuries have been healed.

In addition to some bruises on his arms, he can do some relatively large movements. It was at this time that a major event happened in Fuchu.

*

Lord Asaka is sick.

I was bedridden almost overnight, and this time I didn't pretend to be sick in order not to go to Anrong Hospital, but I was really sick.

The doctor changed a few, it didn't seem to work at all, Princess Changping was worried about her daughter, and she had already come to visit her daughter in the Anguo Mansion several times, and the imperial doctor also brought a few, and the prescription was changed countless times, but it was still useless.

Duchess Anguo thought that the county lord of Chaoxia had made some trouble, but Princess Changping came to the door so that she could no longer sit still, and she also came to Chongyue Pavilion to visit the county lord of Chaoxia. The county lord of Chaoxia is indeed sick, the whole person is very thin, and his complexion is extremely poor, and he looks seriously ill at first glance.

Several sisters-in-law such as Cui's Zheng family also came to see the county lord of Chaoxia, no matter what they thought in their hearts, there were a lot of precious medicinal materials sent.

Chongyue Pavilion is filled with a strong smell of medicine every day, the maids and servants are all dignified and unhappy, Xiao Hang has been going to Chongyue Pavilion very often these days.

Jiuniang naturally heard the news, as a daughter, she wanted to show her filial piety, but now that her injuries are not healed, she asked the servant to take her to Chongyue Pavilion.

Jiuniang was afraid that the county lord of Chaoxia would make some trouble, so she pretended that her injuries were not well, but she didn't even see anyone when she went, and there was nothing against her.

Could it be that the county lord of Chaoxia is really sick?

*

In the middle of the night, Jiuniang was suddenly woken up.

It was the lotus branch that woke her up.

Xiao Jiu'er woke up earlier than Jiu Niang, and when she saw Jiu Niang sitting up, she squatted in front of her and wagged her tail vigorously, looking very excited.

I don't know what this little thing is excited about in the middle of the night.

In addition to the lotus branch, there is another person who surprised Jiu Niang, and that person is Xiao Cui.

"What's wrong?"

Seeing Lianzhi's messy clothes, Jiu Niang knew that something must have happened, but that Xiaocui looked clear, not like she had just woken up in the middle of the night.

"I saw someone bury this under a tree." Xiao Cui took a step forward and held up a small cloth bag in her hand.

This small cloth bag is apricot red, not big, about two palms or so. The fabric blooms with a faint brilliance in the faint yellow light, and it can be seen that the fabric is not bad. Under the signal of Jiu Niang's eyes, Xiao Cui opened the small cloth bag, and after seeing the contents inside, Jiu Niang's pupils couldn't help but shrink.

Wrapped in cloth is a doll made of paulownia wood, and the handwork is extremely poor, and only the head and limbs can be seen, and it is a person.

Jiu Niang stretched out her hand, and Lian Zhi took the puppet and handed it to her, Jiu Niang looked at it for a long time, and then hooked her lips for a long time.

Therefore, most of the women in the back house are no more than this, but this Chaoxia county lord can really afford it, isn't she afraid of cursing herself?

On the narrow slip of paper attached to this puppet, the eight characters of the birthday written are the eight characters of the county lord of Chaoxia. In her previous life, the county lord of Chaoxia had used this method to deal with Jiuniang, so she only recognized it at a glance.

Combined with the movements of Chongyue Pavilion for a while, the drama that will be staged next is self-evident. This is also why Jiu Niang said that the county lord of Chaoxia was willing to pay the capital, not only cursed himself, but also pretended to be sick, and was well versed in the principles of doing a full set of acts, and even the imperial doctor in the palace was tossed several times.

"See who buried it?" Jiu Niang asked.

Xiao Cui reported the name of a servant girl, this person was a maid who guessed that there were other people behind Jiuniang, Lianzhi and others, but they didn't expect it to be the person of the county lord of Chaoxia.

The slave did not alarm her, but dug it out after she was gone. I don't know what the lady is going to do? ”

It can be seen that this Xiaocui is not a fool, and it is estimated that she also has her own mysteries in her heart, which is why she exposed her identity, but Jiuniang never proposed to mention her and Xiaocan to her side. There are a few lotus branches around her, and it is not easy for others to intervene in and do something. But the few low-level maidservants who were on errands outside the door and in the courtyard were invincible, and there were two eyeliners, Xiaocui and Xiaocan, which were another layer of protection.

Jiu Niang got out of the house, asked Lianzhi to get a pen, ink, paper, inkstone, and cut a piece of snow-white rice paper into the same strip as the small note. Then he dipped the pen in the inkstone and wrote some words with the pen in his left hand.

Lianzhi is literate, and after reading the words written by Jiu Niang, she exclaimed: "Lady, this is?" ”

Jiu Niang smiled, "If you believe in this kind of thing, if you don't believe it, you don't have it, everyone has invested so much, why should I be afraid of her." ”

Jiuniang wrote her birthday on it.

After that, the ink on the note was dried, and then pasted on the paulownia puppeteer, wrapped it in the apricot-red cloth, and let Xiaocui dig it out from where and bury it back there, so as not to startle the snake.

Xiaocui took the cloth bag and went down, and Jiuniang and Lianzhi also went back to the couch to rest, but someone was destined to be unable to sleep tonight.

Of course, that person will never be Jiu Niang.

*

On this day, Princess Changping came to the Anguo Mansion again.

Princess Changping has always traveled with great momentum, and this time it was the same, followed by many maids and maids, including a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe and two Taoist children.

After arriving at Chongyue Pavilion, Princess Changping entered the inner room, except for a few maidservants left in the outhouse, the rest of the people were in the courtyard to help the Taoist priest.

This Taoist priest was born with a white beard, a clear crown on his head, a fairy wind and a Taoist robe, and a cyan Taoist robe, which looked extraordinarily fairy, like a master outside the world.

This Taoist priest is indeed a master, but the master of the Qingyun Temple outside Chang'an City, known as Qinghe Zhenren. Qingyunguan incense is prosperous, and Qinghe Zhenren is also quite famous among the officials and nobles in Chang'an City.

Qinghe Zhenren stood in the courtyard, with one hand behind him and the other hand caressing his long beard. The two Taoist boys he led the subordinates to paste a lot of yellow Taoist talismans all over the courtyard, as well as on the window lattices and pillars of the house, and set up incense tables in the middle of the courtyard, and placed incense candles and incense burners.

After a while, when the preparation was perfect, the Taoist boy took out the magic weapon of Qinghe Zhenren from the bag he was carrying and handed it to him, and Qinghe Zhenren only held a peachwood sword in one hand and a Dao talisman in the other, and began to practice in the courtyard.

Chongyue Pavilion's movements were reported everywhere, but the county lord of Chaoxia had been ill for a long time, and seeing that people were getting weaker day by day, it was understandable that Princess Changping was sick and rushed to the hospital.

Nowadays, there are not many people who believe in Taoism, and this kind of thing has not happened in other homes, anyway, they are tossing in their own yard behind closed doors, and Anrong Yuan has not spoken, and others are watching from the wall.

Inside the house

The seriously ill county lord of Chaoxia did not look seriously ill at all, and sat on the couch to talk to Princess Changping, smiling between words, which showed that his spirit was good.

Princess Changping saw the excited smile between her daughter's eyebrows, and couldn't help but say: "Just for a yellow-haired girl, as for you like this, you even run around the palace several times, just to accompany you in this scene?" ”

The county lord of Chaoxia looked like a daughter's coquettishness, leaned on the shoulder of Princess Changping, and said coquettishly: "A-Niang, my daughter also wants to do it once and for all, if you are not here, with the temperament of the Xiao family, it will probably still be pressed down, after all, it is not so easy for a county lord to give up, so my daughter will work for you." ”

"Just for a yellow-haired girl?!" Princess Changping snorted disdainfully.

"Now there is a thorn in the side of this family, others don't dare to hinder the daughter's eyes again, if you can get rid of her, the daughter probably has nothing to worry about, serve Xiao Lang well in the future, raise Liuniang and Liulang, and honor the old man of A-Niang. Auntie, you will fulfill your daughter, aren't you here today, it's just a moment's work. ”

In fact, Princess Changping was able to come today, because she wanted to help the county lord of Chaoxia, otherwise she would not have been with her for so long. It's just that with the arrogance of Princess Changping, to deal with a junior, it is really difficult for her to calm down. But looking at the sallow face of the county lord of Chaoxia, and even lost a lot of weight for this scene and suffered a lot, Princess Changping relented again.

That's it, finally this little daughter's life is smoother, and she also knows how to change her willful temper, now that she has both children and the relationship between husband and wife is getting better day by day, let's pull out the last nail on the road for her, and let her worry less in the future.

Outside the house, in the courtyard

Qinghe Zhenren pretended to do it, and the nurse Li followed him aside, asking questions and questions, looking anxious and very concerned.

"Real person, what's going on?"

Qinghe Zhenren waved his left hand, and the Dao talisman on the tip of his finger spontaneously combusted without wind, and at the same time, his right hand pinched and calculated, shaking his head while calculating.

"What the hell is going on? You're talking! ”

Qinghe Zhenren walked around the courtyard, returned to the incense case, took a copper compass from the incense case, and stared at the pointer on it.

"The evil is not in this courtyard, I'm afraid I have to go outside to have a look."

In Chongyue Pavilion, this is her own territory, naturally she wants to do whatever she wants, if she goes outside, it is not up to a subordinate of the Li family to be in charge, she sued Qinghe Zhenren, and went to the house.

After a while, the Li family came out, along with Princess Changping.

Princess Changping is dressed in a rich golden-red palace dress, full of pearls and emeralds, holding a silver gauze shawl, and she is not an ordinary person at first glance. Especially from the royal family, he is used to being high, and he is full of domineering. Her face is five or six points similar to that of the county lord of Chaoxia, but she looks older, and her charm still exists, if she doesn't specify her identity, I'm afraid it will make people misunderstand that she is the sister of the county lord of Chaoxia, not her own mother.

"Since you're not in this courtyard, let's go out and have a look, this palace wants to see which way the evil dares to attack the beloved daughter of this palace!"

As soon as Princess Changping spoke, her subordinates naturally did everything. Led by Qinghe Zhenren, Princess Changping was behind him, followed by a large group of subordinates, and walked towards the outside of Chongyue Pavilion.

This movement was naturally reported to An Rongyuan, and when Duchess An Guo heard it, she frowned.

"Ah Jia, what do you think they want to do?"

If you talk about the trouble before, others just think that Princess Changping loves her daughter, but now it is becoming more and more evil, and even when it comes to evil, it can't help but make people's hearts tight, I'm afraid that the county lord of Chaoxia and others will make some trouble.

It was the Cui family who said this, she had never been on good terms with the county lord of Chaoxia, but with her way of doing things, she didn't make trouble on the surface. But the county lord of Chaoxia never played cards according to the rules of cards, who could figure out who she was going to this time?

"You go over and take a look, if it is like this, it is not good for our family not to come forward, you act when you see the opportunity, and if there is something, you will order someone to report it." Duchess An Guo said.

"Yes."

*

This group of people walked in the house with great noise, and after a while, even many subordinates knew about it.

It's just that the above has spoken, and the maids below naturally don't dare to come around to look at the movement, only one or two are far away from the back to probe their brains.

Walking through many courtyards all the way, Qinghe Zhenren did not stop, and gradually walked towards the back of the east side of the Anguo Mansion, and the Cui family, who had been following Princess Changping with a dignified face, suddenly frowned.

The direction of going this way is where many little ladies of the Xiao family live.

When they arrived at a lake, Kiyo and Zhenren stood still, looked at the compass in his hand for a while, and walked along the lake. After a while, I arrived at a courtyard outside, and here was the Cuiyun Pavilion where Xiao Jiuniang lived.

Qinghe Zhenren circled around the courtyard for half a circle, walked back and said to Princess Changping: "I'm afraid I want to go in here to have a look." ”

Princess Changping glanced at Cui's family, and Cui's smiled dryly: "This place is where Jiuniang lives in the family, and she has a child's family, where will there be any evil in the courtyard." ”

In fact, when they came here, the Cui family almost understood what this group of people wanted this time. No matter what level you look at, there is no direct conflict between Jiuniang and Cui's family, she doesn't want the county lord of Chaoxia to succeed, and she wants to keep this knife to watch the show in the future. But she couldn't stop it clearly, so after saying this exculpatory sentence, seeing Princess Changping's displeasure, she immediately ordered the maid next to her to knock on the door.

The people in the courtyard have already known about the movement outside the hospital, and seriously speaking, since Princess Changping and others came to the Anguo Mansion with such fanfare, they will know it here.

A few unaware maidservants all looked at a loss, and only a few people understood what was inside. Hearing someone knocking on the door, a maidservant girl went to open the courtyard door, and was shocked when she saw a crowd of people staring at the door.

Almost before they could make a report, the crowd broke in, because Cui Shi followed aside, and the maids in the courtyard stood aside and were silent.

After Qinghe Zhenren came in, he just looked at the compass and went to the apricot blossom tree in the courtyard, and the people behind him followed. This courtyard is not very large, and this group of people has almost filled the entire courtyard.

"This place."

Qinghe Zhenren was just a finger, and there were people who went to find shovels and other things.

At this time, Jiu Niang also walked out of the house, and as soon as she came out, she saw this picture ready to go.

"Auntie, what is this doing?"

Without waiting for Cui Shi to speak, Princess Changping's knife-like eyes shot straight over.

"You are Xiao Jiuniang? Very good! Very good! ”