It's a serious matter that needs help, but in fact, there aren't many things that really need to be done by them. After all, what Yan Wangfu raised under his command was not a group of rice buckets, and as long as he was instructed, someone would naturally do it. Nangong Mo took Zhu Chuyu and the three of them, and the most they did was to personally write some posts to the powerful daughters of each family.

Nangong Mo did not take advantage of it in vain, although Princess Yan handed over the matter to her, but the names of the four people were written on the post. In this regard, Chen had no idea, Sun Yan'er was very grateful, but only Zhu Chuyu was dissatisfied. But what if you're not satisfied? With her current situation, it was hard to fight Nangong Mo, that is, to find a draw by herself.

The Jinling magnates who received the post were also very face-saving, and they all donated generously regardless of how much. Because Nangong Mo didn't donate money and materials on the spot at the banquet, although there were some comparisons, they were not strict, and they were all within the range that they could bear. However, in three days, more than 10,000 taels of silver were raised. It shocked the people who were settling accounts in the study.

Ten thousand taels is naturally not a big deal for Zhu Chuyu and Nangong Mo, but for the Chen family and Sun Yan'er, it can be regarded as almost all their property. Perhaps, not so much. Seeing the two of them like this, Nangong Mo said with a smile: "Although Youzhou is not richer than Jinling, there are still many wealthy merchants in the city. More than 10,000 taels is not out of line. "Among these silver taels, the biggest contribution is not those powerful generals, but those wealthy merchants in Jinling City. They are not short of money, but they lack status and access. It's rare to have such an opportunity to brush up on favorability in Yanwangfu, and the opportunity doesn't give face?

On the contrary, it is a cronie under the command of King Yan, and now the Xue family and the Chen family are only sent by the wife of the family for one or two hundred taels, but Xue Xiaoxiao of the Xue family asked the girl to quietly send her private money over, and it is only forty or fifty taels in total.

Chen looked at a box of silver tickets and various broken silver on the table, and asked, "What is my cousin going to do?" ”

Nangong Mo said with a smile: "The next thing is also simple, after these silver taels are counted, please ask the housekeeper to purchase the materials you need, and then you can ask the ladies of each province to help take care of the distribution." As for the distribution of these things, although there are a lot of people in Yanwang's Mansion, there are also many things about my aunt's birthday, so please ask the free sons of various prefectures to help you go, right? "The sons of these powerful families naturally don't look at those cheap and rough things, and the people below them don't dare to do anything. As for these gentlemen, the elders of the family will naturally "spur" them well.

Zhu Chuyu frowned and said, "Cousin-in-law, is this too much of a labor?" ”

Nangong Mo was puzzled, "What do you say?" ”

Zhu Chu said: "In this way, I have to work for the daughters of each family, and I want the sons of each government to go out to do things in person, I am afraid that others will have opinions in their hearts, if they are tired of the girls, it is even worse, let's do it ourselves, right?" There is no shortage of this person in Yanwangfu. ”

Nangong Mo smiled, "How come?" They will only happily participate. As for the ladies of various provinces, where do they really need to do any rough work in person? Who doesn't follow a few subordinates when they go out, not to mention, compared to the Jinling ladies, I think the girls in Youzhou are much more energetic. "How could you not want to? It may be false to say anything like doing good, but doing these things is definitely a great boost to the reputation of the powerful people in Youzhou. What's more, this is also an opportunity to show his face in front of King Yan and Princess Yan. As long as the mind is clear, it will only be happy.

Zhu Chuyu was depressed, of course she wouldn't fail to understand the truth. But what does what she bothered to plan have to do with her? Who knows anything other than a post? Even if someone mentions it, they are talking about the three daughters-in-law of Yanwangfu, not the second young lady of Yanwangfu, the princess of Shunyi County, and Zhu Chuyu, the lord of Shanjia County.

Looking at the smiling and beautiful woman in front of him, Zhu Chuyu lowered his eyes and deeply suppressed the tangle and depression in his eyes.

Sure enough, as Nangong Mo said, he invited a few noble ladies with distinguished status in Youzhou City to discuss, and everyone happily agreed. At the same time, he also had a better impression of the three young ladies of Yanwang's Mansion and Nangong Mo, and even the Chen family, whose reputation was a little ugly by himself, also asked several ladies to thank him in person. and promised that Princess Yan would bring her sisters and girlfriends over to help in the first two days of her birthday.

In an empty courtyard not far from King Yan's Mansion, the front and back courtyards were full of all kinds of things. The neatly dressed ladies have some commands to carry and pack various things, some hold the account book to check and sketch, and some simply get started by themselves and follow some small things that are not very laborious.

Nangong Mo sat in a chair under the eaves, and a mother-in-law passed by with a thick stack of cotton clothes, but she didn't want to walk too fast, and the top one fell off. The clothes were almost touching her chin, so naturally she couldn't lower her head to pick them up. Nangong Mo leaned over to help her pick it up, but heard a scream not far away, "Don't move!" ”

Nangong Mo was stunned for a moment, and looked up at Xue Yunyun, who was holding a bag of clothes in his hand and glaring at him viciously. Xue Xiaoxiao quickly threw away the things and rushed over, "Star City County Lord, don't move, don't move, I'll pick it up." ”

Nangong Mo couldn't help but have a black line, she was just pregnant and not crippled. Not only did these people not allow her to help, but they didn't even let her walk around the yard, so they could only sit obediently under the eaves in a daze. said that she was afraid that people coming and going would bump into her. Don't say it's careless, even if someone pounces on her, she may not be able to pounce on her, right?

Xue Xiaoxiao picked up the clothes and was about to return them to the mother-in-law, but she was stunned for a moment and said, "Huh? How is this dress old? Are they all old? ”

The thick pile of clothes in the woman's hand was really old. There are ordinary coarse cloths, coarse cotton, and the like, as well as silk and satin from rich and noble families, but they are all old without accident.

Nangong Mo stroked his forehead, "You better return the things to others first." "It's tiring to wait there with a lot of clothes.

"Oh." Xue Xiaoxiao turned around and put the clothes back, and the woman hurriedly thanked her and left.

Xue Xiaoxiao got it

Xue Xiaoxiao leaned over to Nangong Mo and said, "County Lord, why do you want to send old clothes?" Wouldn't it be better to send a new one? Isn't there enough money that we can"

Nangong Mo stretched out his hand and knocked on the door of her head and said, "It's not a question of whether the money is enough, which of our families doesn't have a lot of clothes that they can't wear?" Don't say it's a big lady like you, there are several sets of clothes every season, and some of them are on the body. Let's just say that the subordinates of the family, the girls in Yanwang's Mansion have two sets of clothes per season, and the ones rewarded by the master, regardless of the materials, but there are a lot of old clothes that are not wanted. The big family wants to save face, and they will never let their subordinates dangle outside in tattered and patched clothes. But these clothes are a faceless thing for the powerful, but they are rare good things for the common people who can't even eat. Moreover, it is not in vain for Nangong Mo to let people collect these clothes, except for those who are sure not to be wanted, they are all given at the price of depreciation.

"Although the clothes are old, they can keep the body warm. With the money saved, you can buy more clothing and food. Also, if you do go and make new clothes, they won't wear them. So what's the point of what we're sending over? ”

"Why?" Xue Xiaoxiao asked with a blank wink.

Nangong Mo smiled lightly: "Those poor people may not be able to buy a few new clothes in their lifetime, how can they be willing to wear new clothes if you send them over?" ”

"Won't it be old if you don't wear it?" Xue Xiaoxiao, who had never suffered before, obviously couldn't understand these things.

Nangong Mo said: "If you particularly like to eat a kind of dim sam, but you can only get one piece of this dim sum a year, and you may not even know if you can have the next one, are you reluctant to eat it in one bite?" ”

Xue Xiaoxiao was at a loss, although he felt that this analogy was not appropriate, but he seemed to understand a little.

"Although I still don't understand it, what the county lord said must be right." Xue Xiaoxiao waved her small fist and said firmly, "A few days ago, I also went to visit my sister with my mother, and on the way, I saw that some families couldn't eat and had to sell their children. I couldn't think of a way but to give them some silver. But my mother said that there are many such people, and it is cold in the north, and more people die of hunger every year. The county lord is so smart, he will definitely be able to save many people this year! Lord County, remember to inform me when you want to do good deeds in the future. I'll give you all my jewelry. ”

Nangong Mo touched her little face with a smile and said, "What a kind and good boy, good boy." ”

Xue Xiaoxiao, who was still full of passion, immediately blushed, and moved to the side with her little face in her hands.

The yard was in full swing, and Xue Xiaoxin consciously ran back to busy with the work he was doing after talking for a while. Mingqin came over with a cup of hot soup and said with a smile: "County Lord, let's use something after a busy morning." ”

Nangong Mo was helpless, "What am I busy with?" I'm probably the busiest in this yard. How's the inventory? ”

Mingqin said with a smile: "There are three young ladies and the county lord of Yongcheng, all of them are good." Even Lord Mingyu is helping. Lord Shanjia said that it could be completed this afternoon. "Although the county lord of Yongcheng and the county lord of Mingyu are concubines, they are usually detained by their respective mothers and concubines in the backyard and rarely come out to walk around, but Nangong Mo will naturally not leave them behind in such a thing. Nangong Mo nodded and said, "That's good, please rest for a while, eat something and continue." ”

"Don't worry, the county lord has already arranged it."

"The county lord, the princess and the eldest princess are here." Outside the door, a girl hurriedly came in and whispered. Before Nangong Mo could speak, Princess Yan and Princess Cangping had already walked to the door, and seeing the busy people in the courtyard, Princess Yan raised her eyebrows and smiled at Princess Changping: "Flawless is right, these girls are capable." "I originally thought that these ladies who were raised in the boudoir must be impatient to do these tedious things, not to mention that there are many people who are not in line with each other. Unexpectedly, in this courtyard, each performing its duties in an orderly manner.

"I've seen the princess, I've seen the eldest princess."

Seeing the two of them come in, everyone hurriedly saluted. Princess Yan waved her hand and said, "Excuse yourself, go and do your own thing, and you can also help." Princess Yan said to the girl beside her. Princess Changping nodded, and ordered the girl beside her, "Go and help." ”

Nangong Mo got up and greeted him, "Mother, uncle." How did you get here? It's a mess here. ”

Princess Yan said: "I think it's good, the nobles in our Youzhou City are really good, and they do things cleanly, no worse than those nobles of the family." "The noble daughter of the family is not only proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Compared with the relationship between people in charge, those are just trivial matters. The nobles of Youzhou are not as good as those in Jinling City in terms of family background, but if they are tough, they are much better than those delicate girls. Those who can come here to help must be the daughters of various families, and although their upbringing is not as rigorous as those heirloom families, it is not bad.

Nangong Mo smiled: "Isn't it, everyone is very capable, but I am now an idler." ”

Princess Yan said: "You, it's better to give birth to a child well than anything else." Tell them to do something. ”

Hearing that Princess Yan and Princess Changping were here, Zhu Chuyu and others also hurriedly came out to greet them. Just as Zhishu came to tell him that lunch was ready, Nangong Mo invited Princess Yan and Princess Changping to stay and dine together. Several ladies who came to help were praised by Princess Yan and Princess Changping, and everyone was happy and harmonious. It's just that Nangong Mo happened to see Chen, Zhu Chuyu, and even Sun Yan'er's faces were a little strange, and he couldn't understand it for a while.

When the afternoon was over, everyone was drinking tea and talking in the front yard, and Nangong Mo took advantage of his free time to ask Qu Lianxing. Qu Lianxing was stunned when she heard her doubts, but she quickly reacted and smiled: "County Lord, the reaction of the three princesses is normal, but your reaction is abnormal, right?" ”

Nangong Mo raised his eyebrows, "What's wrong with me?" ”

Qu Lianxing was helpless, "It's normal to be a daughter-in-law, but I heard my mother-in-law praise other people's families so much."

You're going to be a little worried about praising other people's girls, right? ”

"Worried about what?"

"Of course, I'm worried about which girl the princess and the eldest princess will fall in love with. Although the three princes and sons all have wives, and the county lord and the county lord of Shanjia are even more noble, but with the family background of the Yan Wangfu and the identity of the eldest princess, no one can say anything if they want to choose one or two side rooms for the four princes. How could those three not be worried? Qu Lianxing said.

Nangong Mo sighed, "It turns out that a married woman has to guard against not only the concubines at home, but also the girls who have not left the cabinet in other people's families?" ”

Qu Lianxing said with a smile: "People with noble status will never give their daughters as concubines, but not everyone has a noble status, and not everyone has that backbone, right?" If the princess reveals that there are several sons who choose the side concubine, more people want to send the girl to the palace. ”

Princess Yan is kind to several daughters-in-law, and even the prince of Yan only gave concubines to have a room, except for the An family given by the first emperor at the beginning, there is no one who can suppress the princess. The county lord has a better life, and he has been married for more than a year, and he hasn't even had a room around Gongzi Wei, and he hasn't seen Princess Changping say anything.

Nangong Mo nodded, "It turned out that I was worried about this, I don't think my aunt should have this meaning." ”

Qu Lianxing nodded and said, "Princess Yan is a mother-in-law who is easy to get along with, and she will not make things difficult for her daughter-in-law. I'm afraid that the three of them are thinking too much. However, it is only a matter of time. "But not all of them are as single-minded as Wei Gongzi is to the Lord of Star City.

Nangong Mo also understands this truth, and she can't say anything if the world is like this. Wei Junmo treats her wholeheartedly, she will not be grateful for this, but she also has to admit that she is lucky.

"Cousin-in-law." Zhu Chuyu's voice sounded outside the door, Nangong Mo raised his eyebrows, and raised his voice: "Lord Shanjia, please come in." ”

Zhu Chuyu pushed the door in and said with a smile: "My cousin-in-law is clean here." The ladies are ready to go back, and they all want to say goodbye to their cousins. ”

Nangong Mo got up and said with a smile: "I'm also going to see off everyone, it's not like these few around me, I have to say that I'm afraid I'm tired, I don't know if I'm tired or not?" Qu Lianxing covered her lips and smiled: "The county lord will only rely on his good health to say that he is not tired, you are not tired, and our little son is still tired." ”

Nangong Mo raised his eyebrows and said, "Maybe it's a girl." ”

Qu Lianxing said: "That's also very good, Mr. Little Miss, I'm afraid that there will be no little boy to come, just make up a good word." ”

Nangong Mo touched his abdomen and sighed, "If only I could give birth to everything in one child." This can't be done, that can't be done, in fact, it's not bad to have one. "The only child is glorious.

Qu Lianxing looked at her county lord with a strange expression, and gave her a look that you think is possible.

Zhu Chuyu looked at the two of them and said with a smile: "The people around my cousin-in-law are really smart, Miss Qu is talented, Miss Liu is strong in martial arts, and Mingqin and Zhishu also have their own strengths, unlike those clumsy girls around me." Qu Lianxing smiled faintly, not surprised, "Lord Shanjia has won the award, and Lianxing can't afford it." ”

Nangong Mo said: "The people around the county lord of Shanjia are also extraordinary, don't you make them sad when you say that?" Let's get out. ”

Zhu Chuyu nodded with a smile, pressed the topic and said no more.

"County Lord." Liu Han, who was dressed in black, hurriedly came, walked to Nangong Mo's side and whispered a few words. Nangong Mo showed a look of surprise on his face, and soon there was a little more smile on his face, and he walked quickly outside.

Zhu Chuyu frowned slightly, followed her and followed out quickly.

Nangong Mo did not go directly to the front yard to say goodbye to the ladies, but entered a small garden in the middle of the house through the side door. There is no one living here, and there is nothing to see in the garden in winter these days. It's just that at the entrance of the garden, a man with a long body and a green coat fluttering in the cold wind. The long hair like clouds was gently blown up by the cold wind, like the most peaceful and comfortable ink words in the world.

Nangong Mo paused for a moment, and suddenly felt a sour feeling welling up in his nose.

The man turned around, looked at Nangong Mo at the door with calm purple eyes, and said softly, "Flawless, I'm back." ”