Chapter 193: Duchess Zheng Guo (Second Watch)
The culprit was wearing a large flower placket skirt woven with silver brocade, and a large hairpin with gold and phoenix inlaid rubies, and he was sitting proudly in the right position. A fat and well-dressed woman stood beside her, and on each side stood four maids in brown satin collared skirts.
The stars are like the moon supporting the Duchess Zheng Guo, who is the leader.
The door was surrounded by the servants of the Qi family who dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
"It's all gone." Qi Qingyu walked out with a calm expression, raised his hand lightly at the door, and the servant bowed and retreated.
"The folk girl Qi Qingyu has seen Madame." Qi Qingyu pretended not to know who the main seat was, but he still saluted according to the proper etiquette.
"You're Miss Qi Liu?" Duchess Zhengguo's fiery red lips closed one by one, and her glittering triangular eyes stared at Qi Qingyu with a calculating look.
Qi Qingyu smiled at her generously: "The folk girl is exactly." ”
"Mrs. Ben doesn't do dark things. But when it comes to the most basic cultivation of a person, I'm afraid you deserve it, Sixth Girl. Think about how many insidious means you used to cut off the Yuan family's business. Duchess Zhengguo's smiling eyes suddenly shot a sharp light, "It's just that Mrs. Ben is magnanimous, so she doesn't care about the little baby." Now, this account, which has been delayed for eight years, is not impossible. ”
Qi Qingyu Sifu: What is it, what is silver? The Yuan family originally honored Duchess Zheng Guo with 20,000 taels of silver every year, and 160,000 taels for eight years? It's really brazen and open up blackmail.
After a while, Qi Qingyu replied lightly, "Forgive the people for being stupid." "That's right, I'm stupid and don't understand, I'm mad at you.
Duchess Zheng Guo didn't know anything about the Qi family, but she knew a little bit about the roots, and when she saw that Qi Qingyu didn't give her any face, she pretended to be garlic, and suddenly changed her face: "Okay, you are a little splash, dare to play tricks with Mrs. Ben?" Do you know that as long as Mrs. Ben points to Jing Zhaoyin a little, your Qi family's business in the capital will not be able to continue! ”
"The folk girl does some small business, she is bright and bright, and she doesn't understand why Master Jing Zhaoyin wants the Qi family to close. Could it be that there is no king's law under the feet of the Son of Heaven? Qi Qingyu looked at Duchess Zheng Guo with a smile, showing her uncompromise.
Duchess Zheng Guo's face turned blue when she boarded, she had never met such a person, this kind of woman Ruo was in her own back house. Is that still there?
I'm afraid there will never be peace! However, her family is rich, as long as she has silver, everything is easy to say.
"It's too unreasonable for the sixth girl to say this, you must know that if we want to be prosperous in everything. These legs must not only know how to choose trees to perch on, but also know how to pave the way with these hands. What is paving, on the surface, it looks like it is paved with silver, but in fact, it is paved with its own future, net worth, and life. A friendly smile spread across her face, and she taught earnestly.
Qi Qingyu had to tear her disguise, and said sarcastically with a little face: "The folk girl only knows how to make hairpins and sell hairpins all day long to help earn money to support her family, and she doesn't know what a future is, and she doesn't know how to choose wood." Like this one is made of beech or camphor or nanmu. The folk girl doesn't understand it anyway. ”
"Then what do you know besides making hairpins?" Duchess Zheng Guo blackened her face and asked sharply: "Do you still know how to seduce men?" "Do it in one go without giving people a chance to interrupt.
Qi Qingyu's face sank suddenly, no matter what King Huai said about her, it was fine, because she had no room to resist at all, but the fat woman with heavy makeup in front of her actually dared to slander her reputation?
Qi Qingyu sneered in her heart, and her eyebrows danced on the surface: "Madame is serious, the people's daughters are still waiting to be in the boudoir, but there is an endless stream of people who come to ask for marriage, and there are scholars from poor families and rich businessmen." There are heroes from scholarly families, and the folk girls just pick slowly, and they never need to please anyone. "It seems that the people who come to the door to propose relatives can really line up from the south gate to the north city gate, so proud.
Duchess Zheng Guo couldn't hear the meaning of her words. The face couldn't help but become extremely ugly. was about to reprimand, but suddenly thought about it, how good is silver, which force in the court does not need silver? It is necessary to use it for recruitment, to use it for stockpiling goods, and to use it for gifts. Even doing good deeds and accumulating yin virtue must be used.
The Qi family has silver, how many people are looking at it, she has to be one step ahead of others, and strike first!
Duchess Zheng Guo coughed lightly, tried her best to look good, and glanced at Mama Yuan.
Mama Yuan, who looked resentful, immediately gathered her mind and took out a honeysuckle orchid pattern gold inlaid jade bracelet and sent it to Qi Qingyu.
Qi Qingyu glanced at it disappreciatively, what kind of goods, jade is not jade and gold is not gold.
"Sixth girl, you are so blessed." Duchess Zheng Guo secretly slyed in her smile, "Look at this gold-inlaid jade bracelet, in fact, it is not called jade, it is called jade, this kind of luster and translucency is really hard to buy." Mrs. Ben will give it to you today as a welcome gift. ”
It is a etiquette that has existed since ancient times.
If it is an ordinary little girl, whether this gift is good or not, she can only accept it and cannot refuse.
But Qi Qingyu had already seen through the trick of Duchess Zheng Guo, and it was nothing more than coaxing her to accept it under the title of a meeting gift, and then justify the gift. If you accept it, you will only be difficult to ride a tiger at that time.
Qi Qingyu hurriedly pretended to be surprised and uneasy, and retreated a few steps back before saluting: "The folk girl would not dare to accept such a valuable gift from her wife. ”
Duchess Zheng Guo narrowed her eyes, and for a moment she couldn't tell whether Qi Qingyu wanted to capture her or didn't like her things.
She stared at the bracelet suspiciously for a while, making sure that she was not mistaken, it was indeed the genuine product sent by Yuan Dazhi in southern Yunnan four years ago.
Her gaze fell on Qi Qingyu's slightly lowered face again, full of inquiry, and said impatiently: "No one dares not accept the gift given by Mrs. Ben. Think about it, how many people enter Mrs. Ben's door every day, and how many thresholds are stepped on throughout the year, Mrs. Ben doesn't bother to care. Now only with the six girls, you can have such grace. ”
Grace! Duchess Zheng Guo accentuated the tone of these two words.
Qi Qingyu's face did not change, and he waited quietly for the following.
Duchess Zheng Guo waited for a while, almost two quarters of an hour, and there was no sound in the main hall except for the sound of people's breathing, and the silence made people feel uncomfortable at all.
She likes to be lively.
"Sixth girl, the time has come for you to glorify your ancestors. Mrs. Ben's eldest son, that is, the son of the hereditary title of the Duke of Zhengguo's Mansion, has taken a fancy to you. For the sake of the silver, Duchess Zheng Guo decided to reduce the value of the new and opened the skylight to speak brightly.
After she finished speaking, her red lips raised triumphantly, waiting for Qi Qingyu to cry out of gratitude.
This is a great opportunity for one person to ascend to heaven!
As long as Qi Qingyu enters the Guogong Mansion, will anyone dare to laugh at the Qi family's humble status in the future?
Categorically did not dare.
Duchess Zheng Guo, who is trying her best to get closer to the queen's party, has this confidence.
Qi Qingyu was excited, but she didn't cry, revealing a shocked and terrifying expression. "Madame wants the prince to marry a people's daughter as a wife? By no means, the status of the people's daughter is humble, how dare she insult Sven. She said loudly, so excited that she almost beat her chest in front of Duchess Zheng Guo's face, and her big eyes showed a greedy glow.
"No, not a wife." Duchess Zheng Guo could not hide the disdain in her heart, and frowned: "Concubine, at most, it is a noble concubine, and there is no other possibility." But you must know that being a noble concubine of the prince is also a glorious lintel, and others will not be able to cultivate this blessing in ten lifetimes. It's still Mrs. Ben who feels that she has made a contract with you, so she said this. ”
"No, the people's daughter is rich and rivals the country, and she really can't commit herself to being a concubine, and ask her for forgiveness." A fine light flashed under Qi Qingyu's eyes, and when he touched the point of the wording, he began to fish. (To be continued.) )