Chapter 64: Stepping Stones

Wu Lixia's happy shop, Chen Wenhui is mostly handed over to the people around her, and now, Chen Wenhui has a lot of things, she has to follow her mother and Princess Lichuan to socialize, manage accounts, and take time to manage her own home and her own accounts. Fortunately, Chen Wenhui has cultivated the big girls around her very well in recent years, and she can help her share a lot.

On this day, Chen Wenhui was about to go out, and said to Qiu Bi beside her: "Qiu Bi, see where you are going today?" ”

Qiu Bi hurriedly took out a small book that she carried with her and said, "In addition to going to the mansion to reconcile accounts today, the girl of the Li family invited you to go to tea with Mrs. Liu in the morning, but there is nothing to do in the afternoon." ”

Chen Wenhui nodded, and at this time, Lu Ya suddenly came in from the courtyard and said, "Girl, just now the princess of the Jin Palace's palace has made a post, please take the time to go to the Jin Palace, saying that the chef in the new mansion has made a delicious snack, and I want to invite the girl to try it." ”

Chen Wenhui took the post and looked at it, and knew it in her heart. This post was made in advance, and if King Jin had something to discuss with her, he would ask the princess to give her a post, and an inconspicuous secret mark was made on the corner of this post. What has such a secret note is that Liu Yan is looking for her, and what there is no secret note is that the princess is looking for her. There's a secret note in the corner of this post.

Chen Wenhui thought about it, probably about the military department, and wanted to discuss it with her, mainly because her father Chen Yuanheng went out again, she had no way to go to the palace with her parents, so she could only visit the princess, who let the princess be her cousin, even if outsiders knew, she would not have any doubts when she went to the Jin Palace.

Chen Wenhui said to Qiu Bi: "You write it down in the notepad, in the afternoon, we will go to see the princess, ask the small kitchen to prepare a few pastries today, and I will send them to the princess in the afternoon." And the green shoots, you go and tell the steward of the palace, we will go in the afternoon. ”

Qiu Bi and Green Sprout hurriedly agreed.

Chen Wenhui got into the car and went to the princess's mansion.

In the afternoon, Chen Wenhui took a comfortable nap. After freshening up, I changed a set of clothes and jewelry to wear when I went out, and brought the guards, and the maids and maids had already prepared. A few delicate snacks for the princess were made into a comfortable carriage and went to the palace of the king of Jin.

When she arrived at the Jin Palace, Chen Wenhui first went to say hello to the princess. The princess also knows what Chen Wenhui is here for, she is very smart now, she knows that now is the critical moment to win the heir, it is very important to win the hearts of the people, Xiao Chen's family is the main force of the Jin King to win the heir, and she can't be offended. Therefore, the princess was very knowledgeable and talked to Wen Hui cordially. also gave Chen Wenhui some things, including a few beautiful spring fans and a few fans of flowers and birds.

Chen Wenhui saw that the zuò was very exquisite, and it was also spring. When the spring fan was used, she said to Chen Wenfeng: "Sister Princess's management of the affairs of the palace is fine, this spring fan has been done, and even the group fan used in summer has been done." In our house, my mother and I have been busy lately, and we haven't been instructed to do it yet, but today I saw my sister this. When I go back, I must let the housekeepers do it. ”

Chen Wenfeng said with a smile: "Sister, you were still young when you left Beijing, you don't know, the weather in this capital is very strange, spring is very short, and it will be summer all of a sudden." So. These things should be prepared in advance. ”

Chen Wenhui nodded and said, "Sister Princess, the new pastry you made in your house today tastes good." I also brought a few things, six for my sister to taste, four for the two side concubines to taste, and two for the princess in the house. Time is short. I won't stay any longer, and I will ask the princess's sister to bother and help me distribute it. ”

Chen Wenfeng hurriedly agreed. I didn't dare to keep it, but I was diligent to send it outside the main room, and saw Chen Wenhui go to the study of King Jin outside, and then returned to the room and said to Hongxing next to her: "What snacks did the sixth sister bring?" ”

Hongxing opened it and said, "There is a list here, for the princess, it is date cake, red bean cake, walnut cake, mille-feuille cake, almond cake, and spiced cake." It's all packed in a delicate food box, and it looks good. For the two concubines, there are date cakes, mille-feuille cakes, almond cakes, and spiced cakes. For Aunt Wang, it was date cake and walnut cake. ”

Chen Wenfeng nodded and said, "Take it up and show it to me." ”

Hongxing hurriedly opened the food box and showed it to Chen Wenfeng. Chen Wenfeng found that although there were many types, each of them was only ten yuan, and said with a smile: "My sister is thrifty, there is only so much of everything, so you can run it yourself and send them to each other." ”

Hongxing hurriedly agreed, and was about to go out, but when she remembered again, she saw that there was no one left and right, and the little girl happened to go to pour tea, so she said: "Princess, slave maid, these six girls are not as affectionate as before to Aunt Wang?" ”

Chen Wenfeng sneered and said: "Now Wen Hui is the daughter of the branch after all, and her status is precious, where can she still look down on her little princess aunt." However, my cousin, is not a person who looks down on her friends because of her elevated status, it must be Aunt Wang or Aunt Wang's family who has done something to make her unhappy, so she treats Aunt Wang so coldly. You take the opportunity to send pastries to inquire. ”

Hongxing understood and hurriedly went.

After the red apricot left, Chen Wenfeng glanced at the little girl who entered the house to serve, and felt bored for a while, it was still a red apricot, Yu Li looked pleasing to the eye for people who had used it for more than ten years, and it was also pleasing to the eye, it was a little friend who accompanied her through the ups and downs of the Chen family's mansion, but because she offended the Xiao Chen family, Yu Li was abolished, and it hurt when she thought about it, and she hated Wen Hui's family even more.

Chen Wenfeng can't forget the time when she was grounded, she can't forget it, Liu Yan, who has always been full of affection in her eyes, suddenly became an indifferent person, not only indifferent, but also cruel, and her heart hurt in the ice.

This qiē is all because of the family of Xiao Chen's family. Didn't you just despise them, didn't you just put a shelf in front of them? This shelf, this contempt is the score she has put on the three-room people since she was a child. How did she become a princess, her status was high, but she couldn't put it away? No matter how she is said to be the eldest daughter of the Chen family, she also has the blood of the Chen, Wang family, and her status is precious, why do you have to be three or four low?

For this Liu Yan, he can ignore the love of husband and wife and treat her coldly.

Chen Wenfeng sat with cold eyes. Once, she put down her shelf, and in order to cater to the thoughts of the fourth prince Liu Yan, she befriended the Xiao Chen family and the officials and gentry in Jiangnan, but what did she get in exchange? Of course, she didn't stop grounding, she was already a concubine with a stable position, in charge of the affairs of the mansion, as well as the property of the Jin Palace. But does it work? Liu Yan married side concubines, aunts, concubines, concubines, and more and more women in the backyard one after another.

Each one has a use. Concubine Bai has a high status, second only to her as a concubine, it can be said that from the identity of her mother's family, Concubine Bai's family is the main vein in the Bai family, and her uncle is the patriarch. Judging from the marriage, Chen Wenfeng was already regarded as ten miles of red makeup, but it was put together by Chen Yuanheng and the Chen family, but what about Concubine Bai, the Bai family gave her a dowry of more than 150,000 taels of silver, and her own family gave her nearly 100,000 taels of silver for the dowry, all the utensils are high-quality, and it seems that she is not enough to see the princess at all.

That's it, the concubine Ma who came later, although her identity is not as good as that of these daughters of the family, but what kind of family is the Ma family? The Ma family is the emperor's confidant, and the Manchu Dynasty is respected by both civil and military forces. is the uncrowned king, not to mention how rich the Ma family is as a salt merchant, and those things for food and clothing have never been seen by her, a daughter of the family. Liu Yan is very fond of Concubine Ma, because Concubine Ma is young, cute, petite and exquisite, and since Concubine Ma got married, the Ma family has fully supported Liu Yan, making Liu Yan's status in the emperor's mind rising.

These two side concubines have a high status, and they are hard to forget in the background, but there is also the annoying Aunt Wang, who actually has a million taels of silver to marry, and the annual income is scared to death, which is really rich. Forget it, because she and Wen Hui are handkerchiefs, which has a high status in Liu Yan's heart, and even has a son.

These are already very annoying, in the backyard, there are a lot of beauties coming in, some are cold, some are lively, some are delicate, Chunlan and Qiu Ju, each is good at special shows. There are many struggles between these beauties, because in addition to their beauty, they all have more or less one or two things that are worthy of Liu Yan's attention, for example, Aunt Li, her family is all scholars, runs a academy, and has won the appreciation of many scholars for Liu Yan. Another example is the new Aunt Yu, their Yu family has been an official eunuch for generations, although her father's official position is not high, only four grades, but there are many people in the family, distributed in all parts of Dachu, and they have a wide range of contacts. There is also Aunt Fang, who can sing and dance, she was born in the Fang family, and most of her family are military generals, although the grade is not high, but whether it is in the Northwest Army or the Southwest Army, there are people from their families, and among these aunts, there is even a person from the Yuan family, that is, there are Yuan families all over Dachu, who specialize in the account room. This aunt of the Yuan family is really a good abacus, and she is also a wonderful person, Liu Yanwu made the best use of things, so she arranged for this Aunt Yuan to help her take inventory every day, not to mention, since this Aunt Yuan came to help take inventory, Chen Wenhui was more worry-free when managing the industry and housework.

And so on and so forth. The smart Chen Wenfeng has long understood that for Liu Yan, including her, it is his stepping stone to the throne. Of course, some of these stepping stones are charming, some can sing and dance, some are proficient in housekeeping, and some are good at communication.

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Second, for the sake of my diligence, encourage me.