Xu Qirong realized that the root of the matter was fundamentally on the crown prince Chen Jinkun, and the Hua family was just doing things for Chen Jinkun.

It has been more than three years since the Yang family moved to Jinzhou, and at that time, Hua Weijing was just a hard-working child who was tossed by his third uncle and seventh aunt, where was he capable of doing anything! Later, Hua Yude entered the palace, Hua Qi combed himself, if there was no interference from His Royal Highness the Prince, how could Hua Weijing take over the power of Hua Yude? If Hua Weijing hadn't taken over the forces under Hua Yude, it would have been even more unlikely that the affairs of the Yang family would have anything to do with him.

Xu Qirong felt that he was a little dizzy.

Just thinking about it, I saw Shuang Lian waving his hand: "Don't think about those troubles, they can always be solved." With such good weather, you can't always let that bad thing ruin your mood. ”

Xu Qijin said with a smile: "The county lord already has a good plan for those eight dowries? ”

"It's not a good idea." Shuang Lian took a sand fruit from the fruit bowl and said casually, "Anyway, I haven't bought the red envelope with happy money yet, I found a stack of red paper and threw it to them, which can be regarded as saving money for my Yuwang Mansion." ”

The corners of Xu Qijin and Xu Qirong's mouths twitched. It can be seen that the frost mercy county lord can't be happy for a while, and he still has the ability to find a way to make himself comfortable!

In my heart, I felt that Su Xiaoyi's mother was not doing personnel, with the housekeeper's favor for Shuang Lian, even if the eight dowries came out of the palace, I was afraid that the housekeeper would only be tossed by Shuang Lian.

It's not that I sympathize with the eight well-informed palace maids, in the end, I am still relieved for frost pity.

It's just that Xu Qirong began to vaguely understand in his heart. The Xu family is not even a home of Zhong Ming Dingshi, and it stands to reason that whether Chen Jinkun wants to ascend the throne or not has nothing to do with them, but a leaf falls in the autumn. Judging from the current situation, if you want to protect the Xu family and the Shen family, you have to compete with Chen Jinkun.

After returning from Yuwang's Mansion, Shen Yaru was no longer so worried. In Shen Yaru's opinion, King Yu's Mansion is already considered to be powerful, and the county lord has frost mercy to intervene. There's nothing to worry about.

The worry in Xu Qirong's heart naturally couldn't be told to Shen Yaru, and besides, Shen Yaru knew it. Doesn't do the whole thing any good. Therefore, Xu Qirong was also happy by Shen Yaru and Shen Yahui.

On this day, Shen Yaru and Shen Yahui's rouge ran out, and Xu Qijin and Xu Qirong's rouge were light, and they were not used to it. I made an appointment to go out together to buy rouge.

Xu Qijin's wedding date is set. embroidered wedding dresses all day long at home, so Xu Qirong directly took his two cousins to the rouge shop on Yanluo Xiejie to give birth to incense. Most of the rouge gouache in Shengxiangzhai is transported from Yangzhou, Yangzhou produces beautiful women, and Yangzhou's rouge gouache is also very famous.

Shen Yaru and Shen Yahui used to be from Yangzhou, and they have long wanted to come to this Shengxiangzhai to have a look.

When he arrived at the door of Shengxiangzhai, Qiu Nong reminded Xu Qirong in a whisper: "Miss Qi next door has sent a lot of food to our house in the past two days, so the girl might as well pick up some rouge gouache." Send it next door, and it will be regarded as a return gift. ”

Xu Qirong thought for a while. I think so. Although she does not reject Master Xu Si marrying his stepfamily now, as the saying goes, taking other people's words is short, eating other people's mouths is short, and she can't be bought by others before she sees Miss Qi's personality clearly.

Shen Yahui smiled and said, "I think that Miss Qi is a good person." ”

Shen Yaru pulled Shen Yahui's sleeve: "The affairs of the elders, how can we put our beaks." ”

As he spoke, the shopkeeper of Sheng Xiangzhai had already greeted him, and said with a smile: "How many young ladies are here to see rouge gouache?" There are many people downstairs, so please go to the private room on the second floor to thank you, the small one is to prepare fragrant refreshments, the ladies are rested, and then offer a sample of rouge gouache, how about picking slowly? ”

The Shen family is rich, Shen Yahui and Shen Yaru are all top-notch in everything they dress, Xu Qirong has never lacked money in his hands, and he is not far behind in terms of products.

Shen Yaru sighed: "The shopkeeper has a Yangzhou accent?" ”

Shen Yaru mentioned this, and Shen Yahui also remembered: "A few years ago, there seemed to be a rouge shop in Yangzhou named Shengxiangzhai, is there any connection between Shengxiangzhai in Xijing City and Shengxiangzhai in Yangzhou City?" ”

The shopkeeper was stunned for a moment, and then sighed, and said with a smile while leading people to the second floor: "The two young ladies have also been to Yangzhou?" Don't hide the two young ladies, the little one was originally the apprentice of Yangzhou Shengxiangzhai, because of the appreciation of the shopkeeper, and got the blue eyes of the owner, so as soon as the Shengxiangzhai in Xijing City opened, the small one came to be the shopkeeper. ”

When Shen Yahui heard this, she glanced at Shen Yaru, covered her mouth and smiled: "That's a coincidence." ”

The shopkeeper said: "What's the coincidence? ”

Shen Yahui's eldest maid Xuelian has a similar temperament to Shen Yahui, and when she saw that the girl was happy, she interjected: "Our family used to be in Yangzhou, and our eldest and youngest grandmother and your eldest and youngest grandmother, Mrs. Xu, still have handkerchiefs!" ”

As soon as Xuelian said this, Xu Qirong also remembered that the eldest cousin did have a handkerchief, and her husband's family was in the rouge gouache business.

When the shopkeeper heard this, he hurriedly said: "That's really a coincidence!" Three young ladies, just right, there is a batch of new goods that have just arrived today, all of which are good! There are also a few boxes of excellent tasting hair oil, all of which are hand-mixed by Miss Dai. Later, I will pick them up for the three young ladies. It also gives a small one a chance to tie up the young ladies, no matter what it is, pick it well, the small one is in charge, and don't earn a cent from the ladies, how much the capital is, how much the ladies will be charged. ”

Then he smiled and said to Qiu Nong and the others: "It's the same with a few girls, don't be polite to the little ones." ”

As he spoke, he took the teapot and snacks from the man who came up, set them on the table himself, and then washed the teacups himself, and poured three incense sticks steadily.

Shen Yaru smiled: "Even if it's an old acquaintance, you can't take advantage of you." ”

Xu Qirong also said: "You bring things up first, money is not a problem, things must be really good." ”

Shen Yahui is a mouthful, and when she saw the kindness of the shopkeeper, she quipped: "If the things are not good, we won't give money." ”

The shopkeeper smiled: "Miss said she was laughing." The young ladies are bodhisattva-hearted, and they will never worry about such small things with small things. A few young ladies sat down for a while, and the younger ones went to pick out some good rouge gouache for the ladies. A quasi-match for the hearts of the young ladies. ”

Xu Qirong and the others nodded, and went by the shopkeeper.

Shen Yaru took a sip of incense: "It's an excellent pearl orchid, with a small amount of honey, it's not bad to drink." It is no wonder that this shopkeeper looks less than thirty years old, and he can be appreciated by the master family, from a primary school apprentice to today's status. ”

Xu Qirong said with a smile: "As the saying goes, there are three hundred and sixty lines, and the line is the champion, depending on whether this person is willing to work hard." The brain is not flexible. ”

While speaking, Shen Yahui had already told Xuelian to remind her to let the shopkeeper sell two packs of this pearl orchid to her when she left.

Seeing that Xu Qirong and Shen Yaru were staring at her, Shen Yahui raised her eyebrows: "What are you looking at me?" He sells rouge gouache is selling. Selling pearl orchids is also selling, don't you say that he is a smart person, how can there be a reason not to do the business of sending them to the door? ”

The corners of Xu Qirong's mouth twitched, and the incense slice business was delivered to the door of the rouge gouache shop. Let the family do it?

was about to make fun of Shen Yahui. I heard Shen Yaru frown, and there was some concern in her tone: "Ah Luo, what's wrong with you?" ”

Xu Qirong turned his head, and sure enough, he saw Shen Yaru's personal maid A Luo with a panicked face.

Ah Luo is a cautious person in everything, especially meticulous in front of his master, seeing her like this, Xu Qirong couldn't help but be a little surprised.

At this time, Shen Yahui didn't forget to joke people: "Ah Luo, did you forget to bring money?" Your girl always has four or five hundred taels of silver tickets engraved in her sleeve. What are you afraid of? ”

Shen Yaru glared at Shen Yahui and nodded to Ah Luo. said that he really hid the silver ticket on his body in case of emergency.

Ah Luo's little face turned red, bit his lip and said, "It's not that I forgot to bring money,...... Servant ...... I drank two more cups of tea before going out......"

Shen Yahui sneered.

Shen Yaru was speechless for a moment, paused, and said, "Don't hurry up yet!" ”

Shen Yaru spoke, but Ah Luo was still hesitating: "But, now that the maid is gone, who will serve the young lady?" ”

Xu Qi couldn't help but smile: "And Cousin Hui and I are here, besides, what can happen in this private room?" If you don't worry about it anymore, I'll give Qiu Nong to your girl. ”

Ah Luo turned his head to look at his girl, and saw Shen Yaru holding her forehead, so she ran away with a red face.

Shen Yahui turned her head and went to squeeze her personal maid Xuelian: "Look at people, look at you!" ”

Xue Lian pouted, a little unhappy: "The girl's matter, when is Xue Lian not concerned, the girl said that her mouth is smooth, and she didn't hurt Xue Lian's heart." ”

Shen Yahui said: "Why did I break your heart?" When I was in Jinju, did you leave me alone in Miss Qiu Er's boudoir? Some people embroider handkerchiefs and some twist threads, but I'm good, and I have to thread the needle myself! ”

Shen Yahui usually treats Xuelian as her sister, and she is not very harsh, and the two are used to hurting each other. Then I heard Xue Lian say: "Girl, are you reasonable!" That day, Xuelian said that she would bring an extra cloak, but the girl was troublesome. Later, the maid saw that the girl was happy with Miss Qiu Er, and it was snowing outside, so she left for a while and went out to ask the boy to go home and get the cloak and the hand stove. It's worth being a girl tossing and turning from last year to this year! ”

Shen Yaru saw that their master and servant were fighting again, and turned her head to Xu Qirong and said: "If you can't say a few words on weekdays, you will hurt the other party twice, but you can't tolerate others saying that the other party is not good, it is strange that our family can raise such a young lady and such a maid!" ”

Shen Yahui rolled her eyes: "I'm not reasonable? She didn't go up or down like this, it's all what I'm used to, third sister, sister Rong, you listen to it, I just said a few words? She had a basket of words to and fro with me. ”

Xue Lian expressionlessly helped Shen Yahui pin the few hairs on her head into the beads, and refused to fight with Shen Yahui anymore.

Xu Qirong didn't like to laugh at people in front of them, so he turned his head to Qiu Nong and said, "I've been sitting here for a while, you go down and take a look, why hasn't the shopkeeper come yet." ”

Qiu Nong hurriedly agreed.

Not long after going down, Qiu Nong came back with the shopkeeper, the shopkeeper was holding a large wooden plate in his hand, the plate was covered with red brocade cloth, and there were all kinds of small and delicate rouge boxes on the cloth. ”

Shen Yahui said with a smile: "I thought that the shopkeeper would not dare to come up for fear of not being able to get good goods!" ”

The shopkeeper hurriedly put things on the table for Xu Qirong and others to inspect, and stood aside to wipe his sweat: "Where, where, Miss laughed." ”

The things brought up by the shopkeeper, each box looked exquisite, instantly attracted the eyes of several little ladies, Shen Yahui didn't care about making fun of the shopkeeper, and hurriedly took a round box with small pearls on the outside, opened it to see, but it was a good rouge cream, put it next to his face and compared, and asked Ah Luo: "Ah Luo, take a look, is this color and my skin lining?" ”

Shen Yaru pursed her lips, and also picked the box and opened it, her eyes full of surprise: "This is the same as the one we use in Yangzhou." ”

The shopkeeper introduced next to him: "There is a ruby in the middle of the box, which is the hair oil that Miss Dai adjusted herself." ”

Xu Qirong was about to reach out and take a look, when he felt that his sleeve was pulled by Qiu Nong, and when he turned his head, he saw Qiu Nong glaring at him, and looked at Shen Yaru and Shen Yahui, who were attracted by rouge gouache, got up and walked to the side with Qiu Nong, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?" But what happened? ”

Qiu Nong whispered: "When the maid went down to look for the shopkeeper just now, I saw Ah Luo. ”

"Huh?" Xu Qirong was surprised, "What's wrong with her?" "Ah Luo came here with them, just went to Izugong, and it was normal for Qiu Nong to see her. Now that Qiu Nong has come to tell her about it, it is obvious that something is wrong.

Qiu Nong hesitated for a moment, but still said, "The maid is seeing Ah Luo enter the opposite gate. ”

Xu Qirong frowned: "What's on the other side?" If she had her own things to buy, it wouldn't be a big deal, and I looked at her like a safe person, otherwise I wouldn't have followed my third cousin. ”

Qiu Nong's face was a little strange: "But there is a restaurant opposite!" ”

The reason why Ah Luo just left was that he drank two more teas before going out, this is out of Gong, and it is impossible to go to other people's restaurants to go out of Gong!

What's more, at this hour, it is impossible for her to go hungry to the opposite restaurant to eat!

Qiu Nong said: "The maid originally wanted to chase after her to take a look, but it was the person next to Miss Cousin, and the maid was not reckless." Or, she does have her own business when she goes to the restaurant opposite, whether it is our maid or not, we don't want to ask. I had to tell the girl first, and the girl had a bottom in her heart. ”

Xu Qirong nodded, signaled Qiu Nong not to be quiet, returned to the table quietly, took the box of oil, opened it and smelled the fragrance. (To be continued......)