As soon as the twentieth month of the lunar month passes, the new year is about to arrive.

According to the customs and habits of Daliang, the New Year's gift must be delivered before the thirtieth day.

During this time, the streets and alleys of Fengjing City were in a hurry, especially in places like Yingtai Street and Xuanyin Pavilion Street, where the powerful gathered, subordinates sent to Shangfeng, local officials sent to Beijing officials, and colleagues sent each other.

Fengfu, located in the leek alley of Yingtai Street, has made a fortune this year.

Feng Songchuan was transferred to Sima Shilang to know the military affairs, and Sima Fu Liangji knew that he was Emperor Jianzhao's favorite general, so he deliberately handed over the big fat task of anti-smuggling to him.

When the new official took office, he didn't wait for the fire to burn, and the people below heard the news and rushed to curry favor with him during the New Year.

These days, Feng Songchuan needs to stay in the yamen to hand over the seal documents, familiar with errands, and is busy until late every day before coming back, and there is no serious lady at home to operate, entertaining guests and receiving gifts has to be done by the housekeeper.

Since the eighteenth day of the lunar month, Long Live Lord appointed Gu Wensheng as the champion in the Sitong Palace, and Meng Zhen's life in Fengfu suddenly got better.

Feng Songchuan was no longer annoyed when she saw her, and rested in her yard for a few nights, which also allowed her to paint and play the piano in her spare time.

The reason for this, Meng Zhen herself guessed that it was because Gu Wensheng's value had risen sharply, Feng Songchuan began to regard that woman as a real opponent, and then remembered the fight, what rose in his heart was a fighting spirit, not shame.

So she also followed the rising tide.

Thinking that he had been committed to Feng Songchuan for so long, and whether he was doing well or not was thanks to that Gu Wensheng, Meng Zhen was so aggrieved that she hated it.

That Gu Wensheng is just the daughter of a small family, and she is not as good as herself in terms of background. is arrogant and arrogant, as if he doesn't take the men of the world in his eyes, and he still hugs Cheng Guogong's thigh?

It's just that she was lucky, this time she was promoted by the Long Live Lord, and she became the champion as a woman, so many men have to look at her face and think about themselves. Guarding this small courtyard. also has to compete with several concubines of Feng Songchuan, Feng Songchuan came a little more often, and strange rumors came out. If the family didn't get involved in a lawsuit back then......

Meng Hao sat up from the couch, accidentally pulled the scars on her chest and abdomen, and couldn't help but gasp and frown.

The maid came to wait when she heard the voice. The brocade was slipped off, revealing Meng Hao*'s delicate body. There were bruises all over it, and it was quite shocking to look at.

Feng Songchuan's bed was rough on the surface, Meng Hao didn't know how he was with others, and he tossed in a different way every time she was here. When he first entered Beijing, he was angry, and several times he seemed to want to put her to death, like this body injury. It's still light.

Scarlet Sleeves was also surprised, and helped her apply some ointment. and ministered to her, and put on her garments.

At this time, the maid came in and reported: "Girl, the uncle is here, waiting outside." ”

The uncle in her mouth is Meng Zhen's brother Meng Shaoqi.

The Meng family suffered a lawsuit and was in debt, Meng Shaoqi, who was originally a pampered young master, was forced to help the idle people everywhere, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling were all infected, so he almost begged along the street, and finally Meng Zhen begged his grandfather to tell his grandmother, and asked someone to find him a caravan, asking him to follow the work and do chores, and sent him away.

Meng Shaoqi went out a few long ways, east to the grassland desert, south to the bank of the Feiyun River, consciously gained knowledge, opened his eyes, returned to the Ming River at the beginning of the year, heard that the girl climbed the high branches, and then chased to the capital.

When Meng Hao heard that her brother was coming, she rolled her eyes, sat on the couch without making a sound for a while, paused for a while, and said, "Call him in." ”

No need to ask, the debt collector must have come to fight her again.

Meng Shaoqi came in with the curtain, his face was not very good-looking, he didn't come up to please him with a hippie smile like before, he stood up, and said to the two maids: "You two go out first, my sister and I have something to say." ”

The scarlet sleeves and cuishang didn't look down on this master in their hearts, and they looked at Meng Zhen together.

Meng Hao spoke, "You guys go down first." ”

After the two maids retreated, she stood up lazily and said, "My brother only came a few days ago, and the fifty taels of silver you gave you were spent so quickly?" ”

Meng Shaoqi couldn't hear the impatience in Meng Hao's words, he really spent all the money, he came to Fengfu today, he wanted to have another order with his sister, but now......

He sat down on a chair near the bed, lowered his voice, and said, "I was just outside the house, and I met someone asking me for directions, and I came to give a gift to my brother-in-law." ”

Meng Hao saw that he was mysterious and secretive, what should be the matter, as soon as he heard this, he pursed his lips and sat down on the edge of the bed: "He has to be reused by the Lord Long Live, and he has just been transferred to an important position, and if he is familiar with it or not, he will naturally come to worship him." ”

"You don't understand, these gift-givers have a lot of origins. Your brother's eyes don't rub sand, I saw that the horse pulling the cart was so hard, I knew that the cart was full of real money, so I put his words on the way, the man said that he was from Jiangbei, and the main family's surname was Wang. I immediately guessed it, Wang Guangji Wang is a good man, a famous rich man in Jiangbei, and I asked that person carefully, and sure enough. I didn't expect that even he needed to give gifts to his brother-in-law. ”

Meng Shaoqi had just been to Jiangbei with the caravan a few years ago and had seen the Wang family's power in the local area.

Meng Hao glanced at him with disgust: "What a fuss, he is a flat-headed commoner, so he naturally has to find a way to become an official." ”

"No, no. Jiangbei Mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and Wang Guangji is better than being an official. Suddenly giving such a heavy gift, there must be something in the hands of my brother-in-law. ”

"What's the handle? Lord Sima Fu handed over the anti-smuggling to him, could it be that the surnamed Wang dared to smuggle? ”

"Ah, it must be like this, otherwise where would the Wang family have such a thick foundation. Sister, listen to me, you can't ignore this matter, I heard that it was Wang Guangji's people, so I made a friend with them, saying that my sister is in Fengfu, and she is very favored by Lord Feng, so I can introduce you to you. And guess what? ”

Meng Hao guessed that the other party had no good words, and her face sank.

Sure enough, I heard Meng Shaoqi snort angrily: "Who would have thought that those people don't know how to lift, saying that you are just a cheap concubine plaything of Lord Feng, and if they want to see it, they will see Mrs. Zhang and the eldest son of the lord in the house." Grandma's! I said you've been in Beijing for a year, why hasn't your stomach moved? ”

These few words made Meng Hao angry, and she gritted her teeth: "The surname Wang is too deceitful!" ”

That Zhang family is just a concubine of Feng Songchuan, but after a long time with Feng Songchuan, she gave birth to a son, and she usually gave her small shoes to wear.

Being so ridiculed by a flat-headed common person was the key point, Meng Hao only felt that his eyes were slightly black, and his body trembled with anger.

Meng Shaoqi was worried: "You can't take it lightly, there are many capable people under the surname Wang, if the Zhang family really colludes with him, it won't matter if you give birth to a bunch of sons, I think you might as well get more silver and store it here for me, just in case." In case you are swept away one day, there is still a brother to support you. ”

Meng Hao sneered: "I have the silver, but I can't be bullied like this." Let's see. ”

Meng Shaoqi saw that his sister was angry, so he hurriedly persuaded a few words, rolled his eyes, and whispered: "I see that you don't even have a helper in this house." The day before yesterday, I met an old man in the wine shop, and I saw that he was very knowledgeable in talking about the past and the present, so I invited him to drink two good meals with the money you gave me. The old man was drunk and confided his identity to me. Guess who he is? ”

Meng Zhen felt that today's brother was really looking at people differently, so she leaned her head over and lowered her voice: "What? ”

"His surname is Duan, and he is a strategist at the side of the former Xian King. He also wept bitterly and said that if the virtuous king was willing to listen to his kind words and persuasion, he would never end up with both father and son dead. ”

Meng Hao gasped.

"I think he has real skills, and I want to ask you if you want to introduce him to your brother-in-law."

"No." Meng Hao said categorically, "If this person doesn't get to the bottom of it, if he harbors evil intentions, won't he affect us." ”

She took a deep breath, saw that Meng Shaoqi was still looking at her, and muttered, "How is this person now?" ”

"After he woke up, he didn't admit it anymore, and he pretended to be confused with me after I tried it several times."

"That's best, I'll give you some more money in a while, and you can get along with him more, and tell him what I am doing, and see what he can do to help us." Whether this person has real skills or not, you will know by trying. ”

Meng Hao had already calmed the idea of wanting to repay Feng Songchuan wholeheartedly at that time in Minghe County, instead of taking the risk of introducing people to Feng Songchuan to help, how could she control it in her own hands, she was really lacking a helper.

Meng Shaoqi asked for the money, complimented his sister twice, and left satisfied, Meng Hao sat there in a daze, thinking about how to please Feng Songchuan when he came back.

After sitting until noon, Meng Zhen came back to her senses and sent two maids to the front yard to ask who was coming to give the New Year's gift today and who received it.

Sure enough, people from the Jiangbei Wang family once came.

The New Year's gift on the account is ordinary, and it is not as Meng Shaoqi said, the ceremony is so heavy that even the horses pulling the cart feel difficult.

However, Cuishang inquired again that there was a woman who came with the Wang family, who was clean and tidy, spoke and acted neatly, and claimed to be the lobby sister of the head of the Wang family, and visited the Zhang family alone after giving the New Year's gift.

After Meng Zhen got the reward, she sneered again and again.

Feng Songchuan did not have a wife, and the Zhang family gave birth to a son, so he became the object of everyone's scrambling.

Wang Guangji looked down on people, and there were times when they regretted it.

In the evening, Feng Songchuan came back with a tired body, Meng Zhen served him to wash, sent the maids down, and gently helped him knead his shoulders and back.

"Your lord's skills are extraordinary, how many things in the yamen have made you tired like this? That Master Fu didn't mean to embarrass you, did he? Meng Hao's words were thin and angry, but more distressed. (To be continued)

ps: There is one more change in the evening. R655