After two days, Chen Wenhui finally took the time to make an appointment and get together with Mingzhu. Of course, this time it was only the two of them, because the Bai family went to a banquet at the house of a good lady. Wen Hui also went to Mingzhu's house to pay New Year's greetings to Mingzhu's mother-in-law. Now that the year has not passed, it is naturally not good to go to her house again, besides, the mother-in-law and sister-in-law of Mingzhu's family, Wen Hui also feels inconvenient to speak. Therefore, they asked Mingzhu to eat in the Qinghe Loushui Pavilion opened by their family in the capital.

As soon as they met, Wen Hui was very happy, wearing here, Mingzhu was her best friend, although she was free and easy when she was on Yizhou Island, she was not accompanied by friends, and she missed Mingzhu very much. Seeing this, Wen Hui looked up and down and said, "Sister Mingzhu, you are getting more and more beautiful, it can be seen that you are living a very comfortable life." Presumably the brother-in-law is very obedient. ”

Mingzhu is dressed fashionably, wearing a bright purple makeup jacket, with a dark purple cloak on the outside, looking white and pink, very good-looking. Mingzhu took Wen Hui's hand and sat down with the help of the maid while untying her cloak and said: "Where am I beautiful, I have been working hard lately, and I feel that my skin is a lot drier, and besides, this north is really uncomfortable, I still came to the capital when I followed my mother to my grandfather's house when I was a child, and I haven't come back for so many years, and I have long been unaccustomed to the climate here." Fortunately, there is a new set of skin maintenance things in your home, otherwise you wouldn't be able to look at this face. ”

Wen Hui laughed and said: "Who told you not to find a man from the south to marry, if you have to marry a person from the capital, you will naturally have to live in the capital." ”

Mingzhu pursed his lips and said: "Hmph, speaking of which, I'm angry, since I came to the capital, everything has not gone well, and I'm about to suffocate." ”

Wen Hui hurriedly asked: "Brother-in-law has been promoted, the fourth prince is now in power, how can anyone be angry with you at this time?" For such an upstart, is it too late for everyone to stammer? ”

Mingzhu snorted coldly and said, "It's those people who stutter that make people angry." The atmosphere in the capital is not good. At every turn, someone gave Keihara something. That's it, general gifts, if you receive it, you will receive it, anyway, do you still exchange gifts? But someone wants to send something strange. ”

Wen Hui asked: "What made you so angry, hahaha, I know, someone must have sent a beautiful woman to Liu Jingyuan?" ”

Mingzhu was taken aback: "How do you know?" Are you a girl who hasn't been out of the cabinet yet? ”

Wen Hui picked up a piece of fruit and ate it and said, "How could I not know? Don't forget that I have managed the finances of Shanghai City for many years, and I also helped my brother build Xinguang City, what have you not seen and heard of? Do you think that only the capital will send beautiful women? Do you think these people just give beautiful women to men? ”

Mingzhu's eyes widened: "What?" Does anyone else send you beautiful women? ”

Wen Hui laughed: "This is strange, why can't you give a beautiful woman to a woman?" Don't we need beautiful women? Don't you need to raise singers and dancers at home? Don't we need to be beautiful and gentle? ”

Mingzhu then understood: "Yes, what you said makes sense." It's just that no one has given me a beautiful woman yet, but there are many people who have given it to Keihara beauty. There are those who send virgins, there are singers, there are dancers, and there are even those who send oirans. That's not all, there are still people who give away their concubines, and they have given birth to children, it's really disgusting. ”

Wen Hui smiled and said: "This world is as dark as a crow, do you think that only people give you women?" Maybe you will give it to someone else as well. ”

Mingzhu said: "I'm not like this, it's disgusting." ”

Wen Hui said: "This is how people are born in the rivers and lakes, you see our four families." is powerful, not to give women to others, and not to send those singers, dancers and other lowly people, they are all sent to their own daughters, concubines. The beautiful ones were given to the officials in power, and the ones who were born were sent to the palace to the emperor and the prince. ”

Mingzhu thinks about it too. Wen Hui said again: "These scholars are not the same, they have become officials. I still want more power, otherwise, how could Shuyu's family give Shuyu to the four princes as concubines? ”

Mingzhu nodded. Suddenly remembered another thing: "Hey, as soon as you say this, I want to tell you, Jingyuan has been discussing something with me recently, doesn't he have a sister?" It's the pearl in the hands of my parents, and now my in-laws want to give their daughter to the fourth prince as a concubine. ”

Wen Hui frowned: "A good pearl in the palm of your hand, how can you be a concubine?" Your in-laws' family was originally a rich man, but now Brother Liu has become an official and an official eunuch. It's about money, money, and power, why push your daughter into the fire pit. ”

Mingzhu also frowned and said, "Hey, Jingyuan is also hesitating." It's not because, when we returned to the capital to be officials, our father-in-law and mother-in-law became officials, and those noble ladies who invited us to dinner, flowers, and tea ceremonies scolded my mother-in-law all day long, my mother-in-law, you know, I didn't understand the etiquette of these superior societies, and I didn't have been praised by these noblewomen. They said that this wealth is good, how to think long-term, how to think about it, how to think about sending their daughters into the harem to compete for favor. said a lot, my in-laws thought that the four princes were about to succeed, and when the time came, he would be able to become the crown prince, and even sit on the world, at that time, the tide was rising, and the women in his house could also enter the palace as concubines and concubines. Besides, my sister-in-law is indeed gentle and beautiful, and they are even more certain, as long as their daughter enters the palace, she will definitely be favored by virtue of her beauty, and she will definitely be able to pet the harem, and our family will also become a high-ranking family at that time. ”

Wen Hui sneered and said: "Let's not talk about it, now the four princes themselves are not sure of the things, where did they get the confidence to be so sure, even if the four princes really become powerful, then your sister-in-law entered the palace and became a concubine, the struggle in this palace has always been cruel, your sister-in-law who is not familiar with the world, can spoil the harem just by virtue of her beauty?" Also, we have known the Four Princes for so long, do you think the Four Princes are a person who is obsessed with women? ”

Mingzhu said: "Yes, Jingyuan said the same thing. Not to mention anything else, we know the women in the palace of the four princes now, including our friends, the main room is your lobby sister, no matter what the appearance, family background, and talent of those women, which one is not the master of the crowd, is it my sister-in-law who can compare? Also, these four princes are just a prince, there are just a few women in the house, there are many things going on all the time, and there are many struggles, if it really happens in the future, then so many women in the harem, the beauties of the world are gathered there, what is the beauty of my sister-in-law? ”

Chen Wenhui nodded. Mingzhu said: "Moreover, Jingyuan also said that if my sister-in-law is tenacious, assertive, and open-minded, it is better, but she is a gentle little woman, then how can she survive in a harem full of jackals, tigers and leopards?" I'm afraid I don't know how I died. Jingyuan is such a sister, how can he bear to let his sister go to that fire pit? ”

Wen Hui remembered that she had watched a Korean drama in her previous life, which said that an ancient minister was very popular with the king, and was indeed very talented because of the king's henchman, who could have helped the king realize his ambitions and become a generation of famous ministers, but because he dedicated his sister to the palace, his sister was stupid, and failed to compete for favor in the palace, and was finally condemned by the queen.

At this time, I can't help but shudder when I think about it. said to Mingzhu: "If it's just your sister-in-law who is stupid, it is still a trivial matter to be killed by the people in the harem and lose her life." Have you ever thought about it, Brother Liu only has such a sister, and he is the confidant of the four princes, so he can naturally influence the harem and the hearts of the four princes. When the time comes, he will definitely not be willing to let his sister be bullied and fall out of favor, in order to help his sister, it is possible to help his sister make suggestions, in this way, it is very likely to be involved in the palace struggle, that one mistake is a catastrophe, not only can not protect his sister, but also can't protect himself, and even can't keep his wife and children, parents and relatives. Throughout the ages, have there been few people who have been killed by the nine clans because of palace struggles? ”

Mingzhu also shuddered when he said this, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that what Wen Hui said was very reasonable, and said: "Hui'er, what you said is very reasonable, I will go back and tell Jingyuan, this matter must not be neglected, and the whole family will be affected at that time, what should I do?" ”

Wen Hui nodded and said, "You and him carefully consider this, and they can naturally be solved." In fact, your sister-in-law is like your mother-in-law, beautiful and gentle, and she must be competent as an ordinary wife, but she can't enter the palace. Not to mention entering the palace, you can't even be the wife of an ordinary noble family, haven't you looked at my mother? Eighteen kinds of martial arts are complete, so as to deal with the cow gods, ghosts and snakes in a house. ”

Mingzhu nodded and said, "This is true, I will definitely talk to Jingyuan carefully when I go back." It's best to pick a gentle, simple, big deal we take care of a little more, give more money, Hengzhi our family is not short of these money now. There's only one girl. ”

Wen Hui pursed her lips and smiled and said, "It seems that you are very good at controlling your family, and this tone is like a rich man." ”

Mingzhu laughed: "Compared to silver, who can compare to you, others don't know, can I not know?" However, my family is really not short of money now. I still hide my modesty from others, but I don't have to do it with you. You introduced me to sell our family's tea overseas, and in the past few years, I have not only turned those tea farms into profits, but also earned a lot of silver. I took advantage of the victory and acquired many tea farms in Jiangnan to expand the scale, and now we are a major exporter of tea. Naturally, there is no shortage of this silver. In addition to this, the pharmaceutical business we have partnered with is getting better and better, in fact, this one is more profitable. Especially now that we are using the power of the four princes to sell the pills to the army, we are making a lot of money. ”