In the whole matter, although Shen Mi had never said anything cruel to Shen Simin, the first sentence that came out of his mouth seemed to have been well thought out, and Shen Yan couldn't see what kind of impact this matter had on him, but he just felt that he didn't pay much attention to the affairs of the house, and when Hua asked him about many things, he was also lazy and didn't be interested in mentioning it.

On the contrary, he began to ask more about the affairs of their second room, becoming more and more gentle to Hua's, and answering questions to Shen Yan, of course, in addition to confidential business, which made Shen Yan begin to have a feeling that they were gradually becoming independent, in fact, looking back, if the second room can really go out independently, it is not a bad thing, right?

The second room will not be mentioned for the time being, because the court of the sixth day of the first month will restore the early dynasty, and Hua Shi will also start to send New Year's gifts to various mansions on behalf of the Shen Mansion.

Two days later, Shen Ying was also transferred to Zhuangzi, Shen Guanyu was resolute in his intention to treat her, and he would not spare her lightly because she was engaged to the Du family. Qiqiao was also kicked out of the house, and there were many people who accompanied Shen Ying out of the house, in addition to the subordinates of the entire Pillow Fragrance Pavilion, the Chen family also assigned a few clever maids, and she was also very happy to come and go to this scourge spirit.

Although she was punished out of the house, Shen Ying is still the young lady of the Shen family, and she is the young grandmother of the Du family, so she has no worries about food and clothing, but if there is no banquet in the house, and the birthdays of the elders, she will not be able to go back to the house, and she will not return to the house until she is married.

How to torture her to death is not Shen Yan's purpose, as long as she can't do anything bad for her anymore, it's enough.

Take 10,000 steps back and say, she is now destined to be Du Jun's wife, even if Shen Guanyu does not punish her to go to Zhuangzi, what else does she have to fight for in this mansion? Du Shen has the most important reputation of the two families, and such a thing as retiring from relatives is absolutely impossible, even if Du Jun is dead, Shen Ying also has to stay a widow for the rest of her life, the more ugly she is, the more bumpy her future will be.

The turmoil in the inner house is settled, and Shen Yan's days are beginning to be free again.

In addition to being angry and teasing Lu Silan, Shen Yan occasionally needs to go out with Hua to socialize, and it is not necessary to expect her to show her style, these have their own Shen Yi to do it for them - Hua Yi likes Shen Yi's gentleness and solemnity, she has reached the age where she can say that she is close, Ji can't go out, and when she meets a decent person, he often takes her out to meet guests.

Taking Shen Yan out is just for her to make a few handkerchiefs in the official circle, and in the future, these intricate relationships can not only become each other's sources, but also help the men in the court if they develop well.

But most of the time she stayed in the mansion, and she began to need to sort out her thoughts and prepare how to start rescuing the Hua family.

Hua Juncheng sent a letter that it has been confirmed that he will move to Beijing before the Dragon Boat Festival. And the first group of servants will go to Jingda to stand and clean up the mansion around the Lantern Festival, and Hua has become the temporary owner of Zishu Hutong, so he has to go to see it from time to time when he has time these days.

Shen Yan was still trying to figure out the current situation and the steps she should take.

Although the queen did not directly lead to Fahrenheit's death, she was the trigger, and she had to bear part of the responsibility anyway.

If King Zheng becomes the crown prince, she will be the queen mother in the future, first of all, this must not be allowed by her. How could she let an enemy live so happily? And judging from the situation of the meeting that day, she may still have the intention of wooing Shen Mi, since she wants to do this, will there be any conspiracy against Huaheit?

Even if Shen Guanyu has the same mind as Mrs. Shen, it is impossible to do anything to Hua Shi now, but if the queen wants to make the Shen family's father and son use for her, she must ensure that they are not implicated in the Hua family's affairs. So in this case, whether she will directly attack Shen Mi or Fahrenheit has to be guarded.

But no matter how much you prevent it, it's better to strike first, if you can find a way to mess up her position first, so that she has no time to distract from other things, this is the best way to prevent it.

Judging from the information obtained so far, King Zheng should be a little younger than King Chu, from the previous life when he danced a sword in front of the emperor and was given the title of King of Qin, Shen Yan was fifteen years old that year, King Zheng was eighteen years old, and this year should be thirteen years old. Since he was not given the title of King of Qin until he was eighteen years old, and then he was named the crown prince, it can be seen that the emperor should not have paid much attention to him in the previous years.

At present, she may need to find a breakthrough from King Zheng's struggle for the crown prince.

"It's strange, how could the Marquis of Anning's Mansion send someone to send a New Year's gift to the second room?"

On this day, he was lying on the Fahrenheit kang table meditating, and Fahrenheit suddenly walked in with a gift slip and muttered.

Shen Yan couldn't help but crawl over when he heard the words of An Ninghou's Mansion. At first glance, it was indeed a gift list from the Marquis of Anning's Mansion, and it was also indicated that it was given to Shen Mi, and there was another copy for Shen Guanyu. The gift list is marked with a pair of 500-year-old mountain ginseng, 24 official swallows, two sides of Duanzhou's top-grade Duan inkstone, plus eight colors of pastries and desserts.

The etiquette is not light, not to mention that An Ninghou has such a big face, Shen Mi really has a long face.

Of course, An Ninghou would not give Shen Mi such a big gift for no reason, could it be that it was from the queen's instructions?

Fahrenheit closed the gift list and said, "Our family has never had any contact with our relatives, so it's important to retreat." As he spoke, he was going to call Ge Xun.

The Shen family prides itself on being a celebrity, and they don't have these dealings with official eunuchs and relatives, but who made Shen Guanyu have a tacit understanding with the queen? An Ninghou is the queen's hand outside the palace, which is to grow the face of the Shen family for her, and it can also be regarded as showing goodwill to Shen Mi. He gave a gift to the Shen family, and Shen Guanyu really couldn't put on any face to An Ninghou.

But Shen Guanyu's collusion with the queen is still hidden from Shen Mi, and even though Shen Mi knows it, he can't stop it.

Shen Guanyu concealed it and said that he should be unwilling to pay Shen Mi and even the entire Shen family's name for the queen, so after King Zheng became the crown prince, or after Shen Guanyu said goodbye, the queen would no longer be able to get the unconditional support of the Shen family.

Thinking about it in this way, An Ninghou confuses people with money, if Shen Mi accepts it, how can he walk in the court in the name of nobility in the future? The so-called nobility is to disdain to cling to the powerful and make friends with relatives and eunuchs, could it be that Shen Mi wants to lose his reputation like Shen Guanyu for this little thing?

Fahrenheit was right, of course.

But Shen Yan thought about it, and suddenly stopped her again and said: "There are also skills for retreating, first bring the person who gave the gift in for questioning." ”

Hua is also afraid that something will go wrong in the middle, in the end, An Ninghou is the queen's younger brother, although he does not make friends, he can't be offended. So they invited someone in.

The one who came was a scribe in his forties, and his temperament and conversation were still passable, so he should be a steward. Shen Yan and Hua Shi sat in the bead curtain, looked at it first, Hua Shi asked Hou how the old lady was, and then listened to Shen Yan's whisper, and then asked: "The two mansions have never interacted, Hou Ye is such a big gift, we are flattered, I don't know what the name of this gift is?" ”

The visitor said modestly: "Master Hou admires Lord Shen's talent, so he has the intention of making friends, and I hope that grandma will not think things are thin." ”

Fahrenheit muttered, "If that's the name, then I don't dare to accept it." I also asked Mr. to take it back, and said that we received Master Hou's wishes, but there was no need to spend so much. ”

The person who came obviously didn't expect to hit a wall, and paused in the hall when he heard the words, and then said: "It's just a little bit of a small gift, and it doesn't mean to ignore the name of Second Master Shen, if grandma doesn't accept it, I'm afraid it's not easy for the little one to go back." ”

Fahrenheit smiled: "It's easy, I'm referring to someone here to accompany you back." Fuso! ”

The visitor was stunned, and saw that a shrewd and clever girl had come out under the curtain, so he had no choice but to hook his head and say yes, and retreated with Fusang.

On the side of the Marquis of Anning's mansion, Fusang quickly followed the steward into the main courtyard and met with Liu Yan, Marquis of Anning, and his wife Cai.

Liu Yan and Cai's heard that Shen Er's grandmother refused to accept this gift, and they couldn't help but look at each other at the moment.

"What our grandmother means is that the etiquette of Lord Hou and Mrs. is too heavy, and the Shen family is useless, and it is not good to accept the affection of Lord Hou and Mrs." Fusang explained to them with a smile, and said: "Our grandmother also ordered me to greet Mrs. on my behalf, and the old lady of the Hua family also had a friendship with the old marquis. ”

That's how it should be, but didn't Fahrenheit come? Hua Juncheng has long had a bad friendship with these nobles. Corporal An Ning Hou Lixian is certainly respectable, but if he puts his stature too low and goes too far, he will be suspected of disrespecting decency.

Fusang's words also heard the meaning of Cai's words, so he smiled and said: "It's hard to run for you, go down next door to eat a bowl of tea and rest, I think of a reply and then ask you to take it back." ”

After Fusang went down, Cai's frowned and said: "This Fahrenheit seems to be an ignorant person, let's give him face like this, he said that if he doesn't accept it, he won't accept it, so he will leave one or two things to make a meaning." ”

An Ninghou also had a solemn face, the short beard under his jaw was raised due to the tightness of his jaw, and he paced half a circle with his negative hand, he said: "It's not that Hua doesn't know how to lift, it's mainly Shen Mi." If Shen Mi refuses, this Fahrenheit will not be able to do this favor even if he wants to. ”

Cai Shi groaned: "I didn't expect this Shen Mi to be a hard bone. ”

"That's nature." An Ninghou said: "The queen has been on his side for more than half a year, and she has never leveraged half a point, how can we succeed in three or two strokes?" ”

Cai was a little discouraged and a little unimpressed. Their Anning Mansion is loud and powerful, except for those nobles who believe in their high merits have a cold attitude towards them, who dares to disobey them? Even those old men in the cabinet don't necessarily dare to wipe their faces like this, why does this Shen Mi hold his waist so straight?

She said: "Now that the Shen family is Shen Guanyu in charge, isn't it possible to have him?" Why bother working on this Shen Mi again? A mere junior outsider may not be of much use. ”R1152