After talking for a while, Ling Ruo asked about Yinzhen's situation in Jiangxi, she hadn't seen Yinzhen's news in the newspaper for a long time, she was inevitably a little worried, and now she had this opportunity to get accurate news from Kangxi's mouth.

"Don't worry, they are very good, and they have raised more than two million taels of silver in Jiangxi, which is enough for disaster relief. I will be able to return to Beijing within a few days. Speaking of this, Kangxi had a little comfort on his face, the treasury was empty and there was no silver for disaster relief, and it was not until Yinzhen quickly sent someone back to report that he had raised two pieces of silver and sent it to Henan for disaster relief immediately, his heart was relieved. This time, Yinzhen and Yinxiang came back to remember the first credit.

"That's fine." Ling Ruo let out a long breath, it will not be easy to raise money this time, two million taels, even if the super-rich businessman Jia wants to take out these tens of millions of taels of silver, it will hurt his muscles and bones, I don't know what means Yinzhen used to make those salt merchants who regard money as their life out of their pockets.

Ling Ruo has been accompanying Kangxi to finish lunch before coming out of the south study, at this time it was past noon, the snow that had just stopped for half a day began to fall one after another, covering the red wall and yellow tile of the Forbidden City in a piece of silver, Ling Ruo walked slowly out of the palace with an umbrella, and occasionally saw a small snowman piled up on the side of the road, thinking that it was piled up by those palace maids and eunuchs when they were bored with snow sweeping, the deep palace was lonely, and it was even more lonely for the minions at the bottom, and building snowmen became their only pastime when it was cold and frozen.

When passing by a merlin, Ling Ruo unconsciously stopped, was this the place where she had met Yinzhen last time? Linyuan envy fish, it is better to retreat and close the net; It's easier said than done, but it's too difficult and too difficult, such as Yinzhen, he can't let go of Mei'er......

"Does Fu Jin like this piece of Merlin too? The slave heard from the master that the emperor likes it very much, and he will come here every once in a while, and Nalan Gege, who used to live in the palace of Concubine De, often pulls the fourth elder brother to run here in winter. Sixi, the little eunuch who followed Ling Ruo, said that he was Li Dequan's apprentice and was very clever.

"Narangege?" This name Ling Ruo was very unfamiliar and had never heard of it.

Sixi explained: "It is the daughter of General Mo Baren, after the death of the general and his wife, the emperor took pity on him and had no one to take care of him, so he took him to the palace and handed it over to Concubine De to raise, and Kangxi married the eighth elder brother as a concubine in the forty-third year of Kangxi. ”

It turned out that her surname was Nalan - Nalan Meier......

It's a nice name. Although she has been unhappy since childhood, it is fair for her to be treated by two equally wonderful men, and what she takes will be compensated with something else.

Ling Ruo smiled, withdrew his hand that was caressing the rough branches of the plum tree and turned to leave, but he unexpectedly saw a person who had just mentioned.

Nalan Meier! Although he had only seen him from afar, Ling Ruo would never admit his mistake, the delicate and agile woman in crimson clothes not far away was the Nalan Mei'er that Yin Zhen had never forgotten, that is, the current Bafujin, I heard that the eighth elder brother treated him very well and regarded him as a treasure, although there were other wives and concubines in the mansion, but they were like decorations, and they could not pose any threat to her at all.

"The slave asks for peace to the Eight Blessings, and the Eight Blessings are auspicious." Sixi also saw Nalan Mei'er, and hurriedly stepped forward to say goodbye, the eighth elder brother is now a hot figure in the court, how dare he slack off.

"Father-in-law, please get up." Nalan Mei'er's voice was very good, tactful as a hundred spirits, her eyes fell on Ling Ruo's side, surprised by her excellent appearance, and at the same time wondered how she had never seen it, she frowned lightly and said, "This is ......"

Sixi hurriedly said: "Qi Qi Eight Blessing Jin, this is Shu Fu Jin in the Fourth Elder Brother's Mansion." With his words, Ling Ruoyao bowed and said, "The Niu Hulu clan has seen the Eight Blessings. ”

"It turned out to be the fourth brother's Fujin, please get up." Nalan Mei'er suddenly realized, helped Ling Ruohou and said: "I haven't seen the fourth brother for a long time, I heard that he went to Jiangxi to raise money, I don't know if he will come back or not?" ”

Ling Ruo smiled faintly and said: "With Lao Bafujin worried, everything is going well, two million taels of silver have been sent to the eighth elder brother and the ninth elder brother who are responsible for disaster relief, listen to what the emperor said, you can return to Beijing in a few days." For her, Ling Ruo didn't hate but never had a good feeling, if it weren't for her, Yinzhen wouldn't be so painful, she wouldn't forget the day of the eighth elder brother's wedding, Yinzhen borrowed wine to kill her sorrows, and fell drunk by the Pujia pool.

"Two million taels, the fourth brother is really a good skill." Nalan Mei'er lowered her head and sighed softly: "It's just that the fourth brother is a little unscrupulous in order to do this errand well. ”

Ling Ruo, who was already about to leave, was stunned when he heard this, and subconsciously asked, "How can Bafujin say this?" ”

"I heard that in order to force those salt officials and salt merchants to donate money and incite others to make trouble in Jiangxi, the fourth brother held a banquet in front of the ghosts and gods of the City God Temple, and together with the thirteenth elder brother, he took off the official uniform and official hat and pushed it in front of the City God Temple, and beat him up without asking the reason, which made him complain." Nalan Mei'er said it eloquently, revealing a little unbearable.

"Then according to the meaning of the Eight Blessings, what should Lord Belle do?" Ling Ruo asked, a subtle sneer between his words. When her parents died, Nalan Meier did not know about the world, and then she was raised in the palace, and then married Yinxi, who was loved by thousands of people, so she had never suffered at all, and she had never experienced the difficulties of the world, and she could only talk on paper.

"When you know it, you can use emotion, and you should move it with reason." As soon as her words fell, Ling Ruo had already followed up and said, "Bafujin has heard a sentence: the same rice raises a hundred kinds of people. There are those who care about their family and country and are selfless, and there are those who only care about their own interests and regard the lives of others as nothing, how do you know that those people will be moved by reason? If they refuse, will it take them a year or two? ”

Nalan Mei'er had thought so far-reachingly, and was suddenly speechless by her question, and it took a long time to hold back a sentence, "This is just your guess, human nature is good, how can it be as you say, don't spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain." ”

"It's good for concubines to be villains, but how can they be gentlemen, if there is no Baylor and the Thirteenth Master in Jiangxi to raise money by unscrupulous means this time, where will the Eighth Master and the Ninth Master have the money to open a warehouse in Henan to provide grain relief to the victims?" The flowerpot bottom shoes stepped on the deep shoe prints on the snow that had accumulated a few feet thick, and the snow fell silently, and this long plum forest only heard Ling Ruo's sharp words as sharp as a knife and scraped Nalan Mei'er's flushed cheeks, "The Blessed Jin Jin's clothes and jade food are fine, but what about those refugees?" They can't eat their stomachs, they don't have clothes to cover their bodies, they may die at any time in this winter, the fourth master does this just to let them have enough to eat as soon as possible, is this also wrong? The fourth master and the thirteenth master tried their best to raise money, but in the end, they got the words 'unscrupulous', doesn't Bafujin think that this is unfair to the fourth master and the thirteenth master? Besides, the money in the hands of those salt officials and salt merchants is all scraped from the people's fat and people's ointment, and now what's wrong with the people, the so-called complaints are just those salt merchants, have the people ever resented and hated? I heard that Ba Fu Jin and the fourth elder brother grew up together and have known each other for more than ten years, I thought that Ba Fu Jin should know the fourth master very well, but now it seems that this is not the case. ”

Ling Ruo shouldn't have said these words, but she was really angry that Nalan Mei'er looked at Yinzhen like this, and it was really in vain for Yinzhen to treat her sincerely.

Nalan Mei'er has been accused like this since she was a child, she was so angry that she couldn't speak, and pointed at Ling Ruo for a long time before sneering: "You don't have to say that the fourth brother is so great, I have known him for more than ten years, I know him better than you, the fourth brother is cold and mean, except that the people around him never care about the life and death of others, and he doesn't care about the people's suffering at all as you say, he does so much is nothing more than caring about the errand given to him by Huang Amma, and he wants to please Huang Amma." Speaking of the latter, she was also a little unscrupulous, and she only wanted to prove that she was not wrong, and she didn't think about whether it was appropriate to say so.

Ling Ruo's beautiful and flawless face was covered with a thin layer of cold, like winter snow flying outside the edge of the umbrella, she finally understood why Nalan Mei'er chose Eighth Elder Brother as her husband in the first place, Yinzhen, who had scolded her since she was a child, only got the four words "mean and indifferent" in her heart, how could she be famous and praised by hundreds of officials.

"Bafujin can't think like this, and the concubine body still has to retire in advance." Don't speculate for more than half a sentence, Nalan Mei'er is just a small flower growing in a greenhouse, she doesn't know the suffering of the world, she is innocent to say it well, and ignorant to say it badly. Such a woman, no matter how much she told her, she would not understand Yinzhen's painstaking efforts to force the salt merchants to donate silver rather than offend the powerful.

Yinzhen's hard work, it is enough for her, the emperor, and the people of the world to understand......

Nalan Mei'er is kind and stupid!