Looking at Wu Ziyu who was in tears, Huang Qiong sat on the edge of the bed distressedly, hugged her into her arms, and kissed her a little bit to dry the tears on her face: "Sister Yu, don't worry, I will never treat him badly." I'm sorry for him in this matter, you are innocent. Don't worry, I will definitely compensate Brother Liu well. There are still a few children, I will let Liu Jiaguang glorify his ancestors. ”

Hearing Huang Qiong's assurance, Wu Ziyu, who knew that he had misunderstood what he meant, sighed and said, "I'm not asking you to make an official for him, he is not that material at all." He is unwilling to be motivated, let alone like to read, and he can't read a lot of words. It is his name, which he knows when they are put together, and he does not know him when they are separated. The little ability on his body is barely enough to fight and kill. ”

"Not to mention being a civil official with a full stomach full of flowers, even being a military attache is not qualified. If you let him be an official, you are harming him. For the rest of his life, at most, he will be a guard for you. I only beg you, don't let him die, at least leave him a life. There are some things I know, if you want to do something, he is not your opponent in a hundred. ”

After Wu Ziyu said this, she immediately understood that this woman was worried about something Huang Qiong, and gently hugged her and said, "Sister Yu, you put your heart in your stomach." I would never have been able to do such a dirty thing as killing someone and taking my wife. As long as I am there for one day, I will guarantee that Brother Liu and the Liu family will be full of people, and their lives will be safe, prosperous and rich. If you can't do it, you will be thundered by the sky. ”

Regarding Huang Qiong's oath, Wu Ziyu shook her head, sighed slightly, and said: "I hope you can do what you say, don't do that kind of irreparable thing because of me." I don't need you to be worthy of me, I just want you to be worthy of him. Hurry up, you'll be seen later. ”

The worry in Wu Ziyu's words, but Huang Qiong didn't explain anything. Some things are more convincing than said a thousand times and done once. Holding Wu Ziyu, who was not yet dressed, and after a long period of warmth, Huang Qiong left quietly. And behind him, Wu Ziyu looked at his departing back, and then looked at his kiss marks, and couldn't help covering his face and crying bitterly.

After leaving Wu Ziyu's small courtyard, Huang Qiong didn't dare to stay longer, taking advantage of the fact that there were not many servants in the courtyard to get up, and cautiously slipped back to his study. Huang Qiong, who just picked up the book and wanted to put on makeup, found that he couldn't read a single star. Situ Zhaoshuang and Wu Ziyu's two pairs of complaining eyes were always dangling in front of him.

It wasn't until He Yao invited him to worship the god of the stove that he reacted from his cranky thoughts. rushed to the front hall, looking at Wu Ziyu, who was commanding a few servants and was busy arranging sacrifices, but his eyes were a little red, and he had obviously cried after he left, Huang Qiong sighed softly. Just looking at He Yao, Duan Jin and the girls beside him, he could only barely suppress the thoughts of comfort in the past.

After the New Year, it means that the Spring Festival is coming. In the days of the previous year, compared with the lively scene of the busy New Year, Huang Qiong, the master, seemed a little listless, and he was lazy in everything. Every day, he either hides in the boudoir and does some boudoir secret scenes with the girls, or goes to Lin Hanyan or Wu Ziyu to steal incense.

Or take out more time to accompany He Yao, who is pregnant. However, considering that the upcoming Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival after she left the palace and went to the palace, and it is the first year that the girls spend with herself, Huang Qiong still attaches great importance to it. Special arrangements for people to purchase as many New Year's goods as possible. also gave a special explanation to He Yao and made a lot of new clothes for all the girls.

And on the twenty-seventh day of the lunar month, the emperor's reward was also rewarded in large quantities from the palace. This time, the emperor was very generous, in addition to giving each of the daughters ten ingots of gold, twenty ingots of silver, one thousand pieces of money, one hundred pieces of Dongzhu and one hundred silk and satin, and He Yao, who was pregnant, doubled the reward. He also gave an additional reward for the flowers according to the regulations of the county lord, and a gift for halving the age of the daughters.

As for the mother, although there is no additional reward for the daughters, except for a set of heads and faces for each person, they can be more generous with the flowers. Directly sent someone to send 10,000 silver tickets, or named the flowers. Although she knew that her mother was not short of money, after receiving the pile of large-denomination silver tickets, Huang Qiong couldn't help but smack her tongue a little for her mother's generosity.

Of course, none of these rewards were the Persian dancers. Don't say that the emperor doesn't know, Huang Qiong has added those Persian dancing girls to his side. Even if you know, I'm afraid that the emperor who only treats those Persian dancing girls as prostitutes in the British palace will not give rewards. He Yao, who is still careful, prepared a reward of 500 per person for each of those Persian dancers from the palace and the emperor's reward for himself.

Although this year has not passed, this money is like flowing water, which also makes He Yao, who has always been careful, a little distressed. At present, except for the Zhuangzi sent by King Yong, who has almost no output, all the inputs in the British Mansion rely on Huang Qiong's income. And when Huang Qiong left the palace and went to the palace, the money given by the emperor was easy to move.

According to the custom, in previous years, the emperor had to give his son during the Chinese New Year, and he generally gave an extra half a year of Yulu as a reward. But when he came to Huang Qiong this year, the emperor didn't know what he was thinking. Every concubine around Huang Qiong gave a lot of rewards, but the extra half a year of the Ying Wangfu was gone.

Huang Qiong has always been generous in this regard, and the emperor's reward to the daughters was let them keep it for their own private money with a wave of his hand. All the girls suddenly became little rich women, but there was no increase in the income of the house. Now there is such a big family in Fuzhong, and it costs monthly money for food and clothing in the coming year, as well as charcoal burning money in winter, and other miscellaneous money, all of which cost money

In addition to the New Year's goods to be prepared and the people in the house to buy clothes, the maids, mothers-in-law, and servants in the house also have to be issued an additional month as a reward. There are some relationships, and the ones that should be made up at the end of the year should also be made up. Not to mention anything else, on the twenty-fifth day of the lunar month, King Yong sent a large amount of New Year's goods, so he had to think of a gift in return.

I don't know what King Yong thinks, the New Year's goods sent on the 25th day can be described as not an ordinary big deal. When He Yao received the one that said there were twenty big deer, fifty roe deer and roe deer, twenty wild boars, and one hundred pairs of pheasants and hares. 100 pigs and sheep, 300 chickens, ducks and geese. There are 50 carp in the Yellow River and 50 bream in the Yihe River, and 200 catties of various fish.

The high-grade Jiangnan rice and the white flour of Shandong Road are each 200 stones, and the total amount of various grains is 200 stones. One hundred jars of liquor in Shuzhong, ten baskets of jujubes, pears, tangerines and other fruits of various colors. 2,000 catties of Chinese cabbage, 1,000 catties of other vegetables and dried vegetables. In addition, a large number of Duanyan from Jiangnan West Road, pen and ink propaganda from Huzhou, high-quality paper from Xuancheng, and high-quality rouge gouache from Jiangnan.

And now in the capital, it can be described as a frozen seafood worth a thousand gold. What dried sea cucumbers, frozen sea crabs, sea fish, and palm-sized prawns, miscellaneous are more than 1,000 catties. In addition, there are also Yue kiln porcelain from the south of the Yangtze River, and when there are 1,000 sets of gift lists for cups, bowls, plates, and cups, I was a little surprised.

With these New Year's gifts, the British Royal Mansion does not say anything else, including the rewards to the subordinates, and basically there is no need to prepare any meat and vegetables. Moreover, King Yong was very thoughtful, and the game was all killed and frozen. Pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese, half of them are freshly killed, and half are made into bacon and air-dried.

Those Yellow River carp and Yihe bream were all alive when they arrived, and they were kept alive in buckets. Except for seafood, most of the fish are alive. Such a large amount of New Year's goods, there is no one who can't get down. Many of these things, such as those seafoods, are difficult to buy even in the capital if there is no Zhuangzi or Guanzi on Shandong Road.

Not to mention that on this gift list, there are 30 sticks of 20-year-old ginseng for pregnant He Yao, 20 pieces of deer first antler, 30 catties of dried sea cucumbers, 20 catties of bird's nest, and 5 pairs of bear's paws. One tiger skin mattress, three bear skin mattresses, and a set of black fox fur mattresses have been made. Give each of the rest of the women a large piece of fox skin, twenty sables, twenty sables, and lynx skins, and one bear skin mattress.

It's just a gift from King Yong to the daughters, although it can be regarded as very attentive, but he obviously doesn't have a long heart. Although the supplements he sent to He Yao were the best. But when Dr. Li saw these supplements, he directly told He Yao that except for the sea ginseng bird's nest, the rest of the supplements, especially ginseng, were not for pregnant women. It is a sea cucumber, and it can only be eaten after three months.

The New Year's goods sent over by Yongwangfu made He Yao have a headache how to return the gift. What's more, there is also Shen Wangfu, although the New Year's gifts sent over are not as many as Yongwangfu. There can be 50 live pigs and sheep, 100 chickens, ducks and geese. 300 catties of river fish of various colors, 500 catties of bacon, 500 dried chickens, ducks and geese, 200 baskets of dried fruits and candied fruits.

In addition, there are 500 stones of japonica rice and 100 stones of glutinous rice. All kinds are customized at a glance, Ru kiln celadon bowls, plates, and bowls are 1,000 sets each, and Jingdezhen kiln red treasure glazed porcelain is 500 sets each. also gave Huang Qiong's women an extra gift, 50 pieces of Shu brocade and silk each, and 20 horses of yarn per person, which is also a lot, at least worth about 3,000 yuan.

Especially those Jing porcelain red treasure glazed porcelain, especially He Yao and Duan Jin like it. Although King Yong did not give He Yao any supplements alone, he could use pure gold and Hetian jade in advance to make a long-life lock with gold and jade, and send them together. As for this long-life lock, which is full of twenty taels, whether the unborn baby in He Yao's belly can be brought after birth, King Shen didn't think about it.

Although whether it is King Yong or King Shen, the people sent to give gifts have repeatedly said that the master confesses, and these gifts are their masters, congratulations to King Ying for his first year out of the palace. In addition to the game, King Yong went to the suburbs to shoot and hunt these days. The rest of the pigs, sheep, fish, chickens, ducks and geese are all from the two kings' own Zhuangzi, so there is no need to return the gift from the British Palace.

But people say it, but the British Royal Mansion can't really not return a single courtesy. Moreover, the Huzhou pen and ink, Duan inkstone, rice paper, tangerines and Jiangnan rice, all kinds of supplements, as well as the porcelain and Shu brocade sent by King Shen, were purchased at first glance. Not to mention the newborn baby, even if it is an adult with a very heavy long-life lock, it is also written by a famous artist.

What's more, not to mention King Yong and King Shen, the rest of the kings in the capital at the moment, except for King Song and King Teng, who had just returned to Beijing, also sent people to send gifts. Although there are not as many as King Yong and King Song, especially some younger brothers, the gifts given are only symbolic, but these gifts are all to be returned. As soon as He Yao and Wu Ziyu's abacus beads for a few days came down, they always felt that the money was not enough to spend.

Compared with He Yao, the housekeeper, Huang Qiong is not as troubled as her. bluntly told He Yao that the return gift to King Yong and King Shen was very simple, let people prepare 1,000 catties of noodles, 1,000 catties of eggs, and 1,000 catties of walnuts, plus write two words for him and send them back. As for the return gifts of the rest of the kings, each person will be given a set of celadon tea sets, and it will be enough to write two couplets for them in his own handwriting.