Chapter 62: The Prince Is Short of Silver
Qiu Ling raised his head instantly, and when he saw the fierceness in Wei Qingqing's smiling eyes, he suddenly reacted, Fang Ye's plan was discovered by this young lady early in the morning.
No wonder no matter how she and Yu Xia seduced, it was useless.
After understanding, Qiu Ling of course knew even better, whether it should be with Fang Ye, or with the young lady in front of him who pretended to be a pig and ate a tiger!
"As long as the young lady is willing to give the slave a chance, although the slave is stupid, she will definitely do her best......"
"Okay, tonight, you will go to Fang Zijiao, and say that tomorrow Wei Huwu will take the first test, and I want the best stand." Wei Qingqing commanded.
Lan Sheng's eyebrows moved, the best stands, with Fang Zijiao's financial resources, it is not a problem to win. The only problem is that General Wei's Mansion is a frequent visitor to the stands of the annual martial arts competition, after all, General Wei himself is one of the examiners, and this year Wei Qiongwei is most likely unable to attend, Fang Zijiao dares to let this Wei family sit in the most conspicuous stands, that is, he can't get along with General Wei's Mansion.
Qiu Ling couldn't figure out the link, but she also knew that this was the only chance Wei Qingqing gave herself.
"Slave and maid, let's do it."
After speaking, Qiu Ling wiped her tears and ran out with her skirt.
Lan Zhi didn't believe Qiu Ling: "Miss, do you want the slave to keep an eye on it?" ”
"No, I don't. How is Wei Qiongwei now, why haven't you heard the news of him and Rong Jinning? Wei Qingqing asked, Wei Susu didn't take the initiative to come to her for trouble today, which made her a little suspicious.
"I heard that since Chen Sanniang said that Wei Qiongwei and Rong Jinning had a husband and wife in Lixiang Pavilion, Wei Qiongwei has been ordered not to go out, and the General's Mansion has quickly set a family affair for him, as for the Prime Minister's Mansion, it seems to be calm, but in fact, Mrs. Zhang and Rong Ruizhang are eager to marry Rong Jinning quickly. It's just that the General's Mansion has never let go. Lan Sheng said: "About tomorrow, Wei Qiongwei will not appear, and the people from the General's Mansion will still attend in order to pretend to be calm." ”
"Wei Qiongwei is not the kind of person who will give up easily."
Wei Qingqing knows his half-brother best, arrogant, and was belittled by Rong Jinning, who is almost ten years older than him and is also a second-married woman, he will endure this matter because he finds it difficult to speak, but now the down-and-out Chen Sanniang said this incident and ruined his opportunity to participate in the first test of martial arts, but he will never swallow his anger.
"Do you know where Chen Sanniang lives now?" Wei Qingqing asked. ’
"I heard that I live in a small courtyard allocated by the Chen family, with that poor Xiucai." Lan Sheng replied.
"Tonight, you take a few people to guard outside the courtyard, if Wei Qiongwei appears, you just have to break his legs. If he dares to sneak out tonight, he won't have many people with him. Although Wei Qingqing's words were vague, she knew that with Wei Qiongwei's character, she would inevitably go to trouble Chen Sanniang.
Night.
In the general's mansion, a black shadow really climbed over the courtyard wall and ran out quickly along the root of the wall.
And this compartment. The Wei family didn't find out, but chose to turn a blind eye, the only thing that was not at ease was Wei Susu, she looked at the mighty and serious father sitting in the hall, and said: "The second brother is impulsive, although the old lady of the Chen family has already died old, but there is still a mother in the palace in the Chen family, if the second brother does something and is discovered, will the Wei family have to go against the Chen family?" ”
"It's just a Chen family."
Wei Yan didn't care, but Wei Susu's cautiousness was not pleasing in his eyes.
Wei Susu sensed his thoughts, thought about it, swallowed the words in his mouth, and stood obediently to the side, only then did he hear Wei Yan ask with a little displeasure: "I heard that you were kicked out of the Guogong Mansion today?" ”
Wei Susu was shocked, but her face was not obvious, she only knelt down to Wei Yan with tears in her eyes: "My daughter doesn't know who said such things in front of her father, but her daughter came out because she was unwell today." However, because her daughter was uncomfortable at that time, she asked Bi Xue to find a doctor, Bi Xue took the wrong path because she was not familiar with the Guogong Mansion, and offended the Wei family lady in Yuqian Lane. ”
At the mention of the Wei family in Yuqian Lane, Wei snorted disdainfully.
Wei Susu's biological mother on the side, and now the housewife of General Wei's mansion, opened her mouth: "General, Su Su is our daughter, you still don't know what her personality is?" is the most timid and cautious, how can he make the Duchess unhappy? ”
"But Miss Wei from Yuqian Lane made a plan?" A trace of coolness flashed through Wei Rant's old spicy eyes: "Dare to calculate my general's mansion, and don't look at how many catties and taels she has." ”
"But Su Su heard that this Miss Wei has a second brother, and Ming'er is also going to participate in the first test of martial arts, his master, but Ge Lao." Wei Susu said with a little grievance.
Although Wei Yi was not very satisfied with this timid daughter, but in the end, he was born to his wife, and he was usually quite well-behaved, so he said: "Don't worry, Ge Lao is blind at his age and can't look down on Qiong Wei, if it weren't for Ming'er Qiongwei's inconvenience, he would have asked Ge Lao to see clearly what kind of waste his apprentice was." But even if Qiong Weiming'er didn't attend, then Wei Hu didn't want to stand and go on! ”
When Wei Susu heard this, he glanced at his mother on one side, revealing a clear smile between mother and daughter. No matter which Wei Qingqing dares to go against her, there will only be one dead word in the end, and after tasting the pain of losing everything, she will be slowly tortured to death!
Wei Susu came back from Wei Ryan and was about to rest, when he saw Bi Xue coming in from outside quickly and handed her a letter: "Third Miss, this is sent by Prime Minister Fang Cai, saying that you can only watch it alone, and you will burn it immediately after reading it." ”
"Him?"
Wei Susu thought of the matter of the Guogong Mansion today, this Rong Ruizhang was ruthless, but it seemed that after the death of Sister A. His behavior has become more and more incomprehensible, especially recently, as if he has lost his mind, and today he is even more stupid to the point of contempt for the county lord of Chi Yang in public.
"Let it go."
Wei Susu looked at herself in the bronze mirror, she was a lot haggard, and when the Duchess of Guo 'invited' her to go back to the house today, her anger never stopped.
In the past, she thought that the Duchess would be a good mother-in-law in the future, but now it seems that only when she dies will she be the best mother-in-law!
Thinking about it, Wei Susu forgot about Rong Ruizhang and went to bathe.
And in the Prime Minister's Mansion, Rong Ruizhang's face can no longer be described as smelly.
"How much is missing?"
Rong Ruizhang looked at the glass that was facing the dowry list and counting the big boxes in the yard, his brows furrowed, and seeing that there was no news from Wei Susu for a long time, his mood became more and more irritable, did Wei Susu not believe that Wei Qingqing was a soul possession at all?
Liuli clicked it again, embarrassed him: "At least a third is missing, but now these are about the same as barely being seventy or eighty thousand taels of silver." ”
"It's only a third, and it's less than 100,000? Didn't you say before that all of them should be 150,000 taels, isn't it a problem? Rong Ruizhang stared at Liuli fiercely.
Liuli only looked at him as if he was going to eat himself, and his palms trembled, but when he thought of Miss, he calmed down and replied: "The poor ones are the most precious." The rest of these are valuable, but they are nowhere near as good as those. ”
Rong Ruizhang's face darkened, he promised the four princes 100,000 taels has been delayed for several days, the goatee has come to ask him for it a few times, if he can't take it out tomorrow, it will inevitably make the four princes think that he is stingy and reluctant, so how can he do it in the future?
"Where is the rest, go and get it."
"Most of them are at the old lady and the eldest lady, and there are still some ...... at Aunt Wen's" Liuli's voice was very small, as if she was afraid of offending these people.
Rong Ruizhang glanced at her shrinking dissatisfied, and instructed Gong Chang: "You take someone to get it immediately." If you refuse to take it out, you will say what the prime minister said, and you will move out of the prime minister's mansion tomorrow to live in the village village! ”
"Yes."
"Also, Xiangye." Liuli saw that he was so resolute, and said: "Now that the expenses of the house are used, after you become a dowry this time, you have to keep tens of thousands of taels." ”
"Tens of thousands of taels?" Rong Ruizhang knew that the monthly expenses of the government were large, but he didn't expect to spend so much silver.
"In the past few months, the old lady and the eldest lady, plus the blood bird's nest that Aunt Wen eats every month, is four or five thousand taels, the old lady and the eldest lady have four sets of Linglong Fang's brocade clothes a month, plus two sets of jewelry, not less than a thousand taels, Aunt Wen wants to do flowers, just to buy flowers will cost four or five thousand taels, as well as Aunt Wen's four treasures of the study, plus Aunt Wen bought a lot of jewelry a while ago and became a shop......"
"That's it!"
Rong Ruizhang interrupted Liuli's words with a headache. He really didn't want to touch these gold and silver, let alone worry about it, but now Liuli is timid and can't support it, and Aunt Wen doesn't touch gold and silver vulgar things, so he has to do it himself.
"Starting tomorrow, the amount in the old lady's courtyard will be changed to two hundred taels, fifty taels in the eldest lady's courtyard, fifty taels in Aunt Wen, and five taels of silver a month for other aunts." Rong Ruizhang waved his hand and directly set a fixed expenditure.
The old lady on the side and the subordinates sent by Rong Jinning to inquire listened to it, their mouths opened wide, and thousands of them became these hundreds and dozens of taels? Other aunts are five taels a month? That's not as good as the housekeeper in the house.
Rong Ruizhang didn't care about so much, all he was thinking about now was silver.
After dealing with the 100,000 silver, he must take back all the shops in his hands as soon as possible and hand them over to someone he trusts to take care of! When he becomes a close minister of the Son of Heaven, he still has to worry about these tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of silver?
It didn't take long for Rong Jinning to run over and cry. Aunt Wen also held the sick child, and followed with a pale face, and Gong Chang, who came back, was even more nervous: "Master, the old lady said that all the people in her courtyard are her companions, and the slaves are not allowed to move." ”
"Second brother, the one in my courtyard is also my dowry, how can you bear to treat your own sister like this, you are so short of money? Ouch, my life is so miserable, how can I have such a second brother......" Rong Jinning rolled around.
Aunt Wen also had a white face and wanted to move forward: "Xiangye, these things are all left by the concubine for her daughter......"
Before Aunt Wen finished speaking, she was glared back by Rong Ruizhang.
Aunt Wen was very afraid of Rong Ruizhang recently, and when she was glared at by him, the whole person shrank back, and stood on the side with the child in her arms, not at all elegant as before.
Seeing her like this, Rong Ruizhang took a deep breath, so he didn't let himself lose his temper, and only stared at Rong Jinning deeply: "If you dare to make trouble again, I will marry you a hundred miles away tomorrow!" ”
Rong Jinning was really frightened, she didn't want to live like before.
Liuli went to order something and replied to Rong Ruizhang: "It should be enough for 100,000." ”
"Gong Chang, you personally escort it to Yinbaozhuang." Rong Ruizhang has already carefully inspected this Rong Ruizhang, and it is really a very reputable underground pawnshop, which is leaning on it. It's a certain royal family, so you don't have to worry about your money being cheated at all.
Thinking of this, Rong Ruizhang was in a better mood, and only glanced at Rong Jinning out of the corner of his eye, and had other thoughts. If the general's mansion refuses to marry her for a long time, the scandal between her and Wei Qiongwei has already become a big problem, rather than continuing to keep him, it is better to send her away from afar, and the outsiders in the province will point fingers at him again.
Four watches. Boxes and boxes of heavy jewels from the Prime Minister's Mansion were finally shipped out.
And somewhere on the street that seemed to be silent at the moment, Rong Che sat on the edge of the bed, his eyes closed as if he was asleep.
Ah Kun, who finally returned to Beijing, whispered beside him: "Master, there is already movement." ”
"Are you all ready?"
Rong Che's eyelids were lifted, glowing with a cold glow.
Ah Kun nodded: "The prince is short of silver, knowing that Rong Ruizhang wants to transport such a large amount of property, he has already brought people to wait near Yinbaozhuang, and the servants did as you ordered." I only let the prince know about it tonight. Several of the beautiful prostitutes that the prince had recently raised had spent a lot of money on him, and with his intelligence, he would definitely think about cutting off this wealth and reserving a large part of his private money for himself, so he came here most likely without letting any of his followers know. ”
"Well, do it."
"Yes."
Ah Kun responded and immediately sneaked out quietly. And Rong Che sat in the dark, quietly thinking about Wei Qingqing's aggrieved eyes that night, did she want to use herself to avenge her? The little girl has a lot of eyes and eyes, and she also uses it on herself.
Rong Che smiled a little on her lips, okay, she is willing to use herself, at least it means that she is willing to form an alliance with herself, doesn't it?
Thinking of this, the smile in his eyes deepened, and he closed his eyes again and continued to lean against the window and wait for news.
Gong Chang carefully took people out of the house, even at night, with so many things, he didn't dare to take it lightly, but no one expected that as soon as he arrived at Yinbaozhuang, he was surrounded by a group of soldiers.
That's it, who knew that the leader would be the prince of the 'suddenly' night watch?
This way.
Not far from Yinbaozhuang, Wei Qiongwei had already swaggered out of the courtyard where Chen Sanniang and the poor Xiucai lived, obviously, he was in a much better mood after coming out.
He was about to go back to the General's Mansion when he suddenly heard a large commotion in front of him: "What's going on in front?" ”
"It seems that the subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion brought out a batch of treasures and were bumped into by the crown prince." The little guy waiting outside had already found out clearly, and said with a smile.
"The descendants of the Prime Minister's Mansion?"
Wei Qiongwei sneered, he couldn't know very well what kind of person his brother-in-law was, the subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion didn't dare to smuggle the property out without permission, unless it was Rong Ruizhang himself.
Such a large amount of property, could it be Sister A's dowry?
Thinking of this, Wei Qiongwei immediately rushed towards the bustle.
And at this moment, in the dark, Lan Zhi stopped the person who was about to step forward and make a move, thinking of something. Smile: "Go to his ambush on the way back to the General's Mansion!" ”
Wei Qiongwei didn't know that he had been left behind by Huang Que, and after seeing Gong Chang being whipped directly by the prince on the grounds of stealing and selling his master's property, he explained to the prince that these belongings were the dowry left by his own sister, so angry that the prince didn't speak for a long time, so he went back comfortably, but he was directly put on the head of a sack halfway and broke a leg.
Wei Qingqing waited in the room for the second half of the night, and when she heard Lan Zhi's reply, her eyes blinked, and she immediately laughed: "It's really a coincidence." ”
"Isn't it just a coincidence, I don't know how His Royal Highness the Crown Prince suddenly appeared." Lan Zhi said with a smile.
Wei Qingqing looked at her, didn't speak, turned her head over and covered the quilt, and Lan Zhi retreated sensibly.
Wei Qingqing lay on the bed, holding the piece of blood jade that Rong Che gave her, and looked at the moonlight that came through the window for a long time before stuffing the blood jade back under the pillow. Slept.
Before dawn the next day, Wei Qingqing got up.
When Lan Sheng came in to serve, he said that Qiu Ling had come back to reply.
"Let her in."
Wei Qingqing looked in the closet, picked out a conspicuous cherry-colored dress and put it on, a string of delicate and small jade leaves hung on her thin waist, and two more ruby-inlaid steps were used on her hair bun than usual.
Qiu Ling came in and looked at Wei Qingqing in amazement, but she felt a natural dignity pressing, so that she didn't dare to have any extra thoughts, and directly knelt on the ground and said Fang Zijiao's words: "Fang Ye arranged the wing room for Miss overnight yesterday, and today Fang Ye will prepare tea and snacks in the wing room, and wait for Miss to go over with the eldest prince and Lord Wei." ”
Wei Qingqing glanced at the bruises and red marks on Qiu Ling's neck that could not be hidden, and with a sigh, he sent her down to rest first.
When Qiu Ling left, Wei Qingqing immediately asked people to pass the news to Wei Xun and Wei Qingshan.
Lan Sheng tidied up Wei Qingqing's clothes and whispered: "It seems that Qiu Ling is available." ”
"If you can use it best, the Prime Minister's Mansion, I'm afraid I can't wait, and I need a money bag to carry around." Wei Qingqing remembered what happened last night, and the corners of her mouth swept up a little cool, but as soon as she stepped out of the room, she saw Rong Che, who was also wearing a silver-red robe.
Wei Qingqing's throat shook, looked at Wei Hu who was reluctant to follow her, and then looked at Rong Che, and immediately saluted, but Rong Che only smiled at her with his hand: "I didn't rest all night yesterday, and I don't know if I wear this body decently today, thinking that Miss Wei's vision has always been good, I want to ask Miss Wei to help take a look." ”
The corners of Wei Qingqing's mouth twitched, what did he say to look at his clothes, he was afraid that there were countless masters of dressing and dressing, what he really wanted to say was that he didn't say okay all night last night.
He's here, here to ask for credit?
Wei Qingqing looked up, and really saw that his handsome face was full of the words 'praise me', and for a while, Wei Qingqing didn't know whether it was right or wrong to use this man.