Chapter 242: Your Majesty, Times Have Changed
[Jedi resurrection, I don't know how many people will still watch it. 】
Night.
The back house of the Yan Mansion.
In the afternoon, the sweet fragrance of the best dreams has been carefully infiltrated into every corner of the quiet room, which is quietly exuding a quiet and pleasant atmosphere.
At the top of the transparent gauze in the corner of the wall, a small chimney with an arc upwards quietly discharged the smoke emitted by the flickering candlelight outside, so that the comfortable atmosphere of Ning Xi would not be disturbed in the slightest.
On the Luohan bed against the south wall, Yan Shifan's short and fat body was crooked on the three-section velvet brocade, pillowing the comfortable fragrance of the room, and even his deep and obscure face seemed to be a little gloomy.
After a long time, he opened a gap between his big and small eyes, and the steward who was standing next to him immediately stepped forward to respectfully ask: "Little Pavilion Elder, do you wash now, or ......?"
In the past, when Yan Shifan was in the back house, he did not deliberately ask people to call himself 'Little Pavilion Elder'.
But now that there are fewer people outside, the rules at home are also stricter.
"I'm tired today, just burn my feet."
Yan Shifan waved his hand impatiently, and wiped it on the kang table, and there were a few more rhino horn carved flower cards in his hand.
He swept one eye for a moment, then threw three of them back on the kang table with a shaking hand, and placed one of them on the armrest of the Luohan bed.
The steward answered softly, and then probed to memorize the numbers on the dominoes in his heart, and then quietly retreated outside.
But I saw that in the silent living room, there were more than thirty people waiting for him, and more than half of them were women with broad hearts and ruddy faces.
These are all second-class nurses raised by Yan Fu.
Unlike the first-class nurses who simmer with medicinal food all day long, they are only responsible for some marginal work, and do not take charge of the front-line 'nursing' operations, and the salary is naturally far inferior.
"Remove the tub."
But he said that the steward immediately commanded after going out, "Just burn your feet today." ”
While talking, he didn't care about the sound of the squirming wide clothes, and his footsteps kept coming to the door, and he summoned the maid who had been waiting under the porch for a long time and said, "Go and invite the twenty-third aunt to come over." ”
After saying that, he was about to turn back into the house, but he heard a rush of footsteps from far and near.
The steward turned his head suspiciously, and when he saw that it was Yan Shifan's personal servant Yan Kuan, he lowered his voice and asked, "Come here at this time, don't you have an important errand to do?" ”
"You can't hide anything from your old eyes."
Yan Kuanyi said with a smile: "It's really the little pavilion elder who instructed that you can't delay for a moment when you get the news over there, so ......"
"Since it's an important matter, let's go in and talk about it."
The steward interrupted him and pushed the door in.
Yan Kuan followed behind, trying his best to pretend to be well-behaved, and his eyes were rolling around, but he still couldn't control the amount of sweeping on those women.
It wasn't until he entered the inner room that he really restrained his thoughts, knelt on the ground by himself, and walked to the bed of Luohan to wait.
When the steward quietly exited the dormitory and closed the door with his hand, Yan Shifan glanced at Yan Kuan with his eyelids, and asked lazily: "Is there any movement over there in Shanhaijian?" ”
"Back to the words of the old Xiaoge!"
Yan Kuan hurriedly straightened his upper body, and replied crisply: "As soon as the night fell, Bai Jian Zheng sent people to King Jing's mansion, but it was not Zhang Shoubei who was sent, but Zhou Wusheng, who was the mountain and sea supervisor. ”
"Zhou Wusheng?"
Yan Shifan frowned slightly: "What origin?" ”
"It's not an outsider."
Yan Kuan hurriedly explained: "It's Aunt Seventeen's maternal uncle, and he usually comes to our house to walk around. ”
Yan Shifan was noncommittal, and asked again after a while: "What about Wang Bocheng?" ”
"Wang Shoubei went to the East Factory."
"East Factory? What do you do when you go to the East Factory? ”
"It seems that I ransomed two prisoners and went home."
When Yan Kuan said this, he cautiously peeked at Yan Shifan's face with the corner of his eye, and saw that he seemed to be displeased, so he couldn't help but say more: "Since I can go to Dongchang to redeem people, I expect that my body will be fine, but I refuse to go back to the yamen to work, I'm afraid this person also wants to ......."
Syllable~
The rhino horn flower card marked with twenty-three suddenly smashed on Yan Kuan's face, and the pain may not be much, but he was so frightened that he hurriedly crawled to the ground, shaking as if he was sifting chaff.
After a long time, I heard Yan Shifan scold: "Go out and slap your mouth for twenty, and you dare to come to me to tell right and wrong?!" ”
When Yan Kuan heard this, he was like being amnestied, slammed his head twice, and said in his mouth: "Thank you Xiaoge Lao Kai, thank you Xiaoge Lao Kaigen!" ”
"Get out!"
With just one roll, he hurriedly hugged his head and ran away.
Soon, there was peace inside and outside.
Yan Shifan narrowed his eyes slightly, the corners of his mouth first escaped a smile, and then he couldn't help muttering: "Presumably the palace should also get the news, right?" ”
With that emperor's usual temperament, if he learned that he was fighting King Jing's idea, most of them would first observe it silently, and then take advantage of the situation......
But that's just a trick.
A trick to hide his true intentions!
In fact, even if you don't cover it up, most people will probably not guess Yan Shifan's true intentions - after all, it is a dead end that is impossible to succeed by common sense.
However......
In today's world, in fact, it has long been free from the shackles of common sense - but the vast majority of people have not yet been able to clearly understand this.
Thinking of this, the upset caused by my father's stroke was greatly alleviated.
At that moment, someone knocked on the door.
"Come in."
One master and two servants entered in response, and the first was naturally the twenty-three aunts who were charming and delicate, but the two maids in the back were each holding a steaming wooden basin.
When she got closer, the twenty-third aunt turned around and motioned to one of the maids, and put the wooden basin in her hand on the couch, and under the light, she saw that there was only a shallow white soup in the basin, which was warm and sweet, and mixed with wisps of fishy smell.
Because he was in a good mood and hadn't asked about trivial matters at home for a few days, Yan Shifan casually asked when the twenty-third aunt took off her boots and socks: "What changes have you made in the family in recent days?" ”
"It didn't really matter."
Aunt Twenty-three smiled lightly: "It's that the eldest grandmother is going to go back to her parents' house to visit relatives in two days, and she doesn't bring anyone else, but she plans to take the Xu family as a companion." ”
Yan Shifan raised his eyebrows: "Is there something else inside?" ”
"How does this slave know? However, I heard that the eldest grandmother has been a lot closer to the Xu family than before, so I guess I have figured it out. ”
Yan Shifan was silent for a moment, until his feet fell into the wooden basin and stepped on the sticky puddle, and then he opened his mouth and said: "Remember to let people watch from the side, don't make any trouble, it's not good to explain to Xu Ge Lao." ”
"This ......"
Aunt Twenty-three frowned a little embarrassed, and cautiously reminded: "Right now, the fourth sister is in charge, and the slave family is afraid that it will be difficult to interfere." ”
"Then you can pass the word to her!"
Yan Shifan said impatiently, suddenly remembered something, and added: "Didn't the second child help Ling go south?" The idleness of his family is also idle, so he simply let him go with him. ”