() The Spring Festival is approaching, and the surrounding small affiliated countries have also begun to send envoys to the capital to make offerings, and the Honglu Pavilion has been filled with people one after another, and entertaining these envoys has become a large expense.

Early in the morning, Hu asked Shangshu Cai Ming to go to the palace to cry poor, saying that it was the young secretary of Honglu Temple who asked him for money to entertain the envoys of neighboring countries.

However, this year, many places have been affected by the disaster, and the silver from the national treasury has been used to relieve the disaster.

Lord Feng, the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple, had been staying at his house three days ago, saying that he had no silver in his hand and would be embarrassed in front of foreign envoys.

Instead of letting the saint reprimand him for doing things badly and losing his official position in the end, it is better to go to the Hubu Shangshu Mansion every day to drink tea and listen to music, and first adapt to the life of an idle person.

Hubu Shangshu can't drive him away directly, although this Lord Feng has a low official position, but his mother is the daughter of King Xian'an, from the Yong'an county lord of Yipin, in terms of seniority, the saint has to call her a cousin.

Although the sons born to the county lord of Yong'an are not angry, but they are protected by the county lord of Yong'an, who in the capital should not be polite to the Feng family?

Therefore, in the past three days, Cai Ming has really been aggrieved.

He couldn't fight and couldn't drive away, so he had to go to the palace and cry poor.

As soon as he cried poor, he found out that Yao County had allocated it twice this year, and Shengshang's face turned black on the spot, and almost immediately sent someone to pass on Yang Yuanhai, the secretary of the Ministry of Works, to enter the palace.

When Qiuxue came back to report, Yang Mansion happened to send someone to inform Qin Niang to return home.

"Miss, nothing will happen to the Yang Mansion, right?" Qiu Tao thought, otherwise, why would she suddenly let Qin Niang go home?

Moreover, Yang Yuanhai has just been summoned into the palace by the saint, presumably to be reprimanded by the saint, and now let Qin Niang return to the house, isn't it to discuss how to deal with the current situation?

"Don't worry, the former Ministry of Industry Shangshu was greedy for money, the saint has long known about it, and has already sent someone to check, and now that the treasury is short of money, he is mostly acting as a show, and wants my father to solve the disaster money by himself." Qin Niang casually began to get dressed, ready to go out.

According to Steward Liu, Gu Chen had already made arrangements for this matter, so the matter of the former Ministry of Industry's Shangshu embezzling ink and disaster funds already knew in his heart.

It's just that now Honglu Shaoqing is making such a fuss, even if the saint is pretending, he has to call Yang Yuanhai to ask for a question.

But the saint is an old fox, although he doesn't want to see the Yang family, but the key is to use the Yang family, he also knows in his heart, this year is really not a good year.

Therefore, he will most likely change his method and let Yang Yuanhai solve the disaster relief money by himself.

After all, his son-in-law is a well-known wealthy businessman in the capital, and he has a very close relationship with the Lin family, so he must have been fighting for a long time with the idea of beating Gu Chen.

If you don't take this opportunity to get cheap, Yang Yuanhai, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, will probably be unstable.

Therefore, I am in a hurry to call her home today, most of which is something else.

As soon as the group got into the carriage, Steward Liu hurriedly chased out: "Young lady, young master said, you must be useful for this person." ”

As he spoke, he waved his hand, and one of the guards came over with a man with a big tie.

When she got closer, Qin Niang saw the man's face clearly, and was suddenly shocked: "Why is she ......?"

Doesn't it mean that people are dead?

Steward Liu smiled flatteringly: "The young master said, this person is very important, let the old slave be handed over to the young lady." ”

Qin Niang pursed her lips and didn't speak, feeling in her heart for a while

It's incredibly complex.

She just thought at the time that Tang Wan would definitely send someone to kill her, but she didn't expect that Gu Chen would actually save her, in order to let her bring it back to the Yang family today as a witness?

He protects Tang Wan so much, isn't he afraid that the Yang family will judge Tang Wan and make him unable to step down?

"There's a housekeeper." Qin Niang didn't say much, and took someone into the carriage together, and let Qiu Xue take care of it.

The carriage staggered all the way to the Yang Mansion, and as soon as she entered the corner gate, the housekeeper of the Yang Mansion was already waiting there, leading Qin Niang to the courtyard of the old lady Yang.

As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, the Yang family's yin and yang strange voice came: "Mrs. Gu Shao has such a big shelf, the elders will ask you to go back to your mother's house!" I sent someone to inform you early in the morning to see what time it was, and then I came back, and let the elders in this room wait for you alone. ”

Qiu Tao on the side really wanted to roll her eyes and look at the sky, what time is it?

They rushed back as soon as they received the message, and at most they delayed a pillar or two of incense in the middle, and it was difficult to walk in the snow on the road, so it was already the fastest time to come back at this time.

This aunt is obviously looking for fault.

Qin Niang just glanced at the people in the room lightly, and she understood it in her heart.

Presumably, after being kicked out of the Wenqu Academy in public that day, this cousin Xia came back to "complain".

In addition to Mrs. Yang, there are also Mrs. Yang's Lu, Luo Qixia's mother and daughter, and the personal maids beside the masters.

Qin Niang didn't take Yang's words, and after walking to the front of the main hall and saluting one by one, she looked at Mrs. Yang and asked, "I wonder what happened to grandma suddenly calling her granddaughter back?" ”

Yang felt that he had been ignored and his majesty as an elder had been violated, so he immediately stopped Old Madam Yang's words and screamed and complained, "Don't you know what good things you have done? How? Now that you have your husband's surname, these elders of the Yang family can't control you, right? ”

Yang repeatedly grabbed the talk, and Old Madam Yang was already very displeased, she frowned and glanced at Yang warningly, signaling her to pay attention to what she said.

But the Yang family has always been used to being the master, and they don't realize that this is not the Luo family, but the Yang family.

Even if the old lady of the Yang family doesn't care about anything, there is still the eldest woman of the Yang family, Mrs. Yang, who is in charge, where is her turn to be a girl who has been married for many years and shouts here.

"Dare to ask my aunt, what did I do?" Qin Niang is really curious about how Luo Qixia, an arrogant and invincible person, sued the Yang family.

What happened to her in Wenqu Academy that day, who in the capital doesn't know, is it difficult for her to reverse black and white?

"Mother, look at her, she still doesn't admit it, this time you must punish her well, lest she do this kind of framing of her sister next time." Yang said, knelt directly on the ground, holding a handkerchief, tucking the corners of his eyes, looking aggrieved.

Qin Niang looked at her lightly, pursed her lips, and did not speak.

For a shrew, there is no need for her to argue with her.

"Qin'er, what happened to Xia'er in Wenqu Courtyard that day? Now there are rumors all over the capital that she was caught cheating and was kicked out, how could she cheat? What Mrs. Yang was puzzled about was that Luo Qixia, a girl who had just arrived in the capital for less than a month, what ability did she have to buy those academicians in the academy to vent her questions.

However, she also believed in the granddaughter she had taught herself, but the Yang family had been there for a few days

ran to her and cried, she was really disturbed and had no choice, so people called her back to confront her.

Before Qin Niang could speak, Yang once again shouted in a preemptive voice: "How can I, Xia'er, cheat? It is clear that she Yang Qinyan instigated her friends to frame me Xia'er, otherwise, the top chip would have been my Xia'er's a long time ago. ”

"Shut up!" Old Madam Yang couldn't bear it anymore this time, raised her voice and shouted angrily, "You have been left alone to say anything, what else do others say?" ”

Old Madam Yang was very angry, when she was a child, she obviously taught her well, how could she go to Cloud City and come back to become such a fierce woman, whether she was justified or not, she had to talk about it first.

It's really half of the official lady's bearing.

The so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, so it can be seen that what Luo Qixia said may not be the truth.

Old Madam Yang felt like a mirror in her heart.

Yang knelt there aggrievedly, sobbing profusely.

Old Madam Yang was really annoyed by looking at her.

Qin Niang had the opportunity to speak, so she truthfully described the situation that day, and at the end, she looked at Mrs. Yang and said without humility or arrogance: "Grandma, my granddaughter didn't say a word more than that day, and I don't know why Cousin Xia insisted that I hurt her." That Young Lady Li has always been delicate and upright, and everyone in the capital knows it, she feels suspicious, so she tried it, but she didn't expect ......"

She didn't need to say much about the rest of the words, Mrs. Yang probably understood.

Suddenly, she couldn't help but sharpen her gaze at Luo Qixia: "Xia'er, how do you explain?" ”

Since Luo Qixia entered this courtyard, she has been sitting there with her head hanging and pretending to be aggrieved, and the Yang family has been helping her talk like a calf.

There were some things that she felt very comfortable with, but she couldn't show them.

Her reputation is ruined now, if she returns to Cloud City like this, I am afraid that it will be difficult to find a good son-in-law, and she has to find a way to remedy it no matter what.

It's best to stay in the capital, even if you find a random child of a family in the capital, it's better than someone from that ghost place in Cloud City.

Since she came to the capital, she has never planned to go back.

"Grandmother, it's not like this, I didn't cheat, it's just that everything in the test that day happened to be what I was good at, that's all." Luo Qixia said, a flash of water suddenly appeared in her eyes, looking really pitiful.

Qin Niang tugged at the corners of her lips: "Wenqu Academy wants to choose a really talented person, if Cousin Xia is really only good at that piece of music and a painting, then I think it's no wonder who can't get the first prize." ”

"You ......" Luo Qixia was so angry by her words that she almost cried, "Cousin, I know you don't like me, but if I really have the luck to be good at those things in the teacher's exam, I got the first place by luck, that's also my ability, what good thing is it for you to do me like this?" ”

Qin Niang was almost laughed at by her: "Luo Qixia, do you think that what you do by yourself is seamless, and no one will ever know?" ”

Luo Qixia chuckled in her heart, what did she mean by this?

Could it be that what she did, Yang Qinyan knew?

But which one did she know?

Luo Qixia's face turned white little by little, and her heart was a little up, she was afraid that she really had a handle for the other party to catch.