Chunyuan Building

It's still that backyard room

The old bustard's mother Wu looked at the "lady" in front of her with an embarrassed face, and hesitated to report: "Madam, that Dong Guangming sent someone to deliver the message again, and the price has risen by two hundred taels." ”

"It's not about money."

A familiar lazy voice sounded, and a beautiful figure walked up to Mother Wu.

Mrs. Liu, the mysterious proprietor of Chunyuan Building, was dressed in a peacock brocade dress with blue clouds and beads, wearing a silver phoenix carved hairpin, and the gold silk inlaid with rubies swayed gently on the black temples, highlighting the extraordinary nobility of the woman.

A pair of single-eyebrow phoenix eyes glanced at Mother Wu, and Mrs. Liu said lightly: "Others don't know my intention to open this Qingyuan Building, Mother Wu came from the capital with me, how could she not know the inside story and sell the Chunyuan Building, what do we use to find out the news, delay the nobleman's errand, who will you and I take this responsibility?" ”

When Mama Wu heard this, she smiled bitterly: "Madame's concerns are naturally known to the old slave, but that Dong Guangming is Yan Kui's person, and now Yan Kui is powerful in Qingyuan, if we offend him, he can make us tired of dealing with it with a word, and even if we keep Chunyuan Building, we will not have time to work and run errands." ”

After hearing this, Mrs. Liu's good-looking brows slowly wrinkled, and she walked back and forth in the room a few times: "Chunyuan Building must not be sold, we finally found such a place to gain a firm foothold in Qingyuan, once we give up, all the previous efforts will be wasted."

We have been in Qingyuan for three years, and there has been no much progress, the noble man has asked several times, and then started from the beginning, I don't know what year and month can complete the noble person's explanation. ”

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"What do you mean?"

Mother Wu looked up at Mrs. Liu, her eyes moved slightly, as if she had thought of something.

"That's right."

Seeing Wu's mother's expression, Mrs. Liu also knew that she had guessed her thoughts, so she didn't hide it and said it straightforwardly.

"I plan to call Yan Kui here to show our identity, Yan Kui is powerful in Qingyuan, and we can completely rely on his power."

Mother Wu's expression changed greatly, she thought that Mrs. Liu just wanted to show her identity to scare off Yan Kui's acquisition, but she didn't expect that she was ready to cooperate with Yan Kui, and she couldn't help but be shocked.

"Never, ma'am, there are thousands of instructions from above not to reveal our purpose, if something goes wrong, you, the old slave, and even our relatives and friends must all be held accountable.

Madame, think again! ”

Mrs. Liu's expression froze, then returned to normal, and said lightly: "I can't help it, Mother Wu, my godmother sent a letter the day before yesterday, and they received news that Concubine Yu's people have recently touched the vicinity, and once they are sure that Qingyuan is the place where the person died, they will definitely look for it vigorously."

They can't be like us, they have scruples, they can only do it secretly, they have the support of Yu Guifei and King Jing, and the speed of using the power of the official face will be much faster than ours, in case they find those things before us............"

Mrs. Liu's eyes flashed with a cold light: "Before the noble man suffers, we all have to ask for the guilt first, and none of us can escape."

Instead of the three-foot white silk at that time, it is better to fight, if the matter is done, even if the nobles are dissatisfied with us doing this, for the sake of merit, they will not take us well. ”

"Besides."

Mrs. Liu looked at Mother Wu: "When did I say that I would tell Yan Kui all about this matter, take a noble person's brand, then Yan Kui, a small low-level military attaché, will naturally be sent by me, even if he finds any clues."

As long as we hold things in our hands, he dares to say that there is a nobleman, isn't it, the harem Fengyun doesn't even dare to mix with the left and right ministers and the generals, he Yan Kui dares to talk more? ”

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"This ........."

I have to say that Wu's mother was moved by Mrs. Liu's words.

Also, as Mrs. Liu said, now that the situation on your side is getting more and more difficult, and the opponent is menacing, instead of passively sitting and waiting for death, it is better to give it a go and seek a way to live.

Besides, Mrs. Liu also said that the back road and control methods arranged after cooperating with Yan Kui have certain flaws, but at the moment, Mama Wu herself has no better idea.

Thinking of this, Wu's mother didn't say anything anymore, and solemnly performed a palace salute: "The old slave obeys the orders of his wife." ”

Seeing that Wu's mother agreed to her plan, Mrs. Liu didn't show it on her face, but she breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.

Although this errand is nominally dominated by her, and Wu Ma, as a subordinate, obeys her, but in fact, Wu Ma is specially sent by the nobles above to assist her in doing things, Wu Ma seems to be respectful to her, and she must call herself an old slave, but the power she can use in her hands is much more than her as the main officer.

Therefore, if Wu's mother agrees to cooperate in this matter, no matter how good she thinks about it, it is just a moon in the water, a flower in the mirror, and a fantasy.

waved his hand and asked Mother Wu to contact Yan Kui, and after Mrs. Liu left, she sat on the chair tiredly and rubbed her fair forehead.

In the past three years since she came to Qingyuan, she has to recruit people to find out the news, and inside, she has to often suppress Wu Ma's old qualified subordinates, in case the other party rides on her head, she copes with the above inquiries as usual every month, and she has to care about the situation of the opponent from time to time.

In the past three years, Mrs. Liu has been exhausted, but no matter how tired she is, she has to grit her teeth to support it, not only to avoid the punishment from above, but also to earn a breath for herself.

"I, Liu Qiniang, want to tell everyone that I'm not easy to bully." Putting down the jade hand that rubbed her forehead, Mrs. Liu's eyes were cold.

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Yes, Mrs. Liu's name is Liu Qi Niang, there is no name, many women in the Northern Jin Dynasty do not have names, and before they got married, they were all named after their parents' families, such as the surname Liu, the eldest daughter is called Liu Auntie, the second daughter is called Liu Erniang, and the rest are pushed down in turn.

When a woman goes out to get married, she follows her husband's surname, such as a certain Liu, of course, this is an official title, and under normal circumstances, others still call the woman's maiden surname, that is, Liu, Wang, and Li.

However, this is the name of the commoner, if the married husband has a high status, then the others will respect a lady, this lady has a husband's surname, and there is also a maiden surname, under normal circumstances, the Northern Jin Dynasty is called the maiden surname, at most add your husband's name in front, such as the wife of so-and-so, Mrs. Liu.

Yan Kui's mother Chen and sister-in-law Zhang all came over like this, before they got married, they were called Chen Jiniang and Zhang Jiniang, and after they got married, they were Chen and Zhang.

On the contrary, women like Yan Kui's aunt Yan Hua and the three sisters of the Huang family, Huang Weier, who have names and surnames in their mother's family, are not many in the Northern Jin Dynasty, and they are generally the daughters of large official eunuchs who have this treatment.

Therefore, judging from the name Liu Qiniang, it naturally proves that this Mrs. Liu's background is not very superior.

In fact, the seven in Liu Qiniang's name does not mean that she is the seventh daughter of her parents, but the ranking of her father's branch.

Qi Niang.

There are at least seven female babies in one generation, and in the feudal era of patriarchy, it is conceivable how these seven female babies will not be valued by their parents and elders.

And Liu Qiniang is the most pitiful of the seven female babies............

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Liu Qiniang, her parents died when she was a child, and the uncle's family adopted her due to the pressure of the clan, but she was treated very badly.

Especially Liu Qiniang's aunt, who is the most bitter and mean, is very displeased with Liu Qiniang, a drag oil bottle that suddenly appeared to eat for nothing, and scolds every day, turning Liu Qiniang, a niece, into her own maid.

In the folk, girls are not valued by the family, and they have to work and take care of housework when they are young.

It's just that she is young and weak, so she can only endure it silently, looking forward to marrying someone and a good husband in the future, and getting rid of the sea of suffering.

The days passed day by day, and Liu Qiniang finally survived to the day of marriage, but she didn't want to be the beginning of hell again.

It turned out that the bitter aunt saw her slim and slim, and had bad intentions, coveted the rich dowry given by the man, and married Liu Qiniang to a sick seedling, and when she entered the door in a daze, it was too late.

At that time, the sick seedling son who was newly married to Liu Qiniang was very seriously ill, saying that he was marrying a wife, but in fact he was taking Liu Qiniang to be happy, but the joy was not successful, but his life was gone.

On the night of the cave room, Liu Qiniang didn't even see her husband's face, so she became a widow.

Happy events turn into mournings.

This time, the husband's family quit, and less than three days after the marriage, he drove Liu Qiniang out of the door with a letter of resignation, and then used his power to get back the dowry he had given to the uncle's family.

In just a few days, Liu Qiniang's life has undergone earth-shaking changes, from a girl to be married, to a bride, and a widow, or a widow who was divorced by her husband's family and kicked out of the house.

Fortunately, because of today's war-torn world, life is like a mustard, widows who have lost their husbands abound, and it is the norm for people to remarry with their children, and the people also look down on these.

What's more, although Liu Qiniang was divorced, there was a reason for the incident, although she was a little suspicious, but she couldn't stand her young and beautiful, slender figure, and still a yellow flower girl, and some young men fell in love with her and wanted to tie the knot with her.

It's just that Liu Qiniang has seen the warmth and coldness of the world after this incident, and she has also honed a little scheming to see that the uncle's family has the intention of "selling" herself again, so she took advantage of her unpreparedness and sneaked out of the house, and then made Ji get acquainted with an old woman who came out of the palace.

Liu Qiniang worshiped her as her godmother, and swore that she would provide for her in the future.

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Later, Liu Qiniang learned that the godmother she worshipped was the confidant of the Empress Dowager Kong, the mother of the current Holy Emperor Liyang, and she left the palace to help the Empress Dowager Kong eradicate a trouble.

It turned out that the Empress Dowager Kong was still twenty-eight years old. There was a childhood sweetheart Lan Yan, the two had a very good relationship, and they had privately promised each other for life, but later, because Empress Dowager Kong's father entered Beijing as an official, the two were forced to separate.

However, the two sides still wrote to each other constantly, telling each other their hearts, and then, because of the frustration of the Empress Dowager Kong's father's officialdom, in order to protect the safety of the family, the Empress Dowager Kong was sent to the palace as a concubine, and gave birth to a dragon in the next year.

Since the Empress Dowager Kong entered the palace, she and that Lan Yan have never passed the letter again, and that Lan Yan wrote several times, but received a reply from the Empress Dowager Kong entering the palace, and she was heartbroken and disappeared soon after.

Until Emperor Liyang succeeded to the throne, Empress Dowager Kong was the mother of the country, extremely noble, and then received a letter from Lan Yan.

It turned out that this Lan Yan had always been thinking about the Empress Dowager Kong, and he had never married in his life, and he did not dare to write a letter to contact the Empress Dowager Kong because of his scruples, but now he was terminally ill and died soon, so he wrote a letter to say goodbye to the Empress Dowager Kong, whom he cherished all his life.

Empress Dowager Kong was naturally sad, but after the grief passed, she suddenly found that this Lan Yan had left a big trouble for herself, it turned out that Lan Yan had kept the letters between her and Lan Yan back then, and now she was also going to accompany him to the cemetery.

For others, I think this matter is over, but the Empress Dowager Kong doesn't think so, this is a letter written by her, there is no shortage of love letters with some sustenance, in case it is discovered in the future and spread, she is a dignified queen mother, how can she not be laughed at.

There are a few more indiscriminate literati who make up nonsense about this matter and pass it on to future generations, does she still have a reputation?

Thinking of this, Empress Dowager Kong shuddered, and immediately summoned her henchmen and asked them to find the burial place of that Lan Yan, who should dig the grave, dig the coffin, and find out those fatal letters no matter what.

Perhaps, in the heart of Lan Yan, who still loves the Empress Dowager Kong to death, the Empress Dowager Kong is still the innocent and pure girl back then.

But in fact, the Empress Dowager Kong, who was able to fight out of the harem, finally won the palace fighting champion, and sat on the position of the queen mother, has long been unrecognizable to that Lan Yan.

Perhaps, there is still a trace of good memories of the past in the heart of the Empress Dowager Kong, but once this memory threatens her reputation and status, the Empress Dowager Kong will definitely suppress it with thunder.

What kind of blue-faced confidant of childhood sweethearts, the mourning family is the empress dowager of the Great Jin Dynasty, serving the first emperor wholeheartedly, you dare to slander the mourning family, are you not afraid that the mourning family will let the emperor punish your nine clans.........

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Under the arrangement of the Empress Dowager Kong, a group of henchmen led by Liu Qiniang's godmother Jia Mama left the palace due to "illness" and looked for the burial place of Lan Yan.

But unfortunately, this Lan Yan has been adrift all his life, he has been to too many places, and there is no one around him, and he also found a post station to send the letter to the Kong family, so no one knows where he died in the end and where his body was buried.

The Northern Jin Dynasty has a wide territory of three states and a territory of thousands of miles, and finding the body of an unknown person in such a big place is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack, but the Empress Dowager Kong insisted on looking for it, and the people below had to obey orders.

Later, after several years of unremitting efforts to investigate, Mama Jia set the place where Lan Yan last appeared in Yongzhou, and later, it was determined that it was in Tong'an Mansion, and when Mama Jia was waiting for someone to prepare to further explore which county was the eight counties under the rule of Tong'an Mansion.

There was an accident in the palace, and the matter was known to Concubine Yu.

It turned out that in recent years, because the dispute between the princes has become more and more intense, the harem has gradually been divided into two factions, one is the mother of King Jing, Yu Guifei, and the other is the Empress Dowager Kong, who raised King Duan.

Both of them wanted the prince they raised to become the crown prince, so they inevitably matched, because of the suppression of their identities, the Empress Dowager Kong has always had the upper hand in this battle.

However, Concubine Yu is not easy to mess with, she used means to quietly buy off one of Empress Dowager Kong's henchmen, and successfully learned Empress Dowager Kong's secret about that Lan Yan, and she was overjoyed.

Duanwang was able to compete with King Jing, largely relying on the Empress Dowager Kong and her maiden family, the Kong family, to support him later.

If he can get those handwritten letters written by the Empress Dowager Kong back then, and spread them around, even if he doesn't bring down the Empress Dowager Kong and the Kong family, he will lose face and be embarrassed, and he will no longer be able to provide so much support to King Duan.

And without the support of the Empress Dowager Kong and the Kong family, Duanwang, who was already slightly inferior in power, lost his biggest arm and backer, and what to fight with King Jing.

Thinking of this, Concubine Yu Guifei urgently summoned King Jing into the palace, and the next day, a large number of elites of King Jing's Party went straight to Tong'an Mansion to inquire about the whereabouts of that Lan Yan with great fanfare.

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When Empress Dowager Kong heard the news, she almost went crazy, and after dealing with the traitor ruthlessly, she hurriedly sent more people to Mama Jia, so that she must find those letters before Concubine Yu.

But this is not easy, not to mention that the trace of Lan Yan is difficult to find, just to say that in order not to alarm the capital, they can only quietly inquire about information in private, and Yu Guifei's side is fanfare and unscrupulous, and the speed of the two sides is naturally not the same.

It's just that under the iron order of Empress Dowager Kong, Mama Jia has to grit her teeth to hold on no matter how difficult it is.

Fortunately, Concubine Yu Guifei got too little information, and she only knew that the scope was in Tong'an Mansion, and some details such as Lan Yan's living habits and behavioral habits were far less clear than that of Mama Jia, who had been looking for nearly ten years, so in general, Mama Jia's side still had a certain advantage.

After that, because Mama Jia broke her legs in an accident, she could no longer personally preside over the investigation work, so she had no choice but to return to the capital to recuperate.

However, Mama Jia has been investigating this matter for many years, has rich experience, and has a lot of experience, so the Empress Dowager Kong did not abandon her, but let her command remotely in the capital, and handed over the specific search for work to Liu Qiniang, the righteous daughter who has been with Mama Jia for many years.

Empress Dowager Kong also promised that if Liu Qiniang found the letter, she would personally make her a female official, so that she could return to her hometown with glory and worship her parents.

In her heart, in addition to giving her godmother Mama Jia a send-off, her biggest wish is to return to her hometown, vent her evil anger in front of her uncle's family, and then go to the grave to worship her parents and tell them that they are doing well.

Empress Dowager Kong has been in and out of the harem for many years, and she knows the hearts of the people well, and she suddenly hit Liu Qiniang's death hole.

As she wished, Liu Qiniang took out a higher energy than Mama Jia to investigate the news, and within a year, she determined that the location of Lan Yan's grave was in Qingyuan, and at the same time, she also deceived Yu Guifei's people to Ding County.

Empress Dowager Kong was overjoyed, and relied on Liu Qiniang even more, so that she could make persistent efforts and find the letter in one fell swoop, but now almost three years have passed, but Liu Qiniang has been trapped in Qingyuan without any progress.

Seeing that the people who had been sent to Ding County by her before had discovered that something was wrong, they began to slowly investigate Qingyuan, and Empress Dowager Kong's inquiry became more and more severe, Liu Qiniang really couldn't hold it anymore, so she could only look for foreign help.

"I hope this Yan Kui is a person who is easy to control, otherwise, if you have another person who loves to toss, you really can't hold it back." Liu Qiniang leaned back in her chair and muttered.

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"The owner of Qingyuan Tower wants to see me?"

And just when Liu Qiniang was talking about Yan Kui, Yan Mansion crossed the courtyard, Yan Kui looked at the Yan Mansion Menzi who reported the news in front of him, and scolded angrily.

"How are you on a bad day, why do you come to the door to disturb me, I am busy with official business, how can I have time to meet a kiln opener, let people get out."

Menzi was so trained by Yan Kui that he couldn't lift up, and when he got out of the East Cross Courtyard, he returned to the gate, looking at Mother Wu who was still waiting, and when he thought that he had been scolded because of him, Menzi suddenly became angry in his heart.

"Hurry up, my family doesn't have time to see you, don't come in the future."

Mother Wu looked at Yan Fumenzi with a disgusted face, and was stunned for a while.

Before she came, she thought of any results, Yan Kui saw the token in the palace, and was pleasantly surprised; The sensitive-minded did not want to get involved in the matter, and politely rejected himself; Moody and gloomy want to get a piece of the pie from this.

Even if Yan Kui thought that he was a fake and didn't want to believe that his mother Wu was prepared, he never expected that he couldn't even enter the gate of Yan's mansion.

However, Mother Wu was entrusted with a heavy task by the Empress Dowager Kong, so she was naturally not a mortal, and soon, she adjusted her emotions, picked out a token engraved with the words of the palace from her arms and handed it to Menzi.

"Little brother, look at this token."

Yan Fumenzi didn't answer: "Don't come with Lao Tzu, I don't know how to read, hurry up, otherwise I'll call someone to bomb you." ”

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Mother Wu never thought that even the emperor gave her face in the palace, but today she was stumped by a small doorman............