Chapter 18: The Empress Dowager of the Red Chamber (18)

Qiao Mu listened to it with relish on the side, and at the end, that is, after Mama Qiao finished talking about Yuanchun sprinkling silver in the palace, she sighed with emotion:

"The words of the ancients still have a point!

It is not a lie to take a wife and marry a virtuous person, when Jia Yuan married the eldest lady of the Xu family, the family has a deep heritage, and the raised Jia Daishan is not small, but Jia Yuan later went so far as to be able to share the same breath and branch the four families, and gave Jia Daishan the woman who married the noble historian family as the main house.

Jia Yuan really made a bad move.

Cut yourself off!

Okay, that's all for today, it's time to pass on dinner, and the mourning family is hungry! ”

"No! Empress!

Today, a new batch of Lingnan lychees arrived in the imperial dining room, I wonder if the mother will have some? ”

Mama Qiao is not a big housekeeper, but she is a big housekeeper, not only knows the big and small affairs in the palace, but also knows the preferences of Qiao Mu's original body, so after knowing that the imperial dining room has newly arrived to batch Lingnan lychees, she immediately let the imperial dining room give a basket to Ci'an Palace.

At this time, it is being chilled in an ancient well in Ci'an Palace, and it is just cool and delicious to eat at night.

The sweet aroma is in the throat and refreshing.

In order to ensure the freshness of lychees, some wealthy merchants will specially move the lychee trees cultivated many years in advance to a special vat every year from the Lingnan side, and quickly send them to the capital through the transport boats.

At this time, the taste of the lychee picked is not inferior to that of eating in Lingnan, the color and flavor are not bad, and there is no need to worry about Bai Juyi's saying that the color changes in one day and the fragrance changes in two days.

Of course, after such a toss, the lychee trees sent over only have the road of death after picking the fruit, so the lychees sent over can basically only be regarded as middle and upper grades, and the real best lychees can not be eaten in the capital, because there are only a few excellent lychee trees, most of them are century-old trees, or rare varieties, such as goose egg lychee and snow rouge, these varieties of lychees are a total of about a dozen trees, if they are dug up and sent over, I am afraid that they will be extinct in two years.

Moreover, a good variety of lychee trees may be sold for several taels of silver for a fruit in the local area, not to mention the price of the whole tree, most merchants are reluctant to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to buy a lychee tree to transport to the capital, and even if it is transported, it cannot be sold.

Who would spend tens of thousands of taels to buy a basket of lychees?

Even the emperor is reluctant, or even if some rich businessmen are willing, they don't dare to spend so much money in the capital.

Aren't you afraid of being targeted by the imperial envoy?

"If you have lychees, then let's have less dinner tonight, and let the mourning family also try what kind of fairy taste it is to eat 300 lychees a day!

Hahaha, Mama Qiao, the mourning family is laughing, just turn around and put dozens on it, and the rest of the palace female officials will also share some points, if there are any left, each of the palace maids who are waiting will also be divided into two, try it, and be lively together!

Okay, let's go to pass the meal, the mourning family can't wait to eat lychees! ”

Qiao Mu really wanted to take the whole basket of lychees by himself at first, but when he saw the change in Mama Qiao's expression, and considering that he was nearly eighty years old, he thought about it, and there was no need to put his life on the line just to eat a few more lychees.

If you live a few more years, you will definitely be able to eat a lot of good things that are not inferior to lychees, so why bother?

"No! Mother, slave is going to pass the meal! ”

If Qiao Mu didn't say the latter words, Mama Qiao would definitely have to dissuade her, just kidding, if the Empress Dowager really had any problems, none of them would be able to escape, compared to the emperor, it was obvious that the Empress Dowager was better talkative, so she naturally had to be discouraged.

However, Qiao Mu took a step back, and Mama Qiao didn't say anything more, and after standing up and saluting, she quickly arranged for someone to pass the meal.

As a result, the palace maids who served that night still didn't get the lychees, which could be counted as being able to be distributed according to the quantity, but after dinner, Tu Minghui ran over again, and he ate more than 100 lychees alone, where can those palace maids still get them.

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As mentioned earlier, there are no secrets in the palace, and Ci'an Palace will be no exception, although it is impossible for every word to be truthfully transmitted to the emperor's ears, but there is no problem in passing on the general situation, therefore, Tu Minghui naturally knows that Qiao Mu listened to the gossip of Jiafu for a day.

It is precisely because of this that after he returned to the palace after eating lychees, he remembered to look through those noble folds to see if there was a Jia family, and it was not until this time that Jia Yu's folds were opened.

At this time, half a month has passed since Jia Yu's excerpt, and I have to say that it is gratifying.

"Let me go and help him check the overstepping, this kid is not welcome, it's just that, it's also unlucky!

Wei Xiang, send General Jia's excerpt to the Ministry of Rites, I satisfied his thoughts, and asked the Ministry of Rites to take the time to change the plaque for his family, take off the plaque of Rongguo Mansion and replace it with a first-class general, and let the Ministry of Rites write on his fold, and help him clean up his family's overreach.

Some people have to be cleared out if they stay where they shouldn't be, and the dove occupying the magpie's nest is not such an occupancy method, and does he still take the court in his eyes? ”

Although Tu Minghui doesn't look down on Jia Yu's cheekiness and nest, but compared to Jia Yu's nest, Jia Zheng, who occupies the magpie's nest, dislikes him even more, now that he is the emperor, he naturally cares about orthodoxy and rules, what is the difference between this kind of family not living in the main hall of the house, and being the emperor who can't sit on the dragon chair?

There is a big difference between the bright sides, but the roots are the same.

"No! Your Majesty, there is a matter of the Jia family, and the slave doesn't know whether to talk about it or not? Wei Xiang asked in a low voice while taking Jia Yu's recital.

"What's the matter? Go ahead! ”

Tu Minghui sat down and asked.

"Your Majesty!

After the Zhen family raided their home, didn't some of their family's registered assets be unknown? Recently, the slave found out the whereabouts of that asset, and the gold and silver should have entered Rongguo Mansion, but General Jia of Rongguo Mansion may not know it, because the specific recipient is the Wang family of the second room of Rongguo Mansion, and at present, all matters in the entire Rongguo Mansion are in charge of the Wang family.

And the minions also found out that the Wang family seems to be still using General Jia's usury and package lawsuits outside, and the Jia family's sacrificial field seems to have been sold a lot by the Wang family, specifically, because the Jia family's sacrificial field is in Jinling, so it has not been carefully investigated. ”

The piece of warm jade that Jia Yu gave to Liu Gonggong was later transferred to Wei Xiang by Liu Gonggong, Wei Xiang naturally felt that Jia Yu was not bad, and he was also helping to shirk his responsibility when he was talking, and the difference between the two crimes of participation and negligence was very large.