Long live the Spring Festival of the second year, the princess's mansion is full of joy and smiles.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, on the basis of doubling everyone's monthly money, the princess rewarded the princess for meritorious deeds, and the greater the contribution to the princess's mansion, the higher the bonus, and the new paper-making masters Qiu Wangchun and Yan Jikang got the highest reward, more than Yi Ling.

Two months in advance, the princess's mansion began to be busy, papermaking, engraving, printing, mixing pigments, framing, selling wholesale in the shops of the fang market, entertaining and appeasing merchants from all over the country who were waiting in line for the workshop to print New Year's pictures and calendars, and promoting the New Year's pictures of Luoyang Bookstore along the post station...... In short, the entire princess's mansion moved, because of a Luoyang bookstore, the princess's mansion worked together and was unprecedentedly sincere.

By the end of the month, all the printed matter was sold out, everyone was relieved, the guards brought back a few carts of silver, Shen Mengxi completely forgot the idea of not engaging in business before, haha laughed, it is much easier for the second generation of officials to do business.

She was not stingy, and took out one-third of her profits and distributed dividends to everyone in the house, and everyone was happy for a while.

He also brainstormed and mobilized the whole government to design and manufacture novel lanterns and floats.

But this year, she didn't take the children on a float again, and she didn't even let the children into the palace.

She and Wu Youji entered the palace to participate in the palace banquet as usual, in the past five years, the seats of everyone in the hall have already changed, only Emperor Wu is still sitting upright, Li Dan moved from the side to the bottom of the steps, sitting in the position of Shen Mengxi's hand, but the position of the martial family's children is closer to Emperor Wu, in the main hall, except for Li Dan and Shen Mengxi, there is no third Li clan.

Li Dan lowered his eyes, except for the initial toast to Emperor Wu at the banquet, there was no more words, Shen Mengxi toasted with him, and only silently raised his glass and drank it all.

Shen Mengxi noticed Wu Chengsi's eyes, this person is usually quite calm, once he drinks some wine, he will get carried away, at this moment he is squinting at Li Dan, thoughtfully, it seems that Li Dan and him have a hatred of killing his father and taking his wife.

Shen Mengxi remembered that when he accompanied Emperor Wu to visit Tongtian Palace, he unintentionally caught a glimpse of Wu Chengsi also spying on her with a strange look, and quickly dodged away after being bumped into, Shen Mengxi only felt that he was vomiting because of his hatred for the palace banquet, and now that he thinks about it, Wu Chengsi wants to be the prince urgently, and he doesn't plan to let go of any of the Li family.

In the past few years, Shen Mengxi seems to be just busy with the bookstore, but in fact, she has paid close attention to all the big and small things in the court, especially Wu Chenghe's various behaviors.

In the second year of the Heavenly Grant, Wu Chengsi instigated hundreds of people to come to the table and ask him to make himself the crown prince, believing that since the Wu family was the emperor, the imperial heir should not be surnamed Li, but should be the descendant of the Wu family. However, due to the opposite side of several governors, they did not succeed. Li Zhaode's sentence "King Wei is not only a prince, but also a nephew of His Majesty, and one of the prime ministers of the court, and his power is almost comparable to that of His Majesty." Since ancient times, there are not a few princes who have killed their fathers and usurped the throne! "Touched Emperor Wu, a lonely person, he was already suspicious, and this conversation made Emperor Wu shelve his plan to replace the emperor's heir.

Wu Chengsi was furious, and then he bribed and colluded with Lai Junchen to frame dozens of people for rebellion, resulting in dozens of people being killed, including several prime ministers who prevented him from asking for the crown prince.

After that, he led 5,000 and 26,000 people respectively, and asked Emperor Wu to add the title of honor, and did his best to flatter him, and Emperor Wu was very happy, gladly accepted, and granted amnesty to the world.

Wu Chengsi's efforts were effective, and in a worship that year, he served as the second offering, and Wu Sansi served as the final offering, directly replacing the positions of Li Dan and Li Chengqi. Since then, Wu Chengsi seems to have relied on him, and began to target Li Dan everywhere and frame Li Dan.

When Shen Mengxi entered the palace to ask for peace, he talked about the fourth brother, "Ah Niang, the fourth brother's personality is at peace with what happens, maybe he doesn't feel humiliated, but Yue'er is really angry." Although Yue'er has bullied his brother since he was a child, he can't tolerate others bullying his brother! ”

Emperor Wu smiled when he heard this. Shen Mengxi got to the point, Emperor Wu is such a character, her own son, she can kill, but others can't beat and scold.

Emperor Wu asked Shen Mengxi again what he thought of the imperial heir.

Shen Mengxi said: "Yue'er doesn't understand these state affairs, and she hasn't thought about them carefully, but this country belongs to A-Niang, and A-Niang wants to let whoever is the emperor's heir, let whoever be!" As for the surname, it doesn't matter, it's a big deal to change the surname Wu. ”

Emperor Wu didn't respond, diverted the topic, and asked about Wu Youji and Yan Jikang, Shen Mengxi was vague, and Emperor Wu didn't have the heart to listen to her answer.

At this palace banquet, Wu Chengsi began to target Li Dan again, and when he was in the middle of singing and dancing, he came to Li Dan's seat, deliberately stepped on Li Dan's toes, and greeted Shen Mengxi: "My cousin and his wife are deeply in love, I am really envious of me and waiting, hahahaha!" ”

Shen Mengxi saw at a glance that Wu Chenghe's feet and Li Dan's flushed face.

As soon as he raised his hand, the wine in the cup was poured towards Wu Chengsi, Wu Chengsi was defenseless, he was splashed, took a few steps back, and wiped his face angrily, "Cousin, what do you mean by this?" ”

"Oops, cousin forgiveness!" Shen Mengxi hurriedly got up, apologized again and again, and made a gesture to salute, and said in fear: "Today, my cousin is not strong enough to drink, but I can't hold this wine cup steadily, I don't know that my cousin is behind me, I actually offended my cousin." That's how it can be good. ”

Such a movement alarmed Emperor Wu, and when she saw that Taiping seemed to be saluting Wu Chenghe, she couldn't help but wonder and asked the chamberlain to come over and ask.