Chapter 64: Mutual Disdain
"Why didn't King Yu directly ask his father to stop cooperating with Yongji Pharmacy and take such a measure?" Chu Yue'an asked suspiciously.
This is related to a regulation of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the royal family is not allowed to do business, and the people are not allowed to compete for profits, and all the businesses related to the royal family are managed by special imperial merchants. However, in private, many people from the royal family still bought various industries, but they didn't break it in the open. Chu Yueyun paused and said, "There is another point, Ninghou Mansion has been unable to make ends meet all these years, if it weren't for my uncle sending boxes of silver every year, how could Ninghou Mansion have the scenery it has today?" How could my father cut off my uncle's wealth with his own hands! β
"Now that I have the motive of the Zhao family's poisoning, I asked my uncle to check it out, and found some things, no wonder the expenses of the Hou Mansion are so big, it turns out that the Zhao family made a fake account and used the money of the Hou Mansion to supplement her mother's family!" Chu Yueyun snorted, "Her wishful thinking, although the Zhao family has some status in the capital by relying on the Jade Concubine, it is not a solid family, there is no foundation left by the ancestors, but it wants to maintain the prosperity on the surface, isn't there a big hole to fill?" I'm trying to tell my grandmother about it! β
Chu Yue'an picked up the teacup, took a sip and said with a light smile: "Don't worry about this matter for the time being, for grandmother, she still hopes that Chu Yuezi can marry a good family, for this matter, she will not deal with the Zhao family openly and ruin Chu Yuezi's reputation." I have to let my grandmother have to dispose of the Zhao family, and even my father can't protect it!"
"Cheng, I'll just listen to you about this." Chu Yueyun said.
The corners of Chu Yue'an's mouth hooked, and he smiled mysteriously: "I already have an idea in my heart about this matter, just wait and watch the show!" β
As he was talking, he heard a familiar voice coming from outside the door: "Here are Yue'an and Yueyun." β
"Brother Yan!" Chu Yueyun was overjoyed, "It's Brother Yan outside the door?" Come on in! β
After a while, I saw Shangguan Yan pushing the door in, with a smile on his face: "I just saw the star picker and the green finch at the door, thinking that you must be inside, you are really there!" Why are you so free today, coming out to eat? β
"I walked around with my second sister, and when I was tired, I came here to sit. Brother Yan, come here, let's eat together! Chu Yueyun warmly invited.
"I want to eat with you too, but I have an appointment, and my brother is still waiting for me!" Shangguan Yan's eyes rolled, "That my brother's friend, Qi Yuzhi is also here, do you want to go over to say hello to my eldest brother?" β
"Qi Yuzhi, the second son of the Qi Hou Mansion?" Chu Yueyun also became excited, and glanced at Chu Yue'an encouragingly, "Why don't we go over and say hello?" Second sister, aren't you curious about your fiancΓ© at all? β
Chu Yuean wiped his nose calmly: "It's not two eyes and one nose, what's there to be curious about?" I rushed over like this, and I thought I couldn't wait to be courteous! And even if you are courteous, others will not appreciate it, and it will become a joke! β
Chu Yueyun and Shangguan Yan glanced at each other, heard the ** taste in Chu Yue'an's words, and secretly wondered, they had never met each other, and this Qi Yuzhi's reputation was not bad, so there would be no misunderstanding!
Shangguan Yan asked, "Have you heard of anything?" β
"It's nothing, I just feel that it's not the time to meet yet, so as not to cause gossip."
Shangguan Yan was also open-minded, and said apologetically: "I think it's because I'm not thoughtful, if Yue'an doesn't want to see it, I won't force it, I'll invite you to drink together next time, I'll leave first!" β
"Okay."
Shangguan Yan left, and Chu Yueyun asked, "Why don't you go and meet Qi Yuzhi?" Aren't you curious? β
"Not curious." Chu Yue'an said lightly, "I've already seen it, it's not a good bird, it's not worth my trouble." This kind of goods, only Chu Yuezi is interested! β
Chu Yueyun understood it at one point, nodded and said, "Then your marriage contract?" β
"Didn't he want to marry me? As he wished, it was. Chu Yue'an smiled slightly.
Chu Yueyun looked at the gloomy smile on her face, goosebumps rose on her body, it seems that this second son of Qi is going to ask for more blessings!
Shangguan Yan went to the private room next door, and Qi Yuzhi asked, "You are getting bigger and bigger, tell us to wait!" β
In addition to Qi Yuzhi, there was also a man in a moon-white robe in the room, who looked very elegant and handsome, just like the straight bamboo of Cangshan, but a pair of eyes were slightly squinted, and when he looked closely, he hid a little cunning.
This person is Shangguan Yan's brother, the prime minister's son-in-law, Shangguan Xun.
"Guess who I met next door?" Shangguan Yan sat down and said.
Shangguan Xun hooked his lips: "The one who can make you deliberately mention it must be an ordinary person, could it be which son you like?" β
"Where is it that you are so an elder brother that you are in such a hurry to marry me off?" Shangguan Yan glanced at Shangguan Xun unhappily, "It's the second and third ladies of Ninghou Mansion." β
"Yo!" Shangguan Xun pretended to make a fuss and shouted, "Isn't that your fiancΓ©e Yuzhi?" I've seen the third lady a few times, smart and smart, presumably this second lady is not bad, right? β
Qi Yuzhi smiled disdainfully: "The second lady of Ninghou Mansion is crazy and vulgar, and her appearance is not good. β
"Qi Yuzhi, have you ever known her? Why do you say that? Shangguan Yan was uneven, "How can you judge people?" If you know her, you will know that she is a very interesting person, free and uninhibited, and has a hearty temperament. And she saved Old Madam Qi, how can she be said to be crazy and vulgar? Yuzhi, the way this husband and wife get along, after all, still depends on personality rather than appearance, you can try to understand her, maybe there will be unexpected surprises. β
"I don't have the heart to understand such a domineering and vicious woman, I know her farther than you, such a woman with a deep city, I'm afraid I won't be blessed in my life!" Qi Yuzhi sneered, "Although I have a marriage contract with her, she is not worthy of being my wife!" I will find someone I really like to stay with me for the rest of my life, but this person definitely can't be Chu Yue'an! β
Qi Yu's words were chiseled, and he gritted his teeth at Chu Yue'an, Shangguan Yan was secretly surprised, what happened between these two people? She was about to speak, but Shangguan Xun preemptively said: "Don't talk about this topic, in a while, it will be the annual Mid-Autumn Festival poetry meeting, I don't know if you are prepared?" This year's poetry meeting, I heard that the color head prepared in the palace is a colorful glass cup, and it is the most delicious to drink grape wine with this thing! β