As soon as Mu Ningxuan returned to her seat, Mu Ningmeng and Mu Ningyin came to Mu Ningxuan's side together: "Sister Xuan, you are so fragrant, what kind of incense pills do you use?" ”

The daughters of the boudoir are interested in nothing more than which family's clothes are good-looking, whose fragrance smells good, and whose rouge and gouache are good on their faces.

Mu Ningmeng was thirteen years old, and Mu Ningyin was eleven years old, and the two of them loved beauty very much.

Mu Ningxuan opened the purse on her waist, there were three small beads in it, Mu Ningxuan took out one and said: "This is the condensed fat incense in the palace, if the two sisters like it, I will send some with the two sisters when I go back." ”

Hearing that Mu Ningxuan said that she had to give some of the condensed incense in the palace to them, Mu Ningmeng and Mu Ningyin's eyes lit up, and they immediately smiled.

In fact, Mu Ningxuan deliberately put a relatively rich fat incense pill in the purse on her body that is only available in the palace.

Because Mu Ningxuan naturally had a faint body fragrance, Mu Ningxuan used clotted incense to cover the fragrance on her body.

At the banquet, Guo Zhenghuai, like in his previous life, only sat upright, occasionally ate two mouthfuls of food, and kept looking at them.

Mu Ningxuan knew that Guo Zhenghuai was looking at the third sister.

After three rounds of wine, the banquet was almost over, Mu Ningxuan was a little tired, so she retired first.

Guo Xiaoniang diligently asked Shen's mother beside her to lead the way and took Mu Ningxuan back to the room to rest.

In this life, the residence that Guo Xiaoniang arranged for Mu Ningxuan is still Liu Jutang.

Shen's mother told Mu Ningxuan that this Liujutang was the best house in Mu Mansion except for Mu Houye's residence.

Knowing that Mu Ningxuan was back, Guo Xiaoniang immediately asked someone to hurry up and clean up Liu Jutang.

All the things in Liu Jutang are selected and all are new, if Mu Ningxuan is not satisfied with anything or is not used to it, just bring it up.

Mu Ningxuan didn't say anything about Guo Xiaoniang's arrangement, she neither liked nor said she didn't like it, she didn't want to sing with Guo Xiaoniang at all in this life.

Mu Ningxuan raised her hand, and Xiaofu stuffed a big red envelope to Shen's mother in understanding.

The red envelope has some weight, and Shen's mother smiled and thanked Mu Ningxuan one after another, and then respectfully withdrew from Liu Jutang.

Finally can rest, Mu Ningxuan is really tired on this day, Xiaofu hurriedly asked Qiumo, the maid who arranged for the night today, to fetch water for Mu Ningxuan to wash, and Xiaofu helped Mu Ningxuan to take off her hairpin and remove her makeup before she went to the makeup world.

Qiu Mo stuffed Tang Pozi into the quilt, Xiaofu helped Mu Ningxuan change her clothes, and Mu Ningxuan got into the warm quilt and fell asleep after a while.

On the first night of returning to Mu's house, Mu Ningxuan slept very deeply and peacefully, still not dreaming anything.

The next day, Mu Ningxuan woke up early.

"County Lord, you're awake." A female envoy with a raw face stood in front of Mu Ningxuan.

Mu Ningxuan knew that there would be such a thing, so she sat up slowly and asked coldly, "Who are you?" ”

Chunyan's face was terrified, and she immediately knelt down and said, "The slave maid is called Chunyan, and Guo Xiaoniang called her to serve the county lord." ”

Mu Ningxuan said coldly: "Chunyan, you go and call Xiaofu in." ”

"Yes." Chunyan got up and went out.

After a while, Xiaofu walked in with a basin of hot water.

"County Lord, are you okay, the subordinates of this Mu Mansion are also out of order, and they ran to you while the slaves and maids went out to carry water." Xiao Fu is angry.

Mu Ningxuan advised: "Xiaofu, my close matter, only you, Qiu Mo and Yutang are served, and more than a dozen palace people given by the official family will arrange some idle jobs in the courtyard, as for the people arranged by Guo Xiaoniang, you let them all stand in the garden and wait, I have something to ask them later." ”

"Yes, the slave knows."

Xiaofu waited for Mu Ningxuan to finish dressing and freshening up.

Liu Jutang's small kitchen sent hot porridge and some steamed buns, millet cakes and other breakfasts, but Mu Ningxuan didn't have much appetite and didn't use much.

In the courtyard of Liujutang, there was a row of people standing, all of whom were arranged by Guo Xiaoniang in Liujutang.

Mu Ningxuan changed her clothes and walked out of the inner room, and the little maid moved a high-backed armchair carved of mahogany and put it in front of Mu Ningxuan, and moved a stone table to put next to the chair.

Yutang helped Mu Ningxuan to sit down slowly, Qiu Mo took a cup of tea and put it on the stone table, and then stood side by side with Xiaofu behind Mu Ningxuan.

Aunt Su turned around and lowered her head and said to Mu Ningxuan: "County Lord, all the people arranged by Guo Xiaoniang in Liujutang are here. There are six people in total, two second-class maids, two third-class maids, and two small maids. ”

The maids kowtowed to Mu Ningxuan together and asked for a salute, these two little maids did not muddy the waters in Liujutang, but just in case, Mu Ningxuan was not prepared to leave them.

Mu Ningxuan said to them expressionlessly: "This county lord only uses his own people, before this county lord comes, you will keep Liu Jutang in good order, which is very good." Here's some bounty, so take it and disperse. Mu Ningxuan beckoned, and Xiaofu took out a plate, and there were many silver ingots on the plate.

Looking at a plate full of silver ingots full of white flowers, the maids were all red and overjoyed.

Originally, they didn't want to listen to Guo Xiaoniang, so they sped on Mu Ningxuan in private or blocked Mu Ningxuan, but now Mu Ningxuan directly didn't want them, which was a good thing for them.

Not long after disposing of Guo Xiaoniang's subordinates arranged in Liujutang, Steward Cao, who was beside Mu Houye, came over to pass the word and asked Mu Ningxuan to come over.

***

Den.

"Xuan'er visits her father." As soon as Mu Ningxuan entered the study, she knelt down in front of Mu Houye.

Mu Hou Ye helped Mu Ningxuan up: "Xuan'er, get up, you have suffered all these years." ”

Mu Ningxuan smiled slightly: "My daughter is not bitter, has my father been healthy all these years?" ”

"It's all good, it's all good." Mu Hou Ye nodded and said.

Mu Ningxuan said in a low voice: "Father, my daughter thought that she would always stay in the palace, and she would never see her father in her life." ”

When Mu Hou Ye heard this, he thought that she had experienced so much when she was only fourteen years old, and felt a little guilty in her heart, and said in a kind tone: "Good boy, even if the Queen Mother and her old man did not die this time, and the official family did not let you come back, my father would come to the official family to ask you back." ”

Mu Ningxuan said softly: "Father can be so kind to Xuan'er, Xuan'er is very grateful in her heart. It is really unfilial to not be able to be by my father's side all these years.

Last year, the Queen Mother gave her daughter some good fox skins, Xuan'er made a big one for her father, I don't know if my father is wearing the right size, father, you wait to try, if the size is different, Xuan'er will take it back and change it. ”

Mu Ningxuan called Xiaofu, who was standing outside the door, and brought the fox fur in there.

Although in the previous life, Mu Hou Ye was still a bastard father.

In this life, Mu Ningxuan didn't plan to expect anything from this bastard father.

However, Mu Ningxuan still made a fox fur for her father, even if it was to thank him for giving him this life~

Mu Houye's face was full of relief, and he smiled: "My father didn't know that you could also needle and thread, your two younger sisters are as old as you, and now they only know how to play, and they don't know anything." ”

Mu Ningxuan naturally knew that the two younger sisters her father said were the fourth sister and the fifth sister, but only the third sister was left behind, Lan Xiaoniang's embroidery was excellent, and the third sister naturally stopped talking, but there was no one in her father's eyes.

It is now a cold winter, and although there is a charcoal brazier burning in the house, the winter in the south is wet and cold, and no matter how much cotton clothes you wear, it is not cold-resistant.

When Mu Hou Ye put the fox fur on his body, he felt very warm, the size of the big hair was just right, and Mu Hou Ye's heart was even warmer.

"Father, where has the big brother gone, why hasn't Xuan'er seen him all this time." Mu Ningxuan asked while helping her father take off the fox fur, she also asked the same question in her previous life.

Mu Hou Ye said: "Your eldest brother has gone out to do things in the past few days, and he will be back in two days." ”

"Oh." Mu Ningxuan replied lightly.

Seeing Mu Ningxuan's disappointed face, Mu Hou Ye couldn't help but smile and said, "Speaking of which, you and your eldest brother haven't seen each other for eight or nine years, and as soon as your eldest brother comes back, I will ask him to come to see you." ”

"Thank you, father." Mu Ningxuan said with a smile.

Mu Hou Ye said solemnly: "Xuan'er, you just came back, I don't know the situation at home, and now Guo Xiaoniang is taking care of the family."

Although she is a concubine, in her father's heart, Guo Xiaoniang is virtuous and virtuous for a long time, just because your grandmother made her father swear in the ancestral hall that she would never marry Guo Xiaoniang as a wife, so your mother has been dead for so long, and her father has not corrected her.

Over the years, Guo Xiaoniang has worked hard to take care of the entire Mu family, and you have more respect for her. ”

Mu Ningxuan's face was slightly cold and said: "Father, don't worry, as long as Guo Xiaoniang abides by her duty, Xuan'er will not embarrass her." ”

Seeing that Mu Ningxuan's face changed, Mu Hou Ye didn't say anything more, although he said to Mu Ningxuan like this that he had always spoiled Guo Xiaoniang, but from the bottom of his heart, he didn't quite approve of Guo Xiaoniang's concubine style, after all, Guo Xiaoniang's biological mother was just a concubine~

As soon as he returned to the door of Liu Jutang, Yutang came over to report that Aunt Su had already been waiting for Mu Ningxuan in Mingtang.

"Is there something wrong with Aunt Su?" Mu Ningxuan asked.

After the previous life, Mu Ningxuan had already regarded Aunt Su as her own.

"County lord, the slave wants to take you to familiarize yourself with the shops in Beijing as soon as possible, now there is not much incense left in the shops in Beijing, and the incense in the shops outside Beijing can last for another three months." Aunt Su said worriedly.

Mu Ningxuan pretended to be curious and asked, "Aunt Su, what is the name of the shop in Beijing?" ”

Aunt Su replied, "Treasure incense." ”

"Aunt Su, if it's okay today, let's go now." Mu Ningxuan looked at Aunt Su and said.

Aunt Su immediately nodded in agreement: "Okay, county master, the slave and maid will send someone to prepare the carriage." ”

Mu Ningxuan said: "By the way, Aunt Su, let Xiaofu send someone to my father's side to say that I want to go out for a walk and not come back for dinner at noon." ”

"Yes."

Aunt Su was just about to go out, but Mu Ningxuan suddenly thought that something had happened to the carriage used in the previous life, so she advised: "Also, let Xiaofu use my father's carriage." ”

In order to save time, Mu Ningxuan asked the Hou Mansion to open the side door on the west side.

After about a stick of incense, the carriage stopped at the door of the "Treasure Incense" shop.

Xiaofu carefully helped Mu Ningxuan out of the car, Mu Ningxuan looked up to see the plaque of the shop, and the three big words "Treasure Fragrance" on the plaque were particularly eye-catching.

Aunt Su led Mu Ningxuan into the shop.

"I'm sorry, today's incense is sold out, the shop has closed, let's come early tomorrow." The shopkeeper looked at the account book in his hand and didn't even lift his head.

Aunt Su cleared her throat and said in a loud voice: "You are the shopkeeper Sun?" ”

Shopkeeper Sun finally raised his head, looked at Aunt Su suspiciously, and wondered if he was here to find fault.

Over the years of operating "Treasure Incense", there are no longer a few people who find fault with the shopkeeper Sun, or the wives of the dignitaries and nobles did not buy the incense they wanted, and deliberately sent the small servants in the house to make trouble; Either the peers are red and secretly stumble.

However, "Zhenpinxiang" is not something that ordinary people can afford to provoke, usually encounter this kind of thing, and within a day, those who make trouble will be found out in public and sent directly to prison, and the sentence is extremely heavy.

Gradually, the whole capital knows that the background of "Zhenpinxiang" is hard and cannot be easily provoked.

Seeing that Aunt Su was a little unkind, Shopkeeper Sun responded lightly: "Yes, I am Shopkeeper Sun." ”

Shopkeeper Sun didn't know Aunt Su, until Aunt Su took out a special waist card, Shopkeeper Sun was stunned for a moment, and immediately took them into the inner hall, and told the guys to watch outside the inner hall, don't rush to close the shop first.

Aunt Su helped Mu Ningxuan sit down in the middle of the inner hall, and then stood on both sides with Xiaofu.

"Shopkeeper Sun, this is the eldest daughter of the Mu family of the Marquis of Pingchang, the county lord Ning Xuan."

The shopkeeper Sun knelt down with a "poof", and said: "The little one to meet the county lord, the little man just has eyes and does not know Mount Tai, I received the news a few days ago, and the little one has been looking forward to it, I don't think you really came over in person, it is really a lifetime honor for the little one." ”

Mu Ningxuan smiled and asked the shopkeeper Sun to get up, and said slowly: "How many days can the incense in the shop in the capital last?" ”

"The little one doesn't dare to hide it, the incense of the shop in the capital can only last for five days at most, this is the account book, please take a look at it."

Shopkeeper Sun handed the account book to Aunt Su, who took it and handed it to Mu Ningxuan to check.

Mu Ningxuan glanced at the income and expenditure of the silver money in the last half month. Obviously, in order to keep the store up for more time, in recent days, the daily incense sold has decreased by about 30% compared with before.

"You've done a great job, Aunt Su, reward." Mu Ningxuan put down the account book and said.

Aunt Su took out the silver purse prepared in advance and gave it to Shopkeeper Sun, and took out two lighter ones and asked Shopkeeper Sun to give them to the two men outside.

Shopkeeper Sun got the heavy purse and immediately kowtowed to thank him: "Thank you to the county lord, the little ones must be on an errand and loyal to the county lord." ”

Mu Ningxuan said with a smile: "Get up, the incense in the store will continue to sell normally, and in two days, a batch of new incense will be shipped." ”

Yes, with the words of the county lord, the small ones are relieved, and the small ones have been operating the "Treasure Fragrance" for many years, and I hope that the "Treasure Fragrance" can continue to prosper. Shopkeeper Sun said with a smile.