Sure enough, as Diancui expected, Lord Cui and his wife had the ingenuity to use this gold-inlaid jewel-inlaid pearl fish basket Guanyin as a birthday gift for Concubine Xu. It is said that this heart was also appreciated by the concubine, in order to show the heart of the Buddha, he ordered the palace maid to wear a hairpin with her on the spot, which attracted the dragon's heart.

On the birthday banquet of Xu Guifei, the saint issued a holy decree on the spot to crown Xu Guifei as the imperial concubine, and the Xu family was full of glory. The second prince was already favored, and now that the mother concubine has been promoted to the imperial concubine, the favor of the second prince has also reached its peak. On the other hand, the crown prince is weak, his own mother queen has passed away for many years, and the queen's maternal family is a military general, and there is no edict in the border pass. Although the prince has the name of the prince, he has not been able to be happy for many years.

"Am I doing something wrong with this gift of Guanyin?" Dian Cui saw that Yuan Zhiheng often frowned in recent days, knowing that he was worried about the affairs of the court. And that Guanyin is afraid that he will be connected with Lord Cui's family and even the imperial concubine.

It's fine if she is an ordinary head shop owner, but now she is the wife of the prefect of Hangzhou Prefecture, so it is inevitable that she will surrender to the second prince.

Yuan Zhiheng knew that she originally wanted to take advantage of the Cui family's birthday gift in Beijing to expand the shop's business. Yuan Zhiheng was afraid that she would think too much, so he pretended to comfort her easily:

"Now that the second prince is in full swing, it may be a blessing to be able to borrow his power, the crown prince is weak, and it is still unknown who the future son of heaven will be. According to the trend of the past few days, the second prince has a better chance of winning. I wait for my subordinates to just go with the flow, if we can really catch the ship of the second prince, it is probably the will of God. ”

Diancui listened to him talk about the court like this, and ran to close the doors and windows in horror, and came back in shock. Yuan Zhiheng looked at her like this, and he couldn't help it.

Diancui glanced at him complainingly, and snorted: "Don't laugh at Xianggong, I knew that you and a few righteous brothers didn't like the second prince." Don't try to coax me, besides, in the end, the crown prince ascended the throne, if you get on the ship of the second prince, sooner or later you will not recover......"

Diancui was scared, because he said it too quickly, and he didn't think about telling what he knew in his previous life.

"What did you say?" Yuan Zhiheng was taken aback and reprimanded in a low voice: "Such disrespectful words can't be said outside in the future, you know?" ”

Diancui was dumbfounded for a moment, and quickly looked at the doors and windows again, this party blushed and said I know, then don't use such words as a joke in the future, I am your lady, why can't you tell the truth.

To be a courtier who follows the crowd, Yuan Zhiheng said this, but he would never think like this in his heart. Diancui is his pillow person, how can it be unclear.

This is the first time that Yuan Zhiheng was said to be faceless by Diancui, and he was stunned for a long time, and then said seriously: "The lady is right, I shouldn't be so frivolous about this kind of big thing, and I won't be like this in the future." ”

I thought about casually talking about teasing her, but now I think about it, it's very inappropriate. Diancui is not an ignorant child, he is his mother, his self-righteous temperament should also be changed, in Diancui's serious and bright eyes, Yuan Zhiheng felt a little ashamed for the first time.

In order to hide the embarrassment, Yuan Zhiheng smiled and said that my lady is not an ordinary person, and she was drunk and gave those righteous brothers "a number of orders", and she actually taught you that it was almost the same, so I have been wondering, where did the ability of such unpredictable prophets come from?

Dian Cui was stunned, how could he think of that incident, Dian Cui's heart was empty, and he couldn't say that he was ugly for a long time, but fortunately, Yuan Zhiheng also explained to her: "I see that it came from wine, and the lady ate the wine, so ......"

Diancui blushed, went up and covered his mouth with his hand, and said don't say it again!

"Okay, don't say it, don't say it," Yuan Zhiheng said with a straight face: "If it can really be as you say, the prince has to become a great treasure, then it will be God's eyes." ”

Seeing him like this, Diancui gently shook his hand, and rest assured that what you and your righteous brothers think will come true.

In the inner room of Angelica Pavilion, Diancui flipped through the account books that had come these days, and the abacus crackled. Zhang Jiu and Dong Xue looked at the thick account book and the numbers of the abacus with excitement.

In the end, Diancui stopped, and Zhang Jiu said with a smile: "The owner is good, our income these days is enough to have 12,000 taels!" ”

Zhang Jiu has already calculated this account eight times, and every time he counts it, he is so happy that he can't keep his mouth shut. This kind of grand occasion is unprecedented in their shop, since the Emperor Xu Guifei on her birthday hairpin Angelica Pavilion of the gold inlaid jewel jade fish basket Guanyin provoked the heart, not only the nobles of the Hangzhou Mansion City have followed suit, come to the shop to buy new hairpins, even the neighboring mansions, and even the capital have nobles to drag people to buy!

It's no wonder that Zhang Jiu and others are so happy, if you want to say that you can sell such noodles in this world, now there is a family of Hangzhou Angelica Pavilion, and others are still unsurpassed.

Diancui nodded, and said I heard that the day before yesterday, a noble girl from the capital dragged someone to buy a pair of white jade flying noodles, I have been taking care of myself for the past few days, how can I forget our shop in the capital, Rose quickly went to copy the new style drawing of Dongxue and a reliable person escorted it all the way back to Beijing and handed it over to my mother's hands. After the second brother's incident, the days when we returned home were not as good as before, and I hope these can help my mother.

Dongxue solemnly said yes, this pattern is too important and precious, and there is no suitable candidate after thinking about it. In the end, Dongxue's husband Li Qingshan personally asked Dian Cui to escort these volumes back to Beijing, Dian Cui thought for a moment and agreed, and took two retinues with martial arts to accompany him and secretly went out of the city overnight.

Although Angelica Pavilion has made a lot of money now, Dian Cui is still a little anxious when he looks at the days, and sees that it will be Yuan Zhiheng's birthday in a few months. She has been working hard to give him a big gift on her father-in-law's birthday.

This gift requires a lot of silver.

"How's the house going?" Dian Cui summoned Du Xiaozhu and asked.

"Back to Mrs. Hui's words, the family that bought the Yuan family's house has never moved to live, and I wanted to buy it at that time not to live, in order to sell it at a good price."

Diancui nodded, the Yuan family's house was too big, if it weren't for his ancestral house, it would be a little inconvenient to live. There are wealthy families in this city who specialize in this kind of house business, and they usually buy houses from families who are in dire need of money, find the right time to sell them, and make an objective profit from them, and this kind of business can make a lot of money in a single order.

It's a pity that such a business is hard to come by, and Diancui can only sigh with admiration.

"Ma'am, I also heard that we have another family that wants to buy the house." Du Xiaozhu said in a low voice again.

"Oh? Which one? Diancui raised his eyebrows: "Don't they know that the house is the ancestral residence of the prefect?" ”

"I inquired, and the first person to contact the seller was a man surnamed Zheng, and this surname Zheng was the distant nephew of the original eldest lady."

Diancui slapped the table and sneered: "Who else did I say, it turned out to be them." At the beginning, the adults did not kill them all, but only drove them out of the Yuan family. It is not good to leave them alive and live incognito, and they dare to come out to be demons. ”

Rao is a little cui has a good temperament, and when he mentions those people, he will inevitably be disgusted.

"Your Excellency is merciful, I heard that when they left, they did not take the money and property of the Yuan Mansion privately." Du Xiaozhu said.

"Do you only have the idea of soft property in the house, and some of the farm shops outside must have been deceived and swallowed a lot." Dian Cui frowned, Yuan Zhiheng was young when he was kicked out of the Yuan Mansion, how could he know how much net worth the Yuan Mansion was. The Yuan Mansion has been controlled by them for many years, where is it so easy to get back everything that originally belonged to adults from them. Later, although they were driven away, I am afraid that what was given to adults at that time was an empty shell.

Diancui rubbed his forehead, I'm afraid it will be very difficult to get back everything that originally belonged to adults now, but the house can't fall into their hands anymore.

"Now that there are two families who want to buy that house, the attitude of the seller is different, and the price we have been negotiating should not work." Du Xiaozhu said indignantly.

"Don't worry about this matter for now, there are other things for you to do, go and call Miaozhu to me." Talking about business and doing business, Du Xiaozhu is not very good at it, but Miaozhu is different.

Diancui and Miaozhu analyzed the reason, and Miaozhu knew in her heart that this matter was indeed what she was good at.

After a long time, Miaozhu suddenly asked: "Master, if this matter is discussed as a business, the seller must want to strive for the greatest benefits, which is not good for us...... I wonder if we can borrow the momentum of adults? ”

The name of the prefect is there, and they should be afraid of it. But this matter is obviously a surprise that Mrs. wants to give to the adult.,Besides, the adult rarely participates in business matters.,It's a parent who cherishes feathers.。。

Dian Cui was open-minded, and said with a smile: "The potential is naturally to borrow, and they also have to know who they are dealing with, if they blindly avoid it, it will seem hypocritical." ”

She was originally the prefect's wife, why should she avoid it, she wants to buy a house, if others dare to fight with her, they have to ask whether the adults in his family are happy. is so arrogant, and I learned it from her family.

"You just have to do it, don't worry about the money, I'll solve it as soon as possible." Diancui gave her a reassuring fruit.

Nowadays, Angelica Pavilion's business is good, but it is still impossible to earn tens of thousands of silver taels in a short period of time.

"What did the master think of?" Miaozhu couldn't help but ask curiously.

"How about we try the silk business?" Although Dian Cui was asking, that look showed that he must do it.

Miaozhu became more and more curious: "If you talk about the silk business, it was a good business in the early years, but over the years, more and more silk shops have opened in the south of the Yangtze River, and they are about to catch up with the grain and rice shops." Moreover, in the past six months, the rain is abundant, the growth of silkworms is very good, and now it is time to harvest silk, this year's silk price will not be high, the price of silk is not high, and silk is especially cheap. ”

Diancui didn't expect Miaozhu to be so familiar with the silk business, and looked at her with burning eyes at the moment. Miaozhu saw her master looking at her like this, not only was she a little shy and blushed.

Now she has nothing else to distract from her studies, and she has a lot of fun from it.

"After the matter of the house is settled, you and Shopkeeper Liu will take care of the silk business for me." Diancui said firmly.

Miaozhu knew that her master was sure to do the silk business, so she immediately solemnly agreed.

Diancui looked at the clear sky and beautiful sun outside, it was rainy in the south of the Yangtze River, but there was not much rain in these days. Despite the fact that it was cooler than usual without rain, the occasional dark cloud seemed to be brewing an even greater storm.

But Diancui knew that two months later might not be a storm, but hail.

In her previous life, when she was an aunt, there was a year when the price of silk rose sharply, especially the best Hangzhou silk, which was hard to find in the major cloth and garment shops in the capital. The reason for this is that Jiangnan suffered two rare hailstorms, both of which occurred at night and did not cause casualties to humans and animals, and happened to be after the rice field was harvested, but it was a fatal blow to a crop.

That is the mulberry tree, the mulberry tree was discounted by hail, the mulberry leaves were broken, the silkworm had no food, and the number of silkworms naturally plummeted. Silk is very little this year, and it is difficult to find a hundred gold for a while.