It seems that he didn't expect Jiang Yan to say this, Bai Pengfei stared at her, and his eyes showed a little sadness: "At the banquet today, I can see it all, Concubine Xian has long regarded you as a daughter-in-law, so you said so many ruthless words before, you want to break off your relationship with me, yes or no?" ”

"Brother Bai, good birds still know how to fold trees and perch, and people naturally want to climb on the highest branches." Jiang Yan stretched her voice and smiled, and there was a hint of arrogance at the corners of her eyes and eyebrows.

Bai Pengfei looked at her in confusion, every expression of her, every movement, and even every fold on her clothes was so familiar, but it also made people feel extremely cold and unfamiliar.

"Swallow, have you changed, or have I never recognized you?"

"I once promised that in the past, I will definitely win fame, and now the official worships the second grade, the future is bright, and our Bai family is full of loyalty, and the title is hereditary, you can marry in and directly seal the second grade Haolife, wear gold and silver all your life, enjoy it endlessly, why are you not satisfied, you have to climb the emperor's grace?"

"It's just a second-grade fate, how can I be worthy of the title of 'Kyoto's first talented woman', the swallow is conceited and beautiful, and she is talented, if you want to marry, you naturally want to marry a person who is under one person and above ten thousand people." Jiang Yan smiled smugly, her stunning face became dazzling and dazzling because of the curvature of the corners of her lips.

Bai Pengfei listened to this, and smiled with regret and disappointment: "I don't know, it turns out that you think like this in your heart?" ”

Jiang Yan's beautiful eyes raised slightly, and she comforted each other softly: "Brother Bai, you have a good family background and are considerate, what kind of woman do you want?" And what about my Jiang family? To put it bluntly, I'm just a coated servant of Prince Rui's mansion, and besides, I'm eighteen years old this year, and I'm long past the age when my daughter's family left the cabinet, so I don't want to wait. ”

"I heard that after a hundred years, the emperor will entrust the country to Prince Rui, and it just so happens that the concubine also has the intention of letting me marry into Prince Rui's mansion as a side concubine, which is a great opportunity for me to leap into the dragon gate. So I don't want to miss it, you know, with my talent, even if I am not qualified to be the queen of the world in the future, I will definitely be able to be a concubine who is loved by three thousand. So I beg you, Brother Bai, don't entangle with me anymore, the right should be fulfilled for me! ”

After listening to Jiang Yan's words, Bai Pengfei seemed to have been slashed by the thunder on the top of his head, and he was stunned on the ground, only to feel that the howling cold wind was like a sharp sword that cut his heart, cutting his hot heart inch by inch.

"Jiang Da Beauty's ambition is like a bird, Bai knows that he can't climb high, I wish you all the best from now on, and enjoy wealth and honor forever!" He tried his best to straighten his back, threw his sleeves away, and when he turned around, a layer of moisture appeared in the corners of his eyes, leaving only Jiang Yan's master and servant confused in the cold wind, and the future was uncertain!

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Bai Pengfei and Jiang Yan, a scene that was even more exciting than the drama, fell into the eyes of the other person, but it turned into a bottomless color of jealousy, only to see Lingxi hanging a gloomy little face, silently following behind Ming Shen and Rong Lu, biting his lower lip and resentful!

"You seem to have a lot of emotion about that scene just now?" Rong Lu looked at Ming Shen's side face and asked with a light smile.

Ming Shen turned around slowly, looking at Bai Pengfei's back disappearing into the snow, and complex thoughts suddenly surged in his heart: "Don't ask for priceless treasures, it's rare to have a lover, Bai Pengfei is a very infatuated man, it's a pity, that Jiang Yan is too blessed, if I were her......"

"How?" Rong Lu interrupted her words and asked meaningfully, "Is it difficult?" You are also like Jiang Yan, and you were stopped halfway? ”

"Where did I get such a good blessing from her? She is a talented woman in Kyoto, and even the emperor praised her as 'talented and clean and self-beautiful', how can I compare with a concubine? Ming Shen lowered her eyelashes and smiled slightly sourly.

"It's so sour!" The smile in Rong Lu's eyes came up little by little, and he asked jokingly, "Jealous?" ”

Ming Shen turned his face away, stroked the pearl and jade tassel hanging from the side of the bun, and laughed at himself: "I can't have a relationship with that Jiang Yan's eight poles, what kind of vinegar do you eat from her?" ”

"Still hard-mouthed?" Rong Lu walked up to her, lowered his voice and said, "Is it really that the eldest brother can't see it?" Today, the emperor made things so difficult for you, just to warn you not to provoke Prince Rui, and used Jiang Yan to give you a disadvantage, such painstaking efforts, it can be seen that the relationship between you and Prince Rui is extraordinary! ”

Ming Shen smiled bitterly: "The left and right are just thinking about the love of their cousins, so they are getting closer!" ”

After hearing this, he hesitated a little, but Rong Lu still opened his mouth worriedly: "What cousin, I deceived others, but I can't fool my eldest brother, before you left the cabinet, you haven't even seen his face, how can you be affectionate?" Four girls, you can't be confused in this matter, if you violate the emperor's taboo because of this, it will be tantamount to setting yourself on fire, and the most important thing for us at the moment is how to win over Prince Duan, not ......"

"Big brother doesn't need to say it anymore, my sister knows how to measure!" Ming Shen interrupted him and diverted the topic: "Let's talk about something serious, has that old fox of Jin Wanchuan taken the bait?" ”

Speaking of this, Rong Lu suddenly turned from worry to joy, and chuckled: "The Jin family has dreamed of giving up the business of Qinglou Gambling House all these years, and doing a few elegant and clean businesses such as silk tea or antique calligraphy and painting to raise their status, and they are very eager to make friends with a big chamber of commerce like "Hongfeng", but unfortunately there is no way out, so we sent Du Yunfan to find him under the name of 'Hongfeng', he is too late, how can he not take the bait?" ”

Hongfeng, the overlord of the business world, it is said that the backer of the owner is the imperial court, not only monopolizes the silk tea, antique calligraphy and painting and other businesses, but also monopolizes all kinds of mining and Caoyun, etc., which can be said to have mastered half of the world's lifeblood, rich and rival the country, and has become a towering tree that all commercial houses want to cling to!

However, the members of 'Hongfeng' are all mysterious and unpredictable, and their behavior is also low-key and abnormal, and it is said that they rarely make friends with outsiders, so many merchants who want to make alliances and become shareholders cannot find a way.

It is precisely because of this that Ming Shen dared to boldly use the gold-lettered signboard of 'Hongfeng' to lure Jin Wanchuan to take the bait.

She first ordered Du Yunfan, the steward of Yangzhou, to use a few Yuhua brocade, a specialty of Nan'an, to negotiate with Jin Wanchuan at a price lower than the market, but the premise was - money before goods.

Jin Wanchuan rushed to the gold-lettered signboard of 'Hongfeng', and handed over five hundred taels of silver without any doubt, who knew that when the goods were delivered to the door, Yuhua brocade turned into thin cotton satin, and his nose was crooked on the spot, and he hurriedly went to find Du Yunfan's theory.

Du Yunfan had no choice but to say with a smile that the 'Hongfeng' family has a big business, and it is inevitable that there will be mistakes and omissions to prevaricate him, and then said that the century-old rule of money before goods cannot be broken, and suggested that he first pay five hundred taels of silver to buy this batch of cheap Hua Yujin, and after he returns the matter to the owner in the next few days, he will definitely return the silver to him twice.

When Jin Wanchuan heard Du Yunfan talk about returning the silver twice, his anger suddenly subsided, and he immediately took out five hundred taels of silver to buy Huayu brocade, thinking: Anyway, one thousand taels will be returned to him at that time, which means that he will get two hundred horses of Huayu brocade and two hundred thin cotton satin for nothing without spending a penny, why not?

Ming Shen was able to grasp Jin Wanchuan's greedy and cheap mentality, so he ordered Du Yunfan to send him thin cotton satin again and again, Jin Wanchuan gradually became difficult to ride a tiger, and he was reluctant to put the silver into it before, so he was lucky, thinking that 'Hongfeng' would definitely return the money to him, and then greed was like a snowball, which became bigger and bigger, prompting him to be fooled again and again, and took out all the silver of Baihuahua.

It's a pity that Jin Wanchuan spent nearly 10,000 taels of silver, or didn't buy a horse of Huayu Brocade, which seems to be very cheap, but it has pit two-thirds of the liquidity of Jin's Commercial Bank, which directly makes Jin's Commercial Bank face a crisis of stagnation.

Thinking of this, a trace of revenge passed through Ming Shen's heart, and he raised his lips and smiled faintly: "Yangzhou Commercial Bank sent that batch of defective thin cotton satin that can't be sold, how much is left now?" ”

Rong Lu said with a smile: "There are only two hundred horses left, but Jin Wanchuan seems to have become suspicious, these days he has been shouting that he has to meet the owner of 'Hongfeng', and he also threatened that if the owner does not come forward to return the money and exchange the goods, he will go to report to the official, I thought about it and decided to go to meet him for a while, and stabilize him first!" ”

"No!" Ming Shen shook it, pursed his lips and smiled: "My brother is the eldest son of the General's Mansion, and he serves in the Ministry of War, there are not a few people in Kyoto who know you, and Jin Wanchuan has always been supported by Prince Duan, and his connections in Kyoto will inevitably not be less, so in order to prevent being recognized, it is better for the eldest brother not to show his face, as for him to see the owner, I must go out in person, by the way, I have also solved the big trouble in my brother's heart!" ”

Rong Lu pondered for a moment and asked, "Even if you are dressed as a man, how can you get out of the deep mansion compound of the palace?" ”

"I have my own way, eldest brother doesn't have to worry, as long as I remember that on the day of the Shangyuan Festival, I asked Princess Heshuo to go to the palace to visit the lantern temple fair." Ming Shen chuckled and whispered a few words in his ear, and then took Lingxi's hand and walked towards the west door.