Yu Qian lowered his eyes, "When I come back this time, several people in the court have already defected, I'm afraid this time, Your Majesty has the intention to weaken us!" We've got to get ready. ”

Yu Qingtan walked in front of him, looked at him fixedly, and said, "Brother, I'm afraid we'll be targeted."

"Tan'er, fortunately, you let the picture screen remind me, if it weren't for your reminder, I just came back and didn't prepare for the emperor, I'm afraid I will respond to the emperor, you don't have to worry about these problems, your brother is not in vain outside, I have my own arrangements, you can stay at home with peace of mind, and in a few days, when my father comes back, I will find you a wishful husband." Yu Qian looked at the worried Yu Qingtan and said.

Yu Qingtan shook his head slightly, "Brother, be careful, it's enough for me to have my brother and father." ”

"Tan'er's words are not right, you have your own way to go in the future, what my brother can do is to protect your safety at home and protect you with his strength outside." Yu Qian said that, and touched Yu Qingtan's head again dotingly.

I haven't seen him for a long time, and my sister is much more sensible.

"Well, everything is up to my brother." Yu Qingtan lowered his eyes, and his eyes were warm.

She also secretly said in her heart, I will also protect you!

Back in the room, Yu Qingtan looked at the picture of the clothes in front of the bed, and couldn't help muttering: "I hope to sleep well tonight."

……

When he woke up the next day, Yu Qingtan couldn't help but praise his thoughts!

This painting is really easy to use!

As soon as Yu Qingtan got up, he heard Yu Qian send someone to send a message, saying that he had sent someone to prepare in the house, and he had already sent someone to inform his father that he was going to marry Ning Ling.

Yu Qingtan couldn't help but feel strange that his brother had persuaded Miss Ning overnight.

In fact, with his father's character, Yu Qingtan felt that he would agree, although his father did not smile at his brother on weekdays, he also loved and cared for him, and his brother would discuss everything with his brother when he made decisions as an adult.

Yu Qian Xiwu, he asked his brother to practice martial arts, you know, it is difficult for a Wenchen to accept his own children as military attachés, and there is a sense of discrimination in his bones, but his father connived at his brother and found a master for him, which shows that he can make decisions based on his brother's preferences.

"Miss, it seems that there will be a happy event in our house soon." Liu Ying smiled after watching the person who reported for Yu Qian walk away.

Yu Qingtan thought of Ning Ling, and felt that the girl was not bad, her eyebrows were delicate, her little face was as round as an apple, and she didn't have the childish spirit of a small family when she spoke.

Thinking of this, Yu Qingtan instructed: "Liuying, you go and let Steward Chen prepare well, the dowry or something can't be missing, although the date of marriage is not determined now, but my brother's meaning should be that he will get married when his father comes back."

"Okay, slave and maid, let's go!"

After breakfast, Yu Qingtan went to Ning Ling's courtyard, and saw that Ning Ling was in good spirits, so he knew that she was resting well, and took her to visit the Taifu Mansion to familiarize her with the environment.

As soon as he finished visiting the mansion, Yu Qingtan was resting in the flower hall when he heard a report that the Hou Mansion had sent someone to ask for silver.

Yu Qingtan felt bad after hearing this, and hurriedly rushed to the front hall.

Mu Mu saw Yu Qingtan saluting respectfully and said, "Miss Yu, today Yu Gongzi scratched our Hou Ye's clothes, which are our master's favorite clothes, so I sent a villain to ask for silver."

"How much do you Hou Ye want?" Yu Qingtan sighed secretly in his heart.

I don't know how my brother provoked this ancestor.

Mu Mu squinted and said: "Hou Ye's clothes are golden cicada spinning silk, woven and forged by famous textile workers in Suzhou, and it is also a famous dyeing workshop made of high-quality madder red grass and other dyes, and then cut and formed by a famous tailor shop in Beijing, sewn by a first-class embroidery lady Yun Niang, its preciousness is self-evident, the villain calculates, the materials and workmanship, and the degree of love of our Hou Ye, your house needs to pay eight hundred and five taels!"

"Your Hou Ye's love is also silver?" Hotaru's eyes widened.

Mu Mu raised his head and said: "Hou Ye's love is divided into three, six, nine and so on, and the first one is five hundred taels!" This dress is our Hou Ye's beloved thing, and it is ranked first! ”

"But last time on the peach tree, your Hou Ye didn't set this rule!" Hotaru retorted.

Mu Mu couldn't help but feel amused when he saw Liuying's puffing appearance, "That's the rule that our Hou Ye just established." ”

"Your Hou Ye is obviously cheating!" Liuyi gritted her teeth and looked at the sparrow in front of her that was missing its tail.

She had never met such a clever and eloquent person, and it was the first time she had met such a thick-skinned master!

"Miss Liuying, don't talk nonsense, our Hou Ye is upright, sitting upright, where did the fraud come from."

Liuying was so angry that she couldn't speak, and she only stared at Mu Mu angrily for a while.

Yu Qingtan pondered his eyes for a long time before he said: "You said that my brother damaged your Hou Ye's clothes, and there is no certificate, I will wait for my brother to come back and verify before giving you a satisfactory answer."

"Our grandfather has been prepared for a long time." Mu Mu said, and let the clothes be taken out, and the red clothes could clearly see a small hole in the neckline.

Just when Yu Qingtan wanted to say something, he saw Yu Qian walking quickly from outside the door to Mu Mu, "Your Hou Ye is really thick-skinned, he cheated our family's silver before, and now he is coming to the pit again?" Is it true that the people in our house are easy to bully? ”

"Our Hou Ye said, this is the compensation of the Eight Classics, if you don't want to, then our Hou Ye can only find the prefect to solve this matter."

Yu Qian snorted coldly: "You guys are just too deceitful!" I just pulled his clothes, it's his clothes that are fragile, I don't believe that the prefect still lets you Hou Ye mess around! ”

"Brother, you dissipate your anger first." Yu Qingtan glanced at Yu Qian's attendant beside him and pulled him away, turned around and said to Mu Mu: "I already know about today's events, since my brother has torn your Hou Ye's clothes, three days later, we will definitely send the silver to the Hou Mansion."

Mu Mu listened to Yu Qingtan's words, and couldn't help but admire Yu Qingtan's bearing, and couldn't help but look at it twice: "If you have to work for the girl, the villain will leave first."

After Mu Mu left, Yu Qingtan asked, "Brother, did you have a conflict with Yongchang Hou?"

"Humph! I heard that the fox spirit had cheated you for more than 7,000 taels of silver a few days ago, so I went to question him, and he actually said that you liked him, and you gave it voluntarily! I was angry and pulled him by the neckline, but I didn't expect the vixen's clothes to tear as soon as they tore them! Speaking of this, Yu Qianhu looked at his sister suspiciously, "Tan'er, don't you really like that difficult vixen?" ”

Yu Qingtan didn't expect Qiao Yu to say what she said that day in front of her brother, and her cheeks couldn't help but flush.

After only a moment, she regained her expression, "Brother, you also know that Yongchang is difficult, which of the people he entangled, has retreated with his whole body?" I just don't want to provoke him, and the money is outside of my body, and I can earn it without it, but if I really lose my life like those people, or still squatting in prison, it will not be worth the loss. ”

Listening to Yu Qingtan's words, Yu Qian couldn't help but calm down a little, since he became an official, he had heard Qiao Yu's rumors, although he had been fighting abroad in the past few years, his father mentioned Qiao Yi's rumors in the letter.

But whoever is targeted by him really has no good end, just take the former Hubu Shangshu as an example, he impeached Qiao Yu countless times.

His Majesty turns a blind eye every time, who makes Qiao Yu have no relatives and no reason, except for Concubine Ruan next to him, who has adopted him for two years, he is the only one, and on weekdays, in addition to pit silver, make suggestions, he has no military power, and is also isolated by the court, Qiao Yu does not know how many external troubles he has secretly dealt with for him, His Majesty also has the right to be Qiao Yu is a door god, anyway, he will not move this Qiao Yu, who was isolated by the whole court and was infamous, on the contrary, he admires his personality.

The Hubu Shangshu mocked him in front of Qiao Yu like the head card of the Goolan Courtyard, which also completely annoyed Qiao Yu, and on the second day, Qiao Yu found a reason to detain the Hubu Shangshu, and within a few days, the Hubu Shangshu found evidence of fornication with the criminal son of the former Chu Emperor, and was beheaded.

There is also the son of General Zhao, who insulted him in front of everyone, and was cut off by a group of people on the second day.

"Today's business is up to him." Yu Qian held back his anger.

Seeing that Yu Qian's anger was unbearable, Yu Qingtan blinked his eyes and said: "Brother can let it go, I'll deal with this matter, my brother has accompanied Miss Ning around in recent days, so that she can be familiar with the capital, she will be my sister-in-law in the future, and she will live here with us for a long time."

"Well, Miss Ning is here for the first time, I did neglect this matter, but in the past few days, my colleagues have set up a banquet for me to pick up the wind, and I can't be free, so I will take her out of the house to go shopping in a few days." When Yu Qian mentioned this, his anger gradually dissipated, and he turned to a subtle gentleness in his eyes.

Yu Qingtan watched his brother's expression change, and he understood a little in his heart, so he didn't say anything more, just turned around and asked someone to find Steward Chen, and instructed him to find someone and let Ning Ling choose a few maids to serve him.

After giving the order, Yu Qingtan came to the study.

Yu Qingtan picked out five of her favorite paintings and calligraphy for a long time, and hesitated for a long time before saying, "Let's go out of the house."

"Do you want to go out of the house with these paintings?" Picture screen asked in surprise.

Yu Qingtan pursed her lips, "Selling paintings." ”

"But these paintings are your favorites!"

She knew that the Taifu Mansion was short of silver taels, but she never thought that Miss would sell her favorite paintings!

Yu Qingtan shook his head, "Let's go, keep it and keep it, it's better to sell it to someone who is destined." ”

In fact, she hesitated for a long time before deciding to sell these paintings, last night Steward Chen had already reported to her, there was not much savings in the house, and the expenses in the house were large, Yu Lan'er since she entered the house, she had to eat bird's nest shark fin and other precious supplements every day, saying that she had been used to it since she was a child.

There is not much money every month, although the reward silver that my brother brought back last night is stored in the treasury of the house, but she has to keep it for her brother, which he fought hard to come back, and she can't move!

Putting this aside, it can now be said that most of the Taifu Mansion has accumulated into Qiao Yu's pocket.

If she doesn't do something about it, I'm afraid that when her brother gets married, the Taifu Mansion will not be able to come up with the money to buy it.

Yu Qingtan simply freshened up, only lightly applied a light layer of rouge, and changed into an inconspicuous blue and red cloud brocade pleated skirt. A pair of gilded tassel hairpins between the hairpins looks simple and elegant.

It was close to noon when he came to Wenzhai, and Yu Qingtan walked straight to the second floor.

On the first floor, there are some ordinary calligraphy treasures on display, and on the second floor are precious calligraphy and paintings.

Wenzhai is a famous calligraphy and painting trading place in Beijing, so there are many guests on the second floor.

Seeing Yu Qingtan's figure, the shopkeeper immediately put down the affairs at hand and came to Yu Qingtan's side with a smile, "Miss Yu, why are you free to come over today." ”

"Well, I came here today, in fact, I wanted to ask the shopkeeper for one thing." Yu Qingtan said, looking around.

The shopkeeper looked at the eyes of the guests who came and went from time to time, and couldn't help but signal her to enter the private room to talk in detail.