On the sixth day of the first month of winter, Wen Zhesang and his entourage successfully entered Shangjing, and soon separated from Shui Yanwei and returned home. Li Dong and others sent Wen Zhesang directly outside the Shangshu Mansion before going to General Wei's Mansion to restore his life.

"It's the eldest lady who is back!" The family outside the mansion hurriedly spread the news into the mansion.

The eldest daughter's return home is a big event, Wen Zhesang's personal maid Dongyue was the first to rush to greet her, followed by the busy maid.

Wen Zhesang saw at a glance that she was a little different today, and when she looked around, the clothes of the people in the house had changed to new ones, and all of them were beaming with joy on their faces, as if they were celebrating the New Year.

"Is my father at home now? Have you had a happy event lately? Dongyue took a group of maids to hug Wen Zhesang, and when she heard her words, she replied, "The lord went out for a banquet today, and he has not returned yet." Ten years ago, Aunt Zhuang gave birth and gave birth to a son, and the lord was happy, so he rewarded the whole house, and the slaves and maids added new clothes and two taels of silver. Aunt Zhuang's courtyard served an extra five taels of silver. ”

Wen Zhisang paused in his steps and turned to his yard. "It is indeed a happy event to add Ding to the house. Let's send some supplements later. ”

Dongyue nodded in response, and hesitated: "Actually, the master has already sent a lot of things over, Aunt Zhuang's son is the eldest son, and her status is very unusual, but now Aunt Zhuang is a poor mother and a child." The slave maid also heard that the people in Aunt Zhuang's courtyard said that she wanted to ask the master to raise his wife. The eldest lady had returned home a few days ago, and the slaves and maids were supposed to go to the city gate to greet them today, but the lord was only happy and didn't arrange this at all. The slaves and maids are only subordinates, so they can only wait for the eldest lady in the house. ”

Wen Zhesang didn't feel angry when she heard this, when she was in Qingfeng County, she learned that Aunt Zhuang was pregnant, and she thought that there might be such a result, her father's high-ranking official Houlu Ronghua and wealth lacked nothing, and the only regret was that no son could inherit the family business. Now that I have got what I wanted, I am overjoyed. "After all, he is the only son of his father, and his father naturally regards it like a treasure. But even so, you can't make my father dizzy, you just pick out those supplements and send them, tell Aunt Zhuang the news of my return home, and probe her tone. ”

"Yes, the slave knows."

After leaving for nearly a year, when Wen Zhesang came back, he found that Shangshu Mansion was still so cramped and silent. It's not like the yamen in Qingfeng County at all, although she was entangled in trivial matters at that time and often slept at night, but there were ordinary people's fireworks and ordinary noises.

Wen Zhisang has always known what he really wants, and he also knows what he doesn't want.

The maids in the yard have been allocated a lot to other courtyards in this small year, and only the big girl Dongyue has been kept. But when he really returned to the yard and saw a few maids, Wen Zhesang was still a little surprised, and Dongyue hurriedly said: "Aunt Zhuang gave birth a few days ago, and borrowed a lot of people from our yard, and at this time she has not put people back, and the slave maid estimated that she knew that the eldest lady was coming back and deliberately wanted to make the eldest lady angry."

Speaking of this, Dongyue is so angry, since Aunt Zhuang is pregnant, she has nothing to do all the time, and often goes to the eldest lady's yard to show off her might, and borrows people to go under various excuses. This time it's even worse, knowing that the eldest lady is going to return home and still holding people up, it's really infuriating.

Wen Zhesang pressed her eyebrows, nearly two months of travel fatigue had already made her physically and mentally exhausted, and now she couldn't live in peace when she returned home, even if she was beaten with iron, she was tired, not to mention that she was just a mortal. Aunt Zhuang didn't know what Aunt Zhuang was thinking, she was just tired of dealing with the intrigues of the women in the back house.

She is too tired of living with people and wrongs, calculating with each other. Today, she stepped into the house with just a stick of incense, but she already had the intention of running away.

But no, she didn't have the ability to escape from this cage yet. She still has to continue to fight, continue to fight, at least, she will never let other women become "Mrs. Wen Shangshu".

Seeing that she was tired, Dongyue hurriedly asked the maid to clean up the bed, "The eldest lady must be tired from running all the way, you go to rest first, and the slave will go to Aunt Zhuang's yard with gifts." ”

"Bring back the person she detained." Wen Zhisang said tiredly, "Rengui has self-knowledge, she should be treated what she is, if she wants to raise his wife, it depends on whether he has that qualification." ”

"Yes, slave and maid are going!" Winter Moon Road.

Wen Zhesang slept for most of the day, and the dark sky began to fall snowflakes at some point. The lamp has been lit in Shangshu's mansion, and the fine snowflakes are revealed under the lamplight, fluttering and falling to the ground, spreading a layer of snow white with a subtle body.

There was a charcoal fire burning in the house, and the heat was like a spring day.

Dongyue came in with ginseng tea and said, "The slave maid brought everyone back according to the instructions of the eldest lady, Aunt Zhuang refused at first, and then she was relieved when the slave maid moved out of the eldest lady, but she was very annoyed when she looked at it." In the afternoon, the master came, and the slave said that you were resting, and the master said that if you woke up before dinner, you would go to the main courtyard to eat, and if you did not wake up, you would go again tomorrow. ”

Wen Zhesang bowed: "What time is it?"

Dongyue: "It's time, is the eldest lady hungry, but what do you want to eat?"

At that time, it was already past dinner time.

Wen Zhesang said casually: "It's not appropriate to eat more at night, let the small kitchen cook some casually."

"This ......," Dongyue hesitated, and said, "After Aunt Zhuang gave birth, she said that she was not used to eating the things made in the back kitchen of the house, and I heard that the eldest lady's small kitchen was delicious, so she also ...... Borrowed it. ”

"She didn't want me to feel better." Wen Zhesang drank ginseng tea and thought for a moment before saying, "It's better to bring people back, if she eats something from the small kitchen one day, who should be responsible?" She sees me as a thorn in her side, but it's not as simple as she says it. ”

In the end, Wen Zhesang only ate a bowl of somen noodles.

I slept most of the day during the day, but I didn't sleep at night. Wen Zhesang simply thought about how to get Xie Yikou in touch with the emperor. After meeting Xie Yikou yesterday, Wen Zhesang has been unstable in her heart, she intuitively feels that there is an ulterior secret hidden in Shangjing, but at the feet of the Son of Heaven here, it is heavily guarded, and she really can't think of anyone who dares to make a mistake here.

The snow was falling heavier and heavier, and the sound of snow crushing bamboo branches could be heard in the middle of the night.

On the sixth day of the first month of winter, it snowed heavily in Beijing.

As soon as Wen Zhesang opened the window in the morning, he was amazed by the snow-covered scenery outside. I remember the last time I saw such a heavy snowfall on the day I left Uekyo last year. That day was also full of snow, the world was lonely, she left home without hesitation, left the cage, and went to Qingfeng County, which is thousands of rivers and mountains.

When Dongyue came in, she saw her standing by the window stunned, and the cold wind blew into the room, freezing people's bones stiff. Dongyue hurriedly pulled her away, and said while closing the window: "The snow is heavy and cold today, you don't want to be here now, what if you suffer from the wind chill because of this?"

Wen Zhesang walked away with a smile, took a cloak and put it on, "When I was in Qingfeng County, Dongxue was in charge of me, and when I came back, you also took care of me, like two housekeepers." ”

Dongyue came over to help her tidy up her clothes, and only laughed when she heard this, "The eldest lady has always been the only two of us to serve, and you don't like to use it next to you, so the slaves and maids can't do their best." But why didn't the winter snow come back this time? ”

mentioned Dongxue, Wen Zhesang told her with a soft face about her delicate and straightforward little maid and her various feelings with the master of Yamen Xiucai.

Dongyue was stunned when she heard this, and her face was slightly red: "She, she actually ......"

Wen Zhesang smiled and put on his hood, pushed the door out, and stepped on the snow with a soft "creaking" sound. Dongyue hurriedly held an umbrella to catch up, but her face was thin red and she didn't say anything all the way.

At the gate of the capital, the snow on the streets has already been cleared, and the steaming heat in the shops is very warm. He Qiuping, dressed as a businessman, and his party sat in the roadside bun shop and waited for someone.

"I'm going to take you to meet someone today." He Qiuping has completely changed his name when he talks to Xie Yikou now, and Xie Yikou also knows that when they first met, this person was pretending to call "Brother Xie", so he didn't care about this change.

"See whom?" Xie Yikou bit the flesh and said vaguely, "You guys are really good at doing business, and there are people in Shangjing." The identity we use is also solved by that person? ”

He Qiuping didn't want to say more, "You'll know when the time comes." ”

Xie Yikou glanced at him, "Wouldn't you know if you knew it early or late?" In the future, if you Brother Xie becomes the person in the palace, you will make him a prince. As for you, how about making you a general? Happy or unhappy? ”

He Qiuping glanced at him and simply closed his eyes to recuperate.

Shang Nanyun sneered: "If you keep these words on your lips all day long, you won't want to cover up Mizhang to confuse us, right?" Besides, you're going to really be a ...... That's just a puppet, do you really think of yourself as a prince and grandson? ”

Xie Yikou wiped his mouth and disagreed with her very much, "Who can say for sure?" Maybe I'm really that, they don't all think so anyway, otherwise how would they kill so many of my brothers to warn me? Poor thing, dozens of lives have been my stepping stones. ”

His expression was calm, and his words were frivolous, as if he had accepted the fact that he had become a thief in the past two months, and even those who died because of him had been brushed aside by him, as if they were not worth mentioning.

Shang Nanyun couldn't get used to his appearance, and he didn't have the appearance of Xie Zhutou before. "Cold-blooded and ruthless." Shang Nanyun scolded in a low voice. Now in her eyes, Xie Yikou is an out-and-out scum, as soon as she heard that she could be the emperor, she tried her best to please He Qiuping, and even sometimes really regarded herself as the emperor.

After a while, a middle-aged man came from outside the bun shop, and the man and He Qiuping connected and said a few words. The middle-aged man said, "You are here, my lord has been waiting for many days, just waiting for your goods."

The rest said some superficial business words, and then left with the group.