Chapter 49: Lifting a stone and shooting himself in the foot
No matter how angry he is, Feng Wanquan still has a trace of clarity after all, Mo Yaqin is not only his wife after all, but also the Mo family behind him, he must cast a mouse trap to save each other some face and a way back.
"Yes."
Even if Mo Yaqin said more, she responded in horror, and then went downstairs to leave.
Mo Cheng, who was a step late, wanted to follow again, but was stopped by Feng Wanquan's sharp gaze.
"You go back inside and wait, I have something to say to you later!"
After saying this, Feng Wanquan didn't bother to look at Mo Cheng anymore, and walked straight to the private room where Feng Huanling was.
It was rare to see that the eldest lady, who was usually high, was not only reprimanded by Xiangye in public, but finally ran away with her tail between her legs, Su Yue almost clapped her hands with joy. But she still held back after all, but she didn't forget to ask the old master Su Molan, who had passed away, in her heart, if she felt happy to see such a scene?
She believes that the young lady, who has long been reborn now, will finally avenge Aunt Su, who died in vain, and make the eldest lady and even the entire Prime Minister's Mansion pay the due price!
Walking into the private room and seeing that there was no one else except the maid, Feng Wanquan couldn't help but sigh secretly, glad that at least the family ugly didn't let irrelevant outsiders hear.
"Why did my father come here? It's the mother who is the right person, right? Why did you leave in such a hurry? ”
Feng Huanling was not afraid that Feng Wanquan would question the location of her friend, as long as she said that the person had just left, she would prevaricate, and she guessed that he didn't have the heart to ask about these things now.
Since Feng Yurun left, the contradiction between the Feng family and Feng Huanling has almost been put on the surface, otherwise Feng Qingwan would not have blatantly embarrassed her with disaster relief donations. Therefore, Feng Wanquan saw that she could still be so "kind", obviously because he had to ask for her, so he would be so forbearing.
"Hey, it's hard to say anything about this matter, and I will have the opportunity to tell you in detail for my father's autobiography in the future. It's not that that matters now, but I have something else to discuss with you for the sake of the Father. ”
The matter of the Mo family's private pockets stealing the Feng family's money, Feng Wanquan naturally would not let it go easily, but he could tell what was most important now.
Not to mention that he happened to meet the fourth daughter now, even if he didn't meet him by this coincidence today, he originally planned to go to the Cheyue Palace's mansion in the next few days.
He had already guessed what Feng Wanquan was going to discuss with him, but Feng Huanling pretended to blink at him with a pair of innocent big eyes, so clear and pure that he seemed to be the fourth lady who was once speechless.
Feng Wanquan paid little attention to his fourth daughter in the past, and even felt that she was not even as good as the favored maid in the house, but how could he have thought that such a daughter who had been completely abandoned by him would not only marry the concubine of King Cheyue, but also be completely reborn like a phoenix nirvana, radiating a dazzling light that he had to admire.
In the past, he would never have thought that one day he would need to ask for the help of this fourth daughter, even if she is now the princess, it still makes him feel a little unspeakable.
"Ling'er, after you married to the Cheyue Palace, how are you doing?"
After hesitating for a long time, Feng Wanquan could only bluntly use such a polite sentence as the opening remark.
"Thanks to my father, the prince treats his daughter quite well."
He is not in a hurry, and he is even less anxious, while sipping the mellow and fragrant signature flower tea of the non-drunk building, he answered unhurriedly.
"Well, even if the prince treats you well, but he is not in the palace after all, you decided to donate 15,000 taels of silver on his behalf to help the victims of the snow disaster, I'm afraid it will be a lot of inappropriateness, right?"
Although the beginning was a little blunt, Feng Wanquan naturally led the topic to disaster relief, and pretended to be genuinely worried about his daughter.
"Oh? The daughter is stupid, I don't know what the father thinks is wrong with this? Feng Huanling's face was ignorant.
Feng Wanquan didn't know whether he was helpless or really worried about his daughter's stupidity, and his tone was a little higher and faster, "You have donated all the savings of King Cheyue privately, how can you not be angry with you for this matter when the prince comes back?" Who have you seen who have lost their money to donate money to disaster relief? It's just a matter of donating all your belongings like you, how can King Cheyue not be angry? ”
In terms of heart, if the Mo family dared to donate all the Feng family's savings, Feng Wanquan was only afraid that he would strangle her to death on the spot to vent his anger, so he firmly believed that when King Cheyue came back, he would definitely be angry with Feng Huanling for this.
It is not impossible to punish the princess with family law, or to divorce the princess of the defeated family.
"Father is too worried, the prince has never cared about these external objects, and the well-being of the people is more important to him. This donation is really a 'bankruptcy' for the Cheyue Palace, but it will not be impossible to live because of this money. But for the victims, the meaning is completely different, they may have to rely on this money to survive, and without this money, they will face the situation of freezing to death and starving to death. ”
Feng Huanling, who talked about this topic, looked solemn with all his smiles, as if he had seen with his own eyes the tragic scene of mourning and corpses all over the field.
"I believe that the prince must be well aware of the righteousness and love of the people like a son, even if it is as the father said, when he comes back, he will be angry with his daughter for this, and the daughter will not regret this decision. I don't hide it from my father, in fact, just because the prince relied on the savings he had saved, it was barely enough to raise 15,000 taels of silver. The friend I met here was an old friend of the prince's, and his daughter asked him to meet him to borrow some silver taels, so as not to be sad in the future. ”
At this time, Feng Wanquan would put down his face and come to her, and it must be difficult to scrape together the 30,000 taels of silver, so he would hit her with the idea.
There are no more than two possibilities, one is to ask her to borrow some silver taels, and the other is to ask her to take the initiative to ask Emperor Xuan to change her mind and donate less silver taels.
However, after Feng Huanling said this, he naturally completely eliminated Feng Wanquan's first thought, after all, they were all busy borrowing silver, where would there be any money left to lend him?
"The King of Cheyue is indeed benevolent and kind, but why should he do that? Donation is to express kindness, just do your best, and now you are so embarrassed that you have to borrow money from others to donate, isn't it putting the cart before the horse and becoming foolish? ”
The first path was no longer feasible, so Feng Wanquan immediately continued to take the second road without hesitation, pretending to be very bitter.
"The amount my daughter borrowed is not too big, and she will be able to pay it off quickly. And father, this disaster relief donation is not only to comfort the victims, but also to fulfill the eldest sister. After all, this donation was made by the eldest sister to ask her father and the prince to set an example and donate money to help the victims with all her own pockets. Because it was the eldest sister who said it, I went back and thought about it for a long time, not only to help those poor victims, but also to respond to and support the good policy proposed by the eldest sister, otherwise what if the saint was displeased and angry with the eldest sister? ”
Feng Huanling said very sincerely, as if Feng Qingwan was her sister who was closer than Feng Huanbing.
"Father, the last time my daughter entered the palace, I heard the third sister say that what the eldest sister wants most now is to win the favor of the saint, so that she can have the opportunity to win the queen's throne, and at such an important moment, of course, as a sister, I must do my best to help."
The more he talked, the more righteous and awe-inspiring, Feng Huanling seemed to be willing to give everything to help Feng Qingwan fight for the phoenix seal, and immediately blocked all the remaining words that Feng Wanquan wanted to persuade again.
This is self-inflicted!
In the past, Feng Wanquan put most of his hopes and thoughts on the eldest daughter Feng Qingwan, hoping that she could ascend to the throne of the queen and make the scenery of the Feng family more prosperous. Now that the fourth daughter is working hard for this goal, how can he continue to persuade her to give up?
Feng Qingwan, who has always been smart, is afraid that she will lift a stone and hit her own foot this time!
Although it is Feng Wanquan, who is a father, and Mo Yaqin, who are tired of raising money for 30,000 taels of silver, the prime minister's mansion was suddenly emptied, which will inevitably directly affect her use in the palace.
And Feng Wanquan will inevitably have a grudge against Feng Qingwan after this, if she can successfully reach the top of the throne, it will be fine, if not, it will inevitably make him more angry.
Feng Wanquan saw that there were no two roads in Feng Huanling, although he was extremely angry in his heart, he could only pretend that nothing had happened, but when he returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion, his face was already gloomy as ink.
was smashed by Mo Cheng at the scene during the private meeting, Mo Yaqin was naturally scolded by the angry Feng Wanquan again, and even slapped a few times, but Mo's mouth, which was full of blood, had no way to argue except crying, and swallowed all the anger mixed with blood back into his stomach for the time being.
Anyway, Mo Yaqin firmly believes that Feng Wanquan will never dare to really do anything to her, and when this limelight passes, she will still be the wife of the prime minister, and she will still be the head of the prime minister's mansion.
Who made her the daughter of the Mo family, the biological mother of Concubine Guan, and the sister of Empress Dowager Mo?
And Feng Wanquan really didn't do anything to Mo Yaqin, but he also severely fined Yin Liang and grounded him, and the miscellaneous affairs in the house and the affairs of the shops outside the house were temporarily handed over to the old lady to take charge of.
As for Mo Cheng, he had been notified that he had been swept out of the house that day when he was not drunk, and then Feng Wanquan invited two other credible people to take over his duties as the shopkeeper of Fengsheng Winery and Hefeng Workshop respectively.
After such a toss, in the end, Feng Wanquan was still unable to scrape together 30,000 silver, so he had no choice but to use the winery as collateral and borrowed nearly 10,000 taels of silver from Guiyi Qian Zhuang in order to hand over the donation to Emperor Xuan as scheduled.
In this way, the Prime Minister's Mansion suffered a lot of damage, although it was only a loss of gold and silver, but it was almost fundamentally moved, and even the old lady's daily expenses were reduced by nearly half, not to mention others, which was not the same as the previous days of wealth and luxury.
Others can say that the one who suffered the most after being reduced in monthly usage was Miss Feng San, because she finally got a secret recipe to repair her scars not long ago, and she needed a large number of precious medicinal materials to be boiled into a secret soup and then soaked in the scars.
Feng Qingyuan, who had never been short of silver in the past, naturally did not scruple about it, but now not only has the monthly income in the house been reduced, but even her mother does not have much money left for her to squander, so she is so angry that she almost loses control and goes crazy. In the end, she had to ask the maid to go to Rong Haidang, and secretly used many treasure ornaments, clothes, etc. to secretly return some silver taels, and there were even royal gifts in them.
Don't say that the mortgage is sold, and the slightest damage to the things given by the emperor is a big crime, so when the jade hand beads given by the emperor are suspected to be lost, it will stir up the entire Prime Minister's Mansion to jump with chickens and dogs.
But in order to heal the wounds on her face, Feng Qingyuan, who was cornered, couldn't care about these anymore, anyway, her mother also promised that as long as she survived this special period, she would still be able to provide her with enough silver taels to squander at will.
So she privately thought that it was all a living thing, and she would redeem it when she had enough money, and no one would find out if she thought about it.