Chapter 153: Arrival!
After walking for more than half a month, I finally arrived in the capital, and the first thing I did when I entered Beijing was to rent a house. The three thousand taels of silver that Yun Duoduo saved in Jiangzhou City were nothing when they reached the boundary of the capital.
In the past, I saved money little by little in my hometown, but when I got to Beijing, I spent money like flowing water.
First of all, Cui Pingsheng came forward to find a small house, with a small courtyard, there are two rooms in the southeast, and there is also a corner house in the west with the kitchen and toilet.
Originally, Cui Pingsheng wanted to use the corner house as a study, but Yun Duoduo thought that he would study in Beijing and prepare to see those Confucians, and he couldn't leave the study for a day, and the corner house was so low, it wouldn't work.
The rent for this house will be five hundred taels a year.
Such a house in Jiangzhou City only costs seventy taels of silver a year at most.
But the price of goods in the capital is high, and there is a well in this courtyard.
A house with a well is more expensive.
Originally, Yun Duoduo and Granny Cui both thought that it was not cost-effective to spend an extra fifty taels of silver for a well, but Cui Pingsheng told her that the capital is not as good as Jiangzhou City, Jiangzhou City is full of small ditches, big rivers and streams are everywhere, it is very convenient to get water and laundry, and on weekdays, in the small ditch or in the small river, they are neighbors who know each other.
When I arrived in the capital, it became difficult to get water, and many families were concentrated in a certain place with a well, or a puddle, and everyone went to get water......
"There are too many people, it is inevitable to be chaotic, not only is it inconvenient to get water, but also you go to a crowded place to get water, it is inevitable to encounter a lot of people, if you have to do it, don't go to that kind of place, girls are not better than men, they should be more noble." Cui Pingsheng said.
Yun Duoduo looked at him with emotion, Cui Pingsheng was right, if there was no well at home, then she would have to go to the public well to line up to wash clothes and vegetables......
This is no more than in Jiangzhou City, which is a long river ditch......
This is the well, and it is to be queued.
Yun Duoduo remembered queuing up to use the toilet in the dormitory when he was in college......
In the end, he endured the heartache and spent five hundred taels of silver.
After renting the house, after the family moved in from the inn, Yun Duoduo and Cui Wan went to the market and took some embroidery brought from Jiangzhou to the market to sell, fortunately, the people in the capital also liked the embroidery of the Jiangnan people. The price is also fair, and the sale is good.
On the way back, she bought another thing and went back, preparing to make some more things these days, and sell them at the market when the time comes, which can be regarded as a livelihood for the family.
Cui Pingsheng has to wait until September to go to the Hong Library to study, even if he is too a student when he enters the library, he is said to be reading, but in fact, he is with some Confucians, and he also has to compile books, and the imperial court has to issue silver money every month, although it is not much, but it is enough for a family, and it is enough to save a little.
If you can embroider some things every month and sell them, the embroidery work in the capital is not as delicate as that of Jiangzhou, and they will be able to sell it for more money.
Since entering Beijing, Yun Duoduo has never mentioned the matter of meeting Yue Chang'an, which makes Granny Cui and Cui Pingsheng feel strange.
"He came to the capital before us, and I didn't see him come to see you." Granny Cui said with some complaints.
Yun Duoduo said embarrassedly: "It's always a noble son, where is there so much effort to take care of us?" ”
Thinking of this, she sighed again, and she didn't know what happened to Yue Chang'an.
Granny Cui said: "Before, I saw that he was very attentive to you, and you were lukewarm to him, but now I see that you are dead set on him, and he is cold." ”
Yun Duoduo felt more and more unbearable, and laughed dryly and said: "Mother-in-law, a good girl is not worried about getting married, are you still afraid that I won't be able to get married?" ”
When Granny Cui saw her like this, she didn't say anything, so as not to prick her heart.
As soon as Yue Chang'an returned to the capital, there was no news, which made people worry.
At this time, Yue Chang'an was not really cold to Yun Duoduo, but he was entangled.
His queen aunt and aunt stopped him in the palace and asked him to accompany the princess.
The princess is sixteen this year, His Majesty the Emperor's only prince has died, and now there is only this one daughter, the princess has been loved by thousands of people, but she is not always sullen, so the queen dragged Yue Chang'an over to accompany the princess.
The emperor has always intended to hold Yue Chang'an. I want him to inherit the throne and be able to marry a princess.
The princess handed a piece of pastry to Yue Chang'an and asked him to taste it.
Yue Chang'an barely took a bite and felt that the taste was not very good, so he didn't eat it again.
"Cousin, what have you done all these years outside?" The princess asked nonchalantly.
Yue Changan looked at her dotingly and smiled: "I didn't do anything, I just walked to many places, and I have been to Jiangnan and Saibei." The male mainly likes it, and you can also go out for a walk. ”
The princess smiled: "Where can I go, I'm not like you, I'm in good health, I can go on a horse alone, I have to have a luan driver when I go out, there are so many princesses, it's a joke when I go out." ”
Yue Chang'an was speechless.
It's okay for a woman like Dugu Jiao to be the princess, but unfortunately, the princess's health is not very good, and it is definitely not okay to go out alone, she goes out every day, but a day or two of the trip, the palace has to prepare for several days.
"The princess is controlled by the queen, too restrained, so that her mind is depressed, and she is easy to get sick, if she can go out for a walk every day, she can go a little farther." Yue Chang'an sincerely suggested.
The princess sighed, "I want to be like my cousin's girl." ”
Yue Changan frowned and looked at the princess with wide eyes.
The princess sneered: "Don't worry, only I know, where does the father and queen mother have the heart to manage this." ”
She stood up from the seat and gently patted Yue Chang'an's shoulder: "My cousin will always be my cousin, how can I be willing to disappoint you?" Father, Queen Mother, and Queen Mother want to match you and me, but it's just their wishful thinking, you don't like me in your heart, and I don't like you. ”
Yue Chang'an: "......"
The princess smiled at Yue Chang'an: "Father wants you to be the emperor, don't blame him." ”
Yue Changan nodded: "I know." ”
How could he complain?
When he was young, his father was very busy, his mother died very early, his father was fighting abroad, he always grew up in the palace, and his uncle only had such a son as the prince, but the prince's temperament was very stubborn, and he began to deal with his uncle at the age of three.
Not only that, but not only is his temper unpleasant, but he is also not in good health.
He is the only child in the palace who can jump and jump with thick skin and meat, and is well-behaved and sensible, can the emperor not like him?
It's just that the prince's health became worse and worse, and his father was afraid that it would be a disaster for him to stay in the capital, so when he was nine years old, he asked the family general to take him to start a study tour, and at first his footsteps were only near the capital. The family will take him to increase his knowledge while reading.
Later, it went further and further.
But every time he returned to Beijing, he saw that his uncle's thoughts and concern for him were sincere.
At the beginning, when the crown prince was still alive, the emperor's love and care for him was real and simple.
Later, in order to let the princess have something to rely on, I thought about matching him and the princess, which was also for his good.
"Yue Xiang refuses to let you be the prince, and I have been very scared in my heart." The princess whispered, "Cousin, don't complain about your father, and please don't resent my father." ”
Yue Changan smiled faintly: "I...... will persuade the father. ”
The princess smiled faintly: "You'd better persuade your father like this, otherwise, it will not be good for you and me." ”
Yue Chang'an nodded in embarrassment.
He is really anxious, the descendants of the direct royal family of the merchant are withering, the emperor has been passed down for several generations, and a little blood has been passed down for several generations, and it is finally broken now. There's no way around it.
But the children of the side line are all very strong.
And because of the long blood, he has no feelings for the emperor.
If you don't have feelings, forget it, if your ancestors can't do it, there is no hatred.
For the emperor, how perfect is it to want to pass on the throne to a close nephew and then let him marry his own daughter, why should he pass the throne to those nephews who can't be beaten?
And for Prime Minister Yue, this throne is their businessman's business, and the businessman fights for his head and blood, even if the merchant fights for his head, it will definitely be a matter of fighting, why bother to compensate his son? His own son is also a single transmission of five generations, okay!
The Yue family is also a big family, what can he get after losing his son?
Is that a good thing?
At that time, Yue Chang'an will be renamed Shang Chang'an, enter the temple of the merchant royal family, and give birth to a child surnamed Shang, what is the benefit of the Yue family, those merchants will also desperately fight the Yue family, for fear that the Yue family will have different hearts......
If the throne is really good, the more Chang'an sits as the emperor, and he can still give some benefits to the merchants, then forget it. The problem now is that this throne is a hot potato, and the Yue family is not uncommon to sell their son to get this little benefit! It is also possible that he was cut by the merchant with his son!
The emperor and Prime Minister Yue had a dislike because of this, but they never tore their faces, and now Prime Minister Yue is recuperating from illness and refuses to go out at home.
Yue Chang'an is also embarrassed, one is his close uncle, and his uncle wants to give him the throne sincerely. My father wanted to save his life.
In the past few days, he has been detained in the palace by the queen, and he is annoyed, counting that Yun Duoduo has already arrived in the capital, and he can't go to see her yet.
I chatted with the princess without a match, and a beautiful woman came over there, smiling.
The princess didn't have a good face either, and the woman simply saluted Yue Chang'an and the princess, and then left. The princess's face was faint, but Yue Chang'an was shocked, among the women in this palace, except for the queen, who dared to be so arrogant with the princess, there was no etiquette at all, looking at her bending over, it was like someone forced her.
"Don't care about her, it's someone sent by the Dugu family, it's like something, it's shameless." The princess said, "It's like what she spoils, and he also wants to marry the third son of the Dugu family who is in line with the Mingshu county lord." ”
Yue Chang'an: "I...... She...... Twenty this year? ”
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