Guo Yong returned to the mansion and discussed with Lu Zeng and Zhao Xu until late at night, and the three of them came out of Guo's mansion the next day.

As soon as the sedan chair of the three elders disappeared from the alley in front of Guo's house, someone rushed to Shuangjing Hutong to report the news.

When Huo Roufeng got up, Mrs. Huo was reversing the silence of the past few days, calling a few account rooms and checking the accounts.

Huo Roufeng wore a freshly sewn shirt and jumped to find her sister, and when Mrs. Huo saw her, she smiled with crooked eyebrows: "Dress up so beautifully, where do you want to play?" ”

Since returning from Yongji Temple that day, Huo Roufeng has not gone out.

Huo Roufeng tiptoed and looked at the tents who were planning to make a plan, and asked, "Sister, has the time come?" ”

Mrs. Huo nodded and pulled her into the back room: "Yesterday, the Northwest War reported, Guo Yong came out of the palace, and Lu Zeng and Zhao Xu returned to Guo's mansion. ”

Huo Roufeng frowned: "Why do you want to discuss it at the Guo family?" Isn't it supposed to be in court? ”

Mrs. Huo said with a smile: "Although our family has just arrived in the capital, but because we have to do business with the Distillery Vinegar Bureau, the affairs of the court in the palace are more or less known, the cabinet of six people, the Queen Mother Party and the Royalist Party are fighting against each other, Guo, Lu, and Zhao are the Royalists, and the other three, headed by the second assistant Jia Zheng, are all the Queen Mother's Party." ”

Huo Roufeng said: "No matter who it is, if such a big thing happens, it should be discussed with the emperor, even if the emperor gives full authority to Guo Yong, he should also convene the six people in the cabinet to discuss together, the three of them are hiding by themselves, how can the other three agree?" The emperor will not agree either. Unless ......"

"Unless what?" Mrs. Huo is still the first time she has heard of things like court discussions.

Huo Roufeng raised his head: "Unless the emperor throws his hands away and pushes Guo Yong into a dilemma, Guo Yong not only wants to keep his position in the cabinet, but also guards against the Queen Mother's party, so he avoids others and discusses with his own people alone." ”

Mrs. Huo was slightly surprised: "The war in the northwest is such a big thing, will the emperor leave it alone?" How can it be? ”

Huo Roufeng shrugged: "I don't think it's possible, but now it seems like this." ”

If it were a mother, it would definitely not be like this at the moment.

"Sister, how much is our family going to give?" Huo Roufeng asked.

Mrs. Huo said: "You came back from Yongji Temple, I calculated it, 50,000 to 80,000, just now I thought that since I did it, it would be better to do it beautifully, enough for 100,000 taels, so I called the tents over, let them make up another 20,000 cash, don't go out of the money bank." ”

"The Queen Mother hasn't made a move yet, so we can't easily take out the 100,000 taels." Huo Roufeng said.

Mrs. Huo smiled and wanted to pinch her nose, Huo Roufeng hurriedly covered it with her hand, and Mrs. Huo had no choice but to pat her on the head: "Listen to you, we won't take out this silver." ”

The emperor did not have an early dynasty as usual, the court meeting was presided over by Guo Yong, and after the dispersal of the dynasty, he did not go to the Wenhua Hall as usual, but went to the Yangxin Palace with Zhao Xu to see the emperor.

This time, the emperor did not see them, so he asked Liu Ying to come out and pass on the message: "I have handed over this matter to Guo Aiqing, and Guo Aiqing will act cheaply." ”

Guo Yong thanked him and said to Liu Ying: "Father-in-law Liu, this matter is related to Peng Chengbo's Mansion, and the right of this official to act cheaply may ......."

The queen was asked to come forward for the affairs of Peng Chengbo's mansion, but he couldn't see the queen.

Liu Ying sneered: "I knew this was the case, why did Lord Guo turn a small thing into a big thing?" ”

Guo Yong knew that the trivial matter that Liu Ying said was the death of Sun, the third grandmother of the king of Pengcheng Bofu, and the major event was Guo Yong's secret support for the arrest of people in Shuntian Mansion.

Although Liu Ying didn't know Guo Yong's plan, since she mentioned Peng Chengbo's Mansion, she thought it was about it.

Guo Yong pretended not to hear, although Liu Ying's words were not good, but he couldn't refute them.

When Liu Ying came out again, she said to Guo Yong: "Guo Shoufu, the Sprinkle family can only help here, the emperor is chanting the scriptures, and he has no time to care about these idle things." ”

Guo Yong and Zhao Xu glanced at each other, the emperor didn't care, they couldn't go to see the queen, they couldn't go to Peng Chengbo's mansion.

Zhao Xu asked: "Elder Guo Ge, do you want to let Shuntianfu release people?" ”

"Release? The Huo family brought people back? Don't forget, that's just the shopkeeper of the Huo family, not the lady in charge of the Huo family. Guo Yong said coldly.

But when it is imperative not to put on a show, it is easier to treat the Huo family than to face the group of villains in Peng Chengbo's Mansion.

In the afternoon of the same day, Ma Taixing, the chief treasurer of the Yongfeng Beijing Branch, walked out of Shuntian Mansion.

The Huo family was dotted up and down, so he was locked up in the Shuntian Mansion for seven or eight days, but he didn't suffer, even so, back in Shuangjing Hutong, Mama Liu still put a brazier at the door, and asked a few small servants to serve him to bathe and change clothes before coming to see the Huo family sisters and brothers.

Mrs. Huo and Mrs. Huo Roufeng sat on both sides of the kang table respectively, and Mrs. Huo got straight to the point: "What did they say?" ”

Ma Taixing took a sip of tea and said: "The one who came to Shuntianfu was a staff member next to Zhao Gelao, the head of the household department, I was just a shopkeeper, and my words were not weighty enough, so he invited the eldest lady or the ninth master to go to Zhao Mansion." ”

As soon as Ma Taixing finished speaking, the room fell into a dead silence.

Zhao Xu, the head of the household department, was an old man in the court, and he actually asked a merchant to meet him in his house, how anxious were Guo Yong and Zhao Xu?

Although this was something that Mrs. Huo and Huo Roufeng expected, they didn't expect it to go so smoothly.

After Sun's death, Peng Chengbofu believed that it was the queen who did it, although Wang Lao Taijun cried to the queen, but Pengcheng Bofu also wanted to suppress this matter in order to keep the queen.

However, Guo Xu was worried that the Queen Mother would use this matter to abolish the queen in order to celebrate the king, so he cleverly pushed Sun's death to the Yongfeng.

Now that he is short of money, he wants to use this lawsuit to get the Huo family to pay.

Mrs. Huo said with a smile: "Our family is worried that there is no backer in the capital, if we can use 100,000 taels to gain a firm foothold in the capital, wouldn't this be a profitable deal?" Go hand me the post, and I'll go tomorrow. ”

Ma Taixing said: "Big lady, although you don't let the women have eyebrows, but in the eyes of those readers, after all, it is a woman, I'm afraid that there are some things, they won't listen to you, I think it's better for me to accompany the ninth master, the ninth master is young, and then he only said that he didn't dare to be the master, and the reply was to reply later, so we also have room for discussion, and there is no need to make a final decision on the spot, but if you go to the eldest lady, you must reply." ”

Mrs. Huo looked at Huo Roufeng hesitantly, what Ma Taixing said made sense, if her sister was still young.

Huo Roufeng stood up with a snort: "I'll go, I'll go." ”