Qi Qiang followed Qin Daoran and became the second steward of the Nine Emperors' Mansion, but he refused to live in the mansion with his sister-in-law. Qin Daoran valued Qi Qiang very much, begged Brother Jiu, and rewarded Qi Qiang with a small courtyard next to him in the alley of the back door for his brother and sister to live in.

Qi Qiang went through this incident, although he was not injured, his temperament was much more restrained, and he followed Qin Daoran every day and learned to run errands.

Brother Jiu didn't take it seriously, but Qin Daoran took care of it, and after a few months, he realized the benefits of Qi Qiang, and recruited Qin Daoran to the study, and said with a smile: "I faintly heard the rumors, saying that Qi Qiang beat Deli?" ”

"Ninth Master, not only Deli, but he has already beaten seventeen or eighteen in the past half a month. This time, the two made a private appointment, if it weren't for the fact that there were still three who couldn't get out of bed, the slave wouldn't know. At this time, the people in the house did not dare to make a stumbling block for him. Qin Daoran stood in the hall and replied respectfully. This kid is too bold, but he is just a flat-headed commoner, he has no support, there are three or four murder cases of people who take money for others, and the Jianghuai side of the examination also dares to take the lead in finding someone to test, and if he does not detain his sister in the house for a few years, the slaves dare not use him. ”

Brother Jiu blew the leaf foam in the tea bowl, and said with a smile: "Last time, you were too anxious, his sister is a well-known woman, and when the time comes, if you can't think of wiping your neck, the fourteenth brother can't spare you, but let the master complain for a long time, saying that the master is too indulgent of you, a minion." With that, he pointed to the chair on the side and said, "Sit down." ”

Qin Daoran thanked him and said with a smile: "The slave originally heard that the fourteenth master was very attentive to his sister-in-law, and since he had withdrawn from his family, he must be the people of the fourteenth master, so he -" His face seemed to be a little gray, and he sighed: "It's just that I didn't expect the eighth master to ask her about something, and when the slave rushed over, the eighth master's glance made the slave's heart tremble." ”

Brother Jiu laughed and said, "Okay, the eighth master, the master has already interceded for you." It's just that the fourteenth brother is a screw, if he looks at you well in his heart, you are killing people and setting fires, which is also good, if you look at you badly, it is useless for you to say that you break the sky. Now that the master is still accompanying him, you will take a long detour when you see the fourteenth master in the future. ”

Qin Daoran hurriedly stood up and thanked him, and then hesitated: "Master, Qi Qiang said that he took a fancy to his sister-in-law a husband, who was the young helper of Caoyun Shangchangzhou Mansion, do you see this matter......"

The ninth brother shook his head and said: "Tell him to worry less about this, his sister-in-law's marriage, Chen Bianzhi has not spoken, and the fourteenth brother has not spoken, where can he be ordered like this?" He looked at Qin Daoran and said with a smile: "Do you want to put your hand on Caoyun?" Take it easy, the emperor is staring at the part of the river, Ah Shan, Chen Pengxi, Chen Pengnian, and Shi Shilun are all soft and hard, and the prince will have an accident sooner or later, so let's talk about it then. ”

Qin Daoran thought for a while, nodded and said: "What the lord said is that I heard that the emperor recently had another attack and dismissed the well-hearted minister of internal guards, I'm afraid that he is beating the prince, but-" whispered: "In the end, the sister-in-law occupies a famous role, the internal affairs government is all at home, and the eldest son wants to help in the court, where can he have no money?" The slave Meng Ye values it, although he has worked a little hard in the past few years, but thinking about it, I am afraid that this number is still far behind, so I ......" looked at the face of the ninth elder brother again, and said slowly: "Moreover, if you go deeper, the old rules of the Eight Banners are that there is no establishment of a successor, but it is a public discussion." The slave plans for the master, and the eighth master and the master grow up in a small place, and the feelings are very different. It's just that although the eighth master is good, this Eight Banners clan and the members of the dynasty can be held without money? ”

Brother Jiu pondered for a long time, beckoned Qin Daoran to step forward, and said, "River work and Caoyun are both major items, and there is no reason to put them aside. It's just that it's hard to say how Chen Changzhi's holy family is. The eighth master has long looked at him coldly, the emperor mostly wants to cultivate him, after a few years, these old ministers have retired, if he has meritorious service in governing the river, it is difficult to say whether this person will sit on the river platform and the position of Caodu......"

Qin Daoran suddenly realized, and said with a smile: "The slave understands, Qi Qiang's sister is a Lingli person who is around the intestines, that is, the emperor pointed out the marriage, and Chen Bianzhi is reluctant to lose her, and she is still a favored concubine......"

Qi Qiang faintly heard the laughter in the study, paused his steps, and smiled at Deli who was guarding the verandah: "Detou'er, since the chief steward is on the master's side, I won't bother him, and the big steward will come out later, please let him know, my sister-in-law is a little bad, I'll go home and take a look, and I'll come back after dinner on an errand." ”

Deli grinned with bruises on his face, patted him on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "You kid is lucky, the fourteenth master sent people from Rehe to deliver things in three days, and if he can't run away in the future, he will call you uncle, even the chief steward will be a head lower than you." ”

Qi Qiang smiled reluctantly, and asked him to talk less, and made an appointment to go out of the city to hunt in a few days, so he went around to the back door and entered the small courtyard.

Compared with the Prince's Mansion, the two-entry courtyard is naturally small, but compared to the countryside of Gaoyou, it is much better. The courtyard is less than 500 steps square, along the high courtyard wall planted a line of various flowers, in the middle of a small pond, connected to the prince's palace of the living water, cut some lotus. The autumn breeze is just right, and the residual lotus in the pond, with a dark fragrance, smells refreshing.

Qi Su Niang was counting the silver coins at the table, two boxes of gold ingots were sent by the old shopkeeper of the tea house, and a box of silver ingots was the leather goods collected by Qi Qiang, and Toro Shiqing took them to the south and sold them, in addition to the original 800 taels of capital, the price of 200 acres of land should be paid, and the remaining 10,000 taels of silver were real.

After Qi Suniang finished calculating the money, Yanmo wrote a letter, sent two hundred taels of silver, and asked the king to buy the sixty acres of terra nullius land she had occupied, and then sorted out the accounts and trees that were pawned on credit in Gaoyoubei.

Qi Qiang walked in quietly, stood behind Qi Su Niang, watched for a while, and then said: "These fields have all been transferred to the name of the actor?" ”

Qi Su Niang has recently been accustomed to him coming and going without a trace, still bowing her head and writing a letter, nodding and saying: "Ten thousand taels, it's about the same, I inquired, a house like this in Beijing is only 1,500 taels, and one acre of Zhongtian on the outskirts of the capital is eight taels of silver, when my brother gets married——"

Qi Qiang waved his hand and said with a wry smile: "Don't worry about me, the actor has already replied and refuses to withdraw from his family." ”

Qi Su Niang felt a little happy in her heart, but she dispersed in a blink of an eye. She sighed and glanced up at Qi Qiang, "I don't understand what my brother said in the letter?" Qi Qiang took out two letters from his sleeve, handed them over, and said: "You see for yourself, I am bitter, the emperor wanted to point out to him the niece of the Zhenghong Banner Dong E's Kali, not to mention that it is very decent for the banner girl to marry Hanchen." Kali is the emperor's favorite minister, and he is a horizontal one, with him as a backer, how many people should be jealous, can you use you to find money for him everywhere? ”

Qi Su Niang slowly reached out and took the letter, but did not open it, only asked, "What did he say?" ”

"He said that the Chen and Qi families were born in poverty, and they were the right people, and since ancient times, the wives of the chaff have not gone to court, and there is no reason to withdraw from their relatives." Qi Qiang sat down at the table in his robe, took a pen in the pen holder at random, held a trace of sheep's hair, and sighed: "This is the reason, who can say for sure what will happen in the future?" Expensive and easy to make friends, rich and easy to wife, isn't it also a truth that has existed since ancient times? ”

Qi Su Niang was silent for a long time, nodded and said, "It's good that the emperor has pointed to marriage." Two months later, the Fourteenth Master came back from Saiwai by car, and I asked him-" Qi Qiang cut off: "Sister, it's not a good thing that you and the Fourteenth Master are so close, how many people have hit you with ideas?" The fourteenth master is not an elder brother, and he has not opened the mansion, there is no one under the door, you are not in front of him, where can I protect you? ”

Qi Su Niang nodded and said, "I understand what my brother said, but my sister owes the fourteenth master a favor, and I don't have the reason to alienate him in order to keep herself——"

Qi Qiang shook his head and said: "I'll tell you the truth, this matter of establishing a long heir is fighting, the emperor reprimanded the prince again a while ago, and the holy family can't look at it." The fourteenth master is young and energetic, ******** follow these elder brothers, who knows what the result will be? My brother has already been involved, and he can't catch you anymore. Even if this pro doesn't want to retire, I have to retreat, Luo Shiqing is far away in Changzhou, the Cao Gang is not officialdom in the end, you hide far away, my brother can rest assured. ”

Qi Qiang's face was heavy, but Qi Su Niang laughed and said, "What did my brother say?" The Qi family is just our brother and sister, it doesn't make sense that my brother has something to do, and my sister is still hiding. If that's the case, why didn't my brother leave by himself, why did he come back to look for me? ”

Qi Qiang was a little speechless, and he had been casual with her for a long time, and he was not used to putting his eldest brother on Qi Su Niang's shelf, so he had to bite to death and withdraw from his family, and as soon as the filial piety period expired, he married to Changzhou.

Qi Su Niang knew that Chen Yan couldn't let go of his mouth, Qi Qiang was not easy to force, so he just listened to it with a smile, and said some homely gossip with Qi Qiang. Qi Qiang said casually that he was in charge of the outer house in the Ninth Master's Mansion to welcome and send him off, and he didn't know much about the royal rules for happy and funeral matters, so it was very annoying to run a business.

Qi Su Niang knows the rules of the royal family in this world, and all the minions on the surface have been taught, but when it comes to paying attention to the details, she still has to be a eunuch and grandmother in the palace for many years. These are the old rules passed down by word of mouth, there is no place to learn if you have money, and the old eunuchs and old grandmothers are taught by godsons and goddaughters who can flatter each other.

Although she stayed in the palace for a short time, she was taught by Mama Yu in the Queen Mother's Palace, beating and scolding, and never fell behind, and when she waited in front of the emperor, Mama Yu taught the rules completely.

In terms of understanding the rules, a young grandmother is not as good as her. She expected that the Nine Elder Brothers' Mansion could be used to some extent, so she said it to Qi Qiang carefully.

Qi Qiang listened carefully for a while, and suddenly laughed, "Sister, my brother heard that you stayed in the palace at the beginning, and I only thought that you had the same temperament as me, and I must not be able to stand it there, but I didn't expect to learn these things." It saved my brother's strength. Looking at Qi Su Niang, she sighed: "I'm afraid that what you learned in the palace is not only these dead rules, if you really want to marry an actor, you may not necessarily suffer......

Qi Su Niang was slightly stunned, and said with a wry smile: "Those things in the palace that are not clean and clean, although they are past the eye, is it really necessary to use them?" It's to learn the dead rules in those mansions, and the grandmothers in the palace still scold me for being stupid from time to time. Sighed, "In the back house of the palace, it's either you or mine, and in the end, you have to die in the end." The dead are clean, but the living ones have human blood on their hands, and their hearts are not the same, and they can't detect the ghosts and ghosts, and they just want to live in peace...... It's more pitiful than dead......"

Qi Qiang nodded slowly, "My brother can also understand in the Ninth Master's Mansion this time, and the filth in the backyard is not much cleaner than the ones outside." Staring at Qi Su Niang, "My brother quit his family, and he also wants you to live in peace......"

Qi Su Niang looked at Qi Qiang for a long time, bit her lip and said: "What happened to my father and mother was what my sister should do, and my brother didn't need to feel owed from time to time——"

Qi Qiang laughed and said softly: "You are the daughter of your father, my sister-in-law, you don't need to feel that you owe-" While he was talking, Qi Qiang's little servant An Sheng and Fu Ming led Delong, the deputy steward of the outer house, in, and said respectfully: "Second housekeeper, the ninth master said that he invited a few Han officials to the mansion for a banquet, so that you can arrange the banquet early and accompany the banquet guests." The chief steward said that the old princess of Prince Jian's mansion will be buried in a few days, so please ask the second steward to figure out the rules as soon as possible and arrange the funeral shed in our mansion. Qi Qiang heard this, looked at Qi Su Niang and said with a smile: "This time, the great housekeeper of Qin will not be in a hurry, I don't understand the rules, and I have lost the dignity of the Ninth Master's Mansion." And he hurried away.

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