The two of them talked for a long time before they finally finished talking about things. Drank some tea. Dongqu entertained Huaichun for dinner. Huaichun suddenly remembered and asked, "Dongqu, I heard that you already have three children?" ”

Referring to his children, Dongqu couldn't help laughing: "Yes, I already have three children, and I married into the Ge family, a Taoist family, a few years ago. Qiu Ge married into the Zhang family, a Taoist family. My firstborn was a daughter, the second was a son, and the third was a daughter. The children were all brought with the help of my mother-in-law. The Ge family and the Zhang family were all Taoist families in the previous dynasty, but when they arrived in this dynasty, they were suppressed too much by the Mei family, and some families fell into the middle of the road. However, such a family that has stood for hundreds of years still has very strict rules at home. The children are very disciplined. Although Qiu Ge and I are not married to a concubine, but a side branch, we are both well-behaved white families, and there are no troublesome concubines or anything like that. Life is pure. ”

"Both of our mothers-in-law treated us extremely well. Knowing that the two of us had to serve the national teacher, the husband was also entrusted with the important task of being responsible for some affairs of the Daomen, and there was no time to take care of the children, so the in-laws took over the responsibility of teaching the children. We're idle. After the child is born, he can come back and continue to serve the national teacher. ”

"Although both the Zhang family and the Ge family are already in the middle of the road and are not so rich, there is still some money in me and the Qiu singer. Over the years, the National Teacher has often rewarded us. We have all accumulated these rewards, and when we have a certain amount of silver, we will ask the steward to help us go out and buy some property, some shops, fields, and so on. After a few years, it can be regarded as okay. When we got married, not only me and Qiu Ge, but also Xia Ming, who served the national teacher, and Chunyin all had the same dowry of 200,000 taels of silver. Among the dowry of 200,000 taels of silver, 100,000 taels of silver are inheritance, 50,000 taels of silver are the bottom of the box, and 50,000 taels of silver are all kinds of silk, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, books, toys, jade, gold, furniture, etc. Therefore, the livelihood is not worried, and the in-laws of the well-off families are also rich. ”

"Qiu Ge and I, you know, we are not stingy people, our in-laws are good to us, we also have a conscience, and we give them rich silver coins every year, all kinds of silk, toys, things and the like are also often filial piety. We try to take care of our younger siblings in the family. Naturally, they were satisfied. ”

Listening to Dongqu say this, Huaichun also laughed, and the tears on his face dried up: "Dongqu, you and Qiu Ge are so lucky to follow the National Teacher." ”

Dongqu nodded heavily and said, "Not really." However, Huaichun, don't be discouraged. You are much stronger than Nian Xia, at least you have a chance to turn over, everything depends on whether you can do a good job of the things that the national teacher explained this time. ”

Huaichun was suddenly full of hope for the future, and she nodded cautiously and said, "I will definitely do it well." ”

The next day, Huaichun left with a large number of gifts for the nobles of the Great Shang. Dongqu took advantage of Qin Mingyue's leisure time after finishing official business, and came over to tell Huaichun about the specific things that Huaichun said yesterday.

Qin Mingyue listened carefully and said in a loud voice: "Well, this time, the strategy of using the big sister to drag down the big business seems to be very successful. ”

Dongqu said with a smile: "No, it's still the master of the national teacher who has the wisdom to know people, I didn't expect that people like Mrs. Mixiang are also useful, and they are actually used for such a big thing." ”

Qin Mingyue sneered: "Everyone in this world is useful, just to see if they are put in the right place." Let's take the big sister, for example. She has a bad quality, she always thinks about glory and wealth, her vanity is too strong, she is competitive, but she has no talent, and she can't even fight a good concubine in the Niu family. Later, he shamelessly wanted to compete for his biological sister's husband. ”

"This is the hateful man. However, there is also pity for hateful people. Look at her later, all the people betrayed her relatives, she had a lot of foreign debts, and she was almost imprisoned. If I hadn't rescued her, she would have been in prison by now. ”

"As for me, I'm not badly kind. The main thing is that we have to deal with the three kingdoms of Wumen, and they have always been in the same spirit, if we fight one, the other two will inevitably move, if we are attacked by the enemy, it will be too difficult. Therefore, Xiao Rui and I thought of a way, for Dayu, it is to buy off its ministers, restrain Emperor Dayu, and make Dayu unable to send troops for the time being. You can't use the same method for big business. Fortunately, the powerful people of big businessmen like beauty. Especially this generation's praise is even more lustful. But the woman of the big merchant is really average. They are especially rare beauties of our big week. ”

"If you find a beautiful woman in Da Zhou at random, on the one hand, you may not be able to guarantee your loyalty. Second, if she is not a noble girl, the praise of the big businessman will not be treated specially, and her words have no weight. But ladies and gentlemen, where are you willing to do this? Thinking about it, there is really only Qin Mingzhu who chooses it. She's already a divorced person anyway, and she's desperate and can only obey me. Of course, although she is a good candidate, she still has two fatal flaws. The first is that I'm a little old. Qin Mingzhu used to be the most beautiful one among our sisters, and you also know this winter song. She not only inherited Aunt Shui's beauty, but also inherited Aunt Shui's enchantment, and also brought the nobility of our Qin family. This makes her even more beautiful even when Aunt Shui was young. ”

However, no matter how beautiful a beauty is, she can't help the ravages of the years, and she has been drinking all year round, which naturally damages her appearance. The damage to her appearance is too sad for her who has always loved beauty. I happen to have a good medicine here that can restore my appearance, but it is a little more expensive, and it is made of more than a dozen rare elixirs such as pearl powder, nine-leaf jade mushroom, spiritual liquid, and late-growing flower petals produced in the secret realm. This still has to be taken all the time, and it can be applied to the face, where do ordinary people have the financial resources? Even if you have the financial resources, where can you get such an elixir? Even so, such an elixir can only restore beauty for ten years. However, ten years is enough time for me. The war between the Three Kingdoms of Wumen is only ten years, and it will definitely end. ”

"For Qin Mingzhu, she is willing to be beautiful for ten years, and she wants her life, not to mention just letting her go to Dashang for me."

In fact, beauty has a fatal attraction for any woman, so Qin Mingyue is not worried that Qin Mingzhu will not take the bait at all.