Chapter 43: Pretending to be a thug
Nangong Ming's eyes flashed with playfulness, and he turned over and hugged Chen Shigui on his chest, his fingers running over her delicate snow-white back, teasing a little bit.
"How is it possible, it's just funny. But ......"
"But what?"
"If you can really marry into the mansion to be my concubine, then you will definitely be able to kill Chu Hanye!" Nangong Ming laughed presumptuously.
Chen Shigui didn't know whether to be happy or worried for a while, and the three words "Yue Qingning" pierced into her heart like a thorn.
"Alright, don't be jealous, I still have something for you to do."
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When Yue Qingning returned to the Yewang Mansion, she felt that her body was more relaxed, and she stretched her waist and walked towards the courtyard.
"Coming back?" A man floated behind her, startling her.
Who else could there be besides Chu Hanye?
What happened at today's banquet, the dark guard told Chu Hanye word for word, he had been waiting for Yue Qingning in the mansion for a long time.
"yes." Yue Qingning remembered what Bihuan said at the banquet, and now that he saw Chu Hanye, he only felt embarrassed, and he didn't dare to look at him directly.
Chu Hanye laughed in his heart when he saw her like this.
"Is there anything special going on at today's feast?" Chu Hanye asked knowingly, wanting to see if Yue Qingning would tell him the truth.
Yue Qingning was stunned for a moment, and replayed what happened at the banquet again in her mind, as if she couldn't say everything, and if she said it, something would happen, so she might as well pretend to be dumb.
"I didn't ...... Nothing happened, it was boring. ”
It's strange, Yue Qingning didn't panic at all when he talked about excuses in front of outsiders, but in front of Chu Hanye, he always felt that he could see through himself with a pair of eyes, and his face turned red when he told a lie.
"It's nothing," Chu Hanye's tail voice dragged long, and he looked at Yue Qingning with deep meaning.
"yes, I'm tired, go back to the house and rest." Yue Qingning fled back to his courtyard and drank a cup of cold tea to calm himself down.
But I can't hide it for a while, and today this matter must have spread in the capital, and I will inevitably be talked about when I go out in the future, so I have to find a way to resolve it.
"No, I have to leave the capital quickly, in this place where people eat people and don't spit out bones, I won't even know how I died in the end!"
Yue Qingning began to prepare for leaving the palace again, and the most important thing was to run his shop well and make a good profit.
Now she has some fame in the female circle in the capital, although it is not very good, but at least everyone knows that she is such a number one person.
It's time to pitch your own shop.
Yue Qingning's first target customer was Mrs. Zhang.
Mrs. Zhang is the person who has the most contact with her among all the female dependents in the capital, and her personality is sincere and straightforward, she is very good to her, and she is a trustworthy friend.
Speaking of which, she didn't visit her for a few days, Yue Qingning got into the carriage and drove to the Zhao Guogong Mansion.
As soon as he entered the mansion, he saw Zhao Guogong sitting in the main hall with a sad face, drinking stuffy tea alone.
Seeing Yue Qingning coming, his eyes lit up, as if he had seen a savior.
"Miss Yue, you're here!" Zhao Guogong was an honest and honest person, without any official pretensions, and walked up to Yue Qingning enthusiastically to greet him.
"I just saw Guogong with a sad face, but what's the trouble?"
Zhao Guogong's smile gradually disappeared, and his eyebrows twisted into the word "Sichuan".
"Hey, don't tell the girl, I have some conflicts with my wife recently, she hasn't spoken to me for two days, and I asked the girl to enlighten her for me."
Yue Qingning felt strange, aren't these two a model couple in the capital? How can there be contradictions to the point of two days of the Cold War.
"What is it?"
Zhao Guogong looked embarrassed, his mouth opened, and in the end, he was still embarrassed to speak, so he asked Yue Qingning to ask Mrs. Zhang.
Yue Qingning came to Mrs. Zhang's courtyard, saw that the door was tightly closed, and stepped forward to knock gently.
"Mrs. Zhang, I'm Yue Qingning, can I come into the house and talk to you?"
She faintly heard sobs coming from inside, and after a few moments, the door opened.
Mrs. Zhang looked at Yue Qingning with teary eyes, her eyes were red, which made people feel distressed.
Yue Qingning looked around the room twice, but there was no one under her, and asked her worriedly, "Madam, what's wrong?" Why don't you have anyone to serve with you? ”
Mrs. Zhang sighed: "I don't want them to see me like this...... Girls come in first. ”
"I made some pastries with my own hands, and added some herbs such as motherwort, which are good for a woman's postpartum recovery, to replenish your body." Yue Qingning put the food box on the table, with a warm smile on her face, hoping to comfort Mrs. Zhang.
Who knew that when Mrs. Zhang heard this, she cried again.
Yue Qingning hurriedly patted her on the back and asked, "What happened?" Madame talk to me. ”
"Miss Yue, you haven't given birth, you don't know my suffering." She pointed to her lower abdomen with her finger and gestured with her hand about three inches in length: "After giving birth, my belly is loose and ugly, and there are more than a dozen spots on it that are so long, which is very ugly." ”
This is a typical postpartum abdominal laxity and stretch marks, most mothers will be like this after giving birth, Mrs. Zhang is sad because of this?
"Madam, this is normal, you don't need to worry too much."
But Mrs. Zhang shook her head, and tears fell straight down: "The girl has never been a wife, so I don't understand." I don't dare to let Guogong see this body at all, and if he shows it, he will definitely dislike me. ”
Yue Qingning was amused, the couple had been in a cold war for two days because of this?
"Guogong loves his wife so much, how can he dislike you!"
But this couldn't persuade Mrs. Zhang at all, she even wanted to take a few concubines for Zhao Guogong, and then pack up her things and go back to her parents' house.
"If I lose my husband's favor, I have to face a face that dislikes me all day long, and it will be boring for me to live in this mansion!" No matter how bold Mrs. Zhang's personality is, she is also a woman in the patriarchal era, and her father, brother and husband are bigger than the sky.
Yue Qingning couldn't bear to see her so sad, and comforted her after wiping away her tears: "Madam, I'm good at using herbs to make some ointments that have a miraculous effect on women, these loose fat and scars on your body, I can make a few bottles of plasters to help you restore your original state." ”
Mrs. Zhang stopped her tears and looked at Yue Qingning incredulously: "Really? ”
"Of course it's true, Madame and wait in the house for two days with peace of mind, I will send it to the house as soon as I am ready, and Madame will be able to make a great improvement by applying everything every day for a month."
With Yue Qingning's protection, Mrs. Zhang nodded busily, and the sadness on her face was swept away.
Suddenly, Mrs. Zhang's stomach made a "cooing" sound, and seeing her touching her stomach in embarrassment, Yue Qingning knew that she must be so sad that she couldn't eat, so she was hungry and hurriedly took out the pastries she had prepared.
"Madam, don't worry too much, you see, your appearance has been poor lately, can the Imperial Doctor prescribe some prescriptions for you?"
Mrs. Zhang took out the medicine list from the cabinet and showed it to Yue Qingning: "I opened it, I took a few pairs, and I don't feel that it is of much use." ”
Yue Qingning glanced at it twice and shook his head: "It's all ordinary tonics, and they are ordinary." It takes a lot of vitality for Mrs. to give birth to a little son, and it can't be made up for it in this way. ”
After speaking, he found a piece of paper and wrote a prescription crookedly, asking Mrs. Zhang to grab these medicines and take them.
When Mrs. Zhang saw Fang Zi, the first thing she noticed was Yue Qingning's words, and she laughed with a "poof".
"The girl's handwriting is really wild and uninhibited!"
Yue Qingning blushed when she was asked, and smiled awkwardly: "I can recognize words, but I don't often write them, so the words are ugly." The more I thought about it, the more embarrassed I became, so I simply snatched Fang Zi back and invited the grandmother beside Mrs. Zhang.
"Or I'll read it, Mama Fang will write it, I gave this list to the pharmacy, and they can't understand it."
Mrs. Zhang thought that Yue Qingning was born in the countryside, and it was not easy to be literate. But now that she is in the capital, she has become the sister of the wild king, and she still writes such a handwriting, and she doesn't learn some etiquette and poetry, she will often be looked down upon.
"Most of the people in the capital are famous, what poems and songs do they like, the ladies are especially prosperous, if the girls want to gain a firm foothold in the capital, they need to learn more. I know a calligrapher, Mr. Cui Yebai, calligraphy is very good, literary attainments are also quite high, now in the Beijing Normal School as a gentleman, if the girl is interested, I will recommend the girl to enroll? ”
Yue Qingning's eyes widened and he waved his hand hurriedly.
I have been studying hard for more than ten years in the cold window of the 21st century, and I don't want to study anymore when I come to ancient times.
However, Mrs. Zhang was too enthusiastic, so she took out a few copies of Cui Yebai's handwritten calligraphy and a few articles from the bookcase, bumped them into a rosewood box, and asked Yue Qingning to study them after she went back.
Yue Qingning returned to the Yewang Mansion with the box, and when she walked into the main hall, she saw a man and a woman kneeling on the ground.
The man is the fake death of Liushangyun, that day Dali Siqing found that Liushangyun was on the death cell, and tracked down the murderer for a few days, but there was no clue at all, so he could only give up and transport Liushangyun's "corpse" to the Liuli clan for disposal.
On the way, Chu Hanye's people pretended to be thugs, took advantage of the chaos to steal the body in the coffin, and then set a fire to burn the coffin and the fake body, and the case was closed.
And kneeling next to her was a petite woman, her face was three points similar to that of Liu Shangyun, her facial features were delicate and cute, and she didn't look very old.
When Liu Shangyun saw Yue Qingning, he hurriedly turned around with the girl next to him, and kowtowed to Yue Qingning to thank him: "Thanks to Miss Yue's skill, I can escape from prison." ”
"It wasn't my intention to help you, but it's just a coincidence, you don't have to thank me."
Even if he was coerced, Yue Qingning still didn't like Liushang Yun's heart to hurt people, and his attitude towards him was indifferent.
"Now that the patriarch of the Liuli clan knows the truth and the second son is imprisoned, why do you still ask me to bring your sister to the Central Plains Kingdom?"
It turned out that the girl next to her was Liu Shangyun's sister.
Yue Qingning glanced at the girl twice, she was well-behaved and sensible, much more pleasing to the eye than her brother.
Liu Shangyun glanced at his sister worriedly, and sighed lightly: "The Third Highness knew that I was bad and killed my own mother, my sister escaped with all her might, if she stayed in the Liuli Clan any longer, and the Third Highness knew about it, she would definitely kill her." I trust the prince, so I hope that my sister can stay with the prince and be safer. ”
Qin Zhi frowned displeasedly: "What do you think of our Yewang Mansion?" It's already a great gift for the prince to rescue you, do you still expect the prince to raise your sister? ”
Chu Hanye watched silently from the side, noncommittal.
Liu Shangyun kowtowed heavily, and two lines of tears fell on his face when he first saw the wind and rain: "Lord, my sin is unforgivable, but my sister is innocent." I also hope that the prince can pity her, and I will only look forward to the prince in the future! ”