Chapter 65: Bandits on the Road
Xi Chuyu tossed a lot, but in the end, she still didn't dare to keep Qiu Xiang by her side, because she was worried that Xi Qingyan would find out that Qiu Xiang was a fine work that her mother had placed in Hanlian Garden.
"Xi Qingyan, your Miss Ben doesn't need it, Miss Ben thinks they are as dirty as you!"
"Second Miss, how can you say that about our young lady?"
As soon as Chun Tao heard that someone was slandering Miss Xi, she hurriedly retorted.
"It's okay for us subordinates to be insulted by you, why are you insulting our young lady?"
"Now, all the food and drink expenses up and down the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mansion are handled by my eldest lady alone, you eat our young lady's, use our young lady's, and our young lady is still your eldest sister, you are so disrespectful, you are not afraid of losing the face of the Ministry of Rites Shangshu Mansion?"
"Little hoof, I'm talking to your master, there's a place for you to interject! I'm telling you, one day I'll clean you up!"
Xi Chuyu just wanted to let the maid beside her palm Chun Tao's mouth, but as soon as she looked up, she saw Xi looking at her with a smile on his face.
Somehow, Xi Chuyu felt that Xi Qingyan's smiling face made her panic.
So she swallowed it and sat back in her carriage.
"Rotten little hoof, Miss Ben is also something you can denigrate! Look at your master Xi Qingyan after he dies, how can I make your life worse than death!"
Xi Chuyu sat in the carriage and whispered insults at Chun Tao.
As long as she does today's thing, she can not only get rid of Xi Qingyan, the thorn in her side, but she can also be the princess of Su Yiting!
The last time at the palace banquet, those nobles of the family ridiculed her and her mother one by one, and after today, Xi Chuyu let those people know how powerful she was!
Xi Chuyu was in her carriage, fantasizing about the wonderful days after her mother took back the power of Shangshu Mansion and became the princess of Suyiting.
On the other side, Xi Qingyan was in the carriage, bored looking at the account books of those tenants.
"Miss, this carriage has been dangling, and you are still staring at these ledgers, which is too bad for your eyes."
Chun Tao looked at the dark circles under Xi Qingyan's eyelids, and couldn't help but express concern.
"Miss, don't worry, this time the second lady came with us, this lady will not dare to be a moth on the road, you can rest in this carriage for a while, and when you get to the tenants on the outskirts of Beijing, there will naturally be an old man in the house to take care of you for the eldest lady."
Chun Tao thought that now that the eldest lady had taken the second lady Xi Chuyu to the outskirts of Beijing, then Mrs. Shangshu would not do anything to them.
"Chun Tao, you girl is really stupid, Xi Chuyu is not our shield, she came with this time not to learn how to deal with the affairs of Shangshu Mansion."
Xi Qingyan saw Chun Tao's innocence, so he smiled and broke it.
"Miss, are you saying that Mrs. and Miss II are still going to target us?"
"In my opinion, Xi Chuyu and they are not only targeting us, she also wants to stop by Kyoto and meet her sweetheart!"
The business of the Divine Medical Pavilion in Kyoto is getting bigger and bigger, so the news received on weekdays is becoming more and more well-informed.
Not long ago, the royal annex on the outskirts of Beijing once went to the Divine Medical Pavilion to ask for medicine, and those medicines were all excellent gold sore medicines, specializing in the treatment of bruises.
The steward of the Divine Medicine Pavilion saw that the Royal Palace had purchased such a large amount of the high-grade gold sore medicine in their store, so he reported the news to Xi Qingyan.
Xi Qingyan also felt strange, so he asked someone to investigate.
Now she also knows everything about what happened in the royal palace on the outskirts of Beijing.
"Sweetheart?! Eldest Miss, Hasn't the Second Miss never been out of the cabinet? How could a sweetheart suddenly pop up?"
After Chun Tao heard this, she was shocked.
She looked around the carriage, and when she saw that no one was eavesdropping, she cautiously asked the eldest lady.
"Miss, could it be...... Could it be that these two young ladies are going out of the suburbs of Beijing and their sweethearts...... Private...... A private meeting?"
Chun Tao is an untrained girl, so she is very shy when she mentions it.
"A private meeting? Maybe the second lady of our Shangshu Mansion is thinking about a private meeting, but her sweetheart is not thinking about such a romantic thing!"
Xi Qingyan sneered and pointed out.
Her people investigated that in this royal courtyard lived His Royal Highness Su Yiting, who was grounded by His Majesty, and at the last palace banquet of the Qiqiao Festival, anyone with a discerning eye could see that His Royal Highness Su Yiting and the nobles of Narui must have turned the clouds and rain.
As a son, he slept with his father's concubine.
Such a perverse thing, Xi Qingyan thought that Su Yiting would be severely punished, but in the end, His Majesty just understated it, and punished Shu Yiting for confinement inconsequentially.
Such a punishment is too light.
However, His Royal Highness Su Yiting, who was favored by His Majesty, did not stop even when he was confined in the royal palace.
The gold sore medicine that His Royal Highness Shu Yiting bought that day was enough for an army of more than 5,000 people......
When Xi Qingyan heard this, a trace of strangeness crossed her heart, I am afraid that this Su Yiting is not as simple as she sees......
However, she is not ready to tell Xi Chuyu, who is full of thoughts about marrying into the royal family, to see her speculation.
Let Xi Chuyu toss!
There are some beatings in this world, which always have to be experienced personally, not to mention that she and Xi Chuyu are not sisters whose blood is thicker than water.
When she woke up in this other world that day, the terrible wound on her body was due to Xi Chuyu!
The carriage of Shangshufu, after an hour of bumps, finally arrived at the outskirts of Beijing.
"Miss, we're here, I'll help you get out of the car!"
Chun Tao took the lead in getting out of the carriage and carefully helped Xi Qingyan.
"Qiu Xiang, if you don't help the second miss, if she really falls, we will have no good fruit to eat!"
Xi Qingyan deliberately joked at Qiu Xiang in front of him.
"Miss, Akika...... Qiu Xiang is a person from Hanlian Garden, if the eldest lady wants me to help the second lady, then ...... Then the slave and maid will go!"
Qiu Xiang looked at the second lady in brocade clothes, and the exaggerated second lady walked down from the carriage with difficulty, and when she wanted to help, Xi Qingyan suddenly spoke.
So she could only pretend to be cowardly, and wanted to go over to help Xi Chuyu under the banner of Xi Qingyan.
"You don't have to come! No, you should stay away from me!"
Xi Chuyu scolded Qiu Xiang directly and loudly.
"Xi Qingyan, this place is so desolate, there is not even a place to rest, I am dying of thirst now, I don't want to go with you to collect any rent! I'm going to find a place to sit and rest!"
Xi Chuyu looked at the surrounding environment, and when she raised her eyes and saw the royal courtyard not far from here, she deliberately picked on it.
"Xi Chuyu, you took a carriage all the way here, and these people who followed the carriage didn't feel tired, but you said that you were tired here, don't you think your words are funny?"
Xi Qingyan saw through Xi Chuyu's mind and said with a sneer.
"You're in charge of my business!"
"I'm the second lady of the Xi family, they are all a group of people with rough skin and thick flesh, Xi Qingyan, you compare them with me Xi Chuyu, what kind of heart do you have?"
Xi Chuyu scolded back without showing weakness.
"Xi Qingyan, don't you boast that you are the head of our Shangshu Mansion family when you see people on weekdays? Today is just for you to come to this suburb of Beijing to collect rent, can you not do anything without my sister?"
Xi Chuyu didn't want Xi Qingyan to know that she was careful, so she scolded Xi Qingyan.
"Okay, Xi Chuyu, these words are all said by you, I, Xi Qingyan, can take these veterans in the mansion to the tenants to collect rent, don't you go back to the mansion and tell him that I won't let you participate in this matter!"
What Xi Qingyan wants is Xi Chuyu's words, as long as Xi Chuyu insists on going her own way, any problems that Xi Chuyu encounters at that time have nothing to do with her!
"That's right, that's what I said!"
"Miss Ben just looks at your light face and doesn't like it! I'm just so tired that I can't walk! I don't want to go with you to meet those *** tenants!"
"A few of you have been serving Xi Chuyu when you were in Shangshu Mansion, and now, if she is not leaving here, you should follow her."
Xi Qingyan directly singled out Xi Chuyu's people and took her own people to collect rent.
"Yes, Miss, we'll take care of Miss."
Xi Chuyu saw Xi Qingyan walking away, and changed her wilting appearance, she got into the carriage again and instructed the coachman to exit.
"Hurry up, Miss Ben is going to the Royal Palace!" If anyone dares to speak out about this today, Miss Ben will kill your heads!"
Xi Chuyu wanted to have a private meeting with Su Yiting, but for the sake of her reputation in Kyoto, she had to threaten the subordinates around her.
"Second Miss, this ...... Without His Majesty's permission, the villain can't enter this royal palace at all!"
Although the coachman also knew that he had to obey the arrangement of the second young lady Xi Chuyu, Xi Chuyu's instructions were too difficult for him.
"Civilians within a five-mile radius outside the royal annex can't even get close, and if the villain's carriage goes a short way ahead, the carriage can't go."
"Second Miss, you can't enter the Royal Courtyard, why don't you take Second Miss to rest elsewhere, what does Second Miss think?"
The coachman was very embarrassed, and he patiently persuaded Xi Chuyu, hoping that the second lady of Shangshu Mansion would change her mind.
"No!"
"Miss Ben is going to the Royal Palace! I tell you, just because you can't approach the Royal Palace doesn't mean Miss Ben can't come near either!"
Xi Chuyu's purpose today is to meet His Royal Highness Su Yiting, if she doesn't go to the Royal Mansion, she will come for nothing today!
"Yes...... But after a while, when you get to the forbidden area, don't you want to walk in, miss?"
"What if Miss Ben walks in? I'm telling you, just catch the car! It's not your turn to worry about the rest!"
Xi Chuyu was bent on having some unexpected encounters with His Royal Highness Shu Yiting, and he couldn't care if the words in the coachman's mouth were for her sake.
The coachman had no choice but to take Xi Chuyu all the way to a radius of five miles outside the royal courtyard.
After Xi Chuyu got out of the carriage, she took her maid, carried her skirt, and walked on the rugged mountain road wearing embroidered shoes with soft soles on her feet.
"Isn't this the Royal Palace? Why isn't there even a smooth road?"
Xi Chuyu was scared for about two quarters of an hour, she was tired and out of breath, as the second lady of Shangshufu, she always followed her in a sedan chair when she went out, and now it was the first time she walked through mountains and rivers.
Although she complained a lot, she didn't go far.
"Second Miss, otherwise...... Why don't we go back?"
The maid who followed Xi Chuyu was very worried about their situation and spoke cautiously.
"Miss Ben won't go back!"
"Hahahaha! I like chicks with spicy personalities, this young lady, you can't walk, I'll carry you!"
Suddenly, a person burst out and laughed.