Chapter 18 The Journey of the State and the Public
"You just keep an eye on the bookstore these days, be sure to remember the points I raised, I still trust you, I'll raise it in the mansion for a few days first, how can you ask me if you don't know anything, remember that you must not make a noise, not in the name of me and the Qi Wangfu, nor in the name of the Chu family, understand?"
She repeated her orders, for fear that something would go wrong at this juncture.
Sun De lowered his head, saluted with his ten fingers, solemnly agreed, and then withdrew.
The more I thought about it, the more wrong it became, and I always felt that this girl from the Red Chamber who was going to spend the clouds and rain with her yesterday was a little familiar.
Suddenly! She remembered the gaze cast by Yun Jian on the second floor when she visited the old mansion that day! It's this Red Mansion! The woman's makeup that day was not glamorous, and there was sadness in her eyes. It seems that the fate with this girl in the Red Chamber is not shallow!
Chu Yunjing's life in the palace is indeed quite comfortable, even if there are eyes and ears in the palace to stare at him, he can still come up with a way to do something sneaky, after all, no one is pressing her here, she is the biggest in the palace, and whoever sees it has to call her mother. Yilai stretched out his hand to eat and opened his mouth, except for those unprovoked fights, if it was really King Huai who wanted to kill her, was she involved in some court battles in ignorance?
She couldn't figure it out, but she was afraid in her heart, fortunately, King Qi's Mansion was safe, and there were guards guarding her all the time, if it wasn't for Fu Feng to save her, I'm afraid she would have died in the clouds a long time ago, she must treat these guards well, she is a person who will repay her with revenge and gratitude, even if they obey King Qi's orders, but they can save her life at a critical moment, which is worth grateful.
So I didn't go out of the house for several days, found a basket of good things, tossed for a whole day, and brought the house to Su Hua, Fu Feng, Si Yu, Steward Meng, Aunt An, etc., to the old man who poured the night bucket and the lady who chose vegetables in the kitchen, and each person prepared a thick gift, each one was different, and there were about thousands of large and small rewards.
She is a person who looks unsmiling on the surface, which makes people feel intimidating, but in fact, she still knows how to hurt people in her heart, but she lacks expression, after all, she has been wrongly treated and suffered from being neglected. It's true that she doesn't treat people very well, and most of her kindness is pretended, and she doesn't have much emotional feedback, but she can't always go wrong with something outside of her body.
The reward was divided, and the people were rewarded, and several groups of people who came from outside the main house and kowtowed to the house, all of them came silently to thank her for her great kindness, which were not worth mentioning to her, but were great gifts to the common servants. She waved her hand and told Steward Meng not to kowtow again, and then stopped.
She called Su Hua and Fu Feng separately and asked them what they wanted, whether they wanted to marry a wife? Do you want to buy a property? Are there elderly people to support, etc.....
Speaking of marrying a wife, the small spark between Su Hua and Si Yu kept rubbing, Chu Yunjing later asked Si Yu what happened when he went to deliver food that night, Si Yu pretended to be calm and said, "The slave maid just went to send some food to General Su Hua, and then served the general's meal, and there was nothing else, and then I heard that the clouds were coming to explode, and the general didn't finish eating, so he hurriedly led the horse and was about to go out." ’
She asked again, what did she say? Si Yu replied no, didn't say anything.
These two people are a little bored, they are not good at expressing themselves, and Chu Yunjing does not deliberately match, after all, Su Hua's identity is different, and it is not suitable to marry a wife.
If you don't have a family, you don't need an inheritance, you don't even want a wife, how can there be such a person in the world.
The two explained that they had no father and no mother and were adopted and trained as secret guards since they were children, and they could only obey the orders of their masters in their lives and die for their masters at any time, so they didn't have to make up for Chu Yunjing's efforts, no matter whether they had these virtual things or not, they would swear to protect her to the death.
More than two months have passed since the explosion in the clouds on that day, among which more than 20 Dafeng officials and gentry were killed, two of whom were the consolidated ministers of the court, as well as the fourth prince of Zhengguogong, this matter has become a major event that shocked the government and the opposition, and the people talked about it after tea and dinner, and the saint was furious and ordered to investigate the matter thoroughly.
Fortunately, Chu Yunjing did not die in the clouds that day, otherwise the news that the princess was killed in the clouds by pretending to be a man would make the entire royal family and the Chu family lose face, and she would have become a bad reputation behind her. The reputation of those officials who died in the clouds is not good now, and most of their family members are hastily buried, only Zhengguo Gong is unwilling to let his young son be innocently blown up, and denounces it in front of His Majesty to ask for an explanation.
Dali Temple checked for more than a month before finding out that it was done by Beiyue's secret agents, and the clouds that resounded all over the world were frequented by Dafeng nobles, so Beiyue wanted to do it here, intending to kill as many Dafeng courtiers as possible. I don't know if it's a deliberate statement given by the imperial court, anyway, no one dares to question this result, kill a few people in charge of Yunjian, and send all the girls from Yunjian to the Jiaofang Division, which can be regarded as a turning page.
As for Zhengguo Gong, he can only suppress the dissatisfaction in his heart, no matter how he says it, his son is nostalgic for Vashe, his life is not good, he was innocently blown up, he has a bad reputation, and he has to ask for an explanation for his son who is not angry, he is really confused, although the saint does not say anything, but he also has the intention of suppressing him recently.
Chu Yunjing also shrank in the palace for more than two months, except for occasionally passing letters and listening to Sun De's report on the progress of the bookstore decoration, he just enjoyed the flowers in the backyard, fished and fished, and had nothing to do to do painting and embroidering flowers.
Some time ago, she pondered a new business, she inquired about the previous way of transporting sea mistakes in the clouds, fresh sea mistakes are often difficult to transport to Kyoto in rare solar terms, so the cost is very high, even if there are sold in the market is also expensive, for the common people is sky-high prices, so some people only eat some local aquatic products, or buy some leftovers of sea mistakes.
So she slapped the door of her head and beckoned Sun De again, she wanted to transport fresh seafood from the sea, she wanted to change the other shops, get the underground out of the ice storage room, dig a deep well under the ice room, and use it to circulate ice production, so as to freeze some sea mistakes.
As for the fresh ones, they are salvaged from the sea and transported directly to Kyoto with seawater, which must be changed frequently to ensure that the sea is fresh, and when they come back, they are raised in deep well water and put an appropriate amount of sea salt, so that the sea can be stored for a longer time. Hire a few more waves of seafood to keep the seafood fresh every day, and those that can't be sold can be frozen in the ice cellar.
She asked Sun De to hurry up and buy a new shop, and found a wave of guys to go to the nearest beach to try it first according to her method, this passage is not so easy to open, so she found a local official at a high price, and then it made sense to let her own guys make a mistake.
The first batch took three days to go back and forth, and the guy was too fast, and after coming back, Hai Wrong shook a lot on the road, and she was dizzy like this when she returned to Kyoto.
She tried it twice more, and it was not bad, and she was pleased to see the creatures bouncing around in the huge storage jar. She began to calculate the cost again, this transaction in Kyoto can be regarded as the first one, even if other people want to do it, I am afraid that there is no such intensive preparation, so she is not afraid of being plagiarized for the time being, some other restaurants sell the wrong thing is not cheap, she can supply some restaurants at the market price, so that it is slightly cheaper than restaurants to buy goods in other places, and then the price of selling to ordinary people.
In the end, she chose one that was cheaper than the market price and could make a lot more money than the cost, as long as her transportation links were not wrong, the transaction was completely stable.
Here she is intensively preparing for her upcoming business, on the other hand, the eldest son of Zhengguo Gong is happy to have a son-in-law, and wants to hold a banquet at home, often these things are to prepare a generous gift sent by Steward Meng, she never came forward, I thought that this time was the same, but I didn't expect a queen in the palace to come down, meaning: The queen should have gone to the Zhengguo Mansion in person, but unfortunately the queen was sick, and ordered Princess Qi to go to the Zhengguo Mansion for the queen to congratulate.
Does she want Jeongkook-gong to have such a big face? Can you even let the queen mother surrender herself? Later, when I thought that Zhengguo Gong was the maiden brother of the queen's mother, it became clear. At the moment, I am afraid that the saint has the intention of suppressing the prince of Zhengguo, and the queen mother naturally knows that it is not easy to show up.
This Zhengguo Gong is not confused for a day or two, the fourth son of the front foot has just died, he is making trouble to ask a concubine to explain, the eldest son of the back foot has been married for more than ten years and finally has a son-in-law, he wants to hold a 100-day banquet, a mourning and a joy so close is a taboo thing.
In fact, Yu Gui should have come forward with the Wangfu, but it was not her turn to come forward from the Qi Wangfu, and she was puzzled. On the day of the wedding, the Duke and his wife were present, but unfortunately she didn't know which one was, since it was the queen's decree, she couldn't shirk it.
On the day of the full moon banquet of the grandson of Zhengguo, she began to comb after breakfast, Siyu served to comb her hair, she was bored and picked up the gift list sent by the queen that day to check, and turned the two pages of the gift fold, she sighed at the richness of the reward.
She picked out a long-sleeved shirt with mica yarn Yunhe silk, a gold-inlaid jade collar that matched the necklace, a pair of Hetian jade drop-shaped jade earrings, and a set of jade flower crowns.
Jewelry eye-catching, headdress can be simpler, and pick a ruby gold ring to wear the left index finger, both wrists are a pair of hands of jasper bracelets given by grandmother when she got married, and the jade pendant around the waist is like a set.
The dress was full of luxury, she didn't want to bring a guard, but it was inappropriate to attend this kind of banquet, so Mama Hui, Aunt An, Si Yu, Qian Guanguan and more than 20 girls, Mama Hui came with her on the day of the palace's decree. In addition to Su Hua and more than 20 soldiers, it was four o'clock in the middle of the toss, and it was estimated that the hour was almost up, so he got on the incense car and went all the way to the Zhengguo Mansion.
Walked for two quarters of an hour to the Zhengguo Mansion, the carriage stopped at the gate of the Zhengguo Gong, she didn't come early, the guests almost all entered, Zhengguo Gong and his eldest son got the congratulatory gift of Princess Qi on behalf of the queen early in the morning, so they have been receiving at the door.
Seeing the arrival of her car, Zhengguo Gong and the others hurriedly stepped forward to wait.
She was dragged out of the carriage by Si Yu, and hooked the corners of her lips happily: "Congratulations to Zhengguo Gongxi for getting his grandson, congratulations to his son!" ”
Su Hua and the guards were waiting outside, and she took the slaves inside.
The two saluted in unison: "Welcome to Princess Qi!" ”