Chapter 269: The Empress Summons
Ye Zixiu frowned, and asked for a long time, "Miss Fang needs help?" β
"No, I don't." Zhuang Yi smiled bitterly and shook his head: "If I hadn't met her in Cao Mansion today, how would she have told her?" β
Ye Zixiu sneered coldly: "Li Jingrui wants to win over Cao Zhirong, does he really think that others can't see his little care?" It's just to give King Jin face. β
"Brother Ye, I admire this person quite a bit now, because when he was in Jinghe Mansion, he met Fang Jing'an, although Fang Jing'an didn't break the relationship between them, but he can be as if nothing happened, and his face is really not ordinary." Zhuang Yi sighed.
Ye Zixiu poured tea for Zhuang Yi: "This kind of person is flattering and bullying, how can he care about the Fang family, if it weren't for the unstable foundation, I'm afraid that the Fang family would have been unable to move an inch a long time ago, I admire Miss Fang's vision, but I don't know how to do it?" β
"I originally persuaded Miss Fang to find another way, this move is undoubtedly a grasshopper shaking the tree, but Miss Fang has no way out, as Brother Ye said, when Li Jingrui's foundation is firm, the Fang family will be very miserable, if this kind of thing is heard, it is just a lot of talk, but now it is indignant, the Fang family is kind to others, how did they meet such a Zhongshan wolf." Zhuang Yi took a sip of tea and said no more.
Ye Zixiu didn't speak, he was silent for a long time before he said: "Brother Zhuang, the prefect of Qinghe Mansion is now a shortage. β
"Huh?" Zhuang Yi frowned: "Cao Zhirong has already arrived in the capital, is there no one over there?" β
Ye Zixiu nodded: "Yesterday, I heard that Lord Zhou, who was originally going to Qinghe Mansion to take up his post, had the disease of wind evil and was unconscious, but now that he has become nobody, is there no one to go?" In fact, no one in Qinghe Mansion wants to go, mainly because Cao Zhirong's prestige over there is not low, and it is difficult for anyone to make political achievements, and those who want to climb up in the official career must try their best to avoid it. β
Zhuang Yi didn't speak, looking at the tea leaves floating in the teacup, he thought a lot in his heart.
Ye Zixiu didn't give him a chance to ponder alone, leaned forward and said: "Brother Zhuang can go to the post, this matter is not difficult, King Jin doesn't say it, just say that Li Jingrui is a villain, even if he is good at dancing with long sleeves above the court, he can't erase the disgraceful behavior of the idea, if he finds an opportunity and hits it with one blow, it may not be a good opportunity to purge the court. β
"Brother Ye wants to help Miss Fang?" Zhuang Yi looked up at Ye Zixiu.
Ye Zixiu smiled: "Why not?" She is the only woman who can keep me awake at night, but knowing this makes me have to be cautious, it may be bad luck to meet a lover once, if I fail her again, shouldn't I be thundered by the sky? β
"Brother Ye, true love is also a seed." Zhuang Yi is truly admired.
Ye Zixiu smiled and waved his hand: "A man stands up to the sky, walking in the world to make a difference, the love of children is not in my heart, but for the sake of Miss Fang, I can change my original intention, just go back to the Yuelao Temple outside the city to ask for it." β
No one expected that Zhuang Yi would be appointed as the prefect of Qinghe Mansion by the imperial court again two months after his resignation.
When Zhuang Yi came to say goodbye, Fang Qingying was taken aback.
"Miss Fang, although I can't help you avenge your grievances, I can make Jing'an worry-free within the boundaries of Qinghe Mansion." Zhuang Yi is not around the bush at all.
Fang Qingying could only thank him.
Zhuang Yi said goodbye, did not mention Ye Zixiu, he left Beijing to go to work easily, one person and one horse, with a holy decree, that is different.
This incident made Fang Qingying have to think more.
She didn't think that Zhuang Yi was entering the office in order to prevent the Fang family from being brutalized by Li Jingrui, and the reason was most likely a partisan dispute in the court.
Could it be that there is something I didn't think of?
There are a lot of things in hand, and there is no need for Mrs. Cao to interfere in the preparations before the store is going to open the market, so Fang Qingying put down this thought.
Seeing that there are still a few days left for the New Year.
Suddenly there was news in the palace, the Fang family's spices were chic, and they entered the eyes of the queen of the middle palace, I don't know where to get the news, knowing that Fang Qingying was in Beijing, she sent someone to spread the queen's decree, and announced that Fang Qingying entered the palace to meet her.
That's a big deal!
Fang Qingying had prepared a set of outfits before he came, in order not to be too shabby when he entered the palace.
And when she entered the palace, she couldn't bring people around, and a small sedan chair was a gift from the queen.
Fang Qingying sat in the sedan chair, trying to calm himself down, when he arrived in the capital, many things were unknown, if he wanted to say that he knew someone, there was really one, when the Shen family was in trouble, the queen mother interceded for the Shen family, and only then did the Shen family's daughter be sent to Nanban.
There is a booklet given by Shen Liangyu in his hand, and the origins of many concubines of the Heavenly Family are also very clear, but knowing these is not the same thing as seeing people.
When the sedan chair arrived at the gate of the palace, Fang Qingying got off the sedan chair and followed the little eunuch into the palace.
The queen of the Tang Kingdom came from the Chu family, and the three generations of the Chu family were all ministers of Zaifu, and the father of the queen mother was the current prime minister Chu Houde.
The Chu family can be said to be a lonely minister in the court, because only one person in the three generations of the Chu family has entered the office, although he is the head of the ministers, but there is no protΓ©gΓ©, such a Chu family makes people stay away, and it is precisely because of this style of work that the queen mother entered the palace at the age of sixteen and sat firmly in the middle palace for twenty-three years.
Carved beams and paintings, in the splendid Yanfu Palace, Fang Qingying knelt on the ground: "The people's daughter Fang Qingying knocked to see the queen's mother, the queen's mother is a thousand years old, a thousand years old, a thousand years old." β
Empress Chu said lightly: "Flat." β
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Fang Qingying got up, took two steps back and stood respectfully with his head bowed, waiting for the queen mother to ask.
The sound of a teacup falling on the saucer was soft, but clear to the ear.
"This palace saw the spices of the Fang family a few days ago, and my heart was dexterous, which made people's eyes shine." Empress Chu looked at Fang Qingying, dressed in a plain blue jacket and skirt, embroidered with a pattern of gold thread, dignified and calm, but she was young, slender, and had the exquisite appearance of a southern woman: "How old are you?" β
Fang Qingying turned around and lowered his head: "The folk girl is eighteen years old. β
"That's a lot of age." Empress Chu instructed the palace maids who were waiting beside her: "Give a seat." β
The palace maid led Fang Qingying to the queen and asked her to sit on the embroidery pier.
After Fang Qingying thanked him, he sat down.
Empress Chu could see that Fang Qingying was very restrained, and raised her hand to support the hairpin on her sideburns: "Your use of those spices is quite novel, let's tell the palace about it." β
"Yes." Fang Qingying spoke eloquently, and he was much more comfortable when it came to spice people.
As he was talking, a palace maid came in outside the door to report: "Queen Mother, the second prince is back." β
The three words of the second prince fell on Fang Qingying's ears, and her heart thumped!
The second prince rebelled, the king of Jin was convicted, and the son of heaven was angry and degraded to the common people!
I remembered it myself!