【I have some card today, only 4,000】

But the next morning, Jia Zheng really went to meet Chen Shangshu again, and did not forget to exonerate Jiao Shun and lay the groundwork.

But Shangshu Chen was also worldly-wise and seemed to have replied to every sentence in person. When Jia Zheng came back and thought about it carefully, he did not explain anything clearly.

Fortunately, although the attitude above is ambiguous, the news from both inside and outside is still timely.

First of all, Zhao Yan reported that if the shipping fee is not counted, some sweatshops in the south can indeed make gun belts that meet Taizu's regulations at the price.

This means that what the handyman wants to talk about the cost will definitely not work.

Immediately afterwards, Jia Zheng also ordered Shan Daliang to send news, but it turned out that the Ordnance Department's nitpicking this time was a long-planned matter.

At that time, Yu Heng, the Qing Lisi Department, was divided into two parts, and became the Hundred Works Department and the Ordnance Department.

Although most of the ordnance workshops were allocated to the Ordnance Department, and even some functions of the Ministry of War were allocated, a considerable number of supporting workshops remained in the Hundred and Works Department.

It was okay to be together in the same department, but now it is inevitable that the two departments will be divided into disputes, which makes the Ordnance Department quite shackle.

So I thought about taking the dominance of the relevant workshop into my pocket.

Because it was a cutting that was just completed not long ago, it is obviously not that easy to ask the Baigong Department to allocate the relevant workshops to the Ordnance Department for jurisdiction.

Therefore, they were planning to use a series of difficulties and suppression to make the various departments of the Hundred and Workers Department bow their heads and surrender, and agreed to the Ordnance Department to send officials to the factory for supervision, so as to achieve the goal of actually controlling the workshop.

And the handyman's office is the soft persimmon they picked out as a breakthrough!

In this regard, Jia Zheng’s suggestion was to simply expose the matter and let the Hundred Works Department fight the Ordnance Department.

But Jiao Shun felt that this method was not very safe.

Although he is now favored by Minister Su, he is still an alien among the officials of the Ministry of Works.

If everything is entrusted to the head of the department, it will be impossible to exchange interests between the two sides and sell the handyman and Jiao as a "price".

So it’s better to solve this problem by relying on your own strength!

Or...

Let’s take advantage of the force!

Thinking of his itinerary arrangement in a few days, Jiao Shunxin became concerned.

So in the following time, he took time out of his busy schedule and wrote an initiative, waiting for the opportunity to rely on the wind to rely on the power.

…………

Time flies, and the 23rd month is coming.

The two ministries agreed on the third day. Given that the Ministry of Works was very disbanded, the officials of the Ministry of Rites finally became convinced and no longer confused about the issue of the name, but began to discuss the specific arrangements during the tour.

It’s a pity that the scene that Jia Zheng expected never happened.

Obviously, the superiors were worried that the steps would be too big and would be frustrated, so they did not intend to add additional burden to the inspection team.

None of these are mentioned.

However, Jiao Shun was dispersed very early this day, so he routinely walked around the construction site and learned about the latest progress from several managers to ensure that once Jia Zheng asked about something, Shi Shiran returned home.

After entering the door, we saw Xiangling, Yuchuaner, Wuer and two coarse women mashed some dried fruit candied fruit, milk and rock candy in the east wing.

He stretched out his arms flatly, let Xiangling and Yuchuan take off his cloak, and said wonderingly: "It's not the New Year or the Festival, what are you doing?"

Yu Chuan'er rushed to answer: "My second grandma told me to prepare some cold drinks for our family - the cold cellar and labor are all delivered to the mansion, so we just need to prepare some auxiliary materials."

Although the ice room in the city also provides cold drinks, most of them were tried out by middle-class families in the past. Real wealthy families prefer to prepare them in advance, and at most they just buy some white ice from the ice room to cool off.

But Jiao Shun couldn't help but feel moved after hearing this.

Since Ping'er was moved by that teasing, Ping'er has been hiding from him all day long, and has never seen him for more than ten days.

Now that there is such a reason, why not take the opportunity to come to the door and continue the law of fate?

But then I thought again that tomorrow is an important day, so I should be more careful and meticulous. There is no need to hurry up and steal the fragrance and jade.

Therefore, I calmed down and ordered Xiangling to prepare a brush, paper and inkstone, brewed a cup of rose and silk almond tea, and went into the inner room alone to improve his plan.

But Wuer, who saw Jiao Shun coming home, was still dealing with official duties, couldn't help but say, "Are our uncle always so busy?"

"Of course!"

Yu Chuan'er and Youhen boasted: "The uncle has more than 100,000 under his command..."

Halfway through, she suddenly became alert and quickly changed the topic and said, "Since the uncle is back, we'll all go away, anyway, it's not too late to do it tomorrow."

Wu'er had never seen the intrigue between the maids. Not only did he not see Yu Chuan'er's repulsiveness and vigilance, he was happy to be able to rest earlier, so he responded quickly and made an appointment with Yu Chuan'er to start work tomorrow, and then ran out of the east wing excitedly.

Seeing that she was so heartless, Yu Chuan'er breathed a little relieved. She thought that the old man would ask for leave tomorrow, and it would be better to work in the main hall instead, so as not to take a look right when you are not careful.

Just then, someone outside shouted: "Why are you running around like this? You almost hit me!"

Yu Chuan'er hurriedly picked up the curtain and looked out, but it was Qiutong, the maid of the eldest wife Xing's family, who came to the door and almost got into Wu'er's arms.

Wu'er was so nervous that she was scolded by her, and she could not say a word with her head down.

Yu Chuan'er was a little gloating at first, and then she felt that Qiu Tong was loudly speaking and showing off her power. She clearly didn't take the Jiao family seriously, so she crossed the threshold and said to Qiu Tong: "Sister, whisper, hurry up, our uncle is criticizing the official documents in the room, so she dare not disturb her randomly!"

Qiu Tong was a man who had been praised by Jia She, and although she had never received any favor, she felt that she was different from others.

After eating Yuchuaner's line, she was displeased, but when she thought that her wife had asked Jiao Shun for now, she did not dare to make it happen. She forced herself to smile and said, "I'll let my sister report it and say that our wife has something to entrust."

"Sister, come in with me and wait."

Yu Chuan'er said, then waved to Wu'er again: "Madam, I guess I'm coming back soon, you dare not prepare."

Wu'er was as if he had been pardoned. He was grateful to Yuchuan'er for a blessing, and then he lowered his head and returned to the main hall.

After sending her off, Yuchuan'er led Qiutong into the living room and found the inner room alone to report to Jiao Shun.

"The eldest wife has something to entrust?"

Jiao Shun frowned when he heard this. Last time Xing summoned him over, it was a turmoil all over the city. Even Jia Mu was shocked, but this time he didn't know what kind of monster he was going to be.

Judging from his original intention, Jiao Shun does not want to get into trouble with Xing family too much.

But she was the eldest wife in this mansion after all, so she would not give her any bad face.

So he had to get up and go to the outside room and asked, "But I don't know what the eldest lady has to give?"

"It's not a big deal."

Qiutong naturally did not dare to act rashly in front of Jiao Shun, and replied in a regular manner: "It's just that the Dongqian Courtyard is not very peaceful recently. My wife asked someone to do some fortune, saying that she wanted to use the thunder and earth fire to avoid evil spirits. Therefore, she wanted to ask Mr. Jiao to find several good firecrackers in the yamen that had been hung with hundreds of thousands of sounds."

Speaking of this, she frequently looked at Yuchuaner and Xiangling beside her, and she hoped that Jiao Shun could help these two people away so that she could say a few private words.

Jiao Shun just pretended that he didn't see it and said seriously: "This is not a difficult thing, but I have something to do tomorrow - the next day, I will have someone to send you twenty to hang over."

"this……"

Qiutong stammered and felt embarrassed.

It was true that Mrs. Xing bought firecrackers to exorcise evil spirits - it was mainly because Jia She kept it from her and refused to say where the blood on her body came from. Xing could not help but be suspicious of the gods and the ghosts and thoughts.

But these firecrackers are not rare, so why are they specially held in front of Jiao Shun?

The real purpose is to avoid the eyes and ears of everyone in the mansion and ask Jiao Shun to meet him in private so as to throw out Yingchun's incense bait.

The fact that Jiao Shun was so confused that she had no chance to tell her purpose.

After hesitating for a while, Qiutong asked tentatively again: "But I don't know what Mr. Jiao is going to do tomorrow?"

This is a question of the bottom line!

Jiao Shun said impatiently: "Young Master Feng Ziying and Mr. Feng asked me and Mr. Xue to hunt outside the city - why? Do I have to report to the girl first?"

"No, no!"

Qiutong hurriedly shook her hands: "I just asked casually - since that's the case, I'll go back to my wife."

As he said that, he bowed and retreated, hurried back to Dongkuanyuan to meet Xing.

Xing Shiyuan was pulling Yingchun and said kindly that she wanted to add some jewelry to her. When Qiu Tong heard that the matter was not done, she changed the color again, threw away Yingchun's tender white hand, and said coldly: "Girl, go back and rest first!"

I won’t mention a single sentence about adding jewelry.

When Yingchun went timidly, Xing scolded again: "You useless hoof, but no matter how many words you say, you can't do it well?"

Qiutong bowed and said, "The two maids in his room are by his side. I have used the color several times and refused to leave. I really have no chance to speak."

After a pause, he said, "But I found out that Mr. Jiao and the young master of the Xue family will go hunting outside the city with Mr. Feng Ziying and Mr. Feng."

Xing shook the handkerchief and said annoyedly: "What's the use of asking about these?"

"Madam, please."

Qiutong leaned forward two steps and said with apologies: "There are so many people in this mansion. No matter how cautious the wife is, there will inevitably be some rumors. How can she compare to the wilderness?"

"You mean..."

"Let's find out the place to go first. Tomorrow, my wife will take the second girl to the outside of the city to burn incense. Then I will meet her by chance and call him over to talk for a few words. Wouldn't that be reasonable?"

This idea was actually learned from the play.

It’s a bit crappy, but Xing’s family is now anxious to get a share of the pie to alleviate the financial crisis at home, so they don’t care much about it.

At that moment, Wang Baoshan and his wife were hurriedly asked them to find out where Mr. Feng was used to hunting. This idea was not that easy to find a few wild animals around the capital, so they must be artificially kept, so the address should be fixed.

Then he ordered someone to call Jia Yingchun back, and took her affectionately to the dressing table in the inner room, spread her own dressing shop, and generously expressed that she could choose from Yingchun.

Yingchun has been used to being disliked by Xing's neglect these days. Today, she suddenly changed her face and was even more frightened and trembling, but how dare she choose according to Xing's wishes?

Seeing this, Xing became anxious. He chose a few precious ones to insert them on Yingchun's head, and then took rouge and water powder and applied them all.

That doesn't count.

She looked at it for a while and felt that although Yingchun was young and beautiful, she was too immature and afraid that she might not have been confused about Jiao Shun's heart.

Then he ordered people to find something to wrap their chests, waists and other objects, and squeeze out two white and greasy balls.

This is thanks to Yingchun being a precocious person. If it were as weak and slender as Daiyu, I was afraid that if my ribs were broken, I would not be able to squeeze out much scenery.

only……

How to get out of this dress in the middle of winter?

Xing thought about it but couldn't figure it out, so in the end he had to force Yingchun to dress like this inside and cover it with loose cover outside.

Thinking that if things are inconsistent at that time, I can only use this killer weapon!

In this way, after nightfall, Yingchun returned to the lower part with her head full of pearls and jade, and cried in the inner room.

Although Si Qi has been incompatible with her recently, she has grown up with her since childhood. Seeing that she was crying so sadly, she instructed Xiu Ju to come forward to find out what was going on, and she also listened carefully with her ears on the side.

Yingchun was just crying non-stop at first, but later after hearing Xiu Ju's heart-wrenching words, she sobbed: "I thought I would just bear it for a while, but my wife didn't care about her decentness at all, and just treated me as the meat on the chopping board, hoping to sell it out with a slight slightest!"

As he said that, he cried again in a daze.

Seeing this, Si Qi couldn't bear it and stepped forward to pull her and asked, "Where did the girl start? Stop crying, let's discuss a countermeasure if you say it!"

After asking questions, Yingchun said what happened before.

The swaying of his collar was opened again, revealing the tight little dress.

Si Qi was tall and close, and he saw two cold plums at the moment and couldn't help but say: "I'm afraid the prostitutes in the kiln are more neat than this. How can you wear them out to see people?"

Yingchun cried even harder.

Si Qi gritted his teeth and stamped his feet, "This is really unreasonable! The daughter of the dignified Duke's Mansion, how can she let her do this? Follow me, just sue it in front of the old lady, let's see how she will tell this time!"

As he said that, he helped Yingchun cover up his mind and wanted to take her to find the old lady to complain.

Yingchun was startled, but she shrank desperately and said, "Don't harm me anymore! If you really tear your face with your wife, how can I have a place to stand in this family?!"

Si Qi comforted her and said that after exposing all the difficulties her wife has made over the days, the old lady will naturally take the girl back and no longer have to be humiliated and bullied by her wife.

Yingchun still refused to make a name for himself and talked about it.

Finally, after a few arguments with Si Qi, she hypnotized herself and said, "Since she wants to sell me, she will always treat me well for a few days no matter if she is really accused of it. If she can sell it earlier, wouldn't it be considered a relief!"

Seeing that Yingchun was not in trouble, Siqi stomped her feet and went to the outside room angrily.
Chapter completed!