Chapter 1099: A tacit understanding that doesn’t need to be expressed
Even Prime Minister Zheng was embarrassed to say more after that. It was so miserable that when he saw the last four words, "We have reached the northwest," he began to sympathize with the Phoenix King of the Suzaku Kingdom.
The northwest is the territory of the Qi Family Army.
If he remembered correctly, he had the impression that not long after the Phoenix King of the Suzaku Kingdom left Jingcheng, Prince Xian sent a letter to the northwest.
Hehe, I really want to see it with my own eyes.
Qi Bao'er pinched a piece of tea and was chewing it. Suddenly she looked up and saw Zheng Xiang's increasingly obscene and perverted smile. She roughly guessed what he was thinking and rolled his eyes.
"Stop laughing, stop laughing, we are all civilized people."
Zheng Xiang was not embarrassed by being exposed, and wiped his chin naturally. He also knew what this action meant, but it just made his eyes look more irritating.
"I wonder if King Chu will meet her."
If they really encounter it, the Phoenix King of Suzaku Kingdom will probably go crazy.
The two princes of the Suzaku Kingdom, who had the same status, were treated very differently by them. After King Chu was detoxified, Prince Xian sent a team of Shadowless Army to personally escort him away. Escort, real escort.
Dozens of carriages followed, carrying gifts from Prince Xian to King Chu and Emperor Suzaku.
Thinking of this, Prime Minister Zheng gave a thumbs up to Qi Bao'er again.
Absolutely.
Qi Bao'er also thought of this, and looked away with a slight guilt, then met Jun Chenyuan's possessive eyes in the deep depths, which could not be concealed, and looked away again as if he had been burned.
Nowadays, Qi Bao'er understands a lot about human nature and sophistication, but for a person like her who does everything as she pleases, no matter how much she understands, her usual behavior will still appear to be deficient.
Take the case of King Chu of the Suzaku Kingdom as an example. As the God of War prince of the Suzaku Kingdom, King Chu was at the forefront and the most important person in the confrontation with King Feng. Qi Baoer took care of the relationship between the two countries and could If King Feng leaves, he will naturally not let King Chu die of poison in the Qilin Kingdom.
But if it was just Qi Bao'er's own wish that she could detoxify him and let him go, that would have given Suzaku face. As for the Suzaku Emperor, she had never even thought about it.
Didn't I receive a message from someone from Chen Wei, sending someone to escort the King of Chu to leave, and sending gifts to the King of Chu and the Suzaku Emperor? That was someone's intention.
Later, she thought about it and understood what he meant. It was so sinister that she could leave it alone without mentioning it.
An emperor and two ministers, sitting there chatting, the topic will naturally turn to state affairs, and time will pass without realizing it.
After having lunch with the emperor, Qi Baoer and Zheng Xiang continued to leave the palace together. This time they did not change their work place, but left the palace directly to return home.
After they both got on the carriage, Zheng Xiang suddenly opened the curtains and called Qi Bao'er as if he remembered something.
"Do you still have high-quality cloth in your cloth workshop?"
Qi Bao'er: "..., it's already now, are you preparing new year's goods?" Or cloth?
I’m going to make some new clothes to wear. I’ll just cut them for New Year’s Eve.
"No, I'm going to buy some to send to my hometown."
The Zheng family does a lot of business and also has a cloth workshop, but they don't know the dyeing technology, so the cloth they produce is all original color.
The clothes that the Zheng family usually wears on their own can only be made by buying cloth from other people.
Regardless of the word "clothes", it seems that the expense is not large, but the fact is exactly the opposite. Every year, a large family in the northwest spends nearly one hundred thousand taels on just one piece of clothing.
Isn't it true that when Patriarch Zheng came to Beijing last time, he heard that Prince Xian also opened a cloth workshop and dyeing workshop in his village? He originally just wanted to get closer to Prince Xian and mentioned it to his eldest grandson when he left, asking Zheng
The eldest son went to inquire about the price of the cloth in the cloth workshop opened by Prince Xia Xian. If they could afford it, the Zheng family would also buy some.
Naturally, Mr. Zheng did not dare not listen to what the clan leader said, and besides, this matter was not difficult to find out.
After Prince Zheng wrote a letter to Chief Zheng, Chief Zheng calculated that if all of their clan members bought their cloth from Prince Xian, they would be able to save at least nearly 40,000 taels of silver a year.
Don't wonder how the Zheng family can afford so much money to wear clothes. The technology of dyeing cloth is really too scarce. There is still a family in the northwest who knows the dyeing technology. In many places, there is not a single person who can dye cloth;
The colored clothes worn by the powerful and wealthy had to be bought from outside, while the common people could only wear flaxen or white;
Under this premise, you can see how expensive colored cloth will be.
Therefore, Zhuo Wen and the others never had to worry about the sales volume of the cloth workshop they opened. Instead, now that Zheng Xiang came to mention it, Qi Baoer was not sure whether there was any stock.
All he could say was: "I'll ask someone to ask."
Prime Minister Zheng was not in a hurry. He just suddenly remembered that the cloth he wanted to purchase was the cloth needed for next year. "No rush, I will ask the steward to go to your village to talk with you after the new year."
Qi Baoer nodded and signaled Qiu Yu to lower the car curtains.
Qiu Yu left a small corner of the car curtain open for ventilation, knelt down at several tables and picked up small pliers to peel walnuts, while quietly reporting to Qi Bao'er about Xu Yushi's family.
"Your Majesty, on the day of the palace banquet, Xu Rongrong may not be the only one who has to deal with Miss Xu Yuyu." Xu Rongrong is the adopted daughter of the Xu Yushi family.
Qi Baoer paused while flipping through the book. He simply clipped the bookmark and put the book aside. He picked up the walnut crumbs that Qiu Yu had peeled and ate them. "Expand and talk."
"Didn't I go to keep an eye on Mrs. Xu last night? After Mrs. Xu fell asleep, I wanted to go back home. When I saw the lights in Xu Rongrong's room, I went over and took a look."
"Xu Rongrong was not asleep yet and was talking to her eldest maid. The servant heard Xu Rongrong asking the eldest maid if the letter had been delivered. The eldest maid replied to her, 'Miss Ye accepted', and then Xu Rongrong gave it to the maid with great satisfaction.
tips."
"After the eldest maid left, the servant heard Xu Rongrong muttered viciously, 'Xu Yuyu, I want you to become the most incompetent person in this palace banquet]."
Um?
What does this mean?
Qi Baoer: "Who is Miss Ye?"
There are several families with the surname Ye in Beijing, please be specific.
Qiu Yu thought about it and said uncertainly: "Maybe, it's the Ye from Yang'an Houfu."
Qi Baoer recalled the Yang'an Marquis Mansion in his mind like a photo. There were more than a dozen people who could be called young ladies, but there was no one ranked behind Ye, and there was only one granddaughter of the Yang'an Marquis.
The other women of the same generation are all concubines.
"The guy from Yang'an Houfu seems to be only thirteen years old, right?"
Qiu Yu nodded, and then said mysteriously: "Miss Ye likes the eldest son. This is not a secret in the circle of noble ladies in the capital. Miss Ye once accidentally lost a purse and it was picked up by the fourth lady of Wu Linhou Mansion. The purse
There is a note inside, and on it is a hidden poem full of lovesickness."
This is the case in the circle of noble ladies in Beijing. Some things will be spread but some will never be spread. At that time, many ladies saw the acrostic poem, but no one spread the content of the poem.
The only thing that Miss Ye likes about Qi Yuxuan is that it is only spread in a small area, that is, only people in that small circle know about it.
This is a tacit understanding that neither of them need to express.