407 Once Entering the Houmen, It's Deep Like the Sea
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Three days later, Shangguan Yu sent back the fifth, sixth and fourteenth day of the lunar month.
"How is Chu Ba's injury?" Chu Yiqing was still a little worried when he saw them coming back, "Has Chu Jiu been found?"
Shi Shi hurriedly said: "Chu Ba's legs have mostly healed and he can take care of himself. Boss Shangguan was afraid that you were short of people, so he asked us to come back first, saying that there are many people in the house who can take care of Chu Ba! As for Chu Ninth
, We have been searching for many days but can’t find it. Miss, it’s been half a month. Either Chujiu was rescued, or..." Fourteen paused, looking a little difficult, "There are often people under the mountain.
Wolves are out…”
Chu Yiqing sighed. Although she didn't have much impression of the child Chujiu, he had been with her for so many years and was gone...
"Miss, you said that when doing great things, sacrifices are inevitable. If Chujiu sacrifices for Miss, he deserves to die!" Chuwu and Chu6 hurriedly said.
Chu Yiqing stopped mentioning this matter and just asked: "Who else is in Chujiu's family? Fourteenth, if you have time, please run over and send some silver to his house!"
Fourteen nodded quickly.
"Miss, Boss Shangguan also said that he has received a letter from Miss Chu and has greatly reduced the Shangguan family's vegetable transportation. Boss Shangguan also said that just let the lady do it!" Fourteenth remembered Shangguan Yu's instructions.
, said quickly.
Chu Yiqing nodded and asked: "What about the young master of the Hua family? Is there any news?"
Fourteen shook his head: "Before leaving, Boss Shangguan specially told me that Hua Xiaotang disappeared six years ago, and it was probably related to the royal family. He could not interfere in the affairs of the royal family, so the young lady should ask the fifth prince to investigate.
Some!"
"Royal family?" Chu Yiqing was stunned. Hua Xiaotang's disappearance was related to the royal family? Thinking of Hua Hai's hesitant appearance, maybe he had known it for a long time, but he just couldn't say it clearly! The royal family... Chu Yiqing immediately thought of the three
Regarding Huahai's appointment as the Protector of the Country ten years ago, if you know who he was serving at that time, you might be able to find out the person behind the scenes!
"Okay, you've been traveling for a few days and are tired. Go to your room to rest. I'll have someone prepare hot water for you to bathe**, eat something, have a good sleep, and go back to work tomorrow!
"Chu Yiqing said.
"Yes, Miss!" Fourteen and others responded quickly, and they hurried to the backyard to find Fifteen. This was the first time they were separated, so naturally they had endless things to say.
"Yingqian, what is the old lady doing?" Chu Yiqing thought for a while and asked in a low voice.
"Today the old lady has made an appointment with Mrs. Zeng to offer incense. She won't be back until noon!" Yingqian replied quickly.
"Okay, I understand." Chu Yiqing nodded and could only put this matter on hold for the time being, "Are we going to make pickles today? Has the manager of the ceramics shop sent the last batch of ceramics?"
Yingqian quickly replied: "It's been delivered. Yingrun and Shishi are inspecting it. Don't worry, miss!"
"Just let Mr. Hua and Shan Qin do this kind of work. You can call Yingrun and Shishi. I have important arrangements!" Chu Yiqing said in a calm voice.
Yingqian quickly went to call someone.
Yingrun and Shishi came in, bowed respectfully and stood aside.
"The news comes from Boss Shangguan. He has tightened the Shangguan family's vegetable output three days ago. I believe that except for the capital, the flow of vegetables from all over the country will be reduced by half, and vegetable prices will naturally rise. I have already bought two tons of various vegetables with Master Bai.
Ten thousand catties, you two will take the fourteenth, fifth and sixth day of the lunar month to escort the vegetables to the city between Lucheng and the capital, and sell them to the shop of the Shangguan family. The price is two cents lower than the market price!" Chu Yi said.
A calm command.
Shishi was stunned for a moment, a little puzzled: "Miss, why do we have to sell to the Shangguan family's shop? Wouldn't it be better to let them have no vegetables to sell?"
"That's right, doesn't this make them easier?" Yingrun also felt a little strange.
Chu Yiqing shook his head calmly: "The chaotic market situation has just improved, and the economy of this Li country can no longer withstand the hardships. I want to deal with the Shangguan family, but I cannot do it for the benefit of Li country. The Shangguan family's food fortune
If we don't come out, the shop below is short of food. If they want to maintain their business, they will naturally buy food from others. Our food prices are low, so they will naturally patronize us. In this way, we also save the time and trouble of looking for customers everywhere.
, after all, the weather is still warm now, so the dishes can’t be left out for too long!”
As soon as Chu understood this explanation, Shishi and Yingrun nodded in realization and said in unison: "Miss is wise!"
Chu Yiqing smiled slowly: "Okay, please stop patting my horse and say something nice. You guys, you can live with me for a long time, but you are still not mature enough. If you have time, learn more from Yingqian!"
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Yingrun immediately hugged Yingqian affectionately and said: "Sister is older than me, and sister has already found her beloved, but I haven't found her yet!"
As soon as she said this, Yingqian's face immediately turned red, all the way to her ears. She quickly said: "Yingrun, don't talk nonsense!"
Chu Yiqing smiled and said: "Yingrun, are you so anxious to get married? Why, don't you like following me?"
Yingrun quickly said: "That's not true. I just want to get married, so I want to imitate my sister and let him follow me!"
Chu Yiqing couldn't help but laugh again: "Okay, if that's the case, then I will cover all of your dowry!"
Yingrun quickly thanked her happily: "Thank you very much, Miss!"
"You damn girl, you're talking like you're going to get married tomorrow, don't think so wildly, just do what the lady told you to do!" Yingqian couldn't help but lightly beat Yingrun's shoulder.
Yingrun quickly went out with Shi Shi with a smile.
"Yingqian, when these days are over and you are no longer busy, I will tell the prince to allow you to marry Lei Yuan!" Chu Yiqing said with a smile.
Yingqian lowered her head, hesitated for a while and whispered: "Miss, can you help me ask him first? He is not good at words, and I am afraid that he does not really like me. If it is just because the prince comes forward, he will execute it as an order.
if……"
Chu Yiqing was startled and asked strangely: "Have you not made it clear with him yet? Several times, I watched you cooking for him, mending clothes, sitting together talking and laughing, and we were very harmonious..."
"Miss, that's just my wishful thinking. I can see that although he doesn't hate me, but if I want him to marry me, I'm afraid..." Yingqian's voice became smaller and smaller, "I don't want to force anyone to do anything!"
Only then did Chu Yiqing understand, and he nodded and said: "Don't worry, your appearance and character are both good. Lei Yuan is lucky to marry a woman like you. When these few days are over,
I’ll ask for you!”
Yingqian quickly thanked her: "Thank you very much, Miss!"
"Okay, let's not talk about this in advance. Let's go to the vegetable field and do this business first!" Chu Yiqing cheered up. This time, it cost a lot of money to store vegetables. The money she brought
It has almost bottomed out, so we should take this opportunity to withdraw funds.
In the vegetable field, Bai Yuanzeng directed the people to load the vegetables, and kept shouting, "Over there, be careful, don't break it! Wuzi, watch your steps!"
Chu Yiqing brought Ying Qian forward, looked at the lively scene and said with a smile: "Master Bai, why are you so busy?"
Bai Yuanzeng immediately turned around and said with a smile: "Perhaps thanks to Miss Chu's luck, vegetables have suddenly become in short supply in the past two days. No, in the morning, several big customers came from the next city and asked for five thousand
How many kilograms are there? I will have people pick them up quickly and send them out, so as not to see them rotting in the ground and feel distressed! But please don’t worry, Miss Chu. The hundreds of thousands of kilograms you are looking forward to are all reserved for the girl. No one dares to touch them. Miss Chu, please don’t worry.
We will pick them whenever they are needed. Now that the workers have heard that the vegetables are selling well and their wages can be paid, everyone is full of energy!"
Unexpectedly, the chain reaction would be so fast. After only two days of supply shortage, people from surrounding cities came to ask for the goods. It seemed that she had to act quickly!
"Master Bai, the reason I came here today is to say that I will pick half of the hundreds of thousands of kilograms of vegetables today and take them away tomorrow. In addition to these, I also need fifty vehicles, each with two loading and unloading workers!
Of course, I will take care of the carriage fees and labor costs!" Chu Yiqing said.
"Okay, okay, no problem. Everything is lacking now, except for people. Although the time is tight, we can still get it out!" Bai Yuanzeng said quickly, calling his entourage and giving instructions: "Fifth son, allocate 70% of the people.
Go help Miss Chu pick vegetables. I will pick these for the shopkeepers today, and if there is not enough, I will give them to them tomorrow!"
Wuzi responded quickly.
Chu Yiqing nodded with satisfaction. With Bai Yuanzeng as his right-hand man, he could get twice the result with half the effort!
Mrs. Huangfu brought Aunt Ju in. She looked at the signature in her hand and was very happy, "It's great now. I actually got this Fu Ji Tailai signature, and I can finally have a good fortune!"
Aunt Ju smiled and said, "Miss, you don't have to worry. The signature says that Miss Chu and Master Abao will turn bad luck into good luck, and if you can help me, they will be in good health!"
Mrs. Huangfu nodded: "What I'm saying is that too many things have happened these days. I must put this signature in Yiqing's room... It's safer to put it in a purse to avoid being caught by A Bao.
This little naughty guy is scratched to death!"
"Grandma, Ah Bao is not naughty!" Just as he was saying this, Ah Bao and Mai Xiang entered the house together. When they saw the signature in Huangfu's hand, they rushed to read it.
"Look, look, isn't this naughty?" Mrs. Huangfu was so precious about the signature that she couldn't let Ah Bao's hand go, so she raised her hand with one hand and held Ah Bao's little hand with the other.
Treasure plays hide and seek.
"Grandma, why didn't you take me with you to the temple? I also want to see the excitement!" Mai Xiang took the opportunity to protest.
"Adults are going to pray for blessings and draw fortunes. What are you kids doing? And there are people burning incense everywhere, which is not good for kids!" Mrs. Huangfu said, taking out a cloth tiger and a silk flower from her arms, "Come here.
, Abao, this signature really cannot be played, you are playing with cloth tiger! Mai Xiang, this silk flower is for you, do you think it looks good?"
Abao took the tiger, looked at it, and said in an old-fashioned way: "Grandma, I am not a one-year-old child, I am already three years old!"
Mrs. Huangfu was startled. Is there a big difference between this age and three years old?
Mai Xiang likes the silk flowers very much, with pearls on them. Although they are not big, they are very round.
"Grandma, these silk flowers are so beautiful, aren't they expensive?" Mai Xiang couldn't help but say.
"No, it costs five hundred cents!" Mrs. Huangfu still felt distressed when she thought about it. Who told her to take a fancy to it? Anyway, the family is not as good as before. The monthly silver that Yiqing gives her is five taels. She
I didn’t have any flowers, so I thought it was time to dress up because the wheat smell was so strong, so I bought it without any hesitation!
Mai Xiang was a little shocked when she heard that it was so expensive. This was just one month’s wages of Tieshuan’s mother. She bought such a silk flower for one month’s wages. Grandma was really willing to give it up!
"Okay, okay, don't feel bad, put it on quickly and show it to grandma!" Mrs. Huangfu looked forward to it eagerly.
I brought the wheat fragrance with me. The flowers were pink, and while her face looked prettier, Mrs. Huangfu sighed: "Good things are just different. Look, our wheat fragrance looks so beautiful on me."
Look, she’s no worse than the women in this city!”
Mai Xiang hurriedly ran to the water to take a picture and found it beautiful. However, when she thought that Liu Yi was gone now, who would she dress up for? Her eyes dimmed and she took it off.
"Why did you take it off? Don't you like it?" Mrs. Huangfu asked quickly.
Mai Xiang shook her head: "I've been running around with A Bao all day long. There's no need to wear such fine silk flowers. I just put them away and wait to wear them when I go out or on important occasions that day!"
"That's not necessary. You have to dress up when you are older. I even pulled some fabrics for you and made them together with the boys' clothes. The palms and backs of your hands are full of flesh!" Mrs. Huangfu went there but did not notice the fragrance of wheat.
thoughts.
Mai Xiang was startled, and then she put it on obediently. Brother Liu Yi was gone, but there were still so many people at home who cared about her. She couldn't look sad and ruin the fun of her family!
Seeing that Mai Xiang put it on obediently, Mrs. Huangfu felt better. She told the kitchen to make dumplings with leek and mushroom meat that night, then went to find a purse and delivered it to Chu Yiqing's house in person.
Chu Yiqing had just come back and happened to see Mrs. Huangfu coming out of her room, so she went up to her and asked, "Mom, are you looking for me?"
"I'm not looking for you. I just put the signature I asked for today under your pillow. It's in that little purse. Don't lose it. It's the signature on the stick. That temple is also the most effective!" Mr. Huangfu said
Tai said.
Although Chu Yiqing didn't believe this, seeing that Mrs. Huangfu had spent a long time begging for it, he agreed, stepped forward and took Mrs. Huangfu's arm and said, "Mom, come in, I want to tell you something!"
Seeing her like this, Mrs. Huangfu knew that there was something important, so she quickly followed her into the house again.
After pulling Mrs. Huangfu to sit on the bed in the room, Chu Yiqing whispered: "Mother, last time I went to Hua Mansion, Mr. Hua told me something...Mother, don't be anxious first, I
I know you don’t want to mention it, but this matter is related to Lingdang**, so..."
"What's the matter with Ling Dang? Even Ling Dang's mother probably wasn't born back then!" Old Mrs. Huangfu said anxiously, and then she realized that she had let the news slip.
"Mom, tell me what happened back then! Now I am cooperating with Mr. Hua, and Abao always likes to go to Hua Mansion. This contact is inevitable. I know what kind of person Mr. Hua is, so I can
Be careful, lest you get hurt without knowing it!" Chu Yiqing deliberately said it seriously.
Mrs. Huangfu slapped her thigh and said, "No, look at me. I just wanted to keep you from knowing so that you wouldn't worry about it. I would make you think that I am always troublesome for you and yet I ignored such a big thing. Damn it!"
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"Mom, I know you are doing it for my own good. Although we are not biological mother and daughter, our relationship is better than that of real mother and daughter. But mother, you also know that I am not a troublesome person. Pan Yulang made such trouble, so the Huangfu family
Things with the Pan family..." Chu Yiqing said in a low voice.
"I know, even if you want to take care of it, I can't let you take care of it. It's been thirty years now, everything has turned to dust, and I have almost forgotten it. I just want our family to be safe and sound.
Okay!" Old Mrs. Huangfu sighed, "Now in our house, I help the children with the cooking, and when I have nothing to do, I go to the village mother-in-law to chat with me. My life is like a fairy, even for Huangfu's family.
If the Pan family can be the same as before, I am afraid that life will not be as comfortable as it is now!"
Chu Yiqing nodded: "It's good if mother can think about it!"
"Back then, the name of Huahai had not yet been changed. It was called Hua Hanxuan. He was the minister of the Ministry of Justice. He was an official in the court at the same time as Jin Yu's grandfather. The two were very good friends and often played chess and chatted together. After I married into the Huangfu family,
I have met him several times, and even though we have been separated by thirty years, I can still recognize him, because it was him who personally went to raid Huangfu's house back then!" Mrs. Huangfu took a breath and said in a low voice,
"Later, I was sent to Chuhan with Huangfu's family, and I heard from Jin Yu's father what happened in general. It turned out that the prince at that time was the current emperor, but the emperor at that time was the emperor who has passed away now. He liked intelligence very much.
The Sixth Prince, so the Sixth Prince's power became more and more powerful. The Prime Minister, the Prime Minister, and the Minister of Rites, several important ministers who were highly relied upon by the Supreme Emperor, were all determined to help the Sixth Prince. They also said a lot of the Prince's faults in front of the Emperor. The two
The power gradually became weak. Hua Hanxuan, who was the prince's teacher at the time, naturally supported the prince and worked for the prince in many ways, so he tried hard to win over Jin Yu's grandfather. Because Jin Yu's grandfather was a close official of Shangshu Ling, he was involved in some things.
The sixth prince was moved up, and the Huangfu family was a prominent family in the capital and had connections with many prominent families, so the Huangfu family became a thorn in the prince's side. At this time, the matter of my distant cousin betraying the Huangfu family came up.
Shanghua Hanxuan and several senior ministers said a lot of bad things about the Huangfu family in the emperor's ears. The emperor became furious and ordered the Huangfu family to be raided. The person who confiscated the Huangfu family was Hua Hanxuan! There was a treasure in Huangfu's house.
It was accumulated by the ancestors of the Huangfu family for generations. After it was confiscated, it was all taken by Hua Hanxuan. He used this part of the wealth to help the prince ascend to the throne at that time. But strangely, after the prince ascended the throne,
Although he holds the position of Lord Protector, he still retreats bravely! I don’t know the specific reason!”
"Then the person Huahai helped back then was the current emperor?" Chu Yiqing did not expect such a result. Logically speaking, Huahai left the capital in his prime, resigned and returned to his hometown, which was considered prescient.
Those ministers with great achievements did not end well. This Huahai was considered a smart man. In this case, the emperor would not embarrass him more. Then who in the royal family was his son Hua Xiaotang?
What was taken away?
"Yes!" Mrs. Huangfu nodded, "According to what Jin Yu's father said back then, Hua Hai was a major contributor in assisting the crown prince in his ascension to the throne. In addition to Hua Hai, there is also the current queen, who also made sacrifices for the emperor in that matter.
That's too much!" said Mrs. Huangfu.
Chu Yiqing was stunned and asked: "Mom, what did you say?"
"Queen...oh, no, now she should be called Concubine Hua, the concubine of the current crown prince! In fact, the crown prince only had one concubine at that time, Concubine Qing, whom she only met after the emperor ascended the throne!" Mrs. Huangfu couldn't bear it.
He smiled and said, "Because when I was selecting a concubine for the prince, I also entered the prince's palace, but I was not selected!"
Chu Yiqing was stunned. He didn't expect that Mrs. Huangfu had participated in the selection of the Crown Princess!
"It's been thirty years now, and I seldom think about these things. If you hadn't brought it up today, I would have forgotten it!" Old Mrs. Huangfu sighed, "Although Father Jinyu left early, I am very worried about it."
I'm glad I wasn't selected into the Prince's Palace that year. You can tell by looking at Concubine Qing. Concubine Qing is the emperor's favorite, but she still ended up like this!"
Chu Yiqing smiled bitterly: "As soon as you enter the Hou family, it is as deep as the sea. It has been like this since ancient times!"
Mrs. Huangfu paused and whispered: "Yiqing, I know what you are thinking, but I am the fifth prince..."
"Mom, we will talk about these things later, I will think of a way to solve them!" Chu Yiqing patted her hand, "The most important thing now is to find Hua Xiaotang, the young master of the Hua family. As long as Hua Xiaotang is found, the bell will also
You’ll be back soon!”
"Ms. Lingdang is also a poor person!" Mrs. Huangfu sighed.
Chu Yiqing nodded, but felt a little disappointed. He originally thought he could find some clues from Mrs. Huangfu's words and find the person behind the scenes, but now...
Hua Mansion, Hua Hai looked at the snake pattern jade plaque in his hand and sighed helplessly again, Xiaotang, Xiaotang, where are you?
Behind the sea of flowers, a man in black wearing a bamboo hat suddenly and silently appeared.