It took a month for the women to move out of the house, and various embroidery workshops, makeup shops, restaurants, grocery stores, etc. were opened.
Even for those who were too busy, Xiao Xixi helped them choose reliable men.
After such an operation, everyone in the capital who was still talking about Xiao Xixi was dumbfounded.
King Yan actually dismissed the palace for Princess Yan?
Are you also going to open various shops and buy houses?
I heard that two of the demobilized female relatives were engaged to other people?
All in all, it was a shock.
Under such a shock, those who gossiped did not know how to arrange it.
Zhang Lan took advantage of the opportunity and asked the storyteller to tell her newly written storybook "Two or three things that Princess Yan and the twenty-four female family members had to say" in the teahouse.
The protagonist of the story, Princess Yan, is based on Xiao Xixi. What Zhang Lan wrote is that Xiao Xixi taught the female relatives to read and read, so that they could learn skills and improve their re-employment rate... Oh no, so that the female relatives can live a good life with their own hands.
Due to the wide spread of this story, many ladies and ladies were attracted to Qingmingju. They often went to the teahouse to drink tea and listen to books. They expressed that they liked the story very much and even suggested that the teahouse print such interesting stories into a book.
After Xiao Xixi learned about this, she didn't hesitate and asked the steward to contact the bookstore to help Zhang Lan publish the book.
Since Zhang Lan had written a lot of stories over the past year, Xiao Xixi felt that they were all good. This would lead to a larger volume of books, so she simply asked the manager to buy a bookstore that would be responsible for printing Zhang Lan's story books.
In short, he is wealthy.
After the storybook was printed, it was widely circulated in the back house and became very popular for a time, becoming a must-read storybook for women.
After the illiterate female relatives heard this story, those who could afford it asked female teachers to be invited to their families to learn and read along with them.
In the past, those wives who believed that it was virtue for women to have no talent also changed the way they raised their daughters, asking them to read more classics and historical works in addition to books such as The Analects of Confucius. Women have never been worse than men.
Many women became fans of Zhang Lan. Once when Zhang Lan came to the teahouse, she would be surrounded by people asking for advice.
Zhang Lan also encouraged the women to publish books, and everyone could try to write their own stories. Soon, storybooks written by other concubine women were also circulated in the capital.
Although it is not as well-known as Zhang Lan's story, it has gained a lot of book fans due to changes in the atmosphere.
It was precisely because of the spread of Zhang Lan's storybook that Xiao Xixi's reputation in the capital was reversed.
Moreover, because of the awakening of women's consciousness, those scholars did not dare to talk loudly and accuse women of their faults in the teahouse, because in a minute they would be attacked by a group of women who came to drink tea with them.
In short, Zhang Lan single-handedly awakened the consciousness of many women in the capital.
Even Emperor Honghui praised Zhang Lan's behavior and rewarded Zhang Lan with a bookstore.
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When all the female relatives left the palace, only one person remained in the palace.
That person is Yi Hui.
Yihui's status is different from other female family members, so even if she did not leave, no one in the house would chase her away.
Xiao Xixi, on the other hand, was busy with endless things every day and did not notice Yi Hui for a while.
However, Yihui couldn't sit still.
The female relatives are all gone, and she will be kicked out one day.
Unless...she really becomes the prince's woman.
Thinking of this, Yihui's heart began to move.
Yihui made cakes with her own hands and sent them to Leng Moran's study.
At that time, Xiao Xixi had still gone out and not returned.
Leng Moran raised his head and glanced at her, then lowered his head and continued reading, flipping the pages and saying, "Yi Hui, you don't have to do this, just leave it to the servants."
Yihui's hands paused, but she took out the pastries from the food box and placed one plate after another on the table.
"It's as sweet as glutinous rice."
Leng Moran felt something was wrong and looked up at Yihui, only to see her eyes looking at him, filled with love.
Leng Moran was shocked. When did Yihui start to have feelings for him? He had never found out!
Or maybe he never paid attention to Yi Hui's eyes, and every time he looked at her, Yi Hui lowered her head. Out of trust, he never doubted that Yi Hui had other thoughts.
Leng Moran's face immediately turned cold when he understood.
He said: "Yi Hui, you are a smart person and you should know what to think and what not to think."
Yihui was suddenly startled when her thoughts were revealed. She said in a panic: "Your Majesty, I..."
"You know, I kept you by my side because of Qi Shu. How can you be worthy of Qi Shu now?"
Yihui's heart was trembling. She was engaged to Qi Shu, but Qi Shu had been away for so many years. Should she continue to stay like this?
She doesn't want to!
Yi Hui opened her mouth and prayed in her tone: "Yi Hui just wants to stay with the prince and serve him."
Leng Moran is now angry with Yihui, and also hates himself for not discovering it in time. If he had known this earlier, he would have sent Yihui away early, and he would never have let her develop feelings for him.
He said: "Yi Hui, I don't have you in my heart now, and I won't have you in the future. I will only have a princess in my life. Even if you stay in the palace, you will not be my woman."
"Yihui has been the prince's wife for three years, and then she will be his wife for the rest of her life!"
Leng Moran shook his head, looked at her in disbelief, and said with a bitter smile: "If you insist on doing this, then I can only send you away."
Yi Hui fell to her knees with a plop. She looked up at Leng Moran and prayed: "Your Majesty, Qi Shu is no longer here. Please give me a chance."
"You can be attracted to anyone, and I will not restrain you, but will also bless you, and even give you a wedding. But you are interested in me that you shouldn't have. How can you let me follow suit after a hundred years?"
Special explanation?"
"Your Majesty——"
Leng Moran raised his hand to interrupt her, "There's no need to say anything. You can go, do business with other women, or go to the teahouse to work. In short, don't stay in the house anymore."
Yi Hui knew that once Leng Moran made a decision, he would never change it. She stopped talking, kowtowed and stood up to leave with tears in her eyes.
Leng Moran looked at her leaving figure and sighed slowly.
He felt sorry for Qi Shu for not being able to help him take care of his sweetheart.
If the lover of the past is gone, how many people can always stick to their true intentions?
Xiao Xixi didn't know what happened between Yi Hui and Leng Mo Ran. When she returned home, Yi Hui had already left, and Leng Mo Ran didn't mention it to her.
Yihui left the capital and didn't know where she went. Just like she did in the palace before, she had little sense of presence and few people cared about her.
