This meal can be regarded as a feast for the host and the guest.
The night was getting dark, Luo Qingyan and Yun Shang personally sent all the guests out of the house, then turned and walked towards Nanyuan. Red lanterns were hung every few steps on both sides of the corridor, the light was soft and a bit festive. Qin Yihe
Hua'er and Yun Shang had already asked them to go back to Nanyuan to prepare things for washing. Yun Shang and Luo Qingyan were walking side by side in the corridor. Yun Shang kept turning her head to look at Luo Qingyan.
, which made Luo Qingyan couldn't help but laugh. He stretched out his hand and took Yun Shang's hand and said, "Is it possible that there is something on my husband's face, which attracted Madam's attention?"
Yun Shang raised the corners of her lips and smiled, and her smile looked even more soft and beautiful under the illumination of the dim lantern: "I just suddenly felt that my husband is the smartest, most resourceful, and the most handsome in the world.
The person is also the person I love most."
Luo Qingyan's eyes suddenly exploded with joy, and she hurriedly turned her head to look at Yun Shang: "What did you just say? Say it again?"
There was a hint of cunning in Yun Shang's eyes, and she laughed, then raised her head and looked at the red lantern hanging on the corridor, pretending to be confused: "My husband is the smartest and resourceful?"
Luo Qingyan shook his head, "No, the last sentence."
Yun Shang suppressed her laughter, looked at Luo Qingyan seriously, and asked tentatively: "Then...which husband is the most beautiful?"
Luo Qingyan frowned, already seeing that Yun Shang was deliberately teasing her, so he stretched out his hands to hold Yun Shang's shoulders, forced her to look at him, and said word by word: "What you said,
You love me the most, say it again."
The corners of Yun Shang's mouth turned up, and her eyes flickered like a cunning little fox: "Yeah, yeah, okay, you said you love me the most, I know!"
Luo Qingyan was helpless, frowning and staring at Yun Shang, with a bit of thinking in his eyes. Yun Shang stood in front of him, tilting his head and looking at him, wanting to see what else he could do. It turned out that,
Teasing him is such a fun thing, Yun Shang thought in her mind.
Such thoughts had just crossed her mind when Luo Qingyan suddenly released his hands holding Yun Shang's shoulders, squatted down suddenly, put Yun Shang on his shoulders, and walked quickly towards Nanyuan.
Yun Shang was startled. She felt like the world was spinning. She was suddenly turned upside down. She hurriedly exclaimed: "Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing? Put me down. I'm wrong. I'm not kidding."
You, I said, I said..."
Luo Qingyan raised the corners of his lips, with an obvious smile in his voice, "It doesn't matter if you don't say it. I will always have countless ways to make you say it when we are on the bed later."
I don't know whether it was because Luo Qingyan was hanging upside down on her shoulders and her blood flowed back, or because she was shy, Yun Shang's face suddenly turned red. Under the light of the reddish lantern, she looked even more charming.
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The next day, Yun Shang slept until noon before getting up. When she got up, Shang still felt that her whole body was falling apart. She couldn't help but blame Luo Qingyan secretly in her heart. She had been tortured so much last night.
That's disgusting. What Luo Qingyan wanted to hear was said countless times.
He called Qin Yi in to wash up and have breakfast. As soon as he picked up the account book, Ning Qian ran over.
"Tsk, tsk, His Highness the Crown Prince is really powerful. Yesterday, we raised a total of three million taels of silver. Not counting those other things, such as rice, cloth and other random things, those things must have amounted to hundreds of thousands of taels.
Oh my God, I was shocked when I heard it just now. This is almost the revenue of the national treasury for a year." Ning Qian's face was full of wonder, and her eyes were filled with unabashed sighs.
Yun Shang couldn't help but laugh. She raised her eyes and looked at Ning Qian and said, "You have a share of the credit. If it weren't for your good cooperation, I'm afraid there wouldn't be so much."
Ning Qian curled up her lips: "Anyway, it's the master's money that I spent, so I don't feel bad at all. This time, His Highness has made great contributions. I just went outside the city to take a look. Although the merchants'
The money has not been collected yet, but a porridge shack has been set up outside the city. His Highness himself is watching the porridge shack outside the city. In addition to a bowl of very thick vegetable porridge, each person can also eat two side dishes. The refugees are very interested in His Highness.
It’s also full of praise.”
When Yun Shang heard this, she was also very happy. It seemed that the person being praised was not Luo Qingyan, but her.
Maybe, this is the so-called husband and wife. Such a sentence suddenly flashed through Yun Shang's mind, but she couldn't help but froze, lowered her head and raised the corners of her mouth slightly.
"By the way, I heard that after yesterday's morning meeting, Xia Huanyu met with Xia Houjing. Xia Houjing had already set off with the first batch of disaster relief materials yesterday evening. Do you want his subordinates to send people to cause trouble?" Ning
Qian said again, with a flash of interest in his eyes.
Hearing this, Yun Shang was silent for a moment, then smiled and shook his head and said: "This is not really necessary. Xia Houjing's trip was recommended by His Highness. We must not step into this muddy water. If
It was a mistake to do something wrong, and being caught by someone made people feel that Xia Houjing's trip was a trap set by His Highness to get rid of him. Xia Houjing's disaster relief this time will definitely not go smoothly.
It’s just that we are not the ones who set up the trap for him.”
"It's not us?" Ning Qian's eyes flashed with confusion, "Who is that? Does Xia Houjing have other opponents besides us?"
"I don't know if he has any rivals in the fight for the throne, but as far as this disaster relief trip is concerned, he has many enemies. The previous relief materials could not reach the victims because officials wanted to line their own pockets.
He embezzled supplies and was protected by officials, but nothing could be found out in the end." Yun Shang's eyes fell on the account book in his hand and sighed, "This is a confusing account."
"This time, Xia Houjing, in addition to sending relief materials, also has a secret purpose, which is to investigate and deal with corrupt officials. This is contrary to the interests of those corrupt officials. Those corrupt officials will try their best to
to stop this matter. The chain of interests among corrupt officials is much deeper than we imagined. From important ministers in the court to local officials, people in this invisible chain of interests will naturally try their best to get rid of Xiahou
Jing. It's hard for a strong dragon to defeat a local snake, so Xiahou Jing will definitely not have an easy time." Yun Shang said with a smile.
Ning Qian also understood, cupped her hands towards Yun Shang and said, "Gao, Your Highness, this move is really clever."
Yun Shang laughed again, "Yes, I also learned a lot."
The two laughed for a while, and then Ning Qian said: "I have taken over Chunlai Courtyard. The original women in the building are all very old, and their looks are not good. I have left a few who are slightly better.
, the others were given some silver and sent away to settle down. I came today just to borrow a few people from the master. We also have many brothels in various places. The subordinate of Chunlaiyuan plans to change his name to Mingfeng.
The court sent all the oirans from brothels from all over the place to the Mingfeng Pavilion. But the courtesans from the Mingfeng Pavilion had to be borrowed from the master. I know that the master also has some with the best looks from the brothels everywhere to be alone.
train."
Yun Shang raised her eyebrows and looked at Ning Qian: "Yesterday, I was still thinking that there is no treachery and no business, but you vividly expressed the meaning of these words. In a brothel, a courtean who is not a good person can be cultivated.
It's easy, but you still want to snatch away all the courtesans, which is really too much."
There was no trace of shame on Ning Qian's face, she just smiled and said: "After all, Jincheng is at the foot of the emperor, and dignitaries come and go. The information collected is much more important than in other cities, and it should be like this.
"
"I don't have anything to do with it. It's just up to you to decide whether other brothel madams are willing to do it or not." Yun Shang chuckled and said, "After all, you are carving out other people's flesh."
Ning smiled slightly and agreed: "Okay, as long as Master agrees."
"When are you going to open the restaurant?" Yun Shang asked with a smile.
Ning Qian thought for a while and then responded: "It depends on the conditions of the girls. If everything goes well, the restaurant can be opened in a month."
Yun Shang nodded lightly, "Then I'll be waiting for your good news."
Ning agreed with a slight smile, then changed his subject again: "Master's birthday is coming soon, will your Highness spend it with him?"
Yun Shang smiled and said: "The Autumn Examination will be the day after tomorrow, and now the refugee incident has happened again. Your Highness is busy now. How can I dare to disturb His Highness for such a trivial matter."
"Master's birthday is no small matter. Yesterday I saw Qin Yi sending out the invitations. Then my subordinates will have to make a living." Ning said with a smile.
"It's like when I missed your food." Just as he was talking, Qinyi came in with something, put the thing down with a smile, and then said softly: "Princess, this is fish soup, take advantage of it.
Let’s try the sweet-scented osmanthus fish that we caught in the lake earlier. In the evening, the kitchen is going to make steamed sweet-scented osmanthus fish for His Highness, and my servant specially ordered some fish meat to be made into fish soup.”
There were two bowls on the plate, both of which were fish soup. Qinyi placed the other bowl in front of Ning Qian and said with a smile: "Miss Ning Qian, let's try it too."
Ning Qian quickly smiled and thanked her, stirred it gently with a spoon, scooped out a small spoonful and ate it.
Yun Shang also smiled and took a bite. The fish meat had no fishy smell, but was very delicate. Yun Shang nodded lightly: "It tastes good."
But he looked at Ning Qian and frowned, her expression seemed a little bad.
Yun Shang asked with concern: "What's wrong? But it's not to your liking?"
Ning Qian raised her hand and waved it gently, but she frowned suddenly, covered her mouth and ran out of the house. The sound of Ning Qian's vomiting could be heard outside the door.
Yun Shang looked thoughtful, raised her eyes and looked out the door.
Qinyi was frightened: "What's going on? But what's wrong with this fish?" Then she hurried out.
After a while, Ning Qian returned to the room, her face looking a little pale.
"Is everything okay?" Yun Shang asked with concern.
Ning Qian waved her hands, her expression still filled with pain: "It's okay, it's just gastrointestinal discomfort." After saying that, she returned to the table and sat down.
Qin Yi quickly brought an empty cup over, and Ning Qian picked up the tea cup on the table, took a sip of tea, rinsed her mouth, and spit the water into the empty cup.
Yun Shang stretched out her hand and put it on Ning Qian's other hand. After a while, she frowned slightly, with a subtle expression on her face: "You are pregnant." (To be continued)
