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Chapter 469 Method and ‘How?’ [Thank you! Goodbye! Owes 38k]

Not at the right time (after 2 p.m.)

The sun is like fire,

The Imperial Palace of the Great Zhou Dynasty,

The palace guards on duty outside the palace stood in the shaded corridor, but their heads were still covered with sweat.

Looking at the official who came not far away with some clear soup to quench everyone's thirst, the guards licked their lips slightly.

In the cool hall,

The strong sunlight made the hall very bright.

The female officials on both sides were fanning themselves gently and gently.

The breeze blows,

The memorial in the emperor's hand was shaking gently.

"There are quite a few people on this list. Who are they? Can Zilong check clearly?"

the emperor asked as he watched.

Zhao Zilong on the side bowed slightly and said: "Your Majesty, there are officials from the Ministry of Rites of the Northern Liao Dynasty on the list, and most of the people accompanying them are direct descendants of the Han, Zhao, Liu, Ma and other big families in the Northern Liao Dynasty."

The emperor raised his eyebrows: "Oh? Are there any generals or handsome men among them? If so, I will arrange for that boy from the Xu family."

Seeing Zhao Zilong shaking his head, the emperor added: "Indeed, the boy from the Xu family is indeed not good at taking action, so let Erlang from the Gu family prepare one or two? Huh?"

Zhao Zilong cupped his hands and said: "Return to Your Majesty, the Secretary will report that the accompanying disciples have no actual positions in Bei Liao. Although their personal bravery is very good, they have not entered the army, and there are no generals or commanders! What happened to those young generals in Bai Gao was hard to come by. "

The emperor nodded with some regret. It was no wonder that the emperor had this idea. In fact, the speed at which Bai Gao was recovered was much faster than the emperor expected. The feeling of opening up territory and expanding territory was really great.

"Your Majesty, the Queen is here."

After the official announcement,

The queen stepped in, followed by a female official carrying a cold drink.

"Where's Fang'er?"

"Back to Your Majesty, I am watching my sister sleep in my concubine's bedroom."

The emperor smiled and nodded, and said, "Has Ping Ning's gift been delivered?"

The queen hummed.

Xiangyang Houfu,

Mrs. Wu and other ladies from the official family of Beijing stood aside and looked not far away.

There, the Marquis of Xiangyang and Princess Pingning and his wife were respectfully seeing off the internal officials who had come to deliver rewards.

Subsequently,

The Marquis of Xiangyang called on everyone to continue having fun.

on the road,

Mrs. Wu looked back and said:

"Speaking of which, princesses, Princess Pingning is the one who is most loved by the Holy Emperor today! Look at the boxes given to her."

Everyone around them responded.

Madam Wu sighed as she walked into the very cool room where there were ice dishes.

Gu Hou's wife Bai looked at Mrs. Sun who was in a daze after entering the house and said, "Sister, what are you thinking about?"

Lady Wu glanced at Mrs. Sun: "She was wondering which of the ladies she had just dealt with had better girls."

Hearing this, Mrs. Sun smiled and shook her head and said: "There are so many twists and turns here, I still wonder if I have seen the girl in his mouth before. Thinking about it makes me dizzy."

Mrs. Wu picked up a corner of the watermelon and said, "Now do you know who I am facing?"

Mrs. Sun patted Mrs. Wu's hand and said, "It's really troublesome for my sister!"

Mrs. Wu nodded proudly, but when she was eating the watermelon, she looked at the boxes given by the palace that were carried away by the servants.

afternoon,

The sun sets in the west,

The emperor, who had finished his political duties, was holding herbal tea and looking at Zhao Fang who was writing at the side with a smile.

The chief minister standing beside him came over from the door and said a few words in the emperor's ear.

The emperor frowned: "Is this old boy giving me away again?"

"Yes, it is said to be a dowry for the twins of Wulang Xu family."

The emperor put down the tea cup angrily: "It's a shame he figured it out."

"By the way, isn't that boy from the Xu family surrounded by three female envoys?"

"Your Majesty, yes."

A smile appeared on the corner of the emperor's mouth and he said: "Go to the warehouse where the Bai Gao trophies were sent by Marquis Tuo Xi and pick up three carts of things. It is said that the boy will be rewarded for his war merits in advance."

"Do you know how to deliver it?"

"Go back to Your Majesty and ask the green grass girl next to Wu Lang to count them."

The emperor waved his hand.

The sun has set,

But the sky is still bright,

Quyuan Street,

Yong Yihou Mansion,

At the door of Xu Zaijing's warehouse,

Mother Cui, Xu Zaijing's wet nurse, and Mother Zhu beside Sun were standing there.

Watching the last wooden box on the table being put into the room properly and the door locked,

The two mothers wrote their names and fingerprints on the ledger at the door.

Then, Cui’s mother walked out with Zhu’s mother, saying as she walked: “Some of the things in the warehouse just went down, and now they are filled again.”

Mother Bamboo followed her out, nodded and whispered: "The dowries of the two female envoys around Wu Lang are more than those of the legitimate daughters in the capital. From now on, they will really have no worries about food and clothing."

"Yes! It's been taking so long to count. Let's go. I'll invite my sister to have some tea."

As they spoke, the two mothers walked outside.

As a result, I just took a few steps,

Then he saw Mother Dan, who was next to Sun, leading the servant girl from the Hou Mansion, walking towards this side with something in her arms.

"Xiao Dan, where did this come from?"

"Sister Cui, the palace said that the reward for Wu Lang's meritorious service in the Western Army was rewarded. The internal official who came to present the gift said that Miss Qingcao should personally count it."

Hearing this,

Qingcao, who was following Dan's mother, lowered her head in confusion.

"Oh, then we have to take a good look."

Saying,

Mother Zhu and Mother Cui walked towards the yard.

The female messenger at the door of the warehouse was a little surprised when she saw everyone leaving and returning.

Soon, several bright yellow candles were lit at the door.

The two mothers beside Sun and Qingcao were counting the things placed in the wooden boxes.

"The Marquis of Xiangyang's Mansion has just sent something to Hua Xiangyunxiang and the others, and the rewards from the palace have come down, and they also asked Qingcao to be counted by you. What a coincidence."

"yes!"

Listening to the discussions of the people around him, Qingcao just counted things in a daze.

The locked picture is postponed,

The green grass returned to Xu Zaijing's courtyard.

In the study,

Behind the bright yellow candle stands a bronze mirror that can detect people's light.

Gathering the light of the candles on the table.

Xu Zaijing looked away from the book, looked at the green grass holding herbal tea on the side, and said, "What's wrong?"

"Sir, why did the palace give rewards to slaves for me to count?"

"Because you are the stewardess next to me."

"Oh." Qingcao nodded.

"Also, His Majesty and the Marquis of Xiangyang are having fun, but we are the ones causing the trouble."

Xu Zaijing looked at Qingcao's blank look and continued: "Your Majesty and the Marquis of Xiangyang have a life-long friendship. Your Majesty has adopted Princess Pingning as his adopted daughter, so the friendship is naturally deep."

Qingcao nodded repeatedly.

Xu Zaijing turned his head and continued to look at the book and said: "Since His Majesty asked you to count them, those things are yours. When you get married, they will be your dowry."

"You are my first female envoy. I can't treat you badly. I won't let you go."

Qingcao raised his head and glanced at Xu Zaijing: "Yes, young master."

"Um."

Two days later at noon,

Jiying Lane,

Shengjia

Shou'an Hall.

The old lady stopped making incense, looked sideways at Sheng Hong who was in the lower office and Wang Ruofu who came over to say hello, and asked, "What did the lady just say?"

Wang Ruofu said with a gossipy face: "Mom, I heard from relatives of the Wang family that recently many people have given up on marrying Brother Jing!"

The old lady wiped the copper tweezers used for making incense with a towel and put them on the table, and said, "Why is this?"

Sheng Hong also looked at Wang Ruofu with curiosity.

After Wei Shuyi placed the herbal tea on the tables of Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu, he stood aside and waited for the next step with the same curiosity in his eyes.

"It wasn't the Marquis of Xiangyang who caused the trouble! He gave three loads of so-called dowry to the female envoy from their family."

Sheng Hong stared at Wang Ruofu and said with some disbelief: "Here, among the people who can marry Wu Lang of the Hou family, who can't afford three carts of dowry? Just because of this, they have given up their thoughts? Is it possible?"

Wang Ruofu picked up the herbal tea, rolled his eyes secretly, and said, "Official, do you know what is in these three cars? Let's put it this way, the legitimate daughters of ordinary officials may not be so good. dowry!"

Sheng Hong curled his lips and shook his head, and was about to speak.

The old lady on the side pondered: "How did this news get out?"

Wang Ruofu rolled his eyes and thought about it for a while: "I heard it from relatives of the Feng family. It seems that I heard it from Mrs. Wu! Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Xuhou have always been on good terms, so they can't lie!"

The old lady nodded thoughtfully.

Sheng Hong took the opportunity to say: "And it's better than the legitimate daughter of an ordinary family? Isn't it possible that the boxes are filled with gold and silver jewelry, silk and satin, and land and house deeds?"

After saying that, Sheng Hong looked at Wang Ruofu who looked proud and said nothing, and hesitated: "No. Really?"

As soon as these words came out, Fang, Cui, Liu, several mothers, and female envoys waiting in the Shou'an Hall all stared in surprise.

Wang Ruofu shook his head: "There is no land deed or house deed!"

Sheng Hong then breathed a sigh of relief: "That's right."

After finishing speaking, looking at Wang Ruofu's curled lips, Sheng Hong reacted: "If you don't have these two things, do you have the others?"

Wang Ruofu nodded with emotion.

Sheng Hong continued: "Isn't that the total number?"

Sheng Hong didn't say any more.

The Sheng family was in Yangzhou before.

When I was preparing a dowry for Hualan, because the business of Dafang was much more prosperous than before,

So the old lady prepared one thousand five hundred taels of silver for Hua Lan, plus about five hundred taels of gold and silver jewelry.

What Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu prepared for Hua Lan were silver, Zhuangzi, and a shop, so they had more than five thousand taels of silver.

Counting others, it is only five hundred taels.

This is because Dafang is doing business and his family is prosperous.

And the sum of these is almost the same as the amount of money used to marry a noble daughter of the clan today.

Of course, this does not mean that the Sheng family has this strength. After all, the Sheng family still has five children to get married, so naturally they cannot spend them all at once.

If what Wang Ruofu said is true,

When a girl from a Beijing family proposes marriage to Wulang of the Xu family, she has to see if the money in her pocket is enough to cover the 'dowry' of the two female envoys.

Wang Ruofu looked at Sheng Hong as he was thinking about something and continued:

"Mom, my daughter-in-law also heard that the reward for Brother Jing's meritorious service in the Western Army was also given that night. I asked the eldest daughter in Brother Jing's children's room to count the green grass. Tsk, I heard it was worth more than the one given by the Marquis of Xiangyang. "

Then Wang Ruofu said with an imaginative look:

"Brother Jing, is he a fortune-teller? How much money does he make in a day?"

Sheng Hong on the side said: "I'm afraid it's not ten thousand or twenty thousand."

This sounds like a lot of money, but in fact Zhuang Xuexue can earn about half of it in three years.

After Xu Zaijing and others finished the examination, they would have almost the amount of income Sheng Hong mentioned.

The old lady lowered her head and continued to make incense.

Next to the Luohan chair where the old lady sat,

Cui Ruan and Fang Suqin looked at each other, and there was a slight surprise in their eyes.

When the Yongyi Marquis's Mansion was at its most prosperous, they had heard of such income.

Wang Ruofu looked at Sheng Hong and said, "Sir, I said that many families had given up, but now you can trust me!"

Sheng Hong nodded, "It's really hard to get close to the nobles and officials."

Listening to the words of everyone in the hall,

Wei Shuyi on the side was very surprised and a little happy.

The two maids who followed Qingcao and her to ask for embroidery skills before, now have such a generous amount of money to rely on, and their future life will definitely be better, not like her.

After talking for a while,

Sheng Hong and Wang Ruofu got up and said goodbye, and Wei Shuyi followed them and left.

The old lady crossed her legs and handed the prepared incense to Fang Mama, then got off the Luohan chair sideways, walked a few steps in the hall with her hands behind her back, and said to herself: "It's a good idea."

In late June,

the birthday of the God of Shenbao Temple was approaching.

On this day,

in the evening,

near the old Caomen Street near Huihefang,

in a very elegant wooden teahouse,

the girls of the nobles and officials in Beijing were drinking tea and tasting the incense here in the cool evening.

Zheng Ni, who had been married for some time, was among them with her sister-in-law Shen Hezhen.

In the private room,

Shen Hezhen took a cup of tea and sniffed it under her nose, nodded in appreciation, and took a sip.

Yu Yanran and Li Jia Wu Niang were talking in a low voice on the side.

Although Shen Hezhen didn't want to eavesdrop, the sound came in. Listening to the topics of "maids", "dowry" and "tens of thousands of taels" in their mouths,

Shen Hezhen couldn't help but prick up her ears and move closer.

Seeing Shen Hezhen coming over, Yu Yanran and Li Jia Wu Niang did not stop talking, but pulled her into the topic.

As they talked,

more and more people talked about this topic.

Gu Tingyi also came over.

But after a while, Gu Tingyi left the group of people talking and returned to the window where Yingguogong Zhang Jia Wu Niang and Chai Zhengzheng were.

"Sister Tingyi, what are the sisters talking about?"

Chai Zhengzheng looked at Zheng Ni who was stunned by what she heard not far away and asked.

"They are talking about Hua Xiang and Yun Xiang, the maids around Jing Ge."

Chai Zhengzheng nodded.

Gu Tingyi continued, "If I hadn't heard that the palace had given Jingge another reward for his meritorious service, and asked Qingcao to count it, would I have really forgotten to ask Jingge what specific merits he had made in the Western Army? Zhengzheng, do you know?"

Chai Zhengzheng pursed her lips, thinking about the battle record and instructions that the Queen had told her and Mrs. Chai in the palace. She glanced at Zhang Jia Wuniang beside her and shook her head and said, "I don't know, but Wuniang must know, right?"

"Me? How could I? I didn't! I didn't hear my eldest brother say it either."

Looking at the unbelieving eyes of Gu Tingyi and Chai Zhengzheng, Zhang Jia Wuniang glanced at the others who were still chatting, and said, "Okay. I heard my eldest brother say it."

The three of them chatted for a while,

Zhang Jia Wuniang sighed, saying, "The reward granted by His Majesty is probably tens of thousands, and it is said that Hua Xiangyunxiang's 'dowry' is about the same as this, tut tut."

Gu Tingyi and Chai Zhengzheng nodded indifferently.

"Hey, what's with your expression? Isn't this a lot of silver?"

Gu Tingyi and Chai Zhengzheng looked at each other in confusion.

Gu Tingyi said, "How much?"

Gu Tingyi's mother, Bai, gave her as a dowry. Well, the silver is calculated by the boat.

Chai Zhengzheng: "Not a lot, right?"

One of her change books is still half a book.

Zhang's Wu Niang narrowed her eyes and looked at the two.

Rong's house,

Returning to the snow courtyard,

Under the candlelight,

Rong Feiyan, who was suffering from the summer, was holding a piece of paper and reading it.

Xi Bu, who was fanning herself with a fan, said, "Miss, today's reward from Concubine Rong is really a lot."

Rong Feiyan nodded, and then sighed with some melancholy.

Ningxiang, who came over with a cut watermelon, said, "Why did the queen give you something as a reward?"

Xi Bu stuffed a corner of the watermelon into Ningxiang's mouth and glared at Ningxiang.