"Boss Lu, Mr. Xie is here."
It was dark, there were few pedestrians walking on the street, and most of the shops were closed, but on the second floor of a building facing the street, the lanterns hanging outside the Youhuang Pavilion were still on.
In the dark room at the back, there is a child Tong Zhi.
Lu Xian was sitting inside, looking at the results handed down below, frowning in dissatisfaction.
Hearing the voice of Tong Chuan, he scolded: "If you don't come sooner or later, you won't be able to move the sedan chair on weekdays, but as soon as you tell him that there are a few pieces of good wood here, he will come by himself. Better than two pieces of broken wood!"
As he said that, he slammed the secret report on the table with a bang.
He got up and walked outside.
There is a piano room specially set up in Youhuang Museum for guests to try the piano. When Lu Xian opened the door and entered, he saw that his little boy had consciously put a charcoal stove in the room and returned it to Xie Xian. Danger made him the best bitan snow here.
His nose twitched for a while.
Lu Xian walked over and poked his finger on the boy's forehead: "How much does it cost him to buy a piece of wood? You bring him a charcoal pot to brew tea, what can I earn, your boss? Can't you grow your brain?"
The little boy gave him a faint look.
The boss of his own has such a stingy virtue that he can't change it.
And what time Mr. Xie came to drink the tea was bad, even if he didn't make it, the boss would just obediently make it himself.
But he didn't refute anything, silently exited, and closed the door.
Lu Xian stared angrily: "Look! Look at how unruly these servants are! Who the hell is the master of this secluded house!"
Xie Wei was sitting cross-legged on the Arhat bed with a square table next to the window at this moment. Because of the chills, a thin fleece blanket was placed on his legs. Hearing this, he only laughed lightly.
When Lu Xian came over, he found that he was looking at something.
A dozen or so sheets of rice paper filled with words should have been rolled up, and the two ends were slightly raised, looking like an answer sheet. Xie Wei was looking at the one on his face, and when he looked at it, he could not help but bend a finger and put it on his lips, actually laughing out loud.
This dog crawling...
Lu Xian felt his eyes hurt just by looking at it.
He lifted the hem of his robe directly, sat opposite Xie Wei, and said with a strange expression: "I heard that you are entering the palace today to go to the examination school to choose a companion for the princess, aren't these the answers of those ladies from aristocratic families? ? This word is too ugly... "
Xie Wei did not accept this.
I just took out the other eleven answer sheets below, relaxed it, and threw it into the charcoal basin, and it was set on fire. He didn't care much about the appearance, he kept the copy he just read, rolled it up and put it aside.
Only then did he slightly raise his eyebrows and said, "You have the best Catalpa tree here?"
If you don't speak, you will choke someone to death.
If he wasn't doing something for this person right now, Lu Xian would dare to guarantee that a person like Xie Wei would be beaten to death by him when he went out!
I only wish for him in my heart, it is best to cut Zhang Qin for three or five years before being slashed by someone!
Immediately, he pulled the corners of his lips coldly and said, "There are good catalpa trees, but I have two bad news here. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Xie Wei sighed softly: "I'm still brooding about that You Fangyin."
If I knew it earlier, I called Jianshu to help get the wood.
Why do you have to go for a trip yourself
Lu Xian couldn't hear the name now, and he exploded when he heard it. An evil fire was burning in his heart, and he always felt that he was being played with: "You explain it and let them check. But after several days of checking, What's the result?"
As early as when he learned that Xu Wenyi had stockpiled raw silk and would not sell it, Lu Xian felt that this You Fang was a ghost.
And there is a mysterious owner behind it.
If he didn't find out the owner, he felt like a cat scratching in his heart. After all, he was a stingy old fox who was good at doing business and was still calculating, but when he went to buy raw silk, he was even caught first, which made the other party confirm that raw silk would definitely be good. Up, almost so angry that he spit out a mouthful of blood.
Lu Xian couldn't bear such a thing.
A few days ago, he and Xie Ju settled on a direction. They felt that this matter had something to do with the people on Caoyun and Caohe, so they sent people to investigate the people You Fangyin had been in contact with recently.
I checked it for the first time, and then said that there was no suspicious person.
Lu Xian was so angry that he called the people in and scolded them, and told them to carefully check those people again, and expand the scope to the people who were indirectly connected with the entire You Mansion. At the same time, Xie Wei sent a letter to the emperor, Chen Ming, that the price of silk in Jingzhong and Jiangnan was maliciously lowered, so as to thoroughly investigate the people involved in the matter in the official circles.
This time I really found the result.
Indeed, officials and merchants on the Caohe joined forces. First, the merchants maliciously lowered the price of silk, and then they overturned the silk boats transporting raw silk on the Grand Canal. As the supply fell short of demand, the price of silk naturally skyrocketed.
After the profits are made, the officials and the merchants will each share half.
After the incident was revealed, a large group of officials and businessmen were investigated.
But at the You Mansion, it was found out that a steward had a relationship with a servant who ran errands at an official's house on the Caohe River. He had indeed heard the news beforehand, and he had inadvertently confided it when he was drinking in the You Mansion.
Everyone thought he was joking, not serious.
No one really took this opportunity to buy raw silk and wait for the price to rise, not even the one in charge.
"Xie Ju'an, this matter really doesn't make sense." Lu Xian tapped the other side with his finger, and emphasized to Xie Wei, "Assuming that You Fangyin is indeed lucky and willing to gamble, you can get it from the steward. Knowing that the price of silk would rise, she went to buy raw silk, but did she have to make up a 'owner' that didn't exist? The existence of this 'owner' would not help her. So the only explanation is , this 'owner' does exist! It's just that we haven't found where he is hiding."
Xie Wei also lowered his eyes in thought.
However, Lu Xian became more and more gloomy: "This person is acting paradoxically. He knows the news, but he only took out four hundred taels to buy raw silk. Maybe he didn't dare to do it, but maybe he didn't have the money. There are deep meanings that we can't guess. Things that can be seen through are not terrible, but things that can't be seen through make me very uneasy."
Xie Wei said: "If you feel that finding out a manager is not enough to dispel your suspicions, then send someone to chat with that You Fang for a while. Xu Wenyi's raw silk has only been sold for two days, and the money has just arrived. Hot. If this You Fangyin really has an owner, he must go to the 'owner' to report an account, right? Then we will know whether this 'owner' exists or not, and if so, who is it?"
What Lu Xian wanted was his words.
Immediately, he laughed and said with his palms: "Then you have to send a few good hands to watch, it's better to ask Daoqin to go in person, in case the owner of Renren is also a powerful character, don't lose your wife and break the army!"
Xie Wei said: "Daoqin may not be willing to go. Don't talk nonsense, what's the bad news?"
Lu Xian stared at him at this moment, his eyes flashing.
Xie Wei picked up the tea cup, put his slender fingers on the rich glaze of the rainy sky, stopped, and suddenly realized something: "It has something to do with Yongyi Hou's mansion?"
Lu Xian nodded, knowing that in Xie Wei's place, everything related to Yongyi Hou's Mansion is a major event—
Although he still doesn't understand why.
At this moment, he pondered for a while before opening his mouth: "Recently, King Pingnan was arrested in Beijing for rebelling against the party, and there were several incidents of assassinating court officials. The emperor was obviously provoked. It's a matter of fact, and the inside is still competing, let's see who first finds out who opened the door for these rebels in Beijing. There is a lot of trouble in the aristocratic family, and everyone is afraid to find out about themselves, even if it has nothing to do with the rebels , I am also afraid that Jinyiwei will find out something else. It can be said that everyone avoids Jinyiwei. But guess what? The vacancy for the thousand households vacated by Zhang Zhe's impeachment is almost fixed today, and it will rise tomorrow."
"Jinyiwei..."
Xie Wei had been in the palace all day, and he didn't know what was going on outside. Hearing Lu Xian's remarks, the two Qing Jun's long brows suddenly wrinkled, and a beautiful face was suddenly caged. A suffocating chill.
He's scary when he's not smiling.
He only asked in a deep voice, "The Marquis of Yongyi is extremely upright, and has never touched the brocade and guards. How could Yan Lin promote this Zhou Yinzhi?"
When Lu Xian knew about this, he also felt very strange, and he deliberately asked people to inquire, and now he looked at Xie Wei and said: "This Zhou Yinzhi was working for Jiang Shilang of the Ministry of Household, and he was the servant of Jiang's house, and later sat in Jinyiwei. Hundred households. Some people guessed that the son of Yan was entrusted by the future Yue family, and some people said that this person was recommended to the son of Yan by the second girl Jiang."
"… "
Jiang Xuening.
Xie Wei's eyes fell back on the rolled up answer sheet, remembering what he said to her in Fengchen Hall today, and his eyes were a little emotional for a while.
He slowly closed his eyes, thinking about something.
But Lu Xian said: "This timing, this coincidence, Jinyiwei, Yongyi Hou's mansion, the old case of King Pingnan, things can't be simple."
When Jiang Xuening returned to Jiang Mansion, it was too late.
Obviously, she passed the etiquette and exams, and was finally selected as the princess' companion. The news had already spread to the mansion, and then she got off the bus outside the mansion and walked to the mansion. Everyone she saw along the way was respectful to her. I wish I could smile with ten faces on one face.
Her attitude was completely different from before she entered the palace.
If it hadn't been for the two lifetimes that he had been deeply impressed by the scorn and contempt of these people in the house, even Jiang Xuening wouldn't have believed that these people's faces had changed dramatically.
It can be seen that it is an honorable thing to be able to read with the princess and get the eyes of the nobles in the palace.
Jiang Boyu and Meng Shi still haven't slept, they all knew that Jiang Xuening would come home today, so they waited.
Jiang Xuening went back to the house to greet the two of them.
Obviously, both of them didn't have much hope for Jiang Xuening originally, especially when they heard that Xie Wei would be required to preside over the examination of the school when entering the palace. So knowing that she actually passed the exam, the surprise in my heart is really indescribable. I had prepared a bunch of words to comfort her not to be sad when she lost the election, but it was useless now, and she was a little estranged with her daughter, so she didn't know what to say. , other than that, she can only let her hurry back to the house and have a good rest.
Jiang Xuening was already disgusted by the matter of entering the palace. He listened to the congratulations all the way, and was extremely bored in his heart. Hearing them tell him to go back to rest, he stood up expressionlessly, and said, "The daughter retire. "
After saying that, he backed out.
Just as he walked from the room to the corridor, he heard the dissatisfied voice raised by Mrs. Meng from behind: "Look at the choice of a companion, you are so arrogant! Do you still take me as a mother in your eyes?"
Jiang Xuening's footsteps stopped for a moment, and the fingers hanging on his side clenched tightly.
But after standing for a while, she still walked away.
Tang'er and Lian'er, who were following her, listened to Meng's voice just now, and at this moment followed Jiang Xuening step by step, not daring to say a word.
Just walking, Tanger Lian'er realized that she was going in the wrong direction.
This…
Isn't this the way to the big girl's house
The two had a gut feeling that something was going to happen.
The second girl of her family is used to being arrogant. In the past, bullying the older girl was not at all soft-hearted, but during this time, she did nothing.
Is this going to be a comeback again
The two looked at each other and wanted to stop them, but when they thought about Jiang Xuening's temper in the past, they dared not.
It didn't take a moment for him to reach the door of Jiang Xuehui's house.
The maid who just came out with the water was startled when she saw her, she almost threw the copper basin on the ground, her face was pale, and she shivered and shouted: "Hello, two, two, two, two girls..."
Jiang Xuening glanced at her and walked in directly across the door.
In the house, Jiang Xuehui had already finished washing up, untied the bun that had been tied up in the daytime, her long black hair was draped over her shoulders, and she had no makeup on her face. Although her appearance was a little worse, her temperament was more than pleasant.
Even when she saw her come in, she only frowned.
She said, "Looking at the unkind posture of this visitor, it must be your mother who is angry with you again, so you are coming to be angry with me."
Jiang Xuening smiled: "I just took a step into your house, and she's going to have to deal with it for a long time. You don't have to be angry with you, she's angry with herself. Who told me that I was the daughter raised by my aunt, and I learned from my aunt. What about being frivolous and pickled? Two days ago, my head was hit by the door, and I actually wanted to be kind to others, get by, and not toss with her. But today I suddenly figured out that happiness is the most important thing in this world. There are so many things to do, and I still have to be angry when I go home. It’s too hard to live this day. Whoever makes me unhappy in the future, I must find a way to make this person even more unhappy. So, although you don’t ask, but How about I tell you about Wan Niang tonight?"