The twilight was dark, and a rush of hooves came to an abrupt end.
"Master, here we are." Yang Zong whispered.
The man leaning against the edge of the carriage slowly opened his eyes, and immediately got off the carriage as if nothing had happened, and entered the gate of the Duke's Mansion.
It was already dark, Lu Yan entered the clean room early, the heat lingered in the room, the blue veins bulged on the man's forehead, his eyes were full of anger and frustration, and the silence was mixed with his heavier breathing.
The words Sui Yu said suddenly sounded in his ears - as the saying goes, the clothes are not as good as the newcomers, and the childhood sweethearts are back, are you panic
He suddenly sneered, trying hard to get her father back to the court, but what about her
Crying tears at another man
What's the matter, are you overjoyed to meet again after a long absence
After the lights were turned off, the man was grinding his teeth secretly. After all, he was used to her.
Early the next morning, the mist cleared and the sun rose.
Lu Yan had eaten breakfast, stopped the chopsticks, got up, and whispered to Yang Zong: "Have you received a letter?"
Yang Zong swallowed his saliva, squeezed his sweat, and said, "I haven't received it yet." God knows, Yang Zong's neck has been numb from looking at the sky for the past two days, but he can't see a single white pigeon.
Hearing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Lu Yan's mouth.
Complete, very good.
Lu Yan picked up the black gauze and strode out. Yang Zong rubbed his face with his hand towards the gloomy back.
It must have been a bad day these days...
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In the seventeenth year of Yuanqing, on the first day of June, Chang'an West City.
Shen Zhen opened the door of Baixiang Pavilion early in the morning.
Summer is the best time to sell things like fragrant powder. Due to the lack of time, Shen Zhen only adjusted more than thirty bottles of fragrant powder and opened it.
While playing with the furnishings, Qingxi said: "Girl, the cabinets on the left side are still empty, but do you want to use the inventory in the warehouse?"
Shen Zhen shook his head, "No, the fragrant powder in the warehouse has been around for a long time, and the taste is not as strong as before. I plan to raise some flowers here to sell."
"flowers?"
"Yeah, when I was in Yangzhou, I found that flowers are very popular nowadays, and the profits are extremely high. A magnolia flower can be sold for 3,000 yuan if it looks a little bit. I figured it out. If you sell peony in Chang'an City, maybe It can be sold for five thousand dollars."
Qingxi smiled and said, "I didn't expect that the girl has a talent for doing business."
Shen Zhen held her cheek and sighed.
If it weren't for the 8,000 passes last year, she was almost forced to sign a contract of prostitution, and now she wouldn't think about making money every day.
Speaking of which, since Shen Zhen rejected the "Hongmen Banquet", he has been uneasy, and his right eyelid has been dancing for two days.
She raised her hand and pressed her eyes.
Qingxi said, "Girl, what's wrong with your eyes?"
"The right eyelid keeps twitching, and I always feel that something bad is coming."
Qingxi immediately said: "Girl, what you say is always good and not bad, but you can't talk nonsense!"
However, before Qingxi's words fell to the ground, Shen Zhen saw Sun Mi walking in with two women and two maids wearing skirts, she looked around and said casually: "I heard that the objects here are exquisite, I will Came here to take a look."
Shen Zhen got up and said softly, "I don't know which A Mi likes?" Before the Yunyang Hou Mansion happened, Shen Zhen always called her Sun Er girl very politely, but Sun Mi felt that it was not close enough, so she forced Shen Zhen to call her. She is Mi.
Sun Mi's father used to be only a high-ranking doctor who advised her. Compared with Shen Zhen, who was the daughter of a noble family, he was obviously a little worse off. Therefore, the closer Shen Zhen called her, the more difficult it would be for those noble girls. Sun Mi's face looked at it.
But in less than a year, Sun Mi became the daughter of the minister of the Ministry of Industry of the third grade, but Shen Zhen became the daughter of a criminal.
Sun Mi raised her lips and smiled, thinking that Shen Zhen was trying to get close to her on purpose, so she took some more fragrant powder rouge from the cabinet, "I rarely come out once, I want all of these, you can count the total."
Shen Zhen lowered his head, fiddled with the abacus symbolically, and said, "Ten Guan."
Sun Mi's eyes narrowed, "Shi Guan? Shen Zhen, I'm here to take care of your business, are you stealing money?"
"Ami, you have a unique vision. The incense in your hand happens to be the most exquisite incense I use here. Naturally... it's more expensive than the others." Shen Zhen's tone of voice can be said to be extremely sincere.
Sun Mi took a deep breath and said okay, then turned to the mammy beside her, gritted her teeth and said, "Give her the money."
The old woman stared, and threw Shen Zhen ten coins.
Sun Mi walked away angrily, but Qingxi smiled "poofly", "The girl is amazing, she turned her things over several times in a blink of an eye, and sold them to Second Lady Sun."
Shen Zhen froze in place, with a dignified expression on her face, and it took a long time before she said, "This second girl from the Sun family is not new to Beijing, nor is it her first time on the street. She knows exactly how much these things are worth. Less than two ounces of spice, I deliberately sold her ten, a full ten, and everyone knows the price is high, so why does she still buy it?"
Hearing this, Qingxi was in awe, and hurriedly said: "Is it possible, she has a reason why she must buy it?"
Shen Zhen nodded and said slowly: "Although I can't guess the reason, but I know that with Sun Mi's temperament, she will never come here today to give me money."
This time, Qingxi's face didn't look good either.
After a long silence, Shen Zhen said slowly: "Let's record the fragrance powder in the cabinet one by one, from now on, whenever anyone comes to buy the fragrance powder from Baixiang Pavilion, let them try it out and sign it before leaving. "
"What does the girl mean, is the second girl of the Sun family going to do something in the powder?"
"It's just my guessing..."
She just suddenly remembered that there was a person who suddenly rushed into her Baixiang Pavilion with a group of Yali and three doctors, saying that there was something wrong with her fragrance...
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Xu House.
Xu Lianyi, the fourth girl of the Xu family, was drinking tea and playing chess with Xu Yiqing.
A maid bowed and said, "Back to the fourth girl, the seventh girl, the scout came back and said that the second girl of the Sun family just went to the Baixiang Pavilion in the West City."
Xu Lianyi shook the teacup and said, "Isn't what this stupid girl did too obvious? If it really causes trouble, it won't end well. Qing'er, why don't you mention a thing or two?"
"Sun Mi is not stupid." Xu Yiqing smiled.
"how do I say this?"
Xu Yiqing said, "Sun Xu, the young master of Jingzhao House, is her second brother."
"I forgot about this, but how do I remember, the two of them are not close." Xu Lianyi said.
"No matter how close they are, they are all surnamed Sun, and I still have to give some of the thin noodles from the ancestors."
Xu Lianyi said: "What if the East Palace is protecting it?"
"The evidence is there, how to protect it? Once the Donggong side protects it, wouldn't it be equivalent to giving the Shen family a head start? The Shen family's case was decided by the sage in order to quell the anger of the people. If Donggong wants to overturn the case, it does not mean that the sage has been refuted. What do you mean?" Xu Yiqing paused, then said: "We don't want to deal with the Shen family's affairs, it's just right for the Sun family to do it. Anyway, everyone in the capital knows that Sun Shangshu is incompetent, and he can't compare to the Marquis of Yunyang."
As he got older, Xu Yiqing became more and more aware that the thoughts between this daughter's family, whether it was jealousy, hatred, admiration, or admiration, once placed in front of the family's righteousness, were nothing at all.
Enemy or friend, they all follow the trend.
Just like Sun Mi, everyone thinks that Sun Mi is stupid and only knows how to get ahead. In fact, it is not. In other words, there are not many fools in this world. If the Sun family can have such deep roots as the Xu family, she doesn't need to be pushed around as a pawn. push away.
Xu Lianyi pinched Xu Yiqing's nose, "No wonder the Empress always says you are transparent!"
Xu Yiqing rubbed his nose, "Fourth sister is going to marry King Wei next year. I'm clearly doing this for you."
"You really want to be beaten!"
—
A few days passed, and Shen Zhen's Baixiang Pavilion didn't make a sound at all.
This made her think for a while that she was the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and she thought too much.
But on the morning of the fourth day of June, Shen Zhen had just trimmed a pot of peonies when she saw Sun Mi pulling a maid with a pus on her face, and walked in aggressively, "Shen Zhen, I trust you so much, there are so many in Chang'an City. I don't do the business of Jiaxiangfen Shop, and I just come to do it for you, and you actually use such a low-handed method to harm me!"
As soon as the voice fell, Qingxi and Shen Zhen looked at each other.
Shen Zhen stepped forward and whispered, "What's going on?"
Sun Mi said with red eyes: "What's the matter? You still have the face to ask? Two days ago, I bought rouge powder from you, and then rewarded my maid, but look at her! Her face is still there! Can I have it?"
"I hired a doctor for him, but the doctor said that the medicine is too strong, and it can't be cured at all!"
There are more and more people watching the lively around.
"Shen Zhen, I came to take care of your business because of my old friendship, but I didn't expect you to be so vicious!"
Shen Zhen squeezed Qingxi's palm, "I have something puzzled, and please ask Second Lady Sun to explain it to me."
"You said it!" Sun Mi said.
"I ruined your face, what's the benefit to me? After that, will my reputation still be lost? Is the business still going to be done? Since this is harmful to me and not beneficial, why should I do it?"
"This is just a rhetoric that you thought of at the beginning!" Sun Mi said with tears, "Yes, I admit that I have had a lot of unpleasantness with you, but if you have complaints, you can tell me directly, there is no need to use such means. hurt me!"
"If you want to add a crime, you can't worry about it."
Sun Mi said to the maid beside her, "Go to Jingzhao Mansion! Report to me!"
"The evidence is there, I want to see how you deny it!" Sun Mi said.
No matter how calm Shen Zhen pretended to be, she still panicked in her heart, but the moment Sun Mi said she was going to report to the Jingzhao Mansion, her heart suddenly fell back to its original place, like a pool of calm. lake water.
Half an hour later, there was a sound outside, Shen Zhen and Sun Mi looked out together.
The person who came was Sun Xu.
Shen Zhen had seen him once on the day she painted a portrait of the Song family girl.
Sun Mi stepped forward and said, "Second brother."
Sun Xu frowned and said solemnly, "Second girl, I'm handling the case."
When Sun Mi saw that Sun Xu didn't mean to be partial to her, she burst into tears on purpose, looking like she wanted to cry, obviously she was more distracted than just now.
After explaining the situation, Sun Mi pointed to the face of the maid next to him, and choked up: "Sir, if A Mi didn't give the fat powder she bought to her maid that day, today! A Mi will be like this! If the ancestors knew about it. , I don't know how distressed it will be."
Sun Xu's temples jumped. When the two families split up, they just didn't want to get involved in the affairs of the second uncle's house. Now it's better, even if they hide away, they still have to be threatened by this gang.
Sun Xu frowned and said, "Is there any physical evidence?"
"Yes!" Sun Mi made a look, and the woman beside her immediately took out some bottles and jars.
"Sir, our girls bought this in this Baixiang Pavilion."
Sun Xu said again, "Is there any evidence?"
Sun Mi looked around and said, "Master Sun, isn't this all?"
"Can you count as your own maid?" Sun Xu said.
Sun Mi's eyes turned cold, and she hurriedly greeted the people outside and said, "This is the shopkeeper of the jewelry store next door. She was there on the day I went shopping."
"You are talking nonsense! This is maliciously framed!" Qingxi said aside.
"Whether it's planted or not, is it possible that you have the final say
The witnesses and evidence are there, it's really not easy to handle.
Sun Xu raised his hand and rubbed his eyebrows, and said, "Since there are witnesses and evidence, then please ask Miss Shen San to come with me."
Hearing this, Qingxi reached out her hand to pull the drawer, ready to take out the physical evidence they had prepared, but Shen Zhen grabbed her hand.
Softly said: "Okay, I'll go with the adults."
The author has something to say: Sun Xu: Are people now actively asking to be in the game
Shen Zhen: Cooperating with the government to handle the case is the obligation of every citizen of Chang'an.