Pan'er was a little flustered, and subconsciously looked into the prince's eyes.
But at this time Zhang Laishun hurried in, holding a sealed letter in his hand.
The crown prince looked over, and Zhang Laishun hurriedly handed over the secret letter.
Normally, the prince would use a jade knife to open such lacquered secret letters, but now that he is away from home, he doesn't pay so much attention.
The prince tore open the letter casually, opened it to read, and the more he read it, the more he frowned.
Suddenly he stood up and said to Pan'er again: "I'm going to Gaoyou, you stay here, I will leave a few people to protect you."
"Go to Gaoyou now, but what happened?" Pan'er subconsciously asked. Only when the words came out of her mouth did she realize that she had committed a taboo.
Unexpectedly, the prince didn't say anything, but just patted her hand: "It's okay, don't worry, something happened to the Southern Tour team in Gaoyou, I'll go there."
Pan'er nodded quickly, the prince didn't even bother to change his clothes, so he asked Zhang Laishun to go to Jiang Yi, ordered Qi's guards to leave.
After the prince left, Pan'er also withered.
Normally, she is always in a hurry, dragging the crown prince here and there to have a look, but these few days she didn't even take a step outside the gate, and the daily necessities of the mansion were bought by cattails and indigo daisies.
She was thinking about what happened that day, wondering if he was jealous
She wasn't very sure, but the prince left without giving her a chance to be sure. Pan'er was frustrated again, lamenting her bad luck. It is undeniable that when the prince asked that sentence at that moment, she felt uneasy but also had a trace of surprise that she couldn't hide.
If he is really jealous, does it mean that he already has a little bit of her in his heart? Ever since Da Pan'er suddenly returned to youth, she always avoided the decades when she was with Emperor Jianping, didn't think about what he was like at that time, but treated him as a brand new young man who didn't have those decades Experienced Jianping Emperor to treat.
There is no unreasonable joy in this world, even in the previous life, the two of them experienced many years of ups and downs, and it was she who did not make a wrong step that gradually walked into his heart until she was held in his hands.
This kind of gratification is too humble, so humble that Pan'er never thinks about it, and she always tells herself that there is no mutual gratification, it's just that he dotes on her and she just accepts it.
But since she started working again, she found that many things had changed, and he was the one who changed at the same time.
Only then did she discover that the 'Emperor Jianping' was not always aloof, nor was he unpredictable. He also had a vulnerable, bewildered and even lonely and childish side.
Every aspect of him surprised her, and made her feel that the distance between the two was gradually shrinking, but to what extent? How far she has to go to get to the end, she doesn't know.
But this time, she saw an opportunity, but it was a pity that it was destroyed.
After thinking about all this, Pan'er began to worry about the safety of the prince again.
If an accident happened to the southern tour team on the road, it could only be an attack. Gaoyou Lake has one of the largest freshwater lakes in Jiangsu, Gaoyou Lake, which is composed of several lakes. The waterways there are dense and intricate. Who took the opportunity to do it
No one can answer her, she can only wait quietly.
And at this moment, as expected by Pan'er, Dazhi and Su Hai went to the door.
Hearing that someone came to report, she hurriedly changed her clothes, and went to wait in a small courtyard facing the back door that had been prepared in advance.
Not long after, Cattail led the two of them in.
"Pan'er, I really didn't see it, you're living a pretty good life, and you still have maids to serve you?" Su Hairen hadn't walked in yet, when the voice rang out from outside.
The maid he mentioned refers to cattails.
"I don't have any maids. This is a maid from the mansion. If you live in someone's mansion, you have to abide by the rules. If Brother Dazhi hadn't come, I wouldn't let someone bring you in. Stop talking nonsense, be careful." Let people hear." Pan'er said while standing in the room.
"Look at what you said, you're throwing face at your brother, right? I didn't say you girl, you've been bullying me since you were a child."
It's true, Pan'er was the cutest when she was a child, everyone liked her when she saw her, but she didn't get along with Su Hai.
"Okay, Su Hai, we agreed to come to see the market today, so don't argue with her." Da Zhi persuaded from the side.
Pan'er didn't let them, and sat down at the round table by himself.
This room is small, only three rooms, so there is no chair for guests in the central room, but a round table and a few round stools.
"Sit down, there is no good tea, you just drink it." Pan'er took out a few open teacups from the tea tray, and poured a few cups of tea from the teapot.
Generally, if this kind of tea set is used, it means that the tea leaves are not good, and it is not worth brewing alone. But for Su Hai and Dazhi, they couldn't tell the difference between good tea and bad tea, they just drank it to quench their thirst.
While drinking tea from a cup, Su Hai kept his eyes around the room. After going around and around, I came to the conclusion that Pan'er's life is no better than that at home.
But to be able to live in this house, and the man is the accountant, I am afraid that he is highly valued by the higher-ups, so he should not be short of money.
He muttered here, but Dazhi had already talked to Pan Er over there.
Dazhi chased after her and asked her all the time, asking why she got married, and how she was doing, which made her dizzy for a while.
"Brother Dazhi, listen to me tell you slowly..."
Pan'er made up a plausible story. It was probably that after she was bought by the rich man, she followed him back to the hometown. Unexpectedly, the man died of a sudden illness on the way. Thinking that the mistress at home would not tolerate her, she kicked her out, and when she was most embarrassed, she met her current husband.
The other party not only did not dislike her background, but treated each other with sincerity, so she married this person. Afterwards, they came to Yangzhou to make a living. The other party worked as an accountant in this family's house after studying for a few years, and the two settled down here.
"You can work as an accountant just by studying for a few years? I'm afraid this kid has some kind of relationship with this family?" Su Hai usually knows people from all walks of life at the pier, so he naturally understands these inside and out.
"As a woman, I don't understand this, but the master is very kind to us." Pan'er said.
Dazhi was heartbroken when he heard this 'women's family', and immediately cheered up and asked: "Then how is he treating you well?"
How are you
Naturally, it is quite good, at least much better than the previous life.
"He's been nice to me."
"Then I'm relieved." Dazhi murmured. He felt a little complicated in his heart. He hated himself a little. He hoped that that person would treat Pan'er well. After all, Pan'er's life was too hard, but when he really heard that that person was kind to her, he was a little bit unwilling.
What are you unwilling to do? It's just that he's incompetent.
"Then he doesn't dislike being a concubine before?" Su Hai asked suddenly.
Pan'er has the urge to have Su Hai dragged out and beaten up, that's why she hates Su Hai the most, he always speaks inappropriately, and he likes to poke wherever it hurts.
"Haizi, what are you talking about! That person doesn't dislike Pan'er, which means he is a good person and Pan'er is blessed." Dazhi spoke loudly at first, but his voice gradually weakened when he mentioned 'that person'.
Seeing that Pan'er was also glaring at him again, Su Hai hurriedly said, "Okay, okay, I said something wrong, and I didn't mean it that way."
Pan'er didn't want to talk to him.
Ask Dazhi: "Brother Dazhi, how are you doing recently, Aunt Xue, but Zhang Luo married me a sister-in-law?"
Dazhi was not wary of Pan'er asking such a question, and felt sad and melancholy for a while.
"Not yet, I'm not in a hurry, not in a hurry."
In fact, Dazhi was almost twenty, so how could he not be in a hurry.
"I remember that Aunt Xue has always liked Miss Xiumei very much. Miss Xiumei must not be married yet. I remember that Miss Xiumei has always been kind to Brother Dazhi. Why don't Brother Dazhi marry Miss Xiumei so as not to delay Xiumei? Sister." Pan'er said in a joking tone.
Xiumei is also one of their childhood sweethearts. She has known and got along with Dazhi much longer than Dazhi and Pan'er. After all, Pan'er left that alley after she was eight years old.
"Xiumei is not married yet. Let's not talk about that. By the way, why is that person... your husband not here today?" Dazhi asked.
"He? He went out with the master to collect the bill, and he doesn't know when he will come back."
After hearing this, Su Hai hurriedly asked: "Go out with the master to collect the bill? It means that my brother-in-law is quite capable and highly regarded. Why don't you talk to my brother-in-law and let him get me here too? Do you want to be an accountant in the mansion?"
Pan'er closed his eyes, and said patiently: "You have to figure out your own affairs beforehand. Besides, what do people need so many accountants to do, and they are all for nothing. You are the only one who pays for his brother-in-law, stealing his brother-in-law's errands." ?”
"That's not an accountant, it's fine to do other things, don't you want your brother to be a coolie for the rest of his life." Su Hai licked his face and said, and he became confident as he spoke.
"The family didn't get half of the money from Zhao Wu's family to sell me. With so much money, just doing a small business is enough for the family to make ends meet."
Su Hai suffocated and said: "Don't mention the money, what is the money enough for, there must be a reliable job that can be done all the time, so as not to sit back and eat."
Hearing this, Pan'er was a little surprised.
When did Su Hai, who was too lazy to do anything, know how to stop sitting and eating? She always felt that something was wrong, so she stared at Su Hai for a few times.
"What are you looking at? If you ask you to help your brother find a job, you just push back and forth. Do you still think of me as your brother?" Su Hai bluffed.
Pan'er rolled her eyes in her heart, the key point is that you are not my own brother, can you sell your own daughter? A few hundred taels of silver, decades of nurturing grace is enough to pay back, not to mention raising her for a few years, and now I am talking about my brother and sister here.
However, Pan'er didn't know if Su Hai knew that he was not born in the Su family, and it was not easy to expose him face to face, so he could only tell him in reality: "Let me tell you this, everyone in this house is not the master. Yes, the others are slaves who sell themselves into the mansion. There are only a few of them. They are either related to the mansion, or rely on their ability to make a living. For example, your brother-in-law and our head of the family, although he failed in the imperial examination, he has read poetry and books. You are smart and know how to settle accounts, so you work as an accountant here. There are also teachers in the mansion. They also rely on their ability to eat. Have you ever read a book? You can only read a few words, but you can’t read them all. Why do they invite you here? ?”
"Hey, you blame me for being illiterate, can you blame me? It's not that our family is poor, and my father is a coolie. Naturally, we can only raise two sons who are coolies. If our family has the conditions to support me Studying, maybe I will be able to take the first place in the exam, as for being so delayed?"
Every time Pan'er talked to Su Hai, she was angry and helpless.
It is true that he is ambitious, but sometimes what he says is a little unreasonable.
It is true that according to the current world, there are very few people who really come out of poverty, because reading is not done by the poor. Every year, just pens, ink, paper and inkstones are a lot of money, which can almost make ordinary people spend a whole lot of money. two years.
If it is a farmer, if a natural disaster comes, the whole family will have to tighten their stomachs to endure the famine, let alone study.
But the family background of the Su family is really not good. Before Su Su Hai grew up, he pointed to Su Datian to do coolies to make money. Yao Jinzhi occasionally went out to pick up some handicrafts and came back to do it to supplement the family. Only then will he raise the three children. up.
Pan'er still remembered that when he was a child, Yao Jinzhi often said that Suzhou was better than Yangzhou, and that if the whole family provided a loom in Suzhou, they would be able to live comfortably.
However, the weaving industry in Yangzhou is not well developed. To put it bluntly, this city has a prosperity that does not match it, and this prosperity is created because the salt from the Lianghuai Salt Fields has to pass through Yangzhou. Because of the arrival of the salt merchants, this place is becoming more and more prosperous day by day, more prosperous than it can bear.
It is good for the rich to be here, because Yangzhou has everything, even the rarest things in the world may not be available in Suzhou, but Yangzhou must have them, because Yangzhou has rich salt merchants who spend a lot of money and don't change their faces.
But the poor are here, life is not so easy, because people know that Yangzhou is rich, so the prices in Yangzhou are very high, even higher than Suzhou.
Yao Jinzhi is from Suzhou, and Pan'er heard these things from her when she was a child. At that time, she also asked questions, since Yangzhou is not good, why should she stay in Yangzhou, can't she go to Suzhou
How did Yao Jinzhi answer her at that time
"Yangzhou is your father's root. People can't live without their roots. Besides, we don't have a house in Suzhou, and your husband's family has few people."
Yao Jinzhi also came from a poor background, otherwise he would not have left his hometown and married to Yangzhou.
This is precisely the reason why Pan'er can't hate people from the Su family, because since she was a child, the rice vat at home has never been full, and every time there is no rice, Yao Jinzhi fumbled out some copper coins to let them Su Jiang and Su Hai went to buy rice and came back to cook.
She didn't know why people from such a family wanted to pick her up and add to the family's burden.
If it was just to sell her for money, she could be sold at that time, why wait more than ten years later. Besides, the Su family has always been kind to her. Anyway, when Pan'er was still at home, even if there was no rice in the house, if there was a mouthful from Su Jiangsu Hai, she would have a mouthful.
So during the years when 'Su Pan'er' was raised in Zhao Wu's family, she always wanted to go home, and wanted to wait for her mother to collect enough money to bring her home, so she was resentful when she was sold. At that time, she didn't know that she was not from the Su family, but she really had real feelings for this family.
It was not until a long time later that she realized that there were other secrets about her life experience, but it was precisely because she found out later that it became complicated after thinking of this family.
"Hey, brother-in-law, are you back? I was talking about you to Pan'er just now, didn't I mean you went out to collect the bills."
Pan'er looked up, and saw the prince standing outside the door, somewhat dusty, still wearing the same old clothes.