"What's the matter?" Cui Zhenyi winked at the maid beside her, and all the maids and servants in the room retreated, leaving their two cousins to talk.
The cousin is Cui Zhenyi's mother's natal family. Her surname is Liu and her name is Zhenzhen. She stomped her foot and pointed to the west wing opposite, "I said earlier that there are military aircraft documents in the main room, and no one is allowed to enter without the permission of my cousin-in-law, even cousin you, the original wife I was not allowed to go in, just now I wanted to see the west wing room, but that damned old servant actually said that it was the room reserved by my cousin’s husband for distinguished guests, so I wouldn’t let in! Could it be that cousin, you are not as good as a guest?!” Obviously she wanted to see it As for the West Wing, it seems that Cui Zhenyi wants to see the West Wing.
Cui Zhenyi didn't want to point out her tricks, she thought for a while and said, "Did you ask Steward Shi who is that distinguished guest?"
Liu Zhenzhen was so busy losing his temper just now, he didn't expect this episode at all, he was taken aback for a moment and said: "No..."
Cui Zhenyi frowned. According to the custom of this dynasty, female relatives are generally placed in the west wing, while underage young masters live in the east wing. She also noticed just now that there seemed to be a lot of exquisite flowers placed under the corridor of the west wing, while there were only a few flowers in the corridor of the east wing. A bonsai that is dying, could it be that there is something weird about this west chamber
She was curious, but she was not sure how much Lu Ying relied on the housekeeper, Shi Wei. She hadn't met Lu Ying yet, and she didn't want to offend Lu Ying's housekeeper when she first arrived, so she turned to Liu Zhenzhen and said, "Go and order Your little maid, Juhong, has a sweeter mouth, ask other people in the house who are the distinguished guests in the West Wing."
Liu Zhenzhen nodded and said: "Okay! I never expected that the mansion of my cousin Tangtang Town General Beida is so small, there is not even a decent servant girl..." It is worse than her Liu's family! The two servants who entertained them just now were actually borrowed temporarily. After tidying up for them, they said goodbye to the housekeeper and left. The two rewards from the cousin were all for nothing, hmph!
Cui Zhenyi faintly said, "What else can we do in this kind of barren land?"
"I really don't know what my cousin-in-law thinks, there hasn't been a war here for several years, and I don't know, please transfer back to Beijing to have a look, but I want to stay in such a ghostly place, leaving my cousin alone in Beijing..." Liu Zhenzhen said It seemed that she was complaining about Cui Zhenyi, and it was not without probing intentions. She wanted to know whether the relationship between her cousin and her cousin's husband was really as it was in the legend... They respected each other like ice.
Cui Zhenyi's hand holding the teacup trembled slightly, but she didn't speak. Regarding the fact that Lu Ying did not even return to the capital for the Mid-Autumn Festival in the past few years after arriving in Beiguancheng, there are rumors in Beijing that he is a soldier who respects himself and has a heart of disobedience. Cui Zhenyi's mother and daughter knew very well what they had done to him back then. Although they used various means to bring up the marriage again, and Cui Zhenyi became his original wife as they wished, they also knew that he must be dissatisfied in his heart. Guess if he deliberately doesn't want to see Cui Zhenyi.
Of course, this kind of thought was only fleeting. The two mothers and daughters thought that it was a done deal. The marriage was bestowed by the emperor himself. Lu Ying could not divorce his wife in this life. One day he would give in.
But the reason for this is hard to tell others, and Cui Zhenyi can only pretend that she didn't hear Liu Zhenzhen's words.
Seeing her cousin ignoring her, Liu Zhenzhen also felt bored, pouted secretly, changed the subject and said: "My cousin's husband will be back in a few days, why don't we decorate this backyard well, he is a big man in this kind of place, There is no one close enough to take care of him, so I will be very happy to see my cousin is so caring for him."
Cui Zhenyi was a little interested in this, nodded and said: "The things we brought are limited, take a good rest tonight, go to the city tomorrow to see what you need to buy, and buy them together. In addition, ask the housekeeper to find out The private house was bought and remodeled, and we lived in a convenient place, otherwise we would buy two more maids and don’t know where to put them... This General’s Mansion is really too shabby."
As soon as Liu Zhenzhen heard that he was going to buy something, his eyes lit up immediately, but he said: "I'm afraid there is nothing that can catch my cousin's eyes in such a small place."
Cui Zhenyi smiled reservedly, and ordered the servant girl to come in and wait for her to go to bed, and Liu Zhenzhen didn't mention it since she went back to rest.
At this time, Lu Ying was still patrolling the border hundreds of miles away. He didn't know that the person he least wanted to see in his life had entered the house, and he bought an extra bad guest for him.
Bai Fuling is a unique woman. For example, her greatest hobby in life is not buying things, but buying people!
Since she recovered from a serious illness at the age of three, she has only concentrated on three things, the first is to make money, the second is to buy people, and the third is to enjoy. And making money is entirely for enjoying and buying people, so when she found out that the people under her were already able to make a lot of money, she focused on enjoying and buying people.
On June 16th, Bai Fuling ordered all the bodyguards of the Bai family to stand by early in the morning, prepare their chariots and horses, and bring a large sum of money to go to the market. It was not an ordinary market, but the target was the "people's market" in the west of Beiguan City.
The so-called "people's market" is a place for buying and selling people. Since Lu Ying took office in Beiguan City, the market for buying and selling the people of Qi State has been banned. The barbarians began to resell slaves to Beiguan City. As long as the people who resold were not from their own country, Lu Ying didn't bother to take care of it.
There are more than 20 tribes of different nationalities scattered outside the city of Beiguan. Some of them are strong and some are weak. The smallest tribe has only a few hundred households. Generally, Qi people don't bother to distinguish them carefully, so they collectively call them barbarians. These people live a nomadic life and have no fixed territory. The tribes often attack each other to seize better grassland territory, and the slaves they get to sell in Beiguan City are mostly plundered from the defeated tribes. .
These slaves are all barbarians, their facial features are completely different from those of the people of Qi State, and because of their language barrier, they usually rarely make trouble after buying them back. Most of them are born stronger and more hardworking than the local people of Qi State. ! Therefore, it is very popular with some merchants of Qi State, and even in the capital of Qi State, these barbarian slaves can be seen occasionally.
Bai Fuling was already a regular customer of this human market, ostentatiously passing through the market with a large number of guards, and many barbarian merchants rushed forward to talk to them and sell slaves.
Because the character flow here is complicated, and Bai Fuling intends to do "business", so it is rare to ask Bai Shao to change her appearance before coming here. At this moment, she looks like a malnourished little maid, The appearance is very ordinary, the kind that makes people forget at a glance, the long bangs successfully cover the pair of crystal clear eyes, standing quietly beside Bai Pingzi, the famous second steward of the Bai family, it is even more difficult to feel her presence.