Shengpingle

Chapter 168 County Lord's Mansion

"Yes, I also heard that Yan Shangshu was very handsome and affectionate when he was young."

As she spoke, she glanced at Hua Pingle, beckoned the two to approach, and lowered her voice, "I'm just telling you, you must help me keep a secret."

Meng Shi nodded excitedly, repeatedly reassuring.

Qian Lingyue lowered her voice, "Actually, at first I admired Yan Shangshu's name and asked Yan Shangshu to come to propose marriage."

"Really?"

Meng Shi suddenly covered his mouth, his eyes widened.

What?Sister Qian actually invited Uncle Yan to propose marriage?

Hua Pingle was also taken aback, looking at her in doubt.

Does Qian Lingyue really admire Yan Shangshu as she said, or does she have other plans?
Seeing the expressions of the two, Qian Lingyue repeated earnestly, "It is true".

After she finished speaking, she lowered her head and picked up the embroidery thread again. Yan Shangshu is the continuation string, and she is not young anymore, so naturally it is impossible to spend two or three years preparing for the marriage.

Mrs. Wen's plan is to let her marry at the end of the year, and start preparing for the wedding dress and hipa.

After a long while, Meng Shicai finally digested the news, stared at Qian Lingyue with his chin on his back for a long while, and then sighed suddenly, "Sister Qian, it would be great if you could marry someone you admire!"

Hua Pingle's heart moved slightly, and he raised his eyebrows to look at her, "What? The tenth younger sister also has someone she admires? Who is it?"

Meng Shili's face turned red immediately, and he waved his hands again and again, "Where is there? I'll just say something casually."

She said that she was afraid that Hua Pingle would ask questions, so she stood up in a panic, "Uncle Yan is too embarrassing!

Originally, he was planning a marriage for you and King Fuguang, but you haven't gotten married yet, and he himself is planning to marry a beautiful lady!

No, I'll call Brother Nine and ask him together! "

Meng Shi ran away in a hurry, Hua Pingle said thoughtfully, "Sister Ten really has a sweetheart? Miss Qian, what do you think?"

Qian Lingyue nodded thoughtfully, "It's kind of like it."

Hua Pingle looked at her in a blink of an eye, and asked, "You really invited Yan Shangshu to propose marriage?"

Qian Lingyue lowered her eyes, "It's true, the blessing of being Mrs. Shangshu is not something everyone can have.

With my background, if I don't fight for it, how can I get my wish? "

Hua Pingle's heart twitched slightly. She was telling herself that she used tricks to win the seat of Mrs. Shang Shu, and asked her to tell Jiu Fangfeng?

"Miss Ten doesn't know if I can find Mr. Meng, Miss Hua, let's go find it together?"

Hua Pingle took a look at Qian Lingyue who looked calm, and didn't ask any more questions, and let her go to Meng Shibu.

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Qian Lingyue and Luo Xiyao were about to get married and had a lot of things to do, so naturally it was impossible to run around in and around the capital.

Su Liyuan was in Fuguang, Cheng Xiuyuan had to study behind closed doors, but Hua Pingle had recently become obsessed with leaf cards, hiding in Hongyan Residence every day, calling a group of maids to accompany her to play leaf cards.

Meng Jiang and the rest of the playboys immediately felt a sense of bleakness, and even lost interest in walking around the streets and lakes.

Bored, Meng Jiang ran to Fuguang Palace every day to compete with Huo Yanzhi's personal guards.

Well, of course, most of them are beaten.

As soon as Meng Jiang took the lead, the playboys from Beijing and China swarmed to Fuguang Palace again.

Huo Yanzhi ordered to set up another martial arts arena in the backyard for the guards to practice and learn from each other.

The martial arts arena in the front yard was completely given to those dudes, and a few guards were sent to watch over them every day to prevent them from causing trouble.

Jiu Fangfeng would go to see it whenever she was free, and specially invited a few more chefs, and told them not to neglect this group of guests.

On this day, Meng Jiang and others discovered that the person who was training with them was Hua Manzhou, and their enthusiasm immediately surged.

Hua Manzhou was not as measured as the other guards of the palace. After a while, a group of dandies were more or less injured, but he also shouted arrogantly, "What kind of fight do a group of young masters learn from others? Go home and drink milk!"

Meng Jiang said angrily, "What are you proud of? I'll go get some wine!"

Hua Manzhou trembled, Hua Pingle simply said two words "three days", and Angelica didn't give him food or drink for three days!

Forget it, he hasn't been allowed to sleep for three days!
In his short 19 years of life, in addition to suffering, he also suffered, but all the sufferings added up can't compare with the suffering he suffered this time!

In the end, he felt that his head was about to explode, not to mention standing up, he could even fall asleep standing on his head!

But Angelica didn't know where the bad move came from, so he couldn't close his eyes because of the torment!

That taste——

Hua Manchu shuddered unconsciously, now he shudders whenever he hears Hua Pingle's name!

No wonder when he arrived at Fuguang Palace, everyone told him that it's fine to provoke anyone in the palace, but if you provoke the prince, you will be beaten up.

But there are two people who must not be provoked, one is Jiufang Military Division, and the other is Miss Huaer.

But when it comes to provoking, why did he provoke Miss Hua Er?

Afterwards, Hua Manzhou also asked many people, and everyone looked at him with pity, but no one was willing to tell him clearly!

It's fine if you don't make it clear, but they didn't even tell him who the beauty in the Washington Garden is!

They are still jealous that he became the prince's personal guard!
Hua Manzhou grabbed Meng Jiang, who was going to rescue the soldiers, and smiled, "Come on, Mr. Meng, let's have a few words."

Meng Jiang didn't want to talk to him at all, but it was a pity that he didn't take much effort, so he dragged and dragged him to a secluded place.

"Hey, Mr. Meng, you seem to have a very good relationship with Ms. Hua Er!"

The Huamanzhou brothers hugged Meng Jiang's shoulders nicely, because he had learned from the experience that no one else would tell him what he had asked before, so his tone was very obsequious.

Well, at that time in Fuguang, he heard people say that people in the capital like to be flattered by others.

He is so flattering, Meng Jiang should tell him, right?
Meng Jiang immediately slapped his heart, "Of course! I'm Jiujiu's sworn brother!"

Sworn brother?

That would be great!

The righteous brother can't even know who is in the righteous sister's family, right?
Hua Manchu's tone was even more obsequious, "You must know all the members of Miss Hua's family, Mr. Meng?"

Meng Jiang slapped her small chest louder, "Of course!"

"Well, it's like this. I went to Washington that day, and then I met a woman in the garden. She was very beautiful. Miss Hua Er looked a bit like her, even if she was uglier and fiercer than her—"

Meng Jiang pushed him away violently, glaring, "Who do you call ugly?"

It's fine to say that Jiujiu is fierce, after all, Jiujiu is indeed a bit fierce, sometimes even he, Meng Jiang, is a little afraid of her, but Jiujiu is ugly?

Can't stand it!
Hua Manchu was puzzled, "Miss Hua Er, she looks a bit like that beauty, but she is definitely much uglier!"

Miss Hua Er is so fierce, she must be ugly!

Fierce women are ugly!
Ugly women are fierce!
Meng Jiang raised his foot and wanted to kick him, but then he thought that he couldn't beat Hua Manzhou, and if he kicked him, not only he couldn't kick him, but he had to break his leg.

Grandfather said that Hua Manchu even dared to contradict the emperor face to face, but he would not give him the slightest bit of face to this young master Meng Jiu!

Thinking of this, Meng Jiang sneered, turned around and ran away.

Hua Manzhou, "..."

What exactly is going on?

Why every time he said this, the prince's personal guards didn't tell him, and Mr. Meng just ran away?
Then should he chase?

Even if you catch up, you can still catch up. If Mr. Meng still doesn't want to tell him, can he beat him?

There are too many broken rules in the capital, if he beat Mr. Meng, will the prince beat him too?
Before Hua Manzhou could make up his mind, Meng Jiang came back, but Huo Yanzhi was beside him.

Huo Yanzhi remained expressionless as usual, unable to tell whether he was happy or unhappy, but Meng Jiang looked like a proud villain.

Just looking at it makes people want to rush over and beat him up!
Otherwise, why don't you just ask the prince directly?

Hua Manzhou was thinking about it, when Huo Yanzhi asked, "Meng Jiang said, are you calling wine ugly?"

scold?
Hua Manzhou shuddered, and felt the pain of having his eyelids held up by a small wooden stick when he was so sleepy, he hurriedly said loudly, "I didn't scold!"

No wonder Meng Jiang looked like a villain and wanted to be beaten, so he went to sue the prince for crimes!
He would never admit to such a framing!
"I mean Miss Hua Er is uglier than the beauty I saw in Hua's garden. Miss Hua Er is already uglier than her! I'm not scolding her!"

Huo Yanzhi, "..."

Huo Yanzhi raised his foot expressionlessly, kicked the innocent Hua Manzhou several feet away, and said in a cold voice, "Insulting the mistress, forty army sticks!"

Hua Manzhou, "..."

Why did he insult the mistress?

He was obviously just telling the truth!
Dang Gui jumped out from nowhere, and dragged Hua Manzhou away.

Haha, he knew that this guy would definitely have to be beaten, so why not just let him wait!
Hua Manzhou was dragged to beat the board, Huo Yanzhi said, "Didn't you say you want to find wine?"

With Meng Jiang's temperament, when he saw Jiujiu, he would definitely praise him for how he kicked Hua Manzhou far away with a heroic kick, and showed his anger for her!

Although Jiujiu definitely knew about his invincibility, but if Meng Jiang went to praise Jiujiu again, he wouldn't think he talked too much.

Of course, the most important thing is that he can just go to Washington with Meng Jiang.

Jiujiu has recently become obsessed with the leaf card, and said that he is too conspicuous to go to Washington every day, so he is not allowed to go, and he has not seen her for five days.

Meng Jiang snorted, raised his foot and went after Dang Gui, "It's this time, what wine are you looking for, of course I'm going to see Hua Manzhou being beaten!"

Huo Yanzhi, "..."

Next time this kid is bullied again, he will definitely not look at him half an eye!
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Meng Jiang finished watching Hua Manzhou being beaten, but he still didn't intend to go to Washington, and whispered beside Hua Manzhou, so much nonsense that Huo Yanzhi felt that he might not be able to finish it all his life.

Jiujiu was right, Meng Jiang couldn't count on it at all!
Disappointed, Huo Yanzhi left Fuguang Prince's Mansion, and hurried towards the Princess's Mansion under construction.

If an ordinary princess grants a mansion, the mansion in Zhengyangfang, it would be a great favor for the imperial court to order the Ministry of Industry to repair and tidy it up.

In order to show his favor, Emperor Zhenghe actually ordered the Ministry of Industry to knock down the entire original mansion and rebuild it, which required countless silver and craftsmen.

Both inside and outside the capital are envious, and Princess Ninghe is indeed unparalleled in her favor!

However, the more silver and craftsmen it costs, the more time it will take.

When Huo Yanzhi is free, he always visits several times a day.

And he, a prince who holds a idle position in the military department and doesn't even need to go to the court, has time almost every day.

The more he looked, the more he felt that those craftsmen were as slow as snails. He had visited a gazebo and a pool hundreds of times, but they still haven't been repaired!

How long will it take for the entire princess mansion to be built?
However, he is not allowed to remind him of wine!
Otherwise, he would go to the Minister of the Ministry of Industry to give him a whip to ensure that those craftsmen will be faster!
Jiujiu still doesn't want to marry him!
At least I don't want to marry him so soon!
Whenever he didn't see her for a while, he thought about her so badly. It had been five days, and she didn't think about him, and he was not allowed to see her!

The more Huo Yanzhi thought about it, the more wronged he became, his handsome face was tense.

If the broken pavilion hasn't been repaired today, he will definitely whip Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry!
Anyway, I don’t know about wine!

Jiujiu knows, but he can't stop him!

At worst, he just found an excuse. Anyway, the old man Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry is ugly, and he can find an excuse to beat him up if he looks for it!
After making up his mind, Huo Yanzhi looked at the sky, and flicked his whip to urge the horse to run faster.

Huo Yanzhi wanted to beat someone, so he naturally wanted to beat someone while it was still dark, otherwise wouldn't he be a black hand?
He would never do something like a black hand!

The horse ran faster and faster, Huo Yanzhi's mood became more and more urgent, and finally he was able to beat that old man from the Ministry of Industry!

Seeing that the princess mansion under construction was far away, a carriage rushed in ahead of Huo Yan.

Huo Yanzhi's eyes were sharp, and he recognized at a glance that it was Washington's carriage, but it was not the one that Hua Pingle usually used when going out. I don't know who was sitting in it.

Is it alcohol?
Jiujiu finally couldn't stand it anymore, let's see how the princess mansion is going?

Huo Yan's spirit lifted, he forgot about rushing to beat someone, speeded up his horse, caught up with the carriage, and shouted for wine.

A white and slender hand lifted the curtain of the car, and Hua Pingle's beautiful face poked out, "My lord? Why are you here?"

It really is wine!
Huo Yanzhi suppressed the boiling joy in his heart, and forced his face to be sullen, "It happens to be around here, so let's take a look."

Hua Pingle looked at him suspiciously, "You don't come to see him every day, do you?"

Huo Yanzhi immediately denied, "No".

He obviously has to come several times every day!
Hua Ping was happy to see him denying it, so he didn't hold on anymore, ordered the car to stop, and helped Aunt Hua get out of the car.

Princess Ninghe saw that it was sweltering today, and Hua Pingle had been bored at home for several days, so she asked her to accompany Aunt Hua to go around here, to send some mung bean soup to the craftsmen to relieve the heat, and to reward some copper coins.

Now that we met Huo Yanzhi, let's go and have a look together.

Soon, the carriage filled with mung bean soup and copper coins also arrived, and Aunt Hua arranged for the mother-in-law Ding to fill the soup and deliver it to the craftsmen one by one.

After the arrangement was completed, he asked the small official who was arranged by the Ministry of Industry to supervise the work when it would be completed.

The petty official thought about it and said, "Slow work and meticulous work, the emperor ordered Princess Hua to have a noble status, and the husband-in-law he married is even more respectful, so you can't slack off every plant and tree.

This house occupies a large area, and it always takes a year and a half to build properly."

Aunt Hua let out an oh, and her grandmother specially ordered her and Jiujiu to come and see, not only to let the emperor know that she was anxious, but she was also really anxious.

A year and a half, according to this posture, it may not be completed in a year.

One year later, the wine is gone, Fuguang Wangdu is 26!

Even the scholars who want to take the imperial examination and wait until they get the fame before discussing marriage, it is not so late to get married!

And I'm afraid, there will be some accidents in the middle!
When the betrothal gift including the price of water from Fuguang Palace was sent to Washington, she thought that Jiujiu would definitely marry to Fuguang Palace before the end of the year, and she would go to Fuguang with Huo Yanzhi after the first month of next year, and she was sad for a long time.

Who would have thought that the emperor would suddenly grant Jiujiu to be the princess, and even order the construction of the princess' mansion?

(End of this chapter)