After being a widow, the empress dowager was favored by the powerful ministers

Chapter 100
After Sheng Baoling put away the seal, he looked at Pei Ci. Seeing that Pei Ci was looking at him, he was curious about the seal, so he asked.

"Which master craftsman did this seal come from? It looks very well polished."

Jian Jia seldom listened to Sheng Baoling boasting about these things, just because her mother used to tinker with these things to pass the time, and her craftsmanship was much more proficient than many masters in Beijing.

Hearing Sheng Baoling boasted so much now, he was immediately curious.

This can make the empress praise a few words, which craftsman is it, this is praised by the empress, maybe it can be brought into the palace in the future.

This is also good luck.

Pei Ci paused for a moment, met Sheng Baoling's eyes, and his expression was normal, "The person the housekeeper is looking for is an ordinary craftsman in Beijing, which is not good."

Sheng Baoling's curiosity came up, "Which craftsman, where is there a shop in Beijing?"

With this appearance, it seems to ask clearly.

Pei Ci was originally nonsense, if Sheng Baoling asked such a question, someone else would definitely reveal his truth.

But at this moment, the person in front of Sheng Baoling was Pei Ci, and even if the sky fell, he would give it to him without changing his face.

"I didn't ask too many questions. If you want to know, I'll go back to the mansion and ask."

Sheng Baoling nodded slightly, without thinking much.

Only if the craftsman is low-key and not well-known in Beijing, he doesn't know.

These matters are naturally handled by the people in the mansion, and it is normal for Pei Ci to be unclear.

Seeing that Sheng Baoling did not continue to ask, Pei Ci was slowly relieved.

The scuffed cuts at the bottom of the sleeve reminded him that if Sheng Baoling knew that he made this thing, he might not accept it.

Coming out of the Sheng Mansion, Sheng Baoling boarded the carriage back to the palace, held the seal in his hand to play with, and turned his eyes to the small window of the carriage which was tightly covered at this time, not knowing what he was looking at.

At this time, Pei Ci, who was standing at the gate of Sheng Mansion, looked at the carriage.

The two lines of sight meet and fall on the same point, but they don't know each other.

Outside helping Sheng Baoling into the carriage, Jian Jia, who hadn't gotten into the carriage yet, turned her head and took a deep look at Pei Ci. This Mr. Pei looked serious, but he didn't expect that he was such a temperamental person.

In the past, she would never have dared to bring her own mother and the left prime minister together to think about it, but now, she couldn't bear it at all.

Regardless of their identities, judging from their appearance, good looks and talent, this Zuoxiang and her mother-in-law are really a match made in heaven. Just looking at it like this makes people feel pleasing to the eye, and I can't help but feel the turmoil in my heart .

If you think about it, there will be more.

She looked back, climbed into the carriage, and sat on the side, seeing Sheng Baoling staring at the curtain, as if about to make a hole in it.

Jian Jia hesitated for a moment, raised her hand, and helped lift up the curtain...

In an instant, the two lines of sight that were originally blocked collided together, both of them were taken aback, Sheng Baoling's heart suddenly panicked, as if the thoughts in his heart, the thoughts about this person, those who were not innocent His thoughts were all exposed in front of Pei Ci's eyes.

She tugged at her lips, smiled faintly, and then looked away, fearing that if she continued to look at it, she would vent her nerves.

She unconsciously clenched the seal tightly in her hand, and the four corners made her heart ache. For a moment, he thought of the cotton in his waist that was painfully twisted by the bracelet on his wrist. flush.

Pei Ci was stunned for a moment, but when he saw Sheng Baoling smile, his heart beat a little faster, but when Sheng Baoling looked away, his heartbeat returned to calm.

Some unexplained loss.

Jian Jia on the side looked inexplicably, but he didn't expect it to be so.

How could she have imagined that after lifting the curtain, the two could still look at each other like this, as if they had a mutual understanding.

She loosened her hand and let go of the curtain, immediately blocking Pei Ci's sight.

"Your Majesty, Mr. Pei seems to have been looking at this side just now." Jian Jia said.

These words seemed to be probing. When she was speaking, she had been quietly looking at Sheng Baoling's expression.

Seeing Sheng Baoling's unnatural expression for a moment, her heart skipped a beat.

In the next second, Sheng Baoling suppressed the excess emotions on his face, with a calm expression, "About, I'm just watching, why don't you leave."

If the carriage does not go, how can he go.

But Jian Jia's heart was like a bright mirror. After what he saw today, Mr. Pei and Niangniang had nothing to say, and they would not believe it.

After the carriage left, Pei Ci slowly returned to the Sheng Mansion, and faintly heard the servants discussing.

Today, there was a quarrel in the study room. Mr. Sheng and his son had a quarrel, and Sheng Gong left home angrily.

Now he was called back again, and he had already gone to the study, he was afraid he would have another quarrel, saying that the door of the study was tightly closed and no one was allowed to come near.

This is the first time in so many years.

Pei Ci's eyes sank, he wanted to have a word with Sheng Gong before leaving, but now he knew that Sheng Gong must not be in the mood to talk to him anymore.

He walked away.

Not long after Pei Ci left, two figures came out from the rockery behind, Sheng Baoqin twirled the handkerchief with her fingers, followed by a maidservant.

The servant girl followed Sheng Baoqin for a while, and couldn't help asking, "Girl, what are we looking at here?"

Sheng Baoqin's eyeballs rolled, and the eyes that are usually pretending are full of calculations at the moment.

"What do you think, what about Mr. Pei?"

The servant girl was stunned for a moment, she obviously didn't expect her own girl to ask such a question, but she still answered truthfully, "My maidservant feels that Mr. Pei is not good even if he says it is good, and he is not bad even if he says it is bad."

Sheng Baoqin hooked her red lips, and raised a smile, "What's good, what's not good?"

"It's good to be the prime minister of the left, but this body... girl, it's spread all over the city of Bianjing." Recently, the marriages of the girls in the mansion are gradually on the agenda, and the servant girl is worried that Sheng Baoqin has taken a fancy to Mr. Pei , I have to tell the truth.

This Mr. Pei is a sick man, and it is said that he will not live for a few years.

Although she is very good-looking and well-behaved, you can't just look at these and eagerly get together to be a widow, right?
There was an inscrutable smile on Sheng Baoqin's face, "Yes, if you can marry him and be the wife of the Prime Minister, how wonderful would it be?"

After hearing Sheng Baoqin's words, the servant girl choked for words, and dared not say what was on her mind, for fear of being angered.

No matter what you say, Mr. Pei is also the left minister of the court. The Pei family is one of the largest families in Bianjing City, and they are ordinary children of officials. Those who marry wives do not marry concubines.

Not to mention this one, even though she is a bit weak, she is not something that Sheng Baoqin, a concubine from the third house of the Sheng family, can get.

But these words, the maid did not dare to say a word at all, for fear of being angered.

(End of this chapter)