prince's rivers and lakes

Chapter 99
The Empress and Empress Feng Jia came to visit, and the Prime Minister's Mansion was brightly lit, and the rosin wood that was burning on weekdays was replaced by honey candles.

This kind of candle burns without any smoke and dust, and the smell is also faintly sweet and very pleasant. This item alone costs more than a hundred taels of silver every night.

Although there are subsidies in the internal treasury, every time the Queen Empress Fengjia visits, it will still increase the expenses of the Xiangfu, ranging from thousands of taels to sixty-seven thousand taels.

This is mainly due to the close relationship between the empress and the prime minister's mansion, which saves a lot of expenses. If other houses in Longyin City are lucky enough to receive the empress once normally, the cost will be at least tens of thousands of taels.

However, it is impossible for the Xiangfu to show any dissatisfaction at all, it will only be proud of it.

The prime minister is not only a position of high authority, but also a position that needs to be cautious at every step. The closer the relationship with the palace, the more free Fang Duwei is when he is in charge of the government.

One day the empress will never come to Xiangfu to play again, I'm afraid everyone will doubt whether Fang Duwei's position as governor is firm.

"Father, after the accidents in Huancai Pavilion and Cishu Xianfang, those red girls were basically absorbed by Wang Xiefengyuelou."

In the prime minister's study, Fang Zhishan was talking to his father, Fang Duwei.

Fang Duwei is more than 50 years old, still full of black hair, and looks very young, looking like Fang Zhishan's older brother.

He was splashing ink in front of the desk, sketching the naive children, and smiled slightly when he heard what his son said, "It is said that not long ago, Wang Xiefengyuelou signed a new contract of prostitution with the girls, and the girls were treated more generously, and the entanglement The head is divided into more, and it is very free to redeem the body. Is this a coincidence? If the red girls don't go to Wang Xie Fengyue Tower, where else can they go?"

Fang Zhishan didn't expect his father to know these things, so he couldn't help thinking about the meaning of his father's words.

Fang Zhishan was almost sure that Rong Qingshu's accident was related to Qin Shouan, but he didn't say anything, but his father knew about it, so what does it mean?

"Drinking with a few friends yesterday at Wang Xie Fengyue Building, I saw that the business in the building is booming. The dividends at the end of the year are huge, which should far exceed previous years. The first time I asked him to take out 500 taels of silver, he said no."

The meaning of Fang Duwei's words seemed to be quite happy, but the tone was flat.

Of course Fang Zhishan understands that this is all the money that will go into the accountant of the mansion, and the father's private expenses and uses that are not suitable for mother to know cannot be appropriated from it.

Sure enough, a man still needs a small coffers, and Fang Zhishan's treatment is much better than that of Fang Duwei.

Guiling Pole is a tigress, and she has formulated the "Way of Being a Husband" Article 81. The prime minister's wife is embarrassed to talk about the daughter-in-law, so she can only feel sorry for her son in private, and subsidize the bank note to her son from time to time, asking him to use it to make friends People, drinking and prostitutes are never short of money.

Naturally, Fang Duwei did not have this kind of treatment. When he was young, he was a romantic and talented man, well-known in the capital, and had countless confidante.

The prime minister's wife came from a famous family, escaped from the siege, and embraced a beautiful man. After getting married, she was even more careful to be vigilant against the vixen outside. Grass.

"Father, this is the embellishment fee from Rong Qingshu." Fang Zhishan took out a bank note from his pocket and handed it over. past.

Rong Qingshu is still very sensible and good at being a man in front of the powerful ministers he thinks need to pay attention to. He is a son of the Rong family who opened a brothel, and the prime minister wrote an inscription. ?
Fang Duwei nodded, staring intently at the line drawn by the tip of the pen, without even looking at the bank note.

"Rong Qingshu...he has been taking care of part of the Rong family's business these past few years. He's so proud of himself, he's a bit carried away."

Fang Duwei didn't like Rong Qingshu's behavior, but he would not interfere with his son's relationship with him, "During today's court meeting, Rong Guogong's face was not very good-looking, and he gave a few words to the Kyoto government."

"The Yamen in the capital is the son-in-law of the Rong family, so it's okay to be reprimanded by the old man." Fang Zhishan couldn't help but think of his old man.

It is impossible for Guixian to be harsh on him, but a strong man at the pinnacle of the ninth rank, and a warrior in the army like the commander in front of the palace, naturally exudes a sense of majesty and oppression.

"Of course it's nothing... You should think about it carefully." The second son was sent to the local army for training by accident, and there was only the eldest son by his side, so Fang Duwei would naturally take care of him.

Fang Zhishan didn't realize that there was a problem just now, so he thought about it carefully.

His eyes fell on his father's paintings. Fang Duwei's calligraphy and painting skills are extremely high. The first emperor once praised them full of praise, saying that "the wind and cloud will deceive people, and ghosts and gods are like dreams", and the characters in the paintings are "seeing as if there are eight sides. , business activities".

Fang Zhishan stared intently for a long time, seeing another image of a child sketched out in a few strokes, he couldn't help but recall that his father once made a picture of children playing for the empress's childhood playmates, in which not only the empress empress, but also There are three younger sisters of their own and the son next door.

"The incident happened suddenly, and people from all over the world intervened in it. The Kyoto Prefecture has no obvious fault. Now the Kyoto Prefecture has no way to investigate further. In the final analysis, the Kyushu Prefecture has stopped." Fang Zhishan had a flash of inspiration and realized the problem. .

"Ah."

"Does Rong Guogong think that once there is a problem in the Kyushu Prefecture, the situation that similar incidents cannot be investigated at all must be changed?" Fang Zhishan has already understood that Rong Guogong is not dissatisfied with the Kyoto Prefecture, but against the Kyushu Prefecture. .

Fang Duwei smiled with satisfaction. This son seems to be elegant and modest, but in fact he is not lacking in scheming. He can immediately analyze the intention behind Rong Guogong, and he can truly enter the court in the future, which is also expected in the future.

"You don't need to inform the little prince, Rong Qingshu underestimated Langya Palace, Rong Guogong... Hehe." Fang Duwei said all this, and waved his hand, "You better coax your wife well."

Fang Zhishan couldn't help but feel ashamed, if the daughter-in-law is fine, why does Fang Duwei, the old man, need to remind his son?Naturally, it was because Fang Duwei knew that Fang Zhishan had done something that displeased Gui Lingpu.

After Fang Duwei finished drawing the characters in his pen, he turned around, casually walked to the door of the room, took a look, and read a few poems to express his feelings about the romance tonight.

Finding that there was still no one around or hearing the sound coming, Fang Duwei hurried back to the desk, rolled up the bank note, and stuffed it into the hollow shaft of a pen.

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Qin Shouan knocked on the window, then walked into the embroidery room, where Fang Zhimei was showing some albums of her new paintings to Baobao Rong.

Seeing Qin Shouan, Fang Zhimei hurriedly put away those albums, and Rong Baobao hurried to help, because Rong Baobao had already discovered that the man in Fang Zhimei's albums was clearly Qin Shouan.

Fang Zhimei has always said that Qin Shouan painted it before he came back, it was purely a coincidence, Baby Rong didn't believe it at all, is it a fool to be a beautiful empress?

"I misunderstood this afternoon, but I was acupunctured by you again, so it's evened out." Gui Lingpu felt a little embarrassed when he saw Qin Shouan.

Later, she was lying on the ground and was helped up by Rong Baobao and Fang Zhimei. Naturally, she understood that Rong Baobao broke the strap of the tube top because of fighting with Fang Zhimei, and it had nothing to do with Qin Shouan.

"I was wronged. You asked for it." Qin Shouan said angrily:

"Are you my enemy or something? You say you are wrong again and again, it is a misunderstanding, and you are convinced by me, and then you always suspect that I have evil intentions?"

Guiling groaned, her cheeks flushed thinly, even her father rarely reprimanded her sharply, and she was really wronged, so she was speechless for a while.

Why ask her back, she doesn't know either!Who made him have such a face that always made Gui Lingpin feel that women are easy to fall into his trap or beauty trap, so he must be more careful and vigilant.

"Look at the uncles and brothers who met you today. Which one of them didn't treat me with respect and courtesy? Even if your father is a commander, it's the same. Do you know that I am the son of the prince?"

Qin Shouan looked at Gui Lingpu's figure and appearance, which was almost the same type as Huai Yu, and couldn't help itching his palms, he had to be punished as a routine.

As the eldest son, unless he had something to deal with, he would rarely emphasize his identity frequently, and he didn't want to use this identity to flaunt around.

But in front of Gui Lingyu, she couldn't stress it out. She just didn't realize that he was a prince, and always looked at him with the attitude of dealing with some low-level dude.

"Why are you so fierce... You say that I asked for it, if there is a next time, you can just continue to touch my acupuncture points."

Gui Lingpu was also a little dissatisfied, Qin Shouan was gentle, modest and polite in front of any woman, who would feel comfortable with her if he had acupuncture points or whipped her?
Qin Shou'an didn't bother to talk to her anymore, it's not been a day or two since he married into the Prime Minister's mansion, and he doesn't have any tenderness and maturity of being a married woman.

I must have been spoiled by the uncles and brothers who returned home when I was the eldest daughter... This is normal, the whole family is full of roosters, and it is rare to hatch a little hen that squawks and screams. Take it to the sky?

"Okay, my sister's martial arts is low, anyway, she can't beat you, forget it." After Baobao Rong helped Fang Zhimei put away the picture album, he came to make peace with the two sides after observing the situation.

Gui Lingpin puffed her cheeks, the empress had already said so, she couldn't continue to refute... Although she is a martial arts prodigy, she has spent too long in the sixth-rank realm, and it is true that she can't stand it in front of someone like Qin Shouan. It is only worthy of the evaluation of "low martial arts".

If someone said that she has excellent martial arts skills, she would be more or less [-]% embarrassed.

"My sister-in-law is good at martial arts, but we both don't know anything." Fang Zhimei still felt sorry for her sister-in-law.

What she was even more worried about was that Gui Lingpu had the status of sister-in-law, and Qin Shouan would treat her with courtesy under normal circumstances, so the two of them would keep a certain distance at all times and would not become closer.

Now that the two have repeatedly confronted each other, it might be...

"It's okay, we martial arts practitioners are indeed more likely to have conflicts. As my sister-in-law said, next time she continues to misunderstand, I will continue to acupoint her." Qin Shouan is also a magnanimous person. If you press her acupoints a few times, she will grow up. some memory.

Gui Lingpu hesitated to speak, she wanted to say not to have her acupuncture points done on the street, but she deliberately said that, as if she could have her acupuncture points done in private.It seems that I trust his character, and feel that it is okay to lose the ability to protect myself in front of him.

"Actually, you are really easy to be misunderstood." Guiling Pou straightened her expression, pointing at Qin Shouan's night clothes:
"Look, the empress is here tonight, and you're wearing a night suit and climbing over the wall for a stroll. This is not something normal people would do."

"Then why aren't they surprised or appalled? It's because we have our own set of rules for getting along. If you insist on getting involved, you will get a misunderstanding. It's not my problem, it's your problem."

Qin Shouan thought for a while, and his tone was a little gentle. After all, she is the young lady of the Xiangfu, and this is her base. It is not very tenable to say that she is forced to join in.

"Stop arguing. Hurry up, are you here to take us out to play?" Baby Rong pouted, shaking his hands back and forth, and said expectantly.

This Longyin City has already forgotten the fear of being dominated by Fo Bole. Just tonight, Baby Rong wants to make something big happen!
"Well, do you have night clothes?" Qin Shouan came to take Rong Baobao and Fang Zhimei out to play, so wearing night clothes would naturally give him a sense of participation.

"No!" Fang Zhimei looked around, and suddenly a picture suitable for drawing Fengyue albums appeared in his mind. Specially designed...

"The female officer of Longyinwei will definitely carry it." Baobao Rong said excitedly. Sure enough, it was Qin Shouan who understood the depression she had held back for so many years, and when the two of them met, they would make a big deal for fun.

"Take two sets and put them on." Qin Shouan is going to the warehouse of the red poppy herbal ointment tonight. There must be a certain amount of guards there, but he is a peak eighth-rank himself, and there are few opponents in Longyin City.

It is basically impossible for a ninth-rank master to be a dog to a dude of Rong Qingshu's level... You must know that when Cishu Xianfang opened that day, Rong Qingshu only invited Xue Zhongmaggot and Village Qiao. Rong Qingshu's pigeon.

It would be no problem for him to take Rong Baobao and Fang Zhimei to play, not to mention that Long Yinwei would not prevent the empress from going out to play, but would hide and follow, which was even more foolproof.

"What the hell are you going to do?" Gui Lingpu couldn't let the empress and sister-in-law be taken out by Qin Shouan just like that.

If Qin Shouan wore normal clothes, took a carriage at the gate of the prime minister's mansion, and took people out to play in a serious manner, at most, Guilingpin would send a few trusted guards to follow him, or he didn't care.

The key is he is normal now?A prince wearing a sneaky night clothes, climbed over the wall in the middle of the night, and asked the queen empress and Miss Xiangfu to dress up like him.

Is this what normal people do?

Sure enough, he couldn't relax his vigilance against Qin Shouan for a moment.
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