The beauty of the lady

Chapter 237
Wang Momo tidied Zhou Mei's clothes, then added a few pieces of silver frost charcoal to the stove, and said with emotion: "It's not easy for Madam Hou."

"Yeah, this person, life is hard, I'm not comfortable, life is good, I and others are not comfortable, it's really a troublesome world." Zhou Mei has a deep feeling.

Feixue was still raging and falling wantonly, and a blue oil-paper umbrella was propped on top of Ye Zhen's head.

"My lord, the emperor also said to let me stay in the imperial study and wait for Xueting to go back. Now that the snow is so heavy, Yi Nu thinks we should wait a little longer. The princess will not go back until noon, and she knows what's going on. Yes." Although the snow on the ground in the palace is constantly being cleaned by the palace people, the ones above the head can't be controlled, it's just that the umbrella bone from the Imperial Study Room to the Suzaku Gate is a little shaken.

"It's okay." He didn't stay in the palace, naturally because he had something to deal with.

As soon as he walked out of the Suzaku Gate, the carriage of the palace in front of him drove over. The coachman waited for Ye Xuan to get into the carriage, retracted his pedals, and prepared to go back to the palace.

When passing through an alley, a man dressed in a blue robe and black fox fur came out of the alley. When he saw the carriage of the palace, he bowed outside to salute.

"The next official, Ji Heng, has met the Ninth Prince."

The coachman stopped the carriage, and heard the voice of the prince from inside: "Come on."

"Yes!" When Ji Heng got into the carriage, Liao Fan poured him a cup of hot tea, and then automatically opened it to go outside and sit on the shaft with the driver.

"It's very windy and snowy outside, if you have something to do, just go to the palace directly, why stay outside." Ye Zhen said lightly.

Ji Heng smiled slightly, "The prince is not here, and there are only female relatives in the mansion. It is really inappropriate to go down to the government."

"But things have settled?"

"Yes!" Ji Heng took a sip of tea to warm his body slightly. He was powerless, and after waiting here for half an hour, his body felt frozen. In the past five years, apart from the use of large and small state affairs, nearly a quarter of the silver flowing out of the ministry has been used for military pay, and the other third has disappeared. , but the lower officials always feel that they seem to have stepped into a trap designed by others in advance, the purpose is to eradicate the Duke Huguo's mansion. Of course, it does not mean that Chen Guogong is innocent. It's very fat, but what makes the lower officials puzzled is whose treasury did the millions of official silver go into."

"Leave this matter alone for the time being. I will leave it to Mr. Zhao to handle it. Now that no one knows your identity, you will first mediate with those old Hanlin in the Imperial Academy, and wait for Mr. Zhao to find out all those party members and deal with it. After that, before you act on your side, you must pay close attention to the old fellows of the Imperial Academy, and I always feel that a lot of the papers handed over to the imperial court have been detained."

"My lord is truly astute."

"Leave this matter to Ziran."

Ji Heng clasped her fists and smiled: "I will definitely not disappoint the Ninth Prince, just let the officials get off at the next intersection."

"Be careful, Ziran has no strength to restrain a chicken, and is extremely eye-catching. This king doesn't want Dayan Chao to lose such a talented person as you."

"The Ninth Prince's words made the lower officials feel a little uneasy."

Ye Yu hooked her lips and smiled slightly: "Don't think too much, this king will not let Ziran die so easily."

Ji Heng, who was waiting to be driven off the carriage, looked at the carriage gradually going away, and couldn't help but regret stepping on the boat of the Ninth Prince.

He wouldn't let him die easily, could he die miserably?He also said that he is a talented person in the Great Yan Dynasty. In fact, he doesn't have much interest in being an official. He just likes to grow flowers and grass. This is purely to drive ducks to the shelves.

The carriage drove in from the side door of the palace, Chunqin jumped out of the carriage first, held up the bone umbrella, and then walked slowly to Mufang Courtyard with her.

Just a few meters away, Qiu Shu stepped forward and said: "Miss, the prince has also returned to the residence."

Looking up to the front, he saw Liao Fan holding an umbrella and Ye Zhen following behind, and he also saw himself, took the umbrella in Liao Fan's hand and walked over, saw a few flakes of snow falling on her hair, and asked : "It's snowing so much, where are you going?"

"Something happened in the Hou's mansion. My uncle was not in the mansion, so Sister Yuan came to look for me, but it's all right now. It's just that some snobbish eyes see that the Zhao family is doing well, so they brazenly stick to it."

"Is lunch ready?"

"Not yet, where is the prince?"

"Let's go together." Ye Yu felt that eating with his wife was very comfortable, so whenever there was no entertainment, he would go back to the house to be with her, "Why don't you just eat the pot at noon, the king will be fine in the afternoon, and eat It's okay to be late."

When Zhou Mei heard it, she laughed so hard that she couldn't see her teeth. She nodded hurriedly and said, "That's naturally the best. It's the most comfortable to eat hot pot in winter."

When Wang Momo behind her heard it, she went to the big kitchen to prepare it without warning. Even though it was winter, there were still fresh vegetables.

After everything was packed, the two sat around in front of the steaming charcoal pot and boiled vegetables.

"These fresh vegetables are bought from Xiankeju. Although the price is twice as expensive in winter, it is much better than eating meat all day long. By the way, whose shop is Xiankeju?"

Ye Zhen cooked a few pieces of fish and put them in her bowl, then said: "It belongs to the Ji family."

"Ji's family?" Zhou Mei pondered for a moment, "A very rare surname."

"Well, the No. [-] man in the second year of Rongkang is the eldest son of the Ji family. Mrs. Ji opened a restaurant in her ancestors. Those were all married by Mrs. Ji. Later, after Mrs. Ji passed away, they were handed over to the eldest son Ji Kuang. Now Ji Kuang is taking care of the Ji family's property, and the second son Ji Heng has entered the court as an official."

"That means you are very rich?"

"Fortunately, compared with the Su family in Jiangbei, the Lin family in Jiangnan is still much worse."

After hearing this, Zhou Mei said with emotion: "Sure enough, the poor get poorer, and the rich get richer."

"What you said makes sense. Both the Su family and the Lin family have been famous families for hundreds of years. The Su family's largest industry is money houses all over the country, as well as several iron mines and two silver mines. However, the Lin family operates water transport in the south of the Yangtze River. As well as the vast land, eight of the ten tenants in the south of the Yangtze River belong to the Lin family, and two of the only three jade mines in the Great Yan Dynasty belong to the Lin family, and the other is in the hands of the court."

Zhou Mei was speechless, this is so rich, not to mention those two families of her own, even the Ji family is not as good.

But she was just sighing with emotion. Now that her parents are living a very good life, it doesn't mean that the more money the better, of course it is not good to live without money.

"This year is the new emperor's first palace banquet since he ascended the throne. You have never been to it, but don't worry. If the empress dowager says something unpleasant, just listen to it and ignore it. If it goes too far later, Of course I'll take care of it."

(End of this chapter)