The beauty of the lady

Chapter 62 Entering Beijing (3)
Zhou Mei listened quietly, and the next narration seemed to be slowly unfolding in front of her like a long scroll of history.

Wei Wangfu was the first king with a foreign surname in the Great Yan Dynasty. It has to be said that it has its reasons. The descendants of the Nangong family in the past generations have produced great generals and counselors with power over the court, but they have all worked diligently to assist the emperors of all dynasties, but If things go on like this, there will always be resentment in the hearts of some descendants. It is clear that the Nangong family may be the one sitting on the dragon chair, but they were rejected by their ancestors, and the last Prince Wei is the one who has the deepest obsession.

It has to be said that Emperor Yuanchang had his foresight. Not only did he marry his most beloved daughter, Princess Huijue, to Nangong Yu, the son of Prince Wei, but he also named him the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a second-rank official, which is enough to show The emperor's kindness is mighty, but it still can't stop the desire for power that keeps emerging, and finally brings the Nangong family to the end, and can't escape the fate of punishing the nine clans.

As for Princess Huijue, because of the death of her husband and son, her temperament changed drastically, and because she was imprisoned in the Princess Mansion by Emperor Yuanchang, she began to raise noodle heads in captivity, and most of them were white people.It is said that when she was about to die, she wanted to ask for the emperor's permission to be buried with her head. The emperor was so angry that she didn't even let her go to the princess cemetery that had already been built. She was buried elsewhere hastily without a grave.

"So, those two mansions have been vacant for too long." Mrs. Zhao sighed.

Zhou Mei propped her chin, and pondered: "It's okay to talk about the Princess Mansion, but Wei Wang's Mansion is supposed to be hundreds of years old, is it already old?"

Mrs. Zhao smiled and shook her head when she heard the words, took out the chessboard, and pushed Heizi in front of her daughter, "Except for the clan ancestral hall, the Nangong Patriarchs of the past generations will always renovate the rest of the place, so you don't have to worry about old problems."

Zhou Mei nodded, and dropped the first sunspot next to the star dot in the upper right corner.

"I thought my mother would object. After all, I paid all the money, but it's 5 taels."

"Mother has no reason to object. You are grown up now, so you have your own considerations." After she finished speaking, she pursed her lips and smiled softly: "Besides, since the house was found by Changle Hou Shizi, it must be good."

"It's me who said to ask senior brother to find a luxurious mansion and keep it quiet."

Mrs. Zhao looked up at her daughter, and it took a while before she covered her lips and smiled.

"Isn't this an ordinary house? The Prince Wei's Mansion is very big, dozens of times bigger than the one we live in now. Although my mother has never been there, she has heard of the luxury and beauty of the Prince Wei Mansion. I never thought that I would choose it." the mansion."

"Since my mother doesn't object, then it's the best. After all, the money has been paid, so I will rush over in a few days and clean up the house. After the repairs are completed, our family can move in."

"Why don't we go there together?" Zhao asked, she was worried about her daughter.

Zhou Mei shook her head and said with a smile: "Mother, don't you like going to the capital? Let's prepare at home now. There are two senior brothers over there, so don't worry about me. Besides, the house needs to be tidied up."

"That's what I said, but you have to be careful when the time comes, the boundary of the capital is no better than Yuzhou Prefecture."

"Don't worry, your daughter is that kind of impulsive person."

After the Dragon Boat Festival in May, Zhou Mei went to the capital in a carriage.

Yuzhou Mansion is three or four days' drive away from the capital, and it is the closest mansion to Kyoto in the Great Yan Dynasty. Sometimes she would think that people living in Yuzhou Mansion, which is so close to the capital, are living in such poverty. The remote areas of the Great Yan Dynasty are gone, and what kind of life is it like.

This time she was accompanied by four girls, Chun Lan, Xia Qi, Qiu Shi and Dong Hua. Before the four of them came, they were all trained by Mrs. Zhao for several days, and they were told many details of Beijing. After a while.

It's just that Mrs. Zhao also whispered a few words to her daughter, just because these four girls are all beautiful, and they are not much inferior to the master, so the marriage meeting will probably be troublesome.

However, Zhou Mei was not as worried as Zhao Shi. If her husband was really that kind of perverted in the future, she would not think so.

At noon on the ninth day of the ninth day, Zhou Mei and her party saw the majestic and towering city wall of Yanjing from a distance. From this position, it looked like the mouth of a giant beast, absorbing everything, rights, desires, etc. , Money, is like a never-ending vortex.

"Miss, should we go to the shop or find an inn to stay?" Xia Qi is the oldest among them, and now she is 19 years old. It is reasonable to say that she can get married, but Zhou Mei has also seen it in the past two years. Zhao is a bit interesting, just wait to see when the time is right, I asked Mother Lin, if she agrees, I can also decide to marry them.

"Let's go to the antique shop first, choose a few nice things, and then we'll go to Changle Hou's Mansion." She leaned on her chin and said.

"Yes!"

Two years ago, after the shop opened in the capital, Le Zhao brought Nanny Lin to live in the capital. Zhou Mei also let Le Zhao buy a two-entry courtyard in the capital. Occasionally she came to the capital to inspect the shop. Sometimes they will live in the back, while Le Zhao and Lin Nanny live in the front wing. Although it is not big, the location is just a street behind the busy city, so it is very convenient to go out.

According to Zhou Mei's intention, the two of them would move to live in that house after they got married, and give them the deed of sale, but Xia Qi didn't want to leave, and said that after they got married, they could be a steward by her side. Nanny, but Zhou Mei felt that it was too early to tell. At least Nanny Lin and Le Zhao were both literate people. It was enough to delay Le Zhao's life. The descendants of the Le family should not delay any longer. .

At that time, it would be fine for Le Zhao to be a shopkeeper by his side. The Great Yan Dynasty did not stipulate that the sons of merchants were not allowed to take the imperial examination.

The carriage stopped in front of Wenyage Pavilion, and Le Zhao's laughing voice came from outside, "Miss, you are here."

Xia Qi opened the curtain of the car, and saw the handsome Le Zhao wearing a blue round collar and straight train standing beside the car. When seeing Xia Qi, he pursed his lips and nodded at her with a smile, causing Xia Qi's cheeks to turn pink .

Reaching out to help Zhou Mei get off the carriage, a group of people walked into the shop. The layout inside was planned by Le Zhao himself. There were ornaments of various sizes, jade, glass, gold, silver and jade, and most of them were very exotic.

In the past two years, under the leadership of Tang Zhongyuan, the caravan went out of the southern border of the Great Yan Dynasty, went deep into the Yuezhi in the Western Regions, Loulan and the Western Night Kingdoms, exchanged what they had, and gradually made Wenyage famous in the Great Yan Dynasty. High-ranking officials and aristocrats, down to wealthy merchants, can be described as crowded, especially when the caravans return in April, August and December every year, it is even more lively.

Today's Wen Ya Ge's income is equal to the sum of all other shops.

(End of this chapter)