"So if you loot the house, you will get twice as much profit!" Minglan quickly added, "You can get a lot of money! The wealth of an Anhui governor can cover half a year's salt tax. The two rebellious earls and a marquis

If the house is confiscated, the treasury will have a surplus for most of the year!"

Mr. Gongsun couldn't help laughing, and his beard flew up a few times as he smiled: "That's true! Even after being beaten with the cane twice, the treasury is still empty."

Minglan smiled and ridiculed: "In prosperous times, there are always some small flaws. The previous emperor's political platform was mainly benevolent, but the current emperor is resolute and courageous. He is relaxed and relaxed. This is the atmosphere of the prosperity of our dynasty. The 'Jingtan Rebellion' has caused disasters.

Three provinces and four places, but the emperor allotted the fields of several vassals and concubines to the people in one breath, and now they are gradually recovering." People who engage in politics always like to look worried about the country and the people, she added.

: "What's more, if the governor doesn't follow the emperor, what else can he do?"

Mr. Gongsun thought for a moment and could only nod with a wry smile - without the Eighth Prince, Gu Tingye would still be just a wealthy man.

"Just act cautiously and don't move forward too boldly. It's always bad to offend too many people." Minglan whispered. ChairmanMao said it well. Strategically, you should despise the opponent, but tactically, you should pay attention to it.

Mr. Gongsun smiled easily and said: "It doesn't matter. The governor is a man who is both rough and fine. Besides, he has made friends with all kinds of religions and is not a young man without a city."

After playing three games in a row, Minglan and Gongsun won one, lost one, and tied. Both sides were very dissatisfied. They thought they were chess masters. In spite of their dissatisfaction, the two agreed to decide the outcome one day! Old Man Gongsun

Relying on her good memory, she muttered some words and left empty-handed. Minglan became more modest and asked Xiaotao to go back to the room with the chessboard, intending to study the end game.

At this time, someone from outside came to report: Cui Wei came with her husband and children.

After not seeing each other for a few years, Cuiwei gave birth to a daughter. She gained a lot of weight, and her round and red face looked good. She cried when she saw Minglan, and she even held Xiao Tao Lv Zhi and cried together, talking for a while.

She smiled and said that she didn't think what everyone was thinking. The girls were all happy and asked about the current situation.

"I'm still an old lady and want to keep the girl for a while before marrying her. It should be next year anyway. Who knew that the girl would marry so early and I would not be able to return to Beijing in time!" Cui Wei wiped her tears and smiled.

"Who told our wife to be attractive? The master came to propose marriage early in the morning and was in a hurry to get married!" Luzhi smiled.

Cui smiled and glared: "You are so sharp-tongued, be careful not to get married in the future!"

Luzhi blushed for a while and went to hit the person angrily. Danjue looked sincere and immediately expressed comfort: "Sister Luzhi, don't worry, my wife will definitely find you a good son-in-law!" Luzhi became even more embarrassed and shouted at her.

They chased and beat him all over the place.

After a burst of laughter, the girls retreated, and Minglan called Cuiwei and his wife alone to talk. Cuiwei's husband-in-law was named He Youchang. He was the son of the housekeeper Lao He who stayed at the old house in Jinling. He had a round face and a clean face.

He is loyal and considerate; standing together, the couple looks quite similar.

"Your father belongs to the old lady. I have always trusted you. You are young after all. You will start as a concierge first, and then learn to be a manager. You will see how your eyebrows are raised and your speech is decent. At least you can figure out the affairs of the outer courtyard first.

Let’s talk later.” After the greetings, Minglan held a bowl of tea and smiled slowly, “Your children are still young, and Cui Wei couldn’t leave all day and night, so she first helped Liao Yong’s wife and watched some for me.

, she is a sensible person and knows how to do it.”

Cui Wei and He Youchang are both smart people and know a lot about the situation in the Gu family. Now that Minglan has no trustworthy person in the inner and outer courtyards, they have to be her ears and eyes to find out the details of each manager for her.

The mutual involvement between internal and external events will lead to promotion and rewards.

After the couple came out, they smiled and looked at the scenery of Gu's mansion while talking in a low voice.

"Madam is a nostalgic person. I heard that originally my wife wanted to send someone from another house to marry me, but she asked the old lady to force us to come from Jinling." He Youchang sighed. He was in his prime, so naturally

Knowing that there is a big difference between visiting an old house in Jinling and working as an errand in a powerful family in the capital, "It's also thanks to you."

"...We have to work hard and share Madam's worries." Cuiwei looked at her husband tenderly, raised her head and said, "When I went to her courtyard that year, she said to me and Danju and the others, 'Here you are.

Managing these little girls with authority is not only to restrain them, but also to test you. Now it seems that she may have noticed something wrong with Yancao early on; we must act with a sense of fairness, if we do it wrong, we will be ruined.

It's easy to say, if you let Madam know about her evil intentions... Madam's eyes are bright, but there is no sand in her eyes!"

He Youchang respected his wife and said with a smile: "It's natural! Before we went out, my father lectured me for two whole nights; he said that it would be best to meet a good and understanding master, but as long as one has a loyal heart, he will not

You will suffer a loss."

In fact, Minglan hoped that Cuiwei would not be too busy. Not only did her daughter have to take care of her when she was young, it would be better to have more children while she was young, so that she would have hope for the future. There was no way, in ancient times. For example, if Haishi and Hualan had only one boy,

Minglan's choice, she would choose to let Hua Lan have a son and Hei Shi have a daughter. Without it, Hua Lan's situation would be worse, and Hei Shi's life would be comfortable.

A few days later, someone came to report that Hua Lan had given birth to a baby.

In order not to be late, Minglan got up early on the day of the third bath and dressed up early. She simply wore a plain moon-white engraved silk-embroidered dark pattern Baozhuang flower long coat, and a crimson elastic patterned dark-patterned armor on the outer cover. There was a slanted horse tied on her head.

The bottom of the bun is looming with three or four large, round and bright pearls about the size of a thumb, and then a very delicate large red gold butterfly hairpin with colorful inlays and purple treasures is placed on it. The butterfly's emerald tentacles can't help trembling. The little peach is freshly cut in the hand.

Minglan picked a magnolia flower as big as the mouth of a cup and inserted it sideways on her temples. She looked into the mirror and saw the lingering fragrance, freshness and beauty.

It adds even more beauty.

Minglan sighed deeply for the nth time, and thought wildly: This appearance is really wrong! If we were to go back in time to troubled times, it would not be a big problem to be a demon concubine, but I don't know whether she will end up with the Hunjun, or continue to be the new monarch.

Serve.

Uncle Zhongqin's Mansion is located in the Third Ring Road. Minglan drove around in the carriage for almost two hours before arriving. Xiaotao climbed into the carriage and arranged Minglan's makeup before the master and servant got out of the car. Wang was very excited when she saw Minglan coming.

Morning, with a smile on her face, Aunt Kang still had a sinister look. As soon as Rulan saw Minglan, she pulled her sleeve, leaned into her ear and smiled: "My husband will come to pick me up today!"

After finishing, he glanced sideways at Minglan, smiling, looking proud of showing off.

Minglan almost looked up and was speechless. She gritted her teeth and leaned into her ear: "It's not in vain that you ran out to meet him in the middle of the night. ~"

Rulan's face suddenly turned red, and she glared at Minglan hatefully. She tilted her mouth and couldn't hide the intention of laughing, so she had to twist Minglan's arm twice. Minglan couldn't help but whisper softly, "Oh, what happened yesterday?"

The one pinched out by the alpha wolf is not healed yet.

Mo Lan only watched coldly.

When she saw Hua Lan, Minglan was immediately shocked. She saw Hua Lan lying on the bed, with a spring brocade handkerchief wrapped around her head. Although she had tidied it up deliberately and her clothes were clean and tidy, she still couldn't hide her expression.

Sallow, haggard and thin; compared to Heide's white, plump and round figure, Hua Lan hardly looks like she has given birth to a baby, but rather looks like she is suffering from a serious illness.

Mrs. Wang hurriedly rushed forward and screamed "baby" one after another. Hua Lan just smiled and said: "...This pregnancy is not good, just take it easy and it will be fine." She spoke weakly and couldn't help but gasp for breath.

.

Looking at the little baby, he was also very sick. He was so thin that he couldn't even hear his cries. After taking off his clothes and washing him for three hours, he whimpered a few times like a sick cat and stopped moving much.

Minglan remembered that when Haishi's daughter took her third bath, her fat little hands and feet started to struggle, splashing water all over the floor, and she was so excited!

Everyone present looked suspicious. They turned to look at Mrs. Yuan and Mrs. Yuan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. They saw that Mrs. Yuan seemed a little embarrassed. She lowered her head to talk to her mother-in-law, Aunt Zhang, but Mrs. Yuan looked calm and did not see other people's eyes.

Confused, he actually wrote lightly: "I have told my second daughter-in-law that this pregnancy is not good, so we need to be more careful, but she just..."

While talking, Hua Lan actually scolded Hua Lan for not coming, and the other female relatives couldn't talk to each other, so they just smiled and listened. Wang secretly resented that because there were so many people present, she couldn't question him on the spot, so she could only grit her teeth and endure it.

Mo Lan calmly lowered his head and drank tea, feeling quite happy.

Minglan turned slightly to look at Hualan, but saw her lowering her head, with a hint of resentment in her eyes. Minglan felt sad. She sat on the head of Hualan's bed and gently stroked the back of her thin hand. Suddenly, it felt hot, and all she could see was the back of her hand.

Put a drop of moisture on it.

Minglan felt sour and bitter, and held her hand tightly.

Ru Lan was very nervous and reacted slower than others. It was difficult to see that something was wrong with Hua Lan. Once she found out, she immediately got angry. She stood up and said loudly to Mrs. Yuan: "Why is my sister so thin?"

, are you sick?"

As soon as these words came out, the room immediately became quiet. Sometimes the arrogant ones are afraid of being arrogant. Ru Lan stared and looked straight at Yuan's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. Mrs. Yuan's face immediately darkened: "Why are my aunts talking? This woman's family

There are good and bad consequences to having a baby! You will know after you give birth to a baby yourself!"

These words are effective for blocking ordinary young wives, but unfortunately Ru Lan is not the same. She is the contemporary Cui Yingying who climbs the rocks in the middle of the night to have a tryst. Sure enough, she took a few steps forward and said louder: "No need to wait, I'm here to say hello to you."

Oh! Did you stuff a lot of concubines into my sister's room again?" - This was Mrs. Yuan's masterpiece when Hualan had her first miscarriage.

"What nonsense are you talking about?!" Mrs. Yuan's face turned red, the tea bowl in her hand kept clinking, and the surrounding people were laughing.

"That means you forced my sister to stand upright for you with her big belly again!" Rulan's finger almost pointed to the tip of Mrs. Yuan's nose - this was Mrs. Yuan's idea when Hualan Huaizhuang was a child.

"How presumptuous! You are too deceptive!" Mrs. Yuan was trembling all over, and the mocking glances of the female relatives became more and more explicit.

"Or are you forcing my sister to take care of the house for you while pregnant?" Mrs. Yuan is not Sheng Hong, so Ru Lan is not afraid at all - this is a new trick that Hua Lan Huaishi only used when he was a child.

"You, you, you..." It was the first time for Mrs. Yuan to meet such an outspoken and aggressive woman. She didn't know what to say for a moment, and Minglan secretly cried out in joy.

Among the ladies and ladies present here, except for Mrs. Shoushanbo who returned to her hometown for business but could not come, and the married Yuan Wenying, many of them are female relatives who often interact with Uncle Zhongqin's house. There are quite a few who know the details of the Yuan family, and most of them smile to themselves. Only a few frowned slightly.

Grandma Yuan hurriedly supported her mother-in-law and said in a sharp voice: "My dear aunt, please have some moral integrity. Is it possible that if my siblings behave badly, it's all our fault?!"

Who knows that Ru Lan has a natural look on her face: "That's natural! Anyway, if there is something wrong with my sister, it must be your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law who bully her! Look at you two, you are so fat and white, your chin is double-layered, if you If you really treat my sister well, the person who looks after her should also lose weight!"

Minglan almost burst into laughter. When she met such an unreasonable person and Wang did not stop her, Grandma Yuan could only remain silent. She secretly touched her double chin, turned around and sat down with her head lowered in shame and anger. Hualan said weakly: "Ru'er, stop talking..."

Mrs. Yuan regained her breath and said sternly: "You girls from the Sheng family are so precious that our Yuan family can't afford to take care of them, so just take her back as soon as possible!"

When everyone saw what had happened, they knew it was not good and started to persuade Mrs. Yuan to calm down. Mrs. Yuan took Qiao with a cold face. Hualan was angry and anxious; Minglan stood up in shock and stared coldly. Mrs. Yuan: "The in-laws have explained it clearly! What does 'taking back' mean? The in-laws have to issue a letter of divorce!" Her tone was cold and hard.

Mrs. Yuan never expected in her wildest dreams that the Sheng family would dare to question her directly, and she would pretend that the Sheng family would say a few nice words, and then go down the steps to settle the matter.

Minglan narrowed her eyes slightly, her gaze was sharp, and she said slowly word by word: "Mrs. Yuan has made it clear! Do you want to divorce your wife?"

With the current momentum of the Sheng family, although it is not as good as the Yuan family, it is more than enough. Mrs. Yuan knew very well that if Hualan was kicked out of the house, she would be kicked out as well. She turned her head angrily. ,not talking anymore.

When Aunt Zhang saw something was wrong, she quickly came over to smooth things over: "What angry words did my aunt say? What my elder sister meant was to ask my nephew's wife to go back to her parents' house to recuperate, so she can take good care of her, right?"

"I see." Minglan smiled with contempt in her eyes, "I misunderstood."

Minglan walked over slowly, pulled the angry Rulan to sit down, and said with a gentle smile: "Ladies and grandmothers, don't blame my sister for being speechless. She is the most outspoken and can't hide any doubts in her heart. of."

Minglan is now the second-grade imperial conferred official, and she has the highest status among the women present. All the female relatives can only fawn over, and there is no doubt. Some of them even laughed and said, "Yes, yes," Mrs. Yuan's back was filled with anger. Pass over.

Minglan smiled again and said: "No wonder my fifth sister made random guesses, but it's such a coincidence. Every time my eldest sister is pregnant, there are always some stories to come out. Those who know will say 'what a coincidence', those who don't know I also think that my in-laws are very mean to my eldest sister and prefer my niece! But we ourselves know that, and my in-laws will definitely not be like this!"

Nonsense! Even if the mother-in-law did it unintentionally, the daughter-in-law had to be careful after several accidents during pregnancy. How could she be so eager to find trouble? Mrs. Yuan's chest was rising and falling with anger, and her heart was about to explode, but she

She couldn't say anything; the female relatives around her were looking at her with all kinds of indifference or ridicule, which made her even faint from anger.

"My in-laws are indeed very sharp-tongued," Mrs. Yuan sarcastically said, "I am so lucky to marry a daughter of your Sheng family!"
To be continued...