The red building is so arrogant

Chapter 152
[I'm a bit stuck today, only 4000]

But the next morning, Jia Zheng really went to see Chen Shangshu again, and he didn't forget to excuse and pave the way for Jiao Shun.

It's just that Chen Shangshu was also very sophisticated, and he seemed to answer everything in person, but when Jia Zheng came back and pondered over it with Jiao Shun, he couldn't explain anything clearly.

Fortunately, although the attitude of the higher authorities is ambiguous, the news from both inside and outside is quite timely.

First of all, Zhao Yan reported that if the shipping fee is not counted, some sweat workshops in the south can indeed make gun belts that meet Taizu's regulations at the price.

This means that the handyman wants to talk about the cost, it will definitely not work.

Immediately afterwards, Jia Zheng also ordered Shan Daliang to bring the news, but it turned out that the Ordnance Department's fault-finding this time was actually something that had been planned for a long time.

At the beginning, the Yuheng Qingli Division was divided into two, and became the Baigong Division and the Ordnance Division.

Although most of the ordnance workshops were allocated to the Ordnance Division, and some functions of the Ministry of War were also allocated to the past, but there were still a considerable number of supporting workshops that remained in the Baigong Division.

It was okay to be in the same department before, but now it is inevitable that they belong to two departments, which makes the Ordnance Department feel quite shackled.

So I thought about it, and wanted to take the leadership of the relevant workshops into my pocket.

Since the cutting was completed not long ago, it is obviously not so easy for Baigong Division to transfer the relevant workshops to the Ordnance Division.

So they planned to use a series of oppression to make Baigong Division bow their heads and agree to send officials from the Ordnance Division to supervise the factory, so as to achieve the goal of actually controlling the workshop.

And the handyman's office is the soft persimmon they picked out as a breakthrough!
In this regard, Jia Zheng's suggestion is to simply bring the matter to the top, and let the Baigong Division come forward to fight the Ordnance Division.

But Jiao Shun felt that this method was not very safe.

Although he is favored by Su Shilang now, he is still an outlier among the officials of the Ministry of Industry after all.

If everything is entrusted to the leadership of the company, it is not impossible for the two parties to exchange interests and sell the handyman and someone else as a 'price'.

So it's best to resolve this matter on your own!
or……

Let's take advantage of it!

Thinking of his itinerary for a few days, Jiao Shun began to think about it.

So in the following time, he took time out of his busy schedule to write a proposal, just waiting for the opportunity to take advantage of the wind.

…………

Time flies, and it is the 23rd of this month.

It was the third day of the joint discussion between the two ministries. In view of the attitude of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, the officials of the Ministry of Rites finally relented, and no longer entangled in the issue of names, but began to discuss the specific arrangements during the tour.

It's a pity that the scene Jia Zheng expected never happened.

Apparently, the higher-ups were also worried that walking too fast would cause chickens to fly, so they didn't intend to add an extra burden to the inspection team.

These are not mentioned.

However, Jiao Shun said that Jiao Shun left the office very early that day, and first went around the construction site as a routine, and learned about the latest developments from a few supervisors, making sure that if Jia Zheng asked, he could have something to say, and then Shi Shiran returned. at home.

After entering the door, I saw Xiang Ling, Yu Chuan'er, Wu'er and two rough envoy women, making some dried fruit preserves, milk and rock candy in the east chamber.

He stretched out his arms, let Xiangling and Yuchuan take off their cloaks, and wondered: "It's not a festival, what kind of trick is this?"

Yu Chuan'er rushed to answer: "Second Grandma ordered to come down and buy some cold drinks for our family - the cold cellar and labor are all paid by the house, we just need to prepare some auxiliary materials."

Although the ice room in the city also provides cold drinks, most of them are middle-class families who have tried it in the past. The real rich and powerful families prefer to prepare it in advance. At most, they just buy some white ice from the ice room to cool off the heat.

But when Jiao Shun heard this, his heart couldn't help but move.

Ever since Ping'er was tempted by teasing him that time, Ping'er has been avoiding him all day, and he hasn't seen him for more than ten days.

Now that there is such a reason, why not take the opportunity to come to the door to continue the continuation of the predestined relationship?
But after thinking about it again, tomorrow is an important day, and there should be more careful consideration, so there is no need to rush around this matter of stealing incense and jade.

Therefore, he calmed down, ordered Xiangling to prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, made a cup of rose silk almond tea, and went into the room alone to perfect his plan.

But Wu'er in the outer room saw that Jiao Shun had returned home and still had to deal with official business, so he couldn't help wondering: "Is our uncle always so busy?"

"of course!"

Yu Chuan'er and You Rongyan boasted: "Uncle manages 10,000+..."

Halfway through the talk, she suddenly became vigilant, and quickly changed the topic: "Since the uncle has come back, let's all leave, anyway, it's not too late to do it tomorrow."

After all, Wu'er has never seen the intrigue among maidservants before, not only did not see Yu Chuan'er's repulsion and vigilance, but was delighted to have an early rest, so he hurriedly agreed and made an appointment with Yu Chuan'er after breakfast tomorrow. After starting work, he ran out of the east chamber excitedly.

Seeing her so heartless, Yu Chuan'er breathed a sigh of relief, and thought that the uncle would ask for leave tomorrow, so it would be better to work in the main room instead, so as not to catch the wrong eye inadvertently.

Just at this moment, someone outside shouted sharply: "Why are you running around with your little hooves? You almost bumped into me!"

Yu Chuan'er hurriedly picked up the curtain to look out, but it was Qiu Tong, the maid of the eldest wife Xing's family, who came to the door and almost bumped into Wu'er.

Wu'er was so terrified by her training that she hung her head and couldn't say a word.

Yu Chuan'er gloated a little at first, but then felt that Qiu Tong's loud voice and bravado here obviously didn't take the Jiao family seriously, so she crossed the threshold and gave Qiu Tong a nod: " Sister, hurry up and keep your voice down, our uncle is criticizing official documents in the room, don't dare to disturb!"

Because Jia She had shown her face, Qiu Tong felt that she was different from others even though she had never received any favors.

After eating Yu Chuan'er's headlines, she was not happy in her heart, but when she thought that his wife was asking for Jiao Shun's head now, she didn't dare to explode, and forced a smile: "Please tell my sister, just say our wife I have something to entrust."

"Sister, come in with me and wait."

Yu Chuan'er said, and waved at Wu'er again: "Madam is probably coming back soon, you should hurry up and get ready."

Wu'er felt as if she had been pardoned, and she was so grateful that she blessed Yu Chuan'er, and then returned to the main room with her head down.

After dismissing her, Yu Chuan'er led Qiu Tong into the living room, and went to the inner room alone to report to Jiao Shun.

"Is there something for the eldest lady to entrust?"

Jiao Shun frowned when he heard this. The last time the Xing family called him over, the city was full of storms, and even Jia Mu was alarmed, but this time he didn't know what he was going to be like.

In his heart, Jiao Shun didn't want to entangle with the Xing family.

But helplessly, she is the eldest wife of the family after all, so she won't give her any bad face.

So I had no choice but to get up and go to the outside room, and asked, "But I don't know what orders the eldest lady has?"

"It's not a big deal."

Naturally, Qiutong didn't dare to do anything wrong in front of Jiao Shun, and replied politely: "It's just that the Dongkua courtyard is not very safe recently, Madam asked someone to make a fortune, saying that it is going to use the thunder and fire to ward off evil spirits— —So I want to ask Uncle Jiao to find a few high-quality firecrackers with hundreds of thousands of rings in the yamen."

Speaking of this, she frequently looked at Yu Chuan'er and Xiang Ling squinting at the side, obviously hoping that Jiao Shun would distract them so that they could have some private conversations.

Jiao Shun pretended he didn't see it, and said sternly, "It's not a difficult task, but I have some things to do tomorrow - the day after tomorrow, I'll send twenty hangers over."

"This……"

Qiu Tong faltered and fumbled, his face full of perplexity.

Mrs. Xing bought firecrackers to drive away evil spirits, but it was true—the main reason was that Jia She kept it from her, and refused to say where the blood on his body came from, so Xing couldn't help but think wildly and suspiciously.

But these firecrackers are not rare items, so why did they entrust them to Jiao Shun?

The real purpose is to avoid the eyes and ears of everyone in the house, and ask Jiao Shun to meet in private, so that he can throw out the bait of Yingchun.

Pian Jiao Shun was so incomprehensible that she never had a chance to explain why she came here.

After hesitating for a while, Qiutong tentatively asked again: "But I don't know what Uncle Jiao is going to do tomorrow?"

This gets to the bottom of it!
Jiao Shun said impatiently, "Mr. Feng Ziying and Mr. Xue invited me and Uncle Xue to go hunting outside the city—why, should I report to the girl first?"

"No no no!"

Qiu Tong hurriedly shook her hands: "The servant girl is just asking casually - if that's the case, I'll go back to my wife."

After saying that, he bowed and retreated, and hurried back to Dongkua courtyard to see Mrs. Xing.

Xing Shiyuan was holding Yingchun, and said in a pleasant manner that she would add some head jewelry to her. Hearing that Qiutong secretly said that the matter could not be done, she changed her color again immediately, threw away Yingchun's tender little hand, and said coldly: " Go back and rest, girl!"

The matter of adding jewelry, I didn't even mention a word.

When Yingchun went obediently, Xing scolded again: "You useless hoof, how can you not handle a few words?!"

Qiutong bowed and said: "There are two maids in his room by his side. I tried to make fun of him a few times but refused to let him go. I really have no chance to speak."

After a pause, he continued: "However, this servant found out that Master Jiao and Young Master Xue Jiabiao will go hunting outside the city with Feng Ziying and Mr. Feng tomorrow."

Xing shook the handkerchief, annoyed: "What's the use of asking about these?!"

"Ma'am, please."

Qiu Tong took two steps forward, and said with an apologetic smile: "There are a lot of people in this house, no matter how careful my wife is, there will inevitably be some rumors, so how can it be cheaper than going to the wilderness?"

"You mean..."

"Let's inquire about a good place first. Mrs. Ming'er will take the second girl to offer incense outside the city. Wouldn't it be reasonable to meet him halfway and call him over for a few gossips?"

This idea is actually learned from the play.

It's lame, but now Xing is eager to get a piece of the pie, so as to alleviate the family's financial crisis, so he doesn't care much about it.

Immediately, he quickly found Wang Baoshan and his wife, and ordered them to try to find out where Mr. Feng used to go hunting. It is not so easy to find a few wild animals around the capital these days, so they must be captive-bred, so the address should also be It is fixed.

Then he ordered someone to call Jia Yingchun back, and took her affectionately to the dressing table in the inner room, spread out his dowry, and let Yingchun choose generously.

These days, Yingchun has been used to Xing's coldness and disdain, and she suddenly changed her face today, even more frightened and terrified, but how dare she pick and choose according to Xing's wishes?
Seeing this, Mrs. Xing became anxious, chose a few precious ones and randomly inserted them on Yingchun's head, and then took rouge and water powder to smear them on.

This is not counting.

She looked at it for a long time, and felt that although Yingchun was youthful and beautiful, she was too immature after all, and she was afraid that she might not be fascinated by Jiao Shun's mind.

Then he ordered people to find something to wrap the chest, waist and other things, and forcefully squeezed out two balls of white greasy.

It's also thanks to the fact that Yingchun is a precocious girl, if she is as weak and slender as Daiyu, even if her ribs are strangled, she won't be able to squeeze out much beauty.

only……

How do you get out of the house in this winter?
Xing thought for a while but couldn't figure it out, so in the end she had to force Yingchun to dress like this on the inside, and put on a loose cover on the outside.

Thinking that if there is any disagreement at that time, they can only resort to this trump card!
Just like that, after nightfall, Yingchun returned to the lower place with her hair full of pearls and emerald greens, went inside and buried her head in tears.

Although Siqi has been at odds with her recently, he grew up with her. Seeing her crying so sadly, he instructed Xiuju to go forward to find out what happened, and he also listened carefully with his ears on the side.

At first, Yingchun just kept crying, but after listening to Xiuju's heartfelt words, she choked and said, "I thought to endure it for a while, but my wife didn't care about face at all, and just let me go Treat it as the meat on the chopping board, and wish I could sell it outside!"

As he spoke, he wept uncontrollably again.

Seeing this, Siqi couldn't bear it anymore, he stepped forward and pulled her and asked, "Where did you start talking about this, Miss? Stop crying, just say it and let's discuss a countermeasure!"

After asking three times and five times, Yingchun finally explained what happened earlier.

He opened his skirt again, revealing the tight little gown.

Siqi is tall, and is so close, he can see everything at a glance. He couldn't help being surprised: "This, how can this be worn out to meet people?"

Yingchun cried even harder.

Siqi gritted his teeth and stomped his feet: "This is really unreasonable! Miss Qianjin of the dignified Duke's mansion, how could she allow her to behave like this--according to me, just sue the old lady and see what she will say this time!"

As he said that, he covered Yingchun's breasts, and wanted to drag her to the old lady to file a complaint.

Yingchun was startled, but flinched back desperately, and said: "You must not hurt me again! If you really broke your face with your wife, how can I still have a place in this family?!"

Si Qi comforted her by saying that when his wife made things difficult these days, the old lady would naturally take the girl back to live, and she would no longer have to be humiliated and bullied by her wife.

Yingchun, however, still refused to come forward, and talked about it.

In the end, she quarreled with Siqi, and she hypnotized herself: "Since she wants to sell me, no matter if she is sincere or not, she will treat me favorably for a few days. If she can sell me earlier, wouldn't she be relieved!"

Seeing that Yingchun oil and salt would not enter, Siqi stomped his feet angrily and went outside.

But after all, she was worried, so she made up her mind to protect the second girl with Xiuju, no matter which apprentice came to spy on her, she must let her return home!

　Thanks to book friends: Tail number 4531, Leng Yue Gufan 117, Liu Xinyang 123——for their rewards.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)