Ruanjiaobao was forced to marry by Lord Hou again

Chapter 56

In the evening, the sky was already dark.

As the sun set, layers upon layers of white clouds slowly flowed, finally disappearing into the boundless night sky.

Shen Ci returned from buying the sacrifices for the day after tomorrow outside the mansion, walked through the courtyard corridor, and returned to the leisure hall in the main courtyard, and saw Mother Xuan was in the house arranging the expenses for the road these days.

The three girls knelt and sat at the long table around Nanny Xuan, one was listening carefully, the other seemed to be listening carefully, and the other was shaking her head and seemed to be listening in a drowsy manner.

Shen Ci leaned against the door frame, and said with a smile: "Nurse Xuan has worked hard, and she has to take care of her ineffective students after retiring."

Nanny Xuan clapped her hands, raised her head and said, "Second brother can make fun of this old slave, it's the old slave's good fortune to be able to teach girls how to take care of trivial matters."

After finishing speaking, Mother Xuan stood up slowly, and said: "The accounts on the road will be sorted out here. In the future, the girls will also need to sort out the accounts as carefully as before. There must be no mistakes, and every cent must be correct. In the future, it will be handy to take charge of Zhongfu.”

The three girls agreed obediently, and watched Nanny Xuan leave. Seeing the person disappearing outside the door, they relaxed their posture.

Mrs. Shen lived alone in a small courtyard called Xiaoxiaozhai.

It was cold on a moonlit night, and one had to drink a bowl of hot wine to sleep comfortably. Mother Xuan entered the room with the hot wine, and saw Mrs. Shen sitting cross-legged on a soft couch, closing her eyes and slowly twisting the beads.

"The old lady is not going to sleep yet?"

Mother Xuan brought over the hot wine and asked, "Is there something on the old lady's mind?"

Old lady Shen opened her eyes, took the hot wine but didn't drink it, and said, "Someone sent a letter asking me, an old woman, to 'tangle' him to commit crimes in Yue Zhizhou. Hmph, I knew that this old bone would suddenly come back to me. There is nothing good about committing the moon to worship the ancestors."

The crime of the moon is no better than the capital. Today, the emperor has been troubled by the "difficulty" of the border for a long time. In the early years, Shen Zhan led troops to the northern border to quell the turmoil of the remnants of the previous dynasty. Zhan joined forces with Cheng Fei's family to clean up the attack.

This time it's Nanguan's turn to commit crimes. There are lessons learned from the past. I'm afraid the people here are smarter and more difficult to rectify.

Xuanmomo glanced at the letter on the table, guessed the person who had received the letter in her heart, and said with a light smile: "Young master trusts the old lady, he must be in trouble, so he will ask you for help."

"Difficulties?" Mrs. Shen sighed, "Old lady, I owe him."

Grandma Xuan smiled and said nothing.

Thinking back seven years ago that it was imminent to defeat Jiuqu Xionghucheng, but half of the attack and defense plan was missing. Old Mrs. Shen insisted on hiding this matter from Young Master Shen, and poured a lot of "warrior" chicken soup.

The 14-year-old Shen Xiaohou, with his blood, led the army to enter the Jiuqu Xionghu City!
In the end, although they won the Jiuqu Xionghu City together with Cheng Fei, they were also injured all over.

When the man came back, Princess Jiayi almost broke the gate of the Hou's mansion with tears, after all, it was only three years since Old Shen Hou was defeated and sacrificed.

Mrs. Shen said quietly: "Actually, things in this place are the most complicated. You can see that there are Yueyue City on the surface, and the Twelve Towns below. You just think it is a hierarchical relationship, but it is not the case. It is often a rope. Grasshoppers, one pull can move the whole body.”

Mother Xuan pondered and said: "What the old lady said is that local affairs are the most difficult to figure out. Young Lord Hou has his own way. A pond that is too calm can attract curious fish if there are no waves. "

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It was rumored that Mrs. Shen's return to Ningbei Hou Mansion in the capital city spread monthly, and countless people came to visit the next day. The dilapidated old threshold of the old Shen's house was almost unbearable.

The women's seats are almost complete, a group of luxuriously dressed women are sitting together drinking tea and talking, and the young girls are also talking together.

On the men's side, cups were also staggered.

There are also many male customers who come today, most of them are merchants, not as particular as those with official positions, each one is more familiar than the other, Shen Ci doesn't need to take special care of him.

The three girls followed Nanny Xuan to assign errands to the maids, like a crucian carp crossing the river to shuttle through the mansion. After a full hour like this, the soles of their shoes were almost worn out, and they couldn't take a break to have a sip of tea.

Shen Pan'er was the most dishonest, she gave all the responsibilities to Ye Lingwu, asked her to entertain guests and say polite words, and also revealed the results of Xuan Nanny's training, while she herself dragged a lacquered wooden scale to the corner Go and sit at the lady's side.

The little envoy sent by the Wang family cleverly served the tea fruit. Shen Pan'er thought she would be at ease, but after sitting down for a while, there were surrounded by girls who were guilty of the moon, with an accent, which made Shen Pan'er helpless. Funny again.

Someone said: Men talk about women, women talk about men.I don't know who started it first, but the girls rushed to ask about Shen Ci first.

Hearing a certain girl say that Shen Ci looked like a gentle and serious man, Shen Pan'er didn't kill herself with a sip of tea: "Who? Who has a gentle personality? This girl's eyes are not good, I'm afraid she misread it."

The girl blinked blankly: "What Miss Shen means, isn't Second Master Shen a serious man?"

Shen Pan'er concluded.

What should she say, is she going to say that her own brother is a well-known dude in the capital?It's not very pleasant to say this, if Shen Ci knows that she speaks ill of him behind his back, then he doesn't know how to deal with her when he returns to the capital.

"There are so many noble people who have come here these days. Third Miss Shen knows that two wealthy sons from Fengzhou came here the day before yesterday, and their surname is Murong..." The girl who spoke covered her mouth and smiled, "I have seen these two Mr. Murong's people say they are very handsome."

"No, no," said the other girl, "I heard from my servant that Mr. Murong is handsome, and the second son, tsk tsk tsk, seems to be a half-brother, and looks a bit ugly."

Seeing the girls chatting in full swing, Shen Pan'er immediately became interested: "Really, is Murong's family in Fengzhou very rich? What kind of business do they do?"

The girl replied: "Ms. Shen San has lived in the capital for a long time, maybe she doesn't know the local affairs. Fengzhou is located in the middle of our dynasty, and the people's capital is rich. The Murong family is in the silk business. These two young masters of the Murong family should come to commit crimes." Those who came to do business, the day before yesterday, those two young masters called a rich man, and bought our most expensive mansion in the moonlight, and rented several shops, just watch them come to the moonlight. It’s a big battle, and we’ll be staying here for a long time.”

Shen Pan'er frowned and said, "Those two young masters of the Murong family are acting so high-profile?"

"That's right, and my mother also said that the two sons of the Murong family don't seem to have married yet." The girl who spoke was shy.

"..." Shen Pan'er: I am a nymphomaniac.

Another girl said: "Although there is no Yiqin, you guys don't want to worry about it. I just heard yesterday that the two sons of Murong's family came to spend the night in Xueyue Qinyuan on the first night when they came to commit crimes."

Shen Pan'er asked: "What's wrong with Xueyue Qinyuan staying overnight?"

"Xueyue Qinyuan is the largest restaurant in the moon. Although it is a serious restaurant, but the overnight stay in it..." The girl who spoke covered her mouth with a round fan, "But she may not be a gentleman."

As soon as the words were finished, there was movement at the door, everyone looked together, and saw a lady wearing gold and silver, with big breasts and fat buttocks leading a man and a woman walking in.

Shen Pan'er only saw that man yesterday. He is Wang Xuzhou, the eldest son of the Wang family's second wife. I don't know the woman. I saw her wearing a long neon dress with golden brocade. Nothing less than that.

The three of them walked up one after another.

The leading lady said humanely: "My concubine knows Sun Jinlan, the second housewife of the prefecture, and brought the younger generation to visit Mrs. Shen. This is my youngest daughter Sun Xinran, and my son-in-law Wang Xuzhou. Mrs. Shen should have met yesterday."

In fact, the two families have only been hired and have not formally engaged in marriage, but the merchant's family with hairpin tassels can still hold their heads up with joy when they say it. The more proud the Sun family is, the more people in the city can't understand it. Sun Jinlan knows that they are in private Everyone can't get used to it, but she just likes the feeling that she can't get used to it and can't kill her.

Old Mrs. Shen glanced lightly and said: "Yes, Mrs. Sun is so lucky, your son-in-law is able to take care of things, your daughter looks beautiful, and the two seem to be a good match."

Sun Jinlan smiled and said: "Today I was supposed to come to see you with the second lady of the Wang family, Xu Zhou's mother, but Xu Zhou's mother is very weak and her father is busy with trivial matters in the town and can't come. , I hope Old Madam Shen will forgive me. If you can come to the engagement banquet after a while, I will definitely compensate you for today's gift."

Old Mrs. Shen said: "It's all right, Mrs. Sun, take your seat quickly. Maid Ran also goes to the ladies' table to have some tea."

The Sun family has a bad reputation among the people who committed crimes, so the tax is ridiculously high. Even if Sun Kungan is a clean and honest official who is not corrupt, even if all the tax money is handed over to the court, it is not pleasing.

Not to mention that the Sun family's food and clothing expenses are notoriously extravagant, and Sun Xinran, the only daughter of the second family of the Sun family, is even more arrogant and domineering.In her heart, a mighty dragon can't overwhelm a local snake, and she dressed exaggeratedly when she came to visit today, and those who didn't know thought she was here for a hundred flowers to bloom.

Sun Xinran walked around the screen and stepped into the girl's table. Seeing that the girls in the table were all seated around Shen Pan'er, she felt uncomfortable but didn't show it. She said gracefully, "I've met Miss Shen San, I'm a prisoner. Zhizhou's niece is named Sun Xinran."

Shen Pan'er raised her head to look at her, and said: "It turns out that she is a girl from Zhizhou's family, please sit down."

Sun Xinran responded, and after she was seated, no one around her paid any attention to her, and the girls who usually fawned over her were all talking with Shen Pan'er in their arms.

The girls either covered their sleeves and laughed, or whispered, and laughed loudly from time to time, watching how happy they were, especially Shen Pan'er, who was so happy that she never closed her mouth.

Sun Xinran put down the tea cup in her hand with a look of surprise, and said: "Miss Shen, I have heard that the Northern Ninghou Mansion has made great achievements, and Young Lord Shen is now His Majesty's right-hand man. Now Miss Shen, Fourth Miss and Second Shen The young master followed Mrs. Shen back to worship the ancestors, how come the grandchildren of Ningbeihou's mansion are here, but Shen Xiaohou is not there?"

There was a moment of silence.

Everyone was also curious, and their eyes moved from Sun Xinran to Shen Pan'er.

Shen Pan'er poked a pear into her mouth with a silver stick, and said unhurriedly: "Miss Sun herself said that my eldest brother is the right-hand man of His Majesty today. It's thousands of miles away from the capital, how can my eldest brother come back to worship ancestors in a month's free time, he must still be dealing with important matters in the palace now."

Sun Xinran said: "Miss Shen San is very true. Young Master Shen is famous all over the world, and I don't know when I will be lucky enough to meet him."

Shen Pan'er smiled without saying a word: It may be possible in the next life.

(End of this chapter)