Started to get rich after exile

Prince Heng's rebellion is definitely not something that can end in two or three months, but it can take as short as a year and a half. Ming Lanying is anxious to go back to the frontier, but she can't tell them to hurry up, so she can only pay attention to the Ming family occasionally. Condition.

Ever since the eldest son of the Ming family was demoted, she hadn't heard from Ming Zhengqing for a long time. After He Bai inquired a little, he knew that the eldest son of the Ming family was living a humble life in the Ming mansion. Although the elder Ming did not expel their family The Ming family, but they didn't show any good looks, and even severed their contact with several children.

Ming Zhengqing originally wanted to come to Ming Lanying, let Ming Lanying support them in the name of his father, and let Ye Juelu, the son-in-law, plead for mercy in front of the emperor, but Ye Juelu knew about this in advance, and asked people to pass the letter to him in advance. Cut it off and send it to the third master of the Ming family.

What happened afterwards is not clear, but we can find out that Ming Zhengqing and Jiang Heyu were about to be sent to another courtyard on the outskirts of the city to farm.

He Bai came back with the news to share with Ming Lanying, and couldn't stop laughing after he finished speaking.

"I heard that idiot Zhengqing still wanted to ask you to ask my brother to intercede, what kind of face did he have? Last time the stinky and shameless invited you over and there was a quarrel, and he still had the cheek to ask sister-in-law to support them , It's really stinky and shameless, I laughed to death hahahahahaha—"

Ming Lanying was also speechless to the original owner's father, no wonder the Ming family was able to raise the original Ming Lanying like that, like a father, like a son!

Anyway, the mother who loves the original owner the most is long gone. Ming Zhengqing, a dispensable father, really doesn't take it seriously, but Jiang Heyu, a bad woman who destroys other families, she will not let go.

After finding out the location of their other courtyard, they used a lark whistle to summon a wave of small insect-like animals, which made their farming life more difficult.

He Bai gave a thumbs up, "As expected of a sister-in-law, you must avenge any revenge!"

Ming Lanying flipped through the account books casually, "Don't talk nonsense, I just made their lives fun, and I didn't kill them."

He Bai silently applauded, sister-in-law doesn't suffer at all, she's so handsome!
Ming Lanying can sometimes hear about Jiazhen from Hebai. I heard that because Master Ming San is reused by the emperor, Ming Jiazhen's good reputation in the capital has increased, and the matchmaker who proposes marriage is almost over the threshold. The Ming family looked down on none of them.

Ming Jiazhen failed to deal with Ming Lanying last time, and she still didn't give up and came to her door several times to find her, insisting on seeing her before giving up. Ming Lanying hid in the palace in disgust, but refused to meet her.

The queen nodded her forehead amusedly, "You, I really don't want to see you. Why don't you just say hello and let me go, or I'll let you go."

Ming Lanying sat and let her order, laughing, "Your Majesty, just watch with peace of mind, don't worry about your Majesty, she will come whenever she wants to see me, anyway, I will always leave the house before her, the more she wastes time on me, it proves I have made sufficient preparations to plot against me, and I will not give up until I take off a whole layer of skin, I am not stupid!"

The Empress didn't notice Ming Jiazhen's petty tricks. Instead, she could guess that the Ming family cultivated her so meticulously that she should be the favorite concubine of the emperor's harem. Prince Heng is already rebellious now. As for what to do? The emperor's favorite concubine is not very important to the Ming family.

The Ming family has long-term plans, but the queen doesn't care. The emperor supported her in the previous dynasty, and the cannibal concubines in the harem are all in her hands. Ming Jiazhen's city mansion can't be seen by her. This is because she is powerful behind her back The trust and love of my mother's family and the emperor gave me the confidence.

The queen joked: "I reckon that if you continue to avoid her, rumors about you will soon spread in the market, Mrs. Ye Tong with a guilty conscience."

Ming Lanying curled her lips into a smile, "Your Majesty, let's see, does she know more about me, or I know more about her scandals."

Seeing that she looked confident, the queen felt relieved, "I guess you can deal with Ming Jiazhen's little tricks, but I only found out in recent days that Prince Heng brought all the concubines who were useful to him in the mansion with him. In order to provide more assistance on the road of rebellion, and to increase the odds of winning."

Ming Lanying raised her eyebrows unexpectedly, "He is really omnipotent, even draining the power behind the concubine's room?!"

"Of course, otherwise, why would he marry so many wives and concubines? Just do you know why he brought so many people to the frontier? It can't be used to fool others."

"Could it be that every concubine's room is useful?"

"Naturally, guess how many of them are the daughters of governors and prefects?"

"Governors of prefectures and counties, magistrates? Are these people giving their daughters to Prince Heng? This!" Ming Lanying was shocked that the wives and concubines around Prince Heng were all so powerful!
"Of course, it's just a gift of a daughter, and you will be able to climb up to the honorable Prince Heng. This business is sure to make money."

The queen smiled, Ming Lanying gave her the feeling that she was smart in bursts, sometimes clever and ignorant, very sensitive to money, but not very understanding of the unspoken rules of the deep palace.

Ming Lanying opened her mouth in confusion, "Prince Heng has only a dozen wives and concubines with him, so it can't be that half of them are the daughters of prefects and governors?"

The queen smiled mysteriously, "You guess boldly."

Ming Lanying was even more shocked when she thought about it, and said: "...a dozen or so!"

The queen pursed her lips and maintained an elegant smile, but the smile did not reach her eyes, "From Yongzhou City to the capital, there are four governors, 36 magistrates, and 270 eight magistrates. The dozen or so princes that Prince Heng brought with him this time The concubines are all the daughters of these local officials."

Ming Lanying was shocked, and a flash of inspiration flashed in her mind, "He is paving the way for leading troops into Beijing!"

The queen nodded and smiled, acquiescing to her statement, "The concubines in his backyard are all purposefully selected, and they can all be useful at critical moments. This is what the emperor only discovered in the past two years."

Ming Lanying frowned, Prince Heng's backyard is comparable to the harem of Shuangwen men!He only needs to use his brain, make a decision and sell himself, and the rest will be settled by the forces behind his wives and concubines. Passers-by will applaud and say it's cool!

Ming Lanying murmured: "A concubine can still be used like this..."

The queen also smiled helplessly. Sometimes marrying a wife and taking a concubine is not because of liking, but because of how useful the other party can bring to oneself. This is true for Prince Heng, and the same is true for the emperor.It's just that she was a little luckier, her mother's family was able to help the emperor, and she also got the emperor's love.

"Now it seems that Ming Jiazhen is much smarter than you, you are only smart in money!"

Ming Lanying chuckled, "I don't have much money, I only read books, people's hearts are unpredictable, only money will not betray me."

The queen gave a helpless smile, and gently pinched her, "Recently, there are people in the court who are not afraid of death, and they impeach Ye Juelu for colluding with the frontier rebels. They often exchange letters, and they use the sea dongqing that you brought out of the palace. "

Ming Lanying was taken aback for a moment, and she clenched the skirt on her knees tightly, but she didn't immediately kneel down under the pressure in her heart. This kneeling might break the friendship between them, and make the friendship that was established with great difficulty become panic.

"That's what the minister's wife used to communicate with the sisters in the frontier fortress. It has nothing to do with the husband! The minister's wife only made one close sister in the frontier fortress. She is Zhao Dongxia, the granddaughter of the imperial doctor Zhao who used to be in the imperial hospital. She is a sinner. The minister's daughter, who was exiled to the frontier with Dr. Zhao..."

The queen squeezed her stiff shoulders comfortingly, "Don't worry, the emperor and I trust you, don't be afraid, I just want to tell you first, so that you can be mentally prepared, you use Haidongqing to send letters to the frontier, Ye Juelu has already reported to the emperor, we all know about it."

"Really, really?" Ming Lanying tended to lose rational judgment when she was nervous, and she was relieved when she saw that there was no extra emotion in the Queen's eyes, "I was negligent, and I asked the emperor for Haidongqing but forgot to explain clearly. What is it for, but it was caught in the wrong place by someone with a heart."

The queen smiled and stretched out her hand to brush the broken hair beside her ear, "The current situation in the court is turbulent, the people who impeached Ye Juelu are all members of the Ming family and Prince Heng, the emperor has been waiting for the opportunity to deal with them, since they started impeachment Ye Juelu, that is also the time for us to deal with it, but we may have to wrong you for a while, to lure them to bite the hook."

Ming Lanying was completely relieved, as long as the emperor and empress didn't doubt them, they were still their own.

"I'm not wronged, I don't feel wronged if I can help, but I may not be able to enter the palace to accompany the empress at any time recently, so as not to cause gossip for the empress." Ming Lanying smiled honestly.

She knew that she didn't have the ability to fight scheming, and it was okay to pretend to be obedient and stupid. She had read so many account books in her previous life, and she understood some things she still knew and what she shouldn't know.

When Ye Juelu powder came to pick her up later, the sky had already darkened, the cold wind blew across her cheeks, and the icy air was inhaled into her lungs, which made her brain sober.

"Ye Juelu, the empress said that someone in the court has impeached you."

"Well, you don't have to worry." Ye Juelu replied nonchalantly, Ming Lanying leaned on the door panel behind him, and leaned closer, Ye Juelu explained to her softly, "Then I will follow the plan and pretend that I am with the frontier The rebels there colluded, and then I was demoted to two levels of official positions, and I stayed behind closed doors. My people in the court would secretly stir up trouble and continue to impeach me. come out."

"Oh."

Ye Juelu made it clear that Ming Lanying was worried about too many accidents, so it was better to make it clear from the beginning, so as to avoid some misunderstandings.

The carriage suddenly braked sharply, and Ming Lanying followed the inertia and threw herself on Ye Juelu's back through the curtain.

Her back muscles were strong and stiff, Ming Lanying covered her sore cheeks and asked, "What's wrong..."

Ye Juelu protected the curtain to prevent her from going out, "Ming Jiazhen stopped the car."

Ming Lanying clicked her tongue, "It's annoying."

Ye Juelu sat motionless on the shaft of the carriage with his horsewhip in his hand, and looked coldly at Ming Jiazhen who suddenly came out from the side of the road. If the carriage was not running fast, Ming Jiazhen would be lying down and talking now, and passers-by were stunned by this sudden What happened was startling.

Ming Jiazhen stared straight at Ye Juelu with a serious face, the cherry lips under the veil slightly raised, and she saluted Ye Juelu gracefully, with a throat as crisp as an oriole, it could kill passers-by Half body.

"Minnv has met Commander Ye. Speaking of which, Commander Ye can be regarded as the brother-in-law of the Minnv. Dare I ask my brother-in-law, is the elder sister of the Minnv in the carriage?"

Ye Juelu held the reins to comfort the horse, without looking at her directly, "I don't know the dignity, I am the commander of the imperial guards, who gave you the courage to call brother-in-law, you should respectfully call me Ye Ye lady."

Ming Jiazhen's smile froze, and her face almost couldn't hold back, "Yes... Minnv is being abrupt, dare to ask Commander Ye, is Mrs. Ye in the carriage? Minnv recently wanted to invite Mrs. Ye to play with the sisters in Beijing, but she didn't know what she was doing. What makes Mrs. Ye unhappy, she always fails to make appointments, and the women also stop the car in desperation, please don't blame Commander Ye."

"I don't know the etiquette, did no one teach you to hand over invitations before inviting people?"

"...It's a girl who is careless. She thinks that she and Mrs. Ye are like sisters, regardless of these vain etiquette."

The smile on Ming Jiazhen's face faded, the veil covered the corners of her stiff mouth, and the fingers hidden in her sleeves were tightly clenched into fists unwillingly. It's because of Ming Lan Ying.

"She is my wife, what kind of sister is she to you? Miss Ming respects herself."

These words are a direct reminder of the relationship between the two. Ming Lanying is now Mrs. Ye, and she is sister to Mrs. Ye. Does she want to be a concubine?

In front of others, Ye Juelu never speaks politely, saying one more word is a waste.

Ming Jiazhen can't laugh at all now, she has never felt this kind of feeling of being humiliated by outspoken words, the maid behind her is carefully supporting her, her skin is not thick enough, she can't bear the eyes of passers-by, she hangs her head and wants to Buried on the spot.

"Miss, don't get angry, the business is important..."

Ming Jiazhen took a deep breath and said loudly: "It's the girl's fault. It's just that the girl doesn't have an invitation card with her. It's rare to meet Mrs. Ye. I want to invite Mrs. Ye directly to the Spring Festival five days later. I wonder if Mrs. Ye can do it." Appreciation?"

It was so loud that Ming Lanying in the carriage could hear it clearly, but she was not called out by this voice, and she had never shown her face with the name of Mrs. Ye openly.

The Spring Banquet is a banquet set up by the expensive circle of the capital for the first solar term of the year, Lichun.

The royal family will have a Jitian activity. The emperor will worship the heaven and the earth on this day and pray for good weather.

Usually this kind of large-scale banquet will be held by famous people in the capital, and there will be hundreds of people participating. He Bai found out that this year's Spring Banquet is held by the wife of Duke Dingguo and Mrs. Yong'anhou.

Ming Jiazhen was determined to make her look ugly at this big banquet, so she stepped on the pit because she was stupid.

Ye Juelu heard the soft voice from the carriage, and looked up at Ming Jiazhen coldly, "My wife refuses to participate, Miss Ming, please step aside."

Ming Jiazhen was stunned, how could someone directly reject someone else's invitation so quickly, and it's still a spring banquet in a year, don't you think it's too rude!
"Wait! Don't you think it's rude for Mrs. Ye to refuse so quickly? Mrs. Ye, please think twice, this spring banquet is held by Mrs. Does Madam have face? I really want to ask you to make friends with me, why is Madam Ye so shameless?"

"Miss Ming, please be careful with your words. The reason for my refusal is that the two wives have not yet sent invitations. It seems impolite for me to go to the spring banquet with you rashly, right?"

Ming Lanying lifted the curtain of the carriage in distaste, and everyone who ate melons felt that the world in front of them suddenly brightened. The Xiangfei-colored satin velvet trim short jacket, matched with the begonia red and gold begonia flower Xiang skirt, bright and soft red, set off The red lips with snowy skin become more and more attractive, the embroidered eyebrows that are lightly twisted are charming and charming, and Gu Pan's posture is shockingly beautiful.

Ming Lanying lifted the curtain of the car, put one hand on Ye Juelu's shoulder, and looked at Ming Jiazhen with dissatisfaction, "Miss Ming, you can eat food indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense. What my wife refused is only your invitation." If it is an invitation from Mrs. Dingguo's Mansion or Mrs. Yong'anhou's Mansion, my wife will of course be flattered and will definitely go to the banquet, but no one said that Miss Ming's invitation cannot be refused!"

"Ms. Ming is just a girl from the Ming family. Even if the two wives send invitations, they will only be sent to the Ming family, right? My wife is now a member of the Ye family. How can Miss Ming be able to take my wife to a banquet? This is not suitable. Courtesy?"

Ming Lanying saw that Ming Jiazhen's face was getting uglier, she casually raised her red lips and chuckled, "Mrs. Ming knows that Miss Ming wants to get in touch with Mrs. Ben, but Miss Ming has to think it over before coming back next time."