The first-level Zhaohua Thousand-level Hall

Chapter 104 What Can She Calculate?

There are certain specifications for welcoming the place where Shengjia will stay. Even if the Xu family can't build a magnificent palace, they still have to redecorate and renovate their own house, at least not to make the emperor feel uncomfortable at first sight. happiness.

The emperor would be a little sympathetic to the Xu family's conditions, but he would not force himself to endure it for the sake of the Xu family.

The emperor has always been the most cruel and willful person in the world.

Xu Qingluo has always been very clear about this.

Fortunately, she also stayed in the palace in her previous life, and was even taken by the emperor to live in the palace when she was the most favored. How can she achieve the best effect with the least cost, such as how to make the emperor look satisfied but not happy? It will cost too much, but to be honest, she is still confident.

Otherwise, even if Gong Ziyan promised to help with money and effort, Xu Qingluo would not rashly take over this hot potato. Xu's mother felt that it was a mess at first, and when Xu Qingluo made the general specifications taboo, there was still After explaining all the arrangements to her, Xu's mother was obviously relieved.

For example, Xu Qingluo proposed to expand the house, reorganize the garden of the Xu mansion, plant some exotic flowers and plants, and the main house where the emperor will stay needs to open up the original courtyard. How should the floor tiles used inside be polished? The shape, how to inlay beautiful and unconventional patterns, the decorations on the corners and walls, the patterns on the dishes, cups and plates, and even the calligraphy and paintings on the walls, all have to be done to win the eyes of the emperor.

It doesn't have to be the work of a famous master, nor does it need to be expensive or rare. The emperor knows that the Xu family is just an ordinary family, but it must be interesting.

Xu's mother was naturally curious about how Xu Qingluo knew so clearly, and how she was sure that the emperor would like something interesting. Xu Qingluo pushed it on Lang Sheng's head without hesitation, saying that it was what the man said in the letter, anyway. Lang Sheng would never tear her down, Xu Qingluo was very confident about this.

When Xu's mother heard the news from Lang Sheng, she immediately believed it, and she smiled reassuringly: "Ah Cheng has a heart."

As the saying goes, when a mother-in-law looks at her son-in-law, she likes her son-in-law more and more. This is true. Mother Xu has said good things about Lang Sheng more than once in front of Xu Qingluo.

But Xu Qingluo saw that his own mother liked Langsheng, so naturally he could only be happy.

Although the Xu family was in a hurry, but because of Xu Qingluo's commanding attitude, everyone naturally had a calm and stable mind in the bustle. Apart from being at a loss at the beginning of the reconstruction of the Xu mansion, when it arrived In the later stage, it was completely handy, whether it was the servants of the Xu family or the hired craftsmen and carpenters, everyone was extremely neat.

It's just that no matter how determined Xu Qingluo's command is, and no matter how united the Xu family is, they can't bear the fact that some people who are not from the Xu family have other thoughts.

On the third day, someone came to the door of Xu's house with a gift, and before Xu Qingluo, who was too busy to take up the floor, had time to decide whether to receive the other party, Xu Weiwan had already greeted the person to the door instead of her. .

"Miss, she's gone too far. She actually used the name of Miss Xu's family to greet someone. The person who came to meet him was the rich gentry Ji's family in the city. Their family has several businesses. Didn't you hear that?" It wasn't until Xu Weiwan looked so proud that the other party thought she was the serious lady of the Xu family, so respectful."

Baicao was so angry that he looked at Xu Qingluo squatting down to check the floor tiles and furniture, making himself ashamed, and thinking of Xu Weiwan's clean and gorgeous young lady's dress when he went out just now, he felt a sigh of relief in his heart If you can't go up or down, you're almost suffocating.

Xu Qingluo put down the floor tiles, nodded to the stonemason next to him to indicate that the size of the repair was not bad, and he could continue to follow this standard, then wiped his hands and stood up.

"water."

With just one sound from Xu Qingluo, Baicao forgot about her complaint, and hastily passed the water in her hand to Xu Qingluo.

The girl raised her head lightly, drank the warm water in the sheepskin bag, and wiped the corners of her mouth casually. Before Baicao lamented that her young lady had suffered so much, the sheepskin bag had already been handed over to Baicao.

"Grandma wants her to receive guests, so let her go, just to make grandma feel at ease."

Xu Qingluo smiled but wasn't smiling.

She had known for a long time that Xu Weiwan had received Mrs. Xu's sign to meet people. After all, this was Xu's mansion, which belonged to her, Xu Qingluo's, not Mrs. Xu's ancestral home. It's not the old lady's person yet.

It's not that she doesn't care, it's just that she doesn't care. Mrs. Xu's eccentricity, paranoia, and injustice to her have long since changed from one day to two days, once or twice.

"Hey? Is that what the old lady meant? Well, that's not right. You are obviously the serious lady. What if the people in Wuzhou City admit it wrong?"

Baicao pursed her lips, she couldn't complain loudly, after all, Mrs. Xu was involved, but it's okay to complain in a low voice.

Xu Qingluo pinched the other person's cheek lightly: "It doesn't matter, now the family is short of manpower, I can't leave here, and my parents are too busy, if she is willing, she can be considered as a help. "

"What kind of help is she doing? She obviously has a plan!"

Baicao firmly refused to admit that Xu Weiwan's 'helping' Xu Qingluo's reception of guests was a help.

"What can she calculate?"

Xu Qingluo sneered: "These high-ranking officials in Wuzhou City are not fools. If they can make friends so easily, it would be a joke."

She appeared in public several times at the gate of the city. She didn't believe that those who came to visit didn't know the details of her family. The Xu family only had one young lady, and only Xu Qingluo. It's a real joke.

Regarding this point, Xu Qingluo is very confident, like old foxes, whoever Xu Weiwan thinks he can catch after meeting a few times and "having a good conversation" a few times, is a guy who doesn't see rabbits and doesn't fly eagles.

She was actually looking forward to Xu Weiwan thinking that she had caught someone, but in the end she was deceived into nothing left. She didn't take the initiative to harm Xu Weiwan this time, she just left her alone. Xu Qingluo didn't believe that Xu Weiwan didn't do it herself. What, with her pursuit of power, she can still calm down, and there is Xiao Zhou by her side, right?

Xu Qingluo felt comfortable all over thinking that Xu Weiwan might have to follow in the footsteps of her previous life.

Don't let her down.

Baicao looked at her young lady's confident smile and unfathomable eyes. Although she was still worried and upset, she believed in her ability and did not complain any more. She just decided to keep an eye on Xu Weiwan so as to save her from making small moves behind her back.

Xu Weiwan didn't do any obvious little tricks. Apart from constantly showing up in front of the visiting people, showing her gentleness and carefulness, and spreading her reputation, that is to say, Xu Qingluo didn't say anything to stop her from receiving guests. Little Zhou also pulled over.

Little Zhou's and Xu Weiwan wanted to make a good name in Wuzhou City.

Xu Qingluo still didn't care, Xu's mother was powerless, although she hated Little Zhou and didn't have a good look at Xu Weiwan, but the family was very busy, Mrs. Xu took her to take care of her, she wanted to take care of her. Neither have time.

For a while in Wuzhou City, many people really rumored that another young lady of the Xu family was gentle, beautiful, considerate, and well-informed. In short, her reputation was much better than Xu Qingluo's.

Baicao described it vividly to Xu Qingluo, Xu Qingluo just listened to it as a joke, Baicao saw that Xu Qingluo really didn't care, and gradually saw Xu Weiwan's active performance no longer angry and agitated.

If you want to destroy people, you must first make them crazy. Xu Qingluo actually guessed that Xu Weiwan and Xiao Zhou's target might be the royal family. She is actually quite happy to see it come true. The emperor said it was No. 1 in the world. But Qingluo knew it clearly, that was a ruthless, paranoid and suspicious old immortal.

The few princes after the emperor didn't have a good thing either. As their women, Xu Weiwan's status was at most a plaything, and the end of playthings was usually what she encountered in her previous life.

The most important thing now is not to think about a Xu Weiwan, the most important thing is to build the house, cover the hot potato into a treasure, and Lang Sheng will be able to meet in another month and a half, these are the key things she needs to consider.

Xu Qingluo knew the difference between the serious and the serious, and devoted himself even more attentively to the expansion and construction of the mansion.

The Xu family just remodeled the house in such a low-key but high-profile way, renovating the house where all the people in Wuzhou City knew that the emperor was going to stay, but the other family was unwilling to let the Xu family build the mansion so easily.

Fuming came, and brought Fu Yingying with a broken leg.

I didn't come here to ask questions, but to make amends and apologize.

In front of many spectators from Wuzhou City, Fu Mingqian pushed Fu Yingying, who was being supported by others, and said harshly: "Sinister, if you don't kneel down and apologize to your niece, if someone in the government didn't tell you, I didn't even know that you were so domineering, you didn't count on humiliating people in the street, and you actually sent people to the Xu family to harass you, you really gave us a patriarchal face!"

Fu Yingying's body staggered, but fortunately her hands supported the boulder beside her in time, so she didn't fall down. Her legs were not healed at all, but she barely stood up. Xu Qingluo's face clenched his teeth, he was very wronged, but because of the words before Fuming, he had to lower his head: "Sister Xu, I'm sorry, it's because I'm young and ignorant that I'm so young. People come to the mansion on impulse to invite people, but I didn’t make it clear that those dog servants would have misunderstood their intentions and acted recklessly, who would have thought that sister Xu, you would be so careless, I will kneel down and apologize to you!"

Even if Fu Yingying had to kneel down, she didn't want Xu Qingluo to have a better time, so she directly put the blame on those dog slaves who didn't understand and Xu Qingluo who made a fuss. Even if Xu Qingluo didn't look at it, she could still Can you feel how many of the onlookers looked at her indifferently and whispered to her, forcing a daughter of the city lord with a broken leg to kneel in public and apologize?

Fu Mingqian frowned, for his daughter's unrestrained temperament, today is to 'make amends', not to make revenge again.

It's a pity that Xu Qingluo was very sober, she didn't let Fu Yingying bow her head at all, she knew very well that she didn't want to accept such a 'repentance'.

She lightly touched Fu Yingying's arm with her hand, and did not make her kneel down. Instead, before Fu Yingying insisted on kneeling down, she pushed her to the front of Fu Yingying's servant with a deft movement of her wrist. Support Fu Yingying.

Xu Qingluo's voice followed: "If Miss Fu really feels wronged to someone, she should go to the people who complained about the evil deeds of the Fu family at the government that day. I can protect myself here, and Miss Fu will also If you don't take advantage of anything, you can avoid any compensation."

"Also, this is where His Majesty will be staying. Although Shengjia has not moved in yet, there are still some taboos. Some people have stayed here for a long time, but it is very unlucky. I can bear it, but it does not mean that His Majesty can bear it." Stay, come, see off."

Xu Qingluo's words were soft at first, and then hard. The voice was soft and sweet, but it made people feel the coldness of winter and the twelfth lunar month. , all kinds of colors are rotated, it is very ugly.

"Okay, okay, the Xu family is really the one who is going to welcome Shengjia, but now the old man is the one who is going to be the top one."

Fu Mingqian sneered twice, then pulled Fu Yingying, and ignored the other party's cry of pain, directly dragged Fu Yingying outside.

"Father, walk slowly, my leg hurts."

Just after leaving the gate of Xu's house, Fu Yingying couldn't help shouting.

"Leg pain? You still know leg pain, you might as well scrap this leg!"

Fu Mingqian shook off Fu Yingying's arm which he was holding just now, his face was so gloomy that water was about to drip.

"Father, you, why did you say that? I was just so wronged. You didn't say comfort me, but you still treated me like this. What's the point of my life!"

Fu Yingying's aggrieved eyes were watery, she was very pitiful, and her injuries were not healed, her complexion was pale and bleak, compared to Xu Weiwan's usual cute and pitiful look, it was three points more real.

It's a pity that there was no need for Fu Yingying to act weak before Fuming. He looked at the stupid daughter in front of him and sneered: "It would be better if you were dead, but now you are a useless person. What's the point of living? I thought you would Useful, and now it seems that you are not even so pitifully useful."

The daughter who used to be as precious as jewels, now looks at the deformed and twisted hands, that crooked body, thinks of the trouble she caused herself, thinks of the things in the hands of the former county magistrate, thinks of those who are still staying in the official prison The servant of the Fu family felt depressed for a while before he recovered, and his words were unceremonious and vicious.

"I was expecting you to turn things around, but it seems that I expected too much from you."

Fumingqian's voice faded and cooled down, and after saying this, he started to leave without hesitation.

He was afraid that if he stayed any longer, he would strangle this stupid daughter to death.

Fu Yingying's legs stood for a short time, and the pain was excruciating after such a short period of time. She looked at the back of Fu Mingqian who left without hesitation, her eyes became sore, her fingertips kept pinching her palm, and her eyes rolled with hatred.

It's just that he doesn't know if this hatred is purely directed at Xu Qingluo, or if he added a pre-recovery man.

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The Fu family left, but this trip back and forth by the Fu family put the Xu family, which was already in the eyes of many people, at the cusp of the crisis. Many people in the city said that the Xu family was going to welcome the holy car, which is too big , can even throw a face at the city lord.

Some sensible people think that the Xu family is too much, and some people who only look at the immediate interests think that the Xu family is really worth clinging to. There are countless wealthy gentry and wealthy families who come to the Xu family at once, and there is almost a tendency to level the threshold , not only visiting every day, but even bringing some precious materials for building a house that Xu Qingluo needed, which was a surprise.

At this time, Xu Qingluo was thankful that Xu Weiwan helped to receive her. She really didn't have the time to argue with those ulterior motives, and Xu Liang and Xu's mother were not of that kind.

There are self-proclaimed smart people watching the Xu family cooking oil, and some watching the people in front of them fawning over each other. Naturally, there are also those who really see through and come to help.

Xu Qingluo is looking at the materials for pillowcases and bedding sent by the cloth village. Even if the people around the emperor will definitely prepare these beddings, she must prepare them in advance. Everyone has no experience or insight, so Xu Qingluo has to look at everything, she has lost a lot of weight in the past few days, and Baicao feels distressed when she looks at it, so she keeps making tonic soup for her drink.

Xu Qingluo put down the cloth swatch in his hand, and picked up another piece of cloth swatch. These materials are still a bit poor. Houses, decorations, and ornamental objects can all be interesting, and they don’t need to be grand and expensive. The conditions are there, but this The cloth that may be used by the emperor to sleep next to him cannot be frugal, Xu Qingluo frowned for a while.

Baicao's voice came from outside, but it was different from the anxiety of the past few days, but now it was a little more joyful: "Miss, look who is here."

Xu Qingluo subconsciously turned her head back, a young man in white and a young man in green came side by side, the young man in white was as gentle as jade and as chic as the wind, but the young man in green also had his own bearing.

"Miss Xu."

"Miss Xu."

The two greeted at the same time.

Xu Qingluo showed a smile on his face, but he said to the young man in Tsing Yi, "Fourth Young Master."

This young man in Tsing Yi was Yang Qian whom he hadn't seen for a while. Xu Qingluo had a good impression of Yang Qian, but he was not so happy at all. It's a busy day.

In his previous life, Yang Qian was the number one scholar who could win the Golden Palace. Even if his reputation is not obvious now, his literary talent will not be too bad. Xu Qingluo needs a well-read group of books for many things in his hand, and he is extremely familiar with various etiquette arrangements. Clear and clear aristocratic children to complete.

As for Gong Ziyan?
Xu Qingluo knew very well in her heart that she believed in Yang Qian even more.

Young Master Yan pulled his lips: "Hey, I am such a big living person, you just greet him here, it's too partial. I don't agree, is he better than me?"

He seemed a little dissatisfied, and it seemed to be an indifferent joke.

"Where did Yang Si compare to Mr. Shangyan? Mr. Xu is like a dragon and phoenix. Miss Xu just didn't see Yang Si for more than a few days, that's why she is like this."

Yang Qian hadn't seen him for a while, but he spoke more calmly.

Yang Qian was indeed here to help, without Xu Qingluo opening his mouth, he opened his mouth first: "Your Majesty has already heard that the Xu family is honored to have His Majesty's visit, and I think that the mansion in Huai County is not many. If Miss Xu Don't dislike it, I am willing to help you a little bit."

For a while, Xu Qingluo looked at Yang Qian and felt more pleasing to the eye, but Gong Ziyan looked at Xu Qingluo with a little worry: "Oh, in fact, there is a person here who knows more about the rules of the royal family. It's not just that things need to be prepared, this person can't be too ignorant of the rules."

Gong Ziyan originally only planned to provide some financial and material help, he happened to be on the way with Yang Qian, he came here just to see how busy Xu Qingluo was, he likes to watch people go around.

Now I don't know why, but I opened my mouth.

Xu Qingluo glanced at Young Master Yan, and when Young Master Yan thought he would be rejected, the smile on Xu Qingluo's face instantly became three points brighter: "Baicao, take Young Master Yan to the backyard, and the rules of the servants in the mansion are handed over to you." I have trained for you, thank you, Mr. Yan, for your help."

Seeing Xu Qingluo's brilliant smile, Gong Ziyan felt inexplicably as if he had lifted a big rock and hit his foot.

"Who is that?"

Xu Weiwan suddenly stopped in her tracks. She looked at the young man in white who came out of Xu Qingluo's room. Not inferior to the sun in the sky.

The girl's heart skipped a beat, Xu Weiwan couldn't take her eyes off of such a handsome man with a warm smile, coupled with the unspeakable nobleness of the other party.

She has never seen such an outstanding man. She was born in a brothel, met the so-called sons of aristocratic families, and also met those officials, but those individuals were either hollowed out by wine and sex, or they were worthless. Gong Ziyan's demeanor.

"That's Mr. Yan, the young master of the son's family in Wuzhou City, and the head of the next generation. The most rare thing is that Mr. Yan has not married a wife so far, and there is no concubine in the connecting room around him. I don't know how many daughters in Wuzhou City hope marry him."

The little maid next to her looked at Xu Weiwan's unwillingness to blink, she curled her lips inwardly, while introducing her, she despised Xu Weiwan for thinking too much, such a son of a family, such an outstanding man, who came from nowhere, was promised halfway. The wild lady picked up by the old lady dared to think about it, she was thick-skinned.

Xu Weiwan didn't know the contempt of the maids around her at all. After listening to the little maid's introduction, she naturally knew about Gong Ziyan's family, and had heard about Gong Ziyan. She knew that Gong Ziyan and Xu Qingluo had something to do with each other. Such a man.

At that moment, Xu Weiwan only had one thought in her mind, she wanted him.

She must have this man.

Compared with the five or sixty-year-old emperor who was rumored to have countless harems and was just an unreachable existence to her, there were indeed many more sons.

(End of this chapter)