The Concubine's Survival Manual

Chapter 267

When they woke up the next morning, neither of them showed the slightest difference. After coping with Shiro and Goro, who were not woken up last night and were very angry this morning, they went to Leshan Residence to pay their respects. In Leshan Residence, Xu Fengjia even intimately Whispering with the fifth young master, they talked about the trivial matters of their social circle of noble children.

Because she was working at Tanzhe Temple yesterday, Madam Tai was not in good spirits, she said a few words to Duke Ping, and then asked Madam Wu, "Did you give her the safe birth talisman?"

Fifth Young Madam hurriedly smiled and said, "Ms. Liao won the peace talisman. She was so happy that she wiped away her tears. She said that she would come this morning to thank her ancestors. I said to come here in the morning. People come and go. She hasn't shown her feelings yet. In case It's not very good if something happens once in a while, so I asked her to come and talk to the ancestor in the afternoon."

Before Mrs. Tai could speak, Duke Ping had already asked, "Who is the Liao family?"

A flash of unhappiness flashed in the eyes of the Fourth Young Madam, and she rushed to explain to Ping Guogong, "It's the fifth younger brother's housemate, the one who got twins recently. This time when I went out, my grandmother specially asked for a safe birth talisman for her." .”

It's a little too much to praise a Tongfang like this. Duke Ping twirled his beard, but didn't say anything more, so he changed the subject and asked Xu Fengjia, "What have you been up to all this time? Jiang Qianhu from the institute came to talk to me, and I asked if there was anything serious in the institute."

Xu Fengjia said naturally, "Isn't that one who has a lot of thoughts..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Madam Tai and Duke Ping Guo hurriedly said, "Speak carefully, the identity of the emperor was also arbitrarily arranged by you?"

Immediately, he stopped asking. Duke Ping didn't even care about Liao's affairs, and sent Xu Fengjia again, "Go and do your business, you don't have to worry about family matters."

The fifth young lady's face immediately turned pale, Xu Fengjia replied yes as if nothing had happened, and the fourth young master also said, "If there is anything I need to help, sixth brother just ask."

"It's a family." Xu Fengjia said with a smile, "Fourth brother's words are out of line."

The atmosphere in Leshan Juli suddenly became more harmonious.

Now that the case has progressed to this point, any arrangements will have to wait for Liao Qianhu to bring back the genealogy before making any plans.Xu Fengjia still has things to do, but Qin Niangzi doesn't have much to worry about except family affairs.In the afternoon, she sent Aunt Mao into the Leshan residence to pay her respects to Mrs. Tai, then sat cross-legged on the kang with nothing to do, and found out the confessions and other materials she had obtained in the past few days.

At present, there are not many materials in her hands that can be called evidence. Xiao Songhua herself made a confession with her fingerprints, which stated that she was instructed by others to mix two kinds of foreign substances in the medicinal materials. The relationship of the family is also recorded.In addition, her brother-in-law Qiu Zhi made another statement, confessing that he was related to the Wu family and the Xiao family, and the fact that he had been receiving money from Wu Xun's family for these years was also admitted without any hindrance.It's just that Xu Fengjia kept an eye out and made two statements, the first one included the 15 taels of the ship deed, and the other one didn't mention the ship deed.

If the matter of 15 taels is reported to the police, then Mrs. Tai must also be involved, and the usury matter must be explained, and the whole matter has been complicated and confused by the joint efforts of Mrs. Wu and Mrs. Seven, isn't it? A sentence or two can explain clearly.Qiniangzi pondered for a long while, but after all she kept the confession including the boat deed together with the boat deed and the account book, and then meditated on these two flimsy confessions.

"Why is there a taste of saffron all of a sudden?" She couldn't help muttering to herself again.

Of course, Xiao Songhua also mentioned in her confession that she did not find traces of saffron in the small medicine package she got, only some brown seed-like objects.Qin Niangzi had already been in close contact with the two herbs, and knew that according to her, it should be Wang Buliuxing.

But if it is said that prescribing drugs to people can only be done according to the original properties of the medicinal materials without any disguise, then there is no such thing as prescribing drugs in this world.Anyone who identifies the medicinal materials against the list before boiling the medicine can make the problematic medicinal materials invisible.In fact, it is only the method of prescribing medicine that Qiniangzi knows, such as soaking the medicinal materials in juice, or dyeing, or fumigation, especially saffron is also a small thing, after dyeing and changing, it is easy to mix with Wang Buliuxing, and Wang Buliuxing The unrestrained appearance is really similar to too many medicinal materials, and it is indeed more difficult to distinguish it in this way.

But the problem still exists: with the personality of the fifth young lady, why should she add saffron to Wang Buliuxing?

Her motive for taking the medicine is of course obvious now, Mrs. Wu would never want Mrs. Wu to bleed to death immediately.At most, I hope that Wu Niangzi's success will be hard to stop, and she will be sick from then on. It is best if she is unable to manage the housekeeper, so that she can be the housekeeper for a longer period of time, and slowly manage the 5 taels of silver embezzled for usury. Return to the account.

To achieve this goal, it is enough to blindly use Wangbuliuxing or saffron, and use saffron if it is more sinister-saffron is famous as a sterilization drug in Daqin, and choose Wangbuliuxing if you are kind, after all, Wangbuliuxing It's not that bad of a bad reputation.If you have both tastes, you can't wait for Wu Niangzi to die...

Is the fifth young lady such a person?Although she may hate Wu Niangzi very much, she will never destroy her plan for this reason.How could a woman like Mrs. Fifth Young Master be so impulsive.After all, although Wu Niangzi is domineering, she is not an enemy that is difficult to deal with. After she died, she changed herself. The fifth young lady suffered several secret losses one after another. .With the intelligence of the fifth young lady, how could she not have thought of this?
But if there was a second person who secretly understood all of this and added another medicine to the medicine, her ability would be so great that it would be a bit evil.Aside from Mrs. Xu and Mr. Guo, it is possible for Mrs. Tai, Mrs. Fourth and Mrs. Eldest to do it.

But will the eldest young lady put her heart into such a matter?If she wanted to fight, when the Fourth Young Madam framed her for reading the account book at home, she would have had a bloody fight with the Fourth Young Madam-Seventh Lady was sure that this was also one of the Fifth Young Madam's plans at that time. Sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, and reap the benefits of the fisherman.Not to mention the Fourth Young Madam, her greatest wish in life now seems to be to spend time with the Fourth Young Master hand in hand, and she has no interest in the housekeeper at all.

That being the case, why bother to attack Wu Niangzi?Even if the fourth young master is interested in the crown prince, he should go towards Xu Fengjia.

To be honest, if she hadn't found out about Qiu Zhi's line, she would have suspected the Fourth Young Master more about Xu Fengjia's attack at sea back then...

Qin Niangzi sighed a little irritably, and thought for a while with her chin resting, then she called Li Xia in and told her, "You send a few baskets of Huzhou zongzi they brought to Ge Lao's mansion by the way. The wife sent a letter, talking about Fifth Sister, and finally there is news. When everything is settled, I will go back to my mother's house for a sit-down."

After thinking for a while, he laughed again, "It sounds like Xiao Fuquan has a good impression of Zhongyuan. What do you think Zhongyuan means?"

Li Xia immediately pursed his lips and smiled, "What's the point? If she doesn't like to talk to Fuquan, how dare Fuquan ask her about her in front of you."

"It turns out that they are waiting for me here." Seventh Lady couldn't help but smile, she sighed with her chin on her shoulders, "I was worried about Zhongyuan's temperament. It’s best to come first. Wait until this fall, let you all be released to match people, and from today onwards, you can also pay attention to who can take your place.”

Li Xia's eyes turned red all at once, "This servant is reluctant to part with Young Madam..."

Seven Lady gave Li Xia a blank look, "Don't say such things, serving me for more than ten years is not enough? In the days to come, you will also buy a few people to serve yourself!"

Thinking of how I traveled through these years, although I was startled at every step, I didn't dare to make a wrong step, and I didn't dare to do a single thing wrong, but it was indeed a rich life.Surrounded by more than a dozen maids, they only live for the winks of her alone, so how could they not feel emotion in their hearts?She glanced at Li Xia, wanted to say something, swallowed it again, and just repeated, "From now on, you will also be served by others."

Without waiting for Li Xia to reply, Seventh Lady lowered her voice and asked her again, "How much dowry have you saved for yourself? The monthly money these years, don't just subsidize the family."

Li Xia blushed, she lowered her head and fiddled with the sachet on the side of her skirt uneasily, and said in a low voice, "That's not true, my parents treat me very well, let me keep all my monthly money, and said that I will get married in the future At that time, subsidize me 200 taels as a dowry."

Lixia has followed Seventh Lady all these years, and of course money and jewelry are indispensable. According to this calculation, the dowry is nearly a thousand taels. At that time, a wealthy country gentry married his daughter, which was the same number.Seventh Lady nodded, and told her, "In the future, don't short contact with the sisters in the house. When you all become mothers, we will really gain a firm foothold in the Duke's Mansion."

Li Xia nodded knowingly, and when he wanted to say more, Shang Yuan's voice came from outside the house again, "Young Madam, Madam Sun sent you a new lotus root, and also brought you a few horses that were rewarded from the palace. New ingredients."

Seventh Lady was busy, "Bring someone in to talk."

It was Er Niangzi's confidant daughter-in-law who came here - she was also her maid Qingming back then, she greeted Qin Niangzi, smiled and asked Qin Niangzi how to say hello to Er Niangzi, and then said, "Our wife said , Mrs. Shizi, please come to Dingguo Hou's Mansion when you are free."

Because Sun Liquan went south to Guangzhou and didn't know how long it would take before he came back. Although Dingguo Hou's Mansion usually doesn't say thank you behind closed doors, it has always kept a low profile. Except for the time when the wife ordered her to pay pilgrimage on festivals, the Second Lady hadn't contacted Seventh Lady for a long time. up.Seventh Lady immediately took heart, "I will go tomorrow."

When Xu Fengjia came back, he discussed it with him, because Xu Fengjia wanted to stay at home and wait for the news of Liao Qianhu. Go out of Dongzhimen Street and enter Dingguohou's Mansion deep in the stone tablet alley in Mingyufang.

Although the last time they met was during the Dragon Boat Festival, the two sisters held hands and greeted all their relatives when they met, and then sat down with each other and talked about trivial matters in life.

Seeing that Er Niangzi's eyebrows were a little more worried, Seventh Lady knew that she had something to say this time, and she was not in a hurry, she just lowered her head and sipped her tea without speaking, waiting for Er Niangzi to speak.

The second lady was silent for a while, then laughed again, "Speaking of which, I haven't thanked you and Sixth Sister for the prince's matter."

Qin Niangzi couldn't help raising her eyebrows in surprise, she smiled and said, "Actually, it should be. I don't know if Ziwu Yinmao has been found out about this matter now?"

The prince's kidney essence loss at a young age certainly caused quite a stir in the harem, but in the final analysis, this matter has little to do with Qin Niangzi, as long as the prince can save his life, it is still a matter of the Sun family.Er Niangzi has always been a shrewd person, why did she suddenly bring up this matter again?

"The Niu family is still playing tricks here." The second lady let out a long breath, "Bringing a little eunuch in twists and turns, since the crown prince was appointed to the East Palace, he has been seduced in various ways to watch all kinds of obscenities. Painting... a lot of dirty things, I don't know how he brought them into the palace. The prince himself has been in poor health since he was a child. Things that should be known. Come and go, it just happened like this, fortunately, it’s not too late, Mr. Quan prescribed a few medicines, and now it has eased a lot. "

Although she is a daughter of the Yang family, she is also a wife of the Sun family. When it comes to the Niu family, the smell of gnashing her teeth is much stronger than that of Qin Niangzi.On the other hand, Seventh Lady was really indifferent, she just sighed with Second Lady, and then asked nonchalantly, "The second son of the emperor is three months old now, right?"

"The Hundred Days was held a few days ago," the second lady smiled faintly, "Now the empress doesn't care about the second son's affairs at all, and let Concubine Niu Shu figure out everything by herself. It depends on how long she can be proud."

Immediately, he sighed with Qin Niangzi again, "It would be better if Liumei's baby is a boy, the situation in the palace will be much more stable."

"The name of the crown prince has been decided early, and he is the eldest son. Don't worry too much about the second sister." Seventh lady took a sip of tea, persuaded the second lady a few words, and said, "It is best that the sixth sister can give birth to a boy and be safe and sound." When she was more than ten years old, she went to Fan. Then she will have hope in this life."

Although both of them hoped that Liu Niangzi's baby would be a boy, the meanings inside were quite different.After all, Er Niangzi is the housewife of the Sun family, and she can no longer just stand on her own point of view when looking at problems.

The second lady paused for a moment, as if she had just realized the flavor of Seventh lady's words, she felt a little embarrassed, and said in a cover-up, "Look at me, I've been talking about gossip for a long time, and I didn't bother to talk about serious things... "

She was silent for a while, before she said in a bit of distress, "Actually, it's not a big deal, maybe I saw it wrong at a glance. When we went to Wanshou Temple to offer incense, we seemed to see a girl on the side of the street. It's a bit like the second girl who died in your house..."

(End of this chapter)