Huang Jue, after three marriages

Chapter 643

On the 28th of the twelfth lunar month, the imperial court began to have a holiday.

At the grand meeting on the first day of the Lunar New Year, because the position of the queen was vacant, the queen mother went back to the harem early because she was unwell, and then the highest-status Su Yue sat in the first place at the subsequent banquet.

The holiday has been put until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, but this year in the capital has its own ups and downs.

On the sixteenth day of the first month, Zhao Hao left the capital with Rong Shizi and headed for the border town.

On the [-]th, the imperial court started to work, and Xie Jue also got busy.

After everyone was just exchanging pleasantries in the first few days, some people began to report that the price of goods in the capital was too high, and there might be unscrupulous businessmen making huge profits from it, and requested a thorough investigation of those businesses.

Among them, several silver houses and silk shops were specifically named.

At that time, the emperor heard the name of a silk shop inside which was somewhat familiar, so he asked the sage king, and the sage king said that it was the dowry shop of the princess sage.

Su Yue's dowry shop!
The emperor's face suddenly darkened, and he said to the official, this silk gem is a luxury item, and it does not affect people's livelihood. If only his family sells it at a high price, then you don't have to buy it, just go to another one to buy it.

The official said that it was because they could not be bought anywhere else in the capital.

The emperor sneered at this moment, and said that since it cannot be bought elsewhere, the rarest thing is the most expensive, and it is reasonable to sell it at a high price.

At that moment, the official fell silent.

Silk and precious stones are not the same as food. If you don’t eat food for a few days, you will starve to death, but you don’t have any problem with silk and precious stones. It’s something you buy if you have money and don’t use it if you don’t have money.

It is really not a crime to drive up prices and affect people's livelihood.

At this time, another official came out, saying that not only silk gems and other items have increased, but ordinary cloth vegetables and other items have also increased. Although the increase is not as large as those luxury items such as silk gems, it has also increased by nearly [-]%.

This bobo vegetable is eaten by all the people in the capital, and the increase of [-]% is incredible.

The official at the head immediately said, this is still worth it, and it must be strictly investigated!Then check from those few.

While speaking, he also glared at the calm-looking Xian Wang.

The emperor asked, are these Bubo vegetables also sold by the one he mentioned?

The official replied, of course not, those few shops only sold high-end silk gem jewelry and other items, and the customers were all wealthy people.

At that time, the emperor glared at the official in front, and asked these cloth and vegetable sellers, but it was just a few unscrupulous vendors who raised their prices?

The official replied that the shops selling cloth and silk vegetables are all small shops, and there are thousands of them in the whole capital, but it is not just one of them, but all the shops in the whole capital.

That is to say, it is not that only a few companies are selling grains, so the price is high, but that everyone is selling it like this.

At that time, the emperor suddenly remembered what Su Yue had said to him a few months ago, and the court ordered the virtuous king to investigate the matter thoroughly.

Ordinarily, this matter is related to the people's livelihood in the capital, and should be investigated by the Jingzhao Office. Now the emperor directly asks the virtuous king to investigate...

Of course, the Ministry of Household Affairs is in charge of the national finances, so this matter is also involved.

It's just that there are some inconsistencies.

Some smart ones smelled a difference.

In the afternoon of that day, a post was sent to the Xian Wang's mansion.

Since Su Yue became the chief of that year's banquet as the person with the highest status, some reliable and familiar people would post to invite her to the banquet when each family pays New Year's greetings in the next year. Su Yue chose the Wang family of Heyang County and The Ling family's post went, and the rest declined in the name of being too busy, but they also sent some New Year's gifts, and some familiar people knew that although the Xianwang Mansion was open to welcome guests, there was still something to do. selected.

Therefore, it is generally not a very grand and prestigious event, so I don't send posts to the Xianwang Mansion.

So after the imperial court started to work, the Xianwang Mansion had never received a post, but now it suddenly sent one.

When the post was delivered, Rong Rong, Miss An Qi, and Miss Ning Fourth, Miss Ling, happened to arrive at Prince Xian's mansion, drinking tea and chatting with Su Yue in the back garden.

"Master Xu?" Rong Rong asked after glancing at the signature on the cover of the post, "Has the Xu family sent you a post before?"

Su Yue shook her head and said, "No."

"What about the New Year's gift? Did you give it away?" Miss Ning Si asked.

Su Yue thought for a while and said, "I really don't know about that."

The virtuous king's annual ceremonies, good female relatives and some gifts (such as the King of Heyang County) are handled by her, but Mr. Gu handles Xie Jue's official dealings outside.

The Xu family has no friendship with Prince Xian's mansion, and she has never known the female family members of the Xu family in her life, so naturally she would not consider the matter of annual ceremony, but King Xian didn't know about it.

"Look, what's the matter?" Miss An Qi smiled.

Su Yue opened the post, glanced at it, and said with a smile, "It's Miss Niu's post."

"Ah, that's right, Miss Niu did indeed marry into Xu's residence." Rong Rong said.

She has a good relationship with Su Jinrong, but she is separated from Niu's family by one floor, so when she first saw the post, she didn't expect that with Miss Niu's relationship, it's not that the Xu family has nothing to do with Su Yue.

However, if you value this relationship, you should go to Su Yue to give the New Year gift first.

In Su Yue's capacity, it would be unreasonable for her to take the initiative to give it away, but if she gave the New Year's gift as Miss Niu, the daughter-in-law of the Xu family, Su Yue would definitely return.

But Su Yue didn't know, so naturally she didn't send it.

"She said that the second day of February is the Flower Festival, and she invited me to see the flowers." Su Yue read the post and said.

"The second day of February? Isn't it the twelfth?" Miss An Qi wondered.

This Huachao Festival is a rare day when female relatives can go out for an outing, and she will never remember it wrong!

"Idiot." Miss Ning Si rapped her on the head and said, "The twelfth is in our capital, and in Luoyang, but the second day of February is the day when the God of Flowers comes, because, in a few days, Luoyang will be full of peonies, so their Flower Festival is very grand, the Xu family was originally a prominent family in Luoyang, I'm afraid there will be some activities there."

"Really? Then sister go?" Miss An Qi looked at Su Yue with twinkling eyes.

"You are such an idiot, you forgot, the elder sister said earlier that she was going to make tea!" Miss Ning Si knocked her again and said.

"Ah! Yes!" Miss An Qi sighed twice and then said: "Although it's a pity, but compared to going to play, I think it's better to drink the tea made by my sister!"

Su Yue smiled, and said to Rong Rong: "Go and ask Sister Jinrong, what does the Xu family mean?"

"What?" Rong Rong raised an eyebrow and asked.

"Although there is a relationship like sister Jinrong, Miss Niu and I have only met twice." Su Yue flicked on the post and said: "But we are not so close."

Miss Niu was invited in her own name, but she married the grandson of the Xu family, and now she is just a juror, which is completely unqualified in terms of grade. Not to the extent that you can invite them arbitrarily.

In her impression, Miss Niu is a very stable person, and she would definitely not do such a disrespectful thing.

I'm afraid there is something hidden behind this post.

After thinking about it, Su Yue said, "Forget it, you don't need to ask, Xiao Tang."

"Yes." Tang Bing's figure appeared outside the door, and he replied in a deep voice.

"Go to the Niu Mansion to send a post, saying that Miss Rong and the others are all playing with me, and ask if Sister Jinrong is coming?" Su Yue raised her voice.

Tang Bing responded outside, and the figure retreated.

More than half an hour later, Su Jinrong came with Miss Niu, and Miss Niu, who is now the third young lady of the Xu family, came with her.

"Princess, please forgive me." After entering the room, Miss Niu saluted Su Yue: "It's my concubine who is rude."

Su Yue raised her brow unconsciously, and said with a smile: "Big Sister Niu doesn't need to be so polite, let's do it as before."

Judging by this appearance, he should have been waiting in the Niu Mansion early in the morning.

This big girl... is not easy.

"Sister, that post was actually not posted by my elder sister, but by her mother-in-law in her name. After my elder sister found out, she hurried home and wanted me to explain it to you." Su Jinrong said from the side.

"It's okay, sit down first." Su Yue smiled and asked the three of them to sit down, and then said to Miss Niu, "But what's the matter?"

"Didn't the concubine hear about the incident this morning?" Miss Niu said.

Although Su Yue said that she doesn't need to be polite, she can't be rude, at least she can't call her sister directly like Su Jinrong.

Su Yue shook her head and said, "My prince hasn't come back yet."

Miss Niu was slightly taken aback.

Her first sentence was a random beginning, she didn't expect Su Yue to know, but Su Yue's words meant that as long as the virtuous king came back, he would tell her about the affairs of the court.

This... is no ordinary husband and wife relationship!
After thinking for a while, Miss Niu said what the stupid official said in the court in the morning, and then said: "That one is my mother-in-law's direct younger brother, and I don't know who inspired him to do this. Waiting for something stupid, after my grandfather came back, he called my mother-in-law over, saying that I want my mother-in-law to stay away from her natal family, so as not to cause trouble for the Xu family. My mother-in-law was a little scared, and then remembered my relationship with the princess, so I sent this post. "

"Scholar Xu scolding your mother-in-law, what does it have to do with Sister Su?" Miss An Qi asked in confusion.

"Idiot." Miss Ning Si nudged her and said, "Mrs. Xu's younger brother said in the court hall that Sister Su's dowry shop deliberately sold high prices to make black-hearted money, but the emperor asked the virtuous king to investigate the soaring prices in the capital. It was Mrs. Ye who failed to succeed in the black case, but let the King Xian get the power again, so Mrs. Xu wanted to build a good relationship with Sister Su, and Sister Su didn't mind, so the King Xian would not retaliate."

"My mother-in-law really doesn't think so." Miss Niu said with a wry smile, "She thought that as long as she could meet the princess, she would then speak to Prince Xian through the princess, saying that her younger brother was an unintentional mistake and didn't know That shop belongs to King Xian, and he will definitely not make this kind of mistake again in the future, so that His Excellency King Xian will spare her little brother a lot this time."

"Isn't that shop sister Su's dowry shop? How did it become the king's?" Miss An Qi was even more puzzled.

"I'm afraid that outside, those people's elder sister's dowry belonged to the virtuous king." Rong Rong snorted coldly.

"Isn't it?" Miss Niu Er asked unconsciously.

Rong Rong glanced at her and said: "Just look at the tea in your hand. If you bought it at a tea house, it would cost at least [-] guan a cake. These are things that only sister Yue can make! Just do the math." , but those belonged to someone else?"

The annual income of Yuecha alone is more than one million guan, what is it that Su Yue has so many shops and farms!

"Rong Rong." Su Yue sipped lightly, and said to Miss Niu: "Please tell the third grandma that I will not go to this Huachao Festival, and it is best not to think of passing such words through me. Otherwise, my prince will be angry even if he is not angry."

Today's matter was the reason Xie Jue had been waiting for. Ye Shaoqing brought it up. Xie Jue must have held grudges in his heart, but he would not say that he would attack him immediately.

After all, it doesn't make much sense for a Shaoqing from Guanglu Temple to do it.

Even for the face of the Fu family, this matter will be skipped.

However, if Xie Jue knew that Mrs. Xu actually wanted to use her, he would definitely be annoyed, and even the Fu family would not care if he was impulsive.

During this period of time, Xie Jue was already a bit indifferent towards the Fu family. After the word he said to Miss Fu in Fa'en Temple spread, the Fu family also had great opinions. Even Ling Juefeng came to speak for the Fu family.

At this time, there is really no need for another disturbance.

Left and right, this Ye Shaoqing is just a character who is stupid enough to be used by others.

Others didn't understand Su Yue's words, but Miss Niu did, she stood up and saluted Su Yue, "Thank you, Princess."

The meaning of Su Yue's words is, don't move around, don't anger the virtuous king again, then it will be fine.

In fact, it's the same as Master Xu's reprimanding his mother-in-law.

That night, after Xie Jue came back, although Su Yue didn't say anything, Tang Bing still told Xie Jue about it.

Xie Jue sneered twice and said, "That means Yue'er is kind."

Ye Shaoqing was not completely taken advantage of in this matter.

Last time, the old lady of the Ye family wanted to talk nonsense, but she was slapped in the face, and she went around saying bad things about Su Yue. I think Ye Shaoqing also held grudges, so he was teased a little by his people, and he jumped up. Come out and say it.

However, Su Yue's scruples also have some reasons, so let's put this matter aside for now.

In the first ten days of February, Su Yue quietly left the capital in the early morning to go to Fujian by land. After walking on the road for a few days, Xie Jue, who was in the name of investigating the shortage of supplies in the capital, caught up and accompanied her to Chashan.

After arriving at Chashan, Su Yue urged Xie Jue to go back first, but Xie Jue was reluctant to leave, and it took ten days to go back by herself.

After so many years, the masters in the tea farms have been honed, and there are too many tea mountains now, so the number of the first tea greens is extremely considerable.

Su Yue only made those wild tea trees, and then picked some tea greens of excellent quality to make, and let the masters do the rest.

Although the workload has been reduced a lot, it will be the beginning of April after all that is done. In order to hurry, Su Yue did not leave from Hangzhou, but asked Tang Bing to take her on a horse and walked through the mountainous area quickly. Then take a carriage to the capital.

With two days left before the capital, Xie Jue galloped over to greet her, and went back in a carriage with her.

When I entered Beijing, it was April [-], in the evening.

At that time, Jun Jiuyi happened to come back from Fa'en Temple.

At the gate of the city, I met the convoy from Prince Xian's mansion returning to Beijing.

The No.1 that Jun Jiuyi saw with his eyes was Ling Chuanye, who was riding a horse and walking beside the carriage in a full suit.

Even though they were ten years younger, their expressions were completely different.

But Jun Jiuyi still recognized that person at a glance.

That, Gao Tianye, who defeated him completely when he personally led the army and slaughtered 2 Shuzhou soldiers with [-] people, made him famous all over the world again.

And because of that battle, he could no longer compare with Xie Jue.

Because, not long after that, Gao Tianye was defeated by Xie Jue!
(End of this chapter)