Mistress

Chapter 43

This woman is gentle and beautiful, her eyebrows are like distant mountains with daisy, her eyes are like autumn waves, her beauty is soft and charming, and she has various styles.

Xu Cheng recognized her.When he was in Jiaoyang City, King Zhaoxin besieged Jiaoyang City to death. When he had nothing to do, he wanted to find a woman. He heard that there was a well-known beauty in the city, Wang Yingying, who was still unmarried at the age of seventeen.She is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, she can write poems and poems at her fingertips, and she can speak well. I heard that she is not inferior to ordinary men in horseback riding and archery. Many literati and poets come here just to see her face.

Her appearance may not be as bright and attractive as Aunt Ji's, but her charm is unique and outstanding, and overall she is much better than Aunt Ji.She is the youngest daughter of a wealthy family named Wang Xianweng. Most of the wealthy persons in Jiaoyang City have some contacts with Xu Cheng's teacher, Mr. Wei Ji, but he does not. He said that he only does business according to his duty, and never expects to be an official. home shelter.In fact, he knew that those merchants who walked with Wei Ji were not sheltered, he was a very smart person, and he was very skillful in doing business.

And her daughter is better than blue than blue. She is famous for thousands of miles at a young age and is admired by thousands of men.

King Zhaoxin thought he would win this battle and was in a good mood, so he ordered Wang Yingying to be arrested. Before he had time to occupy Wang Yingying that night, he heard that the troops of the battalions did not come to help him, but to help the emperor to suppress him.Afterwards, Xu Cheng and Wei Ji were assisted by the various armies to capture King Zhaoxin, and Wang Yingying was also found.

Xu Cheng has only met her once, but he has a deep impression on her. Maybe any man has to look at her differently.Xu Cheng didn't speak to her at that time, but asked Wei Ji how to deal with her, and Wei Ji sent her home on the spot.

Xu Cheng did not expect that she would appear in the outskirts of the capital today and be caught by Su Bai.

As soon as she saw Xu Cheng, two lines of tears flowed down her face. She seemed very aggrieved, but she said aggressively, "Master Prime Minister, I came here to admire you, why did you send someone to arrest me indiscriminately?" Grab it?" She was crying as she spoke, because her arms were still tied and she couldn't wipe her tears.But she held her head high, with an air of arrogance that would never bow to anyone.

Xu Cheng did not untie her rope, but sat in front of her from a distance, looked at her coldly, frowned and asked, "Why do you admire me, and how well do you know me? You are a girl, you ride a horse and run You have traveled nearly a thousand miles just to find me, although it is my honor, how can you not make me doubt your good intentions?"

Wang Yingying suddenly smiled charmingly, "Sure enough, you are the prime minister in my heart. How many women in my Great Ye dynasty do not admire you? It's just that they have not been lucky enough to see the real face of the lord, and the little girl has not only witnessed the majesty of the lord. I was fortunate enough to be rescued by the adults so that I could return home safe and sound. You have treated me so kindly and you have the masculinity I dream of. Why can’t I admire you? I have always done my own way, so I am not as bold as ordinary girls I'm a coward, and I can't do it without riding a horse for a distance of less than a thousand miles? If Mr. Prime Minister says that I have ulterior motives, what do you think my ulterior motives will be?"

Xu Cheng got up and came in front of her, while untying the rope for her, he looked closely at her facial pet, and said playfully, "Naturally, he wants to befriend me and share the good things in life with me."

Wang Yingying blushed all over her face, "I'm an unmarried girl with a yellow flower, and I came here to admire your lord, why can't your lord treat me politely, and talk so sloppily, it really insults your lord's status."

Xu Cheng threw the rope, laughed and said: "My nature is like this, let you down? You like a big man who is courageous and resourceful, but I am not. It seems that although you are smart and wise, girl, you also have When you see the wrong person. Maybe you are usually surrounded by a group of men, and you have long been unable to distinguish the good from the bad. But since you are here, I don’t mind helping the girl, and have a lingering love story with the girl .You have such beauty and talent, how can you make me not be tempted?"

"I heard that you have a wife and three concubines in your backyard, all of them are so beautiful, can you treat me differently from them?" Wang Yingying looked directly at Xu Cheng with a haunting charm.

Xu Cheng smiled, "I heard that there are many good men in the world. King Zhaoxin deservedly was one of them. It is said that you resisted him and were hurt by him. Why?"

"A man who betrayed the emperor and his ancestors can be called a good man? What's more, when I saw him, I knew he was a brave and arrogant person. I heard that he has been beheaded. I am so happy!"

Xu Cheng thought about the woman in front of him. He really didn't expect such a woman to appear suddenly, and he didn't know what her intentions were.He couldn't help being a little worried about his situation, how many great things he had done for the emperor over the years, and he had a seamless control over the armed forces he secretly manipulated.

It seems that there are still many intrigues behind him.Who sent Wang Yingying and what is the purpose?With such a great reputation, her sudden disappearance will definitely attract the attention of many people.But who could use her as the daughter of a merchant family?She is an extremely intelligent woman with an exquisite mind, who can take advantage of her?

Wang Yingying said with a slight smile: "Master Prime Minister, you just don't trust me. I have the patience to wait for you to check me. I don't believe there are men in this world that I can't impress. You must know that so many men want to see me, and I have never Who has I been tempted by. The man who can tempt me will one day be willing to worship under my pomegranate skirt, don't believe me, let's wait and see!"

"Okay, then wait and see." Xu Cheng lifted her chin and approached her, pretending to kiss her.

Wang Yingying pushed her hands, stood up, and said angrily: "What I want is that you really fall for me, not be frivolous to me."

Xu Cheng pretended to be depressed, and said: "Well, I will arrange a good place for you, and there will be nimble servants to serve you wholeheartedly. I heard that you play the piano well and have a good singing voice. How about going to your place and wanting to catch a glimpse of your charming demeanor?"

But Wang Yingying said unhappily: "I am a girl from a good family, not a geisha!"

"A woman from a good family will not throw herself into a trap just to admire a man." Xu Cheng teased.

Wang Yingying's eyes glowed with pride, and she said: "I said before, I am not an ordinary woman, I want you to love me wholeheartedly, and one day you will leave all your wives and concubines behind, and only want to spend this life with me, Happy in the world."

Xu Cheng couldn't help laughing up to the sky, and said, "Very good! I'm looking forward to it!"

Xu Cheng got out of the forbidden room and asked people to take Wang Yingying to Yang's mansion where he watched today. He also asked them to only let Wang Yingying live in the most remote inner courtyard of a brother's mansion of Dudu Yang, and not let her live in Dudu Yang's main mansion.In addition, all the men sent to serve her were well-trained soldiers under Xu Cheng, and all of them were handsome in appearance and tall and straight.

After returning to Zhihui Hall, Xu Cheng was a little confused about Wang Yingying, so he came to Jinxiu Courtyard.I saw Li Yan sitting in front of the desk holding the abacus with one hand and counting notes with the other.

Xu Cheng gestured at the door just now to signal Xue'er not to report, this time Xue'er no longer understood the master's gestures like last time.After he entered the room, he signaled Qi'er and Qing'er to keep silent, and Nanny Cui would go back to her home in the Northwest Side Courtyard at night, so Li Yan didn't notice the movement, and sat there meticulously calculating the accounts.

Xu Cheng walked lightly behind her and watched her writing stroke by stroke in the notebook.She wrote down how many staff she wanted to hire, how much she had to pay, how much medicinal materials and how much silk and satin to buy, and so on. It was written neatly and calculated in detail, even how much tea money she would need to spend daily after opening the shop.

He couldn't help but find it funny that his wife was the head of the house, and she actually took on the work of the accountant and the steward.Seeing her wholeheartedly planning and calculating for the family, you can know that she is a woman who really wants to live a peaceful life, and she will not be like some women who only think about how to dress themselves to make men like them, or to be jealous, or to seek benefits.

After Li Yan wrote down some numbers, she fiddled with the abacus again, because she was really not very good at using the abacus, but she didn't dare to list the vertical formulas commonly used in modern mathematics in the notebook, so she had to fiddle with the abacus again and again again.Xu Cheng stretched out his hand to hold her hand holding the pen, and wrote the words "One Thousand 260 Six".

Where did Li Yan know that he was behind her, she was so frightened that her hands trembled.But Xu Cheng's hands are very strong, and she can't affect Xu Cheng's writing at all with such a shake.Li Yan raised her head and looked back, "Why is the master here again?"

Xu Cheng smiled, "Why, don't you like me coming?"

"No, I thought the master had already rested." Li Yan got up quickly, ready to make tea for him.Xu Cheng pressed down on her shoulders to prevent her from getting up. Seeing the situation, Qi'er hurriedly moved a chair for Xu Cheng and put it beside her, and then went to make tea for him.

Xu Cheng sat down next to Li Yan, and asked with a smile, "Madam has done all the work in the account house, what did you ask Yin Cheng to do?"

"No, I just did a rough calculation of how much money is needed to open a shop. I did the math just now, and found that it would cost more than 200 taels of silver to open a medicine shop and a silk shop, which is really a lot of expenses."

(End of this chapter)