Rebirth of a wishful life

Chapter 15

Since An Xin was going to take the road pointed out by Master Huixin, Shen Ruyi would not spend all day trying to find a backer.In addition to copying Buddhist scriptures every day, sitting with Mrs. Shen to embroider Buddhist scriptures, the other thing is to find ways to make money. She doesn't know how to do business, but Fang Qin still has some experience from what she has heard and seen since she was a child.

After tossing until the spring of next year, the rouge shop jointly owned by the three of them was considered open.I don't know if it's because spring is here and the girls like to dress up, but the business is still good after this opening.

For the first one, Shen Ruyi divided five taels of silver.Of course, if it was someone from the Hou Mansion, the five taels of silver would definitely not be noticed.They tipped others casually, maybe there were five taels.But for Shen Ruyi who is currently penniless, this five taels of silver is not a lot.

Do the math, five taels of silver a month, 60 taels a year, and more than 100 taels in two years.The two of them lived in Zhuangzi, and all they ate was homegrown in Zhuangzi. Mrs. Shen didn’t like to use rouge and gouache very much, so her annual expenses were making clothes and giving monthly money to people in Zhuangzi. It's only 20 taels down.

Furthermore, money begets money, if you invest the money in your hands now, won’t there be more and more money?

Shen Ruyi doesn't know much about business matters, as long as she listens to Fang Qin, she just thinks about the rouge formula and asks someone to make it.In the blink of an eye, it was March, and she began to plan to promote Mrs. Shen's filial piety.Since she was commended by the court as a filial woman, the bigger the plan, the better.

It's just that the capital city is Lord Shen Hou's domain after all. If she came out too early, she might be beaten to death by Lord Shen before she achieved her goal.

Today's empress dowager likes to listen to operas. Shen Ruyi's original plan was to compose an excerpt about her mother's ten-year filial piety and send it to Si Lefang. Rehearsals started half a year in advance.It's too late for her to send it over now.

Then Shen Ruyi thought of Lord Shen Hou's opponent. Since he was an official in the court, because of the amount of benefits, it was impossible for him to not even have an opponent.Even if Shen Ruyi didn't know this in her previous life, she can find out in this life.

She purposely went to find Nanny Chen. Nanny Chen was the most loyal to Mrs. Shen. She knew that if this matter was done well, Mrs. Shen would be safe for the rest of her life. I got up, so I responded very happily.

The next day, she and her husband hired a carriage and went straight to the capital. Shen Ruyi had explained who to look for, what to say, and how to impress them.Now Shen Ruyi doesn't care if this matter will cause any loss to the Hou Mansion, but some things in the inner house, even if Shen Hou Lord is ginsenged and spoiled his concubine and wiped out his wife, it is nothing more than a fine.

If possible, she would also pray to God to open his eyes, and it would be best for Shen Houye to dismiss his official title directly.

"Today, a person who claimed to be Mrs. Guangping Hou's nanny came to ask to see me." The graceful and luxurious woman changed the clothes of the man standing in front of her with a smile: "I'm bored, so I'll see you."

"Mrs. Guangping Hou?" The man raised his eyebrows slightly, and the woman nodded: "Yes, it's not a fake. It has a post from Mrs. Guangping Hou. It is indeed Mrs. Guangping Hou's private seal."

The man twitched the corner of his mouth in a funny way: "Private seal?"

"Don't even think about it. How did Mrs. Guangping Hou leave Beijing back then? How could Mrs. Guangping let her bring Mrs. Yipinhou's phoenix crown, Xiapei and seal?" Wu snorted: "What can I do with you?"

"You must not have imagined it." The woman smiled, her eyebrows curved, and she reached out and nodded on the man's collar: "This Mrs. Shen, I originally looked down upon it. Women are from a family. If there is no natal family to rely on, If you are tougher, you can live a good life, but she is fine, she has the advantage, but she was thrown out of the capital together with her daughter, and she has lived in Zhuangzi for more than ten years, she is really too cowardly."

The man didn't answer, and walked out with his hands behind his back, and the woman walked out with his arm: "However, what the nanny said yesterday made me look at this woman with admiration."

"Why, is Mrs. Shen ready to stand up?" The man asked indifferently, lifted the hem of his clothes, and sat down at the dining table. The woman nodded and brought him a teacup: "I didn't expect that this Shen If the madam doesn't sing, she will become a blockbuster. It turns out that she is not a mediocre person. Seeing that Lord Shen couldn't remember their mother and daughter for about ten years, so he must be cold-hearted towards Lord Shen, and he is about to die .”

"Jade and stone burn?" The man was a little curious, the woman thought for a while, and then shook her head: "It's not considered to be burnt together, if she stays in Zhuangzi for the rest of her life, not only will she be destroyed, but her daughter probably won't have much success in this life." So as long as she comes back, even if the Hou Mansion loses, at least her daughter is still a daughter of an official family, the eldest daughter, and as long as the Hou Mansion is not ransacked and exterminated, she will be considered a winner."

A man who can occupy a high position in the court is also a smart man. Hearing what his wife said, he turned his head and figured it out: "She wants us to deal with Shen Houye? The crime of pampering a concubine and destroying his wife?"

The woman blinked and said nothing, the man reached out and touched his chin: "Why does she think we will help her? Even if we and Lord Shen are not dealing with each other, when and how to make a move is our own business, not our own. No reason, why should we help her? What good will it do us if we help her? What's more, this matter in the court is easy to say, but not easy to do. This evidence must be available, and the Yushitai must be managed, so why should we help others in vain?"

"It's in our interest to make Lord Shen suffer." The woman raised her eyebrows and said with a smile: "Besides, you guessed wrong, Madam Shen didn't ask us to fight against Lord Shen, and ah, this time She didn't come to beg you, but to find me."

The man was a little surprised: "To deal with Lord Shen, please be a woman?"

The woman frowned in dissatisfaction: "What's wrong with the women? Don't underestimate the women. If I really agree to this matter, it won't take you a little effort. As long as I go to the palace in a few days Let’s take a trip and send a congratulatory gift to the Empress Dowager, then it’s done.”

The man stretched out his hand and touched his chin again: "Empress Dowager? Birthday? Do you want you to cry for her in front of Empress Dowager?"

"I told you, don't underestimate women, Mrs. Shen has an idea. What's the problem with just returning to Beijing? As long as you bring your daughter back by yourself, can Lord Shen not let their mother and daughter in?"

The woman sneered: "Shut the wife and daughter out of the house, without you, tomorrow the court will be full of papers from Lord Shen Shen. Mrs. Shen didn't like this method, she Ah, but if you want to go back to Beijing in a good way, returning to Beijing is not enough, you need to have a reliance, so that Master Shen will not dare to touch her reliance easily."

Without waiting for the man to ask, she smiled and continued: "Mrs. Shen, this nanny, brought something. This thing is a gift from Mrs. Shen to the Empress Dowager. It is a pair of double-sided embroidery. It is ten feet long and embroidered with Buddhist scriptures."

"Besides, Mrs. Shen, the nanny, kept saying that their wife had sworn before that she would keep a filial piety for Mr. Shen in Zhuangzi for [-] days. Because the time is not yet, so she can't go to Beijing. To congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday, I can only send a pair of double-sided embroidery to congratulate the Empress Dowager on her birthday."

The man narrowed his eyes: "Are you planning to let the empress dowager praise her for her filial piety?"

"Guess right!" The woman smiled and clapped her hands: "Isn't this a very easy task? I only need to say a few words, and I can cause so much trouble for Lord Shen, you say, Is this worthwhile?"

The man thought for a while, then raised the corner of his mouth and smiled: "How can this be done? Even if the Empress Dowager praises her for her filial piety, it's just a vernacular. If you don't pay attention, you may be beaten up by Lord Shen. Fame, and you will be charged with deceiving the empress dowager. Since you plan to make a move, let's play a big game."

The woman didn't speak, but the man smiled: "Just a while ago, there was a chaste woman in Huaiyin County, and the emperor was planning to build a chastity archway and issue an imperial decree to praise the chastity woman. Since Mrs. Shen is a filial woman, she has kept her filial piety for ten years, and the reputation of this filial woman cannot escape."

"Isn't this troublesome?" The woman frowned: "When it comes to the emperor, it's a matter for the court. What's more, this chaste woman is not recommended by the local people, but the local government. Mrs. Shen is the concubine wife of Lord Shen. The Shen family has nothing to say, but we have accepted such an offer. What will the emperor think? It's much more troublesome for a concubine to kill a wife. Didn't you just say that you don't want to do it if it's not beneficial? Giving Mrs. Shen this commendation is putting gold on the Shen family's face. Not only are we not benefiting at all, That's a waste of effort to do good things for that old man Shen Zhengxin."

"Who said we want us to submit a book?" The man smiled and waved his hands: "The magistrate of Qinghe County, a famous prefecture, is a student of Mr. He. Mr. He was in the same year as Mrs. Shen's father Mrs. Lu. Mrs. Shen can It's not too stupid to beg in front of you, as long as we pass the news over, Mrs. Shen will figure out what to do."

The woman thought for a while, then nodded with a smile: "Sure enough, my husband is smart, and I immediately remembered that I should use that contact. If I were to think about it myself, my head hurt and I couldn't think of how to intervene in the outside affairs. "

"Outside things, I have my own man to take care of them. What do you think so much?" The man smiled indifferently: "As long as you take care of the things in this house and let me have no worries, you will help me." I'm very busy. It's the same thing this time. Although we didn't get any benefits, Shen Zhengxin has been restless since then. I'm afraid his official career won't last long. You don't have to help Mrs. Shen too much on the Queen Mother's side. Speaking of which, everyone knows what our two families are not dealing with, and we must not let the Queen Mother know that we are going to meddle in other people's backyards."

The woman nodded with a smile: "I know what to do, so don't worry, my husband. It's getting late, should I send someone to come in for breakfast?"

(End of this chapter)