However, despite the chaos and reluctance in their hearts, looking at the frowning brows and serious eyes of Sheng Shuihe, Yishan and Yiliu immediately lowered their head and narrowed their eyes, saying solemnly, "Yes, Childe!"
Yiliu hesitated, and finally said, "Childe, since you care about Third Miss Sheng's thoughts so much, why you just let us mention the so-called family... If Third Miss Sheng really wants to find them for us, what should we do then?"
"You don't need to worry about this. The people in those places are ours." Sheng Shuihe said coldly, "I'm just worried that I can't deal with them quietly. It's a ready opportunity!"
This was true. The two families he asked Yishan and Yiliu talked about were the spies sent to Chang'an by Gongsun Family a few years ago. After all, as pirates for four generations, who wanted to be recruited by the imperial court, Gongsun Family were really flustered even if they had tried their best to cover th
Their journey to paying new year’s greetings started from the third day of the new year, and their trips to Ningwei Marquis Family and Tu Family were both smooth. When they arrived at Ningwei Marquis Family on the morning of the third day, Madam Nan specially asked Xu Caikui to come out to kowtow and apologize to Sheng Weiqiao when no outsiders there.Of course, Sheng Weiqiao stopped her hurriedly. While Xu Caikui insisted, and Sheng Weiqiao could only avoid it. Finally, with the begging of Madam Nan and Xu Caikui, she accepted the embroidery made by Xu Caikui herself. And she gave Xu Caikui a red gold hairpin on her temple as a gift in return.Originally, Madam Nan planned to keep them for the whole day, but Xu Zijing heard that they had to visit several other families later, so he persuaded Madam Nan to keep them just for lunch to save time for them, "Then Shuihe can get out of the trifles of the new year as soon as possible, so that he can concentrate on
However, Sheng Weiqiao refused to use Sheng Weiwu as her excuse no matter what Sheng Shuihe said, so he could only choose Gongsun Yingjiang, giving her a hint to volunteer.It didn't matter to Gongsun Yingjiang. After all, she was from Gongsun Family, the family of crime that had done multiple evil cases for generations. If karma came to them one day, they had a lot to deal with besides it.However, before Gongsun Yingjiang could persuade Sheng Weiqiao, Meng Guihuan came to them in person.Everyone was surprised by her arrival.And it was astonishing that she came here to send the invitation!"The tenth day of January is the birthday of Bijun, and we will hold a celebration for her, so we send invitations to girls of the same age from families that we're familiar with." Meng Guihuan handed her three invitations with golden patterns, "Cousin Wuyang said that she wanted to invite you and your sister, and our aunt has agr
Actually, Meng Guihuan didn't know about the plan of Meng Guiyu, but he did tell her that she needed to be careful and stay away from Aunt Jiaoyu and Madam Xiang after receiving the invitation.Naturally, she would doubt that troubles would happen on Meng Bijun's birthday banquet, and it would not be plain sailing.She took the risk because she had regarded Sheng Weiqiao as her sister-in-law in the future, or else she would not tell her about it.But her wish had not come true yet, so she didn't tell her everything, and only said, "You know that Eldest Aunt and Aunt Jiaoyu could not get along well, so the sister and brother would be envious of Bijun. They have been spoiled since they were kids. When everyone is celebrating the good news for Bijun, they may make impulsive decisions. After all, you're not familiar with them, right?""So, you ask me to be there when you know that your cousins will make troubles." Sheng Weiqiao was spe
"Fifteenth Miss Meng visited Her Grace twice, while it didn't end up well. Although it was her own fault, she may not tell her father the truth at home. She probably would accuse Fourteenth Miss Meng and Madam Xiang of utilizing the preference of Empress Dowager Meng to frame her.""After the embellishment of Aunt Jiaoyu, it might be the evidence that Madam Xiang and her daughter mistreated Aunt Jiaoyu and her children!"Sheng Shuihe said slowly, "Zheng Guogong likes Aunt Jiaoyu, so his preference for her children is way more than that for Fourteenth Miss Meng. Then, Aunt Jiaoyu and her children could complain tearfully to him that Fourteenth Miss Meng has bullied her sister before she becomes the empress. If Madam Xiang succeeds, it will be the doom day for them!""In this way, won’t Zheng Guogong take their side?""After all, he has six daughters and three sons, which is a great number. Fourteenth Miss Meng and Fifteenth Miss Men
Sheng Shuihe only sent them to the gate and didn't mention going with them to meet with Meng Guihuan in Chongxin Count Mansion, let alone send them to the gate of Zheng Guogong’s Family.Sheng Weiqiao was surprised when getting on the carriage. Judging from the attitude of Sheng Shuihe, she thought that he would send them to Zheng Guogong’s Family and pick them up outside of the house after the banquet.But it didn’t matter, so Sheng Weiqiao didn't think too much about it.After a while, their carriage had arrived at the gate of Chongxin Count Mansion, which was half open. A carriage was stopped under the stone stair. Judging from the snow on the horseback, it had waited for a while.Noticing the carriage of the Sheng Family, the curtain was lifted, and a maid showed up and asked, "Have the Misses of Sheng Family arrived?"Sheng Weiqiao asked Lvjin to lift the curtain up and apologized, "Is that the carriage of Elevent
In order not to disturb Meng Bijun, they all left their maids where they were. Sheng Weiqiao even specifically warned Sheng Weiwu to keep quiet later unless she was asked to speak. Then Meng Guihuan took the lead to upstairs.They came to the end after a turn and a few more steps on the narrow stairs.There was a small drawing room on the second floor with the curtains neatly tied with purple crepe with gold threads on it, exposing a row of colored glaze lattice doors on the south side.Across the entire length of the drawing room, they saw a vast expanse of snow outside. The snow reflected the daylight, making the entire room extraordinarily bright. The part-cut for window decoration pasted on the colored glazed also looked brilliant red.Dressed in a rose-purple short blouse and a colorful skirt, Meng Bijun was sitting cross-legged on a soft couch next to the colored glaze doors and reading a book.Perceiving Meng Gu
Hearing it, Princess Deping subconsciously drooped her eyes to conceal the embarrassment and sadness in her eyes. If she hadn't been driven into a corner, as the daughter of Gaomi King and the Princess, how could she have been here to make a fool of herself?Not to mention to please the daughter of a fifth-rank official who came from afar!She knew how Meng Guihuan and others thought of her and how they looked down upon her."To tell you the truth, I am very interested in the scenery of Nanfeng County. But because of my identity, I have never left Chang'an in my life. I can only get a shallow understanding of it from books. It's really a pity to me." Princess Deping tried to suppress the surging sourness in her heart, and she raised her head to show a smile with expectation and yearning, "Can you tell something about it to me if you have some free time some day? Third Miss Sheng."What she said was somewhat beyond Sheng Weiqiao's e
Although Sheng Weiqiao asked that question, she had guessed the result.Although Princess Deping had the chance to congratulate Meng Bijun in Zheng Guogong’s Family today, she was a guest here after all. Meanwhile, Meng Guiyu, the son of the Meng family, could be taken as a half host. Moreover, Zheng Guogong’s Family was heavily separated by high walls and alleys. Hence, Princess Deping, as a female guest, might not find Meng Guiyu here, unless she got the full support of the host, let alone scheme against Meng Guiyu in his face.But if she got the help from the host, considering the big gap of positions and powers between the eldest branch and the fourth branch of the Meng Family, Meng Guiyu might be still in the plight even if he saw through the scheme.As for other factors, not to mention whether the two met by chance, although it was said that Meng Guiyu was short of money, it was only relative to the top circle of the Country Mu where he w