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Generally speaking, those who are well-versed in business, have experience and connections, what they lack is nothing but capital.Now that Miaoyu and Daiyu donate generously, the capital is barely enough, so Baochai tries to follow the way of the King of Beijing, saying that he only asks the King of Beijing to enter the game and put his name on it, and there is no need to pay any capital. The amount of dividends is actually just asking for his blessing.

Although there is no need for the Beijing Palace to pay any capital, there are too many people like Baochai who are willing to ask for the protection of the nobles and wealthy families. If you don't know the number of ways to go here, you will not be able to do so rashly.Fortunately, Baochai had attended the banquet of noble ladies in the capital before, and had met Princess Beijing a few times, although she didn't speak a few words, it was regarded as such a level of friendship.When Princess Beijing didn't want to see her at first, the servant girl beside her took advantage of Baochai, and reminded her from the side: "This Miss Xue is a really capable person. Now she doesn't have a good reputation, but it's because her mother is too much." Ruthless and confused, because she is greedy for her own daughter's dowry, she can't even care about her face. This matter was rumored in the capital, and it was a joke for a while. Therefore, the empress must not reject her because of this matter. Besides, what she meant , Your Majesty only needs to say a few words by the prince's side, and the money will be credited to the account. It is a steady profit without compensation. Didn't your majesty worry a few days ago that the prince is too courteous and virtuous? , this dividend came and just made up for the shortfall. Besides, I heard that Miss Xue used to follow that princess princess. It is said that even the prince has met her. The prince was full of praise for her talent and character that day. Now she doesn't ask the prince directly, but instead asks the empress, it can be seen that she is a smart and sensible girl, knows the rules, and knows how to avoid taboos. The empress must not let her wish."

Princess Beijing's family has a long history, and she was influenced by poetry and prose since she was a child. She is quite high-spirited and proud. She originally disdained these gold and silver utensils, but she has always cared about the King of Beijing. , thought in his heart, and said with a smile: "It turns out that the lord has met her face. If so, I must have seen it today."

Therefore, Princess Beijing met Baochai.Previously, during the noble ladies' banquet in the capital, Princess Beijing was in a high position and just socialized with those imperial wives. Now she had the leisure to look at Baochai carefully. Seeing Baochai's appearance, she secretly said it was a pity, and told Baochai again. Seeing Baochai's extensive knowledge and strong memorization of a few words, she quoted scriptures, but Baochai was able to catch them all, but she didn't show off intentionally, which immediately made people feel a little better.So he readily agreed.

After Baochai left, Princess Beijing sent someone to inquire about Prince Beijing's movements. Hearing that Prince Beijing was hanging out with some young and handsome young masters again today, she cursed secretly and complained to her confidant maid: " Now that the palace is not full of children, many people outside suspect that I am jealous and pampered. When I entered the palace, two saints and empress dowagers also persuaded me to give him more side concubines and concubines so that I can share the heavy burden. Who knows the pain in my heart, I have taken so many concubines for him, and it is only fresh for a few days. Where did the child come from!"

Princess Bei Jing looked shy and silent outside, but she knew in her heart that she could call those young and handsome sons by name.Thinking of Jia Baoyu from the Jia family among those few people, and suddenly remembering that Baochai had a relationship with the Jia family in the past, he couldn't help complaining: "It can be seen that the dragon has nine sons, each of which has a different temperament. Zhi's relatives are also divided into high and low. Just now, that Miss Xue, who is so good-looking, so stable, but also so capable. The son and brother born of the jade in the legend of Jia's mansion, all he knows is Playing with the prince, you can't do serious things at all. I think it's bad for God. It's better for the two of them to reverse the yin and yang. Miss Xue is like that, just standing upright and supporting the family business, just like that surname Jia's, if it's my daughter's family, I'll simply take her into Bingming Palace and take her as a concubine so that I can give birth to a man and a half woman in the future. How much?"

Princess Beijing has always been very strict about family management, and she pays attention to rules in everything.Therefore, the people under her are also extremely cautious in their words and deeds.If Princess Bei Jing really looked down on Jia Baoyu and touched her heart for a while, she definitely wouldn't complain like this.It's just that this kind of inner curtain matter involves Prince Beijing's Xinmi, and Princess Beijing complains so much, but the people below are not easy to agree, lest the princess turn his face and say that there is no rule.Therefore, the confidant maid just complimented with a smile in her eyes: "Women in this world have many wives and concubines who are at odds with each other, and who can be as virtuous and virtuous as the empress."

Princess Beijing was flattered by her flattery, and her anger was completely gone. After inquiring about it, the fun at King Beijing's side came to an end for the time being, and all the actors invited outside had already retreated. He rushed over to pay his respects with a mighty crowd, but he saw King Bei Jing leaning on a couch in his small study, as if he was reading softly the words on a fan, and the person who was waiting by him happened to be Jia Baoyu was beating King Beijing's leg with a beauty hammer.

When Princess Beijing looked intently, she saw that King Beijing squinted his eyes slightly, leaning in front of the couch with a lazy expression, which was a bit like the description of a good son in a troubled world.But I heard King Beijing's lips spat out, as if he was reciting a poem: "Vases are busy every day, and I don't recognize the makeup in the mirror. Mr. Chang'an is addicted to flowers, and Mr. Peng Ze is a drunkard. His short temples are cold. Stained with dew on three paths, keg scarf dyed with frost in nine autumns. High sentiments are not in the eyes of modern people, clap your hands and laugh at the side of the road. Good poems! Good poems!" Looking up, he saw Princess Bei Jing coming in with a personal servant girl, and hurriedly He beckoned to her and said, "Come here too and look at the poems on this fan!" Tong Baoyu winked.

Seeing this, Baoyu hurriedly put aside the beauty hammer in his hand. Seeing that King Beijing was holding the fan in his hand and refused to withdraw, he immediately understood, took another fan from the table, and handed it to Beijing respectfully. Princess, she didn't dare to lift her head when she was talking, she only dared to look down with her eyes, lest people say that she was disrespectful to Princess Beijing and be caught. gone."

Princess Beijing had a smile on her face, but she was quite disdainful in her heart.

But for those who pay attention to a little bit, the daughter in the boudoir is also good at dancing and writing. Occasionally, there are good sentences, but they are just criticizing each other among relatives, friends and family members, just like she has always been famous for her talent, but except for a few poems entered the palace The eyes of the sage in it, so it was spread around, and the rest of the writing was kept well.Like Fu Qiuxiang, who wrote a few poems and then hurriedly passed them on to irrelevant people. Everyone knew that she wanted to gain some talent and fame so that she could marry a happy son-in-law. Who would really take a fancy to her?

Now Jia Baoyu is just like Fu Qiuxiang's older brother Fu Shi, who hastily showed his sister's calligraphy to a stranger.Therefore, I don't even have a good impression of the "sister sister" Jia Baoyu called.

But just as Princess Bei Jing took the fan, she was taken aback by the ink marks on it.Seeing a plain white folding fan, flying dragons and phoenixes wrote a poem. Before Princess Beijing read the poem, she first felt that the brushwork was elegant, and the beauty was bright and open-minded. !"

Seeing his concubine's appearance, King Bei Jing laughed first: "I said that just now. Baoyu said it was his sister's calligraphy."

Hearing what King Beijing said, Baoyu became more sincere and frightened in front of Princess Beijing, and said cautiously: "Back then, the elders in the family raised the sisters very strictly. Only by mastering some talents can you find interest. This younger sister is good at three, playing piano, chess, calligraphy and painting like this, so she should learn calligraphy, and over time, she will have good calligraphy."

Princess Bei Jing sighed after hearing this: "No wonder there are rumors in the palace that Concubine Jia is the best at playing the piano, so she came from here."

However, King Beijing just smiled and urged Princess Beijing: "Don't say anything else. Let's see what this poem is like first?"

Princess Beijing lost her contempt because of the good handwriting on the fan. At this time, listening to King Beijing's urging, she looked carefully at the fan and said unconsciously: "Lu Ningshuang is gradually leaning over. Just after a little snow. The stalks have lingering fragrance and golden indifference, but the branches are not full of green leaves. The half-bed is full of moon and crocodile sounds, thousands of miles of cold clouds and wild geese are late. Next year, the autumn wind will see you again, and we will temporarily break up and love each other. It is really interesting. "

King Beijing laughed and said, "It's not just interesting. Baoyu, in my opinion, Lingmei's poems alone are much better than your elder brother. You have to work hard, don't give me Wang Diu is a good person."

It turned out that after Zi Tanchun found out that the marriage was difficult, he started to save himself.Although according to female virtues, chastity is the top priority in a girl's family, it is definitely not good to think about marrying a good man all day long, but Tanchun is a smart person, so he naturally knows the stakes here.Because he knew that Baoyu had some relationship with the Prince of Beijing, he often walked around, and he had to say good things in front of Baoyu, and Baoyu couldn't refuse, so Fang reluctantly agreed to bring a few fans to the Prince of Beijing to watch and comment. He complained about Tanchun several times, thinking that she was greedy for wealth and honor, which would damage the reputation of Jia's girl, but she didn't think that she had been doing similar things to Tanchun all the time.

At this time, Baoyu saw that the King of Jingjing praised Tanchun, and said that he was not as good as her. Talented people, but their ambitions are too different, they can't get used to each other, so they don't think Baochai is so good.Baoyu thought of Lin Daiyu in his heart, and unconsciously replied: "Your Majesty is very right. Some sisters in my family are really good at poetry and prose. If you want to talk about it seriously, Sister She is not the most outstanding among them."

When King Beijing heard this, he couldn't help but became interested, and asked: "Since you say that, have you ever seen a more outstanding woman?"

Baoyu couldn't help showing a smile on his face: "To tell you the truth, I have a cousin, surnamed Lin, whose father was born in the imperial examination. I also want to show off that he and this cousin are childhood sweethearts, childhood sweethearts, and are about to become husband and wife, but even though they know that the imperial decree about marriage will be promulgated in the near future, it is not good to confide in public at this time, so the last half of the sentence Swallow it back and don't mention it.

Because Princess Beijing rushed here unexpectedly, Baoyu naturally didn't want to stay for long, so he said a few more words, followed all the etiquette, and hurriedly said goodbye and left.After Baoyu left, Princess Beijing saw that King Beijing was caressing the folding fan with his hand, she couldn't help feeling a little bit jealous, and said angrily: "After all, it's the girl from Jia's family, the young lady who hasn't left the cabinet, she is in the boudoir. Words are so easily appreciated by the prince, isn't it too abrupt?"

With a smile on the corners of King Beijing's lips, he stood up and took Princess Beijing's hand, pulled her to sit beside him, and said softly, "Could it be that you are jealous? Since you are jealous, don't ask for anything for Xiaowang in the future." Concubine Ji, planning and working day and night has exhausted her body."

King Beijing was born with good looks and suave manners, and when he said it in such a soft voice, it was really heart-wrenching. Although Princess Beijing knew that none of his words were true, she couldn't help but be fond of her.The husband and wife were a little tender, and it was only then that Princess Beijing thought about it, and said: "As the saying goes, one kind of rice and water nourishes all kinds of people, and the ancients never deceived me. Speaking of the young master of the Jia family, I have to tell the prince one more thing." matter." Then he briefly explained the fact that Xue Baochai, a relative of the Jia family, sincerely invited the Beijing Palace to join the bureau, and finally said: "I saw that Miss Xue is indeed a good girl who understands things and knows how to advance and retreat. Unfortunately, she is only one of my daughters. She is a person who shows her face outside, and her own mother is so cruel, so her reputation is not very good. Now that she has no status, it must be difficult to do things outside. Since I have heard of the reputation of the prince for being a virtuous corporal and being willing to do good, I sincerely ask When you come to the door, what you ask for is not a big deal, why not just allow it?"

The words of Princess Beijing Jing are also ingenious.It is obvious that the Beijing Palace has a lot of expenses, cannot make ends meet, and is worrying about having nowhere to live, so Baochai has to rely on the name of the Palace. It was originally a perfect combination of the best of both worlds, but in the mouth of the Queen of Beijing, she became the King of Beijing. What an act of mercy.The king of Beijing Jing brought Baoyu to the princess's banquet earlier, originally because the family was spending a lot of money and wanted to make some money, but later because of the pirates who murdered and robbed the goods on the sea, the noble concubine Wu's Wu family suffered a catastrophe , The eldest princess was so frightened that she immediately cowered and shrank back.King Beijing Jing was slandering the eldest princess for being an ignorant woman, and it was really difficult to accomplish a big deal, and was annoyed about how to make up for the shortfall in the mansion's expenses, but unexpectedly Baochai came to the door at this time.What's more, Princess Beijing can talk, and King Beijing was delighted when he heard it. With a smile on his face, he smoothed out a strand of messy hair on Princess Beijing's forehead, and said softly: "Since the concubine loves her, why don't you talk to her about the project?" , what else can Xiao Wang say? Naturally, it's all Yi Aifei."

Originally, it was when the two sides hit it off, and the operation was carried out swiftly and resolutely.But a few days later, the steward of the Beijing Palace called Baochai over, relayed the meaning of the Beijing King, and finalized the details.King Beijing is a face-saving person. Although he tried his best to make up for the shortfall of the palace, he didn't want to be said to have taken advantage of Baochai, a woman like him. Therefore, he took 200 taels of silver and counted it as taking 7000% of it. capital.Han Qi and the others were also moved after hearing the news, and rushed to join the team again, and also collected one or two thousand silver, which was counted as [-]%.Although Baochai and the others took out a full six to seven thousand taels of silver, they had to suffer some disadvantages because they had no connections and they were women and ordinary people.But when there was no one behind them, Sun Mu and others sat around with Baochai to settle accounts, but they were all very pleased, saying that such a commotion, although His Royal Highness the Princess Chang flinched at a critical moment, attracted King Beijing into the game. It's more secure, after a few calculations, it's even better than before, and everyone is overjoyed.

After Baochai's elder brother Xue Pan sold the silk and satin village and other shops, a large number of former subordinates came to join him. One or two of them had experienced for many years, and they were naturally shrewd and capable.Now that the eldest princess has withdrawn, without the help of Sang Luo and other members of the Tianli Sect, they are fishing in troubled waters, and the king of Beijing, Han Qi and others are happy to let go of the shopkeeper. The subordinates were worrying that they had nothing to do, and they were full of energy when they saw this. After a few days, they were dressed properly, and a group of people escorted the fleet down the canal, planning to go to sea from the southern port and go all the way to Southeast Asia.

Now that the matter of shipping has been settled, Baochai has one thing on his mind.It happened that Jia Yun's manor was gradually completed, so he rushed to send over the blueprints. Sun Mu and others watched it together, and said that they would choose a good autumn day, prepare a car, and go out of the city to do some on-the-spot investigation.When all the people were looking forward to the future and dreaming of infinity, Baochai suddenly said, "It's a pity that I can't visit Zhuangzi with everyone."

Yao Jing heard what she said was strange, and hurriedly asked the reason, and saw Sun Mu sighing beside him: "It's too late. This is quite a pity." Then she said slowly to everyone, not for anything else, but Baochai's wedding is approaching.

Because everyone looks down on Feng Yuan, a country bumpkin, and thinks that this man has no background and is easy to handle, all the preparations for marriage are made by Zhang Nai, although she is doing her best, but if one investigates the details, one should The dowry is just for Baochai's daily food and daily life so that he won't be too wronged.As for what Feng Yuan, a cheap son-in-law, would think, no one cared.But Baochai, out of face, would ask a few questions from time to time, persuading Mammy Zhang to take care of morality.However, except for Madam Zhang, everyone else ignored Baochai's impending marriage to Feng Yuan intentionally or unintentionally.They all felt that for a woman like Baochai, marrying Feng Yuan was a great grievance and the most helpless thing to do. Whenever they thought of this, they couldn't help complaining to Aunt Xue and the others in their hearts.However, Aunt Xue is Baochai's biological mother after all, and in Baochai's face, it is not easy for everyone to slander her, so for the sake of purity, Feng Yuan is simply not mentioned.

At this time, Sun Mu clarified the matter, saying that Baochai's wedding will be in these few days, and everyone is quite reluctant to part with her.As Baochai's master, Sun Mu had to intervene for her no matter how reluctant he was, so he invited Madam Zhang over and asked her about Baochai's preparations for marriage. Xiaohong accompanied her to marry into Feng's family, and Xiaohong stayed here to take care of Baochai's business, and she couldn't help praising Baochai for her thoughtfulness.

Sun Mu and Madam Zhang talked for a long time, asking and answering, everyone was still listening intently, but when they thought of Baochai who was about to marry into Feng's family soon, they felt uncomfortable and didn't want to think deeply about it. .While Yao Jing was bored, she just sniffed the fragrance of chrysanthemums in the garden, thinking to herself that Sun Mu couldn't sleep at night, whether she wanted some dried chrysanthemums to make a chrysanthemum pillow to help her sleep peacefully.While thinking about these other things, she suddenly saw Madam Zhang winking at her, Yao Jing was startled and immediately understood, and the two went around behind a big tree.

Yao Jing hurriedly asked Zhang Nanny why, seeing Zhang Nanny hesitated to speak, and finally said as if she had made up her mind: "There is something I have been keeping from Miss Bao, but I don't know if it is appropriate to do so."

When Yao Jing asked curiously, Madam Zhang said that the Xue family sent people to look for Baochai two days ago.

Yao Jing didn't listen to Shang Ke, and annoyed when she heard it: "Forcing a good daughter to leave the house, all reasonable people in the capital know that this mother is cruel. If she doesn't understand the reason, she just likes it." The gossip-mongers saw it, but they were still not sure how to arrange Baochai, how to be unfilial, how to be unfilial, how to forget his mother when he saw a man. Now Baochai's reputation in the capital is as good as The two heavens of ice and fire are not thanks to the Xue family. Things have come to this point, and what is the Xue family rushing to find Baochai again? Could it be that they felt that they were too harsh on Baochai that day, so they rushed to apologize ?”

Nanny Zhang shook her head and sighed: "If that's the case, the girl might be so happy if she hears it. How could I hide it from our girl?" Fang lowered her voice and told Yao Jing, "The Xue family is in trouble Yes. This time my wife sent someone, but it was to ask the girl for help."

Yao Jing hurriedly asked the reason, and then she knew that something serious happened to Xue's family while Baochai was in a state of desperation and running around about the shipping.

No one would have imagined that Xue Pan's friendship with Jia Zhen, Feng Ziying and others was completely slaughtered as a fat sheep.Jia Zhen, Feng Ziying and the others are considered loyal and filial to the old prince. After the prince Zhongxiao committed a crime and disappeared, they still did not give up and secretly assisted the heir of the loyal prince.As the saying goes, soldiers and horses go first before the food and grass arrive, and the same is true for this matter of planning to seize the heir.For an ignorant overlord like Xue Pan, Jia Zhen's willingness to take him along is just to make him take advantage of the money.Instead of being angry, Xue Pan thought it was because they valued him. He often boasted to Aunt Xue that although he was not as good at business as Baochai, he was able to do great things.

Although Aunt Xue said with a smile that Xue Pan was confused and didn't know the seriousness, she was still looking forward to it in her heart.The ignorant women in the world, because of their stupidity and ignorance, regard the saying that the husband dies and obeys the son as the most precious thing. Because Xue Pan faltered and said that money cannot be exchanged, she moved her mind to take Baochai's dowry. , married Xia Jingui as Xue Pan's wife.Who knew that Xia Jingui was such a powerful person that Aunt Xue couldn't catch up with her flattery. The fortune she calculated was not recorded in the account, but within a month, Xia Jingui found out the details of the family and became a real housekeeper.It was also because the housekeeper was in power that Xia Jingui found out that the Xue family's so-called millionaire was actually very little left, so they started making trouble.Aunt Xue was also flustered, and when she was busy interrogating her son, Xue Pan didn't pay much attention at first, and her words were vague. Call him heartless.

There is no turning back when you open the bow.Xue Pan insisted that the money was used for great things, and then told Jia Zhen and the others about the so-called rare goods that could be lived in. Aunt Xue was a foolish person. Like Lu Buwei in the Warring States Period, the son has the momentum to go to business and seek the country.She had such vague expectations, anyway, she also knew that the money might not come back, so she might as well look forward to the rewards of a hundred times and a thousand times in the future, just like Ziwei, the ancestor of the Xue family, who sacrificed others.It's just that the money in the family is about to run out, and Xia Jingui keeps making troubles, so what should I do?

At such a difficult time to support, Aunt Xue finally remembered the benefits of Baochai's stay at home.In the past when Baochai was at home, when Xue Pan got into trouble, she was always the one who was considerate externally and comforted internally, so why should Aunt Xue bother?When Aunt Xue was forced to be at a loss by Xia Jingui, she found out that Baochai had been taken in by Sun Mu, so she sent someone over to inquire, hoping that Baochai would still be as talkative as before, and would come up with an idea at a critical moment to get her out of the house. Rescued from danger.