When a passerby becomes a princess

"Your Majesty, the emperor has gone to Concubine Qin's place." The female officer whispered in Empress Chu's ear.

"Yes, I see." Empress Chu slightly raised her hand, and the female officer bowed her head and retreated.

The maid came over and took off the hairpin on her head, untied her hair carefully, and combed it carefully.

Empress Chu picked up a phoenix hairpin and played with it in her hand. The flaming red tail feathers of the phoenix hairpin shone under the candlelight. If you look closely, you can find that it is made of fine rubies glued on the gold plate, and then beaten into the shape of the tail feathers. However, as for Lingyan, it is inlaid with opals. This phoenix hairpin was made by the top craftsmen of the manufacturing office with drawings presented by the Fuman Silver Building in Beijing, and every part is very realistic and meticulous.

Fengchai twirled a few circles between her well-maintained fingers, and an old palace man was dissatisfied when she saw that Empress Chu didn't seem to be going to Concubine Qin for the emperor. This batch of jewelry is really beautiful, the empress didn't see it, after you wore this phoenix hairpin a few days ago, the eyes of those concubines turned green, especially that concubine Cai, who almost stretched out her hand from her eyeballs." The old palace man was Empress Chu's dowry maid back then, and she has been following Empress Chu's side all the time. She said that she is a slave and a maidservant, but she is no different from a sister. She has no scruples about what others dare not say.

Empress Chu couldn't help but smile a little more when she heard what she said was interesting, and said with a smile, "Zuo narrow."

The old palace man didn't care either, and said with a smile: "If you want me to say, the princess is still ingenious. I don't know how she came up with such a beautiful jewelry? I've heard that the wives in the capital now, who If you don’t have a few pieces of jewelry from Fumanyinlou, you’d be ashamed to go out to meet people.”

Empress Chu didn't speak, she closed her eyes and asked the maid to massage her shoulders.

Before Lin Qiu went to Beimo County, he handed over the account books of Yanguishan Farm and Fuman Yinlou to Empress Chu. Looking at the monthly increase in income on the account books, Empress Chu really didn't know what to say.

It was almost November, and at this time in previous years, the farm had sold its last crops and started to sit and eat, but now the income from eggs, duck eggs, and vegetables continued every month.In addition, according to the plan written by Lin Qiu before leaving, the farm built more than a dozen greenhouses. Although Mingwa is expensive and labor-intensive, the price of fresh vegetables in winter is more than ten times the usual price, and it can be earned back in one winter. up.Moreover, the farm has started to raise pigs and sheep. Next year, the income of the farm may increase by more than ten times.

The area of ​​cultivated land has more than doubled, from less than 2000 mu at the beginning to more than 5000 mu now. The flat land has almost been reclaimed, and now the first batch of terraced fields have begun to be built. When all repairs are completed, there may not be more than 700 mu. land.Although there was a shortage of manpower at the beginning, Lin Qiu hired a teacher for the children of the Zhuang Ke to teach them to read for free. This initiative actually attracted a large number of people. Now the Zhuang Ke has more than [-] people.

The business of Fuman Silver House is even more prosperous. Some ministers even mentioned Fuman Silver House in the court. Fuman Yinlou's jewelry not only spent all the money in the family's treasury, but also secretly sold the family's field, which angered her widowed mother-in-law to death for many years.The minister believed that such extravagances were deceptive and should be banned.

Not to mention how Liang Honglie handled this matter, this incident alone can show how popular Fuman Yinlou's jewelry is. Now the wives of officials and eunuchs get together, and the most talked about is what new jewelry Fuman Yinlou has released .

Although the nearby silver houses are also trying their best to imitate, but the brand effect of Fuman Silver House has come out. Except for some women from small families who are greedy for cheap, most people would rather go to Fuman Silver House to buy "genuine" jewelry. Lest you be laughed at if you can't keep up with the trend.

But in comparison, other businesses in the country are really not satisfactory. Restaurants, cloth shops, pharmacies... almost all businesses are losing money. Fortunately, Zhang De'er and other managers tried their best to save them, and the losses were not too great. With the help of farms and silver buildings, this year's internal surplus is basically the same as in previous years in the capital area.

"Should we call the Crown Princess back to manage the internal money business?" This idea turned in Empress Chu's mind for a few times, and finally gave up. Let's wait until the Crown Prince returns to the palace for a few years.

However, what Empress Chu did not expect was that news of the prince's disappearance reached her ears only two days later.

Empress Chu fainted on the spot during the morning parade, Concubine Cai's face was full of gloating, while Concubine Qin's eyes flashed a trace of annoyance, this lowly maid who couldn't control her mouth made her wait for the news to arrive Later, when I mentioned it in front of the queen, she actually said it in advance.

Hearing that the queen had fainted, Liang Honglie rushed to the Kunning Palace, and saw that the gate of the Kunning Palace was full of strange-looking imperial doctors. Even tripped over the threshold.

"Zixian, Zixian, how are you doing?" Liang Honglie panicked, and couldn't help calling out the name of Empress Chu. After nearly 30 years of companionship, he has long been inseparable from his first wife, the queen of the harem. No matter how many beauties there are, they are all the concubines of the Emperor of Liang, but Empress Chu is his wife, Liang Honglie. Even though he is a poor and settled family with no food to eat, she will never leave him.

Empress Chu was lying on the bed with a pale face, her face was covered with tears, she grasped Liang Honglie's hand, and said in a sobbing voice, "Your Majesty, is Xi'er missing?"

Liang Honglie was stunned and didn't say anything. Maybe he didn't know. In fact, he had just received Lin Lian's secret report before the early court, and he didn't say anything about it before the early court. Where did the queen know the news.

Seeing that Liang Honglie didn't speak, Empress Chu's face turned pale and she passed out again.

"Imperial doctor, imperial doctor!"

The imperial doctors at the door trotted in hastily, and after a while of fuss, the court judge on duty walked up to Liang Honglie tremblingly.

"Your Majesty, the empress is happy."

"What?" Liang Honglie blinked, not believing his ears.

"The empress is happy." Wang Yuanju said again.

"Yes, hi, yes..." Liang Honglie almost jumped up when he heard it clearly. He was not happy, but more frightened.

Although Queen Chu is well maintained, and because of the nourishment of the purple jade passion wood cup, she looks only 27 or 48 years old on the outside, but she is actually [-] years old.For an ordinary young and strong woman to give birth, it is like walking through the gates of hell, not to mention that Empress Chu is nearly fifty years old. If... Liang Honglie really can't imagine how lonely he will be if Empress Chu is gone. Alone.

"Yes, Your Majesty is already a month pregnant." Wang Yuanjuan took a careful look at Liang Honglie's face, and said again: "It's just... just because of shortness of breath, the fetus is a little unstable, and needs...careful recuperation..."

Wang Yuanjuan wanted to cry while talking. He had just been promoted to the court judge two months ago, and he hadn’t been happy for a few days. It's time to push the position of the court judge and be a little imperial doctor honestly. Although the concubine and princess concubine may be a little bit sarcastic and frightened when they see a doctor, at least the whole family will not lose their heads.

That's right, this king's court judge was the Royal Physician Wang who saw Lin Qiu when Lin Qiu was poisoned. At that time, he thought Mrs. Lin and her two daughters-in-law were scary. Wings come, fly as far as you can.

Liang Honglie's black face was not judged by the king's court, he was more concerned about how the queen knew that the prince was missing.

"Wang Qian." He called his attendant.

"The servant is here."

"Go and find out who made the queen so angry."

"Yes."

To spy on the prince's whereabouts and deliberately annoy the queen, Liang Honglie can almost imagine the purpose of these people, he doesn't care what they do, he thinks he is not a fool, he doesn't pay attention to those clowns, but he can't tolerate them hurting himself wife, and that incompetent son.

How did it disappear?Did he really get caught, or did he run out to play by himself?Liang Honglie's complexion darkened when he thought of this.

When the palace servants came in carefully holding the anti-abortion decoction, Wang Qian also inquired about what happened during the morning province, and whispered it in Liang Honglie's ear.

"Concubine Cai." Liang Honglie sneered, glanced at Empress Chu who was still awake, and said, "Concubine Cai is disrespectful to the queen, she will be demoted to the washing bureau, and the nun will teach her the rules."

"Yes."

"The bird's nest soup sent by Concubine Qin the day before yesterday was good. I gave you a set of jewelry from Xiluo Kingdom and a box of spices. Tell Concubine Qin that I really like the taste of this kind of spices, so she must order them when she goes to bed in the future. It's up to you Do it yourself." The words that should have been charming were full of murderous intent, and on the black court clothes, the golden dragon's head poked out from the clouds, almost wanting to devour people.

"Yes, slave girl will do it now." Wang Qian stepped back with his head down, only to find that his back was dripping with sweat when he went out.

Sighing, why can't these people be stable for a few days?Do you really think the emperor is so easy to deceive?Most of the time when the emperor was angered, it was our family who did it. Isn't this just looking for trouble for our family?

At this time, Empress Chu also woke up. Knowing that she was pregnant, she was just a little surprised and not very happy.

Liang Honglie knew that she was worried about Liang Xi, and wanted to keep this matter from her. Now that he knew about it and was pregnant again, he couldn't worry too much, so he just waved back and sat on the side of the bed, saying, "Don't worry, the queen. The prince will not be in any danger."

Empress Chu was shocked. Liang Honglie's words clearly admitted that the prince was missing, but she was puzzled by his affirmative attitude, "There will be no danger"?It still sounds worrying.

Liang Honglie patted his old wife's hand and said, "The empress still remembers Elder Yichen from Huguo Temple?"

Of course Empress Chu remembered that it was because of Yi Chen's words to Liang Honglie that Liang Honglie ordered Liang Xi to be the crown prince and Lin Qiu to be the crown prince.

Thinking of Elder Yi Chen who had melted away after returning home because of the revelation, Liang Honglie sighed and said, "In fact, Elder Yi Chen also told me some things, some things only I know, and some things can be told to the Queen."