Kaifeng Mansion's Little Boss

Mrs. Xu didn't expect that Zhan Zhao would come to reject her on Su Yuan's behalf. He was a fourth-rank royal guard with a sword, mighty and majestic, full of domineering aura.What he said with righteousness and righteousness made sense everywhere. The more Mrs. Xu listened, the more guilty she became, and she scolded herself for committing a crime, shy away from refuting even a word.

At noon, all the yamen servants and small officials in Kaifeng Mansion complained at the dinner table.It's either that the vegetables are mushy and there is no salt, or that there is too much salt, which is worse than pickles, and there is no way to have a good lunch.

Gongsun Ce asked what was going on in the kitchen, and he frowned silently after hearing what Zhan Zhao said about scolding Mrs. Xu in the morning.

"Mister, do you also think that Mrs. Xu's self-assessment is too much?" Zhan Zhao was still a little uneasy.

"It's a little strange." Gongsun Ce emphasized the word 'weird', "As for Su Yuan's marriage, she used to think she was justified, so she had the courage to ask me to protest. Now that she has decided to accept the marriage without authorization, it can be seen that she is more determined, but When you went to find her, she was so frightened that she didn't even give a half-argument."

"When I was talking to her, she seemed to be terrified, afraid that I would be too scared." Zhan Zhao originally thought that Mrs. Xu was naturally afraid of him, but after listening to Mr. Gongsun's words, he suspected that Mrs. Xu might be so afraid because of a guilty conscience.

From this, Zhan Zhao became more thoughtful and sent someone to pay attention to Mrs. Xu.

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Because of a mistake in lunch, Mrs. Xu was attacked by many people in Kaifeng Mansion.She repeatedly apologized to everyone for her mistakes before she finally confessed.When she returned to her room, her underwear was soaked with sweat.

After she changed her clothes and tidied herself up again, her tense nerves still did not relax.Because whenever she thought of Su Yuan's marriage, she was so shocked that she was covered in cold sweat.

In the end, she made up her mind that the marriage with Zhang Tuhu's family could not be done.

Su Yuan is different now, she is no longer an orphan girl with no one to help her.This child is so gifted, in just one month, she was able to get all the adults in Kaifeng Mansion to support her.Now it is Mr. Gongsun and Zhan Weiwei, if he persists, maybe even Lord Bao will stand up and condemn her.

Mrs. Xu pulled her clothes and was about to go out. As soon as she opened the door, she saw Wang Sheng standing outside.

"What are you doing here?" Mrs. Xu lowered her face, very upset.

"Where are you going?" Wang Sheng asked Mrs. Xu.

"Go to Zhang Tuhu's house and explain clearly that the marriage must be abandoned." After saying that, Mrs. Xu was about to leave, but was pulled back by Wang Sheng.

"Why is this happening again? Didn't you agree? Mother, you don't want your son to live so much?"

"Who doesn't want you to live anymore? You evil person, it's clear that what you did was utterly devoid of conscience, but now you're dragging me into the fire pit too! I can't control it anymore!" Mrs. Xu insisted on leaving, but Wang Sheng shoved her into the bed. on the ground.

Mrs. Xu was startled, and looked at Wang Sheng in disbelief.

Wang Sheng quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Mrs. Xu, begging her to save him this time.

"As long as the matter is over this time, I will be a man of my duty, marry a wife and give birth to your grandson, and live a good life. Mom, my son has never been taken care of by his mother when he grows up. This is the only time my son begs you. How can you bear it?"

Mrs. Xu was angry and helpless, so she had no choice but to tell Wang Sheng that Zhan Zhao came to her to force her to withdraw from the marriage, "They are all powerful figures, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are the gods of Kaifeng Mansion. How can I turn them over?" Live? Sheng'er, listen to your mother and leave quickly! If you have money here, I will give it to you. You should leave tonight and don't come back."

After hearing this, Wang Sheng wiped away the tears on his face and stood up.

"If that's the case, I understand. Mother should go to the Zhang family to withdraw. Su Yuan doesn't matter if he doesn't marry the Zhang family, but he can marry me, as long as mother keeps her mouth shut and stops talking nonsense."

"What did you say? Let Su Yuan marry you?" Mrs. Xu's eyes widened, she couldn't believe her ears, "Su Yuan can't agree—"

"It seems that mother has taken care of her for so long, but she still doesn't understand the little girl's true thoughts. She doesn't like Zhang Jinxi who is as ugly, but she has some affection for her son. Anyway, don't be confused this time, and hinder my good deeds."

After Wang Sheng finished speaking, he opened the door for Mrs. Xu and asked her to go to Zhang Tuhu's house as soon as possible to withdraw from the marriage.As long as the reason is stated, it is easy to withdraw the marriage.

Su Yuan made braised pork for dinner.

The best plum meat from pigs is selected. The lean meat is criss-crossed with a thin layer of fat, which is plum-shaped, and the meat is extremely soft and tender.

Today's ingredients are fresh and good, and the taste must be excellent.

Su Yuan cut the plum blossom meat into inch-wide pieces, first add ingredients to blanch to remove the fishy smell, then fry the sugar color with a small amount of oil, add the meat pieces and stir-fry for a while, put them in a casserole and simmer for a while, then add radish, Quail eggs and other side dishes.When it comes out of the pan, each piece of meat has an attractive red color, the meat is lean but not sticky, fragrant and soft, delicious and not greasy.The radish cubes soak up the broth and melt in your mouth softly.The quail eggs are also wonderful, delicious and delicious.

Master Bao is going to a banquet tonight, and after Su Yuan left a portion of braised pork for himself, he sent the rest to Gongsun Ce, Zhan Zhao and others' dinner tables.

Zhan Zhao invited Su Yuan to have a meal at the same table. Seeing Su Yuan hesitated, he thought she was taboo about rules, so he persuaded: "You are Mr. Gongsun's apprentice, and your master is like a father. Everyone gathers for business and eats openly at the same table. There is nothing to be ashamed of.”

Su Yuan immediately thanked her, and said obediently, "Let's do it another day. I've saved some food today, so I'll bring it over." It would be embarrassing if Zhan Zhao and the others found out that she saved more meat than they did together. up.

When Su Yuan happily ate the leftover braised pork to [-] yuan in his room, he suddenly heard a hasty knock on the door.

Opening the door, she saw Mrs. Zhang in the kitchen standing outside the door with an anxious expression on her face.

"Yuanyuan, something happened! Mrs. Xu started a fight with the Zhang family, and nearly killed her. Fortunately, the government servants arrived in time and stopped the Zhang family. Now they have all been taken to the mansion. Dynasty and the others are about to invite Mr. Gongsun Come to interrogate, go and have a look." Mrs. Zhang knew that Su Yuan and Mrs. Xu had always been on good terms, as if they were their own mother and daughter.So after she learned of the accident, she came to inform Su Yuan as soon as possible.

"Okay, I'll pack up and go right away."

After closing the door, Su Yuan sat down at the table slowly, and finished the rest of the braised pork in one bite after another.Then he rinsed his mouth and hands, wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, and combed his hair in front of the mirror before going out.

When Su Yuan arrived at the lobby, Gongsun Ce had already asked about the situation.

The whole process sounds very simple: Mrs. Xu went to withdraw the marriage, but Zhang Tuhu's family disagreed, so they had a dispute with Mrs. Xu, and then the Zhang family fought violently, not to mention that Mrs. Xu's face was swollen, and a tooth was knocked out.Now Mrs. Xu's face is so swollen that she can't speak, and can only cry.

But Gongsun Ce discovered that the Zhang family's words were flickering when explaining what happened, as if they were hiding something, and Mrs. Xu's eyes looked guilty.

When Gongsun Ce was worrying about how to find a loophole to break through, Su Yuan's arrival directly stimulated the Zhang family.

"You rambunctious little bastard, you still have the face! We don't dislike you, pity you, you're just ungrateful, and you shamelessly hooked up with others!" Seeing Su Yuan, Butcher Zhang waved his palm, Angrily about to pounce.

Su Yuan opened his dark and clear almond eyes, and stood there without moving.

Wang Chao, Ma Han and others thought that Su Yuan was frightened by the sudden battle, and hurried to rescue him.The little girl has been bullied enough, she must not suffer any more.

They didn't know that Zhan Zhao also moved at this time.

So there was a grand occasion where Chao Mahan kicked Zhang Butcher's left and right legs one from the left and one from the right, and Zhan Zhao kicked Zhang Butcher's shoulder with a flying kick.The reason why the three of them didn't choose to kick Zhang Tuhu's abdomen was because they were warriors, and they were afraid that their internal organs would burst to death with this kick.Even so, Zhang Tuhu almost died after receiving these three blows.

Zhang Tuhu's body was stronger than that of his youngest son, and he looked like a bear. When his body fell heavily to the ground, it seemed that the ground around him trembled.He bared his teeth in pain and howled, and after being scolded by Zhan Zhao to say 'quiet', he stared angrily in an attempt to resist, but finally died down under Zhan Zhao's gaze.

Under the difference of absolute strength, he is completely vulnerable, and he has no right to make mistakes, so he can only hold back honestly.

Zhang Jinxi was even angrier when he saw that his father was suffering like this for his own sake. His father couldn't do anything to Zhan Zhao, so naturally he didn't dare to provoke him.He glared at Su Yuan, then at Mrs. Xu, then looked around at all the servants in the hall, shouting where Wang Sheng was.

"You mother and son are so scheming, you actually treat us like monkeys! Now that the trouble has come to this point, don't think about it for everyone!"

"Jinxi, I can't say—" Butcher Zhang still grinned in pain, but he had no time to stop the impulsive Zhang Jinxi.

Wang Sheng?What Zhang Jinxi was referring to was obviously Wang Sheng, the yamen servant of their Kaifeng mansion.Sure enough, there was something else going on, Gongsun Ce glanced at Zhan Zhao.

Zhan Zhao immediately ordered someone to bring Wang Sheng.

Wang Sheng is not on duty today and has already returned home, so he doesn't know what happened in the mansion yet.

When he came to see the scene in the hall, he was stunned, wondering how Mrs. Xu and Zhang's family got into the Kaifeng court.It stands to reason that Mrs. Xu is not the elder of Su Yuan, and with the help of Kaifeng Mansion Zhan Zhao and others as a reason to reject the relatives, even if Zhang Tuhu's family is dissatisfied, they should not make things difficult for Mrs. Xu.Because of this, Wang Sheng felt relieved to follow Mrs. Xu to handle the matter of retiring. He couldn't figure out why things had changed now.

Wang Sheng was very disturbed. Since he could be called over, it meant that someone from the Zhang family had confessed him.Mrs. Xu was his biological mother, and she always felt that she owed him and would not do anything to confess him.

"Wang Sheng, thanks to my elder brother who treats you as a brother and introduced you to the family's business. But you will repay your kindness! Today you are the one who shamelessly snatched my business first, so don't blame me for killing me!" Zhang Jinxi said when he saw Wang Sheng Gritting his teeth with hatred, he spoke harshly.

"You are confused, what nonsense you are talking about, I don't understand!" Wang Sheng scolded Zhang Jinxi angrily, and also wanted to clear up his own ties.

"Cough cough..."

Butcher Zhang was lingering on the sidelines, he was so angry that he could only cough, with a look of despair on his face.He had a premonition that today's events could not be escaped.

At this time, Gongsun Ce had already understood the basic situation of the servants.Like Su Yuan, Gongsun Ce is also keenly aware of the "orphan girl" problem involved in household registration records.Thinking about the "business" that Wang Jinxi said, Gongsun Ce intuitively felt that this business must be related to marrying an orphan.

Clap the gavel to make them confess quickly and honestly, otherwise they will be tortured and served.

It was only at this time that Zhang Jinxi began to regret that he was impulsive, but it didn't help. After all, he was only 16 years old and had no experience in the world.

Their Zhang family used to be in the business of matching yin marriages, and later moved to Bianliang, Tokyo, just to expand the business.For fear of arousing suspicion from outsiders, the Zhang family started a butcher's business as a cover.

Originally, in ghost marriages before, the dead matched the dead, and the Zhang family collected some money from the ghost matchmaker.But after arriving in Tokyo, some rich and noble families have more special requirements. They don't like to mate their dead daughters who have rotted and don't know what they look like to their sons, so they want a living person to marry a yin marriage.

At the feet of the Son of Heaven, the law is strictly enforced, and this kind of harm to people's lives is absolutely not allowed to happen.But the money they gave was too much, enough for them to take the risk to buy a life.

People are always greedy. Wouldn't it be better if we could save a lot of money to buy human life?

So the Zhang family thought of holding a yin marriage in the name of marrying a wife for their son. They deliberately selected orphans who had no relatives within five clothes, hired them into their homes at a low price, and then tortured them to death.

During the wedding, the son of the Zhang family only performed the marriage steps as a matchmaker. When they got married, he would wear the birth date of the ghost groom on his body, and he would not have sex with the bride afterwards.The bride is an orphan and has no support from her natal family. When she marries into the tough butcher Zhang's family, she can only be rubbed by others.

Wang Sheng became friends with the eldest son of the Zhang family, and after learning the inside story, he also learned to do this business.However, compared to Zhang's big business, he can only be regarded as picking up sesame seeds, and he only earned 3000 taels in total for the two times.

Recently, the Zhang family received another business order, which offered a lot of money, but required the woman to be in good shape and beautiful.The Zhang family was worried that they couldn't find a candidate, and they were urged hard, and they couldn't afford to offend the big family.The Zhang family told Wang Sheng that if Wang Sheng could help find a suitable candidate, they would give him 2000 taels of silver.

Wang Sheng immediately thought of Su Yuan, an orphan who was always taken care of by his own mother, Mrs. Xu.He mediated from it and suggested Mrs. Xu to show Mrs. Su Yuan a visit.Mrs. Xu didn't know about it at first, she only told Su Yuan because she thought Zhang Tuhu's family was in good condition.Later, when she learned that Su Yuan was not happy, and Mr. Gongsun helped her speak, Mrs. Xu made up her mind not to engage in this marriage.

After Wang Sheng heard the news, he stopped immediately and went to beg Mrs. Xu.Because the wealthy family had already fallen in love with Su Yuan, and they had all kinds of suitable characters, they were unwilling to change the candidate, and even threatened that if the Zhang family failed to succeed, they would publicize their scandalous deeds.In order to survive, the Zhang family and Wang Sheng had only one choice: try their best to facilitate this marriage.

"Since the two of you are collaborating and helping each other, why are there still internal strife?" Gongsun Ce was a little puzzled by this.

"It's not him—" Zhang Jinxi pointed at Wang Sheng with hatred, "He wanted to take all the money and marry Su Yuan himself, so he made Mrs. Xu go to my house to divorce the engagement!"

Gongsun Ce raised his eyebrows, realizing that the Zhang family seemed to have misunderstood something. They thought that the reason for Su Yuan's resignation was because Wang Sheng teased him?But Mrs. Xu clearly explained at that time that she was retiring because of Zhan Zhao. Why did the Zhang family still insist that Wang Sheng was behind it?Probably the two sides have long been suspicious of each other. .

Su Yuan silently watched the whole process of the Zhang family and Wang Sheng's self-exploitation, the corners of her mouth slightly curled up, thinking it was very exciting, it would be even more perfect if she could hold a handful of melon seeds and watch while watching.

Afterwards, Wang Sheng and Mrs. Xu were put in jail, awaiting sentencing.

Su Yuan chose another day to visit them with a food box.

When Mrs. Xu saw Su Yuan, she blamed herself and cried bitterly, apologizing to Su Yuan repeatedly.

"Apologizing is useful, you won't be in prison." If it wasn't her, but the original Su Yuan, I'm afraid he would have been calculated to marry into the Zhang family and tortured to death.

Su Yuan took out the food from the food box and handed it to them, "This is the last meal I will cook for you, stir-fried black heart and liver, fried poisonous scorpions, snake-headed mice..."

When Mrs. Xu saw these dishes, she was so sick that she vomited.

Wang Sheng was stunned for a moment, and suddenly thought of something, he stood up and rushed to the fence, clutching the cell door, desperately approaching Su Yuan, "It's you! It's you! We could have been fine, it's all because you--"

"Hush," Su Yuan put his index finger against his mouth, signaling Wang Sheng to be quiet, "Eat well, don't make trouble."