Powerful ministers are husbands

After Pang Miao helped his mother sort out the accounts of Zhuangzi in the past two years, he thought about using some of his savings to do business in the city's inter-market stores.

As the saying goes, water flows to low places, and people go to high places.

The income in the past two years is not bad, but you can't always count on the little Zhuangzi to live a barely subsistence life, can you?When he left Cao's house, there was a vacancy in the yamen, and he only started from the last official position, with a meager salary, which could not play a big role.Now that I have spare money, I naturally have to go to a higher place and strive to earn more silver so that my mother can live a better life.

Pang Miao was thinking about what kind of business to do, when the concierge ran over happily holding an invitation card.

"Master, Wang Shilang's wife has sent an invitation card, inviting the young lady to a party at the house in the future."

Pang Miao took the post and suddenly remembered that there were still seven or eight days before the Empress Dowager's birthday banquet.He lived so comfortably at home during this time that he almost forgot such an important matter.Mrs. Wang invited Mrs. Cao Bashao at this time to see how his gift was prepared, and to remind him of what should be paid attention to.

"I'll call my sister back." Pang Miao nodded, and after the concierge left, he frowned and thought hard about the gift.

Originally, he wanted to ask Cao Lu to prepare it on his behalf. He wanted to ask the embroiderer to embroider a lotus picture to make a round fan.But looking at it now, he can't find any good embroiderers, nor can he find fine craftsmen to make fans, so he has to make another plan.

Mrs. Pang and her maid came over with a bowl of lotus seed soup, saw her son pacing around the room, saw the invitation card in his hand, and guessed which lady must be hosting the banquet.

"You go down first." Mrs. Pang whispered to the servant girl, and she came to the table with lotus seed soup, "Miaoer, let's have a bowl of lotus seed soup first."

Pang Miao stopped abruptly, stretched his eyebrows, "Mother."

"What are you bothered about?" Mrs. Pang asked lovingly.

Pang Miao sighed, and roughly talked about preparing the queen mother's birthday gift.

"We don't have anything that can be sold at home..." Mrs. Pang was also a little worried. After thinking about it, she felt that the most valuable things in her house might not even be valued by the powerful maids in the palace, let alone presenting them to Yu. Empress Dowager.She sat down at the table and looked at the bright sun outside, "...Actually, your original plan was really good, much more practical than those treasures."

A small bird with emerald feathers fluttered past the door, a piece of feather fluttered and fluttered, and slowly landed on the ground, and then was blown into the courtyard by a gust of wind.

"Hey, there it is!" Mrs. Pang patted the table lightly, "Since we can't get anything priceless, why don't we make a fuss about our mind and friendship. Miaoer, I still remember that Wenjun refused to take care of her when she was young. The red school girl, often procrastinating until it's time to hand over a job, and then come up with a not-so-pretty one. Later, I brought the Qinghua girl from your third aunt's family to study together, and it got better and better."

"Uh..." Pang Miao didn't quite remember this cousin Qinghua.

Mrs. Pang continued, "Later, if I hadn't suddenly remembered something that day and turned back to Wenjun, I would not have known that such excellent embroidery was actually made by Qinghua. Sigh, your sister is naughty and can't sit still. , You, together with Qinghua, kept it a secret from her, and even persuaded me not to beat her, I have never seen a brother and cousin who dotes on my sister as much as you..." As he spoke, his brows and eyes became soft and sad, "I don't know where your sister is now, not even a little news."

Pang Miao gently patted his mother on the shoulder, and comforted him: "Mr. Wen has been like a boy since he was a child. He is capable of everything except female reds. Please don't worry, mother. Just now, mother... mentioned things about her childhood, it was... "

After a while, Mrs. Pang recovered from the sadness of missing her daughter, and a faint smile appeared on her face, "That's right, I see that your cousin Qinghua is not bad, why don't you ask her to come over and help me embroider a picture?" Right. The things we embroidered at home are tens of millions of times better than those we bought. I will tell Qinghua not to leak the news of your return."

This is the only way to do it now, Pang Miao nodded, "That's it."

Mrs. Pang laughed heartily, got up and hurriedly prepared things like needlework, "It's up to you to look good, I'll send someone to call Qinghua over."

The third aunt's house is not far away, and it didn't take long for Miss Qinghua to arrive.As soon as she entered the door and saw Pang Miao who was standing at the table concentrating on drawing patterns, she was startled for a moment, and then a sweet smile appeared on her beautiful face.

The bright sunlight poured in from the window, and fell on the Pang Miao's water-green robe, which set off the straight-lined, handsome and gentle face like jade.

"Qinghua, don't stand at the door? Come in and sit down." Mrs. Pang greeted enthusiastically, and asked her servants to bring tea and cakes.

Hearing the voice, Pang Miao raised his head and met Qing Hua's eyes, "Cousin, long time no see."

Qinghua nodded with a smile, her expression was generous, "Cousin."

Mrs. Pang pulled Qinghua to sit down at the table, and explained the importance of the matter in detail. After Pang Miao finished drawing the pattern, Qinghua began to embroider according to the pattern.

Seeing her slender fingers going up and down, neat and flexible patterns appeared on the silk cloth, Madam Pang couldn't stop boasting in her eyes.

Pang Miao was also by his side, watching with great interest.

Qinghua could see Pang Miao's face when she raised her head a little bit, she glanced at it lightly, and continued to concentrate on embroidery.

"Miao'er, there's not enough tea, why don't you hurry up and get some for your cousin?" After half an hour, Mrs. Pang tugged at her son's sleeve and winked, "Your cousin has done you a big favor this time." Well, aren't you more diligent?"

"Okay." Pang Miao smiled at the cousin who raised his head, and went out with the teapot.

Mrs. Pang looked at the well-behaved and capable Qinghua with satisfaction, and nodded with a smile.

When Pang Miao came back with a new pot of tea, he saw his mother's expression and touched his chin, feeling something was wrong, but his thoughts were quickly covered by the silk cloth in Qingyu's hand.

"Qinghua is really ingenious." Mrs. Pang looked at her niece who was buried in embroidery, and reminded her of her daughter who had never heard from her again. She sighed silently, concealed the tears in her eyes, and straightened the silk thread.

I was busy until dinner time, the fan was half embroidered, Madam Pang put away the silk thread, "It's getting dark, continue to embroider and hurt your eyes, let's continue tomorrow."

"It's okay." Qinghua waved her hand, "I'm young, so I'm not afraid of these things."

Mrs. Pang thoughtfully persuaded: "You have to pay more attention when you are young, so you won't be like me. When you get older, your eyesight is not easy to use. Miaoer, you accompany my cousin, and I will go and see how the dinner is prepared." Yes. Qinghua, I specifically told the kitchen to cook your favorite dishes, so you must stay for dinner."

As soon as Mrs. Pang left, the room fell into an inexplicable silence.Qinghua lowered her head, tidying up the silk thread in an orderly manner, while Pang Miao took the bandage and looked left and right, very satisfied.

"This time I really troubled my cousin, and I will return a generous gift some other day to show my gratitude."

Qinghua smiled and said, "Family, why do you need to see outsiders like this? Cousin, I'll go to the kitchen to see if there is any need to help my aunt." After finishing speaking, she was about to go outside when Madam Pang came back.

"Come on, let's eat." Mrs. Pang looked at the slightly unfamiliar cousins, sighed helplessly, then put on a smiling face, and beckoned the two to eat quickly.

After the meal, Mrs. Pang smiled happily. After sending Qing Hua away, she turned to talk to her son, but Pang Miao had already slipped back to sleep.She shook her head, anyway, there are always opportunities.

Early the next morning, Pang Miao went out to "pick up his sister". Not long after he walked out of the street where his house was located, a few flamboyant dandies walked up to him. It seemed that he stayed in a brothel last night and only got up this morning to go home.Among them was a figure that Pang Miao recognized very familiarly.

Yan Wang Shizi Zhuan Sun Yongzhi.

The guy got better too quickly.

Pang Miao thought silently, dodged and hid in the alley next to him, ready to wait for a group of them to pass by before coming out.

"Hmph, what's so great about Cao, we'll take care of him when he comes back." Zhuan Sun Yongzhi's sneer floated over.

"Have you heard that the daughter-in-law surnamed Cao moved back to her natal family?"

"Oh?" Zhuan Sun Yongzhi's tone was full of deep anger and hatred, "This stinky bitch ruined Lao Tzu's good deeds and was trying to fix her but couldn't enter the gate of Cao's house. I didn't expect her We have a chance. Come on, brothers, let's go to Pang's house and make a fuss."

"I heard that Mr. Pang Wen looks pretty good, even more beautiful than the jade willow in Xixiang Pavilion." A wretched voice answered.

This sentence aroused everyone's interest, and there were jj j noises mixed with the noise, and Zhuan Sun Yongzhi went to Pang's house to make a fuss.

"This group of despicable villains..." Pang Miao cursed secretly, then turned around and ran in the direction of Cao's house.

He couldn't fight against these gangsters by himself, so he had to go to Cao's house to ask Zhang Mu for help.