Hearing Wen Mingwei's words, Mrs. Cui only smiled, "Our affairs are all taken care of by Princess Jin, so we don't need your help now."
When Wen Mingwei heard this, he couldn't help but asked strangely, "Princess Jin's helper? So my wife and Princess Jin are also on good terms?"
Hearing what the other party said, Lady Cui just smiled and looked at Cui Lingwei and said, "It's not that I have a good relationship with that princess, but that our Lingwei had a relationship with Princess Jin's cousin before."
Hearing this, Wen Mingwei reacted quickly. Cui Lingwei was indeed in a relationship with a person named Du Zechi before, but Du Zechi didn't seem to be very interested in Cui Lingwei, so he only said, "I didn't expect this princess to be so kind and righteous."
When Lady Cui heard this, she just said softly, "Yes, that princess is indeed a nice person."
After saying this, Lady Cui couldn't help but glance at Cui Zian secretly.
She always remembered that Cui Zian seemed to hate her discussing things about King Jin and Princess Jin.
After all, the position represented by King Jin has always been different from that of Han Clan, and this King Jin was previously elected by a noble family.
Although he later accumulated military merit, Cui Zian always regarded King Jin as the biggest threat to King Liang's accession to the throne.
However, today, Cui Zian showed no sign of anything.
He just listened quietly to Lady Cui's praise of Princess Jin.
Madam Cui felt curious and couldn't help but ask, "Husband, what do you think of this matter?"
"She is a nice person." Cui Zian also gave a rare compliment.
Then he only remembered that he was safe today, and it seemed that he was able to turn the corner because of King Jin's words of help. Especially for such a proud man, he always thought that the other party's eyes would never be on the dusty ground at his feet. inside.
But now it seems that even today's preparations are enough to show that his concern for people's livelihood far exceeds his cognitive limits. ..
Therefore, his current stereotype of the Jin King has become very different.
"Prince Jin is quite a good person." Cui Zian couldn't help but praise Zhao Yanzhen.
It was rare to hear the other party actually praise someone who had a different stance from her own. Madam Cui couldn't help but curiously asked, "Didn't you always say in the past that the nobles these days are ignorant of the sufferings of the people and are superior? You even bluntly said that the big families are all blood-sucking insects. .”
Hearing Lady Cui's words, Wen Mingwei laughed out loud first. Realizing his gaffe, Wen Mingwei couldn't help but smile and say sorry.
Cui Zian did not expect that Lady Cui would reveal her usual views to half of her students.
He coughed slightly in embarrassment.
Lady Cui, however, didn't take it seriously and said, "What does it matter if Mingwei hears these words? Could it be that Mingwei can shake off all these words of yours?"
Wen Mingwei immediately smiled and said, "Don't worry, sir, the students will not shake off what you said."
Cui Zian could only sigh when he heard the two singing together.
At the same time, Wen Mingwei seemed a little surprised and said, "But sir, actually, I am more curious about your change of attitude towards King Jin than what you said about Cui Zian."
Cui Zian was stunned for a moment when he heard about Prince Jin. After a moment, he whispered, "Do you know what happened in the morning today?"
As an official, Cui Zian didn't know about the discussion about him in the early court, so how could Wen Mingwei, a scholar, know about this.
So he shook his head slightly and said, "I would like to hear the details."
Cui Zian then told Wen Mingwei that he knew everything about King Jin's remarks in court today.
Cui Zian is not a typical stickler.
Compared with other students who are still in the poor college and think that pure is pure and turbid is turbid, he obviously has more opinions of his own, and compared with those scholar-officials who have entered the official career and begun to seek to strengthen their own team. . Cui Zian is still conservative.
He believes that any method and the emergence of any kind of person are only to better benefit people's livelihood.
Therefore, he is not very enthusiastic about those operations that form cliques.
After all, any partisanship, even in the beginning, is just a temporary struggle.
Regarding the discord of political ideas, if someone breaks the boundaries and balance. In the end, this kind of dispute will definitely escalate into a confrontation regardless of right and wrong.
The most feared thing about the implementation of any policy is that the order will be changed overnight.
In addition, he has also interacted with other members of the aristocratic families. Even though there are many members of these aristocratic families who are looked down upon by others, there are also many hard-working elites among them.
Therefore, in the process of working with these people, Cui Zian only felt that his three views had been subverted. At the same time, due to his practical nature, he did not overly reject these people.
He believes that anyone who can do things is a good colleague and a good boss.
King Jin's remarks today about the price of goods in the capital naturally made Cui Zian see another side of this noble man from Tianhuang.
Even if you ask King Liang about these things, King Liang may not know more.
After listening to Cui Zian's words, Wen Mingwei just smiled and said, "Sir, I think this King Jin might have wanted to win over you, so he made such remarks."
Hearing this, Cui Zian couldn't help but look at Wen Mingwei and said, "Why does he need to win over me?"
Wen Mingwei chuckled and said, "Now everyone knows that Your Majesty has been suffering from an aristocratic family for a long time. However, the foundation of the aristocratic family is based on official positions in all aspects. In the past, the ninth-grade middle system was the domain of aristocratic families. For those of us from poor families, there was no hope of promotion." Yes, and now the imperial examination is said to be a broad selection of talented people from all over the world, isn’t it actually opening a door for us.”
"The King of Jin used to be the supporter of aristocratic families. Although the Chen family has fallen, there are still many aristocratic families who want to make him their leader. He has always refused to accept this, and his actions in the court are also inconsistent. He is very low-key, at least the students have never heard of him getting ahead of anything."
"But this time he actually spoke for my husband. Didn't the students think that he was just trying to win over your husband and gain Emperor Yong's attention again?"
After hearing Wen Mingwei's analysis, Cui Zian smiled and shook his head and said, "Mingwei, your analysis seems very reasonable."
"But if he really has this kind of intention, then he should not be looking for me, but Gao Yizhong. Mr. Gao is the one. After all, I can't even see His Majesty, let alone talk to him. But Mr. Gao is different, and The King of Jin married Mr. Gao’s niece.”
Hearing this, Wen Mingwei stopped talking, and after that, they just ate in silence at the same time.
After dinner, Cui Zian only called Cui Lingwei into the study.
Cui Lingwei was also thinking deeply until Cui Zian asked, "Have you been working in Xiaochun Mountain recently?"
Cui Lingwei obviously didn't expect Cui Zian to ask about this.
For a moment, she didn't know how to answer her elder brother. Her elder sister-in-law knew her current situation. After all, after she gave her seventy taels of silver to her elder sister-in-law, her elder sister-in-law asked her about the origin of this silver tael.
At that time, although she found a reason to excuse herself, the sister-in-law was the sister-in-law, so her prevarication had no effect. The sister-in-law quickly found out what kind of job she was doing.
The eldest sister-in-law warned herself not to tell her elder brother about this. She also knew in her heart that her elder brother would not be able to accept her job in public.
So she didn't speak.
Seeing that she didn't speak, Cui Zian couldn't help but continue, "Why don't you speak? What? You don't think I don't know anything, do you? There is a kind of makeup popular in Beijing now, called Cui Niang makeup, that makeup The model in front of you is you, right?"
After hearing what Cui Zian said in such detail, Cui Lingwei knew that she couldn't hide it from her elder brother, so Cui Lingwei just nodded silently at this time.
Then she looked at her eldest brother anxiously and said, "Brother, I didn't want to lie to you, but I also want to make some money on my own to supplement the family income. And I only had a make-up appearance. Soon, I will go back to Huaitai Mountain." I won’t go to Xiaochun Mountain again, so don’t be angry.”
Hearing Cui Lingwei's words, Cui Zian shook his head and sighed, "How could I blame you? I blame myself for being useless and unable to give you and your sister-in-law a better life. Now I only drag you out to show your face."
"Brother, aren't you angry with me?" Cui Lingwei looked at Cui Zian in disbelief.
Cui Zian shook his head and said, "Of course
not angry. I just want to hear your own side of the story. "
Seeing that Cui Zian did not look angry, Cui Lingwei continued, "Actually, I did want to make some money to supplement my family's income at first. But later, in the hands of boss Lan Jue, I found that I also had different possibilities. I I never thought that I could be so beautiful and be imitated by so many women. I think this is something that makes me happy. In fact, if I didn't have to go back to Huaitai Mountain City, I would like to continue doing this business."
Hearing Cui Lingwei's words, Cui Zian only whispered, "You'd better not do this, but if you want to do other jobs that don't require publicity, my brother can still support you."
Knowing that although Cui Zian was not angry, he was not the type to agree, Cui Lingwei responded listlessly.
Then she thought that her earnings were not too small, so she said to her elder brother again. "Brother, by the way, I got 70 taels from the silver tael bonus this time. My sister-in-law and I want to leave these 70 taels to you. After all, prices in Beijing are high, and it won't work if you don't have a female family member around you. As for my sister-in-law and I, Use your twenty taels as payment, since the prices in Huaitai Mountain City are not high anyway, and with Du Zechi escorting us, I think these twenty taels should allow us to live happily in Huaitai Mountain City for a while."
However, when Cui Zian heard Cui Lingwei say that he had made seventy taels, his original mentality changed again.
Seventy taels is equivalent to more than three months of his salary, and Cui Lingwei earned it just once for makeup.
