The young couple had some free time in the afternoon.
The Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs has not yet opened the seal, so Brother Jiu does not need to go there to order.
Here in Changchun Garden, all the general affairs are handled, and the general manager of Changchun Garden is also responsible for the cooking, so there is no need for the ninth elder brother to give instructions.
Brother Jiu called Shu Shu out: "Stop being a cat in the house, I will take you out for a walk!"
Shu Shu pointed to the north and said, "Is it convenient?"
Brother Jiu said: "It's across the ice. Don't worry, the Crown Princess will also restrain the palace people from coming this way!"
Not only did Shu Shu want to avoid the prince, but the princess also wanted to avoid Jiu Age, her married brother-in-law.
Others did not get married, but were less taboo.
Shu Shu was wearing more clothes, a mask, and a hood on her head.
The two of them didn't take anyone with them, so they walked quietly to the west. In just over two hundred steps, they reached the west wall of the West Garden.
In front of me are two buildings next to each other, Chengluxuan and Dragon King Temple.
It seems that "Cheng Lu" and Qiu Yu are in harmony, but when Shu Shu looked at it, she felt inexplicably not very pure.
Brother Jiu pointed to the earth mountain behind Cheng Luxuan and said: "Follow the path here, which is the Great North Gate of the West Garden. Next to the north gate is the Queen Mother's Palace... If you don't want to run into people from Yuqing Palace, , you can go this way when you go back to the Queen Mother Palace to pay your respects..."
Shu Shu nodded.
She was actually a little embarrassed.
Now that the newly married prince Fujin has moved out, she is left alone without even a companion.
There was a circle of brothers-in-law living nearby. The tenth elder brother was from the same age group and the twelfth elder brother was also close in age. As a sister-in-law, she still stayed honest.
I just had to endure it for another month, and then I would go out with the Queen Mother for two months and then come back. There was a cute little sister-in-law in the yard next to her.
While they were talking, they arrived at the lotus pond.
The water is still frozen and the river is not open.
Brother Ninth said with regret: "My retinue hasn't been idle since I came back. I even forgot to take you to the Beihai Ice Arena. There are also several places in the imperial city where you can go shopping."
Shu Shu smiled and said: "Don't worry, it will be the same again this year."
Brother Jiu mentioned this, counted the days, and said: "After Jiu, our prince's mansion can start construction, and we can also build a garden. The only bad thing is that there is no way to divert water there."
The water system of the capital is fixed.
If you want to divert water, you have to build a mansion near Haizi.
The address of their current mansion has been decided. If they want to divert water, they can only wait until they build another courtyard.
Shu Shu listened, became interested, and said: "Then transplant some fruit trees in the garden and make an orchard, including peaches, persimmons, and crabapples. Then open a few vegetable plots, build a few houses, and plant Dongzi vegetables in autumn." …”
Brother Jiu smiled and said: "Did you get greedy when you saw the rice fields outside the garden when you came? Farming is not as simple as you think. Khan Ama took us to cut rice, and we could kill people in less than half a ridge of land." Lie down when you are tired..."
Shu Shu smiled and said nothing, not because of the rice fields outside, but because of the power of the genes of the farming nation.
Farming?
Shu Shu looked to the northwest.
My dowry from Zhuangzi, the one given by Amou and the one given by my aunt were all at the foot of Baiwang Mountain, which seemed to be only more than ten miles away from here.
In addition to the farmland, there are also twenty pigs.
The pigs we raise now are still black pigs, which naturally grow slowly. If you want to grow big pigs, they may have to be slaughtered by the end of the year.
If you want to eat half a big size, you should be several dozen pounds bigger now.
Brother Jiu looked at Shu Shu with a smile and said, "What are you thinking about again?"
Shu Shu pointed to the northwest and said, "Don't I have two Zhuangzi in Baiwang Mountain? I asked people to catch twenty piglets and raise them in July. I don't know how they are doing."
After hearing this, Brother Jiu remembered something and said: "I looked at the accounts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs years ago and found that the price of pork has remained high over the years. When it is cheap in the market outside, it is thirty-five cents per pound, and when it is expensive it is forty. Wu Wen, if the place is spacious, I can really think about the pig raising thing you mentioned before..."
Shu Shu was a little surprised: "Didn't I say before that no one raises pigs on a large scale? Livestock are prone to diseases and so on?"
Brother Jiu said: "That's because there is no room for others to gather in the pig pen. If one of them gets swine fever, it's not that the others will not run away. But if they are free-range in the mountains, it should be much better... The main reason is that sorghum is cheap, and one stone of sorghum When it's cheap, it's more than 100 yuan, and when it's expensive, it's not more than 300 yuan. To the north of the West Garden is the horse farm, and the feed there is just grass mixed with sorghum..."
It's not for money, it's to get Shu Shu's dowry to Zhuangzi.
Don't even think about building a garden or anything inside.
Otherwise, Brother Jiu would feel uncomfortable with the Wangzhuang next to Prince Kang's Mansion.
Shu Shu never thought of Brother Ninth's twists and turns. He only thought so if he had cleared the economy. He nodded and said: "I sent Xiao Chun back to spread the word a few years ago to catch more piglets in the spring. I think so, Let’s raise some more.”
Brother Jiu calculated the purchase price from the palace and said: "Keep them, the more the merrier, don't be afraid of raising as many as you want, and finally sell them directly to the Ministry of Internal Affairs."
Shu Shu quickly shook his head and said: "Since I am on duty with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, our own industry should be separated from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Otherwise, we can't explain it later. It seems that we have taken advantage of it. If we don't take advantage of it, it will make people laugh. …”
Even if a pound of pork costs forty cents, and a pig's clean meat costs over a hundred pounds, that's several thousand dollars. After excluding artificial feed and other things, there are still two or three taels of silver left.
Selling a hundred heads for only two or three hundred taels, and being suspected of seeking personal gain with power, is not worth it.
Brother Jiu smiled and said: "Okay, I listen to you, don't take advantage of this, our restaurant will be open by then, just go over there."
While the two were talking, they slipped back to the fourth place of Hechi.
Then I saw a nanny coming out of Xisuo, followed by a young eunuch.
Seeing Shu Shu and Brother Jiu, the nanny and the young eunuch retreated to the roadside to salute.
Shu Shu recognized it as the nanny next to the Crown Princess.
She stretched out her hand and called out, "Did the Crown Princess send you here?"
The nanny responded: "When we go back to Jiufujin, it was the empress who sent this old slave to deliver a school bag to Master Fifteen..."
Shu Shu nodded and said, "Send greetings to the Crown Princess for me..."
The grandma agreed.
Shu Shu and Brother Jiu returned to Nansuo.
"What if the people who met the Crown Princess hadn't forgotten to prepare the initiation ceremony for the fifteenth prince?"
After entering the house and taking off the clothes outside, Shu Shu said to Brother Jiu.
Enrolling in school is not a big or small happy event, so I want to congratulate you.
She had thought too far before.
The fifteenth elder brother is different from the tenth elder brother and the thirteenth elder brother. Shu Shu really doesn't get close to him.
Behind him was the Crown Princess, his actual adoptive mother, and Concubine De, his nominal adoptive mother.
And as Kangxi continues to tour the south again and again, the role of the fifteenth prince's biological mother, the concubine, will become more and more important.
The ninth elder brother said: "I guess Khan Ama can't think of the fifteenth elder brother's enlightenment in the past few days, so he has to postpone the selection of a teacher..."
Shu Shu breathed a sigh of relief and said: "It's better to have some warmer days, otherwise Xiaoliu and the others won't know what the situation will be like when they come in..."
Brother Jiu said: "Don't worry, you are watching... There is a special reading center, and the food supply is good. One pound of beef and twelve taels of pork every day..."
Shu Shu was confused when he heard this: "It's not that beef is expensive, why don't we have it in our daily necessities, but we have it in our reading companion?"
Brother Jiu said: "It is based on the example of the guards of the Qianqing Palace. Earlier, the Haha Pearl eunuchs also had half a catty of beef per day, and later they changed to pork. Now, in the palace, there are only the princes who accompany the readers, the guards of the Qianqing Palace, the eunuch lamas who chant sutras, and the Western The doctor also has beef with some Mongolians and Tangut people..."
Tangut people, the collective name for Tibetans from Qinghai-Tibet in Beijing.
Hearing that there was a special reading room with nuns and eunuchs to serve, Shu Shu felt relieved and asked, "Which part of the West Garden do they live in?"
Brother Ninth said: "A courtyard east of the Queen Mother's Palace."
Shu Shu felt slightly relieved after hearing this.
When I go to pay my respects to the Queen Mother, I might as well go over and take a look.
She is the eldest sister and cares about her younger brother who has just arrived, and no one else will say anything.
The young couple lived a leisurely life.
The princes' mansions outside are all uneasy.
There is no precedent.
Can the prince who has been ennobled continue to live in the garden?
Before the opening of the government, when the emperor went to the garden to "escape from the noise and listen to the government," most of them would follow him out.
Only now have I discovered the drawbacks of opening a mansion.
The news was not as clear as when he was in the palace.
It was a good day of greetings on the first day of the new year this year, and then it was normal for the emperor to pay his respects to the Queen Mother Palace. Everyone originally thought that they had to wait in front of the Qianqing Palace to wait for the clan banquet. However, they listened to the oral instructions and were exempted from the clan banquet. , the clan members also left the palace according to the order, even the princes who opened the palace were no exception.
Then the palace door was closed, making it impossible to get in or out.
Today, the emperor went to the garden with the Queen Mother, and it was different from every time.
The princes’ wives all brought them.
In the past, there were one or two concubines in charge, and the others were mostly young nobles and concubines.
This time is so unusual.
No one is a fool and cannot notice the changes in the palace.
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Sibeile Mansion, study.
The fourth elder brother frowned, and the eighth elder brother sitting next to him also felt uneasy.
"Fourth brother, what happened in the palace?"
The eighth prince felt uneasy.
It seems that in just over a month, the palace has become unfamiliar.
The information I got from the Wei family was also vague.
All I know is that since the Fourteenth Prince moved to the palace, changes have taken place, and the eunuchs and nuns under the Fourteenth Prince's name have been replaced.
The fourth elder brother shook his head and said: "It is said that someone stole the gold plate of Fengxian Palace. It should be more than that..."
Both brothers are smart people.
Looking at each other, they both understood the purpose of bringing the prince and Princess' biological mother out.
There is something not peaceful in the palace.
Brother Si's face turned gloomy, with a worried look on his face.
There's something wrong with not taking Concubine Tong with you!
Khan Amma continued to be kind to the Tong family.
But even the concubine who gave birth to a son was brought to the garden, but not Concubine Tong.
Having been father and son for twenty years, I know my son better than my father, and I also know my father better than my son.
Khan Amma was angry.
For Si Age, this is not good news.
The eighth elder brother could not think of this and said: "Fourth brother, should we also hand over a sign to Khan Amma to say hello? And Lao Jiu, should we also go and see him? Something has really happened in the palace. The younger ones, I guess I’m also uneasy…”
Fourth Brother nodded and said, "It's time to go and take a look!"
It was Khan Amma's business to see him or not. If they didn't go to say hello, it would be their fault if they turned back.
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Wubaile Mansion, main room.
Wu Beile and Wu Fujin said: "The four houses of the princes in the West Garden are next to each other, and the living space is not spacious. There are several younger brothers living there now. It is not convenient for the younger brothers and sisters to live in the West Garden alone with the ninth brother. Tomorrow we will go there to say hello to the royal grandmother. I asked if you could stay there for a few days..."
Wu Fujin had no objection.
Her mother-in-law and grandma-in-law are all there. Even if she can't go there, she still has to go to say hello every now and then.
It would be better to be in the garden, where I can learn more and get closer to my grandparents.
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Sanbeile Mansion, main room.
The third elder brother was very angry and said to San Fujin: "You have done a good job in the Ministry of Etiquette. I asked you not to interfere with it. Are you happy this time? The errand of the Ministry of Finance was completed a year ago. I don't know if I will get another errand next time." when?"
San Fujin was sitting in front of the dressing table, looking at the two newly purchased boxes of exquisite jewelry, both of which were the latest ones from Jiangnan.
She glanced at Third Brother and said puzzledly: "It's still the Chinese New Year, why are you so anxious? If you don't have any errands, just be idle. Wouldn't it be better..."
The third elder brother shook his head and said: "This is the year of the provincial examination, and next year will be the general examination. Even if you don't pass the main examination or the deputy main examination, there are countless benefits... If you are idle, when will this county prince hat come back? "
The younger brothers below are growing up one after another, and what will happen if I become an idle prince?
San Fujin licked his temples and said, "If you tell me next time, won't I know?"
The third elder brother frowned and said with dissatisfaction: "This is a major political matter, what are you talking about? You don't understand either!"
San Fujin lowered his eyes and said: "Then if it delays me any longer, don't rely on me. After all, I don't understand..."
The third elder brother glared at her angrily and said, "I don't have enough time to read, so how can I have the time to nag you about this?"
San Fujin looked at him and said sarcastically: "You don't have time to grind your teeth with me, but you have time to teach Tian Gege how to write poetry?"
The third elder brother frowned and said: "Reading books to pass the time, can't we just relax?"
After that, he turned around and left.
Sanfujin's face turned red.
Among the noble ladies, she was one of the few who could read and write, and she did not show any shyness in front of others.
But when I married the third elder brother, I was criticized several times by the third elder brother and even ridiculed by Tian Gege.
Sanfujin looked at the two book boxes on the Baibao Pavilion bitterly.
Is my writing really that bad, or is Tian Gege slandering me, and the third master has preconceived ideas?
San Fujin felt urgent in his heart, and wanted to find someone to comment on his poems fairly and fairly, whether it was really so worthless...
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The next chapter will be updated at 9 a.m. on September 16th. This book is the first release of Qidian. Everyone is welcome to Qidian app.
