The Empress and Lady Feng came to visit, the Prime Minister's Mansion was brightly lit, and the rosin wood that was usually burning was replaced by honey candles.
This kind of candle burns without any smoke and has a faint sweet smell. It smells very good. This alone costs more than a hundred taels of silver every night.
Although there are subsidies from the internal treasury, every time the Empress Feng comes to visit, the expenses of the Prime Minister's Mansion will increase greatly, ranging from a thousand taels at least to six to seven thousand taels at most.
This is mainly due to the close relationship between the Queen and the Prime Minister, which saves a lot of expenses. If other mansions in Longyin City are lucky enough to receive the Queen once normally, the cost will be at least tens of thousands of taels.
However, it is impossible for the Prime Minister's Mansion to show any dissatisfaction and will only be proud of it.
The prime minister is not only a high-power position, but also a position that requires caution at every step. The closer the relationship with the palace is, the more liberal Fang Du Wei can be when he is in charge of the government.
One day the Queen no longer comes to play in the Prime Minister's Mansion, I'm afraid everyone will doubt whether Fang Duwei's position as ruler is strong.
"Father, after the incident at Huancai Pavilion and Cishu Immortal Square, those red girls were basically absorbed by Wang Xie Fengyue Tower."
In the prime minister's study, Fang Zhishan was talking to his father Fang Duwei.
Fang Duwei is in his fifties. He still has black hair and a very young face. He looks like Fang Zhishan's elder brother.
He was splashing ink in front of the writing desk, sketching the innocent children. When he heard his son's words, he smiled slightly, "It is said that not long ago, Wang Xie Fengyuelou signed a new prostitution contract with the girls, and the girls' treatment was more generous. The head is divided into more, and you can redeem yourself freely. Is this a coincidence? If the red girls don’t go to Wang Xie Fengyue Tower, where else can they go?”
Fang Zhishan didn't expect that his father even knew these things, and couldn't help but wonder about the meaning of his father's words.
Fang Zhishan was almost certain that Rong Qingshu's accident was related to Qin Shouan, but he didn't say anything, but his father also knew, so what did it mean?
"Yesterday I was drinking with some friends at Wangxie Fengyue Building, and I saw that the business in the building was booming. The profit from the dividend at the end of the year should be much larger than in previous years, and it can also reduce the pressure on the government. The accountant, Lao He, has been crying about poverty. I'm going to Every time I asked him to come out with five hundred taels of silver, he said he didn't have any."
Fang Duwei's words seemed to be quite happy, but his tone was calm.
Of course Fang Zhishan understood that this was all money that had to be paid into the accounting room of the mansion. His father's private expenses and uses that were not suitable for his mother's knowledge could not be appropriated.
As expected, a man still needs a small treasury, and Fang Zhishan's treatment is much better than Fang Duwei's.
Gui Lingpeng was a tigress who had formulated ninety-nine and eighty-one rules for being a husband. The prime minister's wife was too embarrassed to say much about her daughter-in-law, so she could only feel sorry for her son in private, and from time to time gave her son banknotes for him to take. There is no shortage of money when it comes to making connections, drinking wine and having sex with prostitutes.
Fang Duwei naturally did not receive such treatment. When he was young, he was a romantic and talented man, famous in Kyoto, and had countless confidantes.
The prime minister's wife came from a well-known family. She fought her way out of the siege and won a beautiful man. After getting married, she was even more careful about the charming girls outside. The way to be a wife is to be "overbearing" and she will never allow Fang Du Wei to have too much spare money to get involved with women. Grass.
"Father, this is the writing fee given by Rong Qingshu." Fang Zhishan took out a banknote from his arms and handed it over. On the day Cishu Immortal Square opened, Fang Zhishan took a calligraphy by Fang Duwei as a gift. past.
Rong Qingshu was very sensible and well-behaved in front of the powerful officials he thought needed attention. He, a descendant of the Rong family, opened a brothel and the prime minister came over with an inscription. He couldn't just accept it carelessly and not even return the gift. ?
Fang Duwei nodded and stared at the lines drawn by the pen tip without even looking at the banknote.
"Rong Qingshu... I have taken care of some of the Rong family's business these years. I am so proud that I am a little carried away."
Fang Duwei didn't like Rong Qingshu's personality, but he would not interfere with his son and his dealings. "During the court meeting today, Rong Guogong didn't look very good, so he gave the Kyoto Prefecture a few words."
"The government office in Kyoto is the son-in-law of the Rong family. It's okay to be scolded by my father-in-law." Fang Zhishan couldn't help but think of his father-in-law.
It was impossible for the Guixian people to criticize him harshly, but as a strong man at the peak of the ninth rank and a military man like the commander in front of the palace, he naturally exuded a sense of majesty and oppression.
"Of course it's nothing... you should think about it carefully." The second son was sent to the local army for training by accident, and the eldest son was the only one around him, so Fang Duwei would naturally cultivate him carefully.
Fang Zhishan didn't realize there was a problem just now, so he thought about it carefully.
His eyes fell on his father's paintings. Fang Duwei's calligraphy and painting skills were extremely high. The late emperor once praised them, saying, "Winds and clouds will deceive people, and ghosts and gods are like dreams." , business activities”.
Fang Zhishan stared attentively for a long time, watching another image of a child sketched out in a few strokes. He couldn't help but think of a picture of children having fun that his father once made for the Queen's childhood playmates. In it, there were not only the Queen, but also She has her third sister and the prince next door.
"The incident happened suddenly, and there were Jianghu people involved in it. The Kyoto Prefecture had no obvious fault. Now the Kyoto Prefecture is completely unable to investigate further. In the final analysis, the Kyushu Prefecture has stopped." Fang Zhishan had a flash of inspiration and already realized the problem. .
"Um."
"Does Mr. Rong Guo feel that once a problem occurs in Jiuzhou Prefecture, the situation where similar incidents cannot be investigated at all must be changed?" Fang Zhishan already understood that Rong Guo Gong was not dissatisfied with Kyoto Prefecture, but was targeting Jiuzhou Prefecture. .
Fang Duwei smiled with satisfaction. This son seemed to be elegant, modest, and a gentleman, but in fact he was not lacking in scheming. He could immediately analyze the intentions behind Rong Guogong, and he could truly enter the court in the future, which is also a promising future.
"You don't need to inform the young prince. Rong Qingshu underestimated the Langya Palace, Duke Rongguo...hehe." Fang Duwei said this and waved his hand, "You'd better coax your wife."
Fang Zhishan couldn't help but feel ashamed. If his wife was fine, why would Fang Duwei, the father-in-law, need to remind his son? Naturally, it was because Fang Duwei knew that Fang Zhishan had done something that made Gui Lingpeng unhappy.
After Fang Duwei finished drawing the characters, he turned around, casually walked to the door, looked around for a few times, and recited a few poems to express his feelings about the romance tonight.
Finding that there was still no one around or hearing the sound coming over, Fang Duwei hurried back to the desk, rolled up the banknote and stuffed it into the hollow shaft of a pen.
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Qin Shou'an knocked on the window and then walked into the embroidery room. Fang Zhimei was showing Rong Baobao some of her new paintings.
Seeing Qin Shou'an, Fang Zhimei quickly put away the albums, and Rong Baobao also hurriedly helped, because Rong Baobao had already discovered that the man in the albums drawn by Fang Zhimei was clearly Qin Shou'an.
Fang Zhimei always said that it was painted before Qin Shou'an came back. It was purely a coincidence. Rong Baobao didn't believe it at all. Is the queen a fool for being a beautiful and intelligent queen?
"I misunderstood this afternoon, but I was tapped on my acupuncture points again, so it's even." Gui Lingpeng saw Qin Shou'an feeling slightly embarrassed.
Later, she lay on the ground and was helped up by Rong Baobao and Fang Zhimei. Naturally, she understood that Rong Baobao broke the shoulder strap of her tube top while having a fight with Fang Zhimei, and it had nothing to do with Qin Shou'an.
"I was wronged, and you brought it on yourself." Qin Shouan said angrily:
"Are you my enemy or something? Time and time again you say that you are wrong, it's a misunderstanding, you accept me wholeheartedly, and then you always suspect that I have evil intentions?"
Gui Lingpeng groaned, with a thin blush on her cheeks. Even her father rarely scolded her harshly, but she was indeed wrong and was speechless for a moment.
Why should you ask her back? She doesn’t know! Who made him have such a face? Gui Lingpeng always felt that women could easily fall into his trap or honey trap, so she had to be extra careful and vigilant.
"Look at the uncles and brothers I met today. Which one of them is not respectful and polite to me? Even if your father returns to command, it will be the same. Do you know that I am the heir apparent?"
Qin Shou'an looked at Gui Lingpeng's figure and appearance, which was almost the same as Huai Yu's. He couldn't help but feel his palms itching, and he had to give him a routine punishment.
As the eldest son, he rarely emphasizes his identity frequently unless he has something to deal with, and he doesn't want to show off his identity.
But in front of Gui Lingpeng, she couldn't emphasize it enough. She just didn't realize that he was a prince at all, and always looked at him as if he were dealing with some low-level dandy.
"Why are you so cruel... You said I asked for it. If there is a next time, just keep tapping my acupoints."
Gui Lingpeng was also a little dissatisfied. Qin Shou'an was gentle, humble and polite in front of any woman. Who would feel comfortable if he either tapped her acupuncture points or hit her with a whip?
Qin Shou'an was too lazy to talk to her anymore. She had been married to the prime minister's house for only a day or two, and she didn't have the gentleness and maturity of a woman at all.
I must have been spoiled by my uncles and brothers when I was the eldest daughter... This is normal. The family is full of cocky roosters. It is rare to hatch a little hen that screams and screams. It is not a rare thing. Take it to the sky?
"Okay, Sister Gui's martial arts skills are low. She can't beat you anyway, forget it." After Rong Baobao helped Fang Zhimei put away the album, he watched his words and came to make peace with both parties.
Gui Lingpeng puffed up her cheeks. The Queen had said so, and she couldn't continue to refute... Although she was a martial arts prodigy, she had been wasting her time in the sixth-level realm for too long, and it was indeed difficult for her to face someone like Qin Shou'an. He only deserves the evaluation of "poor martial arts".
If someone said that she was highly skilled in martial arts, she would feel a bit embarrassed.
"My sister-in-law is good at martial arts, but we don't know anything." Fang Zhimei still felt sorry for her sister-in-law.
What she was more worried about was that since Gui Lingpeng had the status of sister-in-law, Qin Shou'an would treat her politely under normal circumstances, so the two of them would maintain a certain distance at all times and would not become closer.
Now that the two are constantly confronting each other, they may...
"It's okay. We martial arts practitioners are indeed more prone to conflicts. As my sister-in-law said, next time she continues to misunderstand, I will continue to tap her acupoints." Qin Shou'an is also a generous person. If he taps her acupoints a few more times, she will definitely grow. Some memories.
Gui Lingpeng hesitated to speak. She originally wanted to say not to tap her acupoints on the street, but she deliberately said this as if she could tap her acupoints in private. It seems that I trust his character and feel that it is okay to lose the ability to protect myself in front of him.
"Actually, you are quite easy to misunderstand." Gui Lingpeng straightened her expression and pointed at Qin Shou'an's night clothes:
"Look, the Queen is here tonight, and you are wearing night clothes and walking over the wall. This is not something a normal person would do."
"Then why aren't they surprised or horrified? It's because we have our own set of rules for getting along, and if you insist on getting involved, you will misunderstand. It's not my problem, it's your problem."
Qin Shou'an thought for a moment and spoke in a gentle tone. After all, she was the young mistress of the prime minister's house. This was her foundation. It was not very tenable to say that she was forced to join in.
"Stop arguing. Take your time. Are you here to take us out to play?" Rong Baobao pouted, swung his hands back and forth, and said with anticipation.
This Longyin City has forgotten the fear of being dominated by Fo Bole. Just tonight, Rong Baobao wants to cause something big!
"Well, do you have night clothes?" Qin Shou'an came to take Rong Baobao and Fang Zhimei out to play, so naturally wearing night clothes would make them feel more involved.
"No!" Fang Zhimei looked around, and a picture suitable for painting a romantic album suddenly appeared in his mind. He and Brother Shou'an... No, a man and a woman were standing in the bright hall wearing night clothes, and the woman's night clothes were Specially designed...
"The female officers of Longyin Guard will definitely bring them." Rong Baobao said excitedly. As expected, Qin Shou'an understood the repression she had been holding back for so many years, and he wanted to make a big deal out of it as soon as they met.
"You guys take two sets and put them on." Qin Shou'an is going to the warehouse of Hongyincao Cream tonight. There must be a certain amount of guard force there, but he is at the peak of the eighth level and has few opponents in Longyin City.
It is basically impossible for a ninth-level master to be a dog to a playboy of Rong Qingshu's level... You must know that on the day Cishu Immortal Workshop opened, Rong Qingshu only invited Maggots in the Snow and Cunli Qiao. Later, because they did not want to offend the Kyushu Prefecture, they invited Rong Qingshu’s pigeon.
There is definitely no problem for him to take Rong Baobao and Fang Zhimei to play, not to mention that Longyin Guard will not stop the Queen from going out to play, but will follow them invisibly, making it even more foolproof.
"What on earth are you going to do?" Gui Lingpeng couldn't let the Queen and her sister-in-law be taken out by Qin Shou'an like this.
If Qin Shou'an wore normal clothes, picked up a carriage at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, and took people out to play in a serious manner, Gui Lingpeng would at most just send a few close guards to follow him, or not follow him at all.
The key is, is he normal now? A prince, wearing sneaky night clothes, climbed over the wall in the middle of the night, and asked the queen and the prime minister's lady to dress up like him.
Is this something normal people do?
Sure enough, he could not relax his vigilance against Qin Shouan for a moment.
There will be a chapter later.
