In the evening, Shanshan asked her mother for pocket money.
Wen Yiqing had always been spoiled by her, so he didn't think much about it. He took the silver and put it into her little goldfish purse. When she opened it, she saw a pocket full of IOUs.
Shen Yungui's name was all on it, and the reason and amount of the loan were written down. They were all spent by Shanshan on shopping a few days ago. She read every one of them, except for one that was wrong.
"Jiang Huirou?"
This name is very familiar, but I can't think of where I've heard it before.
The wet nurse said to the side: "Miss, could this be the girl from the Xuanping Hou Mansion?"
Xuanpinghou's surname was Jiang, and Jiang Huirou was one of the twins born to Mrs. Xuanpinghou.
The IOU is not a small sum.
"Why does Sister Shan owe so much money to the girl from the Jiang family?" The wet nurse wondered: "I have never heard Sister Shan mention the girls from the Xuanping Hou Mansion. She usually plays with Miss Wen."
Wen Yiqing raised his eyes, Shanshan was lying in front of the desk doing homework, holding a pen in one hand, snacks in the other, and a paper with sweet smell. She held the IOU and waved the person over.
When she asked, Shanshan had nothing to hide, and told her what happened today like pouring beans from a bamboo tube.
After hearing this, Wen Yiqing couldn't help but said: "Ten?!"
The little girl raised her round face and said innocently, "Yes."
"She said she wanted ten, so you agreed?"
"But, but, she said she wanted to tell Master..." Shanshan twisted his fingers in confusion: "It hurts when Master hits someone..."
Wen Yiqing and the nanny looked at each other, then took a deep breath.
The younger daughter was so delicate that every time she was slapped on the palm in school, she would hug her mother and cry when she came back. Wen Yiqing couldn't bear to scold her. After thinking about it, he winked at the wet nurse and asked her to bring an account book and abacus.
She opened the account book, fiddled with the abacus, and then frowned in embarrassment: "Shanshan, you don't have enough money."
Good and good are incomprehensible.
"Do you remember, I give you money every month, and you have to pay for whatever you want."
Shanshan nodded: "Remember."
She goes out to play every three days. The capital is no smaller than Yuncheng. There are many good things here. She wants everything she sees, but there are often times when she doesn’t have enough money. Although there was a monthly quota, Wen Yiqing loved her, replenished the money in Little Goldfish's purse when it was empty, and paid off the IOUs from Shen Yungui for her. Shanshan never felt that money was tight.
But at this moment, she watched her mother spread the account book in front of her and said to her: "You have spent too much these days, not only for this month, but also for the next month, the next month, and this year. It’s over.”
"All spent?"
Wen Yiqing poured out the silver from the little goldfish purse, tapped it, took away most of it, and put the rest back: "I took away the ones that were going to be returned to Shen Yungui, and this is all that's left." There was exactly one bead flower, and there was only one left. There was only enough to buy some snacks.
Shanshan held his money bag and looked at her blankly.
She was stunned for a long time before she finally came to her senses and blinked her round eyes slowly, "Then I can't compensate Jiang Huirou?"
"yes."
Shanshan thought for a while: "Mom, can you lend me some money?"
Wen Yiqing responded: "I borrowed your money, what will you give me back?"
Shanshan can't think of anything. She only had the pocket money given by her mother, which she had spent in advance, and she could not even use her overdraft.
"That...that..."
"Tomorrow when you go to school, tell Jiang Huirou that you can only pay one, and there will be no more."
"Then what if she tells the Master?"
Wen Yiqing said softly: "It was Shitou who broke other people's things first and did something wrong. Since you promised Shitou to take the blame for him, you can't go back on your word. If Master punishes you, you can only suffer it."
Shanshan’s little face was stunned.
"But, but..."
"Don't you like to read Sun Wukong the most? Sun Dasheng is not afraid of heaven and earth, and he dares to do what he wants." Wen Yiqing encouraged her: "Don't be afraid of kindness. Mom will prepare medicine for you. When you go to school tomorrow, take it with you and let the stone Apply it for you."
Shanshan looked at her blankly.
Meeting her mother's gentle and encouraging gaze, she then looked down at the empty purse in her hand. She took a deep breath, clenched her fists hard, and her face tightened: "...Yeah!"
…
The next day, she pulled Shitou and Wen Jiahe to embolden herself, and timidly handed the little goldfish purse to Jiang Huirou.
Jiang Huirou had been looking forward to it for a long time and couldn't wait to open it. After counting the money, her expression suddenly changed: "How can I buy ten of them here? Wen Shan, why don't you keep your word?"
"I have no money anymore." Shanshan said with bitterness as this was the first time he had tasted the feeling of having no money.
"How come you don't have money?!"
That day, she watched with her own eyes as Wen Shan bought all the pearl flowers that she had set her sights on. Not to mention that Wen Shan had countless good things on weekdays, and even the toys in Zhenbaozhai were changed every few days. She also heard from her mother that the shop opened by Wen Shan's mother was very profitable.
Jiang Huirou had been looking forward to it all night. Thinking that she would get the money, she went to Ruyifang to buy all the jewelry she had previously liked. Seeing what she got fly away, how could she bear it: "Wen Shan, if you don't pay, I will tell the master."
Normally, such a threat would have frightened Shanshan.
But now, she couldn't even take out a penny, so she could only think about the Monkey King whom she most admired, shouting and encouraging herself in her heart, and bravely said: "Then you go tell Master and let Master punish me. .”
Anyway, my mother prepared some ointment for her!
She...she's not afraid!
Wen Jiahe finally couldn't help but said: "Jiang Huirou, Tuoba only stepped on one of your pearl flowers, but you asked him to pay ten. Shanshan was frightened by you before, but Master will not do it. Even if you find the dean, This is also an unreasonable thing for you to do. Besides, it was you who pushed him first yesterday, and then he stepped on your beaded flower."
Jiang Huirou quickly shut her mouth.
She murmured unwillingly: "She promised me first..."
"The money I have given you to compensate me is enough for you to buy a new one." Wen Jiahe said: "If you really want to pursue it further, we can only go to the master and listen to what the master says."
She shut her mouth and didn't mention it again.
The matter came to an end.
After Shanshan was taken away, she still didn't come back to her senses. She looked at Wen Jiahe blankly: "Won't she tell Master?"
"She doesn't dare to tell the Master."
"Then Master won't punish me?" Shanshan let out a long sigh of relief. She touched the ointment in her arms, with sweet little pear dimples showing on her cheeks: "Great! Jiahe, thanks to you, I'll treat you to a snack. Well, I..."
As she spoke, her smile slowly disappeared, and she sighed sadly: "I have no money..."
Wen Jiahe couldn't help laughing: "Then I'll treat you today."
…
In the evening, Jiang Huirou returned home angrily.
Qi Wenyue had heard her talk about the ten pearl flowers. Seeing that she was not happy, she suddenly wondered: "What's wrong? Didn't Wen Shan compensate you for the ten pearl flowers?"
"No!" Jiang Huirou said angrily: "Mom, Wenshan went back on her word. She even promised me, but she only compensated me. She also said she had no money!"
"No money? How is that possible?!" Qi Wenyue also changed her expression: "The Wen family's shop is doing so well. She even buys things from Zhenbaozhai as soon as she wants. How can she have no money?!"
The more Jiang Huirou talked, the angrier she became: "Yesterday she instigated the beggar in her family to play tricks on me with bugs, and she trampled on my pearl flowers without giving me any money. Mom, she must have done it on purpose!"
Qi Wenyue hurriedly put her daughter into her arms, feeling a lot of pain for her beloved one.
It's just that I can't bear this tone.
Thinking of the good business of Wen Yiqing's shop, she felt sour in her heart. Then she thought about the mother and daughter who spent so much money on gold and silver, but now they couldn't even bear to pay for a few pearls and flowers, and her anger couldn't go away.
She hugged her daughter and said through gritted teeth: "She is just a merchant, how can she be allowed to bully our Xuanping Marquis Mansion?"
Qi Wenyue thought for a while and quickly came up with an idea.
…
In the afternoon, the sun was high and the sunlight was shining down violently.
Wen Yiqing was leaning in front of the counter, flipping through her account books lazily. Business had been booming recently and she was so busy that she finally had some free time. She closed her eyelids and felt a little drowsy.
Fang sent away a group of ladies who came together to choose rouge. She closed the account book and ordered the waiters to greet the guests. Just as she was about to take a rest in the back room, she saw another person walking in the door.
Her eyelids twitched and she quickly looked around the shop. Fortunately, a wave of customers had just left. At this time, there were only two or three customers in the shop. They were all carefully selecting goods and did not pay attention to the door. She looked away, and Bian Chen had already strolled to the counter.
Wen Yiqing: "..."
She sent the guy away and lowered her voice: "Why are you here?"
"I want to see Shanshan." Bian Chen said.
"Didn't you just meet a few days ago?"
Bian Chen touched his nose and asked, "Did she get beaten by the master because she didn't finish her homework that day?"
"I was beaten and even cried when I got home."
"It was my fault, and I want to apologize to her in person."
"She's still in school, and classes haven't ended yet."
"I know."
"..."
He looked at it calmly, and the meaning was self-evident.
Wen Yiqing was speechless: Your majestic emperor, you are so upright and come to her small cosmetics shop, you are not afraid of being discovered? !
But if he wanted to see Shanshan, there was no reason why he should not be allowed to see him. She lowered her voice and said, "I'm still busy during the day. If you want to see Shanshan, come back at night."
"No rush, I can wait for you."
"..."
The eavesdropping waiter looked narrowly, and Wen Yiqing took a deep breath, "If you want to wait, there is a teahouse nearby, so just sit there and don't disturb my business."
Bian Chen glanced at the customers in the shop, nodded and said, "Choose a few for me."
Wen Yiqing looked at him silently.
He thought for a while and explained: "It's too...my mother used it very well. She even rewarded the servant and asked me to take it with her when she goes home."
The palace has its own Ministry of Internal Affairs to handle the purchase, so why let him, the majestic emperor, do the errands himself? Wen Yiqing slightly raised his chin towards the door and motioned him to leave with his eyes.
Bian Chen looked behind her. There was a resting area at the back of the shop, and the door curtain was slightly blown by the wind. "I'll wait for you in the bunk and go back with you?"
Wen Yiqing whispered disapprovingly: "There are many people out there, so you'd better be careful."
"It doesn't matter, I..."
While he was talking, there was a sudden noise at the door.
It was a group of muscular burly men, surrounded by a woman whose face was covered with a cloth. When they entered the door, they yelled: "It's this black shop that sells makeup that ruined my girl's face!"
Bian Chen shut up.
He frowned and looked at it, seeing that this group of people was coming in a menacing manner, and they started beating and smashing things as soon as they entered the door. Several female customers in the store were frightened, and they quickly put down their powder boxes and ran out in a hurry.
But he didn't run far away, and stuck his head out not far away to watch the excitement. They also heard what this group of people said when they came in. The daughter's family cares about face the most. When they heard that the makeup in this shop would ruin their faces, they were also horrified, fearing that something bad would happen to them.
Someone was making trouble here, and soon people on the street gathered around curiously.
These big men came well prepared and started smashing the shop as soon as they entered. The clerk in the shop hurriedly stepped forward to stop them, but was pushed away. The powder and ointment were scattered all over the floor, filling the room with a strange smell.
Wen Yiqing didn't have time to feel distressed. There were more and more people in front of the door. He hurriedly pushed him aside and said, "Hurry up and leave."
The emperor has a noble status, but he is in a busy city. If he is recognized, he will suffer.
Bian Chen didn't move.
He frowned and looked at the big men, protected Wen Yiqing behind him, and whispered: "I'll call someone."
He was followed by a secret guard. When he saw something happened here, he immediately set off to find someone at the nearby Yamen.
But it took a lot of effort for the people from the Yamen to come over. Seeing that these big men were becoming more and more wanton, and many goods in the shop were smashed, Wen Yiqing gritted his teeth and just told the emperor to hide. He endured the heartache and stepped forward to stop him: "Stop it. !”
She said sternly: "Who are you? Why do you come to my shop to cause trouble?!"
"It's just your black-hearted rouges that ruined my sister's face. It's your black-hearted shop that you're the one who smashed!"
"What a bad face?"
The sister the big man mentioned was hiding behind others. When she heard this, she took off the cloth covering her face with tears in her eyes.
The people who gathered in front of the shop looked over and took a breath when they saw it clearly. The skin on the woman's face was red, swollen and ulcerated, and she looked horrifying. A girl with a beautiful face turned into a Yaksha.
Hearing the discussion, the woman hurriedly wrapped the cloth around her again, hid behind her brother, covered her face and cried.
The big man said angrily: "My sister was already engaged to someone else. I heard that your rouge was famous in the capital, so I spent a lot of money to buy it, but she was killed like this, and now she has been annulled. She is alone. This girl’s family will be ruined for the rest of her life by your dirty shop!”
Wen Yiqing said calmly: "If it is true that my makeup is harming people, I will admit it, but you are just talking nonsense, and you hit and curse people when you come up. I can't explain it in a few words, so why not report it directly to the government, and let the government inspect and make a decision?"
The woman cried and said: "Ms. Wen, you are also a woman, so you should know how important your daughter's face is. Why should I ruin my own face to harm you?"
"Look, everyone, she still doesn't recognize the evidence. She has harmed many people." The big man shouted: "I will destroy your shop today to save you from harming other people!"
The big men were filled with righteous indignation. In the chaos, someone didn't know who grabbed the powder box next to them and threw it towards them.
Wen Yiqing couldn't dodge and closed her eyes subconsciously, but she didn't expect the expected pain for a long time.
She opened her eyes hesitantly and saw a tall figure blocking her way.
Bian Chen closed his eyes, there was a bruise on his forehead, the fragrant powder was poured all over his body, and his black clothes were all red. The porcelain box rolled around at his feet and stopped only after hitting Wen Yiqing.
Wen Yiqing took a breath of cold air.
She reached out to help wipe it, but she didn't know how to start. The shop was in chaos, powder and ointment were scattered all over the floor, and even the shop assistants hid behind them. She also pushed the emperor back and hurriedly covered his face for fear that he would be recognized.
For a moment, I wished I could give birth to a child with three heads and six arms.
Someone in the crowd shouted.
"It's Master Xiaohe who's here!"
The crowd in front of the cosmetics shop spread out to both sides like running water, and a man in a green shirt walked over in a hurry, striding forward.
He Lanzhou also happened to pass by.
He saw a circle of people surrounding Wen Yiqing's shop from a distance. Hearing that someone was causing trouble, he hurried over. Mr. Xiao He is quite famous in Beijing. He is the number one scholar with a previous record. On the spring breeze of his first year, he was riding horses and paraded through the streets. The gentle and handsome number one scholar in red robes made the people along the street look sideways. He threw fruits into his cart and filled his sleeves with the fragrance of flowers. Later, he did many practical things that benefited the people. Now, as soon as he announced his name, everyone got out of the way and waited for him to do justice.
Those who came to make trouble looked panicked for a moment. The waiters in the shop breathed a sigh of relief.
Wen Yiqing could no longer care about anything else.
When she heard He Lanzhou's name, she was even more panicked than the troublemaker. Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, she hurriedly covered the emperor's face and pushed him back hard.
Bian Chen still wanted to help him, but Wen Yiqing glared at him and scolded him in a low voice: "Just hide and don't cause trouble."
When He Lanzhou walked in, before he could ask what was going on, he saw a tall figure flashing past his eyes. He was stunned for a moment, and the curtain in front of the back room fell down, and he only had time to see the man's angular jaw and the black clothes hem embroidered with clouds and brocade.
Under the curtain, a pair of cloud shoes stained with rouge powder showed their toes behind the door frame.
He was slightly startled.
The words Shen Yungui said to him flashed through his mind like lightning, but he had no time to think about it at this time. He looked at Wen Yiqing and the rioters: "What happened?"
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