Seeing Wu Ziyu shedding tears, Huang Qiong sat on the edge of the bed distressedly, hugged her into his arms, and kissed her little by little to dry the tears on her face: "Sister Yu, don't worry, I will never treat her badly. His. I am sorry for him in this matter, and you are innocent. Don't worry, I will definitely make up for Brother Liu. There are still several children, and I will make the Liu family proud of their ancestors. "
Wu Ziyu, who heard Huang Qiong's assurance and knew that he had misunderstood her, sighed and said: "I'm not asking you to get an official position for him. He is not that material at all. He is unwilling to make progress, and he doesn't like to study. He doesn't know a lot of big characters. It's just his name. He knows it when they are put together, but not when they are separated. The little skills he has are barely enough for him to fight and kill."
"Not to mention those civil servants who are full of tricks, they are not qualified to be military attachés. If you ask him to be an official, you are harming him. The most he can do for the rest of his life is to be a bodyguard for you. I I just beg you, don’t let him die, at least leave him a life. I know some things. If you want to do something, he will not be your opponent. "
After Wu Ziyu said these words, Huang Qiong immediately understood what this woman was worried about. He hugged her gently and said, "Sister Yu, keep your heart in your belly. Such dirty things as murdering someone and seizing his wife." , I absolutely cannot do it. As long as I am here for a day, I will ensure that Brother Liu and the Liu family will have a safe, prosperous and prosperous life. If I can't do it, I am willing to be struck by lightning from the sky."
Regarding Huang Qiong's oath, Wu Ziyu shook her head and sighed slightly: "I hope you can keep your word and never do something that is reviled by thousands of people and irreversible because of me. I won't I need you to be sorry and sorry to me. I just hope you can be worthy of him. You should leave quickly, otherwise people will see you."
Huang Qiong did not explain the worry in Wu Ziyu's words. Some things are more convincing if they are done once than said a thousand times. After holding Wu Ziyu, who was still undressed, for a long time, Huang Qiong left quietly. Behind him, Wu Ziyu looked at his leaving figure, then looked at the hickeys all over her body, and couldn't help but cover her face and burst into tears.
After leaving Wu Ziyu's small courtyard, Huang Qiong did not dare to stay longer. Taking advantage of the fact that there were not many servants getting up in the courtyard, Huang Qiong carefully slipped back to his study. Huang Qiong, who just picked up the book and wanted to put on makeup, found that he couldn't read a single bit. The sad eyes of Situ Huanshuang and Wu Ziyu were always lingering in front of him.
It wasn't until He Yao asked him to worship the Kitchen God that he came to his senses from his wild thoughts. After rushing to the front hall, Huang Qiong sighed softly when she looked at Wu Ziyu, who was directing a few servants and busy arranging the sacrifices, but her eyes were slightly red, and she had obviously cried after she left. Just looking at He Yao, Duan Jin and the other girls around me, I could barely suppress my past comforting thoughts.
The Little New Year is over, which means the Spring Festival is coming. During the past few years, compared to the lively scene of the whole house being busy celebrating the New Year, Huang Qiong, the master, seemed a little listless, and he was lazy in everything he did. Every day, he either hides in the boudoir and does some secret boudoir drama with the girls, or goes to Lin Hanyan or Wu Ziyu to steal sex.
Or spend more time with He Yao, who is pregnant. However, considering that the upcoming Spring Festival is the first Spring Festival since he left the palace and settled in the palace, and it is also the first year that his daughters have spent with him, Huang Qiong still attaches great importance to it. Special arrangements are made to purchase as many New Year goods as possible. He also specially asked He Yao to make a lot of new clothes for all the girls.
On the twenty-seventh day of the twelfth lunar month, the emperor's rewards were also distributed in large quantities from the palace. This time the emperor was very generous. In addition to giving each of the girls ten ingots of gold, twenty ingots of silver, one thousand guan of money, one hu of Dendrobium beads, and one hundred pieces of silk and satin, He Yao, who was pregnant, doubled the reward. outside. He also gave Hua an additional reward that was in accordance with the annual salary regulations for the princess, and an annual reward that was halved compared to the daughters.
As for the mother, although no additional rewards were given to the girls except for each person's appearance, she could be more generous with the flowers. Someone was sent directly to deliver a banknote of 10,000 yuan, and it was named for Hua Hua. Although he knew that his mother was not short of money, after receiving the stack of large-denomination banknotes, Huang Qiong couldn't help but be a little stunned by her mother's generosity.
Of course, these rewards do not include those Persian dancers. Not to mention that the emperor didn't know that Huang Qiong had those Persian dancers around him. Even if they knew it, I'm afraid the emperor, who only regarded those Persian dancers as prostitutes in the British palace, would not reward them. He Yao, who was still attentive, prepared a reward of 500 pieces for each of the Persian dancers from the rewards given to her by the palace and the emperor.
Although the new year has not yet passed, the money is flowing like water, which makes He Yao, who has always been careful, feel somewhat distressed. At present, except for Zhuangzi, who had almost no output as a gift from King Yong, all the income of the British Palace relied on Huang Qiong's salary. When Huang Qiong first left the palace to live in the palace, the emperor gave her the money to divide the family, which could not be touched easily.
According to custom, the emperor would give his son an extra half-year's salary as a reward during the Chinese New Year. But when he arrived at Huang Qiong this year, the emperor didn't know what his motives were. Every concubine around Huang Qiong gave him a lot of rewards, but the extra half-year's salary from the British Palace was gone.
Huang Qiong was always generous in this regard. With a wave of his hand, the emperor gave the rewards to the girls and let them keep them for their own money. All the girls suddenly became rich little women, but the income of the family did not increase at all. Now that there is such a big family in the house, we need monthly money for food and clothing in the coming year, as well as money for burning charcoal in the winter, and other miscellaneous money, all of which cost money.
During this New Year, in addition to preparing new year's goods and buying new clothes for everyone in the mansion, the maids, wives, and servants in the mansion also need to receive an extra month as a reward. There are some favors that need to be made up at the end of the year. Not to mention anything else, on the twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month, King Yong sent a large amount of new year's goods, so he had to find a way to return the gift.
I don’t know what King Yong was thinking. The New Year’s goods sent by someone on the 25th were not an ordinary big deal. When He Yao received the card, it was written that there were twenty large deer, fifty each of deer and roe deer, twenty wild boars, and one hundred pairs of pheasants and hares. One hundred pigs and sheep each, and three hundred chickens, ducks and geese. There are fifty Yellow River carp and Yihe bream each, and two hundred catties of various fish.
The fine Jiangnan rice and Shandong Road white flour each cost 200 shi, and the various grains totaled 200 shi. There are one hundred jars of Sichuan liquor, and ten baskets each of various fruits such as jujubes, sorbets, and tangerines. Two thousand catties of Chinese cabbage, one thousand catties each of other vegetables and dried vegetables. In addition, there are a large number of Duan inkstones from Jiangnan West Road, pen and ink propaganda from Huzhou, high-quality paper from Xuancheng, and high-quality rouge and gouache from Jiangnan.
And right now in the capital, there is frozen seafood worth thousands of gold. Dried sea cucumbers, frozen sea crabs, sea fish, and palm-sized prawns weighed more than a thousand kilograms. In addition, there were Yue kiln porcelain from Jiangnan, and they were a little surprised when they saw a gift list of one thousand sets of cups, bowls, plates and lamps.
With these annual gifts, not to mention anything else, including the rewards given to the servants, there is basically no need to prepare any meat and vegetables. Moreover, King Yong was very thoughtful. The game was all killed and transported in ice. Half of the pigs, sheep, chickens, ducks and geese are freshly killed, and the other half are made into bacon and dried.
Those Yellow River carp and Yihe bream were actually alive when they were transported, and they were kept in buckets and jumping around. Except for seafood, even other fish are mostly alive. Such a large amount of New Year's goods cannot be purchased without Wan Guan. Many of these items, such as those from overseas, would be difficult to buy even in the capital if there was no Zhuangzi or connections on Shandong Road.
Not to mention that on this gift list, there are also thirty ginseng sticks of twenty years, twenty racks of deer antler, thirty kilograms of dried sea cucumbers, twenty kilograms of bird's nests, and five pairs of bear paws given to He Yao who is pregnant. One tiger skin mattress, three bear skin mattresses, and a set of black fox skin cloaks have been made. Give each of the other girls a firefox fur cloak, twenty sable, stone marten, and lynx skins each, and a bearskin mattress.
It's just a gift that King Yong gave to the girls. Although it was considered very thoughtful, he obviously didn't take it seriously. Although the supplements he gave He Yao were the best. But when Dr. Li saw these supplements, he directly told He Yao that except for seaweed and bird's nest, other supplements, especially ginseng, were not suitable for pregnant women. Even sea cucumbers can only be eaten after three months.
These New Year's gifts sent by Prince Yong's Mansion gave He Yao a headache as to how to return the gifts. What's more, there is also Prince Shen's Mansion, although the annual gifts sent by Prince Shen are not as many as those from Prince Yong's Mansion. There are fifty live pigs and sheep each, and one hundred chickens, ducks and geese each. Three hundred catties of various river fish, five hundred catties of bacon, five hundred dried chickens, ducks and geese, and two hundred baskets of various dried fruits and candied fruits.
In addition, there are five hundred shi of Jiangnan Japonica rice and one hundred shi of glutinous rice. All kinds of items look custom-made at first glance, including one thousand sets each of Ru kiln celadon bowls, plates, and cups, and five hundred sets each of Jingdezhen kiln red treasure glaze porcelain. In addition, the women around Huang Qiong were given a gift list of fifty pieces each of Shu brocade, tapestry silk, and twenty pieces of yarn. This was quite a lot, worth at least three thousand guans.
Especially those Jing porcelain and red treasure glazed porcelain, especially He Yao and Duan Jin liked it. Although King Yong did not give He Yao any supplements individually, he used pure gold and Hetian jade to make a long-life lock made of gold and jade in advance and sent it together. As for this longevity lock, which was worth twenty taels, King Shen did not consider whether he could take the unborn baby in He Yao's belly after birth.
Although whether it was King Yong or King Shen, the people sent to deliver gifts repeatedly said that the master had confessed that these annual gifts were from their master, and congratulations to the King of England on his first year out of the palace. In addition to game, Yongwang went hunting in the countryside these days. The rest of the pigs, sheep, fish, chickens, ducks and geese were all bought by the two princes from their own village, so there was no need for a return gift from the Prince of England.
But after all, the British Prince's Palace can't really not return any courtesy. Moreover, the Huzhou pen and ink, Duan inkstones, rice paper, tangerines, Jiangnan rice, and various supplements sent by King Yong, as well as the porcelain and Shu brocade from King Shen, seemed to have been purchased from outside. Not to mention a newborn baby, even an adult wearing a longevity lock is very heavy. At first glance, it is written by a famous artist.
What's more, not to mention King Yong and King Shen, the other kings currently in the capital, except King Song and King Teng who had just returned to the capital, also sent people to send gifts. Although there are not as many as King Yong and King Song, especially some younger brothers, the gifts given are only symbolic, but these gifts must be returned. After He Yao and Wu Ziyu spent a few days counting the abacus beads, they still felt that the money was not enough.
Compared to He Yao, the housekeeper, Huang Qiong didn't have as much headaches as she did. Zhiyan told He Yao that the return gift to King Yong and King Shen was very simple. Just ask someone to prepare a thousand catties of dried noodles, a thousand catties of eggs, and a thousand catties of walnuts, plus write two words for him and send them back. As for the return gifts from the other kings, it is enough for each of them to receive a set of celadon tea sets and write two couplets for them in his own hand.
