"Can't we change to another kind of flower?" Luo Yaqing blurted out and asked.
"No, how can you do business without integrity? I said the auction of the five-color red pill is the five-color red pill." Xu Shichu answered decisively.
Luo Yaqing's face was extremely hot. She had never been so humble to anyone, but now that she had something to ask for, she could only lower her head again and again and try to ask: "Then can you cultivate another one?"
Xu Shichu looked at her with a half-smile but not a smile: "Do you think cultivating rare and exotic flowers is a simple and easy thing? If it can be cultivated, then why don't you cultivate one yourself and give it to Princess Shunyi?"
Luo Yaqing's face turned red with shame. Of course she knew that it was not easy to cultivate exotic flowers. She just thought maybe?
Xu Shichu didn't bother to see how she was trying to get the five-color red pill from his hands, so he said to her directly: "If you really want it, just go to Baihua Pavilion to buy it on the day of the auction. As long as you win the auction, the camellia will be yours." Yes, you can give it to whomever you want."
Why doesn't Luo Yaqing know this? The problem is that she is afraid that she will not be able to win. There are so many dignitaries in the capital who love flowers and plants. How can she get so much money to compete with them? She knew how expensive the exotic flowers and herbs in Baihua Pavilion were.
Even if she had a lot of dowry when she got married, she couldn't spend all her dowry on a flower that was neither attractive nor useful, right?
Not wanting to bleed a lot to buy flowers, she had to think of other ways and asked tentatively: "Then the step-wife can't really let go of the remaining one? Just for my father's sake!"
Luo Yaqing said with a blushing face, and actually mentioned her father's name, just to make Xu Shichu, whether he was afraid of her father or to please her father, be wise enough to take out the remaining five-color red pill. Give it to yourself.
She knew that she was using a tiger's skin as a banner, so she felt ashamed, but in order to achieve her goal, she still did it.
Xu Shichu was not surprised at all. Isn't Luo Yaqing just such a person? When there are no interests at stake, she can appear to be tolerant, gentle and kind. However, once her own interests are compromised, she immediately reveals her true nature of selfishness.
Xu Shichu said with a smile but not a smile: "Are you using your father to threaten me? Your father has no face with me. He has to spend money to buy my flowers if he wants them. Who do you think you are? Is it worth giving you one? Flowers worth thousands of gold?”
Listening to Xu Shichu's disdainful tone, Luo Yaqing suddenly couldn't care less about being ashamed. She became angry:
"Aren't you afraid of offending my father when you say this about me? You live in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and offending my father will make you suffer unspeakably. It is because of my father's protection that you can live so freely. Once my father treats me If you don’t like it, what will happen to you?!”
"What will happen to me? Can he divorce me and marry a new wife? Will the new wife be as worry-free as me? Will the new wife be favored, and then give birth to a son to compete with your brother for family property and father's love? Will it alienate you, a married woman?" Xu Shichu asked a series of questions with a chuckle, and then added,
"After being divorced, I have money and leisure and don't have to pay attention to people who are an eyesore. Even if I am targeted and bullied, I can just walk away. It's really miserable..."
Luo Yaqing stared at her dumbfounded, digesting her words. From this point of view, it was obvious that she was not afraid of offending her father, so how could she make her compromise?
Xu Shichu gently patted Luo Yaqing's face and said sarcastically: "You are really a good daughter of your father. You are good at bullying others. It's a pity that you will only use it on me, not you." At my in-laws’ place.
I have no desire or desire for your father, so what's the use of using his name to scare me? Silly girl! "
Luo Yaqing was startled by Xu Shichu's extremely humiliating actions and words, and hurriedly moved her body away from Xu Shichu.
She used to be proud that her father was alienated from her stepmother and had no affection for her stepmother, but she didn't understand that her stepmother also had no affection for her father, and her talents were traded for profit, so now even if she wants to ask her stepmother, she can't Playing the emotional card.
And divorcing his wife is not a trivial matter. She knew that her father would renew the relationship not only because of her brother and sister's marriage, but also because of political considerations. Xu Shichu's background was clean and simple, which was the biggest reason why she became the prime minister's wife - so her father could not Divorce your wife.
Even though what she asked for was not successful, Luo Yaqing was ridiculed and humiliated by Xu Shichu, and ran away in embarrassment, completely humiliated.
Luo Yaqing nestled in the yard where she lived before she was married, resentful of Xu Shichu but unable to do anything about her.
Luo Yaqing felt even more painful when she thought that the five-color red pill that the princess wanted was not available.
"Miss, why don't you ask the prime minister to ask the step-wife for those camellias?" Luo Yaqing's eldest maid suggested as she couldn't see her young lady being uncomfortable.
Luo Yaqing said angrily: "Didn't you hear that my good stepmother said that my father has no face in front of her? What will happen if my father goes to ask for it in person?"
The eldest maid explained: "Miss, do you really believe what the step-wife says? How can a married woman not value her husband? When the step-wife said such words, she was probably complaining about the previous neglect of her by the prime minister. It’s just that if you can’t eat the grapes, you say the grapes are sour!
As long as the Prime Minister lowers his posture for her and treats her a little more kindly, do you think she will be happy? Didn't you say that the prime minister lost face in front of her? When she was happy, the prime minister asked her for the five-color red elixir, but she still didn't give it to him? "
Luo Yaqing suddenly became enlightened and beamed: "Yes! I was deceived by her words. Which woman doesn't want her husband's attention? If she says she doesn't care about her father, then she really doesn't care anymore? When my father becomes gentler to her, she will You have to come up with your tail wagging like a dog..."
Due to the limitations of her time and horizons, she would not understand that some women really didn't care about their husbands, so she took it for granted that Xu Shichu also longed for her husband's love like her.
Luo Yaqing immediately became confident, and then remembered Xu Shichu's humiliation and ridicule to her just now, and said bitterly: "When my father gives her a little sweetness, in order to continue to get my father's favor, she will definitely come to please me and look at me. How to deal with her then!"
She had already thought about how to humiliate and torture Xu Shichu.
Too bad her fantasy would never come true.
Luo Yaqing had an idea in her mind, and she waited impatiently for her father to come out of the palace and help her get the five-color red red camellia from Xu Shichu.
She didn't know that her appearance was getting farther and farther away from the kind and gentle daughter of the Prime Minister who was as pale as a chrysanthemum, and she looked more and more like the woman in the Shunyi Prince's Palace.
