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Chapter 60: Both are unlucky
Life was peaceful in Bidanyuan, but the atmosphere in Minghuitang was so silent that it was frightening.

Gu Xuan knelt on the cold blue bricks, and the bone-chilling cold spread from her knees to her whole body.

When Nanny Meng came to see her, she knew that her mother had found out what she had done. She begged her grandmother for a long time, but was finally carried off the carriage.

Thinking of Princess Xuan's severity, Gu Xuan couldn't help crying out loud.

Princess Xuan sat in the main seat and asked, "How dare you cry?"

Gu Xuan kowtowed while crying, "My daughter was confused for a moment and almost made a big mistake. I know I was wrong. I beg you, mother, to forgive me this time!"

"You know you're wrong?" Princess Xuan raised her voice slightly. "Then tell me, what did you do wrong?"

Yes, what did she do wrong? She just helped Sister Rouyin meet with Fifth Brother so that the two of them could talk it out. This was also what Fifth Brother owed Sister Rouyin.

If Fifth Brother was willing to take Sister Rouyin as his concubine, why would all those subsequent things happen?
The more Gu Xuan thought about it, the more she felt that she was not wrong and that Gu Ci was the one who was wrong.

But under the gaze of Princess Xuan, she didn't dare to speak her mind, and could only rack her brains, "My daughter shouldn't have helped Sister Rouyin meet Fifth Brother out of softness, and she shouldn't have led anyone over."

Ming sat aside with her eyes wide open in surprise. She had been handling all matters of the banquet in Nuandong Hall until she had sent all the guests away from the palace, and only then did she hear the nanny talk about the island in the middle of the lake.

But she never expected that Gu Xuan was involved.

Is Seventh Sister crazy? How can she team up with outsiders to plot against her own family?
No wonder Nanny Ming talked about how aggressive Concubine Han and Miss Shen Wu were, but my mother didn't say a word. It turned out that she was afraid of implicating my seventh sister.

Princess Xuan closed her eyes, "Wanrou, tell her!"

"Yes," Ming sighed inwardly, "Seventh sister, you made four mistakes today. First, you shouldn't have colluded with outsiders to plot against your own brother. Have you ever considered that if the secret meeting is proven, the young lady of the Loyal and Brave Marquis's mansion will be ruined, and the military achievements and morale that Fifth Brother earned with his life will also be largely lost."

Gu Xuan argued, "Sister Rouyin is not an outsider."

Ming continued, "Secondly, you shouldn't have chosen today. Most of the Northwest families are involved today, and the slightest disturbance will cause a huge uproar. The palace is at the center of the vortex, and being cautious is not enough. If others discover that the palace is not impregnable, dangerous plots will ensue."

"Third, how important is the Warm Winter Banquet? Today's event is to raise funds for the winter for hundreds of thousands of civilians and soldiers in the northwest. If the secret meeting is proven, the reputation of the palace will plummet. The Warm Winter Banquet will never be held again. How can the palace be worthy of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians?"

"Fourthly, the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery has served in the army for many years and holds immense military prestige. If this incident creates a rift between him and the royal palace, causing the Northwest Army to waver, it would be a catastrophic disaster for the royal palace and the entire Northwest!"

Gu Xuan collapsed to the ground, her eyes wide open as she shook her head, "I didn't know, I really didn't know it was this serious." She crawled to Princess Xuan on her knees and pleaded, "Mother, please believe me, I really didn't know!"

"I know you don't know," Princess Xuan lowered her eyes and looked at her daughter who had been sent to the Meng family to be raised since she was a child. "With your brain, of course you can't think of these things."

Gu Xuan opened her mouth wide.

"What I regret most is believing your grandmother's words and sending you to the Meng family for upbringing. That's why you grew up so stupid." Princess Xuan's face flashed with anger, and her expression was as deep as water. "From today on, you will move back to the palace, and I will teach you personally."

"How much you can learn depends on your luck."

Gu Xuan fell to the ground. She didn't expect that she was so unbearable in her mother's eyes.

Princess Xuan waved her hand, and Nanny Meng led two maids to carry Gu Xuan and went to the side courtyard to copy books.

"Open the warehouse. I want to personally pick out something for Zhao Shan that she likes."

"Yes," Nanny Meng saw that the princess's mood improved a lot when she mentioned Princess Zhaoshan, and she couldn't help but be more cautious about Princess Zhaoshan in her heart.

At the same time, at the Mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery.

Bai Rouyin knelt in the ancestral hall, listening to the wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery analyze the situation in the northwest. She finally realized that her actions were equivalent to personally pushing the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's mansion into the abyss. Bai Rouyin silently shed tears and kowtowed, saying, "My daughter was wrong. I beg mother to forgive me."

"My daughter has thought it through. Since I have no chance with Yuan Ye or the General of the Cavalry, I can't force it."

"Please, mother, take charge and choose a husband for your daughter."

The wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery did not expect that Bai Rouyin actually agreed to another marriage. She was overjoyed. After settling her daughter down, she went back to the yard and wrote a letter home and sent it to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery. Then she sent someone out to inquire which family had a good-looking unmarried man of marriageable age.

She must choose a good husband for Rouyin who is as good as Gu Ci in every way!
After all, her daughter was just confused for a moment, but after she came to her senses today, she is once again the most dazzling pearl in the northwest.

Compared with Princess Zhaoshan, she is no less outstanding.

The wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery tried to cover her ears and not think about the secret meeting on the lake island.

But they couldn't resist the wishes of other aristocratic families in the northwest.

They thought about it carefully and felt that what Princess Zhaoshan said should be true, but Bai Rouyin's desire to rekindle her relationship with the General of the Cavalry was also true.

In this case, the son of their family is not bad, with some achievements in literature and martial arts. Even if he marries someone from a lower family, it is better than having a green glow on his head before getting married.

The wife of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery met with several ladies and suggested marriage in a tactful way, but was rejected without exception. She was so angry that she fell ill in bed.

Qiuyu told this story to his daughter as a joke. Seeing that the daughter was not interested and was thinking about other things, he also calmed down.

Tang Zhao was thinking about the new oil extraction recipe he had acquired.

The oils people in Dayu eat are all animal oils, such as lard, which is made from pig fat. It smells good, but it has a fatal flaw.

expensive!
She only priced a pound of braised pork at twenty-five cents, and that was lean meat. A pound of fat meat could be sold for thirty-five or even forty cents.

She felt that oil was too expensive, let alone ordinary people.

I heard that less than 10% of people in the northwest can eat oily food regularly. The vast majority of civilians and soldiers can only put a drop of oil in their dishes during festivals.

This is a really huge consumer market.

Tang Zhao could imagine that once soybean oil appeared, it would cause a bloody storm.

But she has not yet grown into a towering tree, she is still just a young sapling and must follow the path of humble development.

In this case, you need to find a thigh to hug.

It is better to kill the cooked ones than to kill the living ones. Tang Zhao ordered people to make the oil pressing tools according to the blueprint, and took Dongmei Chunfeng away from the crowd, hiding in the left side room where the brine blocks were made. After groping and trying for several days, he finally squeezed out a small bowl of soybean oil.

Tang Zhao held the bowl of soybean oil as if he was holding an imperial sword, and knocked on the door of Gu Ci's study room in the middle of the night.

Gu Ci: You’d better be busy.

Zhao Zhao knocked on the door in the middle of the night: Hi, beauty

Lady Gu: You better be okay.

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