Rebirth of the Merchant Girl

Chapter 166 Human Heart
This daughter is not like others, she is always so innocent, but she just follows her.

Back then, Mrs. Xie used this idea to deceive herself.It's a pity that in the end, the edges and corners have been smoothed by the years, and I understand how ridiculous this sentence is.

At a tender age, you can still serve others all the time. When you get older, there will be more tender girls in front of you. Who can control it?
It was already giving her face by not bringing it to the backyard.As for keeping one's body like jade, it is simply impossible.

"Tong'er just look at the fifteenth prince. Three wives and four concubines are not a problem. The more powerful a man is, the more young and beautiful women he has around him."

Mrs. Xie reminded her daughter first, so as not to do anything inappropriate and make the prince disgusted.

Xie Ruitong raised her chin and said displeasedly: "Mother, this is to increase the ambition of others and destroy her own prestige. The princess will be married by the emperor in the future. After all, it is for the benefit, where is there any feeling? At the beginning, the first emperor was the biological mother who loved the fifteenth prince the most. , very cold towards the queen, my daughter thinks that the prince is also an infatuated person, as long as she likes me, she will definitely dote on me."

As she spoke, her cheeks were flushed, as if she had gotten her wish.

Mrs. Xie wanted to sigh again. The first emperor doted on the other concubines, which meant sharing the rain and dew evenly, not letting the relatives grow too strong, not because he had much affection for the fifteenth prince's biological mother.

The emperor is cold and thin, the first thing he sees is balance, where is the love between children?
The Fifteenth Prince looked affectionate, and looked sideways at Xie Yanniang the most, but he also got very close to Xie Churou, as if he wanted to take both sisters into the backyard.It's like visiting a garden to appreciate flowers. Seeing two pots of flowers blooming in full bloom, I just want to take them home to play with.

It's just that Madam Xie also thought that marrying a man who doesn't have three wives and four concubines, but marrying a prince will have a different status.

Even if it is a concubine, can the concubine of a merchant family be compared with the prince's concubine?
Besides, the concubine of the palace is likely to be promoted as a side concubine.

Thinking of the status of the side concubine is also very beautiful, Mrs. Xie looked at Xie Ruitong with a gentle expression: "I heard that the prince is injured, and Tong'er can't come to visit in person, so it should be sent a letter."

Xie Ruitong nodded and said, "I'll send someone over there if I want my mother to remind me."

After finishing speaking, she drooped her head again: "It's a pity that the prince didn't reply, and I don't know if it's because he hurt his right hand and can't hold the pen."

"Then you should come and have a look. Isn't that a ready-made reason?" Mrs. Xie looked at her daughter with a smile, and nodded shyly when she saw Xie Ruitong.

"My mother is right, my daughter will tidy up now, and go to the palace after lunch."

After Xie Ruitong finished speaking, he left happily.

Mrs. Xie looked at her daughter's smiling face, and seeing her walking away, the smile on her face gradually disappeared.

When she thought of Mr. Xie wanting to take a concubine, she was in a terrible mood: "Xuehui, isn't the yard next to the Green Bamboo Garden empty? Have someone clean it up. Compared with Aunt Zhang's Gulan Garden, it's almost done."

Mrs. Xie is not in the mood to ask someone to bother to help a concubine clean up the yard. Who would have heard Xuehui stammering and saying: "Go back to Madam, just now the master asked someone to clean up the Qinglan Garden..."

"What!" Hearing this, Madam Xie's face turned pale.

Qinglan Garden is the yard closest to Mr. Xie's study, and it was given such a small hoof!
Needless to say, this is naturally what Mr. Xie meant, and it seems that he dotes on that concubine very much.He has already acted so obviously before entering the house. If he wants to live up to his expectations, he will ride on his head when he enters the mansion!

Mrs. Xie wanted to tear that little hoof into pieces, and thought that her hope now could no longer be pinned on Mr. Xie, but on her daughter.As long as Xie Ruitong climbs up to the Fifteenth Prince and enters the mansion, no matter how strong that little hoof is, even Master Xie will give way to her.

When the time comes, Master Xie will not dare to be as presumptuous as he is now.

The more she thought about it, the more she thought about it, her face softened a little, and she waved her hands and said: "Since the master has ordered it down, you can ask someone to tell the master that the money in the house is tight, and cleaning up the yard will not hurt much anymore. .”

The implication is that Mrs. Xie is asking Master Xie for money.For the first time in so many years.

Xuehui thought that Mrs. Xie's makeup box was almost empty, and most of the private money was used to supplement Xie Ruitong's body. If this continues, it will definitely be used up, so it is better to get some money by tidying up the yard.

Sure enough, Mr. Xie sent a large sum of money without saying a word.

Mrs. Xie looked at the silver bills in her hand, all of which Mr. Xie wanted to spend on that concubine, and felt very unhappy.

She kept most of it, and after thinking about it, she only picked out one and handed it to Xuehui: "Just let someone clean it up easily. If that concubine is making noises everywhere, you have to ask someone to evacuate all the things in the room. The reason is that she is dissatisfied, so I asked someone to change it. However, for large items, it will take several days, so she just makes do with it."

A pink sedan chair brought the concubine into Xie's mansion from the courtyard at the end of the alley. She happily entered the courtyard, but was disappointed when she found that the things inside were not much better than the small courtyard.

She heard outside the mansion that the Xie family was as rich as an enemy, so she focused on following Mr. Xie who was old enough to be a father.

Looking at it now, I am extremely disappointed.

It's just that when my concubine went to serve tea, she immediately became unhappy when she saw the exquisite decorations in the flower hall, any one of which was better than all the things in the yard combined.

It turned out that it wasn't that Xie's mansion was poor, but that the mistress was stingy with her.

Sure enough, she was going to make a fuss when she went back, Xuehui also brought four thick women to Qinglan Garden, told Mrs. Xie's words, and snorted coldly: "My maidservant advises Aunt Zeng to be quiet, or else she will go to recuperate like Aunt Zhang. , it’s not good if it’s gone forever.”

Xuehui's words made Aunt Zeng a little timid.

She has heard of Aunt Zhang, and she is very grateful to the master for his love.In the blink of an eye, they were driven to a remote courtyard. Everyone said that Mrs. Xie's methods were powerful. The two had competed for more than ten or 20 years, but Mrs. Xie was slightly better in the end.

The little concubine thought about it, but she still didn't make any more fuss. She offended Mrs. Xie and was thrown to a corner. Wouldn't she die in a few years?

She came into the mansion to enjoy the blessings with Master Xie, not to make herself feel uncomfortable!
It was a few days before Xie Yanniang heard that Mr. Xie took a concubine, and it was Pang Yudi who secretly told her.

Ruan Jingxin didn't bother to bring up such dirty ears, but Kang Yunzhang didn't know how to speak up.

After all, Liu Zifu was left unattended in the southern town for several years, and now a concubine is taken into Xie's mansion without a man and a woman.Comparing the hatchback, the difference is huge.

Xie Yanniang didn't take it to heart, she used to hate it because she still had expectations for Master Xie.

Now there is no more, Mr. Xie is just a familiar stranger.

Ruan Jingxin came back, but invited her to take a walk on the street.

Xie Yanniang was very happy, after all, no matter how good the hot spring village is, it would be uncomfortable to be bored in the courtyard all the time, but she also had scruples: "It might be inappropriate for a folk girl to swim with an adult, if someone sees her."

"Girl, don't worry, we'll just ride the carriage around the street." After finishing speaking, Ruan Jingxin smiled and said, "I can only wrong the girl."

"I'm wronged wherever I go," Xie Yanniang thought that he suddenly asked her to go out, maybe he wanted her to see something.

After getting into the carriage, she realized that there were only herself and Ruan Jingxin in the carriage, and she couldn't help but feel a little at a loss.

Both Xue Ling and Xue Yan were left in the yard, and they were allowed to rest for a while, and the two sisters talked about themselves.

Pang Yudi didn't follow this time. The groom was an inconspicuous middle-aged man with a Chinese character face, and no one could recognize him in the crowd.

She didn't see the guards, and the carriage was not conspicuous, so she knew that the people protecting Ruan Jingxin were all in the dark.

"Girl, in front is Xie's shop."

Ruan Jingxin knocked on the door with his fingers, and the carriage moved a little slower, so that Xie Yanniang could see it more clearly.

She raised a corner of the curtain and looked out.

Compared to what Mr. Xie said before, there are few customers in the shop opposite.

"The Xie family lowered the price, and the guests came back." Ruan Jingxin gestured for a number, and Xie Yanniang was taken aback.Although she doesn't know much about business, she can understand that the price is frighteningly low.

"Although this can attract customers for a while, it won't last long."

Ruan Jingxin nodded and echoed, "Indeed, it's just a bad idea."

Xie Yanniang looked at the shop opposite Xie's mansion again, but she didn't see the shopkeeper, and a waiter at the door was dozing on his stomach on a table in the corner.Someone went in to have a look, and came out quickly shaking his head, but Xiao Er didn't see Xiao Er standing up to say hello.

She thought about it, and asked hesitantly: "Your Excellency, you have already sold the storefront and made it into someone else's hands?"

There was a smile in Ruan Jingxin's eyes, she didn't expect Xie Yanniang to guess it so quickly: "Young lady's eyesight is really sharp, you can tell it just by looking at it."

Xie Yanniang said embarrassingly: "Minnv just thinks that if it's an adult's shop, those shopkeepers and waiters won't be so lazy and slippery."

But the owner on the opposite side changed, obviously Master Xie didn't know about it.It is estimated that he is teasing Xinna's concubine in the mansion, and lowering the price to attract customers, thinking about putting pressure on the other party, and then looking for other things.

As everyone knows, the owner sitting in front of him didn't want to fight Xie's family at all, and left after making a fortune, waving his hands without nostalgia.

Thinking of Master Xie's expression when he heard the news, Xie Yanniang couldn't help feeling extremely happy.

She glanced at Ruan Jingxin again. This lord is extremely brave on the battlefield, but he didn't expect to be so proficient in business.

"Miss, are you wondering if I'm going to be a businessman, and I still do well?" Ruan Jingxin saw Xie Yanniang's thoughts, and explained with a smile: "The battlefield and the business field are actually the same, nothing more than It's the human heart."

On the battlefield, he won the hearts of the people and his morale was high, which made the opponent get twice the result with half the effort.

If you win the hearts of the people in the business field, you can still be invincible.

"The head of the Xie Mansion has been in the business field for many years, and he was not as cautious as the older generation. He is too aggressive, self-willed, and unpopular." Ruan Jingxin raised the curtain again and motioned Xie Yanniang to take a look.

Only then did she realize that Xie's shop had a lot of customers, but most of them came out empty-handed.

(End of this chapter)