Confucius businesswoman: proud of the world

Chapter 168
At night, Kong Linglong lay on the bed in the courtyard by herself, falling into complicated dreams.

She hardly had a good rest when she came to the capital, but now even if she fell asleep, she seemed to feel the tiredness spreading from her limbs.

When she finally woke up from her dream, the sky was already bright.

But she looked at the top of the bed curtain and was stunned for a long time.Because in the bit by bit dreams, it was actually Su Ye's face, the only time between those two people who were infatuated.

Kong Linglong washed her face with cold water, maybe it wasn't Yu'er who should be warned, but herself.

When I arrived at the shop, because of the presence of Zhuge Qingyun, the gap with the previous shopkeeper Wu appeared. Kong Linglong hardly needed to bother, and even coming here now was just a routine.

In the private room, Kong Linglong lifted the curtain to enter, only to find that Suye was already waiting there.

As if it fit Kong Linglong's dream, he was wearing a white straight gown, with a black belt tied around his waist, long hair that looked like flowing water, wise peach blossom eyes, and a perfect figure. Fresh, handsome and elegant.

She couldn't help but her face moved, and she slowly entered the private room.Su Ye looked at her with a gentle smile on her face: "Linglong, did you sleep well last night?"

He might have asked casually, but Kong Linglong turned her face away and picked up the cup to drink tea.

Yu'er hurried over: "Miss, this is the tea from the previous night, it's already cold!" She hurriedly snatched the cup from Kong Linglong's hand.

Seeing Kong Linglong's expression, Suye paused.

Kong Linglong asked, "How is the staffing arrangement?"

The corners of Yu'er's eyes and brows were drawn down a lot, and she lowered her head and said, "Mr. Zhuge has already made arrangements, and he reassured us."

At this moment, Suye smiled and said, "Zhuge Qingyun can really rest assured when doing things."

Kong Linglong suddenly said, "Suye."

This was the first time she called him by his name. After arriving in the capital, Suye was startled and immediately looked over with a moved expression.

Kong Linglong also looked at him, Yu'er immediately opened the curtain decisively and retreated, closing the door by the way.

Suye's voice softened: "Linglong, what's wrong?"

Kong Linglong looked at him and said slowly, "Are we friends?"

Su Ye's expression quickly changed from complicated to astonished, but Kong Linglong's expression was not at all joking.

He smiled bitterly: "Linglong, why would you ask such a question..."

Kong Linglong rarely looked at him without moving: "So we are?"

Suye paused, from the look on his face, he understood what Kong Linglong meant by asking him, but he didn't understand why she insisted on piercing this layer of window paper.

In his heart, he hopes to leave room for both parties, a room where they can approach each other infinitely.

But Kong Linglong obviously didn't think so. When she asked him this question, she intended to exclude him from another wall.

Kong Linglong's anomaly today made Suye feel a little strange, but he couldn't tell, especially this morning, Yu'er's attitude towards him also changed slightly.Rather, it is deliberately kept the same as it was in the Confucian residence.

Suye was sure about what happened, but he never did anything to force Kong Linglong, looking at that soft but pretending calm face, he smiled when he thought about it, and said, "Yes, I have always Linglong, you are regarded as a close friend."

Close, best friend.He hoped she could somehow understand him.

Kong Linglong finally stopped looking at him, and turned her face away, "This silk and satin village is thanks to you, but I am in the capital, and I need your help in many places."

Su Ye said, "Naturally."

Kong Linglong smiled for the first time today: "Okay."

Kong Linglong deceived herself, from now on, Suye's patronage will be the patronage of friends, and she will not refuse, there is no need to pretend to be unfamiliar with each other, as long as they retreat to a safe distance.

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It seems that they didn't say anything, but both of them chose to be calm on the surface. After Suye left the silk and satin village, he didn't go back to Fengyan Xiaozhu, but went directly to the family's house. The servants saw him coming back so quickly for the second time , I felt very happy, and hurried inside to inform my wife.

Su Ye's mother is one of the only five royal wives today, the other four are all meritorious princesses, and one of them even passed away not long ago.

The title of Su Ye's mother is Mrs. Qinghe, and she canonize it with her own boudoir name, which means showing love.

Mrs. Qinghe didn't expect her son to come back frequently, so she was taken aback before ordering the kitchen to hold a banquet.

Suye came in with a smile on that side, Mrs. Qinghe saw this and said, "Qing'er?"

Su Ye said, "I have something I want to ask my mother."

Mrs. Qinghe has been thin due to illness for several years. Standing next to the tall Suye, she felt more and more weak.

Seeing such a mother, Su Ye couldn't help being startled.

Mrs. Qinghe didn't notice, she pulled Suye to sit at the table first, and asked: "What do you want to ask?"

Su Ye regained his composure, and said with a smile, "May I ask if Mom has received the invitation for this flower feast?"

Mrs. Qinghe blinked in surprise, and said after a while: "A few days ago, Liang Guifei entrusted someone to deliver it, but I can't go out."

As Mrs. Qinghe, she lived in seclusion all year round and rarely participated in such activities as palace banquets.However, as long as it is a grand event in the palace, all the invitations will be sent to Mrs. Qinghe, regardless of whether she will attend or not, this is her identity.

Su Ye smiled: "I know my mother won't go, so I want to ask my mother for that post."

Mrs. Qinghe looked at him first, and said with a smile: "Of course it's okay to give it to you, but when will you be interested in the flower banquet?"

Su Ye smiled unpredictablely: "I know that there are mothers here. Don't worry, mother. I just use the invitation card to enter the venue to watch the excitement, and I will not participate."

During the flower banquet, there will be many sons and elder brothers of nobles and grandchildren, but Suye is not among them, so even his own mother dared to be surprised by his behavior of asking for an invitation.

Over there, Mrs. Qing He has already taken the invitation card and handed it to Su Ye.

Su Ye held the invitation card without looking at it carefully, and put it in her arms lightly.

Mrs. Qinghe drank her lipstick plum tea, observed her words, and didn't ask any more questions.

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In the Governor's Mansion, Mrs. Bai sent her daughter a complete set of hair and dresses, also to appease Hua Hongxiao.

After Hua Hongxiao was dressed properly, she took a photo in front of the bronze mirror, and it showed a red embroidered cross-neck thin shirt, and a palace yellow peacock pattern feather satin tulle on the outside. The girl next to her was shaking a fan for her. The veil was flying, and the whole person exuded a faint aura.The dark cloud-like hair was tied into a simple bun, and an elegant red gold butterfly hairpin was worn on it.

Madam Bai was very satisfied: "Let's see who can surpass my daughter's limelight."

When Hua Hongxiao thought of the brocade in Kong Linglong's shop, which was enough to attract women to stop, Hua Hongxiao was suddenly annoyed, so she held back and did not tear off the clothes on her body.

She knew that she was born beautiful. In this capital, those with high births may not be born well, and those with good births may not be able to be outstanding.Therefore, her appearance and background can completely overwhelm most of the female relatives in Beijing.

She looked in the mirror coldly and said, "Mother, isn't Concubine Liang Guifei your handkerchief? Will she help your daughter when you go to the palace this time?"

Mrs. Bai said: "Don't worry, you just need to perform well this time, so that more and more nobles in the palace will remember you. As long as you get their favor, Concubine Liang will pave the way for you in the future."

Hua Hongxiao looked at herself in the mirror, she wants to pave the way, this is not enough, what she wants in the end is the paper gift, so she feels it is worth it, she Hua Hongxiao just wants to stand on top of everyone of.

Mrs. Bai said leisurely: "Daughter, you have to understand that you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry. The family and you have planned for so long and worked hard until today. Isn't it just to make so many female relatives unable to compete with you."

At this time a maid came in and whispered something in front of Mrs. Bai, Hua Hongxiao was a little annoyed, she couldn't say anything in front of her.

But the servant girl backed out after finishing speaking, Hua Hongxiao watched coldly, but saw Mrs. Bai waving her hand and called everyone else out of the room.

"Daughter, so God helped you, and this gave you a chance." Madam Bai said leisurely.

Hua Hongxiao immediately forgot the unhappiness just now: "What did mother hear just now?"

Mrs. Bai looked at her with bright eyes: "You can see that Kong Linglong is so arrogant, she opened a medical clinic and a silk and satin shop, and she is not afraid of offending you."

Hua Hongxiao's complexion was not good, and she sneered: "Did mother find out that she was backed by mountains?"

No one would believe that he had no backing, at least the two mothers and daughters in the Governor's Mansion would not believe it.

Mrs. Bai said leisurely: "You have to hold your breath when I say next. Your aunt specially went to the silk and satin shop again for you, and found out that the new shopkeeper of the silk and satin shop, Mr. Zhuge, who used to It turned out to be from the palace."

Even though Mrs. Hua kept her stunned, Hua Hongxiao still squeezed her hands hard: "Who is in the palace? Mother said that the merchant girl is still involved in the palace?"

Mrs. Bai said: "What's interesting is that when it comes to identity, this person is not a relative of the emperor, nor is he a nobleman. He used to be one of the ten chief stewards who managed the treasury for the Holy One. His surname is Zhuge, and his ancestors are just ordinary. "

It means that this is a person who has no family shade, but because of the emperor's close ministers, people dare not offend him.

Hua Hongxiao slowly loosened the hand holding the handkerchief, and smiled: "Daughter understands, the opportunity mother mentioned, but when she let me enter the palace, she just told Concubine Liang about this matter. A close minister of the emperor, willing to Falling into a shopkeeper in a merchant's house, if you add a few words in the middle, you will be contemptuous of the emperor's grace."

Even if he came out of the palace, he was still the person next to the emperor, and his every move represented the royal family. Then Zhuge Qingyun was bewitched by something, and was led by the nose by a merchant girl.

The corner of Hua Hongxiao's mouth twitched contemptuously.

Mrs. Bai's smile deepened: "Then do you know that the treasurer Zhuge sought a chance to show his face at the flower banquet for Kong Linglong. All the colorful silks and satins on the flower banquet this time will have Kong Linglong's silk and satin Zhuang for sale."

Hua Hongxiao tore the handkerchief: "What did mother say?!"

Immediately, Hua Hongxiao felt that the clothes she was wearing began to become dazzling.

Although she told her daughter the news, Mrs. Bai still had a sneer on her face: "This merchant girl still has some tricks, but she looks a little ugly. First she set up a brothel impatiently, and now she has fooled a palace lady. The chief steward who was born directly got the qualification for the flower banquet. If I guessed correctly, if I let her go on like this, she might not only plot this point."

Hua Hongxiao was shocked: "What else can she plan, she is a lowly merchant woman, she..."

His eyes were wide open, seeing all of Mrs. Bai's eyes.

Mrs. Bai said: "Speaking of which, the Holy Majesty had a flirtatious time when he was young. Now there is a Jieyu in the harem who was brought over from the people. It is said that she just leaped over the dragon's gate just because she brought a basket of fish to His Majesty."

She is a fisherman's girl, and her identity is not on the stage. She disappeared within two years after entering the palace, but that is also a special case in the harem.

Madam Bai said leisurely again: "I've seen that Kong Linglong, she has a pretty face, doesn't she?"

Hua Hongxiao shouted angrily: "Mother!"

Mrs. Bai gave her a blank look: "What are you in a hurry for? I just analyzed all the possibilities with you. Does she have that kind of thought? At least from her attitude towards you, it can be seen that she is not satisfied with the status of a business woman." .Who knows what she's up to."

Hua Hongxiao finally couldn't help it anymore: "Then mother, what exactly is the opportunity you said you gave me?"

Hearing now, she only saw how smooth and proud that bitch Kong Linglong was.

Mrs. Bai gave her a meaningful look, and said: "Seven inches from a snake, she was selected to present silks and satins to the flower banquet, so her silks and satins completely lost the chance. Her silks and satins are nothing more than different patterns than others. Flowers are expensive, but the pattern depends on the craftsmanship of the embroiderer."

Hua Hongxiao's heart skipped a beat: "Mother knows who is the person who provided Kong Linglong with embroidery samples?"

Mrs. Bai smiled unpredictablely: "Of course, this is also an unexpected character, and she is also an experienced embroidery girl from the palace."

This Kong Linglong didn't know what luck it was, one or two were related to the palace.

Hua Hongxiao said coldly, "It was the shopkeeper who led her again. She really has the ability to make men do things for her."

However, Hua Hongxiao never thought that she and Kang Yuren were not just using the relationship, nor could they be pure siblings.

Mrs. Bai sneered: "But this female embroiderer is different from Zhuge Qingyun. If it weren't for the reliable information, everyone would have been concealed. She escaped from the palace."

(End of this chapter)