The Prince Consort of the Bullied Princess (6) (Why Not Rebel (Two in One)...)
In the blink of an eye, it had been half a month since Ji Changze brought Xianglan back. During this half month, Xianglan had used countless methods, but he had avoided them all with ease.
Although the little girl Chunzhu didn't have any scheming intentions, she had seen Xianglan flirting with Ji Changze several times. Although she didn't catch anything, she began to dislike Xianglan very much in her heart.
Originally, when Xianglan first arrived, Chunzhu was still very happy and wanted to get close to her.
After all, she didn't have any maids she could talk to when she was in the palace. Part of her was trying to flatter her, and part of her didn't want to offend Concubine Yang even if she didn't have any ill feelings towards Chunzhu.
It was rare to find a girl who looked like her, so she was naturally very happy.
It turned out that Xianglan was a drunkard who didn't care about drinking. After she moved towards Ji Changze with all her heart, she became indifferent to Xianglan's attitude.
In the whole family, only the uninformed Jiang Xinyan said a few nice words to Xianglan.
But what Xianglan fears most at home is Jiang Xinyan.
Listen to what Jiang Xinyan said:
"What the consort said cannot be true, and don't be frightened by what he said about marrying an old man. He is a kind-hearted person and will let you out in a few years."
"When the time comes, we will find you a down-to-earth person who is responsible for his duties. He has farmland and real estate at home. If you are so diligent and neat, you will definitely be able to live a harmonious life with him."
In fact, Xianglan, who is neither diligent nor disadvantageous but only wants to be in the top position: "..."
She felt that Princess Ninth was threatening her.
What does it mean to marry her to a down-to-earth man?
To put it nicely, it is actually just a family that can only be called Xiaozu.
Now, before she could seduce the Ninth Prince Consort, the Ninth Princess was already planning to marry her off to Ni Legzi.
The Ninth Prince Consort just asked her to work, and every time he said that she would marry the old man, he just talked about it.
But the way Ninth Princess looked like this, it was obvious that she was serious!
Pandan was shocked.
She had always felt that her scheming was quite detached.
When she was with the Fifth Prince Consort, she was able to stand out despite the fierce competition. When the Fifth Prince Consort was about to get married, all the other girls who had served her were sent away with a sum of money.
Only she managed to stay and was well raised outside.
When the fifth prince-in-law told her what he was going to do this time, Xianglan was full of confidence.
A man from the countryside with little knowledge.
A weak and kind-hearted princess who is easy to fool and not loved.
There is also a palace maid who makes up the number.
She even imagined a bright future in which she could turn her hands to make clouds and rain.
First, make a fortune from the Ninth Prince Consort, and after the relationship between the Ninth Prince Consort and the Ninth Princess appears to be in rift, try to see if you can guide the Ninth Prince Consort to sell the Ninth Princess.
When the time comes, if you catch it here, you can make another fortune by returning to the Five Prince Consort.
result……
Jiang Xinyan was sitting in the yard, sipping goat's milk.
Seeing Xianglan coming out after cleaning the house, she greeted with a smile: "I asked Chunzhu to heat the water just now. You can use hot water when you cook and wash."
"I read a medical book last night and learned that if a woman uses too much cold water, she will not only be prone to menstrual pain, but may also have difficulty in having children in the future. You should be careful in the future."
Xianglan stiffened.
According to her years of experience in house fighting, this sentence is clearly the same as before, and it also means something.
Ninth Princess...is this threatening her that if she dares to reach out and touch something she cannot touch again, her fertility will be destroyed? ? ?
Under the calm and even smiling gaze of the Ninth Princess (gosh, she is so scary, she can still smile as if she is friendly when she says such words), Xianglan nodded with a stiff face.
Then, almost walking hand in hand, they walked into the kitchen.
Sure enough, a pot of steaming water was heating up in the room, but Pandan's heart felt ice cold.
Finished.
She was going crazy inside.
Ninth Princess, is she so good at fighting in a house? ?
Now the Nine Prince Consort is not tempted by her, and the Nine Princesses are eyeing her.
This mission is the lowest level of difficulty.
It's clearly the highest.
Jiang Xinyan, who was still sipping goat's milk, was completely unaware of the psychological shadow his casual words had caused on Pandan.
She really didn't think there was anything wrong with her words.
Recently, the prince-in-law likes to go out to eat and drink with Huber and the others. Although he is away from home every day, he usually goes out to eat with other brothers-in-law the day before and then packs up and comes back.
Then he used the packed food to treat Huber to dinner.
Not to mention that he didn't spend any money, Uncle Hub lived right here in the alley. Jiang Xinyan knew where the consort was, so he felt relieved.
A few days ago, the prince-in-law came back with a medical book from Uncle Huber.
Uncle Hu's family was not originally from Beijing. It is said that Uncle Hub traveled all over the country when he was young. Later, he opened a shop in Beijing and earned hard-earned money. His son and daughter are still in their hometown.
Maybe it was because his hometown suffered a disaster this time, and the prince-in-law went to him every day to comfort and drink, and the relationship between the two gradually improved.
This medical book was also accidentally obtained by Huber in the past. After discovering that the contents in it were very detailed, even comparable to some doctors' undisclosed secrets, he kept it.
But the prince-in-law asked for it, and he still gave it to him.
The concubine also learned from this medical book that it is best for women to have children after the age of twenty.
If it was in the past, Jiang Xinyan would definitely not believe it.
But she had a feeling in her heart about how the prince consort treated her.
Although he was inexplicably cold a while ago, he recovered quickly and was even better than before.
And if a woman gives birth before the age of 20, it is easy to have accidents. She grew up in the palace since she was a child, and she can also get a lot of evidence.
For example, her biological mother, Wang Cainv, gave birth to her when she was 17 years old.
At that time, she had a difficult delivery and almost died. At that time, the palace sent a royal doctor to save the lives of both mother and daughter.
But later, when the emperor found out that the baby was a princess, he lost interest instantly.
The royal doctor was withdrawn, and Wang Cainv was not well taken care of at this time, and she fell ill.
When Jiang Xinyan was a child, she also saw many queens who were pregnant at first, but when they gave birth, they either lost the baby or the baby died with the mother.
Now thinking back, they were indeed under 20 years old.
Jiang Xinyan was very surprised.
She quietly kept what she had just learned in her heart, and didn't tell anyone. She just quietly checked the birth situation of women around her.
Because 90% of women who died after giving birth were under 20 years old.
Jiang Xinyan still cherished her life, so after Ji Changze said to separate the beds, she thought about it for a while. Although she felt that this was inappropriate, she still agreed.
Anyway, it was just separate beds, not separate rooms.
The couple was together every day, and she could feel the cherishment of the prince consort, so she felt very safe in her heart.
Jiang Xinyan also read in medical books that drinking goat milk can make the body healthy.
She was just trying it, but she didn't expect it to be really useful.
Because she was often punished to stand in the rules or kneel since she was a child, Jiang Xinyan, who was less than 16 years old this year, had a problem with leg and foot pain on rainy days.
Since drinking goat milk for a few days, it didn't get better suddenly, but it did alleviate some symptoms.
This is called calcium supplementation, which Jiang Xinyan naturally didn't know.
She only knew that this book was amazing. Every example described in it was something she had never known before and no one had ever said. But if she verified it, she found that what was written in the book was correct.
So these days, she drinks a bowl of goat milk every morning and evening.
Chunzhu also drinks it.
Originally, she bought it for Xianglan.
But for some reason, Xianglan didn't seem to like goat milk very much.
Even if she specifically said that it was a good thing, Xianglan just knelt down and begged her, saying that she would definitely work hard and ask Jiang Xinyan not to give her goat milk.
It's embarrassing to say that as the ninth princess who has been bullied since childhood.
Jiang Xinyan actually doesn't have much experience in palace fighting.
Because people bully her, there is no need to go around in circles.
The basis of palace fighting is that there will be people to support you after the fight.
Whether Jiang Xinyan and Wang Cainv attack hard or be careful of green tea, the emperor will not look at them.
Naturally, people don't need to spend more effort.
Bully is bullying, there is no need to find a reason.
So Jiang Xinyan doesn't understand Xianglan's brain circuit at all.
In addition, Xianglan refused because she didn't like to drink.
Although she didn't understand why she didn't like to drink and had to use such an expression and action, she still agreed, but secretly felt sorry that the other party missed such a good thing.
Then she drank happily with Chunzhu every day.
As for finding a husband for Xianglan, Jiang Xinyan didn't think there was anything wrong with her words.
Born as a maid, she could return her indenture with the reward of the master's family, and she would be a free man from then on, but after all, she had been a maid, and it was good to find a husband who had fields and houses in the capital.
Although it was a commoner family, as long as the couple lived well, they could manage their lives well.
What's the problem?
While waiting for Ji Changze to come back, Jiang Xinyan casually said that it would be better for Xianglan to boil water when she worked in the future.
Ji Changze looked at Xianglan, who was hiding in the corner, with a half-smile, full of resentment, as if she had suffered a great injustice when he was not around:
"Since the princess has this kind heart, then naturally listen to the princess."
"Xianglan, the princess is devoted to you, why don't you hurry up and thank the princess."
Xianglan stepped forward with grievance, bowed gracefully, and her tone was full of weakness:
"Xianglan thanks the princess for her consideration."
"No need."
Jiang Xinyan was very happy in her heart for doing a good thing.
When she smiled, her face showed some of the immaturity that should be there at this age.
"Since you came to our family, you have been doing things wholeheartedly, and we will naturally return the favor."
Xianglan: "..."
She was completely frozen.
Return! Return! Return!
Isn't this what she meant by doing the first day of the month and the other party doing the fifteenth?
Is the Ninth Princess hinting to her that if she dares to do something that is not good for the Zhu family, she will have to pay it all back on her? ?
She knew very well what she had done in the Ji family.
She had tried to seduce Ji Changze countless times, but she just didn't succeed.
She had also secretly inquired about Ji Changze's study many times, until the Fifth Prince Consort told her that Ji Changze's house was a sieve, and she stopped being so diligent in "cleaning" the study.
As a result, the Ninth Princess deliberately smiled and told her to return the favor.
Xianglan swallowed her saliva and looked at Ji Changze for help.
However, the Ninth Prince Consort from the countryside seemed to not understand such a simple hint. He kept looking at the Ninth Princess with a smile, saying:
"The princess is really kind."
Xianglan: "..."
At this moment, she seemed to have returned to the days when she first came to the Ji family.
At that time, Ji Changze also used her like an old ox, and the Ninth Princess closed her eyes and praised him for his kindness.
No.
Is this family all sick? ?
The Ninth Princess didn't know how much Xianglan was devastated.
She was shy to be praised by her own Prince Consort.
She went into the house shyly to read a book.
Chunzhu accompanied her into the house. Before entering, he took a vigilant look at Xianglan. When he found that she did not make the seductive moves before, he followed her into the house with confidence.
After entering, she picked up the rag and wiped the table with familiarity, while complaining to Jiang Xinyan;
"Princess, I don't think Xianglan is a rough maid at all. She doesn't work as efficiently as you said, especially when wiping the table. She just wipes it once every time and doesn't pay attention at all."
"Whose maid works like this? She would have been driven out by the housekeeper long ago. What's more, she looks like that. I'm afraid she was sent by the fifth prince consort to annoy you?"
Jiang Xinyan actually thought so at first, but since she found out that Ji Changze treated Xianglan like an ordinary maid (even most of the time he disliked her for not working well), her mentality changed.
"She looks okay now, and she works hard. It's not easy to send away a maid sent by the fifth brother-in-law. We should treat her better and let her go free after a few years. It's a win-win situation."
Chunzhu held back for a while, but still didn't say that she saw Xianglan flirting with the prince consort.
In any case, the prince consort didn't fall for it.
Xianglan was sent by the Fifth Prince Consort. It was impossible to send her away. Otherwise, if she was sent away, the palace would give the princess a reputation of being jealous. It was unknown how she would deal with it.
Since the Prince Consort was not fooled, she should not say it out loud, otherwise the princess would be unhappy.
Chunzhu thought while looking outside absent-mindedly.
She really wanted to stay by Xianglan's side all the time, watching her and not letting her seduce the Prince Consort when the princess entered the house.
The scene in the yard was completely different from what Chunzhu had imagined.
When Jiang Xinyan Chunzhu left and only Xianglan and Ji Changze were left in the yard, she was in a tense state.
It was the kind of painful moment when she felt as if her life was hanging by a thread and she felt the tension all the time.
Xianglan moved quietly, intending to hide in the woodshed without making a sound.
However, she was still caught.
"Xianglan, you said before how much money the servants in your mansion get per month, how much cloth is distributed per month, and how many servants are there in a mansion?"
"Don't be nervous, I'm just asking casually. You can sweep the floor again while you answer."
Xianglan; "..."
Here it comes.
She has given up seducing Ji Changze recently.
Otherwise, who can seduce when the other party urges her to work when they are alone together.
At this moment, Ji Changze finally asked, and Xianglan felt like the knife hanging on her head finally fell to the ground.
She resigned herself to her fate and began to sweep the floor while answering Ji Changze's questions.
As for why Ji Changze asked about the situation in the mansion of the Fifth Prince Consort?
This prince consort from the countryside has always been committed to getting close to other powerful people, so it is normal for him to want to inquire and learn.
Although she has been away from the mansion for a few years, she grew up there after all, and it is not an exaggeration to say that she knows everything. She just said it all with contempt for "Tsk, after all, he is a country boy" in her heart.
Ji Changze listened and made a non-existent calculation in his mind.
You know, the father of the Fifth Prince Consort was not from a noble family, and although his mother was the daughter of an official, her family was not rich, and how much dowry could she give to her daughter?
But even such a family had more than a hundred maids and servants in the mansion alone.
It was comparable to the amount used by the Princess's Mansion.
The Princess's Mansion relied on the emperor's subsidy, but what did the Fifth Prince Consort's family rely on?
He calculated the places the Fifth Prince Consort chose every time he went out, the food he ate, the places he went to play, and the monthly wages and subsidies for the maids and servants.
Ji Changze quickly came up with the amount of money the Fifth Prince Consort should have in his heart.
He even calculated the amount of silver and money in the Fifth Prince Consort's family account.
The Fifth Prince Consort probably couldn't even dream of it.
He sent people to try to sow discord.
As a result, Ji Changze turned around and stole the house.
The next day, Ji Changze came to Hu Bo's house as usual and had breakfast together.
Although Uncle Hu was called Uncle Hu, he was not very old. He was only in his forties this year and was strong and healthy.
But he looked much more haggard recently because he had no news about his son and daughter.
Seeing Ji Changze coming, he was in better spirits. He welcomed him into the house and whispered:
"I did what you said before and spent the money you gave me to find out. As expected, I found out some things. Fengguo has been in chaos everywhere."
"As expected."
Ji Changze was not surprised at all.
Since the emperor of Fengguo began to be unreliable, the upper and lower levels followed suit. As long as you can pay, you can buy an official position.
The size of the official depends on how much money you pay.
Even the officials in the capital can be bought and sold.
Of course, unless some families are originally officials and spend money to buy Beijing officials to pave the way for their sons, most people who buy officials are aiming to become local officials.
After all, only when the emperor is far away can they operate more easily and make more money from the people.
The original upright officials have become vampires.
And these people have no bottom line.
Who spends money to buy an official position just to be a good official?
They are used to using money to make it clear. If the victim makes trouble, they spend money to bribe the boss. It doesn’t matter if the boss doesn’t accept it. As long as the money is in place, there will always be officials higher than the boss to accept it.
Officials are originally the cornerstone of a country.
If the cornerstone is rotten, the root will also be rotten.
"They are just ordinary people who have no way to survive, so they started to make trouble. Most of them were suppressed by the local government before they could make a move. Some of them did not report to the government, and some of them reported because they could not suppress them."
Ji Changze asked: "How did the court deal with those who reported it?"
Hu Bo looked compassionate: "The army was sent to suppress it."
Another expected thing.
But it was always a bit uncomfortable in the heart.
The court did not even bother to ask the reason, nor did it think about why the originally honest civilians suddenly □□ when everything was fine and the weather was good.
It was handled directly like this, and the civilians died without a single one left, but the officials who forced them to rebel were still sitting in the court.
This treatment can indeed suppress the remaining part of the people who are ready to make a move for a while.
But it is useless.
If it continues, people will still choose to rebel, so that even if they die, they can have a full meal before they die.
Hu Bo saw that Ji Changze was thinking about something, so he did not dare to disturb him.
His hometown was hit by a disaster. It was said that the place was in chaos, people were displaced, and there were bandits.
He left his property in the capital and went to look for it himself, only to find the old house burned to charcoal.
His daughter was married to a wealthy local family, and was also burned to ashes.
Hu Bo did not find his children, so he could only return to the capital and cry every day until a fellow villager who escaped from the previous disasters told him.
His hometown was not hit by a natural disaster at all, but by the government.
This year, the weather in his hometown was good, and everyone was living well, but a new official took office and asked the rich families in the city to pay money right away. Not only these rich families, but also the common people had their taxes raised.
The common people did not understand this, but some of the rich families knew it.
They did not want to be the scapegoat, so they united and discussed to sue this ugly official to the court.
At that time, everyone filled out a joint letter, and almost everyone who was well-known participated.
Hu Bo's son and daughter's husband's family were also among them.
As a result, the day before the joint letter was to be submitted, the city was attacked by bandits.
All the families who signed the joint letter were burned, killed and robbed.
At that time, those people were so bloodthirsty that they did not even spare ordinary people who did not participate in these things. Of course, they may also think that it would be too conspicuous to kill only those people, so they just picked some ordinary people to kill.
At that time, the city was in chaos for three days.
During the three days, the flames soared into the sky, and there were cries for help everywhere, but the government only symbolically sent out some yamen runners to take a look.
The bandits took a detour to the yamen runners' families.
If these bandits really came down from the mountains, how did they know where the yamen runners' families were? They killed so many people, were they afraid of offending the government?
Ordinary people did not know the inside story, and they did not even know that the local officials reported a disaster.
Hu Bo's fellow villager almost signed the joint letter at the beginning, but his grandson happened to be sick, and he rushed to another province to visit him, so he escaped.
But his youngest son's family, who had been separated from him, failed to escape.
His home was also robbed by bandits while he was away. When he came back, he found that his wife and eldest son's family were gone. He looked around and found out the clues. He wanted to go to the capital to complain. When he arrived in the capital, he found out that the newly appointed official was actually a relative of the emperor's concubine.
Or the very favored Concubine Yang.
He immediately gave up this idea and was taken in by Hu Bo.
After that, it was Ji Changze who came to the door.
Hu Bo looked at Ji Changze who had been thinking about something: "Mr. Ji, what should we do now?"
Ji Changze had already marked out countless rebellion points in his mind.
According to this trend, Fengguo will definitely be finished in less than five years.
He put the cup in his hand down heavily, and his tone was very calm:
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