Chapter 92: Borrowing a Knife to Kill

After less than half a month, the cold wind gradually weakened and the haze of the cold winter gradually dissipated.

The frozen soil loosened, clouds floated like cotton wool, migratory birds returned in groups, and on the eaves of the Shangshu Mansion, birds were chirping and singing.

At noon that day, a distinguished guest came to Jin's yard.

The wife of the Marquis of Jing'an came here for a short rest. Qiao Wanyan sat beside her with a faint smile on her face, listening to the polite conversation between the two.

"You are so worry-free that you gave birth to such a well-behaved daughter. I wanted to have a daughter, but I was not so lucky and only gave birth to a mischievous girl."

The Marquis's wife said this, but her words were full of love for her son.

"I thought about having him accompany me from time to time, but who would have thought that my son is not as caring as my daughter. He runs away all day long. Now he visits the princess's mansion every few days. It really gives me a headache."

Jin said with a smile: "The young marquis is a handsome man, and many noble ladies in the capital are attracted to him. Madam Marquis should be happy. But the sudden return of the tenth princess to the capital is really shocking. This prince consort is so bold. He was so arrogant in Yunxi City, and now he dares to hunt down the princess to silence her."

A few days ago, the emperor issued an edict that the concubines in the princess's mansion who were taken back by the prince consort would be reduced to military prostitutes, the prince consort would be beheaded, and his nine clans would be exiled and never allowed to leave Lingnan.

Actually, given the Tenth Princess's unpopular status, the Emperor would not have made such a fuss.

However, the son-in-law's behavior was a disrespect to the imperial authority and a slap in the face of the emperor. How could the emperor not impose severe punishment?

"You deserve it. If something that is not worthy of being on the stage gains power, it should keep its tail between its legs and behave itself. If it wants to climb the ladder, it will only lead to its own death."

The Marquis's words were suggestive, and the two looked at each other and smiled.

"I heard that the eldest daughter of the Shangshu Mansion has been very close to the princess recently. My Qi Yun has also been a guest at the princess's mansion recently. I heard that your eldest daughter is preparing a birthday gift. I don't know why, but she asked my Qi Yun to help, so she has been very busy these days."

Jin raised her eyebrows, "Really? This girl has been going out early and coming back late recently. I don't know what she is busy with. It turns out she is busy with this matter."

Madam Hou thought about it carefully, "I remember Qi Yun mentioned it before. Your eldest daughter asked Qi Yun to buy several hundred kilograms of ginger, which made the whole mansion full of that smell. I don't know what she wanted to do."

She paused and continued, "I accidentally saw that the ginger seemed to be placed in a large barrel. These young children have a lot of strange ideas, and we elders really can't understand them."

Jin echoed, "A bucket of ginger? This is really puzzling. Could it be that this girl is preparing a bucket of ginger as a gift to the emperor? This is simply nonsense."

In the afternoon, after the Marquis's wife left, Qiao Wanyan also returned to Yongning Pavilion.

"Miss," Zi Yuan said, "If Qiao Yihuan really prepares a bucket of ginger this time, she will be really embarrassed!"

Qiao Wanyan frowned slightly, a bucket of ginger?

Qiao Yihuan is not that kind of ignorant fool. Although she looks timid on weekdays, she is not a coward. She would never really prepare a bucket of ginger to pretend to be ignorant and naive as a gift to the emperor.

Liu Yanran has been living in the princess's mansion all this time. She couldn't find an opportunity to capture her, so there was no guarantee that she wouldn't do anything to Qiao Yihuan.

What's more, the Tenth Princess and Jiang Qiyun are here to give advice to Qiao Yihuan, so she will definitely not prepare such a simple gift for the birthday celebration this time.

A bucket of ginger?

Qiao Wanyan looked solemn.

Zi Yuan said carelessly: "Miss, look, winter has passed and spring has come. The snow in the yard has melted. The little snowman made on your fingertips has lost half of its face. It looks so ugly."

Qiao Wanyan took a look and saw that the servants were shoveling away the snowman that had begun to melt.

Snow can be piled up to make a snowman, and ginger placed in a bucket can be piled up to make a small hill.

Qiao Wanyan stopped leisurely.

A hill of ginger?

Jiangshan.

country?

Qiao Wanyan suddenly looked at Ziyuan beside her and touched her cheek, "Ziyuan, you are really my lucky star."

"Ah?" Zi Yuan opened her eyes wide, not quite understanding why the young lady suddenly praised her.

A bucket of ginger mountain, unifying the country, homophonic disagreement but it is an extremely clever idea.

Dayu has been established for a hundred years, but has never recovered the northern border. This is the biggest worry in every emperor's mind.

He Yanli defended Beiming City and recovered Lu'an City, which made the emperor very happy and he was pardoned and returned to Beijing. Now, many people think that the emperor is intentionally giving He Yanli a chance.

It is still unknown who will be able to secure the position of crown prince.

If this "bucket of ginger" is really presented to the emperor as a birthday gift, the emperor will surely be delighted and reward him handsomely.

This gift is not stupid at all.

"Madam Hou really deserves to be the mistress of the Marquis' Mansion."

Zi Yuan asked: "Miss, what do you mean?"

Qiao Wanyan entered Yongning Pavilion and took the warm tea handed over by the maid. "Madam Hou is a person who is arrogant. She has always only interacted with the queen and the favored ladies in the palace, and has never bothered to interact with the wives of officials in the capital. She suddenly came to the Shangshu Mansion today, and deliberately mentioned the ginger prepared by Qiao Yihuan through Jiang Qiyun. She just wanted to kill someone with a borrowed knife."

Zi Yuan was confused after hearing this and couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time.

Qiao Wanyan didn't continue to let her innocent little head continue to think about these complicated things.

Jiang Qiyun spends all day around an unpopular concubine's daughter in the Shangshu Mansion. Naturally, the Marquis's wife, who thinks highly of herself, cannot stand this.

But it would be embarrassing to tell others that a lady of a marquisate took action to punish a little girl.

Let the sisters in the Shangshu Mansion deal with their grudges on their own, while she sits back and enjoys the results, wouldn't that be great?

Otherwise, why would he come to the Shangshu Mansion and insist on asking me to come over and talk?

Although she was being used, she was very willing to be this pawn.

As a younger sister, she would definitely help Qiao Yihuan with this bucket of ginger.

At this time, a maid hurried in, "Miss, something bad has happened to Miss Yun!"

Qiao Wanyan frowned, "What happened?"

The maid swallowed and said immediately, "His Royal Highness Prince Jing was recently ordered by the Emperor to deal with the remnants of the former dynasty in the capital. It seems that Miss Yun caused trouble at the critical moment and caused the thieves to escape. Miss Yun has been detained by Prince Jing, and whoever is Miss Yun's person should be sent to pick her up."