Xu Qinyu thought about it and decided to tell the fourth brother the truth. However, she only told the fourth brother that before she was married to the fourth brother by imperial decree, she had liked a man and even wanted to marry him. But since she was exiled to the frontier, she had no contact with this man. At this point, Xu Qinyu paused, "Fourth brother, I don't have any feelings for Song Bingjian now, but he seemed to have asked Xu Qinhui to bring me something. I guess he didn't dare to do anything excessive. He just wanted to get some benefits, so I wanted to tell you."

I also asked my fourth brother to find someone to teach Song Bingjian a lesson, at least to stop him from having those thoughts.

There was definitely no way she could contact Song Bingjian privately and say anything.

In fact, she didn't like Song Bingjian at all. She was not the original person, and there was nothing wrong with the original person's feelings, but she just met the wrong person.

Pei Weixuan lowered his eyes slightly when he heard this. He knew of course that Xiao Yu Niang would not like this man.

Pei Weixuan hugged Yu Niang and kissed her forehead. "Don't worry, Yu Niang. I know what's going on."

Originally, he had no intention of leniency towards Xu Qinhui, but he had been busy with government affairs recently, and he was going to hold the ceremony to crown the queen and marry Yu Niang, so he was unwilling to kill her.

Now Xu Qinhui is still plotting against Yu Niang, and she doesn't even try to hide it. Naturally, he can't tolerate that. But he doesn't plan to kill Xu Qinhui either. He has to suffer the consequences of how she treated the second young lady of Marquis Dechang's Mansion.

This can be considered as revenge for the second daughter of the Marquis Dechang's Mansion.

Xu Qinyu knew that Fourth Brother was very capable, so she didn't need to worry about this matter anymore, so she started chatting with Fourth Brother about other things, "Fourth Brother, I looked around the city today, but I just looked around the market near my uncle. The capital is big, and I haven't finished my tour. I plan to continue to look around in the next few days to see where to open the restaurant. As for the outside of the city, I want to wait until Fourth Brother and I get married before going to take a look, there is no rush for now."

She wanted to open a restaurant in the city and also build a restaurant outside the city.

By then, the Dong family will be helping out in the tavern in the southwest, and the restaurant will also have Chef Wang, so Cheng Ge'er and his friends will be able to return to the capital.

Cheng Ge'er is her apprentice whom she has taught personally for seven years. The other four apprentices, Fengtiao Yushun, are almost the same age. She has also taught them for five or six years. Some of them also want to come to the capital, so they can follow Cheng Ge'er and Gong Ge'er back to the capital. At that time, they can ask Lin if she is willing to bring Da Niu and Er Niu to the capital. Da Niu has a talent for pastry cooking. She has taught her for five or six years and they are almost the same age now. She can basically cook pastry by herself. Er Niu is also older now. She has become much calmer in the past two years and has also begun to learn cooking skills from her.

She must have enough money on her, so she doesn't have to worry about it.

But there is no rush for these things. Her wedding with Fourth Brother is just a few days away, so everything can be discussed after the wedding.

Xu Qinyu chattered on and on to her fourth brother.

As she was talking, she felt a little sleepy and didn't even know when she fell asleep in Fourth Brother's arms. When she woke up the next day, Fourth Brother was no longer in bed, but had gone to court.

Xu Qinyu felt that the life of an ancient emperor was really hard. There was no point in fighting for this position. He got up earlier than a chicken, worried about national affairs, government affairs, and the people of the world all day long, and still had to review memorials at night.

Look, Fourth Brother gets up earlier than her, a cook.

Xu Qinyu dozed off in bed for a while before getting up, washing up, and having breakfast. Then, she went out for a walk with Lianhua.

When the two were about to go back, they passed by a tea stall. Xu Qinyu was thirsty, so she asked Lianhua to sit at the stall next to her for a while. She ordered two cups of tea and two snacks, and ate slowly. People were coming and going around them, and everyone had a smile on their face.

She had been back in the capital for about twenty days and had never left the house for social activities, so everyone in the capital only knew that the second daughter of Marquis Xiaodechang's mansion had become the empress, but most people still didn't know what she looked like, and even if she went out, few people would recognize her.

Seeing the smiles of these people, Xu Qinyu suddenly understood her fourth brother a little.

Fourth brother is a good emperor, and the Great Sheng Dynasty will definitely get better and better.

As Xu Qinyu was thinking, she heard the customers at the tea stall next to her chatting.

It's nothing more than talking about the fourth brother's reign. It's been less than two months, and now the uprisings in various places have subsided. The people have begun to live a stable life. In addition, new crops have been planted in various places in the Great Sheng Dynasty. Although some families can only plant one-third or half an acre of fresh crops, as long as they harvest this year, they can keep most of it for themselves, and the remaining small half will be enough to plant two or three acres of land next year...

As they talked, several guests were moved and couldn't help saying, "Look at the people now. They don't have to worry about accidentally hitting someone on the road and getting beaten to death, nor do they have to worry about their daughters being taken away by the King of Handong. The King of Handong had many minions under his command. When the new emperor ascended the throne, he killed all of them. It was a good thing."

"They deserved to be killed. The gold and silver seized from their homes were also used to finance the national treasury."

"Emperor Shengwu cares about the people and is a man who values ​​love. The Empress followed Emperor Shengwu for seven years. The Empress's coronation ceremony will be held in a few days. From now on, the Empress will be the only one in the entire harem."

"I've also heard that the food cooked by the Empress is particularly delicious. Many ordinary people in the southwest have eaten the food cooked by the Empress."

"What you said makes me want to know how delicious the food that the Empress cooks is. I wonder if I will have the pleasure of eating it in the future."

"Stop talking nonsense. She is already the Empress. How can she continue to run a restaurant and serve food? Forget it."

Several diners started talking about other things, and Xu Qinyu listened to these gossips about the capital with great interest.

As they were talking, one of them suddenly said, "I heard that Song Bingjian was beaten to a pulp."

"Song Bingjian? Who is that? He sounds familiar, but I can't remember who he is for a while."

The man whispered, "He is the son-in-law of the former Tongyi family."

"Oh, I get it. Lord Tongyi is also a good man. How could he have such a son-in-law? Fortunately, Lord Tongyi's wife divorced this man later. But didn't Song Bingjian divorce Lord Tongyi's wife two years ago? Why was he beaten? Could it be Lord Tongyi who did it? Was he really beaten to a pulp? This man has evil intentions. If he doesn't have any skills, he will abuse and kill wild cats, dogs and other small animals. He deserves to be beaten to a pulp."

Song Bingjian himself was just a poor man. In the capital, only his neighbors knew him, and no one else had ever heard of him.

But Tongyi Bo is different. Although Tongyi Bo is just an earl.

There were not many people in Tongyibo's family who served as officials in the court, and they only inherited the title. Therefore, in the capital city where power was everywhere, Tongyibo's family was actually not very noticeable.

But the reason why people in Beijing remember him was an incident that happened three years ago.

Three years ago, the men of King Handong tried to kidnap a young lady at the market. They were seen by Earl Tongyi who was passing by. He beat up the men and rescued the girl. The result was predictable. King Handong would naturally not let Earl Tongyi go, and he found an excuse to have the government arrest Earl Tongyi.

Later, many people went to plead for Tong Yibo. The Queen Mother saw that the matter had become too serious and was afraid of arousing public anger, so she ordered the government to release Tong Yibo and asked King Handong to be more restrained.

After that, the life of Earl Tongyi and his family in the capital was indeed not easy. It was also because of this incident that the people in the capital remembered their family and were more concerned about the affairs of Earl Tongyi's family. Less than a year later, Earl Tongyi's daughter and her son-in-law had a divorce because Earl Tongyi's son-in-law was not a good person. He ate and used the Earl's family's things, and often went to brothels. When he was in a bad mood, he would abuse cats and kill dogs. All of this was reported to others, so many people knew Song Bingjian.

The man continued, "Of course he was beaten to a pulp. I saw it myself. But it seemed that he was beaten outside the city. I happened to see him when I entered the city. He was covered in blood, both legs were broken, and he was making noises. It seemed that his tongue was also injured. Anyway, this is how his life will be. He deserves it. He is not a human being."

"She really deserves it. I heard that the daughter of Lord Tongyi has no plans to remarry. She also knows some medical skills and seems to have opened a clinic..."

Xu Qinyu frowned when she heard this. This man actually abused animals. Could it be that it was Fourth Brother who did it? If so, I can only say that he got a good beating.

Animal abuse cannot be sentenced even in later generations, let alone in ancient times. But this does not mean that you can abuse and kill animals at will. Although it cannot be restrained by the law, it is a good thing that someone punishes such people.

Xu Qinyu sat for a while, listening to the tea drinkers start talking about other things, and then Xu Qinyu and Lianhua returned to Dechang Marquis Mansion.

After returning home, Xu Qinyu didn't take the fact that Song Bingjian was beaten to death to heart. Regardless of whether it was her fourth brother who hired someone to beat him up, Song Bingjian deserved it. She just didn't expect that there would be other consequences to this matter, but they had nothing to do with Xu Qinyu, but with Xu Qinhui from the third room.

Xu Qinhui hated Xu Qinyu since Lianhua slapped her twice and kicked her to her knees in front of Xu Qinyu yesterday. However, she did not dare to go to Xu Qinyu directly. She knew that Xu Qinyu would ignore her and she could not think of any other way. In addition to the humiliation she suffered yesterday, she was depressed all day and could not eat. She lay on the bed all day.

She didn't even eat the evening meal. It was the maid Ping'er who brought it in. She served her and let her eat two bites before letting her take it away.

When it was completely dark, Ping'er suddenly came over and knocked on the door. Xu Qinhui said listlessly, "Come in."

When Ping'er came in, she frowned and said, "Why are you bothering me again? Didn't I tell you that I was not feeling well today and that I didn't need to come to your room if I had nothing to do?"

Ping'er shuddered and whispered, "Madam, the master wants you to go to the study."

Xu Qinhui didn't want to move at first, but she thought maybe her father had thought of some way to help her, so she said, "Then go over and tell my father that I'll be there soon."

After Ping'er left, Xu Qinhui slowly got up and asked the other two maids to help her wash and change her clothes.

After changing her clothes, Xu Qinhui went to the study. When she left the courtyard, she noticed that there seemed to be a few more maids in the courtyard, but she didn't care and went directly to the study of Mr. Xu San. When she arrived at the study, Mr. Xu San's face was very heavy, but she didn't pay much attention to it. She just asked expectantly, "Father, is there any way for me to meet Emperor Shengwu?"

Although Pei Weixuan came to the Dechang Marquis's Mansion every day, and she once got up in the middle of the night to wait at the gate of the second courtyard, she never ran into Emperor Shengwu.

Xu Shuping, the third master of the Xu family, glanced at his daughter and said in a trembling voice, "Hui Niang, your grandfather and grandmother and I are planning to have you married."