When Ren Jiayu arrived at the border, she was busy forming her own guard. Birds of a feather flock together. The people that her father and three brothers had picked for her at the beginning gradually found various reasons to leave the guard and return to their original military camps. Ren Jiayu was angry and remembered these people. She would make them die beautifully in the future.
Suddenly she remembered that many years ago, she dealt with those soldiers who were not getting along with her, but was thrown to the same place by He Qing... He Qing, she was stunned for a while.
Since he is not loyal to her, just go back and she will choose someone else.
The people selected were basically ugly in the eyes of Ren's father and brothers. They didn't dare to act rashly in the military camp, but they were not bad cowards. So why did these people voluntarily follow Ren Jiayu?
Ren Jiayu leads this group of mismatched people, and they really have the style of the Beijing dandies. They do neither proper work nor good things every day.
She led her guards to pick and choose at the border market, sometimes giving two coins and sometimes not giving any money. This style was even worse than that of Qu Hongfu, the concubine of Duke Fuguo Luo Rui.
Ren Jiayu sat in a teahouse on the border, listening to the conversation next to him. "The tycoon of the Three Rivers and Five Lakes celebrated his wife and children's birthdays with great fanfare. He waived two months' monthly fees for all his boatmen and distributed wedding money and cakes to all his stores."
Someone else asked, "Are his wife and child born on the same day?"
The man said, "It's just one day short, they're consecutive, so there will be wedding money and cakes distributed on the eighth and ninth days of October."
Ren Jiayu's heart moved when she heard this: October 8th, isn't that Wang Xipei's birthday? Every October 8th, Xuanyuan Huaiyu is not right. He always asks the kitchen to make longevity noodles, but he doesn't eat them. I don't know what he is thinking all day.
Later, she learned it was Wang Xipei's birthday. He had once forced her to cook for him on her birthday. After Wang Xipei finished satisfying him, she stared blankly at a bowl of cold longevity noodles. She took two bites, then spat it all out. Xuanyuan Huaiyu, observing this, said, "You're acting so panicky!" and sent a maid out with the food box.
This was what Ren Jiayu learned from the maid in the palace after she summoned all the maids in the palace for questioning. She was delighted and proud at the time, but also a little hesitant: So, does he regret it now?
Then someone said, "What are you talking about? Last year, the eldest master held a family banquet at the Xizhao Tower at the Songjiangkou to celebrate his wife's birthday. The tower is right next to the river. Originally, it was a family banquet, so only the second and third masters could go. But somehow, the news spread from one to ten, and then from ten to a hundred, among the boatmen. Those who didn't go to Songjiangkou changed their route and headed there."
Every boat that passed by the tall building would rise and fall three times if it had sails, and would advance and retreat three times if it had no sails. Only in this way could each boat pass by.
There were also many boats temporarily moored there for the waiters to deliver gifts. Some also moored their boats to go to the lower floors of Xizhao Tower to have dinner, hoping to meet the boss and his wife. Later, the entire river surface below Songjiang Tower was gradually blocked and filled with boats.
It was not until the big boss and his wife appeared on the top of the West View Tower that the boatmen saw him and the second boss personally waved flags and gave orders, and then the boats left one by one.
That scene, wow, it was truly magnificent, something you only get to see once in your lifetime."
Someone asked, "Have you met the boss and his wife?"
The man raised his neck, a look of pride on his face: "Of course!"
Someone curiously asked, "What are the boss and his wife like?"
The man said, "I have never seen anyone more beautiful than them. If you had seen them, you would understand that what is written in books and painted is nothing. I have also seen them, and only then did I understand the meaning of the word 'style'."
Someone else asked, "Did you guys disturb the wife and cause her to go into labor on the day of her birthday?"
The man said, "Don't talk nonsense. The eldest son of the family is three years old, not just last year. Besides, I'm just a cargo ship driver, and I just want to see the world with the ship owner."
My captain, seeing the boss's good mood, actually drank a bit too much that day and stayed overnight at Songjiangkou. Guess what? Not long after the boss and his wife left on their boat, the Fifth Prince arrived with a group of men, galloping along at full speed. They galloped for who knows how long, but the horses were almost exhausted. The Fifth Prince dismounted and headed straight for the West View Tower. Then I saw the Fifth Prince standing alone on the top of the tower, gazing into the distance. I'm afraid he could see the boat the boss and his wife were on.
"The Fifth Prince wants to see the eldest master about something?"
The man suddenly lowered his voice and said, "The rumor is that the Fifth Prince's late Concubine Chen, the former Fifth Prince's wife, looked the same as the First Boss's wife, so the Fifth Prince came here to pursue her."
"So that's what happened." Since it concerned the royal family, although many people were still unsatisfied and wanted to continue talking about this gossip, they all stopped talking.
When Ren Jiayu heard this, he felt a surge of hatred and anger in his heart.
She thought of the embroiderer she had beaten at the official embroidery bureau. She covered her face and said to her, "Why are you so arrogant? Others don't respect you, but you have the support of the imperial power and the general's mansion. Now the biggest one has fallen. If you were not sent to the border to be protected by your father and brother, would you dare to walk around any county in Xuanyuan?
Anyone with the ability can deal with you now. The royal family is no longer protecting you. Who do you think you are? Even before, the whole country knew that the fifth prince was chasing after the former prince's wife. You are just a joke! "
She plucked out two of the embroiderer's nails.
But now she felt those two nails scratching her face. What the embroiderer said was true, and she hated her because it was true.
Why do these defeated generals live better than her?
She stood up and led the group out, continuing to stroll through the market. She spotted a little girl's sheepskin; it was clean and had thick wool, and she wanted one to put at the foot of her bed. It would be comfortable and warm to step on when she got up.
Shopping really makes people happy.
So she threw two big coins on the little girl's stall, picked up the sheepskin, and thought it was really good. She generously threw two more big coins on it, then gave the sheepskin to her follower and turned to go to the next stall.
Ren Jiayu didn't notice that this was a blind little girl. With the help of her beloved sheepdog, she took care of herself and did some small business. As soon as Ren Jiayu turned around and left, the sheepdog started barking, picked up the big coins, and put them in the little girl's hands one by one.
When the little girl heard Snow Flower's cry, she knew that something was wrong with the deal. She felt the money in her hand and asked Snow Flower in surprise, "Is that all?"
She was blind, so even though people at the market bargained with her, no one robbed her. Once, someone had ripped her off, and people working at nearby stalls and passing by had come to her aid. Today, this person was practically robbing her, but everyone around was silent. The girl already had a feeling this was someone she wasn't going to mess with.
But a sheepskin was not a small amount of money for her, and she couldn't just let it go like that. So the little girl chased after him under the guidance of the sheepdog.
No one expected that this little girl would be such a tough guy.
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