Concubine Liu's illness took the lives of the Liu family. No one expected Feng Yuheng to be so ruthless. The Eighth Prince's followers were all terrified and did not dare to make any moves. They chose to lie dormant. After all, Feng Yuheng's momentum was too strong, and the Ninth Prince had just won a victory. It was not a good opportunity to attack at this time.
Some even mentioned the Liu family incident, and believed that it was the Eighth Prince's misjudgment. It was the Eighth Prince's misjudgment of his opponent and his lack of understanding of his opponent that led to such a big mistake. For a time, people had some complaints about the Eighth Prince, but they did not break up. More people just decided to wait and see and not get involved in the Eighth Prince's affairs for the time being.
Of course, Xuan Tianmo would not be so stupid as to go against the wind again. To be honest, the Liu Huai case was probably a test for Xuan Tianming and his wife. However, this test made him secretly worried. It was really a headache for his opponent to be so ruthless.
Liu Huai's clan was beheaded in late autumn. Under Xuan Tianming's manipulation, everyone in the capital knew why the Liu family had angered the emperor so much that he wanted to kill all nine of their clans. Harming concubines and Princess Yu were not things that people's moral bottom line could tolerate, especially harming Princess Yu. For the people in the capital, Feng Yuheng's life was their life. Anyone who made things difficult for Feng Yuheng would be an enemy of all the people in the capital.
In early September, the weather was getting cooler, and Qingyu brought a stack of account books to Feng Yuheng. The number of account books was much more than when she was in the Princess's Mansion before. Qingyu told her: "In addition to our Princess's Mansion's shop, there are also those in the Prince's Mansion. Eunuch Zhang has sorted them out and asked me to bring them to Miss for review. There is also a book from the embroidery shop of the Third Miss." As she spoke, she brought a slightly thinner book to the top, "When Aunt An went to Ji'an County, she entrusted the embroidery shop here to me. I agreed with Aunt An to send someone to deliver it there every three months. Now Miss is also in the capital, so I brought it here for you to see." She said while flipping through it twice, "A small embroidery shop, compared with our shop, the income and expenditure are really insignificant, but there is a warehouse in that shop, and the things in that warehouse are worth some money."
"Oh?" Feng Yuheng was stunned, "What is it?"
Qingyu told her, "It was the dowry that was used to cheat the family of Prefect Luo Tian. When Aunt An left, she told me that when we moved out of Feng Mansion, we also carried those things to the shop. It was originally said to be the dowry of the Third Miss, but the Third Miss had said that she didn't want those things and wanted to keep them for the young lady to carry to the Prince Yu's Mansion when she returned to Beijing. Before that, Baicaotang was reopened and the medical school was established. I forgot about this matter because I was busy."
Hearing her say this, Feng Yuheng also remembered that this was indeed the case. She remembered that when she got married in the South Realm, Xiangrong did not send dowry gifts with Xuan Tiange and the others. It turned out that her things were left in the capital, and she went to Ji'an County too early, so she couldn't take them with her. But... "What do I need those things for?" She smiled bitterly, "Xiangrong, that girl, is just like her mother, she thinks too much. She is my sister, and it has always been the elder sister who gives dowry to the younger sister. She hasn't even married yet, why should I ask her to give me dowry! How can I lack those things of hers? Leave them all to her!"
Qingyu nodded and didn't persuade her any further. Those things might be good for Feng Xiangrong, but they were not very appealing to her family. Of course, sisters couldn't judge each other by the quality of things, but she also felt that the third daughter of the Feng family should save more dowry for herself. After all, the Feng family was gone now, and her mother didn't have a noble status. If she wanted to marry well, she couldn't expect anything except money.
"It's late autumn, and it's time to prepare new clothes for the changing season." Feng Yuheng said to Qingyu, "We have to prepare some clothes for Prince Yu's Mansion this time, and we'll send them to Prince Yu's Mansion to prepare them. You have to be careful and there must be no omissions."
Qingyu nodded, "Don't worry, young lady! Madam Zhou mentioned a few days ago that the Prince Yu's Mansion has its own tailor, and His Highness the Ninth Prince also has a cloth shop under his name. In previous years, these clothes were all purchased from the cloth shop. I think this rule should be broken. After all, His Highness the Ninth Prince's cloth shop is the best in the capital. We can't find a better one if we look for it ourselves. If it's not as good as in previous years, it will be embarrassing. Why don't you think about other aspects and see what you can buy for the servants in the mansion?"
Feng Yuheng nodded, "Then let's give the clothes for the Princess's Mansion to the cloth shop. No matter what we do in the future, both mansions must treat everyone equally. There must be no discrimination, so as not to disappoint the servants."
Qingyu wrote down everything she said, and then suggested that the medical school also distribute benefits, so she would do it according to the shares of the employees in other shops. Feng Yuheng had no objection to this.
She now lives in the Prince Yu's Mansion, and many of the expensive fabrics that were previously stored in the Princess' Mansion have been moved here. Feng Yuheng originally wanted to use the five treasures fabric to make a dress for Concubine Yun and Concubine Wenxuan, but then she thought that they must not lack good clothes, especially the five treasures. Things like these are expensive to others, but Concubine Yun must have as many as she wants, and Concubine Wenxuan doesn't seem to be someone who likes luxurious fabrics. She thought about it and decided that if she wanted to give some gifts to the elders, it would be more practical to give something unique to her own space.
After sending Qingyu away, she hid in the space and searched around. She found a lot of new men's and women's socks, all of which were functional socks with pharmacological effects. Not only were they comfortable to wear, but the women's socks could also remove dampness and cold, and the men's socks could deodorize and protect health. There were many styles of socks, and she picked the best ones to keep as gifts, and also took out some ordinary ones to provide specifically for the servants in the two mansions.
In addition, skin care products and washing supplies that were often sent to the palace and Prince Wenxuan's mansion were also indispensable. Concubine Yun and Princess Wenxuan had been spoiled by her. They didn't need ordinary things at all. They had to use facial cleanser to wash their faces and hand sanitizer to wash their hands. The towels had to be taken out of her space. The skin care products for wiping the face were even famous pharmaceutical cosmetics brands in later generations. Even the toothbrushes were not ordinary toothbrushes, but special toothbrushes for healthy teeth in the space.
Feng Yuheng moved these things out of the space, sorted them together, and put them in several boxes. Then he looked outside and saw that the weather was good, so he simply called Wangchuan and Huangquan to go out together and headed straight for Prince Wenxuan's Mansion.
The Prince Wenxuan's Mansion always welcomed Feng Yuheng's arrival very warmly, including the servants in the mansion. Because Feng Yuheng was generous, he gave a lot of rewards to the servants, such as gold, silver, melon seeds, peanuts, etc. Sometimes he would give a small handful of them.
Because of the Yao family, the topics between her and Princess Wenxuan were more or less sentimental. Feng Yuheng accidentally caused Princess Wenxuan to always wipe her tears, so she found an excuse to leave the house early. However, Xuan Tiange said to her very impolitely: "That thing called lip balm, bring me two more next time, the orange one was snatched away by Tianyu last time."
After leaving the palace, the three of them did not get on the imperial carriage. Feng Yuheng wanted to walk on the street. As she walked, she unknowingly came to the door of the embroidery shop opened by An. Although An and Xiangrong were not there, the foundation of this shop was good and there were still many customers. Moreover, now that Qingyu took over, everyone working in the shop knew that the owner was the biological sister of Princess Yu. Now that Princess Yu took over, the welfare and treatment in all aspects have been improved a lot, so whether it is the embroiderer or the guy who sells goods in the front, they are very dedicated and no one wants to leave.
When Feng Yuheng saw this shop, she remembered something. She said to Wangchuan, "Say hello to Qingyu and the others later. Feng Jinyuan is gone now, and she is no longer a concubine of the Feng family. Don't call her aunt anymore. Just call her Madam An."
Wang Chuan nodded and said, "Don't worry, Miss. I will tell Qingyu when I get home tonight."
Huang Quan smiled and said, "I heard that Miss San sent back a lot of new embroidery patterns from Ji'an County. The shops in the capital also embroidered the finished products according to those patterns and displayed them. They really attracted the wives of the wealthy families. Madam An's shop was not so prosperous before. I also visited it when we were still in Feng Mansion. It was just a small business with a profit of several dozen taels a month at most. It was very shabby. I didn't expect that after the Feng family went bankrupt, the business would be more prosperous than before. It seems that the Feng family really doesn't support people. As long as you leave the Feng family, everyone will live better than before."
Feng Yuheng agreed with this. As the saying goes, a harmonious family brings prosperity. If the family members live in harmony, life will naturally go in a good direction. But if the family is like the Feng family, where resentment is entangled, all good luck will be scattered. This is not superstition, but the inevitable result of people's different mental outlooks and psychological states.
Several people were standing in front of the shop talking, and a shop assistant recognized Feng Yuheng and came forward to greet him cheerfully. But before the shop assistant opened his mouth and could say anything, he heard the sound of horse hooves and wheels grinding the ground from the north end of the street. Several people looked in the direction of the sound, but saw a carriage galloping towards this side from the north of the street, and it was so fast that it raised a cloud of dust on the ground.
Seeing this, the clerk of the embroidery shop hurried forward, protecting Feng Yuheng and moving her back to the side of the street to avoid injury, while casually saying, "Whose carriage is this that is so arrogant? It doesn't even know how to drive slower in a busy street. What if it hits the nobles?"
As soon as these words came out, the driver seemed to have heard them, and actually slowed down the carriage, and almost stopped about seven or eight steps away from Feng Yuheng. However, the driver's action was obviously not because of the boy's words, but because a little maid in the carriage was lifting the curtain and sticking her head out, looking at both sides of the street and saying: "The capital is just like this! The streets are so narrow, and people are dressed so poorly. Oh! There are beggars there!"
While turning back to talk to the other people in the car, not long after, another person dressed as a maid also leaned half of her body out of the car, looking in the direction pointed by the previous girl, and burst into laughter at a glance: "That's right! There are still beggars in the capital? I originally thought that the capital was a very wealthy place, not to mention that the streets were inlaid with gold bricks, at least there should be a lot of beautiful things, how can it be so shabby? Look, these shop fronts are all shabby, and there are still so many people standing in line to buy things, it's really unwelcome! Why is the capital so rustic?"
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