Ning Wanyin pondered carefully.
My brother has not returned for many years since he went out to recuperate.
The miracle doctor took his brother to look for medicine everywhere. I heard that he went to Jiangnan two years ago and is now on his way back to Beijing.
Roughly speaking, Ning Wanyin hasn't seen her brother for ten years.
Now that my brother is back, I think he has recovered. But now is the right time...
…
Morning Dew Pavilion.
Fu Jiaoyi received a letter from her parents.
The eunuch who delivered the message said:
"Master Zhaoyi, you have to think of a solution. The Marquis and his wife are so angry that they are sick. They have sold their property to pay off the young master's debt. But he still owes 100,000 taels of silver. If he can't pay it off, the young master will jump into the river..."
The Fu family spent a few taels of silver to bribe this young eunuch and asked him to deliver a message to Fu Jiaoyi.
Looking at the letters written by her parents, Fu Jiaoyi felt dizzy with anger.
After the emperor punished Fu Jiaoyi last time, they became afraid and gave up the idea of letting their son become an official.
Her brother said he wanted to do business.
The Fu couple originally disagreed, but her brother said that he should let the manager take charge and he would just stay behind the scenes and get some money.
And since he is neither an official nor a businessman, what will he do in the future?
Mr. and Mrs. Fu thought that what he said made sense, so they took out a small portion of their family’s money to support his business.
That's all.
Her brother went to find the son of a nobleman who was familiar with him and borrowed some.
The Fu family is the maiden family of Empress Dowager Zhaoci, and now there are many nobles in the capital who are on good terms with the Fu family.
His brother raised so much money not to do any big business.
I only used a small part of it to do business. I heard that I could make ten or a hundred times more money doing business, so I was counting on this to make money and pay off my debts.
Spend the rest.
From last year to now, I have been playing in Jiangnan for more than half a year and I don’t want to go home.
All the money was squandered and the business suffered a huge loss.
Forced to his door by debt collectors, he returned to the capital in shame and asked his parents for money.
The Fu couple emptied their family savings to pay off his debts, and still owed a foreign debt of 100,000 taels.
"He...how dare he do such a thing!" Fu Jiaoyi's hands were shaking as she held the letter from home. She was almost mad at her brother.
The young eunuch said, "Madam Hou asked me to tell Master Zhaoyi that if you don't think of a solution, she will have to jump into the river with your brother."
After the young eunuch left.
Fu Er said worriedly, "Master, what can we do? There is a hole of one hundred thousand taels, this... this can never be filled."
"No matter what, I can't continue to keep you under house arrest." Fu Jiaoyi frowned.
She had a way to get the emperor to lift her house arrest and regain his favor.
However, the last time her parents came to her to ask for an official position, she felt that the Fu family should calm down and sober up, so she didn’t want to be favored.
Unexpectedly...
Now, in order to help the family, it's time for her to compete for favor.
Being trapped in the palace, naturally there was nothing I could do. If I wanted to fill this hole, I had to think long and hard.
"Fuer, get a Buddhist scripture." Fu Jiaoyi said.
…
A few days later, the emperor went to the Xianling Temple to pray for blessings.
At first glance, he saw a thick stack of scriptures on the table, with blood-red handwriting and a faint smell of blood, placed in front of the tablet of his biological mother.
"Who copied this?" Helian Qi asked.
The priest replied, "This is a hand-copied Buddhist scripture sent by Concubine Fu, written with blood as ink, and is very sincere."
Wang Degui's eyes widened when he heard this. With so many Buddhist scriptures, how much blood must Fu Zhaoyi have shed?
Fu Zhaoyi...
The emperor hadn't seen her for a long time and almost forgot about this cousin.
Coming out of the Fairy Palace, the Emperor instructed Wang Degui:
"Remove Concubine Fu's house arrest and reward her with a hundred-year-old ginseng to nourish her body. Also, tell her that she doesn't need to harm herself in order to fulfill her filial duty."
"Yes." Wang Degui accepted the order.
Helian Qi understood at a glance that Fu Jiaoyi was trying to win favor. But she copied Buddhist scriptures for Empress Dowager Zhaoci, and this method of winning favor was also to his liking.
For the sake of Empress Dowager Zhaoci, the emperor would not treat her harshly as long as she was sensible.
After Fu Zhaoyi was released from house arrest, she went to Ganxin Palace to express her gratitude first.
Afterwards, he went to Yonghe Palace to pay a visit to the imperial concubine.
"I have lived in the deep palace for a long time and have not been able to take care of my parents. I miss them very much. I wonder if the imperial concubine would allow me to send the palace maid Fu'er out of the palace to visit my parents." Fu Jiaoyi asked.
She did not participate in palace affairs and had no one she could trust in the Foreign Affairs Office.
It's okay to bribe a palace servant to pass on some information.
But she was worried about sending money home and handing over so much money to an outsider. And she needed Fu'er to go home to see what was going on.
It was difficult for concubines of lower rank to contact their families.
However, as a Zhaoyi, she has the opportunity to send someone out of the palace once a year, but she needs to ask the concubine in charge for permission.
Whether the concubine in charge will find an excuse to deliberately obstruct the matter is another matter.
Although Ning Wanyin had a reputation for being domineering, she never made things difficult for the concubines and always did everything according to the rules.
"Fu Zhaoyi is so filial, there is nothing she can't do." Ning Wanyin nodded slightly.
Fu Zhaoyi bowed, "Thank you, Your Majesty."
The imperial gifts in the palace could not be sent out of the palace, but she brought silver with her when she entered the palace, as well as the rewards from the emperor when she was in favor before...
In addition to jewelry and silk, there are also gold and silver.
All the scattered money added up to eight thousand taels of silver. Fu Zhaoyi asked Fu'er to take it all out of the palace and send it back home.
When Fu'er arrived at An Sihou's mansion, he found that the current situation at home was exactly as the young eunuch had described.
All the magnificent furnishings in the past had been sold, and the mansion was now empty.
This mansion was bestowed by the emperor and cannot be sold.
The Marquis's wife took the scattered banknotes and silver coins from Fu'er, counted them and said dissatisfiedly, "Why is it only so little? How can we pay off the debt with this?"
"This is all the silver the master has. The master asked me to return it all." Fu'er was very dissatisfied with the lady's attitude.
It was as if the money was owed by the master, and he felt that the master's help was not enough.
"Tell Jiaojiao that if the money cannot be paid back, her brother and I will jump into the river. She can't just enter the palace and ignore her family... She can't just watch her own mother die!" The Marquis's wife said hurriedly.
In order to pay off their debts, the couple was desperate for money.
Fu'er brought the news from the Marquis' Mansion back to the palace and conveyed the Marquis's wife's words.
"Master, this lady is too much. It's the money that the eldest young master owes, and you have tried your best to help him. Now she blames you for not being able to pay it back!"
Fu Jiaoyi's tears fell. She had some resentment in her heart, but more of it was helplessness.
Now their family is penniless.
Her parents really had no other choice but to work hard to gain their favor and get more rewards to help the family.
Besides, only if she became a favored concubine would she have no shortage of people willing to give her money.
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Yonghe Palace.
"Master, Concubine Fu sent eight thousand taels of silver outside the palace." Lian Rui stepped forward quickly to report:
"This An Sihou Mansion has produced a prodigal son..."
Ning Wanyin didn't say anything after hearing this. Every family has its own problems. If Fu Jiaoyi could be ruthless and cut off all ties with the family, then what happened to the Fu family would have nothing to do with her.
But she couldn't break it off, so she could only suffer on her own.
Now that she is free from house arrest.
Ning Wanyin also added her name to the list of people going to summer vacation.
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