Chapter 7: Your Majesty, the Prime Minister's daughter will attend the banquet
Counting the days, every year on the tenth day of the winter month, Prince Yu’s Palace would hold a snow-viewing banquet.
King Yu is the emperor's uncle and has always been elegant.
Princess Yu also likes to act as a matchmaker. She said it was a snow-viewing banquet, but in fact it was a party for young men and women to meet each other.
The nobles in the capital city were rich and had plenty of free time. They held peach blossom banquets in spring, lotus banquets in summer, chrysanthemum banquets in autumn, plum banquets and snow banquets in winter.
In addition, there are the Emperor's Birthday Banquet, the Empress Dowager's Centenary Banquet, and so on.
There are lots of parties, which also makes it easy for her to go out and hook up with the Regent!
There are still five days left before the Snow Viewing Banquet.
"The engagement of the Third Prince is also a problem. It needs to be resolved as soon as possible."
It is very difficult to cancel a marriage that is granted by imperial decree.
Otherwise, the Third Prince would not have tolerated it until now.
One thing is that he was reluctant to give up the Prime Minister's Mansion.
The only way for him to break off the engagement without giving up the Prime Minister's Mansion was to give Bai Qingyou to her.
Bai Qingyou also liked the third prince, they were a perfect match.
It is good to treat others in their own way.
Five days later, it will be a good day.
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Regent's Palace
Butler Xishun walked in holding an invitation from Prince Yu's Mansion.
"Your Majesty, the invitation for the snow-viewing banquet at Prince Yu's Mansion has arrived."
"No."
"Your Highness, the Queen Mother has ordered you to go."
"The Queen Mother can only feel relieved when the prince gets married."
The Regent put down the brush in his hand, feeling quite troubled. His mother was too anxious.
She took the beads off her wrist and turned them around in her hand. Shu Feng could hear a hint of annoyance in her voice.
Shufeng saw Xishun's eyes looking for help and joined in persuading him.
"Even if the prince can't pick a suitable girl to be his princess, the queen mother will surely be happy if he takes one or two concubines."
As soon as Shu Feng finished speaking, he felt the temperature in the room drop suddenly.
Did he say something wrong?
The prince is already twenty-five years old. If he were an ordinary family, he would have several children.
The prince is the regent. According to regulations, he has one principal wife, two concubines, and an unlimited number of concubines.
What's wrong with taking a few concubines?
The palace maids sent by the palace to guide sexual intercourse in the early years were also driven away by the prince.
You can’t blame the Queen Mother for being anxious.
He didn't dare to look at the prince's face and retreated.
Xishun went to reply disappointedly to the person sent by the Queen Mother.
"well..."
When will the palace have a young master?
As the prince's personal eunuch, he also worried about the prince.
If he were not a eunuch, he would also like to be surrounded by beauties and live as happy as a god.
He came close to Shufeng and whispered:
"Shufeng, do you think the prince has something to hide?"
Shu Feng turned his neck stiffly and said, "You don't want to live anymore, so say that."
In fact, I can no longer hold back the gossip in my heart.
Your Majesty is not really... okay... right?
Shu Feng stopped his thoughts and thought that the prince must like women!
Xishun sighed: "I don't know what kind of girl can catch the prince's eye."
Shu Feng's eyes lit up and he ran out quickly.
"Hey, where are you going?"
A quarter of an hour later, he flew back.
"Your Majesty, I have heard that the young lady from the Prime Minister's Residence will also attend the banquet."
The Regent's hand trembled and a drop of ink fell, spreading across the paper.
I wanted to get angry, but inexplicably I thought of Bai Qinghuan's tearful face.
"Reply to the Queen Mother. I will go."
"Yes, sir!"
Shu Feng slipped away, fearing that the prince would change his mind the next moment.
Eager to tell Xishun the good news.
Xishun's surprised mouth could hold a big goose egg.
"Shufeng, how did you do it?"
Shu Feng straightened his chest:
"The mountain man has his own clever plan, hahaha..."
The prince is really talking nonsense but doing what he says. It turns out that he has set his eyes on the girl from the Prime Minister's Mansion!
If the Empress Dowager knew this, she would be so happy that she would die.
Bah, bah, bah, you will be happy and you won’t die.
Xishun felt like he was bitten by ants in his heart, and it was itchy and itchy.
"Shufeng, please tell me."
Shu Feng took advantage of the situation and asked: "Is the snowflake wine you treasured last year ready to drink?"
Xishun felt a pain in his heart, but he couldn't resist the burning gossip fire in his heart.
He gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll give you half."
My master, I have made great sacrifices.
"I'm telling you..."
The wind was rustling, and Xi Shun's eyes lit up as he listened.
The palace will soon have a mistress, and he will no longer have to be such a tiring housekeeper.
"Come on, come on, let's go to my room and have a drink."
Xuehua Niang no longer felt sorry.
When Shu Feng heard about drinking a glass, his saliva almost spurted out.
"It's broad daylight, if the prince finds out, we'll both be in big trouble."
Xishun thought of a time when he had a drinking addiction and neglected his work, and was beaten so badly that he couldn't get out of bed for half a month.
All alcohol addiction gone.
"That night?"
"Okay, I'll come find you after the prince goes to bed."
Ming Yi came over to report something and happened to hear their last two sentences. He was horrified.
"These two people, they can't be...what I think they are?"
"Oh my god, something terrible has happened."
After finishing the report, he began to discuss with his brothers how to bring Shufeng back.
Of course, Shufeng knew nothing about this.
.........
The Prime Minister's Mansion was also very lively.
Aunt Zheng happily took the storehouse key to take inventory, but found that the storehouse was almost empty, with only more than 700 taels of silver in the accounting office.
When she went to Mingyue Courtyard to cause trouble with Bai Changhao, Lu Wanning had already prepared how to deal with it.
"The Prime Minister is so focused on government affairs that he has no time to take care of the mansion. I'm afraid he doesn't know that the food, clothing and daily expenses of the mansion over the years are all my dowry."
"The glittering brocade on the Prime Minister's body, the jade pendant on his waist, and the deerskin boots on his feet, which one of them is not my dowry?"
"Even the pearl hairpin on Aunt Zheng's head and her entire outfit were bought with my dowry money."
"Over the years, my dowry has been spent and my health has also deteriorated. The Prime Minister probably doesn't want outsiders to know that the huge Prime Minister's Mansion is maintained by his wife's dowry, right?"
"If you don't believe me, you can go to the account office and check the accounts to see if I have embezzled even a tael of silver from the Prime Minister's Mansion."
Aunt Zheng couldn't believe it:
"You...you must have transferred the property of the Prime Minister's Mansion."
"I think the Prime Minister knows what it was like when he first opened his mansion. Except for this mansion which was granted by the Emperor, everything else..."
"Well, Madam Liu, go and call Steward Cui."
Bai Changhao just felt that Lu Wanning was mocking him. He thought about how he had nothing to his name when he first opened the mansion, and all the things were bought by Lu Wanning. He pretended that he knew nothing and enjoyed them with peace of mind. For a moment, his face turned red.
Butler Cui was an old man in the mansion. He handed a stack of account books to Aunt Zheng.
"Master, Auntie, this is the revenue and expenditure of the mansion over the years."
Aunt Zheng almost went crazy after reading it.
"impossible..."
"Over the years, it has been the Madam's dowry that has been used to subsidize the household expenses."
Bai Changhao felt his face burning. He was the prime minister, and he couldn't afford to lose face if others knew that he used his wife's dowry.
Lu Wanning looked at him with an extremely ironic look in her eyes: "Your Majesty is in a high position and has great power, so don't worry about these trivial matters. Aunt Zheng is smart and capable, much better than me. I think the shop in the mansion will soon be able to turn losses into profits and meet the expenses."
Aunt Zheng's eyes were blazing with anger: "Since Madam is marrying into the Xiangfu, the dowry also belongs to the Xiangfu, and belongs to the Xiangye."
Almost said it was hers.
Lu Wanning had seen shameless people, but she had never seen anyone so shameless.
Fortunately, everything that needed to be transported away has been transported away.
"Prime Minister, do you think so too?"
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