Getting Rich from Legend of Zhen Huan

Chapter 118: Storm in the Palace

There is a new bustle in the capital city. Jiang Xiuzhuan, who won six prizes in the imperial examination, has found his long-lost sister.

Separated in childhood and reunited when grown up, who wouldn’t want to hear something new with such trendy elements put together?

The storytellers in the capital had a new topic, and without thinking twice, each of them wrote a completely different script.

A more clichéd one is that Jiang Chen is the God of Literature who has descended to earth and is destined to encounter many hardships, finding his sister being one of them. Then the 81 hardships in "Journey to the West" are applied to Jiang Chen.

What is more novel is the various coincidences that led Jiang Chen to recognize his relatives, which is like telling a mystery suspense novel.

Such remarks also reached the ears of Lady Ulanara. She was very wary of the concubine's daughter who had completely won over the Fourth Prince after her marriage. Now with Jiang Liuyuan as her helper, she was really restless.

Although Fu Jin had no evidence to prove that this recognition of relatives was planned by Yi Xiu and Jiang Chen long ago, Fu Jin's intuition told her that all the coincidences were pushed by Yi Xiu behind the scenes.

Thinking of this, Fu Jin paused with the brush in her hand, and a mark of ink was dropped on the white paper, and this page of Buddhist scriptures was destroyed.

Fu Jin simply put the page of Buddhist scriptures into the bamboo basket at her feet with an expressionless face and asked Guizhi: "What's the news in the palace?"

Speaking of this, Guizhi did have a report, "Fujin, our people said that the second young lady is pregnant."

No matter how careful Yixiu was, many of the channels she used were connected by Ulanala's connections. After so many years of management, it was not difficult for Fu Jin to obtain such secret information.

"She is such a lucky girl. Now that the Fourth Prince has no heir, she has been given the first place."

Pregnancy is a great joyous event, and I will definitely give Yixiu a big surprise.

Guizhi didn't think her master was really praising her, so she quickly flattered him, "She's just a concubine's daughter, what good fortune can she have? If I were to ask you, you'd be lucky to give birth to a daughter safely. Do you expect to have a son?"

Fu Jin did not respond to Gui Zhi's words and continued to ask, "Is there any movement from Jiang's side?"

Guizhi replied unconvincedly, "Fujin, the people in that courtyard think they have a new backer, and now they are acting very ostentatiously, especially Jiang Yimian's close friend Baishu, who wants everyone in the world to know that their Yimian has established this relationship."

Guizhi has always been at odds with the people in the courtyard, especially Baizhu, whom she looks down upon. Now that she has the opportunity to make a complaint, she naturally wants to speak her mind.

Of course, Fu Jin knew how much water there was in Guizhi's words, but it was also a fact that the servants serving in the Ulanara Mansion began to waver, and this was what really annoyed Fu Jin.

Concubine Jiang lives a good life relying on Yixiu, and Lady Fu Jin is not afraid, because as long as Rouze marries someone better than Yixiu, the mob who want to rely on Concubine Jiang will find a way out on their own.

But now that she has joined the promising Jiang Chen, Aunt Jiang's future does not depend solely on her daughter. Fortunately, Jiang Chen is still only a minor official of the sixth rank, otherwise Fu Jin would definitely have Aunt Jiang die of illness immediately, and anyone who would affect her status would be eliminated.

Fu Jin asked again: "What has the master been doing these days?"

Speaking of this, Guizhi was even more furious, "The master still goes to that remote little courtyard every day. Aunt Jiang is already a grandmother, but she still dares to seduce the master. She is so shameless."

Fu Jin was not surprised at all. After sleeping in the same bed together for so many years, didn't Fu Jin know how snobbish the person next to her was?

Fei Yanggu is so realistic. If you are useful to him, he will be like a hyena that comes after smelling the scent and will not leave until he has eaten you alive.

"Jiang still hasn't served Fei Yanggu?"

"Yes, this concubine Jiang is really good at understanding a man's mind. If the man can't have her, he will keep thinking about her."

Speaking of this, Guizhi felt that Aunt Jiang was really resourceful. Her tactics of playing hard to get had already hooked Fei Yanggu firmly. He even ignored the two new concubines and just thought about making Aunt Jiang happy every day.

Fu Jin did not explain to Guizhi the complicated meaning behind it. What she needed was someone who could do things, not someone who could give advice.

What Fu Jin needs to take care of now is not the flattering Fei Yanggu and the harassed Aunt Jiang.

"The people in this mansion can't tell the priorities again. Guizhi, have the managers prepare the account books. We'll check the accounts carefully in a few days."

Guizhi didn't know why Fu Jin suddenly said she wanted to check the account book when they were just talking about Aunt Jiang. However, she had learned it over the years and just had to follow Fu Jin's instructions.

"Yes, I will go and inform everyone right away."

As long as the servants are in charge, they are all greedy. Fu Jin knows this, but she turns a blind eye to it. After all, only by giving enough benefits can people do things.

Nowadays, some people are restless and trying to please Aunt Jiang. In this case, Fu Jin can only take the opportunity of checking the accounts to make a major change. After all, no one is clean here, it’s just a matter of checking and not checking.

As expected, Fu Jin made an example of a few of the leading managers and investigated them, and the rest of the people no longer dared to have any evil thoughts to please Aunt Jiang.

But the people in the courtyard heard the news. Bai Zhu said to Aunt Jiang with some worry, "Aunt, this Fu Jin has dealt with several big stewards, all of whom sent things to our courtyard a few days ago. Do you think he is doing it for us to see?"

Aunt Jiang knew Lady Fu Jin very well. She valued the power in her hands the most. If her subordinates did not obey her orders, it would touch Lady Fu Jin's bottom line. Those managers were not wronged.

"You know how Fu Jin does things. Those stewards take the salary from Fu Jin and want to please us. How can Fu Jin tolerate them if they are so hesitant?"

Bai Zhu didn't think so. "Aunt, do you think Fu Jin is trying to scare the tiger away from the mountain? The master has been coming here non-stop these days. Which lady can stand this and not give Fu Jin face?"

When it comes to Fei Yanggu, Aunt Jiang no longer had the heart to explain to Bai Zhu. It turned out that Fei Yanggu couldn't stand Aunt Jiang's cold face, so he left after sitting for a while.

Now, no matter how unwelcome Aunt Jiang is, Fei Yanggu still comes every day with a thick face, making Aunt Jiang so annoyed that she doesn't even have the joy of recognizing her relatives.

In order to get rid of Fei Yanggu, Aunt Jiang had to pretend to be sick.

Seeing that Aunt Jiang's condition had not improved for ten days or half a month, Fei Yanggu was afraid that he would be infected. He pretended to be affectionate for a few days and then never came again. He just instructed that medicinal herbs and other things should be used as much as possible, and that Aunt Jiang must be cured without leaving any root of the disease.

After all, if Aunt Jiang died, how could she get close to Jiang Chen and the Fourth Prince? After all, Yixiu's connections in the palace were like distant water that could not quench immediate thirst, and the time for them to take effect would be delayed, unlike Aunt Jiang who could pass on a message or something.

Fei Yanggu felt sorry in his heart that Jiang was just ignorant of the current situation. Otherwise, with her status as the only second son in the family and her taking good care of him, why would she have lived in a shabby courtyard for more than ten years?

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