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Luo Wanjin entered the room and saw his daughter sitting on an embroidery cushion with a carved marble surface beside the bed. On the small table in front of her was an embroidery frame with embroidery threads of different colors, as well as some gold and silver threads. It was obvious that the frame was carefully prepared.

Seeing his daughter holding the embroidery frame and threading the needle, he became worried about what his daughter was thinking and wanted to take the opportunity to say something to her. He asked knowingly, "Is your daughter embroidering something for your father?"

Luo Meihui raised her head and glared at her father, then pushed the embroidery frame in front of his father and said, "Dad is already old, can you handle such a youthful pattern?"

Luo Wanjin was choked by his daughter's disdainful words. This means she has a lover and doesn't even want her father anymore.

Then she said angrily: "My daughter, do you think your father is too old? If your father is not old, how could he raise you to this age?"

Luo Meihui stopped talking and just continued to embroider the purse.

Luo Wanjin probed again, "My daughter is grown up now, and she has the heart to leave her parents. There are also some sons of aristocratic families in the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce. They are all those who have no hope of passing the examinations or do not like to pursue a career in government, or whose families already have officials and do not need them to study hard. Regardless of whether they are legitimate or illegitimate sons, there are many who are outstanding in appearance and have good business acumen. Why don't I collect all the portraits of these young men and show them to you to see if there are any that you like?"

Luo Meihui immediately threw the embroidery frame in her hand into the needlework frame and said, "I don't want it! Those bastards who grew up in the worldly money-grubbing pile wish their eyes were made of copper coins. When they get close to people, they are full of the smell of wine, sex and money. I don't like them."

Luo Wanjin's face tightened when he heard this. It is said that words come from the heart, and what his daughter blurted out was what she really meant. He asked with some grievance, "Do you mean that you even despise your father? Look at my eyeballs and see if they are made of copper coins!"

Zhu Yuxiang knew that her husband respected her from the bottom of his heart. Ever since he married her, he felt ashamed of himself for being just a merchant. He wished he could change into a scholar's clothes so that he could match her.

The daughter's words hit the nail on the head for her husband, who immediately glared at her daughter and scolded her, "You're getting older and you're losing your manners. You say all kinds of nonsense without even thinking! What about money, wine, sex, wealth, and power? The throne in the Golden Palace is made of gold. Do you think it's worthless?"

Luo Meihui realized that she had said the wrong thing just now, and immediately hugged her father's arm and coaxed him, "Dad, how can you be the same as them? Dad is good at everything he does, and in your daughter's heart, he is a good person."

Luo Wanjin also knew that his daughter was speaking without meaning it and that she was mostly respectful and attached to him on a daily basis, so he doted on his daughter very much. After being coaxed by her, he immediately became happy again.

After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't get her to say what was in her heart, so he simply said to her daughter, "Hui'er, Dad knows what you are thinking. But listen to me, the prince will inherit the throne in the future, and there will be no shortage of three palaces and six courtyards. We are just a merchant family, and you are naturally a good person in my heart, but when you are compared with the palace, you will be judged by another standard.

Let alone the Crown Princess, we can't even count on the Crown Princess. Even if it's a high-ranking lady or concubine, it all depends on whether your cousin aunt is willing or not.

Daddy is not short of money, and if you don't like the smell of money in business, Daddy will find you a husband who is a poor student who is good at studying. When he passes the imperial examination, you can be an official's wife in your own home. Why do you have to suffer in the palace?"

Luo Meihui's heart was on the prince, and she knew that her status was low. Even if she could enter the Eastern Palace, she could only be a concubine. But when she heard her father say this, it was obvious that he did not agree. She immediately cried, "But I like my brother, the prince. Even if I have to go to the Eastern Palace to be a maid, I am willing!"

Zhu Yuxiang glared at Luo Wanjin, then hugged her daughter and coaxed her, "Don't worry, Hui'er. Your father can't bear to part with you, so he's just teasing you. Even if the Empress is worse than you, she is still my mother's cousin. We are all one family with the Central Palace and the Eastern Palace. How could we let you be a maid for the Crown Prince? Even if you want to, your cousin Empress will not agree. Don't worry, I'll help you."

Luo Meihui was just pretending to let her father know her determination. After hearing what her mother said, she stopped crying.

Luo Wanjin knew that he could not persuade her for the time being, so he stopped talking. Thinking of the purpose of his coming here, he said to her wife: "Madam, please follow me. I have something important to discuss with you."

After saying that, he called his wife to another room to talk.

But before he could even start talking about business, his wife blamed him, "Why did I spend so much time and effort to train Hui'er when she was little? My uncle is a high-ranking official, and my mother was also a legitimate daughter of the Cao family. But after she married my father, he failed to live up to his expectations and ruined the family business, so he had no choice but to marry me to your family. How come Hui'er is not worthy of the Crown Prince at all? She is good at everything, so why can't she try to climb up the ladder? It's not like she can't climb up at all anyway."

Luo Wanjin put his arm around his wife's shoulders and consoled her, "Madam, I'm not saying Hui'er is bad. I also know that you were wronged when you married me. I just think Hui'er is good, and as a father, I'm worried about her and want her to live a smooth and worry-free life.

But how can entering the palace be smooth and worry-free? I am really worried that Hui'er will go to that cannibalistic place and live a miserable life even if she enters there.

Let alone others, just look at your cousin, the legitimate daughter of the Cao family, a legitimate descendant of one of the three founding dukes, your uncle is still the Minister of the Central Secretariat, and the emperor favors Concubine He regardless of anything. Who can predict what is going on in the palace?"

Zhu Yuxiang said, "You also said that who can predict what is going on in the palace? The Crown Prince is not the Emperor, and don't the Empress and the Crown Prince still rely on our money? When the time comes, if we help the Crown Prince succeed, it will be a great achievement. Plus with my mother's status, even if Hui'er is a merchant's daughter, her status will not be lower."

The business world is like a battlefield. Luo Wanjin has been through the ups and downs of the business world, so he naturally knows that things will not be as easy as his wife says.

But he always felt that as a merchant family, he was lucky enough to marry the younger sister of the current Minister of the Central Secretariat and the cousin of the Empress Dowager. Therefore, he always respected his wife.

Having said this, seeing that his wife had made up her mind, he stopped arguing.

Seeing her husband remained silent, Zhu Yuxiang asked, "You didn't come to me to talk about Hui'er, did you? But what happened to your business?"

Luo Wanjin then told him about Qianyuan Pavilion, and added: "In just one month, the turnover of my Xiangyun Pavilion has dropped by 50%. If Qianyuan Pavilion continues to develop, Xiangyun Pavilion will have to close down. Although this one shop is not a big deal, what I am worried about is that Qianyuan Pavilion will have more and more shops. Now there are three shops: rouge shop, jewelry shop, and ready-made clothing shop."

Zhu Yuxiang said: "She is just the consort of the prince of Yan's mansion. Pei Yi is now a useless person. The Pei family army will change hands sooner or later. What are you afraid of him for?"

Luo Wanjin said: "I heard that the Prince of Yan is very fond of this Princess. If she really offends the Prince of Yan's Mansion, I'm worried that it will cause trouble for the Prince."

Zhu Yuxiang said, "What are you afraid of? Pei Yi doesn't give the prince face, and the prince wants to get rid of him as soon as possible. If you can cause some trouble for Prince Yan's Mansion, the prince might even look at you with a higher regard."

Then she lowered her voice and said, "I heard that it was the prince who caused Pei Yi to be seriously injured and disabled on his way back to the capital, but the matter was not kept secret."

Luo Wanjin was shocked and looked at his wife and asked, "Really?"

Zhu Yuxiang nodded and said, "Really? My mother told me that the chief guard of the Crown Prince's Mansion in the Eastern Palace left the palace on the day Pei Yi returned to the capital, and he has been missing since then."

Luo Wanjin thought for a moment and said, "Madam is right. If the prince doesn't like Pei Yi, I might as well think of a way to make things difficult for Prince Yan's Mansion."

After the couple had discussed and decided, Zhu Yuxiang went back to accompany her daughter to embroider, while Luo Wanjin went to the front hall, called his confidants, and whispered to them to do this and that. No one knew how he was going to cause trouble for Prince Yan's Mansion.