Professional Ethics of a Concubine

"Invite Sister Yan and Mingyu to have dinner together in the evening." Xie Jin said this and got up and left.

Judging from his hurried steps, it was obvious that he couldn't wait any longer.

Want to favor Ye Qingzhi.

"Mammy, do you think Grandpa went to Yanliuyuan?" Zhang Jingyi asked somewhat dejectedly as she watched Xie Jin's back as he left.

"Madam, Master is becoming more and more interested in Aunt Ye."

Madam Zhou said, "If this continues, will Master..."

Nanny Zhou turned the words "favoring the concubine and destroying the wife" around in her mouth and then swallowed them back.

"I don't know whether the master will do it, but that concubine Ye..."

Zhang Jingyi thought of Ye Qingzhi's avoidance of looking at the account book, and the Marquis's comment that she was lazy, and she couldn't help laughing.

"Mammy, Aunt Ye doesn't want to be a mistress. Believe it or not, even if I want her to be one, she will shake her head and refuse."

Nanny Zhou shook her head first, indicating that she did not believe it.

Is there any woman in this world who doesn't want to be a mistress and only wants to be a concubine? !

I'm afraid he's crazy.

"I haven't talked about Aunt Yao yet. Forget it, it's not that important. It doesn't matter. We can talk about it at dinner."

Zhang Jingyi muttered softly.

-

Smoky Willow Courtyard.

When Ye Qingzhi saw Xie Jin, she was the first to smile when she saw his unshaven beard and dusty appearance.

The Xie Jin she had seen before was always clean, handsome, and without a beard. Now that Ye Qingzhi saw him with a beard, she found it quite fresh, as if he had become a different person.

"Master, have you just returned home? Look at your frosted face. I am so heartbroken."

Ye Qingzhi walked up to him, touched his face and teased him.

Xie Jin held her in his arms and kissed her soft little mouth that he had been longing for.

When the two separated again, the look in their eyes when they looked at each other was so tearful.

"Master, your beard is hurting me, how about I shave it for you?"

"I see you like it very much, but you say one thing and mean another."

Xie Jin picked her up and walked towards the bed. The maids had already retreated with blushing eyes when the two of them were hugging each other and being intimate.

The two of them went through a lot of trouble, and Ye Qingzhi was also exhausted. She hadn't been to work for a long time, and suddenly she felt very tired when she went to work.

Death Monday is worthy of its name.

"Master, have you not eaten yet?" Ye Qingzhi asked him after she calmed down. "I see you have lost weight. It must be too hard to be on duty outside."

"That's because it's not as comfortable as lying in the shed with you every day." Xie Jin's hands wandered around her body, and he felt that she was a little plumper than before.

"You've gained weight again."

"No!" Ye Qingzhi grunted and climbed up, looked at herself, touched herself and felt that she was indeed a little fatter.

Holidays are indeed the best fattening agent.

"Master, the meal will take a while to be ready. How about you accompany me to exercise again to lose some weight?"

Xie Jin, ...

This is the first time I heard that inviting favor could be so fresh and refined.

Although he would be happy to exercise with her a few more times.

-

After eating and drinking his fill and lying back on the bed, Xie Jin was in the mood to chat with Ye Qingzhi.

"My master heard that you helped Madam check the accounts and found many problems. You also helped Madam remove the steward Wu who was greedy for money in the mansion and replaced him with your Ye Mansion as the purchaser of the Marquis' Mansion."

Xie Jin said, pinching her little face, "How come I find that you are becoming smarter and more capable?"

"No, no, I am still the same. I have nothing but yellow garbage in my head." Ye Qingzhi looked at him with a smile.

"Master, did you receive the letter I sent you?"

"You call that a letter? You're wasting my carrier pigeon." Xie Jin said.

"Well, since you don't like it, I won't dare to give it to you next time." Ye Qingzhi looked sad.

Xie Jin bit her and told her to stop acting.

Ye Qingzhi unceremoniously bit him twice. Seeing that the fight was about to start again, Ye Qingzhi quickly stepped on the brakes and asked a serious question.

"Master, the Autumn Examination is coming soon. Is there anyone who wants to start a betting game to bet on who will be the top scorer?"

"Yes, do you want to bet?" Xie Jin asked her when he saw how interested she was.

"A little gambling is fun. I have nothing to do anyway, so I might as well bet for fun." Ye Qingzhi said with a smile.

"It's Song Yixuan, the one I gave him for the exam. I'm betting one thousand taels of silver on him. Do you want to bet with me?"

"Are you so confident in him?" Xie Jin raised his eyebrows and stared at Ye Qingzhi with an ambiguous look, his eyes hiding too many emotions.

He had someone conduct a thorough investigation of the Yangzhou student named Song Yixuan, and found that he was indeed very talented, and that his policy papers were all good strategies for governing the world.

Originally he was a student from Yangzhou and was going to take the provincial examination in the Imperial College in Nanjing.

However, because he offended an academician of a Jiangnan school, he was targeted and his student status was revoked, making it impossible for him to take part in the provincial examination in Jiangnan.

That's why he came to the capital to take the exam, and through his connections he became a disciple of Cai Xueren. Because of his policy essays, he was appreciated by Mr. Cai and accepted as his disciple.

With Lord Cai's qualifications, he was naturally given a place in the Imperial College, and with the recommendation of the Imperial College, he also regained a place in the provincial examination.

It can be said that if Song Yixuan had not come to the capital at the beginning, but stayed in Jiangnan and waited for the imperial examination three years later, it would only delay him.

When he came to the capital and successfully became a disciple of Lord Cai, his life suddenly became different.

Because Mr. Cai is the chief examiner of this year's provincial examination.

He preferred pragmatic officials the most, and he did not like those flowery articles, but preferred specific strategies for governing a region. To put it bluntly, Song Yixuan was the student he admired most.

As long as he can get A in the first two rounds of the Four Books and Five Classics and the general questions on Confucian classics, he will undoubtedly get A in the third round of the policy questions. In this way, it is entirely possible that he can get the first place in the provincial examination.

What Xie Jin cared about the most was that Ye Qingzhi not only gave Song Yixuan the money to come to the capital to take the exam, but even the idea of ​​​​burning his boats to come to the capital, and the idea of ​​​​taking office under the name of Lord Cai, were all given by Ye Qingzhi to Song Yixuan.

He knew all this because he had someone capture Song Yixuan and interrogate him, and that's how he got the information.

"Do you know Grand Secretary Cai Xueren?" Xie Jin asked Ye Qingzhi.

"Grand Secretary? How could I, a merchant girl, possibly know him?" Ye Qingzhi shook her head halfway, then suddenly stopped and asked cautiously, "Sir, should I know him?"

Xie Jin kept staring at her, watching her every move and expression. One can only say that if she knew Cai Xueren but pretended not to know him, then she acted very well!

"I asked someone to ask Song Yixuan, and he said that you not only gave him money to take the exam, but you also recommended him to become a disciple of Lord Cai, and said that Lord Cai would definitely accept him, and Lord Cai is the chief examiner of this provincial exam."

Xie Jin spoke slowly and steadily, staring at Ye Qingzhi's reaction.

Ye Qingzhi,...

"Wait, Master, let me take my time, I'll smooth it out first..."

Ye Qingzhi was sure.

The original owner must have been reborn after his first suicide by hanging.

Then she started planning.

Song Yixuan was the chess piece she had planted, which changed his destiny and gave him a famous teacher, a bright future, and enormous wealth.

However, the original owner was pushed into the pool by Yao Yinyin and drowned the next day after entering the Marquis' Mansion.

Such a cowardly way to die... If I were the original owner, I would probably be angry to death as soon as I woke up.

"Master, do you think I am a high-level spy of some secret organization, with all kinds of special skills, secretly planning, and destroying the enemy's masts and oars in the midst of chatting and laughing?"

Ye Qingzhi raised her hand and waved it, making a very cool (stupid) gesture.

Xie Jin, ...

"I think you are a fool."

Xie Jin tapped her forehead unhappily, and all his doubts were suppressed by her stupid look.

Really, if any high-level spy keeps blowing himself up like she does, that would indeed be another kind of skill.

Moreover, he had examined her body very carefully and found that she had absolutely no internal strength or martial arts skills, and her body showed no signs of any training.

"Alas..." Ye Qingzhi sighed deeply, then cheered up and said with a smile,

"Master, it's okay for people to be a little confused sometimes. Maybe we'll know the truth someday. Let's make some money by betting on Song Yixuan to win the first place."

"Okay." Xie Jin also smiled.

Just then, someone came from outside to report that Nanny Wang, who was beside Aunt Yao, was outside asking for a meeting, saying that Aunt Yao had something important to report to the master.

"Aunt Yao is following Aunt Qin's lead and is probably hoping to get pregnant in one fell swoop." Ye Qingzhi said with a smile.

"But I'm afraid that even if I go there, I will be powerless."

Xie Jin, ...

What a goblin!

-

Although Xie Jin left Yanliuyuan, he did not go to Yao Yinyin's place.

He was really annoyed with Yao Yinyin and didn't want to pay any attention to her.

"Mammy, isn't the Marquis here yet?" Yao Yinyin had already changed into light and sexy clothes, just wanting to have a quickie with the Marquis.

"Aunt, the Marquis has just returned, he must be very busy..."

"He's very busy, but he has time to sleep with that bitch Aunt Ye. He stays there for hours. I asked you to invite him in person, but he didn't come!"

Yao Yinyin collapsed and cried, "Why is the Marquis so heartless to me! How can he be so cruel!"

Nanny Wang kept persuading her with concern, and finally Yao Yinyin stopped crying.

"Mammy, do you know? When the Marquis comes, I plan to tell him that the first wife wants to win me over. The first wife has always been at odds with him. How could I possibly join forces with the first wife? That would be a betrayal to him..."

Yao Yinyin sniffed, but her eyes flashed with hatred caused by love.

"But the Marquis doesn't even want to enter my courtyard... If I can't get the Marquis, then other bitches can't get him either. What do you think? I should join forces with the people from the first house to kill the bitch Concubine Ye first, and then kill the Madam..."

"Hey, auntie, don't listen to Madam Wang's words. She wants to use you!!"

Nanny Wang quickly persuaded her,

"Our master is not that easy to fool. If we are not careful, our fate will be the same as Aunt Sun's!"