The First Phoenix

After the official took Aunt Wen away, the whole Hou Mansion spread the news that An Rou was going to become Princess Jin.

Shi Anxia frowned and asked, "Aunt Wen really said that?"

Bei Hui said, "Maybe Aunt Wen is crazy with anxiety and that's why she's talking nonsense."

Shi Anxia actually had an intuition that Shi Anrou was reborn just like her.

She took on the role of Shi Anrou, what would she do if she was reborn?

Shi Anrou knew her methods in her previous life, and she also knew that she fought a bloody path and finally became the Queen Mother.

If she were Shi Anrou, she would definitely not act recklessly at this point. Instead, she should lie dormant and wait for the opportunity to act.

What to move? With Shi Anrou's ability, the only thing she could plan was the location of the back house of Prince Jin's palace.

She was just a concubine in her previous life. Since she has the ability to see in this life, it is not impossible for Xiao to think about the position of King Jin's concubine.

Judging from her status as a concubine, it was absolutely impossible for her to become Princess Jin.

So she probably hoped that Aunt Wen would help her plan something, so she revealed what she could predict.

Unexpectedly, Aunt Wen has been in trouble all over the place recently. She has been stripped of the power of running the family, beaten up again, and taken away by an official. All these things have made her collapse.

In desperation, she shouted, "Her daughter wants to be the concubine of the Jin Dynasty" instead of the concubine of the Jin Dynasty.

In fact, Aunt Wen's vision is just like this. She exchanges children in the mansion, uses tricks to bully concubines, and secretly embezzles some money. That's the extent of her life.

If Aunt Wen is asked to plan for her daughter to become the woman of the Jin Dynasty, the only thing she can think of is crawling into bed.

Shi Anxia figured out the twists and turns and couldn't help but laugh, "Hey, that's interesting!"

Maybe what Shi Anrou really wants to do is become a concubine in Emperor Rongguang's harem? It’s just that there will never be another Rongguang Emperor in this life.

After lunch, Shi Anxia was still sitting on the couch taking stock. There were stacks of ledgers on the small table and an abacus in front of him.

Occasionally, her slender fingers would fiddle with the abacus beads, making a pleasant sound.

The red magpie who was waiting for the tea was stunned and said, "Girl, your hands are so beautiful."

Shi Anxia didn't show any anger after being disturbed. She just raised her hand and rubbed her head, "Aren't you tired, little red magpie? Why don't you sit down for a while and I'll teach you how to read the accounts?"

Hong Que's face was flushed, her eyes were watery, and her head was shaking as cutely as a rattle, "No, no, no, Hong Que is not tired, Red Que is not sitting, Red Que is not paying attention."

Shi Anxia couldn't help but laugh, and continued to fiddle with the abacus beads without forcing it.

After a while, Hong Que said again, "Girl, you seem to be different from before."

"Huh?" Her hand did not stop playing with the beads of the abacus, and they were still playing smoothly, but it did not affect her speech. "What's different?"

Hong Que was a little embarrassed, and her face turned even redder, "It's just... it just feels like when you look at me, okay, okay..."

"What's good?" Shi Anxia put her hand on the abacus beads and raised her head to look at her.

Hong Que pursed her lips, feeling like crying. "I just feel like when the young lady looks at me, she's like my grandmother, rubbing my head, so kind..."

"Puff!" Shi Anxia couldn't help but laugh and threatened her, "I look like your grandmother, silly girl, you'll get beaten for talking like that!"

Bei Hui happened to enter the room, and after hearing the general idea, he smiled and said, "Thanks to our girls, someone else has heard and designated the person to be beaten."

Hong Que waved his hands anxiously, "No, no, no, Hong Que didn't mean that! Hong Que just wanted to say that the girl is very nice to others..."

Shi Anxia patted her head and said, "Alright, stop explaining. From now on, young lady, I will love you like your grandmother did."

"Thank you, Miss!" Hong Que's bright tears welled up in her eyes. "At home, only my grandmother loved me. As soon as she left, the whole family thought I was just a freeloader, so they sold me off."

Shi Anxia remembered how the vampire jumped up to suck her blood and eat her flesh when the red magpie soared into the sky and jumped onto the branch.

She put away her smile and said, "Hongque, have you ever mentioned to your family that you want to be promoted to a first-class maid?"

Hong Que shook his head, "No, I haven't been promoted yet."

"Then don't say it." Shi Anxia thought for a while and then said, "Next time I see your parents, tell them that you have a heart disease and you need a lot of money to treat it. If you don't treat it, you will die. Ask your parents How much money can I spend to treat your illness?"

"what?"

"Let's just say it and see how your family reacts."

"You know without asking, they won't give money to me for medical treatment." Hong Que was no longer sad. "They would say, let her die, why spend that money, she's just a girl."

Shi Anxia was a little surprised, "You know everything about it..." It felt like a thorn in his heart.

Could it be that in her previous life, simply because the only girl in the world who treated her well no longer wanted her, she had been sucked dry by her family. In this way, at least she still felt like she had a family.

Shi Anxia's face turned ugly.

Hong Que was anxious, "Girl, did Hong Que say something wrong?"

"No." Shi Anxia suppressed the melancholy in her heart, took her hand, and said in a deep voice, "From now on, wherever I am, there will be your home."

Hong Que opened her mouth wide, thinking she had misheard. She even saw the kind look in the girl's eyes, like that of her grandmother.

Shi Anxia was coaxing the silly girl Hong Que when someone came to report that Shi Wanzhen came again, and this time she brought a strange woman with her.

As soon as the woman saw Shi Anxia, she fell to her knees and said, "Miss Anxia, please spare my life! I know I was wrong! My whole family knows I was wrong!"

Shi Anxia didn't speak, looked calm, and just sat upright.

Shi Wanzhen felt that her face was being trampled on the ground and she could not raise her head, "Sister Xia, this is Madam Zhao. She said she is willing to pay a thousand taels of interest to sue. Just..."

Shi Anxia shook his head, "It's not the price now, Mrs. Song! Two thousand taels, not a penny less."

Shi Wanzhen's whole body was stiff with anger, "Sister Xia, you should be a human being in moderation."

Shi Anxia looked down at her nails and smiled without raising her head, "This moment, that moment. Just now it was the price of one's own people, and now it is the price of outsiders. How can it be the same?"

Shi Wanzhen: "..." Are you treating me preferentially as a co-author?

Mrs. Zhao was so stunned that she almost vomited blood.

Just now Shi Wanzhen said that Shi Anxia would only stop complaining if she wanted one thousand taels of silver.

She didn't believe it and felt that Shi Wanzhen must have made money from it, so she had to come and see for herself. Who would have thought that this person would even raise the price, which is even more treacherous than profiteers like them?

She took a deep breath, controlled her excitement and anger, and kowtowed deeply, "Miss, our Zhao family runs a small business. It's not easy to come all the way to the capital."

Shi Anxia still looked at her nails and said nothing.

Madam Zhao continued to complain, "Not only did we receive a lot of return orders last night, but the government also sealed our shop and warehouse. Now my head of the family is in jail again, and the rest of the family is frantic. My mother-in-law vomited blood this morning. If the young lady can't let her see her son today, she will die at the gate of your mansion..."