Secrets of Yuqing Palace

Wanyu looked at the envelope in her hand and asked, "Is that the letter in your hand?"

Nanny Sun shook her head, "How could that be possible?"

"Not only that, there are also festival gifts."

"However, the gifts were first sent to the main courtyard's Fu Jin. Fu Jin said that after the gifts were counted and registered, the gifts from our Qiyun Courtyard would be sent over."

Wanyu then nodded.

"Okay, I see."

She took the envelope from the other person's hand. The envelope was addressed to Shi Liha personally, but Nanny Sun said that the servant said it was his letter.

I pinched it with my fingers and found that the letter was not thin.

Then he leaned on the kang table beside him and took out the contents of the envelope.

In addition to a few pieces of letter paper, the envelope also contained several silver bills of different denominations.

Wanyu counted them and found there were five banknotes.

Among them, there are two with a face value of 100 taels, one with a face value of 50 taels, and the remaining two with a face value of 10 taels, totaling 270 taels.

She opened the letter again and saw that it was addressed to her sister Wanyu.

It is winter now, and although the chill is deep, my heart is always warm. I haven't heard any good news recently, and I miss you very much.

Recalling the past, we met by chance in Xiangshan, played music together, enjoyed the snow scene together, and talked and laughed happily.

The several letters I wrote before seemed to have fallen on deaf ears, and I received no reply from you. I also invited you to come out of the house to enjoy the beautiful scenery, but you did not respond either.

I have doubts in my heart, but I dare not speculate, for fear of disturbing your peace.

The world is full of troubles and people are fickle, I only wish that your heart will be at peace.

If you have any unspeakable secrets in your heart, please express them in writing and I will certainly understand.

If there is any inconvenience, please let me know and I will do my best to help you without causing you any worries.

Recently, the business partnership between you and me has been going smoothly, but I am thinking about future plans and would like to discuss them with you.

I once discussed business matters with you, and your insights were very insightful and benefited me a lot.

Now that business is getting better, I'd like to know your opinion on what to do next.

I want to invite you out of the house to discuss this, but I don’t know what you mean.

Two days later, I will leave Beijing and return to Shengjing to spend the New Year with my family.

......

I hope you can write to me as soon as possible.

Wanyu felt a little confused when she saw the contents of the letter.

It has been almost a month since we last met.

During this period, Huang Chengyou wrote to himself twice and invited him to go out for a trip.

But because of Amur's sister's reminder, although she didn't want to think so badly of him, she was also worried that she would be deceived and her family would be implicated.

The best outcome is no more contact.

Although I was a little moved, it was only a little bit.

Wanyu was an orphan in her previous life, and everything she had was earned through her own hard work.

So she has always been a calm and self-controlled person, and this kind of impulse is not enough to make her do anything irrational.

But thinking about the content of the letter, it does seem a bit unreliable that I suddenly lost contact with him.

Plus, there is the instant noodle business. If it weren't for this letter today reminding her, she would have almost forgotten about it.

It turned out that those banknotes were for the instant noodle business over the past two months.

Just the money from selling instant noodles and seasonings was two hundred and seventy taels of silver in two months.

My monthly salary is only thirty taels, and this first dividend is my monthly salary for most of half a year.

Still pretty good.

Business will definitely get better and better in the future.

The other party seemed to have other ideas about this business, so he wanted to invite me to meet and discuss it in detail.

But now is a turbulent time, and my uncle has only been back home for a short time.

After the Chinese New Year, I will go to Fuzhou to take up my post next month. Now Guwaljia Prefecture is under close surveillance.

After thinking about it, Wanyu wrote a reply letter.

Fearing that someone would find fault with her, she only mentioned next year's general election in the letter and is now preparing for it at home.

As for discussing business, the Spring Festival is just a few days away, and it is not a good time to meet before the New Year.

Because we don’t know when he will return to Beijing, we need to make another appointment.

Write the letter and put it in the envelope.

She just handed the envelope to Nanny Sun and asked her to arrange for someone to send the letter back to Hesheli Mansion as soon as possible.

As soon as she finished speaking, Wanlin came over with her maid Chuntao, lifting the curtain.

Wanyu stood up and asked.

"Second sister, it's snowing so hard outside, why are you here?"

"I've been staying in my room all day and feeling really bored, so I came over to talk to you."

Seeing her relaxed and happy face, Wanyu asked curiously, "Did something happen in the East Courtyard that made you happy?"

Wanlin nodded happily.

"I knew you'd always guess right."

Wanyu immediately pulled her to sit down out of curiosity, wanting to hear what the good news was.

"Second sister, sit down and tell your younger sister quickly."

"Xia He, why don't you quickly serve the Second Princess a cup of hot milk tea."

"Yes, Grid."

After Wanlin sat down, while drinking the warm milk tea, he enthusiastically told her about the restless An Jia in the east courtyard.

After listening to what Wanlin said, Wanyu realized that because her fourth sister was registered under her aunt's name, An Jia was very dissatisfied when she found out.

She thought that her aunt Xiaojueluo was trying to suppress her, so she stopped Guanyin from being recognized as the legitimate son.

So they started to fight and make quite a noise in their own yard.

Not only did he curse the fourth princess's mother, Niuhulu, but he also blamed Xiaojueluo.

Even the first wife, Niuhulu, and Shi Wenbing were angered by her.

Shi Wenbing has been very busy recently. First, he went to the palace to report his position to the emperor, and then he went to the palace to participate in the Laba sacrifice.

Now that I have some free time, I have to invite my friends in Beijing to get together and maintain some relationships.

After all, one person cannot support the whole thing alone, and officials also need a few good friends, especially those who work in other places like him.

He was unable to learn about changes in the court situation in a timely manner, and needed someone in the court to reveal some information to him.

Or when someone reports something against him, there might be someone who can offer him a few more words of advice.

Therefore, Shi Wenbing, who often went out, had no idea that his concubine in the backyard was causing such a big commotion.

The Jueluo family also felt that this was the best opportunity to completely suppress the Anjia family.

Although as the legal wife, she had absolute dominance over the concubines, but An Jia had a male heir after all, so it was still difficult to completely suppress them.

No matter what, Shi Wenbing always has some tolerance and forgiveness towards the child's biological mother.

So Xiao Jueluo seized this opportunity and talked to Shi Wenbing privately about Anjia's restlessness.

In particular, it was mentioned that the other party had caused a lot of trouble to the eldest son's wife, Niuhulu, in Fuzhou.

Because I was not there at the time and he was busy with official duties, there was no one to suppress An Jia.

The daughter-in-law couldn't speak ill of her stepmother in front of her father-in-law, so she could only tolerate her.

A concubine actually made things difficult for his eldest daughter-in-law. How could Shi Wenbing tolerate this?!

He slammed his big hand on the table in anger.

"Oh!"

"presumptuous!"

Shi Wenbing was a military general with great strength.

The huge force of his hand shook the table, and little Luo Jueluo was also startled by the sudden loud noise.

Hearing the concubine making a fuss in front of his daughter-in-law made Shi Wenbing very angry!

He was actually humiliated by a concubine in front of his daughter-in-law, which tarnished his image as a father-in-law. This was something Shi Wenbing could not tolerate.

Xiao Jueluo looked at her husband with a red face and a thick neck and hurried to comfort him.

"Husband, please don't be angry first."

"Although this Anjia is not a quiet woman, she is just a concubine."

"She has made you unhappy. Even selling her out wouldn't be too much. It's not worth getting so angry about it."

"Anger is harmful to your health. Taking good care of yourself is the most important thing."

"The life and property of our entire family depends on my husband alone. It's not worth it for an Anjia family member."

Seeing that Shi Wenbing's complexion had improved a lot, Xiao Jueluo continued.

"But this Anjia family is so bold, we can't let it go on like this."

"Otherwise, I don't know if she will cause bigger trouble in the future."

Shi Wenbing frowned tightly and looked at Xiao Jueluo.

"Madam, men are in charge of the outside affairs and women are in charge of the inside affairs. You have always been in charge of the inner courtyard."

"It's up to you to decide how to deal with this Anjia family."

Xiaojueluo took the opportunity to suggest that when Shi Wenbing left Beijing for Fuzhou to take up his post next year, he only needed to take Niuhulu with him.

It would be most appropriate to keep Anjia and Guanyin in the capital.

In the future, Guanyinbao will be raised by his parents-in-law and brothers and sisters, and there is no need to worry that he will be spoiled by a concubine.

Moreover, if the Guanyin statue is preserved, he can also show filial piety to his parents-in-law on his behalf.

Anyway, the Fourth Princess Shi Wanqiong will stay in Beijing. She will keep the Fourth Princess by her side to educate her and let her receive the treatment and education of a legitimate princess.

At that time, the two siblings of similar age will have playmates together.

Shi Wenbing agreed without thinking.

I even feel that she is worthy of being the principal wife, because she is generous and virtuous.

Unlike that restless An Jia, who was petty and caused a lot of trouble.

He was really worried that letting such a woman raise his prince would bring up bad things.

As the future patriarch of the Guwaljia clan, he hopes that all his descendants will become successful, even if he is a concubine's son, he hopes that he can achieve something in the future.

Instead of being a prodigal son who can only eat and wait for death, or stir up trouble and drag down the family!