Huaiyu is slightly cool

The eldest princess looked at Zhou Huai indifferently, and after a long silence, she said word by word: "The only regret of my rebirth is that I met you."

Zhou Huai froze for a moment when he heard the words, his expression became gloomy and unrecognizable, and he looked at the eldest princess who walked away after saying these words with darkness in her eyes, until the back of the other party gradually disappeared before her eyes, she smiled self-consciously, There is a certain confidence in the smile.

From this day on, the eldest princess avoided seeing Zhou Huai. She even said she was ill and never attended the birthday banquet of Emperor Jing Wu Mingtai to avoid Zhou Huai.

Zhou Huai also finally experienced first-hand the eldest princess's disdain and indifference towards her, but she still tried her best to perform the vulgar pursuit routines that a suitor should do, such as love letters, flowers and jewelry.As for whether the eldest princess's reaction to these things was indifference or fury, she couldn't tell, because she was busy doing other things.

Zhou Huai looked at Fang Shuying in front of him. This elegant, indifferent, 13-year-old girl was the sister Fang that Wu Mingsheng spoke of.Zhou Huai looked at Fang Shuying, who seemed to her to be similar to the dignified and stable eldest princess, but inexplicably thought of the eldest princess in her mind.Zhou Huai was a little lost in thought, but after only a moment, she returned to normal. She lowered her head and took a sip of tea calmly, covering all her expressions.

Fang Shuying was also looking at Zhou Huai. Seeing that the other party was as stable as Mount Tai and didn't intend to speak, she had to say first: "If you have nothing to do, please go to the Three Treasures Hall. Please tell Miss Zhou directly if you have something to do. But let me explain in advance that I am just a concubine of the Fang family. I can help you."

Fang Shuying's attitude couldn't be called respectful, and even faintly nervous and guarded.

Zhou Huai looked at Fang Shuying with some amusement.Concubine?To be precise, it should be the concubine's daughter of the concubine's brother of the head of the Fang family. Otherwise, how could a family like the Fang family let the daughter of the direct line be self-reliant?After Zhou Huai glanced around the jade jewelry store opened by Fang Shuying casually, he said with a smile: "Come to Sister Fang's shop, of course I'm buying jade."

"That's the honored guest welcoming the door, and Shuying being contemptuous. I don't know which piece of jewelry Miss Zhou has her eyes on?"

Holding a teacup in his hand, Zhou Huai squinted at Fang Shuying, who was kneeling opposite her, and said with a smile, "Not yet, does Sister Fang have any recommendations?"

"If it's a gift for an ordinary friend, there are a few pieces of precious jewelry in the shop for Ms. Zhou to choose from. But if it's a gift for a distinguished guest, the things in the shop may not be available on the table."

After Fang Shuying finished speaking, she took another look at Zhou Huai's accessories.She only regarded Zhou Huai's purchase of jade ornaments as an excuse for the other party, because let alone the jade fish that Zhou Huai brought out of the mother's womb with a mysterious color, she just used the jasper wishful hairpin on the other party's head at this time. She said that the jade quality and carving work of this hairpin alone can compare all the jade wares in her shop to dust, so the other party said that buying jade is really not an excuse to smash the market?

Zhou Huai obviously knew Fang Shuying's careful thinking, she just felt that Fang Shuying was really upright, so she still smiled and said: "Let's take a look first, you can never go wrong by shopping around."

Hearing the news, the shopkeeper immediately took some people to fetch some jade ornaments and put them on the table in front of Zhou Huai, bent over and said respectfully to Zhou Huai: "These are treasures collected by the small shop. Please take a look."

Zhou Huai looked at the jade hairpins, jade bracelets, jade pendant earrings and auspicious animal jade pendants in the sandalwood box in front of him, as well as a full set of wearing jewelry of the same color and style in a larger box, and shook his head directly. Shopkeeper: "Do you still have the whole set? I'll give it away."

"Yes, yes." The shopkeeper nodded hurriedly, and immediately removed the large and small boxes on the desk, and replaced them with another batch.His movements are quick, and his attitude is enthusiastic. It can't be seen that this is a white-haired old man in his 60s or [-]s.

Zhou Huai looked at the newly replaced batch of jade wares, took out a few small jewelry among them, looked at them and put them back again, and said directly: "The quality is not good, why don't you go directly to your store's treasures."

The shopkeeper was taken aback when he heard the words, then subconsciously cast his gaze on Fang Shuying.

Fang Shuying gave the shopkeeper a veiled wink, signaling him to go out first, and then looked at Zhou Huai with a look of embarrassment on her face and said: "The small shop is simple, and the goods are mainly civilian buyers with high quality and low price. The treasure of the shop? Ms. Zhou was born in a wealthy family, surrounded by small pearls and emerald greens, she must have seen a lot of rare treasures, I am afraid that the things in the small shop will not catch your eyes, why don’t Miss Zhou go to Yupinxuan to have a look? There It is the first jade ware in Beijing, and it will definitely meet Miss Zhou's wishes."

Hearing this, Zhou Huai waved his hand to signal the four servant girls, Feng, Hua, Xue, and Haha, to go out, then stared at Fang Shuying and said with a smile: "How can you push out the door-to-door business? This is not what a businessman should do, and I I just like to pick out a treasure in a small shop that does not show mountains or water."

But I don't want to do your business at all!This sentence was stuck in Fang Shuying's throat. She looked sullenly at the shop after the guards brought by Zhou Huai had cleared the venue, and finally swallowed the words back.She suppressed the anger in her heart, looked at Zhou Huai who was smiling, took a deep breath to adjust her mood, then looked at Zhou Huai and asked, "Why did Miss Zhou come here because people don't speak ill of you?"

Zhou Huai originally thought that she would have to say a few more words before getting to the point, but she didn't expect the other party to be more straightforward than Wu Mingsheng, so she didn't hesitate, and said directly: "I want to make a deal with you."

Fang Shuying looked at Zhou Huai, wondering if she should take the words of this five or six-year-old kid seriously.She looked at Zhou Huai, pondered for a moment in her heart, and then said with the mentality of giving it a try: "What deal?"

"I will help you brothers and sisters gain a foothold in the Fang family, and you will do two things for me."

"Just a foothold?"

"You said that he would like to let your father exchange his son-in-law for the position of the head of the Fang family? Or let you take your mother to leave the Fang family and start a new family? You can choose. Of course, if you choose the second one, I will also guarantee that you will have food and clothing." No worries."

A light flashed in Fang Shuying's eyes. She looked carefully at Zhou Huai in front of her, and asked suspiciously: "The Zhou family is far away in Yunzhou, how can you intervene in the Fang family's affairs? And you have no proof, how can I trust you?"

Zhou Huai smiled lightly and said, "It's not the Zhou family, it's me, Zhou Huai. As for whether you want to believe me, why don't you just take a gamble? Anyway, you have no other choice now."

Fang Shuying was taken aback for a moment, then smiled wryly.The concubines of the Jing family had no right to inherit the family business, and Fang Shuying's father was only a concubine of the Fang family. Although he was a minor official, he could not be promoted.As for Fang Shuying, because her mother is just a commoner of low birth and an unloved concubine, the status of Fang Shuying's brother and sister in the Fang family is only a little better than that of domestic slaves. Hi, it's fine to just drive their mother and son out of the house.

In the Fang family, there are many brothers and sisters in her generation, and if a common-looking concubine like Fang Shuying is not valued by the family head, there are only two possibilities in the future: one is to hope that her brother Fang Shujie, who is a compatriot of the same mother, will gain fame in the exam , so that she and her mother can gain a foothold in the Fang family.But Wu Mingsheng told Zhou Huai that Fang Shuying's elder brother, Fang Shujie, loves martial arts and doesn't like reading. Although his martial arts are good, Fang's mother doesn't want her son to go to the military camp, and Fang's father doesn't value this bastard son. Fang Shujie is still nothing. , so this first way is not working anymore.The second is that she will marry a powerful husband's family, and then help her brother find an errand, so that she won't be kicked out by her son-in-law in the future.But as a concubine of the Fang family, she can only become a concubine if she climbs into a powerful family. If she is not favored, everything will be empty talk.

"Why don't Miss Zhou talk about your conditions first?" Fang Shuying didn't trust Zhou Huai, so she asked the other party's conditions first, and was ready to sell for a price.

Zhou Huai smiled knowingly, and asked the other party: "You still don't want to gamble once?"

Fang Shuying shook her head slowly.If Zhou Huai is negotiating as the prostitute of the Zhou family and the conditions are simple, then she doesn't mind Fan Zhou's big tree.But Zhou Huai is only five years old, can he believe such wild words without relying on the power of his family?Although she, Fang Shuying, is ambitious and hard to pay at this time, she does not dare to gamble with Zhou Huai so rashly, so Fang Shuying declined: "Although I am in a difficult situation now, my life is still sexless, and Miss Zhou..." Fang Shuying paused After a pause, he continued: "It's not an exaggeration to describe it with the phrase that you can't protect yourself."

"You're right." Zhou Huai nodded and admitted, looking at Fang Shuying with a smile on his face, but said in a tone of embarrassment: "Since you know my identity, you should know it too. From now on, you are just like me—you can’t protect yourself.”

Fang Shuying frowned and asked, "What do you mean?!"

"I came straight to you from the palace, and I didn't waste any time. If you don't want to cooperate, I have no choice but to go back to the palace. What happens to you after that has nothing to do with me."

Zhou Huai knew Fang Shuying's personality and some family affairs from Wu Mingsheng, so she naturally knew Fang Shuying's situation, Zhou Huai decided to help Fang Shuying, she knew that the other party would come to the store at a fixed time every month to check the business situation, she They came in time.

Fang Shuying was taken aback when she heard the words, then got up angrily, pointed at Zhou Huai and said angrily, "Despicable!"

Zhou Huai replied with a smile: "Thank you."

Fang Shuying stared at Zhou Huai, she finally understood, ever since Wu Mingsheng asked her to help open the betting market, she was on Zhou Huai's boat.No one in the capital knows that Zhou Huai behaves arrogantly in the palace, and most of the high-ranking officials in the capital have been offended by her. It is difficult for those sons and daughters to deal with Zhou Huai. It's too easy for a concubine to vent her anger.Fang Shuying felt regretful at this time, she shouldn't be so greedy for money, and accepted Wu Mingsheng's commission.Originally, she could have pretended to be stupid and used Wu Mingsheng as a shield to ask questions, but at this time Zhou Huai came directly to the door. Whether they cooperate or not, in the eyes of outsiders, they are a group. She is jumping into the Yellow River Can't wash it off either.

"Okay, I bet, I will choose the first one! Now tell me your conditions."

Zhou Huai nodded and said, "I heard that the jade carving master Gongxi Millennium will come to the capital, you help keep an eye on him, I want to see him, after you make an appointment to meet, let Ming Sheng enter the palace and pass the news to me."

Fang Shuying was taken aback: "That's it?" She had been in the jade business for a year or two, so it would be easy to inquire about Gongxi who carved jade for thousands of years, but she didn't believe that Zhou Huai's conditions were so simple.

"Also, I have tens of thousands of taels of silver in my hand. You can help me buy some fields in the suburbs of Beijing, and then build a Zhuangzi, and secretly send orphans, widows, mothers, old, weak, sick and disabled who are implicated in the Xiao family's affairs and unable to survive. Send them there so that they can survive. The weather is getting cooler and there are fields and houses, at least they don’t have to sell their children or starve to death.”

Fang Shuying almost vomited blood when she heard the words, she knew that Zhou Huai would not come to the door in person if it was a trivial matter.She looked at Zhou Huai and asked, "Do you know how serious the consequences will be if someone finds out about this?"

"It's just helping the poor and widowed. Although the Xiao family was punished by the three clans, they did not convict the family members of those subordinates. Since they are innocent people, why can't they help? If you are worried, you can write a bill to collect money to build the village , I signed it and kept it in duplicate, I am also the mastermind of the accident, I will bear all the crimes alone, you can only be regarded as a helper at most."

"Why did you do this?" Fang Shuying was puzzled, and continued: "And why did you find me?"

"Just do what you want, why are there so many reasons? Why did you find you? It's just that it's not convenient for me to come out. This matter can't be done in a day or two. If you don't want people to find out, you must let someone else find out. People who have nothing to do with the family will do it."

Fang Shuying didn't really believe in Zhou Huai's kindness, she thought for a while, and suddenly she had a flash of inspiration, and asked Zhou Huai: "Prime Minister Xiao's granddaughter who was rumored to have a future life has escaped, do you know about this?"

Zhou Huai raised his eyebrows, and asked impatiently, "I know, what's wrong?"

Fang Shuying carefully looked at Zhou Huai's expression, and seeing that she was normal, she could only smile shyly and find a reason for herself: "It doesn't matter to the others, what if she got mixed up with those people before she ran away?"

"Let's talk about it when we meet."

"Then how do you ensure my safety? Also, what do you decide to do with the Fang family?"

"I will send someone over to protect your safety. If you are really troubled by someone, I will take action afterwards. But if you do not complete a request within two months, then I will leave you alone. As for Patriarch of the Fang family, at most one month, there will be a chance, and I will inform you what to do when the time comes."

This is Chi Guoguo's threat. Fang Shuying's plan to procrastinate and procrastinate was seen through, and she could only nod helplessly in the end.

Zhou Huai got up: "Since we've settled the deal, I'll go first."

"Wait a minute, where's the money to buy the land?"

Zhou Huai patted his forehead, spread his hands and said: "I came in a hurry, I forgot to bring it, you should pay in advance."

Fang Shuying's face darkened immediately: "Why do I feel that following you is so unreliable?"

Zhou Huai chuckled: "Just get used to it in the future."