Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

When he returned to the main room, Li Xian sighed and said to Xu Wanning: "My mother has been confused all her life, and she doesn't listen to what she says. Hey! Don't take it to your heart."

Xu Wanning smiled and said: "I have known your mother for a long time. I have been her daughter-in-law for more than twenty years. Now that I am a mother-in-law myself, I don't have the energy to be as knowledgeable as her."

 Xu Wanning is a cheerful person. Since her husband no longer obeys her mother blindly, she doesn't bother to care about her mother-in-law who can't carry anything. She just provides him with good food and drink, and she won't be troubled by her.

These days, Xu Wanning has been worrying about her eldest son's marriage. This is the big thing on her mind.

Li Xian hugged his wife and said with a smile: "I'm afraid I've forgotten about this, and we are about to become parents-in-law."

“Aren’t you the girl from the Liu family that you are interested in? Haven’t you asked a matchmaker to find her?”

Mentioning this, Xu Wanning immediately became energetic and said hurriedly: "I have wanted to go to a matchmaker for a long time, but the mistress of the Liu family has been sick a while ago, and she has been closing the door to thank guests all day long, so I have no choice but to order people to go there. Regarding this matter, I inquired about it yesterday. The mistress of the Liu family has finally recovered in the past few days, and I will ask someone to tell her about it in the next two days."

"I heard that many people are interested in the girl from the Liu family. I have to hurry up. Brother Kun will be coming back from the north in a few days. I will take advantage of this gap and try to finalize the matter by the end of the year."

Li Xian smiled: "Your impatience has not changed at all. It's just that we have fallen in love with someone else's girl. Whether the Liu family can take a fancy to our son is not yet known. Madam, it is better to treat this matter with a normal attitude, otherwise , if it doesn’t work, I’m afraid you’ll get angry again.”

"Bah, bah, bah, you crow's mouth." Xu Wanning said angrily to her husband: "Brother Kun is a man of both civil and military skills. What's not good about him? There are so many noble ladies in the capital who are looking forward to him. How could the Liu family not be happy? "

In Xianglin Garden, Pingyang saw off the distinguished guests and was looking at the accounts at the table.

 She is the mistress of the palace, and she is always busy with things every day. After winter, the accounts of various villages and shops came in one after another, and she was even more busy.

Li Xiang sat opposite her, picked up an account at random, flipped through it and said, "The drug store you built in partnership with your eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law has made a lot of money."

Pingyang looked at the accounts and replied without raising his head: "The three of us have been doing this for many years. It turned out to be a profitable business. In the past two years, the people have become richer and richer, and this business has also been getting better and better. "

As he said that, Pingyang raised his head and glanced at Li Xiang: "I started this business with my own dowry money, but it is my private property."

Li Xiang laughed: "I didn't say anything. Seeing that you are anxious, how can I, the heir apparent of a noble family, still spy on your money?"

Pingyang snorted and replied: "Even if you peep, you can't make money. I plan to divide the shares of this pharmacy equally among several children in the future."

Li Xiang curled his lips and said to his wife, "You only have children in your heart, don't you have any place for me?"

Pingyang raised his head, glanced at Li Xiang, and replied: "You are a dignified prince, why do you still want to fight with the children?"

Li Xiang smiled, then put down the account in his hand, and changed the topic: "Didn't I say that this year's tribute will be paid, and my eldest brother will come to Beijing? Have you received a letter in the past few days? When can he come?"

Mentioning this, Pingyang put down the account in his hand and murmured: "I received the letter from my eldest brother ten days ago. Logically speaking, it should be here in the next two days."

As she said that, she called Yuzhu and asked: "Have you gone to check out our prince's residence in the capital? Have you arranged everything well for the past two days?"

Yuzhu replied: "I went over this morning to take a look. Everything has been taken care of." Pingyang nodded and ordered: "My sister-in-law will also follow me to Beijing this time. The people left in the old house are all rough women. I'm afraid the service is not good enough, so you can send a few capable girls over tomorrow."

Li Xiang interjected: "Sister-in-law is coming too? Silang is so young, how can she leave?"

Pingyang replied: "Sister-in-law has not returned to Beijing for several years. Maybe she is homesick."

With that said, Pingyang called back Yuzhu who had taken the order, and then ordered: "Tomorrow you will go to Cousin Pei's house again. He has been in Northern Xinjiang for more than half a year, and I don't know the servants in his yard. Are you taking good care of him? This time I heard that His Majesty is going to call him back, so the yard must be taken care of by them."

Yuzhu took the order and left, but Li Xiang, who was sitting opposite Pingyang, suddenly turned cold and said sarcastically: "You really have a lot to worry about."

Pingyang glanced at him without saying anything, then picked up the account and continued to look at it.

Li Xiang frowned when his wife ignored him and asked, "How did you know that cousin Pei was going to return to Beijing?"

Seeing that Pingyang was silent, he stood up and walked around the room twice, then sat down again angrily, and finally couldn't help but ask: "He wrote you a letter, didn't he?"

Pingyang raised his eyes to look at Li Xiang and asked, "What's going on?"

Li Xiang was startled by these words. He gradually frowned and replied: "What do you mean by him always pestering you?"

Pingyang frowned and said displeased: "What do you mean by that?"

 Li Xiang's shoulders trembled slightly, and he suppressed his anger, trying to soften his tone and replied: "That person named Pei is obviously obsessed with you, can't you see it?"

Pingyang smiled and replied: "I didn't see it."

 After saying that, she ignored the angry Li Xiang and continued to sort out the accounts.

Li Xiang was suffocating in his heart. He stood up and walked around on the ground in frustration. Finally, he couldn't hold back his temper. He reached out and snatched the account from Pingyang's hand. He pulled his wife close to him, stared at her and said, "Pingyang, can we Okay, I don’t like that guy named Pei, can you promise me not to interact with him in the future?"

“Don’t call me cousin by everyone with the surname Pei.” Pingyang also turned cold, looked up at Li Xiang and said, “Have you forgotten that your cousin saved your life?”

“Why do you hate my cousin, and why do you not allow me to associate with my cousin?”

Li Xiang was speechless. He lowered his eyes and finally fell silent.

Pingyang left him and picked up the accounts and went into the inner room to look at them. When she finished checking all the accounts, it was already midnight. Pingyang stood up and stretched his waist. When he looked up, he saw that Li Xiang was still outside. He was sitting on the chair in the room in a daze.

Pingyang sighed slightly. He walked to the dowry and took out the letter from Pei Yunqian. He turned to Li Xiang, held the letter in front of him and said, "Since cousin Pei went to Northern Xinjiang, he has only come here." If you doubt us about this letter from home, just open it and read it yourself."

Li Xiang reached for the letter and threw it aside, but hugged his wife tightly.