Song Yan went to the Dou clan to study the affiliation school. Song Yumin was responsible for teaching Dou Zhao and Dou Ming. He rested on the first day of the month and took a day off on the fifteenth day. He first finished teaching Dou Zhao the various philosophers, and then taught Dou Ming the Analects of Confucius.[]

Dou Mingdao also followed Song Yumin to class honestly. However, she had a weak foundation. In addition to her homework every morning, she had to practice 500 big words in the afternoon. After a few days, she complained.

Madam Zhou kept encouraging her: "Only after suffering is the best, you will be the best. Look at the fourth lady, the nanny in charge are still planning, and the fourth lady has already calculated how much it is..."

Dou Ming dumbfounded Madam Zhou: "What is the relationship between settlement and writing?"

Madam Zhou hurriedly comforted her and said, "It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. I just think that Miss Four can do everything. Miss Five is so smart, she should be like Miss Four, and she can do everything."

Dou Ming did not make a sound, but he did not call writing a bitter thing.

Because of the Pang Kunbai incident, Chen Qushui walked out of the scene. He moved into the Dou Mansion, helped Dou Zhao manage business affairs and newly recruited guards, and was happy to manage Xi Dou's affairs and the inner court's manager and the other people. Du Ning fell to the point of attacking Madam Zhou. Gao Xing thought he was Dou Zhao's man and soon got together with Chen Qushui. Du Ning was already a frightened bird after Du An was sent to the official for theft and could not stand the punishment stick. She didn't care about anything else. Madam Zhou was a new arrival and could not support her. Although Xi Dou was divided into three, everyone had to act according to Dou Zhao's eyes. Dou Zhao had another 10,000 taels of money per year. With money in his hands, it was more convenient than before. Her eyes also shifted from the east and west to the political affairs of Kyoto.

"Georg Zeng should be almost seventy this year, right?" she asked Chen Qushui, "I wonder how many years he can hold on?"

She had not paid attention to these things in her previous life, and she didn't know when Zeng Yifen died.

Chen Qushui said: "Miss Four is really a good meal! I just got news yesterday that Zeng Yifen was unwell and might have to retire if she came out."

"It depends on whether the fifth uncle can seize this opportunity."

In the previous life, Wang Xingyi had already returned to Beijing before Zeng Yifen's death, as if he was serving as the Minister of War. In this life, because of Wang Yingxue's relationship, he was stranded as the governor of Xi'an.[]

Dou Zhao pondered: "Who is the current assistant minister of the Ministry of War?"

Chen Qushuidao: "Gu Yanjing."

Dou Zhao thought, "Can you give me a message to the Wang family? Just say. It turned out that Zeng Ge always wanted to promote Wang Xingyi as the Minister of War, but because of Wang's affairs, Ye Shipei caught the handle. So Zeng Ge had to compromise and support Gu Yanjing as the Minister of War..."

In her memory, Ye Shipei and Zeng Yifen were old rivals. Zeng Yifen retired from that time. It was his work. If it weren't for his death not long after Zeng Yifen's death and Ye Shipei did not have a very tough son, it would be hard to say whether Wang Xingyi and Dou Shishu could enter the cabinet.

Banning the Ma market is a battle between civil officials and military generals. So Ye Shipei will not drag Zeng Yifen down, but now, when it comes to the dispute between the third-rank officials of two disciples of the Pavilion Master, Wang Xingyi can be mentioned.

Chen Qushui thought: "You can't say this randomly. If you are not careful, it may backfire..."

"Then try to inquire from this aspect," Dou Zhao said, "You should be able to find some statements related to this matter." As she said that, she smiled, "Even if there isn't, we can still let it have it!"

"That's true." Chen Qushui smiled, "If the people of the Wang family think that Wang Yingxue was hindering Wang Xingyi's future, I think even Wang Xu would be afraid of his daughter. What's more, Wang Yingxue has never been able to gain a foothold in the Dou family after marrying into the Dou family, and has caused a lot of trouble."

"I think this is clean and neat." Dou Ming nodded with a smile and asked about the matter in the shop.

Chen Qushuidao: "Only how can the shops in Kyoto be balanced? The other shops have suffered a slight loss, with a total of more than 200 taels."

"This is pretty good," Dou Zhao smiled, "Bo Yan's business should be finished in September. You have to prepare some money to put a seal for Cui Shisan."

"It's already ready." Chen Qushui and Dou Zhao talked about their plans, and Su Xin replied through the curtain: "Miss Four, Young Master Ji is here."

Ji Yong?

What is he here to do?

Dou Zhao and Chen Qushui finished talking about the matter and went to the flower hall to meet Ji Yong.

Ji Yong asked her: "I'm going to Baoding Mansion, do you have anything to bring me?"

She didn't know where Baoding Mansion was, what could she bring?

But Dou Zhao still smiled and thanked him: "There is nothing to bring. I wish the cousin of the Ji family a good journey!"

Ji Yong smiled and said, "Then I will bring you something for you!"

His smile was gentle and polite, but for some reason, Dou Zhao always felt that he seemed to be making some ideas, which made people feel uncomfortable.

"No, no, no." Dou Zhao refused repeatedly.

Ji Yong smiled but did not answer, and stood up to say goodbye.

Dou Zhao sent him to the entrance of the flower hall, but felt that there was a gaze staring at him tightly.

She turned around and saw Dou Ming standing under the willow tree.

Dou Ming turned around and left expressionlessly, and with a large group of maids surrounding her, the mother disappeared into the winding path made of willow trees.

Dou Zhao couldn't help but sigh deeply, and went to the flower room to take care of the flowers and plants for a long time. Seeing that he had planted several cereals, he was about to bloom, he asked his sixth aunt to come over to appreciate the flowers.

Aunt Six suggested: "Why not hold a flower-watching banquet?"

Grandma echoed: "Yes, yes, yes, it's rare to be a flash in the pan! I invited all my wives and grandmas over. Anyway, there are many places in the house. I can't always let the East Mansion entertain us, so we have to give a gift!"

Since the marriage between Dou Zhao and the Wu family ended unanimously, Dou Zhao's marriage has become a heart-wrenching problem for her, for fear that Dou Zhao would be delayed because of this. When she saw that she had the opportunity to show off, she tried her best to get it together.

Seeing that her grandmother was in high spirits, Dou Zhao thought that she had no place to go on weekdays, and smiled and said, "Okay, then let's have a night banquet!"

The sixth aunt also became interested when she heard this. The three of them muttered there for a long time and finally decided on the flower viewing banquet. The person who confirmed the banquet was sent to send someone to post, clean up the furnishings of the warehouse, arrange the menu for the flower viewing banquet and the maids, mothers, Xi Dou had not had such a lively life for a long time. From the nanny in charge to the maid below, everyone was unsure. Dou Zhao was as follows: he took it easy and made it easy, one by one, one by one, and arranged it in an orderly manner, without any effort, which made Ji, who was about to come here to help in person, stunned and asked her, "Who did you come up with the idea for you."

"I haven't eaten pork and I haven't seen pigs running." Dou Zhao said uneasy, "I have to watch it even if I have such a big move during the Chinese New Year."

Some people are born with intelligence.

Ji nodded with a smile and said, "It's better if you can do everything in this way, so as not to worry about you." After saying that, he felt that this was not a good thing and joked: "I want to tell your third aunt that you said he was a pig run!" He wanted to break the matter.

Dou Zhao knew what she was thinking and smiled and made fun of her: "If the third aunt asked, I won't admit it."

Ji laughed.

On the day of the flower viewing banquet, I couldn't help but run over in advance. Seeing that everything was arranged in an orderly manner, I breathed a sigh of relief.

That night, the flowers and sake wine are mellow and the dishes are exquisite. The actor invited sang "Chaiyuan" in "Jingchaiji". Even Dou Ming, who was reluctant to attend the flower viewing banquet, was filled with tears and whispered to Yijie'er and Shujie'er from time to time.

Chen Qushui listened to the sound of silk and bamboo coming from afar, thought about the news from Kyoto, and did not fall asleep in a daze until the sky turned white.

When he woke up, it was already noon.

He hurriedly got up and asked the servant who was serving him: "Did the fourth lady be in the flower hall?"

After class, Dou Zhao would stay in the flower hall for half an hour to handle housework.

The servant came in with a wash water and said with a smile: "Miss Four has arrived at the flower hall early!"

Chen Qushui breathed a sigh of relief.

But then he was stunned.

In his early years, he served as an aide under Zhang Kai, the governor of Fujian. Even when he was facing Zhang Kai, he never felt so nervous... No wonder it was because of the news he heard yesterday?

He sat in the room for a while, and probably Dou Zhao was going back to the inner courtyard and hurried to the flower hall.

Weeping willows are planted outside the flower hall. In midsummer, the willow trees are lush and the green branches are thousands of, moving with the wind, making people feel cool. Through the four-open window sash, Chen Qushui saw Dou Zhao wearing a moon-white striped gauze cotton shirt talking to Gao Xing.

Her figure is straight and her eyes are calm. Her smooth forehead and long eyebrows on her temples give people a sense of wisdom. Just looking from a distance, you will know that she is a very intelligent and strong-willed person.

Even a boy who is much older than her is not as good as her, right?

Chen Qushui thought and entered the flower hall.

Glad was talking happily about how good the flower-watching banquet was held yesterday and how the people in the East Mansion praised it.

Dou Zhao responded with a smile, praised the happy words "working well" and left happily.

Chen Qushui was serious and said in a deep voice: "Miss Four, maybe things are really as you said. Zeng Yifen originally wanted to protect Wang Xingyi as the Minister of War, but because Wang Xingyi could not cultivate himself and manage his family, Zeng Yifen had to promise Ye Shipei that Gu Yanjing would help the Minister of War."

"Oh!" Dou Zhao was intrigued, "I asked you to hand over the Wang family, but did you hand over the words?"

Although things have deviated, they are generally not too outrageous.

Dou Zhao is more confident in the future.

"I have already handed over the words." Chen Qushui said, "Wang Xu called Wang over and scolded him fiercely. It is said that Wang left the Wang family in tears. Not only that, Pang was brought up again by the old story, and Wang Xu refused to understand her."

Dou Zhao smiled.

Chen Qushui couldn't help but say, "Miss Four, did you hear the news from where? Otherwise, how could you know that Gu Yanjing's incident has inside information..."

"No, I don't know." Dou Zhao smiled, "I don't think Wang Xingyi has made great achievements but has always been unable to move as the governor of Shaanxi. Instead, it made Gu Yanjing, who had a reputation and qualifications as much as him, walked in front, which was a bit strange."

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