Ban Heng looked at the door. Why did the Cheng Anbo Mansion send someone over at this time? The news of the Yan Family's eldest son coming to their house to apologize had probably already spread throughout the capital. If Cheng Anbo sent someone over at this time, wasn't he afraid that the Yan Family would think that he was here to watch a joke?
Du Jiu followed behind the steward and entered the main hall. He didn't seem to expect that Yan Ming would also be there. After greeting the Ban Family, he even gave Yan Ming a big bow.
Du Jiu was Rong Xia's personal guard, so anyone in the capital who was familiar with Rong Xia would know Du Jiu. When Yan Ming saw Du Jiu, he was even more surprised than the Ban Family. However, the first thing he thought of was not that Rong Xia had come to see the Yan Family make a joke of themselves, but that Rong Xia and the Ban Family actually had dealings.
"Guard Du, please take a seat." Ban Heng looked at the two boxes in Du Jiu's hands. The boxes were neither big nor small, and looked like they were used to store books, ink, paper, and inkstone.
In the morning, his sister had used his name to send a gift to Cheng Anbo. Shouldn't she be sending a gift in return now? He had just sent it over in the morning, so wasn't it a little too anxious to return the gift now?
Thinking that it might be filled with ink, paper, inkstone, and other things, Ban Heng instantly lost interest. In their family, other than his grandmother and mother who knew poetry and literature, who else knew how to read and write?
"I don't dare," Du Jiu saw that Yan Ming, the young master of the Prime Minister's Mansion, was standing, so he, a small guard, naturally wouldn't sit down, "The gift sent by the heir is too valuable. The Duke's heart is both happy and uneasy. This is a small gift that the Duke has prepared for the heir. I hope the heir does not dislike it. "
"Duke Rong is too polite. It's just a worthless trinket. There's no need to give a gift in return," Ban Heng waved his hand and said unconcernedly, "Duke Rong is being too distant."
Du Jiu's hands trembled as he held the box. Worthless trinkets?
That was the "Moon Gazing at Cold Mountain Painting", and it was an authentic work!
Whose worthless trinket would be so precious?! Ever since he was adopted by the Rong family, Du Jiu had always stayed by Rong Xia's side. He had seen a lot of good things, but he had never seen a family as casual as the Ban Family.
"If Shizi didn't accept it, then we would be estranged," Du Jiu smiled and said, "The painting that Shizi sent, Boye loved it so much that he couldn't bear to part with it. He said that it was something that couldn't be exchanged for money."
"Cough, you're welcome." Ban Heng looked at Ban Han from the corner of his eyes. What did his sister give Rong Xia in his name?
Ban Han ignored Ban Heng and asked the housekeeper to accept the gift from Du Jiu.
Seeing this, Du Jiu felt more and more that the painting was specially sent by the Princess Ban.
After Du Jiu gave the gift in return, he immediately left. In Yan Ming's opinion, Du Jiu really only came to give the gift in return. The private relationship between the two families didn't seem to be very good.
Why did the Ban Family send a gift of thanks to Rong Xia?
Yan Ming remembered the words that Rong Xia had praised Ban Han a few days ago in front of many scholars. It was because of Rong Xia's words that the Yan Family's reputation was completely ruined. At first, he was very angry about this, but in just a few days, his father was seriously ill at home and Rong Xia's position was promoted. He suddenly understood. Rong Xia was not speaking up for the Ban Family, but for His Majesty. In the end, their family was suspected by His Majesty.
Otherwise, why would there be such a big commotion in the court in recent days? Many officials who were on good terms with the Yan Family had been demoted to a bitter cold place. Even several officials who supported the Crown Prince had been punished.
Their family had always secretly supported the Crown Prince from behind. Even the Shi Family didn't know about it, so how did the Emperor know?
The most terrifying thing was that Rong Xia probably knew that their family was secretly supporting the Crown Prince. That was why at this time, he would rather offend their family than stand up to protect the reputation of the Princess Ban.
It was laughable that everyone thought that Rong Xia was a straightforward and upright gentleman. Who would have thought that in his bones, he was just a petty person?
"Little Lord Yan," Ban Han looked at Yan Ming, "I've heard your apology. Please go back."
The corner of Yan Ming's mouth twitched. Looking at this beautiful woman, he thought of his sick brother and bowed deeply to her, "This one will take his leave."
"Take care, I won't send you off."
Walking out of the Jingting Marquessate, Yan Ming rode on horseback and looked at the people coming and going around. He was a little flustered in his heart. What would the Yan Family, who was suspected by His Majesty, do in the future?
After walking for a while, he bumped into the Chen Family's eldest son. A few days ago, this person was still his brother-in-law, but now, the two families had changed from relatives to enemies. The way his brother-in-law looked at him was as if he was looking at the most despicable person in the world.
"Elder brother …"
"Lord Yan, please don't randomly claim kinship. The Chen Family is a small family, so I can't afford to be your elder brother." The Chen Family's eldest son's expression was extremely ugly. He didn't even want to say anything more to Yan Ming, so he turned around and was about to leave.
"Brother Chen, your sister … How is her body?" Yan Ming thought of Madam Chen and couldn't help but ask.
"Heh," the Chen Family's eldest son sneered, "What does it have to do with you?"
Yan Ming stared blankly at the back of the Chen Family's eldest son. He only felt that the world was so big that there was no place for him to feel relaxed.
Ban Heng placed the two boxes that Cheng Anbo had sent in front of Ban Han. One box contained an inkstone, and the other box was filled with blood jade jewelry. He didn't know where these blood jade had come from, but they didn't have the slightest impurities. They were as gorgeous as dark red blood, beautiful to the point of being flirtatious.
"Cheng Anbo …" He's also quite generous. "After thinking for a long time, he could only use this word to describe it. This was because this box of blood jade was a good thing that couldn't be bought with money. Moreover, the craftsmanship was very exquisite, and it didn't seem like something that belonged to the common folk.
"So beautiful." Ban Han took out a bracelet and put it on. The dark red blood jade made her hand look even whiter and more moist.
Ban Heng fiddled with the inkstone in disdain, "This inkstone must have been casually used by him to make up the number."
Both of them had used his name to send things, but in the end, they had only given him an inkstone. He didn't like to write, so why would they give him this thing?
As the heir of the House of Marquis, Ban Heng felt that his dignity had been challenged.
He was so angry, but he didn't dare to complain.
"Didn't you want to buy some Invincible Marshal last time?" Ban Han was in a particularly good mood after receiving such beautiful jewelry. He immediately gave Ban Heng five hundred taels of silver and told him to buy the Grand Marshal he liked.
The Invincible Grand Marshal was a huge rooster with extremely powerful combat strength.
Ban Heng immediately became happy. He didn't care about the inkstone anymore. He caught his sister and praised her. She was beautiful here and there. In the end, Ban Han gave him another hundred taels of silver.
As for the inkstone that was ignored by the Ban Family's siblings, it was worth at least eight hundred taels of silver outside. Unfortunately, it met the siblings who didn't know what was good for it, so it could only become worthless.
Five days later, the Chen Family's Da Lang position was promoted, filling the vacancy left by a demoted member of the Yan Party. In the next half a month, many members of the Yan Party were suppressed, and the vacant positions were quickly filled. Only Yan Hui's position as the Left Minister was not affected. On the third day after Yan Ming personally went to the Ban Family to ask for forgiveness, the Emperor even gave some things to the Yan Family and said some words of encouragement.
Just when no one could figure out His Majesty's intentions, Yan Hui dragged his sick body to court and submitted his resignation to His Majesty.
Emperor Yunqing didn't agree, and was even more concerned about Yan Hui. In the end, Yan Hui didn't resign from his position as the Left Minister. However, the Yan Party, which had once been quite influential in the capital, was broken up just like that. From then on, the prestige of the Yan Family plummeted, and all the glory was replaced by the Shi Family. The ministers in the court called Shi Chonghai Shi Xiang, and the word "Right" in the middle was intentionally or unintentionally forgotten by the crowd.
The first snow drifted down, and the entire capital fell into a vast white world.
Ban Han was in a good mood, because the fox fur coat she had made was finally put to use.
She wore a plain embroidered red peony palace dress, a snow fox fur coat, and the blood jade jewelry sent by Cheng Anbo. She sat in front of the bronze mirror and looked at herself in the mirror, immersed in her own intoxication.
Why was there such a beautiful woman in the world?
"Sister!" Ban Heng shouted outside the door, "It's snowing heavily outside. If we don't leave now, it'll be too late."
Ban Han touched her bright red forehead and drew a blooming red lotus on her forehead. This forehead was like a red bead that grew out of a red lotus, beautiful and enchanting.
On the sixth day of the twelfth lunar month, the current Emperor's birthday, the important ministers of the court, the third rank and above, all the women of the imperial family, had to enter the palace to celebrate the Emperor's birthday. This day was also a good day for officials to publicly give gifts to the Emperor.
In order to curry favor with the Emperor Yunqing, officials from all over the country began to create miracles everywhere, such as Jiahe, strange stones, the appearance of a divine dragon, and strange beasts. The methods were endless, and each story was more bizarre than the last.
However, to the Emperor Yunqing, who listened to all kinds of magical stories every year, these so-called miracles were no longer in his eyes. This was because he knew in his heart that these were lies that the local officials used to curry favor with him. Whoever made up a good story, he would laugh. If the story wasn't vivid enough, he wouldn't even bother to listen to it.
The officials who made up stories weren't tired of it, but he was tired of listening to them.
"Your Majesty, the timely snow indicates a good harvest. Today is a good day." Wang De looked at the sky outside. It was snowing heavily today, and everyone was standing inside and outside the palace, waiting to greet the Emperor. It was probably not a good day.
"Yes." Emperor Yunqing looked at the sky outside and nodded, "Let's go out and take a look."
"Your Majesty, let's go."
As the Emperor's favored junzhu, Ban Han was treated like a moon surrounded by stars no matter where she went. When the junzhu's carriage passed through the palace gates, the guards saw the family insignia on the carriage and didn't even try to stop her. They respectfully bowed and let her pass.
After the carriage passed through the palace gates, it continued forward for a while before stopping. The servant girls sent by the palace were already waiting outside.
"This servant greets Princess Fule."
The two servant girls were sent by the Empress' palace to show how much the Empress valued Princess Fule. In this palace, it was important for the Empress to receive and receive anyone.
"Thank you for your trouble." Ban Zhu's personal maidservant saw the snow on the two mamas' shoulders and hair. After bowing to the two, she presented each mamas a pouch with both hands, "Sorry for making the two mamas wait for a long time."
"It's nothing, it's nothing." The two servant girls didn't dare to be arrogant. After returning the bow, they went forward to lift the curtain of the carriage and prepared to help the junzhu down.
The moment the curtain was lifted, the two nannies gasped in shock.
What a beauty. Snow white clothes and a red hairpin. Especially the red lotus between her eyebrows, it was as dazzling as fire.
Like the red plum blossoms in the snow, there was nothing in the world that could compare.
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