Chapter 222 Whichever Hand Touches Minglan Will Be Destroyed

Compared to Minglan, Zhang Guifen did not show her talent as a housekeeper before she got married.

Or rather, Zhang Guifen did not know how to be a housekeeper at all.

But she grew up in the Duke's Mansion, and she had heard her father and brothers discussing which battle.

She might not be very good at housekeeping under the influence of her father and brothers, but if she were asked to manage the army, she might be really good at it. However, as a girl, it was difficult for her to join the army to serve the country.

Later, Zhang Guifen began to prepare the return ceremony.

During this time, Nanny Zhang said, "Madam, when the brides of the prominent families in Bianjing return to their parents' home, they all pay attention to a grand ceremony. Do you think that when they return to their parents' home in two days, they should use the 18-man imperial sedan chair awarded by the palace?"

Zhang Guifen shook her head and smiled, "The Wei and Zhang families are one family, sharing honor and disgrace, so why should we care about the grand ceremony."

"When I married the Marquis, the scene was big enough, so it's not appropriate to make any more grand ceremony."

Nanny Zhang nodded, "Madam, you have considered it carefully."

Wei Yuan left the Marquis's mansion to look for Chen Daniu and others, but it was just an excuse.

The purpose was to let Zhang Guifen establish her authority in the mansion.

If he was there, Zhang Guifen would always have some concerns when doing things.

After the matter of returning to the parents' home was finalized, Minglan happened to visit.

Zhang Guifen greeted him personally and said with a smile: "We just met yesterday, and you come again today. Do you miss me?"

Minglan replied: "I have to see if your new bride is getting used to it."

The former held the latter's wrist, and their behavior was very intimate.

"Do you think I have changed before and after marriage?"

Hearing this, Minglan looked up and down carefully.

Overnight, Zhang Guifen did change a little, and she seemed to be more feminine?

It's like a ripe fruit. Even women can't help but want to taste it.

After a pause, Minglan said seriously, "I used to think that my aunt was a real noble lady in the capital, and she was noble everywhere."

"Now, she is more like a mistress. Yesterday, my mother was so happy that she couldn't sleep all night. She kept telling me that it was a blessing for the Wei family that my uncle married you."

Zhang Guifen shook her head and said, "Tell my eldest sister when you go back today and don't say such things in the future."

"If you want to say it, you have to say that it is my blessing to marry your uncle."

Minglan nodded slightly and said, "As long as my aunt can live in harmony with my uncle, it doesn't matter who is blessed."

"Where's your uncle? He didn't go to the court to do official business right after getting married, did he?"

Zhang Guifen said, "He said he was going to see Chen Daniu and the others for something, but I didn't ask."

Minglan teased deliberately, "Aunt, don't you worry? Is your uncle going to Guangyuntai with his comrades tonight?"

Zhang Guifen had long been accustomed to her words, and said calmly, "Go ahead. If your uncle wants to go, can I stop him?"

Minglan gave her a thumbs up, "Aunt is still generous. If anyone in the capital calls you a jealous woman in the future, I will be the first to say no."

Zhang Guifen rolled her eyes at her.

Minglan added: "I came to see my aunt today, firstly to see what she is busy with, and secondly, if you have nothing to do, how about you accompany me to go shopping?"

"There is a new tea shop opened over there in the market, the shopkeeper is from Hangzhou, when my uncle was in the southeast, he drank the tea she made and praised the tea for being good."

"Let's go and take a look together, and ask for some skills in making tea. When you learn it, you can make tea for my uncle to taste."

Hearing this, Zhang Guifen instantly became interested and said: "Does your uncle like to drink tea?"

Minglan said: "When you have nothing to do, you always have to drink a few cups, you can't drink all day, right?"

Zhang Guifen nodded.

Then, the two of them went to the market.

If it weren't for Minglan leading the way, Zhang Guifen would hardly have found that there was a tea shop in a remote corner of the market.

"Zhao's Tea Shop?"

Zhang Guifen murmured.

Although the storefront is not big, it also has two floors.

Minglan said, "The rent of shops in our capital is very expensive. I heard that the shopkeeper spent a lot of effort to rent this shop."

"Although it has only been open for a few days, there are many people coming and going to drink tea."

She just walked in with Zhang Guifen, and the shopkeeper Zhao, who was good at observing words and expressions, saw them. He hurriedly came forward and bowed, saying, "Miss Sheng is here. Meet Miss Sheng."

Although this young lady Zhao had not been in the capital for long, she had heard some of Sheng Minglan's deeds.

Although she was born as a concubine, her mother was a royal concubine and the adopted daughter of the Duke of Guo. Her uncle and aunt were both influential figures in the court.

She was more and more fortunate that she chose to make friends with the young lady in front of her when she was in Hangzhou.

Let's talk about some noble women in the city. They heard that Sheng Minglan often came here to drink tea, so they also tried it with a try.

It can be said that it attracted many quality customers.

In the future, if all the girls come here for gatherings, they can earn enough to rent the shop.

Sheng Minglan introduced: "Shopkeeper Zhao, you don't have to be polite. This is my aunt."

Hearing this, Miss Zhao was startled and bowed again,

"I didn't know that it was the Lady of Yanmen County who came. I'm sorry for not welcoming you."

Zhang Guifen made a gesture to her to keep quiet and said with a smile: "Please arrange a private room for us to see your cooking skills."

Miss Zhao was overjoyed and quickly stretched out her hand, "Please go upstairs, distinguished guest."

Zhang Guifen was the wife of the Loyal and Brave Earl and the legitimate daughter of the Duke of Ying.

If I could be friends with him with this identity, I would never dare to think about it!

Immediately afterwards, Mrs. Zhao personally took them to a private room upstairs and respectfully spoke to Zhang Guifen:

"I wonder what Madam would like to drink. The fruits here are also good. It would be more pleasant to eat some fruits while enjoying tea."

The fact that Zhang Guifen was granted the title of Lady of Yanmen County has already been announced on the imperial list. As everyone knows,

"How many types of tea do you have? Which one is the best? Please recommend it."

At this time, there were two armored guards guarding the private room where they were staying.

These two people are Wei Yuan's personal guards.

Before Wei Yuan left the Hou Mansion, he transferred a hundred experts from the Danglu Army Guards to take charge of Zhang Guifen's security.

She thought it was too showy.

Helpless, Wei Yuan had no choice but to select more than thirty experts from among a hundred people, some of whom were stationed in the mansion.

There are several other people who are responsible for protecting Zhang Guifen when she goes out.

To be honest, the probability of something happening under the Emperor's feet is low.

But don’t be afraid of ten thousand, just be afraid of the eventuality.

There are too many people staring at Wei Yuan now.

Even though there were only two personal guards guarding the private room, as she arrived at the tea shop, there were at least a dozen of Wei Yuan's personal guards hiding around.

This scene is comparable to that of royal nobles making secret visits to the people.

In the private room, Mrs. Zhao recommended several tea products.

Zhang Guifen asked them all to serve the tea. If they thought it tasted good, she would ask them how to make the tea.

I thought to myself, if in the future, Brother Wei likes to drink the tea I made, Baixi

As he thought about it, the corners of his mouth could not help but raise slightly.

She has decided that after returning home, she will go to a few more tea shops and learn the art of making tea.

After about half a stick of incense, Zhang Guifen became impatient and asked, "Why is it so slow?"

She had just gotten married and it was really not good for her to be exposed in public.

Except for Minglan, no one else would be able to call her out today.

Minglan said: "I'm not sure, I'll wait."

Suddenly, the two of them heard some noise coming from them, and vaguely heard words like 'yamen' and 'take away'.

Zhang Guifen and Minglan were curious and opened the private room.

The guards standing outside immediately clasped their fists.

Zhang Guifen looked at the shop on the first floor and saw several official servants arriving, and couldn't help but frown.

Suddenly I saw a person speaking to Mrs. Zhao:

"It's her, it's her who came to the capital from Hangzhou to blackmail Mr. Ouyang!"

Hearing the sound, the guards dragged Mrs. Zhao out and started to go out.

Seeing this, Minglan quickly said: "Wait a minute!"

With that said, she walked downstairs.

Zhang Guifen winked at a guard behind him.

The bodyguard immediately followed Minglan.

Minglan stood in front of Mrs. Zhao, asked the guards, and said:

"I don't know what crime she committed, but why bothered several officials and elder brothers to take her away?"

When the leading officer saw the armored man behind Minglan, he immediately did not dare to underestimate him and bowed:

"The Yamen is handling the case. I hope the girl will not interfere."

Mrs. Zhao suddenly knelt down and said: "Miss Sheng, please make the decision. I came to the capital firstly to do business well, and secondly to find my fiancé."

"But when I got here, I realized that my fiancé already had a crush on him. These people wanted to take me away because they were worried that I would miss the good thing of that ruthless man."

She briefly told the whole story.

Minglan has the temperament to draw a sword to help when there is injustice on the road. Of course, the premise of all this must be based on assessing the situation.

In the current situation, she would never let the guards take Mrs. Zhao away.

Once a woman enters the court, she will either die or be injured.

The middle-aged man who came with the servant snorted coldly: "You are obviously trying to pester Mr. Ouyang, but you are beating him up here. How shameless!"

Then, he spoke to Minglan without knowing the truth: "Girl, please don't meddle in other people's business!"

With that said, he crossed the guard and pushed Minglan, trying to take away Mrs. Zhao behind her.

But because Minglan was not on guard for a moment, she took a few steps back and almost fell.

When Zhang Guifen saw this, she immediately shouted: "How presumptuous!"

As soon as she finished speaking.

Inside and outside the tea shop, more than ten soldiers with armor and sabers suddenly poured out.

Originally they did not reveal their armor, but were wrapped in a coat.

Now, everyone took off their coats and surrounded the officers.

The leading police officer raised his hands and said, "I wonder what company they belong to? This tea shop owner, Ms. Zhao, is suspected of selling fake tea. Many people have been drunk. According to law, we need to take her back for interrogation."

As soon as he finished speaking, a soldier took out his waist card.

When the catcher saw it, it turned out to be the 'Danglu Army' waist badge. He was immediately startled and quickly bowed respectfully.

"I don't know if it's the Danglu Army. I'm being presumptuous. Let's go."

Having said that, he wanted to take those detectives away from here.

However, more than a dozen soldiers of the Danglu Army remained unmoved.

Until Zhang Guifen came to Minglan and asked with concern: "Is it okay?"

Minglan shook her head.

Zhang Guifen looked at the middle-aged man and said in a deep voice: "Just now, which arm of yours hit her?"

The middle-aged man had already seen the situation clearly at this moment, and he was almost scared away. His lips were trembling, and he couldn't say a complete sentence for a long time. Finally, he suddenly fell to his knees.

Seeing this, Zhang Guifen said: "If you don't tell me, then I will cripple both of your arms."

As soon as he finished speaking, two soldiers grabbed the middle-aged man and broke his arms with a little force.

The intense pain surged into his heart, and he fainted and fell to the ground in just a moment.

Then, Zhang Guifen looked at the constables again and said, "Which government office?"

The leader was horrified and hurriedly said respectfully, "I am from Kaifeng County Government."

There is Kaifeng Prefecture in Bianjing City, and Kaifeng Prefecture has many counties under its jurisdiction, one of which is named "Kaifeng".

Zhang Guifen said, "You said her tea is fake?"

The constable dared not speak.

Zhang Guifen looked at Miss Zhao and smiled, "Go and make the tea you recommended to me just now. I want to taste it."

Miss Zhao cried with joy, thinking that if she hadn't met a noble person today, it would be difficult to end it peacefully, and she might even be driven out of Bianjing by that heartless man.

She nodded quickly and started to make tea for Zhang Guifen.

When the tea was ready, Zhang Guifen and Minglan sat down to taste it together.

Originally, there were many customers on the first floor, but the middle-aged man brought people to make such a scene, and scared away all the customers.

And those detectives did not dare to act rashly because of their status as soldiers of the Danglu Army.

So at this moment, the whole teahouse seemed particularly quiet.

Zhang Guifen sipped the tea quietly, savoring it for a while, and occasionally asked Minglan:

"This tea is quite good. I have drunk a lot of expensive teas in Bianjing, but compared with this, I always feel that it lacks some flavor. The shop you recommended is very good."

"This tea is called Xishui Danqing? Just looking at the color of the tea soup, it looks like a landscape painting. Hmm. The taste is not bad, but I don't know if your uncle likes it."

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After that, she looked at Miss Zhao standing beside her, waved at her, and said:

"Here is thirty taels of silver. Don't think it's too little. I didn't bring too much cash when I went out today."

With her status, she didn't need to bring money in person when spending in the capital.

For example, if she went to a restaurant to eat, someone would pay for it after she finished eating.

Now she paid for Miss Zhao in person, which was a thought.

Seeing this, Miss Zhao bowed and said, "If it weren't for you, I would have been taken away by the officials."

"How dare I take your money now? Besides, you gave me too much. If I took the money from my benefactor, I would have shortened my life."

"So I can't take this money."

Zhang Guifen smiled and said, "Just take it, but I'm not giving it to you for free."

"Starting tomorrow, you can take half a day to go to the mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery to teach me how to make tea, how about that?"

"In return, I will give you silver every month, which will be the rent of your shop, how about that?"

Hearing this, Miss Zhao was dumbfounded.

Go. Go to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, oh no, go to the mansion of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery, and teach the lady of Yanmen County how to make tea?

This. This is more than just overwhelming wealth!

I'm afraid that from now on, no one will dare to trouble me anymore.

For a moment, Miss Zhao was at a loss.

Minglan, who was sitting opposite Zhang Guifen, asked with a smile:

"Why? You don't want to?"

Miss Zhao shook her head quickly, suddenly knelt on the ground, and bowed to Zhang Guifen, saying:

"Fortunately, you look up to me, I am grateful, but I am afraid."

"Thank you, madam!"

After that, she kowtowed heavily.

Zhang Guifen said: "Get up quickly, I just heard you negotiate with these officials, you are also a miserable woman."

"It's just a few small things, it's nothing."

After a pause, she looked at the officials and said: "Why don't you leave?"

Zhang Guifen drank tea in front of them and asked Miss Zhao to teach her how to make tea. The meaning was already very clear.

Could she find someone to teach her how to make fake tea?

The officials had already heard Zhang Guifen's identity from their conversation just now.

Who in the whole city of Bianjing didn't know about Wei Yuan's wedding?

At this moment, if they hadn't taken into account the large number of people, they would have been scared to death by Zhang Guifen's identity.

Who would be willing to ask about this kind of mess now?

Without saying anything, they rushed to leave the tea shop.

As for the middle-aged man who fainted on the ground, he was thrown into a dark corner outside the street by the soldiers of the Danglu Army and left to die.

Originally, Zhang Guifen was too lazy to ask about the things in this shop, but since Minglan was involved, the tea made by Miss Zhao was also drunk by her husband.

So, she decided to get involved a little, so that Miss Zhao would owe her a favor and teach her the skill of making tea with all her heart.