Chapter 56 Prime Minister's Mansion
As the saying goes, good things don’t go out, but bad things spread thousands of miles. The rumors outside not only reached the old lady's ears, but also quickly spread throughout the uncle's house.
Sister Qiuxuan made an appointment to go to Lengxiangju.
"Girl, four girls are here."
"Please come in." Qiu Heng put down the incense ingredients in his hand and walked out.
She was covered in fragrance and filled the noses of Qiu Xuan and four others.
Qiu Xuan looked at Qiu Heng's expression and saw that his face was calm, so she felt relieved: "Is Liu Mei making incense?"
Qiu Heng invited the four of them to sit down: "We are making incense. I have three flavors of incense and I am rushing to make it. I promised you."
"Could it be that she is the concubine who promised to be Master Yuan?" Qiu Fu asked with a straight face.
"Fourth sister—" Qiu Ying tugged at Qiu Fu's sleeves, carefully watching Qiu Heng's reaction.
Qiu Fu shook off Qiu Ying's hand and said instead: "Sixth Sister, are you stupid, making incense for a corrupt concubine? Do you know what the people outside call Mr. Yuan? They call him Yuan Thief! ”
"I didn't think so much." Facing Qiu Fu's question, Qiu Heng lowered his eyes slightly, "I heard from my grandfather that Mr. Yuan's family wanted the incense I made, so I went."
"Grandfather——" Qiu Fu mentioned Uncle Yong Qing and suddenly suppressed her anger towards Qiu Heng.
Qiu Heng looked at the girl with upturned eyebrows and asked softly: "Can my sisters not listen to what my grandfather said?"
Not only would she not cover up for Uncle Yongqing, she would also take this opportunity to alert the four of them.
Their grandfather is not the patron who protects them, but the rock that weighs them down. It will crush them to pieces and destroy their beauty.
Qiu Fu was stunned by Qiu Heng's words.
She thought of her eldest sister immediately.
The eldest sister is the eldest granddaughter of her grandfather. When her grandfather spoke, she made trouble and cried, but in the end she did not enter the palace.
Now that she is the sixth sister, what can she do?
What will happen to her in the future?
A chill ran down my spine, and my anger turned to fear.
Qiu Fu was not the only one who had this thought. Qiu Xuan's face turned pale, thinking of the marriage that she had luckily escaped.
Her eyes swept across the faces of several younger sisters, the same youth, the same beauty, the same grandfather.
There is no difference between them. Misfortune will come at any time and randomly.
But there is no way to hide.
Qiu Xuan felt desperate when she couldn't say anything to comfort Qiu Heng.
"Sisters, do you want to eat red bean cake?" Qiu Heng asked, breaking the suffocating silence.
Qiu Fu blurted out her refusal: "I won't eat it!"
Eat, eat, eat, it’s already like this, how can you be in the mood to eat?
Qiu Heng didn't seem to hear it and stuffed the red bean cake into everyone's hands.
"Fangzhou's newly made taste is at its best. Sisters, try it, I added more sugar this time."
Qiu Xuan stared at the red bean cake and took the first bite.
It was indeed sweeter than what I had eaten before, and the sweet, fragrant and soft taste dispelled the fear that was growing like wildfire in my heart.
It would be great if time stopped here. The sisters were eating sweet red bean cakes together and not heading towards a bad future.
After leaving Lengxiang Residence, the four sisters hardly spoke a word and each returned to their residence with their own thoughts.
The eldest lady specially called Qiu Fu over and warned her: "Don't go to Miss Six in the future. She has grown up in the countryside and is used to being uninhibited. She behaves without rules and may cause many more jokes in the future."
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Qiu Fu was panicking in her heart. After hearing these words, it was like boiling oil filled with sparks, and she immediately exploded: "Do you think Sixth Sister will lead me astray?"
The eldest lady frowned: "Why is your child so bad-tempered? Is your mother wrong?"
"Didn't Sixth Sister listen to my grandfather? Without grandfather, how could Sixth Sister get in touch with the Yuan family?"
"You bastard, you even dared to arrange it for your grandfather, and you still look like a noble girl!"
"What's the use of your noble daughter? I don't care about it!" Qiu Fu ran away crying. The eldest wife and her daughter broke up unhappy. On the second wife's side, Qiu Xuan cuddled up next to her mother, her fingertips cold.
"Mom, I'm scared."
The second wife patted her daughter on the back: "My mother is making arrangements for your marriage. I will tell your grandmother when the time is right."
Qiu Xuan froze and looked at her mother nervously.
She wanted to ask, but was afraid of hearing the answer.
The second wife held back and said, "Mom can only promise you that if it happens, you will be satisfied."
If it doesn't work out in the end and makes my daughter uncomfortable in vain, it's better not to say it.
At present, there are all unkind words towards Miss Six, and Xuan'er and others are also affected. The opportunity she has been waiting for seems to have arrived.
Lengxiang was in the middle, Qiu Heng continued to sort out the incense materials, and Master Qiu San came.
"Heng'er, are you busy?"
"Well, is something wrong, father?"
There is no mistake in every song, one post, one content, one 6 one, one book, one book, take a look!
Master Qiu San studied Qiu Heng's reaction and secretly breathed a sigh of relief: It seems that Heng'er doesn't know the unpleasant things said outside.
That's good, that's good, so as not to be unhappy when you hear it.
"It's okay. It's just... I just dreamed about your mother." Master Qiu San had an idea.
"My mother?"
"Yes." Although it was made up, Mr. Qiu San's sadness when he mentioned his wife was true, "Your mother said that you are the most worried about...Daddy promised your mother that he will take good care of you, even if you It doesn’t matter if you don’t marry for the rest of your life, dad can support you.”
The uncle's house is not poor. Although he doesn't have much income now, the property he will receive in the future will be enough to support a pair of children.
We need to let Heng'er know that he is the worst.
"I remember what my father said."
Qiu Heng brought a square bamboo-patterned fragrant pendant: "This is suitable for you to wear."
Mr. Qiu San was overjoyed to receive his daughter's gift and immediately replaced the sachet on his waist.
The next few days were relatively peaceful, but not long after, Qiu Heng received a post from the Prime Minister's Mansion.
Fang Rui, the granddaughter of Prime Minister Fang, invites the Qiu sisters to a gathering at the Prime Minister's Mansion.
In the past, the girls from the Qiu family would have been excited and happy to receive a post from the Prime Minister, but now they are hesitant about this post.
"It's so hot, it's better not to go." Qiu Xuan looked at Qiu Heng when she said this.
At the Jiayi County Lord's birthday banquet, Fang Rui's attitude towards Sixth Sister was obviously unkind, so if he sent the invitation at this time, I'm afraid the banquet would not be a good one.
"It's really hot. Second sister, please stay at home. I've been feeling very depressed these days, so I just went out to get some fresh air." Qiu Heng's eyes fell on the elegant post for a long time.
She knew there was no good banquet, but when she had the opportunity to step into the prime minister's house, how could she miss it.
What's interesting is that this opportunity was bought by her current notoriety outside the country, and it was indeed not in vain.
"Go, why don't you go? It would look guilty if you don't go." Qiu Fu became more stubborn.
In the end, all five girls from the Qiu family appeared at the flower banquet of the Prime Minister's Mansion.
"Is that Miss Qiuliu?"
"It's her."
"It's really hard to see..."
Amidst the low discussion, a voice sounded: "Some people are so shameless that they have the nerve to appear here."
Qiu Heng heard the news and went away. Cheng Susu stood next to Fang Rui with undisguised disdain on his face.
Before Qiu Heng could speak, Qiu Fu stepped forward and asked, "Miss Fang, is the invitation we received fake?"
(End of chapter)