Chapter 174 Su Peisheng (2)
Chapter 174 Su Peisheng (2)
According to the usual practice, after the emperor favored An Lingrong, he would reward him with something two or three times out of five. The degree of this was usually left to Su Peisheng to decide.
In the past, Su Peisheng would naturally not bother to find any good things for An Lingrong. He even knew that Pangju did not think much of An Lingrong, so he sometimes took the initiative to reduce the number of rewards that Pangju allowed, which was not much to begin with.
Fat Ju asked An Lingrong to receive gifts three times out of the five times she slept with him. When Su Peisheng was busy or in a bad mood, he would reduce the number of times to two, one, or even none at all.
Anyway, it is the norm for concubines to serve the emperor. Even if the emperor really doesn't want to reward her with anything, An Lingrong wouldn't dare to ask him in person.
Su Peisheng also took over the original body's memory and knew the inside story. If he could see the original body, he would want to beat up the original body's soul!
Do you know how difficult An Lingrong's life is now?
Although she was the Queen's spy, the Queen always had a sweet face but a bitter heart, and she was not as generous as Concubine Hua. An Lingrong was suffering from a cough, and she had not been in the bed with the Queen for a long time before she came here.
There was no reward from the Emperor; the Empress only assigned tasks without any benefits; Zhen Huan knew how precious the scar-removing glue she gave was, but she took her things without giving any benefits; she also had to support that useless love-brained mother outside the palace...
Alas, An Lingrong has such a hard time.
Fortunately, Su Peisheng has changed his mind now. While picking out good things for An Lingrong in Pangju's private store, Su Peisheng brags shamelessly in his heart.
Su Peisheng came to the Yanx Palace in person to give An Lingrong a reward. This was a treatment only given to the Queen, Concubine Hua, and Zhen Huan before!
An Lingrong was somewhat pleasantly surprised and flattered, but at the same time she was somewhat confused. Was the Emperor planning to favor her? Or...she felt that Eunuch Su had been too nice to her in the past two days.
If he hadn't even looked at Baojuan when he came to deliver the things, An Lingrong would really suspect that Su Peisheng had fallen in love with Baojuan, just as Xiao Xiazi said, and that was why he took better care of her because of her love for her.
I have to say that Xiao Xiazi is sometimes quite suitable to be an entertainment paparazzi. Look at his guidance, An Lingrong's first reaction now is this.
However, Su Peisheng was still unaware of An Lingrong's inner thoughts. He was still introducing the things he had brought to An Lingrong: "It seems that your cough has not improved much. It just so happens that Judge Zhang Mi has recently developed several new loquat pastes for the emperor. You can try them.
Summer is coming soon, and the emperor has a few rolls of brightly colored Suzhou embroidery fabrics in his storehouse, so I brought them all to you. You can ask someone to help cut them so that you can make some bright clothes.
There is also this pair of gold and jade plum blossom hairpins, which were newly sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The water head is very good, and it matches the concubine very well. "So don't mind the warm jade hairpin that Zhen Huan sent you, now you also have your own, better hairpin.
Su Peisheng was very thoughtful. Not only did he bring An Lingrong medicine for her cough, clothes and jewelry, he even took into account An Lingrong's current financial problems. The last box contained five hundred taels of silver.
Well, this silver was subsidized by Su Peisheng himself. After all, the silver in the emperor's private treasury is limited. It's okay to give some clothes and jewelry, but it's not easy to give silver as a reward if the emperor finds out.
Anyway, Su Peisheng himself is rich enough, and he is not going to be Cui Jinxi's licker in this life. His position has not been promoted to any higher level. Money is just a number to him now, it is better to subsidize An Lingrong.
If An Lingrong was surprised at the beginning, she was frightened later.
What Su Peisheng brought to her this time could be compared to the time when she showed off her singing skills and was favored by the emperor for the first time.
An Lingrong was not a fool, and Su Peisheng's sudden attentiveness made her a little scared.
After sending everyone away, An Lingrong cautiously asked Su Peisheng why he was so nice to her.
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Su Peisheng winked at Xiao Xiazi and asked him to keep an eye on the outside of the house to make sure that no one except Xiao Xiazi could hear his conversation with An Lingrong.
Su Peisheng began his performance. He sighed, "Alas, did you really figure it out? I didn't intend to recognize you, after all, my current identity is really not decent. But since I recognized who you are, I couldn't bear to see you suffer in the palace. I wanted to hide behind the scenes and just help you quietly, but you were so perceptive that you noticed my actions as soon as I made them."
An Lingrong murmured in her heart: You are so generous, it would be difficult for me not to know about it.
But Su Peisheng did have good intentions. What he sent was what he needed, and real money can't fool people.
"From what Eunuch Su said, you have an old relationship with my An family?" An Lingrong still wanted to understand what the connection between Su Peisheng and her family was.
"Oh, yes. It's a long story. Your father, An Bihuai, and I were good friends. At that time, your father was just a spice merchant, and I was still a medicine seller and alchemist. We had agreed to become in-laws in the future. Who knew that a famine would happen in Songyang later? Your father's family still had some assets and could barely make ends meet, but I... Oh, things are unpredictable!"
After saying this, Su Peisheng added some details, such as the birthmarks on An Bihuai's body and hands, what he looked like, and so on.
When An Lingrong heard this description, she knew it was indeed her biological father, but she still had some doubts and didn't know how to start the conversation.
Well, she didn't need to speak. Su Peisheng considerately took the initiative and answered her doubts in disguise: "Come to think of it, your father is so lucky. He actually went from a small spice dealer to an official. When I first knew that your father's name was An Bihuai, I was not sure that this was the one I knew."
An Lingrong took the opportunity to ask, "Then how did you recognize me later? By the way, I heard that you, Eunuch Su, grew up with the emperor. How did you get to know my father in Songyang?"
When Su Peisheng heard An Lingrong ask this question, he first looked around to see if anyone except Xiao Xiazi was eavesdropping. Then he deliberately lowered his voice and said, "This is all thanks to the box of scar-removing glue you gave to Lady Wan. The secret recipe of the scar-removing glue is not easily known by others except those who are experts in spices. It is because I saw that you are from Songyang, your father is An Bihuai, and you also know spices that I dare to be sure that you are the daughter of an old friend."
"You are too careless. As long as the Wound-Shrinking Glue is in Concubine Wan's hands, doesn't that mean she has a handle on you? You thought you put musk in the Wound-Shrinking Glue to keep it secret, but you don't know how skilled the imperial doctors in the palace are. How could you hide such a trick from them? Let alone the others, just the Imperial Doctor Wen who is good friends with Concubine Wan can understand the trick after a little research."
An Lingrong was originally prepared to listen to Su Peisheng telling her stories, but he suddenly revealed what he had done to the scar-removing glue. She was so scared that her face turned pale.
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