Tianxiang Tower
Yuan Chun came forward with a smile. The girl was in her twenties, with beautiful appearance and plump figure. At Qin Keqing's greeting, she sat down next to Jia Heng.
At this moment, everyone's seating order was not strictly arranged, but they were scattered and sitting casually.
It was probably Qin Keqing, Sister Feng, and Li Wan who sat together. Second Sister You and Third Sister You sat next to Sister Feng, while Yingchun sat next to Li Wan, and in order, Tanchun, Baochai, Xiangyun, Daiyu, Jiaheng.
The maids and mothers-in-law were waiting around.
As for Xichun, she didn't come.
Qin Keqing smiled and said: "Eldest sister has just returned from the princess's mansion. Is the eldest princess easy to get along with?"
Yuan Chun raised her beautiful eyes and looked at the girl with a flowery smile across from her. She felt a little unnatural in her heart. However, she remembered the scene she had secretly seen in the princess's mansion. Her heart trembled slightly. She quickly dismissed some thoughts and said softly: " The eldest princess is dignified and generous, has a gentle temperament, and is gentle and kind to others."
Sister Feng said with a smile: "Compared to ordinary people, the princess can be said to be the most noble girl in the world. It is really rare to be so easy to get along with."
Qin Keqing smiled and said casually as if unintentionally: "I heard that the eldest princess lives with a little princess. That little princess is the same age as sister Xue, so she should be easy to get along with, right?"
Jia Heng's expression remained unchanged, but his heart couldn't help but feel something unusual. He smelled something unusual and said, "Princess Qinghe probably lost her father when she was young. She has a quiet temperament and doesn't like to talk much."
Yuan Chun whispered softly: "It's okay, I was chatting with her yesterday, and she is also a well-educated lady."
Jia Heng looked at Yuan Chun and said, "I hope the eldest sister understands her. The little princess would like to talk to the eldest sister."
It's more like Jia Heng doesn't understand the temperament of the little princess at all.
But because Yuan Chun was playing the drums on the side, it seemed more like Yuan Chun was helping Jia Hengyuan.
Yuanchun said softly: "Brother Heng is joking."
Qin Keqing smiled and said: "Husband, you said that after the New Year, do you need to buy a gift for the eldest princess's house?"
At least it can be ruled out, but not necessarily, that Xu is a maid in the eldest princess's palace or something like that.
I remember someone called Lingxue came last time.
As for the eldest princess of Jinyang, Qin Keqing had no idea at all, because in his mind, how old would the eldest princess be if she raised a daughter as old as the Xue family's sister?
Although she is not as big as Mrs. Wang, she still looks like an old lady like Aunt Xue.
She can be her husband's mother-in-law.
Maybe a widowed noblewoman is raising her face?
There is no need to think about it. Her husband would rather die than fall down.
If she were a maid in the eldest princess's house, she wouldn't need to be so vigilant, lest the husband and wife would have any discord.
It's just that I feel a little bit sour in my heart. The You sisters, who are so good at home, want to find other women outside?
Is it true, as the book says, that a wife is worse than a concubine, and a concubine is worse than a thief?
Jia Heng smiled and said, "That's okay. It's not too late to go on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. I just need to go to the palace to pay my respects to the Queen during the New Year."
Listening to the conversation between the couple, Daiyu's bright eyes flashed thoughtfully. I don't know if she was thinking too much, but she always felt that there was something unusual in the calm words.
Baochai on the side, her apricot eyes gleaming, was also thinking a little.
Jia Heng asked the grandmother on the side: "Why don't you see sister Xichun coming?"
Xichun has a withdrawn personality and rarely participates in some collective activities of the female family members of the Jia family in the original work.
After everyone heard this, they all stopped their chopsticks when they found that Xichun was alone.
Qin Keqing chuckled and said: "I just sent someone to call her, but she hasn't come yet. Baozhu, you go and call her again."
Baozhu responded and hurried away.
After a while, Xichun, accompanied by the maids Ru Hua, Caiping and Cai'er, walked lightly to the second floor of Tianxiang Building and greeted several people.
"Brother Heng, sister-in-law, eldest sister..."
Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Just now your brother said, why are you here now?"
"I was just chatting with Master Miaoyu, but it was a little late." Xichun said softly.
Originally she didn't want to come, but when she heard Brother Heng calling for someone to come over, she felt bad about not coming.
Xiangyun's chubby face showed an innocent and bright smile, and said: "Fourth sister, I'm sending you now. Come over and have a barbecue. I'm almost done roasting it. Come on, I'll bake the biggest piece for you." .”
As he spoke, he turned over the venison with a fork and sprinkled some pepper, salt and other substances on it.
Daiyu smiled and said: "Sister Yun, others believe that she is a cook."
Everyone laughed when they saw this.
Xiangyun pouted, with a smile on his face and said: "We poor girls have already been in charge of the family. They can't compare to Sister Lin, Miss Qianjin. She doesn't touch Yangchun water with her fingers. When the meat is cooked, Brother Heng will do it for her. .”
Daiyu Qiu Shui's starry eyes narrowed slightly, she smiled to herself and said: "I am not diligent in all aspects of my body, and I can't distinguish between grains and grains."
Tan Chun chuckled and said, "Sister Lin, Sister Yun even included us in their jokes."
Jia Heng listened to the bickering between Yun and Dai, with Tan Chun helping him, and couldn't help but smile softly. She couldn't help but think of the original work. Daiyu said, "Luxue'an was robbed, so I will cry a lot for Lu Xu'an." Then Xiang Yunjiu retorted, "You are pretending to be noble. We ate venison, and we still have a beautiful heart."
The two of them often quarreled, and no one took the little girl's quarrels to heart.
Jia Heng smiled and said: "Is it baked yet? Let me try Sister Yun's craftsmanship."
Xiang Yun brought the venison over on a plate and said with a smile: "Brother Heng, I'll give you this piece."
Tanchun said with a smile: "Brother Heng, this one smells better when roasted."
Jia Heng picked up the chopsticks and used a piece. He stood up and said with a smile: "You guys rinse it first, and I'll bake it too."
As expected, the Xiangyun was not roasted as expected. It was both cooked and raw, which made it easy to get a bad stomach.
When everyone saw this, they were shocked.
But then I thought about it, since it was a banquet at home, it was nothing serious, and Jia Heng was not a pampered young man.
Qin Keqing smiled and said, "Let's cook the meat too."
As he said that, he picked up the chopsticks, picked up the slices of meat and put them into the soup pot.
Everyone followed Qin Keqing's example, picking up pieces of meat with chopsticks and placing them into the soup pot.
After a while, Jia Heng finished roasting the meat, divided it into several plates and gave it to Qingwen, and said: "Bring it over to them, one for each person except Sister Lin."
Then, holding a plate, he handed it to Qin Keqing and said warmly: "Keqing, try it and see how well I bake it."
Hearing this, Qin Keqing raised her gorgeous and beautiful jade face and looked at the young man holding the plate in his hand. She couldn't help but feel sweetness in her heart. She took it with both hands and said, "Husband, I'm here."
The trace of grievance that was still left in my heart completely disappeared.
Everyone saw it and had different thoughts.
Tan Chun chuckled and said: "In ancient times, there was a case to raise eyebrows, but now Brother Heng personally offers praise. If it spreads, it will be a story for the ages."
Sister Feng looked at it with a look of envy on her face, but after a moment, she remembered something and couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Xiangyun was eating a piece of venison at this time and said with a smile: "Brother Heng's craftsmanship is really good. Stop looking at it and try it all."
Everyone smiled and picked up their chopsticks and started using them.
Jia Hengzhong sat down next to Xichun and Daiyu again, and said to Daiyu: "Sister Lin, venison is not easy to digest. Eat less later."
"Well, thank you, Brother Heng." Daiyu said softly with lowered eyebrows.
Everyone enjoyed the venison happily, and before they knew it, it was already past noon. They came to the window of Tianxiang Tower and looked at the scenery in the garden.
Xiangyun touched his belly with his little hand and said with a naive smile: "Brother Heng, hold on."
Jia Heng said: "I just asked you not to eat so much, but if you use this much, your stomach will be full again. Let's go for a walk in the garden later to avoid accumulating food."
"I don't want to eat so much. Who makes this venison so delicious?" Xiangyun said with a chuckle.
Everyone laughed at his childish words.
For a time, the entire Tianxiang Tower was filled with laughter, and the atmosphere of youth and beauty overflowed in the Tianxiang Tower on a winter afternoon.
In the midst of this, Jia Heng's face was slightly absent-minded, but it was inevitable that he would feel a sense of joy.
The golden hairpins gather in Tianxiang Tower, and the beauty is not winter.
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The night was already dark and it was midnight, but the lights in the study room of the Daming Palace were as bright as day, and a thin, majestic figure was writing at his desk.
Emperor Chongping rubbed his sore wrist and put down the brush in his hand. Suddenly he felt something in his heart. He raised his eyes and saw a golden hairpin pinned between his lush temples. He was wearing a light red dress embroidered with peony flowers, and he looked elegant. , the gorgeous beauty walked over and asked: "Zitong, it's so late, why don't you go and rest?"
"Seeing that the lanterns of the Daming Palace are still on, let's come and take a look." Empress Song's beautiful face smiled brightly, and her voice was like a broken jade fountain: "Your Majesty, there are only a few days left, it's the New Year, you shouldn't be so tired."
"It doesn't make people worry about celebrating the New Year!" Emperor Chongping picked up a few memorials in his hand and said coldly: "In the past few days, the censor heard the news from nowhere, saying that military parades were a waste of money and people, so he advised me to stop and go here. Remember, sincerity is a rotten Confucianism!"
As he said this, You was displeased and actually abandoned several memorials on the ground.
When Empress Song saw this, her brows and eyes were still gentle, she bent down and bent her knees, and went to pick up the memorial. She was tall and tall, with graceful curves. Under the light, because her waist was so bent, the pink skirt could not wrap it up. The round and plump figure stood out in front of the emperor. He picked up a few memorials and said softly: "Your Majesty, please calm down."
Emperor Chongping was unmoved by the beauty of the talent, and said coldly: "Now that the country's military affairs are in decline, they are still so stubborn in their views on civil and military affairs, which is unspeakably pedantic."
He also had some guesses about the people behind the memorials to impeach Jia Heng and Li Zan.
I don’t know what he is thinking!
Empress Song piled up the memorials and put them in the corner of the imperial desk. She walked behind Emperor Chongping, pinched Emperor Chongping's shoulders and said: "Your Majesty, everyone in the previous court has seen what they have seen. It is the smooth flow of speech and the atmosphere of the holy king in the court." , Even if there are one or two fierce and arrogant words, Your Majesty must not make yourself angry."
Emperor Chongping waved his hand, seemingly unaware of the intoxicating sweet fragrance emanating from the beauty behind him, with a gloomy expression on his face: "I have an idea."
After all, it was an old man who came to have a wife, and they gave birth to two children, so they no longer had the freshness of the past.
Empress Song nodded her head, with a look of sadness in her eyes, and said softly: "Your Majesty, why don't you come here first and do the review tomorrow?"
Emperor Chongping said: "Zi Tong should go and rest first. I will review these memorials. This is an urgent task at the end of the year."
Empress Song sighed quietly in her heart, but with a soft smile on her beautiful face, she said: "Then I have to retire, Your Majesty should take care of your dragon body and rest early."
Your Majesty handles state affairs day and night like this, eating and drinking at night, but he even ignores his usual affairs for several months.
Although she is a mother-in-law, she is... also a woman.
Emperor Chongping waved his hand and signaled Queen Song to go back and rest first.
At this moment, Dai Quan hurried in from outside. When he saw Empress Song, he quickly knelt down and saluted: "I have seen your empress."
Empress Song nodded to Dai Quan, without saying much, walked around the screen and walked out.
However, just as he reached the threshold, he suddenly heard a suppressed roar from behind him, "You bastard!"
Empress Song frowned slightly, and a flash of surprise flashed in her beautiful eyes. She was about to move away when suddenly she heard an angry voice coming from inside again: "What is King Chu trying to do? Is he trying to force me to marry him?"
Queen Song was startled, her beautiful eyes showed shock, her slender hands covered her plump and shiny red lips, her rosy face was lost in thought.
It turns out that it was clearly a briefing from the inner-guard spies sent by Dai Quan and presented to Emperor Chongping. It clearly contained a detailed conversation between Jia Heng and Aunt Zhen sent by the King of Chu.
"Ziyu is a general person."
At this moment, a familiar voice came from the inner study room. Empress Song narrowed her eyes slightly, tightened the handkerchief in her hands, and said secretly, "Is there something about Jia Ziyu here?"
Understanding the key, Queen Song's phoenix eyes narrowed slightly, not daring to stay any longer, and quietly left the Daming Palace.
In the inner study of the Daming Palace, Emperor Chongping put aside the briefing papers in his hand, rubbed his temples, and sighed: "They are all not easy to worry about."
The King of Qi is like this, the King of Chu is like this, and...
These are all thinking about the throne under his seat, but do they know the difficulties he has in handling national affairs and controlling the world.
Seeing that the Chen family is in decline, it is difficult to recover. With his talents, even if he wants to be a promising king of Zhongxing, he feels that he is physically and mentally haggard. How about the two kings of Chu?
Emperor Chongping was silent for a moment, and felt that it was better to give the King of Chu a hard time. He said in a deep voice: "Dai Quan, tomorrow you will take a set of four books from the Hongwen Hall and give them to the King of Chu, so that he can read them carefully and hand over a copy after the year. After reading it, I want to read it."
The King of Chu just hammered and hammered first.
Anyway, when King Wei opens his palace next year, he can also check and balance the power of King Chu, which is exactly the power of the three parties.
"What do you think after reading it?" Dai Quan said in surprise, suddenly realized something, and said hurriedly: "Yes, Your Majesty."
In a moment, he realized that this was a report from the Jia family's detectives. Jia Ziyu had used it to teach Jia Zheng's son, and he didn't want his majesty to pay attention to what he had written.
In fact, not only the princes like King Beijing knew that Baoyu was born with jade in his mouth, but even Emperor Chongping also knew the details.
Even the eight words on the stone "Don't lose, don't forget, immortality and longevity" were clear to Emperor Chongping.
After all, this is similar to the eight-character "Ordered by Heaven, and you will live forever", which overlaps quite a lot.
Emperor Chongping had doubts, but in the end... after so many years, he just shook his head secretly.
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Thanks to the leader of the book friend "His Mountain Stone" for the reward!
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