The first snow in the capital fell slowly and quietly.
The deserted street was soon covered by a vast white gauze.
Even the steep and uneven roof is playfully covered with a white coat.
Peace, peace!
When Chen Ziyu was still sleeping, Li Yan ran out of the bedroom and woke her up.
"Master, someone is coming from the palace. They say that Her Royal Highness the Princess will return to our house in an hour. We need our family to prepare!"
Chen Ziyu suppressed his sleepiness and tried to open his eyes and glanced out the window, seeing that the sky was already brightening.
So after struggling for a while, he got up from the bed. Looking around, he found that Xiao Cui had long disappeared.
Since Princess Taikang returned home today, Chen Ziyu told Zhu Houzhao in advance to take a few days off, intending to spend time with Zhu Xiurong.
"Stop knocking and get in here!"
The door was pushed open by Li Yan from the outside, and a biting chill poured into the bedroom. Chen Ziyu shivered instantly.
Feeling an inexplicable chill, he frowned and said displeasedly: "Why is it so cold?"
"Master, you don't know something. It snowed last night!"
Li Yan rubbed his frozen red hands, and forced a smile on his frozen face.
"I'll help you get dressed, little one!"
After saying that, he will approach Chen Ziyu and prepare to take action!
"Don't move!" Chen Ziyu yelled, "Go and find Xiaocui!"
"Oh!" Li Yan glanced at Chen Ziyu with an extremely resentful look. He found that the young master disliked him more and more and liked Xiaocui more and more!
"Why are you still standing there? You want to freeze me to death!"
"Yes, yes! Go right here, little one!"
Li Yan rushed out quickly.
After a while, Xiaocui came into the room with a basin of steaming hot water, her face was flushed and she lowered her head and said timidly:
"Master, I will help you get dressed!"
...
Half an hour later, Chen Ziyu walked out of the bedroom refreshed. The early morning exercise made his whole body feel warm, except for his waist, which was a little sore.
When I came to the front yard, I saw that the housekeeper Chen Zhong was directing the servants to clear the snow in the yard, and my father was chatting with Zhang San without saying a word.
As soon as Zhang San saw Chen Ziyu coming out, he immediately covered his mouth and laughed in a high voice: "Hey, I haven't seen Captain Chen for many days, and our family noticed that you seem to have become more heroic!"
There was a hint of flattery in his words, which was not hidden from Chen Ziyu.
Thinking about it, it has never happened in the past dynasties that the queen could personally greet her and repeatedly emphasize that she would send the princess back grandly!
"How are you, Eunuch Zhang!" Chen Ziyu said hello to Zhang San with a smile on her face!
Zhang San didn't mind, but continued to say with a smile: "Captain Chen, on the order of the empress, our family has sent the princess's dowry first, and we also asked Captain Chen to take a look at it!"
"Dowry?" Chen Ziyu was slightly startled!
Only then did I remember that except for being rewarded with thousands of acres of imperial farmland, there was nothing else.
"Where is it? Let me see what good things your Majesty has given me!?"
Chen Rui on the side almost spit out a sip of tea from his mouth. He looked at Chen Ziyu with wide eyes, wishing he could go up and cover his silly son's mouth!
It was okay for the father and son to say this behind closed doors, but it was the eunuch in the palace who said this in front of an outsider!
If it were passed back, wouldn't it make His Majesty and the Empress look down upon themselves?
"Ahem! Stop talking nonsense!" Chen Rui quickly glared at Chen Ziyu!
Chen Ziyu didn't seem to hear his father's warning, so he opened the gift list and read it.
He quickly realized something was wrong, looked at Zhang San strangely, and said in confusion: "Eunuch Zhang, is it a mistake? Why is there only such a small thing?"
I saw on the gift list that there were three thousand taels of gold, ten thousand taels of silver, plus some pearls, agate and other jewelry, and some precious medicinal materials such as ginseng and deer antler, which I estimated to be only about ten thousand taels.
For an ordinary family, these dowries would already be very generous, but as a princess, this dowry is probably not as good as that of a princess!
The British Duke Zhang Mao once mentioned in front of Chen Rui that when his second son Zhang Xin married the daughter of the King of Zhou, the dowry alone exceeded 30,000 taels of gold, not to mention other things. It was piled up like a mountain!
Did Emperor Hongzhi really sting like this? Chen Ziyu fell into deep confusion!
Zhang San's heart twitched violently. This Captain Chen was so heartless. He dared to say such things!
But Chen Ziyu dared to say it, but he didn't have the courage to accept it!
Seeing that Chen Ziyu was still staring straight at him, Zhang San ducked his eyes, picked up the tea cup in front of him, and began to slurp to cover up his embarrassment!
In other homes, even if the emperor rewards you with a piece of grass, it will be kept at home as an offering!
Chen Rui even twitched the corner of his mouth, wishing to go up and gag Chen Ziyu. He quickly raised his hands and said to Zhang San: "Don't blame Eunuch Zhang, young people are ignorant!"
"What did your uncle say? We feel that Captain Chen is very honest!" Zhang San lowered his head and chuckled. After thinking for a moment, he lowered his voice and said mysteriously: "But...since Chen Duwei The captain mentioned it, so we can only say a few words!"
"Actually, this dowry was originally quite large, but it was all brought into Shouning Hou's Mansion. However, the uncle and the captain of Shouning Hou's temperament also know that it belongs to Pixiu!"
"In addition, this matter is really a disadvantage for Shouning Houfu, so His Majesty and the Queen did not mention this matter!"
After saying the last word, Zhang San closed his mouth, as if nothing had happened, and squinted his eyes to enjoy the fragrance of the tea!
Chen Ziyu nodded, suddenly enlightened!
It turned out that Emperor Hongzhi felt that he had taken advantage of Zhu Xiurong by mistake, so he was a little more casual about the dowry.
In addition, the generous dowry prepared before has been swallowed up by Shouning Hou Mansion, so Chen Ziyu can only bear the loss himself!
After all, he was the one who got the princess, while Shouning Houfu only got some money and a "tigress"!
After thinking about this, Chen Ziyu felt much better! Otherwise, it would always feel like Emperor Hongzhi owed him something!
When thinking about Zhang Kangnian's "happy" life with Wang Laohu in the future, Chen Ziyu felt that the dowry money received by Shouning Houfu was far from enough to pay for medical expenses!
Chen Ziyu raised his head and looked at Zhang San, and said with a smile: "I see, thank you for the tip!"
Zhang San slowly placed the tea cup in his hand on the desk beside him, and said to Chen Ziyu with a smile:
"Captain Chen is out of touch when he says this. Our family has some friendship with you. Now that you are working as an errand in Zhan Shifu, our family will have to rely on your support in the future!"
