After personally cooking a sumptuous dinner for her husband, Zhang Qiaoer carefully put the medicine Dong Qianhong gave her into her husband's wine. During dinner, Liu Chang, who was still immersed in excitement and didn't notice anything unusual in the wine, talked a lot with Zhang Qiaoer. After dinner, Liu Chang was going to the study to write a book, but his wife dragged him back to the bedroom.
After returning to the bedroom, Liu Chang also found that he was particularly excited today. He had been hiding from his wife, but now he found that some of his thoughts were particularly strong. Looking under the candlelight, maybe it's because the suffering of life has passed, and the beautiful face of the past has been restored, and even looks better than the wife of the past. Liu Chang could no longer control his impulse and held his wife in his arms.
After all this, he didn't know that Liu Chang had been tampered with in the wine he drank during dinner. This time, it was rare. I persisted for a whole time, which was a little longer than a stick of incense. Still wishful thinking, he thought that his body had recovered, and his mood was even more comfortable. Liu Chang, who thinks that he has finally survived his hard life, is now proud of both officialdom and love.
The general thought his wife was a little uneasy because the prince rewarded the house. He held him in his arms and said, "It's not a big deal. When I was out on errands, the Crown Prince had already talked to me about rewarding the house and the servants. A few days ago, when the Tubo people came to court. Because I'm not at home, and the prince is worried that you are a woman with two children alone."
"We originally lived in a relatively chaotic outer city. The prince was worried about me because those barbaric Tubo people were harassing you and he couldn't rest assured to go out on business. When he sent someone to bring you and your children into the palace, he wrote to me The letter told me about this. Prince, although you only told me in the letter, this house is because we used to live too far away, and it is really inconvenient to go to and from the palace. "
"He can't come to me anytime and anywhere when something happens, so he specially gave it to our family near Tai Chi Palace. Let me live in peace of mind until we return to Beijing with him. In fact, I also know that this is just the prince. , seeing that I am away from home these days, faithfully running errands for the court. It is because of my loyalty, and in order to alleviate my worries, that I was specially rewarded to our family. "
"Otherwise, there are so many people working for him in the world today, and they have never seen that person's house. Not to mention me, a small official, there is no one else who can reward him with a house, such as the Shangshu and Grand Scholar of Xijing City. The Crown Prince If you really treat me like a gentleman of the country, will you let him down if I don't do my job faithfully? Therefore, you can just live in this house with peace of mind. Your husband knows what to do in the future."
"It's just that your prince is a master who doesn't rub sand in his eyes, but also has a rift in his heart and a mind for the world, and is unwilling to settle for mediocrity. With such a master, I'm afraid it will be difficult for me to be leisurely in the future. Things at home, I can only entrust it to you. Over the years, I also know that you have been wronged by me. But we are husband and wife, and if we don’t leave it to you, who can we leave it to?"
Liu Chang, who was still immersed in the great prospects of being reused by Huang Qiong and the excitement brought about, kept chattering to himself. He repeatedly told his wife that this house was earned by his loyalty to the king, so he could live in peace of mind. But he didn't care about his wife beside him. After hearing his words, he had a complicated look on his face, and he didn't even hear his wife's sigh.
At this time, Zhang Qiaoer, who was nestled in her husband's arms, felt mixed emotions in her heart when she heard her husband's somewhat excited words. She knew that this house certainly had the crown prince as a reward for her husband's loyalty to the king. But most of the reasons are probably more because of things between myself and him. It was obvious that the prince knew that he would not enter the palace, and did not want to wrong or mistreat him.
This house may be just for him to make up for himself. And being so close to the palace, it is certainly more convenient to summon her husband to the palace. But he also called himself into the palace so that he could steal incense. Thinking of this, Zhang Qiaoer sighed helplessly in his heart, his expression becoming increasingly sad. She doesn't know, what should she do in the future? Could it be that the affair with that prince would continue like this?
Zhang Qiaoer, who was thinking extremely complicated at this time, could see the confusion in his eyes as long as Liu Changfan paid more attention. But after running around for so many days, I just did some very tiring physical work. After the previous excitement passed, Liu Chang gradually became sleepy. He didn't notice that his wife looked wrong at all, and after reluctantly talking to his wife for a while, he fell into a deep sleep.
Early the next morning, Liu Chang got up and had a hasty breakfast and hurried into the palace. Zhang Qiaoer was left alone to return to the bedroom and stare at herself in the mirror in a daze. Although Zhang Qiaoer didn't know what kind of medicine Mrs. Dong gave her. But last night, although her husband's performance was far worse than Huang Qiong's, and still not as good as before he got sick, it was the longest he had lasted in the past few years.
After what happened yesterday, I should be able to hide my secret things. Just thinking about her husband's rare excitement yesterday, it still didn't give me the same strange feeling when she was with Huang Qiong. Zhang Qiaoer sighed slightly, and couldn't help but recall the time when he was with Huang Qiong in his mind. The feeling he brought to him was one that a woman would never forget.
Just as Mrs. Dong said, you only know what a woman is after following him. After following him, I realized that being a woman can be so happy. After being together with Huang Qiong, every time she gave me an extremely comfortable feeling, it was something that her husband had never given me in all these years of marriage. Even though she is already a mother of two children, this is the first time that she knows what happiness in fish and water means.
Thinking of this, Zhang Qiaoer's face turned red with embarrassment, and she covered her face in annoyance. She never thought that she would have such thoughts and never forget that kind of thing. It's just that people are like this. Often the more they don't want to think about it, they just can't forget it. Zhang Qiaoer was so ashamed that the more she wanted to forget, the more she couldn't forget that strange feeling.
But he didn't know that his extraordinary performance the night before was due to some special reason. When night fell again, both children fell asleep. I originally planned to build on my performance last night and make up for my wife's losses over the years. Liu Chang was upset to find that his glory the night before was gone. I tried my best to support myself, but I couldn't even reach half of the time last night.
Looking at her husband who was full of annoyance, Zhang Qiaoer, who had long been accustomed to this look, and knew the real reason why her husband had regained his glory yesterday, did not complain at all, and just snuggled into her husband's arms quietly. Looking at his wife who was helpless and still not complaining, Liu Chang, who was already feeling guilty about his wife, now felt even more guilty and could only hold his wife tightly in his arms.
It's just that this night, both of them were full of worries, but neither of them slept peacefully. One felt more and more sorry for his wife, but the other remembered the other person in the palace who once let him know how to be a real woman for once. And because of what happened with that person, she also felt guilty about her husband, and she felt extremely complicated at the moment.
Compared to this couple, who feel guilty about each other. In the palace, the alliance flag system finally came to an end, and Huang Qiong, who was now somewhat free, was not in a good mood. Now that the end of the year is approaching, the old man has yet to call himself back to Beijing. In fact, nothing else matters. The key is that Huang Qiong is somewhat depressed when he thinks about not being able to spend this year's Spring Festival with his family.
Huang Qiong was even more unhappy because she couldn't see her children. If it had not moved into the palace originally, it would still be in the original British palace. Even if not all of them can come, some of my wives and concubines will definitely come to celebrate the New Year with me at this time. Now that they have all been moved into the palace, it is impossible for them to accompany him during the New Year. This palace gate is as deep as the sea. It is easy to enter but difficult to come out.
Even if it is his wife, it is impossible to come out without the old man's personal approval. Thinking of his beautiful wives and his children, Huang Qiong became even more depressed. Originally according to customization, the prince Huang Qiong is now in Xijing. The clan members in Longyou and Shaanxi 2nd Road should be summoned to give banquets and certain rewards to show the emperor's favor to these relatives.
But Huang Qiong has no interest now, let alone meeting his greedy relatives. In addition, he basically didn't have a good impression of those relatives, so Huang Qiong simply canceled the matter. Only the second line of clans with titles below general were given, and each family was rewarded with a hundred guan, three girls each, a jar of wine, and a bolt of silk and satin. However, this amount was only half of previous years.
As for the princes and above, they don’t have a penny. Huang Qiong used the remaining money and food that the old man allocated from the inner treasury to reward officials of the second grade and above, and added one month's salary as a reward. However, in order to suppress those who are actually rich, the imperial court rewards them with money and gifts every year, which is not even a drop in the bucket, but it is impossible not to give them.
After all, those clans above the county level who have been accustomed to receiving it every year may have some dissatisfaction in their hearts. Huang Qiong gave the second county prince and his family a royal family, and each family was rewarded with a silver-inlaid porcelain plaque. On it are ordinary silver medals with auspicious characters such as blessings such as the East China Sea, pine and crane, and longevity. These silver-inlaid porcelain plaques were custom-made for those Tubo nobles and were given as gifts by the kiln owner when they were given Yaozhou kiln porcelain.
After so many years, I have become accustomed to it, even if the emperor's reward is not enough. No matter what, it was the honor that the emperor gave to his relatives. Besides, although it is not lacking in this thing, it is much better than nothing. Even the few hundred guan of money, in the eyes of these clans, is not even enough to pay the slaves during the New Year. It's not even enough for them to have a banquet.
But since the beginning of the Lizong Year, it has become a routine for the emperor to give some gifts to the clan every New Year. If they were suddenly denied payment for a year, it would be absolutely unacceptable to these clan members who were relatives of the emperor. There is no money and food this year, and each family is only given one that is half a foot wide. Apart from some auspicious words, it has no use, and even the display is a bit annoying.
A super big porcelain tablet that can't do anything, how can it satisfy these clans? Especially after I heard that Huang Qiong, the crown prince, misappropriated the money and food that should have been given to him, and rewarded the officials of the Second Road with an extra month's salary. These clans even quit. Why should he give all the money and food he deserves to those officials? Because of his background, he felt repulsive towards the prince.
Now those clans were as if their nests had been blown up. There are people who make trouble on the street, and there are people who stand on the street and curse. Last year, Huang Qionglian was deceived and extorted a large sum of money from him, so he was originally dissatisfied with him as the prince. After what happened, the Qingyang County Prince became extremely angry. He simply ran from Qingyang Mansion to Xijing, and ran to the gate of Zongzheng Temple in Xijing, crying and making a fuss.
