Yang Jin, King of Xingyang, is currently in Queen Xiao's palace, where he and Yang Rui live.
Pei Shuying naturally lives alone. Logically speaking, there is also the Prince of Qin's Palace in Luoyang, and she should live there, but she does not. Yang Guang directly let her live in the palace, so that it would be convenient for her to take care of the two emperor's grandchildren.
This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the Donggong faction, but the Donggong side did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.
Putting aside the emperor and empress, they did not dare to provoke Pei Ju in the first place.
"Grandpa, have tea," Pei Shuying waved away the unfamiliar palace maids, and then sat opposite her father. After she learned that Yang Yinjiang had been restored to power, her expression remained the same without any change.
Pei Ju saw this and was greatly relieved that his daughter had matured.
"Don't think too much. The ups and downs of Yang Yinjiang were originally due to His Majesty's failure due to the court situation. Now that the game is over, he will naturally have to start over again."
Pei Shuying smiled and said: "I'm not thinking wildly, are you?"
Pei Ju laughed, pointed at his head and said: "Every day from the time I open my eyes in the morning to the time I close my eyes at night, I have been thinking wildly in my head. I am in a high position and walking on thin ice. I cannot help but stop."
Pei Shuying raised her chin and said, "After one round, will the new round suddenly become clear?"
"Naturally, things will come to light," Pei Ju said with a smile: "After returning to Beijing this time, it will be a matter of turning the clouds and seeing the sun. Yang Ming is about to go up. Yang Jian's end will not be much better, but he will not die either."
Pei Shuying frowned and said, "Why are you so sure?"
"Because what your Majesty is going to do next, King Qi can't help," Pei Ju said.
Pei Shuying sighed: "I really don't like this. A father always plots against his son. When he needs it, he just has a smiling face. When he doesn't, he discards it like a piece of shit. Have you ever plotted against me? ?”
Pei Ju was stunned, narrowed his eyes, and began to look at his daughter again. After a while, he shook his head and said:
"I am only your daughter, how can I plot against you?"
Pei Shuying said with a smile: "Although I am stupid, since I was a child, no matter what I say, I am lying or not, others can't tell, but you can't hide it from me."
Pei Ju couldn't help but laugh: "So, you are my father's only weakness, and you are not stupid."
"Don't interfere in Yang Yinjiang's affairs anymore," Pei Shuying said: "Respecting any decision of Yang Ming is the duty of a wife. As my grandfather just said, we are all pawns, so why bother?" Do you care where the person holding the chess position puts you?”
"Of course I don't care. Why do I have to be a chess piece instead of a player outside the chessboard?" Pei Ju said with a smile.
Pei Shuying said: "My grandpa is still as arrogant as ever. We are chess pieces without knowing it. We may be abandoned pieces, or we may be the key to success or failure, but we will never leave the chessboard."
It's not that there is no chance... Pei Ju thought to himself, if you become the queen, then you will be the one who plays chess.
Pei Shuying no longer discussed this topic with her father, but instead said:
"This place is very close to Xingyang. I want to see how Jin'er's palace is doing."
Pei Ju nodded: "Luoyang, the eastern capital, is the land of heaven. His Majesty will not return to Beijing until the New Year. You still have a lot of time to wander around. After all, it is not easy to go out."
Pei Shuying hummed and stopped talking. Pei Ju stood up and left.
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Tokyo and Luoyang were officially renamed the Eastern Capital, but Daxing was not the Western Capital, but the capital.
This is Pei Shuying's first time visiting Dongdu City. The last time she and Yang Ming were in Luoyang, it was Luoyang County and has nothing to do with the current Luoyang.
She first asked Empress Xiao for instructions, and then took the people out of the palace alone and went directly to Duke Zhao's Mansion.
Changing from the main concubine to the side concubine does not affect anyone's respect for her. Not to mention Yang Ming's love for him, no one would dare to look down on her just talking about Pei Ju.
The Hedong Pei family is very interesting. During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, members of the family held important positions in the Northern Zhou, Northern Qi, Southern Chen, and Nanliang, and they all held high positions. In other words, this family is one of the few in the world. A family that enjoys everything.
Anyone with the surname Pei, when you say hello to others and say your hometown is in Hedong, others will think highly of you, just like if you say you have two houses in Shanghai.
The Duke of Zhao, Dugu Zuan, was attending the court meeting, so it was his third son Dugu Zan who greeted Pei Shuying. The eldest, Dugu Yin, was the magistrate of Henan County. The second, Dugu Xin, was busy asking Yang Jian for money, and the third had no errands. , idle at home.
"Where is Feng'er? Is she not at home?" Pei Shuying asked.
Dugu Zan hurriedly said: "Feng'er is hunting in the countryside. It's unlucky for the princess to come. I'm sending people to look for her now. I'm afraid it will take a long time to get back. I might keep the princess waiting for a long time."
Pei Shuying said with a smile: "This girl is the same. She doesn't care about returning to Beijing, but she doesn't care about Shu. Tell me where she is, and I will go find her myself."
"Yes, I will send someone to take you there right now," Dugu Zan was overjoyed. No one in the family could persuade his sister, but if Pei Shuying came forward, it would definitely be different.
Then, the Zhao Guogong Mansion allocated ten followers as guides to take Pei Shuying's motorcade out of the city and to Dugu Feng'er's safari camp.
The best hunting place around Luoyang was actually Xiyuan, later known as Shanglin Garden, with a radius of 400 miles and a wide range of rare birds and animals.
But unfortunately, this is a royal garden, and Dugu Feng'er cannot enter, so her camp is on the bank of Yinshui River in the south of Luoyang.
Where there is water, there are naturally more birds and animals, because animals also need to drink water.
Pei Shuying has a very good relationship with Dugu Feng'er, because Dugu Feng'er taught her riding and archery skills, and she even knows a few sword skills.
The journey was indeed not short, and Pei Shuying arrived at the camp around noon.
There were a lot of people, hundreds of them. Just looking at the shape of the tents and the size of the carriages, these people in the camp should all have excellent backgrounds.
However, in Henan, no family is as good as Hedong Pei.
Historically, there is no telling whether Tang Dynasty had Pei or not, because the Pei family produced seventeen prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty.
Seeing the flag of Prince Qin's Palace on the carriage, the people in the camp came out to greet him from a distance.
Pei Shuying got off the carriage, looked around at everyone, frowned and said, "Where is Feng'er?"
"Report to the princess, Feng'er has entered the mountain, I will call her back," the one who answered was Zheng Anrao.
After Pei Shuying nodded in acquiescence, Zheng Anrao shouted to the mountain opposite: "Feng'er..."
The echo of Feng'er, Feng'er, kept reverberating in the valley, and the birds were frightened.
After a while, a few horses were seen walking out of the forest in the opposite valley, heading towards the camp along the mountain path.
Common people usually go to the mountains for their livelihood, while aristocratic children go to the mountains for fun.
Just like the farmhouse entertainment in later generations, the common people couldn't get happy after seeing the farmhouse, but the city people found it very novel.
It took half an hour for Dugu Feng'er to return to the camp. When she saw Pei Shuying, she was extremely happy. She stepped forward and took Pei Shuying's hand and smiled:
"I only heard that His Majesty returned to Luoyang, but I didn't know that you were here too."
Just listening to this sentence, you know that none of the noble children in the camp currently has an official status, because those who have an official status have to go to greet the emperor.
Pei Shuying said with a smile: "It's boring to be alone in Ziwei Palace. You are the boss here. Take me to have some fun these days."
"Okay, but your clothes are not suitable. Wear mine. We are similar in stature." After saying that, Dugu Feng'er pulled Pei Shuying into her tent.
As for the others, they had been driven far away by the Qin Prince's Mansion.
In the camp, Dugu Feng'er, with the help of the maid, changed Pei Shuying into a warrior uniform, put on a soft leather armor, and tied her hair into a bun.
Pei Shuying was always very heroic, but now she is even more dazzling and heroic in this outfit.
"You seem to have something on your mind?" Dugu Feng'er suddenly asked curiously.
Pei Shuying shook her head: "I just feel bored. You have to help me relieve my boredom."
"Don't worry, there is a herd of deer on the other side of the mountain and they have been surrounded. It's just right for us to go in now. When we return to the city tomorrow, I will take you to the gambling house to have fun," Dugu Feng'er said with a smile.
Pei Shuying narrowed her eyes and smiled: "That's good."
For noble hunting, hunting dogs are indispensable, as well as animal drivers. Their task is to drive the prey to a designated location, and then the nobles will go down and shoot the prey with bows and arrows.
When Yang Guang was hunting, the prey would almost always come towards him. Sometimes he didn't even need a crosshair and could hit it with just one shot.
In fact, it was just a word of happiness, and what everyone had to do was to make the emperor happy.
That evening, Pei Shuying shot a deer very successfully, and for the same reason, everyone was driving the prey towards her.
The next day, Dugu Feng'er returned to Luoyang with Pei Shuying and entered the largest gambling house in Fengqing in Luoyang.
This gambling house is the property of the Zheng family in Xingyang. Zheng Anrao, who returned to Beijing with him, hurriedly greeted the family and made sure not to let Princess Qin lose money.
One of the most popular ways to play in gambling houses is called Hulu.
Five wooden dice, each with two sides, one side is painted black to depict a calf, and the other side is painted white to depict a pheasant. After throwing, the five dice are all black, which is called Lu, which is the maximum number. Five dice are four The one who is black and the one who is white is a pheasant, and this is the winning point, and so on. Anyway, the one with more black wins.
Because every time you roll the dice, you will shout five black, five black, and this game is called Hulu.
Just like us in later generations, when we fight landlords, when we pick up the three cards below, we will also shout. As for what to shout, it varies from person to person. Some people will shout a bomb, some will shout a chain, and some will shout a grass mud horse.
There are seven or eight people at a table, all arranged in advance to accompany Pei Shuying to relieve her boredom.
Moreover, they are all women, and there are three husbands with titles.
The Eastern Capital was so prosperous, with North and South games coming together, and even foreign-style gambling. It was a paradise for the nobles of the Sui Dynasty, and it was also the largest gold-selling cave in the Sui Dynasty.
It is actually not easy to deliberately lose money in the game of Hulu, because it all depends on luck, and no one dares to cheat in front of the wife of such a big shot.
But it’s also simple. If you lose, just stop, then you will definitely lose.
And Pei Shuying, who played until the end, is naturally the winner.
