Jingxiu Palace!
Princess Lin'an's exquisite embroidered shoes stepped on the soft lichen, and she took the arm of her brother, the prince, and entered Jingxiu Palace.
The room was warm as spring, and the floor heating dispelled the cold of December. The concubine, dressed in luxurious clothes, sat at the table, and had already laid out a sumptuous al, waiting for her two children with a smile.
Concubine Chen was in her early forties, and had long passed the age of a woman's pri. She was in the fullest and plumpest stage of a woman.
Her skin was still tight, her eyes were still rippling with watery light, and her well-
maintained figure had not changed. The years had precipitated a mature charm of a woman on her.
Apart from the queen who was so beautiful that she could topple a country, among the many beauties in the harem, Concubine Chen was the most capable.
So among the four princesses, only Lin'an could compete with the eldest princess... no, compete with each other.
"It's too hot, let the servants outside reduce the charcoal fire." The energetic Princess Lin'an frowned.
Usually, she only needs to burn charcoal. The floor heating is too hot, and it feels like being in a stear.
With a gentle smile, Concubine Chen imdiately ordered: "Listen, Princess Lin'an, lower the charcoal."
Lin'an happily threw herself into her mother's arms, smiling like a little girl: "Mother, I will stay here tonight and sleep with you, okay?"
Concubine Chen nodded with a gentle smile.
Although this is not in accordance with the rules, after all, the concubines may have to serve the emperor at night, but by the ti of Emperor Yuan Jing, because the emperor practiced Taoism all year round, he had long banned won, and many rules in the harem were already decorations.
The emperor cares about won, so the rules will be strict, but the emperor doesn't care about the beauties in his harem. As long as he doesn't make principled mistakes, he can do whatever he wants.
The so-called principled mistakes... hehehe.
However, the situation like Emperor Yuan Jing is not completely useless. At least the harem is very harmonious, and the concubines can't even fight.
The prince chatted with his mother, and Princess Lin'an also chirped on the side.
"Today, Linglong suddenly went crazy and almost hurt Lin'an. Father and the guards were unable to rescue him." The prince ntioned what happened in the afternoon.
The Buddhist concubine was shocked and hurriedly took Princess Lin'an's hand, looking at her in panic: "Are you injured sowhere? Let mother see."
The second princess was a spoiled girl, so she took the opportunity to make a wronged and pitiful expression: "The child almost couldn't see mother."
The concubine was scared for a while and said angrily: "What's wrong with this group of servants? They can't even subdue a beast and almost hurt my son."
After she lost her temper, she held Princess Lin'an's hand: "What happened later, was it the prince who saved you?"
The status of the prince is completely different from that of other princes. Except for the queen, the other concubines in the harem must be called the prince, and cannot be called "my son" or "the emperor's son".
Lin'an wrinkled his nose at the prince and complained, "Brother Prince, how can you do that? Every ti Huaiqing bullies , he only talks but doesn't help beat Huaiqing."
The prince smiled bitterly and shook his head.
The imperial concubine beca more curious, glanced at the prince, and held her daughter's hand: "Tell mother about it?"
Lin'an's charming peach blossom eyes suddenly blossod: "I received a small copper gong today... Well, it was the day before yesterday. I took it with today and planned to send it out. It happened to encounter this incident, and it was he who saved ."
"Copper gong..." Concubine Chen frowned: "Is it the night watchman?"
"Yes." Lin'an said: "I know that mother doesn't like night watchn, because they are all Wei Yuan's people, but he is my people."
Concubine Chen smiled and nodded: "Does your majesty have any rewards?"
"Of course I do." The prince continued.
"I have to give a reward here too," Concubine Chen said solemnly, "I will send soone to the storehouse to get so jewelry and send it over later."
The Concubine's reward should not be given to the ministers, but to the won of the ministers' families.
When the prince heard this, he suddenly frowned, "When did Xu Qi'an beco yours?"
Princess Lin'an imdiately raised her snow-white chin and said proudly, "I snatched it from
Huaiqing."
"Does Huaiqing know?"
"Yes."
"Then didn't she teach you a lesson?"
"She dared to teach a lesson... I... I will take Xu Qi'an to see her later, so that I can be protected and make her angry." At this point, Princess Lin'an was happy for her wit.
In the season of December, the sky gets dark as soon as it is said.
When we set out from the governnt office, the sun was still hanging in the western sky, stubbornly dyeing the clouds into its own shape and color.
When we arrived at Xu's house, the sky was completely dark, and lanterns were lit, reflecting pedestrians returning ho late and attics and tiled houses.
The dark sky, bamboo lanterns, and ancient buildings... Every ti Xu Qi'an saw this scene, he himself for not learning to paint.
At this ti, Xu's house was closed, and the doorman Lao Zhang knew that Dalang never went
-out.
So when Xu Qi'an knocked on the door, Lao Zhang's face was full of surprise.
"Call the people in the house to move things." Xu Qi'an ordered.
Move things?
Lao Zhang's eyes swept over Xu Dalang's shoulder, looking at the three carriages behind him and the night watchman who was traveling with him.
....
In the front hall, a family of four was having dinner. Xu Lingyue still didn't wait for her elder brother to eat together today. She missed him so much that she lowered her head and asked, "Brother, you haven't co ho on ti for dinner for many days."
The candlelight flickered, and her long eyelashes caught the light. Her pointed face was shining like warm jade.
With a fair and beautiful face and a pure and weak posture, if she put on a sailor suit, she would be a school beauty that ets the public's aesthetic standards.
Well, as a mixed-blood school beauty, Xu Lingyue's facial features are deeper and more three-dinsional than those of ordinary won.
"I will leave so food for my elder brother." Xu Lingyin and her sister are completely two extres. When her elder brother is not around, no one will compete with her for food. The short and thick hands hold the chopsticks, and the chopsticks fly, with amazing talent.
"Is it ti to pay the monthly salary in a few days?" Aunt looked at the second uncle.
Xu's second uncle lowered his head to eat and said "hmm".
He had actually overdrawn his monthly salary this month. As the year was coming to an end, colleagues spent a lot of money on socializing and giving gifts.
......Ning Yan hadn't married yet, so he could borrow his salary to make ends et. Second
Uncle Xu thought.
"I still have to make clothes for Lingyue Lingyin, Dalang and Erlang at the end of the year, and the money is not enough again." Aunt sighed.
Before going to Yunlu Academy last month, the family had a few dozen taels of silver in savings, but when they ca back, it was all gone...
Aunt wanted to tear Second Uncle apart on the spot, asking him if he was fooling around.
It was Xu Dalang and Xu Erlang who guaranteed with their personal integrity that the money was used to run relationships and do business, and it was definitely not fooling around.
Aunt believed it.
Although Xu Dalang was annoying, he was stubborn and never lied. Xu Erlang was a scholar, and he was a sensible child from childhood to adulthood.
"It's just a few taels of silver." Uncle Xu didn't care.
Aunt looked at him and said, "I want to buy a piece of brocade."
Uncle Xu looked up in surprise. He didn't think that the family's current financial situation
could afford a piece of brocade worth one foot and one tael.
Aunt calculated for him and said that if Erlang passed the imperial examination, his status would be different. He couldn't always wear the sa robe as before. No matter how precious
it was, it wouldn't be enough to support the situation. Lingyue was old enough to get married, and the clothes in the closet should be renewed.
Uncle Xu listened absent-mindedly, and made perfunctory remarks with "hmm" and "ah".
Bang!
Aunt slamd the chopsticks on the table, and everyone looked over.
Aunt picked up the chopsticks expressionlessly, "Let's eat."
Uncle Xu said helplessly: "During the tax case, we emptied our family's savings. I borrowed
rice and flour from my colleagues for the first month. Let's wait until next year. I will
definitely buy it next year."
Aunt lowered her head and didn't let him see her slightly red eyes.
"Be careful, be careful... Don't touch the wall. If you get dirty, I will punish you."
The doorman Lao Zhang scolded.
Uncle Xu was in a bad mood and frowned. The servants in the mansion ca in carefully with
rolls of silk and satin under the command of the doorman Lao Zhang.
Aunt opened her big eyes wide and looked at the rolls of bright and beautiful satin in
disbelief.
"So beautiful..." Xu Lingyue exclaid.
Lu'e also widened her eyes and drooled.
Only Xu Lingyin was loyal to food, with her face buried in the bowl, her cheeks bulging.
"Where, where did these co from?" Uncle Xu asked blankly.
The doorman, Lao Zhang, quickly spread a piece of coarse cloth on the ground, and while
directing the servants to put down the silk, he replied: "Da Lang brought it back, saying that His Majesty gave it to him."
His Majesty gave it? Uncle Xu's first reaction was that the Sangpo case was solved?
As a hundred households of the Imperial Sword Guard, he usually guarded the outer city, and
he didn't know what was going on in the inner city. The Sangpo case was a big deal in the inner city, but people with insufficient status could not access relevant information. Thinking that he had been stuck in the Qi training realm for nearly twenty years, Uncle Xu felt
gloomy. But soon, this lancholy was dispersed by joy: "Where are the people from Ning
Yan?"
"Outside the door... His Majesty gave a total of 500 pieces of silk." The doorman, Lao Zhang,
said happily.
"Pah!"
The chopsticks in Aunt's hand fell on the table.
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