female concubine

The next day, all the divisions took a ten-day rest.

The persimmon trees in a small courtyard in Zhaoqingfang, northeast of the old city, grew extremely lush, with white flowers blooming under the lush leaves, and the fallen flowers slid down the leaves and fell into the mud.

A three or four-year-old girl squatted under a tree to pick up fallen flowers and found a small ball hidden in the soil, so she picked up the ball and staggered to the vegetable field and shouted at the man wielding a hoe Said: "Daddy."

Han Si straightened up and put his hand on the hoe, "What's wrong?"

"Look, Dad, what I picked up."

Han Bang went to the sink beside him to wash his hands and squatted down in front of his daughter, "Didn't daddy say that you can't pick up things on the ground casually." Soon after, he looked down and saw a small ball in his daughter's immature palm.

Han Bang was stunned for a while, and then stretched out his hand. The small ball turned golden after washing, and there was a Zhao character engraved on it, "Bitter hunger and cold, chase gold pills, melt it to those in need."

"Mother." The girl ran to the lap of the woman admitted to the hospital.

Han Si held Jin Wan tightly and stood up, "Why is the county lord here?"

"Sister-in-law Six's birthday is tomorrow, and I've prepared all the birthday gifts. Would you like to go over and have a look?"

Han Bang shook his head, "Since you are the one who manages the house, it's up to you to decide, I have no objection."

"I am a married woman, and my sixth sister-in-law is the queen, and the clan wife will also have a banquet tomorrow." Yuanling county head looked at Han Bang.

"Birthday banquet..." Han Si clasped his hands and looked at Chu Palace on one side, looked down at his daughter and said, "Don't take her there tomorrow."

"Why?"

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In the downtown area in front of Zhaoqingfang, a carriage was stopped by a galloping horse. The new coachman didn't recognize the man in front of him, but he stopped the car and clasped his fists at him, "This official What is the purpose of blocking the car, do you know which family's young lady is sitting in the car?"

"Jiang certainly knows."

Hearing the surname the coachman raised his head tremblingly, he turned sideways and lowered his head and said, "Girl, there is a gentleman surnamed Jiang stopping the carriage."

"Tell him I'm not seeing anyone."

Then the carriage continued on.

There were two women sitting in the car, He Wenying held Liu's hand, "I'm off work today, isn't it Jiang Zhongcheng?"

Mrs. Liu nodded, and said helplessly, "It's him."

"I really admire Jiang Zhongcheng's perseverance."

"Perseverance?" Liu shook her head. "That's unwillingness to get what you want. Being able to be provoked can only show that there is darkness in his heart."

"Wenying, you can't just look at people on the surface, just like Jiang Wen, who is praised by everyone, is only generous on the surface but narrow in heart."

He Wenying said in a daze: "Daddy said that Wen Mugong is the best literati, and his ability is far superior to that of the Cui family who was confiscated. He can teach such an excellent daughter as Mrs. Anguo, which shows his ability. Why is sister Miaoyi like this?" explain?"

"Ability and personal virtue should not be confused..."

"Miss, we're here." The carriage stopped at Kaibao Temple in Gen Yuenan, and the driver jumped out of the carriage to sit on the same spot as a stool behind the carriage, "Miss, this Mr. Jiang..."

Mrs. Liu and He Wenying walked down together wearing veiled hats, watching the young man who got off the horse and flicked his sleeves, immediately stepped forward and said, "The Cold Food Festival is approaching, did Jiang Zhongcheng also come to offer incense and pray for blessings?"

"No," Jiang Luochuan said frankly, "I'm looking for you."

"I don't seem to be familiar with Zhong Cheng."

"Unfamiliar?" Jiang Luochuan took a step closer, "Don't forget that I saved you once."

Seeing that Mrs. Liu was silent, Jiang Luochuan narrowed his eyes, "Do you really like Your Majesty?"

Seeing his angry look, Liu said helplessly, "What else does Jiang Zhongcheng see in addition to these children's love?"

"If you don't like Your Majesty, it's because you, as a daughter of the Liu family, deliberately approached me to provoke me, so that the relationship between me, the son of the Jiang family, and Your Majesty will be broken."

"So Jiang Fuping told you." Liu lowered her head and smiled, "I thought he wanted to hide it for the rest of his life, his corrupt personal morality." Then he stared at Jiang Luochuan with a cold face, "I approached you on purpose? When Jiang Zhongcheng said this, did he ever think about where his face is?"

Under the pagoda, the servant sent the gift from Ouchi to Kaibao Temple and bid farewell to the abbot. He folded his palms and bowed his waist and said, "The sage sent me here because he was busy with affairs. The sage will come in person after a while."

"Amitabha."

The inner attendant came out of Kaibao Temple, just in time to see the scene under the stone ladder, "Young master?" There were two women in front of him who seemed to be arguing, "Who are those two women with veiled hats?"

The host walked out with the servant, "It's the daughter of the Shaoqing of the Honglu Temple and the daughter of the Qing of the Taichang Temple. These two benefactors often come to the temple together to offer incense."

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After Zhao Ping returned to Da Nei, he relayed the information he found outside the palace, "The yamen drank alcohol in Fan Lou and yelled for someone when he was drunk. As a result, a guy in the building accidentally bumped into him and missed with a knife. cut people."

"The reason for the light sentence in Dali Temple is that not only did the injured person not appeal and return...the Ministry of Punishment released him after only a few days of detention, but...the reason for the injury was not just the collision, this servant was less than 20 years old There is also an unmarried younger sister in Sui's family."

Xiao Youqing threw the secret letter presented by Zhao Ping into the charcoal basin, and the paper was ignited instantly when it met an open fire, "Those who don't know think it's my connivance. If the Xiao clan was granted and I didn't dissuade them, Lu Xiang must also think that my mother Pampered and proud, she is a woman who takes love very seriously."

Xiao Youqing held up the teacup, "Indeed, I take love very seriously, the officials don't want to embarrass me, and I don't want the officials to embarrass me either."

"At the gate of Kaibao Temple just now, the villain also bumped into the Young Master and...Liu Shi, the daughter of the Shaoqing of Honglu Temple."

Xiao Youqing froze when he brought the teacup by his side to his lips, "Mr. Liu?"

"Yes, the Young Master's complexion is extremely bad, and it seems that there was a dispute with him."

Xiao Youqing sighed and put down the teacup, "I always thought he was a sensible child, even if he was a little mischievous... That's right, people's hearts are inherently unfathomable, and who would be unchanging."

The female envoy walked into the hall and said, "Saint, the official family is back."

"Officials."

"Youqing," the emperor took Xiao Youqing's hand as soon as he came back from the inner court, "you follow me."

"Where is the official going?"

"Funning Hall."

"What is the official going to Funing Palace all of a sudden?"

"You'll know when you go."

In front of the empty Funing Hall, the crabapple tree is full of flower buds.

"Your Majesty, Your Highness." Xu Chongju, the servant of the Imperial Academy of Painting, waited in the main hall, with a real canvas beside him.

"The first emperor's portrait of Yuzhen was painted by Jiang Shizhao, but I didn't intend to paint Yuzhen, but just made a real one based on my sister's birthday for ten years."

"Xu Shizhao must have done a lot of my paintings secretly, right?"

After hearing this, Xu Chongju stepped forward and knelt down, "Your Highness, minister..."

"I know what the officials mean, and I don't mean to blame Xu Shizhao."

"Officials, the gowns from the Shangfu Bureau have arrived."

The palace people moved two high-ranking chairs and placed them in the center of the main hall. As the time passed, the Zhiguan in front of the Wende Hall engraved the record of the time change on the wat board. The sunlight also moves from the head to the end of the table.

Xu Chongju put down the paintbrush, ordered his servant to turn the canvas around, stepped forward and cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty and Your Highness, please have a look."

The servant carried the canvas to the throne, Xiao Youqing asked, "Is it like it?"

She put down the round fan in her hand, "The best painting is actually in my heart."

Listening to the emperor's words, Xu Chongju bowed and said, "The qualifications of the minister are shallow, and I owe Your Majesty."

"Qing's painting is very good, don't belittle yourself, just put this painting away, I don't need to put anything in my coffin from now on, I only want this painting."

Xiao Youqing tugged at the sleeves of her yellow robe, "The officials are talking nonsense again."

"A hundred years later." Wei Huan patted her hand with a smile, and immediately said to Xu Chongju: "What reward do you want?"

Xu Chongju knelt down on his knees, "I dare not invite rewards, but I want to enter the secret pavilion one more time to observe the paintings."

"Six sons."

"The little guy is here."

"After discussing the matter of the Judgment Pavilion and the books of the Supervisory Secret Pavilion, Xu Chongju, the attendant of the Hanlin Academy of Painting, is allowed to freely enter and leave the Secret Pavilion to observe ancient paintings in the inner court."

"Thank you, Your Majesty!"

The servant removed the painting tools in the palace one by one, Xiao Youqing went back to the cabinet and changed his clothes, looked at the empty palace, Xiao Youqing pulled her to sit aside, "Tomorrow's family banquet, I have something to say to the official The family said."

"Oh? What does sister want to say?"

Xiao Youqing leaned close to Wei Huan's ear, "..."

"Sister, isn't she afraid that doing so will chill the hearts of the people?"

"Are I the one who chills them now or are they relying on me and completely disregarding my face?"

"Sister can do whatever she wants, I have no objection, and the Criminal Department really needs to rectify it."

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On the eve of the Cold Food Festival, a special family banquet was held for the Queen's birthday. The royal family and Xiao Jiang's direct descendants had already racked their brains to prepare for the birthday gift before they received the Ouchi pass.

In the mansion of the founding Earl of Jibei County, the woman was counting the congratulatory gifts to be offered when entering the palace, "The officials are looking for any omissions, I think His Highness's name is more useful than the official family, and our family is no better than your brother, you My brother has been on the battlefield, killed the enemy and made meritorious deeds, even his Yunyi..." The woman looked around, "Such a stupid child can go to the Imperial College, we can't get this title for nothing, Taking advantage of the opportunity of congratulating the birthday, we have to do a good job of courting him."

"That's the case, you don't need to be so polite. Her Highness is the mother of the country and a husband like an official. What can you lack?"

"There will be a shortage of people, and the same is true for officials. Not all good things in this world are only stored in the inner court. These things prepared by concubines are extremely rare even in the court."

Uncle Jibei wasn't thinking about congratulating at all, "This time, don't let Yunzhi go for the birthday celebration. I've always felt a little uneasy recently."

"Why!" Xiao Yunzhi walked in from the side of the room, "I've never been to a palace, let alone a banquet, Daddy, I'm going."

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The Xiao family alone accounted for more than half of the banquets in the hall of Shengping Building, the provincial generals in the hall prepared the banquet thoroughly, and the fire in the imperial kitchen was never off.

"As expected of a family of hundreds of years in Longxi and a famous family in Jinling, this civil and military family probably occupied half of the court. When the coffin of Lord Longde left the city, there were hundreds of people from the family who sent the coffin out of the city. I don't know which family is better. "

The Shangshi Bureau presented the candied fruit to the table one by one, looking at the carved candied fruit on the seats that were different from those outside the palace, Xiao Yunzhi bent down and stared, "What kind of carving is this?"

The green skin is left on the wax gourd as leaves, and the white flesh is carved into a peach, and poured with jujube juice, it looks like a rosy birthday peach.

A fat man with a relatively wide body walked to his side, "This is winter melon, and the jujube juice poured on it has never been seen in the world."

Behind him, a brocade robe with a scar on his eye tugged at his ear, "You child, why are you talking to your brother?"

"What kind of brother is he? He talks to those people on the street every day..."

"shut up!"

Xiao Xian took his son and walked towards the north of the banquet hall, leaving only a young boy with indifferent eyes open.

The woman seen in the distance also turned cold and displeased: "Hey, look, isn't your elder brother just relying on meritorious deeds, he doesn't even recognize your fellow brother."

"Do you take the child's joke seriously?"

"Are you going to marry a wife or have a child?"

Uncle Ji Bei sighed helplessly, "When there are too many people, the house will be restless, so you should do less trouble."

Ever since Xiao Youqing rewarded Uncle Dongping in the name of queen in the Shang Yuan Dynasty, the Earl's Mansion has become quieter than before, but Uncle Jibei next to him is rampant relying on his surname.

Xiao Xiancong pulled his son to the Queen and knelt down, "Xiao Xiancong, the founder of Chen Dongping County, kowtowed to Her Highness, and wished Her Highness eternal youth and long life."

"Sister..."

Xiao Xian straightened his waist and patted his son's head, "What are you yelling indiscriminately, there are no rules at all, call him Your Highness."

"It's okay. In the past, this child liked to cling to me. In the blink of an eye, he became so big. I am the queen outside, but at home I am still the daughter of the Xiao family. It is better to distinguish between public and private."

"Remember the teachings of Her Majesty the Queen."

Jiang Luochuan got his father's nod and walked forward with the painting in his arms, presented a birthday painting, bowed and said, "Congratulations to Your Highness, the Empress Dowager, with blessings like the East China Sea, and a longer life than Nanshan."

Xiao Youqing looked at him indifferently and said: "What's so good about longevity? The more you live for a long time, the more you will understand. After a long time, you will realize that your eyes are full of unattainable things."

Jiang Luochuan leaned forward after hearing this, completely different from his previous attitude in front of the emperor, "Is my sister still angry with Luochuan for what happened last time?"

"Your Highness."

Jiang Luochuan said in a daze, "Yes, Your Highness the Empress."

"There is a difference in status, and I will not exceed the rules without my permission in the future."

Jiang Luochuan frowned and bowed, "Yes."

A fast horse from Gyeonggi Province enters the capital, and the general brings into the palace the birthday gift presented by the transfer envoy Xiao Yunze.

"Xiao Yunze, the founding marquis of Nanyang County, is offering a congratulatory gift!"

A group of soldiers who took off their armor and wore red robes with narrow sleeves walked into the palace, "General Xiao is guarding the west of Beijing and Huainan because he is involved in military affairs, so he asked the last general to come and plead guilty to His Highness."

"It's just an ordinary family feast, so there's no need for brother to bother you."

The general waved his hand behind him and said, "Present."

The brocade box delivered by the servant was opened, but there were only a few green grass inside.

"Is this a seedling?"

"Returning to Your Highness, yes, General Xiao knows that His Highness doesn't lack anything in the imperial city. This is only a part of it. It is the rice irrigated by diverting river water. Although Jiangling is not as rich as the two Zhejiang provinces, it also has unique conditions in terms of agriculture and mulberry. At the end of the day, I will bring back the seedlings ordered by the general, and present them to His Majesty and His Highness Guanjia Palace for transplanting."

"By diverting water from the Yangtze River for irrigation, my brother wants to say that the flood has calmed down and the crops are safe."

The general cupped his hands, "His Royal Highness is intelligent and can understand everything."

"The general has had a hard time running all the way back, Kui Guang will take the general down and have a good rest."

"Yes."

After the servant ordered the banquet to begin, several big families searched for tables to sit down.

"Today's birthday banquet, uncles, is just an ordinary family banquet, just follow the family rules."

"Thank you, Your Highness, for the banquet."

When Xiao Youqing walked to the banquet, the clansmen on both sides stood up one after another, "The Xiao family is the general, Weng Weng was the head of the Xiao family when he was here, and rewards and punishments are always clear. Then everything will be done in accordance with the family rules. If you have meritorious service, you should be rewarded. If you have done something wrong, you will naturally be punished. The royal family of the country has always loved the people and love the people. Etiquette."

"Father, what does Your Highness mean by this?" Xiao Yunzhi looked at his father who was trembling and frightened beside him.

The author has something to say: Uncle Dongping's family is fine, the little fat man is just a little bit honest, and he can be regarded as a descendant, Uncle Jibei is a younger brother of a compatriot, and it is the younger brother's family who committed the crime. (The founder of the country is regarded as the fourth grade according to the rank)

Princess Dachang and other princesses are all foreign wives when they go to the county head, but they are different from the imperial orders of the female relatives in the minister's family.

Jichang is an official who tells the time and beats drums at the Bell and Drum Academy. It was called Jiren in the past. There are two bell and drum towers in front of Wende Hall. The bell tower is in the east and the drum tower is in the west.

It's really a portrait, the portrait of the emperor Yuzhen will be hung behind the god's seat in the Taimiao. (I think of the word Wuliang again, Xiaowen full of youthful feeling.)

带监，勾当，字的差遣名大部分为内侍充任（只是大部分，不是所有。）感谢在2020-05-2505:57:05~2020-05-2606:41:53期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: Once upon a time there was a mountain;

感谢灌溉营养液的小天使：原上草31瓶；辰西30瓶；蒲5瓶；向阳而生、会心不远2瓶；倪好1瓶；

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!