female concubine

In early April of the eighth year of Jianping, 150 days after the winter solstice was set as the Cold Food Festival, and the country banned fire for three days. day off.

All fireworks are forbidden during the Cold Food Festival, so people steam the food at home the day before the festival. Except for the Shangsi Day on March [-], boudoir girls can also go out for an outing during the Cold Food Festival.

In front of the main gate of King Chu's mansion, freshly broken willow branches are hung. Within three days of the fire ban, no fire will be seen in the palace just like the common people's homes.

"Liulang, it's time to get up."

Xiao Youqing lay sideways on the couch, reaching out to stroke the hair of the half-dream and half-awake person.

The King of Chu opened his sleepy eyes with all his strength, then closed them again, moved his head into her arms, and muttered: "Isn't the cuju in the Daming Palace tomorrow? I sacrificed the mausoleum for a whole day yesterday, and my sister let me sleep again." Let's go!"

Xiao Youqing smiled lightly, and patted her head, "If Liu Lang sleeps again, the sun will be high."

"It's not that the cold nights are short, and the sun is three poles high, so people still want to lie down together."

Hearing the king of Chu's coquettish tone of not wanting to get up, she lowered her head and pretended to threaten her ear: "If you don't care, no one will sleep with you in the future."

The King of Chu opened his eyes and held her hand, covered himself up and pressed her hand on the head of the bed.

Xiao Youqing immediately turned his head with a blushing face, "Aren't you tired after tossing around all night?"

The King of Chu smiled brightly, "Sister also knows that Liu Lang is tired?" Immediately, he kissed him lightly on the forehead, "I'm going back to the Duke's mansion today, I know it!" Then he got up from Xiao Youqing, put on his boots and stood up, Stretched.

Tie up the open mid laner and turn around and ask, "Do you want to bring something back to Mount Tai?"

"Daddy, like you, also loves to drink."

"Wine? I'm the best at this!"

Xiao Youqing slowly got up from the couch, smiled at her, and said, "Oh, really?"

"Yes." She approached, leaned over to her ear and whispered: "However, I have something even stronger!"

Without waiting for her next move, Xiao Youqing put his fingertips on her lips, shook his head lightly and said: "What time is it, I don't have the time to make trouble with the Six Kings anymore."

So the king of Chu freed the restless hand to his knees and picked her up horizontally, and walked slowly towards the dressing table, "Then, let's make trouble again when we come back!"

Xiao Youqing embraced her neck and nodded lightly.

The people who had changed into new clothes came to the dining room and saw a large table of cold food on the table, including snakes and rabbits, jujube cakes, fine barley, divine delicacies, green rice, glutinous rice, and a plate of exquisite noodle swallows.

Then she thought of something, and called out to Little Six, "Six!"

"Ah Lang, the servant is here!"

"Don't go today, just keep the housekeeper."

"what?"

"The house can't finish the food on this table. You can send some to them and their families. You can go there yourself, but don't let them see your true face. Go and bring a few words. I don't worry about others."

Only then did Little Six understand her intentions, nodded and said: "Don't worry, Ah Lang, this servant will definitely handle the errands well."

A few swallows were strung on the willow sticks at the gate of the Chu Palace. The swallows were kneaded from flour. When the King of Chu saw it when he came out of the palace, he stretched out his free hand and gently pushed it.

The swallows swayed like flying swallows at the gate of the Chu Palace.

Xiao Youqing laughed at her when she saw it, "Okay, stop playing, how old are you!"

"Zi Tui Yan, isn't it just for entertaining people." Fei Yan was very happy, and she asked the attendants, "Can this be eaten?"

"If you go back to Liu Wang, it's steamed, but if Liu Wang wants to eat it, there are swallow noodles in the kitchen."

"Don't pay attention to her." After finishing speaking, Xiao Youqing dragged King Chu down the stone steps at the door.

"I'm just asking, I don't really want to eat, oh my sister..."

"If you continue to quarrel, you will drive with the groom!"

In the palace, after the carriage had left for a long time, Xiaoliuzi ordered the envoy to pack the cold food into a box, and she took the food box and went out to buy food along with the food in the dining room of the palace.

There is a large-scale brothel in Wazi, Zhoubei, where the Da Nei Gongchen Gate exits. In the brothel with constant flow of people, there is an idle courtyard for storing sundries. Ordinary people will not come here, and few people pay attention to it. arrive.

A young woman with a bamboo hat hanging down the curtain carried a food box into the courtyard.

The courtyard was guarded, and when they saw someone trespassing, both of them came to intercept her, until she showed a small token, the two middle-aged men immediately changed their attitudes and retracted their raised hands, saying very respectfully: "Xiao Di has eyes but can't see Mount Tai, Your honor, please come in."

The woman coughed lightly twice, "Are those two still safe?"

"I've always been peaceful, not making noise or making trouble."

The woman nods.

The storeroom in the courtyard was piled up with debris, and when the guard opened the door, all the dust in the room came out, and the woman waved the handkerchief while pinching her nose.

"You stay here and don't let anyone come in."

"Yes."

It took the woman a long time to find the underground entrance of the seemingly small warehouse.

The underground was damp and dark, and she felt the darkness before she walked to the bright place. There was an iron prison inside. Two women were imprisoned in the prison. There was a black cloth covering their heads on the side table. Climbing to the iron fence, holding the iron pole with both hands, he shouted loudly: "What have you done to my parents and younger brother?"

The woman squeezed her throat and coughed softly, "Don't worry, your father is doing well." Immediately, she brought out the cold food from the food box.

The woman frowned and said, "Is it already the Hundred and Fifth Festival?"

"It's already passed, just yesterday, but the fire ban is still in progress. My master ordered me to send it."

"We've already done it, what else do you want?"

The woman got up and went to the square table to sit down. She originally planned to cross her legs, but she was taken aback when she saw the pants under her body, and then hurriedly closed her legs, put her hands lightly in front of her belly, and sat upright, " Cough, girls, don't worry, my master doesn't want to do anything, the filial piety of the two is really touching, but I still can't understand, the parents of the two sold you into a brothel for the sake of the two youngest sons in the family, don't you think so? Do you not resent?"

"Of course I hate it, but my brother is innocent."

The woman stood up, twirling her fingers and approaching, "My master said, there are still things you need to do after a while, but this matter may put you in greater danger, maybe, I will lose my life~" He put his hands across his neck.

"However, if the two of you succeed, my master will ensure that your younger brothers will grow up safely, and even pay for them to study in private schools."

"Ever since we were bought by the crown prince and placed in Yang's mansion as secret agents, we have no hope of surviving!"

"You two, don't be so sad, my master even said. If you two survived the catastrophe, he won't embarrass you."

One of the older women raised her head slightly, looked at the blurred face inside the curtain, and said hesitantly: "Can you compete with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, dare I ask, the master the girl is talking about is... King Zhao?"

"Uh..." The woman raised her hand in a daze, then raised her fingers and put it down, and said coldly, "Too smart, but he won't live long."

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In the courtyard of the founding mansion of Longde, a group of young people are playing Cuju.

The inflatable ball flew straight into the net, winning cheers from the spectators.

"I didn't expect Liu Wang's skills to be so good!"

"That's right, when I was playing football in the street, I dominated the street!" King Chu forgot his face proudly.

Xiao Yunze smiled slightly, "Six kings, be careful, this time, I will give my best!"

On the other side of the court, several women sat in a pavilion watching the ball.

"Don't tell me, these six kings look like Yunze and the others, they really look like those children on the street!" The woman immediately realized, "Look at me, I said something wrong again."

Xiao Youqing shook her head lightly, "There is nothing wrong with what Second Aunt said, she is just like that, she usually doesn't care about anything, except for this kind of thing."

"It's not wrong for young people to have fun, but don't indulge in it. The princess has been married for half a year. I think there should be good news when I come to the palace. The Xiao family is weak, and so is the clan. The blessings of children and grandchildren, the happiness of human relationship. "

"Second Aunt..."

"Don't be shy, they are all women, and there is nothing unspeakable. The second aunt knows that there is a doctor in a Tokyo city..."

"Second Aunt's kindness is appreciated, but I've always been resigned to it, and besides, the prince's appearance doesn't look like a grown-up."

"Hey, when he has a child, he will naturally stop his playful nature."

Several confrontations on the Cuju field ended in the exhaustion of King Chu's physical strength.

"No, no, no, you are the champion of martial arts. I can't beat you, so I admit defeat!"

"I thought the six kings were going to play tricks, but it's only a few rounds? What will we do in the future?"

"What in the future, will it be possible that I will still rely on playing football for a living in the future!"

"Six kings, please don't go, I haven't had enough fun here yet!"

"Second brother, let's save some energy and wait until tomorrow to fight again. I also want to save some energy for the night!"

Xiao Yunze threw the ball to the attendants of the Xiao Mansion, signaling them to back down, and immediately followed the King of Chu, "Don't worry, my lord, I will win the leader and get the chance to become an official again in the Cuju ceremony in Daming Palace tomorrow!"

The King of Chu patted the dust in his hands, and asked the people beside him, "The grandson said that there will be five dangers, can the second brother know?"

"Do the six kings also read military books?"

King Chu stopped and stared at him coldly.

Xiao Yunze was stunned for a moment, then cupped his hands and said: "Sun Tzu's Art of War states that there are five dangers, one must die, one can be killed; one must live, one can be captured; one can be angry quickly, one can regret it; one can be honest, one can be humiliated; one can be troubled by loving the people , All of these five things will be overtaken, and it will be a disaster for the use of troops."

"This is what Weng Weng taught me since I was a child."

"You are the eldest brother of the princess, that is, my own elder brother. I don't want to make the dispute too clear, because it is not good for anyone. You must know that from the moment you stepped into the palace gate, you have shouldered a lot of burdens. What, if you lose, you lose, and if you win, you win, otherwise, with so many men in your Xiao family, would it be possible for my wife to protect you in the end?"

The person who didn't understand, looked up as if he understood, "Then tomorrow, should I still fight? If I don't fight, I will lose the opportunity to become an official. If the champion of martial arts won it, wouldn't it be a waste of effort? "

The King of Chu was also stunned, raised his head and said, "How did you go about your strategy?"

"Someone told me that as long as you write more words loyal to His Majesty, you can pass. I believed it, so I passed it!"

"Forget it!" King Chu lowered his hand, turned and left.

Xiao Yunze followed up and asked: "Oh, there is one more thing, do the six kings know that the oiran of Lanyue Tower was redeemed by Wen Zhuangyuan Liang Hanlin?"

"The matter of Lanyue Tower, how could this king..." King Chu was startled, "I don't know."

He looked back at Xiao Yunze suddenly, "Why, are you still thinking about it?"

Xiao Yunze's face was full of resentment, "If it wasn't for her father's disapproval, she would have been a member of the Duke's Mansion long ago. The Six Kings know her, so they should know what kind of woman she is. Even the champion likes her, so why can't she enter the Duke's Mansion?" !"

She smiled and turned around and walked forward, "Since you are so persistent, why don't you go and snatch her back!"