[Caiyun Kingdom] The beginning of people

It's snowing again.

While sending Huang Yi out to court, the first snow in the seven years of Shangzhi slowly fell from the gray sky.I looked up and watched the snow fall quietly, and I didn't come back to my senses until the cold snowflakes wet my cheeks. I quickly reached out and pulled the neckline of Huang Yi's cloak, "Wait a minute, I'll get you an umbrella."

"Don't be too busy," Huang Yi held me back, "It's just Xiaoxue, it will be fine later. You go back to the house."

"You're riding a horse today, it's windy, at least take a cloak?" I didn't wait for him to reply, so I walked back quickly with my skirt slightly lifted, and took out a thick cloak and put it on for him.I looked at him, then tiptoed and put the cloak cap on him, Huang Yi looked inexplicably funny - like a fluffy doll, still pretending to be arrogant with a cold face.

Huang Yi turned his face away and sighed, I covered my mouth and smiled.He pulled me closer, reached out to wipe the snow from my hair, lowered his head and kissed my forehead, then turned and went out.I went back to my room to catch up on some sleep, got up and had some meals, then started to dress up and prepare to go out.Today is the pilgrimage season. Officials with a holy rank will enter the palace, and those without this rank will go out to meet each other; according to the status of their husbands, wives who are not of a high rank will help their husbands to host a banquet. As for those who are of sufficient grade, they can be socialized with all wives.

Fortunately, Huang Yi seldom interacts with others, and his rank is high enough. There are not many wives that I really need to be careful of. It's just a big time, so it's not good if I don't show up.Besides, there are actually quite a few things that can be done in the backyard. Just by looking at who the wives are talking to, you can tell which family officials are familiar with which family.The relationship between the wives is determined by the husband, only a few are handkerchiefs from childhood or rivals, that's another matter.There are also those who want to be friends with each other sincerely, but there is no one in a million who can be a confidant despite the reasons of their respective husbands.

An official wife can also be a Spider-Man, haha.

I also didn't want to make myself too divorced from the government, so it was just right to do these things.

Today is a banquet for a wife of Shangshu Sheng, so it doesn't matter if I arrive later due to my rank.Sitting leisurely in the rickety sedan chair, I raised my hand and slid over the white jade sunflower earrings with warm tentacles, reminding me of Chai Lin, who should have the highest status among wives.She was going to become an official last year, but for You Shun's filial piety, and also to rest and take care of her children, she planned to have a hot filial piety to let the court seize the opportunity to become an official, but the cooperation between her and the Ministry of Industry did not Stop, she rested for about three months and then resumed work.Rin would naturally not attend these events.

As soon as I stepped into the gate of the mansion, the girl from the mansion came to welcome me in.I was just wondering why this shrewd lady had neglected to let anyone sing her name in front of the door, but I looked at the clever little girl and smiled, without asking any more questions, and followed Just go girl.The girl walked slowly, and I also slowed down.It was close to the hall, and I shook my head and laughed when I heard the discussions of the people in the hall.

"Ms. Kui's life is really good. A businesswoman has become a third-rank imperial order. Now, except for the head wife of Caiqi's family, Mrs. Jiang and the highest rank of female official can hold her down? Or just It's time to count Mrs. Song Tai from Taifu's residence." A lady said.

It is not my fault that high-ranking officials do not marry wives, and important official positions are never vacant.With a smile on my face, I stamped my feet outside the hall, and the little girl who led the way was waiting beside me.I lowered my head and rolled up my sleeves, and listened to what the master wanted me to hear.

"This is the decree of the sage, and we are not allowed to discuss it arbitrarily," another old lady interjected, "It is also due to Madam Kui's contribution to the disaster relief. This character seems to be passable, but I don't know how good a woman is."

"That's right, the Zimen Aoi family, such a famous family, if there are no descendants..."

Ok, I understand today's topic.I smiled and walked in. The wives of the families also got up and saluted me. After seeing each other, they sat down and chatted, listened to music and had tea.During the New Year's holiday, there is a lot of joy and festive decorations everywhere.After the banquet, the wives of the families dispersed, and Mrs. Qian, the host, invited me to gather in the back room.

"Mrs. Kui," Qian Shi, who is slightly older than me, took my hand, "If you heard what you heard today, just pretend you haven't heard it. It's a girl who is still young and can't lead the way. Don't take it to heart."

Your mother, the bully intentionally listens to me, first comes to show off, and pretends to be a close sister to me.Speaking of which, Qian's family is filling a house, her family background is not high, and her colleagues and wives who are of the same rank as her husband can't talk about their status and age. She has been deliberately trying to win me over since she entered the circle.It's just that she forgot the rules of an official's wife-our identities are given by our husbands, and those of the same rank have to fight for their natal family, but those who are not only a few steps higher than you, even if their natal family background is lower than hers, there is no need to look at her complexion.

I also lowered my head, picked up the teacup, took a sip, and didn't speak.Qian's face was a bit embarrassed, but she didn't dare to change his face towards me.Look, this is the rank, Huang Yi, hurry up and sit higher, Madam, I will fully support you.

I thought that if I didn't talk to her, I could get rid of Qian's original slap in the face, and she would retreat when she saw that she couldn't do anything.

"However, my sister should pay more attention to this matter."

……younger sister.

Qian continued: "According to me, Master Kui treats you very well, and my younger sister is also a lucky master, with good looks, but my younger sister is after all... so there is no need to take that risk. "

I gently put down the teacup, turned my head to look at Mrs. Qian, and smiled a little, just to see what else she could say.

Qian suddenly choked up, and wiped the corners of his eyes with a small handkerchief, "My master has treated me very well, but I have had nothing to do for many years. For the sake of the master, I hired a concubine for him. Back then, I This heart hurts so badly. I understand this, but this suffering must be swallowed. I have survived this." She put down her handkerchief and looked at the imaginary blue sky outside the door of the wing room. Understand, this is for the future of the child, even if it was born by a concubine, it will definitely be raised by the main wife among us famous families. In a few years, when the child grows up, kiss us. The servants are not as good as our main wife, and we have won the reputation of a good wife, so in the end, all the blessings will come back to us."

The word becomes "we".Qian's singing and acting are all done, for this reason.As if I understood her very well in a trance, I smiled at her again.

Mrs. Qian said a few more "confidant words", and then expressed her intentions: "...my distant niece, she looks like a man, and comes from a good family. The family is an orphan girl with no father or brother. When she has a son in the future, the younger sister will raise her as a noble concubine. She is not afraid of disrespecting Mr. Kui, nor afraid of her power. You are also Mr. Guan’s adopted sister, and you are a marriage bestowed by the Holy One. Adults will not underestimate you."

I smiled, didn't answer a word, drank my cup of tea and got up to leave.As I was walking out, Mrs. Qian also personally sent me out of the gate, but before I got on the sedan chair, I saw Chai Lin not far away.In the severe cold weather, she was braving the wind and snow, holding a picture and facing the street, not knowing what she was gesticulating.That's right, I heard from Feixiang that the imperial court noticed the fire incident in Guiyang, and was intending to order the Ministry of Industry to repair the streets in order to prepare for fire rescue.

I took my foot back into the sedan chair and said loudly, "Rin."

Chai Lin turned her head, smiled and waved to me.

"That's..." Qian frowned, "Madam Zheng?"

I smiled at her, didn't pay any further attention, turned around and explained to the bearer, then took the umbrella, lifted the hem of the skirt slightly, and walked towards Chai Lin, "Why are you still out in this weather?"

Chai Lin pointed to her clothes, "Newly made velvet coat, it won't keep you cold." She explained the method and benefits to me in detail, "Send it to Sanniang's house some other day?" She never hides her secrets .

I raised my sleeves to cover my mouth and laughed.Rin is from time travel?Her house even has a mechanical wooden man who can pour tea automatically, which is extremely convenient.I went to her house to get a lot of things, everything from laundry to cooking tools. It would be a waste for Rin to stop doing business, otherwise she would definitely be the king of household utensils.

"Sanniang is out too?" She gestured to Qian who was still looking at us not far away.

"Today is such a season, you know, I have to go out too." I took Rin's hand and walked slowly on the street.

She put away her things and took my hand, "I've never been able to do this kind of thing. Since I was a child, I have been studying the tea house. I don't know how to help my husband in this regard. I must have caused him to be ridiculed by his colleagues back then."

"Why are there so many roads in the world? Each has its own way of life. It's not the same way. It's natural not to talk to one place, but it's impossible to laugh at it. I remember You Shun said that Rin is a very reliable wife. Marrying you is the greatest blessing in his life." I bowed my head and said softly.

Rin smiled and said, "San Niang is a real virtuous wife."

On the snow-covered road, my long skirt was a little in the way, so I bent down and buckled the hem of the skirt into a concealed button, making it a little shorter, but it would not hinder the view.

Rin looked at my movements, "...that's when I realized that Sanniang is from Heizhou."

"Don't laugh at me," I straightened up and continued walking along the street with her. After walking out of the street, the shops were closed for the Chinese New Year, but it was deserted, and a few children were still running around, "I was also He has a single accent, but he has been a businessman for a long time, and sometimes he gradually changed it to conceal his identity."

"But even though Sanniang's voice is soft, her tone of voice is not as soft as Lanzhou's, and it's more dark and tough."

I pretended to be angry, "Are you here to make fun of me?"

Rin blinked, "Oh, it's revealed."

We looked at each other and smiled.While we were talking, Lin led me to the west of the city, and I saw Yang Xiu, the servant of the bureaucracy who was also looking at the blueprint... He was holding a baby girl in his arms.Rin explained in a low voice that the Ministry of Taoist Officials is studying to readjust the layout and powers of officials in the city according to the new urban planning.With the increasing development of commerce, many large cities have sprung up in Caiyun Kingdom. Rin said that if the reconstruction of Guiyang can be achieved, the Ministry of Officials hopes that it can be widely promoted in large cities across the country, and this matter will also be laborious. Yang Xiu came to check it out in person.

However, looking at blueprints is not something that anyone can read casually, and as a result...the disliked Master Yang Xiu waited here to help look after the child.

"Mrs. Lan." Yang Xiu hugged the child with great difficulty, and reluctantly gave me his hand.

I smiled back and said, "Hi, congratulations on the Chinese New Year, Official Yang." I took the little girl from his hand, and a two-year-old is not light.

The girl blinked, looked at me, and said, "Aunt Lan, good."

I wiped her forehead with my sleeve——Yang Xiu even carried the girl around in the open air, and the child was wet by the snow——smiled and said, "Yuan Ji is fine today." The girl is of course Chai Lin And Zheng Youshun's daughter, Zheng Yuanji.

After a few pleasantries, I asked the two of them to go to work first, and I will come and see the child.I sat in a rare open stall with my baby in my arms, ordered a bowl of hot broth, and fed her.Probably due to hereditary power, Yuan Ji is already very smart at such an age, I taught her a line of poetry casually, and she memorized it in no time.On a whim, I taught her to recite poems.

The shopkeeper's children also gathered around and listened secretly.I smiled and taught him to recite, but this seemingly four-year-old child was not as fast as Yuan Ji, Yuan Ji was like a little adult, patiently teaching the little boy, repeating to him word by word .I looked at the child's interaction and turned my face away to snicker.

"Hey, at this time of the year," the aunt of the store said to me, "Why did Madam come out by herself?"

I smiled casually, "Wait for your husband to come down."

"So it's Mrs. Guan! Oh, with your demeanor, I can tell you're a nobleman. But it's about to snow heavily, so you have to be careful."

Is it snowing heavily?I looked up at the increasingly gloomy sky, "Thank you, aunt, for your reminder. I don't know if I can ask aunt to help take care of a carriage?" I gave her some broken silver.

"Aunt Lan," Yuan Ji gently tugged at my sleeve, "What is Husband?"

"Inedible."

"..." Yuan Ji's face turned awkward.

I smiled and patted her on the head, "It's your mother's husband, the one you want to be with for the rest of your life."

"But, father and mother, are you not together now?"

"It's been a lifetime." I whispered.

"Already?" Tohime blinked.

"When you love each other with all your strength until you can't love anymore, it's already a lifetime, and after that, you will be reincarnated as a human being."

"...Eatable, it seems, faster."

I smiled and nodded.

"Aunt Lan, have you met your father?"

"Yes," I tapped her forehead with my index finger, "your father has green eyes just like you."

Yuan Ji blinked her eyes, then raised her small hand to touch her own eyes curiously, but repeatedly touched her eyelids.

When Yang Xiu and Chai Lin came back, the sky was already snowing heavily again, and there were signs of it getting bigger and bigger. I first sent them back in a carriage, checked the sky, and then turned to the palace gate.It's snowing, if Huang Yi is still riding a horse, he will catch a cold easily.

The carriage stopped not far from the palace gate, and I looked at the majestic palace city through the window.The snow slowly piled up beside the palace wall, and the snowflakes danced among the lights that people occasionally came to, like little ghosts in a trance.

Before the key was released at the palace gate, I saw Huang Yi leading the horse out.I took the umbrella and got out of the car, and went up to meet it.

"Why are you here?" Huang Yi frowned and took my hand, folded his palms together to cover my hand, and rubbed it.

I smiled and moved the umbrella over his head.He turned around and told the man at the gate of the palace to take care of the horses, then put his cloak on me, tied the cloak straps, took the umbrella, and helped me leave in the snow.

"Wait!" An angry voice called from behind.

I was about to look back, but Huang Yi quickened his pace with a cold face, and said, "Don't worry about it."

"..." Very great, who is so great that offended Huang Yi?I still turned my head and saw a familiar old man jumping in front of the palace gate over Huang Yi's shoulder.

"Brat from the Aoi family!" The old man put his hands on his hips and yelled loudly, "You stand for the old man!"

Huang Yi's pace quickened a bit.

I burst out laughing, pulled Huang Yi's sleeve to make him stop, turned around and waved to the old man, "Master Huijia, long time no see, how are you doing?"

Huijia walked over quickly, and gave me a look, "Why are you pretending to be good, you won't come to visit me when you know I'm back?"

I bowed to him with a smile, and said: "I am a concubine, but my husband's order is my obedience." I pushed all the matter to Huang Yi, and it was clear.

Huang Yi glanced at me, "Master Huiqi, I will definitely visit you someday. My wife feels a little unwell, so I'm leaving." He was fine and used me as an excuse.

Huijia looked at Huang Yi, then at me, and frowned, "What are you two playing in front of me..."

I said honestly: "The husband sings and the wife follows." Hahahaha.

Huijia covered her face for a while, but raised her head again at the next moment, and shouted at Huang Yi's face full of energy: "I don't care, boy Huang Yi, let me tell you, Xiaolan is not yours alone, you You can’t keep holding onto people! There’s a first-come-first-serve basis for everything, right? What about you, brat, you forced our Xiaolan to marry you only a few years ago, and I’ve been waiting for three full years! Get out of the way! They are not allowed to meet face to face, and they dare not let me enter the mansion even during the peak season.”

Huang Yi gave Hui Jia the umbrella on top of us, and one of his shoulders was immediately covered with snowflakes, but he still kept saying, "First, Lan belongs to me alone, if you don't know, you can Go to the Hulu of Caiyun Country by yourself. Second, I know Lan Yuan before you. You are just a joke if you say that you come first. Media protection book. Well, for the sake of you sending me jokes on a special trip, I don’t care too much about it. Third, Mr. Wangji let you enter the mansion voluntarily, and it’s not without your help.” In the last sentence, he also He said it without blushing, without panting, and without feeling guilty at all.

I raised my sleeves to cover the face that was about to twitch from biting my lip and holding back the laughter, only showing my eyes, looking at Huijia's lovely expression of shrugging her shoulders after a long while with her mouth open.

Ah, Huijia blew his beard.

"Master Huijia, this junior will leave." With a cold face, Huang Yi stuffed the umbrella into Huijia's hands, casually put on the cloak and hat for me, put his arms around my shoulders and supported me, and left, leaving Huijia alone Lingling stood in the cold wind.

When I got into the carriage, I laughed until I couldn't breathe.

Huang Yi sighed, and embraced me from behind, his hands wrapping mine.

"It will be fine next year."

"Why?" I turned my face and looked up at him.

"When my grade is higher than him, I can throw him out of the gate directly."

"..." It turns out that you have been entangled by Huijia.I laughed and said softly: "Yes, Mr. Xianggong has to work hard and climb up."

"Why are you so active today?"

"I bullied people today with my grades."

He glanced at me sideways, "Well, use more, so as not to be unfamiliar."

I turned around and buried my head in front of him, laughing.Huang Yi patted my side face, lowered his head and kissed my hair.

"Don't come out next time." He whispered in my ear.

"Just by the way, I'm not someone who will go out in the cold weather." I pulled out the hand he was holding, and then pressed my cold hands on both sides of Huang Yi's cheeks.

He shivered subconsciously.

I laughed until I fell on the chair.

Huang Yi pulled me up, and I followed his strength and leaned on his shoulder.

Gulu Gulu, Gulu Gulu, the carriage drove towards Kui Mansion in the heavy snow.

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