After marriage and marriage, I became the favorite of the group

Once the year is over, the weather starts to warm up.

Although Jiwu is not the Lantern Festival, due to the influence of Liang Guo, the Dragon Lantern Festival has also begun in recent years.

In the evening, Ruan Jiu and He Lianzhu went out early.

Ruan Jiu didn't eat dinner on purpose, he had a meat skewer in his left hand and a piece of candy in his right hand at the market.

There is no extra hand to hold He Lianzhu, only He Lianzhu can hold him.

The hat with rabbit ears was washed, and Ruan Jiu was wearing a hat with a cat's head today - Ulan specially made it, but Ruan Jiu didn't think it was a cat's head, he always thought it was a tiger's head.

He is conspicuous in the crowd wearing something, and it is not easy to get lost.Ulan and Getulu followed behind, and followed Top Hat.

Before walking half a street, Ulan and Getulu's hands were covered with the things Ruan Jiu bought.

Ruan Jiu just eats.He stopped in front of a grocer's stall, looked up and saw someone selling hand-meat in front of him, feeling that his legs were sore that he couldn't walk, so he asked He Lianzhu to buy it for him.

"Here is a skewer for you." Ruan Jiu gave him a meat skewer, "Go buy it for me if you eat it."

He Lianzhu ate with his hands, Ruan Jiu stuffed the meat skewers over: "Hold and eat by yourself."

After He Lianzhu passed by, Ruan Jiu turned around and squatted down in front of the grocer's stall.

Ruan Jiu looked down at the things brought by the grocer.

The grocer is from Liang, running between Daliang and Jiwu, carrying some things to sell.

Master Ruan started his career as a grocery peddler, so Ruan Jiu is very clear about the grocer.

Ruan Jiu saw at a glance the small wooden sign with the name "Ruan" engraved on it hanging on the cargo box.

He picked it up and took a look: "What is it? Is your surname Ruan too?"

The grocer was a very young guy, he smiled and said: "I'm not qualified yet. It's my lifelong goal, the name of Master Ruan Qingpu Ruan."

Ruan Jiu's expression was dull, it was actually my father.

Ruan Jiu sorted out his expressions, and changed the topic: "Is there anything interesting in Yong'an City recently?"

"When I came here, there was a popular trend in Yong'an City——"

The stall owner took out a glove with cat ears from the cargo box: "His Highness the Eighth Highness went on a mission and brought back a lot of wool. In the winter, he made gloves with this wool. Your noble sons They all have side effects, good-looking and ironic, and Yong'an City is very popular."

Unexpectedly, Xiao Mingyuan's name could be heard here, Ruan Jiu felt amused: "What's so amazing? I've already put on a cat hat."

The stall owner was taken aback: "You are..." He poked his head and looked closer at Ruan Jiu's face.

Ruan Jiu was taken aback by him: "What are you doing?"

The stall owner was surprised: "You are the young master of the Ruan family, right?"

"How did you know?"

"His Royal Highness said that the young master of the Ruan family has two dimples, and a small mole at the corner of his mouth is a gluttonous mole, but he himself doesn't like this small mole very much. The "kneading" is gone, and the "color" is very light."

Ruan Jiu hardened his fist: "Is there something wrong with Xiao Mingyuan? Why are you making such a thing..."

"Where is it?" the stall owner said with a smile, "His Royal Highness and the young masters of Yong'an City are all thinking about the young master, and asked me to give him something."

He turned around and took out another set of winter equipment from the cargo box, scarf, hat, and hat, all packed in a box.

"His Highness the Eighth Highness and the sons of Yong'an City asked me to bring it to the young master. It's bitterly cold, and my friends asked the young master to keep warm and not catch cold."

Ruan Jiu took the things, but was still puzzled: "Why did they entrust you to deliver them? What if I didn't stop in front of your stall?"

"I'm not just a grocer. At that time, the sons of Yong'an City were squatting on the road out of the city. When they saw the grocer who was about to leave the city after buying the goods, they gave them the things and entrusted them to bring them to the young master."

Ruan Jiu was a little moved, but muttered, "Why don't you send someone over directly?"

"Sent it off. It snowed heavily a while ago, and it seemed that something was lost on the road. The young masters thought of a way and said that they wanted to give the young master a surprise. I also came to sell things at Jiwu at a risk. A grocery peddler didn’t come this year because of the heavy snow.”

"A grocer?" Ruan Jiu asked, "They stopped a grocer altogether?"

"Not a hundred, maybe ten."

That is to say, they made a total of a hundred items for the grocer, just to deliver one item to Ruan Jiu.

Ruan Jiu blinked his somewhat wet eyes, and muttered angrily and amusingly: "Really."

The stall owner opened the box: "Young master, look at the ears on the top of the glove, each family is different. I remember that His Highness the Eighth Prince was wearing a tiger's head."

Ruan Jiu hurriedly asked: "What about Wei Xu? The son of General Fuyuan's Wei Mansion? Return Yan Ning?"

It's a pity that besides Xiao Mingyuan, the stall owner doesn't know any other young masters, and he can't remember clearly. Ruan Jiu has no way to know the recent situation of other friends from him.

Ruan Jiu felt a little lost, but more of a warm feeling of being filled with heart.

It turned out that the friends in Yong'an City hadn't forgotten him.

Ruan Jiu said: "Okay, I'll go back and prepare to return the gift. If you come to the palace tomorrow, I will return the gift..."

The stall owner waved his hand and said, "I'm a grocer, and I'm not the one who specially delivers things to you. It's enough to deliver once. Do you want me to keep delivering? Besides, I just met the young master by chance. Is it possible that I am the young master?" Do you want to find hundreds of grocery peddlers like them?"

"I'll pay you to take another trip." Ruan Jiu pinched the "Ruan" wooden sign hanging on the cargo box, pouted, "I'm your youngest son of 'lifelong pursuit', Can't you?"

"Master Ruan taught the world's merchants that merchants need their own backbone. I am a grocer, not a messenger." The stall owner waved his hands repeatedly, "I won't do it, I won't do it, young master, find someone else."

Being tricked by his father, Ruan Jiu can't do anything about it.

"Alright then." Ruan Jiu nodded, "Then if you see them again, tell them for me that I have received everything, is that okay?"

"Okay." It was a request, but the stall owner agreed, "Young master, when will you tell them personally?"

"I see."

When Ruan Jiu got up, He Lianzhu came back at the same time, holding something and looking at him on the spot: "Ruan Jiu."

Thinking of his friends, Ruan Jiu couldn't help but feel a little bored. He didn't eat the things he asked him to buy for him, and turned to leave: "Go back."

He Lianzhu chased after him, and handed a large piece of meat to his mouth: "Ruanjiu, eat."

Ruan Jiu stopped, but He Lianzhu refused to take it back, insisting that he take a bite.

"Ruanjiu, take a bite, I finally bought it back."

Ruan Jiu couldn't resist him, so he opened his mouth and took a bite, chewing twice.

Light up the incense.

He took another bite, turned around and said, "Go on."

Ulan and Getulu smiled at the same time. The queen still likes to be fierce, and she will definitely like it more and more in the future.

It's the New Year's Eve, and although it's getting warmer, the weather is still cold.Ruan Jiu wears gifts from his friends all the way every day.

A few days later, the Queen Mother sent envoys over again.

He Lianzhu just found it weird.In the past ten years, only envoys were sent here less than five times, but only one year after returning, they were sent four or five times.

Of course he didn't feel that the queen mother cared about him, he knew in his heart that the queen mother was targeting Ruan Jiu.

But Ruan Jiu "abandoned her", left Shangjing, and chose to come to Xiyuan with He Lianzhu. According to the queen mother's "distinguished love and hate" character, it is good if the queen mother does not make things difficult for him, nor does she know him. that's it.

Why do you send people over every time?

He Lianzhu was not happy, and when facing the envoy, he also had a cold face.

"What's the matter?"

The person who was obviously in the Empress Dowager's favor had a smiling face, making it difficult to find fault with him.

"During the New Year's Eve, the Empress Dowager opened the gates of the palace wide to entertain the courtiers and their families. The Empress Dowager looked at the people below and laughed at Yan Yan, thinking of the King and Queen, and thinking that the King and Queen were still in Xiyuan. She felt sad for a while and drank too much. Two glasses of wine."

"Actually, Madam let the king stay in Xiyuan, it is for the good of the king. First, let the king stay in Xiyuan to study, it is the meaning of the previous king; second, the king is still young, stay in Xiyuan to train more, and then he will be better in the future." It's easy to take over."

He Lianzhu couldn't listen to the pretext, and asked again: "What's the matter?"

The envoy was not annoyed, and said calmly, "Now the king has grown up, and he will be 15 years old in a year. The king has also married, and the queen is married, and he is really not a child."

"Therefore, the empress dowager is thinking of relatives on the one hand, and thinking on the other hand, please ask the king and queen to—"

"Go back to Shangjing."

He Lianzhu absolutely didn't believe what he said, his heart shuddered, and he felt that the Queen Mother definitely had other plans.

Maybe it's because she regretted it, and now she wants to take Ruan Jiu back; maybe it's because of something in the government, she wants to use the king as a raft.

In short, it is definitely not a good thing.

So he subconsciously didn't want to go back.

How good is it to stay happily in Xiyuan?He needs to recharge his batteries, and it's not time to go back yet.

So he stood up with a flick of his sleeves: "You take the message back, just say that I am still young, and I can't stand running between Shangjing and Xiyuan. Xiyuan City is very good, and I don't plan to go back for the time being."

He paused, and finally squeezed out a sentence with great difficulty: "Thank you, mother, for your kindness."

He Lianzhu left without waiting for the envoy to speak again.

No matter how scheming and patient he was, he couldn't help but look cold at this moment.

what happened?Shang Jing is much better than Xi Yuan, why is the king unwilling to go back?

The attendant raised his hand and made a "please" gesture: "Please, envoy."

The envoy also turned around and left. Before he could leave the palace, he bumped into a Liang man in his twenties on the road.

The man was dressed in green and looked at him with a smile in his eyes.

The envoy was puzzled, he really couldn't remember who this person was.

So he changed to Chinese: "Your Excellency?"

"My lord doesn't remember me. We met once in the Empress Dowager's palace. I am the queen's dowry son, Liu Xuan."

The envoy raised his hand and saluted: "Liu Gongzi salutes."

Liu Xuan returned the salute, with a faint smile floating in his eyes: "The empress dowager asked the envoys to invite the queen back to the palace?"

"Yes." The envoy sighed, "But the king seems unwilling to go back, so let me go back immediately."

"The envoy might as well stay in Xiyuan for two more days, maybe after two more days, things will turn around?"

"What do you mean, son?"

Liu Xuan smiled, but said: "Xiyuan is tough, the king and the queen are deeply in love with each other, and they love each other, but I can't stand it long ago. I want to return to Shangjing as soon as possible, serve by the queen mother's side, and be protected by the queen mother." Well. I'll think of a way to see if I can persuade the queen to go back."

I see.The envoy frowned, spoke a few polite words of disdain for him, and left.

Liu Xuan watched him leave, the smile in his eyes gradually disappeared.

He finally figured out what he had been thinking about a few days ago.

If he wants to become a Marquis and worship a chancellor, and give power to the government and the public, he still wants to worship under the Empress Dowager's family, which is the right way.

In terms of scheming, He Lianzhu is still young now, and he lost the upper hand in the battle of military symbols in Shangjing last year.But the queen mother didn't need a single soldier, the soldier talisman went around and returned to her hand.

In terms of scheming, the queen mother is slightly better now.

In the long run, if he treats the Queen Mother as his master, there will be no limit in the future; He Lianzhu doesn't like Liangren very much, the only one he likes is Ruan Jiu.Even if He Lianzhu regains power in the future, Ruan Jiu will still be the queen. When Ruan Jiu is around, everyone will remember that Liu Xuan used to be the queen's dowry son.

He didn't like the title, not at all.

Maybe in the future the queen mother and the king will think about their mother's love and shake hands to make peace, but considering the current situation, Liu Xuan has already made up his mind, he wants to follow the queen mother.

Since the queen mother wants He Lianzhu and Ruan Jiu to go back to Shangjing, she might as well regard this matter as a contract.

Liu Xuan "touched" his knuckles, Ruan Jiu was too naive, it would not be a good thing to use Ruan Jiu.

He swore it was the first and last time.

Of course, the Empress Dowager sent envoys to Xiyuan this time, and asked the envoys to bring many things to Ruan Jiu.

After knowing that he had been ill once, the queen mother thought that he might be in poor health, and every time she sent someone, she would send him a lot of supplements.

Getulu once again asked He Lianzhu for instructions: "Your Majesty, it is a tonic for a good car, what should I do?"

"It's the same as before." He Lianzhu sat on the seat, flipping through the book, flipping through page after page irritably, tearing the paper and rattling, "Take it out, cook the "medicinal" porridge, Give it to the people, saying it was a reward from the queen."

Getulu nodded yes, and didn't speak any more.I thought, if I continue to eat it, the people in Xiyuan City will be overnourished, and the average life expectancy will basically increase by ten years.

Just as he was about to go out, Ruan Jiu came back with the kite.

Drenched in sweat from running, he took off his hat and threw it aside. When he saw Helian Zhu, he asked, "Little pig, are you back?"

Helian Zhu pursed her lips: "Yes."

Ruan Jiu tangles up the kite string: "Did old man Liu not wait for the class today?"

"No."

Every time the queen mother sent someone, He Lianzhu didn't let anyone tell Ruan Jiu.He just finds an excuse to meet him in the past, and then returns after sending him off.

The queen mother's people will not appear in front of Ruan Jiu, and the queen mother's things will not appear in front of Ruan Jiu.

He Lianzhu winked at Getulu, telling him to go down quickly and get rid of those things, Getulu understood, and left.

Ruan Jiu set up the kite and flew it: "It's impossible to fly a kite in Jiwu. Usually, at this time, Yong'an City can already fly a kite."

He Lianzhu said: "Tomorrow I will release it for you."

"Well……"

Before the smile on Ruan Jiu's face fully unfolded, He Lianzhu said again: "By the way, Mr. Liu asked you to go back to study tomorrow."

"Ah?" Ruan Jiu froze, "I'm not going..."

"You should go, he gave you five more days off."

"Just go by yourself, why bring me with you? I won't go!"

He Lianzhu took out the scroll from the table: "Come quickly and make up your homework."

Ruan Jiu walked over dejectedly, and felt a headache when he saw the words "冬吾" on the paper.He picked up the pen, read two or three lines, and stroked his hair with the other hand, feeling extremely distressed.

He Lianzhu walked to another table next to him, and moved all the books piled up in front of him: "Return."

Ruan Jiu raised his head and saw homework like a hill, his head was getting bigger: "...how come there are so many?"

"Who told you not to write?"

"Why don't you ask me to write?"

"I yelled, but you always said that there is still a lot of time, and I will write tomorrow."

"You help me write."

He Lianzhu said decisively: "No."

"I can already understand a lot of words, and I've almost learned them all." Ruan Jiu hugged his hand, refusing to leave, "Little pig, please, please help me write, so many words are written for me." How can you finish writing? I'll treat you to something delicious."

"No, the last time you did your homework for you, you asked Geturu to peel a walnut for me."

"Not this time." Ruan Jiu swore to the sky, "It's really delicious this time, I promise."

"I don't believe it." Helian Zhu turned his head away, actually waiting for his action.

Ruan Jiu thought for a while, pressed his head, leaned forward, squeezed into the same chair with him, and kissed his forehead: "Hurry up, my lord, my favorite lord."

He Lianzhu's face turned red immediately, and he couldn't help feeling hot.He was afraid that his face would burn Ruan Jiu.

But he didn't make any moves yet, he waited for Ruan Jiu to give him another move.

Come again, come again and he will help Ruan Jiu with his homework.

He Lianzhu remained motionless "calmly", seeing from the corner of his eye that Ruan Jiu was indeed approaching again with his lips pouting, he couldn't help but straighten his back even more.

He is ready.

But Ruan Jiu stopped at a very close place, and said softly, "If you don't write for me, I'll go to Ulan to write for me."

Xia Helianzhu couldn't care less about being shy, and turned around and shouted: "No!"

"Then write it for me." Ruan Jiu moved the scroll in front of him, "Hurry up."

Ruan Jiu is not stupid at all, he has already understood the speech of most of the speakers within half a year after learning Chinese.It's just that the homework Mr. Liu is used to assigning is not suitable for him, and he will never be able to do it well, so he asked He Lianzhu for help.

He Lianzhu picked up the pen to write, Ruan Jiu supported his head, watched him write like a supervisor, and asked him from time to time, what's going on here, what's going on there.

If Ruan Jiu stopped asking, it wasn't because Ruan Jiu understood everything.Just because he was so sleepy that he fell asleep.

It was Ruan Jiu's homework time.

One night, the two of them made up their homework until very late.

When he got up the next morning, Ruan Jiu was sleepy.

He Lianzhu helped him put on his clothes: "Let's go quickly."

Ruan Jiu yawned: "Okay."

After breakfast, the two got into the carriage.

The carriage drove out of the city and headed for Mr. Liu's yard.During the New Year's Eve, Ruan Jiu came to pay New Year's greetings to Mr. Liu, and when he was about to give himself more homework, he ran away like the wind.

The snow outside the city has begun to melt, and the small yard built with stones is still as simple as that.

The two sheep raised in the yard were slaughtered years ago, and Mr. Liu bought two new lambs for Liu Changsheng to raise.

When Ruan Jiu passed by, Liu Changming was driving two lambs to go out.

Liu Changming is the Liang Guo soldier who Mr. Liu picked up and has nothing on his body.He has been receiving medical treatment recently, and he seems to have improved a lot. After all, he could only herd one sheep before, but now he can herd two.

progress.

Ruan Jiu greeted him and went in.

When Mr. Liu saw him, he was a little frightened: "Why are you here?"

"Didn't you ask me to come back to study?" Ruan Jiu put the homework that he had driven out overnight in front of him, "Here you are."

He Lianzhu said with a smile: "Sir, I forgot the time. Mr. told me the day before yesterday that Ruanjiu should come back to study."

Ruan Jiu regretted, "If I had known you had forgotten, I wouldn't have come here."

Mr. Liu picked up the ruler to hit his palm, and blew his beard: "How dare you?"

The matter was over in this way, Mr. Liu put down his ruler, and said to the two of them: "Come here if you come, sit down, there is a lot to learn today."

He Lianzhu pulled Ruan Jiu and sat down on the seat with a calm expression.

In fact, Mr. Liu simply forgot to ask Ruan Jiu to come back. He Lianzhu dragged Ruan Jiu over, but he didn't want him to run into the envoy sent by the Queen Mother.

He already made the envoy leave overnight, but he didn't expect that envoy to stay in Xiyuan.

The envoy must have wanted to meet Ruan Jiu and persuade him to go back to Shangjing. He Lianzhu would never give him a chance, so he wanted to bring Ruan Jiu with him.

Thinking like this, He Lianzhu squeezed Ruan Jiu's hand tightly.

Holding the book, Old Mr. Liu poked his head out to look under their desks. After seeing clearly, he asked with a confused face, "What are you doing? I'm not trying to break you up, just sit down and sit down." Come on, why are you still holding hands?"

Ruan Jiu was embarrassed, and tried hard to take back his hand, but He Lianzhu held it tightly, as if he didn't want to let go.

Instead, He Lianzhu raised his head to look at his husband frankly: "Teacher, tell me."

Mr. Liu is heartbroken, how long has it been?My emperor seedling, which is rare in a hundred years, was taken away like this.

Ruan Jiu met his gaze and felt that he had been wronged to death, obviously it was Helian Zhu who held him and refused to let go!

It's a pity that He Lianzhu's "protection" for Ruan Jiu didn't last long, and the things sent by the queen mother soon appeared in front of Ruan Jiu in another form.

In the evening, they left Mr. Liu's house in a carriage, and the carriage entered the city. When passing by on the street, Ruan Jiu called to stop, opened the curtain of the carriage, and bought sugar from the sugar vendor facing him.

He took He Lianzhu's money bag, took out two copper coins, and handed them over in the palm of his hand: "I want two plates of milk candies, one with sugar and one without."

The toffee vendor recognized him: "Queen!"

Ruan Jiu was taken aback by him: "What's wrong?"

He was suddenly a little nervous, he wouldn't be assassinated as said in the play, right?

Ruan Jiu looked around subconsciously, but he didn't see the assassin, but everyone on the street was called over.

"Queen, what a queen!"

Getulu subconsciously wanted to drive them away: "Go, don't get in the way, the queen is going back to the palace."

A group of people were not far from the carriage, raised their right hands, pressed them to their hearts, and saluted Ruan Jiu in unison: "Meet the queen."

Ruan Jiu was stunned for a moment, and then his eyes fainted with a smile: "What's wrong?"

The peddler benefited from being next to the carriage from the beginning and was the closest to Ruan Jiu. He smiled and said, "Today I just received the 'medicated' porridge rewarded by the queen. Everyone is very grateful to the queen."

Ruan Jiu was puzzled: "What..."

He Lianzhu thumped in his heart, his intuition was not good, and he wanted to pull Ruan Jiu back, but he couldn't stop the peddler from opening his mouth.

"Almost all the people in the city went to the gate of the city to get porridge. Since the queen came to Xiyuan, as long as the queen mother brought something over, the queen herself would not keep anything. Every time, she ordered someone to cook porridge for us. There was porridge for us almost every month. It is said that an elderly family has been bedridden all year round. Even after eating the porridge given by the queen, they can go to the field to herd sheep in the spring. This is the blessing of Xiyuan City. Everyone said that it will not be long before the people of Xiyuan City will be fattened by the queen. Stronger."

He talked for a long time, nothing more than talking about "giving porridge".

No matter how dull Ruan Jiu was, he had time to react.

The queen mother gave medicine, and "he" gave some medicine to the people.

But he has never seen any rewards, even when the queen mother sent envoys, he has never seen it.

Then who doesn't like the queen mother and bought something for him?

He turned to look at He Lianzhu: "He Lianzhu?"

He Lianzhu's expression was normal, his clenched hands covered in his sleeves were already bruised.

This thing is very unusual, Ruan Jiu has been wandering outside for a long time, no one has ever recognized him, why was he recognized just this time?Fortunately, he mentioned the matter of giving porridge?

Personal abnormality, people want to attract Ruan Jiu to quarrel with him, to provoke the relationship between Ruan Jiu and him.