Xiao Houye's seven-year imperial examination and five-year road to Kaifeng[75]

Although the female general was driven away, Zhao Jue's gossip remained in this land.

After all, no matter what, she is a woman of a fancy age, with a slightly different aesthetic, but it is also a kind of talking point among men.

These people are very envious of Zhao Jue's prolific beauty. There is no man who does not want to be favored by beautiful women with his glamorous charm.

However, no news reached Zhao Jue's ears. Aren't they out of their minds, don't they know the temper of their living Hades?

Gossip behind their backs is fine, if their lord hears it, do they want to live or something?

Pang Yu, who is far away in Bianjing, lives a fulfilling life every day, and he doesn't know that his prince has withstood the temptation of a beautiful woman from an enemy country.

The Dragon Boat Festival is a big festival. It is a holiday, and there are also activities such as dragon boat races. A few days in advance, Pang Yu led a group of people to make zongzi there. The biggest highlight of the Dragon Boat Festival is eating zongzi?

There are also many flavors of Zongzi, but the local varieties of Zongzi are slightly less, and most of them are candied dates.

Pang Yu was a southerner in his previous life, how could he not have big meat dumplings, so he proposed to make dumplings by himself, which is more casual, and there are many ingredients, such as red bean paste, red beans, red dates, pork belly, and salted egg yolk. put it in front of you.

The people who sat around were all from the old Zhao family, and the Xiaoguan family also joined in the fun, and brought his younger sister, even though she was not born to the same mother as him, because the younger sister has a good personality, and he has no other younger brothers. There is only one younger sister, so the relationship is not bad.

Pang Yu looked at the well-behaved girl, and accidentally thought of that scumbag Chen Shimei, the girl is cute and well-behaved, it would be a waste to match Chen Shimei.

But in terms of age, that scumbag is probably still in a certain rural village.

In order to avoid some unnecessary tragedies, Pang Yu planned that the identities of those who signed up for the imperial examination in the future must be more detailed, and whether they are married or not must be clearly stated.

Believe in this, those ministers will not object. After all, arresting a son-in-law or something under the list, if you catch someone who conceals that you are married, the trouble will not be troublesome, but mainly disgusting.

In a few years, the princess can be thrown into the Royal Military Academy for training, anyway, there are no restrictions on men and women, and there is no tuition fee.

Especially on the day of the ribbon-cutting of the trial run of the train, the clan members of the old Zhao family saw the children who had been sent to their home for such a short time, and there were obvious changes, and they immediately changed their views on the Royal Military Academy, and wanted to pick up the children. Heart is gone.

The cubs of the old Zhao family who are in the military academy are probably heartbroken.

Especially the Eighth Prince, wishing to send every son to the military academy, so that no one would bother him and the princess.

"Our lord loves this zongzi very much. He can eat five at a time, so I'm worried that he won't be able to digest it." Princess Di wrapped the zongzi, and she didn't look pampered at all.

"Mynah has such a good appetite?" Pang Yu asked in surprise, counting his age, the Eighth Prince seems to be almost forty, right?

"Yeah, you can be more prudent when you're on errands outside, but you're very childish with a few children at home." Princess Di smiled helplessly.

Pang Yu still likes the feeling of being together as a family. Princess Di is easy to get along with, and her attitude towards Zhao Jue is more like that of her son, and she is about the same age.

After all, Zhao Jue was the last child born in the previous generation, the youngest of the old Zhao family, and his nephews who were much older than him, all had to bow their heads and call him uncle, especially the eldest son of Zhao Jue, who was younger than the Eighth Prince. It's two years older.

Let the five-year-old Zhao Jue happily enter the grandparents generation. If he calculates this way, doesn't he already have great-grandchildren?

Pang Yu remembered that last year he gave Zhao Jue a gift from his elder brother's Xide Lin'er, who seemed to be the great-grandson of his elder brother's family.

This old Zhao family gave birth to a baby, and it really died of drought and waterlogging, and there was no average.

Just looking at the string of grandchildren of his eldest brother, there is no way to tell who is who, especially at family gatherings, the number is amazing. Fortunately, it is possible to gather together during the Chinese New Year. The last time Pang Yu met, Almost no intensive phobia.

However, for Zhao Jue's elder brothers who have passed away, their offspring are not very abundant, and there are only a few that can be born.

Now a small part has been thrown into the military academy, and Pang Yu chose to put it in the military academy. It was all on the list drawn up by Zhao Jue. Except for those dudes who were accidental, the others were strictly in accordance with the list.

It can be said that even if Zhao Jue is not in Bianjing City, many things will still go according to what he had planned before. Who would let him have a husband who spoils him? Pang Yu proudly said that he is a qualified husband. one!

It's a pity that the zongzi he made can't be eaten by his prince, the whole palace has made zongzi, these zongzi are eaten by himself, and some are distributed to the common people.

Of course, it's impossible for them to make all the zongzi. For those like Xiaoguan's, they just make a few if they feel like it.

Others are processed in a food factory outside the city of Bianjing. Each zongzi is only one bite size. Originally, zongzi was used to commemorate Qu Yuan, but now it is a food that represents the Dragon Boat Festival.

Pang Yu deftly wrapped a few small rice dumplings and put them aside, and then made his own food. He loves big meat rice dumplings. Pork belly and salted egg yolk are a perfect match!

When making moon cakes, he also likes to put egg yolks in them, and he also likes fresh meat mustard, but it is sweet, and he feels it is very ordinary.

The little official's family is used to it. He has eaten salty rice dumplings countless times since he was a child. He has no maladjustment at all. The meat is so delicious, why do he hate it?

Pang Feiyan likes red bean paste and candied dates more. The meaty ones are too fat for her, and it will easily affect her figure.

The little girl grew up to love beauty, and Pang Yu couldn't bear to tell her that eating sweets would make her fat.

However, the zongzi made by the little girls are relatively small, and they wrap them with their own hands. Anyway, they are all mixed into the zongzi for the common people.

It's not a skilled worker who does the work, and it's almost enough to pack a few, after all, the rope that binds the rice dumplings will hurt your hands.

It is still necessary to eat a delicious meal of rice dumplings in advance, so you have to reward yourself anyway.

It is also skillful to cook zongzi. If the cooking time is not enough, the zongzi cannot be delicious.

Basically, when they ate the steamed rice dumplings, it was almost breakfast.

The little official's family sent some zongzi made by himself to the Empress Dowager Li. This is also his filial piety. Pang Yu could have had it, but he declined it because his prince was not at home and he didn't eat it at all. Don't drop so many zongzi!

The petty official felt very guilty about this. If it wasn't for the purpose of deterring neighboring countries, his ninth uncle wouldn't have to be so far away from home, and he hasn't come back yet.

It's been almost a year since we left.

Empress Dowager Li was very pleased to receive the zongzi. Raising a good son was the greatest achievement in her life.

Pang Yu can't quite understand the idea of ​​raising children as his own achievement, as if he existed and never existed?

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, when waiting for the high-rise building to watch the dragon boat, the two sides of the river are crowded with onlookers, and everyone is carrying a simple and simple zongzi in their hands.

This also represents the performance of Guotai Minan under the governance of small officials.

"It's really lively down here." The little official's family couldn't help saying excitedly after seeing the shouts on the bank.

"In the future, when it comes to festivals, we can hold more activities." Pang Yu nodded with satisfaction. Many shops are doing very well today, and they still need traffic.

"I heard that the Zhu Kingdom sent a letter of peace?" The little official recalled and said, "It also says to send the princess to make a marriage. Who do you want to choose?"

"It depends on who likes it? If no one likes it, it depends on what the princess wants." Pang Yu doesn't think it's a problem, as long as the princess doesn't cause trouble, it's fine to arrange a residence in Bianjing City and raise a princess from Zhu Kingdom question.

In case, who is more fond of exotic customs, in Pang Yu's memory, it seems that there have been many beauties in Zhu country, but Pang Yu didn't appreciate them very much.

Mainly because I watched Zhu Guo's movies when I was a child, and I was deeply impressed by the eyeliner of those beauties, but the amazing thing is that Zhu Guomen's looks are not many good-looking ones. How did the genes of beauties survive so tenaciously?

"I really don't understand. Why do these people send women to marry in order to seek peace? Do they think that marriage can solve any conflicts?" The small official seems to be disgusted with such things, "Anyway, I won't The one who agreed to let my sister marry far away was for the sake of peace."

"Indeed, in politics, it's the elders who are tossing around there. Once they lose, they will only push women out. This is very unmanly." Pang Yu said with emotion.

In fact, the Prairie Kingdom had plans to get married before, but it was rejected by the first emperor. Without him, those people actually wanted to marry the princess and make Zhao Jue, who was still the King of Xiangyang at that time, his concubine.

It's crazy, it's no wonder that Zhao Jue agreed, and it's impossible for the first emperor to agree. Zhao Jue's concubine can only be a native of the country. As for being a concubine, the first emperor knew his younger brother well, so he directly refused.

Those ministers were a little moved, but under the deterrence of Zhao Jue's explosive force value, few people dared to encourage them.

Those few people who instigated him are no longer in Bianjing City, either dismissed from office or permanently expelled from this center of power.

Pang Yu could only say that they deserved it, and they dared to help the people of the Prairie Country. I'm afraid it was a secret work that was not bought by the Prairie Country?

I always feel that this Zhu country is also a bad visitor.

As for what was going on, Pang Yu believed that they would find out soon, maybe half a year at most.

After all, it was going to come from Zhu country so far, and there was no plane, even if it was by land first, and then by water, it would take a long time to reach Bianjing City.