Langya's dream

Chapter 160 Seven [Locust Plague in Five States]

Around September 37th in the [-]th year of Zhenping, Prince Yu and Prince Jing gradually had a power struggle.

Since Emperor Liang began to pay attention to Jingyan, he has come to Su’s house almost every night to study and discuss with Brother Su for more than a month. I was afraid of disturbing them, so I went in to help them add water and pick out candle wicks. I just stood outside the door and watched the two silently, just like 13 years ago, Nihuang and I followed behind them, listening to them talk about military affairs and political affairs.

It is said that serious men are the most handsome. In my eyes, Jingyan, who works for the people and for the country, can no longer be described as handsome.

King Yu was not idle either, he never came to the Su residence, but invited various scholars and ministers to the mansion to discuss with him every now and then, in order to defeat Jingyan, he also worked hard; Started to investigate the whole Su residence, including Jiangzuo Meilang.

Concubine Jing in the palace has also been deliberately made things difficult by the empress many times, but Concubine Jing is also an old man in the palace, so she naturally learned how to deal with it.

On the evening of October [-]th, Jingyan had just finished discussing the new horse policy with his brothers in the mansion, and was about to go back to his room to rest, when Shen asked to see him.

Jingyan brought Shen Zhui to the side hall and asked why. It turned out that Shen Zhui visited the palace late at night because of the locust plague in Wuzhou. After the disasters happened in previous years, the honored king and prince who helped disasters had always used this to embezzle. Shen Zhui did it for the people. , boldly come to invite King Jing to the court tomorrow, and must fight with King Yu for this disaster relief.

On the second day, after arguing in the court, the errand still fell on Wang Yu's head. Jingyan was so angry that he didn't even change his clothes, and came directly to Su's residence from the secret road.

Since these five state capitals are not within the scope of the Jiangzuo League, we don't have to be quick to get the news, but I focused on Xia Jiang and forgot about it, so we didn't have any preparations in advance, but fortunately , the gift from the prefect of Yuezhou to King Yu was intercepted after passing through Jiangzuo.

Brother Su is going to use this intercepted gift to give Yu Wang a heavy blow backhand.

After listening outside the door, I was very satisfied, and I was about to turn around and leave, but I heard Jingyan say to Brother Su: "Then please trouble sir, this is the food box my mother gave to Mr Su, and this, is it?" For Miss Mei, Mr. Wang will accept it."

As soon as I heard that Concubine Jing had brought me something, I was curious and stopped in my tracks. I didn't go in through the side door until Jingyan got up and went back to the secret passage.

Brother Su turned around and walked over, bent down and picked up a square sandalwood box on the table and handed it to me, "Hey, Empress Jingfei gave it to you." After finishing speaking, he called Fei Liu in and gave the food box to me. fly flow.

Seeing that there was another delicious food, Fei Liu happily took the food box and quickly walked away from me.

I took the box and didn't open it right away, but simply asked a few words about Tonglu's current situation, and hurried back to the room.

"Shi You, don't bother me if it's nothing serious, I want to take a rest."

After all, I closed the door, walked slowly into the house, and slowly opened the box.

A jade bracelet appeared in front of my eyes, my hands trembled slightly, but I never dared to take it out for a closer look, because this jade bracelet was the Nanyang Dushan jade bracelet that the concubine Chen wanted to give me during the spring hunting. It was a pair, and now Concubine Jing gave one.

I hurried to the dressing table and sat down, and put the box on the table.Some memories that I deliberately hid came out in an instant, the face of the concubine Chen, the face of His Highness Qi Wang... the gift that I refused back then, after a long time, it still came into my hands.

I slowly raised my hand and gently touched the jade bracelet. A cold feeling spread from my fingers. I put away my emotional thinking and calmed myself down.

I slowly touched the jade bracelet, carefully thinking about the meaning of Concubine Jing's gift of this bracelet. After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn't figure it out. If she found out my identity, it shouldn't be as simple as giving a jade bracelet, but If she doesn't find it, then this jade bracelet is just a thank you gift; no matter whether she finds it or not, I should treat it as an ordinary thank you gift, otherwise, it's easy to expose myself.

After thinking about it, I closed the box, opened the door and walked out, rang the bell at the secret road, and waited silently for Jingyan.

After a while, the door of Prince Jing's Mansion opened. Seeing that it was me who was ringing the bell, Jingyan was slightly taken aback. After realizing it, he walked down the steps and asked, "I don't know what's the matter with Miss Mei?"

I put on an impeccable smile, blessed him, and said with a smile: "His Royal Highness Prince Jing. Just now Brother Su gave this to Qing'er, saying it was from Concubine Jing, but Qing'er didn't open it." Look, I immediately came to look for His Highness, and wanted to return this gift to His Highness, after all, it was Brother Su who helped His Highness, and Qing'er didn't do anything, so how could it be easy to accept the gift."

As I said that, I took the box out of my sleeve and handed it to Jingyan.

He looked at the box, and didn't intend to take it. He just curled the corner of his mouth and said with some doubts: "Miss, haven't seen it? If you haven't seen it, you can return the gift. It really doesn't make sense."

I thought about it, and it was a bit of a slap in the face to withdraw this gift without reading it. After thinking about it, I calmly opened the box in front of him, and then said to him: "Now that I have seen it, can you take it back, Your Highness? So Qing'er can't afford such an expensive gift."

"Since they are all opened, there is no reason for me to take them back. I think the girl should accept them."

Hearing what he said, I felt like I was being tricked. When did he learn how to dig a hole?The scariest thing is that I jumped down obediently!I silently rolled my eyes, raised my hand and stretched out the box in front of him, "No matter what Your Highness says, Qing'er cannot accept this gift. It was Brother Su who helped His Highness from the beginning to the end. Qing'er accepting this gift is not justified. It doesn't go well, so Qing'er won't accept it, and I hope His Highness understands." After I finished speaking, I looked at him fixedly.

Seeing how determined I was, he naturally wouldn't compromise, pushed the box in front of him away, and said plainly: "You don't have to accept it, but I won't take it back, or you can return it to my mother yourself. "

After all, he turned around and was about to return home; I looked at the jade bracelet, I would doubt me if I accepted Concubine Jing, a normal person would not accept such an expensive gift.

"His Royal Highness Prince Jing!" I raised my foot to catch up, trying to make a last effort to see if I could talk to this elm head.

When he heard me calling him, he stopped naturally, but I didn't expect him to stop, and hit his back straight, the box in his hand fell to the ground, and I also staggered backward due to inertia It took a few steps to stand still.

The jade bracelet fell to the ground with a crisp shattering sound, which woke us both up.

Seeing that the jade bracelet was broken by me, I quickly knelt down, bowed my head and said: "It's Qinger's fault. She didn't hold the box and smashed the gift from Concubine Jing. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."

When Jingyan saw the broken jade in this place, he was also a little bit at a loss, because when he came out of Zhiluo Palace, his mother repeatedly told her to accept whatever she said, but now it is fine, it is broken, but it is broken. I can't blame her entirely for this matter. After thinking about it, Jingyan was about to step forward to help me up when he saw a small purse hidden in the cushion of the box.

Curiously, he bent down to pick up the pouch. There was nothing in it. The pouch was embroidered like a child's stomach and hands, and there was nothing special about it.

I saw that he hadn't made a sound for a long time, I raised my head to look at him, and saw him holding his purse in a daze.

"His Royal Highness Prince Jing?" I whispered to him.

He came back to his senses, walked to my side and helped me up, and said kindly: "I don't blame you, I stopped too suddenly. This one seems to be in the box."

I took a look at the small purse, and instantly understood what Concubine Jing meant.

What is embroidered on the purse can be replaced by one word, that is Huai, the meaning of embrace, not to mention Jin, the Nanyang Dushan jade bracelet means Jin, there has been a saying since ancient times, Huai Jin holds Yu Xi, poor does not know As shown; Huaijin's meaning of holding jade is to cherish beautiful jade. Concubine Jing used this method to guess my identity, which is really clever. Huaijin Huaijin, it turns out that she has already guessed my identity. It's not just Concubine Chen who sent me off.

After thinking about it, I blessed Jingyan and said, "Today it was Qing'er's fault that I broke Concubine Jing's gift. In the future, Qing'er will definitely be accompanied by Concubine Jing, right? Qing'er still won't accept the little purse."

After speaking, I took Jingyan's hand, forced the purse into his hand, and hurriedly turned and left the secret passage.

Jingyan looked at me with an expression of ignorance, then looked at the purse, casually stuffed the purse into his bosom, turned his head back to the mansion, and ordered Zhanying to clean the secret room.