Dong Gong Mei

Chapter 354
Li Xuanye handed the empty medicine bowl to Cao De, and said with a smile: "Father wants to pave the way for Concubine Shu, so just say it, why bother to take the prince's concubine as a backer!"

"You child!" The emperor was not angry when the truth was revealed so mercilessly, but instead he said with a smile: "Two people fell down in my harem at once, and Concubine Ming is an empty scumbag. If I don’t hand over this power to Concubine Shu, wouldn’t it mean that the Queen Mother will have to get involved again? I don’t want that old woman to point out my private affairs again!”

He snorted again, and glared at his son: "I'm ugly as I said before, if you really teach the old woman to control the harem, your princess will not have a good life!"

"In that case, the son-in-law still has to agree?"

Li Xuanye twisted the cotton towel, wiped the emperor's face, and thought: "It's just that she has lived in the countryside since she was a child, and has never had any experience in palace banquets. I don't know if she can complete this task, let alone if she can do it." Satisfy the royal father..."

"Of course I know!" The emperor said with a smile: "I said, I just want to train her, and let's see how strong she is! As for whether she's doing well or not, that's secondary!"

Li Xuanye refused to let go: "Then what if the strength is not very good?"

The emperor glared at him: "Nonsense! Ye'er personally selected the crown princess, how can she not be strong?"

Li Xuanye laughed out loud.

The emperor's boredom for several days was swept away during the short time with the prince.

……

As the end of the year approaches, the weather gets colder.

The sky was pitch black, with no moon or stars, the cold wind passed through the hall, and the faint drizzle flew into the corridor.

The palace people took small ladders, carefully took off the wind chimes hanging from the cornices, and replaced them with colorful lights to welcome the New Year.

The kitchen brought steaming winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms and chicken soup. Zhao Xiwei has not had a good appetite recently. No matter how delicate and delicious the food is, after only two mouthfuls, it feels like chewing gum.

The crispy shredded bamboo shoots and tender mushrooms are simmered overnight in the chicken soup with no oil. The taste is light, but the sweetness of the chicken soup is retained.

She drank a small bowl in one breath, and suddenly felt her internal organs warmed up, so she gathered her sleeves and sat under the window, slowly unfolding a map of the capital.

Spring will begin soon after the Chinese New Year, she is thinking about the matter of the shop, and only hopes that she can start making arrangements after the festival.

She picked up a pen and dipped in ink, and made marks one by one on several workshops near Suzaku Gate.

This is the street closest to Miyagi, and the traffic is either rich or expensive. As long as it is well managed, it will not worry about the source of customers.

But the difficulty lies in that she is not familiar with the capital yet, and coupled with the fact that she has few entertainments, she can't help but feel a little at a loss.

Looks like it's time to get out and about...

Jinxiu lifted the curtain and came in: "Miss, two girls from the Cui family and the Qiao family have come to see you!"

Zhao Xi was slightly taken aback.

It's getting dark, and the girls from the two of them came to look for her?Is there something urgent that can't be done?

She rolled up the map and put it away, got up and said: "You quickly take a lantern and go have a look, it's dark and slippery, tell them to watch the road carefully."

As soon as the words fell, Qiao Yunqian and Cui Yurong had already walked from the other side of the corridor hand in hand.

One of them was wearing a goose yellow fox fur cloak, the other was wearing a snow blue feather satin cloak, and they were holding two small and exquisite rabbit lamps.

It's not formal at all to pay a special visit to the princess, but it seems... just came back from playing outside.

"Sister Wei!"

Seeing Zhao Xiwei, Cui Yurong hurried over with her skirt in hand.

Zhao Xi greeted them with a smile, avoiding their etiquette.

Qiao Yunqian just shook Zhao Xiwei's hand, and said eagerly: "Sister Wei, let's talk inside!"

Jin Xiu, who was serving at the side, showed a worried expression: "Miss..."

"It's okay." Zhao Xi smiled and ordered: "There is no need to wait here, you can take them all down."

"Yes." All the court ladies agreed in unison, bowed and retreated.

Before the shaking of the jasper bead curtain stopped, Qiao Yunqian half covered the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief, and said in a low voice, "Sister Wei, have you heard the news? That younger sister of yours is going to marry into the Wang family!"

"Which sister?" Zhao Xiwei was a little surprised, and then realized instantly, "Isn't it the Wang family?"

Wang's family, the mother's family of the queen mother.

"That's right!" Qiao Yunqian nodded, with a look of sneer on his face: "You don't know yet, do you? Sure enough, the news is kept secret!"

Zhao Xiwei smiled disapprovingly, picked up a pear from the fruit plate, took a small silver knife and peeled it round and round, and asked, "How did Sister Qiao know?"

Her fingers were slender and dexterous, and a golden-yellow pear was lightly turned a few times at the fingertips, and the yellow peel was removed, leaving only the snow-white flesh.

He took the jasper-colored fruit plate again, and after a few light cuts with the silver knife, the pears were divided into even small pieces.

Qiao Yunqian stared intently, and couldn't help thinking, where did Sister Wei learn such a sword technique?It's much more beautiful than the swordsmanship played by those men!

He casually replied: "I just went shopping with Yurong at the night market and saw Wang Fan and Zhao Chengyu! I overheard them talking, saying that they would come to propose marriage before the spring..."

Zhao Xiwei put two plates of pears in front of Qiao Yunqiao and Cui Yurong respectively, and said, "I've been staying in the East Palace and don't go out much, and I don't even know my sister is getting married!"

"Yeah! Yunqian and I were surprised when we heard that!" Cui Yurong blinked gossipingly: "Sister Wei, didn't this Zhao Chengyu almost scald you last time and was taken to prison? When was he released?" ?”

Zhao Xiwei picked up a piece of pear, put it in his mouth and ate it slowly, and said: "I would like to keep her locked up for another year or so, but according to the laws of the Great Wei, she didn't cause too much harm, and she was locked up in Tingwei Mansion for ten days." It can only be released for half a month."

Qiao Yunqian didn't hide her thoughts at all: "Ten days and half a month is enough for her! Which lady can stand such a stain?"

It suddenly dawned on her, "No wonder she fell in love with someone like Wang Fan! A woman like her who framed her sister while she was still in the boudoir, how can she have the dignity that a lady should have! In addition, her mother is always making peace and divorce. It's a division of the family property, so the decent young master will naturally look down on her!"

"Yeah, what Yunqian said makes sense!" Cui Yurong ate a candied fruit and nodded repeatedly: "It really is a husband and wife who are in collusion with each other!"

Unexpectedly, the mouths of these two girls were sharper than the other.

Zhao Xiwei brought the topic back to the main point: "This matter is still undecided in the end, who knows if Wang Fan just said it casually to make Zhao Chengyu happy?"

"There!" Qiao Yunqian waved his hands again and again, "I heard that tone, as if I was asking for the permission of the empress dowager! Think about it, with the support of the empress dowager, can it be possible?"

(End of this chapter)