Under the Empress Dowager, all members will be King

Chapter 66 Departing for Beijing
The long-eared marten hopped around Gu Yinwei, wagging its tail to beg for something to eat.

Gu Yinwei held a pile of dried fish in his hand, playing with the long-eared mink.

The King of Poison Eyes sent Gu Yinwei away in a small boat, repeatedly urging, "My lord, don't forget the agreement between us."

"You can go back at ease, I won't forget."

Gu Yinwei recovered the bandits on Dongzhou Island, and signed a sales agreement with them. The Dongzhou people planted sweet potatoes, peppers, mist lotus fruits, etc., and Gu Yinwei was responsible for finding sales for them.

As the ship sailed along the coastline, in Gu Yinwei's sight, Dongzhou Island became smaller and smaller, and finally turned into a small gray dot.

Everyone returned to the capital along the way they came from. Zhu Qian's mood gradually became sad from the joy at the beginning.

Brother Huang went deep into the tiger's den and rescued him from danger. He was both moved and blamed himself.

When everyone passed by Cangyun Villa, the father and daughter of the Yang family came out to greet them, and Yang Suyin looked much better.

Yang Qiaoxi kept his eyes straight, calm and capable.

It took more than two months to go back and forth, but it seemed like two or three years had passed.

Yang Suyin personally prepared a gift for Gu Yinwei, the bundle was opened and inside was a Shu brocade cloak.

It is said that the embroidery on the cloak was embroidered by the owner's wife stitch by stitch, and Gu Yinwei happily accepted it.

The clatter of horseshoes resounded through the forest.

There are deep and shallow footprints on the bluestone slab. After descending the mountain, the convoy drove into the pipeline, and the majestic imperial city came into view.

The Empress Dowager of the Compassionate Ning Palace was the first to hear the news and waited at the gate of the palace herself.

"It's good to be back, it's good to be back."

"The prince is back, and the queen mother can finally sleep soundly."

"The son travels thousands of miles and the mother is worried. The third child is not in front of Ai's family, and Ai's family is flustered."

Zhu Qian jumped out of the carriage and ran all the way in from the gate of the palace. The queen mother clenched her fist and hit him, "You bastard, Dongzhou is so fun? You play so much that you don't even go home."

The mother and son expressed their hearts, the queen mother expressed her concerns, and the third prince talked about his experiences, and the mother and son enjoyed themselves happily.

The emperor put down the curtain of the car and ordered: "Go to the side door."

"Alright!" Fugui turned the car around and left.

From beginning to end, the queen mother did not mention the emperor, Gu Yinwei saw the loneliness on the emperor's face, and held his hand.

The warmth of her hand melted his frozen heart.

There are many kinds of pure and pure emotions in the world besides family affection.

He is not without everything, not without love.

Gu Yinwei sent the emperor back to the imperial study to comfort him for a while, and then walked into the Jiaofang Hall with the gift from Yang Suyin.

The rose girl was wearing a big padded jacket, with bright red rouge on her cheeks, "Master, quickly transform me back, I want to be a rose, not a human being."

Gu Yinwei cast a spell with a little wrist, and the rose girl turned into a rose plant, which was planted in the garden.

Holding a box of rouge in her hand, Gu Yingxia ran out with her skirt in her hand: "Why did you wash your face? Who told you to do it? I just painted it for you. Come quickly and I will dress you up."

Gu Yinwei stood still, looking up, Gu Yingxia threw away the rouge and ran outside.

Gu Yinwei hugged her by the waist, picked up the rouge on the ground and applied it to her face.

Gu Yingxia shouted: "I don't dare anymore."

Chu Chu heard laughter and ran out to look, "Master, you are back."

"Well, I brought you a present, open the package and have a look."

Chu Chu opened the package and exclaimed, "Wow."

"Chuchu, save me."

Chu Chu was busy dismantling famous acupuncture techniques, and had no time to rescue Gu Yingxia.

Gu Yinwei drew a big face for Gu Yingxia.

After the two sisters quarreled for a while, they ate dried sweet potatoes around the fire, and Gu Yingxia went to look through the baggage that Gu Yinwei had brought back.

"You bring a present for Chuchu and a gift for Fengtao. Where's my present?"

Gu Yinwei pretended to be calm, "Of course I did."

"Where?"

"The bottom of the bag is the red one."

Gu Yingxia took out two peppers, "The red one looks like a little moon, what is it?"

"This is the most famous ornamental flower in Dongzhou, and every household in Dongzhou grows it."

"Really, you won't lie to me?"

"What are you doing to lie to you? What a beautiful ornamental flower, it has never been planted in the palace."

"I just like things that others don't have, so I took the flowers with me."

Gu Yingxia was afraid that Gu Yinwei would repent, so she left with peppers in her mouth. Gu Yinwei wanted to remind her to wash her face, but the other party ran away very fast.

In winter, the concubines are lazy and don't go out very much. When others don't go out, that's when she goes out. Concubine Rou chooses a place sheltered from the wind to make tea and drink.

Gu Yingxia passed by her, Concubine Rou asked Shuanglu, "Why is she painted like a monkey, the rouge on her face is two catties thick."

Shuanglu said, "Maybe it's the latest fashion makeup."

"I really don't understand the beauty of young girls more and more.

Shuanglu added two pieces of charcoal to the small red clay stove, the water in the teapot kept rolling, and Shuanglu took out the tea leaves to make tea for Concubine Rou.

"Young lady, the emperor has returned to the palace, you can't be so negative anymore."

"So what about negative? What about positive, life is not like this yet."

"These two sisters of the Gu family are about to become rookies in the harem. No matter how hard others try, it will be in vain."

Shuanglu moved her lips, wanting to say something to refute, but Concubine Xian was no longer interested in speaking, she raised her eyes to look at the green hills in the distance.

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"Ah Qing, get up and look, the third sister brought me a gift from Dongzhou."

Gu Yingxia stretched out her hand, and there were three bright red peppers lying in her palm.

"It's so beautiful, master. I'll collect the pepper seeds and plant them in flower pots when spring comes."

"Here, it's all for you."

Gu Yingxia took out the peppers from her purse and handed them all to Ah Qing. Ah Qing carefully cut the skin of the peppers with scissors, and carefully collected the seeds of the peppers with tweezers.

There were more than 50 seeds from the three sun-dried peppers. Ah Qing wrapped them in cotton cloth and put them in blue and white porcelain vases for storage.

There was an endless stream of palace people coming and going outside the gate of the palace, and many of them were still holding gift boxes. The new year was approaching, and all the palaces were bustling.

After Gu Yingxia was named a virtuous concubine, she still lived in Hefengtang, and the concubines in the side hall also performed their duties, and she never put on airs as the head of the first palace. Chief Secretary Guo came to give Gu Yingxia a new year gift in person, followed by Twelve eunuchs carrying poles.

"Concubine Xian is auspicious."

"Why did Mr. Guo come here in person?"

"The slaves came to give the concubine Xian a new year's gift."

"It's a trivial matter, Mr. He Laoguo will go there personally."

"The children are young, and I am afraid that they will not be taken care of well."

"Bring it in, it's freezing outside."

Master Guo waved his hand, and the eunuchs took out the New Year's goods from the baskets and carried them into the side hall.

"My lady, please check and accept."

Gu Yingxia took the list and counted the goods according to the list, two hundred catties of silver frost charcoal, fifty catties of various dried fruits, ten rolls of red paper, and one turn of gold and silver thread.

"It's already ordered, you go back."

Master Guo nodded and bowed his waist: "Your Majesty, you are busy, and I will leave first."

The eunuchs came in with heavy poles and went out with light poles.

Gu Yingxia took out a piece of red paper covered with golden flowers and held it in her hand to look at it, "Ah Qing, look at the golden flowers on the red paper, do they look like sweet-scented osmanthus?"

"Master is very similar to sweet-scented osmanthus."

Ah Qing stretched out her hand to touch the red paper, and there was a look of joy in her eyes.

"When I was young, I looked forward to the New Year the most, and I had new clothes to wear during the New Year."

Gu Yingxia fell into memories, and she seemed extremely quiet.

"I would be so happy if I had such beautiful gold-sprinkled paper when I was young, Ah Qing, do you remember what happened when I was young?"

"Master likes pasting window grilles the most when I was young, and I can also do paper-cutting. The window grilles I cut out are big and beautiful."

"Wait and see, I'll cut a bunny for you."

(End of this chapter)