I couldn't help but smile: "Thank you for your explanation." ”

"Since you are happy with the prince and feel guilty, you can help him. It's not completely useless!"

His tone was plain, but it made me feel like an initiation: the delay was irreversible, and instead of feeling guilty about dragging Shengyao down, it was better to help him wholeheartedly to compensate for my mistakes.

Mo Di's face was cold, but in a few words, I understood my heart, like a cloud opening and the moon bright. A real smile spread from the inside out on my face, and I said earnestly, "Thank you, Childe!"

There seemed to be a smile in Mo Di's eyes, but it disappeared. He turned and looked out the window again, and said no more.

Zhu'er's voice came from downstairs: "Zhaoxun, are you there?" Zhu'er came back with rain gear. ”

"Here's it, let's go back. I replied and walked briskly downstairs.

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Sheng Yao came over in the evening, and his eyebrows were full of tiredness. But he still smiled and asked me what I used for dinner, how much I used, and whether it was appetizing.

I couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness, rest assured, the queen mother takes care of her concubines and Ruan Liangdi very much." Remembering the unfavorable situation he was in at the moment, he immediately changed the topic: "During the day, how did you discuss with your subordinates?"

"Well, after discussing it for a long time, there is probably a direction. At present, my difficulties are, first, how to make this righteous Yanshun known and convincing to everyone in the world, and second, because Liu Xiang's party is constrained in everything. It has been agreed today, and tomorrow the Ministry of Rites will propose a hundred officials, and the above table will be held as soon as possible. ”

Sheng Yao walked to the table and sat down, rubbing his eyebrows with his hands, "And then there is this Yuzhou Taishou Song Yanbo, someone found out today that his old father is still living in Kyoto." It should be possible to make a fuss. Also, from the mouths of the captives of the Eastern Wei Tengjia soldiers, some news was also asked. But today's incident happened suddenly, and the entire charter on how to deal with it has not yet been decided. ”

As I pondered what he had said, I handed over a cup of licorice honey to quench my thirst.

He tasted it first, then drank it all. Asked: "It's not like the things in the dining room on weekdays, but it tastes much better." That's definitely on your mind again. How?"

He just asked casually, but I deliberately said carefully: "Use cinnamon, licorice, cloves, white cardamom seeds, and sand kernels in half and half each." Grind to finely minced. Half a pound of rattan flowers and ten pounds of honey are refined. Sixty pounds of new water. Boil it in a pot with rattan flowers until it reaches forty catties. Raw silk is filtered. The raw silk bag contains the seven flavors of the previous item. Then put forty pounds of new water. Add the cooked honey. The mouth was sealed. After ripening on the 5th day of summer, 7th day of autumn and spring, and 10th day of winter, it is ready to drink. ”

The voice is tactful, the tone is soft, but the speed of speech is much faster than before.

He laughed out loud: "Look at your cleverness, talk about such a long list." ”

I smiled with a pun: "If you want to be able to relieve the heat and taste good, you naturally need to put more effort into it." If you govern a big country and cook small dishes, your Highness's major events naturally need to be planned well and look at three lines and one. ”

He was slightly stunned, and then smiled casually: "That's right." ”

I glanced at him slightly, knowing he didn't take it to heart.

Then he turned his head and took the basket and put it on his lap. Lowering his head while rummaging inside, he said: "A few days ago, I saw that the sachet that His Highness wore was old, and now it is still in Futian, so it is better to carry it with you." Xiaoguan will make another preparation for His Highness. Your Highness, what color of face should be used, what color of thread should be used, and what kind of pattern should be embroidered?"

He paced over slowly, "You just have an idea." ”

I muttered, "I know." ”

Pick out two pieces of satin, one is a silvery-gray crab shell blue, the other is almost inky crow, and a bunch of red silk threads. smiled: "Your Highness, Xiaoguan will embroider a five-petal plum sachet for you?"

He rubbed his finger on my lips and whispered, "It's all good." ”

I said angrily: "Your Highness, Xiaoguan is down to business." These two look good with akane red as the background color, but Xiaoguan wants to highlight the pattern of the five-petal plum. ”

The satin of crab shell blue and crow blue was placed side by side, and the red silk thread was compared, and he said: "Your Highness, look at it, the same color, because the background color is different, people's eyes look at it, and they feel that it is different shades." ”

"Then," I said, looking up at him, "the thoughts of those who have been fooled by the rebellion and those who know the truth about the rebellion in Kyoto are like this. ”

Sheng Yao's eyebrows raised slightly: "What do you mean?"

"The Lichu Ceremony is like this red five-petal plum, if you want to be bright and eye-catching, you must first lay a good background. Those who have been deceived should first think of ways to get them to change their views. ”

I raised my hand and threw the crow blue satin back into the embroidery basket: "Otherwise, in the eyes of those who believe in you and support you, the powerful request of the hundred officials, and the ceremony of the establishment of the reserve that Zhao Xian was ordered by the heavens, in the eyes of those who have been fooled and have preconceived and wrong views, will still think that it is you who coerced the Son of Heaven and forced the hundred officials to make a reluctant invitation, and the ceremony of the establishment of the reserve will naturally be regarded as an overkill." ”

Sheng Yao's eyes shimmered.

I laughed and said, "These people were fooled because they weren't there and didn't know the truth." There are so many captives of the rattan armor soldiers now, but they are witnesses. Why don't you just 'let the tiger go back to the mountains'?"

He reacted immediately: "Release some of the captives and tell them that the deposed prince is in Yuzhou." These Eastern Wei people are in the hinterland of Daqi, so they can only go to the people who came to Daqi to listen to orders this time. If you go all the way through the county and the state, the matter of the abolished prince colluding with the Eastern Wei Dynasty and forcing the palace father and emperor will be exposed to the world. ”

I pursed my lips and smiled.

I took out a small square embroidery bandage and stretched the silver-gray crab shell blue satin. After thinking about it, he said: "The abolished princess Liu still lives in the East Palace with a group of concubines who have not dispersed. Your Highness always has to get a charter, and it's not good that you've been living in the Mingde Palace of the Son of Heaven right now. In the end, it is the prince, if it is used by someone with a heart, it will not be good. ”

Sheng Yao sat down, pondered for a moment, and suddenly smiled: "Brother and brother, he is unjust, but I can't be unkind." I sent my sisters-in-law to my second brother as well. ”

I smiled and said, "In this way, the rattan warriors have a guide, and the sisters-in-law have added some more guards to escort them all the way." Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds!"

Sheng Yao cupped my face and kissed it on the forehead, "Xiaoguan, you are really an interpretive flower, or an interpretive flower on the Bodhi tree! ”

I shook my white index finger at him and said with a smile, "Hey, don't praise Your Highness." Xiaoguan didn't dare to have anything to do with the political affairs hall. Xiaoguan is only talking about the color of the embroidered sachet, and the trouble that the prince's residence is occupied by the concubines. Your Highness, did you say that?"

Sheng Yao couldn't help but smile, nodded and said, "Yes, what you said is very true." ”

I looked down and smiled.