"She's just in time, let her in. Princess Zhaomin turned around and entered the house, sat on the pear wood square couch, took a sip of tea from the teacup, and asked the maids to take the sewing basket and sew it with gold and silver embroidery thread.

So when Gu Zhirong came in, he saw such a warm and beautiful scene: the beautiful and demure Princess Zhaomin had a slight smile on her face, the graceful and noble phoenix robe of bright yellow brocade was very appropriate to set off the delicate figure, the curled green silk was covered with a half-foot-high pearl crown inlaid with thousands of pearls, and the slender fingertips like jade sewed a wide-sleeved robe up and down, and the gold and silver threads embellished with it were shining, revealing a rich atmosphere.

In comparison, Gu Zhirong is much dwarfed. A plain dress, so elegant that it is almost colorless. And on the sideburns, there is not the slightest pearl, except for the agility between the eyebrows and eyes, it is really no different from a beautiful woman in the countryside.

"Here, sit down. Zhao Min commanded, his hands kept on his hands, and he specially took two more stitches.

Gu Zhirong sat down on an embroidered pestle next to him.

Zhao Min raised his head and glanced at Gu Zhirong: "On the table is the latest top-level dragon well this year, you can taste it." Speaking of the tea in my princess's house, it is exactly the same as in the palace. My father has spoiled me since I was a child, I married into Xiangguofu, and my father was worried that I couldn't get used to drinking tea here, so he left me some every year. ”

Gu Zhirong took a sip and nodded: "It's really delicious." ”

"Of course. Zhao Min pointed to the pastries on the table again: "There are several flavors of pastries here, some of which are rose-flavored." There are osmanthus flavors, there are black plum flavors, and there are ......" she said nearly ten flavors in one breath. Then he said, "You can't taste these things in the Yuanning Marquis Mansion, and if you look at the capital, I'm afraid that you can only eat these exquisite pastries in the palace." These are all made by the chef I brought over after marrying into the Xiangguo Mansion, and they are not much different from the taste of the Imperial Palace. There's no way, I'm used to being pampered, and I have to pay attention to what I eat. The things that ordinary people eat at home in the market can't get into my eyes, and even if I take a bite, I will vomit it. ”

Gu Zhirong frowned, thinking: That's because you haven't tasted what is called real bitterness. It's really getting to that point. Mo said that it was the food of the Pingtou people, even the sweet potatoes and taro grown in the field, when they were hungry, they felt particularly fragrant.

Zhao Min raised the silk robe in his hand again and shook it a little. sighed slightly: "My husband is really true." Called the lady of the Pan family in the silver embroidery building to come and tailor for him, but he refused, so I had to make a set for him by myself, and I had to decorate it with gold and silver threads or something, saying that it was so that he had status and status. But also, you see that we are famous families, which one is not dressed restrained and elegant, which is not comparable to those five-grade marquis. ”

Gu Zhirong's eyebrows frowned even tighter. Wupinhou Gate. Her Yuanning Hou Mansion is also a Wupin Hou Gate. She didn't understand what Princess Zhaomin wanted to say with such insinuations?

"Oh yes. Zhao Min seemed to "suddenly" remember something. "In a while, it will be the 60th birthday of the Queen Mother, what congratulatory gifts do you plan to send to the Queen Mother?"

Gu Zhirong said softly: "The Queen Mother's birthday, I haven't thought about it yet." ”

Actually, she didn't think about it at all. What does it matter to the empress dowager's birthday? It should not be her who should be prepared, but those who want to befriend the emperor and the empress dowager, such as the old lady of the Yuanning Marquis Mansion.

Every year on the birthday of the Queen Mother, the old lady will mobilize relatives and friends all over the world to find the treasures of the world. Of course, the status of the queen mother is precious, and she has never seen anything strange? Therefore, this is difficult for a group of people who want to stammer. Fortunately, the old lady has a few brothers, and these brothers have some very capable customers, and they can always find some rare treasures, and these rare treasures are not extremely valuable, and the value of them is more than a thousand taels, so they helped the old lady a lot.

Gu Zhirong knew the old lady's thoughts, and sent congratulatory gifts to the palace every year, which had the meaning of paving the way for the sisters of the Yuanning Marquis Mansion, especially the second lady. But these things don't seem to have anything to do with her, especially since she knows that she has been engaged since she was a child, and she doesn't care about these congratulatory gifts.

Now that Princess Zhaomin mentioned this, she just casually dealt with it.

Princess Zhaomin seemed to be very dissatisfied with Gu Zhirong's distraction about the Queen Mother's birthday, and said with a smile: "The Queen Mother's birthday is not trivial, it can be said to be a major event this year. At that time, the palace will invite the troupe to come, and the ladies from all the provinces in the capital will be present, and all kinds of congratulatory gifts will be sent to the queen mother. ”

Gu Zhirong said "oh" very obediently and nodded in response.

Zhao Min snorted and said, "Last year, on the birthday of the Empress Dowager, Shuntian Mansion Yin sent someone to send in the nine-foot blood coral from the East China Sea. Do you know how many taels of silver a nine-foot blood coral is worth? at least 20,000 taels!"

Gu Zhirong frowned slightly, just a queen mother's birthday, she gave the East China Sea nine-foot blood coral worth 20,000 taels of silver, this is really a luxurious gift, it must have been out of the limelight at that time, right? No wonder that Miss Zhao Jiu of Shuntian Mansion, as the daughter of an outer room, was able to attend the circle of ladies and ladies in the capital, it turned out that it was for this reason.

But what does all this have to do with her? For now, she doesn't seem to have asked the Queen Mother for such an important thing to give such a big gift, right?

Seeing a confused look on Gu Zhirong's face, Zhao Min couldn't help but secretly hate the ignorance of the girl in front of him. She has said it all to this point, why is this girl still not enlightened, doesn't she want to be the princess? But it's okay, she said so much, she didn't say anything about the gap, just hoping to scare off this girl, don't be delusional and want to be a princess.

And when she looked at Gu Zhirong again, she saw a smile on the latter's face and said, "Princess, Rong'er wants to ask the princess for something." ”

Princess Zhaomin thought to herself, this time she has opened her mind, but it is useless to open her mind, it is difficult for a businessman's daughter to enter the elegant hall, especially if she wants to enter the noble royal family, there is no door. She made up her mind that if the girl in front of her was still thinking about the position of the crown princess, she would not hesitate to say more ugly words to make her retreat.

"Say, what do you want from me?" Princess Zhaomin said lightly, raised her hand to hold the celadon tea cup, and took a sip.

Gu Zhirong said: "Princess, I have been away from the house for a long time, and the old lady must be very concerned." Besides, when the sisters in the house saw that I had not returned home for a long time, they must have looked for me everywhere. I thought, I won't bother the princess, and after cleaning up a little, I want to go back to the house first. As for the fact that I met the prince unexpectedly and was saved by the princess......"

Gu Zhirong paused for a moment and said, "Please also ask the princess to hide it for me." ”

"Concealment?" Zhao Min looked at Gu Zhirong, not understanding why the latter said this.

Looking at the women in the world, which one doesn't want to have anything to do with the prince? What's more, the girl in front of her seems to have saved the prince's life......

Gu Zhirong said solemnly: "I want to ask the princess for a favor, but I just said that last night, when the princess was about to go back to the palace, she found me who fell off the cliff and injured my arm on the back mountain of the palace inner garden, and was unconscious, out of pity, she rescued me back to the princess's mansion." It wasn't until I woke up this morning that I was sent back to the house where I came from. ”

Princess Zhaomin frowned, glanced at Gu Zhirong's arm, and saw that there was indeed a cut on it, and the oozing blood stained the entire sleeve, and because it had not been treated for a long time, the blood stains had turned dark red and had coagulated.

Gu Zhirong stroked his arm and said with a smile: "It's okay for the princess to say this, as for me and the prince for one night, please forget about it." ”

Princess Zhaomin looked at Gu Zhirong in a daze for a while, and finally came to her senses. It seems that she underestimated the girl in front of her, who said that this girl is not enlightened? This girl is so clever, not only understands the full meaning of what she said before, knows the purpose of her doing this, but also gives her own answer, that is: I have nothing to do with the prince!

She looked at Gu Zhirong seriously again, and she suddenly had such a feeling that looking at the world, such a smart woman seemed to be unable to find a second one. Isn't it a pity for such a clever woman not to be the crown princess? (To be continued......)