Jiang Chengzi paused, holding his clothes and not daring to move, quietly listening to Yun Ge's answer.

"Nothing happened, it's the winter solstice. Concubine Shu said that even if you serve as the governor of Shuzhou, you can go back to spend the winter solstice, every news, she is worried. Let me see. Yun Ge's answer was the same as just now.

Could it be that I am thinking too much?

Jiang Chengzi unbuttoned his clothes and changed into a cotton jacket dress, but he still listened to the conversation outside the house.

"It's freezing cold, it's a long journey. Mother usually loves you the most, why can she make you hard? Li Ke was silent for a long time before he came to say this.

Yun Ge cried and said, "Childe, you have changed. You actually have the same tone as the Nine Girls. ”

Jiang Chengzi couldn't help but laugh "poof", the sweetness in his heart was indescribable.

"Don't talk nonsense. Li Ke said slowly, his tone was not too good.

Yun Ge was really a bird who could observe words and colors, so he immediately restrained his comic behavior and said, "Actually, it's not a big deal. Some time ago, His Majesty went to the palace of Concubine Shu, and the two had a quarrel. ”

Sure enough, there is something, and my judgment is good!

Jiang Chengzi took a comb and combed his hair slowly, listening carefully to the conversation outside.

"Don't babble, say. Li Ke ordered eagerly.

That Yun Ge is a bird after all, and when he saw that his son seemed to be really angry, he didn't play around, and said directly: "Childe, this matter is complicated, please allow Yun Ge to think about what to say." ”

"Then think about it. Li Ke lost this sentence, but walked quickly to the inner room.

Although Jiang Chengzi had already put on his clothes, he couldn't help but panic.

"Ah Zi. He shouted outside the door.

"I'm here. She replied.

"Are you dressed?" he asked.

"It's dressed. She replied.

"Then you open the door. He said softly.

To open, or not to open?

Jiang Chengzi hesitated for a moment, and then felt that he was too funny, what else could Li Ke do to himself?

So, she opened the door and said to Li Ke at the door: "My hair is not combed well, and I am unkempt, I am afraid of scaring you." ”

Li Ke chuckled and said, "I'm not afraid." ”

"In the future, I will be gray-haired. There was already a coquettish hint in her tone.

Li Ke strode in, took her hand, let her sit in front of the dresser, picked up the grate and comb, and said, "Pale and white-haired, that's you." ”

"You want to help me comb my hair?" Jiang Chengzi asked in a low voice.

"Hmm. He replied naturally.

Jiang Chengzi was stunned, in the past years, she read "raising the case with eyebrows" and "the joy of the boudoir", but what she thought of was always the picture of a man gently combing his hair and drawing his eyebrows for a woman, and the outside of the house should be a warm spring sun, with a gentle breeze and crisp birdsong.

Although some people laughed at her and said that these two words did not mean this at all, she always found such scenes extremely beautiful, so she liked them very much. She also stubbornly believes that "boudoir pleasure" should not carry that much evil and lewd atmosphere, but should be exactly what she thinks.

Li Ke's technique is not very skillful, he simply tied his hair into a ponytail and dragged it behind, which looks like a primitive beauty.

"You're still young, black hair and sideburns, it's always not suitable, enjoy the snow tonight, just relax like this. He stood behind her, looking at her in the mirror, and felt that he couldn't get enough of it.

Jiang Chengzi saw his burning eyes, lowered his eyes, but his face was hot, and he muttered in a low voice: "You don't know how to comb a girl's hair." ”

"Haha, I really won't. He smiled.

"I knew it. She replied.

But he leaned over her ear and whispered, "But I will coil my hair and comb a woman's hair in a bun." ”

Jiang Chengzi's body trembled when he heard this, and his heart was inexplicably flustered. The man tied the woman's hair and combed the woman's hair in a bun, which was the morning after the candle night in the cave room, and the man would surely do what his wife did.

"At a young age, I learned everything that was bad. Jiang Chengzi was so panicked that he tried his best to remain calm on his face and muttered.

"Why don't you learn well? It seems that Ah Zi understands everything. He teased her.

She got up with a "whoosh" and said, "Go see Yunge and ask this dishonest bird." ”

Li Ke pulled her and shouted, "Ah Zi, don't go." ”

"What's wrong?" Jiang Chengzi was a little flustered.

His eyes were bright, and he whispered, "I really feel like a year." ”

He didn't speak again, but Jiang Chengzi could understand what he meant: naturally he was afraid of long nights and dreams, and things would change.

He held her hand tightly and said, "Ah Zi, no matter what, I will protect you." ”

"Don't be so pessimistic, the future is bright. She smiled at him. In fact, she also had a sense of powerlessness at this time: even if you have a hundred arms and thousands of hands, accidents and fate are really unguardable.

Li Ke nodded and said, "It will definitely be brilliant." But these days are really slow. Once upon a time, I waited to meet you, looking for you everywhere, and I really felt like a year. Now, waiting for you to grow up, it is also like a year. ”

At first, he said that the days passed slowly and in a very serious tone, but later it was an ambiguous tone.

Jiang Chengzi couldn't help blushing when he heard this, slapped his hand, and said, "Ignore you." "Turn the screen straight and go outside.

In the small hall outside, Yun Ge was still walking around the table, looking uneasy.

Jiang Chengzi ignored it, rolled up his sleeves, and fanned the coal in the small red clay stove more vigorously. Then she put all the spices prepared for her in the kitchen into the pot of bone broth.

"You make it delicious like this?" Yun Ge replied first.

"Continue to think about how to answer your son-in-law for a while. Don't talk nonsense. Jiang Chengzi advised.

Yun Ge was speechless and continued pacing. Jiang Chengzi tasted the soup, the mutton bone soup boiled in tea had a unique flavor, wood ginger, kaempfera, star anise, Sichuan pepper and other seasonings were wrapped in cloth and put into the pot to stew, and the solidified fish oil was put into the hot pot, adding a different mellow fragrance.

"It smells so good. Yun Ge couldn't help but admire.

"Shut up and think about it. Li Ke, who was reclining on the soft couch, said.

Yun Ge covered his mouth with his wings and continued pacing.

Jiang Chengzi finished the bottom of the pot, placed the dishes and chopsticks, and scalded the wine on the path on the side. The hot is the osmanthus wine she brewed herself, a small jar of osmanthus wine, which she visited Jinyuan County, found the old style of winemaking, and learned it sincerely.

It's just that the wine-making process of the Tang Dynasty is really backward, and grain is a precious thing, and the purity of the wine naturally brewed is not high, and it is not delicious. Jiang Chengzi is not a person who is addicted to alcohol, so he only brewed a jar slightly, and the osmanthus wine that is quite passable is treasured.

To be honest, in the previous life, because the Jiang family has always been a military family, it is basically forbidden to drink. The Jiang family really doesn't have much of a hobby for wine. Jiang Chengzi's knowledge in winemaking is relatively lacking.

"I smell Shili Ping Lake, and the cinnamon is fragrant. Li Ke said lazily.

"If it is in my hometown, osmanthus wine is more mellow than this wine. She made small talk.

"Did you do it yourself?" he asked.

Jiang Chengzi shook his head and said, "In that time and space, I don't know what I live. Grandpa hoped that the Jiang family would inherit the glory of their ancestors, and my cousins and cousins had all run away, so my grandfather looked at me. ”

"You didn't refuse?" asked Li Ke.

Jiang Chengzi turned over the dishes in the pot, moved the chair and small wooden table made by the carpenter to the window, opened the window, sat down slowly, and said, "I thought about it carefully, and it seems that I am not very good at refusing other people's pleas. So, I went to the army, and I didn't live for myself in my career. ”

"Rong Ma career!" Li Ke sighed, and Shi Shiran got up, straightened the robe on his body, and sat down opposite her.

Jiang Chengzi placed all the seasoning plates neatly, moved another chair, and beckoned Yun Ge to come and sit.

As soon as Yun Ge heard this, he immediately flew over and sat down, looked at the hot pot very happily, and said, "Ninth girl, I have also seen the palace cook and eat like this in Chang'an, but I am not as particular as you." ”

"Less nonsense, I'm not inviting you to eat hot pot. Hurry up and talk about Chang'an. Jiang Chengzi crossed his eyebrows and said coldly.

Yun Ge wanted to talk nonsense again, Li Ke said coldly, "Say it quickly." ”

Yun Ge thought about it, and then said that Concubine Shu had a quarrel with Li Shimin. It seems that Li Shimin said that although the crown prince and the crown princess are young, they are also married. Li Tai will have a while, after all, Li Tai is younger, but Li Ke and the prince are of the same age, so they should be married.

Concubine Shu asked, "Does Your Majesty mean to issue an order to recall Ke'er, or to issue an order to prepare for the Yang family?"

Li Shimin sighed: "Concubine Shu, you didn't call me Your Majesty before. You call me Lang Jun. ”

"At that time, His Majesty was not the King of Qin, let alone the Emperor. Nowadays, there is a difference between kings and ministers. Concubine Shu replied.

Li Shimin immediately became angry and said: "Your Sui Dynasty was defeated by your father, and it was he who was eager for quick success and quick profit, and he couldn't fight the family, which led to the chaos in the world. Did I kill him and steal it?"

Concubine Shu didn't speak, only knelt on the ground. Li Shimin flicked his sleeves and continued: "Over the years, you have been cold to me, and I don't care. You have your difficulties, you have your plans. Big and small, you are extremely smart, but you and I are together, can you take care of the past?"

Concubine Shu still bowed her head, Li Shimin sighed, and said, "Since you insist on this, I won't come in the future." ”

"Since Your Majesty wants to talk about the past, I ask Your Majesty to take care of my mother and son, and take into account Ke'er's situation. Concubine Shu finally spoke, her tone very stiff.

Li Shimin gritted his teeth with the word "you", and asked viciously: "How come I haven't taken care of your mother and son, and Ke'er's situation?"

"If you take care of it, why do you urge Ke'er to get married? There are many things he can't do and won't do. Since childhood, you have followed your wishes, and this year it is unprecedented to lead the governor of Yizhou. If so, please give Ke'er a little time. Concubine Shu continued.

Li Shimin didn't speak for a long time, and there was no sound in the entire palace.

After a long time, Li Shimin said: "That woman is not a blessing, but a curse." ”

"When has Your Majesty become so arbitrary? I have never seen it in person, and I have only heard a few words and assert it like this?" asked the concubine rhetorically, although her tone did not weaken at all while kneeling.

"If I don't take care of Ke'er, can I plan like this, can I send Chai Shao to Shuzhou to check in person?" Li Shimin was angry again.

"Did you just send Chai Shao?" said Concubine Shu.

Li Shimin slapped the case with one palm and shouted: "Presumptuous." ”

Concubine Shu still knelt long, and said very insistently: "Please Your Majesty wait for the sixth room of the Yang family to arrive in Chang'an, see the girl in person, and then make a decision." If it is really a demon and a stream, don't let Your Majesty do it, I will get rid of it myself. ”

"The price of Chang'an salt has been reduced, and every household has exquisite salt. On this one, Concubine Shu thinks this is a simple person?" Li Shimin asked rhetorically.

"She's just capable, how can she be a person who is not simple? Hua Tuo's medical skills are clever, so she must be a threat to the imperial court?"

Li Shimin was speechless, just looked at Concubine Shu and said, "Okay, Ah Ping, you are really good." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty. Your Majesty knows better than anyone else about Ke'er's marriage, you asked me to choose the woman of the Yang family as Ke'er's princess, didn't you just let a wounded tiger come to see the evil wolf you raised? Although I tried my best to protect Ke'er, the injured tiger was also a tiger after all. Your Majesty, don't forget. Concubine Shu spoke loudly.

Li Shimin slowly sat down in front of the desk, looked at Concubine Shu, and said for a long time: "It turns out that you know everything." ”

"Yes, I wasn't going to say it. She said.

"Come here. Li Shimin called Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu didn't move, Li Shimin got up and helped her up to sit on the cushion, beat her legs, and said, "Then why do you want to say it?"

"As you say, my father was defeated by the family. No emperor likes to be controlled by a family, and no mother likes to put her son in danger. I have been fostered in the Hongnong Yang family since I was a child, and you think that I don't know anything in that courtyard? I know their faces and ways of doing things, or I know them better than Your Majesty. After all, when I was fostered there, I was a princess. This trip back to choose a concubine for Ke'er, stealing beams and changing pillars or something, they thought I didn't know, but I knew it clearly. The eight characters of Ke'er's birthday are Yang Minzhi's. I know that they will steal the beams and change the pillars, no matter who is in line with Ke'er, the birthday sticker should be the woman named Yang Yuanshu. Concubine Shu's tone was hateful.

"What you say is reasonable, but even so, do you know that the other party is not trying to get away with it? You don't have to say more, Ke'er must get married next spring. After the beginning of spring, I will personally issue an order to prepare for Hongnong Yang. Li Shimin finally went back to this question.

"Your Majesty!" shouted the concubine.

Li Shimin got up and brushed his sleeves and sneered: "It's useless to talk more, I have my own decision." ”

Concubine Shu's face was full of despair, Li Shimin brushed his sleeves and left, and after a while, His Majesty's personal guards came to secretly execute all the palace people who had just witnessed or heard the quarrel between Concubine Shu and His Majesty in the palace, and replaced a group of new people to serve.

After Yun Ge finished speaking, his body was still trembling, and he said, "I, I'm the only one who witnessed that he was still alive. ”

Li Ke frowned and said, "It seems that I am really going to leave ahead of schedule." ”

Jiang Chengzi knew that he was worried about Concubine Shu and Chai Shao's safety, but the snow was falling vigorously outside.

"The snow is falling tightly, the snow is covering the mountains, and the Shu Road is not good. Jiang Chengzi looked out the window and said.

"The night is long and there are many dreams, and I am afraid of change. Li Ke replied.

Jiang Chengzi picked up the dishes for Li Ke and said to Na Yunge: "You go back to your son-in-law's residence to rest, I still have important matters to discuss with your son-in-law." ”

Yun Ge was not satisfied that he didn't eat the hot pot, so he was driven away, and flew away with words in his mouth. Jiang Chengzi took a bite of potato chips and drank a small sip of osmanthus wine before asking, "Is there anything going on today?" )