Xia Mingyi took a slice of mutton with chopsticks, put it in the pot and scalded it, and made up Xia Mingche's following words.

"I know what the second brother means, the second brother is saying, I'm afraid that the emperor will think, if the northwest horse market is really sluggish, then where did the Tartar war horses come from? And if it is a boom, the emperor only needs to send another team of troops to quell the chaos, anyway, there are ready-made war horses in the northwest, and when the time comes, the Tartars will be cleaned up, and the horse market will be recovered, killing two birds with one stone. ”

If the Wei family wants to attack the west, then they will come to Wei to save Zhao, in short, no matter what, it is the Wei family who suffers.

Wang Jue understood in an instant and praised it: "Good strategy!"

Xia Mingyi put the scalded mutton on a small plate in front of Chanyi, and said: "Recently, I studied with my second brother at my grandfather's house with my fifth uncle, and I heard the third uncle and the fifth uncle talk about the court, I have a feeling that the emperor sent you this time, and he shouldn't have thought that he could take back the horse market in one fell swoop, otherwise how could he let Yin Chaoyang go, a military general like General Xiao doesn't need it, and he chose you?"

Wang Jue's action of holding lotus root tablets paused, and the emperor once asked him privately, "Do you have the courage to go to the northwest and show me how my horse farm is." ”

He sniffed out the opportunity, agreed to come down, and when he went back to think about it, he faintly felt that there was something wrong with this matter, compared to other generals, he was indeed too young, but the emperor chose him, which made people very puzzled.

There was no one in the house who could consult with him, and the errand he took over was too dangerous, no matter who he told him, he was shaking his head and sighing, and his trip to the northwest had been marked as a failure before it had even begun.

His mother was worried all day long in the house, washed her face with tears all day long, and was busy helping him see some daughters of the family, which made him feel that the pressure on his body had increased invisibly.

Wang Jue looked at Xia Mingyi and Xia Mingche, Xia Mingyi was injured in his right arm, and it was inconvenient to pick up vegetables, so he changed to chopsticks with his left hand, and he was also very fluent, and Xia Mingche was eating mutton while helping him analyze: "I guess the reason why the emperor sent you to the northwest is probably to let you come to the stone to ask for directions first, so you only need to calm down, first familiarize yourself with the situation in the horse market, and then think about what to do." ”

Wang Jue couldn't help but say it: "But the northwest is the world of the Wei family, and it must be very difficult to figure out this." ”

Xia Mingche thought for a while, and said: "It's not difficult, I'm afraid the emperor won't have to wait for so many years, if my guess is correct, the emperor will definitely send someone to the northwest after you, I see that you are very familiar with the four princes and Princess Fengyi, presumably you and the Wei family are not so incompatible, now there are only two ways to go, the first, if you don't want to offend the Wei family, then you can only make friends with them together, and silently familiarize yourself with these situations, and then hand them over to the later people for them to deal with, and you have also paid a bad deal with the emperor." ”

I'm afraid that it is the Wei family that the emperor has the heart to take care of, so what he did will become a heinous crime in the eyes of the emperor.

The emperor is today, it has not been a year or two since he ascended the throne, thirteen years ago, there was no way, it doesn't mean that Xiàn can't have a son, and now let Wang Jue go to the horse market, one is a temptation, and the other is probably also a warning, otherwise how could he choose Wang Jue, who has a bad relationship with the Wei family?

Chanyi ate the mutton that Xia Mingyi gave her, but the more she listened to Xia Mingche's analysis, the more frightened she became, didn't Wang Jue in the previous life just say this to the second brother, neither of them wanted to offend, but then both of them didn't please him? In the end, the prince was killed, and Xia Mingyi held the power, but Wang Jue never had any real power errands.

Xiao Pei also felt that it was not appropriate, so he picked up the spinach with chopsticks to scald, and said: "I heard Daddy say that there have been fewer and fewer war horses reported to the court in the horse market in recent years, presumably the emperor has the intention to rectify it, if he acts like this, I am afraid that the emperor will be disgusted." ”

Xia Mingche nodded, swallowed the food in his mouth, "Second Brother Pei can also see it, then I guessed correctly, there is only the second way to go, the war horses in the horse market newspaper are scarce, there are no more than two reasons, one is caused by natural disasters, the pastures in the northwest have been drought or floods for several years, and the horse market has not been able to raise good horses in recent years, so there are not so many war horses, and the second is that the war horses in the horse market are sold privately, and some people are full of private pockets." In this case, you can only secretly collect evidence and then ......"

Xia Mingche made a slashing action, and without further words, everyone already understood what he meant.

Wang Jue was stunned, he was able to help him analyze the pros and cons in such a clear manner, even some of his close friends had never had it.

He got up suddenly, made a long gesture towards Xia Mingche, and said solemnly: "Thank you for your advice!"

Xia Mingche stretched out his hand to grab him, looking a little displeased: "What are you doing here?"

And Xiao Pei, who was sitting next to Wang Jue, slapped him on the shoulder with a palm and pressed him back to his seat.

"You don't have to be polite to Jinyu, he is Hemei's younger brother, that is, my younger brother, what kind of friendship do you have with me? He helps you plan, but you are not like the Wang Shuyun I know. ”

Wang Jue's eyes, which seemed to be forever cold, were contaminated with the temperature that only young people have, but he didn't thank him again, and said to Xia Mingche and Xia Mingchen: "If there are a few useful places in the future, please don't see them outside." ”

Xia Mingchen said with a smile: "Okay, I always heard Su Ning say that your Sangluo wine is so sweet and fragrant and unforgettable, first move two jars of your Sangluo wine over and let me open my addiction." ”

"It's easy to say," Wang Jue said, "When I turn around, I will let people pull five jars of mulberry wine and send them to the Xia Mansion." ”

Xiao Pei laughed when he heard this: "Hemei, you drunkard, every time I steal Daddy's pear blossoms, I will always be divided by you, this time you can't swallow it alone!"

Xiao Qing heard that there was a fine wine to drink, and hurriedly said: "There is still me, and there is me, Brother Chen can't forget me!"

"Go, go, what's the matter with you! Men don't interject when women talk!" Xiao Pei spared no effort to hit his sister-in-law on the side, which provoked Xiao Qing to be angry again and again, and robbed all the scalded mutton on Xiao Pei's plate into her plate.

Chanyi couldn't help but laugh when she heard this, she knew that the original Dingguo Hou Wang Jue's expression was Shuyun, and Xiao Pei's expression was Suning, but what she didn't expect was that the second brother would help Wang Jue with advice, and in the previous life, they obviously couldn't fight together.

Thinking like this, Chan Yi ate a mouthful of food, and raised her eyes to see Wang Jue scalding mushrooms, the mushrooms were big and plump and looked very fresh, and she also put a chopstick in the pot to burn.

Xia Mingyi turned his head and asked in a low voice, "Doesn't my sister like to eat mushrooms?"

Chanyi was slightly stunned by his question, she didn't expect Xia Mingyi to be so clear about her preferences, and blinked slightly, "Today's mushrooms look delicious." ”

Xia Mingyi picked up his scalded mushrooms and put them on the plate in front of her, and said, "Then sister try to eat one, if you think it's not delicious, give it to me." ”

Thinking like this, she raised her head to look at him, only to see that he sandwiched the scalded mutton into her plate as usual, and then put the little cabbage in her plate that she had never touched into his own plate and ate it, looking natural, as if they had been eating like this all along.

She frowned, and looked at the few people next to her, they were eating their own food, and the food was very delicious, and she hadn't paid attention to Xia Mingyi's actions, she couldn't help but think in her heart, how did Xia Mingyi do it? Why do you always do such things.

Xiao Qing scalded the mutton, went to the nearby vegetarian dishes, saw Chanyi stunned, and said loudly: "What are you doing in a daze? Hurry up and eat, they are all big food monsters, they eat all the food in a while, and you don't want to eat it, and you have to wait for the chef slices." ”

Chanyi saw that everyone was looking at her, and said with some embarrassment: "I'm a little full." ”

"What? You're so full after eating so much?" Xiao Qing said in surprise, "Are you eating cat food here?"

Wang Jue glanced at Chanyi, and then turned to Xia Mingyi, who looked concerned, with some doubts in his eyes.

But Xia Mingche scalded a plate of mutton, put the mutton in front of her, and said softly: "You hurt your arm and can't scald vegetables, the second brother will blanch it for you to eat." ”

Xia Mingchen also put his scalded vegetables on her plate, "Be good at night, eat some more, otherwise you will be hungry in the afternoon." ”

Chanyi couldn't cry or laugh a little, and pouted: "Second brother, I'm not a child anymore! And big brother, I don't eat spinach!"

Xiao Pei looked at the girl's white face with a natural flush, which was completely different from his own girl's grinning appearance, and smiled slightly, "Only children are picky eaters and don't like to eat, you have to eat everything to grow taller, you see I eat everything, and I grow into the big and tall person I am now." As she spoke, she put the spinach with chopsticks on her plate.

Xiao Qing couldn't see his brother so proud, and said disdainfully: "Who compares to you, it looks like a mountain, if you grow like you in the evening, do you want to find your mother-in-law?"

Chanyi sighed silently, the two brothers and sisters were so strong that she was a little powerless to deal with them.

Xia Mingyi thoughtfully took away all the spinach on her plate, and gave her a bowl of hot soup, "If my sister doesn't want to eat it, let me eat it." ”

Xiao Qing couldn't help but sigh: "Wanzhao, your younger brother is really good, and your eldest brother and second brother are good, unlike my second brother, who knows to quarrel and fight with me all day long." ”

Chanyi was helpless, so she had to lower her head and drink the soup silently.

A meal of eating and drinking, mixed with heart-pounding political affairs, was finally finished.

The little maids were busy coming forward to serve the masters, put on their coats, arrange their clothes, and a few of them said goodbye and went home.