Chapter 235: Mid-Autumn Festival
When the sage heard Wen Xi's words, his brows furrowed: "Why are you still involved with King Pingnan?"
Wen Xi scratched her head: "Aunt Cui heard it with her own ears, and I heard that Mrs. Shizi secretly told Fang Meiren to be careful of King Pingnan's people, and said that King Pingnan arrested King Shou and framed her. Later, Fang Meiren asked her what she would do if King Pingnan was not the prince. Cui Gu said that she seemed to hear someone coming, so she did not answer. ”
The sage was shocked and thought to himself: "King Shou's fief was originally in southern Xinjiang, and the emperor wanted a few imperial brothers to guard a few border passes. Chong'er has always fought in the south, but after I ascended the throne, I named Yun'er as the king of Pingnan, and the two began to disagree. let Chong'er dominate him, but ...... Yun'er is also quite temperamental, and I ......"
The saint also had a headache at this time, regretting that he shouldn't have instigated Zhou Chong to make trouble at Xue Yu's wedding, it was just nothing, and he actually pulled out so much rotten.
Xiaoyu and Xue Shizi returned home, and the couple couldn't help but talk about Fang Meiren: "It's really a creation and a man, what an arrogant and lonely person in the past, alas!"
Xue Shizi couldn't help sighing: "You don't know, my uncle and aunt are still counting on her to be able to raise her eyebrows for the Fang family, but I don't know, the color in this palace is still secondary, if my uncle and cousin can have a serious errand, her life can be better...... It's just that their family hasn't operated in this officialdom for many years. If you really want to be a relative, it's not like that, it's just that your cousin is bitter. If she has been like this, I am afraid that she will not live for a few years. ”
Xiaoyu couldn't help but be surprised and asked, "She's still so young, she's only seventeen years old this year." If...... In the end, she is in the mother's bedroom, if she has the heart, she can always show her face in front of the saint. ”
Xue Yu shook his head and said in a low voice: "The country is easy to change. A crow never the whiter for washing herself often. ”
Xiaoyu lowered her head and thought about it, and nodded clearly: "She is so cowardly and careless, she is indeed a dou who can't be helped, that aunt is here, Yingxue knows how to pretend to be something and drop it on the ground, report it to me." Her little girl didn't care, she only knew how to coax some good things from Yingxue. ”
Xue Shizi thought about it and couldn't help but ask curiously: "I was in the Xu Mansion that day." At first, they all said that you fell into the water, but in the end, a few of them fell into the water. ”
Xiaoyu scratched the corners of her forehead and smiled very embarrassedly: "It's just that they look down on me, and they still squeeze me everywhere." They were standing there trying to catch fish. I was standing across from me and pretending to fall into the water. They panicked when they heard the screams. When he saw me struggling, he was afraid that he would fall into the water. Alas, I was also young and vigorous at that time, and I couldn't stand idleness. ”
Xue Shizi was stunned for a moment, and thought: "You are too bad, you are simply retribution." ”
Xiaoyu couldn't help but bow her head in confusion when he stared at her, and whispered: "Actually, I'm about to go in, it's Wen Niang who lifted my back and pulled me back." ”
Xue Shizi shook his head. smiled and said, "You, you're tired from entering the palace today, why don't you let me pinch it for you." ”
Xiaoyu also felt that her heart was a little small, so she obediently lay on the bed. Vaguely said, "You're still going to do this?"
Xue Shizi hurriedly rode on her waist and said, "What's more, I'm still pinching it very well." As he spoke, he pinched Xiaoyu's neck and shoulders, and it was really comfortable. After pressing her back twice, she knelt up to pull her body, Xiaoyu was feeling strange in her heart, and heard Xue Shizi muttering: "This side has been pressed, it's time to change the face." ”
Xiaoyu couldn't help laughing, and wanted to get out but it was too late, and the couple hugged each other again. Yingxue was just about to push the door in to help Xiaoyu make the bed, when she heard her wife panting inside: "I hate it, don't pinch it." She hurriedly withdrew her hand and went back—
After a few days of discussion in the court, the affairs of southern Xinjiang arrived, and according to the rules of the Huguo Mansion in previous years, everyone in the palace had to go to the garden water pavilion to eat. Because the cicada shrimp spread rumors before, all the stewards didn't want to be obedient, although Xiaoyu didn't put much effort into this Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet, it seemed to be done.
Huguo Gong and Xu sat on the top and looked at the garden water pavilion palm lanterns and were quite proud, and praised Xu: "This Xia family still has some skills, you gave her the key that day, I was afraid that she couldn't afford it, I didn't expect to do it, I remember the first time you ........"
When the Xu family heard this, his face couldn't help but sink, at that time, the Fang family had been gone for less than a year, and the old lady was old and had a very strange temper. The Mid-Autumn Festival of that year was mostly the old people of the Fang family, and she was very embarrassed. But this year's Mid-Autumn Festival, if she hadn't been staring at it all the time, she wouldn't know what it would be. This Mrs. Shizi, the future mistress of the Guogong Mansion, doesn't care about anything, and hides in her small courtyard every day to eat, drink and have fun.
It's just that those stewards feel that they are capable, and they sharpen their heads to be the big stewards, and it took me an unknown amount of effort, but they can be subdued by the power accumulated over the years. It's just that in this way, this group of fools can't help but feel that the Duchess of Guo is blocking their way to be the chief steward. One by one, they regard Xu as a thorn in their side, and Xu has not been so aggrieved for many years.
Xue Shizi avoided outside the city or hid in the house where his mother was married in the east of the city in the Mid-Autumn Festival in previous years, but this year because of the light rain, he also had the mood of the festival, so he changed into auspicious clothes early and took his little lady to follow the brothers to the back garden. From a distance, I saw Xue Wen leading the eldest brother's son Xue Wei, Xue Chen and the second brother's son Xue Xi to make cakes under the pavilion.
As soon as Xiao Yu saw Renbo cake for the first time, he pulled Xue Shizi to stand aside and watch for a while. Xue Shizi was not annoyed when he saw Xue Wen losing, but Xue Chen and Xue Xi often squeezed their eyebrows and smiled very ambiguously.
It turned out that each of them had three dice, and they shook them with a wine cup, so that they could quietly see what their dice were. Then take turns guessing which point appears more often, and the loser will give his pizza to the winner. Xue Chen and Xue Xi reported to each other, because they could always know what the other party was, and they were quite confident in guessing.
Xue Shizi was a little ashamed when he saw it, and was about to reprimand two sentences, when Xue Wei saw the two of them with sharp eyes, he coughed hurriedly, and bluffed several people into throwing the dice and standing up to salute.
Xiaoyu patted Xue Wen with a smile and said, "Why are there so many left?" You give them points and go over there with us, I have something to ask you." ”
Xue Wen hurriedly distributed the pancakes in front of him to several nephews, and followed Xiaoyu and them.
Xue Shizi's face suddenly darkened, and when the three of them arrived under the osmanthus tree, Xiaoyu motioned to Yingxue to pour some rice wine for Xue Wen: "I brewed it myself, you can taste it." ”
Xue Wen hesitated, and saw that his mother was on the side of the water pavilion, quite far away, so he gritted his teeth and drank it. However, the wine seemed to smell very strong, but it tasted very sweet, like sugar water.
Xue Wen drank two bowls, and Xiaoyu hurriedly stopped him and smiled: "Although this wine is sweet, you will get drunk if you are not careful, you drink it slowly." ”
Xue Wen put down the wine bowl in a daze, and saw that the third brother had a black face from beginning to end, so he didn't want to stay any longer: "What's the matter with sister-in-law?"
Xue Shizi said very reluctantly: "It's not a big deal. Your sister-in-law has a horse farm in Xiaoyan Mountain, and it's autumn hunting now, and my father and I are going to hunt at the horse farm, do you want to go with us?"
Xue Wen couldn't help lowering his head and hesitating, he was a nobleman, and most of the people who came and went were children from military merits, and the people next to him followed his father and brother to hunt at a very young age, and his mother was very strict, only letting him study hard, and when others talked about these things, he always had nothing to say. Just as he was thinking, Xue Guogong walked over, and Xue Shizi and Xiaoyu hurriedly stood up and saluted.
Xiaoyu smiled: "We are asking Brother Wen if he wants to go hunting with us." As he spoke, he turned his head and looked at Xue Yu with amazement: "Boyan has followed the saint to fight in the north and south for our family since he was a child, and he is not at home, and I see that your brothers are not close to him. ”
Xue Wen couldn't help but be stunned and thought: "Third sister-in-law, you just passed the door, you know there." The third brother pulls a face all day long, which one dares to get close to him. When you say this, it seems that my eldest brother and second brother and I are deliberately snubbing him. ”
Xiaoyu glanced at him, turned his head with a smile and looked at the protector of the country: "You see, I invited Brother Wen out, he was a little hesitant just now, alas, I think that my father will not stop him from getting close to my brother, so naturally it is ......"
Xue Wen looked at her and glanced at the water pavilion pointedly, chuckled in his heart, and was about to speak. Xiaoyu continued: "Dad, maybe our family rules are different. There are so many brothers in my mother's family, and they get along very well. As the saying goes, brothers in battle, fathers and sons in battle. ”
Xue Guogong nodded and patted Xue Wen's shoulder and said, "What your third sister-in-law said is very true, tomorrow your third brother will take a break, let's go to your sister-in-law's horse farm to have a look, and let your sister-in-law pick a good horse for you when the time comes." ”
Where did Xue Wen dare to say again: "I'll ask my mother." In this case, I had to nod my head in response.
When Xue Guogong saw it, he looked at Xiaoyu approvingly: "I'll go over there and take a look, you can also talk to your sister-in-law and sister-in-law, get close." ”
Xiaoyu nodded and said, "This is nature." ”
Xue Wen didn't want to stay any longer, so he hurriedly said, "I'll go with my father." ”
After taking two steps, I heard Xue Shizi say unhappily: "You don't care what he does, just let him lose all the time." ”
But the third sister-in-law burst out laughing: "You don't know, I looked at him, he didn't want to stay for a moment, so I helped him." ”
Xue Wen paused, couldn't help flashing into the shadow of the tree, and listened curiously to her and said with a smile: "I think he can't wait to lose quickly, when I was his age, I hated being forced by my mother to take care of those nieces during the New Year's Festival." They are young and don't understand anything, they are obviously stupid and stupid, and they think they are smart. ”
Xue Wen couldn't help but tug at the corners of his mouth, lowered his head and kicked the stone on the ground, looked up and saw that his father had gone away, and hurriedly chased after him.
Xue Shizi saw that he had run away, so he said stupidly: "If you win them all, you don't have to play." ”
Xiaoyu tapped the tip of his nose and said, "What do you say my mother will do when she hears that Xue Wen has arrived at the racecourse?" (to be continued......)