It was almost the hottest day of summer, and the sun was already pouring down in the garden, and the dew on the flowers and plants in the morning had been burned to the ground. Mu Qingzheng held a fan, sat on a drum-shaped stone bench under a large laurel tree, avoided the sun, and watched from a distance as his mother's milk and Shiro swayed around in the garden.

Because he remembered the list sent out by Wu Neijian, he lost his mind for a while, and suddenly he called back God with an exclamation of teaching mother's milk. I saw that in the corner of the garden wall, the nurse had already fallen to the ground, raising her arms to cover her mouth, and looked very frightened. Shiro looked around in confusion, and at some point there was an extra handful of slender purple petals in his hand.

Mu Qing hurried forward and picked up Shiro, who was so frightened that he was crying, and the maid helped up the nurse underground. The nurse panicked and pointed to the petals clutched in Shiro's small fist, "...... Lady, this, this ......" couldn't say a whole sentence for a long time.

"It's just a flower, no need to make a fuss." Mu Qing didn't glance at those imperial chrysanthemums at all, only gently broke Shiro's small fist, took away the broken petals, and coaxed softly: "Shiro is good, don't be afraid, don't be afraid, mother's milk is stubborn with you." ”

The nurse was originally frightened, and saw that Mu Qing did not take those royal flowers to heart, so she gradually slowed down a heart beating like a drum, "I complained that I didn't look at Xiao Langjun, I shouldn't have led him to the wall, and the early gardener also said that this flower is not in season, it is extremely difficult to serve, and it is delicate and abnormal, how can I do it." , why didn't you remember this? ”

Mu Qing seemed to have a cool breeze suddenly blowing in his mind, and his mind was clear in an instant. Raising his head and glancing at those chrysanthemums, "You just said that the gardener ......"

The nurse didn't know what to do, so she looked back, only to feel inexplicable, "It's a gardener, and I have served these flowers in the morning." ”

Mu Qing's eyebrows tightened, and an excited look immediately appeared on his face, and he handed Shiro to the servant, "Haosheng took him and went to wash with the nurse." Change into clean clothes. Don't go wrong. After that, he lifted his skirt and walked quickly to the backyard study, his heart gradually brightened.

Aren't the gardeners and handymen who can come and go in and out of their homes every day? She and Du Ruhui taught people to keep a tight eye on her. But who is going to keep an eye on those servants? What's more, Tai Li Jiancheng has always been high up, and the subordinates are no different from ants in his eyes, and they never want to take a second look.

She hurried to the study. The heat steamed so that his cheeks were red, and he didn't have time to pant evenly, so he bent his eyebrows and said to Du Ruhui: "Now the garden in this house is big, and there are many flowers and plants everywhere, one gardener may not be enough, let's add another gardener, how about it?" ”

Du Ruhui frowned slightly, got up and pulled her to the side of the low bed, and poured a cup of herbal tea, "You can handle these things, why do you still come to ask me?" For such an idea, I ran in such a hurry. ”

Mu Qing sat down on the low bed, had no intention of eating tea, only took the fan and fanned it a few times, and said with a smile: "This gardener is extraordinary, how to maintain flowers and plants, but I don't know, in your urgent need, it can probably be solved." ”

Du Ruhui's hand holding the pen was condensed on top of a piece of yellow and hard cooked paper, and the thick black ink dripped a drop on the paper unconsciously, wasting a good paper in vain. He didn't pay any attention to this dazzling thick ink, and stared at the slightly sly smile in Mu Qing's eyes.

"I thought to myself, our house, just got the chrysanthemum given by the emperor, and it is reasonable to ask one or two more florists to serve carefully, and no one will think of going to the side. Since it is inconvenient for you and me to go out and move around, you might as well let this gardener go outside for us, and when we go to the house every day to do work, I will ask him to collect what he has done in detail...... "Mu Qing picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and saw that Du Ruhui's expression gradually became clearer, and she was also happy in her heart, so she simply said it in one go.

"This gardener, I have prepared it for you. He spontaneously wished to be sent by the Yin family, and moved his family to Chang'an, where he is now living in Chonghuafang. At that time, it was estimated that he might be able to use it in the future, so people secretly paid attention to it for a while, and found out the details, and his character was straight, and his body was innocent. ”

Du Ruhui suddenly dropped the pen in his hand, let the ink at the end of the pen splash the hard yellow paper on the case, and excitedly reached over the bookcase and held her arms, "It really solved my urgent need." He pursed his lips and nodded frequently, "This time you have made the first contribution, Mu Qing, Mu Qing, how can I thank you." ”

"How to thank you...... Mu Qing stretched out his hand and rubbed his forehead, and smiled, "This is a big favor, I always have to think about it, and when I think about it, I will tell you about it." ”

On the second day, in the depths of Yongxingfang, at the gate, looking at the most simple house, two florists dressed in short brown clothes were ushered in. The arrival of these two florists really did not make people take a second look, and they were as ordinary as every daily servant in Yongxing Fang, working for a living.

One of the two gardeners was brought to a purple chrysanthemum in the corner of the garden, and tremblingly tended to these precious flowers, which were unusually strange in this season when they should not have bloomed. On the one hand, he took care of it reverently like worshipping the Buddha, and on the other hand, he couldn't help but muttered a few words in his heart: I heard that Ah Lang of this family is a long history, and this long history is strange to Mrs. Changshi, how can this horn be enshrined as the best feng shui in the whole house?

Another gardener was taken straight to the study in the inner courtyard, and talked closely with the people in the study all day behind closed doors, and even for lunch, Mu Qing and Ah Liu personally carried the food box into the study. It wasn't until dusk that people came out.

When he came out of the study in the inner courtyard of Du's house, Hu Dalang only felt that he was no longer the sour scholar who had no way to report in the past, nor was he a rural village man who was bullied by others.

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By the end of June, Liu Wu Zhou Jin occupied Jiezhou, approaching Chang'an step by step, at this time the Xuanjia Army and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion were still resting, but unfortunately the King of Qin "coincided" with the unfavorable weather, the malaria outbreak of the year before last when Xue Ju was recruited, and there was a recurrence, the imperial doctor three times a day, flowing water in and out of the Chengqian Palace, only said that this disease should be so, and only recuperated for a period of time, and there was no good medicine to teach him to be good immediately.

At this time, it was rumored in the harem that Guo Jieyu and the newborn little prince had a pox rash, and the palace people who had served whispered around whispered, it was rumored that the little prince was still better, and the pox was only on the body, but Guo Jieyu's situation was deplorable, and there were acne in these critical places on the face, hands, and chest, even if it was good, it was inevitable to leave acne scars on the face.

King Qin and Guo Jieyu were sick at the same time, and they became more and more convinced that "the times are unfavorable", and the palace women inevitably had some heart palpitations, and they were afraid that they would be contaminated with illness and panic all day long. Then there is the battle report document submitted three times a day, always telling the crisis of Jinyang, the courtiers in the court, it is easy to link the current situation at the same time, worried, exhausted, only afraid that this strange atmosphere will be this nascent, still like a weak candle flame fluttering in the wind, extinguished.

It was disturbed for a while, and it was very chaotic for a while, which can be called internal and external troubles.

Within a few days, the war was imminent, and it could not be delayed any longer. At first glance, a shocking edict came out in the court: the crown prince is the foundation of the country, in order to protect the stability of the country's foundation, it must not be damaged, the king of Qin is still ill, and the king of Qi commands the army to meet Liu Wuzhou, and the right servant of Shangshu shoots Pei Lin as the head of the march of Jinzhou Road, and assists the king of Qi.

This time, not only the ministers of King Qin's lineage had to endure the ridicule, but I was afraid that most of the courtiers in the court couldn't help but secretly slander themselves, and the saint really protected the prince too much. Past wars together. Since the King of Qin led his troops to meet the enemy, now the King of Qin is sick, and it is reasonable for the prince to take over the heavy responsibility of leading the troops to fight, but now he has to be the 16-year-old King of Qi to take the lead, and Pei Lian, who is not very familiar with the art of war, how can he have a chance of winning this battle?

At the beginning of the army, the prince was still brave and able to fight, and all the soldiers and generals could also lead it, but now it is really far behind the king of Qi. The chips in the hearts of the ministers quietly flicked towards King Qin's side.

On the day when King Qi led his troops out of the city, Guo Jieyu in the harem also quietly moved the palace, and took a caring palace maid and the infant little prince to the Yeting Palace outside the deep walls of the harem.

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The chickens and dogs in the Daxing Palace are jumping, but they are more and more comfortable with the Du Mansion in Yongxing Fang. Due to the illness of the King of Qin, Du Ruhui had nothing else to do except go to the Chengqian Palace every three or five days to say hello and dispose of the official documents for half a day. Hu Dalang entered the mansion the next day to report back to him, and it was okay to do nothing, and when there was something, it would be delayed for half a day at most.

The two of them sometimes go to the east and west cities to hang out, and they don't take into account their identities very much, and they have a lot of conversations with the merchants in the city. Especially Mu Qing, who had nothing to do and ran to the city with the nurse and Shiro, looking at her appearance, it seemed that she was going to be a serious businessman, without the slightest arrogance of the officials, and the hearts of the merchants gradually became difficult to perceive, and they were unshakably inclined to this soft-eyed and clever official lady.

There is a joke about familiar and good things, laughing that Xiao Langjun respects, and is the eldest son of Du Changshi, and he will inherit his father's mantle after all.

Mu Qing pursed her lips and smiled indifferently, and when someone asked, she simply replied: "Business is also the foundation of national wealth, how can it be a ninth-rate, it's not a fool to say this." Besides, becoming an official may not be the first thing to be proud of in the world. This is not reasonable, but if you distinguish it carefully, you can't find a fault, every sentence is really reasonable, Kang Saburo led the head, everyone laughed loudly, but the person who asked the question was embarrassed. (To be continued......) R1292