Chapter 148: Smoke Salute

The new emperor has been on the throne for a month, and the uprisings in the four places have gradually subsided and dispersed like the wind under the suppression of Yan Feng and Murong Chui and others. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThe national mourning period has passed, and Chang'an City has gradually returned to its previous lively appearance. The wine shop is fragrant, and the music hall never sleeps, which is a prosperous and bustling appearance.

It didn't take long for the palace to issue a holy decree announcing to the world that a draft would be held to expand the harem. After the news came out, the school-age women up and down the Liang Kingdom were eager to try. Because the new emperor is not as old as the previous emperor, he is still just a marriageable man. And it is rumored that the new emperor is dignified, handsome and chic, which is exactly the appearance of the person in the hearts of the girls.

Duanyue was not interested in this matter, she stayed in the Ninghou Mansion all day, and suddenly changed her personality and no longer jumped up and down, but nested in her room every day to study books, and in her idle moments, she would follow Lu Qingyi to learn a few tunes. There is more and more of a county lord's appearance, which makes the wind really moved.

Daddy has a spirit in the sky, and finally let Duanyue look like a girl.

Duan Yue sat in the house, and there was a half-melted ice cube in a copper basin at her feet, exuding a cool air and controlling the temperature in the room very cool. She held a copy of "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" and watched it with relish, and in the huge room, she could only hear the "swish" sound when turning the pages of the book.

A little girl with a round face poked her head out of the door, looked at Duanyue cautiously, and did not dare to step into the house timidly. Duanyue raised her eyes and was about to take a sip of the tea at hand, when she caught a glimpse of the little girl, very puzzled.

She beckoned to the round-faced girl and asked kindly. "What's your name and what are you doing here?"

Seeing Duanyue waving her hand to let her pass, the little girl walked slowly and slowly in front of Duanyue. Duanyue looked her up and down roughly, seeing that her clothes were the clothes of the people of Ninghou's Mansion, and seeing that she looked childish. I didn't think much about it, I just thought it was a little maid who had just entered the house and got lost.

The little girl looked at Duanyue and was stunned for a moment, and immediately suddenly realized that she made a dignified salute to her, and slowly explained. "If you go back to the county lord, the slave and maid are called Jingyan. It was Sister Cuiguo who asked me to serve the county lord. ”

"Cuiguo asked you to serve me?" Duan Yue put down the book in her hand and dropped it on the table, half-squinting with a puzzled face. "Where did she go by herself?"

Jing Yan saw Duanyue's face change suddenly, and instantly trembled like a little white rabbit, and said with his head down. "Sister Cuiguo has something important to do, so let the slave maid take over."

Duanyue carefully stared at Jing Yan in front of her, looking like she was thirteen or fourteen years old, still wearing immature double buns, her face had not taken off her childishness, and her round face looked very cute. She opened a pair of round eyes, raised her eyes to look at Duanyue, and tilted her head very confused.

"Does the county lord have any important orders?"

"It's okay," Duanyue smiled dumbly, picked up the book on the table again, flipped through the pages one by one, and asked casually and seemingly casually. "Why haven't I seen you before, did you just get here?"

Jing Yan nodded obediently. "The slave maid just entered the Ninghou Mansion during the Chinese New Year this year, and has been working in the kitchen. Sister Cuiguo saw that I was pitiful, so she asked me to follow her, and sent things to convey Sister Cuiguo's instructions. ”

"Oh. Where's your mom and dad? ”

"If you go back to the county lord, the slave's father and mother are farming in the countryside, and I have a younger brother and sister under me. My father and mother really couldn't support so many children, so they asked me to come out to work and make money. Saying that, he lowered his head in surprise and was slightly aggrieved. Duanyue glanced at her, and was very distressed when she saw her aggrieved appearance with red circles under her eyes. So he handed the mung bean cake on the table that had not moved to Jingyan.

"Let's eat a mung bean cake, the small kitchen just made it, it's delicious."

Unexpectedly, Duanyue's small gesture moved Jingyan very much, she sobbed and took the mung bean cake handed by Duanyue, but she didn't eat it. She carefully wrapped it in a handkerchief and put it between her sleeves.

Duanyue saw that her movements were in full view, and asked curiously. "Why don't you eat it?"

"Jingyan has never eaten such delicious things, and I want to taste it when I go back in the evening."

Duanyue was amused by her cute reason, and she hid her face and laughed with a poof. She saw that the child was cute and unbearable, so she pushed the whole plate of mung bean cake in front of Jing Yan. "If you like it, take it all, I'm not bad for this."

Jingyan obediently stayed aside without moving, and Duanyue continued to look at the book in his hand. It is estimated that two hours have passed, and Jing Yan has long been bored lying on the table and falling asleep. Duanyue saw that the child was cute, so she didn't wake her up, and let her be so lazy.

Cuiguo hurriedly came back from outside, as soon as she stepped into the threshold, she saw Jingyan sleeping on the table, and the angry Cuiguo walked forward after three steps and two steps, and slapped Jingyan on the back of the head with a hard palm, so shocked that Jingyan immediately jumped up from the stool, grinning in pain and covering his head.

"Okay, you little girl, let you serve the county lord well, why are you lazy!" Cuiguo crossed her waist and looked fierce, Jingyan didn't even dare to move, just stood with her head down.

Duanyue was so troubled by her, she couldn't read this book. She frowned, staring at Emerald. "Forget it, it's just a child, don't blame her. What are you doing on your own? ”

Cuiguo glared at Jingyan, then waved her hand to drive her down, and Jingyan hurriedly ran down with her skirt like a burden. She pursed her lips helplessly, and then changed her face to a smile, and flatteringly came to Duanyue's side.

"My good county lord, didn't I go to buy something outside the house, you see." As she spoke, she took out a small and delicate rouge from her waist and shook it in front of Duanyue.

Duanyue glanced at it and snorted coldly. "This quality is the general color, if you want to use it, it is better to take it directly from the warehouse. Anyway, no one uses it. ”

"The county lord laughed, aren't those things all yours the county lord, how dare I use them." Cuiguo scratched her head shyly and smiled, Duanyue sighed and looked at her like this, very helpless.

After reading a book for an afternoon, her eyes hurt and her waist was sore, so she threw away the book and stood up and stretched. "I'm starving, let's go get something to eat!"

Cuiguo sighed, and immediately hurried outside. Before he had taken a few steps, Duanyue heard a few retching sounds coming from outside the door. She was surprised, and hurriedly walked to the door, watching Cuiguo leaning against the wall and vomiting, her face turned pale in an instant.

"What's wrong with you? Go and let the doctor show you! Duanyue hurriedly ran to Cuiguo's side, stretched out her hand and stroked her back one by one, so that Cuiguo could be more comfortable.

Cuiguo raised her head, smiled reluctantly, and waved her hand at Duanyue. "It's okay, it's not like I didn't have time to eat breakfast, my stomach is churning and uncomfortable, I'll go down and eat something hot later."

Duanyue frowned, very anxious. "Then go down and rest, and let the kitchen make you some millet porridge and eat more comfortably." You just let Jingyan serve me, don't tire yourself out. ”

Cuiguo smiled and nodded, her face was gentle, and her eyebrows and eyes were like water. "Thank you, Lord County." With that, he walked slowly.