When Chen Xie and Chen Pu got on the painting boat, we greeted each other, and Chen Xie saw that Chen Huan and I were also on the boat, and there was no smile on his face: "Nonsense, why did you girls come here, it must be Xiaosi with you lawless." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info" Chen Ying just didn't make a sound with a hippie smile, Chen Huan stepped forward and hugged one of Chen Xie's arms while shaking it and said with a smile: "Big brother, it's difficult for me and Sister Mi to go out of the palace, let's have a good time!" Besides, there are so many girls who come here to join in the fun, I saw Zhuo Yuting just now! Chen Xie shook his head helplessly, "It's just this once, not an example...... The next person has already set up the table and chairs at the bow of the ship, and several people walked to the table and sat down.

At this time, there were already people walking around on the stage in the center, thinking that the game was about to start. I sat there bored and drank tea, out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of the painting boat on the right set up a springboard over, the guard with two women in red was walking over from the springboard, I hurriedly signaled Chen Huan who was sitting under me, according to etiquette, there are female relatives to visit, as the hostess Chen Huan should come out to entertain, how do you know that Chen Huan glanced at the two women, turned his head, and ignored them directly. I was stunned, I didn't understand what this was like, and I just didn't see it.

The two women approached gracefully, and the slightly older girl in the lead bowed sideways, "Yuting Yuwei has seen His Royal Highness the Prince, and I have seen Your Highness." Chen Xie smiled: "It turned out to be Miss Zhuo, excuse me, I don't know if Concubine Zhuo has been getting better recently?" Yuting's face was slightly gloomy: "Auntie's body is still not very good, the doctor said that she still has to recuperate...... Chen Huan whispered in my ear: "This is Zhuo's two nieces and nephews, the older one is called Zhuo Yuting, and the younger one is called Zhuo Yuwei...... Don't bother with them......"

It turns out that these two are the nieces of Princess Zhuo, my maid Caijuan always sends all kinds of news in the palace back to tell me, I have heard her mention these two girls It is said that Princess Zhuo likes these two nieces very much, especially the eldest girl Zhuo Yuting, it is said that once, because the maid around the queen treated her slowly, Princess Zhuo actually made trouble in front of the king, and she did not give up until the queen disposed of the palace maid, for this reason, the people in the palace saw that the two Zhuo girls were hiding and walking......

Some time ago, the third prince drowned, Princess Zhuo lost her beloved son and was a little insane under the anger, and the king could not be cured by many medical consultations, and then Princess Zhuo's brother General Zhuo took his sister back to his mansion to recuperate, and these two Zhuo girls did not enter the palace again, which really made the people in the palace breathe a sigh of relief.

Liu Mao and I knew the real cause of the third prince's death, I looked up at Liu Mao, only to see that he tilted his head and didn't know what he was chatting with Chen Xing, who was sitting next to him.

Probably the popularity of these two Zhuo girls is really bad, only Chen Xie and them have not spoken a word, and these two don't know if they are arrogant or know that their popularity is not good, and they didn't talk to others. Obviously, Chen Xie and them didn't have anything to talk about, and it took a long time to chat, the atmosphere seemed a little awkward, and the two Zhuo girls blushed slightly, but fortunately, at this time, there were already girls on the stage who started to perform, and the two Zhuo girls left. As soon as they left, the atmosphere immediately became lively, and Chen Xing pulled Chen Pu while pointing to the girls on the stage, talking and laughing.

Chen Huan saw them leaving, and said in my ear with a smile: "Sister Mi, let me tell you that Zhuo Yuting likes my eldest brother, and always uses excuses to get close, but my brother doesn't like her......" I couldn't help but be stunned when I heard it, Zhuo Yuting actually liked Chen Xie, Princess Zhuo and the queen have always been rivals, Princess Zhuo won the favor of the king, and once pressed the queen to hold her head up in the palace, I heard that the king once planned to change the third prince as the prince, it is estimated that it really threatens the status of the queen and the prince, That's why the crown prince poisoned the third prince. If Zhuo Yuting knew the truth, she didn't know if she would like Chen Xie, not to mention that the people of the Zhuo family would be able to agree......

The girl on the stage babbling doesn't know what she is singing, there is a cheer from time to time on the boat next to her, each girl sings, she will sit on the sampan in the boats, ask for flower arrows from each boat, Chen Ying and Chen Huan sisters and brothers on our boat have taken care of this matter, each girl takes a big flower basket on the sampan, as long as the flower arrows are put into the basket, whenever there is a sampan rowed, two people compete to throw flower arrows.

Most of the women on the boat of the Zhuo family on the right are women, and most of the time they are playing in a low voice. The fat man on the boat on the left was especially hateful, and he was not stingy when a girl came to ask for arrows, but when he threw them, he aimed at them, and threw them at them, causing the girls to dodge and scream, and he laughed heartily beside him, and the people around him laughed after him. The sampan was already small, and there was a girl who fell into the water in order to avoid his arrows, but fortunately this girl was a waterman, and she climbed onto the sampan with a few flutters in the noise, and made a great fuss.

Chen Huan was very angry when he saw such a scene, so he begged the prince Chen Xie to send someone to warn him, and the boat quickly quieted down. But after a while, the boat came over on a gangplank, and the guards went to check on it, and after a while they came back to report that the owner of the next boat was coming to make amends.

Chen Huan said angrily: "No, tell them to stay honestly." Chen Pu: "Did you say who he is?" The "guard" said that he was the third son of the Xiao family, a salt merchant. "The people of the Xiao family...... Brother Wang, let's see you......"

Although the status of the merchants is low, but the salt merchants are different, not only because most of them are rich, mainly because salt is an important material related to the national economy and people's livelihood, Yan, Han and Liang have very little domestic salt, and the bulk of salt is mainly sold by salt merchants from the coast of the East China Sea, so the royal families of various countries are more courteous to salt merchants, and the Xiao family is the largest salt merchant, they not only travel back and forth to the three countries to traffic salt, the important thing is that they have their own salt farms in Qidi, more than half of the salt merchants are purchased from the Xiao family's salt farms, it can be said that the Xiao family is the overlord of the salt merchants, Most of the salt merchants are only looking to the Xiao family.

Chen Xie nodded: "Bring him over." The fat man took two entourages and followed the guards to the front and bent down to give a deep salute: "Xiao Daohong has seen your highnesses, Xiao Mou was rude today, please forgive me......" Chen Xie stood up and walked over to help Xiao Daohong up, "No courtesy, Xiao Gongzi doesn't have to be polite." "Xiao Mou was slightly asked by Bo Li to laugh at His Royal Highness, even if it is Xiao's apology, please ask His Highness to laugh." Xiao Daohong waved his hand and the two entourages held the gifts, but they were just a few pieces of silk, although they were not very valuable, Chen Xie politely accepted them.

I sneered, I sat for a long time and was a little tired, I stood up and walked along the side of the boat, and suddenly heard Liu Mao ask me in a low voice why I was laughing, I turned my face and saw that there was only Liu Mao beside me, I poked my head out: "I just think this person is really interesting, he can take out a few satin horses as an apology at any time, could it be that he already knew that he would offend people today?" I looked at Liu Mao with a smile, his face was a little stiff, and it quickly returned to normal, he just smiled but didn't speak.

This Xiao Daohong is a good person, he apologized to Chen Xie and Chen Pu, and walked to Chen Huan and Chen Xing and bent down to apologize, Chen Huan turned his head, and Chen Ying generously helped him up. Then he walked towards me and Liu Mao, and after he bent down to salute, Liu Mao helped him up, and I don't know if I was dazzled, I actually saw Liu Mao take the opportunity to generalize

A letter was stuffed into his sleeve, I was stunned for a while, when I came back to my senses, Xiao Daohong had already walked back, Chen Huan was calling me, I looked at her and then at Liu Mao, he just looked at me with a smile, I was inexplicably annoyed, stared back at him with his eyes, he looked at me persistently, I couldn't resist his gaze after all, and I was defeated after a while.

I turned around and walked back, and heard Liu Mao walking behind me to the bow of the boat, and he laughed softly, I felt a little ashamed, this Liu Mao and Xiao Daohong obviously knew each other, and today they were using my raft to deliver messages, and this feeling of being used made me feel very uncomfortable.

It was already late at night, Chen Huan and I were so sleepy that we dozed off, Chen Xie saw that someone led us to rest, and when we arrived in the cabin, Chen Huan and I hugged and lay on the couch and both fell asleep

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The twentieth school of the first month has started, but there has been a big change in personnel, the prince and the second prince are no longer in school, I heard that the king let them start to learn to deal with political affairs, the two of them have received their own positions, Liu Mao is no longer here, only Chen Xing is still studying, and two little princes have been added, and two little princesses have been added to the woman's side in addition to me and Chen Huan.

The boring days passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye, in March, Liang gathered a large number of troops on the border with Yan, and for a time the relationship between the two countries became tense...... So the king ordered that two adjoining houses be set aside not far from the royal city, and that we should move there.

After packing my luggage, Liu Mao and I moved out of the palace the next day, Chen Xing and Chen Huan came to see me off, they looked unhappy, and Chen Huan was even more depressed because I would no longer go to school in the palace in the future. I'm very happy, and to be honest, I really don't like living in the palace. I was also very happy to look at Liu Mao, and the corners of his mouth were upturned all the way.

The house is in the middle of an alley, to the place, we went in and walked around, the layout of the two houses is the same size, the courtyard of the three into each with a small garden, a garden planted with plum blossoms, a garden planted with bamboo, I picked a yard with plum blossoms, Mama Xu took the jade butterfly Caijuan and the people to clean up, when I came to Yan Kingdom, the queen mother was afraid that I would not be used to eating Yan Guo's food, so she brought me two cooks, as well as two rough servants, four guards, a total of more than ten people, It's not a problem to live your own little life behind closed doors. Only then did I find out that Liu Mao only had a small servant of Changxin and a gray-haired old slave by his side, and it seemed that it was a problem for these three people to eat.

Putting down the luggage, Liu Mao decided to go to the market to pick two slaves, Chen Xing and Chen Huan volunteered to accompany him, Chen Huan pulled me up by the way, so the group took a carriage to the market in the east of the city.

Seeing that it was almost noon, passing through the vegetable market, grain market, and carriage and horse market, there was a group of ragged men, women and children in a large and small wooden fence, and there were not many buyers at this time, so as soon as we approached, there were immediately three or four traffickers around.

We walked along the wooden fence and looked, a man with teeth diligently introduced us to the slave in his hand, when he heard that we were going to buy a cook, he pulled out a woman in her thirties from the fence, "Look at this is a new arrival, she was originally a cook in a big family, making a good meal, her hands and feet are very sharp......" The woman looked strong and strong, and the cleaning was quite clean, Liu Mao nodded, the woman saw that Liu Mao was interested in buying her, and quickly knelt down in front of Liu Mao, Crying and begging him to buy her husband and son and daughter, the trafficker saw that Liu Mao didn't speak for fear of Huang Huang's business, so he hurriedly went up and pushed the woman, Chen Huan saw that the woman was crying miserably, so he let the trafficker take the woman's family to see, the husband is also burly and looks strong, the son is about seven or eight years old, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and he looks quite smart, and he can be a little girl, but the daughter is five or six years old and looks blind.

Chen Huan originally wanted to persuade Liu Mao to buy this family, but she was stunned when she saw that the little girl was blind, and the trafficker saw that we had the intention of buying this family, so he hurriedly stepped forward to talk, saying that if he bought this family, this blind girl would not want to give money away in vain, Chen Ying muttered: "This girl is a white eater, and it is not cost-effective to not need money." The woman rushed over and hugged me and Chen Huan's legs and begged bitterly, crying My heart and Ah Huan's hearts softened, so we all stared at Liu Mao and interceded for this woman, and Liu Mao finally bought this family of four.