Three days later, the 800-mile urgent news arrived in the palace, and the emperor was overjoyed, and the whole country was happy. The status of the Patriotic Mansion has risen again, in addition to the palace once again appreciating many rare treasures, banquet invitations in various names have also been sent in like snowflakes.

Except for appearing in public when receiving the thanksgiving, Zhihua has been staying at home quietly and quietly to raise the baby the rest of the time, and all the invitations are only returned gifts, and never attended.

After this great victory, the Jiang brothers were promoted to the captain of the eight-rank Xuanjie, and the two people with the greatest credit, Jiang Yunfei was promoted to three levels in a row, and the official was the seventh-rank cloud cavalry captain; Dark Eight took off his lowly status and made a hundred households in the army.

The promotion of his son was originally a festive event, but thinking that he almost lost his life, Jiang Wu and his wife couldn't be happy. However, the eldest princess has greatly changed her opinion of the Jiang family's lone seedling, and she has resisted this family affair from the beginning, to her helpless non-objection after her daughter ran away, and now it has gradually turned into consent.

Taking the opportunity to come to the door to say goodbye, she sincerely apologized to Jiang Wu and his wife for the first time, and the two families reached a tacit understanding on family affairs, and they would really settle down after the children of both sides returned home.

The happy events around Zhihua are one after another, in addition to her husband's big victory and cousin's promotion, her sister Zhixiang also married into the Zhang family - uh, this is barely a happy event.

Everyone around her agreed that these were the blessings brought by the child in her womb, so this unborn child was given a nickname by his mother, both men and women, called Xi'er.

Stained with the light of the eldest sister, Lu Zhixiang, who should have been carried into the Zhang family quietly in a small sedan chair, finally married according to the etiquette of the concubine, and the Zhang family symbolically set up a few tables of wine to entertain relatives and friends. Of course, Zhihua will not participate, except for Zhixiang who sent a few passable makeup on the eve of leaving the cabinet, the Zhang family did not send any congratulatory gifts.

Zhixiang, whose mind is full of longing for her future life, doesn't know how much impact the eldest sister's cold behavior will have on her in the future.

***

Compared with the jubilant spirit of the Jing'an Patriotic Mansion, Prince Gong's side, because of this humiliating defeat, was filled with a breathless depression for several days.

After returning to Zhenyuguan from the wolf land of Yunzhou, Krimu locked himself in his room and calmed down all day, and after coming out again, his sharp temperament like a sharp blade in the past was much more restrained, like a cold and shining sword, hidden in the scabbard, the same sharpness, but because of the camouflage, it was more dangerous than before.

Fenning's life began to struggle again. The Limeng people took their hatred of Shen Ze out of him, and he was originally despised and rejected by his colleagues, but now even the low-level miscellaneous servants don't have a good face for him. Without Krimu's instructions, the amount of food and clothing was automatically lowered by several levels, and he almost returned to the time when he was treated as a waste.

Fei Ning didn't dare to complain, so he grabbed his tail and stayed honestly in his small courtyard to live a peaceful life. He knew that such days would not last long, as long as he waited until the group of people returned from completing their mission—

***

A month later.

In a nameless deep mountain in the south of Jing'an Kingdom, there is a maple forest that is unknown to the world. In late autumn in October, the red maple leaves are delicate and beautiful, and the mountain breeze blows, flying all over the sky, which is very beautiful.

"Master, come on, I found the kind of red maple mushroom you said!" A cry of happiness like a silver bell sounded under a huge maple tree, and a girl with her head so low that she almost stuck to the ground sat on her knees, brushing away the dirt without being dirty, and a faint fragrance came to her nose. She held her breath and carefully scooped out a mushroom that was similar in color to a maple leaf.

Holding this beautiful mushroom carved from red agate in both hands, a bright smile appeared on the girl's somewhat dark face, and she jumped up to meet the three people who came behind her, and handed the mushroom to the head of the old woman as if offering treasure: "Master, look! ”

This girl is Minyi, who has been away from home for more than three months, and along the way, she has grown taller and tanned with Feng Feifei's trekking through mountains and rivers, and she no longer has the squeamishness that she was used to before. Wearing a comfortable and ordinary cotton blouse, he did not wear a skirt underneath, but put on a pair of dark pants that were easy to walk and resistant to dirt, and he looked no different from those ordinary girls.

Feng Feifei smiled and nodded approvingly: "Well, yes, it's the red maple mushroom." What are the poisons that need to be used in the red maple mushroom to test you? ”

Minyi tilted her head and smiled playfully, "This won't bother me!" Red maple mushroom and ink grass are dried and ground and mixed together to make 'sweet dreams'; with purple snake fruit, you can make 'madness'; combined with ice flowers, cloves, and purple Sichuan leaves to make a paste, a little smearing can make people grow a large red rash, painful and itchy, but the more you scratch the more refreshing, so it is called 'scratching to the bone'! Master, am I right? ”

Her smug appearance made the three of them laugh out loud. Feng Feifei was relieved, afraid that she would be proud and complacent, and deliberately embarrassed her: "Then what if it is mixed with red berries?" ”

Minyi wrinkled her nose and thought for a while, still unable to remember when the master had taught this poison, and couldn't help but secretly throw a distress glance at Jiang Zhu and Jiang Zi behind the master.

Jiang Zhu thought hard with her, and Jiang Zi clearly remembered that the master had not taught at all. Considering the medicinal properties of the two, she replied with some uncertainty: "Master, although you have not taught this poison, the red maple mushroom makes people hallucinate, and the red berry can make people have a splitting headache after oral administration. ”

"Well, Jiang Zi is right. To be a good poisoner, you must not only understand the characteristics of each poison, but also learn to innovate and experiment. Like the two flavors I just mentioned, they seem to be poisons, but in fact, when mixed, the pain caused by the red berries will counteract the illusion caused by the red maple mushroom, and the medicinal properties will be counteracted, so nothing will happen to you after eating it. Jiang Zi is very good, I don't know the answer, there is no speculation, you have to learn from her rigorous spirit. ”

Min Yi stuck out her tongue, not jealous of her master's praise of Jiang Zi, and grinned: "No wonder Master is the most partial to the little junior sister, it seems that among the three of us, she is the only one who has the true inheritance of the master." ”

Feng Feifei feigned anger and glared at her: "Nonsense, the things taught to the three of you by the teacher are the same, your own talent is not as good as your little junior sister, and you dare to complain about the partiality of the teacher?" ”

Although Minyi's name for them has been changed for more than three months, Jiang Zi is still a little unaccustomed, and her deep respect for her master has always made it difficult for her to call out the phrase "senior sister". was praised by the master, she was not like Minyi with her tail cocked, smiled shyly, and hung her head silently.

Jiangzhu, like her, can't change her mouth. Seeing that the county lord was wilted by the master's blow, knowing that she was pretending to be pitiful, his heart still softened, and he hurriedly spoke: "I see, the master's favorite should be me." Among the three people, I am the worst learner, but the master never scolds, isn't this a preference? ”

It's not that she's humble, Jiangzhu's talent is in learning martial arts, among the three, she has the highest martial arts, but when it comes to learning to make drugs, it's not as good as the other two. However, Feng Feifei likes her belief that diligence can make up for her clumsiness, because she has never disliked her.

The three cardamom girls are by their side every day and chatter, Feng Feifei has never been happy and comfortable in her life. If she could let go of her attachment back then and become her own son like an ordinary person, her current granddaughter is probably so old......

Her thoughts gradually drifted away, thinking of the man who made her swear not to marry and finally grow old alone, Feng Feifei looked into the distance, and suddenly felt that whether she could see him again or not on this trip seemed to be less important.

I don't know how long it took, Minyi's curious questions pulled her back to reality.

"Master, we've been gone for so many days, when will we be able to arrive?"

"Come on, over this mountain, it's the boundary of Yunzhou." (To be continued.) )