After tossing and turning, when they could finally go back to their respective homes, Shu Jin almost fell asleep in the carriage, but he still got out of the carriage and walked back to Hongshang Courtyard with strong spirits. Looking at Jiang Duanyu's appearance, if the two of them hadn't gone back to the house with Jiang Cangjin, he would have to carry Shu Jin back to the yard.

The two went back to the Red Clothes Courtyard and simply went back to sleep together, and waited until the next day to get up again to bathe and change clothes, and then went to greet the old protector of the country. Fortunately, the court meeting was too early, and they had to go back to their homes to rest for a while in the morning, and it was not rude for them to go over in the afternoon.

On Chinese New Year's Eve, most of the masters of the Protectorate Mansion went to the palace, so the family banquet was changed to the first night of the new year. Shu Jin's new wine was regarded as a treasure by the old protector, but because he was old, he couldn't drink too much for physical reasons, so he stopped after a few drinks.

This is fortunate because the old protector of the country was born as a military general, and his self-control is very strong, otherwise it would be really easy to get drunk on the spot without eating.

Remove the lifeless Jiang Duanwu on his face, there are a few members of Jiang Cangyun's family in the family banquet, and the atmosphere during the banquet is still very lively and pleasant.

After the first day of the new year, until the fifth day of the new year, it is the time for officials to have a banquet or to visit relatives for the New Year. Shu Jin also followed Jiang Duanyu to deal with various relatives who came to visit the New Year several times at first, but later saw that it was really endless, so he casually found an excuse to avoid it.

Jiang Duanyu also let her go, but after Jiang Cangjin asked Shu Jin's whereabouts twice, he understood that she was obviously too lazy to act on the spot, although she didn't say anything, but she was a little unhappy in her heart. So when he caught this eldest son in his free time, he would inevitably warn him in person, hoping that Jiang Duanyu would be able to cheer up his husband.

Pity. Jiang Duanyu promised to do it well every time, and then turned his head and simply didn't mention it to Shu Jinti.

If it weren't for the fact that he had to be present as the eldest son of the protector, he would have wanted to find an excuse to slip away. How could he still talk and laugh here, how could he force her to do something he didn't like knowing that Shu Jin was unhappy.

The emperor Feng Yuxi did not go to court, but it does not mean that if something happens at this time, he will not deal with it, and Shu Jin has a lot of people in the industry, so naturally he is not completely let go.

During the New Year's Festival, many people visit relatives and friends, and some people also check up and down, which may be irrelevant to Shu Jin. But the Eight Desolations Hall is famous for collecting news, and the minutiae of these things can be exchanged for money. So, even if it's the New Year. There are also Ge Cunzhong and Ah Wu who are talking about many things, and there is still a lot of news flowing through Shu Jin's hand every day.

The days are busy and moving forward, and in a blink of an eye, the fifth day of the new year has passed, and then the tenth day of the new year has passed. With the emperor feasting envoys of various countries. Dayan agreed to Luo Guo's courtship, and the matter of marrying the princess Qi Yuan to the prince of Luo Guo also spread throughout Changdu.

Talking about marriage at the time of this year's festival is a good thing to deepen the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and it can be regarded as a joy and joy, so people rush to celebrate, and the emperor sets up a banquet to entertain the envoys, and agrees on the auspicious period of three media, six ceremonies, etc., after eating and drinking for a few days. In a blink of an eye, the Shangyuan Festival has finally arrived.

Shu Jin has always suspected that Qi Yuan has any arrangements. But until the day of the Shangyuan Festival, I didn't see her make any moves, and when Shu Jin walked on the proposed market, he thought to himself, what Qi Yuan wants to do is probably to act today. However, according to the usual practice, the concubines and harem ladies will only come to the city after the ministers leave the palace, so she doesn't have much chance to see what Qi Yuan is going to do.

The construction of the proposed city is modeled after the East City, but because it is in the palace after all, although the houses and streets are similar, the area is much smaller than that of the East City.

Jiang Duanyu and Shu Jin naturally separated from Jiang Cangjin from entering the city, and the two walked around a store that mainly sells jewelry, Shu Jin took a set of very delicate and unique silver jewelry and looked at it for a while, and then walked out side by side.

The Zuo family wants to make a fuss about Shu Jin's goods, but now that they know what Shu Jin sent in, I'm afraid they will be dumbfounded, right? Their original intention was to use their hands and feet in food or drink, however, what Shu Jin sent in this time was not food or drink, but a set of silver jewelry made by Shu Jin's jewelry store itself!

Selling things in the proposed market, the price may be twice as much as that outside the imperial city, but how can Shu Jin be so bad for money now? Therefore, when Shu Jin saw with his own eyes that the box he used to hold the set of silver jewelry when he was sent to the palace was taken away, he saw the melancholy on the face of the waiter who was suspected of being a minion of the Zuo family.

After Shu Jin and Jiang Duanyu turned around twice, nothing happened, so they found a teahouse to sit down and rest. The two talked softly:

"You say, is everything Qi Yuan said true?"

"Do you suspect she's deceitful?"

Shu Jin shook his head and said:

"No, I'm wondering if the Zuo family actually has a plan and didn't reveal it to Qi Yuan, so what Qi Yuan said is just a smoke bomb released by the Zuo family."

"Smoke bombs?"

"Oh, it's a trick."

Jiang Duanyu nodded when he heard this, thought for a while, and said:

"It's not impossible. There are many people in the palace, and she was seen when she was looking for you, so this may also be Concubine Yun and they deliberately revealed it to test Qi Yuan. ”

"The timing is wrong. Qi Yuan knew that they were going to do something, and they only came to me after the kiss. Maybe they had been guarding against Qi Yuan for a long time? ”

"It's possible."

The two talked a few words, but they didn't find anything for a while, so they got up and walked out of the teahouse and continued to stroll.

In order to appear lively, there are many waiters who set up hawkers to carry baskets or put things out on both sides of the street to sell, and the weather is cold, and some people have stoves and make sugar men in a corner.

The thick maltose was simmered in a small pot, bubbling with small bubbles, and the candy man was skillful in his technique, scooping out half a spoonful of sugar with a long copper spoon, and then began to pour syrup on the clean wooden board, and the syrup did not flow around on the wooden board, and it was formed when it was cold, and with the movement of the craftsman's arm, a big rooster full of spirit took shape in a blink of an eye.

The man put the bamboo skewers on the board in advance and waited for the rooster to be ready. Gently lifting the bamboo stick, a large rooster was picked up whole, and then bought by a foreign minister's family who was waiting on the side for money. Then. The man went on to make a steed and came out, which was also taken away by those who had been waiting.

"It's interesting!" Shu Jinnian muttered, approached and looked, Jiang Duanyu smiled and followed her.

Shu Jin took a closer look at the wooden board, it was not painted, but it was very smooth. And after each one, the man lightly applied a layer of cloth dipped in oil to the board, and that's why he did. The sticky maltose didn't get on the board so much that it couldn't be removed.

"Two, do you want to buy candy man?" The man saw Shu Jin and the others coming over, and looked up with a smile and asked.

This man was in his twenties, and his face was white. Previously, Shu Jin wondered if this person would be invited in from outside the palace. Now when I look at this person's appearance, I'm afraid he is still dressed as an inner servant. However, it is quite rare for the chamberlain who has lived in the palace for a long time to be able to practice the craft of being a sugar man so well.

Shu Jin was interested, so he said:

"Can you do anything?"

The man smiled and said:

"Madame said to take a look, try the little one."

In order to let everyone have a lively time, we can feel the atmosphere of the ordinary city. So even this person knows who the guest in front of him is. Nor do they call people by their names or titles. It is all greeted like ordinary people call ordinary guests.

"Well, it's good to be humanoid. Just compare me and him. ”

Obviously, Shu Jin's request was not very unusual, the man smiled, agreed, and scooped up the syrup as soon as he said it.

This person first made a woman's sugar man and came out, lifted it lightly and handed it to Shu Jin.

After all, the big performance is patriarchal, but there is no such thing as ladies first, but this chamberlain actually made Shu Jin a sugar man first, Shu Jin took it with a smile, and guessed in his heart whether this person was used to pleasing the concubines and masters in the palace.

The man's hands were very neat, and in the blink of an eye, it was a lifelike sugar man again, this time for Jiang Duanyu.

Jiang Duanyu took it, took a small piece of silver out of his hand, and gave it to the waiter.

"Thank you, two nobles! Slow walking! ”

Even if it looks like a real market, it is not a real market, and those who come here are high-grade ministers, to be honest, there is really no one who is short of silver, or in other words, even if they don't have enough money, it's a big deal not to buy it, and no one will come here to bargain without shame. Therefore, sometimes even if you ask the price of buying something, you will often give more money than the price of the product.

For example, this chamberlain who can be a sugar man, he relies on his own skills to sell money, so most of the money sold by the sugar man he made this morning can still be left for himself after the market is closed. Of course, the small piece of silver that Jiang Duanyu took out was more than enough to pay two sugar people, and he didn't mean to ask people to find silver, so the waiter seemed to work very hard when he thanked him.

The two of them continued to move forward with a sugar man, Shu Jin glanced at the sugar man a few times, and found that although the sugar man's eyebrows could not be as clear as the pen and ink depiction, but the clothes and appearance really looked a little like themselves, so he thought it was very interesting, and went to see Jiang Duanyu's again.

Jiang Duanyu's sugar man is also very similar, Shu Jin thought about it, raised his hand and went to take Jiang Duanyu's hand, and Jiang Duanyu naturally gave it to her. Shu Jin compared the two sugar men, and then handed over his own sugar man.

"Now, let's change it!"

Shu Jin said with the "Sugar Man Jiang Duanyu".

After speaking, he obviously looked at the sugar man carefully for a long time, and then opened his mouth, ahhh......h

Jiang Duanyu was stunned.

Looking not far away, there are officials shopping with their families, and people are also holding candy people, and they don't mean to eat. Jiang Duan Yuhan was one, he saw that Shu Jin liked the appearance of this sugar man, he thought that she would be like others, and he was reluctant to eat it. Sure enough, are you thinking too much?

"Hehehe, what's that expression on your face? No matter how good-looking the sugar man is, it is also made for eating, if you don't eat it now, won't it be wasted if it will be scattered and melted after a while? Shu Jin said as a matter of course, and then bit off one of the hands of the "sugar man Jiang Duanyu......

Jiang Duanyu looked at her, then at the "Sugar Man Shu Jin" in his hand, and finally smiled helplessly, raised his hand and gently touched Shu Jin's face.

"Huh?" Shu Jin's action of chewing stopped, and he made a nasal voice questioning.

"Don't move, it's sugary." Jiang Duanyu said, wiping the corners of her mouth.

"Oh!" Shu Jin sighed and continued to eat her, and the "Sugar Man Jiang Duanyu" continued to shrink in her hands.

Jiang Duanyu took a closer look at the "Sugar Man Shu Jin" in his hand again, and finally opened his mouth and bit down on the Sugar Man's bun.

After the maltose is formed, the taste is crisp and very sweet, for Jiang Duanyu, who is not too fond of sweets, this taste is also acceptable, seeing Shu Jin's concentration when eating sugar, he suddenly moved in his heart, and stepped forward to her ear and said:

"We swapped the sugar man, now you eat 'me', I eat 'you', does that become, you have me, I have you?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Shu Jin's people tremble with his own eyes, and then his ears turned suspiciously red, and he even stopped eating, and turned his face to glare at him with a pair of eyes. He smiled innocently, then raised his hand to the candy man and licked it gently.

Shu Jin couldn't help but widen his eyes, looking at his seemingly inadvertent little movements, a burst of anger and blood came up. On the one hand, she was tickled by his exhaled breath, and on the other hand, she was numbed by his flesh! It's a shame that she's been teasing Jiang Duanyu a lot lately, but now it seems that Jiang Duanyu's learning ability is really strong, and this action makes her bow down.

Bastard, where are you licking! No, that's not the point, the point is, how old are you, why do you lick candy!

Shu Jin held the remaining half of the sugar man, and it was messy in the wind on the street of the proposed city. And Jiang Duanyu, who finally won back a city, was obviously in a super good mood at the moment, and took the entire upper body of "Sugar Man Shu Jin" in front of Shu Jin.

This Eduatama!

Now that he is still on the street in the palace, she really can't do anything to him, so Shu Jin glared at him fiercely, bit down the sugar man in his hand, and then chewed it as if it was the deity.

"Hehehehe." Low, with a somewhat smug laugh, Shu Jin didn't hear it at all, he just didn't hear it!

The two of them were also moving forward for a while, and after a fuss just now, they didn't speak again for a while, and were walking, when they suddenly heard someone shouting behind them:

"Stop! Don't run! ”

The two of them followed the sound and turned around, and saw someone running towards them.

Shu Jinyi frowned, and hurriedly flashed to the side, Jiang Duanyu was not slow to react, and even flashed beside her immediately, and both of them looked at the figure running over.

The man ran to the original location of Shu Jin and Jiang Duanyu but did not stop, but ran straight over, and then, in the surprised eyes of Shu Jin and Jiang Duanyu, he pounced, and suddenly knocked down a figure not far away.

For a moment, all the people around who heard the sound dispersed and looked at the two people who were rolling on the ground. (To be continued.) )