Ouyang Zi closed his eyes and didn't speak for a long time.

Qi Boshi put on his clothes, looked back at the bed, and saw that she was already breathing steadily, and had fallen asleep.

Thick eyebrows and long eyelashes, the bridge of the nose is high and straight, and the black hair is loosened due to the cloud and rain just now, spread on the soft pillow of the big red treasure makeup pattern Luo Jin, the hairpin is messy, and there are a few drops of crystal sweat on the forehead.

Qi Boshi's heart was soft, he walked over lightly, tucked Ouyang Zi's quilt, and then personally put down the tent hook and curtain, and covered the agarwood bed tightly.

"Grandpa and Madame, can the concubine come in?" From the door came Wan's timid voice.

Qi Boshi instructed: "No need, ask Mother Cui to come in and serve Madame, you go to the side hall to set up dinner." ”

According to the rules, when the mother-in-law eats, the daughter-in-law must stand aside and serve, set the cloth and vegetables, and wait for the mother-in-law to finish eating, and the daughter-in-law can eat. The rules in the wealthy family are even greater, and if you make a mistake, you will be laughed at, and you can't raise your head in the whole family.

And when the lady of the main room and her husband eat, the concubine room should serve on the side, just like serving the mother-in-law, serving the lady of the main room.

This is the status gap between the original concubine and the concubine.

Therefore, the vast majority of girls in Da Zhou would rather be poor wives than rich concubines, because the bowl of rice of rich concubines is not something that ordinary people can eat.

Of course, there are exceptions to everything.

There are also girls whose hearts are higher than the sky and who are not from a good background, in order to change the fate of themselves and their children, they desperately want to be concubines, but they also coax some men to risk the world, spoil the sky, and even snub their wives, only the concubine is a treasure. For example, the former prince Prince Deming, who is such a warrior who loves beauty and does not love the country, used his life and the throne to write a precedent of spoiling his concubine and killing his wife, and not dying well, which gave a wake-up call to thousands of warriors who wanted to follow in the footsteps of Prince Deming.

The Shu brocade curtain embroidered with the cloud crane unicorn hung quietly low, covering Ouyang Zi in the bed.

Hearing the sound of Qi Boshi and Wan Shi talking, Ouyang Zi opened his eyes, looked at the sunflower embroidered on the top of the tent and smiled slightly, and then continued to close his eyes and fall asleep.

Wan was stunned outside the door.

He didn't let her in, he had never done before.

Wan Shi twisted the handkerchief with one hand, and his heart was in turmoil, but he didn't dare to push the door open and go in, so he walked out of the door of the main room in a trance and went to the side hall next to him to set up a meal.

After dinner, Qi Boshi went to the study director.

The staff who served the study sent two thick stickers, "It is the Dragon Boat Festival gift sent by Xiao Xiangsheng and Du Xiancheng, the big salt merchants of Chang'an, please take a look." ”

Qi Boshi took the sticker and looked at it, and said with a smile: "These two have a conscience, four festivals and eight etiquette, but they are very well-behaved." ”

The staff bent their waists and hurriedly flattered, "It is the magnanimity of the grandfather of the country that makes the heroes of the world return to their hearts......

"Shut up!" Qi Boshi sank his face, "This kind of words, even if it's behind my back, I don't want to hear it!" ”

The staff was frightened and hurriedly knelt down, "Grandpa Guo is angry!" ”

Qi Boshi personally helped the staff up and comforted him: "You don't have to do this. It's just that you are my confidant, and you should know what to say and what not to say. - If you shouldn't say something, never say it. You can't say it in front of or behind people, so it's called something you shouldn't say, understand? ”

A layer of white hair and cold sweat suddenly broke out behind the back of the staff.

"What do you mean by ......?"

"The partition wall has ears. Even if you haven't said something, someone will plant it on your head, let alone the big disrespectful words you say like this? "Zibs is a very cautious man. Although his current position is higher than that of the first emperor, the current Emperor Dezhen is more suspicious than the first emperor.

The staff immediately understood what Qi Boshi meant, and made a sealing motion with his hand in his mouth, "My subordinates know that they will definitely not cause trouble for Grandpa Guo in the future." ”

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During the Dragon Boat Festival in the second year of Changye, the Du family and the Xiao family in Chang'an City had no good birth.

Xiao Xiangsheng's wife, Long Xiangye, gave birth to her second son on this day, weighing six pounds. Xiao Xiangsheng was overjoyed, and immediately named him Taiji, otherwise Taiji Taiji.

Du Xiancheng and Fang Yuniang were busy going to Xiao's house as guests, from the baptism ceremony, the full moon ceremony, and then Long Xiangye's mother's house came to the door, wanting to trust Xiao Xiangsheng's relationship and help his sister-in-law to be selected to serve in the palace.

Xiao Xiangsheng and Du Xiancheng didn't understand why someone would send their daughter to the palace, where they could eat people.

But it wasn't their daughter, and it wasn't their turn to speak.

Long Xiangye's sister-in-law was originally a concubine, but in order to enter the palace as a palace maid, she was especially recorded in her name by her mother and became a concubine.

Strictly speaking, the court of the Great Zhou Dynasty selects the daughters of good families, and they must be born out, and the concubines cannot enter the palace.

But whether this kind of named concubine can enter the palace is a gray area, and there are basically no rules and laws to follow.

Because the Great Zhou Dynasty has only passed down two generations of emperors, many rules have been passed down from the court of the previous dynasty.

In the previous dynasty, because the identity of the concubine Xiaoxing was really low, and the identity of some concubines was a prostitute raised by a wealthy family, so there was a reason why the court strictly forbade women from entering the palace.

And now in the Great Zhou, it can be said that the status of the concubine has been greatly improved, and the prostitutes and concubines are completely separated, and they can no longer be confused. The concubine room also has a good concubine and a cheap concubine, and the good concubine is like the wife's room, and there are things similar to marriage books to prove their identity and the bloodline of their children.

Long Xiangye of the Long family, her sister Long Qiuye, and her younger brother Long Wenping are all from good concubines.

The children born to good concubines are recorded in the name of their mothers-in-law, and in today's Great Zhou, the status of such a named concubine is still recognized.

Xiao Xiangsheng couldn't shirk it, so he had to agree to try to go the way.

The Long family sent Long Qiuye to the Xiao family to live on the grounds of letting Long Qiuye learn the rules, saying that they could learn the rules while helping their sister who had just given birth to take care of the child.

As soon as Long Xiangye gave birth, she saw her mother's family send her sister in, saying that she was preparing for entering the palace, but she was clear about her mother-in-law and father's thoughts, and she didn't want to say it to Xiao Xiangsheng, so she had to bury her heart in the bottom of her heart, and she didn't recuperate well in the confinement, and gradually lost weight. After the confinement, he began to raise it with a medicine jar.

Long Qiuye is more beautiful than Long Xiangye, and his personality is not the same, he is hearty and loves to laugh, and he seems heartless, unlike Long Xiangye, who is always preoccupied, and even Long Xiangye's newborn son Xiao Taihe likes to be close to Long Qiuye.

Long Qiuye saw that his sister had been sick in bed, so he took care of all the trivial things to take care of Xiao Taiji, except for not being able to breastfeed him, everything else was done by others.

As the days go by, even Xiao Xiangsheng has changed a lot about Long Qiuye.

Long Xiangye saw that her second son was becoming less and less close to her, and finally woke up to the fact that she could no longer lie on the hospital bed and be sad.

"Someone! Bring the second young master over for me, pack up his second aunt's things by the way, and send her back to the Long family tomorrow. Long Xiangye finally made up her mind.

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The second watch, before midnight......