Lu Yan seemed to see through her thoughts, shook her head and said: "Madame doesn't know, it's not that Your Majesty doesn't go to visit Xu Guiren, Your Majesty will also do this kind of face work for the sake of His Royal Highness King You, but Xu Guiren said that his appearance was terrifying, he didn't dare to be shocked, and he never avoided Jun, and over time, His Majesty never went again." Until now, Xu Guiren has lived in the palace, if it weren't for His Royal Highness Youwang still dangling under everyone's noses, I'm afraid everyone would have forgotten this Xu Guiren. ”

Yao Duran suddenly realized, but there were doubts in his heart, how could this Xu Guiren avoid the king for 20 years? Is it really because she has a high spirit, or is there some other reason?

Seeing her pondering, Lu Yan said: "Madam, don't think about it, no one can figure out why Xu Guiren avoids the king, after she gave birth, her temperament has changed greatly, she is moody, and her behavior is weird, everyone else wants to give birth to a prince with a manly temperament, heroic and masculine, but she is good, since she was a child, she actually raised His Royal Highness King You as a daughter, and dressed him up like a princess, but whenever His Royal Highness King You showed a trace of male temperament between his words and deeds, she would scold his palms......"

"What?" Yao Duran was surprised and lost her voice, and in an instant, she made sense of something. No wonder, no wonder His Royal Highness King You is this indistinguishable temperament today! It turns out that there is nothing in the world for no reason!

"What the slave said is true, His Royal Highness King You was taught like this by Xu Guiren since he was a child, and when he grows up, he can change his clothes back into men's clothes, but where can his delicate temperament be transformed." Green Corner.

"I see." Yao Duran finally understood, understood it thoroughly, and felt a little sympathy for the king of Nayou in his heart. are also princes, and the concubines next to them all want their sons to become Jackie Chan, but Xu Guiren personally taught and destroyed his son, which made him have problems with his sexual orientation......

Seeing her silent, Lu Yan continued to walk with her, and mediated: "Madam, don't think about it, there are too many secrets unknown to the Heavenly Family, maybe even they themselves will be cut and sorted out." When the pro-ploughing festival comes, you will naturally be able to meet everyone in the heavenly family. ”

Yao Duran exhaled lightly and asked, "What is the Pro-Ploughing Festival?" ”

Lu Yan explained: "The pro-ploughing festival is the pro-ploughing activities handed down by the ancestors, the climate of Nanqian is unique, everything is easy to plant, the founding ancestors of the country were the earliest based on farming, so Nanqian respects agriculture and heavy agriculture, in order to encourage agriculture and mulberry, in order to show that farming with the people, is to hold a pro-ploughing festival every year, the royal relatives and nobles in Beijing, up to His Majesty and the Queen, to the prince and princess, as well as the princess and the princess, down to the civil and military officials and wives, must take the lead in going to the Tianshan Garden to plough for a month. ”

Yao Duran was really distracted, and was surprised to hear it, and hurriedly asked, "What about me?" Am I going to go too? ”

Lu Yan smiled: "Naturally, you are the wife of a fourth-grade official." However, there is also an age limit for this pro-farming festival, and those who have passed half a hundred and those who are less than fifteen do not have to participate. In addition, if you are sick, or if your wife is pregnant or confined, you can take leave and be absent. Also, the concubine room is not allowed to enter the elegant hall, and the concubine room is not forced to cultivate it personally, but having said that, every year, except for His Majesty who does not bring concubines, courtiers do not bring concubines, and the side rooms that are favored in our princes' mansions are volunteered to chase after them every year. ”

Yao Duran asked again: "When is the pro-farming festival?" ”

Lu Yan said: "It will be in the middle of next month." In mid-July, when the autumn harvest is busy, harvesting wheat and breaking buds is all royal work. ”

Yao Duran understood and sighed: "Think about it, that scene is very spectacular, there must be a lot of women." ”

Lu Yan said: "Yes, every year when I go to Lintian Mountain Garden to plow, it is really fragrant, the sound of warblers and swallows, not to mention some lively to see." ”

Yao Duran said in her heart, so many women are gathered in one place, it is strange that it is not lively.

"By the way, madam, after talking for a long time, will you do farm work?" Midori looked at her suspiciously.

Yao Duran smiled and asked rhetorically, "If not, what should I do?" ”

Lu Yan said: "If you don't know, you have Qiao Gongzi to teach you, if Qiao Gongzi can't do it, there are still many teaching stewards in the mountain garden, they will teach these nobles, keep up with everyone to learn for a month, and it will be in the coming year." ”

Yao Duran listened and said, "Silly green man, you don't know, I'm not a noble person, why can't I do this farm work?" I remember when I was a child, after my sister and I came back from school, we would help my parents do farm work, work in the farmland and steal time to play, fold willow weaving, go down to the river to fish, and pick wild vegetables with a basket on my back......"

As he spoke, a burst of soreness and colic suddenly hit his heart, Yao Dui dyed a sour nose, quickly closed his eyes, and exhaled lightly, forcing himself to stop. A living person, but no relatives, this is the pain of her life. Many things, she didn't think about it, but she didn't dare, it was this escape that allowed her to live to this day. She sometimes thinks that if one day she has to kill herself, but she doesn't have the guts and courage, then she can dig deep into these past events, think about them carefully, think about them a few times, and she will be in pain, and her heart can be desperate and broken, and then die without hesitation.

"Ma'am, are you alright?" Seeing that her face was wrong, Lu Yan hurriedly supported her.

Yao Duran opened her eyes and shook her head: "It's okay, I've done enough shopping, let's go back." ”

The master and servant watched the strange scene of the horse kneeling on the street, and talked for a long time, and finally walked back.

At dusk, Qiao Fengzhi and Huo Jingyao also came back from playing, and it seemed that Huo Jingyao would stay for dinner before leaving.

And Qiao Fengzhi was carrying a birdcage in his hand, and while placing it on the table in the courtyard, he shouted: "Dyer, come out and tease the birds." ”

Yao Duran came to the courtyard at this time, and when she saw Huo Jingyao, she sighed in her heart, and then looked at the caged bird as if nothing happened.

It was a wren, large, fat and round, with a purple-blue body and a metallic sheen. I heard that the wren's call is loud and clear, can imitate and produce a variety of melodic tones, is the best at talking among birds, and is the best training, but the price is not expensive.

Huo Jingyao looked at Qiao Fengzhi teasing the bird, and wondered: "Fengzhi, how have you dealt with animals these days?" I didn't see that you still had such a hobby. ”

Qiao Fengzhi fed the bird a pine nut and said, "It's not that I have such a hobby, I just want to relieve my wife's boredom, so I bought it." I heard that this bird can recite poems, let's listen to it. ”

Having said that, the fat bird in the cage didn't open his mouth for a long time, and just ate the pine nuts, Qiao Fengzhi was impatient, so he handed the pine nuts in his hand to Yao Duran: "Dye'er, you can try it." ”

"Haha-" Huo Jingyao laughed and quipped: "Fengzhi, look at what you mean, dare you want this to be a male bird, and he doesn't eat your set, so you change the woman to tease?" You, or the concept is too old-fashioned, if you want me to say, everyone has love, regardless of male and female, as long as you are interested, you don't necessarily have to match male and female, the same sex can also be a pair. ”

What he said was too bold and straightforward, and there was some kind of hint hidden in it, not only Yao Duran frowned, but even Qiao Fengzhi frowned, speechless.

"Funny birds, let's laugh at the birds." Fu Quan saw that the atmosphere was not right, and reversed it at the right time.

Yao Duran suppressed his expression, handed another pine nut in his hand, but did not feed it into its mouth, but dangled it on the edge of its sharp mouth to tempt it, and coaxed it in his mouth: "Do you want to eat it?" I'll give you a word, okay? ”

The bird twisted its head and chased after it and couldn't eat pine nuts, and finally hummed a few times, and suddenly said crisply and loudly: "There is a beautiful person, and I will never forget it-there is a beautiful person, and I will never forget it-"

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter, so shocked that the iron bone "Gulu" turned over, wagged his tail and looked this way, and he didn't know that the bones in his mouth had fallen.

"Our lady is beautiful, even this bird has opened her mouth to praise it, haha-" Fuquan smiled.

Qiao Fengzhi's face was full of surprise, looked at the bird, and then looked at Yao Duran, and said with a smile: "This bird really understands people's hearts, it just said what was in my heart, haha-"

Yao Duran pursed her lips and smiled, and fed the bird a pine nut.

Huo Jingyao pursed his lips and said bluntly: "Yes, Mrs. Qiao is indeed beautiful, not only does this bird have to praise when she sees it, but even my sixth brother sacrifices his life to save it." ”

As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere suddenly stiffened again.

Huo Jingyao looked left and right, and hurriedly said, "Oops! I seem to have said the wrong thing again, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. So saying, he ran to the courtyard gate, and disappeared in the sound of a dog barking.

As soon as he left, the atmosphere eased again, Qiao Fengzhi continued to tease the bird as if nothing happened, and Yao Duran only didn't hear Fang Cai's words. In the end, Fuquan and Lu Yan shouted for Yao Duran to name the bird, Yao Duran thought about it, and said: "The poem it just read is from "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix • Qin Song", it is better to call it Qin Song." ”

"What a name! It's called a piano song! Qiao Fengzhi agreed.

Fuquan's eyes rolled and he said in surprise: "Oh, now we have iron bones in our yard and qin songs, isn't this exactly the answer to the iron bone tenderness (qin)?" ”

As soon as these words came out, everyone suddenly realized, and another burst of laughter echoed in the courtyard for a long time.

……

The days were as usual, and in a blink of an eye, on the 29th of June, someone came to the East Palace to spread the word, this person was Qin An, he sent a red invitation, it turned out that today was Huo Jingcheng's birthday.

East Palace.

The sunset dyes the glow, spreading in the sky. In the sheng flute hall of the banquet guests, the lights were lit early, and the glow of the hall was swaying. A group of maids shuttled through it as lightly as flowers and butterflies, preparing wine cloth plates and setting up tables and chairs...... When everything was arranged, the light night fell.

For today's birthday banquet, Huo Jingcheng only invited a few brothers and sisters in Beijing, and the courtiers only invited Yun Ce and Qiao Fengzhi.

The guests arrived one after another, looking at the figure, whether it was the prince or the princess, each of them was graceful and unspeakably expensive.

The crown princess stood in front of the hall with a dignified appearance, and sat down in the Sheng Xiao Hall with the Huo family sisters. Not long after, Huo Jingcheng, Yun Ce, Qiao Fengzhi, and the three of them arrived together.

Everyone stood up to salute, Huo Jingcheng looked around with a smile, and said, "All brothers and sisters have been waiting for a long time. Yun Xiang and Feng Zhi arrived at the East Palace at dusk, and the main hall played a game of chess with their master and apprentice, and the chess game was over, so it was too late. ”