Chapter 95: Exquisite Grace
"Xu Da doesn't eat soft ones, so we'll give him hard ones." Li Chengyi narrowed his eyes, and he was about to come out with cunning.
Hu Weiyong was silent, he didn't want to have a hard time with Xu Da. This is by no means the way he behaves with people.
However, he also realizes that this is an unusual time and that he must adjust his mindset, open his ears and listen carefully.
"In order to shut up Xu Da, Xia Guan can go to the soup for you. It's not just about this time, it's about your cause. ”
"Hmm." Hu Weiyong hinted that Li Chengyi continued.
"The last time the envoys of the Champa Kingdom paid you jade and horses, the lower officials found another thing on them."
Li Chengyi took out a small red porcelain vase from his arms.
This small porcelain vase was not brought by an envoy of the Champa Kingdom, but was given to him by the Lord himself.
"What's that?"
"Poison! This is a powder extracted from a poisonous plant in their local area, a little bit can be fatal, and no medicine can cure it, except for the antidote. ”
Li Chengyi's evil eyes glowed, as if he was enjoying the suffering of his enemies from this poison.
"Do you have an antidote?"
"Yes." Li Chengyi took out another small green porcelain vase from his arms.
Hu Weiyong nodded, he likes to think of a way out of everything first.
"You're going to kill Xu Da?" Hu Weiyong took the small red porcelain bottle from Li Chengyi's hand, why did he never think that poison was also a treasure?
"At this juncture, if Xu Da dies, won't the emperor be the first to ask me for blame?" Hu Weiyong shook his head.
"No, we won't let him die, but let him be at our mercy, more painful than death."
"And what are you going to do?"
"On his wife!"
Hu Weiyong and Li Chengyi looked at each other and smiled, and they interpreted each other in each other's smiles.
"No, even if something happens to his wife, all the spearheads will still point at me, and the emperor will not let me go." Hu Weiyong had a flash of inspiration, and his smile was shrouded in a dark cloud before he disappeared.
"Prime Minister, who would do something that there are no three hundred taels of silver here? The emperor will never believe that you dare to do it at this juncture. Li Chengyi and Hu Weiyong's cautious confrontation were difficult.
"I'll think again."
Hu Weiyong looked at the jujube tree in the sun outside the yard and thought in his heart: "When should I cut off some branches and leaves for it so that the jujube will grow bigger?" ”
Three watches in the middle of the night, the imperial garden of the palace. Two dark shadows whispered in a corner where the moonlight did not shine.
"In a few days, it will be the birthday of Xu Da's eldest lady Xie. His son-in-law, Yanwang Zhu Di, prepared a Xia curtain for her as a birthday gift. You go to the Yanwang Mansion and sprinkle some of this on that piece of silk. ”
A woman handed the man a bag of things, and she spoke softly, her face covered with a black veil.
"What is this?"
"Ulcer powder. After being stained, the skin will ulcerate, the smell is incomparable, and it will also attract flies and mosquito bites, and you will definitely die after 6636 days. ”
The man frowned and put the festering powder into his arms: "I heard that Xu Da and Hu Weiyong have been in trouble recently, we can borrow a knife to kill people, why do it ourselves?" ”
It was an older man who was talking to the woman. His voice was strong and powerful, trying to suppress his voice.
The woman sneered: "I don't know if Hu Weiyong's turtle hiding in the turtle shell has the guts, but what does he have to do with us if he can't make a move?" We went according to our plan, and now is the best opportunity to get rid of Xu Da. ”
Xu Da and Hu Weiyong turned against each other, Xu Da's wife Xie was poisoned, so naturally everyone would suspect Hu Weiyong. If Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't stood up for Xu Da and killed Hu Weiyong, Xie's brainless woman would definitely be restless. Guess what Zhu Yuanzhang will do? ”
"He's going to kill the Xie family?" The man was gradually persuaded by the woman.
"Well, that's all there is to it. Zhu Yuanzhang knew that the time to move Hu Weiyong had not yet come. ”
"Oh, I see, Zhu Yuanzhang killed the Xie family, and Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang ...... Okay, I'll go! The man fully comprehended, his brow furrowed, and his bright head was shining with the half-light moonlight.
"Be careful!" The woman solemnly commanded, and a silver-white hair fell to the ground and was carried farther away by the wind.
It is silent and will never reveal the identity of its owner.
Yanwang Mansion.
"Madam, it's my mother's birthday in two days, have you prepared all the birthday gifts for her?"
Zhu Di hugged Xu Miaoyun's waist from behind and gently leaned his face on Xu Miaoyun's shoulder.
He was very satisfied with the good wife that his father had chosen for him.
Xu Miaoyun is not only virtuous and steady, and cooks Yanwangfu in an orderly manner, but also has a talent and intelligence, likes to read, and often gives the most pertinent advice to Zhu Di when he is hesitating.
More importantly, Xu Miaoyun is Xu Da's daughter, and Zhu Di and Xu have reached a son-in-law relationship, which will play a vital role in his future development.
"Yes, Your Highness. Would you like to take a look? Xu Miaoyun admires Zhu Di's ability to fight well and strategize, and he has always respected him.
"No need," Zhu Di smiled, "Which time can you disappoint me?" With you taking care of such a big Yanwang Mansion for me, I am much more relaxed. Thanks to marrying such a virtuous and capable lady as you, all my energy can be used to manage the country for my father and to share his worries. ”
Zhu Di turned Xu Miaoyun's shoulders and hugged her into his arms.
Although they have been husband and wife for several years, Zhu Di's intimate act still made Xu Miaoyun's cheeks hot.
She pressed her face against Zhu Di's broad chest and whispered, "Your Highness, I haven't done much. I'm so ashamed that you're tired of being out on a saddle horse, and I wish I could share your worries too. ”
"Madam, outside the male protagonist and the female protagonist, they all have their own hard work, and it is not easy to do their own things well, only by doing their best. I understand what you have done for me, and it is my Zhu Di's blessing to be able to marry you. ”
The sweet words of a golden iron horse leader soaked into Xu Miaoyun's heart.
Xu Miaoyun's bowels were turning, and tears were rolling in her eyes.
"Why did you make your wife cry?" Zhu Di picked up the silk handkerchief, wiped away the tears for his wife, and immediately decided to change his position, "Go!" Let's take a look at the birthday gift for my mother. ”
The birthday gift is a beautiful blue lotus-colored Luo weaving xiaxia veil.
The front chest of the veil is decorated with graceful and luxurious moire and zhai patterns.
The moire is formed by the gradient of three-color layers, which is beautiful. Zhai pattern is supplemented by black embroidery for the gold embroidery, the color is bright, and the atmosphere is magnificent.
The edges of both sides are embroidered with white pearls, which are round and realistic. The waist crotch is embroidered with cranes, peacocks and other bird patterns, and lotus, ganoderma lucidum, and peony are intertwined.
The background color of green lotus is used as a vague background color to bring out the various patterns on the xiaxia curtain, and the overall color is rich and distinct, and the patterns are complex and not messy.
"Did you make this veil?" Zhu Di asked in surprise, although he was used to seeing beautiful clothes and crowns on weekdays, he was still amazed in the face of this Xia curtain.
Xu Miaoyun smiled slightly, her heart was full of joy, Zhu Di's affirmation was more important to her than anything else.
"Well, Miaojin has also come to help several times, so it can be said that our sisters did it together."
"Miaojin? This girl is crazy on weekdays, and she doesn't have a moment to be idle, but she didn't expect to be able to sit down and embroider? ”
Zhu Di laughed, but he was happy to discover another advantage of Xu Miaojin.
"Your Highness, don't underestimate our Miaojin, she is not serious on the surface, but in fact, she really does things better than me."
Xu Miaoyun stroked the stitches embroidered by her sister on the Xia veil: "Look, how realistic this Zhai Yu is, it is embroidered by Miaojin with a needle and a thread." If my mother knew that Miaojin embroidered a xia curtain for her, she would definitely be happy. Although Miaojin is not her own, her smart energy is liked by her mother. ”
"Well, let her embroider one for her brother-in-law in the future, but I don't think she willing, this girl is very strange."
"Hehe, everyone else is afraid of you, but she is not afraid of you. Sometimes she is more fierce to you than her father is to you, I really don't know where this girl got the guts. ”
"I'm going to fix her in the future." Zhu Di rolled up his sleeves, but his face was filled with a happy smile.
At night, a haunted person patronized the house of King Yan's mansion.
The moonlight shone on his shiny head, forcing the murderer to reveal his identity.
He has gone through the vicissitudes of time, but his dexterous body, which is still strong, floated away after sprinkling poison on the veil.
The whole process was only a snap of a finger, and no one in the Yanwang Mansion found that someone had come to this room, and this piece of Xia Wei had been touched.
The moon hid in the dark clouds in frustration, and her toil was never as valued as the sun.
On the eve of Mrs. Xu's birthday, Xu Miaoyun went to Zhongshan Wangfu to send a dazzling Xia veil.
"Sister, show me again!" Xu Miaojin said excitedly.
This is the first time she has given Mrs. Xie a gift, and it is also the first time she has completed a masterpiece with Xu Miaoyun.
"Okay, look at you girl in a hurry, you embroidered the Xia curtain really never get tired of seeing!"
Xu Miaoyun asked his subordinates to set up the hangers and put on the Xia veil.
"Wow, that's beautiful! Sister, look at the Zhai Yu I embroidered, alive! Xu Miaojin was triumphant, except for the part she embroidered, she couldn't see any other ingenious place.
"That's it!" Xu Miaoyun then cheered, "If you don't embroider this Zhai Yu, you won't be able to take the birthday gift for your mother." ”
"Sister, my mother's figure is about the same as mine, shall I try this dress for her old man?"
"You say it," Xu Miaoyun tapped Xu Miaojin's head with her finger and said angrily, "You said that you were trying on clothes for your mother, but in fact, you want to wear it yourself, right?" ”
"Hey, hey! Sister, this is your hard work, of course I love it. It's a blessing to have such a smart sister. By the way, sister, how did you come up with the idea of going to a folk embroidery workshop to learn from the scriptures? ”
"Your brother-in-law asked me to go, and he said it was called understanding the people's feelings. There are many great people in this people, embroiderers, dressmakers, healers, and those who eat. The materials used in them are not as exquisite as those in the palace, but the taste of those things is really no worse than what we eat. There is also that troupe, we listened to the drama in the palace, and it sounded like those plays. They're different, they dare to sing anything, but it's funny......"
Xu Miaoyun's face showed an irrepressible look of excitement, which was very different from the grace of her ladies.