Shen Bai's movements on the horse were too neat, Zhao Mingxi was shocked, and his eyes were different when he looked at Shen Bai, and after getting on the horse, he listened to Shen Bai's explanation of skills very carefully.

Shen Bai originally wanted to take Zhao Mingxi around the school field for an afternoon to practice, but after just two turns, his breathing was a little difficult, and his chest was also covered with dense tingling.

She frowned and covered her chest, she wanted to hold on for a while, but she saw Gu Hengzhou striding towards this side.

Gu Hengzhou grabbed the reins of the horse, stretched out his hand to her and said, "Slow down." ”

Shen Bai obediently dismounted, and stumbled when he landed, Gu Hengzhou grabbed her waist and hugged her very tightly, and the aura exuded was a little chilly.

Zhao Mingxi was a little frightened, and asked nervously: "Sister Kite, what's wrong with you?" ”

Shen Bai shook his head and said: "It's not a big deal, it's an old problem, Commander Gu's riding skills are much better than mine, Your Royal Highness the princess might as well practice riding skills with Commander Gu." ”

Zhao Mingxi was a little afraid of Gu Hengzhou, and still wanted to learn from Shen Bai, but Gu Hengzhou didn't give her a chance to refuse, and when Shen Bai stood firm, he got on Shen Bai's horse directly, and said to Zhao Mingxi: "Her Royal Highness the princess come with me." ”

Zhao Mingxi could only follow Gu Hengzhou to continue practicing.

Shen Bai covered his chest and walked to the side, Zhou Jue took a water bladder from nowhere and handed it to Shen Bai, Shen Bai took it and took a sip.

The white fungus in it was still hot, and after drinking it, the discomfort quickly dissipated.

Zhou Jue watched with his hands on his chest, and habitually scolded Shen Bai: "Didn't you go to heaven and earth to do everything before, how did you make your body like this?" ”

Shen Bai calmed his breath, watched Gu Hengzhou teach Zhao Mingxi to practice riding, and said calmly: "Birth, old age, sickness and death have their own fate, do you think I want to make myself like this?" ”

Zhou Jue still wanted to speak, but Shen Bai preemptively said, "Are you and Brother Gu coming to the Imperial Horse Prison to pick horses?" Brother Gu will help me teach the princess how to ride, and I will accompany you to pick a horse. ”

The business really can't be delayed, Zhou Jue confirmed that Shen Bai was nothing serious, and then went with her to pick up a horse.

The horses of the imperial horse supervisor are carefully raised, but after leaving the palace, there are many people, and there are many emergencies, so it is necessary to pick a horse with a more docile temperament, and take it out for a walk before the sacrifice and prayer, so as to give birth to a domesticated one.

In the previous life, this kind of thing was done by Shen Bai and Zhou Jue, Shen Bai is also very proficient, and the horses picked out are very suitable for Zhou Jue's mind, Zhou Jue originally didn't think that Shen Bai could help him anything, but after seeing the horses picked by Shen Bai, he felt that Shen Bai and him had a tacit understanding, if they could work together, it should be a lot easier.

If Shen Bai knew what Zhou Jue was thinking, he would definitely roll his eyes, when she worked with Zhou Jue in the previous life, whether it was in the court or in private, the political opinions were completely different, and they would quarrel if they couldn't say three sentences, which was really not a pleasant experience.

After picking a horse for a while, Shen Bai still couldn't stand the silence, and took the initiative to ask: "You just got a son, why didn't Your Majesty give you a holiday to spend more time with the child at home?" ”

"There are so many people in the house watching, I can't treat them badly, what is there to accompany?" Zhou Jue said nonchalantly, Shen Bai turned his head to look at him, seeing that he looked bleak, he didn't expect much from this son, not to mention how much he liked Jiang Qinse, he couldn't help but be a little strange, and asked suspiciously: "I have heard a lot of rumors in the city in the past few days, have you heard of it?" ”

Zhou Jue asked, "What rumors?" ”

It's not like I don't know, I just want to see what Shen Bai hears.

Shen Bai raised his eyebrows and said: "It is rumored that you and your wife have a discordant relationship, Miss Jiang was the first talented woman in Hanjing back then, and her appearance and family background are excellent, what are you not satisfied with her?" ”

"I don't want to rely on her to take any fame, what about the first talented girl?" Zhou Jue muttered quietly, but Shen Bai didn't hear it too clearly, and asked, "What?" ”

Zhou Jue was a little impatient, and said lightly: "It's nothing." ”

He didn't look like anything like nothing at all.

Shen Bai walked over and bumped his arm, and said, "Although I have been pretending to be a man for more than ten years, I am a daughter after all, and I know more about the thoughts of the girl's family, if you have any questions, you may as well tell me, I promise not to tell others." ”

Although Shen Bai was always in trouble when he was in Tai Academy, his tone was still strict in the end, Zhou Jue was a little shaken, and Shen Bai continued to persuade: "A beautiful girl like Miss Jiang, how many people dream of marrying her, are you willing to be so violent and awkward to live with her for the rest of your life?" ”

Zhou Jue was stimulated, gave Shen Bai a roll of his eyes, and said in a muffled voice: "Do you think I am bored all day long and want to make trouble with her?" ”

It's not that he wants to make trouble, it's that Jiang Qinse wants to make trouble?

Also, in the previous life, although Zhou Jue was always lingering on flowers like Shen Bai, he had always been very gentle and polite to women, Jiang Qinse was the wife he was marrying, and it was impossible for him to treat her harshly.

"Did you go to the flower house after you got married?" Shen Bai asked curiously, Zhou Jue's eyes stabbed Shen Bai with a knife, Zhou Deshan was safe and sound in this life, with him in charge, Zhou Jue naturally couldn't indulge himself so much.

Zhou Jue's face sank, and after a long while, she said coldly: "She dislikes the recklessness of martial artists and likes those weak scholars. ”

Civil and military affairs are light on each other, most of these families are scholarly, and the girls who have been raised naturally have some prejudices against martial arts, Jiang Qinse is full of poetry and books, and it is normal for him to yearn for a talented and handsome son.

But Zhou Jue has always been handsome, if it weren't for his father being Zhou Deshan, he would probably be a talented man with five cars, and it would not be difficult to become Jiang Qinse's favorite appearance.

Shen Bai looked at the red mole that disappeared from his eyebrows, and asked suspiciously: "Could it be that you removed all the moles on your eyebrows because you were angry with her?" ”

Zhou Jue didn't refute, Shen Bai was a little surprised, thought about it and comforted: "A manly man, be broad-minded, you have to let others do it." ”

These words fell on Zhou Jue's ears very harshly, his whole face fell, he was still angry, and said in a deep voice: "I don't plan to worry about her, but she is a backhouse woman, just live her own life, and she still wants to interfere with me and let me abandon martial arts, which is a little too serious!" ”

Zhaoling has always been male and inferior, advocating marrying chickens and dogs, Zhou Jue was promoted to the commander of the Praetorian Guard within three years, and his position was not low, and he was on an errand in Hanjing, which was much better than Gu Hengzhou's guarding at the border pass, and the reward in the palace on weekdays would not be less, which should be regarded as a good errand.

And at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Zhao Che also gave Jiang Qinse an order, Jiang Qinse in front of these ladies in Beijing, his face is also full, Zhou Jue Congwen or Congwu, it has no impact on her, why has she been obsessed with making Zhou Jue a civil official?

Shen Bai was a little puzzled, Zhou Jue gritted his teeth and said hatefully: "She always said that if it weren't for the decline of the Jiang family, she would never marry me, as if the lintel of our Zhou family had insulted her, if she really fell in love with a talented little white face, why didn't she give up everything to marry her?" lest you marry me and be wronged! ”

Zhou Jue was full of anger when he mentioned this, but Shen Bai's mind inexplicably appeared on the day of the Oiran Competition, Gu Hengxiu's boat and the person who got off the boat.

Jiang Qinse doesn't like men who dance knives and guns, shouldn't he like people who are weak and sickly like Gu Hengxiu now?

Shen Bai felt that he was thinking a little too much, so he quickly cut off his thoughts and comforted Zhou Jue a few words.

Zhou Jue couldn't find anyone to complain, just when Shen Bai asked and said a few words, he didn't dwell on this topic.

The two quickly picked out the horses, Gu Hengzhou was still taking Zhao Mingxi to practice, Zhou Jue took people to train the horses first, Shen Bai sat in the school field for an hour, and Gu Hengzhou finished training.

Zhao Mingxi had never trained so high-intensity, after getting off the horse, his little face was wrinkled into a bun, his legs were so weak that he couldn't do it, and it hurt a little, Gu Hengzhou carried her on his back and sent her back to the palace with Shen Bai, and then sent Shen Bai back to Nanchen Palace.

Shen Bai had recovered at this time, but Gu Hengzhou's eyes were still very serious when he looked at her, and when he was about to arrive at Nanchen Palace, Gu Hengzhou asked Shen Bai: "What kind of medicine did you take that day, and the formula was given to me." ”

Murong Xuan only gave Shen Bai medicine, not the formula, Shen Bai looked at Gu Hengzhou casually, and asked, "Why do you suddenly ask for a prescription?" ”

Gu Hengzhou said: "I'll ask someone from Tai Hospital to help see if I can improve it so that I can cure your disease at the root." ”

He didn't want to watch her suffer from illness all the time.

Shen Bai's heart was warm, he stretched out his hand to hug Gu Hengzhou, and said softly: "Brother Gu, you know, my illness is not an ordinary disease, ordinary doctors can't cure me, the medicine was given to me by the Dongfang family, but it didn't give me a prescription." ”

Gu Hengzhou stiffened his face and didn't speak, Shen Bai hit his chest with his head, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, it is said that the scourge will last for thousands of years, I didn't die three years ago, and now I won't die." ”

Gu Hengzhou stopped talking, and silently pushed Shen Bai away, Shen Bai tilted his head to look at him, waved his hand and said, "Brother Gu, then I'll go back." ”

Gu Hengzhou didn't respond, Shen Bai turned around and went back to Nanchen Palace, just after telling Murong Xuan about choosing a concubine in a few days, someone from the palace came to spread Zhao Che's will to summon Shen Bai to eat.

Shen Bai went to Chenhua Palace alone, Zhao Che finished dealing with the day's government affairs, just finished bathing, changed into loose bedclothes, and his hair was still wet, which was two points more casual than when he put on the dragon robe.

The palace people had already set up a table of rich ingredients, and Shen Bai thanked him before he sat down, and found that most of the dishes on the table were medicinal food, and there was still a faint medicinal smell after the imperial chef carefully cooked them.

Zhao Che said: "You are not in good health, these are medicinal diets carefully prepared by the imperial doctor, which are very good for recuperating the body, try it." ”

"Your Majesty bothered." Shen Bai politely took a look, picked up the chopsticks and tried two dishes, in the end, it was from the hands of the imperial chef, it tasted very good, Shen Bai raised his eyebrows slightly, "It's delicious." ”

Without Zhao Che's order, all the palace people stood aside and waited, Zhao Che pinched his sleeves, personally put a chopstick dish into her bowl for Shen Bai, and said gently: "If you like it, eat more, and try this again." ”

The palace people who were waiting on the side were all shocked, there was no lady in the palace, and the new emperor had been on the throne for three years, and it was the first time he was so attentive to a woman.

Shen Bai thanked him, ate the dishes in the bowl, and praised them crisply and deliciously.

In the next time, Zhao Che basically gave her vegetables, she ate with her head bored, these dishes were really delicious, Shen Bai ate very fragrantly, and Zhao Che also ate half a bowl of rice more than usual.

After eating and drinking, the palace people removed the food and sent fruit tea, the fruit tea was greasy, and it would not make people unable to sleep at night, Shen Bai drank a big cup again, Zhao Che didn't like sweet, he only rubbed the teacup and didn't drink much. chamberlain

He asked Shen Bai some about the customs of Nanxiang Kingdom, and Shen Bai picked a few novel things and said.

She likes to listen to books, and when she speaks, she is as lively as Mr. Storyteller, and Zhao Che is interesting to listen to.

He had been staying in Chenhua Palace until he was in Xu, and Zhao Che asked Sun Yuehai to send Shen Bai back to Nanchen Palace.

Sun Yuehai came back from Nanchen Palace, Zhao Che rarely put aside those government affairs and lay down in bed early, but he hadn't slept yet, and he rested on the bed with a smile on the corner of his lips.

Sun Yuehai walked to the side of the bed and kneaded Zhao Che's legs and feet, and seeing that Zhao Che was in a good mood, he whispered: "The Oriental girl is so interesting, it is the first time that the old slave has seen such a eloquent person." ”

Zhao Che answered, and said after a while: "Tomorrow, let the Internal Affairs Office give her the red coral that was stored last month." ”

Sun Yuehai was shocked, hesitated for a moment and reminded: "Your Majesty, that red coral is in excellent condition and priceless, the Queen Mother said before that she would leave it to the Empress, and Your Majesty is now giving it to the Oriental Girl, where the Empress Dowager ......"

"I'll talk about it."

Zhao Che interrupted without hesitation, Sun Yuehai lowered his head, did not dare to persuade again, and responded again and again.

The next day, the red coral was sent from the Internal Affairs Office to the Nanchen Palace, and there were so many pairs of eyes in the palace that soon even the people outside the palace knew that the Oriental girl from Nanxiang Kingdom was deeply favored by His Majesty, and she actually got the red coral that the Queen Mother left to the future mother of the country.

On the second day of the red coral sent to Nanchen Palace, Zhao Che went to Ci'an Palace to accompany the Queen Mother for dinner, and on the second day, the Queen Mother also gave a lot of things to Nanchen Palace.

As soon as the news spread, everyone was a little dumbfounded.

If they remember correctly, at the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, Gu Hengzhou once said in public that he asked to marry this oriental girl, what did His Majesty and the Queen Mother suddenly do, could it be that they wanted to rob Gu Hengzhou?

Zhenguo Gong has been guarding the border for many years, and Gu Hengzhou is such a son under his knees, and Gu Hengzhou has also made a lot of military achievements for Zhaoling.

Everyone secretly speculated, no one knew what Zhao Che wanted to do, Shen Bai, as one of the parties discussed, was very calm, and Cheng Ri either accompanied Zhao Mingxi to practice riding in the school field, or accompanied Concubine Shu in Xinchen Palace.

On the day of the rain, the lady concubine invited the nobles of Beijing to enjoy the flowers in the imperial garden and welcome the nectar.

Concubine Shu has not been out of Xinchen Palace for a long time, the weather was very good that day, the warm sun was shining, the spring breeze was warm, Shen Bai and Zhao Mingxi were by Concubine Shu's side, Zhao Xian's injuries had healed a lot, and he attended with Murong Xuan.

The people who attended the banquet were all young girls, and as the only two male guests, they drank tea and wine in a pavilion by themselves, and they were not with Shen Bai and them.

After a while, all the ladies went to the imperial garden under the guidance of the palace people, although it was nominally to enjoy the flowers, everyone knew that the purpose of this banquet was to select the imperial concubines for the five princes of Nanxiangguo.

There are not many noble girls who want to marry far away, and everyone enters the palace according to their usual clothes, and there is no scene of competition at the Lantern Festival banquet.

Most of these people, Shen Bai and Concubine Shu didn't recognize each other, so as soon as Lu Xiu came, she was called by Concubine Shu.

Lu Xiu was often by the Queen Mother's side before, and Concubine Shu also talked to the Queen Mother when she asked her to say goodbye, and she had a very good impression of her.

Concubine Shu talked to Lu Xiu for a while, and asked suspiciously, "Where is your sister?" This palace remembers the Lantern Festival banquet before, and you also have a sister who also came to the banquet, why is it only you who came today? ”

Lu Xi was dressed up quite outstandingly that day, and it is normal to be remembered, Lu Xiu whispered: "My sister was married to the second son of Gu from the Guogong Mansion the day before yesterday, and she was preparing for marriage in the past two days, so she couldn't come today, and I asked my mother to forgive me." ”

Concubine Shu was surprised and asked suspiciously: "She is still young, and you should be the first to discuss marriage, why are you in such a hurry?" ”

Lu Xiuwen said with a smile: "My sister is outstanding, Second Young Master Gu has seen her sister before, so she fell in love with her sister and sincerely asked to marry, the family style of the Guogong Mansion is positive, Second Young Master Gu is also a reliable person, it is difficult to find a good fate, so my aunt decided to make the marriage." ”

There is nothing wrong with this explanation, Concubine Shu nodded, and said with a smile: "It is naturally excellent to be able to marry into the Guogong Mansion." ”

Shen Bai echoed on the side, but he couldn't stop sneering in his heart, Mrs. Lu was really too weak-hearted, she just mentioned that Murong Xuan saw the back of a girl, and she didn't even dare to let Lu Xi participate in the banquet.

The banquet started soon, and the girls didn't dare to show themselves, for fear that they would marry Nanxiang far away if they were selected, Concubine Shu didn't care, she just talked to Lu Xiu, and when the banquet was halfway through, Concubine Shu found an excuse to take Shen Bai away.

Shen Bai went to the pavilion where Murong Xuan and Zhao Xian were, and the two talked happily and ate quite happily.

Shen Bai walked into the pavilion and saluted Zhao Xian first, and then walked to Murong Xuan and sat down, and said lazily: "The concubine asked me to come over and ask the fifth brother, among these girls today, is there a favorite candidate for the fifth brother?" ”

Murong Xuan had discussed it with Shen Bai before, and knowing that the person who calculated him that night was not there, he said lightly: "These girls are all very good, but I haven't seen any of them today, and Concubine Lao is bothered." ”

"Fifth brother, if you continue to be picky like this, it will be easy to die alone." Shen Bai took the opportunity to scold Murong Xuan, got up and walked out of the pavilion, and replied to Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu didn't expect to be able to promote a marriage, and there was no big reaction after listening to it, so she sat down until the end of the day, and waited until all the girls were led away by the palace people before returning to Xinchen Palace.

Concubine Shu was very happy today, drank a few more glasses of fruit wine, Shen Bai helped her back to Xinchen Palace, she lay down and fell asleep.

The palace people called hot water, Shen Bai personally helped Concubine Shu clean her face and wipe her face, and only returned to Nanchen Palace after doing all this, along the way Shen Bai was thinking about how to eradicate the power of the Lu family little by little, and when he entered the house, he saw Murong Xuan sitting in the room with a snort, and there was a black green in his left eye, as if he had been beaten.

Murong Xuan's appearance was a little funny, and Shen Bai couldn't help but smile and asked, "Why haven't you been like this for a while, you won't fight with Prince Xiao, right?" ”

Murong Xuan glanced at Shen Bai sideways, and said with a cold face: "When I meet a crazy woman, if I don't see that she is a woman, I will definitely beat her all over the ground looking for teeth!" ”

Murong Xuan gritted his teeth when he said it, Shen Bai was stunned, the palace was heavily guarded, where did some crazy woman come from?

was puzzled, Sun Yuehai came to find Shen Bai, Shen Bai went to the imperial study with him, and when he was about to arrive, a woman wearing a long skirt embroidered with red silver silk embroidered hibiscus and dressed as a woman was led by the palace people to pass by her.

The woman looked quite young, only about twenty, her eyes were red, she looked like she had just cried, Shen Bai felt familiar, but he didn't remember who the woman was for a while.

Entering the imperial study, Zhao Che was drinking ginseng tea according to his temples, and the recital on the table was a little messy, as if he had just made a fire.

Sun Yuehai didn't follow in, closed the door outside, Shen Bai stood in front of the table in a proper manner, and whispered, "Iris, to see Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Che opened his eyes, and he was not polite, frowning and said, "Come here, help me rub my head." ”

Shen Bai walked over to help him pinch, Zhao Che closed his eyes to enjoy, and asked after a while, "Just came over to see the fifth princess?" ”

It turned out to be the fifth princess Zhao Mingyi, no wonder she looked so familiar.

Shen Bai nodded and responded, "I saw it." ”

Zhao Che pursed his lips and lost his voice, Shen Bai hesitated for a moment and said, "I see that the fifth princess's eyes are very red, as if she has cried, but what grievances have she suffered?" ”

"She did it herself!" Zhao Che snorted coldly, and got angry again, Shen Bai stopped the movement in his hand, Zhao Che opened his eyes and said in a deep voice, "At the beginning, I wanted to give her to the prince of Lingyang Hou, but she refused to live or die, she had to marry the eldest son of the official Shangshu, and it was only less than a year since she got married, and she came to cry with me again and wanted to reconcile, and she really took the marriage event as a child's play." ”

Lingyang Hou Zu is also a military general, but later abandoned martial arts and became a famous scholar in Zhaoling, this Lingyang Hou Shizi learned rich five cars, and later was a famous writer, Zhao Mingyi should be very happy if he marries him.

Compared with the eldest son of the Ministry of Shangshu and the prince of Lingyang Hou, it is not a little bit worse.

In the previous life, Shen Bai hadn't heard that Zhao Mingyi was going to reconcile, so he heard it a little strange at first glance, and asked suspiciously: "The fifth princess was going to marry against His Majesty's wishes, but now she is crying and coming back and saying that she wants to reconcile, but this concubine has done something very excessive, so that the fifth princess has suffered a lot of grievances?" ”

Shen Bai asked the key, Zhao Che's face was also difficult to look at, and he was silent for a moment and said with a cold face: "Mingyi has been married to him for more than half a year, and it is still complete. ”

“……”

Shen Bai felt that there was something wrong with his ears.

Zhao Mingyi passed by her, although Shen Bai didn't look very carefully, he also knew that the fifth princess cried like pear blossoms with rain, she was a weak and beautiful girl, didn't this concubine Mo have a physical problem?

As soon as this thought came to mind, Zhao Che said again: "He has been coaxing Mingyi before, saying that he is unwell and should not have sex with him. ”

Scumbag!

This thought immediately appeared in Shen Bai's mind, and Zhao Che said with a stiff face: "This marriage was asked for by herself, and if she divorces now, it will only become a joke for the entire Hanjing." ”

"Your Majesty is unwilling to support the Fifth Princess and Li?" Shen Bai asked softly, Zhao Che pursed his lips and was silent, Shen Bai probably understood his attitude, and asked in a different way, "The official department is relied on by His Majesty, and now is the time to rectify the atmosphere of the various families, Your Majesty doesn't want to ruin his plan because of the fifth princess?" ”

These words poked Zhao Che's sore spot, and he lifted his eyes to look at Shen Bai and asked, "In your eyes, I am such a person?" ”

There is no point in arguing on this topic, Shen Bai said calmly: "The concubine deceived the princess into raising the outer room, and the outer room has been pregnant for several months, so it seems that from the beginning, it is not sincere to marry the princess, it is impossible for the people of Shangshu Mansion not to know, but they are deliberately doing it, they are already contemptuous of the royal family, such an act, does Your Majesty think they are still worth relying on?" ”

"I need a good moment."

Zhao Che made a concession, Shen Bai's eyes lit up, he looked at Zhao Che and said, "Your Majesty, a good time never comes by waiting. ”