Yongchang Imperial Capital, Imperial Palace.

Seeing Shi Fangzhen's index finger clicking briskly on the table, Liu Weiguo, the great eunuch standing on the side, knew that the Son of Heaven was in a good mood. The hand pressed on the hard object in the sleeve, and the jade pendant that the lady lady rewarded was really timely.

The three pilot prefectures have cleared more than 20,000 hectares of farmland and paid more than 200,000 taels of back taxes, especially Renzhou, which cleared more than 12,340 hectares of encroached fields. Next year, the acres of land can be fully spread, and when I have enough money, I will teach the barbarians in the north a big lesson.

Shi Fangzhen stood up and pushed open the window, the cold wind and snowflakes blew in his face, and the stuffiness in the room was swept away. Shi Fangzhen expanded his chest, stretched his waist, and said with a smile: "Go back to the palace." ”

Liu Weiguo carefully put on the fur coat for the Son of Heaven, and said softly: "Today is the birthday of Concubine Shuniang, long live the lord?" ”

"Swing the Shujing Palace." Shi Fangzhen strode out of the study, did not take a luan car, stepped on the snow with great interest, and walked all the way to Shujing Palace.

In the square in front of Shujing Palace, the second prince Shi Chongjie was tightly wrapped, like a clumsy little dog and bear rolling and playing in the snow, and a large group of eunuchs and palace maids were hugging each other shouting, for fear of bumping into the prince.

Shi Chongjie was only five years old, which was the age when he was naughty and active, so he grabbed Xiao Xizi and said, "Father-in-law, didn't you say that you would build a snowman, hurry up." ”

Xiao Xizi was the palace doctor of Shujing Palace, and Huang Shufei sometimes asked him to teach the second prince to read and write. Xiao Xizi naturally will not let go of the opportunity, and will do her best to please the mother and the prince, in Shujing Palace, everyone knows that the happy father-in-law is a celebrity in the eyes of the mother. Xiaofuzi didn't dare to fight with him, so he begged his father-in-law Tang Wenzhong to be transferred to the Inner Government Bureau on an errand.

The palace maids and eunuchs helped with all their hands and feet, erecting the shape of a person high, and someone found two briquettes, installed two eyes for the snowman, a wooden spine for the nose, and inserted a bamboo broom into the hand.

Shi Chongjie clapped his hands happily, circling around the snowman, Xiao Xizi's eyes were moist, and he remembered the scene when his father took him to build a snowman when he was a child.

The palace maids and eunuchs beside him knelt on the ground together, and when a big man came, Xiao Xizi immediately knelt on the ground, lowering his head and not daring to see who it was.

"Father, father." Shi Chongjie happily pounced and opened his arms.

Shi Fangzhen picked up his son and said with a smile: "It's a lot heavier than last time, I'm playing in the snow, beware of catching a cold, what about your mother?" ”

"The last time my father came, the child only wore two clothes, and now that he wears more, he will naturally be heavier." Shi Chongjie's milky words made Shi Fangzhen Longyan happy, and walked towards the palace with his son in his arms.

Shi Fangzhen has three sons and three daughters, the eldest daughter and the eldest son are all born to Queen Wang, Huang Shufei gave birth to a second son Shi Chongjie, the third son Shi Chongren, the second daughter Princess Anyang was born by Liu Guifei, and there is a baby girl who was born to the new He Meiren.

Huang Shufei dressed up carefully, and came to greet her after getting the report. Concubine Huang Shufei was dressed in a big red cloud cotton palace dress, the long skirt of the emerald green brocade was like a lotus leaf field, the black hair was like a cloud, and the Danfeng hanging beads and hairpins were obliquely inserted, which looked rich and graceful, elegant and solemn.

Shi Fangzhen's eyes lit up, Concubine Huang in his impression Chinese is quiet and weak, is a very bookish woman, rarely dresses up, did not expect that the makeup is no less than the new beauty, but also a mature charm.

His heart was hot, and Shi Fangzhen said with a smile: "Concubine Ai's birthday, in addition to the usual rewards, yesterday Hengzhou presented a batch of brocades, all kinds of colors and concubines are selected to make some clothes, I see that Concubine Ai's usual clothes are a little too plain." ”

"Thank you for the reward, the queen sent someone to send a congratulatory gift early in the morning, and the concubines didn't dare to ask for it."

Shi Fangzhen liked Huang Shufei's ungreedy temperament the most, and said with a smile: "The queen is the queen's heart, I can't express it, I love the concubine to raise Jie'er hard, I am very relieved." ”

"Father, father, I can memorize "Thousand Words"." Shi Chongjie was in Shi Fangzhen's arms, and when he heard his father mention his name, he hurriedly expressed his merits.

"Oh, come and listen to it, I will be rewarded for memorizing it well."

In Shujing Palace, Shi Chongjie's children's voice was reciting "Thousand Character Text" word by word, and when the last sentence of "lonely and unheard, ignorant and so on, predicate helper, and Yan Zai Hu also" was finished, Shi Fangzhen was pleasantly surprised to hold his son in his arms, kissed him twice on the little face, and asked: "Can it be solved?" ”

"Father-in-law Xi just said, 'The phoenix is in the bamboo, and the white horse eats the field. Turned into grass and trees, relying on all directions'. It means that the phoenix chirps happily in the bamboo forest, and the little white horse eats grass freely in the pasture. The benevolent rule of the holy king has brought favor to all the plants and trees, and the favor has spread to the people of the world. Shi Chongjie explained with a serious face with a small face.

"Hahaha", Shi Fangzhen laughed heartily and said: "Jie'er is smart, no less than Wei'er, tell me, what do you want your father to reward you?" ”

Huang Shufei was ecstatic in her heart, and she was still cold and cold on the surface, but her eyes were more hot when she looked at her son.

Shi Chongjie's eyes were shining, and he said with a smile: "Father-in-law Xi said that he had eaten candy people when he was a child, but it was delicious, so my father should find someone to pinch candy people for the child." ”

"Sugar Man?" Shi Fangzhen asked suspiciously, "Who is Gonggong Xi?" ”

Father-in-law Xi (Zhang Bojin) quickly knelt on the ground and said, "Long live the slave and maid Xiao Xizi." ”

Shi Fang really saw that Xiao Xizi had a delicate face and looked polite, and Shi Chongjie's "Thousand Character Text" was taught by this person, so he had a little more affection for him, and said: "You get up and talk back, I ask you, what is a sugar man?" "Shi Fangzhen grew up in the deep palace, and occasionally went out of the palace to hug the front and back, and I have never seen this kind of food in the market.

"Long live, sugar man is a snack in the market. The sugar man master heats and blows the sugar to soften, and shapes it into people, animals, flowers and plants, which can be eaten and played. Xiao Xizi said tremblingly, he has been in the palace for more than two years, and it is the first time he has spoken to the Son of Heaven.

Shi Fangzhen heard Xiao Xizi's description clearly, was aroused, and asked, "Is there a sugar man master in Yongchang City?" ”

After receiving the reply, Shi Fangzhen sent a decree and summoned ten sugar man masters into the palace.

An hour later, Shujing Palace became lively, ten sugar man masters lined up, and took out all their skills to serve the Son of Heaven, the zodiac, all kinds of melons and fruits, ingots and lanterns, fairies and ghosts, fishermen fishing, and pagoda characters are all lifelike, not to mention that Shi Chongjie was overjoyed, and even Shi Fangzhen took a sugar horse and licked it in his mouth.

The prince, princess, queen, and concubines in the palace were all alarmed, and came to see the excitement in the name of paying homage to the concubine. In Shujing Palace, Concubine Huang had a lively and happy birthday.

Nearly two watches, Xiao Xizi returned to his residence with a sore back, but he couldn't suppress the ecstasy in his heart, from now on, he no longer needs to call Xiao Xizi, the Son of Heaven gave the surname Huang, Huang Xi's father-in-law, Shangyi Bureau Priest, the main scripture and history teaching, from the seventh grade.

Lighting a residual incense, the musty smell in the house dispelled a little, Huang Xi fell on the cold bed, in winter, not every place burns charcoal, and there are eunuchs and palace maids who are frozen to death in the palace every year.

From the seventh grade, it is equivalent to the county order of the lower county, and the same jinshi has not yet been selected from the seventh grade, let alone the county order, and it is so easy to get it. Huang Xi's tears flowed out, I don't know whether it was joy or sadness, he could have relied on his talent to become an official, but he relied on serving others to become an official, and it was not worth it for himself and for the world's scholars.

The news in the palace was blocked, and Huang Xi only knew that Jiang Anyi went to Renzhou to clear the fields. Jiang Anyi, wait for me, one day I will repay you for all the humiliation, wrap the quilt on my body tightly, Huang Xi fell asleep with longing and resentment.