Seeing Ma Ye's alert appearance, Li Xiu was also stunned, and then smiled: "It's just a small favor, hasn't my new yard been built, and there are still some flowers and plants missing in the yard and garden, and it just so happens that the princess has planted a lot of flowers and plants here, so I want to come to the princess to plant flowers and plants!" ”

Li Xiu also thought of this problem on the road, in his previous life, if he wanted flowers and plants, he could go directly to the flower and bird market to buy them, but he hadn't heard that there was any flower and bird market in Chang'an City, it is estimated that there should be none, after all, the Tang Dynasty has only been established for a few years, most of the people are still struggling with food and clothing, and the aristocratic officials are also relatively busy, so they should not be in the mood to raise flowers and birds. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info so if Li Xiu wants to find flowers and plants, he can only find the princess of Pingyang.

"Do you want to find flowers and plants?" Ma Ye reacted strongly and stood up and said loudly, as if Li Xiu wanted not flowers and plants, but the princess's life?

"Isn't it just some flowers and plants, Uncle Ma, do you have such a big reaction?" Li Xiu was also taken aback by Ma Ye's reaction, and then asked with a smile, flowers and plants are not rare things, with his relationship with Princess Pingyang, it shouldn't be difficult to order flowers and plants, right?

Ma Ye didn't answer Li Xiu's words directly, only to see him sit down, swallow a piece of beef, and then said slowly: "Boy, don't blame me for not reminding you, you have also been to the inner house, have you found anything special about the inner house?" ”

"A special place?" Li Xiu heard this and recalled it carefully, but in the end, he still didn't remember anything too special, so he could only say suspiciously, "There doesn't seem to be anything special about the inner house, if you insist on saying it, it is that there are more flowers and plants, but the princess likes flowers and plants, which is also a very normal thing?" ”

"Haha, since you noticed that there are a lot of flowers and plants in the inner house, do you know how many flowers and plants there are in the inner house?" Ma Ye asked with a smile again.

"How is it possible to know that the princess's inner house is so big, and the flowers and plants planted are so many and dense, it is impossible to count them!" Li Xiu took a bite of beef fiercely when he heard this, and he felt that Ma Ye's question was purely embarrassing for him.

"I don't know, let me tell you, there are a total of 3,681 flowers and plants planted in the inner house, including 363 chrysanthemums and 147 peonies......"

Listening to Ma Ye not only accurately report the number of flowers and plants, but also the number of each type of flowers and plants was very clear, which made Li Xiu stop gnawing on the bones, and looked at Ma Ye with an unbelievable face with his mouth wide open.

After a long while, Ma Ye finally reported all the flowers and plants, and it was only then that Li Xiu reacted, and said a little speechlessly: "Uncle Ma, who is so bored to count all the flowers and plants in the inner house, and the flowers and plants will also die and reproduce, when was this number counted, it must not be accurate now, right?" ”

As soon as Li Xiu's words fell, he saw Ma Ye say slowly: "This is what the princess just counted this spring, every spring she will count the number of flowers and plants at home, and wait until autumn to count again, if there is more, she will be happy, if there is less, she will be sad." ”

"......" Li Xiu never expected Princess Pingyang to have such a fetish, and she didn't know how to comment for a while?

Seeing that Li Xiu didn't speak, I saw Ma Ye speak again at this time: "Actually, this is nothing, among His Majesty's many children, the princess has the best relationship with Princess Changguang, that is, the princess's fifth sister, at the beginning of last year, Princess Changguang came to visit the princess, and she liked a peony in the princess's garden very much, so she begged the princess to give her this peony, and guess what the princess did?" ”

"It's just a peony, the princess won't be so stingy, right?" Li Xiu asked with some uncertainty at this time.

"Stingy?" Ma Ye glanced at Li Xiu, and then continued, "Princess Changguang is the princess's favorite sister, the two ate and lived together when they were not married, and the relationship was good like a person, but even if the princess doted on Princess Changguang so much, she didn't agree to give her the peony in the end, which made Princess Changguang even say that her sister was stingy, but in order not to make her angry, the princess actually gave her a string of priceless Nanzhu instead of peony, which made Princess Changguang turn her anger into joy, and the string of Nanzhu was still rewarded to the princess by His Majesty. ”

Sweat~, Li Xiu couldn't help wiping a cold sweat when he heard this, it was a good thing to like flowers and plants, but everything had to have a degree, like Princess Pingyang's practice of giving up thousands of dollars rather than flowers and plants, although it can't be said that there is something wrong, but it always feels a little abnormal.

"Boy, after hearing this, do you still plan to go to the princess to ask for flowers and plants?" Ma Ye looked at Li Xiu with a smile at this time and asked, with a bit of ridicule in his tone.

"This ......" Li Xiu also hesitated a little when he heard this, although he couldn't understand Princess Pingyang's love for flowers and plants, but since she was unwilling to give flowers and plants to others, she couldn't force others to make it difficult, and even if Princess Pingyang was willing to give flowers and plants to herself, I was afraid that she would feel distressed afterwards.

"Forget it, I'll think of another way." Thinking of the above, Li Xiu shook his head helplessly at the moment, and then thought of one more thing, and asked again, "By the way, hasn't the princess been practicing walking, how is it now, can she walk by herself?" ”

Seeing that Li Xiu gave up the idea of asking the princess for flowers and plants, Ma Ye also laughed, it was the first time he saw Li Xiu deflated, and then he replied: "The princess is recovering well, the crutches you gave are also very useful, the princess can already move freely with crutches, and even if she loses her crutches, she can walk for a while, but the princess feels that limping is not good-looking, so she still likes to sit in a wheelchair." ”

"That's good, as long as the princess keeps practicing, it shouldn't take long for her to walk normally." Li Xiu also nodded reassuringly when he heard this.

A pot of meat and bones was eaten by Li Xiu and Ma Ye, and even the marrow in the bones was sucked out and eaten, and the guards and subordinates in the house were also happily eating around the cauldron, and in the end there was not even a drop of soup left, in fact, the taste of beef may not be better than mutton and pork, but because it is usually not eaten, it makes people subjectively add points to the taste of beef.

After eating the beef, Ma Ye took Li Xiu to see the princess, and picked up Qi Niang by the way, after all, it was already dusk, so as not to wait for the princess to send someone to send Qi Niang home.

I haven't come for a while, all kinds of flowers and plants in the inner house are growing very vigorously, Princess Pingyang is worthy of being a flower lover, I saw that in addition to the road, almost all kinds of flowers and plants are planted in the other open spaces in the inner house, laurel, plum, crape myrtle and other flowers and plants can be seen everywhere, there are many flowers and plants that Li Xiu can't name, the dead branches and leaves can't be seen in the winter before, and now all the leaves are grown in spring, it seems that the flowers and plants that were moved into the greenhouse are only a small part of them, and the flowers and plants that grow on the ground like this can't be moved at all, otherwise no matter how large the greenhouse is, it will not be enough.

Li Xiu and Ma Ye soon came to the courtyard where Princess Pingyang lived, and before entering the door, they heard bursts of women's laughter inside, when they entered, they saw Princess Pingyang sitting on a low couch, watching Qi Niang and helmets and other maids kick the shuttlecock in a circle, with a long feather shuttlecock flying between several people, causing Qi Niang to laugh non-stop, although Princess Pingyang has inconvenient legs and feet, but also cheered for Qi Niang and a few people, from time to time let out a silver bell-like laughter, this is also the first time Li Xiu saw her laughing so happily.

"Uncle Ma, why are you here?" Princess Pingyang soon saw Ma Ye and Li Xiu who came in, and hurriedly sat up straight, her face was a little red, and her appearance just now was very different from usual, and she was also seen by Li Xiu, which made her feel a little shy.

"Princess Qiyu, I'm here to pick up Qi Niang home!" Li Xiu took a step forward with a smile and said, it was rare to see the side of Princess Pingyang to release her nature, which made Li Xiu feel that the trip was worthwhile.

"Brother, can I live here today, the princess promised me to tell me the story of her war!" As soon as Li Xiu's words fell, Qi Niang ran over and took his hand and said coquettishly, she was having a lot of fun here in the princess's mansion, and Princess Pingyang was talking to her, which caused her to not want to go home.

"How can this be done, the princess also has to rest at night, and come back tomorrow to play, okay?" Li Xiu squatted down and said to Qi Niang with a smile, it's nothing to live here with the princess, but he is afraid that it will be too troublesome for Princess Pingyang.

"Captain Li, let Qi Niang live here tonight, I promised her to tell her a story before!" Princess Pingyang also said at this time, as long as her sisters have been married, almost all of them have their own children, and some even have several, although she usually behaves very strongly, but she will also feel a little lost when she sees the children of her sisters, and the appearance of Qi Niang just stimulated her motherhood, and she almost raised Qi Niang as a daughter during this time.

"This ...... Wouldn't it be too much trouble for the princess? Li Xiu still hesitated and said, Qi Niang is a child after all, if she wants to come out, don't look at what she promised now, if she is homesick at night and wants to come back, she will definitely trouble someone to send her back.

"It's okay, Qi Niang hasn't come to me for a day or two, and every time she stays for a day before going back, sometimes she sleeps here when she's sleepy, so it's definitely okay to stay for one night!" Princess Pingyang said with a smile.

Hearing Princess Pingyang say this, Li Xiu had no choice but to nod and agree, and immediately explained a few words to Qi Niang, so he was about to get up and say goodbye, but as soon as he stood up, he saw that Princess Pingyang seemed to suddenly think of something, and said again: "Captain Li, please wait a minute!" ”

"What's the matter with the princess?" Li Xiu couldn't help but turn around curiously when he heard Princess Pingyang's words.

I saw Princess Pingyang smile a little embarrassed at this time, and then walked to the rockery next to the courtyard with a cane, where there were a lot of flower pots, and I saw Princess Pingyang pick up a pot of flowers and come over to Li Xiu and smiled: "Captain Li, do you remember this pot of jasmine?" ”

"This ...... Is this the pot of jasmine I saved, I didn't expect it to grow so fast! When Li Xiu saw the jasmine with green branches and buds on the branches, he was also quite surprised and said, last time Princess Pingyang had told him that this jasmine was alive, but he didn't expect it to grow so fast.

"Yes, I watered it with fermented rice water according to the method taught by Captain Li, and it turned out to grow very quickly, and it is estimated that it will bloom after a while!" Princess Pingyang also seemed very happy at this time, after saying this, I saw that she hesitated for a moment, and finally made up her mind to speak, "Captain Li, this jasmine was rescued by you, which means that it is related to you, so it is better to give it to you!" ”