There was a sudden burst of crisp girl's laughter in front, Zhou Ping was startled, and secretly thought that it should be the female surname in Cai's mansion, if he collided with a man from the house, he was afraid that he would cause trouble, so he hurriedly looked around, trying to find a place to hide. In a hurry, he only found a big cypress tree beside the road, Zhou Ping hurriedly jumped up, climbed up the tree three times and twice, and hid in the shade of the tree.

A moment later, two young girls came from the same place, talking and laughing, and walked towards this side. Zhou Ping saw clearly on it that the one in front of him was older, about seventeen or eighteen years old, and his appearance was extremely beautiful, and he should have been married when he looked at his clothes; The latter is only thirteen or fourteen years old, and although he is not enough, he can also be seen to be a beautiful embryo. Both of them were richly dressed, and they gathered twenty or thirty steps away followed by a few maids and guards, presumably the nobles in Cai's mansion playing in the garden.

The young girl walked under the tree, stopped and sighed: "Sister, it's better for you to be here, the furnishings and food are better than those in the palace, unlike the panic I have been holding back in the palace all day." Ay! I don't know when I'll be able to leave the palace! ”

The slightly older young woman smiled and said, "Huanhuan, in a few years, when you grow in size, the saint will naturally choose a good son-in-law for you and let you out of the palace." Why don't you have any patience? ”

"Hey!" The girl sighed: "Even if you recruit a son-in-law, you are just a general of the left guard or something, where is it worthy of my sister to choose the son of the Cai family, and at a young age, he is to be controlled by the Xuanhe Palace." My sister is so beautiful, it's no wonder that Cai Wugongzi would rather marry his sister than have a future! When she said this, the girl stretched out her hand and touched the young woman's cheeks, and saw that the young woman's cheeks were as white as jade, and her eyes were like water, and she was indeed a wonderful beauty.

It turns out that these two people are both nobles of the heavenly family, the older one is Emperor Maode Ji Zhao Fujin, and the younger one is Emperor Roufu Zhao Duofu, also known as Huan Huan, today Emperor Roufu came to Cai Mansion to visit her sister. This Maode Emperor Ji was famous for her beauty among the daughters of Huizong, and she married Cai Jing's fifth son, Xuanhe Palace, as his wife. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was an unspoken rule in politics that anyone who married a royal princess had no future in politics, and could only hold some high-grade and wealthy official positions but no actual power, so as not to pose a threat to the imperial power. Therefore, those who marry the royal family are generally the children of some nobles or loyal ministers who are not so successful, and the elites who have really passed the imperial examination are rarely willing to accept the princess's marriage, so as not to hurt their political future. The children of civil officials like Cai Ying, who have a bright political future, are rarely willing to marry the royal family, and Cai Yan married Emperor Maode, of course, there are reasons why his father hopes to strengthen the relationship with the royal family through this marriage, and the beauty of Emperor Maode herself cannot but play a considerable role.

"You crazy boy!" Emperor Maude hurriedly reached out and pulled her sister's hand away, looked back at the maid's entourage not far away, and said in a low voice: "Be careful of losing your identity!" ”

"What are you afraid of, there are no outsiders here!" Emperor Roufu smiled: "I haven't seen my sister for a long time, I really miss it very much!" As she spoke, she reached out and hugged Emperor Maode, buried her head in the other party's arms, and said softly: "I was in the palace thinking about when I could hold my sister like this, smell the fragrance of my sister's body, and sleep like this!" ”

Emperor Mao De and Emperor Roufu were born to a mother, and the relationship in the palace was very good, so Emperor Roufu came to Cai Mansion to visit her sister, although she and Cai Yan were newly married, emotionally and devotedly, but after all, they left the environment in which they grew up and went to a strange place. ”

"Really!" Emperor Roufu's eyes suddenly widened and asked, "Then I won't go to the palace tonight and sleep with my sister!" ”

"How can that be!" Hearing this, Emperor Maude smiled and said, "How can there be a reason for an unmarried daughter to spend the night outside the palace?" Let the mother know that she is not angry! ”

"Why not, it's not from someone else, it's from my sister!" Emperor Roufu tried her best, but at this time, Emperor Maode's heart was like a stone, so she just ignored it. Emperor Roufu's dark eyes were spinning around, just thinking of a way to get her sister to agree to stay for the night, when suddenly she saw a small black corner of her clothes peeking out of the leaves, and she couldn't help but scream: "There is someone in the tree!" ”

"Little ghost, don't talk nonsense, this is an inner house, how can there be someone in the tree!" Emperor Maud thought that her sister was repeating her old trick and wanted to divert her attention to achieve her goal, so she smiled and scratched the other party's hair.

Emperor Roufu hurriedly pointed to the tree and said, "Really, sister, don't believe it! ”

Emperor Maud looked in the direction of her sister's finger, and sure enough, under the cover of the branches and leaves of the canopy, she could vaguely see a person standing on the branch, staring at herself with a pair of bright eyes, and couldn't help but scream, took a few steps back, and fell to the ground.

"Oops, found out!" Zhou Ping was watching the two royal girls chirping me and me on the tree, and I was happy. Suddenly, he saw Emperor Roufu's hand pointing towards him, and secretly screamed that it was not good. Just thinking about what to do, I heard someone shouting, hurriedly jumped down from the tree, knelt on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "The villain doesn't know the path in the garden, and he collided with the nobleman, please forgive me!" ”

Emperor Mao had already stood up with the support of his sister, and when he saw that Zhou Ping had been dragged up from the ground by the two guards who had rushed up, he was about to tie him up and take him to see the official. When she saw that Zhou Ping was dressed as a military attaché, with a burly body, clear eyes, and no despicable appearance of such a subordinate, she couldn't help but feel a little good in her heart, so she said: "Wait, where are you from?" Why are you rushing everywhere? ”

Zhou Ping sang a fat song to Emperor Maode, and said: "The villain is Zhou Ping, the deputy prisoner of the soldiers and horses of Jeju Quanzhizhou, and he was ordered by Zhizhou Han Xianggong to bring a letter to Cai Wugongzi. I didn't want the steward at the door to say that Cai Wugongzi was not there, so I asked me to wait in a side courtyard in the house. I waited in the courtyard for a long time, not to mention that I had no food to eat, and I didn't even drink tea. The villain and his companion were hungry and thirsty, so they came out to find some tea and rice to satisfy their hunger, and they didn't see anyone along the way, so they saw the nobleman, and they couldn't dodge, so they had to go up the tree and ask the nobleman to forgive their sins! ”

"I see!" When Emperor Mao De heard this, his face was slightly gentle, and he said with a smile: "It turns out that you are with my family, or not, you said that you sent a letter, where is the letter?" ”

Zhou Ping heard that the beauty in front of him was someone else's wife, and he couldn't help but feel a sense of amazement in his heart, and then he drove this emotion out of his chest, took out the letter from his arms and presented it with both hands, and a maid had already taken the letter from his hand and presented it to Emperor Maode. Emperor Mao De didn't read the letter, put it in his sleeve casually, and said softly: "Guard Chen, you send this person back, and then let people send him wine and food, don't slack him!" ”

"Whoa!"

Zhou Ping led the guard surnamed Chen and walked towards where he came from, he saw that the guard was tall, wearing a crown of hair, wiping his forehead with purple silk, and looking at the clothes on his body, he was at least an ambassador (a general term for middle and low-level military attachés in the Song Dynasty, including low-level military attachés Neidian Chengzhi (Dunwulang) and Nei Tateshi Chongban (Xiuwulang)), and the equipment he carried was even more sophisticated, not like the guards of Cai's mansion. Zhou Ping cautiously hugged his fist to the other party and asked, "Villain Zhou Ping, I don't know how to call it up and down?" ”

The guard arched his hand reservedly: "A certain family surnamed Chen Mingzhe is on an errand in front of the palace!" ”

Zhou Ping's face suddenly changed greatly, and he hurriedly bowed and saluted: "It turned out to be the royal front class, and the villain was disrespectful!" Speaking of this, his face suddenly changed, and he asked, "Could it be that those two are ——? ”

"It's good to know, don't say more!" Chen Zhe sneered.

"Yes, yes!" Zhou Ping hurriedly said yes again and again, no wonder so. It turned out that Chen Zhe just said that his errand was still two words less, the full name is the palace front Si Yu Keel Duozi Zhi, as the name suggests, this is a part of the class straight, it is the personal guard of the Son of Heaven, generally selected from the "martial arts" in the army, can let the people who are on an errand here follow the surname of the guard, the identity of the two women is about to come out.

Zhou Ping returned to his residence, and after a while, someone brought wine and rice, Xue Liangwu asked while rushing to stuff it into his mouth, "Ah Ping, why have you been there for so long?" ”

"This Taishifu is so big, I finally found someone!" Zhou Ping said casually, but the appearance of the beauty who claimed to be Cai Ying's wife was recalled in his mind. Xue Liangwu looked at Zhou Ping's distracted appearance, stretched out his hand and patted him on the arm, and asked, "What do you want?" I'm not hungry, you don't give me any of this! As he spoke, he reached out to grab the food in front of Zhou Ping.

"Who won't eat it!" Zhou Ping blocked Xue Liangwu's outstretched hand, and grabbed the steamed cake on the plate and stuffed it into his mouth. Xue Liangwu on the side said with a smile: "I miss my daughter-in-law, what's so embarrassing, when I first got married, I also missed my daughter-in-law, and I can't wait to stay at home every day and not go out." ”

"And now?" Zhou Ping said with a smile, Xue Liangwu is actually two years younger than Zhou Ping, but he got married at the age of eighteen, and he is now the father of three children.

"Now?" Xue Liangwu took a bite of the cake fiercely, and replied vaguely: "A woman is a fart, a manly husband should come out to make a name for himself, immediately I am not as good as the fourth child in kung fu, but he is not as good as me on the ground, last time I went to Liao with you, and now I am also a dignified Jiupin Baoyilang!" Speaking of this, Xue Liangwu closed his eyes and thought comfortably.

"Jiupin Hoyoshiro!" Zhou Ping couldn't help but laugh when he saw Xue Liangwu's expression. At this time, for the children of local tyrants like the Xue brothers, it is very remarkable to be a nine-grade Bao Yilang. But who knows, it won't take a few years for the Jin people to invade the south, Bianliang fell, and Song Gaozong in order to attract the reckless rebels and bandits to resist the Jin, all kinds of complaints are like blank pieces of paper. At that time, if Xue Liangwu recalls today's events, I don't know what kind of emotion he will have?

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