Hua Junze's current military department, although the official position is not large, the small seven grades, but it is more developed than staying in Licheng. Now he lives in Jiao Niang's house, and Jiao Niang comes to talk to him in his spare time.

On this day, Jiao Niang came to bring him pastries, there was an osmanthus tree in her small yard, and in September, the tree was full of flowers. Qing Huan picked a basket of petals, filtered them with water, and then crushed them and steamed them three times in glutinous rice flour and flour on the steamer, and made them into osmanthus cakes with molds.

"How is Cheng Yu now?" Jiao Niang actually wanted to ask all along, but she didn't know how to speak directly, so she turned a few corners and seemed to ask inadvertently.

Hua Junze took a sip of tea, wiped his mouth, and said: "Speaking of this Ah Yu, I don't know what he thinks?" His Royal Highness King Rui saw that he was good and recommended him to the saint, who heard that he was a descendant of the Cheng family, and he valued him very much, and wanted to keep him by his side as a royal guard. But he refused in front of the emperor and asked to go to the border to join the army. ”

Jiao Niang was taken aback, "Did the saint agree?"

Hua Junze nodded, "The saint saw that he had a heart to serve the country, so he allowed him, he left half a month ago, almost when you returned to Beijing." ”

After speaking, he picked up a piece of osmanthus cake, and was about to bite it, but he was stunned and put it down. He looked at Jiao Niang and said: "This is Ah Yu's choice, in fact, if you think about it carefully, you can understand that the Cheng family is loyal and martyrdom, and now it is in decline, it needs someone to revitalize, if it is replaced by me, I may also be in a hurry to make contributions." ”

Whether he is in a hurry to make a contribution, or deliberately avoids her, for fear of being embarrassed to meet her in the future, Jiao Niang does not know, maybe both. She moved her lips, "um", and said no more.

Hua Junze looked at her again, thought for a moment, and said, "I thought you would ask me King Rui." ”

Jiao Niang's expression moved, "What about him?"

Hua Junze said: "King Rui was entrusted by the Holy Lord to lead the Yushitai because of his meritorious work in investigating He Zhiping, in charge of supervising hundreds of officials, inspecting prefectures and counties, correcting prisons, and suppressing political discipline and other affairs, and now he has gone to the following prefectures and counties to inspect, and it has been a month. ”

With such a big right to supervise hundreds of officials, today's King Rui can be said to be in full swing, but when Jiao Niang heard this, her heart "chuckled".

She couldn't understand it, if the saint really took a fancy to Yingche, she could abolish the crown prince Lirui. But he never revealed the meaning of abolishing the prince, but just kept praising Yingche and adding his power.

Wouldn't he have thought that when the crown prince succeeded to the throne one day, what would he do to Ying Che, the fierce rival who suppressed him in the past?

Jiao Niang felt a faint uneasiness in her heart.

So he asked, "And when will he come back?"

Hua Junze laughed loudly and teased her: "I can come back before I marry you, so you can put your heart in your stomach." ”

Jiao Niang glanced at him with disgust, "Brother Lobby is becoming less and less serious." After speaking, he was so ashamed that he got up and left, leaving Hua Junze to sit there with a wicked smile.

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In Ningxin Courtyard, there was a gilded incense burner with a lotus seat on the table, and wisps of light smoke came out of the lotus pod hole, allowing Ji's fingers to suck all of them into his nose.

She took a deep breath, the muscles in her face relaxed, and her mouth made a sigh of enjoyment.

"Auntie, you're talking. Ji Yun cried for a while, looked up and saw that she was only concerned about smelling the fragrance, and said anxiously.

Ji Shi opened his eyes slightly, twisted his eyebrows and said, "I have a headache for just a few days, can't you make me feel at ease?"

Ji Yun grinned and cried again, "You can't blame me, who let my cousin ignore me, I don't cry to you, who else can I cry to?"

Ji Shi rubbed the corners of his forehead and scolded: "If you don't have a good thing, you know how to cry, he ignores you, you won't go up to find him?

Ji Yun cried for a while, sobbed for a while, stood up and walked in front of her and squatted, and said, "You are his mother, he is filial to you, if you let him marry me, he will not dare not agree." ”

Ji Shi stared at her, "Yes, if this was before, maybe he would have accepted you for my sake, but you are stupid, you have to push Su Qingyin into the water, even I offended him for shielding you, so far the relationship between our mother and son has not eased, and you still expect me to force him to marry you?"

Ji Yun cried and chirped: "Then what should I do?" Pulling Ji's arm and shaking, "Auntie, you have to make decisions for me, I really like my cousin." ”

Ji Shi was twisted and hurt by the tendons on her crying forehead, slapped his palm on the table, and shouted: "You shut up for me, I don't know how I have such a stupid niece as you, just like your mother." "Hold your breath, "Don't worry about Junyi anymore, a man who doesn't have you in his heart, what's the use of marrying him, he can only suffer you for a lifetime." ”

Ji Shi said this from the bottom of his heart, what if she married Hua Jintang, the twenty years of husband and wife relationship is not important to him at all, for the sake of a dead Qin Ruyan, she can't remember how many days he hasn't been to her.

Besides, she just talked to the Lan family that day, and she left in a hurry, obviously disliking her Wanniang, since she disliked her Wanniang, her daughter had no way to marry in!

But Ji Yun couldn't listen to it at all, and stood up angrily at Ji Shi, and said, "If you don't help me, what do you do if you say so much, I'll figure it out myself." And he ran out.

Ji didn't let people chase her back, but she felt that she had a terrible headache, so she was busy asking people to get medicine for her, took the medicine, smelled the fragrance, and only got a little better. She really couldn't afford to pay attention to Ji Yun, and leaned her eyes on the plain brocade pillow. Hu's second daughter-in-law took a small copper pliers to peel off the ashes burned out in the incense burner, put a piece of incense wood in it, closed the lid again, and said: "The slave smells this incense really good, it is light and light, and there is a faint fragrance, no wonder Mrs. likes it." ”

Since Ji's side of the right hand one folded one after another, she promoted the second daughter-in-law of Hu, although the second daughter-in-law of Hu is not as good as Tao Jin's family, nor can she compare to Fang's mother, usually only care about the affairs of the ladies and girls going out, but she is also brought from her mother's family, and she trusts her more than others.

Ji raised his eyelids slightly, "This is sent by the second aunt, saying that it is called benzoin, which can calm the mind, although the name is not good, but it smells weird, and I don't have a headache at all." ”

Hu's second daughter-in-law smiled and said, "The second aunt is still the same for so many years, and she wants to honor her wife with any good things." ”

Ji nodded lazily and pulled a long tone, "Even if she still has this heart, otherwise, I won't keep her." As he spoke, he came up sleepy, yawned and fell asleep.

Seeing that she was asleep, Hu's second daughter-in-law covered her with a blanket and left the room lightly, and for a while, only the undulating snoring and the burning sound of incense coming from the incense burner were intertwined in the room.