Han Yuchu ate the bowl of fragrant and sour cold noodles again, and Su Mubai's words rang in his ears.

In fact, they also think that the second girl of Chu is good, better than so many noble girls in the capital, but the marriage matter still has to be up to the prince himself.

He ate the bowl of cold noodles in two bites, drank water and rinsed his mouth, and now he was completely full.

"Qin Shizi, can you find the prince?" Han Yuchu asked again, in fact, he already had an answer in his heart.

Qin Yao touched his chin again, looked at the Helan Gobi on the map again, put away the playful smile on his lips, and said, "It's difficult." ”

After a pause, he explained: "If you want to find Brother Jiu, you must dispatch a lot of people to find it in several ways, but with such fanfare and mobilization, I am afraid it will alarm the enemy army." ”

They had intended to solve the problem quickly and deal with the people of Lin in ten days. Once the news leaks and the people of Lin are on guard, they can also be broken into pieces, then it will inevitably put the people on the border in a dangerous situation, and it will inevitably aggravate the casualties of the soldiers.

On the battlefield, the most taboo thing is to leak military information.

The slightest mistake can cost hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of lives.

This point is best known to both Qin Yao and Han Yuchu.

Han Yuchu: "......"

Han Yuchu was silent, feeling that he was hungry again, and asked Yuan Bao first: "Are there any pastries?" ”

Ingot "......"

Yuan Bao felt that this captain Han was simply a starving ghost reincarnated, and replied "yes", so he went down to get pastries.

Han Yuchu broke the jar and asked, "Qin Shizi, what should I do then?" ”

His head was also big, and he said in his heart: Xue Feng should be allowed to act, then the person with a headache is not him!

Qin Yao spread his hands, he didn't know.

The two looked at each other.

After a while, ingots holding fragrant, hot icing millet cakes returned, breaking the silence here.

Qin Yao also pinched a piece of millet cake to eat, and said, "I have calculated with Brother Jiu, this battle will be over in nine or ten days at the earliest, wait for Brother Jiu to come back." ”

9. 10 days......

Han Yuchu silently calculated, that is to say, it will probably take another day or two for the prince to return here, and then they will rush back to the capital, I am afraid it will be really too late.

Han Yuchu ate the millet cake as if venting, and sighed again in his heart: The chefs here are really good.

Qin Yao smiled heartlessly, "Old Han, you haven't slept for a few days, have you?" ”

"You can live here with peace of mind, and the boat will naturally go straight to the bridge!"

"It's not a bad thing anyway, is it?"

Qin Yao ate the pastry with a smile, thinking wildly: It's like those books he once read in the capital, if it's a bad thing, then he has to change his life against the sky or something, shouting "My life is up to me, not to the sky" Yunyun.

But now this is a good thing, a happy event.

According to him, they should obey the destiny of heaven...... Actually, it's really good for that girl to marry Brother Jiu.

Han Yuchu felt that what Qin Yao said was not unreasonable, and nodded subconsciously.

Yuan Bao interjected: "Captain Han, your camp tent has been prepared. ”

Han Yuchu felt that the bed seemed to be beckoning to him, and he was entangled for a while, but he still felt that they couldn't make the decision for the prince, so he changed his words and said, "I still have to look for it." ”

"Since you can't make a big splash, let's sneak around and find it."

Qin Yao was also afraid that Han Yuchu would die of exhaustion in the northwest, so he said, "I'll send some people to help you find it." ”

So, after a stick of incense, Han Yuchu took five disguised Nanyang Army soldiers on the road lightly.

They hoped to catch up with people before Gu Jue and the army entered the Helan Gobi, however, by the time he caught up with the Helan Gobi, it would already be the willow tops on the moon.

At night, the Gobi is desolate and silent, and the cold wind is whisking, as if it has suddenly entered a cold autumn.

Looking at the boundless Gobi Desert, Han Yuchu seemed to have been poured a bucket of cold water, he could understand why Qin Yao said "difficult". Relying on a few of them to find the prince here is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Han Yuchu searched for three days in the Gobi, and finally gave up and returned to the Nanyang military camp.

He had a feeling in his heart: It is estimated that the prince of their family is really going to marry the princess!

For all this, Chu Qianchen naturally knew nothing.

It was not yet the beginning of the morning, and she had already gotten up and was looking at the big pill that had just been made in the middle of the night last night.

After drying it in the middle of the night, the pill was completely completed.

She used so many medicinal herbs, and in the end, she only made a brown pill the size of ten fingers.

Chu Qianchen carefully used silver tweezers to put the pill into a small pastel porcelain bottle.

In the early morning light, this small porcelain vase shimmers with a lustrous luster, like a pearl.

The corners of Chu Qianchen's lips curled and rubbed the small porcelain bottle with her fingertips, and she planned in her heart: When the prince returns to Beijing, takes this big pill, and carefully recuperates for a period of time, she can use the knife for him and take out the hidden dangers in his chest.

Chu Qianchen carefully locked it in the secret compartment of the drawer, counting the days, Xue Fengyan and they were about to get the news of the prince.

Outside the small study, a respectful and rigid female voice sounded: "Girl." ”

"Come in." Chu Qianchen slowly stretched his waist and said in a lazy tone.

The door curtain was opened, and a thin palace maid in her thirties came in with low eyebrows, it was Lan Ruo, who was "rewarded" to Chu Qianchen by Empress Dowager Yin.

Lan Ruo also saw Chu Qianchen stretching his waist, and silently turned his gaze away, just pretending not to see it, and asked, "Girl, are you going to the main courtyard?" ”

Looking at Lan Ruo's respectful appearance, and judging the two of them on the day she first came to the Hou Mansion, Amber sighed again in her heart: This Aunt Lan Ruo is obviously much more knowledgeable than Mama Yan, and she suffers less than her.

"Let's go." Chu Qianchen stroked his sleeves and walked out.

Amber followed first, and Lan Ruo followed behind Amber with a clear understanding of his position in Wanyan Academy.

The Shen family had already exempted Chu Qianchen from the morning and dusk of the province, and the reason why Chu Qianchen got up so early today was to go to the Mu State Mansion with the Shen family.

Lan Ruo also had to accompany her, but she knew her location, and Chu Qianchen took her out completely to show the queen.

Therefore when she entered the main courtyard, she waited under the porch with interest;

After the masters got into the carriage, she did not dare to enter the carriage and sit together;

When she arrived at the Mu Guo Mansion, she was even more interested in not following her to see the Duke and Mrs. Mu Guo, and obediently waited by the carriage of the Hou Mansion with the accompanying mothers-in-law and maids, and watched Shen and Chu Qianchen walk towards the inner courtyard.

Her gaze fell on the gold-inlaid ruby bead flower on Chu Qianchen's sideburns, and her eyes flashed.

She could be sure that before Chu Qianchen entered the main courtyard to see the Shen family this morning, she didn't have this bead flower on her head, and it was obvious who gave her this bead flower made inside.

Mrs. Hou treats this concubine better than her concubine.

Soon, the figures of Shen and Chu Qianchen disappeared behind the wall, and Lan Ruo also retracted his gaze, his waist was still straight, and his body exuded an aura that no one should enter.

Shen and Chu Qianchen came to the main courtyard under the guidance of a housekeeper.

Duchess Mu Guo had been waiting for them in the second room for a long time, and she was sitting on a rosewood arhat bed, full of energy and smiles.

She looked at Chu Qian behind Shen without blinking, her gaze seemed to be fixed on her, and she didn't shake in the slightest for a long time.

Shen had always been keen, and he noticed that his mother was watching Chu Qianchen lose his mind, and his steps slowed down, and he walked forward as if nothing had happened.

"Mother," Shen walked up to Duchess Mu Guo and blessed him, "Do you remember Sister Chen?" ”

Chu Qianchen also bent his knees and blessed.

"Remember, remember." Duchess Mu immediately blessed Chu Qianchen, took off a bracelet and put it on her, "I didn't give you a gift last time." ”

Chu Qianchen thanked him generously, neither humble nor arrogant.

Duchess Mu looked at Chu Qianchen's eyes a little deeper, and praised with a smile: "This jade bracelet is much better worn by your little girl." ”

As she spoke, the smile on her face deepened, and she said to Shen: "Looking at these juniors, I feel that I am also several years younger." ”

"yes." Shen echoed playfully, "Sister Chen'er is good at everything, but she is too plainly dressed." ”

Duchess Mu Guo thought so, beckoned to the old lady, and told her to go and get her jewelry box.

Duchess Mu asked Shen and Chu Qianchen to sit down, and sighed with a little regret: "Ah Zhi, Sister Chen is so well-behaved and so beautiful, how come I have never seen her before." ”

Duchess Mu Guo also went to the Hou Mansion to see her daughter, and her daughter would also call the concubines to ask her for peace, after all, in terms of etiquette, these concubines under the Shen family's knees are also the granddaughters of the Duchess of Guo.

However, before the longevity banquet, Duchess Mu had never seen Chu Qianchen.

Shen said lightly: "Her aunt used to be in poor health, and she was caught with the wind and cold every now and then, and Sister Chen was a good child, and she often went to serve her tea and medicine. ”

Shen's words are no problem at first glance, but anyone with a brain can hear the clues.

Aunt Jiang is just an aunt, but her body is really bad, and there are maids to serve tea and medicine, besides, it is just a small illness of cold and cough, where do you need the girl from the Hou Mansion to personally give her an aunt to serve at the bedside.

Duchess Mu's eyes flashed faintly, and she said with a smile: "I know someone who is good at curing wind and cold, and I will write it to you when I go back." ”

Chu Qianchen looked stunned.

It's only been a few months, and she almost forgets that she wasn't close to her grandmother before.

In her memory, Aunt Jiang kept telling her over and over again that her grandmother didn't like her:

"Hey, your father and I have been childhood sweethearts since childhood, and our relationship is not as good as others, and Mrs. has always had a thorn in her heart......"

"Later, I became pregnant half a month earlier than my wife, and my wife disliked me even more...... Even you were angered by Madame. ”

"You're going to stay away from Madame."

"Madame doesn't like you, I always remember that when she was full moon, I took you to show her, and she looked at you like she was looking at dust, and she was so disgusted."

"Sister Chen, you were reincarnated in my belly, and your life is not good. Don't blame Madame for disliking you......"

“……”

However, in the past few months, she has eyes and a heart, and she can see and feel.

Aunt Jiang said that her mother was jealous of her father's favor, but Chu Qianchen saw it clearly, and her mother was as light as water to her father, and she couldn't even say that she was in love.

Thinking about it this way, Aunt Jiang seems to have intentions and doesn't want her to get close to her mother-in-law......

At this moment, Chu Qianchen heard Duchess Mu Guo call: "Sister Chen, come and see what you like?" ”

The old lady had already brought over a jewelry box, which was full of all kinds of gold, silver and jade ornaments, and was full of jewels.

Shen said: "Mother, let me pick it, let her choose, maybe only pick some old-fashioned jewelry." At a young age, she likes to wear some dull tones all the time, and even the cat has a fierce black cat, you say, how cute is the white Persian cat or the lion cat? ”

Chu Qianchen: "......"

Her moon shadow is obviously very cute, that is, she is young, so she is afraid of life, and she once smacked fiercely at her mother-in-law.

In short, there is obviously no room for Chu Qianchen to speak here.

Shen and Duchess Mu Guo, mother and daughter, picked up jewelry with great interest.

Chu Qianchen thought about the last time Shen said that Duchess Mu was often dizzy, and carefully observed her complexion, and felt a little strange in his heart: seeing that Duchess Mu Guo's face was ruddy, and her eyes were bright, which meant that she was full of qi and blood, and full of energy, her complexion looked very healthy, not like a symptom of a head disease. Could it be that you are already looking for a famous doctor?

"Ah Zhi, I look at this collar well!" Duchess Mu Guo picked out a gold collar embedded with eight treasures from the box, and looked at Chu Qianchen, and the eyes of the two happened to meet in mid-air.

Chu Qianchen smiled slightly, and sat there quietly, her slender posture was upright, but she didn't seem restrained, and the elegance that emanated from her bones seemed to be engraved in her bone marrow.

This girl is outstanding! Duchess Mu Guo secretly praised in her heart.

Although the Shen family didn't say it directly, she also heard it: Chu Qianchen was raised under her aunt since she was a child. But look, she has a good appearance and good bearing, not like that Aunt Jiang at all.

A touch of complexity and entanglement flashed in the eyes of the Duchess of Mu Guo, and then she returned to calm.

Duchess Mu Guo and the Shen family picked a pair of earrings and a jade pendant for Chu Qianchen before they stopped, and these jewelry were all worn on Chu Qianchen's body.

Mama Chen and the old mama praised the eyes of the mother and daughter playfully, and praised Chu Qianchen by the way.

In the lively atmosphere, Duchess Mu Guo smiled with a few more laugh lines on her face, and asked lovingly: "Sister Chen, what do you usually like to do?" ”

Because Duchess Mu Guo is the mother of the Shen family, Chu Qianchen is somewhat in love with the house and Wu, so her expression is sincere and respectful, and her answer is not perfunctory in the slightest.

"I like to play chess and read books on weekdays." After a pause, she said obediently, "And play with Brother Mu." Brother Mu originally wanted to come today, but he had to go to school, and he asked me to say hello to you. ”

Speaking of her grandson, Duchess Mu Guo's mood was even happier, and when she asked about Chu Yunmu, Chu Qianchen answered all questions, and by the way, she said a few good words for her family Moon Shadow in the name of Chu Yunmu without a trace.

Shen couldn't help but laugh when he heard it. She just said in passing, this girl is worried about it, and her fourth brother is simply the same temperament, and she is very short-sighted.

The three of them talked and laughed happily, until someone came to say that the eldest girl was coming.

Shen Congzhen, the eldest girl Shen Congzhen, is about the prime of her life, she is petite, half a head shorter than Chu Qianchen, her cheeks are round, and she has a pair of bright apricot eyes, which is amiable to look at.

"Grandmother, auntie." Miss Shen gracefully blessed her elders, and then greeted Chu Qianchen as well.

Duchess Mu smiled lovingly at Miss Shen: "It's rare for your cousin Chen to come to the house to play, you take her to the garden to play." They are all cousins, I haven't seen them before, and I can walk around more in the future, and don't see each other. ”

Shen Congzhen responded with a smile, looking at Chu Qianchen's eyes with a little curiosity.

First, she had never seen this cousin of the Chu family; Second, the emperor's marriage has been rumored recently, and the rumors about Chu Qianchen in Beijing are even more varied, and she is also curious about what the future Princess Chen will look like.

It's not just her, but the younger sisters at home all came to her yesterday for this, so that she must remember it clearly and tell them later.

"Cousin Chen, there is a lotus pond in my garden, I see that you have lotus embroidered on your purse, you also like lotus flowers, right?" Miss Shen led Chu Qianchen out.

"I like it." Chu Qianchen smiled, and found a little bit of Chu Yunmu's shadow from Miss Shen's face, and the smile was amiable.

She is good-looking, and her smile is even more compelling, and she is so bright and beautiful that Miss Shen is slightly suffocated and feels that she is dazzled.

Chu Qianchen and Miss Shen walked away while talking and laughing.

The curtain leading to the hall shook slightly, making a rattling sound, and after a moment, it calmed down, and hung motionless.

After making sure that the two little girls outside were out of the house, Shen asked with a straight face, "Mother, what do you want to tell me?" ”

Shen could see that his mother had deliberately sent Chu Qianchen away, obviously because he had something to say to him.

"......" Duchess Mu suddenly had a feeling that she didn't know where to start.

Shen guessed that his mother was going to have a long talk, so he simply asked the old grandmother to bring the tea set over.

Anyway, it was still early, and she was not in a hurry, and personally made tea for the Duchess of Mu Guo, her movements were smooth and dexterous, her expression was calm, elegant and calm.

After a while, the fragrance of tea overflowed with the heat, filling the room.

Duchess Mu quietly watched Shen make tea gracefully, and her eyes were in a trance.

In an instant, she saw in front of her eyes the appearance of her daughter when she was in the boudoir many years ago, as if it were yesterday.

Duchess Mu Guo was distracted again, until Shen brought the teacup to her.

Shen continued to make himself a cup of tea.

Duchess Mu Guo picked up the white porcelain embossed teacup, put the teacup under her nose and smelled the tea.

The bright orange and yellow tea soup exudes a rich fragrance, mixed with an orchid fragrance.

Duchess Mu took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "This is the big red robe from Nanhao a few days ago. ”

Shen also tasted it and praised: "The entrance is sweet, mellow and smooth." ”

Duchess Mu took a few more sips of hot tea before asking lightly, "How is your mansion doing?" ”

She looked calm, neither happy nor angry, as if she asked casually.

Shen put down the teacup and simply brushed over the affairs of the Hou Mansion: "Recently, Chu Lingxiao has been idle at home, and he is afraid that his foot will not be able to leave the crutches in this life." ”

Last time, after Chu Lingxiao was scolded by the emperor's staff, he not only injured his buttocks, but also injured his feet, and later he had a high fever.

Now Chu Lingxiao loses his temper at home every day, throws things, and makes endless noise.

Anyway, there are enough things in the Hou Mansion, and he is not afraid of him falling, and there is Aunt Jiang on his side, and the Shen family is too lazy to care.

Duchess Mu Guo pondered for a moment, and said, "Ah Zhi, my son-in-law's leg is injured like this, I'm afraid I won't be able to take the errand." According to your father and me, it is better for the Hou Mansion to invite the son of the family as soon as possible. ”

Shen agrees. Chu Yunmu is already six years old, and it is long overdue for another family to establish a son.

Seeing that Duchess Mu's tea cup was mostly empty, Shen moved again and began to make her a second cup of tea again. She lowered her eyes, their eyes shining.

She also knew that Chu Lingxiao had never wanted to ask Chu Yunmu to be the prince, but now she couldn't help whether he wanted to.

Duchess Mu Guo could also see that her daughter didn't want to mention Chu Lingxiao, so she sighed secretly in her heart, and asked in a changing tone: "How is Sister Chen's marriage?" ”

As long as Chu Lingxiao was not mentioned, Shen's conversation immediately came up, she put down the teapot, and sighed: "A few days ago, Prince Li and Princess Li came to make a small decision for His Royal Highness King Chen, and the marriage was decided. ”

"Hey, it's really not easy for Sister Chen, she was forced to fall into this marriage, and now her grandmother and father are angry with her, but she is still like a person who has nothing to do, she should eat, drink, and play every day."

"I think if I were her age, I wouldn't be able to do this!"

"This kid just makes people feel distressed!"

Speaking of Chu Qianchen, Shen Shi looked distressed.

And Duchess Mu Guo's distress is her daughter: how easy is her Ah Zhi!

Back then, when Ah Zhi first married into the Yongding Hou Mansion, she had just reached the end of her life, and such a big person had to face such a big family in the Hou Mansion, and she had to face Chu Lingxiao's favored concubine Aunt Jiang......

But Ah Zhi didn't feel sorry for herself, and she never blamed them.

Duchess Mu Guo's heart moved: Chu Qianchen's heart is really a bit like her A Zhi.

She lifted a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her mouth quietly.

"Mother," Shen's right hand crossed the table and gently pulled the sleeve of Duchess Mu Guo, "Sister Chen'er just called your grandmother, you have to put makeup on her." ”

There was a hint of coquettishness in her tone.

Laughing lightly, half coquettish and half joking.

Since her daughter got married, Duchess Mu has not seen her daughter talk to her in this tone for a long time, which makes her suddenly recall the past, and vaguely, it seems that she saw Shen Zhi before the age of fifteen again.

Duchess Mu Guo's heart softened, her mood improved, and she smiled casually: "You, you are so good to Sister Chen, what about Sister Huang?" ”

Half of her original intention was to laugh, and the other half also wanted to remind the Shen family not to be biased, no matter how good Chu Qianchen was, Chu Qianhuang was the daughter she conceived and gave birth to in October, as a mother, the two bowls of water should be leveled, and she couldn't let her daughter feel unnecessary mustard.

Speaking of Chu Qianhuang, the smile on the corner of Shen's mouth was slightly constricted, and he was weak all over.

She also wanted to teach Chu Qianhuang well, but Chu Qianhuang was also older, had her own opinions, and learned to disobey yang and yin, and she was no longer the well-behaved and obedient female doll in her memory......

Seeing Shen's strange expression, Duchess Mu Guo looked solemn and asked, "Ah Zhi, what is the matter between you and Sister Huang?" ”

The Shen family didn't say much else, but just picked up the princess's companion and said it roughly, and Duchess Mu Guo's expression became solemn when she heard it.

The matter of the princess's companionship was originally a trivial matter, but Chu Qianhuang did not hesitate to disobey Shen Shiyang for the sake of accompanying the reading, and secretly worked hard with the third princess and the queen, which was a little inappropriate.

Shen rubbed his eyebrows and said a little tiredly: "I plan to go to the queen again to resign the princess to study, and then send her to Shangde Academy." ”

Shangde Academy is a women's academy in northern Hebei, only 50 miles away from the capital. Shangde College has strict rules, and female students are boarded in the college all year round, and students are only allowed to go home to visit their relatives during the New Year's holidays.

Although the academy will not treat students harshly, the life in the academy must be much more difficult than that of their own family, and each female student is only allowed to bring one maid to accompany them. It is rare for the noble families in the capital to send their daughters to Shangde Academy.

Duchess Mu Guo heard her daughter's determination, sighed, and nodded, "It's okay." ”

Shen was a little surprised when she heard this, she originally thought that her mother would be reluctant and would persuade her not to be too strict with Chu Qianhuang.

After thinking about it again, she felt that she was thinking too much.

Like their sisters, when they were young, they were also strictly disciplined by their grandmother and mother, and the sisters, regardless of their age, would be punished for kneeling in the ancestral hall if they made a mistake, copying the family rules, the "Female Commandments" and so on.

She is the eldest sister, and she wants to be a model for the younger sisters, and her mother is even more strict in raising her.

Duchess Mu Guo took another sip of the big red robe, and said too much: "I think Sister Huang'er, this child was not stubborn in the past, and she was able to understand it at one point. ”

"This girl's family is big, and it is inevitable that she will have her own affairs, and she will not tell her elders everything. You weren't like that before? ”

Shen Shi was silent: "......"

She also knows that she is not filial, and her mother is old, and she has to worry about her affairs all these years.

Duchess Mu Guo is still saying: "When you gave birth to Sister Huang, you also suffered a lot...... Hey, you have been hiding it from me at the beginning, if it hadn't been for Ah Wan's leakage, I'm afraid I would still be kept in the dark. ”

Fourteen years ago, the old marquis went back to his hometown to attend his cousin's funeral, and he didn't want to go without returning, so he fell ill in his hometown. For this reason, Chu Lingxiao and his family rushed to his hometown in Yuzhou for funeral, at that time, Shen's stomach was almost eight months old, and he had to go to his hometown.

Xu was in a hurry along the way, and she had a tire gas, and that day, when they were staying at a temple, she suddenly started.