Shen: "......"

If he hadn't known, Shen would have almost thought that Lan Ruo had seen some demons and monsters.

Lan Ruo walked three steps away from Chu Qianchen and stopped, and honestly repeated what Li Xiaogonggong asked.

Mama Chen thought with emotion in her heart: Their second girl is inconspicuous, and in just a few days, she has cleaned up this Aunt Lan Ruo.

Chu Qianchen didn't say a word, and continued to talk to Shen as if he hadn't heard it: "...... My mother doesn't have to prepare a horse for me. ”

"Okay, then the horse is not ready." Shen said with a smile, "I happen to have two sets of riding clothes here that I didn't wear when I was young, and I will let the sewing room take them to change them later, and they should be changed in a day or two." You wear it just right when you play polo. ”

"I'm tired of my mother." Chu Qianchen said obediently.

Shen wanted to say that she was too polite, but before she could pronounce a syllable, she was interrupted by a children's voice outside: "Polo?!" ”

Chu Yunmu, who had just gotten out of school, was like a gust of wind, and said with a chatter in his mouth: "Chu Qianchen, I'm going to play polo too!" ”

Chu Yunmu was energetic, pestering Chu Qianchen for a while, and pestering the Shen family for a while, full of interest.

It was not only Chu Yunmu who entered the house, but also Gu Zhiyan, she came to find Chu Qianchen, and she happened to meet Chu Yunmu at the entrance of the courtyard.

However, the little girl's walking posture is much more elegant than that of Chu Yunmu, who is in a hurry.

The Shen family originally wanted to forbid Chu Yunmu to go on the grounds that he was going to study in the clan school, but when she saw Gu Zhiyan's expectant eyes, she suddenly changed her mind.

Since Gu Zhiyan suffered from absence disorder, he has closed himself off and rarely asks for anything.

Shen smiled slightly and asked her, "Qi Niang, do you want to go?" ”

Chu Yunmu is a clever ghost, when he heard this, his eyes lit up, and he knew that there was a drama in this matter, so he hurriedly said: "Qi Niang...... Cousin, you want to go too, don't you? ”

He grabbed Gu Zhiyan's cuffs and tugged at her, looking up at her expectantly with his pretty little face.

Chu Qianchen smiled silently, and also looked at Gu Zhiyan.

Gu Zhiyan lowered his face, twisted his fingers, and twisted his fingers into a strange shape.

After a long moment, she nodded silently.

"Mother, I can go to play polo with my cousin, right?" Chu Yun Mule was broken, and his little face was shining.

Shen didn't respond directly, and said to Chu Yunmu: "Brother Mu, you are a boy, go out to take care of your two sisters." ”

Chu Yunmu was even happier when he heard this, feeling that he was a man with high hopes and a heavy responsibility.

He proudly straightened his chest, patted his chest and said, "Mother, don't worry, I will take care of the second sister and cousin." ”

Shen rubbed his head, "Then we're decided?" ”

Shen asked Chu Yunmu to play polo together, mainly so that he could accompany Gu Zhiyan.

Gu Zhiyan has lived in the Hou Mansion for a few days, and the Shen family can also see that her niece is afraid of adults because she was guilty when she was abducted, but for Chu Yunmu and the little black cat who are younger than her, she is much more relaxed and will obviously respond more.

Chu Yunmu endured it and didn't hide, and nodded vigorously: "Hmm!" ”

Next, Chu Yunmu chattered about playing polo, and Gu Zhiyan sat aside and listened obediently.

This scene looks very warm at first glance, as if it is a family, and the eyes of the nurse who can see Gu Zhiyan are a little sour.

These days, she has watched her county lord get better day by day, although the progress is slow, but it is obviously much more lively than when she was in the palace before, and it is even better than after the first time the head of Xuanjing Dao gave the county lord a while ago......

Three days later, that is, on the second day of the seventh month, Chu Qianchen had two more small tails behind him when he went out.

One is Chu Yunmu and the other is Gu Zhiyan.

Gu Zhiyan was still the same as usual, holding Chu Qianchen's skirt tightly with one hand, eager to stick to her.

Chu Yunmu originally wanted to ride a horse by himself, but thinking that he had promised his mother to take care of Chu Qianchen and Gu Zhiyan, he said, "Second sister, cousin Qiniang, I will ride in the carriage with you." ”

"I've inquired, it will take an hour to get from here to the Hibiscus Garden, so I've prepared this...... This set of pieces is made of magnets that can be firmly attached to the board, and we can play backgammon in the carriage. ”

Chu Yunmu triumphantly ordered the maid to take out a special chessboard and chess pieces, and her tail was almost up to the sky.

The way he looked, he almost said, "Praise me, praise me."

Chu Qianchen smiled, and said quickly: "Brother Mu is really thoughtful. ”

There was also Chu Yunyi who went to Furong Garden with Chu Qianchen and the three of them, but Chu Yunmu and Gu Zhiyan were the light of Chu Qianchen, and Chu Yunyi's post was his own. All the young talents who performed well in the martial arts test on Halloween before got the post.

Chu Yunyi is riding a horse, he naturally heard the laughter in the carriage, looked at Chu Yunmu inside through the window with a little disgust, and said secretly: Chu Yunmu is a boy, what does it look like to stick to his sister so much!

Seeing that his son's eyes kept glancing into the carriage, the little guy in the back stepped forward and asked in a low voice: "Young master, the weather is hot today, the sun is shining, do you want to take the carriage too......

Before he finished his words, he saw Chu Yunyi squinting at him, as if he had a few intentions, and then he raised his chin and dropped a sentence: "It's too hot now, how will I play polo later!" ”

He grabbed the horse's belly, sped up the horse's speed, and left the carriage of Xiao Wu and Chu Qianchen behind, leaving only a proud back.

The little girl touched his nose, he thought that the young master wanted to go in and play chess and talk with the second girl.

Hibiscus Garden is a royal garden, just in the western suburbs of the capital, the surrounding mountains and rivers are beautiful, since the previous dynasty, a radius of dozens of miles is where the royal garden is, this hibiscus garden is also left by the previous dynasty, in the hands of several generations of emperors of Daqi has been repaired several times.

The Hibiscus Garden covers an area of about 1,000 acres, by the mountains and rivers, is the royal summer recreation place, because the first emperor loved polo, built a polo field in the Hibiscus Garden, when the first emperor was alive, he also liked to take the prince and some noble ministers to play polo here in his spare time.

It's not good today, so this hibiscus garden has been deserted for almost two years, until today.

Outside the gate of the Furong Garden, there were already chamberlains and palace maids on standby to entertain the distinguished guests who went to the banquet today.

All the guests' carriages are parked inside the gate of the garden, after which everyone must get out of the carriage and walk.

Chu Qianchen helped Amber's men get out of the carriage, and happened to see a cart of seven horses parked a few feet in front of him, all of them tall and mighty, and a white-clothed monk walked down from a black paint flat-topped carriage.

The monk's robe, which was as white as the first snow, fell with his movements, and when the wind blew, the robe of the monk's robe flew, quite a kind of Wu belt when the wind was elegant.

Chu Qianchen had already known that Wuhe Jialou would come today, so he was not surprised, but Chu Yunmu didn't know.

Jia Lou's appearance and temperament were one in a thousand, and Chu Yunmu immediately remembered that he and Chu Qianchen had seen this white-clothed monk near the city gate in April, and exhaled in surprise:

"It's him!"

"Meow!"

A milky cat meow happened to overlap with Chu Yunmu's shout.

Amber felt that the cat's meow was familiar, and before she could react, she blinked slowly.

In the next moment, a little black cat with four snow-white hooves jumped down from Chu Qianchen's carriage, ran towards the white-clothed monk with brisk steps, rubbed his calves affectionately, and meowed in his mouth.

"Yueyue!" Gu Zhiyan got out of the carriage after the little black cat, looking at this scene a little helplessly, wanting to chase the cat, but he didn't dare to leave Chu Qianchen.

Amber said in surprise, "How could Moon Shadow be here?" ”

Gu Zhiyan's nurse cleared her throat and explained to Chu Qianchen apologetically: "Cousin, it was the county lord of my family who secretly brought the cat out. "Gu Zhiyan has been stubborn since she got aneurys, and she can't even pull a cow back, and the nurse really can't persuade her.

Chu Qianchen pursed his lips and smiled, smiling brightly.

There was such a cat hidden in the carriage, how could she not know, that is, pretending to play chess with Chu Yunmu and not paying attention, to be honest, it was quite interesting to see that Gu Zhiyan and Chu Yunmu were hiding the kitten together. Children, it's better to be lively and naughty.

At this time, Jialou in front of him picked up the little black cat who was coquettish to him, and the little black cat obviously remembered his savior, and kept rubbing against him again, with intimate movements.

Chu Qianchen took Gu Zhiyan's hand and walked towards Wuhe Jialou.

Gu Zhiyan looked at Jialou timidly, and his expression revealed a bit of envy.

The kitten was willing to play with her, but she didn't hold it until now, and she still carried it in a basket and hid it in the carriage today.

"Second Miss Chu." Jia Lou also saw Chu Qianchen and smiled slightly, with a gentle smile.

His temperament is noble and dusty, and his white clothes always give people a feeling of being dusty, and at this moment there is a black cat in the crook of his arm, as if he has stepped down from the clouds, and he no longer looks so unattainable.

"Mage." Chu Qianchen bowed slightly at him, which was regarded as a salute, and then his eyes fell on the little black cat in his arms, "Its broken leg is well raised and has been completely healed, can the mage take it away?" ”

"......" Gu Zhiyan heard this, his eyes suddenly widened, and he subconsciously clenched Chu Qianchen's hand.

Chu Yunmu, who followed from behind, also heard it, and was a little anxious, wanting to object, Jialou took a step ahead of him and said: "It has a fate with the girl, so let it follow the girl." ”

Chu Yunmu breathed a sigh of relief again, and his heart suddenly fell together in just a few breaths, and he was almost heartbroken.

Chu Yunmu and Gu Zhiyan looked at each other and smiled, with the same relief written in their eyes.

Chu Qianchen also smiled, and said solemnly: "Master, according to our Daqi, the cat is to give a 'dowry gift'......"

The last time she asked Jialou to ask for a cat in Jishitang, that is, to see that the cat hurt her leg, and mentioned it by the way, at that time, she didn't feel wrong, until a few days ago, the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to hire, she remembered that she picked up the cat, but forgot to give Jialou a "dowry".

Therefore, today she deliberately brought the cat by Gu Zhiyan, firstly, to show Jialou the cat, and secondly, to ask for a definite statement, and to complete the etiquette.

Dowry?! Garu was stunned.

The Tama people behind him also heard Chu Qianchen's words, and they all looked at each other, all showing a strange expression. What is this?

Chu Yunmu's eyes lit up.

That's right!

"Salt wraps in tanuki slaves, and often watches the corner of the play."

This sentence "salt wrapped in a raccoon slave" refers to the fact that the cat is hired to return home to give the other party a dowry.

That's right, Moon Shadow's dowry must be given!

Chu Yunmu felt that his second sister was really reliable, just imagine, if the second sister didn't give this monk a dowry, it would be equivalent to a cat or this monk's, maybe the monk would change his mind and want a cat in the future, what if he came to the Hou Mansion to ask for a cat? !

Chu Yunmu explained to Gu Zhiyan with his ear, Gu Zhiyan blinked, and nodded again.

He lowered his voice, but Jialou, Tama and others were martial arts practitioners, and they were all well-informed people, and they listened to it.

The corners of Tama twitched, feeling that these Daqi people were simply poor. Isn't this just a cat!

Chu Yunmu seemed to hear Tama's cold snort, looked up at him keenly, and then opened his eyes slightly, and also recognized him.

Isn't this big guy the one he accidentally bumped into in the tea shop last time?!

Thinking that that time he still relied on Chu Qianchen to "scare" this big man away, Chu Yunmu felt that he didn't look like a man.

He stared at Tama with his head tilted, his back straight.

He's five and a half years old today! It's not a milk doll hiding behind my sister's back.

Chu Qianchen took out the gift that had been prepared for Jialou a long time ago, "This is Moon Shadow's dowry. ”

She reached for a small porcelain jar from her sleeve and handed it over, along with it a small piece of silk paper.

Jia Lou couldn't help but smile, his eyebrows became softer, and his face seemed to be glowing, like a jade statue under a famous master.

Garu raised his hand and accepted it.

The next moment, Gu Zhiyan timidly stepped forward and stretched out his arms to him.

Garu handed the little black cat into the hands of the little girl, and the little black cat meowed twice, and lay down peacefully between her chest and the crook of her arm.

The kitten entered his arms, and Gu Zhiyan felt as if his heart was filled with something, and smiled with satisfaction.

Tama moved his eyebrows, guessing that most of the pills in this small porcelain jar were pills, and the pills from Chu Qianchen's hands were good things.!

He exchanged a look with several other Hao people beside him, and said in his heart: Actually, the customs of this Daqi are not bad.

Chu Yunmu was still staring at Tama unremittingly.

Tama finally noticed Chu Yunmu's stubborn gaze, recognized him, and shouted with interest: "Boy." ”

Chu Yunmu held his head high, did not flinch, and said to himself, what is this Tama, it is not a big deal, he was not scared away by Chu Qianchen's archery last time!

Tama shrugged, seeing Chu Yunmu looking at the bow and arrow on his back, thinking that he liked it, thinking that his sister had just given the eldest prince something good, so he generously unloaded the bow and arrow on his back and stuffed it to Chu Yunmu.

"Boy, learn how to bow with your sister." Tama said in a rough voice.

Chu Yunmu: "......"

Chu Yunmu was inexplicably stuffed with a set of bows and arrows, dumbfounded.

Jia Lou put the small porcelain jar and silk paper given by Chu Qianchen into his sleeve pocket, and said with a smile: "I heard that King Chen is seriously ill, and there is no shortage of elixirs in our country, if the girl needs it, just open her mouth." ”

Jia Lou looked at Chu Qianchen with deep eyes, a little bit of scrutiny, a little temptation.

Tama and the others collected the smile on the corner of their mouths and exchanged glances quietly.

Since the emperor gave Chu Qianchen and Gu Jue a marriage, Gu Jue has never shown up again, and the news of King Chen's serious illness in Beijing has spread widely.

Some people say that the emperor loves his brother very much, so he issued a decree to give marriage to King Chen;

Some people also said that the emperor promised King Chen such a concubine, which was clearly deliberately humiliating King Chen, and he was uneasy and kind.

Tama they are biased towards the latter.

However, Galu had a different view.

Jia Lou said that Gu Jue is amazingly talented, but at the same time arrogant and arrogant, with his character, even if he is terminally ill, he will not be easily manipulated by others, even if he is facing the dignified Emperor Qi.

What makes Jialou uncertain is how sick King Chen is, is he really too sick to stay and go out, or is he planning something with this "illness......

Tama and the others understood Jialou's temptation, and Chu Qianchen also understood.

Before, she suspected that Uhajialou might have guessed that she was asking for the Seven Star Grass for the prince.

Really.

Chu Qianchen smiled slightly.

The prince spoke highly of this person and praised him for his subtle knowledge.

She knew that if she said casually, she might be tricked out a lot of information by the other party.

Well, it's better not to say anything than to say too much.

Chu Qianchen did not answer Jia Lou's words positively, and said incorrectly: "Have you ever heard a sentence that everything is like a game of yin and yang, yin is prosperous, yang is declining, and yang is yin; This is the longest, the other is long? ”

Chu Qianchen's words were unclear, and at first glance, they heard that there was no beginning or end, and the other people present were all confused.

However, Garu understood.

Their Hao country is very powerful, but under the glamour and prosperity, it is also full of dangers.

This is also the reason why Emperor Hao reached a peace with the previous emperor of Daqi.

Haoguo is different from Daqi, and it is also different from the previous dynasty.

Haoguo practiced a vassal monarchy system, and people were divided into three classes.

The vassal king is naturally the first class of people, and their control over their territory is absolute, and the territory laid down by the vassal king belongs to the vassal king, so while the territory of Dahao continues to expand, the domain and rights of the vassal king also continue to grow.

One trades off the other.

Yes, if the minister is strong, the king is weak.

Over the years, Dahao's domestic forces have restrained each other, confronted each other, and the dark tide has been surging.

It's not that the father doesn't want him to come out of the temple, it's just that the time has not yet come.

Jia Lou looked at Chu Qianchen steadily, his light eyes were like a blue sky and vast, as if he was close and far away, obviously he was just a stone's throw away, but it gave people a sense of distantness, not to be approached.

Chu Qianchen smiled shallowly, his eyes were bright, and the whole person was light and light.

Since both sides have difficulties, there is nothing wrong with cooperation, isn't it?

Jialou's ears suddenly rang with the two meaningful sentences that Chu Qianchen said when he met him in the palace last time:

"Everything in this life is cause and effect in a past life."

"In this life, I saved the cat, maybe it was the cat who saved me in the last life."

He chewed on these two sentences, and he understood in an instant.

Before, he thought that Chu Qianchen was a pawn in Gu Jue's game with the emperor.

He was wrong.

She has been a member of King Chen's Mansion from the beginning, so she planned so much for King Chen.

The two looked at each other quietly, and under the seemingly breezy appearance, there was scrutiny, exploration, measurement, and competition between the two sides.

Garu didn't ask any more questions, he knew that it was useless for him to try again.

They are two people, each with its own position and interests, and it is impossible for Chu Qianchen to reveal more.

After a while, a commotion broke the silence.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has come down."

I don't know which palace person snorted.

The palace people near the gate all looked in the same direction.

Seven or eight young sons surrounded the crown prince Gu Nanjin and walked over to this side.

Chu Qianchen also looked at Gu Nan, and when they approached, he gave a blessing: "See His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Chu Yunyi, Chu Yunmu and Gu Zhiyan also saluted at the same time.

At this time, the little black cat in Gu Zhiyan's arms was particularly eye-catching, and even Gu Nan couldn't help but take a look at it and said with a smile: "No courtesy." ”

Chu Qianchen knew that the protagonist of this banquet was Jialou, and the others were all incidental, and they were very interesting, so they retired directly, and took Gu Zhiyan and Chu Yunmu to salute the crown princess first.

The palace maid who led the way led them straight to the polo field northeast of the Hibiscus Garden.

This polo field has been expanded and renovated several times during the emperor's time, and it is magnificent.

The length and width of the polo field is about 1,000 steps, and the edge is spread out as a boundary, the ground of the court is flat and smooth, and some scattered bamboo sheds are built around it as stands.

Today's guests have arrived a lot, and there are twenty or thirty sons and girls in brocade clothes sitting in the main stand, looking at the jewels.

The crown princess, the third princess An Le, the county lord of Changning, and many other princesses, county lords, county lords, etc., have already arrived.

In front of so many high-ranking noblewomen, Chu Qianchen is really not in the stream, basically only curtsy, and he can't get into their eyes at all.

But everyone knows that Chu Qianchen will be Princess Chen soon, but if she is overjoyed, King Chen will die of illness, so she is also the princess of the jade, and her name is justified; In case Chong Xi is successful, then the future will be even more difficult to say, that is, King Chen will no longer look down on this princess, and she is also a wife, and he will wait and see in the future.

Everyone looked at her with subtle eyes, and they were polite when they spoke, including the crown princess.

After Chu Qianchen saluted the crown princess and the others, he took her two little tails and sat down at her seat.

Her seat is not far from the crown princess, and her vision is also very good, this time is second only to the crown princess and the princess county lords, after all, now that the marriage book has been established, she is also half of the princess.

In the next incense stick, from time to time, the boys and girls arrived at the racecourse in twos and threes, and then sat down one after another.

Chu Qianchen's side was always empty, except for Chu Yunmu and Gu Zhiyan, there was no one else, as if there was an invisible barrier separating them from the people around them.

Chu Qianchen didn't care, Chu Yunmu and Gu Zhiyan didn't care either, they talked if they wanted to talk, they teased the cat if they wanted to, they looked like they were all cats.

After waiting for Gu Nanjin and Jia Lou to take their seats on the main seat, the originally empty field began to be lively, announcing that the polo game was about to begin.

In the midst of cheers and applause, on the side of the polo field, the team wearing a black color riding uniform and a forehead with the same color on their foreheads appeared in a cheer, and the young man led by him raised the bow stick in his hand, and his chin was slightly raised to scan the surroundings, full of spirit.

On the other side, a team of young men in blue riding uniforms also appeared on the field at the same time.

These young men are like soldiers who lead troops to the battlefield, heroic, these young people have princes, noble sons of the clan, and sons of military generals' mansions, most of them are famous figures in Beijing.

Suddenly, a blue-clothed young man at the back of the blue team rode towards Chu Qianchen and them.

"Big brother." Chu Yunmu waved his hand vigorously at Chu Yunyi.

Today's post is divided into two kinds, one is the one in the hands of Chu Qianchen, Jia Lou, Changning County Lord and others, they are just here to watch polo; The other is the post that Chu Yunyi received, he came to play polo.

"Hey," Chu Yunyi, who was riding on a white horse, raised his chin and looked up at Chu Qianchen in the stands, "I will win!" ”

There was a bit of pride in his expression, a few twists, almost like an oath.

In the last martial arts test, he lost, but this time he won't lose again!

After Chu Yunyi said this, he pulled the horse rope and turned around and was about to leave, but he heard Chu Qianchen's unhurried voice behind him: "If you have the most goals in the game, I will go and give you a bow." ”

Chu Yunyi had already turned his back, he neither responded nor said badly, so he rode his horse to the middle of the court, the white horse happily scattered his hooves, and even the back of the young man looked a lot more lively.

Chu Yunmu crooked his little face and said to himself: "Big brother, do you want it or not?" ”

"Yes."

Next to him, Gu Zhiyan said a word in a low voice.

When Chu Yunmu and Chu Qianchen looked at her, she just silently touched the little black cat lying on her lap and stopped talking.

Chu Yunmu looked at Chu Yunyi, who was eager to try in the field, and felt that he was like a belligerent rooster, covered his mouth and smiled, and then nodded his head and said, "I think so too." ”

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