At the end of March, the wife of Wen Zexi, a university scholar, took her daughter Wenyin and Wenling to visit the Empress Dowager in Dicui Mountain.

Wen Ling, who was only five years old, sat pitifully, so the Empress Dowager asked someone to take her out to play, and asked Li Fengming and Wenyin to accompany her.

There are not many opportunities for the girls of Qi to go out, and Xiao Wenling is the age of curiosity, but she is running around in the palace, and she is also happy like a happy rabbit.

Wenyin and Li Fengming were the same age, and the two nineteen-year-old girls couldn't jump and run with the five-year-old child, so they walked side by side and chatted casually.

Anyway, the maid of the Wen family and the two palace maids took good care of her, and even Chun Yudai followed her to help, so she didn't have to worry about the little guy falling or getting into trouble.

During the conversation, Li Fengming found that this time he heard a much more cheerful voice, which was not at all like when he came with Princess Heng last time.

“…… I only used it once, and my mother asked for it. Do you say angry people are not angry? ”

Although she said that she complained, there was a smile in her eyes, and the relationship between mother and daughter was obviously extremely intimate.

"Fortunately, she still remembered some mother-daughter love, and kept the 'Jade Rongsan' for me. I follow what you said, use it in the morning and evening when cleansing my face, and after a month, many people say that I am really whiter. ”

Probably intended to show results, she specially did not apply powdered Dai today.

Li Fengming carefully looked at her plain face, and said with a smile: "The last jar should be enough for you to use for more than a month, just come to me to get it again when you run out." ”

Wen Daxue's family is considered a noble family, but he doesn't dare to make a generous move like Princess Heng.

Wen Yin hurriedly waved his hand, shyly refused: "Thank you Princess Huai for your kindness." ”

"I don't want you to spend money, I'll give it to you," Li Fengming saw her concerns, and explained with a smile, "I don't know anyone in Yongjing, and I want to make a friend when I see you fit." You and I are the same age, so we don't need 'you' to come to 'you' in private. ”

Wenyin is of course willing to make friends with her, but because of her upbringing, she always feels that friendship is friendship, and it is not appropriate to take advantage of her friends.

"If you give me what you have brought from your dowry, will you not be of any use to yourself? It's not good. ”

Li Fengming said: "I have a prescription." When His Royal Highness King Huai came back from the front line, I asked him if he had a pharmaceutical bureau under his name, and he could make anything he needed. ”

The national policy of Qi is relatively friendly to merchants, so Yongjing City has always gathered merchants from all over the world. As long as you are willing to spend money, it is not a problem to produce raw materials from any country.

In the past month, Li Fengming has already calculated the way to make money, just waiting for Xiao Mingche to return to Beijing.

"In that case, then I won't refuse."

Wenyin didn't twist and be polite, and immediately slapped his palms and started to play: "In the middle of the year, I heard my father mention that His Majesty summoned King Huai back to Beijing. Count the days, and it should be a few days at most. At that time, if the Huai Wangfu will hold a celebration banquet, I will send you something interesting to congratulate. ”

"What celebration feast?" Li Fengming was slightly stunned.

Wen Yin was surprised: "You still don't know? The day before yesterday, the palace gate posted a good news of the urgent return from the south, and it has spread in the streets and alleys of Beijing in the past two days. King Huai personally went into battle to kill the enemy in Luoshan and helped General Chen Chi turn defeat into victory. ”

There is no official newspaper in the Qi State, such as the emperor's edicts, the major policies of the imperial court, the deliberations of the ministers, the appointment and dismissal of officials, and the front-line war reports, all of which will be posted on the palace gate and copied publicly.

Because the battle report was sent back urgently through the "flying station" of the military department, although the news of Luoshan's victory set off almost at the same time as Xiao Mingche, the news arrived in the capital before Xiao Mingche himself.

*****

Dicui Mountain is only twenty miles away from the south gate of the capital, but the Empress Dowager cannot interfere in politics according to the Qi system, and the old people are not interested in current affairs, so the relevant news usually does not come here.

In the evening, when Li Fengming returned to Changfeng Garden, her bright smile was so sweet that honey could drip out, which made Xin Wei panic.

Xin Wei looked at her with mixed feelings, and whispered: "Your Highness, you better put your legs down quickly." If you see you disregarding your manners like this, you can't help but chant the scriptures. ”

Behind the desk, Li Fengming sat down with his legs crossed, and said happily: "I'm in a beautiful mood tonight, even if I am pure in chanting and preaching, I'm not afraid or annoyed." ”

"The news of King Huai's great victory and his upcoming return to Beijing, why did you make you happy like this?" Xin Wei was puzzled.

"Think about it with your little brain, is that Xiao Mingche on the way back to Beijing?"

Li Fengming raised his hand lazily, and his fingertips poked lightly at the corner of her forehead. "That's 10,000 gold ingots rattling and rushing towards my arms!"

While the two were laughing, Chun Yudai entered the study with ginseng tea.

Li Fengming's legs reacted faster than his brain, and he quickly put them down and put them together, and his sitting posture returned to a dignified and solemn appearance in an instant.

Chun Yudai served ginseng tea and pretended not to see her casual posture: "Your Highness, when I helped take care of the little girl of the Wen family today, I chatted with the maid of the Wen family. ”

Li Fengming's action of drinking tea paused, and turned his head to look at her: "What did you hear?" ”

"A few days ago, the crown prince and King Heng had a big quarrel in front of Emperor Qi, which made Emperor Qi angry," Chun Yudai whispered, "but the outside world doesn't know why." I think it may have something to do with His Royal Highness King Huai and the Lian family. ”

Li Fengming thought for a while, nodded and said, "Mostly." Whatever, since Xiao Mingche wrote back to me and said 'I know', and today I heard that the matter of 'the great victory of Luoshan in the south' has been heard in the streets, and he thinks that everything is in his control. ”

It's just a big victory, but within two days, it was heard all over the streets of the capital, and even a deep lady like Wenyin heard about it. If no one is behind this......

Anyway, Li Fengming didn't believe it.

"Looks like he can handle it, so I don't have to worry about this idle anymore."

*****

Facts have proved that Li Fengming's heart was released a little early.

On the morning of the second day of the first month of April, Xiao Mingche arrived in Beijing and was edicted to enter the palace to face the saint.

It is said that Emperor Qi met him in the imperial study, and in addition to the prince and King Heng, there was also Wei Jichun, the middle secretary.

God knows what these people talked about in the imperial study, anyway, in the afternoon, Xiao Mingche was bombarded to the palace by a vague oracle of "Thinking about the three months of the mountain and listening quietly".

From receiving Xiao Mingche at the gate of the palace to the two of them going to the Empress Dowager together, Li Fengming was stunned throughout the whole process.

She finally realized that the "knowing" that Xiao Mingche said in the letter before was not the same thing as what she thought she knew!

Everyone was afraid that the Empress Dowager would be in suspense, and no one told her that Xiao Mingche had been punished to think about it.

The old lady was very pleased that when he came back from the front line, he took the time to stay with him in the palace.

In the face of this inexplicably kind and kind grandmother, Xiao Mingche was unusual, and showed shock and suspicion like "living ghosts" several times.

Fortunately, the old lady's eyes were not very good, and she didn't notice his abnormality, and she joked happily: "Xiao Fengming, what's wrong?" Stretching your neck every day and looking forward to the stars and the moon, people are in front of you at this time, but you are too shy to speak? ”

Xiao Mingche froze and glanced at Li Fengming beside him with a strange afterglow.

I saw her raise her head blankly and pull out a stiff smile at the old lady, neither admitting it, but also not denying it.

The old lady waved her hand happily: "The young two are newly married and separated, and now they are finally reunited, and the grandmother should also be an adult." From tomorrow, the morning and dusk provinces will be exempted, and you two will get along a lot. ”

It was expected that the two of them would reunite after a long absence, and there must be a lot of intimate private things to say, so the old lady urged them to go back to Changfeng Garden.

On the way back, both of them were quiet.

Xiao Mingche didn't know what to say, and Li Fengming was really speechless. She was afraid that she would breathe fire as soon as she opened her mouth.

thought that after Xiao Mingche came back, she would be able to return to Beijing to advance her own financial plan. The result? This guy obviously got the news in advance, and he was actually able to fall for someone else's trick, and he was punished to Dicui Mountain after returning to Beijing to face the saint! And up to three months!

The two of them had their own thoughts, and they were silent and parallel all the way from a half-arm's length.

Xin Wei followed behind, and she didn't dare to breathe. She knew Li Fengming too well, and she could see at a glance that Her Royal Highness was on the verge of madness.

She didn't want to touch her head at all, so she could only silently pray for His Royal Highness King Huai of Great Qi in her heart.

*****

Entering Changfeng Garden, Xiao Mingche suddenly remembered something. Seeing that there were palace maids under the corridors along the way, he called Li Fengming into the study to talk alone.

After entering the study and closing the door, Xiao Mingche turned around and cleared his throat uncomfortably. "Can you ......?"

He didn't think about the words when he spoke, and he got stuck at the beginning.

Li Fengming slowly met his gaze, his expression depressed. "His Royal Highness King Huai, can I ask about it first?"

Xiao Mingche bowed his head gracefully: "Okay." ”

"I'm really curious, what did you say and do in the imperial study today, so that you angered Tianyan, and even the credit of Luoshan's victory couldn't protect your noble body?" Although Li Fengming's voice was faintly angry, it was angry.

The whole face is more like a delicate flower that has been beaten by frost, and it is beautiful, but it is like three souls and seven spirits being sucked away, and it is terrifying.

Xiao Mingche lowered his eyes and looked at her for a long time, and replied lightly: "I didn't do anything." My father asked if there was any difference in the details of the military salaries in the south, and I had never seen the details, so I replied that I didn't know. ”

Today's affairs in the imperial study are not complicated.

King Heng said that there was an anomaly in the details of some of the southern military salaries that the Lian family submitted to the Ministry of War last year, and he suspected that Lian Zhen was greedy for military salaries.

The prince thinks that Lian Zhen is not such a person, and the Lian family is not so bold.

After that, the prince advocated sending an envoy to the south to conduct a thorough investigation to prove his innocence; King Heng proposed to control the entire Lian family before investigating, so as not to startle the snake.

The two of them quarreled for an hour and a half, the two sides could not hold each other, the Chinese book ordered Wei Jichun and the mud, Emperor Qi was tired of listening, and it was difficult to make a decision at the moment, so he was angry with Xiao Mingche, saying that he "oversaw the army's negligence, and he didn't know three questions", which sent a vague oracle and bombarded him to the palace for reflection.

finally understood the cause and effect, Li Fengming asked twice without smiling: "So, is Lian Zhen greedy for military salaries?" Are you involved or aware of it? ”

Xiao Mingche shook his head, and looked at her very strangely: "Are you worried that I will be questioned?" ”

"I won't be asked, this is not a big deal at all in the eyes of Your Majesty. He sent you to the palace to think about it, which means that he doesn't want to care. Li Fengming said weakly, but the meaning of his words was very certain.

"He just hasn't figured out how to press the crown prince and King Heng at the same time."

Xiao Mingche's eyes widened: "What is my father thinking, how do you know?" ”

"That's not important, there's no need to delve into this kind of detail," Li Fengming looked at him lovelessly and called him by his name, "Xiao Mingche, let's fight." ”

"What?"

From the unpleasantness experienced by entering the palace early this morning, to being punished to come to the palace to see a grandmother who was completely different from before, Xiao Mingche was already very confused.

At present, Li Fengming has another big twist and turn, and it seems that his words do not match the preamble, which makes him at a loss.

His body tensed unconsciously, and his eyes were guarded: "Why do you suddenly want to fight with me?" ”

Actually, I don't want to fight you, I want to beat you unilaterally.

Li Fengming smiled miserably: "Have you ever learned a sage saying, called 'an inch of time, an inch of gold'?" ”

Next, she has to accompany this guy to think about it in the palace for three whole months, her loss is too heavy!

The more Li Fengming thought about it, the more angry he became, so he simply grabbed a piece of paper from the table with his backhand, crumpled it into a ball and smashed it in his face.

She suppressed her voice and gritted her teeth and said angrily: "Where did you get the confidence to reply to me in the letter, 'I know?!'" ”

Xiao Mingche quickly dodged and gave her a warning look: "You ......"

"What are you?! You can't get out of this sesame thing today, you know a ghost! ”

The more Li Fengming thought about it, the more angry he became, and he casually took another book and threw it at him.

"The reason why people have long mouths is so that you can speak when you are in trouble! You can get out of self-protection in a few words, you are silent like a stupid mussel shell, who are others not bullying you?! ”

Xiao Mingche dodged again, and saw that she was actually about to reach out for the vase, and rushed over with her long legs, pressing her forearm with her elbow, with a lot of confusion in her eyes.

*****

Li Fengming knew that she shouldn't lose her temper, but she was too angry in her heart.

From childhood to adulthood, she has been very capable of things on the side, but she is very competitive in the affairs of the court.

Because the way of survival of the emperor's heir is different from ordinary people, every time it seems that a small concession and peace of mind are accumulated, it is impossible to say that it will become a mountain that crushes him to death that day.

In her opinion, Xiao Mingche can easily get out of the matter of Lian Zhen in a smooth and gentle way.

But he was silent, and he ate such a big loss as "being punished to the palace for three months"!

Li Fengming reflexively spun, broke free from Xiao Mingche's suppression, and passed with a fist.

"Don't think I'm reluctant to beat you if you're good-looking! You are also my person, so you are bullied by others, let my face go! Child! Put! ”

With this angry shout, Xiao Mingche was stunned on the spot, and he was punched firmly on his cheekbones.

Li Fengming didn't expect him to suddenly stop resisting, and he was a little dumbfounded at the moment.

The two stopped fighting, looked at each other, and suddenly fell into an eerie silence in the study.

After a while, Xiao Mingche's eyebrows frowned slightly: "Who is who's who?" You think about it before you say it again. ”