The next day was a rainy day.

Early in the morning, Xiao Mingche got into a carriage and went into the palace.

Not far from the door of the house, he casually lifted the corner of the curtain and saw a board car coming towards him.

The cart was pushed by two young men wearing robes and hats, who were so thin that they could not see their facial features clearly.

There were seven or eight large bamboo baskets on the cart, all covered with banana leaves. But it was not covered tightly, and a few flowers poked their heads out from between the banana leaves and the edge of the basket.

Although the sky is not yet bright, Xiao Ming's eyesight is good, and he can vaguely see that the flower is a double-petaled purple branch.

From here, there is only one family in the Huai Wangfu, and these flowers are obviously sent to the Huai Wangfu.

Yongjing's high-ranking households will fix the vegetable shop, meat shop, flower and fruit shop for a long time, and the merchants will send people to send the vegetable meat and flower fruit to the door every day.

These things are all handled by Uncle Jiang and Aunt Jiang, and Xiao Mingche never asked about it in the past.

At this moment, he couldn't tell what he was thinking, so he whispered to stop the car, and then instructed Xiao Min, the attendant sitting on the wheel, "Go and ask who ordered those double-petaled purple branches." ”

Xiao Min jumped out of the car with an umbrella and caught up with the car.

After a while, Xiao Min returned and said, "Your Highness, the flower shop guy said that it was ordered from the princess's courtyard." ”

"Got it," Xiao Ming leaned against the wall of the car and closed his eyes, "Let's go." ”

The wheels rolled again, and the sound of the wheels mingling with the sound of raindrops hitting the roof of the car made people's thoughts fluctuate.

Those double-petaled purple branches were ordered by Xin Wei at a flower store in Dongshi yesterday.

At that time, because of the large amount she ordered, she put forward the strange request of "to pick freshly, as long as the flowers are not branches", and the shopkeeper was surprised and asked a few words.

After all, double-petaled purple branches are common in Yongjing, and they are not precious. Wealthy families occasionally buy three or five bunches of branches to make a foil when arranging flowers.

Order eight baskets at a time like this, as long as the flowers do not have branches, the flower line is also the first time to meet.

The shopkeeper was afraid that Xin Wei would make trouble, so she asked her to pay half of the money first, so as not to send it to Huaiwang's Mansion today and no one will claim to receive it.

This can't be resold, and the owner will lose so much that he will jump to scold his mother.

As everyone knows, the Wei people have the custom of stuffing flower sauce to eat.

When he came to Qi at the end of last year, Li Fengming brought some in the dowry, but he almost ate it up in the palace.

The eight baskets of double-petaled purple branches ordered by Xin Wei are just a small three or five jars after the sauce is stuffed.

The west hall of the small courtyard has long been vacated, and clean soft mats have been laid on the ground. Put a lot of sieves.

There was rain today, and the maids in the courtyard were not busy with anything else, so they were all beckoned into the west hall by Xin Wei and followed her example.

Chun Yudai didn't go to Guizixi today, and at this moment she also put half a basket under the porch, choosing flowers to accompany Li Fengming to listen to the rain.

Li Fengming became playful and changed into the same coarse cloth sleeved shirt as everyone else, which was convenient for doing things.

She stared carefully at Chun Yudai's movements, followed along with the same looks, and kept asking questions.

"Washed first, and then wiped dry? Can't you wipe it? If the flower sauce is dry, then you can't eat it. ”

Chun Yudai looked at her with a smile: "After the petals are mashed, they will be juiced." ”

"That's not much...... Oh, and add honey and jaggery. Do you still add extra water? ”

Li Fengming has made countless flower sauces, and he roughly understands how the flower sauce is made, but he has never made it himself.

She hadn't even seen the whole brewing process before.

"Add some well water. But not too much, only a small scoop of water per jar. ”

"Do you have to get well water? The river is not good? What about the springs? "Li Fengming, if he is concerned about one thing, he will have many strange questions.

Chun Yudai patiently explained the difference between several water sources to make flower sauce.

Li Fengming listened to it with relish, nodded frequently, and complained with a smile at the end, "I didn't expect that the stuffed flower sauce is still a very knowledgeable craft." Why didn't anyone teach me before? ”

Chun Yudai looked at no one around, and then laughed softly back, "In the past, you learned all the 'big crafts', who dared to teach you this." ”

"Tsk, those so-called big crafts are boring," Li Fengming pouted, "I got up early and studied diligently for 16 years, and in the end?" ”

Those "big skills" finally allowed her to survive two years of almost claustrophobic life, leading a piece of paper and a letter of pro-country, and leaving home to go to China.

Speaking of which, if it weren't for the paper and the pro-national letter to rescue, she would probably still be trapped in the walls of the quadrangular courtyard at this moment, waiting for a bottle of poison that would come one day.

"If I had known that this would be the case, I might as well have learned to make flower sauce since I was a child."

Although the stuffed flower sauce is a prosaic little thing, it is the real taste of red dust and fireworks.

It's fragrant and sweet, and it makes people feel that it's good to be alive.

Towards the end of the day, the heavy rain has shown a torrential trend.

At this time, Li Fengming is usually taking a nap. But she was standing under the eaves of the porch at the moment, still wearing the coarse cloth shirt she had worn in the morning.

Looking at the rain in the sky, her mood gradually became apprehensive.

Chun Yu Dai said, "Your Highness, King Huai has not returned to the house yet." ”

This news made Li Fengming panic slightly.

She was suspicious that Xiao Mingche handed the excerpt into the palace this morning, and the content was not exactly what she said yesterday.

Or, what did Xiao Mingche do wrong when answering in front of the emperor and it was self-defeating?

Otherwise, you shouldn't have returned home by this time.

Seeing that her expression was wrong, Chun Yudai comforted, "Your Highness, don't panic. Maybe ......"

"I didn't panic." Li Fengming cut off her words and forced her composure.

"It's me who lost my words," Chun Yudai smiled, "Your Highness didn't panic. ”

Li Fengming exhaled a breath of turbidity: "What are you laughing at?" Laugh and beat you again. Prepare the car! ”

"You want to enter the palace?" Chun Yudai smiled suddenly, surprised and dissuaded, "Your Highness, don't forget, according to the Qi system, if the prince is in a hurry to go to the palace, he can enter the palace without a summons, but the princess cannot." ”

Li Fengming bowed slightly, "I remember that you said the day before yesterday that the jade Rongsan for the queen has been made." Did you put it on Guizixi, or did you get it back? ”

Those bottles of jade Rongsan, she originally planned to present them to the queen when she entered the palace for a banquet at the end of the month.

"Got it back. His Royal Highness wants to present it to the queen in person today, and enter the palace for this reason? ”

Li Fengming shook his head, "You send those bottles of jade Rongsan to Shaofu, and ask Shaofu to pass them on to the queen." ”

Although the thing Xiao Mingche wants to say when he enters the palace today is not big, it is a court affair. If there is really a business trip in front of the emperor, the queen can't protect it, and she may not want to protect it.

At this time, Yurong was sent into the palace, not expecting the queen to go to the palace to help intercede, but to show the prince's mansion.

"And I don't enter the palace, I only wait outside the palace gate."

The excerpt that Xiao Mingche sent to the palace today was rewritten overnight after talking to her yesterday.

If it was really her misjudgment of Emperor Qi, which caused Xiao Mingche to be sent to the door to be wronged, then the matter was caused by her.

She couldn't do more for the time being, but at least she could let Xiao Mingche see someone waiting for him as soon as he left the palace gate.

In front of the palace gate, there is a "Reflecting Sun River", and nine relief white jade arch bridges span it.

When the foreign minister enters the palace, he needs to dismount and get off the sedan chair at the end of the bridge, and then walk or ride according to the status grade after crossing the bridge.

When you leave the palace, you come in reverse.

At the end of the Shen period, the rain stopped and the clouds opened, and the prince and Xiao Mingche successively descended at the end of the white jade arch bridge.

According to the regulations, it should be the prince who went to the bridge first, and Xiao Mingche let go half a step.

But the prince smiled casually, "There are no outsiders around, between you and my brothers, there is no need to be so rude and formal." ”

So Xiao Mingche took a long step and stepped forward to be parallel to him. "Today's event is that I was impulsive and rashly alarmed the imperial brother."

He didn't hand over the fold alone, but ordered the palace people to go to the East Palace to pass the word.

"It's a little impulsive, but it makes up for the omission I didn't expect," the prince smiled at him, "You asked for credit for Chen Chi, and you proposed to let Lian Zhen attend the month-end celebration banquet on your behalf, my father is very satisfied, isn't it?" ”

Obviously, not only Emperor Qi was satisfied, but the crown prince was also satisfied. Otherwise, he would not have personally sent him out of the palace, and he would have been sent all the way across the White Jade Bridge.

This is the first of its kind.

Although Chen Chi is a low-level general, and he can't come back in the south, but with more of his name in the celebration banquet, Xiao Mingche is no longer the only protagonist.

This is the influence of Xiao Mingche's self-weakening in the court, can the prince be dissatisfied?

"My father is satisfied, because I see the face of the emperor's brother. He doesn't want to see me, I know. Xiao Mingche half-lowered his eyes, although his expression was still cold, he looked extremely well-behaved.

This is the method that Li Fengming taught him yesterday, even if he is not enthusiastic, pretending to be miserable will be regarded as a signal of closeness.

Today, facing Emperor Qi and the crown prince, he is using this method. Things went smoothly like never before.

The prince stepped onto the bridge, sighed, and walked slowly with his hands, "Father and emperor are affectionate." Your biological mother was blushing, and this became a thorn in his heart, so he wronged you. I can't say anything about how my father wants to treat you. However, if anything happens in the future, you can still come to me, and I will do my best to ease your cheeks. ”

"Thank you Brother Huang for your love." Xiao Mingche said.

He doesn't believe in the nonsense of "father's affection", but it doesn't matter.

"As for your suggestion that the position of 'the position of the capital is rotated by the prince of the county and the younger brother of the sect', although the father and emperor are still considering it, but don't worry, I will help persuade you. I've thought about it, I was negligent earlier, and you're right. ”

The prince raised an eyebrow at him and smiled meaningfully.

"You went to the front line on the night of your wedding, and it took half a year to return, and you and Princess Huai were separated. If you stay at the border in the future, I am afraid that it will be more difficult to get close. ”

Xiao Mingche glanced at him, "It's okay, it's not that raw." ”

"Just keep your mouth shut." The prince laughed sullenly, like a broken mouth brother who cares for his younger brother.

"It's been a month since you returned to the palace, and you haven't entered her courtyard, and she hasn't stayed overnight in your north courtyard. No matter how much she is a princess who marries with a national gift, even if you don't like her, you have to be perfunctory in some things. Got it? ”

"Obey the Prince's teachings."

"What do you like? When I go back, I ask the queen mother to pick two good sons for you......"

Xiao Mingche immediately said, "Thank you, Brother Huang, for your kindness." However, it doesn't have to be extraneous. ”

He rarely showed a little impatience, which made the prince stunned. Then he smiled sympathetically.

"That's right. Your princess is a great character. ”

It has been almost two months since the queen took back the absolute right to speak in the harem and sent Qian Zhaoyi to the queen mother's mausoleum to think about it.

Now that no one in the palace has mentioned Qian Zhaoyi anymore, even Emperor Qi seems to have forgotten her existence.

It is conceivable that her life in the Empress Dowager's Mausoleum will only become more and more difficult.

The means of the harem, the prince knows more or less.

It was a blunt knife cutting meat, day by day, little by little, slowly and silently.

It seems that there is no blood, but it is more cruel than white in and red out.

Regarding how Qian Zhaoyi got to where she is now, most people think that it is the handiwork of the prince or queen.

But the crown prince knows better than anyone that the most important promoter of this matter is actually the princess Huai who looks arrogant and reckless and doesn't seem to have done anything.

"That's fine. If she sends someone to your house, she will definitely make trouble," the prince thought of a way for Xiao Mingche very intimately, "Then I will place someone outside for you." ”

As he spoke, he arrived at the other end of the White Jade Bridge.

Xiao Mingche was slightly stunned when he saw the carriage in his house parked there, and the maid standing under the window was still the pearl in Li Fengming's courtyard.

The prince said, "Okay, I'll send it here." ”

Xiao Mingche took the resignation, and after seeing the prince return to the White Jade Bridge, he strode into the carriage.

The moment he lifted the curtain, he smelled a faint sweet fragrance.

When I raised my eyes, I saw Li Fengming dressed in cloth and wearing no makeup, holding a small jar in his arms.

Xiao Mingche didn't understand why she was dressed like this.

This is often worn by the rough maids of the Huai Wangfu, and sometimes the maids will wear it this way for the convenience of doing things.

It's the same clothes, but she wears them a little differently.

Seeing that he looked at himself in a daze, but didn't speak, Li Fengming was even more worried.

She moved to the side and gave him the Lord's seat.

"I'm afraid you're not going well today, so I'll take a look. Zhu'er said, it was the prince who sent you out of the palace. Beaten? ”

Xiao Mingche's mind was a little confused, so he only shook his head, sat down in silence, and looked at her sideways.

She is so smart that she will not know that even if he is wronged in the palace, it will be useless for her to come at this time.

Because she couldn't get in.

But she came anyway. I didn't even have time to get dressed, so I'm worried, right?

"Is that scolded? Or, did the prince see through my little trick? Don't panic, little scene. Tell me what's going on today, and we'll try to fix it. ”

Li Fengming took a wooden spoon, scooped half a spoonful of flower sauce from the small jar in his arms, and handed it to him.

"When you're in a bad mood, you can eat something sweet. You can't taste it, but it's always okay to try. ”

Xiao Mingche didn't reach out to pick it up, and looked at her with lowered eyes.

"I wasn't beaten, I wasn't scolded. The matter of the rotation of the capital division still needs to be considered by the father. The matter of asking for credit for Chen Chi has been completed. ”

Li Fengming still maintained the action of handing him the spoonful of flower sauce, and looked at him intently, "With your face, there must still be 'but'." ”

"Well," Xiao Ming bowed, "from tonight, you have to move into the North Courtyard." ”

"Move? Do you want me to stay in the North Courtyard all the time? Seeing him nod, Li Fengming was dumbfounded, "Why?" ”

"The house is not clean. The prince knows that we don't ......" He paused uncomfortably, his face slightly red, "If you don't move, he will give me two outer rooms." ”

"What are you doing in the outer room?" Li Fengming didn't turn the corner for a while, and blurted out.

Xiao Mingche glanced at her like a fool, "What do you think?" ”

After finishing speaking, she took the spoon in her hand and took off half a spoonful of flower sauce.

The flower sauce is soft in the mouth and melts quickly into it. It tasted pretty good, but he still couldn't taste it.

"That's what you just ate and that's why you got the aroma?" Xiao Mingche leaned the back of his head against the wall of the car, closed his eyes tiredly, but the corners of his lips rose slightly.

Li Fengming was figuring out the prince's thoughts, so he said casually, "I didn't eat it." It was freshly brewed in the morning, so I guess I got the smell while sitting in the pile of flowers. ”

I don't know how long it took, Xiao Mingche, who was closing his eyes, seemed to see a curtain in front of him.

The curtain was slowly lifted, and Li Fengming was seen dressed in plain clothes, sitting in a pile of double-petaled purple branches.

She tilted her head and smiled, handing over a spoonful of sweet sauce.

He still hadn't tasted it.

But the smiling face in front of him, coupled with the sweet fragrance of the sauce lingering on the tip of his nose, made him vaguely understand the taste of this flower sauce.

Sweet silky, soft, melts in the mouth, melts into a warm rush to the heart.

In a daze, he thought, if this taste has a name, then it should be called "Li Fengming".

When he got out of the carriage, Xiao Mingche suddenly remembered something.

"In February, you asked Feiyi to send that little jar to me in the south, is this sweet sauce?"

Li Fengming stood still before looking back at him, with a look of surprise on his face.

"Yes. The method is similar, but the flowers used are different. You can actually taste the two tastes are similar?! ”

Xiao Mingche's face was slightly gloomy, and he shook his head, "I can't taste it." You go back first and have people move your things to the North Courtyard. ”

As he spoke, he turned around and went back to the carriage.

"You're still going out?" Li Fengming frowned, "It's not early, if it's not a hundred thousand urgent things, don't go out, right?" I have a lot of things to ask you, and I am too embarrassed to say anything when you fall asleep on the way. ”

"You'll ask when I get back. I'm going to find Lian Zhen," Xiao Mingche's eyes were not good, and his cheeks tightened, "100,000 urgent." ”

Li Fengming hurriedly took half a step back, grabbed his sleeve, and forced him to lean over and nod his head.

She leaned closer to him and suppressed her voice, "Crazy?" If you go to Lian Zhen at this time, you will be busy today. Why should you go to him at this time? ”

After she finished speaking, Xiao Mingche shook off her hand holding her sleeve in hindsight, and hid to the side with red ears.

But he stubbornly put on a cold face, "It's nothing." "I suddenly wanted to beat him.

I want to beat Lian Zhen and spit out all the sweet sauce in February.

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