Chapter 34 Tea is a metaphor
Su Jiuran had heard about the Minzhou incident for a long time, and he also blamed the local officials for being negligent and not paying attention to it.
"Brother Prince~"
Gu Yi's mouth was sweet, and the prince's brother warmed Gu Xiu's heart, and most of the troubles in his heart were gone.
"Why did Xiao Qi come to me today, come, let the royal brother hug him, and see if he has grown meat recently."
Gu Yi walked over, and he was afraid of hurting Gu Xiu's leg, so he stood there stupidly, Gu Xiu only remembered when he saw it, now that he was a "disabled" person, it was no wonder that Gu Yi didn't know whether to let Gu Xiu hug or not.
Gu Yi put the pastry in his hand on Gu Xiu's desk, ran behind Gu Xiu, and put his arms around Gu Xiu's neck, just like when Gu Xiu asked Gu Yi to "ride a horse" when he was a child.
"Brother Prince, I think Xiao Qi has sunk a little."
"Well, it's sunken a little, grown up, and sensible."
Gu Yi picked up the pastry with his little hand and stuffed it into Gu Xiu's mouth, Gu Xiu was not annoyed, and after a few bites, he found out that this was not made in the palace.
"Today's pastries are different from the past, is there a new cook in the imperial dining room?"
Gu Yi looked at Gu Xiu with a disgusted expression.
"Was the prince's brother snubbed by the imperial sister-in-law? You must have been left out in the cold, so you won't eat the pastries made by the imperial sister-in-law, right? ”
When Gu Xiu heard this, he choked and coughed, Ye Ze and Su Jiuran, who were standing outside the door, thought something and hurriedly came into the house, and only after reading it did they know that there was a false alarm.
"Brother Prince, you eat slowly, no one will rob you, the imperial sister-in-law has done a lot."
Gu Xiu didn't know what to say for a while, Ye Ze was snickering on the side, and Su Jiuran was distressed by Gu Yi's childish words.
"Indeed, delicious."
Gu Xiu ate the pastry in his mouth, looked at Su Jiuran, and bit extremely hard when he said it, as if he told Su Jiuran that she was dead.
Su Jiuran in his heart: To what extent is this disgusted with me, can this provoke him?
Su Jiuran stepped forward and poured a cup of tea for Gu Xiu, wanting to take advantage of Minzhou's affairs to let Gu Xiu dissipate his anger.
"Your Highness, this tea can be put in a teapot, if you are thirsty, you can pour it out and drink, if you are not thirsty, let this tea continue to stay in the teapot, if there is no water in the teapot, add it in advance, it will not be dry and there will be no tea to drink, and it will not be in the way when you are not in use."
The meaning of Su Jiuran's words is that the water of the waterlogging can be kept for backup, which can solve the problem of drought and water shortage.
Su Jiuran just borrowed tea to talk about Minzhou, Gu Yi couldn't hear it clearly, so Ye Ze only felt that the crown princess was finally willing to say so much today.
Gu Xiu understood what Su Jiuran meant, the new water conservancy, Minzhou was flooded, and if there was a drought, the water from Tun would be used.
For the first time, Gu Xiu took a serious look at this nominal crown princess, her demeanor was down-to-earth and generous, her appearance was beautiful and dignified but not charming, and she was smart but knew how to hide.
Gu Xiu picked up the teacup, the teacup touched Gu Xiu's lips, and the corners of Gu Xiu's mouth hooked up a smile under the teacup.
Ye Ze's eyes were sharp, and when he saw Gu Xiu's seemingly non-existent smile, he had a question in his heart: Your Highness, is this laughing? Is it because of the crown princess? Or is this pastry delicious?
"I'm in a good mood today, the royal brother will play with Xiao Qi for a while."
Gu Xiu put down the tea in his hand and pinched Gu Yi's little face.
"Okay, okay, I haven't played with the royal brother for a long time, Xiao Qi misses it."
Gu Yi immediately clapped his little hands happily and jumped up.
Seeing this, Su Jiuran and Ye Ze went out very consciously and closed the door.
Ye Ze was still guarding the door, and Su Jiuran went back to his dormitory, and asked Youran to send some pastries to Ye Ze.
Ye Ze saw that he was coming leisurely, and he still had some pastries in his hand, thinking that Su Jiuran had sent them to Gu Xiu leisurely, and when he approached leisurely, he stopped her.
"Girl, please wait first, I will go and tell Your Highness."
"What do you want to tell Your Highness?"
"Didn't the girl come to deliver pastries to His Royal Highness on the orders of the crown princess?"
Ye Ze stared at the pastry in your hand, followed Ye Ze's gaze leisurely, also looked at the pastry in his hand, and then looked at Ye Ze, and laughed.
"Poof, this is what the crown princess ordered me to bring to Ye to guard you, the crown princess said that you usually take care of His Royal Highness hard, and there are many pastries made today, so let me send some to you."
Youran handed over the pastries in his hand to Ye Ze, Ye Ze didn't have time to thank him, Youran had already gone away and went back to recover his life.
Ye Ze looked at the pastry for a while, tasted it, and thought it was delicious, with a smile on his lips.
The next day, above the court, the prince's good plan for the affairs of Minzhou was appreciated by the emperor and recognized by the ministers, which made the eldest prince Gu Ting angry.
Gu Ting returned to the mansion and was furious.
"A wasted man, even if his father insists on passing the throne to that wasted man, this king will never let him sit on the throne safely."
The study was in a mess, and Princess Nalan Ci dismissed her subordinates outside the door and walked into the study by herself.
Naranci crouched down, picked up the scrolls scattered on the ground, and put them back where they were.
"Lord, dissipate your anger, today the concubine ordered the kitchen, and specially prepared your favorite food."
Nalan Ci coaxed softly, Gu Ting wanted to get angry, but after hearing Nalan Ci's cough, he forgot to get angry, but was a little nervous Nalan Ci.
"Now that it's getting colder, why don't you add more clothes when you come out, but it's uncomfortable? Is it that the old disease is getting worse? ”
"Lord, the concubine is fine, but she coughed a few times, so you don't have to worry."
Gu Ting hugged Nalan Ci into his arms, how could Gu Ting not be worried, no matter how ruthless he was, in front of Nalan Ci, he was just an ordinary husband.
Nalan Ci is the daughter of Pingyang Hou, Pingyang Hou is an old minister, and he has paid a lot of effort for the country.
During a royal hunt, Nalan Ci begged Pingyang Hou to take her with him, and Pingyang Hou saw that Nalan Ci liked to ride horses and shoot arrows on weekdays, so he agreed to Nalan Ci and took her with him.
During the hunt, Naranci's horse was frightened, and Nalanci almost fell off his horse.
Fortunately, the eldest prince Gu Ting rescued him, so he was safe and sound, Nalan Ci fell in love with Gu Ting at first sight, but he didn't know that the horse was frightened, it was Gu Ting's doing, everything was in his calculations.
Pingyang Hou didn't like what the imperial concubine did in the harem, nor did he like Gu Ting, and when he learned that Nalan Ci wanted to marry Gu Ting as the princess, he was very angry with Nalan Ci for the first time.
Nalan Ci did not stop there, and knelt outside the gate of Pingyang for several days, which coincided with the rainy season, and it rained heavily for several days.
Pingyang Hou was also ruthless, and let Nalan Ci kneel in the rain, and Nalan Ci's old illness fell at that time.
Anyway, after all, it is his own flesh and blood, pity the hearts of parents in the world, and finally Pingyang Hou compromised, agreed to Nalan Ci, and fulfilled the marriage between Nalan Ci and Gu Ting.
Gu Ting originally just wanted to win over Pingyang Hou, so he designed to make Nalan Ci affectionate towards him, but he never thought that he would design his heart into it.
If Gu Ting is cold-blooded and ruthless, then the only tenderness he has is given to Nalan Ci, the girl who returned in the rain for him for a few days and nights.
Nalan is gentle by nature, and after marrying into the palace, he cares about Gu Ting's affairs, cares about everything, and is considerate to Gu Ting, which makes Gu Ting feel the warmth of being missed and cared for.
"How can you not worry, it will be winter soon, and then Madame will suffer a lot of crimes."
"When the time comes, the prince will give the concubine more plums, and the concubine will stay in the house obediently and will not go anywhere."
"Okay, it's up to you."
Nalan Ci leaned on Gu Ting's arms, enjoying Gu Ting's gentleness.
Nalan Ci knew Gu Ting's ambitions, and Nalan Ci wanted to persuade Gu Ting to give up power, but she didn't know how to persuade her, and every time she wanted to speak, she couldn't say it.
She watched him accept one side concubine after another in order to win over the ministers of the court, and watched him bring back the concubines, she chose to forgive and did not blame him.
She didn't know how long it would take to snuggle up in Gu Ting's arms like this.
Maybe she will go before him because of illness, or maybe he will go before her because of ambition......
"Lord Wang, why did you have such a big fire today, and you actually made this study unrecognizable."
"It's okay, it's all a trivial matter in the court, just let someone clean the study, this king is hungry, can my wife accompany me to dinner?"
Gu Ting didn't like the news of the court to reach Nalan Ci's ears, and he didn't want Nalan Ci to worry about him.
"Okay."
Gu Ting ordered someone to clean the study, and then took Nalan Ci to dinner.
The weather in northern Xinjiang is colder than in Kyoto, and Fu Ye spent several months in northern Xinjiang to find out which people are Gu Ting's people, and plan to clear them out.
"Childe, you're all set."
Fu Ye wants to take care of things in northern Xinjiang as clean as snow this winter.
"Okay."
Fu Ye used a trick to expose Gu Ting's people by themselves, and then took them down in one fell swoop, there were a total of three generals and more than 100 soldiers, Fu Ye had no intention of killing them, Fu Ye just wanted them to defect.
Fu Ye handled the matter very well, there would be no more Gu Ting's people in Northern Xinjiang, Fu Ye could let go of his hands and feet and guard Northern Xinjiang.
Fu Ye sat on the city wall, looking in the direction of Kyoto, I don't know when, goose feathers of snow flew all over the sky.
Fu Ye stretched out his hand, and the snow fell on Fu Ye's palm and melted.
"It's snowing, Dye Dye loves to watch snow the most, and I don't know if there is anyone to accompany her to build a snowman and have a snowball fight, it shouldn't be, now that she is the crown princess, how can she do these unseemly things."
Fu Ye thought that if he could, he would think that Kyoto would always be at peace, even if he was allowed to stay in Northern Xinjiang forever.
The people of Xiguo live and work in peace and contentment, and there is no war, which should be what Su Jiuran wants to see the most.
Fu Ye is far away in Northern Xinjiang, but his heart is not in Northern Xinjiang, but he can no longer accompany Su Jiuran, who is a childhood sweetheart.
It was also snowing in Kyoto, and rubbing his hands leisurely and coldly, Su Jiuran looked out of the window into the courtyard from the window of the house.
Su Jiuran thought that in a few days, when the snow would be thicker, she would be able to build a snowman in the courtyard and have a snowball fight, but the people who accompanied her in previous years were already far away in northern Xinjiang and would not return to Kyoto for a while.
"This year's snow is earlier than last year's, and I don't know if Ah Ye is in northern Xinjiang, if everything is fine."
Su Jiuran looked out the window, out of his mind, and subconsciously said this for a long time.