Chapter 464: Choosing a Concubine
There was a crowd of people behind him, but there was no one he wanted to see.
Loss is inevitable, but expected.
The silver-armored young man sitting on the horse paused for a moment, then turned his head with a calm expression.
The scarlet cloak behind him and the red tassels on the sterling silver helmet fluttered with it, making the upright figure more and more sassy.
The procession slowly marched through the city gates.
On the teahouse on the side of the street, Luo Sheng watched through the crack in the open window as the familiar figure disappeared from sight, and the cloak like fire seemed to be shaking in front of him.
She reached out and pushed the window open.
A cold wind blew in through the wide open window, brushing her pale cheeks mercilessly.
Hongdou came over and looked at the stunned master, who was very puzzled: "Girl, you are so familiar with King Kaiyang, why don't you rush up if you want to send him?" You hide here, he can't see it. ”
Luo Sheng was silent.
Hongdou sighed: "It is said that once the war starts, you may not be able to come back for a few years, and in the future, our wine shop will have one less old customer who can't come to eat......"
"Don't say it, let's go." Luo Sheng glanced at the noisy little maid, turned around and walked towards the door.
After going down the stairs and out of the teahouse, the civil and military officials who saw off them and the people watching the excitement chased out of the city gate, and the street became empty.
Just like Luo Sheng's empty mood at the moment.
She thought she was not wrong in doing so.
She thought that King Kaiyang was a free and easy person, and that day under the persimmon tree invited her to be white, and she should be let go after being refused.
But he asked her a second time.
Then be ruthless and don't think about him.
If there is something wrong, it is probably that she can't control her heart for him.
Luo Sheng closed his eyes and laughed at himself.
In such a situation, how can she be tempted.
When I returned to a sake brewery, snow was falling.
At first, it was just snow foam, but gradually it turned into a goose feather snow that swirled in the air and fell in the air.
A thin layer of snow gradually accumulated on the bluestone slab, and the bare persimmon trees were also covered in snow, giving them a plain appearance.
Hongdou instructed Shi Yan to set up a dustpan in front of the door to catch the house finch.
As long as Shi Yan thought about the fragrant roasted house sparrows, most of them returned to the red bean eldest sister's stomach, so he felt slack and called Shi Yi to replace him.
Wei Han left Shi Yi behind on this expedition.
Compared with his brother's laziness, Shi Yi was much more serious, and he soon gained a lot.
Eating fragrant and oily house finches around the stove, Shi Yan glanced at the girl sitting by the window, and sighed heavily: "Hey, the master is used to eating the wine and food of our wine shop, and he will suffer if he eats dry food along the way......"
Luo Sheng looked at the snow outside the window, as if he hadn't heard it.
Shi Yan sighed again: "The master's stomach is still not good-"
Luo Chen got up suddenly and held back the words behind the little guard.
Luo Sheng noticed the abnormality and turned his head.
The young man looked at her and asked calmly, "Sister, are you going to see the persimmon tree?" ”
Luo Sheng was surprised, puzzled what Luo Chen was going to say, and quickly nodded.
Seeing that the sister and brother went to the back, Shi Yan was a little confused: "Why does Luo Gongzi also like to look at persimmon trees?" ”
Can't the master even keep this special treatment? It's miserable!
The persimmon tree in the courtyard stands quietly, like a demure girl in a new dress.
Luo Sheng looked at the young man's slightly red cheeks and said, "The wind is cold and the snow is heavy, so let's go into the house and say anything if you have anything to say." ”
Luo Chen nodded.
What he wanted was a place where he could talk, and of course he didn't have any attachment to the persimmon tree.
The siblings abandoned the lonely persimmon tree and entered the house.
The warmth inside the house is like spring, which is very different from the cold outside.
Luo Sheng sat down, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it over: "Say it." ”
The young man sitting opposite him took the teacup and put it in his hand.
His face was a little serious through the fragrance of tea, and he looked as if he was a few years older.
Luo Sheng waited quietly for the young man to speak.
"King Kaiyang left Beijing today, why didn't my sister send it?"
Luo Sheng glanced at Luo Chen in surprise.
She thought that her younger brother was going to ask about the rattle, but she didn't expect to ask about King Kaiyang.
"There are hundreds of civil and military officials to send each other, and there is no shortage of me."
After listening to Luo Sheng's answer, Luo Chen looked at her with a little suspicion in his eyes: "I don't understand it." ”
"Don't understand what?"
The boy held the teacup and passed the warmth through the cup to the palm of his hand.
"My sister is happy with the King of Kaiyang, right?" After a short silence, Luo Chen spoke quietly.
Luo Sheng frowned slightly.
It seems strange to discuss this with my younger brother.
"How do you ask this?" Luo Sheng avoided answering.
Luo Chen said: "Because I can't figure it out." My sister is not a person who is strict about etiquette, so why avoid it if she likes it?
He paid attention to the other party's reaction and said the doubts that were hovering in his heart: "Unless my sister has something unspeakable." But my father regards my sister as the pearl of his palm, and he will not interfere with your dealings with King Kaiyang, what will be my sister's unspeakable secret? ”
He shouldn't have asked these questions, but his sister's behavior was too contradictory, which made him inexplicably a little uneasy.
It's so casual to even grab the face of the capital, but you don't dare to send your sweetheart?
Luo Sheng was silent for a long time and smiled: "There is nothing unspeakable, I just think that King Kaiyang has admitted the truth, and I don't want to marry at the moment, so I don't want to delay him." ”
Luo Chen believed this reason a little, and his tone became serious: "My sister is about to be seventeen years old, and she should grow up, don't always think about raising a face." ”
Luo Sheng smiled: "I know, I won't raise it for a few more years." ”
Luo Chen took a sip of the teacup, and got up with a straight face: "Then I'm going to eat roasted house sparrows." ”
"Go, if you don't go any further, they will eat up the house sparrows."
The young man's face changed slightly, and he quickened his pace.
Luo Sheng walked to the window and looked at the young man who was walking quickly to the lobby.
Maybe find an appropriate opportunity to tell your brother about his true life experience. But how to explain her knowledge is a headache, and she can't tell her younger brother that she is the county lord of Qingyang who borrowed the corpse to resurrect the soul.
It snowed heavily, and it fell for several days, and the eaves and streets were covered with thick snow.
As the Eastern Expeditionary Army gradually moved away from the capital, it seemed that even the clouds brought by the war were drifting away.
Disasters in the distance always seem to be less troublesome than a little trouble around us.
This is true for the people, and it is also true for most of the nobles.
After accepting the fact that King Dingdong had rebelled, sending an eastern expeditionary army and arranging the coordination of the war between the various yamen, Emperor Yong'an began to consider another important matter: the issue of heirs.
Now that only Xiao Guifei is pregnant in the harem, it is too risky to bet that Xiao Guifei must give birth to a prince.
Emperor Yong'an is a person who likes to make all preparations, thinking that if Concubine Xiao Guifei is a princess, she will undoubtedly fall into great passivity at that time.
After thinking about it, it is better to have more concubines to have movement to ensure security.
But these concubines have not had good news for many years, even if Concubine Xiao Guifei is happy, Emperor Yongan does not have much confidence in them.
It seems that it is still time to fill the harem and choose some new people to come in.
Soon the news of the emperor's decision to choose a concubine spread.