It's always been romantic, and it's no secret in Dasheng.

Mo Kemo saw that the emperor was quite interested in this topic, and also joked with a smile: "I have also heard of the name of the county lord of Huoli in the northwest, but unfortunately I didn't have the opportunity to see it." ”

Geng Haizheng was holding back the excitement in his heart, the smile on his face became stronger, and he said as if inadvertently: "Your Majesty, I heard that the little county lord of the Hua Quinoa clan is in his twenty-eighth prime, and he is also a stunning beauty who is not inferior to his aunt......"

"Oh?" The emperor replied lightly, slowly turning the jade wrench on his thumb, looking lazy, but the shining eyes were obviously a little aroused.

Geng Hai has been paying attention to the emperor's every expression, and when he saw this, he didn't say anything more, knowing in his heart that this matter was nine times out of ten.

With the emperor's temperament, this time the New Year's greetings will definitely summon the people of the Huaqu tribe to come with him.

Geng Hai took off his robe and sat back again, leisurely holding the teacup, the rippling water of the tea was reflected in his sharp eyes, and his eyes looked a little weird.

In that year, the lord of Huoli County married Xue Qiyuan, the king of Zhenbei, as the princess of Zhenbei, but never entered Beijing with her husband, so no one in Beijing knew how she looked, but occasionally there were some rumors that she entered Beijing, saying that she was a peerless flower on the northern grassland.

Twelve years ago, because he found out that Xue Qiyuan was plotting wrong, he was ordered to go to the north to investigate the truth, and in order to resolve Xue Qiyuan's suspicions, he also deliberately brought his wife and daughter with him.

At that time, I heard that the princess was pregnant and had a bad pregnancy, so she didn't come out to meet the guests, only his daughter Geng Tinglian went to ask the princess for peace.

Later, due to coincidence, on a water pavilion in the palace, I saw a woman not far away strolling in the garden to enjoy the flowers, but it was just a glimpse from afar.

Later, because his daughter mentioned that he seemed to have seen Cen Yin somewhere, he thought about it carefully, and then remembered this old incident, remembering that Cen Yin's appearance seemed to be somewhat similar to that of Princess Zhenbei, and realized that this was a great opportunity.

For him, it doesn't matter whether Cen Yin has anything to do with the Zhenbei Wangfu or the Huaqu clan or not, even if he remembers it wrongly, it doesn't matter, it's just a reason.

At that time, as long as he coerced and enticed, let the Hua Quinoa clan bite to death and say that Cen Yin was the remnant of the Zhenbei Palace, with the emperor's suspicious temperament, with the emperor's heart knot for the Zhenbei Palace, Rao is Cen Yin and the lotus flower, the emperor will not let go.

For the remnants left by the puppet emperor's lineage, the emperor has always preferred to kill by mistake rather than let go.

Cen Yin, these rootless eunuchs, all the rights and status they have come from the emperor's favor, this kind of honor seems to be full of flowers, but in fact how fragile, as long as you choose the right method, you can easily hit it with one blow, and the glory on the surface will fall apart!

When that time comes, he doesn't even need to say anything more in front of the emperor, and he can eradicate Cen Yin's fierce enemy once and for all.

This time, Cen Yin doesn't want to turn over!

Geng Hai said secretly in his heart, his eyes flashed, and after taking another sip of hot tea, he put down the teacup leisurely, just in time to hear Mo Kemo's tone complaining helplessly: "Hey, the emperor, the eldest son of the minister is eighteen years old, but he is very picky, picking left and right, and he hasn't picked a good marriage until now, so he really worries the minister to death......"

Geng Hai's heart moved, and he immediately heard the meaning of Mo Kemo's words, and continued his words with a smile: "Hey, it's really the heart of parents in the world." Your Majesty, you have a good vision, why don't you choose a daughter-in-law for the prince of Yanji, so that the prince can tease his grandson earlier. ”

Hearing this, the emperor touched his chin and looked at Yanji, who was sitting next to Mo Kemo, who looked at a talent. The emperor smiled and asked, "Yanji, what have you been reading lately?" ”

Yanji stood up generously, hugged his fists at the emperor and said: "Your Majesty, my father invited Mr. to his ministers, and now he is reading the "Book of Rites" with Mr. Such as a foul smell, such as lustful, this is called self-humility. Therefore, a gentleman must be cautious of his independence. The way of prudence and independence mentioned in the book also made the minister quite insightful. ”

"Not bad! Not bad! The emperor laughed and stroked his palms, looking at Yanji with a touch of appreciation, "Mo Kemo, don't worry, I will definitely pick a good family affair for your family." ”

This Yanji is very good in terms of appearance, identity, and talent, and it would be good if he could be a horse for Wuyang.

The emperor's heart moved, and he thought that maybe he could find an opportunity to talk to the empress.

Mo Kemo hurriedly got up as well, clenching his fists in thanks.

The topic soon shifted from the affairs of children and relatives to other ethnic groups in the north and northwest, and the emperor talked with everyone, reminiscing about the past, looking at the present, and looking at the future.

In the next few days, Geng Hai stayed by the emperor's side almost every day, and several princes and county kings of several tribes came to meet him with their children, and the entire Ningjiang Palace was very lively.

The emperor has always been a generous man, these people have traveled thousands of miles to give him a large gift to celebrate his birthday, but also to make him happy, the emperor waved a pen, for these tribes to give a series of rewards, given cattle, sheep and horses, silk, tea, gold and silver, and so on.

Both the emperor and these tribes who came to congratulate him were quite satisfied with this result, and it can be said that the monarch and the minister got along.

The emperor's kindness allowed the princes of these tribes and their relatives to live in the palace, and there were many faces in the palace dressed in foreign costumes, like a few stones falling into the lake, causing a ripple up and down the palace.

Wuyang and Hanxing also had a lot of things to do because of this, and they often had to accompany the county lords and county lords of these tribes to wander around and enjoy the palace and enjoy the fun.

The emperor even ingeniously ordered those noble ladies who came from afar to also go to Xiaoran Hall to attend classes, so that the originally empty Xiaoran Hall was suddenly crowded.

It's just that the curriculum of the Dasheng princesses is too profound, they basically don't understand it, and even many people can only say a few words of greetings, so they mostly sit sluggishly and mix up time.

A few Taifu naturally won't be serious with the nobles of these tribes, all of them turn a blind eye, just if these people don't exist, I'm afraid that the most welcoming person in this class is probably Duanmu Fei.

Well, finally someone is in a daze with me! Moreover, there are still so many people......

Duanmu Fei smiled with satisfaction, his eyebrows, eyes and lips smiled as cute as a crescent moon, and his eyes quickly became in a trance again, and he spontaneously fell into a daze.

When the class was over in the morning, the nobles complained to the maids in their own tribal language, and the room suddenly became full of vitality from the lifelessness of the class.

"Scarlet cousin, clean up quickly, let's go play polo." Han Xing urged with a smile.

They had long planned to play polo with the county lords of several tribes, so Duanmu Fei and Han Xing came to class in riding clothes early in the morning, describing them as heroic.

Duanmu Fei responded again and again, and was already eager to try, and the girls couldn't wait to fly out of the courtyard like birds that had been released out of the cage, and went to the martial arts arena in the southeast of the palace.

Duanmu Fei is very self-aware, she actually just took Feipian to see the excitement.

Many girls prepare their own horses, such as Hanxing, Yunhua, Dangui, etc., so in addition to the laughter of the girls' family, there are also the sound of horses mixed with the sound of horses from time to time, and the atmosphere is very cheerful.

Feipian's temperament is still so lively, and he is very curious about everything, stop and go, Duanmu Fei spoils it again, so he will let it go, anyway, the palace is so big, and he won't get lost.

Feipian, who had just bitten a flower, saw a pond not far away, and even the flowers in her mouth couldn't take care of it, so she rushed towards the pond happily.

"Feipiao, we ......"

She was about to use delicious pine nuts to appease Feipian when she saw a familiar figure by the pond in front of her and looked up.

In late July, the lotus leaves in the lotus pond are continuous, dyeing most of the pond a blue color, and by the pond, several dense ancient trees block the dazzling sunlight above like a large umbrella.

A woman wearing a moon-white embroidered jacket painted in front of a large case under the tree, her back elegant and demure, leisurely.

Isn't this Mrs. Zhang? The corners of Duanmu's mouth hooked, and he was going to say hello, but he thought of something, beckoned, and asked Bi Chan to go and say something to Han Xing, and after two more commands, Bi Chan hurried away.

Duanmu Fei led Feipian to continue to move forward, Qi was engrossed in painting, and didn't notice Duanmu Fei, but her eldest maid Yuwei saw Duanmu Fei.

Duanmu Fei made a shushing gesture to Yuwei, signaling her to silence her and not to disturb Qi.

Yu Wei nodded with a smile in understanding.

Duanmu Fei let go of Feipian, let it play by itself, she herself took light steps, and quietly walked to Qi's side, the dragonfly dot lotus picture on the case has been painted most of it, a large piece of green and smart lotus leaves on the painting paper form an undulating blue wave, the wind blows the lotus, Qi is coloring the pink lotus flower at the moment, and his expression is focused......

Time passed little by little in silence, and I don't know how long it took, Qi finally took the pen to write the money, and the tip of the pen wrote the money in italics.

Qi put down the pen, turned his head and found that Duanmu Fei was coming, and after being stunned, he immediately smiled in surprise, with a soft and loving expression, "Duanmu Fourth Girl." ”

There was no need for her to order, Yuwei had already ordered a palace maid to bring another rose chair, and the Qi family affectionately beckoned Duanmufei to sit down and talk.

"Mrs. Zhang." Duanmu Fei blessed the Qi family, and behind her stood Bi Cicada, who had just rushed back from the Qingliang Palace, and Bi Cicada had an extra wooden box in her hand.

Duanmu Fei took the box handed by Bi Chan and put it on the case, and then opened the box by himself, and said with a smile: "This is the incense I blended, be careful, not respectful." ”

The last time Mrs. Zhang gave herself the raccoon paper she made with her own hands, Duanmu Fei liked it very much, and when she accidentally found a long-lost spice in Ningjiang Town a few days ago, she thought that she could make incense as a return gift.

There is a plate of incense in the box, the shape of the incense is winding and throughout, at first glance, it looks like a pattern as graceful, and then it looks like a seal book with the word "Fu"!

"It turns out that the girl still knows how to play incense seals." Qi raised his eyebrows with interest.

Since ancient times, many literati have regarded hanging paintings, fighting tea, arranging flowers and tasting incense as the four major things in life.

Incense seal is a way to taste incense, which is to use a mold to emboss the mixed incense into a seal type when making incense, and it can also be made into lotus pattern, auspicious cloud pattern and Sanskrit incense seal.

The incense mold of the incense seal requires a lot of ingenuity, and it also needs to be calm and calm, and there is no distraction to ensure that the incense seal is graceful and elegant, and the incense seal is constantly burned.

"A little bit of it." Duanmu Fei said modestly and chatted with Mrs. Zhang, "When I was a child reading poetry, I often saw poems such as 'the incense is burned out, and the curtain hook is under the shadow of the sun'. ”

The so-called 100 incense is to divide the 12 hours of the day into 100 scales, which are used as timekeeping, and the incense is burned from beginning to end in one go, exactly one day and night.

If you want to do a good job of baikexiang, you must carefully study and try again and again in order to calculate the time very accurately.

This little girl really surprised herself again! Qi Shi looked at the top of Duanmu's soft hair, and really wanted to rub it.

"My father also likes incense, not long ago he got some rare incense when he traveled to the southwest, and specially sent someone to bring it to me, the smell is very elegant, but unfortunately it has been exhausted, otherwise I will let you taste it." Qi said with a little emotion and a little longing.

Her father, Mrs. Qi, is unruly by nature, does not like officialdom, and has been in love with mountains and rivers for decades, immersed in elegant things such as piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, tea, etc., ignoring mundane things, and living a consistent and wanton life.

Duanmu Fei's heart moved, and he asked curiously: "Mrs. Zhang, the last time I came to visit Madame, I smelled a very special incense, this incense is a gift from Ling Zun?" ”

After thinking about it, Qi shook his head and said with a smile: "That's Jiuhe incense, which was bought in Ruilin Hall in Huaibei. Fourth Duanmu girl, if you like it, I'll let someone bring you some. ”

Duanmu smiled and gladly responded.

Duanmu Fei had never used Ruilintang's incense before, and what made her find it interesting was that this Jiuhe incense was a bit contrary to the compatibility of fragrance. In that Jiuhe incense, she smelled nine scents, Suhe, agarwood, angelica, borneol, ambergris, cloves, trifenn, and ganlin......

Anyone who mixes perfume must first learn the most basic "Fragrance Spectrum", in the "Fragrance Spectrum" recorded some compatibility taboos, one of which is that some incense can not be mixed, such as three fennel and ganlin.

Moreover, there is also a smell of incense in this nine harmony incense, and even she can't smell what kind of spice it is.

Could it be that Jiuhe incense is not the incense of the Central Plains? !

Thinking about it, Duanmu Fei's interest became stronger, and his eyes were bright.

Qi just looked at the little girl's smiling eyes, and felt that his mood became extremely happy, and instructed the big girl on the side: "Yuwei, you go and fetch a few plates of Jiuhe incense for the fourth girl of Duanmu." ”

"Yes, ma'am." Yu Wei bent her knees to receive the order, and hurriedly walked in the direction of Hongtao Xuan.

Seeing Yuwei leave, Feipian, who was originally drinking water by the pond, was attracted to attention, flicked her long ponytail, and happily chased after Yuwei.

Duanmu Fei was a little helpless, and hurriedly called it, "Feipian!" ”

Her slightly stern voice made Fei Pian stop her steps, turned her head and paced to her side again, her dark eyes looked at her aggrievedly, and her mouth screamed twice.

Duanmu Fei grew up watching Feipian grow up, and he couldn't get angry with it at all, and his little face smiled "poof" without a few breaths, and rewarded Feipian with a pine nut candy.

Feipian was finally satisfied, rubbing Duanmufei's arm affectionately, her tail flicking happily, and the intimacy of one person and one horse was self-evident.

Qi Shi looked at Duanmu Fei and Feipian, his eyes were almost crazy, and that thought appeared in his heart again: If this little girl was his daughter, how good it would be!

She wanted a child for more than ten years, knowing that there was no hope, and she didn't want to give up this idea.

If she had a daughter......

Her eyes were slightly sour, her eyelashes trembled, and she quickly returned to normal, and said with a smile: "Fourth girl Duanmu, your foal is so cute!" ”

As soon as he talked about his own Feipian, Duanmu Fei's eyes were burning, and he first praised Feipian's father Benxiao, and then praised his own Feipian endlessly for having a father and a daughter, saying that it was handsome, lively, and smart......

Qi Shi echoed a few times from time to time, and warmly greeted Duanmu Fei to drink tea and eat snacks from time to time, and his soft eyes didn't know whether he was looking at horses or people.

When Yuwei rushed back here, she saw such a scene, the laughter from the front made Yuwei subconsciously stop, she looked at her wife's smiling face, and sighed faintly in her heart.

She is Madame's personal maid, and naturally she vaguely knows Madame's heart disease, but unfortunately some things have come to fruition!

Yu Wei calmed down, and quietly held the wooden box in her hand and continued to step forward, "Madam, the slave maid brought Jiuhe incense." ”

As soon as he opened the box, a somewhat familiar fragrance came to his nose, and the tip of Duanmufei's small nose moved, pursing his lips and smiling.

That's right, it's this incense, that's the fragrance she smelled last time in Hongtao Xuan.

Her delicate little face was crooked, and there was a look of deep groaning on her face, and her eyes were burning.

Well, what is this last smell! She's going to have to do her research.

Duanmufei completely forgot about going to watch polo, she happily said goodbye to Qi with the wooden box, and went straight back to Qingliang Palace.

Duanmu Fei almost couldn't wait to lock himself in the small study alone and ordered the Jiuhe incense he had just got......

The incense is lit, and wisps of green smoke rise from the red-hot incense and fill the air.

Duanmu Fei was engrossed in the fragrance that lingered in the air, and took up the pen to write down all the spices she had identified on paper, Suhe, Agarwood, Sanfen, Ganlin......

Sure enough, she could only identify the eight flavors in it.

She couldn't tell the last one.

There are tens of thousands of spices in this world, and what she knows is limited after all, so what else can she use to verify more spices?

After Duanmu Fei thought about it, his eyes lit up and he called: "Bi Cicada." ”

Bi Chan, who was a little drowsy because he had nothing to do, was in good spirits, and listened to Duanmu Fei's instructions: "You go to the royal supervisor with the palace maid here to ask, can you give me some incense in the palace, no more, just a little bit of each." ”

The more Duanmu Fei thought about it, the more he felt that this was a good idea, this was the palace, the emperor was traveling, and the imperial supervisor must have brought most of the incense and spices in the palace. There are many kinds of spices in the palace, and there must be incense that she has never seen.

"Yes, girl." Bi Cicada doesn't really understand what her girl is doing, but she is used to it, and the girl often studies some strange things.

Bi Chan exited the small study, found a little palace maid in the cool hall, and asked the other party to take her to the imperial prison.

After the little palace maid hesitated for a moment, she still agreed: "Sister Bi Chan, then I'll take you over." ”

The imperial prison is in the northwest corner of the palace, and it is still some distance from the Qingliang Palace, so it is at least necessary to get close to the two teas.

Along the way, the little palace maid hesitated to peek at Bi Cicada several times, and stopped talking, until the imperial eunuch appeared at the end of a bluestone road, and she finally couldn't help but stop.

The little palace maid looked around, and when she saw that there was no one around, she reminded in a low voice: "Miss Bi Chan, I have been on an errand in this palace for three years, and every time the emperor comes here to escape the summer, we palace maids will inevitably deal with the people of the imperial prison...... This royal prison is not easy to get along with, and everything in this palace has a quota, and it is recorded in the book. ”

The little palace maid said very tactfully, and the implication was that most of the royal eunuchs refused to give it.

Bi Cicada responded, this is all at the gate of the royal prison, whether it succeeds or not, you have to try to know.

The little palace maid didn't say anything more, and walked to the imperial prison with Bi Chan, but before she entered the courtyard, she was stopped by a small chamberlain.

"Who are you? What are you doing here?! The other party looked the two of Bi Chan up and down contemptuously, and his tone was not very polite.

The little palace maid swallowed her saliva a little nervously, and said politely to the little waiter: "This little father-in-law, the cousin of Her Royal Highness the Fourth Princess, Duanmu Fourth Girl, wants some spices, I don't know ......"

"Go, go, go! Do you think the royal prison is a place where cats and dogs can come? ”

The little chamberlain interrupted the little palace maid impatiently, there are so many princes and princesses in this palace, the cousins and cousins of these princesses' biological mothers or something, there are not a hundred or dozens of them, if those who are related to the old people want to get things from the royal prison, they take themselves too seriously!

"Go, go, go! Let's go! ”

The little chamberlain waved his hand arrogantly, and his attitude was very unkind. He didn't notice at all that two middle-aged eunuchs came out of the room in the back, one was tall and thin, the other was short and fat, both dressed in python robes, and they seemed to be different from ordinary chamberlains.

Both of them also heard the voice floating from the entrance of the courtyard that seemed to mention the "four girls of the Duanmu family", and their faces changed, but their expressions were different, the former looked nervous, but the latter frowned, his face was gloomy, it was Wen Yongju.

The tall and thin middle-aged eunuch reacted very quickly, ran towards the entrance of the courtyard with his robe, and shouted: "Two girls, please stay!" ”

Wen Yongju stood motionless under the eaves, coldly watching the tall and thin middle-aged eunuch rush to the entrance of the courtyard as fast as possible, and arched his hand to the two cicadas outside: "It's really rude." This kid is newly transferred and is not sensible. ”

As he spoke, the middle-aged eunuch glared at the little chamberlain guarding the door fiercely, and he really wanted to slap him with an ear scraper, even the righteous sister of Lord Cen didn't know that such an eyeless person still wanted to mix in the inner court!

When facing the two of them, the middle-aged eunuch changed his smiling face again, and said politely: "I don't know what the fourth girl of Duanmu wants, let's go get it immediately." ”

"......" The little chamberlain was dumbfounded, he entered the imperial prison at the end of last month, because the emperor came out to escape the summer, and the imperial eunuch needed some people to come to the palace with him, so he added some more manpower.

This Gonggong Liu is the eunuch of the palm print of the imperial eunuch, and he has always said the same.

The little chamberlain has never seen Gonggong Liu so polite to people since he entered the imperial prison, Rao is Zhou Guiren, who was quite a bit of holy favor last time, came over in person to ask for more ice, but he was not sneered at by Gonggong Liu, and finally he could only leave in disgrace.

The little palace maid was also confused when she saw this, and looked at Gonggong Liu blankly for a while without reacting.

She is a palace maid in the palace, and she doesn't know much about the news in Beijing, so she doesn't understand how Gonggong Liu, who has always been high-spirited and has no one in front of him, can suddenly be so easy to speak, but she doesn't dare to ask anything.

On the contrary, Bi Chan didn't know anything about this father-in-law Liu, so she looked very calm, and briefly said that her girl wanted some incense and spices.

Wen Yongju in the courtyard listened to a sneer on the corner of his mouth.

There is a brother and there is a sister.

Cen Yin, this righteous sister, is she pampered and arrogant, do you treat the royal supervisor as the treasury of their Duanmu family? !

------Off topic------

I misunderstood the scope of duties of the internal official supervisor and the imperial supervisor, and changed it in the last two chapters, and Gonggong Wen was the imperial supervisor.