Chapter 7: The Exiles
A cool breeze blows, and a little snow particles drift across the sky, falling on the dark eyebrows, and then slowly melting. Pedestrians on the street are wearing padded jackets and overalls.
When the first light appeared on the horizon, a low-key convoy left the imperial city and exited the three city gates. Qi Changrong was half-lying on the couch covered with several layers of soft velvet, looking very leisurely.
The carriage has a simple appearance, but it is fully equipped inside, which is very luxurious and comfortable. There was a faint smell of ambergris inside, and there was even a small stove at the feet, making the carriage as warm as a spring day.
Qi Changrong, who was dressed in men's civilian clothes, held the bamboo slip and opened his mouth to take the grapes fed by the servant. Shi Xia sighed, and said with a depressed expression: "Your Highness, there will be a lot of inconvenience in our trip, such as the fruits of this tribute in the south, which are no longer inexhaustible like those in the palace, and I don't know why Your Highness has to go to the barren land in Lincheng." Shi Chun glared at her, extremely dissatisfied: "Do your job well, what a mouth!" Your Highness has his own ideas for doing things, when will it be your turn to interject? ”
"I just asked casually, but His Highness didn't say anything about me."
"Don't ask, or be careful that I'll poison you!"
"Just your poison skills? After all these years, when have you seen that I can't prepare an antidote? "These two are her nominal concubines, who are good at poison in spring and good at medicine in summer.
Qi Changrong didn't raise his head, and stretched out his hand to point to the things in the corner: "If you are bored, classify that pile of texts, and if you still find it boring, you can also ride a horse like other people." His voice was gentle, and he knew that they were both idle, and he did not force them to stay in the carriage with her.
"That's not good, the slave is your concubine, and she should serve left and right." Shi Chun vetoed it and glanced at Shi Xia, who also looked approving.
"That is, if the slaves and maids go out, I don't know how those people will spread rumors behind their backs!" His Royal Highness is the prince of the East Palace, the future lord of a country, and he must not let outsiders think that he is not strict in his rule, let alone leave him with the stigma of pampering his concubines too much.
Although His Highness himself doesn't care much about vain fame.
"In that case, you must not trouble me." Qi Changrong shook his head, and changed to another bamboo slip to look at it carefully.
These days, even if she is not in Beijing, she will not be less than a single fold that she should deal with, and those that are particularly urgent will be sent to her by the emperor in an expedited manner of eight hundred miles.
In this way, it will not be too boring when rushing. The speed of the convoy was not slow, Qi Changrong had already ordered him to rush with all his might, and the people below could only obey orders.
Before dark, they finally made it to the next city. Shi Chun called a basin of water and said distressedly: "Why is the master in such a hurry, it doesn't hurt to be a day or two late." She had never been to Lincheng, and her master was even more pampered, and somehow she suddenly remembered that she wanted to run to the border city, and the emperor and Concubine Qin did not stop her.
Qi Changrong washed his face and couldn't hide the tiredness between his eyebrows: "No, one day late, I will be scared for one more day." Tomorrow morning you will have a cart of gold and silver exchanged for food, and then you will go with me. Shi Chun was surprised: "What do you mean by this?" "Among the items they carry, they can casually take out a cart of food that can be exchanged for more than a dozen carts of food, isn't it too cumbersome to carry those?
Qi Changrong rubbed the corners of his forehead: "You do what you are told, and I will tell you the reason when the time comes." ”