Sheng Mingzhu returned to the house the next day, and this thousand autumn banquet ended in the end.

Originally, the marriage with Guan Ping should have been decided, but because of this incident, it was involved for a long time. In the end, it is not a trivial matter for the empress to poison the people of the Manchu royal family on her birthday, Emperor Wei did not publicize it, but everyone has a personal source, and now they are all going deep and simple, for fear of being arrested by the people of Dongchang and put in the prison of Dongchang.

I don't know how long it took, when Sheng Mingzhu went to visit Song Yu on this day, he saw Guan Ping, who had not been seen for a long time, to be precise, he didn't see him, but he just received something from him.

In the past three or four months, Song Yu's belly has grown larger, and he is much rounder than before. Because of listening to the doctor's opinion, these days Song Yu's small courtyard is often placed in some fruits, Sheng Mingzhu saw that she liked it, so she brought the lychee sent by Guan Ping today.

"A ride on the red dust concubine smiled-" Song Yu pinched the lychee, "It was difficult for ordinary people to eat it." ”

In the past, during the Great Zhou Dynasty, the north of Lingnan was occupied by the Tuoba people, and if you want to get a lychee, not to mention the reason for the journey, picking it is a problem. The mother at home doesn't like to eat this, Lingzhu is an old man, and she doesn't eat it anymore after eating a few, "It was the emperor who smiled for the Pomeranians, but now it's for me to win my little nephew's like." ”

Sheng Mingzhu said, peeling one into Song Yu's mouth.

Song Yu smiled and swallowed it, seeing that she was going to peel it again, she shook her head, "It's too cold, let's wait a while." ”

From the palace all the way out of the ice, when Song Yu came here, Sheng Mingzhu was afraid of it again, and changed the ice again, and now it was still steaming cold, so he wiped his hands with a handkerchief, and summoned the golden branch to put the basket into the house, "This thing is easy to break when it is chilled, look at it is fine now, maybe it will wilt after a while, no wonder it makes the concubine laugh, does the woman's face change if she doesn't say it?" ”

Song Yu smiled, "It's as if you're not a woman." ”

"After all, lychee is a cold thing to relieve the heat, I am pregnant in my womb, but I can't eat more greedily, it's a pity if it's broken, why don't I send some to Lord Chen next door."

Sheng Mingzhu nodded, Jin Zhi took out some of them, put them on a plate, and covered the others with black cloths, turned around and went to the Chen Mansion next door.

"It's getting hotter and hotter, why haven't you married the governor yet?" Song Yu wiped the sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, "The wedding dress is cumbersome, I have seen it when my sister got married in the past, if it is really in the middle of summer, I will suffer, and when I get to the wedding room, how can I see a bride and beauty, and after lifting the hijab, the original makeup is spent, red, green and green, quite infiltrating." ”

Sheng Mingzhu wanted to laugh a little when she heard this, and frowned after a while. It's not the middle of summer that is delayed, it's better to drag it back, so he stubbornly said, "I'm not in a hurry about it, if it drags on, it's better to wait for the end of the year, maybe the marriage won't be done." ”

Song Yu shook her head and said something to her again.

The sun is big, and Song Yu is a person who has a body, so he is not so shy as before, and his trouser legs are slightly rolled up. Sheng Mingzhu also rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs. Mo still felt hot, and couldn't help but roll up his sleeves, revealing a white and tender arm, and the golden branch outside looked at the door, for fear that someone outside would peep in.

Sheng Mingzhu didn't feel enough, especially looking at the shirtless passers-by who were beating back and forth outside, "If it's a man, how can he still have the trouble of these clothes-" The two were talking, but they came in with the sound of slamming the door, Sheng Mingzhu hurriedly lowered his sleeves, his trouser legs rolled lower, and he had already seen who was coming from the crack in the door, so neither of them paid attention.

Jin Zhi opened the door, and Chen Cen came in sideways, but he carried a net bag in his hand.

"In the scorching summer heat, these melons and fruits are the most thirst-quenching and cooling."

Chen Cen looked at the two girls and put his pockets on the stone table, "Miss Song can also eat more, the nearby melon farmers have just picked it out of the ground, and it is very fresh." After the net was opened, I saw a few green watermelons, Sheng Mingzhu suddenly relished in his mouth, what lychee to eat in summer, it is time to eat watermelon.

looked at Chen Cen again.

Being looked at like this, Chen Cen naturally wanted to relieve her worries as soon as possible, "I only cared about holding melons from melon farmers, but I forgot to take a knife." After that, he looked at Jin Zhi again, "I'm tired of the Golden Branch girl to go to the kitchen to get a knife." ”

Song Yu said, "I'll go get it." "Jin Zhi has never been in her kitchen, and she doesn't know where the things are. Soon he went out with his belly in his hand, and soon came out with a kitchen knife. Sheng Mingzhu looked at it, Song Yu's original weak willow waist was gone, because the pregnancy was very large, and there were no poems and books in his hands, but there were a little more fireworks.

After the melon was cut, Sheng Mingzhu took a petal, nibbled on it in small bites, and finally felt unhappy, so he learned to squat in the corner to eat. Chen Cen saw it and walked over, and naturally slapped her eyes, so as not to be exposed to the sun when the sun was too big, Sheng Mingzhu ate a few bites, and then looked up at Chen Cen with a smile, his eyes bent into a crescent moon, "It's really sweet." ”

Just buried his head and gnawed, one is his best friend, and the other is a servant who has served him since he was a child, in Sheng Mingzhu's eyes, he is not an outsider, and naturally he will not shy away from it. Chen Cen only smiled.

The door of the Song family's small courtyard was ajar, Guan Ping looked outside for a while, and now he is still watching, seeing the two of them looking at each other and smiling, and then looking at the strange look in Chen Cen's eyes, he pushed the door in after a while. Sheng Mingzhu was spitting out melon pulp, and there was still one left on the side of his mouth, which looked like a mole, and Song Yu laughed at it.

Guan Ping came in, Chen Cen was reminding her, and when she heard the sound, she turned her head, saw that it was Guan Ping, and bowed.

Guan Ping picked the melon seed pulp on the right side of her face for her, wiped her hands with a handkerchief, and found a chair to sit down. As soon as he came, the original relaxed atmosphere was gone, not to mention that Song Yu and Chen Cen were a little stunned at him, even with Sheng Mingzhu.

"I was a little busy a few days ago, and the place I was going to find for Miss Song was delayed."

Guan Ping looked at Song Yu, she shook her head, "The overseer has a lot of opportunities, don't worry about my trivial matters." ”

"This wilderness, although it is said to be secluded, but it is a little unsafe for a woman to live for a long time," he said, "A few days ago, I heard that Mrs. Cheng met her nephew who came from afar, and said that she wanted to set a family affair and kiss each other. ”

Song Yu was stunned, and after thinking for a while, he understood what Guan Ping meant. The distant nephews, almost all of the relatives of the Song family are in the capital, if there is only one distant family, it is the cousin of the mother Cheng family, who went to the northwest with her husband. When the family came to the capital last year, Song Yu took a look at it from a distance, the family is all strong physique, and the father and son are the same fierce, and they are also the vulgar of the north, and they like to abuse the women in the family.

"Miss Song, although everyone in the world knows that tigers don't eat their children, sometimes, in the eyes of some people, reputation is even more important than their own lives."

Song Yu touched his stomach and did not speak. Guan Ping took a shallow sip of tea, "Tanhualang runs to Miss Song's small courtyard every day, gossip is naturally indispensable, and when it is passed on to Ling Zun, there will naturally be a lot of trouble-" Chen Cen frowned slightly, Song Yu's eyes moved, and he looked at Guan Ping.

"Lonely men and widows, and such a secluded courtyard, Tanhualang, you are familiar with poetry and books, don't you know the importance of women's reputation?"

After that, he left with Song Mingzhu. Leaving two young men and women in the courtyard, but now they are not shy about it.

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Sheng Mingzhu and Guan Ping left in a sedan chair together, there have been so many things recently, especially Emperor Wei has become more and more sick these days, Guan Ping has been worrying a lot recently, but he just solved a troublesome matter today, and his mood is okay.

"You sent someone to follow me, how can I not know how Chen Cen and Sister Song are, what do you mean by saying that today?" Sheng Mingzhu endured all the way and still asked. Guan Ping only glanced at her, remembering that she was smiling so brightly at that dog Tanhua today, but now when she came to him, she was all frowning, and her voice sank, "Just tell the truth." ”

Sheng Mingzhu's face pulled down even more, the sedan chair was originally going to Shangshu Mansion, but it was silent all the way, and when he arrived at Sheng Guogong's Mansion, Sheng Mingzhu suddenly stopped, "Don't go back to Shangshu Mansion, I want to go to Guogong Mansion to see my grandfather." After that, he got off the sedan chair, didn't look back, and carried his skirt all the way into the Guogong Mansion.

The subordinates naturally recognized her, and no one stopped her.

Guan Ping felt a little strange sullen in his heart, and was about to follow up, but the head of the palace came out of the palace, "Your Majesty is seriously ill, saying that you don't want to stay in the palace, saying that it is too boring, and let the adults escort you to Nanshan to recuperate." "Nanshan is also a royal summer resort, but the weather in Dawei was cold before, and everyone in the royal family was not afraid of heat

Although Nanshan is cool in summer, it is also idle.

There was a sound of horses' hooves breaking through the air, Sheng Mingzhu glanced back, and quickly followed his subordinates into the house. didn't go to Song Lao Taijun's side, since the beginning of spring this year, Sheng Guogong has been in the palace, and she doesn't come to Sheng Mansion much.

"Where's Grandfather?"

When he went to the main room, he didn't see the old man Sheng, so Sheng Mingzhu asked a little guy in the main room who had served by his grandfather's side in the past, and he said, "Grandpa Guo went to the martial arts training ground early this morning, and he hasn't come back yet, so he ordered no one to disturb." ”

Sheng Mingzhu frowned, and no one needed to follow, he went to the martial arts training ground alone.

She was originally afraid that the old man had been practicing since the morning, but she didn't expect that after entering, she only saw him holding a knife, the setting sun was shining, and the cold light on the back of the knife even glowed with a warm color. Sheng Mingzhu looked behind him, and watched him put the knife up, his eyes were still resolute, but there were many more wrinkles on the back of his hand that had been carved by the years, and his hand trembled, and the knife fell to the ground.

It was too heavy for him to handle.

Xu Shi felt that there was someone behind him, Sheng Laoguo Gongben was picking up a knife, looked back, and after seeing the person coming, a smile appeared on his face, "How can I have time to come and see my grandfather today?" Sheng Mingzhu looked at him and smiled, but as if he hadn't seen anything just now, he went up and took his hand, "Grandfather said a few days ago that he would open a library to add a dowry to me, Mingzhu remembers?" ”