Before and after the sacrificial stove, there was good news in the palace, Wu Zhaoyi was pregnant again, and there was a waiter who entered the palace that year also seemed to be pregnant, but the month was still young, and the imperial doctor did not dare to determine.

The emperor was very happy, and praised Concubine Su and Concubine Yao Xian, and he said that this harem must be in the hands of the Yao family, and he was happy again and again.

The palace has been very lively this year, but this has nothing to do with the Qin Palace, the Empress Dowager Jin has passed away, just like those brothers in the secular world who separated after the death of their parents, and since then the bridge has returned to the bridge, and the road has returned.

For the emperor and the palace, King Qin, like all the clans, is just a clansman with the surname Cheng.

King Qin and Li Xia lived in a deeper and simpler place than before, and after the sacrificial stove was sealed the next day, until the Chinese New Year's Eve, King Qin and Li Xia did not even go out of the mansion.

Chinese New Year's Eve, in the afternoon, Li Xia was with King Qin, leisurely checking everywhere, Li Xia commanded this pot of flowers to move, the lantern was high and low, King Qin looked at it with a smile, nodded from time to time in response to Li Xia's gaze, the mother-in-law trotted in and passed the word, Jin Shizi came, please see Wang Ye.

King Qin glanced at Li Xia in surprise, "I'll take a look." ”

Li Xia nodded, watched King Qin stride forward, gathered his cloak, stood for a moment, followed King Qin, and went forward unhurriedly.

King Qin walked quickly, saw Jin Zhuoyan in the second gate, and saw Tang Jiashan standing next to Jin Zhuoyan, his heart was slightly relieved, and there should be nothing too bad about bringing his daughter-in-law here.

"Why are you here? What's wrong? King Qin didn't wait for Jin Cunyan to finish his salute, and asked with a split head.

Jin Clumsy said a stunned look, and then laughed, "Don't think about it, it's nothing, today is the Chinese New Year's Eve, the family is noisy, Ah Shan and I think you must be quiet here, come to you to ask for a drink." ”

King Qin slowly breathed a sigh of relief, took half a step back, and glanced at Jin Zhuoyan, "You think too much, I have been busy with Ah Xia for a year, and I finally have the kung fu to spend two days of peace and leisure, but I don't have the time to drink with you, please go back, if you are really idle and can't stay at home, go to Ah Feng's place to have a look, maybe he has the kung fu to accompany you to drink this idle wine." ”

After King Qin finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Jin Shuyan glared at King Qin, watching him flick his sleeves and turn around and walk away, he couldn't react a little.

Tang Jiashan wanted to laugh and held her back, and pulled down Jin Clumsy, "Let's go." After saying that, he turned around and got into the car first.

Jin Zhuoyan followed into the car, and the car went out of the second gate of the Qin Wangfu, Tang Jiashan looked at Jin Zhuoyan, who was still angry, and was almost annoyed, couldn't help it, covered his mouth with a smile and fell softly on the mat.

"It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin!" Jin Zhuoyan's face was red when Tang Jiashan laughed, and he gritted his teeth and said angrily.

"You're not Lu Dongbin, you're obviously ......" Tang Jiashan covered his mouth and laughed again, anyway, he must have known that what she was going to say was nosy, so there was no need to say it.

Jin was silent for a long time, and then heyed, "Okay, I'll be nosy." ”

King Qin didn't go far after entering the second gate, and when he saw Li Xia head-on, he hurriedly took a few steps to meet him, and without waiting for Li Xia to ask, he smiled first: "It's nothing, this guy is probably worried that the two of us will be too quiet for the New Year, and he brought his daughter-in-law to accompany us for the New Year." ”

"Huh? Oh, what about people? Li Xia looked behind King Qin.

"I drove him away, I want to accompany you, how can I ignore him. Let's move on to the flower lanterns? King Qin stretched out his hand to hug Li Xia.

"That's right, we're so busy, you don't have time, I don't have time, let's start from the east road." Li Xia smiled and pointed to the side.

Although there were only two of them this year, the two of them were neither alone nor lonely.

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As night fell, Guo Sheng took a clay bowl with a lid and walked along the deserted street to Lufu.

The enticing aroma wafted through the streets, Guo Sheng sniffled from time to time, identifying whether it was mutton, pork or something else, the sound of firecrackers sounded far and near, and occasionally one or two fireworks flew up.

The empty streets are filled with the smell of reunion.

Guo Sheng happily pushed open the small corner door of the Lu Mansion and went straight into the empty courtyard.

There is no one in the empty courtyard, but the small red clay stove under the corridor is just right, there are baskets of peanuts next to the red clay stove, there is a bamboo chair on each side, next to the bamboo chair is placed only a small square few that is not high or short, a little farther away, there is a low stove, a low table, a red copper wine pot is placed on the low table, a large bowl of rock sugar, a large bowl of finely cut ginger shreds, under the low table, there are two or three jars of wine.

Guo Sheng walked to the porch familiarly, untied the pottery bowl in his hand, picked it up and put it on the red clay stove, moved a few times to be satisfied, grabbed a few handfuls of peanuts and piled them up in the pottery bowl four times, and then went to the low table, moved the jar of wine out, patted the mud, poured most of the pot into the big copper kettle, grabbed some rock candy, and put a few chopsticks and ginger shreds into the pot, and put the copper pot on the low stove.

A pot of rice wine seemed to be open, and when the pottery bowl exuded an attractive fragrance, the empty courtyard door was pushed open, and Lu Yi strode in, "What kind of smell is this?" So fragrant. ”

"You're just right." Guo Sheng lifted the copper kettle and poured wine into the cups of the two, "For the Chinese New Year, you can't just eat peanuts, you try this, authentic Yangzhou pig's head meat, I specially invited someone to make it." ”

Lu Yi quickened his pace, and first stretched out his head to look at the pottery bowl, "It's more tempting to look at than to smell, I'll taste a piece first." ”

Lu Yi stood and ate a piece of pig's head meat with chopsticks first.

"It tastes good! I have eaten Yangzhou pig's head meat, not as good as this, Lao Guo has a lot of good things. Lu Yi praised repeatedly.

"It's better to have a drink." Guo Sheng motioned for Lu Yi to drink.

Lu Yi took a sip of the cup, and let out a long sigh of satisfaction, "The taste of the world!" ”

"Your daughter-in-law is resting?" Guo Sheng also ate a piece of pig's head meat and took a sip of wine.

"Rested, rested quite steadily, I listened under the window for a while before coming over, alas, it's really hard, Wen Po and the doctor said that it's fast, it's good to be born." Lu Yi leaned back in the chair and sighed repeatedly, it was really a raised child to repay his mother's kindness, this pregnancy for ten months was really hard.

"Last month, I saw your daughter-in-law from afar, and they were all in front, like a boy." Guo Sheng moved forward, and then ate the pig's head meat, General Lu must have had dinner, but he hadn't eaten dinner yet.

"You're going to look at this again?" Lu Yi looked at Guo Sheng.

"I'm just talking nonsense, but it seems that there is such a saying, the pointed umbilicus and the umbilicus...... No, a man with a sharp belly, do you want a son or a daughter? Guo Sheng was eating and drinking, talking nonsense.

"Didn't you eat the crab well this year?" Lu Yi leaned at Guo Sheng.

Guo Sheng snorted, "I don't understand this, I'm wrong, I see that those mothers-in-law in the alley say so, are they all willing to have sons, don't you want to make you happy." ”

"Son and daughter," Lu Yi thought about it seriously, "I really haven't thought much about it, as long as the mother and son are safe, Lao Guo, in the past few months, when I think of having a child, I am really happy and scared, I won't tell you, in the past thirty years, I know the word for fear for the first time." ”

"Hey, what are you afraid of?" Guo Sheng was surprised, "Like Seventeen back then?" He is afraid that his child will be a scourge like him, and what are you afraid of? ”

Lu Yi didn't speak, just leaned back in the chair and slowly sipped the wine.

Guo Sheng was stunned for a moment, understood, and snorted disapprerovingly, and then ate his pig's head meat.

"Lao Guo," after a while, Lu Yi said slowly: "If there is really a case, the Ruan family and the children will be entrusted to you, and you must send them back to the south safely......

Guo Sheng was carrying a piece of juicy pig's head meat into his mouth, and when Lu Yi's hand shook at what he said, the pig's head meat fell back again.

"Don't entrust it to me, I won't take this job." Guo Sheng put down his chopsticks and waved his hands around, "You said you, and there are seventeen, why did you become a father and be completely unbreathable?" What in case? Follow ......"

Guo Sheng hiccuped loudly, and hiccuped the girl's two words, "Fu Da has a great life, what if?" Besides. Guo Sheng's words changed, there could be no case for this, only he knew the reason, he couldn't say half a word with him, since he couldn't say it, he couldn't say it,

"You don't want to think about it, when the time comes, someone can still rush ahead of me? Impossible, you entrusted it to me, it was for nothing. Guo Sheng turned extremely fast, "You can rest assured." Forget it, for the sake of the friendship between the two of us, I'll say one more word to you, you listen. There is a princess, I mean the princess is blessed with a great life, you can rest assured, with the princess here, everything is worry-free, come and come, eat meat. ”

Lu Yi thought about it, there really had to be a case, Guo Sheng's temper would definitely disdain to dodge and escape, and he was not afraid of death. He was so confused, this matter should be entrusted to Seventeen.

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The New Year's celebration in the palace is lively, and in the Su Xiang's Mansion, this year is also very lively and festive.

After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, Mrs. Xie had a few more glasses of wine, accompanied by Park Hyatt and her little granddaughter Sister Yan'er, crooked on the bed, listening to the small singing, and talking and nourishing her spirits.

Su Xiang and Su Ye were in the warm pavilion next to them, drinking tea and talking.

"It's finally a big year for the year." Su Xiang twisted his beard and was in a pretty good mood.

"Hmm." Thinking of the tragic death of the third prince, Su Ye's heart sank slightly, and he hurriedly took a sip of tea, suppressed the pathos in his heart, looked at Su Xiang and said with a smile: "Daddy, I think we have to take advantage of the current situation to make a few more moves." ”

"Hmm!" Su Xiang hummed affirmatively, looked at his son appreciatively and smiled, "Tell me." ”

"Those things I found in the Imperial Village in the past should be used." Su Ye seemed to have a plan.

Su Xiang's eyes narrowed slightly, his fingers slowly knocked on the armrest of the chair, and after a moment, he sighed, "That's the way it should be, over there in the Qin Wangfu, it's time to lay out the layout." What do you think of the Qin Palace? Su Xiang asked suddenly.

"It's just a momentary benefit." Su Ye replied extremely simply, "The first family of the Qin Wangfu is not close to the second master, if you really recognize the second master as the master, it will not be like this." ”

Su Xiang sighed lightly and nodded, "I can also see that the fifth master, I am afraid that the Qin Wangfu is in his hand, just in case, the Qin Wangfu should be waiting for the good news in the palace." ”

"Well, my son thinks so too, but if there is a prince in the past two years, I am afraid that it will not be the first choice of the Qin Palace, after all, the emperor is still in his prime, and the last prince born is the person selected by the Qin Palace." Su Ye's voice was slightly cold, "Now the beauties in the palace are from a messy source, and there is no way to find out which ones are from the Qin Palace." ”

"It doesn't matter if it's someone from the Qin Palace, you look at these people who entered the palace this year, they are all daughters of small families with no foundation, no matter which one gave birth to a prince, there is no help from the mother's family behind them, there is no need to send people into the palace on purpose, that one is enough to care about the family background." Su Xiang sighed. This trick is really ruthless and wonderful.

"People should not be disguised, and the eyes are the most deceiving." Su Ye was silent for a moment, his voice lowered, "A person like an immortal like the prince, I didn't expect it to be so greedy and unscrupulous, alas." ”

"The power is moving." Su Xiang looked indifferent, "When the Queen Mother is here, it is the emperor, and he will give him three points, this person, once he enjoys the power above 10,000,000 people, and then asks him to come down from 10,000,000 people, it is better to live than to die." ”

Su Ye was silent for a long time, and hummed lowly.

He always felt that Prince Qin was not that kind of person.

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Jiangfu, which is separated by half a city, is very lively at this time.

The Jiang family is thriving, and there are many chickens and dogs jumping on weekdays, so how lively and festive it is at this time.

Jiang Yanshi sat next to Old Lady Jiang, accompanied the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, and then briefly explained to Old Lady Jiang, accompanied Mrs. Wei out, sat down in the warm pavilion next to Mrs. Wei's courtyard, and talked at the night.

In the past, he led the messenger, from Chinese New Year's Eve to the sixteenth, to inspect the safety of the entire capital, this year he did not need to receive this mission, since entering the capital, this is almost the first year, he accompanied Mrs. Wei for the New Year.

Mrs. Wei leaned back comfortably in the chair, took a sip of tea, and ordered to change to hot rice wine, looking quite in a good mood.

Jiang Yanshi stood up, took the rice wine brought by the girl, poured wine for A-Niang, poured another glass for herself, raised her glass to Mrs. Wei and said with a smile: "I'll drink a few glasses with A-Niang." ”

"That's why you can have a few drinks with A-Niang." Mrs. Wei laughed, "When you were a child, we were still living in the mountains at that time, and one year you had to drink with Jingyue and them, and you were just arrogant, saying that you would pour a piece of it. ”

"Then I poured a piece." Jiang Yanshi didn't finish a word, and laughed, "They're all pretending, right?" I was too young to see it, but I still ...... That wine? ”

"You were young at the time, but you also saw it, and yelled at me vigorously, asking me to leave you alone, so that Jingyue and the others were not allowed to pretend, and said that I would give you the same wine as Jingyue and them, saying that your wine was too sweet, it was honey." Mrs. Wei thought about the situation back then, and her smile spread.

"It's really honeywater?" Jiang Yanshi raised his eyebrows and looked at Ah Niang, with that expression, as if to say, Ah Niang, how can you lie to me like this?

"It's not all honey, the rice wine seeps a lot of water, so naturally add some honey and ginger shreds." Mrs. Wei laughed.

"A-Niang is really." Jiang Yanshi laughed along.

Mrs. Wei said some gossip again, looked at Jiang Yanshi, and said faintly cautiously: "It's another year, and you're not too young, it's time to talk about marriage." ”

"Weng Weng asked you to persuade me?" The smile on Jiang Yanshi's face froze, and after a moment, he smiled, looked at Mrs. Wei and said.

"No, you Weng Weng has become a fine person, how can I persuade you to say this, he knows that he doesn't need to say it, I will also persuade you, Ah Shi, you are too lonely alone, I look sad." Mrs. Wei looked at her son distressedly.

"I'm fine, don't worry, Auntie, I will definitely get married, but it's not these two years, wait a minute, let's talk about it after a while." Jiang Yanshi's expression was a little gloomy, and his tone was very peaceful.

"Good girl, just like the flowers in this world, this pot is rare, if you go further, you will find that the other pot is even more rare. You have to go forward, look ahead. After a moment of silence, Mrs. Wei looked at Jiang Yanshi with an eager expression.

"Ah Niang," Jiang Yanshi looked at Mrs. Wei and asked, "Then tell me, people like me, like your son and me, how many are there in this capital?" How many are there in Minnesotto? How many are there in the world? Is it possible to walk around and see one? ”

Mrs. Wei looked straight at her son, and it took a long time for her to breathe, "Ah Shi, you ...... like this"

"I'm fine, this is a trivial matter, A-Niang doesn't keep saying that she is not ladylike when she meets someone, but it is just the worry of scabies, there are flowers in this world, there are tea, there are wines, there are countless books, you don't always have to mind that piece of scabies." Jiang Yanshi said very slowly.

Mrs. Wei opened her mouth, but she couldn't speak, and tears welled up in her eyes.