Chapter 73: Obstacles
Pei Baoer didn't feel that her birthday banquet was disturbed and she was unhappy, and she didn't really think that she was celebrating her birthday, it was just a large-scale publicity and entertainment event, so even if it was Qi Heng's "conspiracy", she didn't really care what her so-called reputation was. But she wasn't glad she was being kept from it.
"I know you guys have a lot of twists and turns, but I'm also telling you, none of those things matter to me. If you have to be the princess, you can, but you have to talk to me about this kind of thing. Otherwise, my face is nothing, and it won't be good if I miss your big thing! ”
Pei Baoer found that when she entered this palace, she was also trained to be very good at saying some weird things about yin and yang.
Qi Heng didn't answer, and suddenly said: "The Duke of Min is powerful, commanding 100,000 southeast naval troops." ”
Pei Bao'er frowned and thought about it, Min Guogong? Oh, it seems to be Liu Guogong himself. However, one is an official seal and the other is a surname. Because in addition to this Min Guogong, there is also an older generation of Min Guogong, in order to distinguish it, he called the later Min Guogong as Liu Guogong.
"What? You look at Liu Guogong unpleasantly and want to get rid of others? ”
Pei Bao'er couldn't help muttering in her heart, didn't she want half of his old man from the Zhongwu Marquis Mansion to go to the top? The Lin family has always guarded the northwest border, although the power over there is deep-rooted, but it may not be unsuitable to change to the southeast. Besides, the way the army and the navy lead the troops is not the same, and it is not just a matter of patting the head to make decisions.
Qi Heng said, "It's just a check and balance." ”
Seeing that she was in a calm mood and did not have the strong resistance she had when she faced him before, he simply explained to her in detail.
The first emperor loved poetry and songs, so he took whether the literary talent was romantic as the only criterion for selecting talents, so the ministers around him were all elegant people, so when choosing concubines for his sons, almost all of them married the daughters of civil officials. But there are exceptions to this, for example, the Empress Dowager Qin schemingly chose the eldest daughter of the Duke of Liuguo as Princess An, just for the sake of the Duke of Liuguo to sit in the southeast of the military power. For another example, Concubine Wei threw an olive branch to the Zhongwu Bofu back then, also because they had been operating in the northwest for generations, although the title was not high, but they held real power.
The Northern Tour Rebellion proved the insight of these two harem bosses, but the Empress Dowager Qin lost in, she didn't expect that the emperor's Northern Tour, which was guarded by hundreds of thousands of troops, could do such a big thing, overnight, the emperor, the princes, and the hundred officials who followed them almost all died, and their own son was not dead, but was arrested by the Beidi people.
At that time, she wanted to take advantage of the momentum of Liu Guogong to help the prince of Wang An ascend to the throne, but unexpectedly, the people of the court and the people of the people, Liu Guogong was a rudder who saw the wind, and the Empress Dowager Qin had to retreat to the second, relying on her straw bag brother who was messing around in the soldiers and horses of the five cities.
Now that the war in the northwest has been decided, the military power of the Marquis of Zhongwu has become more and more stable, and the three sides of Liu Guogong in the southeast and the Southwest Army, which has always been neutral, have formed a corner with each other.
It's just that as soon as Pei Baoer came back, things changed subtly.
Marquis Zhongwu supported Qi Heng, it was because his daughter married him and gave birth to his only son, although the position is still a side concubine, but there is still great hope for the future. But Pei's "resurrection" directly announced the defeat of Concubine Lin, and the Marquis of Zhongwu's Mansion naturally had to re-evaluate the situation, after all, their family had more than one daughter.
Originally, in the negotiations between the imperial court and the Beidi people about King An, Marquis Zhongwu was definitely the mainstay of the opposition. After Princess Pei returned, Marquis Zhongwu somehow disappeared quietly. It is said that now the Zhongwu Marquis Mansion and the Liuguo Mansion are becoming more and more closely connected, and it seems that they want to marry a girl from the side branch to the youngest son of the Liuguo Gong, that is, Liu Fei.
Then, Princess Medea jumped out and cut off her beard.
After listening to this series of relationships, Pei Baoer was speechless.
"Okay, okay, just be happy." She thought for a moment and asked again, "So, where is the real Princess Medea?" ”
Qi Heng was in a good mood today, so he reminded her.
"The climate of Beidi is very different from ours, and the road is far away, and it is possible to encounter some problems that are not adapted to the water and soil."
Pei Bao'er secretly rolled her eyes, she didn't believe that the real princess died of illness, most likely because he was blackmailed.
Recalling the farce in Changchun Garden today, somehow, she actually felt a little sympathy for Princess An. Eighty percent of this family business is to be decided, Princess An likes people who talk about rules so much, and there will be more brothers and sisters like "Princess Medea" in the future, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to sleep peacefully.
After finishing business, the two began to stare wide-eyed.
Pei Bao'er said in her heart, why doesn't this person leave, is this going to stay here for dinner?
Qi Heng drank tea silently.
Beiyan, who was standing outside, was in a hurry, and was racking his brains to think of a way, just at this time the nurse came over with Xiao Yan'er.
Because of today's feast in the palace, Xiao Yan'er was given a day off, and when the guests gathered, she took her out and showed her face, which was very much praised by half-truths.
Most of the women's praise is face-to-face, or seeing that this little doll is white and round, they also have a little love in their hearts. But the men's praise is not quite the same, they are all officials in the court, who doesn't know that this little man is smart and clever, and he was enlightened at the age of three, it is said that Mr. Yan has a very high evaluation of it, saying that it is not forgotten, ten lines at a glance, and the machine is changing, and so on. Although he doesn't even have the official title of a prince now, who can't see the importance that the regent attaches to him. If there is any change in the regent's mind, I can't say that this little thing will not only be a prince and a prince in the future.
Although Xiao Yan'er speaks smartly, but in the end, she is small, and it is the time when she is sleepy, and after her uncle and uncle's shouting, she was almost taken back to rest.
At this time, the little guy rubbed his big peach blossom eyes, and it was very strange to see that his father had been found in his mother's house.
He shouted to his father crisply, and seeing that Pei Bao'er didn't look very good, he ran over and hugged his mother's thigh, rubbing it like a puppy, and was very coquettish.
With the child in front of her, Pei Baoer couldn't pull down her face to drive people away, so she could only watch him walk to the west room to look through her bookshelf. Seeing him reach out for the books on the top floor, Pei Baoer couldn't help blushing.
"Hey, those books are my ...... Don't look at it. ”
She pretended to be calm and ran over to stop him, but met his eyes that seemed to be smiling.
"Okay."
She just breathed a sigh of relief, and then heard him say lightly: "I've seen it anyway." ”
Pei Baoer's eyes are wide open, what does it mean that she has seen them all?
"I've seen all of them in the box."
Pei Bao'er stiffened.
He couldn't be referring to the book he secretly wrote and played with four years ago, right?
Suddenly, a white light flashed in her memory, and she somehow cleared up the spiritual platform, and finally remembered something she had not had time to think about. The two scripts found in the bookstore in Taixing County at that time were not her previous handwritings? At that time, she thought she was a senior who crossed the world, and she wanted to make friends with her. That guy knew it at the time, but he still had to be vague and coax himself in all kinds of ways, ah, it's really annoying to think about it!
Pei Baoer didn't see this person directly, and took her fat son to the garden.
Since returning to the palace, she has been waiting for this delicious food and drink, she has no chance to get fat, and her son has raised a layer of fat. If you don't strengthen your exercise, you will grow into a big fat man in the future, but how can you find a daughter-in-law.
She didn't realize that she was already thinking about what would happen after so many years. I wanted to leave at first, but now I have loosened and softened a little.
When she went back with her panting son back to prepare for dinner, she found that Qi Heng, a cheeky person, actually fell asleep on the small collapse of her study.
Beiyan, who had been guarding, whispered to her: "The prince must be too tired, and you don't care much about the master!" Between the words, it seems to be very unfair for Qi Heng.
Pei Baoer had no choice but to be polite and leave her for dinner.
I thought that she would politely send people away after eating, she would not betray herself if she was killed, but as a result, the man didn't talk to her much during the meal, but told the fat son that he was very deeded, and his son couldn't take care of her.
Pei Baoer ate the vegetables sourly, and suddenly felt that there was a lot of vinegar in the bean sprouts today, so she simply didn't listen to the conversation between the two of them, and thought about the things in the shop by herself.
After a while, Xiao Yan'er suddenly asked her, "Ah Liang, will we go together tomorrow?" ”
She was stunned, "Where are you going?" ”
Xiao Yan'er had some condemnation on her face, first complained that she didn't listen to him carefully, and then said it again happily.
"Daddy said, take me to the mountains tomorrow to play. Let's go together? ”
Pei Baoer subconsciously wanted to refuse, but looking at her son's expectant eyes, she couldn't say a word.
She was a little vigilant in her heart, and before going to bed this night, she rolled around in bed for more than half an hour, strengthened her psychological construction, and silently recited the creed of "resolutely not being corrupted by the enemy" three times, and then she fell asleep worriedly.
It's just strange, she is on guard here, but Qi Heng didn't move, let alone say anything, just dutifully took her son out for a spin, every detail was arranged by Song Yan thoughtfully and meticulously, and he didn't meet a person who didn't have long eyes on the way, and the next day's outing was very dull.
Pei Baoer wondered while stepping up the preparations for the new shop.
On the eighth day of the new year, Zhibao Zhai opened, and she personally took people out for a walk, but there was no ribbon-cutting ceremony, but she put a few two kicks to add joy.
There are a lot of guests who come to admire, but most of the names they admire are not the names of things, but the names of Princess Pei. People are so warmly invited, are you embarrassed not to come? It's all here, are you embarrassed to leave without buying something? If so, it would be too petty. What's more, he also started a comparison, and judged his filial piety to the princess by the amount of silver spent, which was very sincere.
This also brought a little impeachment excerpt from the imperial history, but they didn't dare to say how Qi Heng was, so they had to euphemistically say how Princess Pei was competing with the people for profit. But that's all for later.
Pei Bao'er looked at Erhu, who was trying his best to attract guests in Zhibao Zhai, and threw a satisfied look at Beiyan.
Ruyuge, Mrs. Lin, she didn't plan to do anything bullying. It's just that she has confidence in her product, which is definitely much stronger than what they imitated with the simplified version of the recipe she gave. Coupled with the market positioning, she doesn't believe that in the case of a small price difference between the two, someone will choose the Ruyu Pavilion linked to the flower girls, instead of choosing her, the treasure of the endless stream of dignitaries and nobles.
Half a month later, Pei Baoer went out for a walk again, and sure enough, like the Yuge door, the shopkeeper of Yuzhizhai next door was also worried, but his own Zhibao Zhai was thriving.
At the same time, she received the news that Liu Jiafeilang had been named the youngest viscount and was about to marry Princess Beidi.