At this moment, Gui Yue's low and hurried voice came from outside the door: "Niangniang, Your Highness, the emperor has arrived at the gate of Kunning Palace!" ”

"Got it!" The prince answered, his eyes were fixed on the queen, and he said in a low voice, "Queen Mother, don't do stupid things again!" Would you like to discuss with your son beforehand in the future? ”

"Well, I made a note of it." The queen agreed indiscriminately, pressed the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief to absorb her tears, and straightened the prince's clothes, and then led her son to the direction of the main hall.

Chen Yuantai had already arrived at the door of the main hall at this time, and was slightly surprised to see the mother and son coming from behind.

The prince took two steps forward, saluted Chen Yuantai, and then said with a smile: "The queen mother said that she would stew a cup of ginseng and chicken soup for you with her own hands, and the son said that he would do his best, so he went to the small kitchen with the queen mother." ”

"Oh?" Chen Yuantai smiled, "Then why did you do your best in my bowl of ginseng chicken soup?" ”

The prince smiled embarrassedly: "I helped pick two ginseng sticks......"

Chen Yuantai laughed loudly: "Haha, gentleman is far away from cooking, my son can do this effort, and he has already received your love for his father!" ”

With that, he looked at the queen.

Seeing that her expression was still light, Chen Yuantai understood that today's meal and this bowl of ginseng and chicken soup were all the prince's ideas. He suddenly felt a little remorse in his heart, this child was precocious, and he was afraid that he was also sensitive. Although the matter of the lord of the underground palace did not involve the crown prince, it swept him to the forefront.

Chen Yuantai didn't want to explain anything more to the queen, but whenever he opened his mouth, the queen would definitely listen to what he meant, and then the two had a big quarrel and broke up unhappily. But I really should tell the prince, so as not to make the child so uneasy, and the ten-year-old boy has to go to great lengths to match his parents.

What a good boy! It's a pity that the queen is such a confused mother.

But Chen Yuantai felt faintly proud in his heart, and his two sons were like him. Selectively ignored King Yu.

Thinking of this, Chen Yuantai ignored the queen, only stepped forward to take the prince's hand, and asked with a smile while walking towards the main hall: "What did you learn with the concubine this afternoon?" ”

The prince replied with a little excitement: "The horse has not come today, and the son asked the second brother, and he said that it was fine, so he asked the second brother to guide me in archery." ”

As he spoke, he turned back to Gui Yue and raised his chin and pointed to the small kitchen.

Gui Yue understood, turned around and went to arrange for Chen Yuantai to stew chicken soup.

With the prince present, the family of three ate quite happily at this meal.

The queen only cared about adding soup to the prince's cloth and ignored Chen Yuantai. After the prince gently tugged her sleeve several times, she served Chen Yuantai white porridge with a cold face.

Chen Yuantai didn't move the bowl of porridge.

After the meal, the queen originally wanted to keep the prince to speak, but Chen Yuantai led the prince to the Qianqing Palace.

"You're still young, don't drink more tea at night." Chen Yuantai instructed the prince, "Go get some kumquat water for the prince to drink." ”

The prince got up and thanked him, and Chen Yuantai motioned for him to sit down, and personally took a few books to him.

"I still haven't approved the rest of the recitals that I presented today. Take a look at it, if you have any questions you want to ask, just ask, and if you have any ideas, you can also talk about them. ”

The prince was surprised and hurriedly excused himself: "Father, I haven't even finished the four books, and Mr. started to tell me about "Spring and Autumn" a few days ago. I must have no insight into government affairs......

Chen Yuantai smiled: "Don't say that your father looks down on you, you are only ten years old, what can I expect from you?" As a prince, although he must do a good job in learning, but more important is the practice of government affairs. For example, the river was made of silver, "he opened a book and spread it out in front of the prince," the Henan political envoy reported that there was abundant rain last year, and many embankments in various sections of the river were damaged, and some bends were silted, and asked for silver to be repaired and desilted. The household department said that the former dynasty ruled the river at the most, it took five years, and more than 10 million taels of silver were spent before and after, and only 300,000 taels of silver were allocated at the least. ”

"Henan said that at least one million taels were needed to govern the river, but the household department reported that the treasury was only five million taels at the moment, and in addition to daily expenses, a large amount of silver was needed for the training of the camp in the western part of the Beijing camp and the construction of the fire camp, and Shaanxi was in drought and needed disaster relief, and the imperial mausoleum was under construction, and it was always necessary to ask for money."

"How much money do you think you should give?"

The prince was a little dizzy when he heard this, but he was very excited in his heart. Father, this is to calm his heart!

No matter who is buried with his father in the imperial mausoleum, he is the prince recognized by his father!

*

As the weather gets warmer and people feel comfortable, the days go by. In a blink of an eye, at the end of May, Mrs. Du Fu came to the door to send a wedding card to Du Mingxin.

As soon as she entered the main entrance, she saw a carriage with a width of one zhang parked in the sedan hall, with a black lacquered flat head, and the corners and corners of the wheels and cars were wrapped with shiny brass, and the curtain hung a brand-new green mantle brocade flag, which was embroidered with the emblem of the Jin Palace.

The eldest lady sighed in her heart, Du Mingxin's life was really comfortable. The car she is sitting in now was still newly built when she married into the palace, and the king of Jin replaced her with a more spacious one. I hope Mingzhu will have such good luck after marriage!

When the maid led the eldest lady into the main courtyard, she realized that something was different.

The maids in the courtyard are endless, and although there is only the rustle of soft-soled shoes walking, they are unusually busy.

"You're going to ...... Going far away? When the eldest lady entered the house, she found half of the things piled up on the kang in the banquet room, and asked in surprise.

Du Mingxin got up and said with a smile: "I'm really embarrassed, because you just sent someone to come over at noon, I really don't have time to clean up here, as long as I meet guests like this." ”

"Where are you going?" The eldest lady faintly felt that something was wrong, "When will you come back?" ”

Du Mingxin said with a smile: "When I was in Songshan before, I studied with Mr. Wuyou in Songyang Academy. Now that Brother Kun is almost two years old, I want to take him back to see my husband. ”

"But Mingzhu's family affair is scheduled for the beginning of next month!" The eldest lady said anxiously, "It's been less than ten days since we got together!" ”

"Huh?" Du Mingxin was a little surprised, "Didn't you say that you won't get married until after August 15?" At that time, you also said that this day is good, and Sister Zhu can spend more Mid-Autumn Festival at home. ”

The eldest lady hurriedly said: "Isn't that because King Yu's family affairs are scheduled for the tenth day of the ninth month!" The Huichang Bo Mansion is thinking that the days should not be too close to King Yu......"

The two have nothing to do with each other. Du Ming thought to himself.

Huichangbo Mansion is a noble of the previous dynasty, and it was only with Chen Yuantai's permission that it was postponed for three generations, and it has long been far away from the circle of the elites, and these two family affairs do not hinder each other.

Looking at Du Mingxin's puzzled eyes, the eldest lady's old face turned red, thinking about it, maybe Du Mingxin could add more makeup, and said in the future: "The royal marriage is a big scene." King Yu married the daughter of the Duke of Dingguo, and the emperor must have ordered the Internal Affairs Office to do a big job. At that time, the price of all kinds of things in Beijing will inevitably rise by two or three percent, but I am afraid that there will be three or four percent......"