Chapter 57: Cousin and Cousin

The eldest princess of Zhaoxing did not appear in Gongchangbo's mansion until the third round of drinking, and after coming to the water pavilion, she said haha: "I came late, but I missed the good day of my sister-in-law." ”

Gongchangbo Mansion and Yichun Hou Mansion have always been not harmonious, and these are well known, but on such a day, the people who can come to the banquet are all human spirits, and who would make a fuss about this kind of thing?

Although Princess Zhaoxing is the eldest sister, but the concubine made her lose to Princess Zhaoxing, and when she saw Princess Zhaoxing come in, she thought of the matter of Zhaoxing Changgong's editor-in-chief Shi Qi, after all, Shi Qi is her future daughter-in-law, because Shi Qi was arranged by Zhaoxing Changgong's editor-in-chief, Princess Zhaochang's heart was born, and her heart was not very comfortable, and her face was not very good-looking.

"It turned out that the second sister came, the second sister is a busy person among our sisters, Yichunhou is a promising, Yichunhou has a big business, and there are many places where the second sister needs to work hard. Now that Sister Ping is going to participate in the draft, your brother's brother is also going to start choosing a daughter-in-law, and now, you are busy. It's not like my sister and me, my family is simple, I don't need to worry about the affairs of the Marquis of Anshun, I only need to worry about Brother Lin, but I can go anywhere to be happy and happy. ”

The Yi Ge'er in the mouth of Princess Zhaochang is He Yiqing, the second young master of He, nicknamed Yi Ge'er, who is one year older than He Chang'an, but is a little younger than He Ping'an, and is now thirteen years old.

In fact, although it is said that Daxuan's son-in-law brother is thirteen years old, there are many people who talk about marriage, thirteen years old, fourteen years old and fifteen years old, and then after those red tape ancient rituals, how can there be sixteen or seventeen years old when they get married, which is just right, but Princess Zhaoxing doesn't want to find relatives for her son so early.

Yichun Marquis He Chengren was able to get this title back then, with no military exploits and no grace, all because the eldest princess of Zhaoxing was bent on marrying him, and the queen mother was distressed that the concubine Wuguang would bring tired of the eldest princess of Zhaoxing, the only princess, so she asked the first emperor to give He Chengren a marquis. Although He Chengren is now a second-class civil official, after all, civil officials do not have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions compared to military generals, but they are easy to capsize in the gutter because of slander and friends, and this title is actually not as beautiful and stable as it seems.

The eldest princess of Zhaoxing gave birth to a son and a daughter, daughter He Ping'an, and son He Yiqing, naturally reluctant to let the two baby bumps charge into battle in order to keep her husband's title, so when He Yiqing was just enlightened, he invited Confucianism to teach, and he almost resigned himself to martial arts. On the contrary, He Chengren has a concubine Deng's son, He Bingqing, the third young master, who has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, half a year younger than He Yiqing, but now he has followed Gong Changbo to Tanzhou to hone his training.

In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see the abacus of Princess Zhaocheng, that is, to let the son of the concubine sit and enjoy the grace, and the son of the concubine fights on the battlefield to protect the reward, but he can't say anything more on the face, after all, Princess Zhaochang still makes this concubine a little promising, and there are many people in large families who have raised the concubine.

For this reason, the eldest princess of Zhaoxing wants her son to go down his father's path again, in marriage, for the time being, she will not discuss marriage, just wait for the eldest princess Lu Keyi to grow up a little more, if He Yiqing has never discussed marriage, it is not impossible to kiss and kiss!

She Lu Muchu is the only princess in the previous generation, and Lu Keyi is also the only princess in this generation!

Later, Yichun Hou also revealed this calculation to Lu Yuan once, Lu Yuan thought deeper, a woman will marry her husband, even if there is a dispute between her mother's family and her mother-in-law's family, they must conform to the will of her mother-in-law's family and deviate from her mother's family.

This plan is wonderful, wonderful, this is Lu Yuan's last comment left, which strengthened Lu Muchu's determination to let his son Shang become a princess.

But now it has made Princess Zhaochang see through her thoughts, Princess Zhaoxing felt extremely bored when she thought about it, and immediately changed the topic: "Today I specially asked Mr. to give Brother Yi'er a holiday, no, his aunt's birthday, I brought this child to do my filial piety, but Sister Ping, I don't know what it was used yesterday, and today's body is not very good, the doctor said that it was a spleen and stomach disorder, so I didn't bring her over." ”

The Bai family saw that these two eldest princesses were sharp, and they knew in their hearts that they were afraid that these two people had something to do in private, but now that they saw it, it was not on such an important occasion in the palace, so it was natural that the enemies were very red when they met, but they poked each other's backbones, and quickly spoke to ease: " It's naturally good that Yi Ge'er is willing to come, I knew earlier that Yi Ge'er has a heavy academic load, and I haven't seen Yi Ge'er for a long time, now bring him over to let me meet, and take him to the Fourth Highness, after all, it is a male guest, and he can't stay in the women's seat, so let him stay with us elders, but it restrains the child. ”

Of course, these verbal battles were all inquired about by Biluo from Xirui later, and told He Changan in detail, He Changan felt that the royal affairs couldn't be annoyed anymore, in her previous life, she was just a female official serving tea, even if she cared, she only cared about the delicate relationship between Lu Yuan and Lu Cheng, but she didn't expect that the things she encountered in this life ran through almost all the royal clansmen!

Because He Ping'an didn't come, there was a person who always likes to be in the limelight at the table, and the other girls were originally gentle and quiet, with excellent upbringing, but now there is no He Ping'an who provokes anger everywhere, and everyone chats more harmoniously.

A few girls chatted all the way about the Shu brocade mentioned by Mrs. Huang and Liu Yanling today, and in the end, the topic somehow became a few new patterns of jade bracelets in the jade workshop a few days ago, and sure enough, wearing it is an eternal topic for the nobles.

He Chang'an is best at tea, these clothes, materials, jewelry, or something, compared with those other noble girls, she is simply a layman, and she also feels that it is boring to sit here, so she stood up and said: "Sisters, the plum blossom wine of the previous year is really delicious, Chang'an drank a little high, and now I feel dizzy and dizzy, so I want to go out to breathe." The sisters chatted first, and Chang'an went back as soon as she went. ”

However, Shi Qi glanced at He Chang'an, and felt that He Chang'an didn't look like he was drinking, so he asked in a low voice: "Cousin Chang is fine, right?"

"It's okay, I'll go out with Biluo, cousin rest assured. ”

Shi Qi was not worried that He Changan only took Biluo out, but the noble girl couldn't even have a host to support the scene, so she could only let Chang'an go.

Chang'an walked out of the path of the plum garden, walked to the edge of the rockery, in winter, because the water in the pool under the rockery will be frozen, Gongchang Bofu simply did not put water in it, but directly piled the cedar pine around the entire rockery, but it was not interesting, Chang'an thought while looking at it, in fact, Bai can also be called a capable person, she always felt that this mother was too weak when she first became He Chang'an, but now she understands that the reason why Bai was weak in the past is because He Chang'an was thin and sickly before, and his personality was also soft, in this case, if Bai showed his edge, then the old lady Liu's hand is likely to reach out to Chang'an because she can't move the Bai family.

After all, the Bai family can't stay by Chang'an's side all the time, if Chang'an really has any accidents, then the Bai family only has this one daughter, and it's too late to regret it, so he can only be a little low in front of the old lady and pretend to be a docile and obedient daughter-in-law.

After He Chang'an fell into the water, she Ye Hibiscus became He Chang'an, not only her body was better, but her personality was much better than the original He Chang'an, and she gradually became less soft, and the Bai family also saw the change in her daughter, who was originally helpless about her daughter's softness, but now she rekindled her hope, and slowly showed her strong side.

This pond with rockery is also a scene in Gongchangbo's mansion, called Huaisu Pond, when He Chang'an's great-grandfather took his son, that is, the old Gongchang Bo He Li followed the Tai / Zu / Emperor to fight the country together, He Li's original match Zhou also followed all the way upside down, the old Changguo Duke died soon after he got the title, the title was passed to He Li, Zhou only lived a few days of good life, but soon Zhou also died because of too hard work in the early years.

Although it is said that He Li married the Xuxian Liu family after nine months of filial piety for his deceased wife, He Changan felt that his grandfather still had his own grandmother Zhou in his heart, otherwise he would not have spent a lot of time to build a rockery pond and named it Huaisu.

Zhou's single name is a plain word, this Huaisu Pond is Huaisu's feelings, right?

This old Gong Changbo built the Huaisu Pond for the Zhou family, in the eyes of the Liu family, it should be the most eye-catching place in the entire house, in the winter of previous years, the Liu family used the excuse that the water would freeze and drained the water, and the Huaisu Pond also became empty without a trace of life.

He Changan put his hand on the pool wall and whispered: "Huaisu Pond ......"

But I heard a man's voice in front of me: "The little girl next to me said that the nobles are all feasting and drinking in the plum garden, but the cousin is leisurely and elegant, so she doesn't feast in the plum garden, and runs to Huaisu Pond to sour and fake vinegar." ”

He Changan raised his head, he was a little vague when he first saw it, and he didn't remember who it was, and then he reacted from the face of the eldest princess of the cool Xiao Zhaoxing who it was, and gave a salute: "I've seen the second cousin, but Chang'an hasn't seen the second cousin for a few days." ”

"I'm usually very busy with my homework, so naturally I don't have time to be as comfortable as your son-in-law, and I can often wander around the palace and the house, cousin, what did you say?"

He Changan couldn't help laughing, He Yiqing's forehead was very narrow, and he looked like that kind of snarky person, but as soon as he spoke, he was even more like, and there was sourness everywhere.

The eldest princess of Zhaoxing was afraid that learning martial arts and swords would hurt her only son without eyes, and refused to let He Yiqing learn martial arts, so when the palace selected personal guards for several princes, He Yiqing, who couldn't pick up the big knife, was naturally impossible to be on the list, as for the companion reading, He Yiqing himself thought that the prince was about to get up as soon as he was reading the day, and he couldn't go back when it was dark, it was really hard, and he crossed out his name from the list with the princess's mother, and now he began to arrange He Jiaqing again.

If He Jiaqing didn't follow the four princes around the palace all day long, wouldn't it be a dereliction of duty for him, the guard of the four princes?

It's not that He Chang'an has never seen such a person, and he also understands in his heart that the best way is to choke this person speechless with some words, and after thinking about it, he said: "My cousin remembers that my cousin has been reading poetry and books since he was a child, and his natural knowledge is excellent, what my cousin said is right?"

He Yiqing raised his head proudly: "That's nature, my master is ......"

Seeing that He Yiqing was about to take out his master to show off again, He Changan hurriedly stopped him: "It's just that my sister doesn't understand something, and I want to invite my brother." ”

He Yiqing snorted lightly in his nose, and he didn't say anything, He Changan said: "My cousin just said that Chang'an is standing here with sour fake vinegar, but Chang'an is not as good as Sister Ping, and she reads less poetry and books, why is it sour fake vinegar?"

He Yiqing flicked off the little snow that fell from the tree on him with a disgusted face: "It seems that you still have a little self-knowledge, so that it is not too disgusting." You also know that you don't read much poetry, not as good as my sister, my sister said that she was standing here and chanting poetry, that is a talented woman, you stand here, that is Dong Shi Xiaofeng, haha. ”

The word "haha" at the end is very ironic.

He Changan shook his head: "Chang'an just saw this Huaisu Pond, and said the three words Huaisu Pond in a low voice, that is, sour fake vinegar, Dong Shi is effective, is it possible that I can't even touch the delicacy in my own house? Oh, by the way, Chang'an forgot, my cousin has been raised in Yichun Hou Mansion since he was born, and we Gongchang Bofu was originally respectful and far away, so naturally I don't know what this Huaisu Pond means, but it was a waste of my grandfather's heart." ”

After finishing speaking, he began to tell He Yiqing about the origin and meaning of Huai Su Chi, and said that when Zhou was dying, He Li was reluctant to give up his love for her, and he squeezed out two tears, which became more and more sincere.

The Yichun Hou Mansion can be at odds with Gong Changbo's Mansion, but the meaning of He Chang'an's words is clear that even the old Gong Changbo's thoughts, the people over there of the Yichun Hou Mansion have ignored it, in fact, this also can't complain about He Chengren and He Yiqing, the Liu family is taboo about the Huai Su Chi taboo, and the rumors are tightly covered, where is the son who is willing to let his son know?

However, it gave her the opportunity to accuse He Yiqing of disrespecting his deceased grandfather.

"Grandmother Zhou's single name, grandfather built this rockery pond named Huaisu, it is to miss my grandmother and her old man, cousin erudite, but said that Chang'an is sour and fake vinegar, this is the cousin's negligence, or do you think that grandfather's intentions are all fake?"

In the Great Xuan Dynasty, which valued filial piety, lent He Yiqing a hundred guts, and he would not dare to say that his grandfather's intentions were fake.

He Yiqing was a little annoyed: "The Zhou family is your grandmother, what does it have to do with me?"

"It turns out that my cousin thinks like this, but I don't know if my cousin's Confucian master has taught my cousin?

He Yiqing was speechless, and only stretched out a finger to point at He Changan: "You...... You ......"

He Changan was not angry, his face was calm, and he even smiled a little: "What's wrong with Chang'an?

The innocence on his face made He Jiaqing even more nameless.

At this time, I heard someone behind me: "Cousin, why are you here?"

As soon as He Changan turned around, he found that Biluo, who had been staying behind him, didn't know when he was gone, and it was Mrs. Hou Shizi of Anshun who was walking over here, that is, Xu Huanche, the only son of her little aunt, and a shadow in a light green shirt in the distance was staggering towards this side in the snow, which seemed to be Biluo.

Ho, this girl, didn't she see that she and He Yiqing had a quarrel, and she was uneasy, so she ran back to move the rescuers?

A cousin on one side and a cousin on the other......

After thinking about it carefully, he pretended that nothing had happened: "Cousin, my cousin is here to enjoy the snow in Huaisu Pond and watch the rockery, and by chance I met the second cousin of the He family, what's the matter, does my cousin also come here to enjoy the snow and see the rockery?"

Xu Huanche obviously didn't expect He Changan to say such a thing, and he was also stunned, and said with a red face: "No, I just happened to see the big girl Biluo next to my cousin when I was over there, and I don't know what errand my cousin sent Biluo, but the snow was slippery, and Biluo seemed to have sprained her foot, so I thought about sending Biluo back to my cousin." ”

This is actually far-fetched, if Xu Huanche really wanted to send Biluo back to Chang'an, how could he rush here alone and roar, leaving Biluo staggering in the snow?

However, He Changan also appreciated it, Xu Huanche was obviously here to help her, but seeing that she had died down, she couldn't provoke the war anymore, so she also got off the donkey: "Then thank you cousin for sending Biluo back, and my cousin must ask Biluo to make more pastries for my cousin to taste, Biluo, this girl, the craftsmanship is not bad." ”

"Then I'll thank my cousin here. Second Young Master of the He Family, it seems that the eldest young master of the He family is looking for something for you over there, why don't you go back first?"

He Yiqing was eager to leave, snorted heavily, threw his sleeves and left.

Seeing He Yiqing walk away, Xu Huan took a step forward and said, "Cousin, He Yiqing is not a good person. ”

He Changan took a step back and kept a suitable distance from Xu Huanche: "I know." Although Gongchangbo Mansion and Yichun Hou Mansion are in the same breath, they have never been at the same time, and it is understandable that he is targeting me like this. ”

Xu Huanche suddenly blushed a little, and took out something from his sleeve: "This ...... Cousin takes it. ”

Spread out in the palm of the hand, there is a delicate root carving, the shape of the carving is a lifelike cuckoo bird, He Changan has seen it in the Yanqing Palace in his last life, this set of root carving twelve birds, I don't know who was rewarded by the saint later, now it seems that it was given to the Marquis of Anshun.

It's just that where would the Marquis of Anshun easily dismantle the things given by the emperor and let his grandson play with them?

He Changan was taken aback, and took a step back: "Men and women don't kiss, cousin should take the things back." ”

Xu Huanche stubbornly shook his head: "It's just a little gadget, I don't know what kind of money, my cousin just takes it." ”

At this time, Biluo also staggered over, panting heavily: "Miss, Biluo is late, is Miss okay......"

He Chang'an gave Xu Huanche a color, and Xu Huanche also knew that such a thing was not good for the maid to see after all, so he quickly put away the root carving cuckoo bird.

He Changan shook his head: "It's okay, Biluo, let's go." ”

Turned around: "Thank you cousin for today's matter, my sister just came out to take a turn when she was drunk, and now the wine is basically gone, so I'll go back first." ”

Xu Huanche wanted to say something, but he still didn't say anything after all, he could only look at the direction He Changan left and stood silently for a long time