Chapter 276

In the water town of the south of the Yangtze River, in the late autumn season, the bluestone road of Yangzhou City is covered with a layer of white frost. The weather is getting colder and colder day by day, and last night it cooled down again, and when I woke up the next day, I would even talk with a white mist. The morning sun in the east is gorgeous, the sky is gradually brightening, and the whole Yangzhou city is gradually lively. The shouts and laughter continued.

On the slender bluestone road, several girls with twisted pigtails are kicking shuttlecocks and throwing big ropes, and one of the girls wearing a red printed jacket is only squatting in the sun in the corner of the wall, basking in the sun while squinting and smiling at the big sisters playing. The little girl is only three years old, but she is born with outstanding appearance, fine white skin, delicate pink little face, and a pair of big eyes, anyone who looks at it will like it.

"Biyu, do you want to play together?" The children were sweating profusely, and seemed to remember the little sister who was squatting in the corner, and one of them walked towards her and handed her a shuttlecock made of chicken feathers, "We can take you to play with us, but your father is a teacher, can I go to your house in the future and let your father teach me to read and write? ”

Biyuer stood up, took the shuttlecock, and kept her head down to look at the shuttlecock carefully, as if she was hesitating to agree.

"Then I'm going to go home and ask my mother, and if my mother agrees, you can go. Biyu'er looked up at her little white face, with a serious look, and then lowered her head to look at the shuttlecock, and muttered in a low voice, "Can you lend me the shuttlecock to play?" ”

The girl said: "As long as we can go to your father's private school to study, let alone this shuttlecock, we are willing to take you to play with us every day in the future." After thinking about it, he seemed to be a little confused, and then asked, "Why only ask your mother? If your mother agrees, but your father disagrees, what should I do?"

Biyu said happily: "My father listens to my mother for everything, as long as my mother agrees, my father will definitely agree." As he spoke, he ran to the door of the house with the shuttlecock, and the little girl wore a lot, like a meat dumpling, and swayed left and right when she ran.

"Mother, mother, I have something very important to tell you. Before Jasper's little body entered the door, she had already begun to shout.

Zhou Huaru was sitting by the window doing embroidery, and suddenly heard her daughter's call, she hurriedly put the embroidery work on the case, and walked outside. When I walked out of the door, I saw the girl's little body pounce all of a sudden, her pink face was flushed, her big black eyes were moist, and she was holding a shuttlecock made of chicken feathers tightly in her hand.

"Mother......" Biyu ran out of breath, and when she saw her mother this time, she couldn't speak intermittently.

"Yu'er, don't worry, if you have anything to say, say it slowly, my mother listens. Zhou Huaru squatted down, a pair of calloused hands tightly grasped her daughter's cold little hands, covered her, and then kissed her little face, "Look at you running, it's hot and sweaty, and now the weather is getting colder, Yu'er has to be careful, don't catch a cold." Let's go, my mother will carry you into the house, and my mother will burn the charcoal pot on the stove and warm it. ”

After that, he carried his daughter into the house.

Biyu'er rested for a while, and finally calmed down, then looked at her mother and said seriously: "Mother, the eldest sister said...... said that she wanted to study with her father, but ...... But she didn't have any money, she said...... said that if my father agreed, she would not only lend me this shuttlecock to play, but also take me to play with me every day in the future. Mother, I want to play with them, they are amazing. ”

"Okay, my mother promised you, when your father came back, I would tell your father. Zhou Huaru hugged her daughter tightly, and she was happy when she saw her obedient, and her heart was warm.

In fact, their family of three did not live here, but at the beginning of the year, they suddenly got news that the former prince Zhao Ting secretly ordered someone to investigate the whereabouts of their husband and wife, so they were brought here by the current prince who was still the king of Jin at the time, and changed his identity again. More than half a year has passed, and the position of King Jin, the prince, is also sitting firmly, and their husband and wife are really relieved.

I have long been accustomed to such a poor and simple day, simple and warm, and I feel that I am the happiest woman in the world when I accompany the person I love the most every day. The glory and wealth of that life, in exchange for such a warm little family, she has never regretted it. Her husband taught, and she took on some embroidery work, helping the girls from those big families to make clothes, embroidering dowries, and earning some silver, and her life was not bad.

"Mother, when you were young, did you also play this?" Biyuer shrunk into her mother's soft arms, twisted her little body happily and said, "Big sisters can play, Dad said that Mother is the smartest, Mother will definitely too." ”

"When did your father tell you?" Zhou Huaru smiled lightly, lowered her head and helped her daughter take care of her clothes.

"Daddy often told me this, and Daddy also said that my mother is the most beautiful woman in the world. Jasper was very proud, holding her little head high, "I think so too." ”

"You girl......" Zhou Huaru was amused by her daughter, raised her hand and nodded her little head, the smile on the corner of her lips gradually froze, and suddenly, she thought of the time when she and Zhao Yu met for the first time.

That year, Emperor Hui was still in power, and Zhao Yu was the crown prince.

On that day, it was the spring of March, the weather was very good, and the flowers in the garden were blooming. She couldn't stay in the room, so she led a few little girls to quietly run to the garden to kick the shuttlecock. When she was very young, the name of Caixue had spread throughout the capital, and she was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. But after all, he is still a child, and he always loves to play by nature.

As soon as she had fun, she would forget the hour, and that time, she used her strength and a shuttlecock smashed into Zhao Yu's head.

Seeing that she seemed to have hit someone, she hurriedly ran over with her skirt and saw a strange young man standing quietly among the flowers. Although he looked at his handsome and beautiful face, she always felt that he looked at her with bad intentions. It must have been a guest who came to the house, but without the consent of the host, and no one followed, he came here alone, which is certainly not a good person.

She glared at him, then bent down to pick up the shuttlecock and was about to run.

I only heard the young man say: "It is rumored that Miss Zhou is only eight years old, and she is the best among the nobles of the family, and when I look at it today, it is nothing more than that." ”

The eldest girl of the Zhou family is the pearl of the entire Zhou State Mansion, not only favored by the elders, but also appreciated by everyone who has seen her outside. Today, she just called a gentleman to ridicule and ridicule, she was a little competitive by nature, and she was not convinced, so she turned around and walked to him, raising her chin.

"Where do you belong to? This is the Mansion of the State of Zhou, and you have broken the law by trespassing on a famous mansion. She was angry in her heart, eloquent and eloquent, crackling, as if pouring beans, and gave the young man in front of her a lot of charges, and finally didn't give him a chance to talk back, after speaking, she felt relieved in her heart, so she turned around and ran.

But I didn't expect that the marriage of this life was also buried at that time.

After that, every three days and two ends, whenever she woke up from bed in the morning, she could always see all kinds of poems written on silk on the bookcase in front of the window. The words on those silks were exactly the same as her handwriting, so the servants who served her personally never knew that the poems that were put on the table were never written by her.

She copied the words of others well, and she was also stimulated by the incident at that time, she was very competitive, and she always didn't want to lose to that person.

It wasn't until later that she knew that the boy who hated herself so much in the spring sun, and then kept using his own handwriting to write poems to herself, was the crown prince of the dynasty. Not long after, Emperor Hui died, and the crown prince ascended the throne as emperor, but he had to obey Empress Liu's orders and marry the daughter of the Liu family.

At that time, although she knew that he was helpless to make such a choice, she also knew that they were afraid that it would never be possible again in this life.

Who would have thought that now the two of them would give up their glory and wealth together, and they are only willing to change their names and surnames and become an ordinary couple in this market. Thinking of this, Zhou Huaru smiled a little deeper, hugged her daughter, got up and said, "Let's go, Yu'er, go to the kitchen with my mother to cook, and my mother will take you to the private school in a while, and we will send your father food." ”

"Mother, then I'll help you light the fire. Biyuer is happy, when her mother cooks, she likes to squat by the stove and light the fire.

"Okay, Yu'er is the most capable. Zhou Huaru put her daughter down and took her little hand to the kitchen together.

The mother and daughter stewed chicken soup and cooked 100 rice together, and Zhou Huaru specially made the shrimp that her daughter loves to eat. As soon as the meal was ready, Zhao Yu hurried back, dressed in a cyan cloth gown, with a cyan cloth scarf wrapped around his hair, the man who was close to his age was still handsome and elegant, although his face was dyed with a little wind and frost, but the noble air on his body could not be concealed at all.

"Daddy!" Biyu saw that Daddy was coming home, and hurriedly turned around and ran towards Daddy.

Zhao Yu bent down and picked up his daughter, with an uncontrollable smile on his face, and walked towards him with his daughter in his arms.

"Why did you come back today?" Zhou Huaru said, "I just cooked a meal, and I was about to send it to you with my daughter." Since you're back, eat it while it's hot, I've stewed chicken soup, and if you don't eat it, it's going to be cold. ”

"The chicken soup is delicious. Jasper sat at the table, and after serving a bowl of each to his father and mother, he served it to himself.

She held the small bowl and lowered her head to suck the soup one by one, smacking her lips in satisfaction, and there was a smile on her fair little face.

"Yu'er is so old. Zhao Yu sighed with emotion, and then grabbed his wife's hand, with an irrepressible smile in his dark eyes, "Ru'er, Your Majesty has died, the new emperor has ascended the throne, and in the future, we will be a family of three, and we don't have to worry anymore." ”

"What you said is true?" Zhou Huaru was also excited, "Where did you get the news?"

Zhao Yu picked up the bowl and took a sip of chicken soup, then said, "King Jin...... It is Your Majesty, and Your Majesty has also installed his people in Yangzhou, and you can get the latest news anytime and anywhere, and it is a letter from Your Majesty's people. The man also brought the words of the queen's mother, saying that he knew that you must miss your family, so you and I should not be in a hurry, and when the arrangements should be made safely, we will be taken into Beijing. ”

"That's great. Zhou Huaru cried with joy, after all these years, she could finally see her relatives.

Zhao Yu gently took his wife into his arms, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "This is a happy event, what are you crying about, look, Yu'er is laughing at you." ”

Biyu raised her head, her pink little mouth was greasy, she wrinkled her little face and said, "Daddy, today I promised a big sister to let her come to our house and let Daddy teach her to read and write." Daddy, are we going to get out of here? But the eldest sister agreed to take me with her, and she lent me a shuttlecock. ”

"When you enter the capital, there will be many people playing with Yu'er. Zhao Yu pulled her over and asked her to sit on her lap, "Let's just go to Beijing to play for a while, if Yu'er likes it here, I'll come back then." Daddy also promised you, those big sisters you promised will definitely have a book, okay?"

"Well, okay, Daddy said, to be a trustworthy person, Yu'er did it. Jasper was happy, and then shrunk into her father's arms.

Zhou Huaru said: "It's good here, but my relatives are not around. There was no way before, but now that the new emperor has ascended the throne, I think there is a way for us to stay in the capital. Besides, you still have Zhong'er. ”

Speaking of his son Zhao Zhong, Zhao Yu became silent. 166 Reading Network