"Heh, it's a good ......"

The empress, who was fifty-six years old, smiled faintly, then pointed to the distance and asked, "What is the queue doing over there?" ”

"This ...... The slave and the maid did not know, so the slave and the maid went to ask. ”

After a while, the old lady returned, "The slave and maid have inquired, and I heard that it is the passage of the merchants!" Their cargo was too heavy and hurt the road, so they had to pay tolls. ”

"Oh? What is this toll? ”

"Pay according to the amount of goods, a car full of five cents, less than a car of goods do not charge money."

"What about us ordinary passers-by?"

"No money!"

"Huh!" The Empress laughed, her daughter! As always, he is merciful, but this kindness is still a degree.

"Let's go, let's go into this Jingcheng, which is known as the Little Southern Tang Kingdom, and take a look, what does it rely on, can be mentioned by the people with the same name as the Southern Tang Dynasty in this city."

"Whoa."

…………

It's April, the peach blossom season, and the pink flowers on both sides of the asphalt avenue are blooming one after another.

When the wind blows, small pink petals fall to the ground and stick to the soles of pedestrians or the hooves of cows and horses.

What is strange is that in addition to the women who are in a hurry on the road, there are also men who do not wear scarves.........

They look at the women's eyes, open, casual! There is no shyness, and there is no fear.

"I heard that Miss Seven planted fruit trees on the roadside, and enjoy the flowers in the flower season, and the fruit season can quench the thirst of passers-by! You can't just be greedy, each person is limited to three fruits, and you have to leave some for more people to taste......

However, now the people of Jingcheng have basically lived quite affluently after the rise of various workshops and the flow of merchants.

He is not greedy for these fruits, but each person picks only one and tastes the sweetness. ”

Before coming, Mama had already inquired about the general information in Jingcheng, but some details were not clear.

At the end of the clean and tidy asphalt avenue is the towering city wall!

The elite soldiers at the gate, dressed in fine armor and swords at their waists, looked at every citizen who entered the city with a serious face.

Soon it was their turn......

"It's a bit of a face! Take a look at the household register? Where did it come from? What for? ”

Mama handed over the special household registration for His Majesty's private visit, and replied in a good voice: "I came from the capital, I heard about the current grand situation in Jingcheng, and I came to have a visit." ”

After confirming that everything was correct, the officers and men who inspected her returned the household registration and made a special explanation: "Recently, many spies from other countries want to infiltrate Jingcheng, so we will inevitably investigate more strictly.

Please bear with me! Let's go into town! ”

The empress lifted the curtain and asked with a smile, "What is this spy doing in Jingcheng?" Could it be that you want to attack Jingcheng? ”

"That's impossible, with our Jingcheng troops, the big guys can rest assured, they don't dare to attack!

It is precisely because they can't attack our Jingcheng that they will try their best to sneak into the city and steal all kinds of strange tricks from our Jingcheng. ”

The two sides only gossiped a few words, and then hurried through, so as not to delay the people who entered the city later.

…………

It was getting nearly evening.

The city's main streets and residential areas have been lit up......

After entering the city gate, the noisy street market is brightly lit, and it is more lively than the daytime in the capital.

The fragrance wafting in the wind made the stomach of the group gurgling.

"Go and see what smells so good, give me ...... Ahem, bring me some. ”

"Whoa!"

The accompanying grandmother went to the two, after all, this crowd was crowded, and I was afraid that one person would be too slow to find it and make the master wait for a long time.

The empress, who was waiting in the carriage, looked out the window of the carriage at the picture that she had never seen in her life.

The people are rich, and they do not shut their houses at night......

That relaxed smile on people's faces, ordinary... But rare.

Even so, she still doesn't agree with that benevolent daughter, just a corner of peace!

If it were to manage this huge country, the ridiculous tenderness would have been eaten by the wolves under him......

Over the years, seven of her seventeen princesses have died in the struggle, and now only six are in the capital and four are in the fiefdom.

All the daughters were thinking about her death......

Only these seven daughters don't care about everything, and they send letters and gifts during the New Year, but they have never set foot in the capital again for fifteen years.

Counting it, the eldest son of the seventh daughter is about 17 years old this year, right? There was no mention of his marriage in the letter, and I don't know which lady he married......

As her daughter fights like a Gu raiser, she has been looking forward to the trivial letters more and more over the years.

The seventeenth princess is not bad, her youngest daughter is well-behaved, sensible and clingy, but she is the daughter of the prince of the Eastern Xia Kingdom and her own prince, and she is destined not to reach a high position.

In the past two years, her spirit has become more and more weak, and the decoction for self-cultivation is continuous, and it is still gradually decaying.

At one point she didn't care about what happened after death......

Now she has scruples, if she dies, no matter which daughter ascends to the throne, her merciful seven daughters, and the young seventeen daughters will surely die.

This prosperous era in the corner of the Southern Tang Kingdom! made her want to keep it.

…………

Suddenly, in the crowd, she saw a familiar face.

That face looked like her when she was younger, but her body was thinner.

The difference is that she is full of edges and corners, and the woman is full of tenderness.........

Next to the woman was a man in a warbler's yellow robe, who fed her a string of half-eaten sugar gourds playfully and playfully.

The man's eyebrows and eyes are also a little familiar, he is one of the men who knelt in the imperial study back then!

"Oh, feeding on the street, frivolous and prodigal, shameless!" The Empress was so angry that she lowered the curtain.

After thinking for a while, she opened it again, she wanted to see how unseemly she, the princess, had left the capital!!

Then she saw her noble princess, who squatted down in the street and lifted the man on her back, and the two of them walked together through the long night street......

Hum! Something for a flattering wife! The mud that can't be lifted!!

At this time, the grandmother who went to buy it had already returned with a big bag of barbecue skewers, "Master of the house, this is the fragrant snack, and the slave has already bought it for you." ”

Another grandmother also came back with a bamboo tube full of spicy hot skewers.

"I'm full of gas, I don't eat it!" The Empress said angrily in the carriage.

The two grandmothers don't know why, just for a while, who dares to be angry with their majesty?

"However, I heard that this is a stall in Miss Seven's house! The people in Jingcheng must buy food every night when they go out to play. ”

Silent......

"Send it up! Let me see how poor our seven young ladies are, and they still have to compete for business with vendors. ”

The old lady hooked her lips and offered the food.

Your Majesty...... When I was a child, I had a hard mouth, and when I became a queen, I became moody, and in recent years, I have become more and more like the temperament when I was a child......

(End of chapter)