Chapter 91: Fame
The day when the eldest princess of Yueqing led the scholars of the palace.
There was a rare sunny day in Yanjing City, and a few wisps of clouds in the blue sky were combed by the wind.
Zhao Surui was wearing his newly made coat and basking in the sun in the courtyard of the Shen family's old house, and saw Ah Chi hurriedly taking the little girls to dry the bedding.
He tilted his head and looked at it for a while, and Ah Chi realized that his girl had actually arrived in the side courtyard.
"Girl, how did you get here? We were doing our laundry last night, and there was frost on the floor, so you should be careful."
Zhao Surui looked at the quilts waving in the wind, and pouted boredly:
"I want to eat elbows today, can't that Cuifu Lou bring me elbows?"
Ah Chi smiled and said, "Girl, if you want to eat elbows, why don't you summon Tu Nan from Zhuangzi into the city, the day before yesterday you still disliked Cuifu Lou's elbows being too sweet."
Zhao Surui rolled his eyes.
He won't be angry with Tu Nan all the time, even Shen Sanqu and other traitors who steal the country can eat at the same table without care, how can he worry about a little girl?
It's just that when he thinks of Tu Nan stalking his neck and saying that he is not teaching and punishing the ground, he doesn't want to eat the elbow made by Tu Nan, but it seems that he has to beg a little girl in order to eat the elbow.
"You don't have to eat elbows, so what are the restaurants nearby?"
Ah Chi thought for a moment, "There is a Northwest Mutton ......."
"Don't." Zhao Surui waved his hand, how to say the mutton noodle soup made by Shen Sanyu that day, although it was made with seasonings added temporarily, it was definitely not as busy as making her busy from scratch, but the mutton noodle soup made made Zhao Surui understood why a few little girls could still remember the mutton noodle soup surrounded by Tu Nan's cooking skills.
It's not the same, indeed.
Even if Tu Nan made the same one, it was still better made by Shen Sanzhu.
"I haven't been in the mood for mutton lately."
Emperor Zhaode said so, of course, if Shen Sanqu came to make him mutton noodle soup again, he would be very interested in eating it again.
Ah Chi was speechless, since she entered Yanjing City, the girl was even picky about eating.
"That...... Girl, shall we eat fish?"
"The fish isn't fragrant enough."
"How's the venison?"
"Chai."
Ah Chi was helpless: "I'd better have someone go to Cuifu Building to buy you an elbow."
"It's too sweet."
Ah Chi: "......" Why didn't the girl immediately respond when she wanted to eat her elbow at the beginning?
Xia He listened on the side, only feeling that the young lady was really getting more and more childish, and seeing that Ah Chi was overwhelmed, she smiled and said:
"It's rare in Yanjing City, why don't Shen Niangzi taste something interesting? I remember that there was a Cantonese chef in Liulichang who made a poached rice, the fish and rice were steamed together in lotus leaves, and the meat was made of meat, which was very fragrant, and I had a hard time going out of the house one year, and I thought it was very interesting to eat, why don't you try it?"
This is also a little interesting, Zhao Surui said "um", reluctantly: "It's better to say it's really funny, if I run for nothing, I'll let someone wrap you with vegetable leaves when I come back."
Xia He just laughed.
Zhao Surui turned around and walked two steps with his small hand stove in his hand, and then turned around: ....
"Why are you stunned, I'm still waiting for you to lead the way, Ah Chi, you and Pei Feng will accompany me."
Xia He didn't expect that she would be able to go out, and she didn't know how to put her hands and feet for a while, Zhao Surui was quite generous to them on weekdays, she changed into a new bamboo root blue big-sleeved jacket, the corners of the clothes were embroidered with seasonal pink plums, and the lower body was a bean-yellow horse-faced skirt, and the front skirt door was embroidered with a happy plum tree, and there was a gray rabbit made of a wool cardigan.
She happily stood with Ah Chi and Pei Feng, she did not lose in appearance, and she also had another romantic taste.
Zhao Surui looked at her, but shook his head:
"Didn't I buy new jewelry for you all the last time I went back to Zhuangzi? Take it out and put it on."
How he himself is Shu
How to wear clothes, the people who follow him must be magnificent, so that he can look comfortable.
Xia He twisted the corners of his clothes and said carefully, "When I came to the city, I let others keep all the jewelry for me."
Ah Chi glanced at her and said to his girl, "The girl gave me a pair of lapis lazuli hairpins last time, which are compatible with Miss Xia He."
After speaking, she went to get the hairpin, and there was another gold bracelet in the plain circle, which was also put on Xia He's wrist.
Xia He glanced up at her, only to see a light smile on her face.
Zhao Surui didn't understand the little tricks between these women, and he was still not very satisfied, and when he thought about it, he could buy it again if he met a jewelry store on the road, and he didn't have no money in his hand, so he reluctantly forgot it.
Pei Feng drove, and the three of them sat in the newly typed troika and followed the road by the river all the way to the boundary of Liulichang.
As soon as he landed, Zhao Surui stepped on sheepskin boots and went to a jewelry store, chose a pair of gold earrings for Xia He, and bought a distraction made of blue gemstones and two pairs of hairpins, and dressed Xia He together.
The taste of the poached rice is indeed more interesting than the next method, you have to untie the dried lotus leaves to eat the rice mixed with fish or meat, Zhao Surui asked Pei Feng to buy a bad duck from the street to match, and drank a bowl of lotus root meat strip soup.
He was full of wine and food, but Zhao Surui didn't move.
There was no private room in the small restaurant, and a pair of middle-aged scholars in cyan cotton clothes sat at the adjacent table, talking.
"The world is declining, and even women can go out to eat with grease and powder, gold and silver."
"Alas, Brother Lu, it's not that you don't know where this left and west is, maybe it's a secret prostitute who has no business and deliberately swaggered through the market to solicit business."
The person who spoke said "maybe" in his mouth, but his tone was actually very determined.
When Pei Feng heard this, he immediately wanted to stand up, but when he saw his own girl knocking lightly on the table, she could only sit back down.
There was a sneer from the adjacent table.
"When the world is declining, why not just prostitutes on the streets? Isn't it necessary to let women take the female talent exam recently? A group of stupid women and children, they can't even hold a pen, they only know how to make a fuss when they encounter something, such a person can even go to the examination of the children of Nalaosh, I think the lady in the palace really wants to learn the tricks of Si Chen, but His Majesty still blindly connives, this is a sign that chaos is about to arise."
"If you want me to say, there will be female cadres around our majesty, who will bewitch the sacred heart together with the lady in the palace!" ….
"Female? Who is Brother Wu talking about?"
"Who? As His Majesty's aunt, Princess Nayueqing was not good at being widowed at home, but took a group of women into the palace and got an official position as a university scholar...... In my opinion, that lady is just a cover for her to put in front of people, in fact, ......."
"How can I say that she is also a princess, she has opened so many embroidery workshops, and it is not enough to make money every day, and she even started to be greedy for power by Si Chen."
"It's hard to fill the craving! I have been widowed for so many years......"
Hearing that the two of them had arranged their widowed aunt, Zhao Surui raised his head and remembered the dim and sour faces of the two in his heart.
He was about to stand up as soon as he slapped the table, but a hand was on his arm.
Xia He laughed when he got up: "How can such a thing make you angry?"
After speaking, she moved her waist, supported the bun on her head, and walked over from the side of the two of them, and asked Xiao Er for a pot of hot tea.
Then he walked back.
Zhao Surui just waited for her to make any moves, but saw that she was okay and sat down.
After a while, Xia He actually persuaded him to leave.
Zhao Surui didn't know why, he didn't tear these two people apart on the spot, he was already a little patient by Shen San's exhaust gas, Xia He didn't do anything and asked him to leave, how could he be willing?
"Girl, just rest assured."
With a smile on the corner of Xia He's lips, he pulled her out of the restaurant and got into the carriage.
Moments later, there was a lot of noise in the restaurant.
"I have long said that it is a hanging, why did I suddenly follow it today
Shall I get up?"
Zhao Surui was a smart man after all, sitting in the carriage, he looked at Xia He: "You found the owner of the restaurant?"
Xia He blinked his eyes: "I saw that the sleeves of those two people's clothes were worn out, and the food they ordered and the wine they drank were the cheapest, so I knew that most of them were really poor and sour, and they had to go to the restaurant to eat wine and meat at this point, these people are the most good-looking, and giving the store a dime of silver for them to collect the debt is enough for these people to embarrass them."
After all, she didn't hide the meanness in her mouth, and after explaining her actions, she couldn't help but say:
"This kind of *** really has a dick disease in his mouth, and the lower half of his body is not moving, but he is in and out of his mouth endlessly, and all dirty urine and stinky shit are squirting out, and they should throw their faces on the ground, and thousands of people will step on them to grind it."
Zhao Surui didn't feel happy, those two insulted the royal family, it was not a pity to die, what was it if they just made them lose face?
Glancing at her, he said lazily, "I thought you could scold them all to show how powerful you are."
"Girl, those people are like dung pits, why should we bother to get them? The reputation of a woman's family is as thin as a piece of paper, and it will be broken if you are not careful, and you can't make up for it, the slave and maid went to scold a happy one, and there are thousands of times more speculation on us when you look back, and I myself am a dead concubine with broken flowers and willows, and I will be said to be said, and my face will be opened, but girl, you are the top of our family, and your reputation is the door plaque of one of our houses, how can you have a defacement for this kind of * goods?"
Zhao Surui looked at Xia He and was silent for a moment: ....
"...... reputation? What's the matter?"
He is happy to be a tyrant and only wait for the famous Emperor Zhaode to go down in history, where would he treat his reputation as something great?
Of course, if Shen Sanfu cried with his body, he would never allow it.
He Zhao Surui can be a tyrant for all ages, but he can't be a crying bag for a moment.
"Fame."
There was still a commotion outside, Xia He lowered his head and touched the hairpin on his head.
"If you want to say that reputation doesn't matter, it really doesn't matter, after all, you can't touch it and can't see it, but if you want to say that it doesn't matter, girl, because of her bad reputation, the widow who was sunk and occupied the family business, and the daughter-in-law who was sold by the family, there are a lot. Once upon a time, there was an embroidery girl in the uncle's mansion who signed a living deed, married a long-term retinue of the uncle, and because of the reputation of fornication, she was burned alive by her man with a quilt at night, and the corpse and the quilt were burned together, and they couldn't be separated. Her family sued the government, but it was not over."
Maybe it's because of the relationship between being married, Xia He showed some demeanor that Tu Nan and Ah Chi would not have when he spoke, and it seemed that he could be called "desolate".
"Fame is mud, a person like gold and jade, everyone thinks she is a treasure, but once she is smeared with mud, even if it is still gold and jade, it also makes a group of villains feel that they can wipe it again, and when it is dirty enough, it will make people forget what is inside, and if it is smashed, it will be smashed, and if it is broken, it will be broken."
Is...... The truth of a woman who makes people feel bored.
If it was in the past, Zhao Surui would only feel impatient and let people drive Xia He out like Aunt Liu at the beginning.
Now, he could hear something.
At least, he wouldn't be arrogant enough to say that he was clean when he had mud on his body.
Where in this world can we purify the filthy waters? I really feel that I can wash away the sludge and repeat my innocence, but I can't say that I have entered a new quagmire.
Even he, the wise and martial king of a country, never thought that his reputation would be innocent.
The difference is that the monarch's reputation is flawed, but it can be praised and deprecated by posterity.
A woman's reputation is flawed, it is the moment of life and death.
"After listening to Aunt Liu's words, I know where the abyss of a woman is."
The words that Shen Sanfu had said at the beginning resurfaced in his ears, and Zhao Surui smiled coldly.
To sink into the rules of the world is to enter the abyss.
rebelled against the rules of the world, or entered the abyss.
Only think about it repeatedly and go up the cliff
Only by divergent can you keep your body and your heart.
He really didn't expect that there would be a day when he would really understand this sentence.
"Xia He, what if those two people today are not poor and sour, but the children of rich families?"
Xia He said: "The children of the rich family naturally have oil and water on their bodies, tell the Jinyiwei that they criticize the royal family, and the Jinyiwei can peel off a layer of skin from them, but this kind of poor and sour Jinyiwei can't look down on it."
That's right.
Zhao Surui smiled and asked again:
"What if it's a noble? What will you do if you insult you and scold you?"
Xia He was a little at a loss: "Girl, I can't afford to mess with Xungui."
"You're still almost." Zhao Surui waved his hand and asked Ah Chi to send a message to Pei Feng to leave for home, "You have to climb up."
Emperor Zhaode said to this concubine who was born as a slave.
"Climb up and let people know that whoever dares to tarnish your reputation, and whoever dares to harm you, will die."
Xia He raised his eyes, only to feel his head dizzy with the slight shaking of the body.
This, this kind of thing, how can a little concubine of her do it?
"Follow me, and I'll make it happen."
The curtain of the car occasionally reveals a glimmer of blue sky outside as the body shakes.
The light shone on Zhao Surui's face, coming and going.
"It's up to you to see if you want to."
Back at the Shen Mansion, she said to Pei Feng:
"Go tell Cui Jinniang and ask her to bring her two subordinates to see me."
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