The weather was nice.

Early in the morning, Zhao Surui walked around the Shen house in Pomegranate Lane.

Compared with the four into the Zhuangzi outside the city, the Shen house is actually smaller, but exquisite, take a closer look, the wood materials of the stone building house of the wall are good, the courtyards everywhere remove the Shen family's two straw bales to add snakes to the flower shed to get on it shows the original homeowner's intentions in the details, the original light of the study is worse, but there is an additional white wall outside the north window, bamboo is planted on both sides of the wall, the light is thrown into the house on the white wall, so that the study is a little brighter than the side, behind the wall is the aqueduct culvert, you can hear the sound of water through the bamboo in summer, And there are no mosquitoes.

When he first moved in, Zhao Surui asked Pei Feng to lead him around, Pei Feng was silent, and he couldn't say the benefits of this courtyard, so he held back for a long time, and only said:

"The girl is painting here, it's very beautiful."

Zhao Surui rolled his eyes when he heard this.

Although he could also imagine how Shen Sanqu wrote poems and paintings here when he was young, Pei Feng's clumsy appearance really made him more knowledgeable.

Even the stupidest of the four rats can boast of flowers.

There are two paths out of the study, one goes to the main courtyard, and the other goes to the small garden at the back.

Because of the negligence of the Shen family's two straw bales, the small garden that used to be full of all kinds of flowers has been abandoned, and has even been trampled into the ground by people.

According to Pei Feng, before Shen Sanqu saw any beautiful flowers, he would find a way to come back and plant them, and then find a way to adjust them into pigments that could be used for painting, so there was no fixed scenery in this courtyard before, just look at Shen Sanqu's preference for color at that time, there were often blue flowers everywhere, red flowers everywhere, and in autumn there were even all kinds of strange and inedible small fruits.

Yes, in Peifeng's memory, the most memorable thing about those fruits is that they can't be eaten.

Hearing this, Zhao Surui wanted to roll his eyes again.

He is the emperor, and the courtyard where he lives alone does not know how many skilled craftsmen have worked hard to build, even if he does not learn and do not know how to do it in these places, he still has an eye, listening to Peifeng's description, he knows that this garden was not decent before, but it was another kind of messy and undecent.

Laughing at Shen Sanru in his heart, Emperor Zhaode generously said that he would clean up this small garden next year, not to mention anything else, be sure to get some expensive and beautiful plants and trees to create a scene.

In this way, when Shen Sanqu comes to visit the old place again, he will find that she is also a waste in cleaning up the yard, and he can laugh at her face again.

Yes, the wise and martial Emperor Zhaode is so "generous".

Zhao Surui reluctantly thinks that it is interesting is the flower hall of the main courtyard of the Shen house, the outside of the hall imitates the style of the southern garden and sets up the rockery, but it stands skillfully, outside the west window, it does not shade the light, if the window of the flower hall is open, the light spots can penetrate through the hole, the wall of the flower hall is a picture of ninety-nine cold, the long plum branches are waiting for people to draw colorful petals with a pen, there is light to shine on it, as if the sky is mottled and beautifully shone on the plum tree.

At first glance, it is a little trick of the literati, but it is really exquisite to make people marvel, Zhao Surui looked at it for a long time, and he can be regarded as understanding where Shen Sanrui's delicate mind of even a small clay stove came from. ….

After that, he changed his sunbathing place in front of this flower hall.

On the way, I saw the little maid saluting herself, Emperor Zhaode flicked his sleeves, and still held the small hand stove in his arms, the small stove was carried by him all day long, and it was rubbed to shine, and he stepped on the lambskin boots, and Emperor Zhaode's pace was similar to the triumph of a puppy patrolling the territory.

After turning around and reaching the front of the flower hall, he saw Ah Chi leading people to pack things.

After two glances, Zhao Surui saw a very beautiful mahogany box, walked over and opened it, and inside was a very small inkstone and pen holder, carved in stone, round and lovely.

"This thing looks like a child's play."

Fiddling and fiddling, Zhao Surui pouted.

Ah Chi smiled and said, "The girl doesn't remember, Pei Feng said that this is all about practicing calligraphy when you were a child, Madame

I want you to find it."

"Oh."

"Bang" closed the box and put it aside, Zhao Surui took two steps as if he was not interested, stopped and turned back, and did not speak, just watched Ah Chi continue to clean up these old things in the Shen family's warehouse.

One after another wooden boxes were opened, there were no gold and silver toys or rare treasures, most of them were children's toys, from polo to hammer pills, from Go to backgammon, each of which was delicate and delicate, although it didn't look very valuable, but each one was full of care

——Father's intentions for his daughter.

Ah Chi carefully counted seven or eight boxes of things, and put all the girl's previous things in place, these things are no longer used by the girl, but they are also the old lady's heart for the girl, and the girl will always be able to use it if she has a child in the future.

Looking up and seeing that the girl was looking at something, Ah Chi put away the booklet in his hand and walked over with a smile:

"Girl, the day after tomorrow for your birthday, shall we go back to Zhuangzi or spend it in the old mansion? I have done some things in Zhuangzi before, and if you plan to spend your birthday in the old mansion, I will send them a letter to send them to the city."

Longevity?

Zhao Surui was stunned: "I remember that it will be the winter solstice in three days."

"It's a coincidence this year, the girl's birthday is the day before the winter solstice."

Ah Chi is happy, but Zhao Surui is not happy, what does Shen Sanrui's birthday have to do with him?

"Let's just live in the old mansion." He said, "Everyone who follows me will have something to offer."

"Yes."

After the order, Zhao Surui put this matter behind him, he used to make a lot of tricks for his birthday, his own birthday was in the summer, the world was lively and angry, and it was much more interesting to look at than this miserable winter.

Two dogs and three cats in order to coax him to be happy always have to go everywhere to find a juggling team to Xiyuan to play for him, this year's birthday, the two dogs simply pulled the elephant out, on the elephant on the throne of gold and gems, he sat high on the top and watched more than a dozen dragon boats in the Taiye Pool, and the green peacock flew over from the Taiye Pool, everyone saw that it was the sky auspicious Rui blessed Dayong, His Majesty Shengming and health all things went smoothly.

After seeing that kind of pomp, what kind of situation can these little girls around Shen Sanfu toss for him?

Zhao Surui didn't bother to guess.

He brought people into Yanjing City because he wanted to go to Ning'anbo's Mansion, and he just waited for his subordinates to find out the details of Zhao Qinyang's personal soldiers, and he was not interested in other things. ….

After entering Yanjing City, he is no longer a blind and deaf man, he can know more about the news of the DPRK, and he also knows what female officials Shen Sanfu tossed, in his opinion, these are useless works, no one knows better than him how good those civil and military officials are in the court, although they usually fight with each other, but once someone takes power away from them, they will immediately become a monolith.

Especially those imperial histories, sour words, with the faults of others to show their own merits, for a long time, their own parents are not as important as their own reputation.

It's insane.

He chose the Qian clumsy man who was good at drilling camps and had a good official reputation to be the imperial history of the Zuodu, in order to let the Metropolitan Procuratorate not be occupied by a group of random crazy waste.

Shen Sanfu asked the female officials to snatch credit from the hands of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, tsk.

In less than three days, the subordinates of the imperial history can arrange 1,800 men for the female officials, and the merchants that the female officials meet when they go out at the age of four have to achieve a "romantic affair".

Thinking that Shen Sanru would be overwhelmed by those people, Zhao Surui felt that he should have been happy.

But he couldn't be happier.

Probably because the skin that Shen Sanfu is using now is his, how can the dignified Emperor Zhaode be stumped by a group of officials?

Slumped on the recliner, watching a ray of sunlight shine on the plum blossom tree carved from wood, Zhao Surui smashed his mouth.

If Shen Sanwu made him another bowl of mutton noodle soup, it would not be impossible for him to casually say some ways to deal with Yanguan.

spent such a leisurely life, and soon it was "Shen Shiqing's" birthday

that day.

Early in the morning, Zhao Surui saw a full set of new clothes placed on the lavender cage.

It is men's wear.

He was immediately interested, and reached out to take the azure makeup made of Trolla in his hand.

From the shoulders to the chest of the garment, there is a piece of bergamot peach and pomegranate wrapped in a peony, which is a three-lot pattern that symbolizes "abundance, longevity, and son".

The pattern on the hem is the intertwined plum blossom and snowflake pattern, the stitches are fine, and the snowflake pattern is sewn with silver thread.

The shoes placed under the bed were also new, still made of delicate lambskin, and the upper feet were very soft.

Brand new clothes, brand new shoes, and a mink warm hat, neatly dressed, Zhao Surui pinched his waist and stood in front of the bronze mirror to look at it, and he could vaguely see a bit of his wisdom and martial arts from Shen Sanru's blandly face.

Ah Chi came in lightly with freshly boiled hot water, only to find that his girl had gotten up a moment earlier than usual and had even put on her clothes.

"It's a good garment."

The wise and critical Emperor Zhaode said.

The clothes naturally said that Ah Chi prepared, the clothes were cut by her, and the patterns were embroidered by Qingying, Ah Chi felt sorry for his girl who had not lived for so many years, not only bought new clothes and new shoes, but also asked Tu Nan and Pei Feng to find a way to make the girl happy.

The gift given by Pei Feng was a whip, which was not inlaid with gems or anything like, but only a silver bell hanging from the handle of the whip.

Liu Tianxing hurriedly invited credit: "Although this whip is made by Peifeng, the rope on it is made by me, and my hands are red."

Zhao Surui disliked that there was not even a gem on this whip, and he held it in his hand and did not let go. ….

He didn't like it, but suddenly he wanted to ride a horse.

Standing in front of the main house and receiving the birthday salutes from the subordinates, Zhao Surui heard Ah Chi say that Tu Nan, Xia He, and An Niannian's birthday gifts were in the side courtyard, and he had to go to see it himself.

Zhao Surui was not interested.

Zhao Surui didn't eat breakfast, stretched his neck and went to the side yard.

Well, he didn't like the gift that much, he was just too bored to see everything new.

The side courtyard was originally a place used by Shen Sanzhu's mother to raise horses and match horses, but in the hands of the two wastes of the Shen family, the horse shed was demolished and the wall was opened, and a shed was set up for the playing, playing and singing troupes and the servants of the Wanjia family to rest. Zhao Surui asked people to tear down the shed and make a new stable, because it was cold and it hadn't been done yet.

As soon as he arrived at the side courtyard, Zhao Surui saw the "birthday gift".

It's a white pony.

The pony is still a little different from being snow-white, with a pinch of black on the top of its head, but its limbs are slender and sturdy, and its skeleton is well-proportioned and smooth, and it looks like a good foal. A pair of big eyes look at people with watery eyes, and no matter who they look at, their hearts are confused.

Oops, what a cute little thing.

The well-informed Emperor Zhaode spoke a little stumbling:

"This—This is sent by Tunan?"

"Yes."

Ah Chi smiled and took the opportunity to say good things: "Tu Nan tried his best to find this foal for the girl, or Master Shao introduced a horse dealer from the west, I heard that there was a military attache outside Beijing who poured the frieze at home, and sold everything, this horse was collected by the horse dealer, and sold it to Tu Nan for a dozen taels of silver, this little foal was not so good when he first came, fortunately, Tu Nan has been watching the horse since he was a child, gave it some herbs, and took care of it carefully for more than half a month, so it has this appearance."

Tunan can not only feed people, but also treat horses!

But now Zhao Surui can't take care of these things.

"I call you...... Is Noire good? Not imposing enough...... How about calling you the Great General of the Top Seal Rushing to the Sky?"

Ah Chi closed her mouth, and the word "exaggerated" floated in her heart, which was forced down by her respect for the girl.

"This horse is so good."

Bai Yindi and Qi Xiu'er followed Cui Jinniang to kowtow to "Shen Niangzi", and when they saw this white horse with dazzling eyes, they couldn't help but praise it.

Qi Xiu'er dragged hers

hem of clothes, she quickly shut her mouth.

Zhao Surui is not angry, what he likes should be praised by everyone in the world.

"That's right! It's just a good birth! It should be called...... What is the moon, Marshal?"

In order to name the horse, he thought about it for a while, and Emperor Zhaode didn't choose a name that satisfied him, both of which were good and none of them were good enough.

On the contrary, the person guarding next to him was smashed on his head and face by a bunch of strange names, and his brain seemed to have something wrong, and "marshal" and "general" kept spinning in his head.

Holding the washed cabbage leaves in his hand to feed the horses, and letting people prepare bean candy, Zhao Surui touched the horse's mane for a while and the horsetail for a while.

Like a monkey.

Finally, the wise and martial Emperor Zhaode calmed down and looked at Cui Jinniang:

"What's the news lately?"

"Back to the lady's words, the house over there thought that the prince was arrested by the West Factory, and now he doesn't dare to move, but the people sent out before are more diligent." ….

Zhao Surui nodded and took the envelope from Cui Jinniang's hand.

"What news did you two get?"

Bai Yindi boldly said, "Back to the girl, we just heard that the girl was born today, and came to celebrate the girl's birthday."

The two of them also knew that it was really Meng Lang to do this based on their own background, but last time the girl was kind to them, they also had a little courage.

The birthday gift of the two is also simple, it is a hand-embroidered purse, which can be used for personal use, the material is average, and the stitches are not excellent, but they are also neat.

Zhao Surui didn't care about this, he asked Ah Chi to grab a handful of silver coins and reward them to the two:

"You two have the heart to use it only to find out the news, as long as you do a good job, I can't do without your reward!"

The two of them are very grateful.

Looking at the silver coin printed with the words "Boundless Longevity" in her hand, Qi Xiu'er, who was used to being cautious, bit her lip and said softly:

"Girl, can I exchange a few of these silver coins with auspicious words on the side?"

After saying that, she regretted it again, and quickly knelt down, and was supported by Ah Chi again.

Zhao Surui's eyes looked at his newly acquired foal again, and said casually:

"If you want any auspicious words, even if you take them, you don't need to change them, I still say that, you do things well, and you don't have to worry about the others."

Qi Xiu'er still kowtowed before getting up.

Ah Chi poured some silver bills from her purse and asked her to choose, Qi Xiu'er really didn't know many words, and asked Ah Chi to tell her what it meant.

In the end, she chose a few silver coins that were "studious and truth-seeking" and "Dengke and first".

Seeing that her eyes were almost shining, Ah Chi couldn't help but smile and said:

"Don't you have a son at home? Specifically for him?"

Qi Xiu'er was a little embarrassed, and hesitated for a while before saying, "I originally had a daughter, and it was inconvenient to follow me...... I heard that now a woman can become a female official when she studies, and I want to ask for a few silver bills, and if she can go to school in the future, I will give it to her."

The words that came out of the twist and pinch were really a wonderful dream, and Qi Xiu'er didn't dare to do it at night.

Her shoulders were still shrunk, and if she had said this before, she would have been beaten if she shook her waist slowly. And how can anyone listen to her say what she wants? Wherever you put your heart, it's just the pickled thoughts of the pickled people.

When Qi Xiu'er said it, she only intended to make people laugh at it, but unexpectedly, the noble Shen girl said, "Sounds good."

She raised her head cautiously, and accidentally glanced at "Shen Niangzi".

I only saw that the corners of Shen Niangzi's eyes and eyebrows were looking at her with a smile, her gaze was not soft, but more like she was interrogating her.

What Shen Niangzi said made Qi Xiu'er panic.

"You're a mother, yes."

Mothers who plan for their children are good in Zhao Surui's opinion.

——

This day is still a day of "heart-to-heart" with Shen Sanrui, Zhao Surui and the pony played for a day and didn't care about anything, even this

Forgot about it too.

"Your Majesty, you have given the horse fourteen names in the past with a stick of incense."

Shen Shiqing couldn't bear it and said to Zhao Surui,

"Your name is really ...... It was an eye-opener."

Unexpectedly, the name that was silently read in his heart was heard, Zhao Surui choked and almost hiccuped, in order to let Shen Sanru not grasp his sore spot, he hurriedly said:

"I'm having a good day, but I'm happier than ever."

Of course, Shen Shiqing knew what day it was, but she only said, "Your Majesty is happy."

She is also happy to let the female official go to court.

This can be regarded as her birthday gift to herself.

Touching the horse's back and almost with a fake mane, Zhao Surui finally said in his heart:

"Shen Sanru, you...... Oh, it's a pity, Tu Nan's longevity noodles are still good, but it's a pity that you, the master, can't eat them."

Shen Shiqing didn't answer.

The lights are bright, the candle shadows are faint, the people inside the imperial city are criticizing and folding, and the people outside the imperial city are looking at the horsewhip and thinking about the name, the two of them seem to be busy with their hands, and no one can imagine that the two of them are actually doing the same heart.

Half an hour passed, and just when Zhao Surui was bitterly criticizing Shen San's corpse in his heart, someone knocked on the back door of Shen's house.

It's Bai Yindi.

Because Qi Xiu'er is dead.

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