In the third year of Changming, the twelfth day of the first month.

The capital city, which has just fallen with snow, is covered in snow, and even if the snow has not disappeared, the streets are still crowded.

Since the Xuanyang Gate, the people of the capital spontaneously stood along the east and west sides, all stretching their necks and looking south.

Three years ago, the royal family of Northern Xinjiang once again raised troops to invade the border, coinciding with General Shen's injury and illness returning to Beijing to recuperate. The new general was defeated, and the border city was trapped, and General Shen's son Cheng's father took the initiative to ask Ying to go to the border pass, and he went for three years.

In the past three years, General Shen was brave and brave, led the army to recapture the city, guarded the border passes, and finally killed the king of Northern Xinjiang in one fell swoop at the end of last year. The royal family of Northern Xinjiang fell apart, and finally bowed to Dongsheng.

Today is a good day for him to return to the DPRK to report on his work.

There was a sound of horses' hooves from north to south on Xuanwu Street, and the people couldn't help but look back-

Two sleek, sleek, red-colored horses with smooth and shiny fur walked side by side, with bronze and gold chews. The carriage behind him is made of mahogany, wrapped in brocade, and the four corners of the roof are hung with hollow incense burners, leaving a burst of elegance and fragrance between walking.

The carriage carriage is extremely spacious, and the Xuanwu Street, which is wide on weekdays, has made the people on both sides stand next to each other, but at this moment, the carriage occupies a small half, leaving only a feasible width of three or five people on the east side of the street.

The coachman carefully steered the horses, and the carriage moved smoothly southward, so as not to give the occupants a slight bump.

"Phew—"

With the coachman's call, the red horse stopped, and the gorgeous carriage stopped.

"What's disturbing?" A clear male voice came out of the carriage.

The coachman saluted the door and bowed his head and replied, "Princess, in front of you is General Shen's team returning to the city to report on his work. ”

The people in the car were silent for a moment, "The princess asked the general to come forward and say something." ”

Next to the coachman, a maid dressed in pink and wearing a double-ring bun immediately got out of the carriage and hurried a few steps, and bowed her knees to the person opposite the carriage to pass the word.

A short time later, a black steed slowly stepped into the carriage and stopped outside the window.

"Chen Shen Yuzhou has seen the eldest princess, and the eldest princess is fine."

The low male voice was a little hoarse, revealing a bit of the cold after being soaked in wind, frost, rain and snow, through the window of the mahogany carriage, and into the ears of the people in the car.

A white and tender hand stretched out from the curtain of gold brocade, and the fingertips dyed with dancme moved slightly, and the curtain opened a corner, revealing a bit of the car.

The spacious couch in the carriage was covered with soft fur, and a woman reclined on the couch.

The woman glanced lazily outside, then withdrew her hand, and immediately someone opened the curtain for her.

The car was full of everything, the woman was wearing a dark red dark flower woven gold cloud brocade skirt, draped in a plum-fox skin trimmed cloak, and was holding a gilt hand stove wrapped in bright yellow brocade leaning on a man with a delicate face.

The red stove in the car was boiling tea, and another man with red lips and white teeth knelt by the stove and calmly offered the new tea to the woman. On closer inspection, there was another man beside the woman's leg who was serving to beat her legs.

The woman's red lips grinned, her voice was like a ring, and she slowly spoke: "I haven't seen you for many years, General Shen is okay." ”

Shen Yuzhou wore silver armor, sat on the horse and stiffened his back, even if he was dusty all the way, he couldn't hide the murderous color on this person.

His face was calm, and he couldn't tell whether he was happy or angry, but there was a subtle ripple in his dark brown eyes.

"Fortunately, the princess is blessed and the minister is safe."

Pulling the cloak on her body, the woman looked up and down at Shen Yuzhou, who had not dismounted. The person in front of him still looks plump and handsome, with sword eyebrows and starry eyes, thin lips and tight purses, and he looks a lot darker than three years ago.

"General Shen is defending the border for the country, and the palace naturally prays to the gods and the heavens every day to bless the general to return safely." The woman sat up slightly and leaned close to the window lattice, "No, I know that the general is returning to the court today, and the palace is about to go to Yongning Temple to make a vow, I wonder if the general is willing to give the palace a convenience?" ”

Shen Yuzhou's eyes flashed, "Naturally." ”

After saying that, he stretched out his hand and waved it back, and the team that followed into the city not far away immediately trained to the side to avoid it, leaving a road large enough for the carriage to pass.

The corners of the woman's mouth in the car rose, and her eyes were full of coquettishness, "Then thank General Shen." ”

After speaking, he lazily leaned back on the handsome man in the car, and the curtain was lowered, covering the beautiful scenery in the car.

The carriage headed south, quickly staggering with Shen Yuzhou's team. When the carriage was no longer visible, the crowd on both sides of the road began to whisper.

"I've always heard that the eldest princess is coquettish and lewd, but today I know that this is true."

"Alas, do not speak falsely. The three in the carriage are all the eldest princess's 'doormen'. ”

"Who went out and rode in the same car with the doorman, I just saw it, the princess was leaning on the man's arms!"

"Shhhh Don't talk about it, last time the servant of the ministry wrote to admonish the eldest princess to be extravagant, and she was a second-class minister, so she was demoted to Qingyuan as a magistrate! ”

"The princess who can assist the government, this is the first one since the founding of the country, so let's say little."

……

In the private room of the teahouse on the street, two women sat opposite each other by the window.

"It's really unfair for General Shen, General Shen has returned from a great victory, it's too late for many people to admire, why did he just enter the capital but still have to make way for a lewd princess."

The woman who spoke was wearing a light blue moire brocade silk skirt, combing a delicate Ling Xuan bun, and a hairpin ring, and at first glance she was a lady of the official family.

"Okay Qingrui, you don't know the eldest princess's style, why bother with her?"

Li Qingrui slammed the teacup angrily, "Shuyao, you are soft-natured, if it weren't for that, you wouldn't have let Xiao Yunjiao take the lead three years ago." ”

The woman named Shuxiao was cooking tea, and when she heard this, her hand froze, and a few drops of tea splashed on her slender wrist.

She shrank for a moment, put down the cup quietly, and said lightly: "The eldest princess's name is not something you and I can call directly, Qingrui should be careful not to say it again in the future." ”

"Moreover, don't mention what happened three years ago, it's not a blessing for me."

Li Qingrui looked at her disapprovingly, "At the palace banquet three years ago, you talked to General Shen, if it weren't for the eldest princess suddenly running over and intervening, General Shen would have known your intentions a long time ago." ”

Cui Shuyao's thin eyebrows frowned slightly, and his face was sad, "In the end, fate can't be forced." ”

"Shuyao, don't be like this, General Shen is back now, and there will always be a chance to let him know your mind in the future!" Li Qingrui held Cui Shuyao's hand on the table, "You are our first talented woman in Dongsheng!" After rejecting the marriage proposals of so many prestigious families for so many years, he is waiting for General Shen, and everyone will be moved. ”

Cui Shuyao lowered his eyes, "It's hard to go out, don't mention these, Qingrui, accompany me to the newly opened Ruyi Workshop to have a look, I heard that their jewelry has a new style." ”

……

The mahogany carriage went out of the city from Xuanyang Gate and went straight to Yongning Temple on the outskirts of the city.

The eldest princess in the carriage, Xiao Yunjiao, raised her hand lightly, and played with the tassels on the stove one by one.

After a long time, she sat up with a slight frown, her lips lightly opened, "You go down." ”

There was a hint of displeasure in Xiao Yunjiao's voice, and the person behind him immediately shouted, "Xue Ping, how did you serve Liuxi, it is really hateful to make the princess unhappy." ”

Liu Xi, who was still beating Xiao Yunjiao's legs just now, and Xue Ping, who was cooking tea, hurriedly knelt down and sat up, "Please punish the princess." ”

Xiao Yunjiao didn't speak, only waved his hand, and the person behind him immediately knocked on the inside of the car a few times in a regular manner, and the carriage slowly stopped.

Liu Xi raised his head, obviously wanting to say something more, and was pulled out of the carriage by Xue Ping and went to the carriage behind him.

When the two of them walked away, the man who had just sat behind Xiao Yunjiao and let her lean on naturally sat on the left seat and reached out to pour himself a cup of tea.

"Why is the princess displeased?"

"Jiang Yiheng." The red lips opened lightly, and the three words were full of warnings.

Jiang Yiheng slowly added some fine silver charcoal to the fire, approached slightly, almost whispered: "Liu Xi's ears are a little long." ”

Xiao Yunjiao also whispered like him: "It depends on who he has these ears for." ”

"It doesn't matter whose ears you have, what matters is whose tongue you have."

The two looked at each other and tacitly glanced at the car door, with a knowing smile on the corner of their mouths.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of Yongning Temple, and Xiao Yunjiao slowly got out of the car holding Jiang Yiheng's hand.

The abbot had already led a group of monks to wait at the temple gate, and when he saw Xiao Yunjiao getting off the car, a group of monks immediately folded their hands and bowed their heads.

"Amitabha, the eldest princess is coming, and the temple is shining."

"Master Yikong is polite, the palace is here today, there is no need to be so excited."

After finishing speaking, Xiao Yunjiao and Jiang Yiheng helped Shi Shiran into the door of Yongning Temple.

Master Yikong was neither humble nor arrogant, and followed Xiao Yunjiao's side, all the way to the largest meditation room in the temple.

The fragrance of sandalwood in the room is permeated, the ebony table is as clean as new, the fresh fruit on the table is still stained with crystal water droplets, and the four-corner heater is booming to bake the room like a spring day.

Xiao Yunjiao looked at it quietly, the smile on the corner of her mouth became a little more coquettish, she stroked the tassel that was swaying on her sideburns and slowly spoke, "The master bothered." ”

Master Yikong recited the Buddha's name, "If the princess still has orders, just send someone to give orders." ”

Xiao Yunjiao took Jiang Yiheng's hand and took two steps to the side, and the two attendants of the princess's mansion immediately bowed down and entered the house. After carefully inspecting it inside and out, he came out and stood respectfully to the side with his head bowed.

These two people are in charge of drug testing in the princess's mansion. The emperor loved his only princess very much, and since Xiao Yunjiao was born, he began to build a princess mansion for her, and the servants in the palace were all trained by the best grandmother guards in the palace. Whether it is a maid or a medical officer, they are all top-notch.

It can be said that Xiao Yunjiao's princess mansion is comparable to the small Zichen Palace, and even surpasses it.

Stepping into the meditation room, the pink-clothed maid who was accompanying her in the carriage silently stepped forward to spread soft gold wire pillows on the ebony chair on the upper left, and moved the incense burner to the door a few points.

After doing all this, Xiao Yunjiao slowly sat down and gave Jiang Yiheng a look.

Jiang Yiheng understood and politely said to Master Yikong: "The princess is tired all the way, so she has to rest for a while, and the abbot master will take care of herself." ”

Yikong recited the Buddha's name again, and soon left the meditation room with the monks in the temple.

Xiao Yunjiao smiled coquettishly, leaned on the golden silk pillow and stretched out a jade hand towards Jiang Yiheng-

At the moment when Jiang Yiheng stretched out his hand to hold the green fingertips, the attendants in the room bowed their heads and exited the meditation room, closing the door very brightly.