31. Be boasted, with the heart
With the help of Qiao's father and Qiao's mother, it took Qiao Erya and Xiao Jinyou a week to finish moving things.
During this period, in order to make room for the bed, they couldn't sleep in the middle of the night, and they were pitifully curled up at the foot of the bed, surrounded by rice, flour, grain, oil and drinks on the bed, weak, pitiful and helpless.
Fortunately, this bed is a large bed, which is equivalent to the compartment of a minivan, and the space saved can be stacked a lot of things.
Qiao Erya wanted to complain, whose bed was full of rice, flour, grain and oil, hey!
What's even more pitiful is Xiao Jinyou, he is an ancient, with a regular schedule, getting up at five in the morning and falling asleep at eight in the evening. This week, he insisted on not closing his eyes before twelve o'clock every day, after all, sleeping would take up space.
However, as a blessing in disguise, he realized that Miss Qiao was not unintentional to him, which made him extremely excited.
Just when they were moving things back in the middle of the night every day, the road construction in the capital city of Qiongzhou was in full swing.
After all, he only asked the prefect to contribute half of the money, and if he didn't agree, he wouldn't know what to do.
The cement road began to be paved from the gate of Anwangfu, this area is sparsely populated and covers a large area, which is also to let those rich people outside the city see the effect of this cement road.
The road was finally being built, and Jorya was very happy.
However, the village where the conscription was strong fell into grief and despair.
Since ancient times, men who have been conscripted to repair river embankments, dig canals, and build the Great Wall have died nine times, and it is a great luck to be able to come back alive.
If it weren't for the lack of money at home, no one would want their son/husband/father to be arrested by the government for forced labor.
If it's okay to endure hardships and suffering, I'm afraid that I will lose my life.
But the villagers didn't know that this time was different.
The strong man who was taken away by the official said goodbye to his family in tears. They were brought from the village to Fucheng, and they were stunned to learn that they only needed to pave the road with mud every day to take care of three meals and pay them.
Do you still pay for food while serving as a servant? This is a great miracle that has never been heard of or seen!
Among them, there are many pessimistic people, who manage the food just to prevent them from starving to death, and maybe they don't eat as well as pig food.
So at the time of their first meal, they were more frightened than surprised.
Is this really just to build roads? Isn't it because the prince is repairing a mausoleum so that they can eat so well? Fine rice and white flour steamed buns, meat dishes and soups, they can't eat them a few times a year.
The food is like this every day, and they are not happy on their faces, and they are depressed and panicked in their hearts, and they always feel like a severed head meal.
They ate one meal after another with tears in their eyes, preferring to die rather than starving to death, until they returned home after repairing the road, and they were still in a trance.
Just going home? Really don't let them be buried with them? Then why did they pay hundreds of dollars for the good food and drink?
Some even touched their arms and thighs. Although the work of building roads is tiring, but the food is enough, they can't take the next meal on the farm at home, they are so hungry that they have thin arms and legs, and they have raised a body of tendon meat by working hard.
When they returned home intact, their families thought they had seen a ghost.
If it's not a ghost, why did my son/husband/father come back safe and sound a few days after he was taken away? Not only that, but they are much stronger than before they left home, and their clothes are tight on their bodies, aren't they really ghosts?
When the family members learned that the men had completed their conscription and even paid their salaries, their first reaction was not to get excited, but to put their hands on the men's foreheads and ask them if they had broken their brains.
The government levies strong men to give money? I haven't woken up yet!
And when the men took out a few hundred dollars from their arms, the family was stunned.
They still didn't believe that the government would be so generous, so they went out to ask the strong men in the same village who were serving as conscripts.
At the same time, Lees is gathering the men who have been drafted together. The man is stupid, and under their nonsense explanation, the truth is revealed.
It turned out that they were requisitioned to build roads for the city, including giving them food and wages, all of which were proposed by King An.
After sorting out the ins and outs, the people of these villages were all grateful to King An, and some even began to regret not taking the initiative to serve the conscription.
The idea of the common people is very simple, whoever is good to them, let them be fed, clothed and warm, and make money, that is their benefactor. As for King An is the deposed prince? That must have been the victim of a traitor!
When the folk praise reached the palace, Joerya was writing the menu.
The cement road was paved to her food street the next day, and it will be watered almost once again tomorrow.
"Girl, this time the prince's support among the people is so high, and many ladies in the city are asking whether the prince is married."
Qiao Erya didn't know why Bai Yunsheng's reaction was so big: "Why did those people suddenly start supporting the prince? ”
Recently, the prince and Uncle Zhong often discussed business in the study, and there were many faces in the palace, and she specially avoided it and didn't ask him what he was doing.
Could it be that in a place where they didn't pay attention, someone made a conspiracy to kill Xiao Jinyou? The rice seeds only germinated, and those families raised the seedlings half a month later than others, and the rice harvest was still early. When the harvest is not yet in time, what shall the people praise him?
There were several speculations floating in Joerya's heart, and she was faintly worried.
Yunshang told the deeds of the folk singing praises to the prince, and Qiao Erya couldn't cry or laugh, it turned out that this was the reason.
She ignored the fact that there was conscription in ancient times, and she just felt that since she had recruited someone to help build the road, it was not a matter of course to take care of food and money.
What's more, Xiao Jinyou didn't object, so she didn't think there was any problem.
As for being robbed of credit or something, she didn't do anything, just made suggestions. Xiao Jinyou is responsible for his manpower, she and Xiao Jinyou are a community of interests, as long as it is beneficial to him, he will benefit himself.
Qiao Erya smiled lightly: "This is a good thing, the prince has won the title of loving the people like a son, which is a good thing for our palace." Since learning the piano with Shu Niang, she feels that her temperament has become quieter.
Yunshang is not in a hurry, why doesn't the girl know about scrambling!
"Girl, the prince is fragrant now, aren't you in a hurry!"
Although the prince stayed overnight, he didn't even give the girl a title, she always had to think about the girl.
Qiao Erya laughed at her helplessly: "It's yours that no one can snatch away, it's not that you can't hold it no matter how tightly you grasp it." She didn't think that Xiao Jinyou would be snatched away by Yingying Yanyan, if he was such a casual person, then she would have nothing to say.
On the other side, Xiao Jinyou sneered and put down the wine glass: "This king will leave first, and you will enjoy yourself." ”
He Shangru, the prefect of Qiongzhou, had a bad face, he didn't dare to make a face to the prince, but felt that these people who asked him to feast the prince were afraid that they were not sincere in harming him.
said that he would let him help introduce the prince, he thought that these people wanted to surrender, but who knew that they all wanted to dedicate their daughters/nieces/sisters/concubines to the prince.
He doesn't know what these people are having!
Where did they have the courage to coerce the prince to be willing to form an alliance with the prince as long as he marries the person they sent. They knew that the prince would return to the capital sooner or later, so they wanted to give their family a future.
But they don't have to think about it, there are so many nobles in the capital, as long as the prince is willing to be allies. Where did these local rich people come from!
He regretted very much that he helped pull the strings, and he was not a human being inside and out.
He Shangru trotted all the way to see the prince leave, he couldn't take care of his son, and he didn't make a small compensation in front of the prince.
Xiao Jinyou's face was cold: "He Shangru, this king's patience is limited, if there is a next time, the position of your prefect should be replaced." ”
He Shangru complained bitterly in his heart, he was really miserable, and if he didn't prove himself, he would be treated as a raccoon dog.
"Lord Wang, Weichen knows his mistake, the prefect of Qiongzhou will be sent by the prince in the future, and there is no other word."
His words were disguised as sincerity, indicating that he had drawn a line with the group of people in the house.
Xiao Jinyou flicked his sleeves and left: "Be your prefect." ”
He Shangru breathed a sigh of relief, the prince asked him to continue to be the prefect, and he had no intention of replacing him, even if this matter was revealed, he had to quickly remind the family to apologize.
He didn't stand in line on the spur of the moment, and since he was summoned by the prince, he often thought about it carefully. Now that His Majesty is in the prime of life, and the new prince has not yet been established, King An may not have a chance to make a comeback.
In addition, the folk prince has a very good reputation, and it does not seem to be a fraud after his observation, at least the food that the people eat and the wages they get are real.
He spent half his life in Qiongzhou, fearless of the price of being on the wrong side.
The carriage was about to depart, and Zhong Heming jumped up.
He sat down: "You said that you too, you didn't even give face, you turned your face and left." ”
Xiao Jinyou sneered: "What if they force you to promise the position of a wife and let Shu Niang be a concubine." ”
Zhong Heming's reaction was more intense than him: "Who dares!" I don't see if they're worthy. ”
Then he calmed down: "It's just drinking and bragging, you just talk to them as air, and if you offend them, you have to find yourself a lot of trouble." ”
Xiao Jinyou's face was expressionless: "Their purpose is to stuff people in my backyard, so there's nothing to say." ”
Zhong Heming was curious: "How good is Miss Qiao, you don't even want to pretend with them." You will inherit the throne in the future, and the king is the most taboo to deliver his sincerity. ”
Xiao Jinyou interrupted him: "She's fine, uncle." If Miss Qiao is willing, the son will commend her for a lifetime. Accepting people in the backyard will only harm innocent women, and it will also alienate Miss Qiao from me. ”
Zhong Heming was almost shocked, and he lowered his voice: "I'm afraid you're not crazy!" ”
Xiao Jinyou smiled slightly: "Uncle, I know what I'm doing, don't despise her." ”
Zhong Heming took a long time to calm down, and he smiled bitterly: "Even if I don't agree with your approach, I won't embarrass the woman." "It's just that since ancient times, kings have been ruthless, and his nephew is an infatuated lover, who doesn't know whether it's good or bad.
When he arrived at the gate of the palace, Xiao Jinyou got out of the car first: "Uncle, the queen mother was canonized as the queen and was depressed all day long. No matter how high the status is, if you don't get the emperor's favor, it's like a flower that can't shine in the sun in the cold palace, and sooner or later it will wither. ”
He didn't mean to move out of his mother, he just wanted to tell his uncle that he had made up his mind. In the eyes of outsiders, the queen mother is so beautiful, but they don't know that the queen will also be alone day and night.
The harem is a place of cannibalism, and there are not a few women who have died of incense, even if he has not personally touched it, he has heard and witnessed it. The queen mother is suffering from heart disease, and the medicine is ineffective.
He didn't want Miss Qiao to fall into the position of the queen mother.
Zhong Heming was silent all the way until he entered the courtyard.
Shu Niang came out to greet him, and he held the person tightly in his arms.
"I have been close to my sister since I was born, and later she was elected to the palace as a concubine, when I was only a few years old, crying and not letting her go, my sister's position in the palace rose quickly, and my mother said that my sister was favored, and I thought she was doing well."
Shu Niang gently stroked his head: "Why did you suddenly remember the first queen?" ”
Zhong Heming was in a stable mood and hugged Shu Niang into the house: "It's not that the prince told me that I want to be a couple with Miss Qiao for the rest of my life, but I just persuaded him a few words, and he moved out of his sister to press me." ”
Shu Niang's face was weird, and she pinched his arm hard.
Zhong Heming thought crookedly: "I didn't force him to marry a wife, I just persuaded him a few words, don't be angry." Besides, there is only one queen in the harem of an emperor, and I am not worried that he will be impeached in the future. ”
Qiao Erya walked out embarrassedly: "What a coincidence, you guys talk, I'm going back to eat!" "She's not deliberately eavesdropping twice in a row, why can't these two gossip behind closed doors when no one is around!
Zhong He was dumbfounded: "Why is she here?" ”
Shu Niang held her forehead: "Miss Qiao worships me as a teacher, and often comes to study, I pinched your arm and reminded you." ”
Qiao Erya hurriedly walked and her face turned red, she must have been a freshly steamed crab now, and her whole person was very red.
Before the eight characters were written, Xiao Jinyou had already told his uncle, wasn't he afraid that he would not be willing?
As for a lifetime and a couple, this is the point she has expressed, and it is also what she minds the most, Xiao Jinyou actually told his uncle his decision directly.
She is not a child, and she knows that Zhong Heming is a big help to him. His confession to his uncle now is tantamount to losing a lot of opportunities and connections.
She said in her heart that it was false to be unmoved.
Qiao Erya can't let Xiao Jinyou play with others, what princess is interested, true love is for love, she will not practice her self-esteem; can't accept the beautiful concubine he received from others, even if he doesn't touch it, she is very resigned.
So she kept running away, pretending not to care even if she had a crush on him. Her thoughts can't be integrated into ancient times, and she can't accept three wives and four concubines, even if it's just a formal marriage.
Now that he had made his decision, she didn't want to continue to run away.
Bingxin came back from outside with the album: "Why is the girl so blushing?" ”
Qiao Erya passed by like a gust of wind: "Xu is running too fast, come and change my clothes." ”
Yunshang felt strange, the girl went to eat directly after learning the piano before, why did she change her clothes today?
She suddenly had an idea, the woman is the one who pleases herself, maybe the girl is stimulated to open today, and finally understands that the prince is a piece of fragrant bait!
Joerya was dressed up by the maidservant, and suddenly a little embarrassed to go out.
She had changed so obviously, how embarrassed it would be for him to see it.
She squirmed: "Why don't I change this one." ”
Yunshang praised from the bottom of her heart: "The girl is very good-looking, why do you want to replace it?" I'm going to prepare a summer shirt next month, and I can't wear it a few times. ”
Also, if you don't wear it until autumn, it's out of season.
Joerya prepared herself mentally, it's not very gorgeous when you look closely!
She was wearing a pink-purple skirt, a smoky pink soft gauze cloak and large sleeves on top of each other, the outer sleeves were embroidered with large blooming irises, the inner layer of thin shirt was full of dark patterns of flowers, and the skirt was embroidered with lifelike silver butterflies as if they would fly out at any time.
Yunshang gave her a new hairstyle, her hair was put on and swayed, her eyebrows were covered with water droplets and tassels, and she walked with a tinkling sound, and Qiao Erya didn't dare to take big steps.
Miss Qiao never came to eat, and Xiao Jinyou was uneasy.
After he came back, he felt speechless, he and Miss Qiao were innocent, he shouldn't say something like that, if he was heard by others, he might damage Miss Qiao's reputation.
He turned back at the sound of footsteps, and his gaze was involuntarily involuntarily drawn. Miss Qiao was particularly eye-catching today, and he hurriedly lowered his head after just one glance, so as not to offend her.
Qiao Erya was a little relieved, sure enough, this body was not so amazing, Xiao Jinyou only glanced at it.
But she was inevitably a little discouraged in her heart, so she dressed up to attend, and he just took a look?!
Extras: Such official positions can be donated and bought, so the rich are called extras.
Wealthy: Refers to a family with a lot of money. It also refers to a person who has a lot of money.
There are many official positions in the outside than the wealthy.