Like Pearl and Jade - Chapter 54

“Please go here,” the **** who led the way led Qiu Lier and Bedoco through the palace. The two did not dare to look up, but they honestly bowed their heads behind the green **** and said nothing more. Then, no more.

“Grandpa He, the prince and princess of Li Kingdom are here.” After the green **** led the two outside the Zichen Hall, they did not continue to go down, but bowed to He Ming, who was standing at the door, doing a salute.

He Ming nodded and said to Qiu Lier and Bedoco: “Please wait for the prince and princess, the younger one will go to the emperor and the empress queen.”

“There is labor.” Bedoco thanked very much. Although the other party was only a eunuch, how could he dare to offend such a person like his little king.

He Ming smiled and arched his hands towards the two, and then entered the door of the hall. The blue figure soon disappeared.

Bedocco did not expect that His Majesty Dafeng was really willing to meet them. He was a little excited and nervous. He touched the national book on his chest, and then pulled his clothes carefully, hoping that he would be in front of the emperor. Try to show your own advantages.

Qiulier bit her lower lip tightly and took a deep breath.

This is their only chance. They can only succeed, not fail.

After a while, He Ming came out and he saluted the two: “Princess Prince, please.”

“There is a father-in-law.” Bedoco hurriedly saluted He Ming.

He Ming turned sideways, avoiding the ceremony, and then led the two inside.

The Zichen Hall, as the emperor’s residence, was built very comfortably. The brothers and sisters of Li Guo, the more they walked in, the more delicate it was, and even the floor tiles under their feet were very different.

Entering the inner hall, a very light scent entered the nose, making people feel uneasy and relaxed.

Qiu Lier once heard that the female official in the palace said that Dafeng has many precious spices, some of which are valuable, and she, the princess of Liguo, had to slap at the price, and even dared not mention it.

The three walked outside a hall and stopped, Qiu Lier looked up and found a plaque hanging at the door of the hall, with the words “meditation” written on it.

“The Queen Mother, Prince Li and Princess have arrived.”

Qiu Lier listened to the leading eunuch’s report, and was a little curious. Was it the emperor’s absence?

Soon a green-dressed lady came out with a smile on her face. She also wore precious Zhuchai and Gonghua in her hair. A skein of gold bracelet on her wrist loomed over her cuffs.

“His Royal Highness, Royal Highness, please come in.”

Seeing the other party saluting at herself, Qiu Lier stepped forward to help her. Although she didn’t know the identity of this maid, she was gorgeously dressed and even wore gold ornaments. She must be the senior female officer beside the queen’s mother.

Crossing the threshold carved with lotus patterns, Qiu Lier and Bedoco saw the most honorable woman in Dafeng. I saw that she was wearing a shallow-brown plum pattern wide-sleeved palace skirt, and the blue silk was formed into a simple fallen bun. The plum blossoms with sideburns and tasseled silver hairpin set her skin against the suppleness.

The queen empress is now very different from what they saw at the state banquet, and even the whole body has a gentle temperament.

“The two of you please sit down,” Gu Rujiu saw that they seemed a little embarrassed, smiled and let the two sit down, and asked the maid to serve them tea and snacks. “It was only then that there was an official who saw your majesty, so he was not here. You Just sit back for a while and stay at Zichen Hall for lunch at noon today? ”

With such a good opportunity, Bedoco and Qiu Lier would quit, and they couldn’t help but be overwhelmed, but they couldn’t let go of their hearts, so they didn’t dare to look up to see the queen’s mother.

“I heard that there is a food called moon fruit in your country, and the hard shell has a very sweet milky white juice,” Gu Rujiu picked up the tea cup and smiled, “I don’t know if the taste is as delicious as the rumor?”

“The country does have such fruits, but it is nothing for Dafeng Shangguo, which is rich in products.” Qiu Lier got up and replied, “And the country has been drought in the past two years, and the crops and production have been greatly reduced. Moon fruit is not as sweet and tasty as in the past. ”

Gu Rujiu blew the tea foam and sighed, “That’s a pity.”

Seeing the queen did not seem to ask about the drought in Li Guoqiu, Qiu Lier felt anxious in her heart, but she did not dare to speak without permission, so she stood silently.

“The visitor is a guest, the prince and the princess do not have to be so rigid, sit down quickly,” Gu Rujiu smiled and asked Qiu Lier to sit down. She would stand up without saying a word, “I don’t like to pay attention to these rules, princess. Never again. ”

Although Li Guo is a poor and weak country that needs to rely on Dafeng to continue, no matter how weak it is, as long as it is nominally a country and has no bad heart for Dafeng, Gu Rujiu will not let the other person ’s face Ugly.

After talking about the customs and favors on both sides, Gu Rujiu’s gentle attitude finally let the brothers and sisters release their hands and feet a little, at least dare to take the initiative to speak, without Gu Rujiu asking a question.

In Qiu Lier’s view, Dafeng’s Queen Mother is the most perfect, beautiful and elegant woman of all the women she has ever seen. She even feels that the Dafeng Emperor with such a woman must be the luckiest in the world. the man.

“Your country’s women can be officials, which is very good,” Gu Rujiu said with emotion, “this point, we are not as good as you.”

“Li’s country is poor and backward, and he dare not compare with the previous country,” Qiu Lier said. “It’s just that the country has a small population and fewer capable and talented people, so some noble women who read poems and books have the opportunity. Participate in politics. ”

Gu Rujiu smiled and shook his head, not much to say, but asked the court lady to change a hot tea for the two.

When Jin Yang returned from Yushufang to the Jingxin Hall, he heard Gu Rujiu’s laughter inside. He could not help but also raised his mouth and strode into the hall and said: “What makes you so happy for a long time?”

Qiu Lier and Bedoco saw a man wearing a black dragon-colored robe walked in, and got up and bowed to salute: “I have seen His Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom.”

“The two don’t have to be polite, please sit down.” Jin Yang’s legs were long. He walked a few steps to Gu Rujiu and sat down. Then he picked up the tea cup that Gu Rujiu had drunk.

Qiu Lier accidentally saw that Her Majesty the Emperor even drank directly with the tea cup used by the Queen Mother, and her head was too low to look at it, and then she heard the Emperor’s conversation.

“Your Majesty, why are you here now?” Gu Rujiu saw Jin Yang secretly used his tea cup, glared at him, grabbed the tea cup in his hand, and then took a cup of tea from the tray held by Qiu Luo and stuffed it into In his hand, “The tea was cold just now, you can’t drink too much.”

Jin Yang uncovered the lid of the tea cup in his hand and saw that it was the hawthorn tea he usually drank. After two big sips, he said: “I will never commit it next time.”

“Your Majesty’s gold mouth and jade words are worth a lot of money,” Gu Rujiu raised his eyebrows, and said with a smile, “If you let me find you stole, then …”

“Cough,” Jin Yang turned his head and looked at Bedok. “I heard that the prince and the princess had important things to see me. I don’t know why?”

Gu Rujiu smiled and put his hand on his waist, then twisted a piece of meat, and rotated it 180 degrees gently.

Don’t think that pretending to be a serious look can cover up the fact of stealing your mouth.

Jin Yang smiled with convulsions in his mouth, reached out and squeezed gently on the back of Gu Rujiu’s hand, and smiled at her with a pleasing smile.

Gu Rujiu raised an eyebrow, withdrew his hand, and then got up and said, “This palace is going to let the following people prepare lunch, you talk slowly.”

“Congratulations to the Queen Mother.” Bedoco and Qiu Lier stood up to salute until Gu Rujiu’s figure disappeared behind the door, and the two talents sat down again.

After the queen’s mother and daughter left, the atmosphere in the meditation hall suddenly became more serious. Even the gentle emperor who was just behind the emperor’s back also changed his body.

“Kara.” This was the sound of Jin Yang putting the tea cup back on the table.

Bedoco became inexplicably nervous with such a simple action. He stood up violently and saluted towards Jin Martingale: “Your Majesty the Emperor of the Kingdom, the princes have something to report.”

“Your Highness, please tell me,” Jin Yang’s expression was calm, and there was no change in Bedoco’s response.

Seeing his reaction, Bedoco anxiously spoke out of Gauluo’s conspiracy.

“The Gaulok country wants to borrow the neighboring position of the low country and the upper country, and wants the garrison to be in the border of the low country,” Bedocco said. “What is the purpose of the high country, the lower court does not know, but the lower court feels this move It ’s very wrong, so I ’m here to tell your majesty. ”

Jin Marting glanced at Bedoco, and then said: “His Highness Prince may have thought that telling me about this may anger Gaura.”

“The condescending country is a subsidiary country of the upper kingdom. Naturally, it should be loyal to the upper kingdom and obey the orders of the upper kingdom.” Bedocco sent a gift to the martyrs of Jin Dynasty. “All the upper and lower officials of Li State obey the instructions of the upper kingdom.”

Jin Yang has read the records of the Dafeng royal family. Li has become a subsidiary of Dafeng 20 years after the founding of Dafeng, and it has been nearly two hundred years. Over the past two hundred years, this country has been honest and honest, and it will send half of the good stuff to Dafeng, and it will not cause trouble. It is almost the most loyal and worry-free country among all the affiliated countries of Dafeng.

“I heard that in recent years, Li Guo has been suffering from disasters every year, and the crop harvest is not good. Can this be the case?” Jin Yang finally raised the issue of Bedocco and Qiu Lier.

“Please honor your majesty Shangguo to save the people of the country from fire and water,” Bedoco stood up and knelt in front of Jin Yang, with his hands on the national book written by his father before his departure, “Li Guo is willing to bow down to your country. . ”

To bow down and claim to be a subject is a two-part concept. The former is still a country, and the latter will be included in the Dafeng territory. There will be no more countries in the world.

Jin Yang took the manuscript from Bedoco. After reading it, he bent down and lifted up Bedoco with his own hands: “Your Highness, please don’t worry. Li Guo and I have been calling Dafeng for many years. How can I watch the people in your country?” Crucifixion. ”

Although he said so, he did not return Bedok to this national book.

Bedocco and Qiu Lier had a vague idea in their hearts, some were lost and some were lucky, and finally these emotions were turned into obedience.

“When I am with Dafeng, there will be no day for them to dominate the country,” Jin Yang handed the book to Bai Xian behind him, raising his hand. “It’s not early, please prince and princess to accompany me to the front hall for dinner . ”

“Thank you, Your Majesty.” Bedoco saluted respectfully, and followed Jin Yang with his sister, and left the Meditation Hall.

From beginning to end, he didn’t go to see the Guoshu in Baixian’s hand again.

In the front hall, as soon as the court eunuchs set the tableware, Gu Rujiu saw Jin Yang walked in with Li Guo’s prince and princess.

“Long for a long time,” Jin Yang walked up to her and smiled, “I heard that you have someone specially prepared for today’s lunch?”

Gu Rujiu smiled; “I just moved my mouth, and the master chef of the imperial dining room started.” After she finished, she nodded slightly to Qiuluo behind her, and Qiuluo went out to let the palace ladies waiting outside wash their hands.

Qiu Lier found that after stepping into the front hall, the momentum of His Majesty the emperor became gentle again.

After the four people were seated, Qiu Lier and Bedoco saw the rules of the Dafeng royal family. They only listened to the rules of these rules, but never really saw them.

It used to be that several pieces of Jinpa were used for wiping hands. The mouthwash cups were made of sterling silver, and the dishes were precious and rare porcelain.

After waiting for a dish to be served, Qiu Lier found that on this wide and long dining table, in addition to the delicious and delicious Dafeng cuisine, there are several dishes unique to Li Guo.

Seeing these Li national dishes, Qiu Lier and Bedoco warmed. Bedocco couldn’t help but think that with such emperors and queens, even if they were merged into Dafeng, it was not so unacceptable.

After running out of lunch, Qiu Lier and Becko retired happily. After the two left, Gu Rujiu said: “Looking for state affairs?”

Jin Yang nodded, took Gu Rujiu’s hand, and walked slowly in the garden outside. “Li Guo has been drought for several years in a row, and the people have no food to eat, so I would like to ask Dafeng to help them.”

“Your Majesty agreed” Gu Rujiu turned his head to look at Jin Yang.

Jin Yang nodded and said in silence for a moment: “Li Guo is willing to bow to us and say his favor.”

“Compete?” Gu Rujiu looked at Jin Yang in surprise, “Why should Li Guo do this?” In her view, Li Guo, as a subsidiary country of Dafeng, is in a bad situation now, and Dafeng cannot sit back and watch. It is reasonable not to ask them to bow down and help each other.

When Jin Yang was surprised for a long time, he explained with a smile: “Li Guo’s current king is very timid and weak in character. After he became king, he was often bullied by neighboring countries. If it were not for us Dafeng still standing in these years, Li Guo has long been divided by other countries. ”

“All these years have come, why must …” Gu Rujiu paused suddenly, she stopped suddenly, “Because of Gao Luoguo?”

“Jiu Jiu is always so smart,” Jin Yang smiled helplessly, “I wanted to be a smart person in front of you.”

“My majesty had long thought about it, I just thought about it now,” Gu Rujiu swayed Jin Yang’s right index finger with his left index finger. “It can be seen that your majesty is smarter than me.”

Looking at the index finger that the two hooked together, Jin Yang smiled and said: “There is one thing I always wanted to talk to for a long time.”

“What’s the matter?” Gu Rujiu looked at him, his index finger tightened.

“Don’t call me Your Majesty for a long time to come, but call me Dalang or Chen Chen?” Jin Yang felt a little uncomfortable. “No one in the world dares to call me a name, but it is different from others for a long time.”

“Dalang?” Gu Rujiu gently summoned these two words, which tremble gently at the tip of her tongue, turning into the most beautiful note in the world.

Jin Yang looked at her and smiled faintly.

“Dalang, Chenjun,” Gu Rujiu looked at him with a tilted head and smiled. “Other people dare not call me, Dalang can be happy?”

“My heart is very happy.” Jin Yang laughed softly, holding Gu Rujiu’s hand tightly, and said softly, “This world is only different from others for a long time.”

There is always someone who can’t bear a life. For him, this person is the woman around him.

“Sir Qilian?” The guard saw Qilian suddenly tightened the reins and stopped the horse, looking at Qilian in a puzzled way.

Qi Lian narrowed his eyes at Gu’s vermilion gate, and after a while he used his whip to pump his horse’s **** and continued on.

Halfway through, the Chuding carriage passed in front of him, he stopped the horse, and then retreated to the side with the guard.

Dafeng has regulations that people who are not princes are not allowed to ride the Chuding carriage during the wedding. Therefore, the horse-drawn carriage opposite must be a noble with a knighthood in the capital.

“Mr. Chen, this is to visit Master Gu?”

“Exactly, exactly, where is Wu Gongzi going?”

Hearing this conversation, Qi Lian glanced at the two who were speaking. They were two young men in Jin robes. One of the men was riding by the carriage.

How many Gu can be in the capital?

Qi Lian quickly guessed who was sitting in the carriage.

It is rumored that after Emperor Delong got married, he fathered his father-in-law as the country’s father-in-law, and even the queen’s brothers and sisters all gave the title.

The man in the carriage should be Gu Changling’s eldest daughter.

He watched this delicate carriage slowly passing by in front of his horse, slightly lowered his eyelids, and said coldly: “Go.”

More than ten years ago, when he fleeed this capital city rashly, the Gu family was still a small third-class residence. Now, just over ten years later, the first-class second-class family has already become the object of pleasing to many people in the capital.

It can be seen that these families only rely on the glory given by the royal family to maintain their dignity.

In this case, what qualifications do these families have to look down upon the upstarts? Compared with the upstarts, they are only a few hundred years more of family history. Then through the skin of the family, doing the same things as the new upstart.

“Master Qilian, Emperor Delong met the prince and princess of Li Kingdom.” When Qilian returned to the courtyard of the other palace, someone told him about it.

“He actually saw Li Guo first?” Qi Lian heard the words and frowned. This Delong emperor seemed to be different from the previous emperor. At least in the style of action, the two emperors were very different.

“Is there any news?” He asked, expressionless.

“What news can there be, Dafeng officials have mouths that are as tight as river clams, and they can’t pry them open,” Posenge thought of Dafeng officials’ high-looking appearance, and felt a anger in his heart. “It’s just that I heard that the empress’s feelings are not as good as they seem.”

“Someone said this again long ago, whether it is true or not, and nobody knows it,” Qi Lian pushed the tea cup in his hand. “Worrying on this issue, it is better to think about how to be in Dafeng’an people.”

Posenge was speechless.

“Adult, I have heard an interesting thing in the next time.” A guard whispered, “It is said that the three bedrooms of the Sima family and the Gu family are quite old.”

Qi Lian raised an eyebrow and said with interest: “Continue.”

The **** spoke of the grievances of Sima’s Sanfang and Gu’s family, and also gave a lot of gossip.

“After the Sima family intended to send their daughters into the palace, the low-key Gu family girl finally became the queen,” Qi Lian smiled. “It’s really interesting, this capital city is getting more and more interesting.”

Poson’s thick black eyebrows moved.

“Since this is the case, we look for the opportunity to see the aggrieved Miss Sima’s family,” the smile on Qi Lian’s face was one of a kind of ridicule. “I just don’t know how useful this Miss Sima is.”

Since moving into the big house, Sima Xiang has been honestly staying in his small courtyard, rarely going out, and not frequenting foreigners. But even so, the days are now much easier than in the past, at least no one forced her to understand the hobby of another strange man, and then to accommodate this person’s hobby to change his words and deeds.

Her treatment in the big room is all in accordance with Sima Ling’s standards before she got married. Her servants are respectful and her elders are strict but reasonable. It is really perfect.

But she knew in her heart that this perfection was not because the big house people liked her, but the big house people had to treat her for the sake of Sima’s face.

But what does it matter, what she wants is the last resort of the big house, because only in this way can she continue to rely on the surname of Sima to maintain the glory and dignity of her noble lady.

So when she went out once a month in accordance with the habit of going forward, and then happened to meet Gao Luoguo’s envoys, she guessed that this was not a coincidence, but the other party’s planned encounter.

The other party invited her to drink tea in the teahouse, she refused without hesitation.

No matter what the other party’s plans and intentions are, she will not drink tea with people from other countries at this time.

Qi Lian looked at the departing carriage, smiled casually, and then gently turned the teacup in his hand, and said to the guard around him: “This Miss Sima family, it is not really …”

The guard looked at him suspiciously, not understanding why he did not continue.

Qi Lian smiled, put down the teacup, and got up to let the guards pay the bill.

This woman reminded him of a woman he met when he fled that year. The woman is beautiful and tender, and looks like delicate flowers, which can be broken with a touch.

But he saw that the woman strangled her best companion in order to be able to enter a noble family to dance, and then with tears and grief, she entered the noble mansion with the help of others. door.

When he walked out of the teahouse, he once again saw the Zhuding carriage that he encountered on the street a few days ago.

The carriage was parked outside a jewelry store, and a beautiful and noble woman came out of the carriage.

He stopped and stared at the woman, then turned his horse and left the teahouse without looking back.

When he was still a teenager, she was just a baby girl.