All Hail Cousin Brother

The women set up a simple earthen stove and were preparing lunch.

Yu Youyao didn't see Yin Huaixi, and was about to ask the accompanying guards when she heard the sound of horse hoofbeats coming from outside the canyon. After a while, Yin Huaixi rode into the canyon.

He turned over and dismounted, and saw Yu Youyao standing not far away. She changed into a jade-colored narrow-sleeved top and a green skirt. The skirt was embroidered with small pine leaf patterns. The skirt covered her thin feet, overlapping them. The ground was piled up at her feet. As she walked lightly, the hem of her skirt was like a blossoming, folded cornflower, gently rolling in thin waves at her feet.

Just like the frost in late autumn, thinly covering the pine needles, poplar green in the white, white makeup on the green, gentle and firm.

Yu Youyao noticed that he was on the horse, holding the reins with one hand and holding something in the other hand, so he couldn't help but take a closer look.

Noticing her gaze, Yin Huaixi strode over: "I just went to the mountain to find a lotus petal orchid, which is a relatively rare cinnabar spring orchid." He handed the cinnabar orchid that he had been protecting in his hand to Yu Youyao: "Although in the mountains The wildflowers haven’t bloomed yet, but the orchids are already in buds, and they will bloom in about ten days and a half.”

Only then did Yu Youyao notice that Yin Huaixi had been dug back with the soil and roots, and the roots of the cinnabar orchid with soil were wrapped in paper. The green arrow leaves were well protected without any damage.

Three long flower stems have sprouted from the middle of the cinnabar orchid, with eight or nine flower buds on them. The flower buds are as colorful as cinnabar orchids.

She could almost imagine how graceful and noble it would be when the buds bloomed and bloomed like lotus-shaped flowers.

Seeing that she didn't answer for a long time, Yin Huaixi thought she didn't like it, so he quickly said: "There are also more common Jianlan and Huilan in the mountains. If you don't like cinnabar orchid, I will help you find a few other varieties."

The climate here in Liancheng is good, and there are many wild orchids in the mountains, mostly spring orchids.

Yu Youyao took it with a smile: "Who says you don't like it? Cinnabar orchid is a relatively rare species. It usually grows in the south and is rarely seen in the north. It's only my good luck that I can help you find one." She held the cinnabar orchid in her hands. Orchid, lowered his head and smelled it. The buds on the stems had not yet opened, but there was already a faint fragrance floating around. He couldn't help but smile with his eyebrows creasing: "I like it very much."

She just didn't expect that he had just said something casually before and didn't see the wild flowers blooming in the mountains, so he specially found an orchid for her.

Yin Huaixi breathed a sigh of relief: "As long as you like it."

Yu Youyao was a little curious: "Orchids grow in the mountains and fields and are not easy to find. How did you find them?"

After such a short time, I found a famous product. If orchids were really so easy to obtain, many orchid lovers would not flock to them and spend a lot of money to get them.

Yin Huaixi's expression became complicated: "My mother loves orchids, but orchids in the south are not easy to survive in the north and are difficult to raise. In order to please my mother, my father found a lot of books about orchids and learned about the varieties of orchids. , habits, and growth environment, etc., I often go into the mountains to look for various orchids.”

He had also heard that when he was a child, his father was also talented and intelligent, and was loved and valued by the late emperor. Later, for some unknown reason, his head hurt when he read books, and he became a playboy with no knowledge or skills.

Thinking of this, Yin Huaixi couldn't help but smile: "My father has a problem, that is, his head hurts when he reads books. In his life, he has never even read military books, so how can he read those colorful books? So... At first, when he told me about it, I took it all as a joke."

Yu Youyao looked unbelieving: "King Zhou Li is so good at fighting, how could he not read military books?"

Yin Huaixi laughed "haha": "I'm not lying to you, he really didn't even read a military book. At first, my mother forced him to learn military strategies and asked the staff to read the military books to him. He was bored. He couldn't learn, and his staff couldn't control him. My mother had no choice but to go into battle in person, reading and explaining military books to him every day. He didn't dare to make any mistakes in front of my mother. Strangely enough, my father was so talented. That elm-headed head suddenly became bright in front of my mother."

Yu Youyao was a little speechless. How could he be a son? He said that his father had a stupid head. When he talked about his father, he didn't show any respect at all. His tone was full of gloating.

Every time he mentioned his father and mother, Yin Huaixi always had a lot to say: "At one point, I even suspected that my father was faking his head pain when he read a book."

Yu Youyao also opened her eyes slightly: "What happened next?"

Yin Huaixi showed a nostalgic expression: "I asked my father, and my father said that when he was young, he was playful and accidentally fell from the rockery. He suffered a bloody head and nearly died. Fortunately, he picked up a pair of After his death, his foundation was damaged and he became frail and sickly. He would feel dizzy and nauseous when he read a book. It took him many years to recover, but he gradually got better."

However, Yu Youyao felt that this "playfulness" may not necessarily be true playfulness.

The favored prince in the palace not only has a group of followers around him to restrain the prince's words and deeds at all times, but some of them are proficient in martial arts. He almost died after falling from the rockery. This is too negligent.

But what if this is not an accident?

This shows that King Zhou Li, who was still young and a prince at that time, had already blocked the way of some people.

Then King Zhou Li must have been extremely talented since he was a child.

From this point of view, it is not without reason that King Zhou Li asked himself to guard the northern border and quickly grew from a playboy to the famous God of War in the Zhou Dynasty.

Even though it has been abandoned for many years, the roots of good talent are still there.

In this way, it is not without reason that the Dog Emperor would be suspicious of King Zhou Li.

His fear of King Zhou Li was not groundless.

Eventually the root of the disaster was laid.

So, let’s extrapolate further.

Concubine Hui, the mother concubine of King Zhou Li, is recorded in the secret history of the palace and comes from folk sources.

But she had heard her grandmother mention it, which was just a nicer word from the folk. Concubine Hui was actually an ordinary peasant girl. She was very favored by the late emperor because of her beautiful appearance, gentleness and simplicity, which was very much in line with the late emperor's temperament.

It would be difficult for a concubine like her to survive in the palace.

But the queen at that time, now the empress dowager, had not been able to conceive a child for many years because of an injury to her body, and she was childless in the palace. What a big deal it was? In order to maintain her position, she needs to win over the emperor.

So Concubine Hui, who came from the folk, not only did not know a lot of Chinese characters, but also had no knowledge of music, chess, calligraphy and painting, and posed no threat to her, she was a natural ally with her.

The empress should take care of Concubine Hui.

But thinking more deeply, even the records of Concubine Hui in the secret history of the palace came from the folk, and the rest is unknown.

This shows that no matter how favored Concubine Hui is, she is still not in the spotlight in the eyes of everyone.