Do you know: I’m Xu Jiazi

In fact, on the second day after the Marquis of Xiangyang gave gifts to the Xu family,

When Qi Heng went to school in the Sheng family,

Princess Pingning had already returned to her parents' house to do a few things.

The first thing was to have all the female servants in the second gate of the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion bathe and change clothes, and then have their bodies inspected one by one by the nuns in the palace.

The reason is to measure the body of the maid in the palace and change her clothes.

The second thing was to clean up all the male creatures in the second gate of the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion except the old Marquis.

The reason is that the children in the outer courtyard need them more.

The third thing was to invite the girl who had previously taken care of the eldest daughter-in-law of Ningyuan Hou Mansion to take the pulse of all the female family members in the Hou Mansion.

The reason was that he was concerned about their health, and he also agreed that the girls would come at regular intervals in the future.

If you really can have a child this time, it is best for a boy. Even if it is a girl, there is a high probability that she will not get married, but will find a son-in-law.

It’s no wonder Princess Pingning is nervous.

To know,

The Marquis of Xiangyang and the Marquis of Ningyuan have the same origin and the same surname is Gu. The first generation of Marquises were brothers.

They were all marquises granted during the founding of the Zhou Dynasty.

However, the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion has always been flourishing. Gu Yankai's generation alone has six children.

As for the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion, some heirs were in difficulty. The first generation of Xiangyang Marquis had no descendants. He did not adopt his cousin Ningyuan Marquis, but found a descendant in the Gu family's hometown to adopt him.

The ranking of seniority in the two houses is different, and there is also a secret rivalry between them.

Although the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion faced a financial crisis before and was almost deprived of its title, the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion rose to prominence and became the emperor's confidant.

However, Marquis Ningyuan married the Bai family and survived the crisis, and still had a long line of heirs. Gu Yankai had two sons and one daughter, and the eldest son even won the top-ranked Jinshi as a noble son.

Although the Marquis of Xiangyang married a daughter of the Chai family, in the end only one daughter, Princess Pingning, grew up. After that, the Marquis of Xiangyang had nothing to do.

The Marquis of Xiangyang has a holy favor, and Princess Pingning marries well, but there is no heir.

Might have to be adopted again.

But these experiences in the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion had an invisible benefit:

That is because there are no direct descendants to share the property and gardens, so the courtyard of the Xiangyang Marquis Mansion is particularly large, second to none in Bianjing, and even less than that of the Duke of Qi;

Moreover, Princess Pingning's mother was born in the Chai family, and every business owner received dividends every year. In addition to the rewards from the emperor over the years,

The treasures accumulated in the treasury of the Marquis of Xiangyang's Mansion over the years are like a mountain, and the financial situation is astonishingly good.

But in Princess Pingning's heart, she doesn't want this advantage, and would rather replace her with a promising younger brother and nephew from her mother's family.

When the princess's father, Marquis Xiangyang, went to the Marquis Yongyi's Mansion to give gifts for the first time, he had the reason for asking for a son, but he also wanted to clean up his inventory, so he unknowingly gave too much.

And in this June,

After the two girls of the Marquis of Xiangyang were diagnosed as pregnant by the girl,

The Xiangyang Marquis Mansion first paid tribute to many treasures in the palace, then sent a lot of goods to the Cao family of Tuoxi Marquis, and finally sent ten carts of things to the Yongyi Marquis Mansion.

Compared with those things after the Dragon Boat Festival,

It was the same ten carts, but this time, Sun's items were registered and not put into the warehouse. Instead, after changing into bright clothes, she specially handed a notice to the queen and went to the palace to report the matter.

Some of the things I gave you were too expensive.

In the Queen's Palace,

The female officials wore elegant and sober clothes.

"This is also the intention of the Marquis of Xiangyang. I will report it to Your Majesty and your family will accept it."

Listening to the Queen's words, Mrs. Sun quickly bowed and said yes.

"Does he still have the moisturizing gel that he gave to Brother Jing before?"

Sun said: "Madam, there are still a few bottles left, I think they will last a lot of time."

"Madam, bring some more when you go back."

"Thank you for the reward, empress."

At this time, the princess on the couch began to cry. The female officer accompanying her couldn't stop crying when she hugged her. She also couldn't stop crying when she was in the queen's arms.

He was carried by the queen and walked a few steps.

Perhaps because she saw the bright clothes on Sun's body, the Princess of Zhou actually looked at Sun with her eyes wide open and stopped crying.

Following her daughter's gaze, the queen said, "Yue'er, do you want the eldest lady to hold you?"

Taking the princess from the queen's arms, Sun held her skillfully and looked at her big eyes, her heart melted.

West of the city,

Outside Wanshengmen

The Jimbo Temple Fair is still as lively as last year.

Watching the market outside,

A servant of the Xu family stopped the carriage.

Xu Zaijing walked in front, followed by Qingcao, and behind Qingcao were two little female envoys.

At this time, the twins had removed all kinds of gold, silver and gem jewelry from their bodies that day, and changed into the ordinary attire of the Xu family's maids.

Behind them are Qingyun Huaqing and his wife.

There were also servants from the Xu family following around. While everyone was watching the sideshow, these servants were responsible for guarding against thieves and rogues.

Sisters Rong Yunxiang and Hua Xiang have been educated by their mothers in the Marquis of Xiangyang Mansion since they were sensible.

They had never seen such a grand temple fair before, so the two of them were always distracted by various sideshows, and had to be reminded by Qingcao to keep up.

When these sisters watch the show, people always focus on them, but looking at their dress and the servants around them, they don't dare to make any move.

Although Sister Yunxiang has a lot of gold and silver jewelry, she currently has no pocket money.

Qingcao generously used his own purse to buy some delicious snacks for them.

I wandered around the temple fair for a while,

Everyone had ice and snow sweet water in bamboo tubes in their hands, Qingcao and Yun Xiang had roasted meat skewers in their other hands, and Hua Xiang had preserved fruit.

After watching a few sideshows, the three little female envoys threw in some reward money and came to the two large flag poles outside the Shenbo Temple.

Hua Qing and Qing Yun followed side by side. The couple were about the same height. They looked up at the people performing on the banner poles and horizontal beams.

"Madam, do you still dare to go up now?"

"Why don't you dare?"

"ah!"

Listening to the exclamations around him, Xu Zaijing knew that the people on the flagpole were trying to scare people again without raising his head.

But the two little sisters didn't know it. They were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and one of them clutched the sleeves of the unmoved grass.

The helper who was begging for reward money under the flagpole also saw Hua Qing behind Xu Zaijing.

Hua Qing's stature and the birthmark on his face were too obvious, so they all bowed their hands in greeting.

Hua Qing rewarded him with two pieces of silver.

The closer we get to the Dejinbo Temple, the louder the music inside the temple becomes.

Qingcao followed Xu Zaijing. At this time, she was sandwiched between the two sisters.

You asked me one word at a time

"Sister Qingcao, is it really as scary as you say when the flag pole falls?"

"Of course, you didn't see it."

Continue walking towards Jinbo Temple,

Not knowing what Qingcao said, the two little sisters looked back at Hua Qing and then at the flagpole. Both of them had incredible expressions on their faces.

Arriving at the high steps at the entrance of Shenbo Temple, Xu Zaijing looked back and saw that beside the cables that fixed the flag poles, there were government officials holding umbrellas on duty.

Not a single ox or horse.

When Xu Zaijing looked back outside the Taoist temple gate, in the courtyard inside the Taoist temple,

A female servant wearing a hood lifted up her sunscreen gauze, and her eyes kept scanning the faces of those who came in.

After seeing Xu Zaijing's figure, he quickly turned around and left.

In the wing behind Jinbo Temple,

The music played by Jun Rongzhi and Jiaofang was much quieter.

The cool wind was fanned by the fan in Xi Bu's hand.

The wind was not strong, but the summer clothes on the man were moving with the wind. It was obviously extremely expensive and frivolous.

Miss Feiyan of the Rong family was drinking herbal tea with her brother.

"Sister, wouldn't it be better if we went home and drank? What's the point of staying in this wing? Besides, I have a poetry party in the afternoon!"

Being stared at by Rong Feiyan's beautiful eyes that looked like Rong Fei's, Rong Xian shut up angrily.

"Brother, which young master's poetry club is this?"

"It was held by Prince Yan. He is currently in the capital. He heard that your brother and I are good at playing polo, and we have close friendships with the brothers from the Bao family and the Huyan family, so he sent me a message."

Rong Feiyan took a sip of herbal tea and was about to speak. Ningxiang came to the door with a curtain hat and nodded to Rong Feiyan.

"Enough rest, brother, let's go."

Jinbokan Yard,

Under the cloth tents on both sides,

Jun Rongzhi and the musicians in the studio slowly stopped playing music and drank water from gourds or silver kettles.

When passing by, Qingcao's sharp eyes waved to a little girl holding a drum.

Xu Zaijing also looked in the direction of Qingcao waving. Yang Luoyou, who was wearing a veil, was talking to two women, an old man and a young man, holding pipa.

Entering the main hall of Shenbo Temple,

I burned incense for my mother and gave her money for the sesame oil.

"Bye bye too, I'll wait for you at the door."

"Yes, sir."

While talking, Xu Zaijing came to the door of the hall,

The Taoist priest who had met him last year saw Xu Zaijing and hurriedly came over and said, "I have met the great virtue in the small way."

"I've met the Taoist priest."

While the two were talking, Qingyun and Hua Qing walked out.

After seeing the Taoist priest, Hua Qing came to the Taoist priest and bowed deeply.

Qingyun also bowed,

The Taoist priest helped the two men up and said, "You two good believers, no need to be polite."

Qingyun and his wife saluted because Hua Qing's father had spent a lot of money on medical treatment in the Taoist temple, and it was the Taoist priest who made the decision and gave the medicine money to Hua's family on credit.

The internal official Huaibao was also in the temple today. After seeing Xu Zaijing, he asked the young internal official who was grateful to him to continue busy with the affairs inside the temple while he walked over.

"Slave, I have met Brother Jing."

Huaibao's adoptive father was the emperor's personal official, so he knew that Xu Zaijing was in the emperor's heart.

After talking for a while, the Taoist priest and Huaibo continued to do their own things, and soon the music in front of the hall started to sound again.

At this time,

"Brother Jing!"

Rongxian's voice came.

Saying that, Rongxian bowed his hand.

Behind him, Rong Feiyan, who was wearing a long curtain hat, also squatted behind him and bowed with his female envoy.

Xu Zaijing hurriedly returned the gift, and the sisters Qingcao and Yunxiang who came out also squatted down and returned the gift.

"Brother Jing, I haven't seen you for a long time! You want to go back to the city? Let's come together."

Xu Zaijing stretched out his hand:

"please."

Through the gauze of the curtain, Rong Feiyan looked at Xu Zaijing's background wantonly,

The female envoy beside Rong Feiyan looked at the pair of sisters beside Qingcao.

After leaving the Taoist temple, they each mounted their horses, while Qingyun and Hua Qing stayed at the back of the motorcade.

Hua Qing curiously asked Qingyun: "Why don't you stay with the young master?"

"I beat up the servants of the Rong family before, so I can't stand in front anymore."

Hua Qing glanced at Qingyun in surprise.

In fact, Rong Xian went from being violent at the beginning to being taught a lesson by the Duke of Qi and the Marquis of Xiangyang.

Then Xu Zaijing helped him out in the palace, and watched Xu Zaijing dethrone the Bai Gao Kingdom warriors.

Rong Xian now respects and fears Xu Zaijing.

Talking along the way,

Xu Zaijing felt the gaze behind him and endured it several times, almost turning back to look at the carriage of the Rong family members.

After the two families separated at Xishuimen, Xu Zaijing felt better.

Arriving at the Rong family,

Back to the snowy courtyard,

Xibu came to Rong Feiyan with a solemn expression. While helping her change her clothes, he was about to speak.

Rong Feiyan asked with interest: "I'm looking at him, is he high?"

"Girl, she is a little taller. You can see the two envoys. Although they are not very old, their color will not be different in the future."

Rong Feiyan nodded: "Young nobles, if you don't have beautiful maids, how many of them can you have? Let them be."

Ningxiang looked at Rong Feiyan and said, "Girl, it seems you are a little taller too."

"Yeah?"

Rong Feiyan suddenly laughed.

When I was about to speak,

A young envoy outside the door said: "Girl, the eldest lady will let you pass."

Rong Feiyan quickly changed her clothes and came to her mother's yard.

"Mother? What's wrong?"

"In a few days, Grandma Kong's affairs at Yan Guogong's house will be over, so be prepared."

"Oh, my daughter knows."

"Mother Kong has taught many noble girls. You can see that the daughters of the Prince Consort's family have been trained by the old man."

"Madam, madam, the young master's servant is back and says that the young master got into a fight with someone!"