First Lady of the Crown Prince

  Chapter 527 Happy (two more)

  New Year’s Eve palace banquet, the emperor and the Queen Mother Zhuang drove together, leaving only the Queen Xiao and the prince to preside over the overall situation, and invited Princess Xinyang and other royal family members to celebrate the victory of the border war and celebrate the new year.

  This is really the first time.

  The emperor entered the yard without any psychological pressure. Wherever the queen mother is, he is there!

  Duke Wei looked at his majesty with ineffable words.

  Since believing that he took the drug, his majesty has gone on the road to release himself forever. Would you like to remind your majesty that he only ate a hair growth pill?

   "Mother! I'm here!"

  The emperor instantly incarnates the little tail of Queen Mother Zhuang.

  Duke Wei covers his eyes, **** it! I didn't see it!

  Gu Jiao was going to go to the palace to report her safety to her aunt. Now that her aunt is here, she doesn’t have to worry about it anymore.

  Gu Jiao and her aunt entered the hall.

  I didn't observe too carefully before, and now accompanied my aunt for a walk around the house, only to realize that in the three months since I left, my family has actually changed a lot.

  The vegetable garden in the front yard was enlarged, with a variety of green onions and radishes. The small fish pond opposite the vegetable garden was filled and replaced with a large fish tank.

  This was proposed by Xiao Jingkong. He said that with a younger brother in the family, he should have a place to play by himself. Even if the younger brother is still so small, he still has no hesitation in contributing his little fish pond.

  The passage from the backyard to the next door is no longer a passage. The wall was completely pushed down. Now the backyards of the two houses are connected together and become a large courtyard.

   "Grandpa Aunt bought that house." Seeing Gu Jiao looking at the opened yard with a mistaken expression on her face, Xiao Heng explained quietly to her.

   "It's not cheap." Gu Jiao murmured.

  Xiao Heng nodded: "Well, it took a thousand taels."

  Originally it was not so expensive, but since it was awarded a new champion, Bishui Hutong has gained the title of champion alley, and land prices and housing prices have risen in a whispering way.

  Only this one thousand taels is still a friendly price.

  Gu Jiao asked weirdly: "Where does Grandpa Aunt get so much money?"

  If she remembers correctly, the salary of Guozijian Jijiu does not seem to be that high.

  Xiao Heng twitched the corners of his lips: "Just...sell an official position."

  Gu Jiao: Grandpa Aunt still does this kind of thing!

The operation of   Lao Jijiu selling official positions is like this. First, the news that he wants to buy a house is released, and then some people with bad intentions come to the door and bribe the old Jijiu with heavy money.

The old Jijiu took the gold directly to the emperor's royal study room, and told his majesty with indignation: "I, Huo Xian, have been honest and loyal to his majesty, and have no two intentions! I want to bribe me, it is a wishful thinking! The minister is here to swear, it is all All the civil and military officials of the court have been bought, and the Weichen will not be bought!"

  Lao Jijiu’s final words successfully aroused the emperor’s deep thoughts. The emperor has encountered many things since he took office, and suddenly he understood some of the decisions made by the Queen Mother.

The emperor and the empress dowager are totally different in the use of people. The emperor can’t rub sand in his eyes. He must be an upright person in the use of people, such as the old man, such as the old sacrificial wine, but Xuanping Hou is a little more romantic, but Never violated the law and did not violate the ethical guidelines.

  Queen mother Zhuang is more open-minded, she pays attention to the length of employing people and the shortness of tolerance. The most typical example is Tang Yueshan.

  Tang Yueshan is so happy, his uncle and sister-in-law are not good, and he will never reuse him as an emperor.

  But after the battle of the frontier fortress was fought, the emperor suddenly felt that Tang Yueshan was better than worse.

  The emperor began to think about the Queen Mother Zhuang’s regent, and found that there are many things in the Queen Mother’s body that are worthy of his own reflection.

  If the water is clear, there will be no fish.

   is like the Yin official system uploaded by the ancestors. It is absolutely impossible to ban it. It has shaken the interests of too many powerful and scholar-officials, but the mother's queen can easily solve the problem with a six-part assessment system.

  Although there will still be shame officials, it minimizes the mediocre qualifications and years of the shame officials. This is a perfect balance.

  The emperor felt that the purchase of officials would always exist.

  Old Jijiu refused, and it is difficult to guarantee that the other party will not find the next one. Instead of finding the name of an unknown official, it is better to let the old Jijiu serve.

  In this way, at least he knows which officials were bought, and everything is under control. When Chaozun is completely stabilized, he will kill all the people in one go!

  So Laojijiu accepted the bribe with the emperor's permission and bought the mansion next door to the champion!

  The Queen Mother Zhuang and the emperor sat down in the main room, and both of them had a lot to say to Gu Jiao.

  Old Jijiu quietly went to the stove to make brown sugar glutinous rice cakes.

  Xiao Heng planned to beat the teacher, but was mercilessly rejected by the old Jijiu.

  How many catties of your own cooking skills are not in your mind?

  "Aheng, come over and help paste the couplet." Yao said with a smile.

   "Okay." Xiao Heng went out, carrying a bucket of paste, and took a few small men in the family to the door to paste the couplet.

  The Queen Mother did not mention the battlefield matters. Those matters can be mentioned again after the end of the year. She was talking about the village matters.

  The eunuchs and guards she sent to Qingquan Village saw Xue Ningxiang. On Tuesday, Zhuang and Dean Li asked to marry Xue Ningxiang at the same time, which caused a great sensation in Shili Baxiang.

  Xue Ningxiang is a little widow. Many country folks don’t look down on her, but they have wrong intentions and want to get involved with her. Originally, when Gu Jiao’s family and Zhou’s mother were there, those villains were still somewhat restrained.

  In the back, Gu Jiao's family left, Zhou Mu passed away, and Gu Yan's two dark guards returned to Beijing. Xue Ningxiang's situation became difficult.

Once she slept in the middle of the night, the gangster from the village next door actually stepped over the wall and entered her house, pressed her on the bed and bullied her, or the dog woke up and cried so loudly that the villagers were surprised and didn’t call that person. Succeeded.

  There is no way to hide the news in the country. What just happened at night spread to the village the next day.

The gangster was named Li Dazhu. His wife came to the house the next day and had a big fight with Xue Ningxiang, calling Xue Ningxiang a vixen, a little hooves and a little whore... she stripped naked in the sorghum field to seduce her man, and asked her to find a man in the middle of the night. she was.

  Xue Ningxiang has changed from a victim to a fox spirit, which is unreasonable.

  There are not many things like this. Xue Ningxiang never mentioned it in the letter. If it weren’t for the Queen Mother Zhuang’s trip to the countryside, he wouldn’t know that Xue Ningxiang had suffered so many grievances.

   Luo Li is protecting Xue Ningxiang, but the more he protects, the more gossips.

  In the end, he is also becoming inhumane inside and outside.

   Dean Li wanted to take Xue Ningxiang to the town after learning about it. At this time, Zhuang returned on Tuesday.

  It's no longer known how the incident is so well known. In short, the whole village knows that Xue Ningxiang was taken by her little uncle and the dean of Tianxiang Academy. To be precise, they thought that Xue Ningxiang hooked up with them.

  Xue Ningxiang was scolded miserably.

  Her family members who were a hundred miles away also got the letter, and came over to grab Xue Ningxiang and scold him.

  Sometimes human nature is like this. After seeing Xue Ningxiang struggling in the quagmire, I don’t want to see her crawl out of it.

  In the eyes of many people, a widow who has defeated her husband should be cast aside. Why should she lead the life of a master?

  Of course, there are ways to solve all this. People dare to scold a stone blocking the way, but almost no one scolds the mountains around the village.

  Queen Mother Zhuang directly turned Xue Ningxiang into the highest mountain in the village.

  "My Queen Mother would like to invite Lady Xue to the capital."

  As soon as the **** said this, the people from Shili Baxiang directly knelt.

  The biggest official they know is the county grandfather. What is the queen mother? It's a Bodhisattva, it's a Buddha, it's a heaven! It is a finger, no, without a finger, a powerful existence that can kill their entire village in one breath!

  The eyes of everyone looking at Xue Ningxiang had changed from jealousy to panic.

  They can't afford to be jealous.

  Of course, Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't really want to call Xue Ningxiang to the capital. That was just to support her.

  The person sent by the queen mother told Xue Ningxiang that there was a queen mother who supported her so that she had nothing to fear. She wanted to marry ten or eight husbands, and no one would dare to gossip about her.

  Xue Ningxiang was so frightened by this rebellious remark, what ten or eight husbands, she had no idea!

  However, after such a conversation, Xue Ningxiang's courage has really increased.

  Tuesday Zhuang and Dean Li are both very good men. In ten or twenty years, perhaps Xue Ningxiang will choose the energetic teenager Tuesday Zhuang. But she, who is only two years older than Gu Jiao, at her age, bearing these ups and downs, would be more inclined to a father-like man like Dean Li.

  He is mature and stable, he is considerate and meticulous, he is tolerant to others, and he still has money.

  Furthermore, Tuesday Zhuang is Xue Ningxiang’s uncle, and Xue Ningxiang can’t get past that hurdle.

  Finally, and the most important point, she is a mother, and sometimes it is not a man who fetters a woman, but a child.

  Gouwa likes Dean Li, but she confuses her father, what else can she do as a mother?

  Lady Li’s affection for Xue Ningxiang and the dog is a plus.

  To put it plainly, Xue Ningxiang is tired and wants to find a man who can rely on him to spend the rest of his life safely and steadily.

  The Queen Mother Zhuang understood Xue Ningxiang’s choice.

  Not everyone in this world can be as strong as Gu Jiao, Gu Jiao is unique.

  She never seeks security from anyone, her heart is strong and full of strength.

  This naturally comes at a price. No one is born strong, but there are too many things that she needs to carry with her immature shoulders.

  Her Jiaojiao were all held back.

  Xue Ningxiang doesn’t need to be the second Jiaojiao, she just needs to live her own life easily.

  In addition, Xue Ningxiang wrote a letter to Gu Jiao, and the Queen Mother Zhuang kept putting it in her card pocket, and she handed it to Gu Jiao.

  This time Xue Ningxiang didn't report the good or the bad. After all, the Queen Mother knew everything, and she didn't make any sense to hide it.

She asked about the Queen Mother in the letter, why the Queen Mother would know her, was it Xiao Liulang, who was the new champion of the new discipline, had mixed up in the capital too well, or Gu Jiao and the Hou Mansion met, and then gave the Queen Mother to the people. Alarmed?

  Xue Ningxiang thought that she didn't have that much face.

"...The old lady with leprosy is always the queen mother, right? Without that luck, didn't I just cook for the queen mother? The queen mother helped me see her baby? It must not be... my family's ancestral grave There is no green smoke..."

  Gu Jiao thought for a while, and she wrote back: Would you like to go back to your family's ancestral grave?

   "Jiaojiao! Jiaojiao!"

  It was Xiao Jingkong who came over with a letter.

  He was originally posting the couplet, but when he saw Gu Jiao reading the letter, he remembered that he also had a letter on his side.

  This is how children are.

   "Jiaojiao, the second letter from my brother Ming'er!"

   "Do you want to show it to me?" Gu Jiao asked.

  Letters are very private. Gu Jiao will not open and read his letters at will just because Xiaojingkong is a child.

   But if he wants to share it with herself, Gu Jiao will gladly accept it.

   "Hmm! I want to show Jiaojiao!" Xiao Jingkong nodded.

  Gu Jiao opened the letter. The letter was filled with greetings between children. Xiao Jingkong mentioned some interesting facts about her family and the Imperial College in her last letter, which successfully aroused Ming'er's learning enthusiasm.

  Ming'er told Xiao Jingkong that he also went to the Imperial College to attend class.

  It’s just that he went to a martial arts class.

  Liang State’s Imperial College was slightly different from Zhao State’s. It was divided into civil and military, probably because Liang’s imperial examination included not only literary examinations, but also martial arts.

  When I read this letter for the first time, Xiao Jingkong was not too impressed. At this moment, I read it again with Gu Jiao, and suddenly felt that I was especially envious of Ming'er brother.

  He also wants to practice martial arts.

  He wants to protect Jiaojiao.

Along with the second letter, Ming'er mentioned in the first letter a thank you gift for the score of "Photography". The letter was sent by a flying eagle. It came quickly. The thank you gift was drawn by a horse, so It's slow.

  The thank-you gift was prepared by Prince Yu and his wife. They are some of the specialties of Liang Kingdom plus more than a dozen children’s toys. They are quite deliberate.

  In addition, Princess Yu knows that Xiaojingkong is talented and is learning the languages ​​of various countries, and specially selected ten books that are only available in the country, all of which are suitable for the level of Xiaojingkong.

  Xiao Heng made a plan for Xiao Jingkong. He reads a little every day, and he has improved a lot in all three Mandarin.

  In order to prove her progress, Xiao Jingkong jumped out of her chair, ran back to the room, and brought her three collections of Shangguo poems over: "Jiaojiao, I will back them to you!"

   Then he put his small hands behind him, shaking his head and shaking his head on his back.

  ...As if Gu Jiao understood it.

  Gu Jiao’s first time to travel far away. In the past, Xiao Heng went out. Every time she came back, Xiao Heng could feel the changes at home. This time, it was Gu Jiao’s turn to feel these changes.

  Gu Xiaobao has grown up, Gu Yan and Gu Xiaoshun have grown up, Xiaojingkong has long hair, and they will recite many collections of Chinese poetry...

  This feeling is a bit novel.

  Supper was not prepared so quickly, but the hot water was boiled first. Yao called several children to take a bath.

  "Hurry up and wash out the clothes after taking a shower. They will not wash clothes on the first day of the new year." Yao said.

   "I'll wash it first!" Xiao Jingkong turned into a good baby who loves to take a bath for a second, forgetting how much he resisted taking a bath during the three months that Gu Jiao was absent!

   "Jiaojiao go and wash, too." Yao said gently to Gu Jiao.

   "Okay." Gu Jiao responded.

  The boiling water is only enough for two people to wash for the time being, and the rest will have to wait for the next wave.

   "Brother-in-law, thank you, please help me take a bath." Xiao Jingkong came to the door and said to Xiao Heng who was posting couplets very politely.

  Xiao Heng's mouth twitched: "Heh, it seems that you didn't say that last time. If you dare to take you to take a bath, what are you going to do?"

runaway.

   "Cough." Xiao Jingkong cleared her throat, spread her hands, and said helplessly, "Who haven't been young and frivolous?"

  Xiao Heng: "..."

  Xiao Heng took a small clearance to the Westinghouse to take a bath.

  The charcoal fire in Westinghouse is burning vigorously and it is not cold.

  Gu Jiao also went to take a bath.

  She discovered that a new wooden barrel had been added to the house. It was big and deep, and sitting down could make her whole body soak in the water.

  Call.

so comfy.

  Her little toes stretched under the water.

  Bounced for a while, and suddenly she remembered something.

  She came back unscathed, shouldn't the things that Xianggong promised her also be honored?

  ……

  Xiao Heng came out of the Westinghouse, and saw that Gu Jiao had already taken a shower and washed her hair, and was sitting in the hall in warm clothes.

  Xiao Heng was slightly startled: "So fast?"

   Xiao Jingkong was still playing with water in the wooden bucket. The water was a bit cold. He went to the stove and gave Xiao Jingkong a squirt of hot water.

  Gu Jiao looked at him with Blingbling eyes wide open.

  The Queen Mother went to the stove to eat brown sugar glutinous rice cakes, and the emperor followed, leaving only Gu Jiao in the hall.

  The sky was actually a bit dark, but Gu Jiao's eyes were so bright that it was hard to ignore.

   "Why... look at me like this?" Xiao Heng asked.

   "I was not injured." Gu Jiao said.

   "Well, I know." Xiao Heng nodded.

  After finishing speaking, he realized something, his expression was startled, his eyelashes trembled, and his cheeks began to heat up.

  Gu Jiao looked at him with her cheeks in her hands, her hopeful eyes were correct.

  　Can you ask for a wave of monthly passes?

  (End of this chapter)