The Way of Favors

???? In February, after the seven-year-old birthday, the first emperor's twenty-seventh month of filial piety was officially released.

Xu Jin succeeded to the throne and replaced the moon with the day, but everything in the palace was kept simple in the past two years, and there was never a big banquet in memory of the emperor. Now that the funeral period has passed, the atmosphere in the palace gradually changes, like the spring coming after the cold winter, bright and light.

Fu Rong led her daughters to accompany the queen mother, Axuan Apei played with the maids and the blind man, their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law sat in the corridor watching.

"Go to Lingshan in the middle of the month, are everything ready?" The queen mother smiled and talked to Fu Rong.

The year before last, a family of five spent time in a leisurely escape, as did last year, but Xu Jin promised to Fu Rong that he would take her to Lingshan to escape the summer heat in March of this year, and the emperor’s trip to the palace was started a few months in advance. Naturally, I can't hide it from the Queen Mother.

"Actually, there is nothing to clean up. The palaces on the East and West Lingshan have them. We only need to bring a few personal objects that we are used to. I just don't want my mother." Fu Rong reluctantly hugged her mother's arm, "Mother , Don’t you find it boring to be bored in the palace?"

"I'm acting like a baby when I'm so old." The queen mother touched her head, and said with some memories: "Who said I'm always bored in the palace? I went to Lingshan seven or eight times. Every year, it's almost the same. You are rare. I don’t want to bump all the way to see the old scene. Besides, I stay in the palace to take care of Brother Ju. You can rest assured when you play outside, don’t you?"

Speaking of his son, Fu Rong was even more unhappy.

Xu Jin said invitingly that he would take her to Lingshan, and Fu Rong really wanted to go. In her last life, she was not enough, and she didn’t see the real good scenery of Lingshan. She went out and went out and met other ladies and would be despised with high-level eyes, as if she and Li had made a big mistake. Therefore, I can go as a queen in my life, and Fu Rong happily prepares. But she didn't expect that she had been looking forward to it for more than half a year, and seeing that she would set off in another half a month, Xu Jin told her to only take her daughters, not brother Wei.

Leaving Beijing in March and returning in July, that is to say, she will be separated from her son for four months.

If it wasn't for the use of resisting Xu Jin, Fu Rong really didn't want to go.

The queen mother knew that she was reluctant, and patted her hand with emotion: "The child is old, and it's useless if we think about staying with me all the time. Like Jingxing, I went out to fight when I was a teenager. I wanted to sleep all night. I don’t feel good, but what can I do? If you didn’t work hard as a child, you wouldn’t have him now, so Dongnong should think for the good. You see, if you two are not by your side, Brother Bi will have the opportunity to be alone. This is a good thing. "

Fu Rong understood, just reluctant.

Being depressed, Princess Rou and the second princess came.

The seventeen-year-old second princess wore a fuchsia dress, which looked like a flower that had been silent for three years. Once blooming, it was bright and compelling.

"Auntie is so beautiful!" Axuan saw her aunt suddenly changed her dress and forgot that she was still playing games. She ran to her with a smile, hugged her aunt's thigh and looked up at her. "Auntie is a beautiful dress, and my sister and I also have it. One, my mother did it!"

The five-year-old little girl had three peach blossoms in her ears, like a little fairy.

The niece is too big and heavy. The second princess is inconvenient to hug her anymore, so she took her hand, first greeted Apei over, and then smiled and asked Axuan: "Then Axuan Apei will put it on tomorrow, let's go to the garden to catch the butterflies together. ."

Axuan nodded happily, not letting her aunt go to the corridor, and dragged her to play games.

The second princess reluctantly greeted the queen mother Fu Rong from a distance, and took the initiative to become blindfolded and wanted to catch two little nieces.

The Queen Mother looked at her and smiled, and Princess Tongrou joked: "Look, Fuhui is still like a child."

Princess Rou sighed.

The queen mother had a good relationship with her. Knowing what the Princess Rou was most worried about, she asked softly: "Fuhui still doesn't agree to choose a consort?"

When the first emperor went, he told her and her son to choose a good family for the second princess. She remembered it in her heart, and her son also remembered it. Kaichun son asked her to ask Princess Rou's requirements for her husband. He would choose a good family from the family. A good show to the second princess Rousseau, but the second princess refuses to nod, it is difficult for them to make arrangements.

Concubine Rou nodded helplessly, not wanting to mention the annoying matter, and in turn inquired about Xu Hao's marriage, "When will I choose the concubine for the pregnant woman?"

This time I changed to the Queen Mother and worried.

My son and Cui Wan's childhood sweethearts have been able to meet almost every day since childhood. Feelings don’t mean that the other party has done something wrong and he can let go of it rationally, but it’s more painful. I told myself intellectually not to think about it anymore, but my heart fell into it. Pulling it out is like cutting meat. How many people in the world can bear it, how many people can see clearly?

Therefore, the Queen Mother hoped that her son would marry another princess and live with peace of mind, and give her a few more grandchildren, but her son refused repeatedly, and she could not force him.

The two elders pity each other for the same illness, and Fu Rong listened, his thoughts drifting away.

She didn't care much about Xu Wei's affairs. What worried her was her brother and the second princess.

The second princess definitely likes her elder brother, and the time she likes it is not short, but the little girl did not directly ask for the will of the emperor with the love of the first emperor, nor did she show her liking for her elder brother in front of her, well-behaved and well-behaved. When he asked her for help when he was young, Fu Rong couldn't believe that the second princess liked her brother.

As for my brother, he is already twenty-six. The boss is not young. Seeing that the official brother is about to reach the age when he is in love, he is still bachelor. Fu Rong was really angry. The angry brother broke his mother's heart and made their sisters worry. And if he got married early, the second princess might have forgotten to recognize him, and he would not marry for a long time. If he changed to Fu Rong, he would have hope in his heart. what.

After lunch, Fu Rong took his daughters back to Fengyi Palace for a rest.

Xu Jin came back early in the afternoon. He accompanied Fu Rong to coax his daughters to play, and helped Axuan swing for a while, and saw Fu Rong sitting in a wicker chair in a daze facing the sunset, seemingly worried.

"Brother Ju, you come to help sister." Xu Jin made room for Brother Ju to come over.

Brother Zhu likes to take care of his younger sister, taking over from the father's queen, and carefully helping her sister sway.

He is weak, and the swing range is much smaller than when Xu Jinhuang was. Axuan couldn't have fun, so Jiao Jiao urged him: "Brother use more strength."

Xu Jin quickly walked to Fu Rong's side. He turned around after hearing the words, took a look, and said, "This is pretty good, Brother Ju, don't listen to your sister."

Brother Zhu handed his sister a "sister obedient" look.

Axuan pouted her mouth.

Apei sat on the embroidered pier beside him, staring at the swinging swing with big eyes, and opened his small mouth slightly as if he was saying something. At a certain moment, his eyes lit up and he stood up and said, "It's enough for twenty times. Up!"

Brother Wei slowly stopped the swing.

Axuan didn't play enough, but she said that she would not rob her sister for twenty times, so she sat on Xiudun. There is a swing next to it, but she likes to let her brother swing and watch her sister play.

Xu Jin sat on the wicker chair and pinched Fu Rong's nose without anyone else: "What are you thinking about again?"

Fu Rong returned to his senses, just about to slap his hand away, and moved in his heart, pulling his hand down and talking to him: "Today, I heard my mother and Princess Rou talk about Fuhui's marriage, saying that the horse is not easy to pick. Fuhui is the jewel of the first emperor. She is the emperor’s younger sister. She must be worthy of choosing an outstanding family child, but the real family children all want to make contributions. I am afraid they don’t want to be just a steward, right?"

She wanted to know Xu Jin's attitude towards the consort. Because of the relationship between the second princess, she has turned over the history books, and not every dynasty restricts her husband to become officials. Xu Jin is the sixth emperor of the Wei Dynasty. Perhaps the Xu family is really a daughter. In the first five generations, only Princess Yongning and the second princess have been born. A princess Yongning may not be a precedent that must be followed.

Xu Jin looked at his two daughters.

He also has his own princess. When his daughters are older, what kind of man should he marry? Is it Wu Baiqi who can only play, or Liang Tong who is really capable?

Of course it is the latter, he will not marry his daughters to men who are worthless.

And the horse is also a relative.

Duke Qing has no official position, but Princess Yongning still has ambitions to marry her daughter to the emperor and help her grandson plan the throne. This is an example of the princess being honest. There were also princesses in the previous dynasty. The princess killed the orthodox prince with the name of the princess and then elected the princess's son to the throne.

Therefore, whether a foreign relative will become a worry or not, what matters is the human heart, the ability and means of the incumbent, not just empty words.

"As long as the cohort has the real ability to learn, I will use him. No, unless Fuhui likes it, that person is not worthy of being a cohort."

Withdrawing his gaze, Xu Jin smiled and said to Fu Rong.

Fu Rong listened and was relieved.

On the second day, Miss Axuan and Apei went to the garden to play with the second princess. Fu Rong asked her brother to come over. She greeted Xu Jin last night on the pretext of asking about family matters.

Fu Chen came soon.

Fu Rong met him in the hall.

Fu Chen came in and looked for two flower-like nieces, but did not find them, and asked his sister, "Where is Axuan and Apei? Didn't they miss me?"

Fu Rong sarcastically sarcastically: "You make their grandmothers angry and make their mothers angry, why do they miss you?"

As soon as he heard the voice, Fu Chen knew what his sister wanted to say, and turned around and walked out, "I have something to do, let's go first."

"Stop!" Fu Rong ran a few steps quickly to hold him and motioned Mei Xiang to stay outside. She pressed her brother on the chair and asked him condescendingly, "Are you planning to find me a sister-in-law in this life? , I will put my thoughts on choosing a wife for the official brother, so as not to waste time on you!"

Fu Chen closed his eyes and leaned on the back of the chair, "I'll go to bed for a while, you can tell me, remember to wake me up when I'm done, something really happened to me."

He looked like a rogue, and Fu Rong pulled his ears with anger.

Fu Chen has a thick skin, so she is not afraid of it.

Fu Rong made no mistake, and asked him directly, "Is there someone I like in my brother? Is it the second princess?"

Fu Chen opened his eyes all of a sudden, stared at his sister for a while, and asked like a fool: "Second princess? What does it matter whether I marry a wife or not? How did you get involved with her?"

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. He is outside. Fu Rong doesn't know which girls his brother has met. All he knows is the second princess. She can only guess from there. She guessed the best, but she couldn't guess the idiom. "The Lantern Festival that year, you sent the second princess back, the second princess said that she liked you? My brother did not respond, so the second princess cried?"

Fu Chen seemed to have heard Tianda's joke, stood up and flicked her with a thud: "What nonsense, there is no such thing..."

"She told me everything." Fu Rong raised her head and stared at her elder brother closely. "She is still unmarried. She wants to wait for you to get a wife before she gives up."

Fu Chen was stunned.

She actually thought so?

Fu Rong wanted to know his brother's thoughts, so he deliberately aroused him: "Brother, when the first emperor went, he wanted to pick up the second princess. The second princess refused to live or die. Now that she is filial, she still refuses. Apart from waiting for you, I can't think of anything else. Reason. The second princess is a good girl, and I don’t want her to squander it. If my brother doesn’t like her at all, then I lied to her, saying that if my brother has someone he likes, he will soon be married, and the second princess will definitely believe me. If we choose her husband again, she won't refuse."

The elder brother is a man. He doesn't have a girl he likes. It doesn't matter if he continues to wait. The second princess is different. This year is fine, but next year he will be an old girl. If the elder brother really didn't like the second princess at all, Fu Rong couldn't bear to watch the second princess wait foolishly. He was a good boy. Once he knew that there was no hope at all, he would admit his fate and marry his mother and not worry his mother.

Facing her sister's probing gaze, Fu Chen was taken aback for a moment, and then suddenly smiled, "Well, you just tell her that she believes it is the best, she doesn't believe it, I will really find you a sister-in-law."

When she said that she liked him, she was only twelve. She knew nothing but to repay him for his life-saving grace. He didn't marry for a long time. First, he didn't meet a woman he liked, and second, he was ashamed of her. After all, she was said to have cried. At that time, the little girl said that she liked him. Fu Chen didn't take it seriously, but she cried and he put it in her heart. He hoped that she would grow up, and hope that she would really understand what it means to like, and then marry the one she likes. People, this proves that she was innocent and ignorant at first, not that he broke the heart of a little girl who liked him.

But he didn't expect that she was also waiting for him to marry.

This princess is too stubborn, right?

How could she like him? What the two people said didn't add up.

Since she was stubborn, he let her give up.

To make it clear, Fu Chen touched his sister's head, turned and left.

When I walked to the entrance of Fengyi Palace, I bumped into the second princess and a niece walking over.