Wishful Things

Hearing this sentence, there was a brief blank in Wu Chao's mind—how should I say this feeling, it's probably like what my mother said, touch the cat with your hand, if you touch the cat, you will feel that your hand has received the most holy blessing in heaven and earth...

Right now, he's feeling more than worse.

He felt that he had received the most sacred permission--

"Zhao Zhao..." He tried to shout.

"Huh?" The girl looked at him, dimples looming on her cheeks.

"Zhao Zhao, thank you." The young man's tone has a gentleness that only exists for the person in front of him, but it is also serious all the time.

"Thank me for nothing, I didn't do anything useful." Xu Mingyi smiled and said: "And you have helped me a lot all this time."

If you really want to count, who owes whom more, I'm afraid it's not easy to count.

But she felt that there was no need to forget about it.

Just so I can't figure it out.

And looking at the young man in front of her, she suddenly thought of——

"You said, is it necessary to raise children like this?"

This topic came up so suddenly, Wu Chao couldn't help being a little dazed—is Zhao Zhao starting to discuss raising children with him now?

But Xu Mingyi's next tone and demeanor were telling him that she just had a sudden realization.

"In the face of misfortune, if the mind is firm enough, there will always be a support in the heart. If the mind is sensitive and fragile, before the misfortune, it will be suspicious and wavering, and if you are not careful, you will be ground by the so-called suffering."

Although there are no absolutes in the world, and everyone's natural temperament is also different, most people are born ordinary.

It is what they have experienced and what they have that makes them unusual, good or bad.

In any case, she always felt that Wu Chao's existence was indeed the result of the Wu family's putting a lot of effort into teaching and nurturing him. He was raised as a child of a family, but he still had a firm enough heart and independent will, not to follow the crowd and not be disturbed by outsiders' voices.

She felt more than once that the Wu family clearly trained Wu Chao as the future head of the family.

After roughly understanding what she meant, Wu Chao smiled.

He didn't think he was any good.

And if it is said that his attitude when facing this matter is indeed more calm and rational than ordinary people, then it should also have something to do with her in front of him.

Let me ask, if there is such a firm and clear girl who is willing to accompany him to go forward, he just wants to be crushed by this mere matter.

Even if you really encounter hardships in the future, you just need to crush them under your feet.

Before that, he never knew that falling in love with someone would bring such firm and soft strength to his heart.

but--

He also has a lot of experience when it comes to raising children.

Especially raising a daughter.

Thinking about this, and then looking at the girl in front of him with crow's eyes and snow-skinned cheeks, the boy's thoughts drifted away unconsciously, and a word came out out of nowhere: "Zhaozhao... What's a nice name for a girl?"

Xu Mingyi: "...?"

Seeing the girl's slightly staring eyes, Wu Chao immediately came back to his senses, and hurriedly remedied: "...I mean, I have never heard a better name than Xu Zhaozhao. Your residence...seems to be very good at naming names."

As he spoke, he took two sips of tea in a disguised manner.

Xu Mingyi looked at him suspiciously, and said, "...I think so too."

"Lunch is ready?" Afraid that she would think about it further, and even more afraid that she might be greeted with fists and kicks after she figured it out, Wu Chao quickly changed the subject.

"I haven't had time to eat yet."

"Do you want to go to Zhuangyuan building?"

Xu Mingyi shook his head.

Yesterday, she just asked Ming Shi to buy a bowl of ice powder, but this errand brother just brought back a copy of all the signature dishes in the Zhuangyuan Building.

Under such circumstances, she would not want to go to the Zhuangyuan Building for at least ten days and a half months.

In this regard, it is said that the shopkeeper of Zhuangyuan Building has to find this errand boy to compensate for the loss.

"Is there anything else you want to eat?"

Xu Mingyi thought for a while, and said: "Otherwise, let Xiaoqi go to the back kitchen to cook a few random dishes, and we will eat here."

"Xiaoqi?" Wu Chao subconsciously said, "What's so delicious about the dishes he cooks?"

"Isn't Xiao Qi's skill good?" Xu Mingyi said: "And I remember that when he was in Ningyang, he also studied with Qiu Miracle Doctor for a few days—coincidentally these two days, I always think about Qiu Miracle Doctor's skill."

Wu Chao was silent for a while.

Suddenly, he felt that he should have seized such a good opportunity as Qiushen's medical cooking.

"What's the matter? But Xiaoqi isn't here? If not, it's the same for someone else to do it. I just mentioned it casually." Xu Mingyi said casually.

"...here." Wu Chao stopped hesitating: "What do you want to eat? I'll let someone explain."

It is more important to let her eat what she wants than anything else.

Xu Mingyi ordered a few home-cooked dishes that Miracle Qiu often made, and Xiao Qi cooked them accordingly, adding two meat and two vegetables, and two cups of seasonal vegetable soup.

It was already afternoon.

Sunlight fell on the dining table through the window sills, the green lettuce was fried beautifully, the fat and thin pork belly slices were ruddy and shiny, and the green and white scallions were sprinkled on the neatly stacked fried tofu. The two sat opposite each other holding chopsticks.

...

Soon, it was the Queen Mother's birthday.

When the sky was still dark, all the people in the palace became busy in an orderly manner.

Xu Mingyi followed Cui Shi into the palace early, and in the afternoon, together with all the female relatives, accompanied the Empress Dowager to listen to the birthday celebration in the imperial garden. Seeing that it was getting late, some palace officials came to guide them, and they went to Wanfulou for the banquet.

Inside the Wanfu Building, birthday celebration lanterns are hung high, high and low, and meandering, like a river of stars, like pearls, illuminating the surroundings as bright as day.

The inner eunuch Gong'e shuttled among them, holding cups and serving dishes.

All the officials and female relatives sat at separate tables, chatting and laughing one after another.

Until the eunuch's singing came from outside to the hall——

"The empress dowager is here!"

"The emperor is here!"

"The empress is here—"

Everyone got up and saluted one after another. Amidst the shouts from the mountains, the empress supported the empress dowager and walked into the hall.

Walking in together was Princess Jingrong.

Seeing her expression and demeanor like a child, closely following behind the queen mother, looking around nervously and curiously, whispering to the queen from time to time, everyone has a distinction in their hearts.

I heard earlier that after the eldest princess was assassinated in the face, her mind returned to her childhood, and since then, today is the first time she has appeared in front of people. Looking at it now, she really seems to be sick, and she is indeed very sick...

The crown dress was heavy and cumbersome, Princess Jingrong stumbled suddenly when she was walking, and if it wasn't for the maid who was beside her with quick eyes and quick hands, she would have almost fallen over.

Looking at the long princess who was wearing a real red shirt with large sleeves, a golden deep green robe, and layers of pearls and emeralds on her hair, Zuodu Censor Ming Xiaozhi was secretly terrified, subconsciously wanting to reach out several times.

... A person who is insane, why let her follow him?

And he was still wearing the crown suit, what if he really fell down and hit his bad brain?

"With Gong'e supporting her left and right, teacher, please rest assured." Song Dian, a young censor beside him, comforted in a low voice.

Ming Xiaozhi's face froze, and he said in a low voice: "There are foreign envoys here today, I am afraid that she will make a fool of herself in public and hurt my Daqing's face!"

Song Dian gave a light "ah", nodded and said, "Students naturally know what the teacher is worried about."

But... the teacher is so eager to explain, doesn't it seem that there is no silver in this place?

But in the next moment, when Princess Jingrong accompanied the queen mother and passed in front of them, she secretly raised the apple in her hand at his teacher——

Song Dian immediately thought of the matter that when the teacher passed by the back wall of the eldest princess's mansion that day, his highness the eldest princess on the wall hit his head with an apple.

This is really... a lot of fate.

——Song Dian sighed in his heart.

After the empress dowager and the empress sat down, everyone followed suit.

The crown prince sat at the head of the emperor, and the beautiful concubine Rong Gui also asked the nurse to accompany the little prince in her arms.

At the imperial banquet headed by King Yan, several princes stood up first to toast, wishing the mother, empress, and empress dowager a birthday in Nanshan.

Immediately afterwards, a group of juniors, including Prince Jing and Princess Yufeng, stepped forward to offer birthday gifts.

Princess Sangyun naturally prepared birthday gifts and birthday greetings, and these were all approved by the King of Yan.

Like other juniors, Princess Sangyun, who was rewarded by the Queen Mother, sat back with a smile on his face.

She noticed that many eyes were on her - was it because it was her first time in Beijing? Or was it because... she followed her mother's good looks?

What's more, the looks of their Mizhou people are more outstanding and profound than ordinary Zhongzhou people.

Thinking of this, the girl was not afraid of those scrutinizing gazes at all.

Immediately afterwards, all the officials and all the female relatives also stood up to congratulate each other. The Empress Dowager is in good spirits today, her smiling eyes are always bent, she is very amiable, and the hall is harmonious and festive.

Under the imperial steps, music was played, and a group of dancers danced lightly on the gold-woven soft carpet.

Princess Jingrong leaned next to the queen mother, pointing at this and that and asking questions, which made the queen mother laugh from time to time, and Emperor Qingming glanced at it occasionally, and he was also doting on him with a smile.

"Look, ma'am, that's the girl from the Xu family who often plays with me!"

Princess Jingrong pointed in Xu Mingyi's direction.

The queen mother looked over and nodded with a smile.

It turned out that the granddaughter of General Xu's family was already at such an age, and she was born so beautifully.

Sensing the Queen Mother's gaze, Xu Mingyi did not avoid it, but nodded to the old man as obediently as possible.

The Empress Dowager smiled even more intensely, and nodded to the girl in sight.

Immediately afterwards, Xu Mingyi noticed that when the Empress Dowager retracted her eyes, her eyes seemed to stay in the direction of the clan children for a moment.

Wu Chao was sitting there——

Xu Mingyi couldn't help but move his mind slightly.

In the next moment, I saw the boy who was sitting there with his eyes half down, raised his eyes and looked in her direction as if unintentionally.

When the four eyes met, the boy looked down slightly, and glanced at the food in front of her.

Xu Ming understood, and silently picked up the chopsticks.

At the same moment, Princess Sangyun, who was sitting at the imperial banquet, just caught sight of the young man in the dark blue robe.

Almost at a glance, she recognized that this was the boy she had seen outside the city that day——

"Cousin..." After repeated hesitation, the girl plucked up her courage and asked in a low voice to Princess Yufeng next to her, "Which family... is the young master sitting under cousin Shengchang?"

The population of their Xie family's clan is relatively simple, and she has met them in the past few days, so she knows that her older cousin only respects the prince's son. Thinking about it this way, the other party is definitely not a son of the clan.

But the other party is also sitting in the upper position, which shows that his identity should be somewhat unusual.

Princess Yufeng glanced at it leisurely, and said in a casual tone: "That one, he is the grandson of Dingnan Palace."

"Dingnan Prince's Mansion...Ningyang Wu's family?" Princess Sangyun was a little surprised, but soon realized that it turned out to be the empress's nephew, so it's no wonder.

And she remembered that the first concubine was the daughter of the Wu family.

——The woman who had been dead for many years, but was still remembered by her father, and there was even a portrait of her in the study that the father never allowed anyone to set foot in.

But now, she didn't have time to think about these unpleasant things, she just looked at the young man sitting there for a while.

Looking at him from a distance that day, she felt that this man was very handsome. Now that she looks at him like this, she feels that she can't move her eyes away, but because of her cold and noble temperament, people dare not look directly at him.

A quick glance outside the city before, she thought she would never meet again, but she didn't expect that the other party was actually the grandson of King Dingnan...

"Don't think about it, this Wu Shisun already has a sweetheart." Princess Yufeng reminded in a low tone while holding a wine glass.

Princess Sangyun's face turned red when he heard the words, and he immediately explained: "My cousin misunderstood—"

She only saw him for the second time, so what could she think?

Originally, she was only a girl in the capital, reserved and reserved, and she was not as bold and forthright as the girls from Mizhou, but how could this cousin speak such unscrupulous words?

Princess Yufeng disagreed.

What could be wrong.

Isn't it just for sex?

Speaking of experience in this area, even if she doesn't have a hundred, she has eighty times. If she can't even see this, isn't the beauty of these years in vain?

Princess Sangyun suppressed the embarrassment and fluctuation in his heart, and took two mouthfuls of food.

However, the boy's figure always seemed to come into her peripheral vision.

... Does he really have a sweetheart?

Thinking about it, the other party looked obviously a few years older than her. Even if a son of this age did not get married, the marriage should not be in vain.

"Are you engaged?... How do you know it must be your sweetheart?" She asked in a nonchalant tone as much as possible.

——With such a family background, the marriage is mostly just obeying the arrangement of the family, right?

Princess Yufeng said with a smile: "Since I am my sweetheart, getting married is only a matter of time."

Does that mean they are not engaged yet?

How did the cousin know that the other party has a sweetheart?

"I don't know which girl my cousin is talking about?" The girl lowered her voice and asked curiously.

What kind of girl will his sweetheart be?

Today is two chapters in one~

(Note: Mizhou, where King Yan’s fiefdom is located, is in the northwest, similar to the position of Hamiwei in the Ming Dynasty, a little bit to the east, because it is overhead, so you don’t need to substitute the current location of Mizhou, next time I will try to avoid this problem when I name it~)