Wu Miao'er was stunned when she heard the words, and then stood up abruptly, almost overturning the table in front of her.
However, she immediately sat back, dragged the crooked table towards her, closed the book in front of her, opened it again, and then calmly looked at the stone.
Then he saw Shi Shi was looking at him with a dumbfounded expression.
Little Stone doesn't know how he makes his Wu brothers unhappy. In his opinion, they have a good relationship. Wu brothers have always called him one by one. a pile.
But now looking at Wu Miao'er, he doesn't seem to be very happy, and Shitou can't ask directly, so he can only say tentatively, "Brother Wu, are you... alright?"
Wu Miaoer pursed her lips, she felt that she was not good, not good at all!
She is a woman and Shishi is a man, even if they are still young, but Wu Miaoer also understands that there are other reasons for men and women, how can they be brothers
Could it be that in the future, he will be that Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai who will come to see him off at the 18th anniversary
But Wu Miao'er couldn't say this directly, she could only endure it.
In the past, women disguised as men because Wu Miaoer was a woman but needed to read and write. As the inheritor of Wu family porcelain, Wu Miaoer knew that the old man was too old and could not accompany her for the rest of her life.
Originally, Qi Yun wanted Wu Miaoer to study with Feng Xiucai at the mansion, but Wu Miaoer knew in her heart that she owed too much to the Qi family, and this kindness should be repaid, but if the Wen family collapsed, she would continue to suffer. With the favor of the Qi family, I am afraid that I will not be able to repay it in this life. At that time, it is not certain who this Wu family porcelain is named after.
Although Wu Miaoer was young, he could see that Qi Yun was an extremely shrewd person, and what he got from him would never be given for nothing.
Perhaps because she understood this, Wu Miaoer chose to disguise herself as a man and enter the academy to study.
As a result, I haven't finished reading the book, so I got myself a righteous brother to come back...
But Wu Miaoer wouldn't say this. She knew that Shitou had an honest temper. If she really told him, she was afraid that she would scare him. Besides, she had fooled others by herself. Neng can vaguely say: "I don't want to swoop in..." After saying that, he lowered his head, looking a little apologetic.
In the end, it was someone else's sincerity, but she concealed something, and Wu Miao'er always felt sorry.
But what surprised Wu Miaoer was that Shitou waved his hand to him and said, "It's okay, I'm in a hurry. Brother Wu, don't take it to heart. It's great for us to be friends."
Wu Miao'er's ears turned red when she said this, and she raised her eyes to look at him.
The little girl's eyes are beautiful, round, and the moment she lifts her eyes, she is very pretty.
Qingfeng, who was waiting on the side, was stunned for a moment, and looked at Wu Miaoer with some doubts, but did not say anything.
Then I heard Wu Miao'er say: "I mean, we are still young, we can't swoop, we have to wait until we are older."
This made Shishi particularly puzzled, and he pulled her and asked, "What is this for?"
Wu Miao'er rolled her eyes, and answered bluntly, "You have to drink the blood in the wine. We can't drink at our age, and the blood is very painful, I dare not."
This reason is really far-fetched, and Qingfeng feels that everything is wrong.
But Shitou believed it, and nodded in agreement: "Brother Wu, you are right, and the second uncle also told me not to drink alcohol. Just now, I was ill-considered and abrupt." After speaking, Shitou got up and faced Wu Miaoer. Apologize.
Wu Miao'er also hurriedly stood up to return her salute. When she bowed down, she didn't know what to think. Her ears were burned red, but her face was no longer stiff, and her smile was the same as before.
At this moment, Feng Xiucai came back with his small teapot, and when he saw two people bowing to each other, he couldn't help but froze for a moment, and said, "What are you doing?"
Wu Miao'er was stunned for a moment, and immediately replied, "Mr. Feng, we... are studying the article."
Shito hurriedly nodded and smiled at Feng Xiucai.
Fortunately, Feng Xiucai just asked the last question and did it without thinking about it. Then he put down the small teapot and asked the two children to send the words they didn't know. He interpreted them one by one. After writing it down, Feng Xiucai picked up the book and read aloud: "Yi Yin Xiangtang defeated Jie, ascended from Xie, and then fought with Jie in the field of Mingtiao..."
Shitou listened intently, Wu Miaoer watched intently, and neither of them thought about what happened just now.
Until he finished reading the text he learned today, and completed the homework left by the academy under the guidance of Feng Xiucai, seeing that it was not early, Wu Miaoer got up and said goodbye, and Shitou followed her to see her off.
When they went out, Shitou also took Wu Miaoer to see the peach blossoms. The two wanted to talk about the peach blossom poems they had learned before, but they taught four books and five classics in the academy. If you want to go, you can only think of the sentence "I remember yesterday when I was five or six years old, and I was full of radiance."
Fortunately, their knowledge is half a catty, and the difference is almost the same, just skimming the last sentence to match the atmosphere.
When he sent Wu Miao'er out, Shi Shi said, "Second aunt said that the family made peach blossom cakes. Today is too late. When we go to school together tomorrow, how about I bring some for you?"
Wu Miao'er nodded with a smile, and then said goodbye to Shitou.
But after bending over like this, Wu Miao'er remembered how foolish this person was when she was dragging her to worship, and couldn't help but whisper, "Idiot."
However, she often said this to Shishi, and it was not malicious. Instead, she was a little closer. Now Shishi heard Wu Miao'er's words and raised her head to ask, "Brother Wu, are you calling me?"
Wu Miao'er looked at him and didn't answer, she just turned her head with a smile and ran away.
Stone looked inexplicable, looking at Wu Miao'er's back, he asked Qingfeng, his book boy, "Do you think Brother Wu is weird today?"
Qingfeng nodded, hesitated for a moment, and said, "I always feel that Wu Gongzi is a bit of a boy and a girl..."
As soon as these words came out, Shitou raised his hand to stop him, and said solemnly: "Brother Wu is not happy for others to say that he is a sissy, this is not a good thing, don't say it in the future."
Qingfeng hurriedly nodded in response, and said no more.
After that, Shi Shi's face returned to joy, and he stepped into the door and muttered, "When Second Aunt comes back, I will go and ask for some peach blossom cakes and bring them back to Brother Wu."
Qingfeng was a little curious: "I saw that the small kitchen has done a lot before, so why don't you just go and get it?"
Shitou shook his head: "No, Xu Bao said that those were taken by others, but now I'm afraid it's already empty, I'll talk about it later."
And the peach cake filled with two food boxes is now on the table in the inner hall of Weiyang Palace.
This is the residence of Empress Meng, and it is also the only palace in this harem that has a master and a concubine. There are more than twice as many people serving as the palace next to it.
However, there are many people serving, but it is very clean. The palace staff try not to make any noise when they come and go, and they are very disciplined. Even if they see Ye Jiao bringing three children into the palace, they pretend not to see it, and there is no discussion at all.
Ye Jiao has seen a lot, and the atmosphere here is similar every time she enters the palace, so she is used to it. Instead, the three children were frightened by the quiet and solemn appearance of the palace servants. of liveliness.
Empress Meng could see the thoughts of the children, so she smiled calmly and said, "Go and bring the prince, the children can play somewhere, and it's good for him to meet people."
The palace servant responded, and after a while, the old woman came carefully holding the swaddle and wanted to hand it to Empress Meng, when she saw Empress Meng glanced to the side with her eyes, the palace servant immediately bent his knees, and then placed Xiao Jingming. Put it on the cot on top of the soft couch.
This little bed looked very much like the one where the dragon and the phoenix slept in the past. It was covered with thick cushions, and the wooden railings were surrounded by layers of soft cloth, so it didn't hurt even if it hit.
And there are two wooden legs that can be shaken under the cot. If you move it inside, the cot will sway, and the small cloth ball hanging on it will also sway back and forth, and the yellow tassels on it are particularly conspicuous. .
Chu Jingming has just woken up, and he is in good spirits now. The three-month-old little guy is plump and fatter than when he was a child, but although he is fat, his face is very pleasing, especially his eyes are very similar. Chu Chengyun, big and clear, bends into a line when he smiles.
Seeing him, the attention of the three children was attracted, and they were hugged and kissed by Queen Meng one by one, and the children let go.
There are his own mothers sitting next to them, which means that the children can rely on their hearts and give them enough courage. Soon Xu Bao Ruyi and Queen Meng played together.
Xu Bao is well-behaved, Ruyi and lively, all of whom are smart, sitting on the bed one by one, rolling back and forth with the ball, while Queen Meng asked Xu Bao with a smile, "Do you remember Auntie?"
Empress Meng just asked casually. She didn't care whether Xu Bao remembered it or not. After all, the last time she saw Xu Bao was a few months ago. It's normal to forget it after so long.
Unexpectedly, Xu Bao, who was holding a cloth ball to coax Ruyi to be happy, raised his head and replied, "Remember, my aunt said that she would send Xu Baozhu strings. The green ones are long."
As soon as these words came out, Queen Meng was stunned for a moment, and then she remembered that she had promised Ye Jiao and Xu Bao last time that if she really had a dragon fetus, she would give the string of jade beads to Xu Bao, but there was no one. Month she had good news.
It's just that Queen Meng is a little strange: "I have already sent the bead string to Qi Mansion, why didn't Xu Bao receive it?"
Xu Bao immediately looked at Ye Jiao and muttered, "There is only one Xu Bao."
Ye Jiao just remembered, reached out and squeezed Xubao's little face, and said in her mouth, "I received it, but the beads are too long. I was afraid that he would hurt himself, so I put it away for him."
Empress Meng is also a mother now, so she naturally understands Ye Jiao's concern for Xu Bao, so she nodded, then smiled and patted Xu Bao's big head: "No hurry, when Xu Bao can get married in the future, put this string of beads on it. Wouldn't it be good to string it as a dowry gift for the future wife?"
Xu Bao blinked, nodded immediately, and wrote it down.
Even if he doesn't know what marriage is and what a lady is, he will always know in the future, write it down first, and then later.
Ruyi saw that they were talking, but no one was playing with him, so he threw the cloth ball, stood up on the bed, and wandered about to find Ye Jiao.
But before she could reach Ye Jiao, she slumped into Empress Meng's arms.
Empress Meng hurriedly hugged her tightly, thinking that Ruyi would make trouble, but who knew that Ruyi just giggled, she hugged Empress Meng back, and said, "Auntie Xiangxiang, Ruyi is hungry."
Ye Jiao leaned over and smelled it, and she smelled the fragrance of peach blossoms on Empress Meng's body, and said with a smile: "Recently, the peach blossoms in my house are in full bloom, and Ruyi likes them very much. She usually likes to stroll in it, but now she only needs to smell the peach blossoms. Wei can't move. I just brought peach blossom cake, Huiniang will try it too?"
Speaking of delicious cakes, I am afraid that the best craftsmen are not as delicate and delicious as the royal chefs in the palace.
Empress Meng is not a greedy person, and has never liked sweets.
But now holding the soft baby doll in her arms, listening to Ruyi's sweet voice, Queen Meng smiled and nodded: "It's still the Jiao Niang who is thoughtful." Then she asked the palace servants beside her to prepare.
When Xu Bao heard that he wanted to eat, his first reaction was to see his younger brother.
In fact, in Qi Er's family, neither Qi Yun nor Ye Jiao said that Xu Bao wanted to let his younger siblings. At most, he only mentioned that his younger siblings were still young, and they asked Xu Bao to protect them while they were playing.
But Xu Bao reads a lot, and always regards the truth in the book as his life creed, and this brother and brother is one of them.
He has always remembered clearly the preferences of his younger siblings. Ruyi likes to play, Ning Bao likes to eat, and Xu Bao thinks of his younger brother when he hears that he wants to eat.
However, Ning Bao, who had always been unable to walk when he heard delicious food, was sitting beside the cot without saying a word, staring directly at Chu Jingming inside.
Ning Bao has a quiet temperament. He is not as curious about the world as Xu Bao, nor is he as lively and disrespectful as Ruyi. Compared to him, Ning Bao is more willing to hold his ball of wool and stay in the quiet. Sleep soundly in the corner.
Originally, Ning Bao was not curious about Chu Jingming, but when Xiao Jingming held out his little hand to him, Ning Bao first sat there, staring at Jingming for a while, and then slowly put his hand through the railing. Going in, he gently held Chu Jingming's little fleshy hand.
The palace servant who was watching on the side wanted to stop her, but she thought of what the Empress had said, so she didn't say anything, just stared at it, always ready to take Ning Bao away.
At this moment, the hands of the two children came together.
Ning Bao didn't react, but Jing Ming showed a smile first.
In fact, the baby who is only three months old has no strength, and because of premature birth and chubby, Xiao Jingming can't even turn over at this moment, but he is very flattering when he laughs, and there is no sound, Ning Bao sees more Since I liked the lively brothers and sisters, when I met someone who was equally quiet, I felt fresh, and then I liked them a little bit.
He didn't even eat the peach blossom cake, Ning Bao sat beside the cot, leaning on the railing to look inside, letting Jing Ming play with his fingers.
And Xiao Jingming hasn't seen other children since he was born, and now he sees one that is natural and fresh, and he can't stop watching.
So when Empress Meng and Ye Jiao found them, they saw the two children staring at each other across the railing. They looked so sincere that Empress Meng couldn't stop laughing, and they didn't bother them. Just take care of it.
After that, Queen Meng had people spread a thick stall on the ground and brought a lot of children's toys to Xubao and Ruyi. The two children immediately played together. Queen Meng got up and sat at the table with Ye Jiao, smiling. He said, "You are a healthy child, and you will like it just by looking at it."
Ye Jiao was holding a tea cup when she heard the words, "I just saw it, and the prince is also very healthy."
Empress Meng's eyes widened when she said this, but her heart was slightly relieved.
Even though the imperial doctor kept saying that Jing Ming was well-kept and would grow up smoothly, Empress Meng felt a little uneasy in her heart. She probably believed in Ye Jiao to the extreme. Queen Meng was relieved.
Ye Jiao lifted the lid of the tea cup and stared at it before drinking it.
There are peach blossoms floating in the tea bowl, which are probably brewed. The peach blossoms that were originally dried seem to be in full bloom. The color of the tea soup is very light, and you can taste it with honey and the aroma of peach blossoms. Intense, just light, but extraordinarily pleasant.
Ye Jiao drank peach blossom tea for the first time and thought it tasted good, so she looked at Queen Meng and asked, "Is this difficult to do?"
Empress Meng usually likes to play with these in her spare time, so she said: "It's not difficult, but you can't drink too much peach blossom tea, just take advantage of the spring to taste something fresh and drink some to suit the occasion."
Ye Jiao nodded and wrote it down. She took another peach cake, but didn't eat it. Instead, she looked at Queen Meng and said, "I went to see Hua Ning before, and counting the days, she will give birth in a few months."
The smile on Queen Meng's face faded, and there was some worry between her brows: "At this time, there is a trouble with bandits. The most suitable person in the court is General Ye. It's just that Hua Ning is suffering. I don't know how Hua Ning is feeling?"
Ye Jiao replied: "It's good, I asked me for peach blossom branches before, and said that I wanted to try to raise it and see if I could support it." The voice paused, "Huiniang, is it really safe for my eldest brother to go here? ?"
Queen Meng is not an ordinary harem concubine, her father is the prime minister, and the ordinary Chu Chengyun will also tell her about the affairs in the court. Queen Meng naturally knows that the sword has no eyes on the battlefield, and no one can win the battle with certainty. .
But at this moment, it was asked by her own sister, and Queen Meng naturally wouldn't deliberately scare her, she just smiled and said, "It should be not, Lord Ye is very familiar with the situation at the border, and most of the people who brought him here are from the old department. All of them are elite soldiers, and with good generals, they are naturally safe.”
Only then could Ye Jiao eat the peach blossom cake with peace of mind, and there was a smile on her face.
Empress Meng, however, stretched out her hand and waved away the palace servants, leaving only the close ones. After the house was clean, she said to Ye Jiao, "I have something to tell you."
With cakes in her mouth, Ye Jiao couldn't speak, so she could only nod her head and look at Empress Meng.
Empress Meng smiled and poured her a cup of tea and handed it over, saying, "Now the relatives of the two kings have accidentally fallen off the cliff, and there are no bones left..."
Ye Jiao was drinking tea and smoothing out the peach blossom cake in her mouth. She heard the words and hurriedly said, "Hui Niang, wait." Then, she bent down and picked up Xu Bao into her arms, and hugged Xu Bao directly. He blocked his ears with his arms, and then said to Queen Meng, "Go on."
Empress Meng also remembered Xu Bao's good memory, so she nodded, and said softly: "Since they are no longer in the family, the property under their name will also be disposed of."
Ye Jiao blinked and said, "They are the emperor's brothers, shouldn't the property be given to the emperor?"
"Having said that, some can be eaten by the imperial court, some can be put into the private treasury, but many cannot be gathered together." Queen Meng took a sip from the tea cup, and then said, " There are about ten shops and two Zhuangzi that can't be cleaned up. This Zhuangzi is not easy to manage. There are many old slaves in it. ."
Ye Jiao was not familiar with business matters, but even so, Ye Jiao could hear that Empress Meng was doing her own favor.
Now Qi Yun opened the largest wine shop in the capital, and the rest were mostly restaurants and tea shops.
It's not that Qi Yun didn't want to, but because every inch of land in the capital is so expensive, a house cannot be bought with money. Many storefronts are handed down from ancestors, so they can't be bought or sold easily, and they can't be bought with money.
Ten pavements have fallen straight down now, which is excellent no matter the location.
Ye Jiao is not the kind of temperament that can be fake and polite, she just happily said: "Huiniang, you treat me very well, I will tell Xianggong when I go back."
Empress Meng also laughed. In fact, this was a private benefit to the Qi family, and everyone could see it.
Compared with those who push and pretend to be false, Empress Meng prefers Ye Jiao's honesty, joy is joy, gratitude is gratitude, never hide it, and the human feelings that should be written down are unambiguous, like this. Much fun to get along with.
But Queen Meng's eyes looked at Chu Jingming who was still holding hands with Ning Bao, and said slowly: "Jiao Niang, treat me well, I will naturally treat you well, everything is worth it."
The words were very light, Ye Jiao didn't hear them clearly, and Empress Meng didn't say anything else, she just squeezed a peach blossom cake to eat.
This peach blossom cake is very well made. The crust is soft and the filling is sweet and fragrant. The Queen Meng usually used very little rice, but she even ate two at this time. Jiao's eyes are very kind.
It is said that on the day of the Empress's birth, it was this lady of the Ye family who pulled her back from the brink of life and death, and this was the only way to save the lives of the First Palace people.
Whether this is true or not, just seeing Queen Meng happily eating an extra piece of cake after seeing the lady of the Ye family is enough to make the palace people look at Ye Jiao with the eyes of a fairy.
When Ye Jiao was about to leave, the eyes of the palace people were all reserved, wishing that Ye Jiao could live in the palace and stare at her mother-in-law every day to eat more.
But Ye Jiao didn't delay much. When Xu Bao and Ruyi were tired and fell asleep, she gently picked up Ruyi and whispered to Queen Meng, "Huiniang, I'll go first."
Queen Meng nodded and also slowed down her voice: "Greet Hua Ning for me, and let her take good care of her."
Ye Jiao nodded in response, and then handed Ruyi to Mrs. Mo, while she went to hug Ning Bao.
Who knows that Ning Bao, who has always slept more than awake, has his eyes open now, without any sleepiness, staring straight at Xiao Jingming.
Although Jing Ming said he had slept at noon, he was young and fell back asleep not long after that. At this moment, he slept soundly with his eyes closed, his small hands tightly gripping the red rope on Ning Bao's wrist.
This red string was made by Ye Jiao for him, and Ning Bao has always been wearing it very preciously.
Seeing that Ye Jiao was coming to hug him and go, Ning Bao didn't say much, but still looked at Jing Ming, obviously very fond of this quiet and chubby little brother.
But Jingming's hand held the red rope tightly, and he would not let it go when he fell asleep.
Ye Jiao was not good at pulling hard, so she looked at Queen Meng as if asking for help.
But before Empress Meng passed by, Ning Bao gently took off the red rope with the other hand, and this was considered separation, while he looked at the red rope held by Jing Ming and muttered: "Send my brother. ." Then he turned his head and hugged Ye Jiao's neck, lying in Ye Jiao's arms without saying a word.
I don't know if I am unwilling to leave, or I feel sorry for the red rope.
Although Ye Jiao didn't understand the friendship between the children, she could feel that Ning Bao was a little down, so she patted the little guy on the back and carried him onto the carriage.
After the carriage started to move, Ning Bao fell asleep. When Ye Jiao put him on the cushion, the little guy turned around and hugged Ruyi. Xiao Ruyi also raised his head slightly for Ning Bao to hold him. Back to their most familiar sleeping position.
Ye Jiao laughed, patted their backs, and then touched the top of Xu Bao's hair, Xu Bao mumbled in a daze: "Mother, I hurt Xu Bao..." and hugged Ye Jiao. Tender hands.
Ye Jiao, on the other hand, lifted the curtain and looked out, feeling that the spring was just right, even if she just looked at the lush trees, she felt at ease.
After entering the city, because the roads in the capital are not always smooth, they occasionally have to detour, and this time the carriage detoured to the street behind Qi's wine shop.
Ye Jiao looked at it, turned her head and asked, "Are you coming to Saburo's house soon?"
Mrs. Mo was looking at the three children, but instead of looking out, Xiao Su just glanced at it and said, "Yes, that's it for the front."
Ye Jiao smiled and said, "Then go over and take a look, to see if Saburo has any shortcomings, so you can make up for it."
The coachman turned a corner and entered the alley.
But soon the driver stopped the car, turned his head and said, "Second Young Mistress, there is a carriage ahead that blocked the alley."
Ye Jiao was stunned for a moment, thinking that Qi Ming had a guest, and looked around.
At a glance, I recognized that the carriage was Qi Ming's frame, and then I saw a woman in a white dress in front of the carriage lying on the ground, clutching her legs, as if she was injured.
Ye Jiao narrowed her eyes and felt that the woman's face was familiar, but she couldn't remember where she had seen it for a while.
She said to Mrs. Mo, "You need to be more careful when you take care of the child." Then she said to Xiao Su, "Go, go and have a look."
The author has something to say: Xu Bao: Why does everyone pay attention to my big head
Ye Jiao: Because it's really big
Xu Bao: …
Qi Yun: Father's love, never call you a big head
Xubao: qaq
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I'm an unimportant little science—
1. Yi Yin Xiangtang attacked Jie, rose from Xing, and then fought with Jie in the wilderness of Mingtiao - Tang Oath of "Shangshu"
2. Recalling that I was five or six years old yesterday, and I was full of splendor - Bai Juyi's "Growing Peach Song"