It’s not cold today. Time flies from Jiangnan to Xiajing. It’s almost late spring and summer. The periwinkle flowers in front of Zhaoyang Palace are blooming in clusters, shades of red and white. Drops of water. Concubine Ji loves periwinkle flowers, so they are planted all year round in Zhaoyang Palace, and they are more expensive than people in taking care of them. Ji Hong was wearing a spring cloak, brushed one with the back of his finger, and a laugh came from behind him: "Green cloud white satin, scarlet fan Tang red, whichever one you see, Bai Ling will cut it back for you."
Although her age is not so young, Concubine Ji has not wasted her youth in the palace. She is still good-looking. Even when meeting other concubines, she can also display a high-ranking aura. Now that she sees her own family, she still shows her intimacy.
Ji Hong turned around, first called "Niang Niang", and then changed to "Sister".
Although the emperor bestowed a palace card, Ji Hong seldom entered the palace. Whenever there was news, he sent the eunuchs and maids to spread the word. Personally, I had to come here. Concubine Ji Gui was also surprised when she saw him take the initiative to come, but she felt that it was reasonable, so she hurriedly ordered Bai Ling, her close maid, to set up tea and serve meals, and brought some refreshments.
Concubine Ji Gui had already heard some rumors, and she could roughly guess where Ji Hong came today.
In a few words, she also understood the purpose of Ji Hong's visit today - to tell him that there is someone in the house, good and bad, and that person is just a "houseman" now, but it is impossible to be a houseman in the future. He didn't have anything he wanted to pursue before, and it doesn't mean that he won't have it in the future; moreover, if his thing is accomplished, she will be promoted to be the queen, and he can get what he wants, and both parties will be happy.
So Ji Hong let her have this in mind first, what he does outside will not hinder the palace, but will help the palace, so just ask the palace not to join others to hinder him.
Now that you're here, you can't leave too hastily. After talking about the business, you have to chat about the daily routine, and ask him a little bit about his health, and what supplements he has taken recently... and so on and so on. Until noon. Concubine Ji Gui still kept him for dinner, but Ji Hong declined politely. She didn't force him to stay, so she gave him two boxes of high-quality golden silk bird's nest and asked him to take them back. Give his "houseman" a welcome gift.
At this time, the imperial concubine didn't know that his "person in the house" was actually a young man, otherwise she wouldn't have given bird's nest, a tonic that only her daughter loved to eat.
Ji Hong didn't mention it, he just thanked Yu Jinnian, just as if he came out in the morning and went back in the sun at noon.
Bailing sent him out of Zhaoyang Palace, and when he came back, seeing that his mother was also thinking deeply, he couldn't help muttering: "My mother is looking forward to my family members coming into the palace to have a look. Today, the son finally came, but For the sake of an outsider, why do you say... 'I don't ask you to help me, but don't come to hinder me', is that what it means, empress? What is the young master going to do!"
Concubine Ji sighed: "Our Ji family owes him what he likes now, I just don't interrupt."
Bai Ling was puzzled and said: "Whether you owe it or not, if you don't pay it back, it's a family. If one prospers and all prospers, one loses and all loses."
Concubine Ji Gui smiled and said nothing more. After Ji Yan's accident, Ji Hong didn't fight or grab, sometimes she felt anxious, but after all she and Ji Hong were separated by a layer of concubine relationship. With a plan in her heart, she felt that a stone had fallen from her heart.
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Hurry up, but it was still late for lunch when I got back to the mansion. Ji Hongcai took off the spring cloak and threw it to the servants as soon as he entered the Kanghe courtyard. He asked Yu Jinnian how he was today, what time did he get up in the morning, what did he eat, What did you do? My eyes are better. Duan Ming hurriedly followed up and explained everything in detail. He also said that Qing Huan sewed him a black gauze hat to cover his eyes, and that he had been strolling in the yard in the morning, teasing him. In order to tease the birds on the tree, I said I was tired now, and it was useless for lunch, so I went to sleep.
He also said that Mr. Min had come, but because the master had ordered no one to come in, he locked him outside Kanghe's courtyard for half an hour, and he left in anger before Ji Hong came back.
Ji Hong directly ignored Min Xuefei's criticism, and only frowned at Yu Jinnian's current situation: "I've been sleeping upside down day and night, why did I go to take a nap again?" He turned into the bedroom in two or three steps, and saw the boy lying with his belly open On the Luohan couch, a gauze cap was covering his face, and one hand was hanging over the edge of the couch. Ji Hong walked over softly, sat beside him, lifted the gauze cap and pinched his face.
Yu Jinnian muttered a few words, turned over, opened his eyes and looked at him: "Well, Ah Hong... where did he go?"
"It's nothing serious to enter the palace. I heard from Duan Ming and the others that you haven't eaten yet?" Ji Hong bowed his head and kissed him on the mouth, picked him up, and decided to cure his day and night disorder. Yu Jinnian was reluctant, tilted from his shoulders to his knees, awkwardly as if he had lost his bones, but refused to obey. He was extremely sleepy, so he just talked nonsense about his headache, eye pain, and back pain. In short, there was nothing that didn't hurt.
Ji Hong was angry with him, but there was nothing he could do about it, but he couldn't let him continue to sleep, otherwise sleeping would become a habit in the future, and it would be even more difficult to correct. He put a lot of effort into arranging the boy, and when he saw that he was about to fall, he stretched out his hand and pushed him, coaxing and cheating: "Jinnian, would you like to eat something with me? After eating, I'll take you out for a walk, Xia Jingduo is a fun place. Whether you drink wine or not, the second brother's cup is drunk."
"..."
Well, he was a drunkard after all. When he heard that he was drunk, he immediately woke up and asked him when he could go.
Ji Hong shook his head with a smile, couldn't help but kissed him, immediately put on a straight face, told him to eat first, and then ordered Duan Ming to pass on a few more light dishes, and put them directly on the Arhat couch for use. , After thinking about it, in short, it will take some time to cook in another pot, and I also asked to stew the golden bird's nest that was rewarded by the palace earlier, and use sweet-scented osmanthus honey for sweetening.
When the food was actually served, Ji Hong had already spared him for a while and told him to take a nap, but Yu Jinnian was still leaning aside sleepily, chewing numbly the food that Ji Hong stuffed into his mouth, He squinted his eyes half sleepy, almost slapping his face into the dish several times. Ji Hong teased and fiddled with him, and finally let him eat a few mouthfuls of food, and patiently coaxed him to feed half a bowl of bird's nest.
Anyway, Yu Jinnian just opened his mouth to eat, and after a meal, he might not even know what he ate, but he was sleepy, and he still had thoughts. Although he closed his eyes, he still missed the drunken pot spring.
A thick soft blanket was spread on the Arhat's couch. Ji Hong asked someone to tear off the leftovers, ordered some clothes, closed the door, and stripped him naked one by one. He was so sleepy that he didn't feel shy, Ji Hong took advantage of changing clothes to commit obscenity, Yu Jinnian opened his mouth and breathed, and soon his whole body shuddered, and he confessed shamelessly.
Only then did he wake up, and glared at Ji Hong with wet red eyes.
Ji Hong wiped his hands little by little in front of him, and asked him "are you awake now", which made Yu Jinnian tongue-tied with embarrassment. After that, the little thing finally became honest, Ji Hong put on new clothes for him with his own hands, and tied the machete around his waist. Dressed like this, he was like a charming little son from a wealthy family. After thinking about it, but still not at ease, he took off the rose-patterned white jade webbing on his body, and fastened it to the boy's waist button.
People at that time didn't recognize Yu Jinnian's face, but they should also recognize the Ji family pattern on his waist, and no one dared to be too pretentious.
Fold them all, put a gauze hat on him, and ask Shang Qinghuan to bring things he might need before preparing the carriages and horses to go out.
When he got to the street, Yu Jinnian regained his energy a bit. He leaned on the window frame and looked out, only a layer of black veil was blocking his eyes, and his eyesight was poor. In fact, he couldn't see clearly, but he could experience the capital city from all directions. The scenery is prosperous. This is completely different from Xin'an County. The small town in the south is always wet, and it is always soft in memory, which makes people easily feel lazy.
Yu Jinnian looked at this side, and then leaned over to Ji Hong's side to look at it. The shops and vendors on both sides, and the colorful silk and red satin upstairs made him unable to take his eyes off him.
Ji Hong took him back a little, fearing that the road ahead would be uneven and he would fall out.
Turning a corner, Duan Ming stopped the car suddenly. Yu Jinnian was surprised that what he saw in front of him was not a drunken restaurant, but a poorly managed inn that was on the verge of bankruptcy. Before he had time to ask, Duan Ming lifted the curtain of the car, A thick booklet was handed over. Ji Hong took it and glanced at it, then handed it to Yu Jinnian, and said very normally: "Let's start with this one, take a look first, and tell me which one you like."
Yu Jinnian looked at him strangely, puzzled, so he opened the booklet in his hand, buried his head in it, squinted his unrecovered eyes, looked hard, and then realized what was in his hand Shi Shi couldn't help but widen his eyes, feeling as if he was being taken care of... unreasonably, and this was the first date, so he just waved his hand and sent the car to the house.
Seeing that he didn't move, Ji Hong thought that his eyesight was bad, and it was a bit embarrassing for him to read it by himself, so he reached out to take the booklet back, read it to him page by page, and closed it after reading a few pages. Going to the side, he directly ordered Duan Ming to drive to the field for inspection, and made a little comment at the door, and then took him in for a walk. What is the location, what is the shopkeeper, or what is the character of the accountant? There are countless, none of them is wrong.
He also had selfish intentions, because he planned to move to Jinyouting in a few days, so he only took a look at the shops near Jinyouting, and stopped going further away, but even so, he only looked at the shops in the afternoon. Half of the store. Later, what Ji Hong introduced, Yu Jinnian couldn't remember for a long time, his mind was only filled with emotions about "how big is Xia Jing" and "how rich is Ji Hong".
Seeing that the young man couldn't move anymore, he took them to a small shop, which is a place where drunken springs are sold.
Yu Jinnian always thought that such a well-known and famous wine should be a large restaurant with closed rooms inside and out, but he didn't expect that it was just a small restaurant with elegant decoration, and it was named "Yihe Xiaosi" ", which means that all wines in the wild, no matter how high or low, each person only sells one drink. If you still want to drink again, you have to see if you can meet the boss's relationship. If you meet the boss's relationship, it's okay to give away a jar for free; if you don't meet the boss's relationship, half a drop of sake is too much.
When Ji Hongcai walked in, the boss looked up and waved his hand immediately: "If you don't understand wine, don't sell it! Let's go!"
This is called being out of touch with the boss.
Yu Jinnian had already smelled the smell of fine wine that filled the house, and he was not willing to leave. He was about to fight again, but he heard someone shouting on the street: "Axi! Axi, don't scare your mother..." Turning around, he saw a man wrapped in brocade The satin woman hurriedly jumped out of a long-parked carriage, holding a two or three-year-old doll in her arms. The doll was also wrapped in a brocade quilt, with only its furry head exposed.
But Yu Jinnian looked at the child who seemed to be twitching.
I don't know what went wrong, there is no maid or servant beside such a rich lady, and the woman seemed to be in a panic, not knowing what to do, she touched the little face of the child in her arms, and could only whisper Weeping and calling "Master", and then calling "Axi" with a face full of embarrassment.
Yu Jinnian frowned, took back his steps towards the restaurant, turned around and walked past the crowd.
When Ji Hong recognized who the woman was, Yu Jinnian had already stepped up.