Lu Zhishan handed the basket to Mu Nanzhi and said with a smile: "Pick a few bunches yourself."
"I want this bunch! This bunch! And this bunch!" Mu Nanzhi hurriedly pointed to several bunches of purple-red grapes.
Lu Zhishan cut off a few bunches of grapes and put them into the basket, then lowered his head and asked the greedy child: "You love grapes, pick a few more bunches, and chill them when you return to the house. They can last for three or four days." Day."
"Then I want this bunch, this bunch," Mu Nanzhi was not polite to him, and immediately selected a few more bunches of red and purple grapes, and said coquettishly with a smile, "Cousin, you are so kind to me."
"It's a good thing that my cousin will be nicer to my daughter," Lu Zhishan also smiled and led Mu Nanzhi through the grape trellis. Facing him were more than a dozen large pomegranate trees, which were now filled with many red pomegranates. , beautiful and pleasing to the eye, Lu Zhishanzi carefully selected six bowl-sized red pomegranates and put them into the bamboo basket, "I heard that my daughter also likes to eat pomegranates."
Mu Nanzhi was so excited that he squealed and ran back and forth among the pomegranate trees. He picked four more and held them in his arms. He said happily: "I want to bring a few more back to Jixiang. I love eating pomegranates but I don't like them the most." I patiently peeled the pomegranate seeds, and Jixiang peeled them for me every time. I always felt embarrassed if I didn’t bring a few to her.”
Lu Zhishan looked at the girl holding a pomegranate in her arms, talking and smiling, and his whole heart felt so soft. He reached out and broke off a blooming pomegranate flower and tied it into the girl's temple.
The girl's face suddenly turned redder than the pomegranate blossoms on her temples.
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Jiasheng early November 21st
Prince Ning's Mansion
"General, something bad has happened!" Du Heng hurriedly entered the study. He didn't have time to salute and hurried to the desk. His expression changed. "The Great Khan of Beidi passed away seven days ago, and the third prince of Beidi succeeded to the throne six days ago."
Lu Zhishan suddenly stood up and said in a deep voice: "Where are Princess Duanhui and Heshuo and the little prince?"
Du Heng's face turned even darker: "Replying to the general, as soon as Xie Lun got the news, he immediately led a small team to sneak into the Beidi Imperial City. However, the imperial city was already strictly guarded by the third prince's people, and Xie Lun could not reveal his identity. , so his movements were restricted, and it took a lot of effort to rescue the little prince from the forbidden garden of the palace. He took the little prince to Culun and hid him overnight, but Princess Duanhui and Shuo... "
Lu Zhishan hurriedly asked: "How is the princess?"
Du Heng looked ugly, paused, and then said in a deep voice: "According to the ancestral system of the Beidi royal family, when the new Great Khan takes the throne, he will marry his concubine who has no children. Normally, Princess Duanhui and Shuo do not have to suffer this humiliation, but Xie Lun found out that the third prince of Beidi had long coveted the beauty of Princess Duanhui and Heshuo. After he came to the throne, he used the life of the little prince to threaten Princess Duanhui and Heshuo. Princess Duanhui and Heshuo had no choice but to give in. Now the new prince The Khan has made Princess Duanhui Heshuo the Right Lady of the Great Account."
"Pop!"
Lu Zhishan suddenly swept all the tea sets, bowls, pens, ink, paper and inkstones on the table to the ground.
"General, you..." Du Heng wanted to comfort Lu Zhishan with a few words, but he couldn't find the right words for a while. He was also very angry and stopped speaking at the moment. He just squatted down and silently cleaned up the mess on the ground.
"I told Zhao Jingting to protect the little prince and never leak any news about the little prince to the outside world," Lu Zhishan said in a deep voice after a long silence, "Reveal the news about Beidi immediately. Let's see how the court handles it first and whether it can be done." Discuss with Beidi and welcome Princess Duanhui and Shuo back to Dali."
"Yes, I understand, this is the only way we can do it now," Du Heng nodded, looked at Lu Zhishan's solemn expression, and said with some hesitation, "I'm afraid that Princess Anle's situation will be bad."