At first, I heard the serene tone of Youshan Temple forest, and then I smelled the fragrance of incense offered in front of the Buddha. This thick and lingering fragrance of Sanskrit was a meeting gift given to him by Lord Baihua in the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the fourth year of Daxing. have.
The black pupils shrank slightly, Jiang Xuanjin frowned, and took out another letter from Sun Qing and sniffed it lightly.
No, the letterhead that was brought in not long ago would not be so permeated by the fragrance in the room under normal circumstances.
Unless the letter paper is always placed in this room.
Fingers slowly froze on the letter paper, Jiang Xuanjin lowered his eyes, carefully and slowly looking at the two letters in front of him, a thought flashed in his mind, and he firmly rejected it again.
Impossible, Danyang is dead, this is her handwriting, it can only be written during her lifetime.
If someone deliberately imitated, he could tell at a glance.
But... how to explain this aroma
His usual sober mind turned out to be a little chaotic at the moment. He shook his head and squeezed the space between his brows fiercely.
There were cheerful footsteps outside the door.
Jiang Xuanjin regained consciousness, stuffed the two letters into her sleeves, turned around and raised her eyes.
"Hey, what are you doing there?" She entered the door, came to pull him with a smile, and frowned after pulling, "Why are your hands so cold?"
Soft fingers got into his fingers and held him tightly. The man in front of him was in a good mood, rubbed his thumbs, and said with crooked eyebrows: "When your calligraphy is finished, I will hang it in this room. Let's see which lady dares to come to the door in the future!"
As he spoke, he took his hand and gestured towards the beam at the partition: "Just hang it here!"
Jiang Xuanjin slowly tightened his hands. He held her back and didn't answer.
"What?" Sensing something was wrong, Huaiyu blinked at him, "Aren't you really angry?"
"No."
"What's the matter? His face is also a bit ugly." Huaiyu poked his forehead worriedly, muttered, "Don't get sick again, the injury is just right, our Moju is almost turning into a medicine hall."
After closing his eyes and being silent for a moment, when he raised his head again, Jiang Xuanjin returned to normal, and said in a low voice, "Can you send me a picture?"
"Huh?" Huaiyu was stunned. Struggling hastily, "Didn't you say that I can't write?"
"I'll teach you." Jiang Xuanjin stubbornly pulled her towards the desk, "Just write a few simple ones."
Except for "one", any other word is not simple.
Li Huaiyu shook his head again and again, hugged him half-floor, and said coquettishly: "Your calligraphy is beautiful, so it's okay to send it to me, but I don't know how to write it, and it's ridiculous to write it. Besides, there is only a place to hang calligraphy and paintings on the top. , I’ll send you off again, where do you put it?”
Jiang Xuanjin frowned: "You don't want to?"
"It's not that I don't want to, it's... oops!" The corners of his mouth twitched, Huaiyu grabbed his hand and began to play tricks, "I'm so sleepy, look at what time it is."
On the tip of the moon, in the past, it would have been time to go to bed long ago.
The man in front of him pursed his lips slightly, looking a little displeased.
Huaiyu coaxed him softly and without temper: "Don't be angry, although you are cute when you are angry, you still look better when you smile. Sleep well? Let's save everything for tomorrow."
The neck is held by her. The face is very close to her, and you can see her doting almond eyes when you raise your head a little.
Jiang Xuanjin lowered her eyes, stretched out her hand to support her waist, and said in a low voice after a long silence: "Go to sleep."
"I'll take off your clothes for you!" Secretly thanking herself for being fooled again, Huaiyu stretched out her claws towards his skirt with a smile.
Early the next morning.
Jiang Xuanjin went to court, and Huaiyu had nothing to do, so she asked Qingsi to find a plain handkerchief, and embroidered words crookedly on it.
"Aw!"
Qingsi was standing beside her, and she was no longer surprised by the voice, so she calmly spit out a number: "Five."
It was the fifth time I got my hand pierced, Huaiyu was very angry, grabbed the handkerchief and threw it on the ground: "This thing is really not suitable for me!"
When she was a child, which nanny in the palace dared to let her learn embroidery work, she would chase people out of the three palace roads with a needle! Who dares to let her take this Lao Shizi's embroidery needle
But... thinking about Jiang Xuanjin's unhappy expression last night, she gritted her teeth and bent down to pick up the handkerchief.
Qingsi's eyes are extremely complicated: "You can give something else."
Others are embroidering, but this His Highness is doing embroidering at all.
"Didn't he want to write?" Huaiyu said angrily, "I can't write, but I can always embroider."
Ugly is ugly, but if she embroiders two more layers, she can always see the strokes of the characters clearly, right
After poking a few times in a mess, Huaiyu picked up the handkerchief and looked at it, nodded with satisfaction, and then continued to embroider.
"The palace banquet in mid-August is coming soon." Qingsi whispered, "You can still enjoy the moon in the palace this year."
Thinking of this, Huaiyu's eyes brightened slightly: "Just in time, the things in Mingshan Palace should also be destroyed. They have been left there, and something might go wrong at some point."
"Are you going to get it?" Qingsi frowned, with a disapproving expression.
"Only I can enter the palace with Lord Ziyang, who else can do this?" Huaiyu chuckled, "Without the eldest princess, Lu Jing can't go to the palace, and Han Xiao and the others don't even have the way to Mingshan Palace. know."
The "Elder Princess Party", which used to be able to sit at a full table, is now in disarray. If she can do it herself, she doesn't have to bother them anymore.
Looking at Qingsi's expression next to her, Huaiyu comforted her: "You don't have to be too nervous, Mingshan Palace is a cold palace, and no one goes there on weekdays, even if I go and dig through the ground, no one will notice."
After she said that, Qingsi didn't try to persuade her any more, she just lowered her eyes and stood aside quietly.
With the evidence of two letters and Sun Qing's confession, Jiang Xuanjin went directly to the Prime Minister's Mansion with Liu Yunlie, wanting to confront Qi Han face to face.
However, the steward of the Prime Minister's Mansion actually said: "Unfortunately, the master received the imperial order the day before yesterday and went to Dongjun County for inspection. It may take a few days before he returns."
When did you go? Liu Yunlie was at a loss, Jiang Xuanjin also frowned, they didn't hear the news, they didn't see anyone in the past two days, they thought Qi Han was on vacation, but who knew he was out of Beijing!
"What should I do?" Liu Yunlie asked.
What else can I do? Jiang Xuanjin turned around and left.
I can't question him, I can only wait for Qi Han to return to Beijing. The evidence is all there. Don't be afraid to wait a little longer.
On the way back to Tingwei's mansion, I passed several newly opened shops, the sound of firecrackers resounded throughout the street, and there were many onlookers.
Jiang Xuanjin took a look and was a little curious: "The three companies opened at the same time?"
Liu Yunlie was not surprised: "Lu Ji's shops have always been like this, and they build momentum with each other, and the common people are also happy to watch the fun."
Lu Ji? Jiang Xuanjin narrowed his eyes: "Lu Jingxing?"
"Who else is there besides him?" Liu Yunlie shook his head with his hands behind his back, "His business is getting bigger and bigger. I thought that without the support of the eldest princess, he would be able to suppress him by two points. The shop avoided the government making things difficult. It reopened here."
Let him run the business for another two years, and the half of Kyoto will probably fall into his hands.
Fireworks from firecrackers filled half the street. Jiang Xuanjin watched coldly, and saw that under the plaque tied with red silk, Lu Jingxing came out of the shop in a soft silver snow silk robe, waving a fan, and smiled at the people outside the door. Hearing what he said, those people clapping their hands and watching the crowd cheered and walked into the shop.
"Do you still want to see it?" Liu Yunlie withdrew his gaze, "Hurry up and go back to Tingwei's Mansion, there is still work to be done."
"You go back first."
Liu Yunlie was startled. Before he had time to ask why, the person in front of him had already walked towards Lu Jing.
His eyes moved slightly, Liu Yunlie did not turn around to leave, watched him enter the shop after saying a few words with Lu Jingxing, thought for a while, and followed.
The new store opened today, and Lu Jingxing was in the right mood. When he met the man in front of him with a serious face, he squinted his phoenix eyes and smiled: "What? How did I offend the Lord?"
In the secluded teahouse, with no one around, Jiang Xuanjin took out the two letters. directly in front of him.
The exact same "Prime Minister's Personal Invitation" on the cover made Lu Jingxing's smile falter when he saw it.
There was a bad sound in the secret channel, he spread his fan to cover his eyes, and frowned slightly.
"Do you want to explain?" Jiang Xuanjin asked.
"This... there is nothing to explain. His Highness wrote two letters just in case." He said.
Picking up the newer one, Jiang Xuanjin sneered: "On March 27, your Highness passed away, when did she write the latter one?"
"Is this important?" Lu Jingxing put down his fan and looked at him with a puzzled face, "What does your majesty care about? This letter is real, not fake. Even if there are two identical letters, you can take one as you like." …”
"I will let Mojuli let this letter go." Interrupting him, Jiang Xuanjin said, "And it will take a long time."
Hearing his affirmative tone, Lu Jingxing's body tensed up and his mind raced rapidly.
"What's so strange about this?" After making up his mind, he said, "Qingsi brought this letter from the palace. Isn't she in Moju now?"
Qingsi? It was placed in Mojuli early in the morning, but Lu Jingxing's hand was used to hand the letter to him after a detour, what is this
He looked at Lu Jingxing gloomyly. Jiang Xuanjin tapped the table lightly: "I hate being calculated by others."
These two letters are as weird as a conspiracy.
"Who plotted against you?" Lu Jingxing said angrily, "Didn't I want to help you? You want to overturn the case for Danyang, and I also want to see the case overturned. Mutual assistance and mutual benefit, what kind of scheme?"
"You really just want to help?" Jiang Xuanjin didn't believe it. "Danyang is dead, and you are a businessman who is used to seeking benefits and avoiding disadvantages. It seems that it is not worthwhile to spend so much time and effort in wading through muddy waters if you only want to reverse the case."
Upon hearing this. Lu Jingxing's face darkened.
"Jiang Xuanjin." He said coldly, "How much do you know about the matter between me and Danyang?"
"Not many." Jiang Xuanjin said, "Your Excellency is often seen in the palace, and I know that Your Excellency often hangs out with her."
With a sneer, Lu Jingxing closed the fan and put it on the table, looked up at him and said, "In the third year of Daxing, I was tricked by my opponents in the industry and lost half of Lu Ji's country. When I was worried, I went out and met the eldest princess."
At that time Lord Pingling was still around, and Li Huaiyu's life was difficult, and the sadness on his face was no less than his. The two fought in the restaurant over the last jar of wine, and they sat down in the alley to drink together.
"I'm a businessman," he said at the time.
"Oh." She nodded, took a sip of wine and handed him the jar, "I'm a princess."
Ben was still bored, but he laughed when he heard this: "You are a princess, but I am still an emperor."
"The emperor is only ten years old, you are a bit older." She said.
Lu Jingxing stopped laughing, and looked at her blankly, and found that this girl looked really noble. She was dressed in ordinary clothes, but secretly embroidered with the pattern of a fairyland peony, a golden flower between her eyebrows, and her lips were as red as blood.
Sensing his gaze, she kicked over and scolded, "What are you looking at!"
This kick was so powerful that he almost lost his footing. Lu Jingxing snorted, and muttered with a complicated expression: "What a fool, whose princess is as rude as you."
"There are more rude ones, do you want to try?" She picked up the wine jar and lifted it above his head.
Lu Jingxing turned around and was about to run.
"Hello." Li Huaiyu called to him, half drunk and half awake, "What's your name? Let me know, maybe I can help you."
Stopping, he looked back at her, didn't really think that this person could help him, but still said: "Lu Li, the word Jing Xing."
"Standing up high, Jing Xingxing?" She raised her eyebrows and laughed loudly, "You don't look serious, why are you still looking up at the mountains?"
Lu Jingxing asked with a dark face, "Has anyone taught you not to laugh at other people's names in person?"
"No!" She replied confidently, digging her ears, staggering over, and stuffing the wine jar into his hand with a smile, "You drink!"
"I don't... eh?" Just as he was about to say that he would stop drinking, the person in front of him fell down. He quickly threw the wine jar to catch her. the whole alley.
Lu Jingxing actually wanted to throw her directly on the pile of debris and leave, but looking at her appearance, if she was really placed here, she might be treated lightly. In a move of kindness, he simply took her home.
It was only later that he found out that Qingsi was following in the dark at that time, and if he did something bad, he would not be the shopkeeper Lu later.
Fortunately, he behaved well at that time, took care of her for one night, and sent her to the carriage the next day.
"There will be a period later!" She smiled and waved.
Lu Jingxing also waved his hand, but what he thought in his heart was: there will be no future!
The treasurer of the enemy's family is very powerful, and there are people in the court, who oppress Lu Ji to give in every step of the way, and even set a trap for him, and put him in a prison. Lu Jingxing had always done his duty in business, and at that time he didn't know how to "collude with government and businessmen", so he stayed in prison, thinking that he would stay there for several years.
But the next day, he was let out. The officer undid his shackles and motioned him to go outside.
Lu Jingxing was puzzled. He walked out of the prison gate in a daze. He saw Li Huaiyu standing outside with his hips akimbo. When he came out, he scolded him, "Are you still doing business with this brain? Why don't you go home to farm and raise pigs?"
He stared at her blankly, not knowing why. But she came forward, dragged him and walked out: "A mere Jing Zhaoyin can bully you like this? Go! I'll back you up!"
Looking at the long guard of honor behind her, Lu Jingxing finally realized that this person was not lying, she really seemed to be a princess.
It's just really rude.
With the support of this rude princess, Lu Ji fought back. In just two months, he not only got back the lost shop and goods, but also shut down several stores due to a run on Qiu Ji.
"Isn't it the collusion between the government and the business?" Li Huaiyu pulled him and squatted at the door of the closed Qiuji, and handed him a chicken leg, "I will teach you what is the real collusion between the government and the business!"
Helped him a lot, but didn't ask him for anything in return, just talking about these words in a foolish way, drinking wine and eating chicken legs with him.
"My boredom is gone." He looked at her deeply and asked, "What about yours?"
"Don't worry." Li Huaiyu waved his hands carelessly, "I can handle it myself."
It was easy to say, but he later heard that she had fought to the death with Lord Pingling, and almost lost her life several times.
He's just a businessman and can't help at all.
Reaching out to pour half a cup of tea for Jiang Xuanjin in front of him, Lu Jingxing asked, "Do you know what it feels like to be powerless?"
Jiang Xuanjin lowered her eyes: "I've never tasted it before."
"Haha, Mr. Ziyang, who is so powerful, has never tasted that taste, but I know it very well." Putting down the teapot, he said, "You can see this person every day, she smiles at you, punches you and drinks with you. , you know she's in a difficult situation, but there's nothing she can do but watch like an idiot."
"Now that I finally have a chance to help her, why do you come to ask me the pros and cons?"
"I'm a businessman, but a businessman is not a human being?"
At the end of his speech, he was slightly agitated, and Jiang Xuanjin remained silent. In the past, he really only regarded these two people as wine and meat friends, and never thought that there would be such a past.
"That's all." He said, "It's my lord who is worrying too much."
Although these two letters are weird, they are indeed aimed at helping him. If Qingsi really hid the letters in the main house, counting the days, it is not surprising that there are Fanxiang on the letters.
The frown that had been frowning all this time finally relaxed, and Jiang Xuanjin got up and planned to leave.
"Hello." Lu Jingxing called to stop him, "How is Zhuji these days?"
Turning back in displeasure, Jiang Xuanjin said: "Your Excellency has a great friendship with the eldest princess, why do you care so much about others?"
Nonsense, these two people are the same, so of course we need to be concerned about the friendship. Lu Jingxing curled his lips, seeing that he didn't mean to say anything, he waved his hand and said, "Pretend I didn't ask."
Jiang Xuanjin sneered, walked away with a flick of his sleeves, and went straight back to Moju instead of going to Tingwei's Mansion.
Feeling that she suspected the wrong person, Jiang Xuanjin stayed in Mojuli to accompany Bai Zhuji for the next two days, allowing her to tease and make trouble, with a very tolerant attitude.
Huaiyu once felt that it was raining red in the sky. Stretch your head out of the window to look, and whispered: "It's too rare, isn't it?"
Reaching out to pull her back, Jiang Xuanjin said, "It's good to change clothes."
There is a banquet in the palace tonight, and the old man sent some dresses for them to choose from early in the morning. Huaiyu looked back, and found that Jiang Xuanjin had already changed into a silver-woven wide-sleeved robe with dark embroidered cranes.
After being dazed for a moment, she suddenly thought, if such a magnificent person had a child, what would he look like
See her standing still. Jiang Xuanjin shook her head lightly, reached out and fastened the belts around her waist one by one.
"There are many people at the palace banquet, you follow me, don't get lost."
"En." Responding casually, Huaiyu touched the embroidery pattern on his chest wholeheartedly.
Why are other people's embroidery so beautiful? She is so serious, she has not finished embroidering just four words.
Gently patted her hand away, Jiang Xuanjin frowned: "Be more disciplined when entering the palace."
"Got it!" Smiling back to her senses, Huaiyu hugged his arm and walked out with him.
"Master." Qingsi called her in a low voice.
When Huaiyu turned her head, she saw her making a reassuring gesture towards her.
Is everything arranged? Huaiyu nodded. He continued to look ahead as if nothing had happened.
The Palace of Joy is very large, and it is a place specially used by the royal family for banquets, not far from Mingshan Palace. As soon as the people from Jiang's family arrived, it became more lively inside. Many people came up to greet each other, chattering here and there, and scattered everyone in Jiang's family in a short while.
Huaiyu has been following Jiang Xuanjin. He is responsible for talking to people, and she is responsible for eating what is on the table in front of him. The division of labor is clear and the cooperation is pleasant.
only. It didn't take long for these important court officials to take advantage of the full moon festival and start persuading them to drink.
I vaguely remembered that Jiang Xuanjin's capacity for alcohol was not very good. Looking at the wine offered by Xu Xian in front of him, Huaiyu said in a very protective way: "Master Yun and Master Han are still here, how can the general let the emperor drink first?"
Xu Xian raised his eyebrows: "Madam Jun doesn't even let you drink wine?"
"It's not forbidden to drink, there must be a rule." Li Huaiyu was very skilled in dealing with this group of people, "Master Yun has just been promoted, should you have a drink with him first?"
Makes sense! Xu Xian immediately looked at Yun Lanqing, who gave the Mrs. Jun a complicated look. Take a drink from the cup.
"Okay!" Han Xiao applauded and applauded foolishly.
Yun Lanqing was so annoyed when she saw it: "What's good? Should you drink it too?"
"Why?" Han Xiao was puzzled.
Putting the wine cup in front of him, Yun Lanqing said: "I worry about you a lot on weekdays, why do you ask you to drink a glass of wine?"
That's right? Han Xiao nodded, and then downrightly downed a cup.
They were here to toast him with wine, but now they started killing each other. Jiang Xuanjin was amused, and felt that this group of people was actually quite interesting.
However, even if Huaiyu was to hold back the wine for him, there were too many people at the palace banquet, and he would have to drink a few glasses. Jiang Xuanjin fell silent after drinking two cups, pulled her up and walked to a secluded place beside the Palace of Joy.
Huaiyu understood, half supported him and asked, "Drunk?"
"No." He replied stiffly.
Laugh out loud. Li Huaiyu found a rockery for him to sit down on, and said softly, "I'll get you a cup of tea, can you wait here for me?"
The full moon hung high, the palace lanterns were brightly lit, and there was constant laughter at the banquet in the distance. Jiang Xuanjin looked at the person in front of him with drunken eyes, and nodded obediently: "Okay."
Smiling, she reached out and touched his head, Huaiyu couldn't hold back, kissed him hard, then left with her skirt in hand.
If he was not drunk, Jiang Xuanjin could still feel that she was not going back to the banquet, but he was drunk, and all he remembered in his mind was that she wanted him to wait here.
Then he will wait.
Sitting upright, with his hands on his knees, Little Jiang looked helplessly at the deserted road ahead, thinking that when she came back, he had to praise her.
But this time, he waited for a long time, and no one came back from the empty palace road in front of him.