After sending Han Qixia back to the Lin residence, Nangong Yue and Xiao Fei returned to Zhennan Prince's Mansion.
This time going out today, Xiao Fei already felt that she had benefited a lot, and found that the one hundred taels of silver she had planned could do much more than she expected. She can't wait to go back to Yuebiju, first write down today's accounts one by one, and then think about the plan of giving herbal tea.
After having some lunch in Bixiaotang, Xiao Fei left, and Nangong Yue locked herself in the pharmacy with Baihui after digesting her food, and began to develop a new herbal tea recipe.
Thinking that she hadn't made herbal tea by herself for a long time, Nangong Yue enthusiastically fought back.
Heat up the pot, then pour the prepared medicinal materials into the pot, stir fry repeatedly, and pay attention to the heat carefully...
At this moment, a little maid's voice sounded cautiously at the door of the pharmacy: "Princess Shizi, Concubine Wei is here."
Nangong Yue was startled, and temporarily handed over the work of frying the medicine to Baihui, and then ordered the servant girl to invite Wei Shi to Dongcijian.
She went to change a dress first, and then rushed to Dongci Room.
After the two greeted each other, they sat down on an arhat bed with a small desk.
After a brief exchange of greetings, with a slight smile on the corner of Wei's mouth, he said decently: "Concubine Shizi, I'm here this time to pass this on to Concubine Shizi." The servant girl took a list in her hand and put it on the desk.
Nangong Yue picked up the list, glanced at it, raised her eyebrows slightly, and heard Wei said with a smile: "Concubine Shizi, in the past few days, the palace has received a lot of congratulatory gifts for the son, and the concubine has already asked the prince for instructions. , The prince also felt that these congratulatory gifts should be handed over to Bixiao Hall, so I came here. This is a gift list ordered by my concubine, please have a look at it."
Although Nangong Yue only took a cursory glance, she already saw that many of the items on the gift list were very valuable, such as the white ink bed inlaid with jasper, two calligraphy and paintings by the former master Li Mozhi, the red gold head face worth more than 90 yuan, and the Ding kiln. Blue and white porcelain plum vase…
Not to mention that the jasper inlaid white ink bed is worth several thousand taels, Li Mozhi's calligraphy and paintings are precious and rare, if you don't have any connections, even if you want to buy them, you don't necessarily have to find a place to buy them... These gift givers are obviously spending money. Thoughtful.
Since ancient times, many big families lived together for three or four generations. According to the etiquette, as long as there are several houses that have not been separated, the gifts for weddings and weddings are sent by the public, so most of the gifts received are natural. It also belongs to the public.
Since the congratulatory gifts sent today were sent to the concierge at the main gate of the Wangfu, it is okay to return them to the public. Wei Shi was willing to send such an expensive gift to Bixiao Hall, obviously Wei Shi was expressing his sincerity to himself.
Nangong Yue pursed her lips thoughtfully, glanced at Wei Shi, and keenly noticed that there was a trace of tension in the other party's eyes, as if she was afraid that she would refuse.
Nangong Yue bowed her body and said, "I'm really bothering Concubine Wei." The implication was to accept these gifts.
It's good that the Crown Princess is willing to accept it. Wei Shi obviously breathed a sigh of relief, and then even the smile on his face became a lot closer. After chatting with him for a while, he tactfully bid farewell. Not long after she left, some rough envoys brought some heavy camphorwood boxes, saying that they were sent by Concubine Wei.
The main room was filled with these boxes, and after checking the gift list from Wei Shi, Baihui showed surprise, and hurriedly called Nangong Yue over.
"Concubine Shizi, look." Baihui took out a pair of white dragon and phoenix jade pendants from a box, and saw that the jade pendants were crystal clear and white, fine and warm, without a trace of variegation in the whole body, which can be said to be "white as a cut". fat".
"This is mutton fat white jade..." Nangong Yue said with a little surprise, "and it's also Ziyu." Ziyu is extremely rare among mutton fat white jades.
Baihui showed Nangong Yue a certain item in the gift list in her hand, and it was impressively written on the list was a pair of dragon and phoenix and Tian jade pendants.
Suet white jade is the best kind of jade in Hetian jade, and the gift giver has spent great effort on it.
With such a special case in front, Baihui and the others became more and more cautious, comparing the real objects with the gift list and registering them one by one.
As for the pair of mutton fat white jade pendants, she simply kept them by her side. People can raise jade, so putting such fine jade in the warehouse would be wasteful.
"Prince Concubine," Baihui came over to report after counting the congratulatory gifts, "The servant girl will go to open the storeroom and put these things into storage."
Nangong Yue was about to nod, but stood up impromptu: "Let me go and have a look with you."
A few days ago, basically all the things in Xiao Yi's private treasury were moved over, and the books were remade. But Nangong Yue thought that there would only be more and more things in their warehouses in the future, so they opened two more warehouses for people to sort them out.
She also happened to check how the warehouse was being organized.
The presence of the Crown Princess made the woman in charge of the storehouse tremble with trepidation. The storehouse was being tidied up these days, so it was actually a little messy inside...
Fortunately, seeing that the concubine Shi Zi didn't show any displeasure, the mother-in-law was finally secretly relieved.
Nangong Yue casually walked around the warehouse, and saw some scrolls in a wooden box, so she randomly took out a few scrolls and looked at them, just in time to see a pair of "Plum Game Game Picture", her eyes lit up .
Xiao Fei will definitely like this painting.
Nangong Yue rolled up the painting and handed it to Baihui...
Nangong Yue was about to take another look, but she heard a little servant girl running over panting, out of breath, and said: "Shi, Shi Zifei, Shi Ziye is back! Already... Already arrived at Dongyi Gate! "
Ah Yi is back!? Although Nangong Yue knew Xiao Yi would not be there for a long time, she did not expect him to come back so soon.
Nangong Yue hurriedly ordered: "Baihui, Que'er, go get ready..." Nangong Yue couldn't wait to walk out of the warehouse and hurried to the second door.
Before she reached the second gate, she had already seen Xiao Yi approaching on a cobblestone path, so she couldn't help but quicken her pace.
"Ayi!"
Xiao Yi hurried back, with the dust all the way on his body.
If it wasn't for fear of dirtying his stinky girl, he was about to hug her up regardless... But in the end, the excitement, excitement, longing, and guilt in his heart... can only be reduced to one sentence:
"I'm back!"
He is back!
This time, he finally didn't keep her waiting too long!
Xiao Yi looked at Nangong Yue with burning eyes, and took her plain hand. At this moment, he could not see the maids behind Nangong Yue for a long time.
Nangong Yue was a little embarrassed by him, she could almost imagine the teasing eyes of the maids.
"Ayi, you're back!"
The two didn't talk anymore, they walked towards the yard where they lived holding hands, and looked at each other from time to time, a faint warmth flowed in the sight of the two of them... Sometimes, words are not needed, as long as they can hold each other's hands Hands, you will understand each other's minds in the contact between palms and palms.
After Xiao Yi took a bath and changed his clothes, the two began to talk about the daily life. The first thing they wanted to talk about was about Fu Yunhe--
"...Little Crane will stay in Kailian City for the time being." Xiao Yi said, and then explained, "He just led the Xuanjia Army to fight a big victory, so I just let him stay in the Xuanjia Army and continue to clean up. Those unknowing bandits around the border."
"Is Kailian City okay?"
"Excellent." Xiao Yi said with a smile on his face, "The two cities of Fuzhong and Kailian have recovered to a good degree, and those who had to leave their homes and leave these two cities during the war have begun to come back one after another... "Even more people from southern Xinjiang will come to Fuzhong and Kailian. He wants to make these two cities the most prosperous and lively towns except Luoyue City! No, they will definitely surpass Luoyue City!
The smile in Xiao Yi's eyes added another point, and he said: "Stinky girl, after you settle down, I will take you there."
Nangong Yue nodded vigorously, she also wanted to see how prosperous the two cities that Xiao Yi brought down would be governed.
Xiao Yi took out all the local products brought from Kailian City to present treasures to Nangong Yue, especially the two clay dolls, which made Nangong Yue smile deeply. Afterwards, her face was stained with shame, which made her even more charming.
Xiao Yi couldn't help being stunned, he hugged her, and kissed her tender cheeks hard.
Xiao Yi was not willing to let her go for a moment, hugged her in his arms, and asked about her in the mansion, for fear that Nangong Yue would be bullied when he was not around.
Nangong Yue said with a smile that she had reorganized the Bixiao Hall; she was talking about Concubine Wei showing her favor; she was talking about composing residual songs with Xiao Fei; Nangong Yue couldn't help but frowned, and said, "I really don't know what madam thinks, it's clear that the son of the Fang family doesn't match up with sister Fei at all, and he left someone to live in the mansion..."
Xiao Yi raised his eyebrows slightly, this Fang Shilei was too ignorant, he dared to make his stinky girl unhappy, absolutely unbearable!
Xiao Yi said with a half-smile: "It's just the concubine of the Fang family, that is, the lady thinks he will be worthy of the eldest daughter of the palace." He doesn't bother to care who Xiao Fei marries, but if Xiao Fei doesn't marry Well, the stinky girl might be worried, that's not okay!
Speaking of the Fang family, Nangong Yue sat up straight, looked at him seriously and asked, "Ayi, can you tell me about the Fang family?"
After so long, Nangong Yue has never heard Xiao Yi mention his mother's family.
Nangong Yue only knew that Xiao Yi's mother came from Fang's eldest house and was the eldest daughter of the eldest family, but she didn't know anything else. Sometimes she couldn't help but wonder why after her mother-in-law passed away, the Fang family would let Xiao Yi live alone under Xiao Fang's hands, be praised and killed, and be brought up to be a playboy and ignore him .
It was fine in the capital before.
Now that he has come to Southern Xinjiang, he has to go to Fang's house to pay a salute, recognize a relative or something, so this problem cannot be avoided.
When mentioning the Fang family, Xiao Yi said casually: "The Fang family is a local clan in southern Xinjiang, and it probably migrated from the north more than 300 years ago..."
"Fang surname" is the national surname of the Chong Dynasty more than 300 years ago. It is said that at that time, when the dynasties changed and wars broke out everywhere, the royal family of the distant branch moved all the way south to southern Xinjiang for refuge. One of the four major families.
The biggest resource in the hands of the Fang family is mines, and nearly half of the ore veins that have been discovered in southern Xinjiang are in the hands of the Fang family.
As we all know, fighting requires weapons, and weapons require iron ore. For the Zhennan Palace, the Fang family has held a lifeline.
The old Zhennan King arrived in Southern Xinjiang at the beginning of the year, and he was not familiar with the place of life. The major families in Southern Xinjiang were full of guard against him. In order to ease the conflict, he thought of marrying Nanjiang, and after careful consideration, he chose the Fang family.
Because the Fang family held a large amount of mineral veins in their hands, they were afraid that Huaibi would be punished by the Zhennan Palace, so they readily agreed to the marriage.
The marriage between the eldest daughter of Fang's parents and the eldest son of Zhennan Wang was a sensation in southern Xinjiang, and others were envious.
As a result, the relationship between the Zhennan Palace and the various ethnic groups in southern Xinjiang gradually eased.
But Miss Fang passed away due to dystocia a year and a half after the marriage.
Later, it was said that a girl from the concubine's house of the Fang family had a deep relationship with the eldest sister, and couldn't bear the loneliness of the elder sister and the youngest son, so she resolutely married into the Zhennan Prince's Mansion and became the second wife to fill in the house. The people in southern Xinjiang thought of her high righteousness, and praised her as a rare and wonderful woman in the world...
Hearing this, Nangong Yue stared blankly at him and asked, "It's said...who said it?"
Xiao Yi shrugged his shoulders, "It's in the drama. I used to watch this kind of drama when I was in Southern Xinjiang..."