In the middle of the night, Gu Lian woke up habitually, opened his eyes to look at Qiao Mingyu, and then remembered that the two of them had already slept in the same bed. She tucked the quilt for Qiao Mingyu, closed her eyes, and fell asleep again. It seemed that the habit of waking up in the middle of the night could be changed.
She didn't know that after she fell asleep, Qiao Mingyu also woke up in a daze, moved closer to Gu Lian's arms, found a soft place to rub, then put her head back in place, yawned and continued sleep.
After waking up during the day, Gu Lian didn't know what happened at night. She got out of bed and turned on the heater, and found that the charcoal fire was almost finished, no wonder it was a little cold in the morning. Putting on a festive light red jacket, he sat down in front of the dressing table and began to choose the hairpins to wear today.
Qiao Mingyu didn't like the servant girl's service, and Gu Lian didn't like it too much either. If it weren't for these complicated hairpin rings, she wouldn't be very good at wearing them, and she wouldn't have let the maids serve them before.
Su Dan estimated the time, and asked Mei Xiang and the others to enter with the little palace maid who carried the water and the handkerchief, while she went to the kitchen to watch to prevent any mistakes. In fact, there is nothing wrong, but Su Dan is used to it, and generally does not allow himself to be idle, otherwise he will feel uncomfortable.
Mei Xiang gently handed over a water cup and a toothbrush. In this era, many daily necessities have been invented, such as toothbrushes, which greatly facilitated daily life. After quietly brushing his teeth and washing his face, Qiao Mingyu said excitedly last night that Qiao Mingyu had not woken up in the middle of the night.
Gu Lian retreated the little palace maid and asked Su Dan to wear a hairpin on his hair.
The little butterfly that just woke up flew out of the warm warm jade box, which was covered with several layers of soft cloth and some fresh medicinal petals. Bi Die liked it very much. Seeing Gu Lian wearing a red dress, it shook its wings and turned into a light red color. It stopped on the hairpin, very beautiful.
With the spiderling and the snake, Gu Lian basically had "the whole family" together, and it was time for breakfast.
"I'll go back to the mansion earlier today." Gu Lian said to Su Dan.
Not going to the dinner party, but just having a luncheon is too much. It would be better to go to the Gu Mansion earlier. If you stay for an hour or two longer, the face of the Gu Mansion will be good.
"Your Highness hasn't got up yet?" Su Dan handed over the porridge bowl. The green and beautiful green rice porridge looks like a work of art. It is accompanied by a table full of porridge and side dishes that are full of color and fragrance, and a few plates of sweet and savory snacks. rich.
Even if the national treasury is not rich, the silver rice allocated to the royal family and relatives every year is not deducted, and Qiao Mingyu is too much to use up here. In previous years, Qiao Mingyu would donate to subsidize soldiers, and this year is no exception, and even donated more.
Seeing Gu Lian staring at the food on the table, Su Dan explained: "This year, more than half of the rice and grain supplies were donated to the border, so the meals should be a little simpler."
Originally, today's New Year's Eve, the three meals will be several times more abundant than usual, but today is about the same as usual. It can be seen that when the new year is over, the luxury of the three meals a day in this house will drop several grades.
It was about yesterday that Qiao Mingyu was stimulated by the massacre of the city and directly donated most of the supplies. But these are Qiao Mingyu's things, she decides. Gu Lian felt that one meat and two vegetarian dishes plus one soup would be enough for the whole family to eat. She doesn't care whether the food is abundant or not, if she can eat enough, she is satisfied.
"What the princess did is right." Gu Lian picked up the porridge and slowly finished it, and then carefully ordered Sudan.
After all, the princess has never seen how poor people live. The government handles these donated materials simply and rudely to the state treasury, but if you really want to benefit the frontier soldiers, it is not so simple. The things sent into the treasury are not necessarily used by the soldiers, not to mention that the materials allocated to the soldiers will be exploited layer by layer, and in the end there will be not much left.
While it was still early, Gu Lian explained everything that came to his mind: "Don't move the satin in the house, try to get rid of the other brocades and replace them with muslin cloth. They are not used to wearing good fabrics to make clothes for soldiers. , after all, I usually wear coarse cloth on weekdays, so it is better to replace it with fine cloth that is more comfortable but not too expensive." Now everyone is short of money, so they have to plan carefully.
"It's better to have the kind of food that is full without stinging your throat." Coarse grains are cheaper here, but the taste is really bad. Rice is more expensive than wheat, and the frontier warriors are also used to eating flour products, so it is best to send wheat.
It's not enough to just say that, Gu Lian thought about it, then went to the study and listed them down.
For example, there are some foods that are cheap but you don’t need to eat too much food. If you really don’t have enough food, you can use it to refill. Another example is which medicinal materials are cheap but very practical wound medicines that are grown everywhere, but they are not usually paid much attention to.
Many medicinal materials have more than one purpose. However, medical treatment is not developed in this era, and many medicinal materials are even used as food ingredients, not to mention the second use has been discovered.
Su Dan held the piece of paper carefully, but it felt like it was worth more than a thousand gold. After being nurtured by Qiao Mingyu for a long time, although she is a palace maid, she has a special affection for the soldiers, and hopes that they can all return to their fields safely, instead of losing their lives due to lack of clothing, food and medicinal materials.
After sending Gu Lian to Gu's house, Su Dan put away the paper and hurried to the main courtyard. She had to inform the princess. It would be great if the contents of the paper could be copied and handed over to the new emperor.
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In fact, when Gu Lian got up, Qiao Mingyu was already awake. But she got too embarrassed, so she continued to hide under the quilt and pretend to sleep.
What I did in a daze last night, I had no consciousness at that time, and now Qiao Mingyu has completely remembered it. Thinking of burying her head on Gu Lian's chest for a long time, Qiao Mingyu felt particularly embarrassed.
Fortunately, Ai didn't know.
As soon as Gu Lian left the room, Qiao Mingyu immediately sat up, covering her face and sitting dry for a long time.
When she finally adjusted her mood and was ready to face Gu Lian and read a book with her, Qiao Mingyu knew from the little palace maid that Gu Lian had gone to Gu's residence.
I have already gone to Gufu! Why are you in such a hurry!
Qiao Mingyu threw the face mask into the sink, feeling depressed.
She hasn't had breakfast with Ah Lian, she hasn't read books together, and she hasn't shared her childhood with each other like last night. Why did Ah Lian leave! Last night, she broke through the fact that she knew Alian's secret on an impulse, and it was a pity that she had not had time to listen to Aliano say something about her previous life.
Depressed, Her Royal Highness, holding a gun, was going to find someone to practice.
The commander and the others have all gone home for the Chinese New Year, and there are only those nursing homes and secret guards who live outside Beijing, and there is almost no one to accompany them when they fight.
Just at this moment, Su Dan came in a hurry.
After explaining the purpose of his visit, Qiao Mingyu waved his hand. She knew that since Gu Lian wrote this, she didn't care about spreading it out. If she really didn't want to spread it, she would specifically tell Su Dan.
Su Dan got permission and heaved a sigh of relief. Just as he was about to turn around to deal with the paper, he suddenly remembered that the princess hadn't had breakfast yet.
"His Royal Highness." Su Dan looked at Qiao Mingyu disapprovingly, "You haven't had breakfast yet, why are you playing guns again?"
Qiao Mingyu looked at the gun in his arms and found that there seemed to be no excuse for denial at this moment.
Su Dan relented: "Why don't you always take your body seriously? If you go on like this, the slave will have to ask Miss Gu to look at you more."
Thinking that Gu Lian would stare at her eating, sleeping, and resting routine every day under Su Dan's entrustment, Qiao Mingyu immediately shook, inexplicably remembering the appearance of Gu Lian stepping on the sixth prince's neck a few days ago, which was particularly domineering. From that point of view, Gu Lian is not easy to deal with.
For some reason, Qiao Mingyu made up for Gu Lian staring at her with a whip while eating.
Then, Qiao Mingyu trembled again, as if... a little scary...
"I'll have dinner right away." Qiao Mingyu turned around and walked towards the small hall.
Satisfied, Su Dan rushed to the palace master with rice paper in his arms.
On the other end, Gu Lian was helped by Mei Xiang to get off the carriage, straightened his clothes, and walked slowly into the Gu residence with four little girls.
"The eldest is back." The servants in the house hurriedly greeted her, but the look in her eyes was always a little weird.
Gu Lian was unmoved, as if he didn't notice it.
The housekeeper came to lead the way, and the other servants could not keep following, so they stopped after entering the second door. When Xu Shi saw Gu Lian walking away, they began to chat in a low voice: "I thought the eldest young lady was going to be the imperial concubine, but it turns out..."
"It seems that everyone's thinking is wrong. The eldest miss is the same as before, she is just a companion."
"No!"
"Speaking of today's sage, it's really not beautiful, and the empress with the highest rank in the palace is just a noble person..."
When turning, Gu Lian tilted her head slightly and looked there.
The group of people quietly looked at Gu Lian while talking about gossip. When they met Gu Lian's meaningful gaze, they were so frightened that they didn't dare to say anything.
Seeing that Gu Lian entered the hanging flower door and went around to another road, and they couldn't even see their backs, they finally took a sigh of relief. Touching his head, he broke out in a cold sweat.
Several people looked at each other in dismay, dare not talk about anything, and hurriedly dispersed.
"Even if the eldest miss is only a companion, I'm afraid she is more stylish than the empress in the palace..." I muttered in my heart, and the others did not dare to say more.
Originally, there were at most one big palace maid, two small palace maids, and three little eunuchs around those nobles, and the others were slavish servants, and Gu Lian was much more respectable than them. The four girls around him were joined by the new emperor's big hand and joined the establishment of the maid of the palace. They will marry in a lot of style in the future, and they are considered servants from the royal family. Su Dan was afraid that she would be bullied, so he sent more little palace maids and little eunuchs to follow, and even the big eunuch sent a few to help Gu Lian with errands.
At first, Gu Lian refused, until Su Dan smiled and said that the emperor was going to seal her a county master, and there could be no one around the county master, so she gave up.
"How can I seal the county master?" Gu Lian frowned slightly.
Isn't this nonsense, how can these things be blocked.