On the Dragon Boat Festival the next day, there will be a dragon boat race in Huaijing.
Although the three months of the national mourning have passed, everyone dared not have fun. The meaning of the dragon boat race is over, and Qiao Mingyu is very unsatisfactory.
But as her own daughter, she can't say anything. Her father is dead, and it doesn't seem like she's too happy if she's too happy.
Gu Lian smeared realgar wine on her eyebrows, and when she tried to trick her into drinking a little more, she found that it was not easy to deceive. Qiao Mingyu doesn't like this wine, she likes the spirits from the northwest.
"Forget it." Gu Lian washed his hands and suggested, "Go eat zongzi? And duck eggs, you ate a lot yesterday."
Qiao Mingyu only eats the oily egg yolk, not touching the egg white. Huaijing is located on the North Jiangnan Road, and there is a scenic town on the East Jiangnan Road, specializing in the production of salted duck eggs, which are even sent to the palace as tributes. Gu Lian's pickling is naturally no better than others, but it is better than the special people who pickled it. In Qiao Mingyu's eyes, the tribute is probably no better than what Gu Lian does.
Seeing Qiao Mingyu eating egg yolks while cooking rice, Gu Lian smiled and ate the egg whites she left aside.
After eating, Qiao Mingyu suddenly remembered something.
"I almost forgot, the emperor asked you to come to the palace with me today, and by the way, have a family banquet in the palace at night."
Gu Lian was slightly surprised: "Family banquet?"
Under what name does she attend the family dinner
"It's not that kind of family banquet." Qiao Mingyu shook his head, "There are no annoying concubines, just me, you, the emperor's brother, sister-in-law, and my eldest nephew."
Gu Lian understood: "Okay then, I'll go prepare some small gifts for His Royal Highness."
Children should like bright things, and Gu Lian was going to ask Lan Xiang to take a colorful net and wrap a double yellow salted duck egg and bring it to him. This is the custom in some places. The salted duck egg is wrapped around the neck, and when you want to eat it, you take it out and eat it directly.
Although I felt that His Royal Highness looked down on this little thing, Gu Lian was just wicked and wanted to play. If there are no children in the family who can bring the network, then I will feel wronged for the little prince.
After drinking a cup of tea and resting for a while, Gu Lian followed Qiao Mingyu into the palace.
Qiao Mingyu rode on the charcoal ball and directly pulled Gu Lian onto the horse, making her sit sideways in front of him. In this way, as long as Qiao Mingyu stretches out his hand to pull the reins, he can directly wrap Gu Lian in his arms.
Gu Lian couldn't sit upright wearing a skirt, so he sat on the horse as she wished, and shrank in her arms, looking like a bird.
"Drive!" Qiao Mingyu patted the horse's butt lightly, and the charcoal ball trotted towards the palace.
The county master's mansion is located in the east of the city. This is the residence of officials and marquis, so the streets are empty and there are no pedestrians. Occasionally, the carriages of various families are either rich or expensive, and they will stop to say hello to each other.
There is basically no need to worry about bumping into people when trotting on a horse here, and Qiao Mingyu didn't stop. She didn't take the initiative to greet her when she met people on the road, but everyone was used to it, and the princess used to be like this.
"Have you discussed it? What kind of constitution is it?" Gu Lian asked while taking advantage of this moment.
Qiao Mingyu hurried into the palace after eating yesterday, not knowing what was discussed with Emperor Rui.
Qiao Mingyu nodded: "The emperor's intention is to let you live in the palace to teach the prince, but I think such words will damage your reputation. People who don't know will think that you have entered the palace as a concubine." Saying this, Qiao Mingyu Obviously a lot of awkwardness, "Then I said that I will also live in the palace and let you live with me in the palace before me."
Gu Lian laughed when she heard it, she could fully imagine Qiao Mingyu's fake expression of public welfare.
"I think it's pretty good. I'll live with you in the palace, which is much better than living alone." Qiao Mingyu emphasized again.
"It's good." Gu Lian didn't expose her, in fact, this person just wanted to live with her.
Since she moved to the Princess Mansion, every time Qiao Mingyu came to see her, she would resentfully ask her when she would return to the Princess Mansion. Gu Lian refused with a reason, just to see how she would solve it.
I thought that Qiao Mingyu would simply go to her house with the cheeks, but when this happened, Qiao Mingyu came up with the idea.
Gu Lian didn't care, she originally just felt that the emperor had given the mansion, and she seemed a little contemptuous of the emperor's grace for a few days. And she also wanted Qiao Mingyu to have a taste of lovesickness, so that she could wake up earlier. It's a pity that the hole was not opened, this guy cunningly found another way to get over.
"That's it." Gu Lian agreed.
Qiao Mingyu was pleasantly surprised and thought she would have to spend more time talking, but Gu Lian agreed directly.
Xu Shi felt that she agreed too quickly, and Qiao Mingyu felt a little uneasy in her heart.
Why did A Lian agree to enter the palace so quickly? Ah Lian won't take a fancy to her brother, will he
The ignorant princess suddenly felt a sense of crisis in her heart. She didn't know where this sense of crisis came from, but she subconsciously decided to cut off Gu Lian's contact with her brother. In any case, they cannot be left alone.
But no matter how he thought about this decision, Qiao Mingyu tried his best to find a reason for himself—the emperor had a sister-in-law, so he couldn't let Ah Lian destroy their relationship.
Perfect.
So A Lian just has to live happily with her.
After thinking about these brain-burning things, Qiao Mingyu hugged the person in her arms tightly and made the charcoal ball run faster.
Really, after eating so much horse grass, why does it seem like I haven't eaten? It must be because I have become fat and can't run anymore!
Horses are not allowed in the palace, but Qiao Mingyu has the privilege and can ignore these rules. However, in order to show her respect for the imperial power, she no longer let the horse run forward, but just walked in slowly, and no one walked fast.
Fortunately, the two of them are not in a hurry, and it is also good to take a look at the scenery along the way.
The palace has been renovated recently, and the attack on the Huns has won a great victory. Her Royal Highness the princess directly wiped out this ethnic group in one pot, and there will be no worse things for the Huns to attack in the future. His Majesty Rui Di was delighted, so he ordered his house to be repaired, and the unsatisfactory parts were changed, so that it would be more comfortable to live in.
Her Royal Highness's bedroom was also repaired, but it didn't change much, because Qiao Mingyu was not willing to be changed. Ruidi naturally followed her, and if she did not change it, she would not change it, so the yard and the palace were decorated more delicately.
"I heard my royal brother complain that the elders said that he was not diligent enough, saying that the treasury was already empty after the war and disaster relief, how could the royal brother start to rebuild the palace at this moment. I haven't seen this group in the morning. People are chattering crookedly, and they only dare to talk about it." Qiao Mingyu looked contemptuous.
Gu Lian was amused: "Then your emperor didn't punish them for copying Tian Xilu?"
"Punishment!" Qiao Mingyu was happy when he said this. Those people were just kidding when Rui Di said that the punishment for copying books was just a joke. You can't force it. With such a thick book, Qiao Mingyu had a headache looking at it. The main reason is that being punished for copying books is shameful, just like being punished by the master for not studying hard.
In other words, they managed too much, and the emperor didn't use the money from the treasury to repair the palace. It stands to reason that this kind of thing requires the state treasury to pay, and the repair of the palace is something that has to be done every few years. In previous years, the Minister of Rites would also take the initiative to remind the emperor to order the repair, and then let the Ministry of Work supervise it. Not to mention some important palaces, which have to be renovated every year and checked and maintained every month, lest something go wrong when they are used one day, and the royal family will be embarrassed.
However, Ruidi was a kind man, and when the treasury was empty, he did not pay any money from the treasury. This time, Xiu Palace took his own private treasury. Speaking of which, it was the wealth he had saved when he was the third prince. Of course, there was also the money he got after copying the Fourth Prince's Mansion and the Sixth Prince's Mansion.
These two guys are not as "clean" as Rui Di, the filial piety of their subordinates is really much. The sixth prince quietly intervened in business, and asked his subordinates to compete with the people for profit. If Emperor Rui hadn't suppressed it, those wealthy businessmen would have made trouble long ago. The fourth prince was not much better. There were so many corrupt officials under his command that they sent money to the top layer by layer, all of which were used to please and bribe the fourth prince. Naturally, the fourth prince didn't use that much, so he put them all in the house, and finally made Emperor Rui cheaper.
"Then your brother is still crying poor." Gu Lian was speechless.
Rui Di's small purse was bulging. Before the war, he was crying because he had no money. Gu Lian had no choice, so he sent Lingsu some good things and asked him to use it to find someone to do business to make money. Curry is all about money. Now that the battle is over, he happily took out the money to repair the palace, and he was very generous. It didn't look like he had no money at all.
Having said that, Qiao Mingyu touched his nose.
In fact, her brother gave her a lot of money, saying that it was for her daughter-in-law's book, which was kept in her princess palace. Seriously, her brother really had no money back then.
"It's here." Qiao Mingyu reined in his horse, got off first, and then helped Gu Lian down.
At this moment, Ruidi is still approving memorials, and Lingsu is taking the children to read books.
Lingsu himself couldn't read books at all, so he was bored and lazy by his son's side, eating fruits and snacks by himself, urging his son not to be lazy, and the whole person looked like an unrighteous upper beam. I don't know if the lower beam is crooked or not.
Gu Lian walked into the emperor's bedroom, and a coolness came over him. There is an ice basin here, but because there are children there, I am afraid that the ice will be too cold for the children, so I don't put much in the ice basin. Even so, it was much cooler than outside.
After the Dragon Boat Festival, it starts to get hotter and hotter, and it is estimated that it will be the midsummer in a few days. Gu Lian walked over and poured herself a cup of herbal tea, not restrained at all, as if she was at home.
Lingsu lay lazily on the cool couch and listened to his son's study. When he found that there were more people in the room, he opened a crack to take a look.
"Sister Gu is here, find a place to sit by yourself." After saying that, she yawned, the weather was so good, it was suitable for sleeping.
Gu Lian glanced at him contemptuously, sat down beside Qiao Ancheng, and accompany him to study.