Emperor Sui Yang

Yang Jin, King of Xingyang, is currently staying in Empress Xiao's bedroom, where she and Yang Rui both live.

Naturally, Pei Shuying lives alone. Logically speaking, Luoyang also has Prince Qin's Mansion, so she should live there, but she didn't. Yang Guang directly let her live in the palace, saying that it would be convenient for her to take care of the two emperors and grandchildren.

This was undoubtedly a huge blow to the Eastern Palace faction, but the Eastern Palace did not dare to show any dissatisfaction.

Leaving aside the emperor and queen, first of all, he did not dare to provoke Pei Ju.

"Grandpa, drink tea," Pei Shuying waved away the strange maids, and then sat opposite her father. After she knew that Yang Yinjiang had returned, her expression remained the same without any change.

Seeing it in Pei Ju's eyes, he was very relieved that his daughter had matured,

"Don't think about it, Yang Yinjiang's ups and downs were originally caused by His Majesty's fall due to the court situation. Now that the game is over, it is natural to start over."

Pei Shuying smiled and said: "I'm not thinking about it, but you are thinking about it?"

Pei Ju laughed, pointed to his own head and said, "Every day I open my eyes in the morning and close them at night when I go to bed, my mind is always thinking wildly. Being in a high position, it's like walking on eggshells, so I can't stop."

Pei Shuying held her chin and said: "Let's pass one round, then will the new round suddenly become clear?"

"Naturally, the truth is clear, and the truth will come out," Pei Ju said with a smile, "After returning to Beijing this time, it will be a situation where Yang Ming will see the sun. Yang Ming will go up. Yang Hao's fate will not be better, but he will not die either."

Pei Shuying frowned and said, "Why is Grandpa so sure?"

"Because King Qi can't help you with what His Majesty is going to do next," Pei Ju said.

Pei Shuying sighed: "I really don't like this. A father always plots against his son. When he needs it, he just has a smiling face. When he doesn't need it, he just throws it away like a piece of trash. Has Grandpa ever plotted against me?" ?”

Pei Ju was taken aback, narrowed his eyes, and began to re-examine his daughter. After a while, he shook his head and said:
"I'm just your daughter, how can I plot against you?"

Pei Shuying smiled and said: "Although I am stupid, since I was a child, I have been lying and not telling others. Others can't tell, but you can't hide it from me."

Pei Ju couldn't help laughing and said: "So, you are the father's only weakness, and you are not stupid."

"Stop meddling in Yang Yinjiang's matter," Pei Shuying said, "Respect any decision Yang Ming makes, this is the duty of a wife, just as Grandpa said just now, we are all pawns, why bother?" Where does the person who cares about chess put you?"

"Of course I don't care. Why do you have to be a chess piece instead of a player outside the chessboard?" Pei Ju laughed.

Pei Shuying said: "Grandpa is still conceited as always. As a chess piece, we don't know it. We may be discarded pieces, or we may be the key to success or failure, but we will definitely not leave the chessboard."

It's not that there is no chance. Pei Ju thought to himself, if you become the queen, then you will be the one to play chess.

Pei Shuying stopped talking about this topic with her father, but diverted the conversation:
"It's very close to Xingyang, I want to see how Jin'er's palace is doing."

Pei Ju nodded: "Luoyang, the eastern capital, is a land of abundance. Your Majesty will not return to Beijing until after the new year. You still have a lot of time to wander around. After all, it is not easy to come out."

Pei Shuying hummed and stopped talking, Pei Ju got up and left.

Luoyang, Tokyo, officially changed its name to the Eastern Capital, but Daxing is not the Western Capital, but the capital.

This is the first time for Pei Shuying to play in the Eastern Capital. The last time she and Yang Ming lived in Luoyang was Luoyang County, which has nothing to do with Luoyang now.

She first asked Empress Xiao for instructions, and then she led people out of the palace alone, and went directly to Zhao Guogong's mansion.

Changing from the main concubine to the side concubine does not affect anyone's respect for her, not to mention Yang Ming's love for him, just talking about Pei Ju, no one would dare to despise her.

The Hedong Pei family is very interesting. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, members of the family held important positions in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Northern Qi Dynasty, Southern Chen Dynasty, and Southern Liang Dynasty, and they all held high positions. That is to say, this family is rare in the whole world. A family that can eat well.

Anyone with the surname Pei, when you say hello to someone, and you say that your hometown is in Hedong, others will think highly of you, just like you said you have two houses in Shanghai.

Zhao Guogong Duguzuan was attending the court meeting, so it was his third son Dugu Zan who greeted Pei Shuying, because the eldest Dugu Yin was the county magistrate of Henan County, and the second Dugu Salary was busy asking Yang Wei for money, and the third son had nothing to do. , stay at home.

"Where's Feng'er? Isn't she at home?" Pei Shuying asked.

Dugu Zan hurriedly said: "Feng'er was hunting in the countryside, and it was unfortunate that the princess came. I'm sending someone to look for it now. I'm afraid it will take a while when I come back, and I may make the princess wait for a long time."

Pei Shuying smiled and said: "This girl is also the same. She doesn't think about going back to Beijing, but she doesn't want to leave. You tell me where she is, and I will find her myself."

"Yes, I'll send someone to take you there right away," Dugu Zan was overjoyed. No one in the family could persuade his sister, but if Pei Shuying came forward, it would definitely be different.

Then, Zhao Guogong sent out ten entourages as guides to lead Pei Shuying's convoy out of the city to the camp where Dugu Feng'er was hunting.

Around Luoyang, the best hunting place is actually Xiyuan, later Shanglinyuan, with a radius of [-] li, full of rare birds and animals.

But it's a pity that this is the royal garden, and Dugu Feng'er can't get in, so her camp is on the bank of the Yishui River in the south of Luoyang.

Where there is water, there will naturally be more birds and animals, because animals also need to drink water.

The relationship between Pei Shuying and Dugu Feng'er is very good, because Dugu Feng'er taught her riding and archery skills, and she even knows a few sword skills.

The distance was indeed not close, and Pei Shuying arrived at the camp around noon.

There were a lot of people, hundreds of them, just looking at the shape of the tents and the specifications of the carriages, these people in the camp should all be of excellent background.

However, in Henan, there is no family comparable to Hedong Pei.

In history, whether there is Pei Bucheng Tang Yi said, because the Pei family produced seventeen prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty.

Seeing the banner of Prince Qin's Mansion on the carriage, the people in the camp greeted him from afar.

Pei Shuying got off the carriage, looked around the crowd, frowned and said, "Where's Feng'er?"

"Report to Wangfei, Feng'er has entered the mountain, I will call her back," said Zheng Anrao.

After Pei Shuying nodded in acquiescence, Zheng Anrao shouted to the opposite mountain: "Feng'er."

Feng'er Feng'er's echo echoed continuously in the valley, and the birds were startled.

After a while, I saw a few riders coming out of the forest in the opposite valley, heading towards the camp along the mountain path.

Ordinary people usually go to the mountains to make a living, while the children of nobles go to the mountains to play.

Just like the farmhouse music in later generations, ordinary people can't enjoy it when they see the farmhouse, but city people think it's very fresh.

It took a full half an hour for Dugu Fenger to return to the camp. When she saw Pei Shuying, she was also very happy. She stepped forward and took Pei Shuying's hand and said with a smile:
"I only heard that His Majesty returned to Luoyang, but I didn't know you were here too."

Just listening to this sentence, you know that none of the noble children in the camp has an official status, because anyone with an official status has to go to meet the emperor.

Pei Shuying smiled and said: "Staying alone in Ziwei Palace is also boring, you are the local snake here, take me to have a good time these few days."

"Okay, but your clothes don't fit well, you can wear mine, we are similar in shape," after saying that, Dugu Feng'er dragged Pei Shuying into her tent.

As for the others, they have already been driven far away by the trilogy of Qin Wangfu.

In the camp, with the help of the maid, Dugu Feng'er changed Pei Shuying into a warrior uniform, put on a soft leather armor, and tied her hair in a bun.

Pei Shuying was already full of heroism, but now that she changed into this outfit, she was even more dazzling and heroic.

"You seem to have something on your mind?" Dugu Feng'er suddenly asked curiously.

Pei Shuying shook her head: "I just feel bored, you can help me relieve my boredom."

"Don't worry, there are herds of deer on the other side of the mountain, and they've been fenced off. It's just right for us to go in now. When we return to the city tomorrow, I'll take you to play in the casino," Dugu Feng'er said with a smile.

Pei Shuying narrowed her eyes and smiled: "That's a good thing."

For nobles hunting, hunting dogs are indispensable. There are also beast exorcists. Their task is to drive the prey to a designated place, and then the nobles will go off and shoot the prey with bows and arrows.

When Yang Guang was hunting, the prey basically drove towards him, and sometimes they didn't even need a crosshair, and they could hit them with just one shot.

In fact, it is a picture of the word "shuang", and what everyone has to do is to make the emperor happy.

That evening, Pei Shuying shot a deer very smoothly, and the reason was the same, everyone was driving the prey towards her.

The next day, Dugu Feng'er took Pei Shuying back to Luoyang and entered the biggest gambling house in Luoyang, Fengqing.

This gambling house is the property of the Zheng family in Xingyang, and Zheng Anrao, who returned to the capital with him, hastened to greet the family, and made sure not to let Princess Qin lose money.

The most popular game in the casino is called Hulu.

Five wooden dice, each with two sides, painted black on one side, painted a calf, painted white on the other side, painted a pheasant, after throwing, the five dice are all black, called Lu, which is the maximum point, and the five dice are four The one with black and one white is a pheasant, which is the winning point, and so on. Anyway, the one with more black wins.

Because every time the dice are rolled, five blacks and five blacks are shouted in the mouth, so this game is called Hulu.

Just like when we fight against the landlord in later generations, when we pick up the three cards below, we will also shout. As for what to shout, it varies from person to person. Some people will call for a bomb, some will call for a chain, and some will call for a grass mud horse.

There are seven or eight people at a table, arranged in advance, to accompany Pei Shuying to relieve boredom.

And they were all women, and three of them had husbands with titles.

The Eastern Capital is really too prosperous, the north and the south gather together, and there are even foreign-style gambling methods. This is a paradise for the nobles of the Sui Dynasty, and it is also the largest gold-selling cave in the Sui Dynasty.

It's not easy to intentionally lose money in Hulu's game, because it's all about luck, and no one dares to make money in front of the wives of so many big shots.

But it's also simple, if you lose, just stop, then you must lose.

And Pei Shuying, who played until the end, was naturally the winner.