Da Suining

Chapter 167 Late Marriage Breaks the Law
"Sharing the emperor's worries is the duty of a courtier."

"I am very pleased that you can think of this. If you talk about sharing worries, you have always been a role model for all the courtiers. You have worked hard and fulfilled your duties under my command for more than ten years, right?"

"Yes."

"Tell me, is it because I did something wrong, so God wants to punish me? Punish my people? This plague has lasted for many days, and there is no good medicine. If things go on like this, the small border country may be ready to move. These days, I often Thinking of this, I tossed and turned, unable to sleep peacefully."

"It's the ministers who are incompetent." Several ministers hurriedly knelt down.

Kneel down and plead guilty at this time, you can't go wrong.

"If you say you are incompetent, Zhou Sheng is at the top." The emperor sneered: "Zhou Aiqing took the salary I gave, put her arms around the concubine I rewarded, and said that the world belongs to the royal family. No matter how good I am, what good is it? Why don't you be happy yourself, the day when the country will be destroyed, I just run around with the gold and silver, whoever is the emperor sitting on it, let this group of people make trouble in Qingcheng, if the sky falls, there will be an emperor Come on, Zhou Aiqing can easily come up with such stupid words."

"Zhou Sheng doesn't regret his death."

"The minister has long disliked him."

"The emperor made a decisive decision to kill Zhou Sheng for the benefit of the people of Qingcheng. I have never had any friendship with Zhou Sheng, and I don't know each other well. If anyone knew that he was so rebellious, he would have given the emperor a note."

Naturally, everyone pushed the wall down.

When Zhou Sheng was alive, it was hard to guarantee that he would not exchange cups with these people, but as soon as Zhou Sheng died, this group of people quickly separated.

Xiang Daying didn't go up and step on it.

Although he is not a person of high moral character, but everyone is dead, so why bother with him.

Xiang Daying was thinking about the words "Zhou Aiqing" in the emperor's words just now.

"Zhou Aiqing."

He chopped off his head with a knife, and he could still call "Ai Qing" when he turned his head.

The emperor is becoming more and more sad and happy.

For the courtiers, this is not a good thing.

When he came out of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, the emperor called Xiang Daying to a stop: "Xiangaiqing, I killed Zhou Sheng, what do the common people say? Did you pay attention?"

"I heard that the people are singing and dancing, and they are as happy as a festival."

"really?"

"The minister has checked carefully, it is true."

"Xiangaiqing, you should also carefully investigate such matters. I know that you are loyal."

The word "Ai Qing" already sent chills down the spine.

Adding the words "loyalty" makes people even more uncomfortable.

Xiang Daying felt the hairs on his back, as if someone picked up a caterpillar and put it in his neck. The caterpillar crawled along his neck, into his clothes, across his spine, to the tailbone, and the entire back It's all hot and dry.

Xiang Daying also specifically asked Tang Xiaoniang for the four words "loyalty".

Tang Xiaoniang was combing her hair in front of the bronze mirror. In the bronze mirror, she had traces of years on her face.

She took a feather brush and brushed it carefully between her eyebrows and eyes, and said indifferently: "Isn't it right for the emperor to praise the master for his loyalty? I remember that when the emperor came to the throne, the master was the number one hero. The emperor is grateful to the master. These years, the master Honestly making plans for the emperor, how could the emperor not know?"

"Ugh."

"Master, why should you sigh? The emperor praised the master, maybe, in a few days, he will reward the master with gold, silver and treasures. That is the real benefit. It is not much use to just have a nice name."

"Don't just think about gold and silver. There are turmoil in the court, and my head is always hung on my waist. Things about gold and silver are trivial."

Tang Xiaoniang didn't like to hear these words very much.

She put the feather brush horizontally on the dressing table, took off the sideburn hairpin and threw it into the jewelry box: "Master, this is easy to say, I have been married to your family for more than ten years, look, the corners of my eyes are covered with tears." Wrinkled. How much gold and silver do you have to spend to manage this mansion every day?"

"I know it's not easy for you, don't all my salary and money belong to you?"

"Oh, what is the use of this little money? I heard that the performers on the overpass can earn a hundred and ten taels of silver a month. However, marry a chicken as a chicken, marry a dog as a dog, who made the master fall in love with me , Who told the emperor to reward me to the master."

Xiang Daying let out a "pop" in his heart.

"Who told the emperor to reward me to the master?" These words were like a big rock, slamming into Xiang Daying's nerves, and the ripples in his heart spread layer by layer, like a whirlpool.

"Master, what's the matter with you?" Tang Xiaoniang wanted to take off the hairpin and have a good time with Xiang Daying, but Xiang Daying's face changed so quickly, Tang Xiaoniang was a little surprised: "What's the matter, master?"

"At the beginning, the emperor rewarded Zhou Sheng with a concubine." Xiang Daying pondered, "As far as I know, that concubine was sent by the emperor to keep an eye on Zhou Sheng. As expected, Zhou Sheng was beheaded not long after he got the concubine." Yes, the concubine was also cut off."

"Master, you don't doubt that I was sent by the emperor to follow me?"

Xiang Daying didn't answer.

The women felt a little embarrassed, they retreated consciously, and closed the door behind them.

The room was a little dull.

The dark green one-person tall porcelain vases were tied facing each other, reflecting Xiang Daying's back.

This back is a bit dignified.

Tang Xiaoniang got up and rushed into Xiang Daying's arms: "Master, are you doubting me? How could I be sent by the emperor to spy on the master? I have given birth to my master these years, so I won't talk about Yan'er." , even if the heart is not my own, I have also taken care of it until now, if the master doubts me again, I really... I wanted to marry me back then, but you, the master."

The little lady cried and cried, showing her ambition.

Xiang Daying seemed to be listening, but he didn't.

"It's getting late, take a rest, I'll go sit in the mother's room."

Xiang Daying turned and left. When the door was opened, several women stood at the door with their hands down, listening to the movement in the room with their ears open.

As soon as Xiang Daying came out, all the women hurriedly called out "Master." and took two steps back consciously.

"Go wait for Madam and rest."

"Yes, sir."

"Ah."

"Master, go slowly."

Now we have to say "Master is going slowly", but in the past we always said "Master is here".

It seems that the limelight is not right, it is better to be careful.

The mother-in-law bowed her head into the room and waited for Tang Xiaoniang to change her clothes.

She took off the thin shirt and put on a brocade jacket. Although Tang Xiaoniang is a middle-aged woman, she still has a charm. She can put some juice and powder on her skin when she has nothing to do. She has visited all the famous rouge shops in Qingcheng. The skin is so dewy.

The mother-in-law waited on Tang Xiaoniang's hair with sweet-scented osmanthus oil, and blew out a lamp, leaving only the one beside the bed glowing.

"You said, is there someone outside, master? Why is it so weird?"

"Impossible." The woman who served her personally thought about it: "I don't need to go to court recently, the master is always at home to accompany my daughter, even if I go out to the palace, I heard from the chauffeur that I left in a hurry and came back in a hurry. Didn't stay anywhere else, and didn't meet anyone else."

"That means I'm old, and the master dislikes it?
"How could it be? Who else in this mansion is as good-looking as Xiaoniang? Looking at the ladies in Qingcheng, there are not many women who are as beautiful as Xiaoniang."

"Then why is it not the festival of the year, the master is going to sit with that old woman...with the old lady? Let me not sit in the room, but go to her room instead?"

"Maybe... let's talk about it yourself."

"What kind of personal words, don't you have any personal words with me?"

"This?"

"Go out, go out, dizzy in front of me."

The women look at me and I look at you, and quickly shrink their necks and roll away.

The backyard of Xiangfu.

The lights danced.

Su Momo just picked up the candle wick with a hairpin, and the candle was burning just right, very bright.

In the summer, the mint-colored window screens have been replaced with thicker window paper, each frame has a different pattern, there are wintersweet, hibiscus, nepeta, and honeysuckle...

Xiang Suining and Mrs. Xiang were separated by a small table, sitting cross-legged on the couch under the window.

Mrs. Xiang was holding the red beans in the small dustpan, silently watching Xiang Suining write.

It is said to be writing, but it is actually copying the copybook.

Mrs. Xiang has seen the world, and also feels that a person's handwriting is another face of a person, so she often urges Xiang Suining to work hard, even if she wants to be lazy.

Since he started copying copybooks two years ago, Xiang Suining has already copied over ten copybooks in Qiuli, and he can already imitate the handwriting of two or three masters.

After coming back from the outside, the clothes were soaked and stuck to the body, and the hair was also wet. I went back to the room and changed the clothes, and after a little haircut, I came to accompany Mrs. Xiang.

I haven't practiced calligraphy recently, and my hands are raw.It's also a good time to practice.

Su Momo has already brought up the boiled ginger soup, and handed it to Xiang Suining respectfully: "The old lady is worried that the girl will catch a cold. After all, the wind outside is not as early as autumn, so I specially let the old servant cook this ginger soup. The girl is full of happiness." Drink a full bowl, sweat and drive away the cold, which is beneficial to the body."

"Thank you Mama." Xiang Suining picked up the ginger soup and drank it down in one gulp.

"Drink slowly, kid." Mrs. Xiang hurriedly took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of Xiang Suining's mouth. Seeing that her hair was still wet, she asked Madam Su to bring a dry towel and massage Xiang Suining's hair herself : "If your hair is too wet, you will get a headache. You children don't understand the power of it. The older you get, the more you understand it. Don't blame grandma for being naughty. Don't get drenched like this in the future."

"Grandma, I remember." Xiang Suining smiled.

"After finishing this page, stop and keep writing, lest your eyes get tired."

"Grandmother, I'm not tired. With my grandmother by my side, I don't feel tired doing anything."

"You child, you are becoming more and more able to talk. I never thought that your mother, like a gourd with a muffled mouth, would give birth to a girl with such a smooth mouth like you. If she hadn't been so..."

"Ahem..." Su Momo deliberately coughed.

Mrs. Xiang seemed to have regained her senses, put the red beans aside, and stroked Xiang Suining's hair on the sideburns, her eyesight was not good, and only now did she see the hairpin in Xiang Suining's hair.

The hairpin looks like it was made by a skilled craftsman, and Jinfeng's eyes are also inlaid with rare gemstones.

How can there be such a thing among the people?
"This is……"

"Princess Guo rewarded it."

"So, I should have thought of it earlier. She rewarded you with the hairpin, so you can keep it. Although the hairpin is precious, grandma didn't do it for it. After all, you saved Mr. Lan. To the princess, this is a great kindness." , Princess, she was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child. She has always been owed by others. There is no reason for her to owe others. She rewarded you with this hairpin, which is her wish. To understand."

"Ok?"

"In the future, you don't have to claim to have saved Mr. Lan, you've settled the matter, understand?"

"Thank you grandma for reminding me. It's just that I saved him, not for things, and I never pretend to be his savior."

"Silly boy, you should try to figure something out, otherwise Princess Guo won't be able to see through it, and she will have no idea. If you figure out some gold and silver treasures, she will be at ease."

The grandfather and grandson whispered in silence.

The moon and stars outside the window are rare.

On the contrary, the bright moon is in the sky, high and wide.

The hydrangeas in the yard are blooming even bigger, and the dark purple hydrangeas are all over the corridor. Such a big hydrangea can be hugged by one person.

Walking from the gravel road to the corridor, people walk through the flowers, and their bodies are full of fragrance.

The shadows of the two people in the window cast on the window paper.

Very warm.

Xiang Daying listened for a while with his hands behind his back, coughed, and went to Mrs. Xiang's room.

Sure enough, when he coughed, everyone in the room changed face again.

The maids and servants stood with their hands down, bowed their heads and said nothing.

Mrs. Xiang was sitting upright, and brought the red beans to the plate again.

Xiang Suining lowered her head, straightened her back, and began to copy her copybook. This time, she copied the thin gold script of Emperor Song. Written in thin gold font, her wrist hurts.

"That..." Xiang Daying rubbed his hands.

Xiang Suining quickly got up and gave up his seat.

"You sit, otherwise how can you write?" Mrs. Xiang whispered.

Xiang Suining sat back.

She was sitting and her father was standing, which was a bit out of place.

Madam Su moved the brocade stool, and Xiang Daying sat down facing Mrs. Xiang.

"Mother said just now that Suining saved Lan Tui? Is it true?"

"Master, it's so late, why are you coming to the backyard?" Mrs. Xiang grabbed a handful of red beans and stroked them.

Looking at it left and right, this means negation.Or, don't want to answer.

Xiang Daying winked, and didn't ask any further, but said: "Suining's handwriting is not bad. Since the emperor took a fancy to Suining, this child has become more and more competitive. It's just that a woman's lack of talent is virtue..."

"That's someone else's daughter, Suining is different from them."

"Mother protects her like this, how can she get married in the future." Xiang Daying joked.

"If you can't get married, I will support her for the rest of your life."

"Mother also knows that there is a regulation in Xuanguo that marrying late violates the law of the state. If you don't marry, the family members will be imprisoned."

While chatting, I strayed away.

Xiang Suining had no choice but to put down the brush: "Dad came to grandma's place so late, is there something important?"

A word to wake up the dreamer.

Mrs. Xiang said: "If you have anything to say, tell me, and go back quickly after you say it, lest you won't be seen in the front yard for a while, and you will come to me to look for someone again."

Xiang Daying was a little embarrassed.

These two people really don't want to see him.

And it's written all over his face.

Alas, there is no way, it's a poor mix.

Before the bench is hot, people kick him out.

(End of this chapter)