Strong wife likes farming

Chapter 505 Ginger is still old and spicy

As expected, Ao Yancheng and Luo Qingyi had already been informed about Yun Shu and Feng Yin's departure from the palace. Naturally, they were relieved to have Feng Yin follow them.

Besides, there are so many people in the palace to deal with, they don't want to stay any longer, let alone Yun Shu?If you can walk, count as one!

To deal with another official who came forward to toast, Ao Yancheng touched his dizzy head, and whispered to Luo Qingyi: "Xiaofeng is too unkind, he only takes Shu'er away alone, He should have taken us away together, everyone in this palace can drink, I can't stand it anymore."

It's an exaggeration to say that they can all drink. After all, it's a palace banquet. Which of the civil and military officials would really drink too much?It's just that their drinking capacity is really good. Compared with Ao Yancheng who almost pours a glass, they are naturally very good at drinking.

Luo Qingyi poured him a cup of hot tea, and while wiping the thin sweat on his forehead with a handkerchief, he said in a low voice: "If someone comes to toast later, you can use tea instead, I don't think they will be serious about it." to check whether you drank wine. Besides, even if they see that you drank water, they dare not say anything."

"How can this be possible? They're not..."

Ao Yancheng was about to say something when the old prince who was sitting on the side handed over his wine glass, shook it in front of him, and said, "Silly boy! Fortunately, you didn't become an official. With your sincerity, if you were After becoming an official, he must be bullied and go home crying within two days."

Ao Yancheng was ashamed, that means his own father could say that about his son.

Luo Qingyi went to the wine glass and sniffed it, a little surprised: "Father, your wine..."

"Shhh!" The old prince took back the wine glass, took a sip lightly, and made a gesture of pursing his lips and an expression of enjoying and grinning his teeth after drinking, and sighed: " Good wine!"

The corner of Luo Qingyi's mouth twitched, it was obviously water, and he said good wine, but the ginger is still old and spicy!

Ao Yancheng's focus was not on this, and he said awkwardly: "Can an honest person not be an official? This court, so..."

After all, the word "black" was not uttered out of his mouth. He fixedly looked at the old emperor sitting on the high dragon chair, only feeling a little disappointed and sad in his heart. I don't know if the old emperor knew this. If he knew, he It must be very heartbreaking!
The palace banquet would not end until midnight, but many people who attended the banquet ran to the side hall to rest before they could make it to midnight.Those with lower ranks and no connections can only sit and drink bored at palace banquets, listening to clichés that have been heard for many years.

And those high-ranking and well-connected people got up and left the palace banquet one after another, and only when the palace banquet was about to end would they sit back tacitly and continue to wait until midnight.

The old emperor was in poor health, so he found an excuse to leave the banquet and rest after drinking for three rounds.As soon as the old emperor left, the old prince also walked away holding his head that was shaking and was about to be unable to support it. As the filial son and daughter-in-law who had just been found, Ao Yancheng and Luo Qingyi naturally took their children and followed the old prince. up.

When leaving the palace, Luo Qingyi couldn't help sighing: "I can finally rest, this palace banquet is really terrible!"

She is not the kind of person who likes to socialize. When she was in Yunshui Village, she rarely went to other people's homes to chat, let alone at such a grand banquet, and she didn't know anyone she knew.

The old prince, who swayed and nearly fell to the ground when he left the banquet, was now conscious and walking like flying, his eyes were even more piercing, how could he look half drunk?
"It's enough to attend this kind of banquet once, but you have to attend three or five times a year. Who can bear it? You can't eat what you want, and you can't drink what you want. You have to make a show during the whole banquet." He looks respectful and polite. Hey, now you can understand the pain you have suffered for your father for so many years?"

Ao Yancheng and Luo Qingyi twitched the corners of their mouths together, as if you would attend every banquet on time.

Luo Qingyi couldn't help but glance back at the low-ranking officials who were still unable to leave the banquet at this time. Some officials had already started to doze off with their heads propped up.

Maybe they climbed up desperately just to escape the fate of not being able to rest casually at the palace banquet!

The old emperor was gone, and the concubines in the palace naturally had no reason to stay. The concubine glanced at everyone in the palace and became the first concubine to leave the palace.

The second prince and concubine was very filial, so she quickly got up and followed her to serve.After a while, the second prince also stood up and left.

In addition to the main hall, each main hall in the palace also has two side halls and countless various rooms.The old emperor occupied one of the side halls, and the imperial concubine naturally occupied the other side hall.

As soon as she entered the side hall, the imperial concubine waved her hand to let all the maids who served her go down, leaving only the second concubine and the late second prince by her side.

When there were no outsiders in the room, the imperial concubine slapped the table, and the veins on her forehead popped out: "I'm so pissed off! What kind of thing is that bitch, I didn't expect to fail her this time." ! How can His Majesty's heart be so biased towards her? What is she, what is she!"

The second prince and the second concubine looked at each other, and the second concubine hurried forward to appease the furious mother-in-law.

There are some words that she is not suitable to say, but as a parent and child, the second prince Ao Ziqing can say casually: "Mother, concubine, what time is this, why do you always want to compete with Mrs. Feng to be jealous? Besides, she Now she is Mrs. Feng's wife, not a concubine in the harem, why do you always get along with her? If you hadn't been at odds with her, Feng Yin wouldn't be so hostile to me!"

The noble concubine was reaching out to pick up the hot tea brought by her daughter-in-law, when she heard the words, she slapped the table again, and said angrily: "I am jealous? I am jealous! Why am I jealous when I compete with Liu Panyi? I'm fighting with the former queen!"

Speaking of this, she felt depressed. It has been more than 20 years and almost 30 years since the death of the first empress, but the old emperor had a deep affection for her, but he refused to make a new empress, so that she was made a noble concubine for so many years.

"Auntie, don't be angry. The empress is dead anyway. Why do you compete with a dead person? It would be better if you don't register as an empress. What if your majesty's empress is not you..."

Before the second concubine finished speaking, the noble concubine had already flicked her sleeves and waved the teacup in her hand to the ground, roaring angrily: "What are you talking about! What do you know, I am the only one with the highest status in the entire harem. , that must be me as the empress! Your Majesty can't appoint someone else, you don't know anything, what nonsense!"

"Auntie, I..."

The second concubine is stupid. Apart from her own son, the concubine loves her niece the most. She has never reprimanded her like this when she grows up!

Ao Ziqing hurriedly dragged his stupid daughter-in-law down to her knees, and finally calmed down the imperial concubine's anger by saying a lot of nice words.The second concubine lowered her head and said nothing, until the mother and son brought up the matter of Xie Huiting again, she pricked up her ears again.

"That Xie Huiting is really a no-brainer! To provoke the relationship between the palace and that bitch in front of His Majesty, His Majesty is already extraordinarily merciful in not punishing her, and dare to attack Princess Ning'an again, what a fool to bubbling!"

The imperial concubine hated her teeth so much. If the person she hated the most was the former queen who prevented her from becoming a queen, then Liu Panyi was next, and Yun Shu was next.Yun Shu's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are really capable, and it is admirable to be listed among the people she hates the most.

Now that Xie Huiting is stupid, I don't know who was acting with her just now, trying to drag Liu Panyi and Yun Shu into trouble.The second concubine slandered in her heart.

Ao Ziqing sighed: "It's just a pity, if she becomes my side concubine..."

"What did you say?! It's a pity? It's a pity!" The second concubine's fur suddenly exploded, and the concubine's heart, which had finally calmed down, jumped violently again.

"What are you making a fuss about! Isn't this unreasonable?" Ao Ziqing frowned. After so many years, let alone a side concubine, he didn't even have a roommate. Love, can he make such a big tolerance?

Now it's hard to get a side concubine to enter the mansion, but the matter is messed up by others before it's over, it's like he took off his trousers and was preparing for the bridal chamber, but told him that the bride is still there!

This is the worst thing in the world.

But the Second Prince's Concubine didn't think so, she didn't see that there were no other women in the Second Prince's Mansion, she only saw that Ao Ziqing never forgot about Xie Huiting.

"You heartless, it's in vain that I've been sincere to you for so many years, and you can't forget it because of Xie Huiting! When did you never forget me, woohoo, you ruthless heartbreaker, why am I so miserable? I actually married you, woo woo, my life is miserable!"

The second prince's concubine's cries echoed throughout the hall, causing the imperial concubine's scalp to tingle and she almost fell off the chair.

Not to mention Ao Ziqing, he is not afraid of swords and swords, nor is he afraid of going into battle to kill the enemy, what he fears most is the tears of his own wife.And it's really a headache for this woman to cry all the way for three days and three nights.

"Don't cry, my pity is not that pity. I just think that things that can save money are no longer available, and I can only spend my own money, so it's a pity. Oh, I didn't marry a side to save money. Concubine, I’m not, don’t I want to save all the money for you and the children? You said that we have been married for so many years and have three or four children. Isn’t it necessary to spend money everywhere? ? Of course I have to think about you!"

With his excellent eloquence, Ao Ziqing finally told back the tears of the second princess. Neither he nor the noble concubine dared to speak in front of the second princess after such a disturbance, so he hurriedly let the maids come in to serve her I went to rest in the small flower hall next to me.

The imperial concubine rubbed her temples, and sighed with some resentment: "I finally stopped her crying. If your father hears it, I'm afraid it will annoy him again."

Ao Ziqing also understood in his heart that the old emperor was not very satisfied with himself, and with the refined third prince Ao Ziyu in comparison, and the dignified and generous third prince and concubine by his side, the couple seemed even more out of tune. .

The imperial concubine looked at her son apologetically: "Son, it's all the concubine's fault. At the beginning, I thought you and her were childhood sweethearts, and with the full support of your uncle's family, your future road will be easier. But I didn't expect that the daughter-in-law that the concubine mother chose for you has no other advantages besides being able to bear children. Seeing that you don't even have a woman to serve you, the concubine mother managed to persuade your uncle this time. My aunt persuaded her together to let that Xie Huiting in, but I didn't expect that something like this would happen in the end. Hey, it's all for your mother's fault. If you didn't let you marry her back then, maybe now..."

Maybe now he can live a fairy-like life with ease.

Just thinking about it like this, Ao Ziqing felt a pain in his heart, and he frowned slightly, with an uncomfortable expression on his face.

In the eyes of the noble concubine, such an expression was a kind of affirmation of what she said, so she tentatively said: "My son, although Xie Huiting is useless, I just looked over there on purpose at the palace banquet just now, There are also quite a few official families who have good daughters! How about, mother and concubine will help you out again? After all, I will be able to pick a sweetheart for you."

Ao Ziqing's heart skipped a beat, apparently a little tempted.However, the rainy face of the second concubine Lihua suddenly flashed in front of his eyes, he involuntarily shuddered, shook his head and sighed: "Mother Concubine, let's forget about this matter in my opinion! Give it away with money! In fact, I have thought about it these days. If Xie Huiting is really accepted as a side concubine, what about other people's daughters? If there is the first, there will be the second, and if there is the second There is a third one, I am only a prince who has not yet been crowned king, and there are so many women in the mansion, the emperor will definitely be furious if he finds out."

After a pause, Ao Ziqing said again: "Besides, the Xie family is loyal to me, and his daughter becomes a side concubine. Others are also loyal to me, don't I want to give them a side concubine? There are only two side concubines, how can they be divided? If they turn to the third younger brother because of their resentment and hatred for Xie's family, wouldn't it be worth the loss for me? In this case, it's better to just pay them off with money Yes, although it is a bit costly, but it can take care of everyone, and it will not favor one another, so once and for all there will be no future troubles!"

The imperial concubine thought about it, and felt that her son's analysis was very reasonable, she praised her for a long time, and said that she was old and not as thoughtful as he thought.

Ao Ziqing smiled modestly, and finally felt relieved, now he doesn't have to worry about seeing the crying face of the Second Prince and Concubine.

(End of this chapter)