Unparalleled Concubine

"Your Highness, take it out for me to have a look?"

Princess Nine nodded, and went back to her room to find a lot of things, including pendants made of crystals and pendants made of crystals, all of which were extremely transparent, but most of them were colored crystals.

Colored crystals are more popular.

Li Xin put his eyes on a pair of palm-sized crystal fishes. The pair of crystal fishes are made of transparent crystal. The chubby fish is carved lifelike.

Li Xin pointed at the pair of fishes and said with a smile, "Your Highness, what can I do with this pair of fishes?"

Ji Lingxiu glanced at Li Xin, curled her lips: "This was given to me by Seventh Brother on my birthday last year, and Father and the others also know that if you forward it to Father, you will be laughed at. "

Li Xin lowered his head and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness, Your Majesty will never be able to tell that this is still the pair of fish."

Originally, such a large piece of crystal would be divided into many parts, so that it can be worn as jewelry, but these two pieces of crystal do not have any impurities, and the craftsman did not have the heart to divide them, so they made a pair of fish, symbolizing the yearly surplus. , Figure auspicious.

But such a big thing can't be worn on the body. It can only be placed at home as a gift. Ji Lingxiu doesn't like it very much, so she nodded generously: "Okay, you can take it."

These two crystal fishes are more expensive than Li Xin's entire possessions.

Li Xin carefully put them into the box, and smiled at the nine princesses: "Your Highness, I will send you the finished product tomorrow, and I am sure you will be satisfied."

Ji Lingxiu nodded.

"Well, the day after tomorrow morning, you will go into the palace with me to celebrate Father's birthday."

Li Xin cupped his fists and was about to back down.

The Ninth Princess blinked her eyes, and said softly: "Well... I made a grape-flavored ice food, do you want to have a taste?"

Inspired by the last time Li Xin squeezed pear juice, now Princess Qinghe has figured out various ways to eat it, and she is very busy every day.

Li Xin said with a wry smile: "Your Highness, you were still having stomach problems two days ago, why are you eating again?"

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The two had a conversation, and Li Xin walked out of the princess mansion with two fish made of water jade, and he went to Yonglefang again.

Yonglefang is the place where dignitaries and dignitaries live in the capital. There are no peddlers hawking goods, or even beggars for food. Most of them are various study rooms, teahouses, and antique and jade shops.

Several well-crafted jade shops in the capital are all in Yonglefang.

When it was almost evening, Li Xin found a jade shop named Liangyufang in Yonglefang, and took out two palm-sized crystal fishes from his arms.

"Shopkeeper, I'm going to round off these two things."

The store owner is a 50-[-]-year-old old man. He first looked at the goods, then looked up at the young Li Xin, smiled and said: "Guest officer, this is a finished product, and the craftsmanship is also carved by top-notch experts." , you want to destroy it?"

Li Xin nodded and said, "Just do as I tell you."

The shopkeeper lowered his voice: "Guest officer, looking at you like this, it is probably because this thing is not clean, and you want to destroy it to get the material. You will be charged twice as much as the price.”

Li Xin looked at the shopkeeper helplessly.

This bastard is treating himself as a thief!

Li Xin stretched out his hand and showed his Habayashi guard badge.

"Shopkeeper, if this item is not for sale, you should hurry up and do as I tell you. If you waste time, no one will be offended."

The shopkeeper rolled his eyes and said, "So it's the official of Habayashi Wei, so the small shop will naturally do it, why don't you come to pick it up tomorrow?"

Li Xin narrowed his eyes and said, "I'll just wait here, when it's done and when I'll leave."

Just kidding, those who can open a store in Yonglefang are either princes or princes. If the store is greedy or subcontracted tomorrow, with the current Li Xin, he really doesn't want to come back!

Chapter 154 Don't you mind?

The seventh day of June is the 45th birthday of Emperor Chengde.

This emperor, ascended to the throne at the age of 26, has been No. 19 this year.

The emperor of Chengde was the ruler of the Jin Dynasty. Although he was not as powerful as the former emperor, the living conditions of the people of the Jin Dynasty during the Chengde period were far better than those of the former emperor.

Moreover, although the emperor gradually became rich with the Jin Dynasty, he did not have too many extravagant behaviors. The inner money in the palace even has spare money every year, and the remaining inner money is taken out or rewarded by the emperor Chengde. Or do good deeds.

All in all, this is a very popular emperor, at least much more popular than the militaristic first emperor.

On the birthday of the Holy Son of Heaven, the whole city was naturally shaken. Many ordinary people did not have a chance to see the Son of Heaven, so they set up shrines at home, offered tribute, and prayed for the Holy Son of Heaven.

Originally, a small shrimp like Li Xin would not have the chance to meet the Emperor of Chengde at this time, but fortunately, there is the Ninth Princess by his side. Went into the palace with Ji Lingxiu.

As long as you are an official in the court, you will have at least three sets of clothes, official clothes, regular clothes and formal clothes, and a guard like Li Xin will also have a set of armor.

Because they are military officers, Habayashi Wei's dress is not a long gown with wide sleeves, but a dark black dress with tight sleeves, with a snow-white tiger embroidered on the front, which looks very majestic.

The patterns of the Habayashi Guard and the inner guard in the capital are all tigers, symbolizing the two tigers guarding the real dragon, each with a tiger flag, but the colors of the two banners are different. Lin Wei is a white tiger on a black background.

The color of the dresses of the two guards was also determined according to this.

People rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. Li Xin usually wears the black uniform without any patterns at most. This is the first time he wears Habayashiwei's uniform. She is skinny, but wearing this dress makes her look a lot more energetic.

Ji Lingxiu, who came out of Princess Qinghe's mansion, looked Li Xin up and down, and hummed softly, "Dress up a bit, but you still look good."

Black clothes are more heat-absorbing, although it was a bit hot in the morning, Li Xin coughed, and said hello to Habayashi who was guarding the princess next to him: "Let's go."

Ji Lingxiu took two steps forward, pulled Li Xin's sleeve, and asked in a low voice, "What did you prepare for Father?"

Li Xin said mysteriously: "Princess, get on the sedan chair, and I will definitely not let you lose face in front of His Majesty later."

The Ninth Princess glanced at Li Xin suspiciously, and finally got on her own sedan chair. Li Xin got on the dark cloud horse, and the group walked towards Miyagi.

When they arrived at the gate of Yong'an Gate, neither horses nor sedan chairs were allowed in, but Ji Lingxiu was born as a princess, and not long after, two young eunuchs, carrying a sedan chair for two people, invited Princess Qinghe up.

Li Xin followed behind Ji Lingxiu and also entered the imperial city.

The sedan chair that can walk in the imperial city is actually the kind of open-air chair that can only seat one person. On the one hand, it cannot hide people, and on the other hand, it is afraid that someone will enter the palace with hidden weapons.

Apart from this kind of sedan chair, only those who are allowed to ride horses in the imperial city are allowed to walk in the imperial city. However, that kind of treatment is only for the most powerful ministers. In the whole Jin Dynasty, there is only Chen Guogong and Ye Cheng. People have this kind of treatment, but that Mr. Ye is self-imposed and has not been out of Chen Guogong's mansion for more than ten years.

Li Xin followed the Ninth Princess's sedan chair in an orderly manner, and entered the inner palace.

The imperial city is divided into inner and outer cities, and the outer city is just a place where various yamen of the capital gather. For example, the yamen of the three provinces, the yamen of the six departments, and Yushitai, etc., are all located in the outer city of the imperial city.

The inner palace is the most serious palace, where the emperor and concubines live.

When he was on duty at the Habayashi Guard, Li Xin had visited the outer city of the imperial city many times, but he had only entered the inner city twice, the two times when Emperor Chengde summoned him.

This time is the third time.