a pillow in autumn

When it was time to hold the lamp, Zhou Mubai changed into the two-color vertical python sword sleeves that he usually wears at home, and his long hair was only tied with a silver crown inlaid with jewels, which made his eyes and teeth more beautiful. Go to Jubilee Palace.In front of the courtyard, several attendants greeted him at the door. After seeing the salute, they surrounded Zhou Mubai happily and went in happily. The maidservants who met on the way bowed to salute and covered their mouths with smiles.Mubai didn't know what he meant, when he suddenly heard Zhou Mudi's voice from the inner hall: "Brother Xiaobai is here, please come inside."

Mu Bai beckoned, two little girls came over to say hello, Xiaoguozi and Xiaotuanzi handed the brocade box to the girl, and bowed to leave.Mu Bai walked first, bypassed the carved gold screen, and entered the inner hall.

"What is this?" Mudi's eyes were sharp, and he opened the brocade box in the little girl's hand to see, and saw a stack of papers neatly stacked in a box, like letterheads.

"The Dongli paper in Qiongzhou is single-picked when the autumn chrysanthemums are in full bloom, and they are embedded in the paper pulp. When the paper is unfolded, there is a scent of late chrysanthemums. I thought you must like it, so I brought it back for you." Mu Bai With a doting smile, he opened another box, and inside was a simple and unsophisticated small porcelain jar, "This is chrysanthemum stuffing, without the spicyness of wine, only the sweetness of petals, local girls in Qiongzhou love to drink it, bring it back for you to taste taste."

Zhou Mudi was originally full of joy, but after hearing what Mubai said, he turned his face and asked: "Is it just me, or does everyone have it?"

"Chrysanthemum stuffing is available to both the emperor's brothers and sisters, and this Donglijian is just for you. Mu Yi and Mu Yu are both a set of ink chrysanthemum study rooms."

Mudi pouted after hearing this, and asked the little girls to put down the brocade boxes, but Mubai couldn't figure out what she was thinking, so he sat down and looked at her, and after a while, he watched her put all the brocade boxes into the inner room with her own hands.

When he came out again, a delicate girl brought a whole set of celadon tea utensils and followed behind Mudi. Mu Bai recognized that girl's name was Xu'er, and she also served the little princess personally. She thought she was good at tea art, so she wanted to make tea for the two of them.Unexpectedly, the girl put down the tea set and just covered her mouth with a smile, and Yiru stepped back and stood aside, Zhou Mudi cleaned the tea set with boiling water, first rubbed her ears to dissipate the heat from her hands, and then brewed a pot of Mingqianchun , Pour it into two small celadon cups, the clear tea soup lingers in the emerald green porcelain, as warm as jade.

"Why are you cooking tea by yourself? Burn your hands carefully." Zhou Mubai couldn't help smiling when she watched her make tea and then put her two little hands on her ears.

"Don't you try the tea I made so hard?"

Mubai raised his cup and sipped lightly, only feeling the aftertaste was fresh, he said joyfully: "It's really good tea. Is it special for me?"

"Yeah." Mudi replied, and he picked up the cup and tasted it for a while, his face was blushing, and he didn't know if it was smoked by the hot tea.

Tasted a few more cups, the tea color turned pale, Mu Di asked Mu Bai to wait, and went outside the hall by himself.The room was smoked with the fragrance of orchid orchids, and it diffused gracefully, relieving the fatigue of the recent trek. Mu Bai stood up and stretched out his arms. A small plate of mirabilis was planted on the treasure shelf beside him, quietly blooming in the coolness of early summer , Mubai enjoyed it for a while, then heard a sound coming from outside the house.

"His Royal Highness, please slow down, ah, don't shake." Before Xu'er finished speaking, Zhou Mudi walked in with something, and carefully placed it on the carved table in front of Zhou Mubai. A bowl of delicate silver noodles.

Yiru was also holding a bowl of noodles at the back, and when Zhou Mudi sat down, he placed it lightly in front of her, but it looked more delicate than Zhou Mubai's bowl.Mubai looked at her without knowing why, Mudi nuzzled: "Let's take it while it's hot."

Mu Bai obviously didn't expect this "dinner banquet" to be so ingenious, but Mudi has always been eccentric, so he smiled and took a pair of silver chopsticks.

"how?"

"Hmm... not bad." Mu Bai held up his chopsticks and took another bite: "It's just that it doesn't taste like the one made by the imperial dining room, but more like..."

"What does it look like?" Mudi looked at her expression carefully, afraid that she was eating too much, but Mubai laughed again: "It looks like noodles made by ordinary people, but it has a special taste."

After hearing this, Mudi smiled along with him, picked up the bowl in front of him with silver chopsticks, "People say Grain Rain Tea, Lixia Noodles, I have prepared them for Brother Xiaobai today, so it can be regarded as cleansing the dust for you."

A few days later, Pei Dongcheng came to ask for Zhou Mubai's pulse, the little girl led him to the study room and knocked on the door, Mubai was holding a booklet and was thinking about the homework left by Shen Taifu just now, when he heard the sound, he turned around and stood on the desk A while ago, Pei Dongcheng stared blankly, and invited An Fang, "I haven't seen you in half a year, Your Highness has grown so much taller." The little kid back then is now the backbone of the country.

The little girl put the pulse pillow away, made some tea after a while, and then left the door.Pei Dongcheng probed Zhou Mubai's wrist, closed his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Your Highness, everything is fine, but now is the time to grow up, and I will prescribe a warming and tonic prescription, and I will personally deliver it after the medicine is finished." " After a pause, he continued: "Miss Shuyao has a steady heart, it is better to let her make medicine for His Highness on weekdays."

As soon as Mu Bai heard it, he knew that this was probably a prescription for nourishing qi and blood, and couldn't help but blushed slightly, coughed and turned away, "Mr. Pei has always been good, and Yue'er has grown a lot taller too."

"Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. Father is in good health." Pei Dongcheng wrote the prescription and put it next to the medicine box, smiling, "Yue'er is also studying medicine with me now, but he is very naughty on weekdays. The previous one was sent by His Highness." The four treasures of brush and ink, jump three feet high with joy."

Several generations of imperial physicians in the Pei family, Pei Yue, as the eldest son and grandson, although the family is not rich, but he is also a well-clothed and well-fed son, such joy is naturally due to the friendship between them since childhood.

The two narrated some interesting stories about Qiongzhou, the little girl came in to refill tea for them, Mu Bai suddenly remembered the many rewards from the internal officials yesterday, and hurriedly asked someone to take two pieces of brocade, a pair of Hetian jade bracelets, and a A fine jade pendant.

"Yesterday, my father summoned me, and rewarded all the people who left the palace for meritorious deeds, and also rewarded me with many things. I don't need these two pieces of brocade and jade bracelets, so I ask Uncle Pei to take them back and give them away." Give it to Madam, as if I borrowed flowers to worship the Buddha. I think this jade pendant is suitable for Yueer, and I also ask Uncle Pei to take it back with me. I just said that Mubai hoped that he would be good at his studies, and that he would enter the imperial hospital in the future. , My brother will meet again."

Pei Dong knew in his heart that he couldn't refuse, so he had no choice but to thank him.After thinking for a while, he frowned and said: "According to the ancestral system, the prince will go out of the palace after a small ceremony to share the worries of the present. After that, he will be ennobled and built a mansion. Maybe soon, he will be married, Your Highness... . "

Zhou Mubai felt his forehead twitch, walked a few steps in the study room, frowned and muttered: "So, we have to think of a perfect solution."

Ten days after returning to Beijing from Qiongzhou, Zhou Lin announced that Zhou Mubai would go to the palace in the early morning, and all civil and military officials lined up on both sides, and Zhou Mubai knelt down to listen to the order.The third prince, Zhou Mubai, is very sincere and filial, handsome, devoted to learning, and talented. Today, the third prince, Zhou Mubai, can be conferred the title of Prince Rui.

From now on, Prince Rui will accompany the crown prince to watch the government.

Shen Youtang has a good character and quick thinking. He was promoted from a cabinet servant to the deputy army of the Prince's Mansion. Shen Yan and Shen Lan, as well as Zhang Minzhi and Xu Youci who were far away in Qiongzhou, were all awarded decent ranks, assisted Prince Rui, and received the imperial salary.

After the court was over, Zhou Mubai followed Zhou Lin to the Shang's study, and it happened that the queen made rose ice yuanzi to cool off Zhou Lin, and she had been waiting in the outer hall for a while.

Zheng Xuan also knew that Zhou Mubai was ennobled today, and when she saw her come in, she smiled gently, said a lot of words of encouragement, and then stroked her shoulders. The child who was ignorant and thin when he entered the palace, now has the charm of Yushu, and has long grown taller than himself. Taller.

Zhou Mubai knelt down and kowtowed respectfully: "Mubai was originally an ignorant child. He has been taught by his father and queen mother for many years, and he has achieved today's small success. Mubai, thank you father and queen mother for your kindness." Said He bowed again, and when he looked up again, his eyes were already filled with tears.

Zhou Lin helped her up with his own hands, and he was also relieved in his words: "My son has grown up."

"Look at you two, it's obviously a good thing, and it must make me cry." Zheng Xuan wiped the corners of his eyes with a silk handkerchief, gave them a look, and beckoned Mubai to sit down, "You may not have tasted the mother's milk for a long time. Craftsmanship, come to accompany your father with some rose ice yuanzi."

"Today, there are three young men from the Shen family who are the vassals of the court. Taifu Shen is really full of talents." Zheng Xuan took the rose ice yuanzi from Aunt Lu and put it on the Xingyun table. , she is known as a talented woman in Ruijing, she is good at all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, especially good at rhythm, did Mu Bai hear Taifu Shen mention it?"

"After returning to my mother, the Taifu never mentioned it. On the contrary, when Shen Youtang was 12 years old and opened the lock, my son and my fourth brother visited the Taifu's residence and listened to Miss Shen's playing the piano." Zhou Mubai replied: "At that time, you Tang brought us to the lakeside in the garden, listening to the melodious sound of the qin in the octagonal building, and crossing the lake, it was like a cloud coming out of the rain, making people's mind clear."

"Oh? To get Mubai's evaluation like this, there must be something extraordinary. In this way, Mubai and the Shen family brothers and sisters are quite destined," Zhou Lin saw that Zhou Mubai's face was gradually turning red, and suddenly became playful, and smiled. Zheng Xuan said: "Why don't we give the most talented girl in the capital to our Prince Rui, she is a beautiful woman, it is also a good story."

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