I give the princess a sip

On the Dragon Boat Festival the next day, there will be a dragon boat race in Huaijing.

Although the three months of national mourning have passed, everyone dare not have fun.The dragon boat race was over, and Qiao Mingyu was not very satisfied watching it.

But as her own daughter, she couldn't say anything.Her own father is dead, and it doesn't seem good if she is too happy.

Gu Lian rubbed realgar wine between her eyebrows, and when she tried to trick her into drinking a little more, she realized that it was hard to cheat.Qiao Mingyu doesn't like this wine, she likes strong wine from the northwest.

"Forget it." Gu Lian washed her hands and suggested, "Go eat zongzi? And duck eggs, you ate a lot yesterday."

Qiao Mingyu ate only the oily egg yolks, not the egg whites.Huaijing is located in Jiangnan North Road, and there is a small town with beautiful scenery on Jiangnan East Road, which specializes in salted duck eggs, and even sent them to the palace as a tribute.Gu Lian's pickling is naturally inferior to other people's, but the person who pickles is special. In Qiao Mingyu's eyes, no matter how good the tribute is, it can't compare to Gu Lian's.

Seeing how Qiao Mingyu was eating egg yolk while grilling the rice, Gu Lian smiled and ate the egg white she left aside.

After eating, Qiao Mingyu suddenly remembered something.

"I almost forgot, Brother Huang asked you to come to the palace with me today, and by the way, have a family banquet in the palace tonight."

Gu Lian was slightly surprised: "Family banquet?"

What name did she attend the family dinner under?

"It's not that kind of family banquet." Qiao Mingyu shook his head, "There are no annoying concubines, just me, you, brother, sister-in-law and my eldest nephew."

Gu Lian understood: "Okay, I'll go and prepare some small gifts for His Highness the Crown Prince."

Children should like bright things, Gu Lian is going to let Lan Xiang take a double-yellow salted duck egg in a colorful bag and bring it to him.This is a custom in some places. Salted duck eggs are wrapped in the net and carried around the neck. When you want to eat, take it out and eat it directly.

Although I felt that His Highness the Crown Prince looked down on such a small thing, but Gu Lian just wanted to play with bad intentions.If there is no child in the family who can bring a net, then the little prince will be wronged.

After drinking a cup of tea and resting for a while, Gu Lian followed Qiao Mingyu into the palace.

Qiao Mingyu rode a charcoal ball, directly pulled Gu Lian onto the horse, and let her sit sideways in front of him.In this way, as long as Qiao Mingyu stretched out his hand to pull the rein, he could directly wrap Gu Lian in his arms.

It was not easy for Gu Lian to sit upright while wearing a skirt, so she sat sideways on the horse as she wished, with her whole body huddled in her arms, looking like a small bird.

"Drive!" Qiao Mingyu patted the horse's butt lightly, and the charcoal ball trotted towards the palace.

The princess's mansion is located in the east of the city. This is the mansion of officials and princes, so the streets are empty and there are no pedestrians.Occasionally, the carriages coming and going from various families are either rich or expensive, and they will stop to say hello to each other.

There is basically no need to worry about bumping into people when trotting here, so Qiao Mingyu didn't stop.She didn't respond to the people she met on the road who offered to greet her, but everyone has long been used to it, and the princess used to be like this.

"Have you discussed it? What kind of regulation is it?" Gu Lian took advantage of this moment to ask.

After dinner yesterday, Qiao Mingyu hurried into the palace, and he didn't know what he had discussed with Emperor Rui.

Qiao Mingyu nodded: "Brother Huang means to let you live in the palace to teach the prince, but I think such words will damage your reputation. People who don't know will think that you have gone to the palace to become a concubine." Speaking of this, Qiao Mingyu Obviously a lot awkward, "Then I said that I will live in the palace too, and let you live with me in the palace I used to have."

Gu Lian laughed as soon as she heard that, she could completely imagine Qiao Mingyu's expression of pretending to be self-serving.

"I think this is very good. Living in the palace with you is much better than living alone." Qiao Mingyu emphasized again.

"It's pretty good." Gu Lian didn't expose her, in fact, this person just wanted to live with her.

Ever since she moved to the princess mansion, every time Qiao Mingyu came to visit her, he would ask her resentfully when she would return to live in the princess mansion.Gu Lian refused with reasons, just wanting to see how she would solve it.

Originally thought that Qiao Mingyu would simply live in her house shamelessly, but when this happened, Qiao Mingyu came up with this idea on a brainwave.

Gu Lian didn't care, she just thought that the emperor had given him the mansion, and staying there for a few days seemed a little contemptuous of the emperor's kindness.And she also wanted Qiao Mingyu to have a taste of lovesickness, so that she could get better sooner.It's a pity that the orifice didn't open, this guy cunningly found another way to get together.

"That's it." Gu Lian agreed.

Qiao Mingyu was very pleasantly surprised, and thought it would take a little more talking, but Gu Lian agreed directly.

Xu felt that she agreed too quickly, and Qiao Mingyu felt a little uneasy.

Why did Ah Lian agree so quickly to live in the palace?Ah Lian won't fall in love with her brother, will she?

The ignorant Her Royal Highness suddenly felt a sense of crisis in her heart. She didn't know where the sense of crisis came from, but she subconsciously decided to cut off contact between Gu Lian and her brother.In any case, they cannot be left alone.

But no matter how she thought about it, she felt that this decision was very weird. Qiao Mingyu tried her best to find a reason for herself - the emperor brother already had a sister-in-law, and Ah Lian couldn't let Ah Lian destroy their relationship.

perfect.

So Ah Lian just needs to live happily with her.

After thinking about these brain-burning things, Qiao Mingyu happily hugged the person in his arms and told the charcoal ball to run faster.

Really, after eating so much horse grass, how can I still run like I haven't eaten? It must be that I have gained weight recently and can't run anymore!

Horses are not allowed in the palace, but Qiao Mingyu has the privilege to ignore these rules.However, in order to show respect for the imperial power, she didn't let the horse run forward, but walked in slowly, not as fast as anyone else.

Fortunately, neither of them was in a hurry, and it was good to take a look at the scenery along the way.

The palace has recently been repaired, and the attack on the Huns was a complete victory. Her Royal Highness directly wiped out this ethnic group in one pot. There will be no more bad things about the Huns invading in the future.His Majesty Ruidi was happy, so he ordered his house to be repaired, and the unsatisfactory parts were changed, so that it would be more comfortable to live in.

Her Royal Highness' bedroom was also repaired, but not much changed, because Qiao Mingyu didn't want to be changed.Ruidi naturally followed her, and if she didn't change it, she would not change it, so she would decorate the courtyard and the palace more delicately.

"I heard my emperor's brother complain that those elders complained that he was not thrifty enough, and said that the treasury was already empty after the war and disaster relief. How could the emperor's brother start to rebuild the palace right now. I didn't see this group of people in the morning. People are babbling, so they only dare to talk about it." Qiao Mingyu looked contemptuous.

Gu Lian was amused: "Then your brother didn't punish them for copying Tian Xilu?"

"Punishment!" Qiao Mingyu was delighted when he said this. The group of people thought that Emperor Rui's punishment for copying books was just for fun. I can't force it.Such a thick book of Tian Xilu gave Qiao Mingyu a headache just reading it.The main reason is that it is embarrassing to say that being punished for copying books is like a student who is not studying hard being punished by his master.

In other words, they have too much control, and the emperor didn't use the money from the treasury to repair the palace.It stands to reason that this kind of thing needs to be paid by the treasury, and the repair of the palace is something that needs to be done every few years. In the past, the Minister of Rites would take the initiative to remind the emperor to order the repair, and then let the Ministry of Industry supervise it.Not to mention some important palaces, which have to be renovated every year and inspected and maintained every month, lest something suddenly go wrong when they are going to be used one day, which will embarrass the royal family.

But Ruidi is a kind person, thinking that the treasury is empty, so he didn't pay from the treasury.This time, he used his own private treasury to build the palace. Speaking of which, it was the family property he saved when he was the third prince, and most of it was filial to the subordinates.Of course, there is also the money he got after he copied the Fourth Prince's Mansion and the Sixth Prince's Mansion.

These two guys are not as "clean and honest" as Ruidi, their subordinates really have a lot of filial piety.The sixth prince quietly intervened in the business and asked his subordinates to compete for profits with the people. If Emperor Rui hadn't suppressed him, those wealthy businessmen would have started to quarrel.The fourth prince is not much better, there are a lot of corrupt officials under him, and they send money layer by layer, all of which are used to curry favor and bribe the fourth prince.Naturally, the fourth prince didn't need that much, and put them all in the mansion, which made Emperor Rui cheaper in the end.

"Then your brother is still crying poor." Gu Lian was speechless.

Ruidi's little purse was bulging. Before the war, he was crying and had no money. Gu Lian had no choice but to give some good things to Lingsu, and asked him to use them to find someone to do business and make money. It turned out that this was not the case at all. Curry is all about money.Now that the battle is over, and they are happy to spend money to repair the palace, it's a generous move, it doesn't look like they have no money at all.

Having said that, Qiao Mingyu touched his nose.

In fact, her brother gave her a lot of money, saying that it was a daughter-in-law book for her to marry a daughter-in-law, and it was all kept in her princess mansion.Speaking carefully, her brother really had no money at that time.

"Here we are." Qiao Mingyu reined in his horse, got off first, and then helped Gu Lian down.

At this moment, Ruidi is still approving the memorial, and Lingsu is taking the children to read.

Lingsu himself can't read books at all, so he just lazily sits beside his son, eating fruits and snacks by himself, urging his son not to be lazy, and he looks like a crooked leader.I don't know if the lower beam is crooked or not.

When Gu Lian walked into the emperor's bedroom, a chill came over his face.There is an ice basin here, but because there are children there, I am afraid that too much ice will cool the children, so there are not many ice basins.Even so, it was much cooler than outside.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, it starts to get hotter and hotter, and it is estimated that it will enter midsummer in a few days.Gu Lian walked over and poured herself a cup of herbal tea, not restrained at all, as if at home.

Lingsu lay lazily on the couch and listened to his son reading, when he found someone with eyes in the room, he opened a crack and looked.

"Sister Gu is here, find a place to sit by yourself." After speaking, she yawned. The weather is so good that it is suitable for sleeping.

Gu Lian gave him a contemptuous look, sat down beside Qiao Ancheng, and accompanied him to study.