I was a prince in ancient times

After Xie Anlan teased Lu Chengke, she still introduced him honestly.

"Sister-in-law's personality is relatively gentle, but she has a little face. As long as you don't tear her down in person, she is generally easy to talk to."

"Yes." Lu Chengjie listened and took the tangerine from Xie Anlan's hand and helped him peel it.

"Second sister-in-law, that is, the current queen, her personality is... more virtuous."

Xie Anlan narrowed her eyes and thought about the queen's character in her mind, and finally gave such an answer.

"What does virtuous mean?" Lu Chengjie tore off the strings on the tangerine and fed it to Xie Anlan.

"It's just a bit stingy." Xie Anlan tilted her head and thought for a while, "You can't say the queen is stingy, it should be said that both the emperor and the queen are stingy."

"Of course, it may also be because the country is too poor and they have to be stingy." Xie Anlan explained.

When Lu Chengjie heard Xie Anlan describe the emperor and queen in this way, he couldn't help laughing, "The common people all praised His Majesty for being diligent and thrifty, but why did you describe him as a stingy man here?"

Xie Anlan snatched the peeled tangerines from Lu Chengjiao's hands, and didn't let him tear up those tangerines again, and fed them all into his mouth, "Zin, if you don't stingy, he will let Li Yougan pry all the property of my Prince Chen's mansion." ?”

"...It turns out that His Highness knows that Sheng'an Casino is opened by His Majesty." Lu Chengjiao narrowed his eyes slightly, thinking that His Highness hadn't been clear.

"The name is Sheng'an, and the deed paper used is printed with sycamore flowers, Fengqi sycamore, Your Majesty Shengan, so clear, I am not a fool." Xie Anlan thought of seeing the sycamore when he burned the IOU. Hua, shaking his head.

If it wasn't for the sycamore flower that gave him a warning, he really wanted to bankrupt the casino.

"The majestic emperor of a country ran to open a gambling house, and he did it so blatantly, and he was not afraid of being ridiculed by the world." Xie Anlan sarcastically curled his lips.

"I also see that he is really short of money. Give him some money so that he doesn't do such a shameful thing." Xie Anlan made up a nonsense explanation.

Lu Chengjie smiled lightly, ready to sing and follow, "Then I will pay more taxes to the court later?"

Cement sells well, profits are high, and taxes are high.

Xie Anlan shook her head, "No, I have already given away a lot of profits on the cement. If I pay more taxes, others will not be happy. I will pay as much as I have to. I will be a good prince who abides by discipline and does not cause trouble."

According to his status as a prince, no one will say anything if he doesn't pay taxes, but the cement business is too big. If he doesn't pay taxes, the entire Yong Dynasty's tax system may collapse.

"Okay." Lu Chengjie didn't say anything, and nodded in response.

Kneeling behind the two, Qiu Tang, who followed into the palace to serve, listened to the prince and concubine talking about the emperor and the queen, and said such indecent words as stingy, cold sweat dripped down the back of her body.

The legs that were kneeling were weak, wishing that she was deaf today and did not hear such words.

What is even more frightening is that there is a maid in the palace kneeling behind her. This maid is calmer than her, and she kneels silently as if she didn't hear these words , but who knows if she will pass the words of the prince and concubine to the ears of the emperor.

She wanted to remind her, but she also thought that she was just a servant girl. In such an occasion, let alone making a sound, even the sound of breathing had to be controlled at all times.

I can only listen to it while being afraid.

At this time, Princess Huainan was chatting and laughing with a bright woman in a bright red phoenix costume and a flower hairpin and phoenix crown.

"That's the third sister-in-law, Princess Kang Jing. She has the most flamboyant temper, but she doesn't have any evil intentions. It's just that sometimes she doesn't like what she says, so if she says something that doesn't please you, just pretend you didn't hear it."

Lu Chengjie looked over at Princess Kang Jing and saw that she looked like a bride from head to toe, so he nodded in agreement and said, "It's really flamboyant."

"The one drinking tea behind them is the fourth sister-in-law, Princess Changle. She has the most indifferent personality and doesn't care about everything. Her daily hobby is drinking tea and reading books. If anyone comes to find her, she will be very annoying."

Lu Chengjie had already seen her at this time, and saw her sitting in the corner of the water pavilion, drinking tea alone and looking at the book in her hand, as if she wanted to be completely isolated from the world.

"Do you know why the fourth sister-in-law married the fourth brother?"

"why?"

"Because she thinks that when she becomes a princess, she doesn't have to worry about too many mundane things, otherwise she is very likely to be a queen now."

The corners of Xie Anlan's lips curled as she said, "Speaking of which, the second sister-in-law is still the sister of the fourth sister-in-law. Back then, the Ran family wanted her to marry the second brother, but she chose the fourth brother, so the Ran family had to let her sister-in-law. call."

Lu Chengjie raised his eyebrows and refused to answer the question.

Xie Anlan smiled, and continued to explain to him, "The fifth sister-in-law and the sixth sister-in-law are not here, but they are easy to identify. The fifth sister-in-law looks dignified, but in fact she is a bit jealous. At that time, she was only ten years old, and she was raised by the sixth brother as a daughter, and you will recognize it at a glance when you see her later."

"Is it delicate, with red eyes, who looks pitiful to me?" Lu Chengjiao asked.

"Yeah." Xie Anlan responded and asked, "How do you know?"

Lu Chengjie pointed to the opposite water pavilion, and saw a thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl being held in the arms of a young man in his twenties, sitting on a stone bench, playing with the Nine Links in his hand.

That noble young man pampered the girl in his arms from time to time, explaining what she couldn't understand, which was exactly what Xie Anlan said about the sixth prince.

Xie Anlan looked out, and suddenly realized that he was going to call this little girl sister-in-law, "..."

"Your Highness, do you want to go to Jinghua Palace to catch up with the other princes?" Lu Chengjie asked with a smile.

Just now, Lu Chengjiao had asked someone to ask, the other princes were all at the Jinghua Palace, there were only some female relatives here, the sixth prince had been staying at the opposite waterside to avoid suspicion.

Xie Anlan shook her head, "I won't go there, I'm afraid the brothers are gnashing their teeth at me now, so I won't annoy them."

"What does your Highness mean by that?" The two had a good conversation, and found that the water in the teapot was gone, so Lu Chengjie called a maid to come over to add water.

Xie Anlan smiled and said, "You forgot, when I was in Yicheng, my brothers were afraid that I would have no money, so they pooled together 20 taels to buy cement. Because of this, my sister-in-law and my eldest brother had a fight. It’s not much better, now that the cement is selling so much, overnight, I’m richer than them, and that’s not enough to be hated.”

Lu Chengjie, "..."

Speaking of which, he didn't expect His Highness to sell the cement so quickly. In order to make His Highness's road repairable, he also prepared a lot of helpers, and none of them have come in handy so far. It will no longer be useful in the future.

However, His Highness is wrong.

Since the six princes are willing to help him with money, it is absolutely impossible for this little money to break the brotherhood.

Lu Chengjiao glanced at the water pavilion full of female relatives, and understood in his heart.

Among the seven princesses, he is the only one who is a man, so it is unrealistic for him to sit and laugh with the other princesses, but it would be embarrassing to leave him here alone.

Xie Anlan was secretly thinking of him.

Lu Chengjie looked down at Xie Anlan, and silently raised his eyebrows.

When they talk about others, they don't know that others are also looking at them.

"The seventh brother and the young couple are really loving. They have been together since they came in." The Zhangyang Princess Kang Jing rolled her eyes at the two of them, hooked her red lips, and said with a smile.

Princess Huainan smiled gently, "The two have not been married for a long time, so it doesn't matter if they are sweeter. Besides, I heard that the seventh brother-in-law saved the life of the seventh brother in Yicheng. Now is the time to adjust the oil."

Concubine Kang Jing stretched out her hand to support the hairpin on her head, and said casually, "So what if you saved your life, after all, you are a man. After a few years, the seventh brother wants to have an heir, so this kind of life-saving grace is nothing. .”

Even though she was already familiar with Princess Kang Jing's outspokenness, Princess Huainan still couldn't hold back the sting in her heart when she heard her perform it again.

What's more, they are not far from the seventh brother's side, and she didn't deliberately lower her voice when she said that, most likely it would reach the seventh brother's side.

The always good-natured Princess Huainan really wished that time could turn back at this moment, she was not talking to Princess Kang Jing.

Princess Huainan couldn't help looking at Xie Anlan and the others.

Of course Xie Anlan and Lu Chengke heard this. The smile on Lu Chengke's face froze, but slowly returned to normal.

"Sister-in-law San is a brainless idiot, so don't take her words to heart." Xie Anlan took Lu Chengjiao's hand and held it tightly.

"Well, I don't care." Lu Chengjia smiled faintly, and silently took his hand out of Xie Anlan's hand, "It's not good to talk in front of so many sister-in-laws."

Xie Anlan buckled him back again, "It's okay, I have a thick skin, I don't care, and you don't have to care about them, we are us, they are them, and now we have separate governments, no matter how long the sister-in-law's hands are, you still have to worry about them." It’s impossible to reach our Prince Chen’s mansion.”

Xie Anlan didn't deliberately lower her voice, and even let go of the last sentence.

Hearing this, Huainan Princess blushed and her ears were dry, she was ashamed, if not everyone was present at the banquet today, she would not be absent as a sister-in-law, she would want to go back home.

Concubine Kang Jing was different. She was so nervous that she didn't realize that Xie Anlan had something to say, and she didn't realize that Xie Anlan was talking about her. Taking the last step, he said with exaggerated surprise, "Ah, sister-in-law, don't you have a fever? Your face is so hot, don't infect me."

Princess Huainan, "..."

Furious, she was so good-tempered that she directly rolled her eyes at Princess Kang Jing, ignoring the ridiculously stupid third sibling, turned her head to greet the two children, and found her place to sit at the table.

The two people here broke up unhappy, and Princess Changle, who was sitting behind them drinking tea calmly, didn't pay attention at all, and took another sip of weak tea, changed her posture, and turned a page of the book.

On the contrary, the sixth prince in the opposite water pavilion, King Guangling, walked towards Xie Anlan and the others with his little wife in his arms.

Lu Chengji rolled his eyes, playing with his taste, "Your Highness, I find that your brothers are quite interesting, and even the sisters-in-law have their own advantages."

"Why is it so interesting?" Xie Anlan didn't think it was funny at all, but thought it was all weird.

Yes, there is such a father, the upper beam is not straight and the lower beam is crooked.

"It's nothing." Lu Chengjie didn't answer, but smiled, "I understand that the second prince didn't show mountains or waters back then, and even his mother and concubine passed away early, so he had to be raised by His Highness's mother and concubine. It is he who is on the throne of God."

"Why?" Xie Anlan raised her eyebrows.

"Because among the seven princes, His Majesty is the most normal." Lu Chengjiao paused and gave an affirmative answer.

"En." Xie Anlan nodded following his words.

Out of the seven brothers, Xie Cangming laughed the most. King Guangling had already arrived, and the little wife in his arms saw Lu Chengjiao, and sweetly called out, "Beautiful brother. "

"Sixth brother...six...sister-in-law..."

Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjiao stood up to salute.

"Seventh brother, seventh brother-in-law." King Guangling was a noble and gentle person, and he returned the gift gently.

The little wife in his arms, looked at King Guangling and then at Xie Anlan and the others, broke away from King Guangling's arms in an awkward manner, and saluted politely, saying in a childish voice, "Seventh brother, seventh brother-in-law."

Xie Anlan and Lu Chengjiao, "..."

"Ling'er, come here, don't make the seventh brother and the seventh brother-in-law uncomfortable." Xie Qiongxi, the king of Guangling, saw Xie Anlan's unnaturalness, found a seat, sat down with his clothes up, and called his little wife past.

Princess Du Ling of Guangling had no choice but to go over and sit on his lap.

Xie Anlan twitched the corners of her mouth, couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded, "Brother Liu, pay attention, Liu...sister-in-law is still young."

Hearing this, Xie Qiongxi raised her eyebrows silently, looked at the person in her arms, and said softly, "I know, I'll wait for her to grow up."

"You are...too doting." Xie Anlan didn't want to meddle in other people's business, but Xie Qiongxi didn't even let the little girl go, fearing that he would raise her and make her useless.

Xie Qiongxi smiled softly, "Ling'er is feeling a little unwell today, that's why..."

Xie Anlan understood, nodded, and said no more.

For a while, the two brothers sat silently, and the atmosphere was extremely embarrassing.

Xie Qiongxi covered Du Ling's abdomen with one hand, and hugged her waist with the other. Seeing that the atmosphere was extremely awkward, she smiled and said, "Ling'er saw the seventh brother-in-law on the opposite side, and thought the seventh brother-in-law was good-looking. , I brought her over to have a look, and it happened that I haven't seen the seventh brother for a long time, how is the seventh brother?"

Xie Anlan, "Very good."

Maybe Xie Qiongxi himself felt that this question was embarrassing, so he had to change the subject and said, "Indeed, since the seventh brother got married, a lot has changed."

"There is always a difference between having a family and not having a family." Xie Anlan rubbed her nose and reluctantly explained.

"Hmm." Xie Qiongxi looked at the person in his arms, inexplicably agreeing.

"I heard from the second brother that the seventh brother has an exquisite heart and can always have whimsical ideas that are different from ordinary people." Xie Qiongxi rubbed the top of Du Ling's head and smiled shyly at Xie Anlan, "I don't know seven Can my brother make something for children to play with?"

"Hmm..." Xie Anlan's eyes flicked back and forth between the two of them, and he nodded reluctantly, "Okay, I don't know what type Sixth Brother wants."

Xie Qiongxi just smiled when Xie Anlan punctured her mind, "Just as long as girls like it."

"Okay, I'll go back and think about it." It was just a small request, and Xie Anlan readily agreed.

As soon as he answered, another hearty voice sounded, "Lao Liu and Lao Qi, what are you two hiding here whispering, if you have any business to make a fortune, you can take me with you, brother."

Wearing a black python suit, a young man with flying black hair walked in swaggeringly.

"Fifth Brother." Xie Anlan and Xie Qiongxi saluted together.

"You know you're called brother, old seven, why didn't you take me with you when you made a fortune?" Xie Guanchao, King of Beiji, scolded him unceremoniously as soon as he stepped in.

Before Xie Anlan could answer, the two people behind Xie Guanchao interrupted.

"Fifth, it's not authentic for you to say that. Then when Lao Qi went to Yicheng to supervise the army, why didn't you go for Lao Qi." Kang Jing Wang Xie Yunyuan squinted at Xie Guanchao and said disdainfully.

"It's not that I didn't think about it." Xie Guanchao said helplessly, not afraid of boiling water.

"Stains." Xie Yunyuan lost his eyes for him to understand, and found a place to sit down.

Xie Guangchi, the king of Changle, was always weak-tempered, he followed his third elder brother and fifth younger brother, and whenever he came, he found a place to sit down by himself and didn't speak.

"Third brother, fourth brother." Seeing the two extra people, Xie Anlan shouted politely.

"En." Xie Yunyuan responded lightly.

On the contrary, Xie Guangchi smiled at Xie Anlan, "Xiao Qi is sensible now that he has a family."

"Perhaps the concubine taught well?" Xie Anlan half joked when everyone said that he had changed after getting married.

The brothers in front of them were taken aback for a moment, and then they all smiled.

"That's good, live a good life with the seventh brother-in-law from now on." After Xie Guangchi laughed, he pursed his lips and advised, "Don't be such an idiot like before."

Xie Anlan nodded, "Understood, fourth brother."

Just said a few words here, Xie Cangming followed Huainan Wang Xie Xiaotan over there.

The five people were about to meet the ceremony, Xie Cangming waved his hand away, "Today is a family banquet, so we don't need to pay attention to those formalities, ordinary address is fine."

"Big Brother, Second Brother." Everyone called out according to their words.

Xie Anlan glanced around at the six brothers with different temperaments, lowered her head and said with emotion, "It's all right now, all the gourd babies are here."

Xie Anlan's voice was so small that others couldn't hear it, but Lu Chengke heard it clearly, and thought about it in his heart, what kind of thing is a gourd baby.

Before he could figure it out, he saw a man who was as gentle as a spring breeze coming to him and thanked him, "Seventh brother-in-law, the matter of Mingrui and Mingyi has caused you a lot of trouble this time. Thank you very much. I will let you The princess will come to the door in person to thank you."

"Brother, you're welcome. Mingrui and Mingyi are both very good, and they haven't caused any trouble. You don't need to bother sister-in-law for a trip." Lu Chengjie shook his head, saying it was nothing.

Seeing what he said, Xie Xiaotan said kindly, "Then I won't be polite to you, and I will greet you later."

Lu Chengjie could only politely nod in response.

While speaking, the others had already entered the table, Xie Xiaotan thanked him and returned to his table.

At this time, night had fallen, and the lanterns on the side of Qionghua Pavilion were lit up, and the entire lake was lit up in an instant, and the other water pavilions around were also crowded with people.

The bell, Xiao, flute, se, qin, xun, sheng, drum and other musical instruments are put on the table, and Qionghua Pavilion becomes elegant in an instant.

All kinds of court ladies shuttled back and forth between the banquets of several princes with delicious food and wine in their hands.

Looking at the delicacies on the table, Xie Anlan was about to set down his chopsticks, when there was a pleasant sound of a zither from somewhere, and he heard the sound and looked over.

The lake surface was still empty when I came here, but at some point it was covered with all kinds of small boats, and there were dancers dancing on it.

Xie Anlan hadn't appreciated the authentic classical dance before, so she squinted her eyes and admired it for a while.

"If Your Highness likes it, we can also recruit some singers in our Chen Palace later." Seeing that Xie Anlan liked it, Lu Chengjie said in a low voice.

"I don't like it." Xie Anlan turned her head to meet his clear eyes and replied subconsciously.

"Oh." Lu Chengjiao responded, lowered his eyes and ate the delicious food in front of him, not sure if he was angry.

"Seventh brother, second brother toast you, thank you for making gunpowder and saving the country from danger." Before Xie Anlan asked what happened, Xie Cangming's words disrupted his train of thought.

Xie Anlan had no choice but to raise his wine glass, and drank with Xie Cangming in the air, "Second brother, you are welcome, the gunpowder was also made by mistake. If the second brother wants to thank, he can thank the couple and family that were blown up. Without them, My little brother can't make gunpowder either."

"They want to thank you, seventh brother, you should also thank me." Xie Cangming smiled heartily upon hearing this.

Xie Anlan was no longer polite, picked up the wine glass, and drank the wine in the glass.

As soon as the wine glass was put down, a maid behind her took the initiative to continue it.

Xie Cangming raised his glass to him again at this time, "For the second glass of wine, the second brother still has to thank the seventh brother. Whether it is the saddle or the cement you made, you have made great contributions to the country, and you must thank the seventh brother." I have relieved a lot of pressure for the second brother, and the second brother can't thank you for anything, he can only put all his affection in this wine."

Xie Anlan had no choice but to raise his glass and drink again.

He thought it was over, but just as he put down the wine glass, the maid who refills the wine refills another glass for him.

Sure enough, Xie Cangming raised the third glass of wine and said to him, "For the third glass of wine, the second brother still wants to thank the seventh brother, thank the seventh brother for supporting the second brother all the time."

This sentence was so vague that many people present did not understand it.

Xie Anlan didn't understand it at first, but when he heard Xie Cangming say the word "always", it was slightly aggravated.

When he thought about the time when he was sitting and talking with Lu Chengjie, the maid who had been sitting behind them had disappeared when Xie Qiongxi came over, and he understood immediately.

With a slight smile, he raised his head and drank the wine in the glass again.

Now Xie Cangming was quiet, and called everyone to eat and drink.

Xie Anlan breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to talk to Lu Chengjiao, when the restless Xie Guanchao winked at him and said, "Seventh brother, now all the brothers know that you are capable and rich, and I don't know when you will be able to take your money with you." Brothers can also make a fortune."

"Cough, fifth brother." Xie Cangming coughed and stared at him.

"Second brother, you can't be partial to the seventh brother." Xie Guanchao said a little displeased.

Xie Cangming frowned, and his voice was slightly displeased, "It's not that I, as the second elder brother, prefer the seventh younger brother, but the seventh younger brother has no fiefdom, and as older brothers, we just have to give way."

Xie Guanchao was displeased, "Second brother means that we brothers don't help anymore? I also want to take my seventh brother to eat and drink, but my fief that doesn't shit doesn't grow grass. I don’t grow trees, but I like to grow vines that look like copper coins, but they don’t give me a penny, how can I help.”

After speaking, Xie Guanchao glanced at Xie Anlan angrily, "What's the difference between me who has a fief and someone who doesn't."

"Nonsense." Xie Cangming rubbed his forehead with a bit of a headache, narrowed his eyes slightly, "Isn't your fief producing anything other than that piece of wasteland?"

Xie Guanchao stopped talking.

Xie Anlan's eyes swept over the faces of the six brothers one by one, and looked at Xie Guanchao with a smile, "Fifth brother really wants to make money?"

"Of course." Xie Guanchao nodded without thinking.

The Yong Dynasty is not as prosperous as before. In recent years, the output of the fiefdom has been getting worse year by year, and the tax revenue has been getting less and less year by year. Although the prince has no worries about food and drink, but compared with the previous prosperity, it is still worse too far.

Xie Anlan's prosperity made the others jealous, but he refused to say it because of face. He was born shameless, as long as he could earn money, losing face was nothing.

"I do have a business in my hand that I can hand over to Fifth Brother, but..." Xie Anlan paused.

"Seventh Brother, feel free to ask for anything." Seeing Xie Anlan's promise, Xie Guanchao was overjoyed and said with a big hand.

Xie Anlan raised her phoenix eyes slightly, and curled her lips, "But I want the wasteland that Fifth Brother just talked about."

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