I was a prince in ancient times

Wang Meng turned his head and saw Xie Anlan standing under the tree rubbing the leaves with his fingertips. He couldn't help frowning and asked, "My lord, what's so strange about this tree?"

"No." Xie Anlan picked a leaf, sniffed the fragrance lightly, and smiled lightly, "I just like the fragrance of this leaf."

"..." The more Xie Anlan spoke lightly, the more Wang Meng felt that this tree was not simple, and he hesitated a little.

"My lord, there are plenty of this tree in the mountains, and the fruit it bears is also called sour fruit by the people, and it is really not very useful." The officials who had been following Wang Meng saw that he and the king of Chen were in a stalemate, and rushed to the door. whispered in his ear before.

As soon as Wang Meng heard that there were many trees, he stopped hesitating, "Since the prince likes it, I will give this tree to him as a gift."

Xie Anlan saw Wang Meng's hesitation just now, and now he heard his generous words, and suddenly felt amused, "It's rare for Mr. Wang to be generous, but then this king will be disrespectful."

When Wang Meng was teased like this, his old face blushed, and the corners of his mouth were drawn into a haha, "My lord is joking."

After finishing the matter and getting what she wanted again, Xie Anlan ignored him, turned around and told Gao De, "Move the tree back."

"Yes." Gao De responded, and ordered two guards to move the tree.

Wang Menggong sent them out of the household department until they were no longer seen on the street. He took out a juan handkerchief from his cuff to wipe the sweat from his forehead, turned around and said to the official who had just reminded him in his ear, "Collect more of this tree."

"...This." The official frowned and had to remind again, "My lord, this tree is useless. The people below only found that it has a fragrance and has the effect of calming the mind..."

Wang Meng raised his hand and directly interrupted the other party's words, and said with a serious expression, "Do you think there are ordinary things that King Chen likes?"

The official's brows furrowed even deeper.

Wang Meng squeezed the veil tightly, his eyes were deep, "Don't use your inherent thinking to figure out the thinking of Prince Chen, you must know that Prince Chen has a clever mind, and he can always turn useless things into useful things. This time he took the initiative Asking for this tree must have a deep meaning."

Hearing what his boss said, the official thought about it and found it reasonable, "This official is stupid, so I will arrange it and bring back more trees."

"En." Wang Meng nodded deeply.

When Xie Anlan brought the tree back to the mansion, not only Wang Meng had the idea that the tree was not simple, but even Gao De couldn't hold back his curiosity, and asked Xie Anlan, "My lord, what's the use of bringing this tree back to the palace? "

"Useful?" Xie Anlan held the green leaf in her hand and said bluntly, "It's not useful. If you have to say it's useful, it's not bad for soaking in water after it bears fruit."

"Then why is the prince..." Gothe was a little puzzled, since it was useless, why did he move back to the palace.

"Didn't I just say that, I like the fragrance of the leaves." Xie Anlan waved the leaves in front of Gao De.

Gao De was speechless: "Just like that?"

Xie Anlan affirmed: "That's all."

Gothe: "..."

Xie Anlan felt that Gao De's question was inexplicable. A lime tree can exert such a great effect.

Xie Anlan collected some leaves from the tree and went to the courtyard in the palace that was separately opened up to make perfume, and was going to try to mix a perfume by herself.

The whole month of April this year has been a good day, except for the last two moderate spring rains, the rest of the time is almost sunny.

As mid-June was approaching July, Lu Chengjie finally withdrew all the ice shops and turned them into a perfume shop, and took the initiative to invite several other concubines to a gathering at Donglai Restaurant.

When the other concubines received the news, they were surprised and asked again and again whether it was the seventh concubine who was inviting them?

The princesses did not accept this fact until they got affirmative answers from the servants.

It's not that they don't want to get close to Lu Chengke, and it's not that Lu Chengke doesn't want to be close to them. It's because men and women have been different since ancient times. Although the relationship between them is sisters-in-law, they are men after all. Too much contact will inevitably cause trouble. Gossip, so everyone is in a tacit communion with each other.

Received an invitation from Lu Chengjia for the first time this time, and they wondered if something happened to the Prince Chen's mansion, they hurriedly tidied up and came to Donglai Restaurant.

The first to arrive was the eldest princess. The eldest princess was still thinking about how Lu Chengjia took care of her son and daughter when she was in Yicheng. As soon as she entered the box, she hurriedly asked, "But what's the matter?"

"No." Lu Chengjie got up and welcomed the princess to the throne, and smiled softly, "It's just some trivial matters. I want to discuss with a few sisters-in-law. Don't panic, sister-in-law."

The princess was relieved when she heard that she was fine, she sat down calmly, took a sip of tea, "It's fine."

With someone, it's inappropriate to close the door of the private room. Lu Chengke gave Lu Chuyi a look, and Lu Chu opened all the doors of the private room wholeheartedly, and let the other people in the restaurant see .

Not long after, the third concubine, the fourth concubine, the fifth concubine, and the sixth concubine all arrived at Donglai Restaurant.

A group of princesses gathered here, and the door of the box was open again, attracting a lot of attention.

The shopkeeper of Donglai Restaurant had to come up in person and received him carefully.

As soon as the other concubines arrived, they saw that Lu Chengjiao was drinking tea with the eldest concubine calmly, guessing that it was probably nothing serious, they sat down after seeing each other.

After Lu Chengjie asked his servants to serve tea to the concubines, he smiled calmly, "There is nothing wrong with entertaining a few sisters-in-laws today, but I have a business and want to discuss with them, so I ask the sisters-in-laws not to leave." Blame Cheng Ya for being rude."

"If we talk about other things, we may have to turn against you, but whoever is talking about business, who will blame you." The third princess came in a hurry today, and the nails on her hands have not been done yet. Hearing Lu Chengjiao's words, While tidying up his nails, he spoke first without thinking.

Embarrassment flashed across the faces of the rest of the princesses.

The sixth concubine was the youngest and petite. Sitting among the concubines, she looked like their daughter. She looked around and said in a low voice, "I... I'm not very good at business."

Lu Chengjie saw that her eyes were red, like a rabbit that had been frightened by some kind of fright, and smiled gently, "It's okay, you can just sit and drink tea and snacks today and listen in. If you need anything, just tell the shopkeeper."

Du Ling nodded obediently, and ordered a bunch of his favorite food to the shopkeeper beside him.

The fifth princess was most concerned about business matters. When Du Ling was ordering food, she couldn't help asking, "Can I ask what kind of business it is?"

"It's not a big business either. The sisters-in-law knew that I opened an ice shop last year, but I closed it this year." Lu Chengjie didn't hide anything, and slowly expressed his intentions.

The fifth princess swallowed the tea in a hurry, but regretfully said, "Your ice shop is doing very well, why is it closed? I still want to buy more ice at your house this year."

The ice sold by Lu Chengjie is cheap, and this year their Beiji Palace is really rich from the fur business and the Beiji Iron Mine. It is rare for the fifth princess to want to be generous and let the Beiji Palace have a cool summer. day.

At the same time, the faces of the other princesses also showed pity.

"The time limit for the ice shop is too short. It can only be opened for two or three months, and the rest of the time can only be closed. I think it is too wasteful. I want to use it as a perfume shop. It would be great if the sisters-in-law have a shop to sell ice. .” Lu Chengjie’s seat is the farthest from these princesses, and he can catch their expressions the most, and he directly explains the situation without making a fuss.

"So it's so simple." Lu Chengjie said it so clearly that even Du Ling could understand it. At first, she thought that doing business was like Xie Qiongxi and Xie Anlan talking, saying words she didn't understand , now that I understood it, I took the initiative to say, "Then I can help."

The third concubine couldn't help laughing, "Lao Liu has used all the money to support you, how many shops are there?"

Du Ling bit the spoon, and looked at the third concubine with grievances, "Sister-in-law, we still have a lot of shops in the family of the Du family."

The third concubine pursed her red lips, and smiled more wantonly, "Xiao Jiaojiao also wants to earn money to support a man."

Du Ling was so tired, biting the spoon, she didn't want to talk to the third concubine again, lest she would be mad at her.

While the two of them were talking, the other princesses were thinking about which shops under their own names could sell ice.

Although Lu Chengjia didn't tell them what the profit was, but based on the popularity of the ice shop last year, the money couldn't be lost.

"Sister-in-laws are not in a hurry, you can go back and check slowly, the profit will not be lost to you." Lu Chengjie took out several contracts that had been drawn up and showed them to the princesses.

"Half money for a barrel!"

When the princesses got the contract and saw the price marked on it, they were all surprised.

Lu Chengjie sold the ice last year for a barrel of usual money, which was cheap enough, and if he gave them half of it, what money did he make himself.

"Chengjia, you have given up too much profit." The princess was afraid that Lu Chengjia would suffer, so she hurriedly postponed.

Lu Chengjie smiled, "Sister-in-law, don't worry, no one will lose you to Chengjia."

He has a large amount of thenardite, which can be piled up and cannot be used up in a short while. In summer, he can also build a large ice storage, and then put an ice bucket full of water in it, which can be used overnight. Frozen into ice, this water does not need money to turn into ice, even if it is sold for a hundred cents a bucket, he still makes money.

Hearing what he said, the hearts of the princesses jumped, and they couldn't help wondering why the ice in Lu Chengjie's hands was so cheap.

Curiosity is curiosity, and no one asked any more.

The profit of half a penny is enough to make them jealous, so they accept it when they see it.

"Then we will be respectful." Several concubines handed over the deed paper to the servants to collect it, and they will fill out the deed after they go back and inspect the shop.

The fourth concubine, who hadn't spoken much, suddenly said quietly, "I only have two bookstores under my name. I don't know if this bookstore can also be covered with ice?"

The fourth princess has always been indifferent to fame and wealth, she only likes to read books and drink tea, and ignores ordinary things. Except for two bookstores, there are no other shops next to her name. This meeting with other sister-in-laws has a plan in her mind, she panicked, and asked aloud road.

"Of course." Lu Chengjie nodded affirmatively at her, "As long as the fourth sister-in-law's shop has space to put an ice bucket, then the fourth sister-in-law only needs to ask the servants to set up a sign outside the bookstore that says 'this shop sells ice. ' sign will do."

The fourth princess heard Lu Chengjiao's words, and recalled her bookstore. She is Ran's daughter, and the two bookstores she married are not small bookstores. The space is wide, and it is not a problem to put some ice buckets. The people who come and go are all literate people. When they see this brand, there must be people who ask about it. If they ask, they will naturally buy it.

The fourth princess felt that this plan was feasible, and smiled at Lu Chengjiao to express her gratitude.

The originally indifferent beauty suddenly smiled like a flower, which shocked the rest of the princesses who were present again.

This is a treatment they have never enjoyed.

"Fourth, you are not authentic, you have never smiled at me." The third concubine quit on the spot. In the past, the fourth concubine always acted like I wanted to read a book and ignore me when she was with anyone, but now she is in Lu Chengjia How did it change here.

The fourth concubine took a sip of tea, without even looking at the third concubine, she just looked down at the contract in her hand.

The third concubine made fun of herself at the fourth concubine's place, pursed her lips, and stopped talking.

"That's how the matter is settled." Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Lu Chengjia hurriedly changed the topic, "Chengjia invited a few sister-in-laws today, and I have something important to ask."

"You ask." The eldest princess hurriedly said, as the saying goes, they are short-handed, and now they have taken advantage of Lu Chengjiao, don't care what he wants to ask, as long as they can answer, they will know everything.

"Isn't my ice shop turned into a perfume shop, but it's too simple to only sell perfume. I want to sell some rouge gouache, and there are too many rouge gouache shops in the imperial capital, so I don't have an advantage, so I want to ask a few sister-in-laws for advice." What kind of business can this perfume shop do?" Lu Chengjie asked calmly with his eyes downcast.

Several princesses also expressed their understanding. It is normal for a man not to understand women's affairs.

"It seems that there are many rouge and gouache shops in the imperial capital. In fact, most of them are nothing new. Except for a few time-honored shops, the rest are for ordinary officials' wives and businessmen's wives." The third princess has the most say on this point. A frequent visitor to Rouge Gouache Shop.

Whoever comes out with a new product, she must be the first to buy it first, and she likes to show off herself, she is exquisite from head to toe.

"If you want to sell things from a woman's house, you must make something more innovative than other houses."

Lu Chengjiao frowned, it was difficult for him.

He has never even stepped into a rouge and gouache shop, how can it compare to those shops that specialize in this kind of shop all the year round.

"Actually, why do you want to shop for other things? It's better to do fine things than miscellaneous. Your perfume is pretty good, but it's just a single scent. You can find a way to make the scent not so single." The third princess looked down. Someone fixed her nails and said with satisfaction.

Lu Chengjia's eyebrows relaxed, and he felt that what the third princess said made sense, so he nodded, "Thank you, sister-in-law, Chengjia knows what to do."

The third princess slowly raised her head, looked at Lu Chengjiao in confusion, and asked in surprise, "Did I say anything just now?"

"..." Lu Chengjia was silent for a while.

In the end, it was the Fifth Princess who rescued him, "Sister-in-law San once fell off a horse and hurt her brain, and her speech was good and bad, so don't worry about it."

"Fifth," the third concubine narrowed her eyes, and looked at the fifth concubine coldly, which made the fifth concubine shrink back in fright, and finally said, "I have something to say."

"..." The fifth princess just breathed a sigh of relief.

The third concubine looked at the fifth concubine, scrutinized her for a moment, and said with a sneer, "How much have you eaten recently? Your whole waist has made you fat. Your fifth son won't call you a pig again, right?"

The fifth princess was so angry that her entire cheeks bulged, and she scolded Xie Guanchao in her heart. Before she got married, her face was a bit round, and she was always called a fat pig by Xie Guanchao. Unexpectedly, the third princess didn't know what to think. You have to remember this.

Grabbing the corner of her clothes, her chest was heaving with anger, the fourth concubine sitting next to her held a piece of chopsticks fish, and still put it to her lips, there was a surge in her stomach, a feeling of nausea surged up, she threw away the chopsticks, Gu Nothing else to do, leaning against the table, bowed his head and retched.

Seeing that she vomited suddenly, Princess Wu couldn't care less about getting angry, and hurriedly turned her head to help her rub her back, "It's all right, what's the matter?"

The eldest princess on the other side poured tea for her in a hurry, but the fourth princess couldn't stop drinking tea even though she was vomiting.

Seeing that it was impossible, Lu Chengjiao ordered, "On the first day of the new year, please hurry to the doctor."

Before Lu Chuyi walked out of the box, the shopkeeper who was waiting outside saw that something was wrong and rushed out to find the doctor.

The concubines are all golden branches and jade leaves. If something happens in his restaurant, he, the shopkeeper, will not even think about running away.

After a long time, the fourth princess slowly stopped retching, seeing her pale face, with a few teardrops hanging from the corners of her eyes, the fifth princess hurriedly took out her handkerchief to help her wipe away her mess.

As soon as she handed out the handkerchief, for some reason, she suddenly felt a churn in her stomach, tightness in her chest, she couldn't help but leaned against the edge of the chair and retched.

"What's wrong with each of them." The princess was in a hurry.

Lu Chengjie also stood up from the edge of the table, pulled out a silver needle from somewhere, and was trying these dishes one by one to see if any were poisonous.

In the end, after trying everything, and finding that there was no poison, his face turned pale. He invited the dinner today, and if something happened to the two sisters-in-law, he couldn't get rid of it.

Du Ling was so frightened that he huddled together, only the eldest princess and the third princess were helping the two princesses.

The third concubine followed the fifth concubine, and suddenly said, "Fifth, don't vomit, I want to vomit too."

Before he could speak, he ran to the corner and retched secretly.

Lu Chengjiao's face turned paler, his thin fingers were clenched into fists, he silently looked out the door, praying in his heart for the doctor to come quickly.

The three younger siblings were all retching, and the eldest princess had to take care of this and that by herself, and the days of June were turned into July and August by her, and her whole body was drenched in sweat.

Fortunately, not long after, the doctor came.

The doctor first took the pulse of the fourth princess, and his frowning brows suddenly relaxed, and he said with a happy face, "Congratulations, this lady is not in serious condition, this is a normal reaction after pregnancy."

Everyone in the room froze, Du Ling's eyes widened, and she said incredulously, "Sister-in-law Si has a baby?"

The doctor smiled and nodded.

The third concubine, who was vomited all over there, heard that the fourth concubine was pregnant, and couldn't help mocking, "Some people used to not even have sex with their husbands just to read books, but now they are even pregnant. Stains."

The fourth concubine blushed, bit her lip, lowered her head and stirred the handkerchief in her hand, and remained silent.

"Doctor, then show me Fifth Sister-in-law and Third Sister-in-law." Du Ling was relieved that the fourth concubine was fine, she was not as frightened as before, and quickly asked the doctor to show it to the other two.

After taking the pulse of the remaining two princesses, the doctor stroked his beard and said with a loud laugh, "These two ladies are also pregnant."

"what?!"

Everyone present was shocked.

Lu Chengjiao's face turned from white to red again, he never expected this to be the end result.

The fifth princess looked at her waist, and she said that her recent clothes were a bit small, so it wasn't because she was getting fat.

The third concubine was quite indifferent, and smiled half-jokingly at the fourth and fifth concubines, "You were also in the spring search...huh?"

"...That's not it." The fifth princess's face turned red suddenly.

This was a trick to cover up, as if no one knew it, the third concubine patted her on the shoulder, "Although Lao Wu can't coax people under the bed, he is quite good at coaxing people on this bed."

The fifth princess was so ashamed that she wanted to get herself under the table, she rolled her eyes at Lu Chengjiao with narrow red eyes, and said angrily, "It's not the perfume of the seventh brother..."

Halfway through the speech, he knew that he had slipped his mouth, so he quickly covered it.

"Oh..." The third concubine gave a half-smile but not a smile.

After the princess knew that several of them were pregnant, she would not be too busy now, so she asked the servants to remove all the fishy dishes on the table, and looked at the three sisters-in-law with a smile, feeling refreshed. Said, "Today is three blessings."

In fact, the third concubine and the fifth concubine are pregnant, and everyone is not surprised, but the fourth concubine is pregnant, and everyone is a little confused.

They are all sisters-in-law, no one has heard of it, but this one sleeps with a book in his arms during the wedding night in the bridal chamber, and the fourth prince still spends the night in the study.

Lu Chengjie knew very well that today's meal would definitely not be finished, so he asked Lu Chuyi to go to the various palaces to find the princes.

Seeing the sisters-in-law staring at her, the fourth princess took out a book from her sleeve and covered her face, it was so embarrassing.

"Don't cover it up, I see it." The third princess stood in front of the fourth princess, staring at the book she used to cover her face, and began to read, "Sage, Jun, Feng, Liu, Chuan."

When the fourth princess heard the book she was holding, she hurriedly put it away and took out a new one.

"Isn't this the secret book in the boudoir that has been popular in Huaguilou for the past two years? What's there to hide?" The third concubine muttered, "I remember a passage in which the sage ate the fruit of love and mistook Yuelang for Xiaolang. , It’s beautifully written.”

When the third concubine said something, the fourth concubine blushed an inch.

"After Xiao Lang found out about Shengjun and Yuelang, what happened later." The third princess couldn't remember clearly.

The fifth princess added for her, "Two phoenixes and one dragon turn over the quilt together, and go to dawn together."

"Yes, yes, yes." The third princess remembered.

The fourth concubine lowered her head and was looking for a seam in the ground. Lu Chengjie and Du Ling each held a fruit in their hands, and listened to their discussion intently while eating.

When the lords came to pick him up, Lu Chengjie specially asked Lu Chuyi to go to Huagui Building to buy a copy for him. He wanted to see what kind of book it was that attracted Sisister-in-law who was so restless. Can't stop being moved.

Several princes were shocked when they learned that their princess was pregnant.

In recent years, the royal family has had few heirs. Except for the grand concubine who has a pair of children, the other princes and His Majesty have no heirs. The people are speculating whether the late emperor's sins have been punished by the next generation.

Now that the three princesses are pregnant at the same time, this rumor will be self-defeating.

Among them, the happiest one is the fourth prince. He thought that he could only be a strange couple with his princess in his life. Who would have thought that during Chunsou, after his princess read the book, she would be married that night? become abnormal.

Now he even puts all the children on him.

In the future, he will never dislike his princess's love of reading books, it's just books, as many as she wants, just read them.

Because he was too excited, the first thing he said when he came to Donglai Restaurant and saw Ran Ruyun was, "Yun'er, are you going to buy books today?"

Ran Ruyun was teased by the two sisters in turn because of the book, but when she heard the word book, she just wanted to die of shame and indignation, so she gave the Fourth Prince a cold look, got into the carriage, and ordered the servants to drive away without looking back.

The fourth prince had no choice but to go back in the third prince's carriage.

Xie Anlan had just finished discussing with Xie Cangming from the palace, when she saw Lu Chengjiao's carriage returning home, she made eye contact with the driver and sneaked up on it.

Lu Chengjie was sitting in a corner of the carriage, looking at the books in his lap with red face, when he suddenly saw Xie Anlan barging in, and hurriedly put away the books.

But it's too late.

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