Brother Donggong

You, get up...

This voice is close at hand, but it seems far away.

Before I got up, I suddenly heard a shrill voice beside me saying, "Your Highness, according to the palace rules, he shouldn't get up. He should kneel here, and he can stand up only after the crown prince walks by."

My knees bulged, then retracted.

I just felt that something was blocked in my heart, and it was very heavy.

Wen Zhan didn't speak any more.

I just took a few steps back, put the zither on the ground, and said, "The Tianjie is too long, it's very hot, go to the other side."

Then, the large group of people disappeared together with him and Yuezheng.

I lowered my head and watched his golden silk boots disappear from my eyes. After a long while, I looked up at the blue sky and the bright sun shining on the man's eyes. I looked at the long sky street in front of me. Only then can he spit out the breath held in his chest.

The Yuxi Palace is under construction, and a group of people are as busy as a nest of ants.

Some plum vases from old kilns that I put on the table, and several erotic palaces painted by celebrities in the previous dynasty have been carefully put away, and the colors of the bedding and bedding have been changed, including the dark colors of black, purple, pepper, and red. , the current ones are all aqua blue, white, light green, and some light yellow and tender pink, which look light and ethereal.When I arrived, I saw Cucumber pouted to fit the legs of a red sandalwood chair. The joints were covered with gold skin. He used a small hammer to smash the gold skin evenly.With that look, it seemed that he was serving his daughter-in-law.

He said that such a toss here is to prepare for the zither.

I asked him, didn't Yuezheng stay with Wen Zhan in the East Palace all the time?He is still so young now, only five years old, and it is not yet time for him to live in a separate courtyard.

Cucumber hugged my mother and asked me to bring him pastries and ate them with great joy.

He is now a leader. On such a hot day, he is the only one who can hide on the bamboo recliner under the eaves, with a silk scarf soaked in water on his forehead, drinking tea and eating. The dim sum brought over is a joy.While eating, he held the fan and pointed to the distance, "Monkey boy, be lighter, it was rewarded by our prince, if it breaks, we will all go to the Nanshan Imperial Tomb to eat roasted sweet potatoes. "

Cucumber finished yelling, and then said, "The Seventh Highness has moved out now, it is the emperor's order."

I rubbed my nose, "Your Majesty still cares about this?" I thought the Emperor had long since thrown away the zither and raised him as a son for the crown prince.

Cucumber ate a mouthful of snacks, "Of course I care, not only care, but also very caring. The emperor also specially ordered Chu Qiang to recover and let him be the teacher of His Royal Highness."

Me, "Old Chu? Didn't he hide in the mountains to build a cemetery for him and his son? Can the emperor catch him back?"

Cucumber suddenly said in a low voice, "Where in this world is not the emperor's, who can get it out?"

I knocked on his forehead, "Don't make a face of bitter melon. In terms of shrewdness, Chu Qiangsheng is the ancestor of Sun Houzi. If he doesn't want to do, no one can catch him, and the emperor is the same. After all, old Chu It's because the fate of the world is not over, you can't climb to the Nine Heavens, you can't become the Da Luo Jinxian."

If you want to say that the fate is not over, so am I.

After leaving Yuxi Palace, I went to my mother's place and ate with my newly married wife at my mother's place. I drank all the soup and ate snacks before my mother let us out.According to etiquette, today is the day for the bride to return home, so as soon as we left the palace, we arrived at the Minister's Mansion in Yin Butang.

Yin Butang is not here, and it is said that he has gone to the cabinet to discuss matters.

Mrs. Yin held Qiluo in her arms, cried and wiped her tears with a small handkerchief, saying that the water splashed by a married daughter is someone else's family, and even the surname has to be changed to someone else's, and she has to give it to someone else. Have children.Then she lamented her fate again, saying that a woman can't do anything without a son, and told Qi Luo to get pregnant quickly, and if she had a son, even if a man has three wives and four concubines in the future, for the sake of the son, the man's heart will be There will be her.

There is a screen between them, and I wiped my sweat while sitting here.

The elder of the Yin family, Mr. Yin, looked at me with embarrassment, and made me another cup of tea. Only then did I realize that after drinking five bowls of strong tea, I had scraped off all the oil and water at noon.

After a while, Mrs. Yin behind the screen finished crying, put on powder and rouge, and came out with a smile, "I've been waiting for a long time. Isn't this the first time the girl came back to the door? Our mother and I talked for a while, and neglected the delicate guest." gone."

Yin Qiluo's makeup is always bright and beautiful. She came over, took my arm, and smiled, "Mother likes you. Just now she kept saying hello and I will marry you. She feels at ease."

I,……

Well, well, only if I was deaf just now and didn't hear anything.

We ate at Shangshu Mansion again, and returned to our place with a few big food boxes packed by Mrs. Yin.

As soon as we went back, we saw Cui Bicheng practicing Taijiquan with a crutch. Seeing us coming back, he took the food box over and said to Yin Qiluo, "Sister and sister, it's getting late, you should rest earlier. I still have something to say with this guy, so I won't delay you."

Yin Qiluo was not annoyed either, she smiled calmly, lowered her head slightly, and said, "Well, please also cousin to rest early. The weather is cold, and if you talk outside for too long, your tongue will flicker. My husband, then I I went to bed."

I looked at her blankly, and felt that my wife's rouge was extra special under the moonlight.

Cui Bicheng tilted his head and watched Yin Qiluo go, the corner of his mouth suddenly turned up, "This girl is interesting. Hey, what delicious food did you bring from your mother-in-law's house today? I have old wine here, how about some more?"

I kicked his walking stick, "Eat it yourself, be careful not to choke to death."

After finishing speaking, I went to sleep in the study.

The next day, the sky was bright, and with a bang, the iron beads in Gengxiang rolled out. A few early risers outside the door were sweeping the floor with big brooms. She went to the pharmacy run by herself.During these days, the northern border was tight, and the cavalry of the Xiongnu always came down to make trouble, and a large number of refugees came from there to Yongjing.And because the summer vacation has just passed, the sky is dry and things are dry, and many people suffer from fever.The Ministry of Households has opened a warehouse to provide food, and also applied medicine, but there are not many people who are sick, and most of them are herbal medicines that are like feeding horses. Because the Yin family has a relationship with the Northwest, she must go to help.

I saw her in the dining room, and she had the meals cooked.

Millet porridge, eight kinds of side dishes, chestnut noodle buns with jujube paste and milk, and steaming steamed buns.

She ate a bowl of porridge, four steamed buns, and two side dishes, and asked someone to serve tea to rinse her mouth.

As soon as she stood up, I stood up too.

I said, "I'll go with you."

She smiled and shook her head, "No need. There are many people in the pharmacy, and the smell of medicine is strong. You are not used to it, and you can't stand it. I'll go. What do you want to eat tonight, I'll bring it back for you?"

I waved my hand quickly, "No, no. Just come back earlier."

Just as he was talking, Cui Bicheng came in from the outside, "Sister and sister, you are going to the Tomb of King Yu in Beicheng, right? Two catties."

Yin Qiluo cast a glance at him, left without saying a word.

I watched Cui Bicheng sit down disapprovingly, picked up the bun and threw it into my mouth.

Me, "talk too much."

He said, "What are you afraid of?" He stretched out his arms and circled the table, shaking his hands, "We are a family now, and the family should help more."

Me, "Oh, you say that, I really need your help."

"What's wrong?"

He glared at me.

I sat across from him, and looked at him across a plate of corn bread.

Me, "Old Cui, help me find a shop in the back place, I want to open a steamed stuffed bun shop."

He was amused, "What kind of steamed stuffed bun shop do you want to open? Tell me if you want to start a business. Anyway, you were quite ignorant at first. There is nothing you don't understand in Yongjing City. If you don't say anything else, just talk about making antiques." , maybe it’s enough for you to eat pork leg.”

I waved my hand, "The antique business must have something to do with the princes and grandsons. I don't want to talk to them anymore, I just want to have a good meal."

Cui Bicheng, "If you don't want to talk about it, then go, go far away."

I shook my head, "I can't take you away. What's the point of going to the sky by myself? Besides, where the buns don't support people, and where the loess doesn't bury people? With you here, I can do it wherever I go." The same. The bun shop is up to you."

Cui Bicheng didn't say a word, he tore up the cornbread with his fingers and ate it.

The bun shop opened soon, in a small alley on the fourth street behind the new mansion.

There is a tofu shop on the left and a pork stall on the right.

I invited a steamed bun chef, a guy at the counter, and me as the shopkeeper.If it weren't for the master's quick hands and feet, five out of ten of the buns he made would have entered my stomach.No one intends to make a fortune from this, buying a house and land, and raising a young wife is just for fun.

On this day, as soon as a cage of steamed buns with mushrooms was made, an old man with a goatee and a long robe came outside.The goatee shouted at me, "Old Zhao, bring me three catties of buns."

The guy at the counter saw that it was him, and I asked him to make buns, but he was not very willing.

He found a place to carry people and whispered to me, "Shopkeeper, this goatee old Kong is not a good guy, he pays on credit every time he comes back, and the money he owes us for meals is enough for our family to eat porridge for two months Just big salted radish."

I waved at him, "Go, get him some steamed stuffed buns, they are neighbors, go, go."

I was coaxed by the little work, and I finished the goatee buns with my mouth curled up, put them in an oiled paper bag, pushed them out, and then stretched out my hand.The goatee stared, "Why?"

Dude, "Money. You can't do this every time, just eat buns and don't give money. If you are always tight and have no money, then just tell me, our shopkeeper may cancel your credit account." "

Goatee, "Who said I don't have any money? I'm not, um, I left in a hurry today, so I didn't bring it out. I'll give it to me next time, I'll definitely give it to me next time!"

Dude, "Every time I say next time, when I saw you take out the money?"

With a goatee and beard, "Don't talk about your broken buns, you have been asking around in the capital, and I don't give you money when I eat in big restaurants. If you eat them, you can think highly of them, and they have to Serve me comfortably, otherwise, I will let them pack up and go back to their hometown."

The guy sneered, "Bragging."

The goatee seemed to have drunk a few drinks, and he was very angry. When he heard it, he slapped his palm on my wooden counter, and took a pack of good tea leaves on my counter.

He looked at me backwards and said, "Old Zhao, I see you are a kind person, and you look gentle. I don't eat your buns for nothing, and I give you benefits. Do you want to be an official?"

I was so happy that I didn't know what to say, "I'm an official? Me?"

"Yeah!" Goatee said, "Of course it's you! But you don't have any fame, and you can't do it as a high-ranking official, but you can handle eighth-rank and ninth-rank scribes and edicts from other provinces. One out."

I was so annoyed, "You think you are the imperial court, and the seal of the imperial court is not my bun, so you can make one if you just fool around, okay, old Kong, a few buns are worthless, don't brag Now, watch out for Ninetowns patrols coming over and arresting you and putting you in jail."

When the goatee heard this, he became even more reluctant. He simply refused to leave, and put the steamed buns and tea leaves on my counter. Others also came in, found a wooden plinth to sit on, lifted his robe, and thought the table behind me was greasy. , so he rolled up his sleeves again.

"Old Zhao, I didn't mean you. You're new here, so you don't know how powerful you are. If you go to Xicheng to inquire about three streets away, who doesn't know that I, Kong Shangci, is a guest of the Third Prince's mansion? My hands and eyes are as good as the sky, let alone a small one. The petty officials of the eighth and ninth grades, even the senior officials, I have seen, as many as the crucian carp crossing the river."

I laughed, "Third Prince... Who knows that the Third Prince is not what he used to be. His mother's father has gone back to his hometown to eat himself, and his uncle is still in prison. I am a small businessman. I can’t climb people like you.”

Goatee, "Hey, you know a lot."

Me, "Yongjing City is full, who doesn't know. Not to mention anything else, just the bearers on the streets of Yongjing, each and every one of them seems to have heard the bottom of the wall at the Dazheng Palace Imperial Palace, let alone the emperor and the prince. What is the purpose, which adult is going to be prosperous, even the length of the foot wrap of the imperial concubine and the pattern embroidered on it are clear. Let alone such a big event as the fall of the third prince."

The goatee looked at me contemptuously, "What do you know? After all, our third prince is the emperor's own son, which is different from the fake son who really fell down. Prayer Prince Chengyi, tsk tsk, how insufferable he was back then , how arrogant and domineering, the emperor dotes on, the ministers give in, even the current prince is afraid of him, what happened in the end?

Deposed, seized the title, ransacked the house.

If it wasn't for pulling the waistband of the lady of the Ministry of War, he would be worse than a dog now!After all, his crime is not as great as the third prince's. Isn't it because he is a bastard that he is so miserable? "

I agree with this very much, and nodded quickly.

The goatee saw me nodding, and he got excited, "Being an official, this is a business. If I hadn't hit it off with you, Lao Zhao, I wouldn't have told you! The document issued by the official department is for everyone. Whoever it is, we can get real gold and silver in our hands, don't you think?"

I nod again.

Goatee, "So, for the sake of our friendship, I only charge you, 180 taels!"

I am happy again. "180 taels? My bun shop is only worth 20 taels. How can I find you so much money. I said, old Kong, go eat your buns. I'm a small business, and I never thought of getting rich. I never thought about being an official."

"Old Zhao, you don't believe me?"

"Trust, letter. Just come back and give me the money for my bun."

"You don't believe me! Lao Zhao, just wait, hurry up tomorrow, I will bring you the official department transfer order of the county magistrate of Meicheng County, Zhili! Let you also open your eyes and see if my Lord Ma has three eyes !snort!"

After finishing speaking, he picked up three catties of steamed stuffed buns, and left with arrogance.

I stood at the counter by myself, and asked my hand to buy me almond soup.

I nestled in the counter by myself, drinking cheap almond soup and eating freshly baked buns, really leisurely like a dog.