Jiang Qing

Bai Bingchen had no choice but to bite the bullet and continue the game with him.

Mei Shao and Bai Zijin looked behind them respectively, seeing that after a dozen steps or so, Bai Bingchen's sunspots had been surrounded to a few intact places. At the time when he was in a state of desperation, Mei Shao suddenly reached out and brought a cup of tea and put it on the table. In front of Bai Bingchen.

Taking advantage of such a movement to cover up, Mei Shao quietly hid the two white stones by covering her sleeves.

Bai Bingchen's eyes moved slightly, but he didn't stop him. With these two pawns, he managed to make a living, but lost half of his eyes in the end.

Zhao Zhen retracted Bai Zi, and pointedly said: "Why do I feel that your way of life just now is not right?"

Bai Bingchen said without changing his expression, "Maybe His Majesty is blind and misread."

"Really?" Zhao Zhen glanced at Mei Shao, and said with a smile: "You have a good helper, even my wife is against you, if you don't let it go, you will lose no matter what you do."

Bai Bingchen pressed Zhao Zhen's hand that was about to put away the golden melon seeds, raised his eyebrows and said, "I don't have anything good to give my sister throughout the year, so I finally seized the opportunity to earn some rouge money for my sister during the Chinese New Year. It is the duty of a minister."

Seeing the little eunuch and Mei Shao say something in a low voice, Mei Shao left with the others, Zhao Zhen let go of his hand again, and said, "Then there is another game without helpers? Yan Fang taught me my political affairs, But there are very few victories in this chess game."

"Today is the day for the minister to rest and take a bath, but His Majesty insists that the minister come to the palace and detain him. I really don't have any thoughts. I'm afraid I can't play any good chess."

Restarting the game, Bai Bingchen made a move on the side first, revealing the magnolia pattern on half of his cuffs.

Zhao Zhen rolled his eyes, stared at the pattern for a while, and suddenly said: "Bai Qing, disrespect in front of the imperial court is a serious crime."

What he said was sin, but Zhao Zhen's tone was very frivolous. Bai Zijin heard that what he said was meant as a joke, so he leaned over to look at it, but he couldn't see what was going on.

Following their gaze, Bai Bingchen stared at his cuff for a moment, then quietly covered the two magnolia flowers.

Zhao Zhen saw his intentional gestures, so he started to tease him more and more, leaned forward slightly, and said: "I remember that the inside of Prime Minister Li Guo's official uniform is embroidered with magnolia, and the magnolia flower in the skirt of Prime Minister Zuo's coat is facing west. , but the magnolia on the skirt of the right minister's coat is facing east. But the official robe worn by my right minister today, how can the magnolia open towards the west?"

Now Bai Zijin understood that she had a happy event, and she was happy to let Bai Bingchen know about it, so she hurriedly asked Zhao Zhen to announce her into the palace, but unexpectedly, the two took the wrong official uniform and outer robe.

Fortunately, the official uniform robe was too loose, and Bai Bingchen was only half a head shorter than Mei Shao, so Mei Shao only felt that his robe was a bit tight, but he never cared about it, as long as he could put it on, he didn't think so. many.Now that this kind of private matter was exposed in front of Zhao Zhen, Bai Bingchen looked calm on the surface, but he was a little embarrassed on the inside.

Zhao Zhen was still smiling and staring at Bai Bingchen, waiting for his reply. Seeing this, Bai Zijin pressed Zhao Zhen's shoulder with a little force, and said: "Your Majesty has just ascended the throne, and at night in winter, he randomly took my clothes and ran away. , who would have thought that he would be caught before he even got out of the bed, and he would fall down, and he dared not call the palace servant, for fear of making a fool of himself..."

Zhao Zhen doted on him after he finished speaking, and then pretended to cover her mouth, saying: "You have a baby in your stomach, and now even I dare to make fun of you."

Bai Bingchen was stunned for a moment, staring at Bai Zijin for confirmation, "Sister..."

"After the banquet last night, I felt lazy, and I called the imperial physician to have a look, only to find out that I was pregnant for less than a month." Bai Zijin laughed and said, "That's why I hurriedly asked His Majesty to call you to the palace today. "

After Bai Bingchen was overjoyed, he felt a little worried again, and said to Zhao Zhen: "Although the situation in the court is stable, we still need to pay more attention to it. My sister is pregnant now, so it is inevitable that I will not have enough energy in the harem. Your Majesty must be more careful."

Zhao Zhen held Bai Zijin's hand on his shoulder and said, "Don't worry."

Zhao Zhen saw two or three little eunuchs coming back behind Mei Shao in the distance, just bumped into the painter who had been ordered to come, and said to Bai Zijin: "The painter is here, so don't stand here and blow the wind, go Take shelter from the wind in the curtain, and ask the painter to paint for you after it warms up."

The pavilion is connected to the corridor, and Zhao Zhen had sent someone to open a good place to keep out the wind and not block the eyes, where you can enjoy the plum blossoms for Bai Zijin to rest.

Seeing that Mei Shao took the two little eunuchs to the place where Bai Zijin was sitting with a bunch of gift boxes, Zhao Zhen understood most of it, but pretended not to see him, looked away, and said to Bai Bingchen: "He You're also smart, knowing that I can't be your master, you don't even do superficial efforts, and you only send gifts to that place. Your two siblings of the Bai family are really powerful, and they are obedient to clean up people."

Bai Bingchen fell silently, and even ate Zhao Zhen several times. Only then did Zhao Zhen realize that he was only talking and made a wrong move, which actually gave Bai Bingchen the upper hand.

"Ai! Ai——" Zhao Zhen stretched out his hand to push back the wrong stone, but Bai Bingchen slapped the back of his hand gently.

"Although I'm not as good as Your Majesty in chess, I have taught Your Majesty, and I have no regrets."

Zhao Zhen muttered dissatisfiedly: "You are too serious, but you are just having fun with your family, and you won't let me do a trick."

"A companion is like a tiger, who sleeps on his side with a jackal. The tiger looks at the wolf's ring, and hangs his heart day and night. Naturally, he is cautious." Bai Bingchen looked at him with a smile.

"If you dislike the high position of the official, and you are too tired to manage it, wait for you to choose two experienced people to take your place. I will arrange a spare position for you as a living clerk. The living clerk will only record my daily life, and you don't need to guess. Wouldn't it be just right for me, a tiger, not to have to go back to the mansion to be tortured by that jackal?" Zhao Zhen joked.

Bai Bingchen fell heavily, looked at Zhao Zhen and said, "Not good."

Not far away, Mei Shao was opening those gift boxes for Bai Zijin to see. At first she was putting on airs and pretending to ignore them, but then Mei Shao took out a sword box and took out a sword with a blood-red tip and a snow-white body Bai Zijin's eyes lit up at once, but because he was physically unable to try it himself, Mei Shao saw what she was thinking and took the initiative to try the sword for her.

It has only snowed all night, and it is so cold that it hasn't melted yet. The snow is heavy on the wintersweet, and there is no flower pattern, only a faint fragrance, some air-cold fragrance oozes through the ice and snow.

Mei Shao took off her outer robe, revealing her red tunic, playing with her sword under the tree, the white snow fell, a spot of bright red on the sword broke through the snowballs on the branches, revealing bright yellow wintersweet flowers.

He has a free and easy posture, after trying dozens of tricks, he cut off several wintersweet branches and held them for Bai Zijin to put in a bottle.

Zhao Zhen turned his head and looked at Bai Zijin fondly touching the sword body, knowing that she had recognized Mei Shao, and said with a light smile, "Mei Qing's gift can be regarded as a gift, and the queen has been bought as soon as she saw it. Then I will send you to Mei Mansion."

Bai Bingchen's eyes were gentle, he stared at them for a while, and suddenly said: "Qijulang is absolutely impossible."

"Huh?" Zhao Zhen turned around.

"My wife is spoiled, and the living man's salary is too little to support him. Today's salary is only enough to live on." Bai Bingchen smiled slightly, and looked at Mei Shao who had hidden two or three flower buds behind his back.

The salaries of Bai Bingchen and Mei Shao can be regarded as enough to live on, so eighty to ninety percent of the people in this world don't need to live.

Zhao Zhen was suffocated, and he said for a long time: "The salaries of my two prime ministers are enough for him to live?"

Bai Bingchen sighed, as if complaining, but there was a hint of showing off in his words, "It's all because I indulge him too much on weekdays, the little general is really hard to raise, if I didn't cook the fish soup myself today, I wouldn't be able to coax him Get out of bed."

Zhao Zhen heard him say such words in an ordinary tone, his body trembled violently, looked him up and down for a long time with eyes that suspected that Bai Bingchen was possessed by someone, and then said: "Although we are a family, you are a family. You don’t need to show off in front of me.”

"I don't dare." Bai Bingchen said with a smile: "Didn't I want to ask your majesty to make it easier for the officials who wrote the history to open the back door for me, so that I can tell your majesty the affection between your courtiers?"

"Tsk—" Zhao Zhen said disgustedly: "You have occupied Mei Qing's whole body, and now you have to take care of the affairs behind her?"

"Take care of it." Bai Bingchen's eyes moved slightly, "I'm stingy, it's not enough for me to be my minister, I have to take care of my predecessors and my descendants."

"Okay." Zhao Zhen compromised: "As long as you stop talking about your affairs and making me angry, after the new year, I will ask the historian who wrote the history to come to your house."

"Elder Sister already has His Majesty's child, so Your Majesty still needs a courtier?" Bai Bingchen teased him.

"That's right." Zhao Zhen smiled and sighed: "But people like you are too rare in the world."

"Such a rare thing is His Majesty's courtier, wouldn't His Majesty be more proud?" Bai Bingchen replied.

Zhao Zhen smiled, lost the chess piece, saw Mei Shao approaching, and said to Bai Bingchen, "I'm going to see the queen."

Mei Shao and Zhao Zhen passed shoulder to shoulder, bowed to Zhao Zhen, walked a few steps to Bai Bingchen's side, squeezed his hand and asked, "Have been playing chess for half a day, are you cold?"

After touching Bai Bingchen's gentle hand, he took out two branches of wintersweet from behind and handed them to Bai Bingchen, "Take some back to put in a vase for you. The flower buds I specially selected can be fragrant for a long time."

"Are you so presumptuous in the palace?" Bai Bingchen straightened his messy hair and asked, "When did you prepare those rituals, and you didn't tell me?"

Mei Shao sat beside him and said: "After I came back from Nanyang, I prepared it. I remember you said that sister likes to practice martial arts. I specially ordered someone to pick a good sword in the villa. The sword used by the princess is white, the tip is bright red, and it's called Zanying. As expected, sister is very happy when she sees it, so she is willing to give you to me naturally?"

"Then sister agreed?" Bai Bingchen asked intentionally.

"I called her Elder Sister and she agreed." Mei Shao's eyes sparkled, "Isn't that what you mean?"

Seeing that Mei Shao was excited and looking at him brightly, Bai Bingchen's thoughts moved slightly, and he raised his hand to wipe the sweat from his forehead, "Go and put on your outer robe, what's the wind blowing just now?"

"Bai Qing, Mei Qing, come and have a look."

Just as Mei Shao was half-coaxed and half-forced to put on a robe, Zhao Zhen beckoned them to see the artist's painting.

This painter is a newcomer to the palace, and lacks the craftsmanship of the palace, and has more of a sense of elegance and elegance.

Zhao Zhen looked over one by one, there was Bai Zijin sitting on the porch drinking tea, watching Mei Shao open the gift box, and the one holding the "hairpin tassel" sword while rubbing it. Turning to the last one, he "Hey" sounded.

The painter suddenly realized that he knelt down in fright, and said with a trembling voice, "That's the graffiti brush that the servant used when coloring. I forgot to take it out when I presented it to His Majesty. I hope Your Majesty will forgive me."

Zhao Zhen held the painting and looked at it for a long while. Bai Bingchen, Mei Shao and Bai Zijin all stood behind him and looked at it. There was no special expression on their faces, and the painter became even more uneasy.

"The painting is not bad." A little smile appeared in Zhao Zhen's eyes, and he finally said, "It's even better than the ones just now, I want to keep it well."

The painting changed the convention that the emperor and empress were tall and the courtiers were short when entering the painting, just like ordinary people, and painted a panoramic view of the plum garden.

Bai Bingchen and Zhao Zhen sat facing each other and played chess, but their minds were not on the chess. They both looked at the two people not far away with smiles on their brows.Mei Shao held two budding wintersweets in her hands behind her back, and pointed to the inscription on the sword body with her other hand, and Bai Zijin fondled the sword body along the point he was pointing at.Plum trees dotted behind them, making the Banzheng Palace Pavilion much softer.

Sitting or standing, the scenery is quiet and people are moving, the ice and snow are covered with plum blossoms, and the smile floats in the eyes. It is the most harmonious winter scene.

"I want to keep it well and hang it in the study." Zhao Zhen glanced at them with a smile, rolled up the scroll himself, and smiled and cursed at the little eunuch Shuangxi next to him: "Stupid thing, your master is sick, you don't even have an errand. Won't be it? Don't you want to reward soon?"

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The painter hurriedly thanked him.

Zhao Zhen lightly tapped Mei Shao and Bai Bingchen on the shoulders with the painting scroll, and said with a smile: "The good fortune may be intentional, so it taught the bright moon to be exquisite. We rewarded the golden ants Shen green ant together, don't be drunk, this flower is incomparable with other flowers. "

"Go, drink with me."

The author says:

The words Zhao Zhenyin wrote belonged to Li Qingzhao!