Celebrating the Year of the Fish: A Princess is Not a Concubine[GL]

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The next day was a fine day, the sky was bright and the air was clear, and the wind was pleasant.The sun was hanging high, and the warm sunshine fell down, and the people who illuminated it also felt warm.

After Zhou Jinyu returned to the mansion last night, she was not found by Mrs. Liu who stayed up all night looking at the account books, so she went back to the east courtyard and slept very well, and it was dawn soon after she slept.

Not long after breakfast, the little prince Sun Hao came. He looked haggard, as if he hadn't slept all night.

Zhou Jinyu rarely saw him look so listless, so he asked him, "What's wrong with you?"

Sun Hao sighed and sat down on the chair: "Oh, you don't know what I went through last night."

Zhou Jinyu also sat down with him and asked him, "What's going on?"

Sun Hao raised his head, drank the water in the glass in one gulp, and asked her with difficulty: "Did you leave early when the Jinjiawei came to check Baoxiang Pavilion last night?"

Zhou Jinyu just shook her head and said, "No." She definitely couldn't tell Sun Hao about meeting Little Baoziniang, not to mention, she now knew that Little Baoziniang was a traitor.

Sun Hao sighed and said: "Oh, when my mother went to pick me up from the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice this morning, I thought you were also imprisoned and told my mother to take you out too, but who knew that you slept comfortably here. "

Zhou Jinyu wondered: "What are you talking about, what prison?"

Sun Hao frowned, and continued to sigh: "Last night, Jin Jiawei locked me in the prison of the Ministry of Criminal Justice. I didn't even see anyone, so he locked me up all night. My mother went to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to look for me this morning. Let me give you a good meal." He paused, and asked Zhou Jinyu, "You said, the Ministry of Punishment won't report my visit to the brothel to the palace, right?"

Zhou Jinyu thought for a while, then replied: "It doesn't look like it to me. They must have arrested the wrong person. When I came back last night, I saw several patrols on the road. It seemed that they were going to arrest someone. .”

"Ah?" The little prince Sun Hao was shocked: "Who are you arresting?"

Zhou Jinyu recalled what the soldier said last night, and said, "It seems that they are looking for Khitan spies. Think about it, Da Jin will use troops against Khitan next month. At such a sensitive time, if Khitan spies sneak in, That's worth it."

Sun Hao frowned: "Khitan? That's right, the Golden Armored Guards were alarmed, they must be Khitan thieves! But how did they get in?"

Zhou Jinyu poured another cup of tea for Sun Hao to shock him, shook his head and said, "I don't know, but since Khitan started making troubles at the border last month, the capital has already been under a lot of martial law. If you can sneak in at this time...it must be It took a lot of effort." Zhou Jinyu felt that it was most likely that the Khitan people were cooperating with each other in Chang'an City, but these were all her guesses, so she didn't tell Sun Hao about it.

Sun Hao nodded and said: "Hey, whether it's true or not, anyway, I won't dare to go out again. Jin Jiawei has no scruples because he is a soldier of General Han, so he doesn't say anything in the room." Take me and leave, you really blinded their dog eyes!"

Zhou Jinyu shook his head, and said with a smile: "Aren't you coming out now? What's the matter? Tomorrow morning, I will go to the Long Live Lord to complain? Your little prince has the guts?"

Sun Hao was choked by her, and his originally furious arrogance fell instantly: "Hmph!"

Zhou Jinyu laughed at him: "What's the matter?"

Sun Hao sighed and said, "You ask me what's the matter? If I go to the Lord Long Live to complain, why don't I tell him clearly that I went to a brothel? Although the Lord Long Live didn't say this clearly, he still doesn't want the officials' children to go there. If I go to sue, won’t it be obvious that I’m not calling myself? In my opinion, I still suffer from being dumb.”

Zhou Jinyu just smiled and said nothing.

In fact, even though Sun Hao is just a hereditary prince with no title, he can walk sideways among the princes of aristocratic families in Chang'an City.In the early years, Zhou Jinyu was his reading companion, and after being in his favor, he became more and more lawless.

Fortunately, Emperor Tianshun was also happy to watch him messing around. If he suddenly became serious one day, even Emperor Tianshun would not be happy.

Zhou Jinyu listened to Sun Hao complaining about other things, and finally said that the old princess wanted to marry him, but Sun Hao didn't want to die, so he was pressed and scolded by the old princess again.The old concubine has also become more and more tempered since she got older, Zhou Jinyu was so reluctant to go to see her in the palace because of this reason.

"I'm very annoyed now!" Sun Hao didn't know what to think, and asked suddenly: "Jin Yu, I've got one question for you, don't tell anyone else."

Zhou Jinyu raised his eyebrows: "Huh? Come and listen to me."

Sun Hao hesitated to speak: "That is, if, I mean if, if you look at a person's body, do you have to be responsible for him?"

Zhou Jinyu: "..."

"I hear what you mean..." Zhou Jinyu reacted for a long time, then suddenly looked at him with a smile, and said in surprise, "What's the matter? Last night, you actually saw the body of Miss Ruyan, the Huakui lady?"

"I...!" Sun Hao was taken aback for a moment, and then he sighed again: "Oh, don't worry about whose body you see, I will ask, if you saw someone's body, would you be responsible?"

Zhou Jinyu thought for a while, and replied seriously: "Yes, although the girl is from a brothel, but with her appearance, there is no one she wants. Besides, Ruyan has always only sold herself, you and I know all about it. , if she is willing to show you her body, she must like you very much, so naturally you can't let her down."

"Ah... that's what I thought too." Sun Hao reacted to Zhou Jinyu's words for a long time, and he didn't know what came to his mind, his face turned red and white, very pretty.

Zhou Jinyu asked him: "What's going on? Ruyan, she..."

Sun Hao was stunned for a moment, then shook his head desperately, and said: "No, nothing!" He said with an extremely unnatural expression: "Jin Yu, I'm going first, I'm going into the palace today, and tell Long Live Lord that I I want to go out with the army, but I don’t know which army will I be transferred to if Long Live Lord approves me?”

Zhou Jinyu squinted his eyes and thought for a while, then said: "Whether Long Live Lord can really let you go to the battlefield, I have to say something else. Seeing what you mean, you really want to go?"

"Of course!" Hearing this, Sun Hao said with determination in his eyes: "As the son of the Great Jin Dynasty, it is my duty to protect the family and the country!" He paused, and then said to Zhou Jinyu: "I know, you are the same You can't hide it from me."

Zhou Jinyu saw that it was rare for him to be so serious, so he also became serious, suppressed the smile on his face and said: "Yes, if there is a chance, I really want to go to that battlefield to see and see again."

Sun Hao sighed and said, "You, you can't even get out of Zhou's house now, how can you go to the battlefield? Forget it, I won't tell you any more. If I want to enter the palace, I will go first."

Zhou Jinyu got up to send him out, and Sun Hao walked all the way guessing where he would be transferred if he went to the military camp.

He has never been to the battlefield, if he took the lead as soon as he went to the front line, wouldn't he have confessed his life early.

Zhou Jinyu only wanted to reassure him, and said in relief: "If Long Live God really allows you to go to the battlefield, he will definitely not let you enter the A-type camp, and Long Live God will not let you die." The barracks are ranked according to their ranks, A, B, C, and D keep going to the rear. The further forward, the greater the danger, but the more opportunities to make meritorious deeds.

Sun Hao stepped over the threshold in front of the mansion, paused, turned back to Zhou Jinyu and said, "I'm either afraid of death, or I'm afraid that after I die, my mother will be left alone with no one to take care of me. I, I really want to Going to the battlefield."

Zhou Jinyu looked at him with a smile and said, "Well, you don't need to emphasize these things, I know all about it."

In fact, even if Sun Hao didn't explain, Zhou Jinyu would understand that the old concubine had only one son, Sun Hao, and the eldest daughter, Sun Ning, was not by her side. The only seedling was gone after tossing.

Besides, Sun Hao's father, Sun Jingyuan, and Emperor Tianshun had been friends since they were young, and later pushed the Northern Zhou Emperor Xiang Jun to step down together. At the end, Sun Jingyuan was born and died, and made a lot of contributions.Although Emperor Tianshun was suspicious by nature, he still remembered this kindness after all, so compared with other veterans, Sun Jingyuan had a good death.

It's just that Prince Guining was a heroic and fearless iron-blooded name to Sun Jingyuan, but when it was passed on to Sun Hao, this name would die in an instant.

Sun Hao left the Zhou mansion, got into the carriage, and returned to the palace all the way back to Prince Ning's mansion. After changing into clean new clothes, he got into the carriage again and entered the palace.

In Emperor Tianshun's Chengming Palace, Sun Hao kowtowed to Emperor Tianshun who was sitting on the dragon chair reading a book, and then said: "Your Majesty, I want to go out with the army next month."

When Emperor Tianshun heard the words, he put down the classics in hand, looked at Sun Hao who was kneeling down and said, "What's the matter recently, all of them have come to tell me that they want to go to war with you?"

Sun Hao was taken aback for a moment, thinking to himself, who else is rushing to the battlefield like himself?

Emperor Tianshun naturally understood Sun Hao's thoughts, and reminded with a sullen face: "The battlefield is dangerous, this is not a good job."

Sun Haolang said in a loud voice: "Your Majesty cares about the subject, and the subject has deep feelings, but as the son of the Great Jin, I naturally want to protect my family and the country, and go to the battlefield to compete against the Khitan thieves!"

Emperor Tianshun looked at him for a while, with a smile in his eyes, and said angrily: "I don't know you yet? But is it your little friend who read it to you?"

Emperor Tianshun knew Sun Hao's mischievous temperament very well. He had done a lot of messy things with his little friend named Zhou Jinyu on weekdays. He has been offended all over, and he knows it all.

But precisely because of him, Emperor Tianshun felt at ease with him.After all, in his eyes, Sun Hao is just a child who can't grow up.If it wasn't for Sun Hao's eldest sister, Sun Ning, who married Khitan as the fourth princess this time, he probably wouldn't be able to think of Sun Hao for a while.

"Chen..." Sun Hao was taken aback when he heard the words. He wanted to shake his head and deny it, but he felt that since Emperor Tianshun asked this question, he must already know something. If he denied it now, wouldn't he tell the emperor clearly? Are you lying to him?

Sun Hao thought for a while, but finally nodded and sold Zhou Jinyu.

The emperor snorted coldly: "That companion of yours is quite scheming."

Sun Hao knelt on the ground and did not dare to raise his head. Seeing that Emperor Tianshun had stopped talking, he tentatively looked forward and asked, "Then is Your Majesty an associate minister or not?"

Emperor Tianshun waved his hand, and said very majesticly: "Since you have the heart to serve the country, I am naturally happy to agree, go back and prepare, go to the Ministry of War to report your name."

"Yes, thank you Your Majesty!"

Sun Hao was overjoyed, bowed his head again, and exited the inner hall respectfully, and only after he got out of the inner hall did he dare to turn around and walk out.

"Jiang Youde, come in!"

After Sun Hao withdrew, Emperor Tianshun shouted.

"Your Majesty, the servant is here." After a while, a man wearing a dark blue robe of the chief eunuch came forward and bowed.

Emperor Tianshun looked at Jiang Youde and said, "Give me the piece of paper written by that child in the autumn test last year, and I want to read it again."

Jiang Youde was stunned: "Your Majesty said that it was Zhou..."

Before he finished speaking, he looked at Emperor Tianshun and nodded his head: "The battle is imminent, and I feel really uneasy, bring me that piece of paper again, I have to think about it—"

"Yes, slave, let's do it now!"

Jiang Youde bowed to Emperor Tianshun and retreated.

Inside the princess mansion.

Wei Huanian sat on the armchair in the north of the study, thoughtful.

Last night, she received a letter from Fei Ge, which contained only one sentence: Please come to the private room on the second floor of Baoxiang Pavilion for a talk.

It's just that she just arrived at Baoxiang Pavilion, and within a short while, the Jinjiawei arrived, yelling that they wanted to search for Khitan secret works.

She began to feel uneasy, how did Jin Jiawei know?And it came so quickly?

Jin Jiawei used to be Han Tingxin's personal soldier, if Zhou Jinyu hadn't stumbled in by mistake, just because she would appear in Baoxiang Pavilion, it would be enough to make the group of Han Dang bite him. let go.

Not long after, Wan Qiu knocked on the door and came in.

As soon as she came in, she hurriedly said: "Princess, go and have a look, no matter how much the servants persuade you, if the young master refuses to eat, you will be very anxious to death!"

Wei Huanian frowned slightly, and his mixed thoughts were immediately pulled back by the words of late autumn: "What's wrong with Ah Jing?"

Wan Qiu cried anxiously: "I don't know, but the young master is fine this morning. When you feed him at noon and he refuses to eat, the servant thinks that the young master is not hungry. But the servant just listened to him I was crying out with hunger, I must be very hungry! The servant immediately sent porridge from the kitchen, but...but the servant coaxed me for a long time, but the young master just refused to eat it!"

Wei Huanian stood up and walked out, saying as he walked, "Don't worry, follow me to see him first."

"Yes," Wan Qiu wiped the tears from her eyes, and immediately followed Wei Huanian's pace.

The two masters and servants came to Wei Jingrui's room, and saw the little man wearing only a thin shirt, sitting upright at the table like a little adult. There was already cold porridge on the table. It has been placed for a long time, but he has not moved a word.

The place where the porridge was placed was a little far away from where Wei Jingrui was sitting, as if someone deliberately pushed the porridge away and put a painting in front of him.

It can't go on like this.

Absolutely can't go on like this.

Wei Huanian thought, ever since Wei Jingrui discovered Zhou Jinyu's portrait, he has been so precious to him, he has to look at this painting when he eats and sleeps, and now he doesn't eat again.

With Wan Qiu's support, Wei Huanian walked up to Wei Jingrui and sat down, looked at him for a while, and asked, "Are you refusing to eat again?"

Wei Jingrui's eyes were dull, and he refused to speak.

Wei Huanian continued to ask him: "Is it because of this painting that you refuse to eat?"

Hearing this, Wei Jingrui seemed to be frightened, and suddenly raised his hand to protect the half-opened painting into his arms.

Wei Huanian smiled when he saw this, and comforted him, "Don't worry, mother won't destroy it."

Wei Jingrui ignored her, still holding the painting tightly in his arms.

Wei Huanian raised his hand, patted his head, and said, "A Jing, don't be afraid, mother has already found her to be your master, and you will have a new master soon, so, eat obediently, okay? "

When she was touching Wei Jingrui's head, although Wei Jingrui didn't resist, but when her fingertips touched him, his neck flinched.

Wei Huanian's heart also flinched.

Wei Huanian withdrew his hand, looked at the porridge on the table, and ordered, "It's already cold, take it away."

Wan Qiu immediately said: "This servant will order another bowl to be brought up."

Wei Huanian said: "No need, prepare the carriage, I want to take Ah Jing out of the house."