Chapter 174 Sister and brother meet again

Author: six silent

"The snow was falling hard before, but when it was time to celebrate the New Year, there was no snow. This winter is really unusual, isn't it?"

The bright sun shone on the window, and the white window paper seemed to become warm. Zhao Surui, who was sitting by the window, yawned and continued:

"Qin Tianjian said that if there is more snow in winter, there will be more rain in summer. This year there have been three heavy snows in a row. Next year we must not have three heavy rains."

It was raining that day when the news of his brother's death came to the palace. He sat in the Wenhua Hall and was bored, listening to Li Congyuan telling him "Shang Shu·Yu Gong"*, which happened to be the section of Huai River, what "Jue Gong"

But the five colors of earth, the feathers, Xia Zhai, Yiyang Gutong..." Just as he was thinking about what the five colors of earth looked like and how it could be used as a tribute, he heard the sudden loud ringing of the bells on the imperial city.

One sound, another sound.

Then, the bells throughout Yanjing City rang, one after another, like a turbulent wave rushing toward him.

He hurriedly walked out, but was stopped by Li Congyuan.

"Your Majesty, you should wait for His Majesty's call at this time."

He turned around and looked at Li Congyuan's calm face as always.

"Call? Call to what?"

The great eunuch Zhu Zhenhe beside him ran over, rolling around and panting, holding two pieces of linen clothes, threw himself at his feet and started howling.

"My lord! The prince is dead in Huai River!"

He broke away from Li Congyuan and Zhu Zhenhe and strode out. He saw that the maids and eunuchs everywhere were crying.

Yiji followed him, holding the sackcloth that Zhu Zhenhe had brought. He turned around and slapped Yiji on the face. Yiji fell to the ground and got up, still holding the linen clothes.

Mai followed him.

Before he even walked out of the courtyard, he saw a sedan chair speeding up to him. The sedan with the dragon pattern was his eldest brother's sedan.

One eunuch was covered in sweat from running around, and it was hard to tell whether he was crying or smiling.

"Your Majesty, your Majesty calls you over."

Without saying a word, he drew the sword from the guard's hand and chopped the eunuch to the ground.

"You dare to use my brother's sedan chair to pick me up? What's your intention?"

Blood splattered, Zhao Surui stepped on the blood and looked around, how could his brother die? His brother...

Zhang Wan, the chief seal officer of the Supervisor of Ceremonies, also ran over, knelt on the ground and called him "My lord, my condolences".

Condolences? Condolences for what? Obviously, obviously his eldest brother said that when he comes back from Huai River, he will tell his father to let him go to the army. The eldest brother will be engaged to Lin Miaozhen soon!

Just when he was confused, someone slapped him in the face.

"Zhao Surui! If you are crazy now, can you be worthy of your brother?"

He turned around and saw that the person in front of him was Lin Miaozhen, who was wearing palace maid's clothes.

Sixteen-year-old Lin Miaozhen’s eyes were full of tears:

"Zhao Su Rui! For the sake of Zhao Su Qian, you can't go crazy at this time! Go see your father! Find out what's going on, you are his brother! You have to finish the journey for him that he has not finished yet!"

"What about you?" he asked Lin Miaozhen.

Just these three words made Lin Miaozhen look away.

"I cry for him, go crazy for him, and guard for him."

"Hiss--" Zhao Surui suddenly came back to his senses under the warm winter sun and pinched a piece of the kitten's tail with his fingers.

"I remember, Sister Lin hit me twice!"

The kitten lying on his lap moved its buttocks to try to get its tail out of his hand, but failed. It could only "meow" twice, hid its head under its paws and continued to sleep.

Zhao Surui raised his knees, which finally woke up the kitten.

"Why are you sleeping? Get up and listen to me!"

How can a kitten be willing? The sun is warm and it’s a good time to sleep!

After stretching, it jumped to the ground briskly.

Just as he was about to eat the fish placed in the corner, his ears suddenly moved.

The wooden door was pushed open.

"Girl, these are the clothes Qingying, Xia He and the others made in a hurry. Can you please take a look at them?"

Looking at the new clothes held in Achi's hands, Zhao Surui let out a long sigh.

What does it matter whether the clothes are good or bad? After all, Lin Miaozhen is going to make fun of her.

"The colors are too plain." He picked up the corner of his clothes and looked at them. He was a little dissatisfied. "After all, it's the first month of the year. It's okay to wear all blue. Why is there no red at all?"

"Girl, please put it on first and try it on." Achi said with a smile, "Qingluan put a lot of effort into making this dress. He redid the painting on the plum blossom satin. It's really amazingly beautiful."

Zhao Surui refused to try, but Ah Chi finally pulled him up from the chair.

The lines of plum blossoms can be seen on the moon-green satin, but they have been drawn petal by petal with needle and thread, as if the plum blossoms have fallen on the material and gradually disappeared into it to form patterns.

From thick pink to light pink, it falls from the shoulders. Between the movements of the person, the whole dress is like a night disturbed by falling plum blossoms.

The lower part is a brighter sophora blue, made of a horse-faced skirt with double ruffles. The upper body is made of colorful falling plum blossoms, and the lower body is made of gold and silver threads mixed together to outline the moonlight. The dark blue pattern of broken plum blossoms seems to be plum blossoms.

The shadow of the tree.

Looking at "Shen Sanwasi" in the bronze mirror, Zhao Surui raised his eyebrows and looked at it for a long time, but he couldn't hold back the words: "It doesn't look good."

"In the palace, there are all the imperial ministers who are going to have an audience. The slaves and maids spent the whole night thinking about how to use this moon-green color to match the emperor's royal robes and the official robes of the female officials, so that they can be distinguished without being eye-catching. If you look closely, they will be elegant.

.As for skirts, everyone in Beijing is wearing red skirts this year. Qingying feels that everyone else is wearing them, so we don’t need to follow the trend."

"Yes." Zhao Surui nodded and saw Ah Chi taking out the gold and jade noodle from the makeup box and matching it with jewelry for him.

Looking at the jewelry with a frown, Zhao Surui curled his lips: "Where did this come from?"

"Don't worry, girl, I know you don't need to use what others have used. This is the style Chuiyun asked Yinlou to make specially before."

Looking at the blue gems decorated with rice beads, Zhao Surui was still a little dissatisfied.

"Why not use red?"

"This gem was a new year's gift from my uncle and his wife. As for the rice beads, there are no good ones in the silver house at the moment. They were taken from my wife's previous collection."

Zhao Surui shut his mouth.

Forget it... Shen Sanchi's skin, although it is a little worn out, still looks good when dressed up.

On the third day of the first lunar month, Zhao Surui arrived at Xi'an Gate in Xiyuan by carriage.

The person who greeted him was a somewhat unfamiliar female officer. As soon as she saw her, the female officer smiled:

"The Queen has long heard of Madam Shen's heroic act, but she has never had time to summon her before. Today Madam Shen is coming, so she sent me out early to greet her."

Looking at the daffodils on the female officer's head, Zhao Su Rui just nodded slightly. The female official just thought that "she" was being cautious when entering the palace for the first time, and asked Zhao Su Rui to get on a certain green leather sedan.

Seeing this, Zhao Surui hesitated a little.

"Can I take a sedan chair in Xiyuan?"

"Since His Majesty established the Duanji Palace in Xiyuan, female officials of the sixth rank and above can ride in sedan chairs when entering and exiting. Madam Shen, this sedan chair was specially given to you by the Empress."

A female official sits in a sedan chair?

Zhao Surui thought in his mind that Shen Sanbai had many tricks to play, but he finally got into a sedan chair.

The eunuch who carried the sedan was extremely stable, and there were no bumps along the way.

Zhao Surui lifted up a corner of the sedan curtain with his fingers and looked out, only to see withered willows, green pines and cypresses, and the Taiye Pond that had formed a solid block of ice.

After a moment, he said with some confusion:

"I've heard that the palace is very lively during the Chinese New Year, why is Xiyuan so deserted?"

The palace maid holding the sedan next to her smiled and said: "Your Majesty has long since decreed that the New Year celebrations in the palace will not be extravagant this year. Not to mention the Xiyuan, even most of the fireworks and Aoshan lanterns in the Qianqing Palace are exempted, but they are given to us slaves. I am rewarded with many clothes."

Aoshan lanterns were one of Zhao Surui's favorite pastimes during the Chinese New Year. The Aoshan lanterns made of bamboo poles and candles had to be three or four feet high to satisfy him, and there were nine of them at a time. Unexpectedly, Shen Sanfai I actually saved all these.

Along the way, none of the silk flowers that were tied on the trees in Xiyuan during the New Year's Day were seen, and there were no strong eunuchs wrestling for fun. Instead, the original tranquility and clarity of Xiyuan were revealed. Zhao Surui looked at it for a long time, and almost reached Qiong. After entering the palace, he lowered the curtain of the sedan chair.

In order to meet Zhao Surui, Lin Miaozhen took great pains to divide the meeting between him and his foreign wife in the morning and afternoon.

When the door curtain opened and an extremely exquisitely dressed woman appeared in front of her, Lin Miaozhen opened her mouth. She knew she should be more cautious, but she couldn't hold back after all.

"What a beautiful girl like a girl!"

"Bang." Zhao Surui kicked the door.

*"Shang Shu Yu Gong" talks about the scenery of various water systems in the world

The excerpt means "The tributes there are five-color soil, the big pheasant from Yushan Valley, and the specialty paulownia wood from the south of Yishan Mountain."

No responsibility extra 8

There were several vegetables planted in the small yard in Jiangnan. Zhao Surui stared at the tender pea shoot tips for several days. Finally, he couldn't help it, so he had someone pick the pea tips and fry them with garlic. He ate them with rice. Had three bowls.

The green peas and white rice do not look like they are for human consumption.

Zhao Surui was angry, and became even more angry when he saw Shen Shiqing in his dream: "I don't live like a human being now. This little thing in your belly always wants to eat green."

"It won't hurt your Majesty to eat some green leafy vegetables. You used to like meat too much, and eating too much made you angry."

If you don’t eat meat, you won’t have anger?!

Zhao Surui wanted to eat Shen Sanfei raw for a few bites to show her his "anger".

"Shen Sanfai!" he yelled angrily and looked at the woman's hand.

"Shen Sanfai! I suffered for you! Are you still busy with other things?"

"Your Majesty, these are the taboos for pregnant women that I asked the Imperial Hospital to write down. Sit here and I will tell you."

Zhao Surui was stunned.
Chapter completed!