The day when the eldest princess of Yueqing received the bachelor's degree from Duanji Palace.

It was a rare sunny day in Yanjing City, and the few wisps of clouds in the blue sky were combed into long and thin shapes by the wind.

Zhao Surui was wearing his newly made fur coat and walking in the yard of the Shen family's old house to bask in the sun. He saw Achi hurriedly taking the little girls to dry their bedding.

He tilted his head and looked for a while, and then Ah Chi realized that his girl had arrived at the side courtyard.

"Girl, why are you here? We were washing clothes last night and there was frost on the ground. You must be careful."

Zhao Surui looked at the quilts fluttering in the wind and curled his lips in boredom:

"I want to eat elbow today, can't Cuifulu bring me the elbow?"

Ah Chi smiled and said: "Girl, if you want to eat elbow, why not summon Tunan from Zhuangzi to the city? The day before yesterday, you thought the elbow at Cuifuluo was too sweet."

Zhao Surui rolled his eyes.

It's not like he would always be angry with Tunan. He could even eat at the same table with traitors like Shen Sanfei and others like Shen Sanfei without a care, so why would he care about a little girl?

But when he thought of Tunan's stern expression and said that he was going to kill him without teaching, he was unwilling to eat Tunan's elbow. It seemed that the majestic Emperor Zhaode had to beg a little girl to eat the elbow.

"You don't have to eat elbows. What other good food are there in the nearby restaurants?"

Achi thought for a while: "There is a northwest mutton restaurant..."

"No." Zhao Surui waved his hand. The mutton soup noodles that Shen Sanhui made that day, how should I say, although it was made with temporary seasonings, it was definitely not as good as making her start from scratch, but the mutton soup noodles were already cooked. Let Zhao Surui understand why several little girls can still miss the mutton noodle soup even when surrounded by Tunan's cooking skills.

It's really different.

Even if Tunan had made the same thing, Shen Sanfai's was still more delicious.

"I have no interest in eating mutton recently."

Emperor Zhaode said this. Of course, if Shen Sanfai came to make mutton noodle soup for him again, he would be very interested in eating it again.

Achi was speechless. Since entering Yanjing City, the girl has become picky about food.

"Then...girl, how about we eat fish?"

“The fish is not tasty enough.”

"How about venison?"

"firewood."

Ah Chi was helpless: "I'd better ask someone to go to Cuifu Tower to buy you elbows."

“Too sweet.”

Achi: "..." Why didn't the girl respond immediately when she wanted to eat elbow?

Xia He listened on the side and felt that the young lady was getting more and more childish. Seeing that Achi was unable to resist, she smiled and said:

"It's so rare in Yanjing City, why don't Madam Shen try something interesting? I remember there was a Cantonese chef in Liulichang who made poached rice. Fish and rice were steamed in lotus leaves, and it was also made with meat. It was so delicious. Come on, I rarely get out of the house for a year, and I think it’s very interesting to eat, why don’t you go and try it?”

This was somewhat interesting. Zhao Surui said "hmm" and reluctantly said, "It's best to say it's really interesting. If I make this trip in vain, I'll have you wrapped in vegetable leaves when I get back."

Xia He just laughed.

Zhao Surui turned around and took two steps with his small hand stove in his hand, then turned back:

"Why are you standing still? I'm still waiting for you to lead the way. Ah Chi, you and Peifeng go with me."

Xia He didn't expect that she could go out, and she didn't know how to let go of her hands and feet for a while. Zhao Surui was usually quite generous to them, so she changed into a brand new bamboo-green coat with large sleeves and embroidery on the corners. The pink plum blossoms are in season, and the lower body is a beige horse-faced skirt. The front skirt door is embroidered with plum tips, and it is also paired with a double-breasted robe made of gray rabbit.

She stood happily with Achi and Peifeng, her appearance was not inferior, and she also had a romantic air.

Zhao Surui looked her up and down, but shook his head:

"Didn't I buy new jewelry for all of you last time I went back to Zhuangzi? Take it out and put it on."

He dresses how he feels comfortable, and those who follow him must be stylish and comfortable to look at.

Xia He twisted the corner of his clothes and said carefully: "When I came to the city, I asked others to keep all the jewelry for me."

Achi glanced at her and said to his girl: "Last time, the girl gave me a pair of lapis lazuli hairpins, which match Miss Xiahe's outfit."

After saying that, she went to get the hairpin and put a gold bracelet with a plain circle on Xia He's wrist.

Xia He looked up at her and saw only a slight smile on her face.

Zhao Surui didn't understand the petty dealings between these women, and he was still not satisfied. Then he thought that he could buy more if he met a jewelry shop on the road. It was not like he didn't have money in his hand, so he reluctantly gave up.

Peifeng drove, and the three of them sat in the newly-carried carriage along the riverside road all the way to the boundary of Liulichang.

As soon as he landed, Zhao Surui went to a jewelry store in his sheepskin boots and chose a pair of gold earrings for Xia He. He also bought a blue gemstone and two pairs of hairpins for Xia He.

Hedu was dressed up.

The taste of poached rice is indeed more interesting than the other methods. You have to untie the dried lotus leaves to eat the rice mixed with the aroma of fish or meat. Zhao Surui asked Peifeng to buy a bad duck from the street to go with it, and drank it.

A bowl of lotus root meat strip soup.

After having enough wine and food, Zhao Surui did not move.

There was no private room in the small restaurant, but a pair of middle-aged scholars wearing blue cotton-padded clothes sat at the next table, talking.

"The world has deteriorated, and even women can put on makeup and wear gold and silver to go out to eat."

"Hey, Brother Lu, it's not like you don't know where this place is. Maybe it's some secret prostitute who has lost his business and is just showing off in the market to solicit business."

The person who spoke said "maybe" in a very confident tone.

When Peifeng heard this, he immediately stood up, but saw his girl tapping the table lightly, so she could only sit back down.

A chuckle came from the next table.

"The world is getting worse, and prostitutes are on the streets. Don't women have to take the female scholar exam recently? A group of ignorant women and children who can't even hold a pen and only know how to make a fuss when something happens, how can such people still do it?

I'm going to take the exam to be the female officer of Na Laoshi. I think the lady in the palace really wants to learn the trick of Si Chen, but your Majesty still indulges her. This is a sign that chaos is about to happen."

"If you ask me, there must be a traitor around our Majesty, working with the empress in the palace to seduce the Sacred Heart!"

"Traitor? Who is Brother Wu talking about?"

"Who? As His Majesty's aunt, Princess Yueqing did not stay a widow at home, but instead brought a group of women into the palace, and even got the official position of a bachelor... In my opinion, that empress is just what she puts in front of others.

In disguise, in fact..."

"After all, she is a princess. She has opened so many embroidery workshops and is making a lot of money every day. It's not enough. She even started to do things like Si Chen, who is obsessed with flattery and greed for power."

"The desire is so hard to satisfy! I have been a widow for so many years..."

Hearing that the two of them had arranged to talk about his widowed aunt, Zhao Surui raised his head and remembered the two people's dim and poor faces in his heart.

He slapped the table and was about to stand up when a hand pressed on his arm.

Xia He used his strength to stand up and smiled sweetly: "How can such a thing be worth making you angry?"

After saying that, she moved her waist, held up the bun on her head, walked past the two people, and asked the waiter for a pot of hot tea.

Then he walked back again.

Zhao Surui only waited for her to make any move, but saw that she sat down as if nothing happened.

After a while, Xia He actually persuaded him to leave.

Zhao Surui didn't know why. He didn't tear these two people up on the spot because he had lost some patience due to Shen San's exhaustion. Xia He actually asked him to leave without doing anything. How could he agree?

"Girl, don't worry."

With a smile on her lips, Xia He pulled her out of the restaurant and onto the carriage.

After a while, there was a noise in the restaurant.

"I told you it was a debt a long time ago, why are you suddenly begging me for it today?"

Zhao Surui is a smart man after all. Sitting sideways in the carriage, he looked at Xia He: "Did you find the owner of the restaurant?"

Xia He blinked: "When I saw that the clothes and sleeves of those two people were worn out, and the food and wine they ordered were the cheapest, I knew that most of them were really poor. They were so poor that they still had to go to restaurants. Those who eat wine and eat meat are the ones who have the most respect. Giving a dime to the store owner to collect the bill is enough to embarrass these people."

After all, she didn't hide her meanness. After explaining her actions, she couldn't help but say:

"These bitches really have a dick disease in their mouths. They can't move their lower bodies but they keep going in and out of their mouths. They spurt out all kinds of dirty urine and feces. They deserve to have their faces thrown to the ground and be trampled by thousands of people." It’s the hard work that makes people happy.”

However, Zhao Surui didn't feel happy. Those two insulted the royal family and it was not a pity to die. It just made them lose face, so what?

Rolling his eyes at her, he said lazily: "I thought you could show your power by scolding them too."

"Girl, those people are just like shitholes. Why should we get involved? A woman's reputation is as thin as a piece of paper. It will be broken if you are not careful and can never be repaired. The slave went and scolded her. Looking back, there will be a thousand times more speculations about us. I am a ruined concubine, I will say what I say, and I will do whatever it takes to save my face. But girl, you are the supporter of our family. Yes, your reputation is the plaque on the door of our house, how can it be tarnished by such a thing?"

Zhao Surui looked at Xia He and was silent for a moment:

"Reputation...? What does it matter?"

He was happily looking forward to Emperor Zhaode, who was just waiting to be famous and leave a lasting legacy in history in front of a tyrant. How could he treat fame as something great?

Of course, if Shen Sanfai used his body to cry, he would never allow it.

He, Zhao Su Rui, can be a tyrant for eternity, but he cannot be a crybaby for a moment.

"Famous."

There was still a commotion outside, so Xia He lowered his head and touched the hairpin on his head.
To be continued...