Chapter Fifty-fifth
Sima Yu received the imperial edict and went to the Royal Horse Prison to ask for a "fly on the grass". Without letting anyone follow him, he quickly headed towards Jishui City. He had not seen Nalan Xue for more than half a year.
I wanted to write to her, but I was afraid of causing trouble for her and myself, so I kept holding on. Now, I finally got the chance. It would be an understatement to say that it was as easy as an arrow to do so.
Nalanxue led the troops to fight for more than half a year, and he was not idle. He was running business and winning people's hearts. Except for the three hours when he slept, he was idle all day long. At other times, he was really busy without even touching his feet.
Land.
"Give me a little more time, Xue'er. When I take care of everything, I will be in full glory. If I marry you, you will be the most noble woman in the entire country of Mo, no, the most noble woman in the entire world.
woman!"
Sima Yu thought to himself, but his hands were not idle, and he whipped the horse's butt again, causing the horse that just wanted to slack off to speed up again, "This is faster than I expected, much faster."
,Originally, I thought that I could marry you in two years, but now it seems that it will only take half a year, which is enough!"
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In the imperial palace in Jishui City, Bai Jifeng, who was supposed to have "committed suicide", slowly opened his eyes.
What caught his eye was the curtain that was no different from usual, or was it his own room, or... could it be that everything before was just a dream?
In his dream, he fell in love with someone and did not hesitate to change himself for that person. In the end, he still failed to win the favor of that person and committed suicide? No, it's impossible... All of that is too real. Even the slightest bit.
It didn't even seem like a dream, especially the pain that felt like tearing my heart apart when I was rejected by that woman. Now that I think about it, it's all so clear... By the way, at the end, when I was about to kill myself,
Why. But I don’t feel any pain?
Normally, if he sticks a wooden thorn in his hand, it will hurt as if he is crying. If he rubs his neck with a knife, it will not hurt? How is this possible?
"Stop thinking blindly, you're not dead!"
Yan Niang pushed the door open and came in. She saw Bai Jifeng sitting on the couch, touching her neck and chest for a while. She couldn't help laughing, put the plate in her hand on the table, and turned her head.
She looked at him and said, "Our princess is very generous. I saw you sincerely apologized on the city wall that day, so I spared you. You lost consciousness and fell backward that day, not because of
You really wiped your neck, it was me who hit you with a stone and knocked you unconscious!"
"Are you... Xue'er's nanny?"
After staring at Yan Niang and thinking for a long time, Bai Jifeng finally remembered her identity and hurriedly wanted to get down, but felt a pain in his waist and fell back, "Oh, one by one."
"Just because you're not dead doesn't mean you're not injured."
Yan Niang covered her mouth and smiled, quickly walked to Bai Jifeng's couch, stretched out her hand, and helped him, so that he could lie down properly and not suffer any more, "The city wall is not short, you can do it from above
Although you didn't die after the fall, your legs and waist were injured. I asked the doctor to see it for you. The doctor gave you medicine and said that if you rest on the couch for a few months, you will be fine.
"
"You just said that Xueer has forgiven me, right?"
Now that Yan Niang is in front of her, Bai Jifeng no longer needs to rush to get close to her. He only reaches out his hand in a hurry and nervously grabs her sleeve, as if he is afraid that she will run away, "Well,
Well, you... pinch me, okay?"
Looking at Bai Jifeng, who is already in her twenties and still looks childish, she can't help but smile. She has been Nalan Xue's nanny for more than twenty years. From the day she walked in the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, I just saw her acting like an adult. Even when she drank rice soup, she was counting the spoons in her heart. She refused to drink even if she took an extra sip. How could she be like Bai Jifeng, a stranger like him? Are you all acting coquettishly?
"Why are you pinching me?"
It was impossible for Yan Niang to really pinch Bai Jifeng, but seeing his pleading look and being embarrassed to refuse, she stretched out her hand and symbolically pinched the arm that he stretched out in front of her, smiling. Asked something.
"Let me try to see if it hurts. My mother-in-law said that if it hurts, it means that everything I see is not a dream. I can't bear to pinch myself, so I have to ask you to help me."
Yan Niang's attack was not heavy, but Bai Jifeng, who had never suffered anything since he was a child, was still so painful that tears were rolling in his eyes. He looked away with some embarrassment and used his sleeves to stop him before he could She wiped away the tears that fell, and then, with a smile full of joy, she turned back to look at Yan Niang, "Did Xue'er send you to save me? She forgives me and doesn't want me to die. , does it mean that in your heart, you actually still like me a little bit?"
"My princess has always been kind-hearted. If someone hadn't done something bad to her first, she would never have trouble with that person."
Yan Niang glanced at Bai Jifeng with a smile, then started to grab the quilt and covered him again, "Whether she likes you or not, it's hard for me to guess at this moment, but do you think you are worthy of it now?" Are you worthy of my princess? It’s not that Yan Niang is rude to you, but the scene you are in now means that my princess has really fallen in love with you and is willing to give up everything and fly away with you. How dare you take her with you? Are you leaving? Do you want her to accompany you to eat and sleep in the open air, or do you want her to travel hard? "
Yan Niang's words made Bai Jifeng blush.
In the past, he was the only son of the Emperor of Italy. He was pampered. Whatever he wanted to do, he would only be praised and praised by a group of people. Not to mention blocking him, if he met someone who was not clever, he would say something. Son, no matter how much he liked him, he might have ordered him to kill him, so that... now he is incompetent in writing, in martial arts, has no merit... and has a bad temper... …
To put it bluntly, if Nalanxue had people drive him out of here now and not give him any money, he would have to hang himself on the southeast branch in three days. Where is the use of pretending to others?
"It's not too late to know that you are not good. You are only in your early twenties, and you still have a lot of time to repent... Now, everyone in the world thinks that you are dead, which is good. , at least, you don’t have to worry that someone will want to harm you, but there are also disadvantages, that is, in the future, you will no longer be able to live with your current identity. "
Seeing Bai Jifeng bowing his head in shame, Yan Niang stopped talking to him. She just took out a book from her sleeve and gently put it in his hand, "This book. You are the princess and asked me to deliver it to you." You should take a look at what is given to you. It should be of great benefit to you in the future. I cannot stay here for a long time. If you want to see me for anything, you can send someone to send me a letter. I have received the letter. If I will give you an answer when I have some free time."
After explaining everything to Bai Jifeng, Yan Niang left in a hurry. Before she came, Nalanxue specifically told her what to say to Bai Jifeng. Now, she has said all that needs to be said.
It's time to go back and reunite with Nalan Xue.
Within a few days, Bai Jifeng had finished reading the book left by Yan Niang.
What was written in the book were all business methods for merchants, which were quite difficult to understand. He was embarrassed to ask, so he read it several times. Sure enough, after reading the book a hundred times, its meaning became apparent. Until now, he
My injury is almost healed and I can go to the ground. I have studied and understood everything in this book.
The place where he lives is not much worse than the Prince's Mansion where he lives. Everything is available. The three meals a day are exquisite and delicious. They even come in and out of his house to change his bedding, wash his wounds and change his dressing.
The little girls also have bright eyes and white teeth, no less beautiful than the ladies in the palace.
Bai Jifeng thought about it for a long time, but he never imagined that there would be such a place in Jishui City. He was full of curiosity and had no one to ask questions, so he had to suppress his thoughts in his heart and pretend that nothing happened.
The house he lives in has a small window that can see the scene outside the house, but it cannot be opened. Before, he was injured and could only lie on the couch. Now that he can move around, he moved a chair and sat there all day.
In front of this window, looking at the scenery below, there is no doubt that this is Jishui City, but where exactly it is in Jishui City, he has no clue.
"Sir, the princess will leave for Mo Country tomorrow. She sent someone to ask you where you want to go."
On this day, the little girl who usually took care of Bai Jifeng's daily life suddenly knocked on his door and asked him this question through the door panel.
"If possible, send me to Mo Country."
Bai Jifeng was slightly startled, then stood up with a smile, walked to the door, and opened the door.
These days, he has thought a lot and understood a lot. His original impetuous temperament has also changed a lot. He feels that what Yan Niang said is right. There is nothing about him now that he can be worthy of.
Nalan Xue's? Instead of asking for trouble and making her hate him, it's better to settle down first and start a career. It's not too late to mention it to her after the career is successful...
She has already claimed the identity of Jiang Yue's widow in front of everyone in the world. Presumably, no one will propose marriage to her in the future.
"When I have the ability to support you, I will propose marriage to your brother. Whether others laugh or scold me, as long as you are willing, I will not be afraid of... the accusations of thousands of people and the spit of thousands of people!"
Bai Jifeng muttered to himself, lowered his head, straightened his clothes, turned back and walked to the couch, took out the book that had been torn and torn, carefully put it into his sleeve, and turned his head
, looked at the little girl waiting there, "If it's inconvenient, there's a place nearby."
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"Mo Guo Zhi" records that in the winter of the first year of the Showa era, an army was launched to invade Mo, determined to capture the four cities on the border of Mo. Emperor Mo was angry and made the princess Nalan Xue a vanguard general, leading ten thousand light cavalry to meet him. He won ten victories without defeat.
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When Yi retreated from the city, Xu Shicheng hired him and asked to marry the princess Nalanxue as the crown princess. The princess was angry and conquered the country of Yi again. In the winter of the same year, the country of Yi was merged with Shang.
In the spring of the following year, the emperors of Mo and Shang met in Jishui City and agreed that the new territory of Mo and Shang would be twenty miles outside Jishui City and in the center of Zhishui River. It was known in history as the "Mo Yi Divided Territory".
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After handing over his military power, discarding his rewards, and going through two years of fighting, Nalan Xue returned to Nalan Mansion and lived a leisurely life.
Of course, it is inevitable to be scolded by the two brothers, but the two "good brothers" Nalanji and Nalanshu just talked so casually, and before they even said a few words, it was hard to see their precious sister.
After hearing this, Ai hurriedly changed the topic to something like, what new snack shop has opened in Zhaoyang City, what delicious preserves have been developed by the royal chef in the palace, etc.
Although Nalan Xue had "made mistakes", her achievements were not comparable to this trivial "fault". Sima Qing's first imperial edict had just dismissed her from her official position, and it took less than a cup of tea.
He also gave her a reward, a thousand taels of gold, and a hereditary title. She set up a stone tablet in front of the Nalan Mansion, wrote a letter, the civil servants got off the sedan, and the military attaches walked.
"Your father is really stingy! He tries to fool me with these crappy things that I have no interest in at all!"
After receiving the imperial edict and reward, Nalan Xue curled up her lips childishly, and protested against Sima Qing's "stinginess" with Sima Yu who came to deliver the edict. "Anyway, I should add another hundred and eighty to this reward."
A jar of queen honey is enough!"
"I don't have queen honey. Is this... okay?"
Seeing the unhappy look on Nalan Xue's face, Sima Yu couldn't help but laugh. He took out another piece of brocade silk with "Imperial Edict" written on it from his sleeve and waved it in front of her eyes. "It is said that above
What it says is that you can freely enter and exit the 'Bee Courtyard' and taste the produce there at will... Oh, how could you seize the imperial edict like this! I haven't finished yet!"
Pushing the previous imperial edict to Nalan Shu who was standing aside, Nalan Xue opened the "secret edict" that Sima Yu took out from his sleeve with "full of joy" and saw what was written on it. As expected, it was like Sima Yu
As Jade said, she showed a smile. She folded it a few times and carefully put it into her purse.
"Look how greedy you are! It's just a few jars of honey, but it will make you happier than a reward!"
Sima Yu said this, but he was happy in his heart. He spent a lot of time to ask Sima Qing for this "secret decree".
It’s not that the output of this bee yard is so valuable, but that, looking at the whole world, this bee yard is the only one that can produce the queen honey that Nalan Xue likes to eat. Sima Qing still wants to keep this bee yard.
The output will be used to negotiate terms with Nalan Xue. How can I not give it all up at once?
If Sima Yu hadn't been able to convince Sima Qing that he had a new way to make Nalan Xue willingly continue to contribute to Mo Country, there would really be no way for him to issue this "secret edict"!
"You, a man who doesn't eat snacks, how do you understand the meaning of this?"
Making a face at Sima Yu, Nalan Xue turned around and ran away. Now, she is a "widow" who has "dead her husband" and has returned to her parents' home. She can no longer live with someone who has not left the palace like before.
She behaves like "everyone's lady" and "shows off" everywhere.
Nalanji and Nalanshu both treated her as before, but the third princess, Sima Tan, always liked to say unpleasant gossip about her behind her back. The servants came to complain to her several times, but she didn't bother to talk to her.
After all, she was also Nalan's legitimate wife. She didn't want to cause a rift between the two of them because of herself. The family would be harmonious and everything would be happy.
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Although born from the same generation, Sima Xi, the "little sister-in-law", is different from Sima Tan, the difficult princess who always deserves to be in trouble. In the past, when Nalan Xue was "in the boudoir", she and she were just competing with each other.
The "gentlemen's acquaintance" is still indifferent, but when they meet in an ordinary way, they may not be able to exchange a word with each other.
However, now that Nalan Xue has become a "widow", she has become closer to her. She often comes to talk to her without saying anything, and always brings her some delicious snacks made by herself. If Nalan Xue
It was late in the morning and I couldn't get back in time, so I simply stayed in Nalanxue's yard and had lunch with her.
"Xue'er? Are you there?"
Sima Xi carried a snack box, knocked politely on the door of the courtyard where Nalan Xue lived, and called out softly.
"The princess just took Yan Niang with her to move the queen honey to the palace, fourth princess."
A little maid poked her head out from the crack in the door. When she saw it was Sima Xi, she hurriedly opened the door and saluted her, "The princess has told her that if the fourth princess comes to look for her, she will let the fourth princess."
Let’s rest in the yard first, she only needs to move a few jars of queen honey, and she’ll be back soon.”
Sima Xi smiled gently, said nothing, just moved lightly, and followed the little maid who led the way into the courtyard.
She and Nalan Shu have been married for more than a year, and they get along well with each other on weekdays. It's just... that they are very disappointed. It's been a long time, and there is no news.
Sima Tan took advantage of the fact that he was the first to enter Nalan's family and that he was older, so he often used "no children" and "disappearance" to tease her. He completely ignored the love of sisters and wanted to use her own two maids.
Offered to Nalan Shu to be his concubine, Nalan Shu politely declined several times, but she refused to give up.
It was not until later that Nalan Shu was angered and ordered to kill the two maids she assigned to give him incense and try to take the opportunity to climb onto his bed that she calmed down.
However, according to some servants who were waiting in the East Courtyard, on the night when Nalan Shu ordered people to kill the two maids, Nalan Ji got furious at Sima Tan in the East Courtyard, and then went there for a long time.
The concubine who passed by the house was rested in the house of the Qi family. The next day, two beautiful and beautiful girls from good families were bought back from outside and made into partial houses.
From then on, no matter how much Sima Tan tried to please her, he never entered her house again.
The protection of Nalan's family is evident.
Vomit one by one
Just as he sat down in the room, he was about to open the food box containing the snacks and dry the freshly baked snacks. Suddenly, Sima Tan felt that the smell of oil was choking, and he felt nauseated, so he hurriedly ran out.
He left the room and vomited in the corner.
"Congratulations, sister-in-law, congratulations to sister-in-law."
Nalan Xue was carrying two large jars of queen honey with Yan Niang, and walked in from the door. When she saw this scene, she smiled and walked quickly towards Sima Xi. (To be continued. If
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