Adoption brings disaster

Speaking of which, I had a conversation with the prince for a short while, and I didn't feel any fear at all. He was full of admiration and instruction for the younger generation. But after I came back, I felt scared.

After all, according to the plot of the palace fight, the Seventh Prince and the Crown Prince are probably incompatible. If the Crown Prince has any bad intentions, I won’t say that I’m doomed, but at least my life will be difficult.

And what annoyed me the most was that after returning that day, the Seventh Prince had some subtle resistance to me. Although it was not obvious, as a teacher for many years and with a keen eye, I noticed it at a glance.

Seeing the Seventh Prince like this, I also secretly thought that there is no wall that is impenetrable under the sky, and the Seventh Prince should know it.

But I didn't do anything. After all, I was tricked by the prince and didn't do anything. Besides, the more you do, the more mistakes you make. It's better to handle this matter calmly.

But after that day, the Seventh Prince no longer allowed Ah Da to serve me, but let Ah Er serve me instead.

I also thought that the Seventh Prince was dissatisfied with A-Da's lack of service, so he punished A-Da without saying a word and just let A-Er serve him personally all day long.

The Seventh Prince is already a bit strong, and I'm afraid the Crown Prince will come looking for me again, and it will be difficult to explain then.

Fortunately, the prince never came looking for me again after that. Otherwise, if they caught me again, I would be a traitor.

Given the Seventh Prince's temper, if he had any evidence of this, he might tear me apart alive. Furthermore, the Seventh Prince's martial arts skills have improved rapidly recently. Even with my magical poisonous anaconda, I'm no match for him.

If he really finds out that I still have contact with His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and he really wants to deal with me, even if I offer my magical treasure, Shudao Mountain, it will probably be useless.

So during this period of time, I lived cautiously and didn't even dare to leave Qianqiu Pavilion, for fear that the prince would frame me and make me talk again.

It's just that there's nothing to do in the pavilion, and being locked up for so long is really boring. Also, I imagine the modern Xiao Tao to be a kind and elegant person, with admirable chess skills.

Therefore, I had an illusion that Xiaotao in this world must have a talent for playing chess, and recently I have been teaching Xiaotao how to play chess to pass the time.

This lesson made me realize that Xiaotao really has no talent for chess. After studying for several days, her skills are still not as good as Ada who listens from time to time.

If it were Xiaotao in the modern world, a guy like Ah Da who only has muscles but no brains, even if he had ten pieces, he could easily beat him.

After teaching her for a few days, it was always like this. I lost all confidence. I pushed the chessboard aside and said unhappily, "Xiaotao, you'd better not play chess anymore. It makes me upset."

"I didn't like playing chess in the first place, but you insisted on teaching me how to play chess." Xiao Tao was also bored with learning, so she naturally muttered softly after hearing this.

I looked at Xiaotao and felt really angry for no reason. I was just about to criticize her so that she would know what it meant to respect teachers.

But at this moment, Xiaotian came running over hurriedly with a letter in his hand and said, "Your Highness, a letter has been handed in from outside the palace."

When I heard it was a memorial, I wondered if something had happened to the original body's parents. I felt even more annoyed and didn't want to pay any attention to it.

But this world is extremely strict about moral principles, and I couldn't ignore it. I took it reluctantly, opened the folder, and immediately said happily, "Ada, Ada, quickly find a few people to go and get my package back."

When Ah Da heard me calling him, he came over happily to answer. Then he looked at Chun Yu in confusion. After finding that Chun Yu was also confused, he said, "Please forgive me, Yuan Qing. I am so ignorant that I don't know what this express delivery is."

Seeing that everyone looked confused, I slapped my head and laughed out loud, thinking to myself that I was so happy that I even came up with the word express delivery.

I smiled and said, "My head shopkeeper's name is Li something."

"Li Er." A Da replied.

"Yes, yes, that's Li Er," I said. "Last time I left the palace, I asked him to do something for me, and now he's done it. Find a few people to bring it back to me."

Adabie's skills were average, but he was quite strong. When he heard that someone was moving something, he immediately patted his chest and said, "Please sit down for a moment. I'll get it for you right away."

He called a few servants and walked towards the palace gate.

It was less than an incense stick's time before Ah Da came back with a small jar in his hand. I looked at the jar with a puzzled look in my heart and said, "Is that all?"

Ah Da knelt down and held up the jar and handed it to me, saying, "There's a whole cart of this stuff. I was afraid you'd be anxious waiting, so I took the smaller jar and hurried back to show it to you."

So that’s how it is. I thought to myself, I didn’t expect A-Da to have such high EQ.

I took the small jar and opened the seal. Immediately, the aroma of wine hit me and soon filled the entire room.

The wine had a strong aroma, and I felt happy just by smelling it. I asked Chunyu to bring out the wine glasses and poured some into each glass so that everyone could taste it.

After drinking it, everyone exclaimed that the wine was so delicious and they had never tasted such delicious wine before.

After tasting the wine, I asked Chunyu to fill a jug of fine wine, wrote a letter to Ah Da and said, "Go and give this jug of wine and this letter to Li Er, and ask him to go to the Zhenbei Palace and ask the Zhenbei King to ask for five thousand taels of silver."

No matter how good the wine is, such a small pot is not worth five thousand taels. Ah Da was puzzled and wanted to ask, but I ignored him and just told him to go quickly.

After hearing my urging, Ada naturally stopped asking questions and walked away quickly.

It is said that Ada left quickly and came back quickly, and this time he brought all the wine back with him.

When I looked at the wine, there wasn't much, not as much as the big cart that Ah Da said. There were only seven small jars like those mentioned earlier, plus the one that was opened, making a total of eight jars.

The jar for wine is quite thick. Although it is called a jar, it actually weighs less than three pounds. One jar of wine can just fill three wine jugs.

Li Er was also a capable man. He brought a letter along with the wine.

After reading the letter, I was completely shocked. These eight jars of wine cost nearly nine hundred taels of silver. One jar of wine cost more than one hundred taels. This is not just drinking, this is drinking money.

Although the cost was extremely high, it was not because Li Er embezzled the money, because the wine was purified from the finest wines.

Also, due to inadequate smelting technology and poor sealing of the equipment, only one kilogram of wine can be purified from ten kilograms of wine, so the cost is naturally high.

Good things should naturally be shared with everyone, but there is only so much wine, so naturally it cannot be distributed to every noble in the palace. However, His Majesty, the Empress, the Royal Concubine, the Crown Prince and the Crown Prince's ministers must not be left out.

I thought to myself, and arranged for Chunyu to say, "Find some good wine jugs and send some to His Majesty, the Empress, the Imperial Concubine, and the Crown Prince."

Chunyu obeyed the order and soon found some wine jugs made of white jade.

I looked at the wine jug and thought of the scenes in the palace dramas where poisoning is done and people are framed by using alcohol. I frowned and said, "Do you think there are many cases of poison in wine?"

After hearing this, everyone broke out in cold sweats and dared not speak. The room suddenly fell silent.

I looked at the nervous crowd and realized that I had said the wrong thing. I quickly said, "I've read in storybooks that there are often stories of people poisoning wine in the palace. What if someone poisons these wines and frames me?"

After hearing this, everyone was even more afraid to speak, and even lowered their heads, as if they were afraid that I would discover them.

Looking at them like this, I felt a special sadness in my heart.

Wasn't I just a pawn like them before? I could only go with the flow. If the people above me were good, I would be a good person. If the people above me were bad, I would be forced to be a bad person.

I felt bad inside, but I smiled while rubbing my fingers together. "Don't be so nervous. I'm not a vicious villain. I'm only saying this because I'm afraid you'll be framed. I won't ask you to do anything evil."

After hearing this, everyone relaxed a little, and then started talking and laughing. Suddenly the room became very lively, trying to use this liveliness to cover up the embarrassment just now.

Seeing everyone like this, I said, "The more you do, the more mistakes you make; the less you do, the fewer mistakes you make; and if you do nothing, there's nothing wrong. If you want to avoid being framed by others, the best way is to do nothing. Put away the wine jug; this wine will no longer be sent to the palaces."

I immediately changed my mind and decided not to send it to the various palaces.

In fact, this is also the advantage of Qing's job. No matter now or in the future, as long as Beishang Kingdom is still there, the characteristics of a rich and idle person will never change.

Therefore, you don't need to form cliques or factions to please anyone, nor do you need to hurt anyone for the sake of power and profit. Therefore, if you share good things with everyone, you will naturally build good relationships. If you keep them to yourself, no one will say anything.

When everyone saw that I said I would not send any more gifts, although they would receive less reward money from the nobles when they sent the gifts, they also reduced a lot of risks, so everyone talked and laughed and packed up quickly.

There weren't many things, so we packed them up in no time. I asked Chunyu to leave a pot for the Seventh Prince to taste when he returned in the evening. The rest were put into the cellar inside the pavilion and will not be mentioned here.

I don't like drinking, but I like appreciating flowers. I looked at the peach blossoms in the corner, and I couldn't help thinking that the flowers in April are gone, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom.

The weather in the palace is much warmer than in the mountain temples. The peach blossoms are already in bloom before March. The sunlight shining brightly on the pink blossoms is particularly beautiful, a unique kind of beauty, almost like falling in love.

This feeling was so comfortable that I immediately asked Ada and Aer to bring a recliner over so that I could take a nap under the peach tree.

Ada and Er were busy doing this and that for me. Chunyu came over and asked meaningfully, "Ada and Er don't understand many things. Let this servant serve the master."

I was in a very good mood and didn't pay attention to what Chunyu said. I told Ada and Aer to move faster and said, "It's nothing important. I just thought this peach tree was beautiful and wanted to take a nap under it. You can go do your own thing and let Ada and Aer do the rough work."

Before I could finish my words, Chunyu's face changed. She knelt down and whispered, "This peach tree has a spirit, specializing in finding love, but its spirit is not strong enough, and it often leads to peach blossom disasters. Your Highness, you must never sleep under a peach tree."

When I heard Chunyu say this, I also chuckled and said, "A gentleman does not speak of strange things, supernatural powers, or gods."

But then I changed my mind and thought, my time travel is nothing but supernatural, so I changed my words and said, "Even if this peach tree has a spirit and this palace has a real dragon emperor, can't the dragon energy suppress a small peach tree? Chunyu, you are just too cautious. It's okay, just go and do your own thing."

Although he spoke so confidently, he was still scared in his heart. At this time, the sun in the sky was just covered by dark clouds.

For some reason, I suddenly got goosebumps all over my body. I noticed it and said, "It looks like the weather is going to change. I won't take a nap here today. I'll come back when the weather is nicer."

I had a very good nap and slept until mid-afternoon. When I woke up, I heard the Seventh Prince running in from outside the pavilion.

"Yuan Qing, I heard you got a few jars of good wine, didn't you?"

I looked at the sky. It was only mid-afternoon. I looked at the Seventh Prince running towards me and thought to myself, shouldn't he be practicing archery and horse riding? Could he be skipping school again?

Then he asked with a stern face: "Why did you come back so early today?"

When the Seventh Prince heard this, his face fell for a moment, but in the blink of an eye, he changed into a cute expression again. He took my hand and said coquettishly, "I missed you, so I came back."

Then he sniffed it hard and said, "You guys drank alcohol, but it's still a whooping fragrance."

I don't know what zinnia is. I think it should be the name of the wine before it is purified.

I thought the Seventh Prince was adorable, and judging by the time, he probably hadn't been skipping school for long, so I didn't criticize him. Instead, I smiled and said, "I didn't drink it. I just let Ah Da and the others taste it. But you're amazing. You can even smell it."

After hearing this, the Seventh Prince sniffed it again and said, "This is not jasmine. Jasmine doesn't have such a strong smell."

It is said that the Seventh Prince is too young and should not drink alcohol, but the Taoist priest said that the Seventh Prince has peculiar muscles and bones, and drinking some alcohol will be good for his health.

Seeing the Seventh Prince craving for wine, I felt very happy and ordered them to get some good meat to roast and eat with the wine.

The more we drank, the more we enjoyed the barbecue and the wine. Soon, two pots of wine were drunk by the three of us. Of course, it was mainly drunk by the Seventh Prince and the Taoist priest. I have been feeling sleepy lately, and the Taoist priest said that there was something wrong with my qi circulation and I should not drink alcohol.

After eating and drinking, it was already dark, and the Taoist priest flew to the roof alone again.

I don’t know what he does on the roof every day, but when we can’t find him, he is probably on the roof.

The Seventh Prince had drunk a bit too much and was pulling me to open another jar. Seeing his expression, I knew if he drank any more, it would be too much, and too much would be harmful to his health, so I hugged him and gently persuaded him.

"When you grow up, will you be my concubine?" The seventh prince said this suddenly.

"If I become your concubine, will you stop clamoring for wine today?"

The Seventh Prince's eyes were confused for a moment, and then he said painfully: "I want to drink, but I want you to be my concubine even more, so I won't drink."

Then, as if suddenly thinking of something, he continued, "If I'm not allowed to drink this wine, should I give it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"

What's going on? I rolled my eyes and said, "No one wants to drink."

"I don't believe it. If you don't let me drink it, you're going to give it to others."

This naughty kid got even more upset after drinking. I thought about it and said, "I heard that when a girl is born, people bury a few jars of good wine. When the girl gets married, they take it out to celebrate. This wine is called daughter red. How about I bury the remaining jars of wine today and take it out to celebrate when Chongguang leaves the palace and builds a mansion?"

The Seventh Prince was even more drunk at this time. After hearing this, he clapped his hands and cheered. I asked A Da and A Er to take two jars of wine and bury them under the peach tree. Chunyu looked at the two busy people and wanted to say something but didn't.

The Seventh Prince stopped making a fuss when he saw the two jars of wine buried. I took his hand and said, "I wish you peace, happiness, and success. I wish you to be both civil and military, and to be a man of honor. I wish you to find your true love and live in peace and happiness. I hope I'll get what I want when we retrieve these two jars of wine."

The Seventh Prince was already drunk and was happily circling around me. I was also very happy, so I let him make a fuss. He made a fuss until midnight, and then I went to sleep.

There are no secrets within the palace walls, not to mention that we were barbecuing and drinking in Qianqiu Pavilion in such a grand manner. The nobles in the palace who love wine got the news that there was good wine in Qianqiu Pavilion before we even finished our wine.

The other nobles were fine, but there was one noble who loved wine so much that he couldn't contain himself and wanted to drink to his heart's content.

To find out which distinguished guest will come to drink, please wait for the next episode.