The Legacy of the First Auxiliary House of the Tang Dynasty

After Princess Gao Yang returned to the Princess Mansion, she thought about it for a while.

She knew that Concubine Wei Gui asked her to deal with the person who should have died——

That is, the wet nurse of Princess Jinyang.

Concubine Wei had previously suspected that the wet nurse had entered the mansion, but she didn't know who it was, so she sent the four sisters to try to enter Liang Guogong's mansion. someone to look for.

— dumb.

Princess Gao Yang narrowed her eyes and asked the maids to prepare some gifts. She was going back to Duke Liang's mansion for a few days, and she had to honor Weng Gu well, so that Aye would not always lecture her about it.

Princess Gao Yang led a group of people, only a dozen or twenty of them were waiting, and they returned to Fangfu in a mighty manner.

In Fangfu, Mrs. Lu heard that Princess Gaoyang was coming back, she was walking this way, and she couldn't help feeling strange that she wanted to see her as a mother-in-law.

Lu Shi was suspicious in his heart, when he met Gao Yang, he found that Gao Yang was smiling, gentle and polite, very different from before, but Lu Shi just felt that something was wrong.

When Princess Gao Yang asked about the housekeeper of the Fangfu, Lu Shi looked strange and asked her in doubt: "What are you asking the dumb girl for? She is just in charge of one of the stewards of the inner court."

Mrs. Lu deliberately put the accent on the word "one". Princess Gaoyang used to have her own set of troops. In the outer court, there were stewards in charge of matters related to the princess and her son-in-law. In the inner court, Gao Yang herself had a wet nurse, the princess's family order, a family cheng and maids, etc. The servants helped to manage and serve, and even a few eunuchs specially gifted by Li Shimin were used.

You must know that during the Zhenguan period, population was emphasized, and the number of eunuchs in the palace was always small. The emperor hoped that the world would have more subjects who could pay taxes. Although many eunuchs in the palace were left over from the previous dynasty, the new eunuchs are all There are quite a few eunuchs, even the king of Wei Li Taikai did not have a few eunuchs, and the average princess only had five or six to support the front. On the contrary, Princess Gao Yang had more than a dozen small eunuchs under her command, which shows the emperor's love for her.

Therefore, Lu's eyes were fixed on Princess Gao Yang's expression all the time, she was vigilant in her heart, but she was not a calm person on the face, but Lu was not afraid of those ghostly tricks, so Gao Yang would use whatever tricks he had.

Lu Shi snorted coldly in his heart, his eyes were full of coldness, Princess Gaoyang was guilty, afraid that Lu Shi would find out the reason, if the people in the Fangfu knew those things from the mute...

Thinking of this, Gao Yang frowned subconsciously, and there was a trace of timidity in his eyes.

What she was afraid of was not Lu Shi, but her father——

"It's just a question." Princess Gao Yang forced a faint smile, she didn't seem to care much, and Lu Shi didn't want to keep asking.

It was only when Princess Gao Yang left that Lu knew that Gao Yang would not go back to live in the princess mansion next door, but would stay in the mansion for a few days, saying that he wanted to "respect" their husband and wife.

The corners of Lu's mouth twitched when she heard the words, and she had no reason to disagree. She was just going to have someone call the dumb lady to come and arrange for a sweeper to help clean the princess's original yard, but she immediately swallowed the words ——

Lu Shi also ordered a housekeeper to handle this matter.

Gao Yang didn't find out and see the dumb girl, so she wasn't discouraged, and Lu was not stupid, as long as she lived in Liang Guogong's house, she could see where the dumb girl could escape.

Concubine Wei and Princess Gao Yang are just suspicious, not really thinking that the mute is the nurse herself, but Concubine Wei believes that the most suspicious person is the disfigured mute from Fangfu from the clues. This is entirely Concubine Wei's intuition .

Princess Gao Yang didn't believe it, she believed that the other party might have died in the mudslide when returning home, and that's why he didn't see his body.

In the past few days, Princess Gao Yang saw Fang Yiyi and the girl next to him. Princess Gao Yang looked at the fourth daughter, curled her lips and walked away. Fear, but Fang Yiyi snorted, obviously he didn't like this sister-in-law very much.

"Don't be afraid. She doesn't care about you, you are mine." Fang Yiyi turned around and said solemnly to the fourth daughter.

The fourth daughter nodded, and she didn't like to talk. She just followed Fang Yiyi all day. The four women make people look comfortable.

Mrs. Lu also knew about this, but seeing that the fourth daughter was honest and young, she let Shiro in the family do it.

At night, the four girls were sleeping beside the couch, keeping vigil for Fang Yiyi. After blowing out the lights, the figure of Princess Gaoyang in the daytime suddenly appeared in her mind.

She opened her eyes, turned her head to look at Fang Yiyi on the bed in the inner room, and suddenly opened her mouth and called out: "Shiro..."

"What's wrong?" Fang Yiyi yawned.

"...It's nothing. I just want to ask Mr. Lang, do you want to drink water to moisten your throat?" The fourth girl said in a low voice.

"..."

After a while without getting a response, the four girls took a look, only to find that Mr. Silang had already fallen asleep.

Yesterday Li Fang Yiai insisted on following Li Jing back to the mansion, but was dismissed, Li Jing was uncomfortable, and Fang Yiai was not easy to stalk, and when Sun Simiao repeatedly confirmed that Li Jing's illness could be "saved", he could only follow Sun Miracle Physician left the Duke of Wei's mansion, and by the way, had a face-to-face meeting with Li Dejian, who was on duty in the Eastern Palace.

When Fang Yiai saw him, she remembered that he had forgotten the prince, and went about her own business without even saying hello.

Blinking his eyes, Fang Yiai didn't take it seriously, the prince has always been magnanimous, what Du He said was right.

Fang Yiai also experienced it personally, and didn't feel that the prince would care about small things, so she felt relieved and went back home directly.

He woke up early the next morning, only to find out that Princess Gao Yang's mother-in-law actually doesn't live in the Princess Mansion and has returned to the Fang Mansion.

"What is she doing here?" Fang Yiai snorted.

Xiaoqi finished combing Fang Yiai's hair, shook her head and said she didn't know.

When Fang Yiai went to pay her respects to her parents, she asked Mrs. Lu, and only then did she know Gao Yang's words about respecting Weng Gu.

"Hehe." Fang Yiai sneered, Gao Yang could not be mad at the elders, and he should be filial, bah.

Fang Yiai spat, avoided Princess Gaoyang and her subordinates directly, and asked Xiaoqi to inquire in private about what Princess Gaoyang said to A Niang yesterday.

"Mute?" Fang Yiai frowned and said to herself.

"...Where is the dumb girl now?" Fang Yiai asked, and Gao Yang was also asking Shu'er this question.

Shu'er was Fang Yi's love, but at this time she was summoned by the princess in an open and honest manner.

It is normal for the princess to ask the concubine of the concubine to lecture. Except for Gao Yang, Fang Yiai, Shu'er, and Zhen'er who know something about each other from the bottom of their hearts, the rest of the Fang family don't think it is abnormal.

Shu'er bowed her head and replied: "The dumb lady was sent by my wife to the village outside the city last night to see this year's harvest, and it is said that it will take some time to come back to settle accounts."

"...It's a coincidence that she left." Gao Yang was asking Zhen'er to help paint his fingernails. The nails were bright red and the color was very bright and eye-catching.

Gao Yang's eyes were thoughtful, his fingers couldn't help bouncing a few times, but he was thinking about the dumb girl and Lu's like this, it seemed that the origin of the dumb girl was even more suspicious.

Zhen'er, who was bending over to paint the princess's nails, was cautious at this moment, not daring to remind the princess to put her hands properly, so she could only be more careful, not daring to make any mistakes, and she looked quite trembling.

Shu'er lowered her gaze, and thought that if the princess didn't come, her life would be more carefree, and she would stay in the house with fewer things to do.

Shu'er and Zhen'er were naturally worried about the "antidote", but fortunately, the son-in-law was quite trustworthy, after eating the antidote pills, she and Zhen'er breathed a sigh of relief every time, as if they had saved their lives.

Today was the time to receive the pills again, Shu'er was full of thoughts, after dealing with the princess, when there was no one at night, she naturally went to Fang Yiai's room.

Xiao Qi looked at the figure, tsk-tsk, the master is very lucky, and went to sleep by herself.

For a while, Fang Yiai didn't like other people's vigil, so Xiao Qi and the other servants and maids in the yard were relieved a lot, and they were able to sleep soundly every day, and everyone was quite happy.

In fact, Fang Yiai found that it was easy to expose himself during the night watch. If this "temper" could not be controlled for a while, not to mention that he might lose the lives of the slaves who seemed to be careless, it could be said that he "talked nonsense" something extraordinary The content will inevitably end badly at that time.

Fang Yiai had a lot of worries about this, anyway, the vigil couldn't drive away those "strange souls", so he got used to sleeping alone.

"This is the antidote for you and Zhen'er this month." Fang Yiai threw two pills to Shu'er, and Shu'er carefully wrapped them up, waiting to take them with Zhen'er at midnight tomorrow.

They didn't dare to take it earlier or later, they were all counting on the time, the poison from the son-in-law was really terrible, Shu'er and Zhen'er didn't dare to take the risk by trying the medicine themselves.

Fang Yiai watched Shu'er go away with cold eyes, and suddenly shook his head. At this moment, he suddenly felt that the art of controlling people should be a conspiracy.

Today, he originally planned to continue pestering Li Jing for advice on the art of war on the battlefield, but it suddenly occurred to him that he also has a "master" matter, which cannot be ignored by the crown prince.

Fang Yiai decided to bear with it for a while, first went to the East Palace to apologize to the prince, and then went to Li Jing's mansion to ask for advice, presumably doing so would make the prince feel more at ease.

You must pay attention to how you act from the top to the bottom, otherwise how can you "hold the emperor to order the princes" in the future!

Fang Yiai walked out of the mansion quite imposingly. Along the way, his eyes did not fall on the beautiful young ladies on the street. Instead, Xiaoqi, the servant, discovered that today, the husband always likes to look at those wives, and his eyes occasionally fall. With a look of pity, Fang Yiai would sigh quietly when meeting those little women whose families were poor or who were subjected to violence by their husbands, and even pulled out a few lines of poems, quite sympathetic to them.

In the East Palace, after Fang Yi'ai arrived, she entered the courtyard of Prince Li's main hall, and first found something abnormal in Xin Xin's chin.

Fang Yiai frowned, let Yixin raise her chin to show him, and asked, "What's wrong? Who 'pinched' it?"

Yixin hastily covered it up, today he used powder to wipe it to cover it up, but who knows that he might have sweated just now, and accidentally wiped off the powder, revealing traces, Fang Yiai could see the traces.

Xin Xin shook her head and said, "I accidentally got bitten by a mosquito last night."

Fang Yiai twitched her eyebrows and said coldly, "It seems that this mosquito is really poisonous!"

After finishing speaking, he directly raised Xin's chin, wishing to dodge, but not as fast as Fang Yi'ai.

as predicted--

"Hmph." Fang Yiai let go of her hand, and let Xinxin tell the truth.

With a troubled expression on her face, Fang Yiai sneered: "If you don't tell me now, I'll know who it is."

Except for the crown prince, no one dared to speak to him if he could satisfy his heart.

Fang Yiai is quite defensive, this Xinxin can now be regarded as his own apprentice on Minglu Road, this hurts him, and his master will definitely care about it.

What's more, the crown prince "how did he do it?" There were red marks and fingerprints on his chin and neck, which made Fang Yiai suspicious.

He took a good look at his satisfactory stature, and saw that there was nothing unusual about him, front, back, left, right, and right, so he relaxed slightly.

——The prince should have failed!

It seems that Xinxin is very steadfast and unyielding, and it is not in vain that he accepts the other party as his apprentice.

Fang Yiai glanced at Xin Xin very satisfied, nodded her head, making Xin feel confused, and then Fang Yiai went in to meet the prince.

Li Chengqian heard that Fang Yiai said that he would put aside the affairs of the Eastern Palace for the time being and concentrate on learning from Li Jing and discussing the Eastern Expedition. He couldn't help asking Fang Yiai's ambitions.

"Don't tell me you still want to be a great general?" Fang Yiai had never heard of this.

Fang Yiai nodded, looking like he was serving the country and the people, and specially recited a poem, but the poem he chose was not "created" by himself, but he used Cao Cao's "Duan Ge Xing", after reciting the poem once, He also chose two of his favorite sentences, "How to relieve worries? Only Du Kang" and "Qingqing Zijin, leisurely my heart" and recited them repeatedly to express his will and feelings.

"You don't care about that little apprentice?" Li Chengqian asked with a smile, looking outside the room.

"..." Only then did Fang Yiai remember that the down jacket for Xinxin was something that Li Shimin wanted to do well, but he, the crown prince, and Xinxin all knew that Fang Yiai was thinking of this, and Xinxin didn't understand why.

Fang Yiai's aura suddenly blew up, and she suddenly said wearily: "I will explain this matter, I believe the prince will find someone to help him."

He just needs to explain the method more clearly, but Fang Yiai suddenly remembered the red mark on Xin Xin's chin just now.

He couldn't help but look stern, and even advised the crown prince: "Your Highness, please don't make mistakes when you are on errands, and you are greedy for beauty—" He originally wanted to talk about masculinity, but he thought it was too straightforward, and there was Zhao Dezi in the room, I have to give the crown prince a face.

Don't be angry.

After Fang Yiai finished speaking, she observed the prince's expression, and saw that the prince was stunned, and gave Fang Yiai a rather strange look.

Li Chengqian thought about it for a while, and realized that Fang Yiai had misunderstood something.

His eyes were gloomy, and in Fang Yiai's eyes, he looked very "unfathomable" and said: "Does Fang Shanlang have to take care of the inner affairs of Gu's East Palace...Even Prince Zhan Shi hasn't taken care of Gu's affairs." thing."

Hearing this, Fang Yiai looked confused, he really didn't want to see the crown prince come to an end.

The crown prince was abolished, his idea this morning - to hold the emperor to make the princes... this matter, wouldn't it be impossible to realize it.

Today, Fang Yiai suddenly felt that Cao Cao's trick was very good, a capable minister in a troubled world, a traitor in a troubled world - in the Tang Dynasty, Fang Yiai could also try it.

At worst, being an elder brother "capable minister" is also very good.

In order to achieve this goal, Fang Yiai decided to try harder and "remonstrated" with the prince a bunch of all kinds of good things about the charming women of his daughter's family, and the vulgarity and turbidity of men, even borrowing Jia Baoyu's famous sayings and theories. come out.

"What a good one—a daughter is made of water, and a man is made of mud. When you see a daughter, you feel refreshed; when you see a man, you feel stinky..." Li Chengqian repeated Fang Yiai's words, as if A smile is not a smile.

Before Fang Yiai could continue speaking, Prince Zhan Shi Yu Zhining came, Fang Yiai hurriedly shut up.

He also knew that the old man Yu Zhining would be nagging endlessly when he heard this, so don't ask for trouble.

Yu Zhining came here for the matter of Xin Xin's down jacket. It turned out that the prince returned to the East Palace and asked someone to tell the story of making soldiers' clothes with the fluff that Yi Ai in the Ganlu Palace had said before for Xin Xin's rescue. Shangxin, after dealing with the matter at hand, this hurried over.

"Your Highness should reward you with satisfaction. This is a great thing that benefits the country and the people." There is no need to mention the strategy of the Eastern Expedition. Yu Zhining thinks more that the poor people can also use down jackets to keep warm. The Tang Dynasty will one day eventually No more people freezing to death in the streets.

This year's winter is not far away. Yu Zhining thought that in the past, people would freeze to death at the foot of the emperor in Chang'an City, not to mention the remote and cold places in other prefectures and counties... This is a great deed of life.

He wanted to see the side of Xin Xin, but the Crown Prince was noncommittal. It was like when Zhi Ning bowed to Xin Xin, he was really sincere and fearful. This was different from when he was facing the emperor. At that time, he only wanted to save his life. Although he was ashamed, he could not let him down. Master's kindness.But at this time Yu Zhining, he was sincerely thanking himself for the people, which made Ying feel ashamed, and his face turned red with embarrassment.

Just like Zhining left, Fang Yiai explained to Yixin how to make a down jacket, and explained it in detail. Before Xinxin got Fang Yiai's instructions, he had already tested a few fabrics and made a few small samples.

Fang Yiai asked him to fetch it. He and the crown prince glanced at it and found that Xinxin's "craftsmanship" was quite good. Several small cloth bags filled with goose down and duck down and goose feathers and duck feathers were all marked by category, embroidered with Different little flowers——

Fang Yiai was surprised: "You can also embroider, Xinxin?!"

Nod with satisfaction.

"Tomorrow I'll teach you another magical technique—" Fang Yiai recalled the embroidery magical technique that no one had practiced, which was just right for her heart.

Xinxin is an aspiring eunuch who wants to "join the army". Fang Yiai wants to help him. The magic embroidery skill is very quick and unpredictable. At least he has become the leader of the demon sect, but the leader in memory is not a effeminate person , it should be fine.

Fang Yiai thought so.

However, after saying these words, Fang Yiai said with concern: "But after you have practiced, you must not like men! You must not act like a woman. If you find something wrong, you must stop practicing." He is still worried that this kung fu will make people change their sex, although Fang Yiai really doesn't believe in the idea of ​​sex change.

But, just in case.

It's better to be cautious.

Fang Yiai pondered in her heart, but what he said made Xinxin's face turn pale.

After hearing this, Yixin's heart skipped a beat. Could it be that Master discovered his... thoughts?

Yi Xin lowered her head, her feet rubbed slightly, her calf trembled softly.

Li Chengqian next to him glanced at Xinxin, and mercifully asked him to step down, saying that he had something important to discuss with Fang Yiai alone, and then he went to find Prince Zhan Shi and Yu Zhining to cooperate in the acquisition of goose feathers around Chang'an City, eunuch Zhao Dezi It will also cooperate and help.

Yixin concealed her disappointment and left under orders.

Fang Yi'ai didn't notice the abnormality at all, and didn't know that he said something hurtful, let alone explain, what he said earlier was similar to that of his younger brother and servants practicing this kung fu, and there was no other intention at all.

There are two princes and Fang Yiai in the house, Zhao Dezi has been squatting in the corner very quietly, Fang Yiai will basically ignore him.

Prince Li Chengqian smiled, and said in a strange tone: "Fang Yiai, why do you always deliberately persuade others to 'like women'?" Even for him, the prince, it is the following offense, and he warns himself of this.

Fang Yiai was startled, he looked at the prince, but it was hard to say, the fundamental reason was that he might like Xinxin.

After a long time, even after discovering that the prince and Xinxin were "getting closer", Fang Yiai was still a little bit reluctant to "deal with" the root cause of Xinxin——

It's not the heart's fault at all.

If the prince likes male sex and is not satisfied, there is still a wishful in the East Palace.

……

Fang Yiai really felt that she had broken her heart for the prince, but the other party didn't know it and didn't appreciate it.

The prince didn't intend to get Fang Yiai's answer either, a smile appeared on his mouth, and he wanted to play chess with Fang Yiai.

When the two played against each other, Fang Yiai's fingers accidentally touched the back of the prince's hand. The room might be too dry, and they even got an electric shock.

Fang Yiai was shocked all over, but Li Chengqian put down his chess pieces, touched Fang Yiai's hand, said something too dry, and asked Zhao Dezi to find a can of badger seed oil. Accidentally burns, this thing also has a therapeutic effect.

"It just so happens that you are going to march eastward, so keep it." There are so many useful places for marching and fighting.

The prince said indifferently, Fang Yiai raised her head and glanced at the prince after hearing this, when she should have been very moved, she thought of the "art of controlling people".

For example, Cao Cao greeted the arrival of talented people backwards, pretending to be magnanimous, and burned the letters of the enemies of his courtiers, etc... Fang Yiai felt that the Crown Prince in front of him treated him the same way.

Tsk-tsk twice in my heart, Fang Yi'ai looked moved, and thanked the prince.

It's a pity that his acting skills are not good enough. Seeing this, the prince inadvertently put down the black chess piece and smiled faintly.

"If Fang Qing really thanks me, you might as well stay in the East Palace today and sleep on the same bed with me." The smile on Li Chengqian's face became even bigger, and he explained naturally: "It just so happens that I also told you about the Eastern Expedition. things and arrangements..."