Summer wraps autumn, water keeps wind

One day Du Pin invited Liu Fu to the prince's mansion with a smile and said that there was a distinguished guest, Liu Fu smiled and said: "It can't be him, it's so fast."

Du Pin said: "Master's method is good, he must come back naturally."

Liu Fu straightened and was pinching the golden hair crown inlaid with sapphires and said to Du Pin with a smile: "He came back just in time, you can joke with me, so it doesn't matter if someone enters the palace."

Du Pin called and said: "My lord, I didn't see you entering the palace with the eldest son today. You only joked with him, and the emperor's face turned blue and red. When did you eat this idle vinegar again? "

Liu Fu patted Du Pin on the head, and said angrily, "Why am I so jealous? Are there still too many concubines in his harem? What did I say? Didn't I persuade him to care about the power of the former dynasty? Besides, Li Ji is indeed a Honestly, it's not like you didn't see it."

Du Pin suppressed his smile, looked at the servant behind him, and said in a low voice: "What empress in the harem, this servant is talking about the son of the world. I don't understand what the master said."

Liu Fu spat at him: "You're getting more and more stupid, why did I turn into a jealous woman who puts shoes on for you when you tell me that I am a man of the king."

Du Pin sued, and felt that Liu Fu was not the same as when he was a child, and his speech was sour, so he suppressed his laughter and returned home with Liu Fu.

Liu Fu stepped into the mansion, smiled and said loudly: "Where is it hidden, are you still waiting for me to catch it?"

Liu Fu entered the inner courtyard, saw half of a shoe exposed at the corner of the room, and said with a smile: "An idiot is an idiot, hide yourself and show off your feet."

Liu Fu went up a few steps and was about to catch him, but found only a shoe in the corner of the wall, and someone on the eaves turned it down and caught Liu Fu's back collar.Before Du Pin and other servants could react, Liu Fu rolled over to avoid a person, then turned around and kicked that person again.

The man staggered back a few steps, shook his head and said: "It's not painful or itchy, it's not as good as when I was a child."

Liu Fu got up and patted Hui with a smile: "It's still the same trick, if you coax you, you will believe it, and treat me as dumb as you."

The man said: "If you want to say that I am stupid, then you are not as good as you."

Liu Fu spat: "You are not allowed to talk about the past." After saying that, he dragged the man into the house and said, "Ahu, how have you been all these years?"

This Liu Huanghu is Ling Shunyi's only son, Liu Fu's nurse brother, who is only two months older than him, and Liu Fu's close brother.Liu Fu took advantage of the fact that the Quanrong people were paying tribute and left from Jibei, and asked Liu Huanghu to follow him into Beijing and transfer his position to Beijing to wait for his post.

Huang Hu removed the pillow on the couch, opened his robe and sat down and said: "What do I have, that is, I have never been separated from my master since I was a child, and I went when he went to Jibei to work. He and his father are old friends, and I also regard him as an old friend. He is like a father."

Liu Fu said: "He longs for you to return to Beijing, of course he is happy to have such a good job. He is the one who mediates for you to come back."

Huang Hu's eyes moved slightly, and he said with a smile: "So that's the case."

Liu Fu looked at Huang Hu carefully and said: "You have become darker and stronger, but you are still a small body."

Huang Hu pretended to be angry and said: "I'm still black and strong, you are a girl in the mansion who has seen too much, and you look at me... alas" Huang Hu was pinched by Liu Fu before he could finish speaking.

Liu Fu said: "I don't care, you won't come back empty-handed, will you?"

Huang Hu nodded at him and said, "What can I do without you?" After that, he took out a pair of iron balls with painted pine and cranes from his sleeves, and said, "This is a good thing. Practice your hands, and you can play with it." good."

Liu Fu slapped his forehead, shook his head and said, "Give me the old man's stuff too."

Huang Hu put the iron ball on the small table and said: "Do you have anything in the palace? I can't afford food, no matter how good it is, I can't afford it." He pretended to be helpless and said: "Who told me to be clean? "

Liu Fu dragged a plate of walnuts from the small table and pushed them in front of Huang Hu, saying: "Just smash it with this iron ball, I will eat it later." After that, he went to lie down on the long couch in the green gauze cabinet.

Liu Fu originally wanted to deliberately tease him, but lying on the couch, he suddenly remembered things in the palace, things about Concubine Chun and Wan Zhao's words.And the look in his eyes when he was out of the palace, the more Liu Fu thought about it, the more he felt that those eyes made people feel sore and numb, even he didn't know what he was doing.

He suddenly wondered if Liji's arrival in Beijing just gave him a chance to play his temper. If Liji was not there, he might just forget about it.In the mansion, Li Ji always wore a crooked bun with a clear bone, and talked about the modesty and elegance of Chudi, unlike the others who would make trouble for him, he always had an oppressive aura about him.

Unconsciously, two quarters of an hour later, Liu Fu turned over and went out, thinking that Huang Hu was still smashing walnuts.

Liu Fu said: "You really hit the ground running, idiot."

"Don't say this iron ball is really good." Huang Hu separated the shell and flesh while smashing, and separated the whole shell from the broken shell again, and the shell and flesh were arranged neatly.

Liu Fu said: "You do the same, arrange things neatly, he is also like this." Then he said: "Okay, okay, don't smash it, I can't eat so much."

Huang Hu said: "If you don't eat, I will eat, and I will not see half of the food." He raised his head and smiled: "Why is he like this?"

Liu Fu waved his sleeves and said, "Who else is there? Your Majesty the Emperor. He and you are both born in August. I don't know what kind of constellations people in this month are. They must be dirty and messy."

Huang Hu smiled and said: "Don't say it, I can see you in front of you today. Your Majesty was very happy. Hearing that you came with the prince of Weiyi, your face changed, so I avoided it. Why are you two What about overnight revenge?"

Liu Fu turned his head and said: "Why, I can only talk to him and not others? You and I are okay, he was not like this before."

Huang Hu said with a smile: "That's because nothing happened. Now he thinks you're using something to get angry and deliberately play face."

"Where did you hear the wind? Even you are talking nonsense." Liu Fu picked up a walnut and ate it.

"I don't like listening to the wind the most. I just know you and him." Huang Hu peeled the walnut and said.

"You're making noise at my place, and you went to mother's?" Liu Fu changed the subject.

"Well, if I go back, mother will not drag me until tomorrow morning, go back to listen to the teacher later."

In the afternoon of the next day, it was passed on that Fu Liji entered the palace to discuss matters, and he mentioned that Quan Rong had given a tribute to him and sent a note to invite him to reward him.It turned out that Quanrong gradually became stronger. It was originally active in the northwest area, but now it has annexed several tribes and slowly extended to the east. Although he has always been a vassal, his strength is growing day by day, and his ambition is getting bigger and bigger.Quan Rong asked Shangguo to grant it the title of White Wolf Kingdom to reward three cities, and asked for a reward of gold, jade, silk, porcelain and tea for three hundred carts every year.

Liu Fu said: "Not to mention that it is absolutely impossible to cut the city and seal the land. The gold, jade, silk, porcelain and tea are all precious things. It is ridiculous that he wants three hundred carts every year."

Li Ji also responded: "Just say that each piece of silk is at least dozens of taels of silver, and a cart of silk is definitely more than a hundred pieces. And the value of gold and jade porcelain is several times that. If it is said that tea is indeed not as expensive as silk in the big country of the Central Plains , but in the northern tribes, a wolf skin is worth one or two tea leaves, and two wolf skins can be exchanged for a bolt of silk, so tea is more important than silk.”

Bi Xin said: "You also don't think so, and I don't intend to allow him."

Liu Fu replied: "It's not necessary to refute him all, it's enough to close the country, and open three more cities to trade with them, and their animal skins and horses still have to be bought and sold."

Li Ji said: "The dog army dares to be so presumptuous because of its strength. It seems that His Majesty has to prepare for the unexpected."

Liu Fu nodded and said: "If they know how to restrain themselves, they will still come and go as before. If they want to be unrestrained, they will naturally have to deal with it."

Bi Xin said: "Then it's settled like this."

Seeing that it was getting late for dinner, Liufu Liji had the intention of resigning.Bi Xin picked up a yellow fruit from the fruit plate next to the painting of five blessings and animals on the case and threw it at Liji, who caught it squarely with both hands.

Bi Xin took a few steps to Liji's side, and said with a smile, "I see that you are used to living here for a few days, but the servants in this mansion just arrived and can't take care of you."

Liu Fu sees him going to gossip and ignores him, just playing with a lychee.

After Liji thanked him, he said, "It's all very good."

Bi Xin sneaked a glance at Liu Fu and saw that he didn't care, he said: "Peng Dutong in your mansion is old Chen and stable, but your mansion soldiers still need some young people to restrain them." After saying that, Bi Xin Then he said leisurely: "I have a young servant who went to Jibei for training a few years ago, and now he just returned to Beijing. His name is Liu Huanghu, and he is about your age. I watched him go to your house to be a deputy capital. It is appropriate."

This time Liufu couldn't sit still anymore, he turned his face and said: "Ahu is also my younger brother, brother Huang, is he going to win his love?"

The corner of Bi Xin's mouth raised, and he said to Li Ji: "My second brother has a bit of a temper, I'm afraid he won't let it go."

Liu Fu put down the lychees, grabbed Liji's sleeves, and said, "I'm not being stingy, this Ah Hu is my baby brother, I wanted to keep it."

After hearing this, Li Ji knew that it was the two of them "fighting" again, just as he was about to plead guilty and resign, he held his shoulders and said: "There are only people from the imperial court here, how could they be from your Prince Xuan?"

Liu Fu snorted coldly, and said to Liji: "It's just right for him to go to your residence, and I was just going to sit down." After saying that, he got up and left.

Seeing that Liu Fu had already started, Li Ji hurriedly got up, Bi Xin patted him on the shoulder, and said, "You can stay here today, I still have some matters to discuss with you about the cancellation of the exam in the south."

After hearing this, Li Ji was sweating "shua" from his back, he didn't dare to look up at Liu Fu, and when he got up again, Liu Fu had already flung his sleeves and left.

Early in the morning, Juanli put on her makeup and went to the Yonghe Palace to greet her. A group of young eunuchs were rushing on the road carrying tools and materials. Juanli smiled and said, "What's the matter, I'm in a hurry."

The head eunuch rushed forward to pay his respects, and replied: "Yesterday, Prince Xuan kicked down the door of Cheqiu Pavilion, and the servants are rushing to repair it."

Juanli was originally a palace servant of the other party, so she knew something about Liufu's daily life, so she said: "My lord hasn't gone out yet, is he going?"

The slave replied: "Yesterday, the prince didn't stay in the palace. After the Zichen palace meeting, he went to the gate of Cheqiu Pavilion, went in and kicked the door, and then went back to the house." Ask the reason again, how did the slave know, and Juanli sent her away. he.

In a blink of an eye, Juanli entered the Yonghe Palace, and Concubine Quan and the others had just arrived, and they were seated after a ceremony.Everyone was about to chat and laugh when Rou Yan stepped into the main hall, before the servant finished the transmission, she said: "My sister is late, don't blame me."

Wan Zhao smiled naturally, "It's a compliment for my sister to come."

Concubine Quan said: "My lady came just in time, and my concubine was about to talk. I heard that someone stayed in the Zichen Palace last night. The concubine should be the empress's favorite. How can I hear it is the elder brother of the empress?" smiled.

Rou Yan said neither humble nor overbearing: "It is not unusual for the emperor to discuss important state affairs with his elder brother, and it is not unusual to stay in the Zichen Palace. Prince Xuan was not like this in the past."

Concubine Yao said to Wan Zhao, "It wouldn't be surprising if Prince Xuan was a concubine, and now the son of the world also has this kind of favor."

Wan Zhao said with a smile: "We women know nothing about court matters, so don't chew your tongue."

Rou Yan responded: "Sister is right, we don't care about the court affairs, but Rou Yan caught an unruly little hoof in the harem this morning."

Wan Zhao turned his eyes and said, "Who wants to help my sister?"

Rou Yan smiled and said: "It doesn't matter about palace people, but after all, they are sisters in the palace, and my sister dare not take care of people outside the palace, so I have to hand over to my sister to deal with." Huhe, Shao Yao, the personal maid beside Rouyan, led a maid in.

The palace maid knelt on the ground and didn't dare to raise her head to tremble, she only knew how to kowtow.Shao Yao slowly blessed her, and said: "If you go back to your mother, this is a servant of Zhongcui Palace. This morning, she was ordered to send a plate of flowers and longan to Zichen Palace. Who would have thought that this lowly maid would be dressed like this."

Wan Zhao took a closer look, and saw that the court lady was wearing a cotton skirt embroidered with lilies, with a double bun, which was really not in compliance with the rules, like an official woman's attire.

Rou Yan said: "With her status, she can only wear blue and pink palace clothes and wear a side bun. She has a chance to dress up like this, and she wants to climb high." Then she said: "It's still her little master. You set a bad example, thinking that the palace servants can be the little master if they have a flatter face, and she is also worthy?"

After hearing this, Juanli hurriedly got up and said politely: "It's my concubine who has no way to control me, I hope the empress will punish her."

Wan Zhao said: "Her dress is more formal, but since Mian Sheng dresses carefully, it makes sense."

Rou Yan said slowly: "My sister has not been in the palace for a long time, but I heard that my sister governs the palace rigorously and is deeply trusted by the emperor. It may not be appropriate not to punish her."

Wanzhao glanced at Juanli distressedly, and asked Rouyan, "What does my sister think?"

Rou Yan slowly picked up the teacup and took a sip, "Slap your mouth until you can no longer face the saint."

Seeing that he was helpless, Wan Zhao signaled with his eyes, and Xiao Dongzi beside him bowed forward, raised his hand and slapped him.

Wan Zhao almost closed her eyes, but she couldn't show a protective look, so she had to hold on.Who would have thought that Xiao Dongzi's slap just slapped the palace lady's face with his fingertips, but actually hit Shao Yao's wrist.

Shao Yao raised her wrist to look at it with a cry of "Oh", and scolded repeatedly: "It's a blind thing, you beat it like this." Xiao Dongzi hurriedly knelt on the ground and apologized to Rou Yan.

Qin Huan saw that Shaoyao was holding up her wrist, on which was a finely twisted gold bracelet, and said, "Miss Shaoyao is so handy, she has such a good bracelet."

Sister Huixu who was beside Wanzhao also said, "Lady in the court can't abuse gold, silver and jade ornaments, I'm afraid the girl is overstepping."

Seeing the sudden change in the situation, Rou Yan's face darkened, and she said: "Shao Yao is the dowry of this palace, she used to wear gold and jade in the mansion, why is she not as good as outside when she is in the palace?"

Juanli was still polite, and said steadily: "The palace has its own rules."

Rou Yan turned around and said: "Palace people also have high and low status. Is the servant of my palace the same status as the little maid in your palace?"

Wan Zhao raised his hand and said, "It's not a big deal at all. There are rules in the palace, but there are also human feelings. It doesn't matter whether it's the bracelet or the palace attire. It's better for everyone to take a step back."

Rou Yan was very unwilling, but had no choice but to say to the maid: "Since there is an example of your little master, it is not surprising that you have such thoughts, go back to the palace and think about the past." Then everyone dispersed.

Seeing everyone, Juanli had to send the crying little maid back, and stayed to talk to Wanzhao.

Wan Zhao said: "I really wronged you today, she didn't go directly to find Bengong, she chose to use you for surgery."

Juanli took the silk and threw it away, then said: "What do concubines have? But speaking of it, this concubine Rong is attacking us today, but the son of the world snatched the favor of the prince yesterday, and the prince was so angry that he even went through the door of the autumn pavilion." They were all broken. What do you think these two brothers and sisters are doing so well?"

Wan Zhao stroked the earrings, covered her expression, and said, "I also heard a little bit about it."

Juanli said: "In the past, concubines served the emperor, and the emperor was only friendly with the prince, and there were many gossips outside, but the concubines are the people around them who pay close attention to it, how can it be as ugly as the rumors? Now the son of the world also has this kind of favor , Could it be that it is really like the outside said, our Majesty likes this?"

Wan Zhao lowered his eyes and said, "You also taboo these things?"

Juanli shook her head with a smile and said: "I don't have any taboos on concubines. As long as my father is released from prison and can be safe and sound, the emperor can favor anyone. It's just that concubines are worried about my mother."

Wan Zhao said with a smile: "Are you afraid that Concubine Rong will steal my favor? I don't have any favor at all, and her favor is just favor. What does this palace care about?"

Juanli smiled knowingly and stopped talking.