Don't steal a man from me

Among the thousands of plants in the world, peach blossom should be the most sensitive to the perception of spring.

Not long after the commencement ceremony, the peach blossoms in the Chu Kingdom were in full bloom one after another, adding a strong and graceful beauty to this prosperous country.

Xiangting Lake is even more beautiful. The tributaries from Xiangting Lake either circle the green hills or separate the fields, adding a lot of agility to Xiangting Lake, which is like a landscape painting.

Chu women go out together, pick peach blossoms in full bloom, and cook peach blossom rice for their husbands who have been plowing in the fields for a day.

The cart stopped steadily at the gate of Chu Xiangfu, Chu Yunqi wore a white jade crown on his head and Zhu Fengxuan's black uniform, and stepped on Zhu Fengxuan's shoes to get off the cart.

The guard standing at the door quickly stepped forward to salute, Chu Yunqi waved his hand, and walked into the Prime Minister's mansion while asking, "Is the Prime Minister here?"

The housekeeper greeted him, saluted Chu Yunqi and said, "Go back to the king, Xiangguo left early in the morning."

"Oh?" Chu Yunqi stopped, raised his eyebrows, and glanced at the housekeeper.

"Your Majesty, look at this... Xiangguo didn't say when he would come back before he left... Your Majesty..."

The housekeeper hesitated, and raised his hand to wipe the cold sweat from his forehead.

Xiangguo didn't know where he went in the car early in the morning. He didn't know where to find it even if he wanted to find it. Not enough to chop.

Chu Yunqi smiled and waved his hands and said: "It's okay, I don't have any important matters, so I just come to the house to sit and have fun."

The corner of the butler's mouth twitched.

In the Palace of the King of Chu, there are rare and exotic animals, silk and bamboo orchestras, and everything for entertainment. The elusive King of Chu in front of him just went to this garden where he only entered and exited twice. The owner of the garden did not know where he went.

The housekeeper suppressed the 1 unbelievable feelings in his heart, and skillfully ordered the servants of the prime minister's mansion to do what they should do, and serve the young king of Chu wholeheartedly.

"You all go down, I will stay alone in the study." Chu Yunqi casually picked up a bamboo slip on the bookshelf, opened it and glanced at it, then raised his eyes and said to the serious-looking butler beside him.

"No." The butler bowed to Chu Yunqi and retreated with the servants.

What Chu Yunqi picked up at random was the chapter "Great Harmony" in "Book of Rites" written by Long Nanzi: "On the journey of the great way, the world is for the public."Select the virtuous and promote the ability, talk about trust and repair harmony.The old man is not alone in kissing his relatives, not only in his sons.Let the old be able to die, the strong to be useful, the young to be strong, and the widows, widows, lonely, disabled and sick to be supported.Men have points and women have returns.The evil of goods is abandoned on the ground, so there is no need to hide it in oneself; the evil of power does not come from the body, so there is no need to do it for oneself.That's why they don't prosper when they seek closure, and don't engage in thieves and thieves, so they don't close their homes. This is called Great Harmony...

Chu Yunqi had already mastered this article by heart when he was five years old. The person who transcribed this article seemed to be a bohemian, and there was arrogance between the lines.

But the writing on the slips is very meticulous. Each bamboo stem should have been carefully selected and polished, and the hemp ropes that are connected together are also meticulously twisted. It is a bit inconsistent with the bold and sharp characters on the bamboo slips.

Chu Yunqi's eyes fell on the small vermilion characters on the last page of the bamboo slips.

Chu Yunqi froze for a moment, then burst out laughing.

Zhu Bi also wrote two words - fart.

A clean and high-level summary of this article that is regarded as a treasure by the world.

The small vermilion characters are timeless and elegant, and at first glance they are Su Jue's characters. He can't imagine that Su Jue has such an unconventional side.

What kind of expression did that person who is always as gentle as jade, modest and gentle, write these two words as a commentary?

Chu Yunqi caressed those two small characters with his slightly pale hands, and his deep eyes were filled with a smile that couldn't be hidden. Su Jue like this is too cute.

It was three quarters in the afternoon when Su Jue returned to the Prime Minister's Mansion. The butler greeted him anxiously, stomped his feet and said, "Your Excellency has come back. Your Majesty has been waiting for Your Excellency in the study for noon."

"Huh?" Su Jue just bent down and leaned out of the car, when he heard this sentence, he was stunned.

"Your Majesty just came to the house an hour after your lord left. I don't know when you will come back." The butler wiped the sweat from his forehead and helped Su Jue out of the carriage.

"Yeah." Su Jue got out of the car, took out a bamboo basket from the car, and walked to the prime minister's mansion.

If there was something urgent, Chu Yunqi would never wait for him at the mansion for such a long time.

The new law has been implemented in all places, the registration of household registration and person registration has been completed, the new army has been formed, and everything is running in an orderly manner. Su Jue has gone through the state affairs in his mind, but he did not expect Chu Yunqi to come this time the goal of.

Su Jue pondered for a while, then took down the bamboo basket behind her back and handed it to the butler, then turned around and went back to the bedroom. The butler was holding a bamboo basket of peach petals, and said with a speechless expression: "My lord, you are going out all morning to pick peach petals. petals?"

"Put it in the kitchen." Su Jue turned around and ordered.After entering the room, he simply washed his face, changed into a dark moon-white dress, covered with a Lan Zhi double-breasted wide-sleeved dress, and walked towards the study.

"Your Majesty, I don't know that the King is coming..." Su Jue bowed to Chu Yunqi, and before he finished speaking, Chu Yunqi supported him and interrupted with a smile: "The widow also It's nothing, I just wanted to come over to drink tea with Xiangguo for entertainment, Xiangguo is too out of touch like this."

Su Jue was stunned, thinking that the last time he had tea and chat with Chu Yunqi was at the end of October last year, he almost forgot that the king of Chu before him was still his confidant and tea friend.

"There's no tea to drink today, but..." Su Jue turned to look at Chu Yunqi and smiled, his pretty eyes were full of playfulness, he deliberately elongated his voice, shook his head and said: "Drink the dew of magnolia in the morning, and eat the fallen flowers of autumn chrysanthemum in the evening."

Chu Yun Qilang smiled and said: "It's a good 'drink the dew of magnolia in the morning, and eat the fallen flowers of autumn chrysanthemum' in the evening, I want to see how Mr. Lan will drink the dew of magnolia today and the fallen flowers of autumn chrysanthemum as food. "

"Su is going to the kitchen. Do you want to join us?" Su Jue pretended to be mysterious.

"Go." Chu Yunqi turned and left the study without hesitation.

The two came to the kitchen side by side, and the servants watched in horror as their Xiangguo rolled up his wide sleeves, poured the peach blossoms in the bamboo basket that the housekeeper had just brought into a copper basin, poured water and began to wash them, while Chu The country's most honorable king was instigated by his own prime minister to wash rice.

"Your Majesty, Xiangguo, we're still going to do this..." The chef hastily stepped forward to take the copper basin from Chu Yunqi's hand.

"It's okay, you can step back." Chu Yunqi said.

"No." The chef was so full of thoughts that it was hard to tell, he saluted Su Jue and Chu Yunqi, and retreated with all the servants, his expression was as if he saw the sun rising from the west.

Chu Yunqi wiped Mi Tao clean and turned his head to look at Su Jue, his breath was suffocated, and his heart was hit hard.

Su Jue took off Lan Zhi's wide-breasted sleeves, and wore a plain moon-white deep dress, washing peach petals with her sleeves rolled up.

Against the background of the crimson petals, the hands that were originally white jade had a touch of softness. He was facing Chu Yunqi sideways, and the sunlight shining in from the wooden window of the kitchen happened to be on his body, as if he was an exile. Never dusty.

The inexplicable irritability in his heart gradually intensified, Chu Yunqi swallowed, only feeling his throat tighten.

Su Jue turned her head, glanced at him, and said, "What are you doing standing there? After the rice is cleaned, put a fire on the stove to steam it." While saying this, his subordinates kept on pulling the petals out of the water. Take it out and put it in another copper basin.

Chu Yunqi came back to his senses, agreed and did as he said.

After steaming the rice and sitting next to the stove to light the fire, Chu Yunqi turned his head to look at Su Jue and said, "This old man is lucky to marry such a beautiful daughter-in-law through several lifetimes of cultivation."

Su Jue gritted her teeth, resisting the urge not to pour a basin of water over, pretending she didn't hear, she crushed the peach petals with a rolling stick, collected the peach blossom juice in a clay bottle, and heard Chu Yunqi's deep voice The voice came——

"Plums are golden and apricots are fat, wheat blossoms are snowy and cabbage flowers are sparse. The day is long and no one passes by the fence, only dragonflies and nymphs fly."

Su Jue paused, then turned to look at Chu Yunqi.

He sat on the pile of firewood and was staring at the burning fire in the stove. The dancing flames were reflected in his deep eyes, refracting rippling light.

My hometown is full of prosperity.

At the age of fresh clothes and angry horses, he acted recklessly with the power of the world, and when the sun was setting, he brought a person to gossip and return to peace.

The faint fragrance of rice diffused, Su Jue came back to his senses, and walked towards the stove with a ceramic bottle of peach blossom juice. Chu Yunqi clapped his hands and got up and said, "Is it ready?"

"En." Su Jue nodded, and lifted the wooden cover, and the white mist with the fragrance of rice rushed towards her face.

"Here I come, be careful of scalding." Chu Yunqi stepped forward and took out a plate of steaming rice. The burning sensation from his fingertips was very clear, so clear that he didn't want to let go, because this is what thousands of people are tirelessly pursuing. The feeling called "life".

"Your Majesty is not only thick-skinned, but his hands are not inferior." Su Jue put a piece of cloth on his hand and took the big wooden plate away from him, said calmly.

"Thank you, thank you." Chu Yunqi was happy, and followed up with a smile.

Su Jue stopped talking, and poured the peach blossom juice in the ceramic bottle on the steamed rice bit by bit, stirring it with chopsticks back and forth until the color of the rice changed from snow white to pink.Chu Yunqi leaned forward and took a deep breath and said, "It's clear and sweet." After speaking, he stretched out his hand to grab a little.

"You..." Before Su Jue had time to stop him, he saw the person in front of him put the rice into his mouth, chewed it carefully for a while, opened his eyes and said, "Sweet but not greasy, articulate and fragrant, what a peach blossom meal."

"It's not finished yet." Su Jue sighed slightly, patted someone's hand away, took the loquat leaves picked outside, distributed the pink rice on the loquat leaves bit by bit, and waited for the rice to cool After that, put them one by one on the copper plate.

"Why light blue and dark red, it's the best food." Chu Yunqi picked up a piece of loquat leaf, marveling.

Su Jue called the housekeeper, left some on the plate, and asked the housekeeper to take out the rest for the people in the house to share.

Chu Yunqi sat down on the stone bench in the garden with the plate of peach blossom rice as if he was holding a priceless treasure. Su Jue took a small jar of plum blossom wine brewed before, poured some for him, and was beside him sit down.

"When the peach blossoms are in full bloom, farmers will pick some petals to make this kind of peach blossom rice. It's not a rare delicacy." Su Jue drank some plum blossom wine and said softly.

"Great Chu Xiangguo understands the various aspects of people's livelihood so well, I am ashamed of myself! I decided to tour the south tomorrow to experience people's livelihood!" Chu Yunqi sighed.

"Southern tour?" Su Jue frowned when he heard that, he looked up at Chu Yunqi, and paused: "Will you crusade against Ling country?"

Surrounded by mountains in the southwest of Chu State, Dayuling is the most precipitous among them. There is a small country in the west of Dayuling, which was the fiefdom of Xiong Tien, a fierce general under King Chengcheng of Shang. Because it is surrounded by mountains, it is called "Ling Country". .

The people of Ling are wild and tough. Due to the inconvenient transportation and little communication with the Central Plains, most of the people in Ling are barbaric and stubborn. Relying on the Dayu Mountains as a barrier, the Chu army could not penetrate into its hinterland, so they frequently invaded and plowed in spring. Grabbing cattle and sheep, Xia Yun robbing rice seedlings, autumn harvest robbing millet, and robbing fishermen's fishing boats in winter have always been the most troublesome place in Chu State.

"The crusade treats the symptoms but not the root cause, the country must be destroyed." Chu Yunqi had already put away his casual appearance earlier, lowered his voice, and said in a voice that only two people could hear.

"The Ling Kingdom is surrounded by many mountains, and Dayu Ridge is a natural moat that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. One man guards the gate, and ten thousand men cannot open it. It is not advisable to attack by force. If you want to minimize casualties, the only way is to attack." Su Jue was silent. After a while, he looked up at him and said, "Do you want to conscript yourself?"

Chu Yunqi nodded.

"No." Su Jue blurted out without thinking.

He would not worry about Chu Yunqi personally leading troops to attack any country in the Central Plains, but Ling Country was different.

Not to mention the poisonous insect swamps in the ridge, the steep and narrow mountain roads alone are enough to make people daunting.

Chu Yunqi raised his eyelids and looked at Su Jue in surprise. This was the second time that this person cared about his own safety.

The first time was when he proposed the reform, and the second time is now.

The heart that had been frozen for a long time seemed to be carefully cared for, Chu Yunqi felt that the blood flowing between the limbs and bones was slowly warming up.

Su Jue turned his face away, and he said: "The country cannot live without a king for a day, the king should be careful."

"The widow made a southern tour to observe the people's sentiments. Zhao Wenjun Su Jue sits in the capital and supervises the country, and the Empress Dowager Wei assists him."

Chu Yunqi withdrew his gaze and said with a blank expression. After stating this, he turned his head and said to Su Jue word by word: "If something happens to me, Mr. Lan will take charge of the seal of the country on my behalf and rejuvenate the country of Chu."

Su Jue was silent, he nodded for a long time, and said softly: "Su Jue will guard the king's country and wait for the king to come back."