The Tyrant’s Beloved Empress

Chapter 35

In previous years, the officials who sent New Year’s greetings to the palace were mostly military generals, but only a few civilians. +++Mobile phone reading Visit m. The remaining few are all dukes and nobles without real power.

An Changqing took a look and saw a few acquaintances from previous life.

“Chu Anliang, Shi Le is befriending the prince?” An Changqing didn’t quite understand the name on the famous record. In the previous life, he lived deep in the palace and was not quite clear about the situation in the court army. But the only thing we know is that Chu Anliang and Shi Lezheng once helped the waste prince to besiege Yejing. Just looking at this, these two people should be Xiao Zhige’s enemies.

He was secretly wary in his heart, but on the face of it, he pretended not to understand temptation and asked Xiao Zhige: “Should we prepare posts and new year gifts for the two Zhu Guo this year?”

“No need.”

Xiao Zhige took the list, took a brush and drew a cross on the names of the two of them, and patiently explained to him: “There are now six great generals in Daye. Zhao Xinchong lives in Suizhou, Qizhou, and is the mother of the queen mother. Brother, but in his advanced age, he can no longer fight; Xue Qi sits in Yongzhou, Yuzhou, behind the Shu family’s secret support, but is Shu Guifei’s party; Shen Tubo sits in Chenzhou, Suzhou, who is neutral on the face, but secretly loyal to his father The emperor; Chu Anliang and Shi Le are just two pieces of grass on the wall, marching and fighting are not good, seeing the wind make the rudder to figure out what you want, but they are very good.”

“The two old slickers don’t want to offend, they send posts to the palace every year. Don’t take it to heart.”

Seeing how contemptuous his words were, An Changqing was obviously not close to the two pillar nations, so he secretly let go, thinking about finding a chance to remind him later.

Taking what he said seriously in her heart, An Changqing asked again: “Where is another one?”

Xiao Zhige smiled: “There is also a general, Xiahou, Shangxia, who is my mentor. When I first joined the army, I was thrown into his army.”

When Xiao Zhige asked to join the army, Emperor Anqing was furious, saying only that if he was in the army, he would not be allowed to join the army as a prince, and he would not be accompanied by a guard. If he died on the battlefield, no one would collect his body for him. Xiao Zhige resolutely agreed at that time. Only one request was to join the Xiahou merchant army.

Xiahou Shang was notorious for being upright and upright if oil and salt were not imported, and Emperor Anqing responded right away. But he didn’t want this to be the opportunity that Xiao Zhige had planned many times. Since then, the dragon entered the sea and soared into the sky.

“Then I will prepare an extra annual gift for General Xia?” An Changqing heard the words.

“No.” Xiao Zhige shook his head: “The teacher has always been upright, neither accepting nor giving gifts. Moreover, externally, I am not in harmony with him (Guanguan). Just remember it in your heart, and don’t do anything else.”

An Changqing responded, and pointed to the remaining human beings: “Then how should these people be arranged?”

Xiao Zhige quickly swept across and circled a few people out: “Don’t pay attention to these few. If the rest is given this year, you can return the gift as usual.”

…

According to Xiao Zhige’s instructions, An Changqing re-drawn a list and gave it to Wang Fugui, asking him to act according to the list. Xiao Zhige didn’t have any close elders, and he didn’t need to visit him in person. It saves a lot of things.

Wang Fugui was about to retreat, An Changqing stopped him again, and thought for a while: “In my name, prepare a new year’s greeting and a New Year’s gift and send it to the princess’s house.”

He heard what the eldest princess said in his heart. Until his death in the previous life, he had never heard that the eldest princess had a disadvantage to Xiao Zhige. In that case, it is not wrong to have a good relationship without talking about friendship.

Just afraid of sending it in the name of the palace, Xiao Zhige would be unhappy if he knew it, so he sent it in his own name.

***

There is a lot of free time during the New Year holidays, and time flies quickly. An Changqing read a book in the study when he was fine, and occasionally followed Xiao Zhige to learn martial arts. The Lantern Festival was already here in a blink of an eye.

On the Lantern Festival, Yejing will have a grand Lantern Festival. Various places in the city had been prepared a few days in advance, not only the large and small restaurant vendors, but even Jingzhao Mansion and the Guards were dispatched to prepare for the Lantern Festival.

An Changqing has never been to the Lantern Festival when he is so old. In previous years, An Jia would book a table at a restaurant, and the younger generations would go there, but An Changqing and An Xianyu have never been part of it.

Now listening to Wang Fugui’s words, An Changqing is a little moved.

He diligently went to find Xiao Zhige, and put the post sent by Wang Fugui in front of him: “The post sent by Wangxianlou said that it gave us the best place. Is the prince going?”

Wangxianlou is the best and largest restaurant in Yejing. On weekdays, many dignitaries like to drink and enjoy the scenery in Wangxianlou. At this time of the Lantern Festival, the private room of Wangxianlou was even harder to find. Has long been rounded up by valuable regular customers.

Unexpectedly, Wangxianlou would reserve a seat specially and asked someone to send a post. Although An Changqing’s mouth is asking, but the black eyes are full of expectation.

Although Xiao Zhige didn’t have much interest in the Lantern Festival, he was not willing to arouse his interest, so he could only talk about it. After thinking about it, he said, “Niang and Yu’er are fine in the house, so why not go out and have a look together.”

An Changqing thought about it, and said: “Helan and Aunt Zhou also go, it’s hard to get to the door.”

So it was settled, An Changqing asked An Fu to send the letter, and the concierge to prepare a carriage. When it was dark, the group divided into two carriages and drove to Wangxianlou.

…

When the sky (color) was darkened, the lanterns on the streets were all lit up. The streets and alleys are full of tourists carrying lanterns. Even the deep-bowed ladies who seldom go out on weekdays also come out to watch the excitement.

An Changqing opened the curtain and looked out, the colorful lights shining on his face, without pretending to be mature and steady, but a little more childish.

Xiao Zhige sat beside him and said, “If you like it, I will come every year from now on.”

“Okay.” An Changqing looked back at him, smiling brightly against the lights outside the car window: “The prince will come with me.”

The fingers placed on his knees curled up, Xiao Zhige looked outside as a cover, and gave a soft “um”.

Wangxianlou visitors came like a cloud, and the carriages stopped in front of the restaurant, waiting for Xiaoer to be introduced into it. An Changqing looked around, but also vaguely saw a few familiar faces.

Give the name post to Xiao Er, and An Changqing and his party are immediately led upstairs.

The Wangxian Building has three floors, each with six elegant rooms, occupying a huge area. Among them, the third floor has the best view, overlooking the entire Yejing scene (color).

An Changqing and his entourage were led to the Songtao Pavilion to take a seat. Not long after, some people came in with exquisite snacks and tea.

An Changqing opened the window and looked down from top to bottom, only to see that the entire Yejing city was submerged by the sea of ​​lights, and the eyes were full of lanterns. Among them are two giant revolving lanterns that are three or four people tall, turning slowly, which is the lantern king of this year.

“The Lantern Festival is about to start, right?” An Changqing asked.

The servant who waited on the side said: “Yes, do you need the villain to pick up the riddles? This year’s Lantern Festival will get a hundred taels of gold, or an original picture of Mr. Dan Mo.”

Whether it’s the gold hundred taels or the authentic works of Mr. Dan Mo, the appeal is not small.

An Changqing motioned to An Fu to give the famous post to Xiao Er: “Go get the lantern riddles.”

Xiao Zhige was curious: “Well, can you guess lantern riddles?”

An Changqing raised her chin and smiled a little proudly: “I know a little bit. Besides, I can’t guess there is still Yuer.”

If you want to say that you are learning about the Eight Classics, he may not have (strong qiang). But since he was a kid, he loved to read miscellaneous books and knew a lot about his brains. When he was young, he spent the Lantern Festival, and his brothers and sisters all went outside to play, only he and An Xianyu stayed in the house. They would take advantage of no one in the house to pick off the hanging lanterns, and there would also be lantern riddles hanging on it. Often he and An Xianyu each guessed half of them.

After a while, the next person brought up ten lantern riddles. Lantern riddles were placed on the table. Every time An Changqing read one, he would write it down if he would, and hand it to An Xianyu if he didn’t, and An Xianyu would write it down again. But in a moment, the brothers and sisters wrote the answer and asked the next person to send it down.

The Lantern Competition will have a ranking list, and the one with the most correct answers will win. But the lantern riddles are divided into five classes, the first class is the easiest, the fifth class is the most difficult, and so on. Riddles of the first class to the fifth class have fixed numbers. You can win if you have the most answers in total.

Seeing that they were so fast, Xiao Er was surprised and delighted: “Go and fetch the smaller ones.” After saying that, he quickly went downstairs, and soon he went upstairs with a new Lantern Riddle: “Just ten are all right!”

An Changqing and An Xianyu cooperated tacitly, and immediately wrote down after a glance, but after a few rounds, they heard the three beeps of the gong, and someone sang loudly: “Northern War Palace, An Changqing, 67 answers, tenth place!”

An Changqing stretched his head and looked down, and saw that on the ranking list below, someone moved the red lantern with his name post to the top ten row and hung it in the last empty seat.

“It’s tenth now!” An Changqing narrowed her eyes and smiled, seeing Zhou Helan still silent, and asked: “Does Helan want to play? If he wins, you will get half of the bonus.”

Zhou Helan pondered slightly and said, “Helan give it a try.”

Then An Changqing didn’t play any more, and gave it to Zhou Helan.

***

At Nongxue Pavilion on the third floor of Wangxian Tower, An Xianya rubbed her ears unbelief, “I heard that right? Whose name was reported just now? An Changqing?”

Chang An picked up the tea and took a sip, his face (color) didn’t look pretty either: “You heard that right, it’s him.”

An Xianya unconvincedly twisted her veil, and pulled the sleeve of Young Master Junxiu, who was pursing her lips on the other side, coquettishly said: “Cousin Haiyun, why are you in a daze? Answer the question quickly. Don’t let that **** win the first place. , Or I’ll be **** off!”

She was still angry, but did not notice Li Haiyun’s expression.

An Changyu glanced at her and said in a more serious tone: “Xianya! Have you forgotten the rules you promised before going out?”

An Xianya unwillingly let go of her hand, and sat aside sulking.

An Changyu looked at himself, his cousin who had been silent since he heard An Changqing’s name, and whispered: “I asked someone to find out. They are in Songtao Pavilion now, next door to us.”

Only then did Li Haiyun’s face (color) move, his eyes lowered and his face was desperate: “Now he is the princess of the Northern War, so what if I saw him. I can’t harm him…”

An Changyu’s eyes were dim: “The last time I met in the mansion, his face (color) was not good, and he may not be happy in the palace… But the cousin said so, it is better not to see if there is destiny.”

Li Haiyun suddenly raised his head, he tried to say a few times, but after all he pressed his lips together to answer the question.

***

In Songtao Pavilion, An Changqing didn’t know that there were several juniors sitting next door in Anfu. He sat with Xiao Zhige and watched Zhou Helan and An Xianyu join hands, breaking the problem like torn paper.

The more you guess the lantern riddle, the more difficult it is and the slower you guess it. When the ranking comes to the bottom, the ranking changes are also less, because of this. However, the speed of these two people has not slowed down at all. The people who run errands to take lantern riddles got exhausted in the winter, but their faces were beaming with joy: “No. 5!”

An Changqing gave the reward and continued to watch the two quickly write down and answer the questions.

But I didn’t want to get off the person and just went out, and in a blink of an eye the door of the room was knocked again.

An Fu went to open the door, but was stunned when he saw the person at the door, hesitating whether to let someone in: “Young Master, Li Gongzi.”

A gentle voice came in from outside the door: “I heard Changqing’s cousin attending the Lantern Festival outside, but it happened that he was right next door, so I came to see you.”

Xiao Zhige moved his eyebrows and went to see An Changqing first. But seeing An Changqing’s expression unchanged, she said to An Fu lightly, “Is it the eldest brother and the cousin Haiyun? Please come in.”

An Fu opened the door and invited the two in.

After entering the door, seeing Xiao Zhige also was there, both of them were stunned, and then they went to see you. Xiao Zhige’s eyes fell on Li Haiyun, and the corners of his mouth rolled down.

It was consistent with the news that came back, that the young master of the settlement, whose surname is Li Ziyunhai, has a handsome face, and Zhilan Yushu. Also good at poetry, learning better. In the township examination meeting, he had a double enthusiasm. If his grandfather and grandmother died of filial piety one after another, I am afraid that he would be a great talent with ternary enthusiasm.

After the filial piety period, this young master went to Yejing as a guest and lived in Anjia. At first sight with the three young masters, they often present them with poems.

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