In the study room, Chen Shiba Niang put down her pen and stared at the cases for a moment. Then she turned to look at the other side. The woman who was always dressed in plain clothes was writing slowly and steadily.
She hesitated for a moment, but finally didn't pick up the pen again.
She pretended to read the words in front of her and sat there in a daze until Cheng Jiaoniang finished writing and put down her pen.
On a spring day, they opened the door of the house, looked at the scenery in the courtyard, drank tea and water, and the two women chatted, to be precise, Chen Shiba Niang talked, and Cheng Jiao Niang answered.
"Now that the weather is getting better and the flowers are blooming more and more, the Beijing Poetry Festival has also begun. I wonder if my wife is interested in going and playing together?" Chen Shiba Niang asked.
Cheng Jiaoniang shook her head.
"I can't compose poetry, nor can I appreciate poetry, and I don't like to talk," she said.
Chen Shiba Niang put down the tea bowl.
"It doesn't matter if I don't go, there's no point in it," she said. "I say I'm writing poems and appreciating lyrics, but in the end I'm just talking about things like eating and clothing."
In particular, it can be imagined that the women's jokes in the recent poetry meeting will definitely have their own characteristics.
Someone shot an arrow out of nowhere, but I was not frightened. When I lifted the car curtain, the person who shot the arrow was frightened.
Maybe there is something unsavory to say to make fun of yourself.
Seeing Chen Shiba Niang almost tearing her belt to pieces, the maid couldn't help but lean towards Cheng Jiao Niang.
"The Eighteenth Lady seems to have something on her mind." She whispered.
"Who's not worried?" Cheng Jiaoniang turned slightly and whispered back.
The maid held back her laughter.
"Madam, are you there?" she asked in a low voice.
Cheng Jiaoniang said nothing.
The maid was a little worried. Did she break the rules? She shouldn't make such a joke with the lady...
"No." Cheng Jiaoniang turned sideways and replied seriously.
The maid didn't know whether to laugh or not.
"Because, I don't have the heart yet." Cheng Jiaoniang continued.
The maid was startled, but Banqin, who was cleaning up the desk on the other side, stopped and looked at Cheng Jiaoniang.
The woman was sitting upright, with a dull look on her face, looking out the door, as if she was looking at something and seemed to have nothing in mind.
No heart.
After more than ten years of foolishness, the past has not left any mark on her heart.
She didn't know who she was, knew or didn't know her, and left no trace of her joys and sorrows. Even until not long ago, everything had just passed by in front of her eyes.
There is nothing to worry about.
Banqin lowered his head and raised his sleeves to wipe away his tears under the guise of wiping sweat.
Chen Shiba Niang came back to her senses and felt a little uneasy when she realized that she had lost her composure. Here she saw Cheng Jiao Niang's master and servant sitting quietly. Cheng Jia Niang even had a book in her hand that she was reading. When she heard her come back to her senses, the two of them looked over.
, nor does it mean to pry or speculate.
"It's time for me to go." Chen Shiba Niang hurriedly squeezed out a smile and said, "Come back tomorrow."
Cheng Jiaoniang saluted her.
"Actually, if you have something to do, you don't have to force yourself to come," she said.
Chen Shiba Niang looked at her with a somewhat uneasy expression.
"If something happens, something happens. There's no need to pretend that everything is still the same." Cheng Jiaoniang stood up and walked out first.
Chen Shiba Niang was startled and then followed.
"Foreign affairs have already disturbed me." Cheng Jiaoniang stood in the corridor and turned around and said, "Why bother forcing yourself?"
At this time, the spring breeze was blowing slowly, and a cherry blossom was blooming in front of the porch, and the fallen flowers fell in the wind like rain on the porch.
Chen Shiba Niang couldn't help but smile and followed.
The guests came here to follow the host, and they both wore socks at home. They swayed their white socks under their skirts one after the other and walked on fallen flowers.
"People don't always say that you should be flattered and not surprised." Chen Shiba Niang said, sighing, "I feel bad, and I feel that I am afraid that people will see me uncomfortable, so I have to act like nothing is wrong to let them see."
Cheng Jiaoniang hummed without saying anything and stood still in front of the steps.
Chen Shiba Niang didn't need her to answer. This "yes" had already opened up her accumulated depression.
"You don't know, you made me mad to death yesterday," she said.
The maid has automatically stepped back to avoid the conversation between the two.
Chen Shiba Niang told what happened yesterday in one breath.
"What do you mean this is? What should I do?" she asked angrily.
Cheng Jiaoniang turned her head to look at her, curved her lips and smiled.
"I'm sick," she said.
Chen Shiba Niang was stunned.
"I can't laugh, you just smile." Cheng Jiaoniang said.
Chen Shiba Niang is a little confused. Are you laughing?
She grinned.
"Haha." Cheng Jiaoniang said to her.
Chen Shiba Niang couldn't help laughing.
"Haha." She said, and then couldn't help laughing.
Cheng Jiaoniang nodded.
"You see, that's all." She said.
Chen Shiba Niang was startled.
"Rather than saying that others take it to heart, it's better to say that you take it to heart." Cheng Jiaoniang said, "You just laugh, that's all."
After saying that, he turned around.
"This matter is nothing more than that."
Chen Shiba Niang stood in silence for a moment, a smile appeared on her face, and her smile gradually widened.
"If you think about it carefully, it's really funny! Where did you come from to be so reckless!" she laughed, raising her sleeves to cover her face, and then she started laughing.
Prince Jin'an jumped up from the ground.
"Who's coming?" he asked.
"Mr. Chen Shao, Mr. Chen." the chamberlain replied.
"Your Majesty, I remembered. I have something else that I almost forgot. I'm leaving now. I'll come back to accompany you another day." Prince Jin'an said, saluting, turning around and hurried away.
The Queen Mother didn't even have time to say a word. She was slightly stunned and then stopped laughing.
"Look how frightened he is." She said to the palace maid, "If you don't become a thief, you won't feel guilty. This kid can't even be a thief."
The palace maid also smiled.
"The county prince is also naughty. Mr. Chen is here to ask questions, right?" she said.
The Queen Mother pursed her lips and smiled, looking at the chamberlain and extending her hand.
"Xuan." She said.
In the main hall, Chen Shao knelt down and lowered his head, his face unable to conceal his anger.
A chamberlain held an arrow and carefully knelt down a few steps in front of the Queen Mother.
Foreign ministers were not allowed to bring weapons into the palace, let alone the inner palace. This arrow was handed over to the guards outside the palace gate, and then handed in after inspection.
The chamberlain also did not dare to get too close to the Queen Mother.
"When I was young, I used this to play hut." The Queen Mother looked at the arrow and smiled.
"Empress!" Chen Shao interrupted her and said, "This is for use in the palace, but it was shot on my carriage."
The Queen Mother looked smiling.
"Okay, Mr. Chen, I'm not here to accompany you. The child is naughty, so don't worry about it," she said.
"Your Majesty, the Prince of Jin'an has grown up, and the prince has to move out of the palace as an adult. Let alone the Prince, how can he stay in the palace forever?" Chen Shao said after plastic surgery.
The Queen Mother's face suddenly darkened.
The maids and maids on the side lowered their heads and did not dare to say anything.
This is not the first time that the King of Jin'an County moved out of the palace. There was a memorial from the royal family a few years ago. As a result, the Queen Mother was displeased and insisted on punishing him. In the end, the emperor couldn't deal with it and let it go.
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No one has mentioned it in the past two years, but recently it has started to be discussed again.
"This is my family's business, no outsiders need to talk about it," the Queen Mother said coldly.
"The royal family has no family affairs, they are all the affairs of the world." Chen Shao also said solemnly.
Prince Jin'an was sitting in the palace, tossing a handful of southern pearls in his hand, with a slight smile on his lips.
"What happened next?" he asked.
"Later, the Queen Mother became extremely angry, but Mr. Chen was not done yet. He scolded the Queen Mother for her false words." A chamberlain lowered his head and said.
"These are serious words." Prince Jin'an laughed and sat up cross-legged, "What next?"
"Master Chen left in a rage." The chamberlain said, "The Queen Mother is also angry and is sending someone to call the emperor."
"The same goes for Mr. Chen. I was just careless. As for being so angry, he insisted on driving me out." Prince Jin'an said with a smile.
There was a moment of silence in the room.
"Your Majesty is here, I dare not listen anymore," the chamberlain said in a low voice.
"You are doing the right thing. Listen to what you should, and don't listen to what you shouldn't. The reason for not listening is to listen." Prince Jin'an smiled and waved his hand.
The chamberlain bowed and left.
A waiter next to him hurriedly moved forward.
"Prince, you deliberately let the Queen Mother know about this matter. Mr. Chen is so angry. In order to save the face of the Chen family, what if the Queen Mother wants to grant you a marriage?" He said with a bit of uneasiness.
The prince of Jin'an County stopped his hand, and the Nanzhu he threw fell to the ground with a roar.
"She couldn't bear to part with it," he said slowly, with a smile on his lips. The smile grew bigger and bigger, and finally he raised his head, grabbed the scattered Nanzhu and lifted it up.
"I can't bear it! How can they bear it!"
In the Queen Mother's Palace, upon hearing the emperor's words, the Queen Mother shook her head categorically.
"How?" she said.
"I think Weilang is not young anymore, so Master Chen's family would be suitable for him, why not..." the emperor said.
The emperor was described as being thin, with a somewhat frail complexion, but fortunately he was in good spirits.
"Silang." The Queen Mother hesitated to speak, but finally said, "This boy's body is a lucky thing. If it breaks, then... it's not good."
The emperor was startled, and then he understood what the Queen Mother said, and his expression was a little complicated.
"But." He hesitated for a moment and said with a wry smile, "We can't just let him be single, right?"
"I am not a heartless person, but I want to keep him for a few more years." The Queen Mother said, "When the eldest brother gets married and has a son..."
The emperor couldn't laugh or cry.
"How many more years do we have to wait?" he said.
"It's only five or six years." The Queen Mother said displeased, "Many of our Fang family men got married late. King Lu didn't get married until he was thirty, and he still had many children and grandchildren. What's the problem?"
King Lu delayed the marriage for so long because he was ill and could not get married. This is incomparable.
The emperor smiled bitterly, but as a direct beneficiary and for the sake of the country and the country, he had no choice but to believe in such absurd words to attract children.
"Then, when the time comes, choose a good family for Wei Lang." He finally said.
The Queen Mother smiled.
"That's natural. He was raised by me personally," she said with a smile, but her smile faded immediately, "But that Chen Shao is really hateful!"
Regarding political affairs, although the emperor was filial, he was not to the point of obeying the inner palace. He just smiled when he heard the words.
"Wei Lang is also naughty." He said, "No wonder Mr. Chen was angry and turned around to make up for it by finding a good matchmaker for the Chen family's daughter."
The Queen Mother snorted.
"These sarcastic and honest ministers dare to point their fingers at me and scold me when they are unhappy. After scolding, everyone in the world applauds them, so I will not deal with them and give them the opportunity to step on my reputation." She said,
"The daughter of his family will marry whoever she likes. She just wants to marry into our family."
She probably doesn't want to get married either.
The emperor smiled in his heart.
These important ministers and wealthy families were very solemn and proud, as if marrying with the Tian family would ruin their futures. They were all aggrieved. There were so many people who wanted to marry the Tian family, so he didn't want to single out these ministers who wanted to be famous.
