The winery in Beijing opened, and Xia Shang got another huge sum of money.
Most of it was used to renovate the land of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and many workers were hired.
A small part of it was used for the new house where Xia Shang currently lives, and several cleaning workers were hired to help clean up and down the house.
The back garden of this house is nice. Although it is not cultivated, the flowers and plants in it have been selected by the owner, and they are all of top quality. There are also many potted plants with strange shapes. If you prune them carefully, they can be sold for a lot of money.
It's just that this house hasn't had an owner for a long time, the garden is overgrown with weeds, and the flowers and plants have not been pruned carefully and have lost their beauty.
Now that winter has entered, it’s time to tidy up the garden before spring. There will be big changes in spring.
So Xia Shang ordered people to clean the garden very carefully.
There is always a small square pavilion in the back garden of wealthy people. Firstly, it can provide a place to rest, and secondly, it will make the garden appear more open.
The pavilion is the first place to be cleaned. Even the top of the pavilion has been wiped spotless. From here, you can clearly see the entire garden.
Wine and food have been prepared on the stone table in the small pavilion, and Xia Shang is sitting there with his legs crossed leisurely.
It wasn't until he saw Li Xiaoxin and Princess Jiaqian walking in from the fan-shaped corridor at the entrance of the garden that Xia Shang cheered up, stood up and straightened out his clothes.
From a distance, one could hear the two of them talking, and Li Xiaoxin's rare enthusiasm was devoted to Jiaqian.
"Sister, I also moved here yesterday. Everything is a bit messy. Don't dislike it, sister."
Jiaqian was quite curious and looked around: "This garden does lack some order, but as long as it is taken care of, it will be good. My sister should know that she doesn't care about this, but she really wants to see what her handsome brother-in-law is.
appearance?"
"Well, I've been waiting in the pavilion for a long time."
Following what Li Xiaoxin pointed out, Jia Qian saw a man in a brown and black coat and a fur hat in the small pavilion in front of him. His appearance was hard to see clearly, but he looked really young.
This surprised Jiaqian. She had always thought that she would be appreciated by the emperor, and she was a middle-aged official in a high position, so when she heard that her brother-in-law was handsome, she didn't care, because at her age,
Naturally, I like talented young men of similar age.
Xia Shang looked at the two people approaching and smiled: "Princess Jiaqian, I have been waiting for you for a long time."
Due to etiquette, Jiaqian lowered her head slightly, and instead of looking at him, she bowed and said, "Your Excellency, there is no need to be too polite."
"Your Majesty, Princess, this is sister Jiaqian, you should treat each other as brother and sister. Sister, don't you really want to meet your brother-in-law? Now that you have met, why don't you lower your head and look at him?"
Seeing that there was no one else around, Jiaqian didn't care about etiquette and so on. She raised her head implicitly and glanced at Xia Shang secretly.
When Jiaqian saw Xia Shang, her slender eyebrows trembled slightly, and her face was quickly filled with confusion.
Seeing the confusion on Jia Qian's face, Li Xiaoxin asked curiously: "What's wrong? Is my brother-in-law not as good-looking as you imagined?"
"No, no..." Jiaqian waved her hands repeatedly, "Brother-in-law is indeed a rare and handsome young man, but...it's just...my sister seems to have seen her brother-in-law somewhere, but she can't remember it for a while."
Xia Shang smiled and said: "A few years ago in Liuzhuang, Yangzhou, and a year ago in Taoxian Mountain during the classics period..."
Xia Shang reminded, and Jiaqian immediately came back to her senses: "It turns out to be you! The Poet Fairy on Liuzhuang instantly composed dozens of poems, defeating the most talented girl in the capital. The little book boy on Taoxian Mountain dared to challenge Fu Qianqian.
Bit!"
"It seems that the princess has not forgotten it yet."
"So you have known each other for a long time?"
"Sister, my brother-in-law is a genius!" Jiaqian was very excited, especially because Xia Shang's words brought back her memories of Liuzhuang. She would never forget that the man who was in Liuzhuang could do it without any hesitation.
He writes poems while thinking, without interruption, and his poems are exquisite.
For a lady who has been influenced by literature and art since childhood, such a man is undoubtedly the object of admiration.
Jiaqian once secretly looked for him, but unfortunately she didn't have any clues, so in the end she just dropped the matter.
Later, when I met him among my classmates in Classical Studies, I never thought that this little book boy could be the genius poetry fairy I had met in Liuzhuang. I just thought he looked familiar.
But now that Xia Shang mentioned it personally, Jiaqian dared to confirm her suspicion.
"Sister, is he really that powerful? You are a royal princess, don't inflate other people's ambitions and destroy your own prestige."
Talking about her past experiences, Jia Qian was very happy and soon told Li Xiaoxin everything about Liuzhuang.
Li Xiaoxin was quite surprised when she heard this. She looked at Xia Shang and stopped talking.
Thinking back to the beginning, Xia Shang also felt a little nostalgic.
At that time, Xia Shang didn't have any ties, didn't have so many enemies, and didn't have anything to do, so he had the leisure to use his past life memories to show off. The life he had at that time would probably never come back.
"Princess Princess, since we are all old acquaintances, let's chat slowly while drinking wine in the small pavilion."
"Hmm..." Jiaqian nodded enthusiastically, walked up to Xia Shang without any courtesy, found a seat in the pavilion and sat down, her heart full of anticipation.
What Jiaqian is looking forward to is not the inner love between her children, but a good scholar who wants to have some literary collisions from the inside out after meeting a real scholar.
"Brother-in-law, you must teach me well now."
Xia Shang and Li Xiaoxin also sat down one after another. Xia Shang asked, "What should I teach you?"
"I am willing to learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, poetry, and poetry as long as my brother-in-law is willing to teach me."
"Princess, I'm afraid you think too highly of me. My so-called knowledge is only mediocre."
"Don't call me princess, brother-in-law can just call me sister."
Xia Shang smiled and rubbed his nose, and glanced at Li Xiaoxin inadvertently, only to see her staring at Xia Shang with interest, half-smiling but not smiling.
"Don't discuss anything else today. I can chat with my sister some other time after I'm ready."
"Then I will bring my paintings to my brother-in-law for appreciation tomorrow."
"Tomorrow? Doesn't your father's grounding period expire tomorrow?"
"Father has a lot of things to do. There will be a lot of things to deal with tomorrow. Where will he have time to talk to me?"
Xia Shang nodded.
Jiaqian looked happy: "Brother-in-law, that's what we've settled on."
Li Xiaoxin joked: "Sister, since you met your brother-in-law, you have forgotten me as a sister. Do you regret that you like your brother-in-law so much?"
"regret?"
"Of course I regret not asking the emperor to marry you to..."
"Ah! Sister, what are you talking about... How can I go out to meet people like this?"
"There's no one else here. We're just joking, so why should we care? Why are you so happy? It's completely different from how reserved you were yesterday."
"Brother-in-law is my sister's idol!" (To be continued)