Chapter 5 Waterside

"Afu, are you in good health?"

"Well, it's been a long time, but my mother and concubine was not allowed to come out. If it hadn't been for the invitation of several sisters to the palace today, I would have had to stay. Brother Hong, who is this?" She, she is Ayou, from the Hou family of Ruyang... You can call her sister."

Huh, huh, sister? So who has been angry just now?

"Oh" The little beauty's eyelids were slightly shriveled, and then smiled sweetly at me: "Are you the Lord You Weng? When my father proposed to summon you to Beijing, I was still grinding ink nearby? That's great. You can play with us in the future.

Yo, this is a real noble. I heard that today's son is thin, and there is only one prince and two princesses. The prince is the crown prince. He is 17 years old and was born by the queen. The eldest princess of Anyue and the prince were in the same year. Her biological mother was Concubine Shu, but Concubine Shu died in childbirth, and even her title was later recaptified. The youngest Princess Leyao is the little beauty in front of her. She has become so young that she can see what a beautiful woman her mother should be. No wonder she is the most favored concubine in the palace in recent years. And because today's queen is really an alien, she can't worship Buddha all year round, and the affairs of the harem are taken care of by this virtuous concubine. She is already the hostess in the palace.

However, Princess Leyao seems to have a little hostility towards me. A seemingly intimate sentence points out the gap between her and me, the king and the minister, the Lord and the guest. She smiled and said happily, but her eyes seemed to inadvertently glance at my hand clenched by the little boy.

My father said that my greatest advantage is to be aware of it, isn't it? I shook off the little boy's hand and saluted the princess: "I've seen Princess Leyao." The little boy was stunned, and the princess took my hand happily and said, "I can't do it. Ah You is my sister. Call me Afu in the future." He turned to the rest and said, "Afu has earned another sister, and she won't be lonely in the palace in the future."

"Yes, Afu has such a good sister, and she doesn't need our 'old' to accompany her after that." A girl who was playing chess laughed stubbornly, and other girls echoed. If you don't rely on it, you are only allowed to bully Afu. Don't you have a help? Sister Ayou, Brother Hong, you come to judge. Afu took me with one hand, took the little boy's arm in the other, pouted his little mouth, and was charming.

Then, Afu introduced those girls to me one by one: the eldest daughter of the general, the niece of the Wuqi Changshi, and the military lieutenant... I thought to myself: These are all the female relatives of the emperor's close ministers, and this virtuous concubine is really unusual.

After the ceremony between them and me, Afu greeted everyone to the table and called the maidservant to serve the tea cup. Afu sat in the middle, took the silver chopsticks served by the palace, put a cold fruit in the paint plate in front of my table, and said, "Sister You, these cold fruits are the new tribute of Beiyi. You can try it." I thanked her, and she carefully picked one in the lacquer niche and sent it straight to the little boy's lips, "Brother Hong, it's not very sour." The sweet and soft voice is very useful even for me.

Unfortunately, the little boy didn't pity the jade. Despite the little beauty's eager expectation, he looked over her and looked at me. Yeah, I'll make a meal. This won't make me an enemy. He motioned me again with his eyes, epiphany, and dared to let me try food for him. Slowly put the cold fruit on the chopsticks into your mouth, hiss, isn't it sour? He swallowed and quickly restrained his good expression, tried to pull up the corners of his mouth, and put on an expression of delicious food and nodded to the little boy. In this way, he swallowed the fruit sent to his lips. I watched him spit out before chewing, hurriedly holding the tea basket and gargling his mouth, and finally couldn't hold back my laughter.

The little boy thumped the tea basket on the table, interrupted the girls' whispers, and the surroundings calmed down. He just stared at me, but didn't say anything. At that time, Afu gently pulled his sleeve and said aggrievedly, "Brother Hong, this cold fruit was specially sent by my father, saying that it had an excellent effect. I tasted it was indeed better than before, so I specially saved it for you. Don't you like it?" I quietly glanced at it. This niche was indeed only used by the two of us. It seemed that I was still stained with the light of a little boy.

At this time, a golden lacquer food niche was pushed in front of me, and the voice of the little boy came: "Afu, Liangguo is indeed good, but you also know that I have not liked these snacks. Besides, how can we treat guests? Sister Ayou, I just saw you seem to be very happy, so let's use it together." You're welcome. You're a guest from far away. Afu, is that right? He blocked me back. The little beauty thought that she was secretly happy because of the "us" in his words. Hearing him nod repeatedly: "Well, Sister Ayou, you can use these. If it's not enough, I'll let the maidservant go back to get it."

"No, no, I just had breakfast, and I can't eat much more." According to the rules of the palace, the food given must be used up immediately, otherwise it will be regarded as disrespectful, and the official level will crush people to death, right? Looking up, the little boy laughed so proudly that a pair of phoenix eyes were about to narrow into a gap. Humph, can't I be bullied by you, a fairy boy? I also learned from him to squint and said to Afu, "Then I'm disrespectful. I just think that I'm not as happy. There are no sisters in my family. It's really a pleasure to meet the sisters for the first time today. Please borrow flowers to offer Buddha here and share this cold fruit with you to show the feelings of our sisters. Afu, what do you think? "

Of course, Afu has nothing to do, and the rest of the people, except the little children, also thanked him one after another. There were not many Liangguo. When the palace waiter took the food utensils for distribution, I gently signaled her not to send me, which made her very grateful, who was originally embarrassed, and the others were dedicated to tasting tributes, so no one paid attention to this side. However... looking sideways, the little fairy boyguo stared at me intently, really staring at me. I pointed my eyes to him: If you stare again, your eyes will run out! He hummed and turned his head around. Everyone tasted the cold fruit, whether it is delicious or not, and it is often praised. Who dares to say good or wrong as a tribute? The banquet is full of joy.

"Speaking of which, in addition to thanking the grace, there is another person who can eat so deliciously?" A girl opened her mouth as if she remembered the eldest daughter of the general surnamed Zhao. She was slightly longer than us, and her eyebrows were already open. At this moment, her eyes were shy, and she looked more and more beautiful.

"Look, I'm crazy again. Seeing that I can't wait for next year, I can ask Afu to ask for a grace, so that I can fulfill your wish."

"Ha ha, since grace is not complete, it is reasonable to give marriage together..."

The daughter of the Zhao family was already slightly dizzy. She hurried to cover the neighboring girl's mouth, looked left and right, and scolded: "You can only ridicul me and say such nonsense. No matter how bad I am, I know the words of being the matchmaker of my parents. General Yu, I admire and have never covered it, and my heart is full of glory. As for you, who dares to swear that you have never thought about him like that? As soon as the voice fell, the water was suddenly quiet.

My logic in my heart: Beilian has been harassing me towards the border earlier, causing the people of the border to live. A few years ago, Dad led his troops to fight, did not click to retreat from the enemy and occupied several cities in a row, making it a truce for peace. Later, Dad took the initiative to resign from the post of Marshal Ma and returned to his territory. In the past few years, the two countries have been at peace.

Only last year, it was said that the new king of Beiyan was replaced. Therefore, he sent troops again to disturb my territory, and the court finally couldn't bear to send troops to attack. Originally, the emperor appointed his father as a commander, but the army only set out for more than a hundred miles, and his father fainted due to illness and was carried back to the house. I still remember how I panicked when I heard the news and saw my father dying on the car.

The waiter wanted to lift him down, but he was already half unconscious, but he grabbed the car with his hands and kept talking. Everyone pieced together into a sentence: "If you can't step on the north, how can I repay the father of my country? I can't be ashamed of the holy grace, that is, if I die, I can only wish the horse leather corpse..."

Immediately, everyone present was sad, and the onlookers sighed even more when they saw this. I hugged my father tightly and burst into tears.

At that time, the soldiers who sent Dad back knelt down together. "Marshal, I will not be humiliated. I will definitely let the Beilian barbarian see my name. Please be sure to take good care of yourself!" I tried to break my father's hand, but it didn't move at all. In the end, everyone took down the car and carried it back to the house before taking a rest.