31, heart

On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the day of Cheng Yuanjia's birthday.

In the capital, Zhen'er, who pretended to be Cheng Yuanjia, did deal with it very hard. Fortunately, there was a pendant, which helped her a lot, and she was not too busy. And Prince Qian also knew that Cheng Yuanjia was fake, and he didn't embarrass them, and even secretly helped them push some away. As the most beautiful woman in the capital, Cheng Yuanjia has a reputation. Every birthday, many princes and grandchildren take this opportunity to get close to her, hoping to be black-eyed. Especially this year, the seventh prince is not by her side, which is a rare good opportunity to get close to the beautiful woman. On this day, all kinds of people who came to the Qian Palace were about to squeeze through the door of the palace.

Among these people, the fifth prince is the most active, and the gift is also very cherished. It is actually an emerald worth a thousand taels of gold. Although he was ordered by the emperor to marry the imperial concubine, it did not affect his coveting for Cheng Yuanjia. He claimed that as long as Cheng Yuanjia was willing to marry, he would rather not want anything, as long as he was old with her. From the outsider's point of view, it seems that he is really a seed of infatuation, but in the eyes of Prince Qian, he is digging his own grave. Cheng Yuanjia is destined to be a queen. How can he be a commoner with him?

In Minzhou, the Cheng family's manor is also very lively, much more lively than the New Year's days. Of course, there is no one who gives gifts endlessly, and only the seven princes and the four captains around him come to congratulate him.

Cheng Yuanjia is still in her warm spring-like courtyard. Think about it, it's a waste of a warm place that costs so much.

The seventh prince walked in front, and the four captains followed behind a big object covered with red cloth and walked into the courtyard together.

"Wenjia, I'm here to celebrate your birthday." Seeing Cheng Yuanjia playing the piano in the pavilion from afar, the seventh prince couldn't help shouting.

"Are you reminding me that I'm one year older?" Cheng Yuanjia was not polite, he said.

"What are you talking about? How old are you?" The seventh prince stepped forward and looked at Cheng Yuanjia's delicate little face for a long time and said, "If you are old, I would rather become an old man immediately so that I can match you."

Cheng Yuanjia stared at him with all kinds of amorous feelings and said, "Who is matched with you? Don't be ashamed."

This expression of the seventh prince is extremely useful. In the past few days, he has suddenly felt much better because of Zhou Huan's letter. He pretended to exaggerate and said, "No way, it's rare for you to dislike me as older than you?"

The seventh prince is a little older than Cheng Yuanjia. According to his birthday, it is actually eleven months. His birthday is in February. According to Cheng Yuanjia, the seventh prince is eleven months older than her.

"Yes. What gift are you going to give me this time? Why do you seem to be quite tall? Cheng Yuanjia ignored the rare strangeness of the seventh prince and said, "Let's talk about it first. If I'm not satisfied with your gift, I'll return it.

The seventh prince did not flinched and said, "I promise you are satisfied, but I'll say it first. If you want something of great value, I can't give it."

"I dare not take it if you dare to give me something too expensive." Cheng Yuanjia is very aware of the situation of the Seventh Prince. If he really sends something of high value and is known by some people with ulterior motives in the capital, I'm afraid he will be charged with a lot of false charges. After all, he is just a prince with no fiefdom and no background. If he suddenly has money, it will definitely make people doubt the way money comes from.

The seventh prince smiled and motioned the four captains to come forward and sent the objects they carried to Cheng Yuanjia and said, "Let you, the birthday star, uncover it yourself."

Cheng Yuanjia stood up from the chair and walked to the red cloth. With her ability, it is easy to see through this thin red cloth, but she also wants to maintain a sense of mystery without deliberately looking at it.

Pulling the corner of the red cloth, Cheng Yuanjia lifted the cover of this huge birthday gift.

A very exquisite model of a small courtyard in the south of the Yangtze River appeared in front of him, with small bridges, green bricks and green tiles, and even a small water truck. If it's just these, it's not strange. What's strange is that these are piled up with all kinds of shells and small pebbles.

"I wanted to get a more beautiful one for you, but it's really difficult to do it if I haven't done it. We have broken a few in a row. We can't go to Minzhou City to hire a craftsman who specializes in this, and it was completed with his help. Because there are not enough materials, I can only make such a big one. The seventh prince apologetically said, "If it hadn't been for a few, the materials we collected would have been enough to make it twice as big as this."

"I'm already surprised. Did you make this yourself?" Cheng Yuanjia was not interested in valuable things in the first place. What she cares about is her heart, and the seventh prince hit her key point.

"We did it together." The four captains hurried together to ask for credit without waiting for the explanation of the seven princes.

The seventh prince said, "We are not professional. It's a little rough. If you don't like it, I'll take it back and make a more beautiful one."

"I like it very much." Cheng Yuanjia gently stroked the miniature farmhouse pasted with pebbles and Baker and said, "I have never received such a unique gift, not to mention that you made it yourself, which is of great significance."

The seventh prince smiled and was secretly happy. A few years ago, I went to the city of Minzhou to find a birthday gift for Cheng Yuanjia, but I returned empty-handed. When I was in the east of the city, I suddenly saw gadgets sold with shells on the roadside, and I immediately had this idea. That kind of gadget is worthless and very simple to make. Of course, it is not suitable for Cheng Yuanjia as a gift. After coming back, he gave an order to his direct sergeants to collect all kinds of shells and pebbles on the beach. After seven or eight days, he collected hundreds of catties. After screening, there were still more than 200 catties left that could be used. After several failures and nearly half of them were wasted, they had no choice but to hire a craftsman from Minzhou City who specializes in making and selling such things, and they always made them before Cheng Yuanjia's birthday.

For the rich Cheng Yuanjia, no gold, silver and jewelry is as good as the slightly inferior model in front of him. Even if it is used with gold and silver, it cannot be exchanged for this precious heart.

Because Cheng Yuanjia was very happy, the seventh prince and the four captains had a very rich dinner on this day. They not only ate white rice at will, but also all kinds of dishes were the best delicacies they had never seen before.

After they left, Cheng Yuanjia directly sent the farmhouse model to the depths of the large spiritual veins in the nine-star ring, which was slowly nourished with the purest and strongest aura. In a few years, the model will become extremely flexible, and the material will produce earth-shaking changes, truly turning decay into magic.

A month later, on the birthday of the seventh prince, Cheng Yuanjia invited him to his home again and prepared a delicious treat for the seventh prince and several captains. On the table, he took out a pure white jade pendant and gave it to the seventh prince.

The seventh prince was not pretentious and calmly accepted the gift from Cheng Yuanjia.

Two months later, after the seventh prince raised the request for grain seeds to Cheng Yuanjia, Cheng Yuanjia immediately shook his head and said, "It's not that I don't give it to you, it's useless to you. The growth conditions of this kind of rice are very special. Even if I give you hundreds of catties of grain seeds, you can't grow a seed. Although my rice is piled up in the warehouse, there is no need to waste it for you like this.

The seventh prince was stunned and said, "What kind of conditions do you need?"

"There's nothing you can do to tell you." Cheng Yuanjia knew that the seventh prince did not give up and said, "It needs to be planted in the place where the aura of heaven and earth gathers, and it can't be attacked by any yin qi."

"Yinqi? What is yin qi? The seventh prince is a little confused.

"The moon is also known as Taiyin Star. The so-called yin qi is moonlight. This kind of rice must not shine on the moonlight in the process of growth, otherwise it will wither immediately." Cheng Yuanjia sighed, "The more abundant the sunshine, the better, but the moonlight is a taboo. What's more troublesome is that this kind of rice has very high temperature requirements. When it grows, it must maintain the same temperature, and there must be no slight change in temperature, otherwise it will wither.

The seventh prince's face changed and he said, "It's so troublesome. How did you grow it?"

"I once said that the origin of this rice is a little strange. If it had been planted like ordinary rice, I would have spread the valley all over the world long ago. Each family grows this kind of rice. Isn't the granary in the world so full that it is unimaginable? But the planting conditions of this kind of rice are so harsh. If you really plant this kind of rice, the only result is that there is no grain harvest, and if you miss the best time to sow, it will be a disaster, and you can also foresee the consequences.