Volume II tortoiseshell ring The feast of the palace(1/2)
Time flies, and a few years later, it is the full moon again.
"Where is the prince? The family banquet is about to begin, why aren't there still no one?"
“In the garden…”
Xu Wen said angrily: "Where are you digging out crickets again?!"
Xu Wen was about to lift her skirt and go out to curse her, but when she put on makeup, she put on her hairpin and glanced at the mirror, and said a little impatiently: "I have pulled out the hairpin, I don't want to insert it anymore."
The maid timidly responded "Yes" and reached out to pick up the flower hairpin. Xu Wen said again: "Have you sent all the Mid-Autumn Festival gifts? What about the reply?"
The housekeeper beside him said, "Go back to the home I just arrived today. The letter written by my second uncle has sealed some Yangzhou local products..." The manager said as he turned around, and a maid carried a wooden plate forward.
The housekeeper took the letter from the wooden plate and respectfully presented it to Xu Wen, and said: "A cart of seafood filling mooncakes, five boxes of osmanthus cakes, ten jars of bamboo leaves, live fish..."
"Okay." Xu Wen threw the letter back on the wooden plate and said impatiently: "This is all every year." Then he looked at the person standing behind the manager.
The man was tall and wearing a hat, standing beside him with his sleeves, his clothes seemed not to fit well, revealing his clean bronze neck skin.
The man lowered his head and hid his eyes under the hat, revealing only his thin side face.
Xu Wen said: "Who are you?"
The manager hurriedly turned his head and asked the man who was standing behind him to step forward. The manager said, "This is sent by his second uncle..."
Xu Wen interrupted: "Get a red seal for him and invite him to eat with you during the holidays."
The manager's expression was awkward, and after a while, he said boldly: "Second uncle... let him come to his wife for an errand."
Xu Wen mocked: "Is the shameless and shameless person who can't even support his own mansion?"
The man quietly refused to answer, and Xu Wen sent him casually, "Sit in the doorman, and see the prince's intention in a few days, and I'll give you something to do."
Xu Wen thought about it and said, "Have Yunqi replied?"
The housekeeper replied respectfully: "My uncle has no faith, so he only asks for a box."
Xu Wenwei was unhappy and said, "Take it and see it."
The butler held the box on the wooden plate and tore off the seal and opened it with his own hands. When Xu Wen saw the object in the box, the corner of her mouth slightly raised.
There was a white jade hairpin lying in the box, which was carved by a craftsman. The head of the hairpin was carved like a wooden branch, and the tree patterns were clearly visible, and the details were vivid. Even if the bark peeled off, the cracks were also vivid.
Several osmanthus flowers are dotted on the branches, with crystal clear petals and stamens as thin as hair, but they are clear.
Xu Wen exclaimed: "How much money does it cost, this big-handed little bastard."
Xu Wen picked up the hairpin and shone it at the light. He saw four words as big as rice grains engraved at the end of the hairpin:
The silent man suddenly interrupted, "'Changong Zhegui', the name of Jiang Mansion in Sihutong, Su Wanrong."
Xu Wen said unexpectedly: "Do you still know Su Wanrong?"
A faint smile in the man's voice replied: "She is the only one in Nanjing. She is married to Master Jiang... After Jiang Yan sealed his knife. This hairpin is worth at least 1,000 taels of gold, and she can't buy it even if she has money."
The man added: "It was said that even the prince wanted to carve a jade pendant to give it to someone, but Mrs. Jiang didn't carve it."
Xu Wen smiled and said, "I understand. It must be the little bastard who carved his master's wife and his hairpin."
The butler echoed: "My uncle has always been intent."
Xu Wen said, "If you don't have a business, you will be able to do everything."
Even so, he still had a faint joy on his face and ordered: "I won't wear brocade today, go and hold the black robe at the bottom of the box."
The maid turned around and went in response. Xu Wen pulled the flower hairpin and threw it into the plate. Her long black hair flowed like a waterfall, and then put on a black embroidered suit. Her white jade-like skin looked even more beautiful against the black robe.
Xu Wen tied his hair, only put it in the white jade hairpin given by Yun Qi, looked at the tall man, and said, "I took off my hat."
The man took off his hat and looked at Xu Wen, unnaturally avoiding Xu Wen's gaze.
The man has a high nose bridge, slightly eagle hook shape, and his eyes are as dark as tortoiseshell.
Xu Wen said: "Turkish people? You and the wolf tribe who often come to the mansion..."
The man simply replied: "It doesn't matter."
"What name is it?"
"Zhu Feng."
Xu Wen burst out laughing and said, "What's wrong with calling me? I'm called Pig Crazy." Without asking the person's origin, he said, "Go to have a meal first. You will know how to be martial. From tomorrow, you will run errands with the prince."
Zhu Feng nodded and replied, "Mrs. Thank you."
Zhu Di lay on the grass with a grass in his mouth. The fragrance of osmanthus flowers in the garden in autumn was squinting comfortably, whistling, and reaching into the rockery with one hand.
Xu Wen walked out of the yard with the maid in charge and shouted a lion in the east of the river in the garden: "Prince! It's time to eat! The price is always around, and you can get a fortune and wealth!"
Zhu Di hurriedly spitted the grass and got up, straightened his eyes with a "yum", and praised: "Madam! You are really..."
Xu Wen only put on light makeup, wearing a mysterious suit, a white jade hairpin on her head, and a waterfall-like three thousand black hair, which made Zhu Di drool.
Xu Wen glanced at Zhu Di with anger, and kept walking towards the front hall.
Zhu Di hurriedly laughed and strode after him, stretched out his arm and let his wife hold him. The Mid-Autumn Festival Palace Banquet began.
Tuoba Feng raised his long legs and sat at a table in a remote corner outside the hall. In front of the table was full of servants and tents. No one talked to him, and he didn't say anything. He poured wine and vegetables for himself. Zhu Di's generous laughter came from the hall, and the sound of Peking Square with fluent mouths from several guests.
"I'll just say, hey, please, please, I'll come by myself, I dare not take the trouble to the prince." The man smiled and said, "Young Master should have come in a hundred days. I really didn't expect that the master would never let me down the mountain. I'll wait..."
Zhu Di hurriedly smiled and said, "It might as well, since Brother Yao is here, let's stay here."
Xu Wen changed her appearance, Wen Yan smiled and said, "Last time, my brother's incident was thanks to Master Yao..."
Tuoba Feng heard it in his ears, and he felt aroused in his heart and asked, "Madam, what's the matter?"
The family looked at Tuoba Feng for a moment and smiled and said, "This is a long way to say. Several years ago, my uncle was injured in Beijing. It was treated by our Master Yao."
Tuoba Feng narrowed his eyes, with a sharp look in his eyes, and asked, "What wounds? How to cure them?"
That family member was very gossipy. The prince’s mansion was boring and small things could be passed on for ten days and half a month. What’s more, when he heard Tuoba Feng ask about it, he immediately flirted with a look and said in a Beijing accent:
"It turns out that you came from your second uncle's house? Then you have to call him my uncle. I'll tell you that he is an Embroidered Uniform Guard at the foot of the emperor in the capital. Oh my grandfather... Do you understand the Embroidered Uniform Guard? Don't you understand? I tell you, the Embroidered Uniform Guard, is amazing..."
"Tell me the point!" Tuoba Feng said unhappily.
Tuoba Feng was still powerful. After drinking this, the clerk sat up straight in a reflexive manner, looked at him for a moment of confusion, and then continued: "You are impatient, this is... I will tell you something important, my uncle, that is a first-class talent. I heard that he is highly valued by the emperor, but he committed the crime of beheading that time."
Tuoba Feng held his breath and listened quietly.
The clerk said again: "But my uncle is a good man, has a great life, and has a good fortune. He was beaten with a stick before he was beheaded. I bowed my mother, you don't know, I was beaten with 360 sticks in front of the emperor and the ministers..."
“…”
Tuoba Feng held the wine glass in disbelief and trembled all over.
The man shivered and said, "Thirty hundred and sixty sticks! Our prince saw it and felt pain in his heart. It doesn't work for the prince to plead with mercy. Just watching his uncle get beaten is really a sin."
"I heard that both feet were broken and the ribs were broken, and the court was covered with blood. The civil and military officials couldn't bear to see them anymore. They knelt at the emperor's feet and pleaded with mercy..."
"After the fight, the prince hurriedly took his uncle home, and cried... "
"At that time, my uncle was only left with such an air... I can't die even if I don't live. It is said that my uncle has any wishes before he can't bear to die. Fortunately, this is a matter of this. The prince told the famous doctors in the capital, and that doctor also squeezed the yard..."
"As the prince was guarding Jinling, he sent someone back to report the news. When the lady heard about this, she cried so hard that she was dark... Hey brother, brother? I said you cry too, why are you crying? You know it's miserable, Hehou?"
The servant couldn't help but be respectful of his sensational ability to tell stories. After a while, he brewed his emotions, rubbed his wet eyes, stared at the fantasy horizon in the distance, looked at the non-existent Xiyang, and sighed:
"The lady withdrew money and asked the young man to send food to the poor, and ordered the whole city to fast. On that day, monks and Taoists were invited everywhere to do the work at home. Master Yao Guangxiao happened to pass by. After hearing this, he took the secret treasure of the master's sect, called Zhuyan Bingchan, and handed it back to the messenger, which saved Yunqi's uncle's life..."
"The bright moon is in the sky, the pearl is in the sky, where is the beauty, the beauty is beautiful thousands of miles away..."
"Your Majesty, you say these words every year."
"Haha, I read very little, and I have never been well educated since I was a child..."
"rhyme!"
Zhu Di and Yao Guangxiao were drunk and left the hall, standing in the front yard, ten miles of lotus pond and three autumn osmanthus, the fragrance came faintly, making people feel refreshed.
Yao Guangxiao had not been in secular for a long time. The young monk's hair was less than three inches above his head, and he had a hairpin and clasped his hands and said, "Prince, please come back, Guangxiao is going back now."
Zhu Di laughed and said, "If Brother Yao has anything to do, come and find me at any time."
Yao Guangxiao's face was flushed, he nodded with a smile, and turned to leave the mansion. However, a person stood tall under the flower stand in the front yard. After waiting for a long time, it was Tuoba Feng.
Tuoba Feng had red eyes and hardened his neck, blocking Yao Guangxiao's way, stood in front of him, and without saying a word, he lifted his robe and knelt down.
"Ahhh, donor? You are..."
Zhu Di was frightened and hurried forward. Yao Guangxiao bowed to help, but Tuoba Feng respectfully kowtowed three times to Yao Guangxiao.
Yao Guangxiao frowned and said to Zhu Di: "Is this a person from the prince's mansion?"
Tuoba Feng said in a hoarse voice: "Thank you Master Yao for your kindness." Then he stood up and walked aside and remained silent.
When Zhu Di suddenly heard the sound, he took a breath of air conditioning. He didn't care about Tuoba Feng, and hurriedly smiled at Yao Guangxiao and said, "It's okay, Brother Yao, this matter has a long story. I'll talk about it if I have time in the future."
After seeing Yao Guangxiao off, Tuoba Feng was still standing aside. Zhu Di hurriedly turned around and said, "Why didn't you say hello when you come to Peking?"
Zhu Di brought Tuoba Feng to the garden and dispersed the servants. Fang said, "Didn't you let you come back after the New Year?"
Tuoba Feng's mood calmed a little, and Zhu Di and the two were blown by the autumn wind, and most of the alcohol dissipated. Tuoba Feng thought for a while and said, "I don't want to live under someone else's roof."
To be continued...