Chapter 920: It's Snowing

On the first day of October in the fourth year of Jiajing, the sky was dark, the wind was cold, the cold air penetrated the body and invaded the muscles, and there were faint signs of snowfall.

There is a pond in the Cining garden in front of the Cining Palace, it should be said that it is a small lake, because the area is really not small, there is a pavilion with a nine-curved bridge leading directly to the center of the lake, the lake is full of lotus flowers, in summer, the water surface lotus leaves are in the field, the lotus flowers compete for the fragrance of the flowers, if you take a cool seat in the pavilion in the center of the lake at this moment, smell the refreshing lotus fragrance, blow the cool breeze of Xi Xi, while tasting the seasonal fruits, it is undoubtedly a very pleasant enjoyment. In the summer, Princess Yongfu likes to read in the shade of the lake pavilion, or talk with the palace maid.

But now it is the early winter season, and the lotus leaves in the lake have long since withered, but the remaining dry lotus stems stand alone on the water, a scene of decay and barrenness.

Yongfu Gong stood in the pavilion in the center of the lake in a pale pink palace costume, holding the railing with his bare hands, a pair of bright eyes like spring water, looking at the dry lotus on the lake with a fascinate look. The cold wind blew in her face, swaying back and forth on her bun, and against the backdrop of her fluffy white shawl, it was even more deceitful and snowy. Due to the perennial practice of yoga, Princess Yongfu's posture is very beautiful, even if she is wearing winter clothes, she can't hide the undulating curves, and her waist is about to bend, which has a unique wind and charm!

"Your Royal Highness Princess, it's windy here, and I'm feeling the wind and cold carefully, let's go back to the house!" Meiyue is Princess Yongfu's personal palace maid, and she felt that the time was almost up, so she stepped forward to persuade her.

"Don't worry, stay a little longer!" Princess Yongfu shook her head and said lightly, since last night she felt restless, she didn't sleep well all night, after dawn she went to the garden for a walk to relieve herself, at the moment she was blown by the cold wind but did not feel cold, her drowsy brain was much clearer, but the uneasiness in her heart still lingered.

At this moment, a voice like a silver bell came from behind him: "Sister Yongfu is here." ”

Princess Yongfu turned her head and saw her sister Yongchun walking briskly from the Jiuqu Bridge with several palace maids.

Princess Yongchun is nearly seventeen years old this year, although her appearance and temperament are not as good as her sister, but she is also a little beauty, with a melon seed face, a cherry mouth, and smart eyes, but her nose is a little too low. Princess Yongchun was dressed thickly today, and she also put on a scarlet beard, and walked into the Huxin Pavilion with a gust of cold wind, took Princess Yongfu's hand and sighed: "Sister Yongfu is weak, and she ran out to visit the garden on such a cold day, and she caught a cold again." ”

Yongfu's heart warmed slightly, and he withdrew his hand to tighten his sister's hand, and said with a smile: "That was before, my sister's body is not weak now, but you still felt a cold a month ago, but you have to be careful, let's go, let's go back to the house to talk." After speaking, he took Yongchun's hand and walked outside the pavilion.

"Sister, but you have something on your mind?" Yongchun asked with concern as he walked.

Yongfu hesitated for a moment and said: "It's not that I have something on my mind, it's just that I've been restless lately, and I always feel that something bad will happen." ”

Yongchun smiled: "Sister, are you worried that the Tartars outside the city will come in?" In fact, there is nothing to worry about, the city defense is strong, didn't the Tartars attack for more than half a month, I heard that Xu Jin has gathered seventy or eighty thousand soldiers and horses in Tianjin, and when the 100,000 southern army led by Wang Shouren arrives, it should be back to King Qin, and then I will promise to flee in the wilderness. ”

Princess Yongchun and Fei Xiaoyu have similar personalities, they are both optimists, even if the Tartars are fiercely attacking the city during this time, and the guns are constantly sounding every day, she still should eat, play, and be carefree, so sometimes it is a kind of happiness to be nervous.

And Princess Yongfu is different from Princess Yongchun, she shows off her wisdom, her mind is heavier, and she is not optimistic about the current situation, because in addition to my answer, Shanxi also has the White Lotus thief Li Fuda to make trouble, the most important thing is that the Tatar Bodi Khan is still attacking Gubeikou, once Gubeikou is breached, the situation will take a sharp turn, fortunately, I and Bodi Khan look together, and did not send troops to cooperate with Bodili, otherwise it is difficult to say whether the capital can be defended until now.

"I hope so!" Yongfu sighed lightly, looked up at the drowsy sky and said, "If only there could be a heavy snowfall!" ”

Yongchun asked curiously, "What's so good about heavy snow?" ”

Yongfu smiled: "Because when it snows, when you pour water on the city wall, a thick and slippery layer of ice armor can form on the surface of the city wall, and it will be even more difficult for the Tartars to attack the city, which is what Renzong did back then." ”

Mingrenzong is Zhu Di's eldest son Zhu Gaochi, when Zhu Di was still the king of Yan, Jianwen Emperor Zhu Yunwen sent troops to attack Yan, just Zhu Di was not there, the son Zhu Gaochi stayed in Beiping, just when the city was about to be attacked, but it snowed heavily, Zhu Gaochi ordered people to water the city wall overnight, as a result, a thick layer of ice formed on the surface of the city wall, effectively blocking the imperial army to attack the city, and won the precious time, Zhu Di, who went out, was able to lead the elite to rush back to help, and the imperial army was defeated, otherwise the history of the "Battle of Jingyan" may be rewritten. The one who is in charge of the Ming Dynasty will be Emperor Jianwen.

Yongchun suddenly sighed, spread his hands and looked at the sky and muttered: "God, hurry up and get off the snow, Yongchun begs you." ”

Princess Yongfu couldn't help but be a little amused, but her smile quickly froze, and her small mouth opened slightly into an "O" shape, and her face was incredulous.

I saw that there were fine white objects falling from the dim sky, and they were cold and swishing on the face, and they melted away instantly when they hit their hands. Yongchun's eyes widened, staring at the cold droplet of water in his palm for two seconds, and then he raised his head and said stupidly: "Sister Yongfu, this is ...... Is it snowing? ”

"Princess, it's snowing, it's really snowing!" The palace ladies opened their hands in surprise, and the snowflakes of fine snow fell on the nine-curved bridge like elves, falling into the lake and stirring up countless ripples.

"Wow, it's really snowing, hehe, it's snowing!" Yongchun jumped high in excitement and spun happily with open hands.

However, as the so-called happiness gives birth to sorrow, at this moment everyone is at the end of the Jiuqu Bridge, and there is no bridge railing next to it, Princess Yongchun slipped under her feet, screaming and falling into the lake.

"Yongchun!"

"Princess!"

A burst of exclamations sounded at the same time, and the princess Yongfu next to her subconsciously grabbed Yongchun's raised big, and was led to a stumbling into the lake, just at this critical moment, Princess Yongfu's right foot raised and hooked a small tree next to her, and her body was almost bent into an "N" shape, which was also amazing.

The surrounding palace maids hurriedly surrounded and dragged Princess Yongchun up, who had already been strangled by the rope and turned red, sitting on the ground coughing desperately, Yongfu patted his sister's back and asked anxiously: "Yongchun, are you okay!" ”

At this time, a large group of palace maids and eunuchs rushed over in the distance, and then, Jiang Dahou, who was pale with fright, also walked over quickly under the support of the old eunuch Hu Dahai, and shouted anxiously as he walked: "Yongchun, Yongchun!" ”

It turned out that the Empress Dowager Jiang heard that her two daughters had gone out to visit the garden, so she took someone to find them, and when she saw the scene just now, she almost fainted with fright.

Yongchun was just strangled by the rope, and the palace maid next to him rescued him in time, so it was fine, and he returned to normal after coughing for a while, stood up and shouted: "Queen Mother." ”

Empress Dowager Jiang couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she saw that her daughter was fine, patted her chest and reprimanded: "I almost scared out of my soul by your girl, she is always frizzy and doesn't make people worry." ”

Princess Yongchun stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, took her sister Yongfu's hand and changed the topic: "Sister is so harmful, it seems that the yoga taught to you by Xu Jin is really effective, teach me later." ”

Empress Dowager Jiang said curiously: "Fisherman? What fisherman? ”

Yongfu's pretty face turned red, and Yongchun said with a smile: "The queen mother, it's yoga, not a fisherman." When Xu Jin and Sister Xiaowan came to the palace for the first time, wasn't my sister swallowed by a peanut, and Xu Jin was like that...... I helped my sister spit out the peanuts. As he spoke, he made a gesture of wrapping his hands around and pulling up.

Empress Dowager Jiang couldn't help but take a sip secretly, of course she remembered the scene at that time, Xu Jin hugged Yongfu from behind in that embarrassing posture, at that time everyone thought that he intended to be rude, but only later did he know what this was called "Rick First Aid Method", and successfully saved Yongfu's life, I remember that Yongfu's face was already purple at that time, and now I feel afraid when I think about it.

Yongchun didn't notice that her sister was blushing at the moment, and continued: "At that time, Xu Jin also persuaded his mother not to give his sister any more Taoist pills, saying that she would move her qi and nourish her body, and that life lies in exercise. Later, the royal brother asked Xu Jin for a kind of exercise called yoga for Sister Yongfu to practice, Sister Yongfu has practiced for so many years, the problem of asthma is gone, and her body is also very good...... It's all right, it's amazing! ”

It is said that when Princess Yongfu got the yoga album painted by Xu Jin, she once thought it was a spring gong picture, and she was so ashamed that she almost tore it, and then she secretly followed the practice under curiosity, so the Empress Dowager Jiang didn't know about it, at this time, seeing Yongchun boasting in front of the queen mother, Yongfu couldn't help but worry that the queen mother would ask her to watch the yoga album, and quickly interrupted Yongchun and said: "It's just an ordinary fitness method, what kind of exercise is that, don't listen to Yongchun's nonsense boasting." ”

Xu Jin painted the yoga action album to the princess Yongzhu is a stick figure, although only a rough human shape is drawn, but in the eyes of the ancients, it looks like a person who does not wear clothes, plus yoga from India, the original role is to increase the fun of the boudoir, so the action is flirtatious, people, it is inevitable that people will think about it, if the Empress Dowager Jiang reads, it is estimated that Xu Jin, the "disciple", will be cut.

Empress Dowager Jiang glanced at Xiasheng's daughter, and couldn't help but think of the last time the Fan family wanted to marry their niece to Xu Jin as a concubine, Yongfu's behavior was also weird, could it be ...... This girl? No, it seems that the matter of re-electing the colt will have to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.