In the palace, Xu Hao looked at the full tea set used by the queen, which was very simple and elegant, first put a large copper plate on the snow, and then put a bronze tea stove in the plate.

The stove was about a foot high, round as a bucket, and there were three dingzu under it, I don't know what dynasty it was.

There were two holes in the furnace body, and the mouth of the furnace was very small, and Empress Zhang took some hot coals from the brazier, and added some raw charcoal, and a furnace flame burned in an instant.

The palace maid held a big blue porcelain pot, and Queen Zhang took a big pot with the handle of the Yixing kiln to hold snow water on the rockery.

Xu Hao said with a smile: "I haven't made tea yet, but seeing this set of tea sets has quenched my thirst." ”

Empress Zhang turned around and smiled: "That's because you are used to being exquisite, and when you see my crude thing, you feel fresh, and you just want to say good and obedient." ”

Xu Hao laughed and said, "How long ago did I say flattering words?" Not beat around the bush. ”

"Count you." Empress Zhang said with a smile.

As he was talking, Zhu Gaochi came in a sedan chair, and Xu Hao stepped forward to help him down.

Zhu Gaochi sat on the special chair slowly, and said: "Today's queen is so elegant, it turns out that the third lady is here, but with the addition of me, the biggest layman in the world, isn't it vulgar to make elegant things vulgar?" ”

Xu Hao smiled: "How can I be good? Let's have a vassal elegance. ”

"Let's not talk about mundane affairs." Zhu Gaochi looked tired, and the unfinished government affairs every day, even with the assistance of the cabinet and the crown prince, still made him feel unbearable.

When he came, he was blocked by Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin in the Qianqing Palace, because as soon as he heard the queen's invitation, Zhu Gaochi escaped without saying a word, even if he stole half a day of leisure, after all, Emperor Hongxi is a responsible person and will never ignore the government.

When Empress Zhang saw her husband coming, she looked very happy and came back from sweeping the snow. Zhang gathered some snacks and fruits, and covered her husband with a thick cloak.

After a while, seeing that the water was boiling, he went to the house and took out a jade tea jar, mixed it with four kinds of famous tea, brewed it with his own hands, and closed the lid.

He took out three more pink tea cups, made the tea into three cups, and filled the jade jar with boiling water, still covering.

Zhu Gaochi said: "You are tired of self-control. ”

"It's too late for the concubine to be happy." Empress Zhang brought the tea cup. "Holy taste, can you see the taste of this tea? You can also taste the third child. ”

Zhu Gaochi and Xu Hao took two sips, the fragrance was full, and they both said: "This tea is very good, and it doesn't look like a tea flavor." ”

Empress Zhang smiled and said, "I obviously saw that I had combined the four-color tea into a bowl, and you came to coax me again." ”

After laughing for a while, Zhu Gaochi suddenly asked, "Have you seen Wei Shangshu recently?" ”

Xu Hao said: "I haven't seen him for two months, why does His Majesty ask this?" ”

Zhu Gaochi said: "Yushi impeached him for buying and selling officials. I hated it very much in my heart, thinking that in my early years, I ignored the public opinion and insisted on making him a servant of the ministry, but I failed me. Besides, he's going to spoil people. Forcing a few good families, even their own daughters-in-law, is really human-faced and beast-hearted, and when I came, I had already issued an order to send it to the Criminal Department for justice. He will be severely punished. ”

Seeing that he was imprisoned in the New Year, it would definitely shake the court, and Xu Hao was angry when he saw him. said: "This is his own iniquity, and he can't complain about the saint." Let's just take me, I helped a friend to do it from Jiupin, who knew that I was gone, he was messing around in office, and in the summer he went to steal the wife of a big family, and he was caught and even stripped of his clothes, which made me look very bad. ”

At this time, Concubine Li came with the second son of the emperor Zhu Zhanjun and the fourth son of the emperor Zhu Zhanyin, and Queen Zhang was not happy, and said a few words with a smile on her face. And Zhu Zhanji, who was smiling and groaning, immediately transformed into a strict father and put on a straight face.

The two princes also stood respectfully like mice seeing cats, because they were both born to Concubine Li, Xu Hao was not good at showing affection in front of the queen, nodded with a smile, and stood up to give up his seat to Concubine Li.

Concubine Li hurriedly said: "Don't be like this, my uncle's status is noble, I can't afford it." ”

Xu Hao smiled and said: "Don't say that according to the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, even if it is the etiquette of relatives, I have to give up my seat." ”

Concubine Li also smiled: "If you follow the folk etiquette, I can only stand." ”

Zhu Gaochi said slowly: "You two sit down." ”

After speaking, he reprimanded his two sons: "I know that I am afraid, so why don't I study hard?" ”

In this way, Xu Hao listened to the emperor's lesson to the prince without taste, and after half an hour, he finally saw Zhu Gaochi saying that he was tired and drove back to the Qianqing Palace, so it was naturally inconvenient for him to stay and eat the food made by Empress Zhang, and said goodbye together.

It seems that Concubine Li has something to say to him, Xu Hao followed behind Zhu Gaochi without looking back, it turned out that Shangshu was her relative.

When I got home, entered the garden, and passed by the Ripple House, I saw Zhong Jing and Xu Ye and Xu Yu sitting outside chatting, and the sound of women's laughter came from inside.

Several people hurriedly stood up, Xu Ye stepped forward to explain that Zhong Jing and the three daughters-in-law were invited to be guests, and Xu Hao asked with great interest: "Do you really want to send the third Mrs. Ru back to the Yuan family?" ”

Zhong Jing said: "Yes, staying at my nephew's house is just an expedient measure, how dare you take the favor of others?" ”

Xu Haoxin said, then why did you bring people home in the first place? I can't help but feel some pity for Zhong Jing, you can go to plastic surgery in the future life, laser treatment of fox odor, if you take a bath and love to be clean, bad breath and foot odor are not a problem, sure enough, technology can change fate.

The laughter in the room also stopped, obviously knowing that he was coming, Xu Hao saw this and said, "You continue, I'm leaving." ”

The three of them sent him out of the Ripple Lodge and turned back. The ripples in the middle asked Wu, "Then Mrs. Yuan regards you as a thorn in her side, why go back and suffer?" ”

The dressed Wu smiled bitterly: "Where can you go if you don't go back?" The relatives of the slave family are gone, and they are helpless, so they can't stay in the Zhong family and not leave, right? ”

If Zhong Jing looked passable, probably the Wu family, who would like to leave the Yuan family, would definitely stay, but unfortunately it backfired.

Zou Er couldn't help but say: "I heard that Master Yuan is about to return to Beijing, and you can return to Zhao completely, but if you fall into hell this time, you will still be a heavenly person." Only my two beads sank to the bottom of the sea, and I didn't expect to be able to get out in this life, so I had to close my door to cultivate the next life. ”

Ripple and Jiaxing and others looked at each other and described the Zhong family as a region, which shows how much they dislike Zhong Jing.

Wu said: "With the talents of the two younger sisters, why not ask for all the girls, especially Her Royal Highness the Princess." How good is it not to suffer in the Zhong family? ”

Jiaxing smiled, although it was inconvenient for her to come out, but it was just a gesture, the question was whether people were willing?

Miss Zou Er and Miss He couldn't help but look at each other in embarrassment, naturally they couldn't say that they had become 'husband and wife', where could they find a richer and more comfortable place than the Zhong family?

Fortunately, the people present already knew the details, and they didn't say anything, so they had the heart to ask what it was like to be a fake couple? The yellow flower girls who have not left the cabinet are embarrassed to speak, and they are curious to death.

Ripples entertain them while eating. The three daughters saw the Xu family brothers from afar, Xu Yu was young, Xu Ye's appearance inherited the advantages of his parents, the first-class rich and handsome, they were very envious of the ripple girl, but it was a pity that a wealthy family like the Xu family would never allow a married woman to enter the door.

In front of the Xu family, even the Wu family didn't dare to raise thoughts that they shouldn't have, and of course they didn't have a chance to do anything. Otherwise, if you try to seduce each other, the dignified government will never kill anyone, right?

In Huchun Hall, Xu Hao was eating, and the housekeeper's daughter-in-law and relatives were standing outside. Seeing that the Chinese New Year is coming, everyone is busy asking for money to buy New Year's goods.

Zhu Qiaoqiao, who had nothing to do, sat next to Mu Ningxue, curiously fiddling with Xu Hao's cigar, wanting to order one to taste the taste. There was a housekeeper's daughter-in-law who was talking.

Mu Ningxue asked, "How is your family's Xiang'er lately?" “

The daughter-in-law said: "Back to grandma, it's good, it's good, I was supposed to get married in February and March next year." The Wang family often comes to urge, and the children are not young. I wrote to my father-in-law and his old man, there is no reply to the letter, and I don't send a money for half a year, today is twelve, look at the situation, there may not be a letter within the year, how is this good?

Now there are more than 80 hanging tents outside, and more than 40 taels of personal debts, and the sporadic expenses at home must also be 20 or 30 taels, and new clothes should be made. ”

Zhu Qiaoqiao sneered, but didn't say anything, thinking that Ning Xue should take the silver to feed them again.

Who knew that Mu Ningxue had been in charge of her home for ten years, she had experienced everything, and her heart was hardened, how could she be fooled by a few words?

Mu Ningxue said: "To tell you the truth, I have borrowed a lot of money recently, and it is tens of thousands of taels." The whole family wants money for the New Year, you must be pretending to be poor in your heart? Come, show the account book to Sister-in-law Qi. ”

"No, no, no!" Sister-in-law Qi hurriedly waved her hand and said: "Good grandma, when the old man writes to me this time to do a happy event, there will be at least five hundred taels of silver, you can borrow forty taels or one hundred hanging money, and the year will pass, otherwise, I will die in a hurry, and I will beg grandma to make it convenient." ”

Mu Ningxue said: "The things at home haven't been delivered this year, and the New Year's expenses have to be 30,000 taels of silver." At this time, I was empty-handed, so I took out my monthly money, gave ten taels to my sister-in-law Qi, and asked her to make an IOU. ”

Dealing with these things outside, Xu Hao is also silently calculating, at this time of year, Xue Wen and other friends have to help or come to borrow money, without eighteen thousand taels of silver, even a year is not good. If you come to honor your elders and reward your juniors and your family, you can build a warship by adding up the mess.

At the same time, the Jinling Silver Account, which Xu Hao invested behind him, walked in with a wealthy man who was in a hurry, and said to the shopkeeper: "I have something to discuss, your account will issue a silver ticket of 24,000 taels for me, and I will come to pick it up tomorrow morning." ”

The shopkeeper said: "It's not difficult if it's a few days early, but today is the twelfth day of the lunar month, and the year-end shop is very busy. ”

The rich man said: "If your family can't make up, who else can make it?" ”

The shopkeeper said: "Master Zhou, don't you know that the silver of the New Year's Pass is narrow?" There is only out and not in, or how much to exchange. ”

"That's fine, hey, I'm really in a hurry." The rich man asked, "How much can be written on the ticket?" ”

He said: "According to me, you don't need a ticket, you can just redeem it in person the day after tomorrow." ”

"No, no." The rich man explained: "I use this to repay the debt, it must be 24,000 taels, if you really can't make it up, you can also give 20,000 taels of tickets, and I will plan the remaining 4,000 taels elsewhere." If I get the money, I will write it off the day after tomorrow. (To be continued......)