The spring is silent and cherishes the fine flow, and the tree shade shines on the water and loves the soft eyes.The little lotus has just revealed its sharp corners, and a dragonfly has already stood on its head...
Chen Xu's family had arrived in the capital and moved into the prepared mansion. At this time, she was standing on the eaves of a house on a dam in the back garden, and was reciting a poem while watching the scenery.
Under her round eyes that looked like single eyelids, she looked a little tired due to the long bumps; but her expression was very comfortable, holding the tea made of cassia seeds, lotus leaves, roses and winter melon in her hand, and she was very satisfied with her new mansion in her expression.
Yang, a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties, was obviously unfamiliar with the charm.
She was there wiping the railings and muttering: Where is the size of Jinling? Where is the wife not going to choose? She doesn’t choose the side of Xuanwu Lake, the moisture is heavy...
It is said that women of this age are difficult to get along with, and the Yang family has become increasingly verbose in the last two years.
However, Chen Xu's love for her many years of care for her daily life, and felt that Yang's long-term words were also out of kindness, so Chen Xu did not care about her.
Chen Xu relied on her youth, smiling, and said in a slightly coquettish voice: I like this kind of place, so I don’t care about the moisture.
She looked at Xuanwu Lake and murmured: You said it was quiet, but it couldn't be considered quiet.Xuanwu Lake is not only in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but also the places covered by willow trees on the other side and the houses that are looming, are the yamen of the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate; there is also the Huangcaiku in the further distance.This place is not remote. Our place is not far from Taiping Gate, so it is very convenient to enter and exit.
Aunt Yang, I actually don’t like living in remote places, for fear of being forgotten by the world.I just love to be in a prosperous place, with people waiting for it.
When Chen Xu heard this, he put away his smile and sighed faintly. Yang naturally couldn't appreciate the feeling of sorrow but not sorrow in her words.
At this time, she continued: You said it was noisy, but it was not very noisy.Compared with the densely populated Qinhuai River in Jubaomen, this place is much quieter.
I am outside the inner city of the capital, and the inner house is leaning against the wide lake. Apart from the sound of waves and wind, I can’t hear any other sounds... I am in Yunnan Prefecture and built the mansion on Caihaizi, which is why!Living by the water, you can get quiet in the noise.I don't really want to go to social events all day long. If I can do more time and do what I love peacefully, that would be great.
Yang said: Only wealthy people like the wife can pay attention to many things.
Chen Xu smiled again and said calmly: You are right.
Yang asked: A eunuch came to the palace in the morning and said that the emperor wanted to grant his wife the imperial decree and to enter the palace.When will you enter the palace?I'll prepare your itinerary for you.
The emperor wants to thank me and grant me the honorary wife, and just give me a decree. Logically, I don’t have to go to the palace to meet the saint, just write a letter to thank you, and at most I can go to see the queen during the New Year and the Festival. Should I go this time or not? Chen Xu thought deeply.
Yang looked at her with a confused look on her face, and saw that her expression became very serious; Yang naturally could not fully understand why Chen Xu was so entangled and wandering.
Holding the warm tea, Chen Xu had already walked to the railing, looking at the slight waves of Xuanwu Lake and beating the embankment below...
No matter how many successes and failures Chen Xu had, how much worries, humiliation and joy she had, she was in the end, and she was lucky, and she was involved in the battle for the throne in a mess and even bet on the right treasure.
At this time, Chen Xu could have foreseeed that the Shen family's family's situation could go further in the Wude Dynasty!
The Shen clan did not trust the court because of Chen Wansan's experience during the Hongwu period; and when Xu Fujiu took the initiative to disperse his family's wealth, the people of the Xu family did not feel much pain and had a more optimistic view of the future.
So before leaving Yunnan, the Chen Xu family made the two clans reach a rough compromise.
Most of the businesses and mines in Yunnan were controlled by those close relatives of the Shen family; the Xu family, including Xu Cailiu and Xu Caiqi, who were closer to the Chen Xu family, followed her to the capital, hoping to gain more wealth by relying on the imperial power.
But after this incident, the family was not born safely.
Xu Cailiu, who is middle-aged, has a son who is about the same age as Chen Xu's stepdaughter Chen Baoyan; Xu Cailiu's long-term plan is to make Chen Baoyan his daughter-in-law.
Xu Cailiu should have noticed that Chen Xu might have had some personal relationship with the emperor.
He probably wanted Chen Xu to go to the palace and become a concubine, and then his son would marry Chen Baoyan and take control of the huge wealth of the Chen Xu family outside!
But Chen Xu did not plan so. She wanted Chen Baoyan to enter the palace and continue to control the Shen family's family business...
Chen Xu stood behind the railing for a long time.
The wind blowing from the lake cooled the tea in her hand; she felt that her fingertips were a little stiff and cold, so she walked away from the railing.
Her face was expressionless, with a slight helplessness and laziness on her face, but her pair of round eyes were still particularly bright and dark.
She thought to herself: In the past, King Min and Mu's family wanted to seize her property, but now it's great, even her own people have their own ideas.
It is indeed not easy for a woman to control her family business.She had no choice. She could not control the business outside, but she could not control the people from the two clans.
There is a large eaves on the dam on the shore of Houyuan Lake. Just now, Mrs. Chen stood on the railing on the eaves. At this time, she felt a little cold and walked into the house.
There is a dressing table in a suite for rest. Seeing this, Chen Xu walked over and looked at him in the bronze mirror.
A slightly pink face, fair skin, black muzi, vermilion lips, white white teeth, and bright colors are still bright and beautiful.
But when Mrs. Chen looked closer, she still found that she was different from the skin of those little girls.
After all, she is over thirty years old.
At this time, Chen Xu couldn't help but think: If he entered the palace at this age, how many years would he be favored? In the future, will you compete with Gao Xu's stunning wives and concubines?
After a while, her close servant Yang walked in.
Yang glanced at the teacup placed on the dressing table and said: I saw that my wife had made lotus leaf and winter melon tea but it was already cold.I went and took a new cup for my wife.
Um. Chen Xu nodded and suddenly she said again, don’t be busy making tea first, go and tell Baoyan, let her enter the palace with me tomorrow.
After hearing this, Yang looked at Chen Xu, as if saying: Madam has decided to enter the palace. Yang said with a knee: Yes.
Having made up his mind to deal with this matter, Chen Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt much more relaxed. She thought to herself: I had thought about letting Chen Baoyan enter the palace, and this must be a wise choice!
Chen Xu's mood gradually improved. She walked to the soft couch beside her, lay down on her side to rest, and pulled a blanket and gently put it on her body.
Gradually, she remembered the various meetings with Zhu Gaoxu.
The first time I approached him was just a cheat.
Chen Xu deliberately let her earrings hang on her collar and asked Zhu Gaoxu to help her get it. Many years have passed, and although she only wanted to use Zhu Gaoxu to deal with Mu Sheng's forced force, she still remembered that her heartbeat was accelerating at that time.
Mrs. Chen also remembered the special chair in the pear garden.
I lost that time by betting, in broad daylight, her unacceptable posture.
When Mrs. Chen thought of the scene at that time, her face suddenly became hot.
It was obviously unbearable and felt very humiliating, but when she thought about this, she actually felt her chest jumping.
She could not rest anywhere, and her mood had already become impetuous and turbulent.
Chen Xu is usually very quiet, but when she thinks of meeting Zhu Gaoxu, she is actually very impetuous.
Somehow, she suddenly looked forward to meeting in the palace tomorrow; she couldn't lie to herself, and she became a little impatient, as if she was expecting something to happen.
In a quiet and comfortable day, perhaps over time, people always want to have some different experiences?
But last time I made up my mind that it was the last skin blind date; nothing could happen! Otherwise, it will easily destroy the decision to let Chen Baoyan enter the palace.
Chen Xu sighed faintly, and an entangled image like willow catkins appeared in his mind.
After a long time, the close servant Yang returned to the room.
Mrs. Yang walked to the edge of the collapse, looked at Mrs. Chen Xu's eyes, and bent down and said: Madam, I have asked the lady. The lady said that the stepmother was granted no connection with her and she was unwilling to go.
Chen Xu's brow frowned gently, immediately lifted the blanket and sat up. She said a little unhappy: She has grown up and is unwilling to be obedient anymore!
Yang said: Isn’t it? If a girl doesn't get married early, it will be the most difficult to control her. But I feel that Xu Cailiu met the lady a few days ago, and was afraid that she had said something she shouldn't say...
oh? Chen Xu raised his head and said, Why didn’t you tell me earlier?
Yang said: I didn’t dare to talk too much before.
Chen Xu held his hands in front of his abdomen and walked slowly around the room for a while.
Yang asked: Why don’t the wife go and tell the lady in person?
No need, force her at this time, it will be counterproductive. Chen Xu said, "My dear mother may not be able to control me, let alone me as my stepmother."
yes.Yang said, will I still need to prepare for the itinerary for the wife to enter the palace tomorrow?
Chen Xu didn't say anything, but was still walking around the room.
She seemed a little restless, sometimes pacing; sometimes she sat in front of the dressing table and looked at the bronze mirror, but she couldn't sit for a while and soon stood up again.
Seeing this, Yang said: Didn’t the eunuch named Wang say that in the morning?The emperor wanted to discuss major events with his wife. When the emperor was a prince in the past, he often discussed matters with his wife?Now that he has become the emperor, if he just wants to summon his wife to discuss matters, it is not good if you disobey him.
Chen Xu turned his head and glanced at Yang, and almost said what he said in his heart: Only discuss the serious matter, do you believe it?
Chen Xu's family had arrived in the capital and moved into the prepared mansion. At this time, she was standing on the eaves of a house on a dam in the back garden, and was reciting a poem while watching the scenery.
Under her round eyes that looked like single eyelids, she looked a little tired due to the long bumps; but her expression was very comfortable, holding the tea made of cassia seeds, lotus leaves, roses and winter melon in her hand, and she was very satisfied with her new mansion in her expression.
Yang, a middle-aged woman in her forties or fifties, was obviously unfamiliar with the charm.
She was there wiping the railings and muttering: Where is the size of Jinling? Where is the wife not going to choose? She doesn’t choose the side of Xuanwu Lake, the moisture is heavy...
It is said that women of this age are difficult to get along with, and the Yang family has become increasingly verbose in the last two years.
However, Chen Xu's love for her many years of care for her daily life, and felt that Yang's long-term words were also out of kindness, so Chen Xu did not care about her.
Chen Xu relied on her youth, smiling, and said in a slightly coquettish voice: I like this kind of place, so I don’t care about the moisture.
She looked at Xuanwu Lake and murmured: You said it was quiet, but it couldn't be considered quiet.Xuanwu Lake is not only in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, but also the places covered by willow trees on the other side and the houses that are looming, are the yamen of the Ministry of Justice and the Censorate; there is also the Huangcaiku in the further distance.This place is not remote. Our place is not far from Taiping Gate, so it is very convenient to enter and exit.
Aunt Yang, I actually don’t like living in remote places, for fear of being forgotten by the world.I just love to be in a prosperous place, with people waiting for it.
When Chen Xu heard this, he put away his smile and sighed faintly. Yang naturally couldn't appreciate the feeling of sorrow but not sorrow in her words.
At this time, she continued: You said it was noisy, but it was not very noisy.Compared with the densely populated Qinhuai River in Jubaomen, this place is much quieter.
I am outside the inner city of the capital, and the inner house is leaning against the wide lake. Apart from the sound of waves and wind, I can’t hear any other sounds... I am in Yunnan Prefecture and built the mansion on Caihaizi, which is why!Living by the water, you can get quiet in the noise.I don't really want to go to social events all day long. If I can do more time and do what I love peacefully, that would be great.
Yang said: Only wealthy people like the wife can pay attention to many things.
Chen Xu smiled again and said calmly: You are right.
Yang asked: A eunuch came to the palace in the morning and said that the emperor wanted to grant his wife the imperial decree and to enter the palace.When will you enter the palace?I'll prepare your itinerary for you.
The emperor wants to thank me and grant me the honorary wife, and just give me a decree. Logically, I don’t have to go to the palace to meet the saint, just write a letter to thank you, and at most I can go to see the queen during the New Year and the Festival. Should I go this time or not? Chen Xu thought deeply.
Yang looked at her with a confused look on her face, and saw that her expression became very serious; Yang naturally could not fully understand why Chen Xu was so entangled and wandering.
Holding the warm tea, Chen Xu had already walked to the railing, looking at the slight waves of Xuanwu Lake and beating the embankment below...
No matter how many successes and failures Chen Xu had, how much worries, humiliation and joy she had, she was in the end, and she was lucky, and she was involved in the battle for the throne in a mess and even bet on the right treasure.
At this time, Chen Xu could have foreseeed that the Shen family's family's situation could go further in the Wude Dynasty!
The Shen clan did not trust the court because of Chen Wansan's experience during the Hongwu period; and when Xu Fujiu took the initiative to disperse his family's wealth, the people of the Xu family did not feel much pain and had a more optimistic view of the future.
So before leaving Yunnan, the Chen Xu family made the two clans reach a rough compromise.
Most of the businesses and mines in Yunnan were controlled by those close relatives of the Shen family; the Xu family, including Xu Cailiu and Xu Caiqi, who were closer to the Chen Xu family, followed her to the capital, hoping to gain more wealth by relying on the imperial power.
But after this incident, the family was not born safely.
Xu Cailiu, who is middle-aged, has a son who is about the same age as Chen Xu's stepdaughter Chen Baoyan; Xu Cailiu's long-term plan is to make Chen Baoyan his daughter-in-law.
Xu Cailiu should have noticed that Chen Xu might have had some personal relationship with the emperor.
He probably wanted Chen Xu to go to the palace and become a concubine, and then his son would marry Chen Baoyan and take control of the huge wealth of the Chen Xu family outside!
But Chen Xu did not plan so. She wanted Chen Baoyan to enter the palace and continue to control the Shen family's family business...
Chen Xu stood behind the railing for a long time.
The wind blowing from the lake cooled the tea in her hand; she felt that her fingertips were a little stiff and cold, so she walked away from the railing.
Her face was expressionless, with a slight helplessness and laziness on her face, but her pair of round eyes were still particularly bright and dark.
She thought to herself: In the past, King Min and Mu's family wanted to seize her property, but now it's great, even her own people have their own ideas.
It is indeed not easy for a woman to control her family business.She had no choice. She could not control the business outside, but she could not control the people from the two clans.
There is a large eaves on the dam on the shore of Houyuan Lake. Just now, Mrs. Chen stood on the railing on the eaves. At this time, she felt a little cold and walked into the house.
There is a dressing table in a suite for rest. Seeing this, Chen Xu walked over and looked at him in the bronze mirror.
A slightly pink face, fair skin, black muzi, vermilion lips, white white teeth, and bright colors are still bright and beautiful.
But when Mrs. Chen looked closer, she still found that she was different from the skin of those little girls.
After all, she is over thirty years old.
At this time, Chen Xu couldn't help but think: If he entered the palace at this age, how many years would he be favored? In the future, will you compete with Gao Xu's stunning wives and concubines?
After a while, her close servant Yang walked in.
Yang glanced at the teacup placed on the dressing table and said: I saw that my wife had made lotus leaf and winter melon tea but it was already cold.I went and took a new cup for my wife.
Um. Chen Xu nodded and suddenly she said again, don’t be busy making tea first, go and tell Baoyan, let her enter the palace with me tomorrow.
After hearing this, Yang looked at Chen Xu, as if saying: Madam has decided to enter the palace. Yang said with a knee: Yes.
Having made up his mind to deal with this matter, Chen Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief and felt much more relaxed. She thought to herself: I had thought about letting Chen Baoyan enter the palace, and this must be a wise choice!
Chen Xu's mood gradually improved. She walked to the soft couch beside her, lay down on her side to rest, and pulled a blanket and gently put it on her body.
Gradually, she remembered the various meetings with Zhu Gaoxu.
The first time I approached him was just a cheat.
Chen Xu deliberately let her earrings hang on her collar and asked Zhu Gaoxu to help her get it. Many years have passed, and although she only wanted to use Zhu Gaoxu to deal with Mu Sheng's forced force, she still remembered that her heartbeat was accelerating at that time.
Mrs. Chen also remembered the special chair in the pear garden.
I lost that time by betting, in broad daylight, her unacceptable posture.
When Mrs. Chen thought of the scene at that time, her face suddenly became hot.
It was obviously unbearable and felt very humiliating, but when she thought about this, she actually felt her chest jumping.
She could not rest anywhere, and her mood had already become impetuous and turbulent.
Chen Xu is usually very quiet, but when she thinks of meeting Zhu Gaoxu, she is actually very impetuous.
Somehow, she suddenly looked forward to meeting in the palace tomorrow; she couldn't lie to herself, and she became a little impatient, as if she was expecting something to happen.
In a quiet and comfortable day, perhaps over time, people always want to have some different experiences?
But last time I made up my mind that it was the last skin blind date; nothing could happen! Otherwise, it will easily destroy the decision to let Chen Baoyan enter the palace.
Chen Xu sighed faintly, and an entangled image like willow catkins appeared in his mind.
After a long time, the close servant Yang returned to the room.
Mrs. Yang walked to the edge of the collapse, looked at Mrs. Chen Xu's eyes, and bent down and said: Madam, I have asked the lady. The lady said that the stepmother was granted no connection with her and she was unwilling to go.
Chen Xu's brow frowned gently, immediately lifted the blanket and sat up. She said a little unhappy: She has grown up and is unwilling to be obedient anymore!
Yang said: Isn’t it? If a girl doesn't get married early, it will be the most difficult to control her. But I feel that Xu Cailiu met the lady a few days ago, and was afraid that she had said something she shouldn't say...
oh? Chen Xu raised his head and said, Why didn’t you tell me earlier?
Yang said: I didn’t dare to talk too much before.
Chen Xu held his hands in front of his abdomen and walked slowly around the room for a while.
Yang asked: Why don’t the wife go and tell the lady in person?
No need, force her at this time, it will be counterproductive. Chen Xu said, "My dear mother may not be able to control me, let alone me as my stepmother."
yes.Yang said, will I still need to prepare for the itinerary for the wife to enter the palace tomorrow?
Chen Xu didn't say anything, but was still walking around the room.
She seemed a little restless, sometimes pacing; sometimes she sat in front of the dressing table and looked at the bronze mirror, but she couldn't sit for a while and soon stood up again.
Seeing this, Yang said: Didn’t the eunuch named Wang say that in the morning?The emperor wanted to discuss major events with his wife. When the emperor was a prince in the past, he often discussed matters with his wife?Now that he has become the emperor, if he just wants to summon his wife to discuss matters, it is not good if you disobey him.
Chen Xu turned his head and glanced at Yang, and almost said what he said in his heart: Only discuss the serious matter, do you believe it?
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