The weather in Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty would have been as bright as today, if it weren’t for rainy days, it would have been as blue as white as today.
The whole sky is clear and clean and neat.
But not all the people here are as happy as the climate.
Mrs. Chen walked out of the study door and saw the scene inside. She seemed to remember something. Her face turned slightly red and her feet stopped immediately.
The skin on her face was very white, and only a little redness could be noticed by Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu also stood still and looked at her curiously.
I remember the last time Chen Xu went to the Han Palace, she didn't go anywhere else, but only went to this study.
Zhu Gaoxu quickly thought of what happened in the study. When he saw that Chen Xu seemed reluctant to enter the house, he casually said: The weather is very good today, why don’t we take a walk outside?
Chen Xu nodded slightly to approve.
Zhu Gaoxu instructed Wang Gui: Go and get two parasols and give them to the guests.
Wang Gui said: I will come soon.
After hearing this, Chen Xu raised his head, with a smile in his eyes, and looked at Zhu Gaoxu for a moment.
Zhu Gaoxu also turned to look at her and felt that the dark silk clothes were indeed suitable for Chen Xu's family to wear. She probably agreed with this and dressed up like this beyond the rules.
She had weak bones and abundant muscles, her bones were very weak, and the outline of her skin needed to be supported by soft materials.
Her face is very symmetrical, with double eyelids inside, round eyes, bright but not big, with a small nose and a small mouth; if the dark clothes had not added a little deeper feeling, her appearance would have looked a little thin.
The rouge red applied to her slightly thicker mouth and the skin that was whiter by dark clothes added a bit of bright color to her. Zhu Gaoxu obviously believed that Chen Xu was a very charming woman.
Zhu Gaoxu took them to walk between the three halls for a while, but the eunuch Wang Gui did not follow him, but followed him far behind.
Zhu Gaoxu introduced the buildings to them along the way. There are also Wenlou and Wangqin Building in the distance, which are all of them have their own uses.
After talking about the grand specifications of the royal palace, Chen Baoyan, who was located across the Chen Xu family, said: The palace of the King of Han is very bright.
After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that this teenage girl was very interesting in her words.
The Prince's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty demonstrates the imperial power of the Zhu family, and is built very magnificently, and most people will feel heroic and domineering; but Chen Baoyan only talks about it.
She was right.Compared with the small houses and even the courtyards of wealthy families, the tall and large buildings and spacious squares in the royal palace, of course, the lighting and view are better.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and responded: However, the brighter the place is, the more careful it needs to be pasted.Just like people deliberately modifying their appearance and words and deeds in public.
Chen Baoyan turned her head to look at Zhu Gaoxu in surprise. Maybe she didn't expect the prince to speak like this, nor did she expect Zhu Gaoxu, a big man with dark skin, was such a person.
Chen Xu did not make a sound intentionally, and walked silently in the middle backward position, as if he was smiling, indulging Chen Baoyan and Zhu Gaoxu to talk.
Think about it, that's really the case. Chen Baoyan said in a crisp voice.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything to her anymore. While observing Mrs. Chen quietly, he walked forward slowly while silently. He suddenly felt that perhaps Mrs. Chen had intended to get close to him and Baoyan.
In history, such things have emerged one after another, mostly for some benefit; not to mention that Baoyan is just Mrs. Chen’s stepdaughter. Zhu Gaoxu had to suspect Mrs. Chen’s motives in this matter.
It is said that women often have jealousy, but Zhu Gaoxu believes that in the game of power and wealth, women can also weigh the trade-offs very rationally. Just like Mrs. Chen, is she doing such a thing?
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and thought. Mrs. Chen was hesitant at the entrance of the study and was reluctant to enter. Is it just to express that she wanted to distance herself from Zhu Gaoxu?
So that Baoyan can replace her and become a connection between the two families?
...The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that his suspicion was reasonable.
The two wealthy merchant clans of Chen and Xu, who are the one who has the most family business, is probably Mrs. Chen, Xu Manshu.
She now married into the Shen family and belonged to the Shen family; but because the Shen family no longer had male members, it would be easily encroached on other branches of the Shen family.
So Mrs. Chen used many people from her parents to control the business and balance the Shen family. At the same time, make friends with powerful people and protect them.
Zhu Gaoxu had long thought for Mrs. Chen that if she entered the Han Palace by herself, she would not get much real benefits, but would lose more. That's why she wanted to use Chen Baoyan as the bond of alliance.
Of course, this kind of thing has a great risk, and the biggest risk is that Zhu Gaoxu may be defeated and completely liquidated.
Xu Manshu raised Chen Baoyan until now, and now she has been working on this matter. She may have realized that after Zhu Gaoxu started the army, she had no way out of her way to implicate the Han Palace.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Chen Xu and then looked at the quiet and innocent little girl next to her. Suddenly, she felt that this matter was a bit evil, and the relationship would be complicated and the headache.
I don’t know why, maybe it was when Shen Baoyan was still a little girl, Zhu Gaoxu had seen her. At this time, he had no trace of blasphemy at all.
But he finally realized that when a person reaches a certain position, some things will change, and many things become less important and easy.
In the past, he didn't understand why the goddesses he worshiped would rack his brains to please others, and why the wealth he could not get for decades could only buy a broken bag.
The three of them walked silently for a while, and Chen Xu finally broke the silence and said: In the past two months, there were gunfire sounds inside and outside Kunming City every day. I heard that there were very few defenders in Kunming. I thought that the big thing would be over, but I had prepared the worst outcome... Unexpectedly, the change later became so sudden.
Zhu Gaoxu showed a reluctant smile: Isn’t Mrs. Chen not optimistic about this when I went to Ping Yuezhou to rebel? He has a specialty in his profession, and his wife is good at business management, but he still has to know how to fight.
This time it's different. Chen Xu said softly, "To this day, I have not fully understood why more than 200,000 troops from Zhenyuan Hou and British Duke have come to Kunming City, so why did they suddenly withdraw their troops?
Zhu Gaoxu said: It’s a long story. If Mrs. Chen can know more information in the future, she will naturally understand.
Chen Xu showed respect on his face, lowered his head and said, "The martial arts of His Highness the King of Han are the few who are fighting against the masses, and they swept across the three provinces in several months, and I am convinced by my body and mind.
Somehow, Zhu Gaoxu was given the compliment from Chen Xu and benefited from it. He wanted to brag about it in a vague way, but when he thought of his feelings on the battlefield, he couldn't say those words.
Zhu Gaoxu had just returned to Kunming today, and Chen Xu had arrived at the Han Palace later; after walking for a while, the sun was almost at the height of the sky. So Zhu Gaoxu stayed in Xu and Baoyan for lunch at the palace.
Most people in the Han Palace were not there, and for a while, they could not even find a decent chef, and the ingredients were naturally not as rich as usual.
Although there is a table of dishes for lunch, it is relatively simple to cook, which is not as rich as the feast Zhu Gaoxu had in Shen Mansion. It is incomparable to the banquet at the Shu Prince's Mansion.
Sitting in a dining room near the front hall, Zhu Gaoxu said sincerely: The dishes were simpler, which made Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen laugh.
Usually, guests will praise the prince's simplicity as a virtue. But Chen Baoyan's words surprised Zhu Gaoxu a little. She said: The dishes in the Han Palace are so exquisitely cooked.
Chen Xu followed Baoyan's words and said that these porcelain instruments were not only from the official kilns in Jingdezhen, but also as tributes. In the Ming Dynasty, some things were really not something that money could buy.
Zhu Gaoxu responded disapprovingly and asked them not to be polite.He also started to eat and drink, and started rushing before dawn in the morning, until now he is indeed hungry.
After eating, Zhu Gaoxu's mood gradually improved, and he completely threw away his heavy mood from looking back on the battlefield.
He looked at Chen Xu's posture of eating, and felt a warm heart. He couldn't help but hint quietly: The last time he won the rebellion in Yuezhou, Mrs. Chen gave him a generous gift to congratulate Ah.
Miao Jin has always been close to Zhu Gaoxu, and no one from the Han Palace has come back. Zhu Gaoxu is really a little full and warm in his heart.But he was not interested in Baoyan at all, and he only felt a headache.
When Mrs. Chen Xu heard this, her chopsticks unconsciously twitched her head and her cheeks were red again.
After a moment, she raised her head and smiled as if nothing had happened: Could it be that King Han thought there were too few congratulatory gifts this time?
Wherever. Zhu Gaoxu immediately shook his head. Chen Xu brought the topic to money without any trace, but Zhu Gaoxu concluded that she could not forget the bet of Yuezhou's rebellion.
He glanced at Baoyan and finally couldn't continue to speak too explicitly in front of the little girl, so he had to give up.
After lunch, Zhu Gaoxu was not giving up and said: The sun is very strong in the afternoon and the weather is hot, so it is not appropriate to go out at this time.There was a sleeping bed in the corridor next to it, so the two of them rested there for a while.
Chen Xu looked over and saw that her eyes were completely different from Baoyan's clear eyes. Although she showed shame and embarrassment, she must have understood Zhu Gaoxu's meaning very well.
Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: I have been away from Yunnan for so long, and it is rare to see me. Mrs. Chen doesn’t have to worry about it today. I don’t know when we will meet next time.
Chen Xu was silent for a while and replied: Your Highness, the King of Han, is kind, I am disrespectful.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly agreed. Zhu Gaoxu looked over with a little surprise, but saw Chen Xu's eyes flashing, avoiding his eyes.
Chen Xu looked elsewhere and said: His Highness the King of Han won this battle, which made me feel like I was stopping my horse. I am really grateful. However, in the past two years, the Shen family's business is not easy to do, and the congratulations are thin, I hope your highness will forgive you.
The whole sky is clear and clean and neat.
But not all the people here are as happy as the climate.
Mrs. Chen walked out of the study door and saw the scene inside. She seemed to remember something. Her face turned slightly red and her feet stopped immediately.
The skin on her face was very white, and only a little redness could be noticed by Zhu Gaoxu.
Zhu Gaoxu also stood still and looked at her curiously.
I remember the last time Chen Xu went to the Han Palace, she didn't go anywhere else, but only went to this study.
Zhu Gaoxu quickly thought of what happened in the study. When he saw that Chen Xu seemed reluctant to enter the house, he casually said: The weather is very good today, why don’t we take a walk outside?
Chen Xu nodded slightly to approve.
Zhu Gaoxu instructed Wang Gui: Go and get two parasols and give them to the guests.
Wang Gui said: I will come soon.
After hearing this, Chen Xu raised his head, with a smile in his eyes, and looked at Zhu Gaoxu for a moment.
Zhu Gaoxu also turned to look at her and felt that the dark silk clothes were indeed suitable for Chen Xu's family to wear. She probably agreed with this and dressed up like this beyond the rules.
She had weak bones and abundant muscles, her bones were very weak, and the outline of her skin needed to be supported by soft materials.
Her face is very symmetrical, with double eyelids inside, round eyes, bright but not big, with a small nose and a small mouth; if the dark clothes had not added a little deeper feeling, her appearance would have looked a little thin.
The rouge red applied to her slightly thicker mouth and the skin that was whiter by dark clothes added a bit of bright color to her. Zhu Gaoxu obviously believed that Chen Xu was a very charming woman.
Zhu Gaoxu took them to walk between the three halls for a while, but the eunuch Wang Gui did not follow him, but followed him far behind.
Zhu Gaoxu introduced the buildings to them along the way. There are also Wenlou and Wangqin Building in the distance, which are all of them have their own uses.
After talking about the grand specifications of the royal palace, Chen Baoyan, who was located across the Chen Xu family, said: The palace of the King of Han is very bright.
After hearing this, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly felt that this teenage girl was very interesting in her words.
The Prince's Mansion of the Ming Dynasty demonstrates the imperial power of the Zhu family, and is built very magnificently, and most people will feel heroic and domineering; but Chen Baoyan only talks about it.
She was right.Compared with the small houses and even the courtyards of wealthy families, the tall and large buildings and spacious squares in the royal palace, of course, the lighting and view are better.
Zhu Gaoxu thought for a moment and responded: However, the brighter the place is, the more careful it needs to be pasted.Just like people deliberately modifying their appearance and words and deeds in public.
Chen Baoyan turned her head to look at Zhu Gaoxu in surprise. Maybe she didn't expect the prince to speak like this, nor did she expect Zhu Gaoxu, a big man with dark skin, was such a person.
Chen Xu did not make a sound intentionally, and walked silently in the middle backward position, as if he was smiling, indulging Chen Baoyan and Zhu Gaoxu to talk.
Think about it, that's really the case. Chen Baoyan said in a crisp voice.
Zhu Gaoxu didn't say anything to her anymore. While observing Mrs. Chen quietly, he walked forward slowly while silently. He suddenly felt that perhaps Mrs. Chen had intended to get close to him and Baoyan.
In history, such things have emerged one after another, mostly for some benefit; not to mention that Baoyan is just Mrs. Chen’s stepdaughter. Zhu Gaoxu had to suspect Mrs. Chen’s motives in this matter.
It is said that women often have jealousy, but Zhu Gaoxu believes that in the game of power and wealth, women can also weigh the trade-offs very rationally. Just like Mrs. Chen, is she doing such a thing?
At this time, Zhu Gaoxu turned around and thought. Mrs. Chen was hesitant at the entrance of the study and was reluctant to enter. Is it just to express that she wanted to distance herself from Zhu Gaoxu?
So that Baoyan can replace her and become a connection between the two families?
...The more Zhu Gaoxu thought about it, the more he felt that his suspicion was reasonable.
The two wealthy merchant clans of Chen and Xu, who are the one who has the most family business, is probably Mrs. Chen, Xu Manshu.
She now married into the Shen family and belonged to the Shen family; but because the Shen family no longer had male members, it would be easily encroached on other branches of the Shen family.
So Mrs. Chen used many people from her parents to control the business and balance the Shen family. At the same time, make friends with powerful people and protect them.
Zhu Gaoxu had long thought for Mrs. Chen that if she entered the Han Palace by herself, she would not get much real benefits, but would lose more. That's why she wanted to use Chen Baoyan as the bond of alliance.
Of course, this kind of thing has a great risk, and the biggest risk is that Zhu Gaoxu may be defeated and completely liquidated.
Xu Manshu raised Chen Baoyan until now, and now she has been working on this matter. She may have realized that after Zhu Gaoxu started the army, she had no way out of her way to implicate the Han Palace.
Zhu Gaoxu glanced at Chen Xu and then looked at the quiet and innocent little girl next to her. Suddenly, she felt that this matter was a bit evil, and the relationship would be complicated and the headache.
I don’t know why, maybe it was when Shen Baoyan was still a little girl, Zhu Gaoxu had seen her. At this time, he had no trace of blasphemy at all.
But he finally realized that when a person reaches a certain position, some things will change, and many things become less important and easy.
In the past, he didn't understand why the goddesses he worshiped would rack his brains to please others, and why the wealth he could not get for decades could only buy a broken bag.
The three of them walked silently for a while, and Chen Xu finally broke the silence and said: In the past two months, there were gunfire sounds inside and outside Kunming City every day. I heard that there were very few defenders in Kunming. I thought that the big thing would be over, but I had prepared the worst outcome... Unexpectedly, the change later became so sudden.
Zhu Gaoxu showed a reluctant smile: Isn’t Mrs. Chen not optimistic about this when I went to Ping Yuezhou to rebel? He has a specialty in his profession, and his wife is good at business management, but he still has to know how to fight.
This time it's different. Chen Xu said softly, "To this day, I have not fully understood why more than 200,000 troops from Zhenyuan Hou and British Duke have come to Kunming City, so why did they suddenly withdraw their troops?
Zhu Gaoxu said: It’s a long story. If Mrs. Chen can know more information in the future, she will naturally understand.
Chen Xu showed respect on his face, lowered his head and said, "The martial arts of His Highness the King of Han are the few who are fighting against the masses, and they swept across the three provinces in several months, and I am convinced by my body and mind.
Somehow, Zhu Gaoxu was given the compliment from Chen Xu and benefited from it. He wanted to brag about it in a vague way, but when he thought of his feelings on the battlefield, he couldn't say those words.
Zhu Gaoxu had just returned to Kunming today, and Chen Xu had arrived at the Han Palace later; after walking for a while, the sun was almost at the height of the sky. So Zhu Gaoxu stayed in Xu and Baoyan for lunch at the palace.
Most people in the Han Palace were not there, and for a while, they could not even find a decent chef, and the ingredients were naturally not as rich as usual.
Although there is a table of dishes for lunch, it is relatively simple to cook, which is not as rich as the feast Zhu Gaoxu had in Shen Mansion. It is incomparable to the banquet at the Shu Prince's Mansion.
Sitting in a dining room near the front hall, Zhu Gaoxu said sincerely: The dishes were simpler, which made Mrs. Chen and Mrs. Chen laugh.
Usually, guests will praise the prince's simplicity as a virtue. But Chen Baoyan's words surprised Zhu Gaoxu a little. She said: The dishes in the Han Palace are so exquisitely cooked.
Chen Xu followed Baoyan's words and said that these porcelain instruments were not only from the official kilns in Jingdezhen, but also as tributes. In the Ming Dynasty, some things were really not something that money could buy.
Zhu Gaoxu responded disapprovingly and asked them not to be polite.He also started to eat and drink, and started rushing before dawn in the morning, until now he is indeed hungry.
After eating, Zhu Gaoxu's mood gradually improved, and he completely threw away his heavy mood from looking back on the battlefield.
He looked at Chen Xu's posture of eating, and felt a warm heart. He couldn't help but hint quietly: The last time he won the rebellion in Yuezhou, Mrs. Chen gave him a generous gift to congratulate Ah.
Miao Jin has always been close to Zhu Gaoxu, and no one from the Han Palace has come back. Zhu Gaoxu is really a little full and warm in his heart.But he was not interested in Baoyan at all, and he only felt a headache.
When Mrs. Chen Xu heard this, her chopsticks unconsciously twitched her head and her cheeks were red again.
After a moment, she raised her head and smiled as if nothing had happened: Could it be that King Han thought there were too few congratulatory gifts this time?
Wherever. Zhu Gaoxu immediately shook his head. Chen Xu brought the topic to money without any trace, but Zhu Gaoxu concluded that she could not forget the bet of Yuezhou's rebellion.
He glanced at Baoyan and finally couldn't continue to speak too explicitly in front of the little girl, so he had to give up.
After lunch, Zhu Gaoxu was not giving up and said: The sun is very strong in the afternoon and the weather is hot, so it is not appropriate to go out at this time.There was a sleeping bed in the corridor next to it, so the two of them rested there for a while.
Chen Xu looked over and saw that her eyes were completely different from Baoyan's clear eyes. Although she showed shame and embarrassment, she must have understood Zhu Gaoxu's meaning very well.
Zhu Gaoxu said quietly: I have been away from Yunnan for so long, and it is rare to see me. Mrs. Chen doesn’t have to worry about it today. I don’t know when we will meet next time.
Chen Xu was silent for a while and replied: Your Highness, the King of Han, is kind, I am disrespectful.
Unexpectedly, she suddenly agreed. Zhu Gaoxu looked over with a little surprise, but saw Chen Xu's eyes flashing, avoiding his eyes.
Chen Xu looked elsewhere and said: His Highness the King of Han won this battle, which made me feel like I was stopping my horse. I am really grateful. However, in the past two years, the Shen family's business is not easy to do, and the congratulations are thin, I hope your highness will forgive you.
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