A Precious Pearl in the Imperial City

When Ming Jingzhou returned home, it was dark. He pushed aside the yard and saw his daughter, wearing a thick cloak, sitting in the yard waiting for him.

"Father." Seeing him coming back, Jiuzhu, who was sleepy, raised his head and smiled brightly at him: "Are you back? I will warm the soup in the kitchen. You drink a bowl of warmth first."

"Why didn't you go to bed?" Ming Jingzhou was chilly and didn't dare to get too close to her daughter: "Where is your mother?"

"Mother has calculated the account books for the whole day, and has already gone to rest." Jiuzhu took out the hand warmer from her arms and handed it to Ming Jingzhou with a smile: "Tang will be brought right away. Father, please use this to warm your hands first."

Ming Jingzhou smiled. He put the man's slightly smaller hand in his hands and placed it between his hands: "You are waiting here specially, do you have anything to say to me?"

Jiuzhu touched her face and began to doubt herself. Is she so obvious?

Seeing his daughter look like this, he shook his head and laughed, and sat down with his daughter in the main room. The equinox brought a cup of warm soup and walked in: "Master, this soup is specially ordered by the young lady to cook for you. You Be sure to drink a few more sips."

He picked up the soup and drank it. He smiled and nodded to his daughter: "It's delicious."

Jiuzhu suddenly smiled: "I added a few goji berries before the stew, so that I was worried that your father would be uncomfortable with it. It would be great if you like it."

Putting the empty soup cup on the table, Ming Jingzhou asked: "Jiuzhu, I used to be in Lingzhou, what did you do during the Chinese New Year?"

"Clean up the Taoist temple with Master, then copy the scriptures, and pray before the statue of Grandpa Sanqing." Jiuzhu rested her cheek with one hand, recalling life in Lingzhou: "Master said that other people's Taoist temples have many rules, but Our Taoist temple has few people and few things, so we don’t need to pay attention to it, and the emphasis is on sincerity."

"Every year on the first day of the New Year, when I give Grandpa Sanqing the first stick of incense, my daughter secretly prays to them and let them bless you all." Jiuzhu snickered: "After all, it is the first stick of incense for the new year, Grandpa Sanqing. I should be able to remember my wishes more clearly."

"Also, also. Every year during the New Year, the masters will make new clothes for me. The master always said that the second master's craftsmanship is poor and the clothes they make are ugly, but I think they look pretty. She will also embroider her daughter's sleeves very well. Cute puppy." Jiuzhu chanted some funny childhood stories, and the corners of his eyes and eyebrows were clever.

She talked about being punished by two masters for being naughty when she was a child. The last two masters bought her roast geese in order to coax her. When she heard her father laugh, she looked at him seriously: "Life in Taoism Although painful, the two masters gave their daughters everything they could give."

"Daughter has learned to read and the principles of life." Her black and white eyes are very gentle and seem to be coaxing a person who wants to cry: "Since I was a child, I have not suffered much. I have a good meal and a good sleep, so Don't be sad because of your daughter's past."

At this moment, Ming Jingzhou only felt like thousands of needles pricked in his heart, which was painful and itchy.

This child is comforting him.

"Daddy knows." Ming Jingzhou's voice was hoarse, and he raised his head and smiled at his daughter: "Daddy knows that you...go to bed obediently, and I will bring you the roast goose tomorrow when Daddy comes back from the Ministry of Manners."

Jiuzhu usually calls him "father" according to Beijing's rules, but he prefers his daughter's "daddy" who is a little bit squeamish and close.

Whenever Jiuzhu wanted to make him happy, he would call him like this.

"Then you can't be sad anymore." Jiuzhu pulled his sleeve: "You go to bed early, and I will bring you lunch at noon tomorrow."

"Okay." With the warm hands, he gently patted the top of the daughter's head: "Go to sleep, Daddy is not sad."

"Daddy is the best." Jiuzhu smiled sweetly at him and turned to leave the room with Chun.

Ming Jingzhou sat quietly at the table, reaching out his hand to cover his eyes.

"Master." Shen came out of the room in his coat, walked up to him and sat down, stretched out his hand and patted his back lightly.

"I'm fine." The hoarse voice said, and he could no longer conceal his inner emotions.

Shen leaned her head on his shoulder: "The kid waited for you for a day. You were so angry yesterday. She didn't say anything, but she was worried in her heart. At this time in the past, she would go back to the house and sleep a long time ago, so how could she still be in the kitchen? Make soup?"

She didn't stop it because she knew that on this cold night, the father and daughter might need a bowl of hot soup and quiet conversation.

She patted his shoulder gently, and said softly after a long time: "Don't cry, go to sleep."

"I didn't cry." Ming Jingzhou lowered his head, unwilling to look at her, but his voice changed to a broken gong.

"I have someone prepare the next year's gift and sent it to the two masters of Jiuzhu." Shen did not reveal the fact that his own fairness was crying in tears: "It is a pity that the two masters are always reluctant to come to the capital, otherwise we can get closer. Take care of them."

"The cultivator might rather be the idle cloud and wild crane in the mountains than the rich cat raised in the capital." Ming Jingzhou sighed: "Let such an expert stay in the capital, how can he talk about repaying his favor?"

It's just that their husband and wife owe the two masters their entire lives, and this is an unclear account.

He avoided Shen, wiped the wetness of his eyes, turned his head and said to her: "Go and lie down on the bed, it's cold outside, don't get sick."

Looking at his red eyes, Shen called the maid to wait for him to wash. When the two of them were lying on the bed, Shen slowly said, "This year, the annual banquet will be held in the palace. Will you take Jiuzhu?"

"Take her." Ming Jingzhou put his head into the quilt, and said in a urn voice: "When I met with your Majesty today, he specifically told us to take Jiuzhu."

"Okay." Shen was silent for a moment, and stretched out his hand to pat the mountain bag bulging under the quilt: "Even if she is married, she is under our noses, better than..."

It's better than not even knowing whether the child is alive or dead.

Li is like this, but how can parents be happy?

"Hang the lantern higher, don't get it crooked."

"Auntie, where is this glazed eight-treasure lamp hanging?"

"This lamp was prepared by the empress for the county lord Ming. Put it in the house where the lord Ming lived a few days ago. Be careful not to break it."

"Auntie, there are fashionable fabrics from the central province of the palace. Would you like to have a look?"

"Let's just let it go, I'll take a look later. Have all the rewards for the concubines been sent?"

"They are all delivered, they are all delivered. But the servant Qian Yige served said, Zheng Meiren is sick."

"Sick?" Xiang Jian thought for a moment: "You wait here, I'll ask your mother."

Concubine Su Gui was trying on the clothes to wear for the palace banquet at night, and the eight-tailed bead Zheng Fengchai was lying quietly in the jewelry box, exuding a charming and bright light.

"Zheng Lanyin is sick?" The smile on Concubine Su's face faded slightly: "Send someone to the imperial hospital and ask her an imperial doctor."

"Niang Niang, it's New Year's Eve tonight, and the servant girl is afraid that it will be unlucky to ask a doctor."

"There is something auspicious or unlucky, this palace has never believed this." Concubine Su snorted: "What's more, your majesty is the wise lord, with your majesty's dragon-qi protection, and anything unlucky, I dare not lean in. "

"It turns out that in the heart of my concubine, I have the ability to exorcise demons and evils." Emperor Longfeng wore the dragon robe he wore in the previous dynasty and strode into the room: "I let the palace save you new jewelry, but I still like it. ?"

"I heard that this bracelet is a pattern drawn by your majesty himself?" Concubine Su took out a silk-wrapped bracelet from the jewelry box: "Your Majesty said he was busy all day, so he was busy doing this for me?"

"No matter how busy you are, you can't forget your preferences." Emperor Longfeng took the bracelet, put it on her wrist, and nodded in satisfaction: "Ai Concubine's wrist is weak and boneless, Bai Ruo Yue's brilliance. This bracelet is just looking at it. It looks good, it’s just like the star grain next to the bright moon on your wrist, not worth mentioning."

"Where did your majesty learn to have a slick tongue?" Concubine Su gave him a smile and touched the bracelet without taking it off: "Have you mentioned to Ming Jingzhou about bringing Jiuzhu into the palace for a banquet?"

"I mentioned it, I'm just worried. If this continues, there will be a problem with the relationship between my monarchs and Caritas." Emperor Longfeng's remaining conscience slightly condemned himself: "Their family finally took their daughter I got it back, and he was married by our child before he was warm. You say he is a father, can he be happy in his heart?"

"Get it back?" Concubine Su Gui was surprised: "Isn't the girl from the Ming family fostered to Lingzhou?"

She clearly remembered that when his Majesty talked to her about the marriage of Du Qing, he mentioned the origin of the girl from the Ming family. Said that the three brothers of the Ming family were sent to the frontier and cold place. They were afraid that their newborn daughter would die on the road, so they were sent to Lingzhou for foster care.

Why are you looking for it now?

"I haven't seen it in Lingzhou for so many years, isn't it the same as finding it back?" Emperor Longfeng regretted it. He shouldn't have concealed the truth of Ming Jiuzhu's return because he was worried that his concubine was thinking about Ming Jiuzhu's life experience.

Now if the concubine is aware of the truth...

Fortunately, Concubine Su did not think too much. While picking up the jewelry, she complained: "I don't know what the Ming family thinks. They have been fostering their daughters in Taoist temples for so many years. Can they relax? Say they are not rare for their daughters. It’s not like that. On the day of his birthday, Shen's eyes looked at Jiuzhu just like they looked at baby beads."

"I really don't understand. Since I care so much, why didn't I bring people back earlier? How bitter should the child be raised?" Su Guifei sighed, "No wonder someone in the capital said privately that the Ming family doesn't care about this daughter, I If I hadn't seen Shen's care for Jiuzhu, I'm afraid I would think so too."

Emperor Longfeng did not dare to answer.

"Fortunately, we Jiuzhu have a good temper and heart." Su Guifei grabbed and pulled the jewelry suitable for Jiuzhu: "Everything is likable."

Are we Jiuzhu?

Emperor Longfeng wanted to remind Concubine Ai that Jiuzhu belonged to the Ming family, not hers, but he didn't dare.

Reaching out and picking up the jewelry box containing Fengchai on the table, he frowned slightly. The eight-tailed phoenix is ​​not as good-looking as the nine-tailed phoenix.

"Your Majesty, what do you think of this hairpin?" Su Guifei turned to look at him.

Emperor Longfeng smiled: "I'm thinking, I will make you a new Zhengfeng hairpin in the New Year."

"I have a lot of phoenix hairpins here, why do you want so many new ones?" Concubine Su Gui looked out of the window carelessly, and saw her son strolling here.

Emperor Longfeng smiled and said nothing, because he wanted to give a nine-tailed phoenix hairpin to the woman he loved most.

The nine-tailed phoenix hairpin cannot be worn by non-queen and imperial concubines.

"I've seen my father and my concubine." Chen Wang leaned his neck and looked at the jewelry on the dressing table, his eyes lit up: "Where to pick jewelry?"

"Why, your son will come to give the mother and concubine for more details?"

If there is someone who is not suitable for the mother and concubine, but also suitable for the little girl, let him take it away.