Chapter 33
The next morning, after breakfast, Qi Xiao looked at Bai Ren and smiled: "I have something today, I'm afraid I won't be able to come back for a day. If you are bored, go back to your house first."
Bai Ren couldn't help but open his eyes wide. He told Qi Xiao more than once these days that he wanted to go back home, so he asked Qi Xiao to block it for one reason or another, but he didn't want to stop talking, so Qi Xiao was willing to let him go back.
"What are you doing when you look at me like this?" Qi Xiao smiled and said, "Can you not want to go back? That's great."
Bai Ren shook his head: "I just don't know why Your Highness suddenly changed his sexual desire. Since this is the case, I'll deal with it now..."
"You don't have to clean up." Qi Xiao waved his hand and asked the girls who were serving in the house to go down, and said with a smile, "The wound on your neck has not healed yet. I asked them to go to the Imperial Hospital to get two bottles of the medicine. You can take them all back. Sooner or later, remember to apply the medicine, carefully, don't leave marks, take the medicinal recipe you prescribed, remember to let them stew it for you. There are a few tonics in the medicinal food that are not easy to find. I also asked someone to find some good ones from my Curry to bring you."
Bai Ren listened to Qi Xiao's careful instructions and felt warm in his heart, and agreed in a low voice. Qi Xiao was happy to see him listening obediently, and finally whispered: "And... we agreed before, when will I send someone to pick you up, and when will you come here."
Bai Ren's face turned red when he heard this, and he looked around at a loss. Qi Xiao deliberately teased him and said with a smile: "Why are you pretending to be stupid? This is what you promised me before, say..."
Bai Ren secretly complained in his heart. Since he knew that it had agreed to it a long time ago, why bother mentioning it again and again? He would not regret it. However, Qi Xiao still refused to let go. He couldn't speak and started to do it. He forced Bai Ren to blush and repeated it again. He kissed Bai Ren's lips with satisfaction and laughed in a low voice: "Don't forget what you said, okay, they are ready to get off the car, you can go after a while."
The snow outside the house was melting and the north wind blew again. It was cold. Bai Ren did not come with thick clothes. Qi Xiao simply surrounded Bai Ren and ordered someone to bring a hand stove for Bai Ren. Bai Ren was so amused and crying: "Your Highness... Although I haven't spent the winter in the north, I have been frozen, so I don't have to be so careful."
"Be careful, no mistake." Qi Xiao sent the man to the carriage. This time he drove straight. Qi Xiao looked at the newly painted carriage and jumped a few times in his heart. After thinking about it, he pulled Bai Ren's hand and smiled, "Do you still remember what you asked you to say just now?"
Bai Ren didn't expect that Qi Xiao would mention this in front of so many people, with a little anger in his eyes. Unfortunately, his handsomeness in life, his eyes were watery and the same clear spring seemed. Looking at people with anger made people feel pity and cute. Qi Xiao smiled comfortingly and said, "No... I'm going to give me another word, you have a good look at this person..."
Bai Ren subconsciously followed Qi Xiao's gaze and turned to look at the coachman standing beside him. When the man saw Qi Xiao mention him, he stepped forward to pay his respects to Bai Ren: "Hello, the prince, I'll be a little Shunzi, I will pick up the prince in the future."
Bai Ren knew that this person was Qi Xiao's tit brother, and unlike other servants, he nodded and asked. Qi Xiao put his big cloak on Bai Ren, pinched his hand without any trace and whispered: "Remember, except him, I will not send anyone else to pick you up."
Bai Ren understood immediately, and couldn't help but feel a little scared. He sighed in his heart that he was still not alert enough and nodded in response: "I've recorded it."
"There is still snow on the road, be careful of this." Qi Xiao patted Shunzi's shoulder, "Go."
Shunzi agreed to get in the car and went all the way.
After sending the person away, Qi Xiao slowly walked into the courtyard. Jiang Deqing followed and whispered: "Your Highness is really meticulous, and even here I thought about it. That's right. If someone knows about you and the prince, he pretends to ask the prince in your name, and then tricks the person elsewhere... the consequences are unimaginable. Hey, the prince's identity is special. Except for those who have no brains, others will never dare to provoke the prince."
Qi Xiao lost his gentleness just now and sneered: "But there is always something stupid to rush to die."
Jiang Deqing frowned slightly: "Dare you... Your Highness knows who is going to be unfavorable to the prince?"
Qi Xiao shook his head: "No, it's just that he has prevented trouble. He just established the Feng family, and he can't be careful. The Feng family's people are still a little bit smart, Queen Feng, haha..."
Jiang Deqing was the one who served Empress Xiaoxian back then. He held his own identity and looked down on Empress Feng very much. He smiled and nodded, "That's right, I heard that Empress Feng prepared a good banquet yesterday, and specially ordered people to invite the emperor. Empress Feng was still considering her face and told her not to say much, but how could she hide it? The emperor did not go to Fenghua Palace these days, and everyone was looking at her eyes. Now everyone knows that the queen has to go to get a lesson and get a reward, right? It's so boring!"
Qi Xiao sneered and said nothing, Jiang Deqing still muttered: "It's the same central palace, Empress Feng is far worse than Empress Xiaoxian back then. I still remember... Empress Xiaoxian felt sorry for the late emperor being busy with the government day and night, and she always stewed soup and porridge for the late emperor himself. How virtuous! Later, one day, she accidentally burned her wrist. The late emperor almost threw the entire imperial kitchen in anger. It was Empress Xiaoxian who persuaded her to spare the palace people. After that, let alone the imperial kitchen, even the late emperor would not allow Empress Xiaoxian to go again, for fear that the queen would get hurt again, and this matter would become a good story when it spreads outside the palace..."
Jiang Deqing said this and said, "To be honest, your highness is really the same as the late emperor. I can't bear the hardships of the people next to me again."
Qi Xiao had something to do in his heart, but he didn't listen to Jiang Deqing's nagging. Suddenly, this sentence happened to hit his ears and said with a smile: "It's true?"
Jiang Deqing hurriedly said, "No, those vulgar things always say that the late emperor is cruel, that is to them! In private, the late emperor is so gentle and affectionate to Empress Xiaoxian. Others are just not lucky enough to meet him. When I saw Your Highness treat the prince these days... I had some of the late emperor's intentions back then."
Qi Xiao shook his head and smiled: "How can that be the same..."
"Why is it different? I'm cold-eyed... Your prince's greeting the prince is not the same as before." Jiang Deqing thought for a while and smiled, "I can't say it, but I just feel it's very different from before."
Qi Xiao was not so optimistic, and smiled faintly and said, "It's a long way to go... If you want to trap someone, you must be able to protect this person first. If you really want to hold someone tight, you have to continue climbing up. It's like Cen Chaoge, running wherever you are comfortable, and people around you will sooner or later be snatched away."
Jiang Deqing was so amused that his highness liked Bairen, so he thought everyone was going to rob him? However, before, Jiang Deqing was vaguely worried that Qi Xiao would miss the matter because of Bairen. Now that Qi Xiao’s competitive heart is even more peaceful, he smiled and nodded, "Your Highness is saying."
The two of them spoke and entered the main hall. Qi Xiao lowered his voice and said, "Then we continue to investigate. These people are doing lifeless business. Today or tomorrow, there are often some back-ups. Send more people to check my ancestral grave."
Jiang Deqing agreed, paused and said, "Those two girls are quite peaceful. Maybe they have asked Princess Dunsu to teach her some things before. These days, they only fiddled with some needles and threads every day, so that they would not let them come forward, and they would only stay behind."
Qi Xiao nodded: "That's more important, let the two of you live separately, and they are not allowed to mutter together every day. If Bairen comes, it's even more important."
Jiang Deqing nodded and responded, as he was talking, a deacon came in outside and said, "Your Highness, the eldest princess sent someone to invite you, saying that a good cook has entered the princess's mansion, where will you go at noon?"
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In the princess's mansion, Qi Xiao asked the housekeeper to welcome the house and embraced the Xiamen. Princess Dunsu was leaning on the couch of a hundred sons and grandsons to read the account book. When she saw Qi Xiao coming, she sat up and smiled and said, "How cold? Don't make trouble for those false gifts. Come here to sit here and bring the foot stove for the prince."
Qi Xiao asked An to sit down, looked around and smiled, "What else is missing here for my aunt? I'll find it for my aunt."
"You sent those things over here, what else can I lack?" Princess Dunsu smiled and took Qi Xiao's hand and patted it, turning to everyone, "Go down first."
Qi Xiao smiled: "Is there anything wrong with my aunt? What about my uncle and cousin?"
"The prince-in-law has not come back yet. Your cousin is studying in Maoping Academy now. He will not come back once every ten days and a half months. See you next time." Princess Dunsu smiled and said, "It was just to ask you to come while they were away. It was so uneasy that you were not at all. You said before that I asked Princess Roujia to be a matchmaker."
Qi Xiao's eyes lit up: "Which one?"
"I said, don't think that your family is low." Princess Dunsu paused and smiled, "It's also a relative, the son of the son-in-law's cousin's family, named He Zichen. He is 20 years old this year. You may still have the impression that I often pick him up before leaving the capital."
Qi Xiao thought about it and found that he had some memories and hesitated: "I remember... I don't like talking very much, but I treat people gently, especially with my cousin."
Princess Dunsu nodded with a smile: "It's him. You were still young at that time. Your cousin was wild like a monkey. Zichen was different, he..."
"He is really bad for his child. His father is the second cousin of the prince-consort. He has been a shameless person since he was a child. The old man was beaten and scolded and scolded, and he could not help him again. Later, he got a job in his family and lived there himself. Unexpectedly, after he came out, he was out of control and became increasingly unsatisfied. He did everything to eat, drink, whore and gambling. In a few years, he was useless and a cold would kill him." Princess Dunsu sighed, "I just feel sorry for me."
Cousin-law, we often interacted with each other when we were in the boudoir. She was the most gentle person. Unfortunately, she was a widow at such a young age. Fortunately, she had a brother, Zichen. Zichen was different from him. She was a competing person since childhood. The more others looked down on their widows and orphans, the stronger he was. Her knowledge was much better than your cousin. The prince-consort originally thought he was pitiful. He wanted to ask someone to find him an errand, but he refused to ask for it. He had to take the exam by himself."
Qi Xiao smiled: "If I remember correctly... he was the first in the palace examination last year and was awarded the Jinshi. Now he is a Shujishi in the Hanlin Academy?"
"You have a good memory." Princess Dunsu smiled and said, "This child is good. My cousin's wife has been suffering for many years and is proud. She has come to ask me for my ideas over the years. Since last year's Zichen Palace Examination, she has told me that she has been widowed for many years and does not know what good girls are outside. She asked me to help me watch it. But their family... are not as high as the mountain. Although the He family is leaning against, the head of the family has left early. Although Zichen works in the Hanlin Academy, he is so young that he can't stand up. Moreover, his family's foundation has long made his incompetent me empty. It's a bit hard. Even if the family is slightly better, he is reluctant to let his daughter suffer."
Qi Xiao smiled faintly: "It's okay. If he is really a good person, these are all trivial matters."
"It's really good to be a person, otherwise I wouldn't have called him here often. He is both steady and humble. Even though he is like this at home, he never complains about himself and often comforts his mother." Princess Dunsu shook her head and sighed, "To be honest, it's much better than your cousin. Children from poor families have been in the family earlier. That's what you mean. You also said before that Princess Roujia is a gentle and gentle person and cannot enter the deep courtyard. Isn't this just right? He has only one elder in his family, and my cousin's sister-in-law is not a troublesome person. She will definitely be nice to her wife. Isn't this what you said before?"
Princess Dunsu smiled and said, "I'm not afraid to tell the truth to you. I have selfish thoughts. My cousin's wife and cousin are really rare good people. Unfortunately, the luck is not good. If you get your help, you will be just around the corner. Isn't it good for you to get along with each other?"
Qi Xiao pursed his lips and smiled: "My aunt looks good, she must be wrong. She just needs to let the master see it himself. Let's do this. Let my cousin and Zichen go to my mansion tomorrow. I will take Bairen and I will just say that it is a gathering. Bairen can watch it in private. He has a chance to fall in love with him. Even if this matter is settled, I will have to trouble my aunt afterwards."
Princess Dunsu smiled: "If I could help my miserable cousin-law and nephew for this, I wouldn't bother you no matter how hard you worked."
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