Chapter 85 The British Government
Yan Qi didn't have to say anything, he just needed to take the red silk handed over by his mother, get up and walk out with him. When he arrived at the Xitang, he said goodbye to his parents. Uncle Yan had nothing to say. Mrs. Yan smiled and said, "Good lady, great, excellent."
The one who carried Yan Qi into the sedan chair was Yan Tongshu. Mrs. Yan was willing to let the legitimate son bear the concubine's daughter, which was also a sign of being a concubine. Even if Yan Qi was a concubine's daughter, there was a concubine's daughter who was supported by someone in the back. Under the veil, Yan Qi's eyes were red.
"Thank you, brother." Fang Sanlang bowed gratitude.
Yan Tongshu smiled. Not to mention that this concubine has always been well-behaved and obedient, but he and Fang Sanlang have the friendship of being an official in the same court, he should also give Yan Qi this decent attitude and let her marry her gloriously.
After Yan Qi got married, the maids who had been released in the mansion had also held wedding events one after another. The people who served Mrs. Yan changed from Muyuan and Huayuan to Taoyuan and Xiangyuan, while Princess Nanping was surrounded by pearls and amber.
After the Mid-Autumn Festival and the Double Ninth Festival, on September 15th, the eldest daughter of the Yan family, Wang, was pregnant for ten months and gave birth to a son. Everyone in the Yan family grew up together. Then on September 26th, Zhang Weide got married, and Princess Nanping took Yan Hu to help one day in advance. The main help was Princess Nanping, who was responsible for "striking" her cousin.
"Cousin De, what do you think? You will be the groom tomorrow, and you should be the most outstanding person. If you look for a minister and someone similar to you, you are already bold enough. You even invited Cousin Fu." Yan Huo shook his head and sighed, "Are you asking him to steal your limelight?"
"No, I asked him to help me write poetry. The Ningguo Duke's Mansion will set up a test tomorrow. He will learn well without blame." Zhang Weide explained.
"Does the Hanlin Academy have poor talents in the Hanlin Academy?" Yan Huo asked with his squinted eyes.
"Those Hanlin people have passed the imperial examination and are only very good at learning." Zhang Weide replied.
Yan Huo laughed, "You can find two Hanlins." He was a best man when welcoming the bride. It has been a long time since ancient times, but Yan Huo couldn't bear to let Fu Zhixing be embarrassed.
"But Wujiu has already promised me after I begged every time. Isn't this a bad thing to not want him to go now?" Zhang Weide said in embarrassment.
"I'm there, I'll tell him for you, he will understand." Yan Huo laughed and reached out to push Zhang Weide, "Cousin De, hurry up and ask someone, otherwise it will be too late."
Zhang Weide was coaxed by Yan Hu to find someone in the Hanlin Academy. The next day, Fu Zhixing and other ministers who acted as ministers went to the British Duke's Mansion. Zhang Weide led Yan Hu to the hall, "Xiaoxiao, I'm counting on you."
"Don't worry, Cousin De, please put it on me." Yan Huo patted his chest, looking like he was willing to put his sword on both sides of his body.
Zhang Weide was quite relieved about his smart little cousin. When he entered the hall, he was greeting his friends when he saw his little cousin heading straight for Fu Zhixing, and he called out sweetly, "Cousin Fu."
Min Zibai smiled and said, "Xiaoxiao, you only have your cousin Fu in your eyes, so there is no cousin Bai? Last time, Cousin Bai even sent you sweet fruits to eat. Don't you remember?"
"Cousin Bai." Yan Huo looked at his cousin full of the room and felt that it was so hard, Rushi was lazy again, "Hello, cousin."
Fu Zhixing bent down and picked up the person, "Why haven't you come out these days? But you are unhappy?" On the Double Ninth Festival, Princess Nanping and Siye of Yan went to the suburbs to climb high with the prince and the princess, but they didn't see Yan Hu.
"I'm in good health and don't go out because I have to go to school. I can't fish for three days and dry the net for two days." Yan Huo took a stance of focusing on learning.
"Just learn to read, you don't have to worry about learning piano, chess, calligraphy and painting." Fu Zhixing said calmly.
"If you don't have talent, you will be laughed at." Yan Huo said with a pout.
"Who laughed at you?" Fu Zhixing asked in a deep voice.
"Those talented girls, I'm planning ahead." Yan Huo shook his head and smiled, "Are I using this word right?"
"It's right." Fu Zhixing smiled.
Yan Huo approached Fu Zhixing's ear and whispered: "Cousin Fu, I tell you, Cousin De is afraid that you will steal his limelight and doesn't want you to be a prime minister, but he is embarrassed to tell you clearly that if you take me out to see the flowers later, don't accompany him to the Ningguo Duke's Mansion."
Fu Zhixing looked up at Zhang Weide who was talking to Tang Jiang and others. With Zhang Weide's temperament, he would never think of stealing the limelight. He was afraid that this little girl would pick her up. However, the little girl didn't want him to be a prime minister, so he wouldn't go, "Let's go out to see the flowers."
Fu Zhixing walked out with Yan Huo holding Yan Huo. Yan Huo lay on his shoulder and made an OK gesture to Zhang Weide. Zhang Weide looked confused. What does the little cousin mean? Do you want him to give three red envelopes?
Although I don’t understand what Yan Hu is trying to express, Fu Zhixing must have been entangled by his little cousin, so Zhang Weide called on others to go to pick him up.
Fu Zhixing carried Yan Huo into the garden of the Duke of England's mansion. It was late September, and only the chrysanthemums that were proud of frost were still blooming in the cold. Fu Zhixing asked, "Which flower I like? I'll pick it for you to wear."
Yan Huo is willing to play with it in his hand, but if you wear it on his head, forget it, the chrysanthemum has been played with in modern times; Yan Huo pondered for a moment and said, "It is better to stay on the branches, so as not to pick it and wither."
Fu Zhixing chuckled and said, "Xiaoxiao is still a flower-loving person."
"I can be a flower-loving person, but Cousin Fu can't." Yan Huo said seriously, you must know that women are like flowers.
Fu Zhixing looked at her and said, "I don't like flowers, I like artemisia."
Hagi refers to an artemisia plant in ancient books. Yan Hagi smiled and bent his eyebrows and eyes, "Cousin Fu's taste is good."
After turning a little in the garden, the wind blew. Fu Zhixing touched Yan Hu's hand and felt a little cold. He held her little hand in his palm and said, "I've seen the flowers. Can we go back to the room and talk?"
"Okay." Yan Huo responded crisply.
Fu Zhixing carried Yan Huo into the warm room, sat down on the big kang by the window, and told the maid, "Go and get a bowl of hot milk." Yan Huo had a faint milky fragrance, which showed that she usually drank milk.
The maid took the order and left.
There was a chessboard on the kang table in the warm room. Yan Huo kicked off his embroidered shoes, climbed to the other side, and sat cross-legged, "Cousin Fu, let's play chess."
Fu Zhixing did not take off his shoes and sat slanted on the kang, "Xiaoxiao wants a black or a white one?"
Yan Huo frowned in embarrassment, "I like Baizi, but Heizi is the first to do it."
Fu Zhixing smiled slightly, "There is no need to tell the rules when playing chess with me."
So Yan Huo took Bai Zi and made a move first. She had only learned for several months, but she only knew the rules of Go. She knew what dots are, what Tianyuan is, what chess aura is, and what chess piece is, and what chess skill is... basically no.
Of course, Yan Huo is still very graceful. If he plays the wrong one, he will not regret chess. "A gentleman has no regrets when he makes a move."
Fu Zhixing laughed, "You are a little lady."
"The lady and the gentleman are a couple, Xiaoxiao is a little lady, and Cousin Fu is a great gentleman." Yan Huo said with his little face raised.
Fu Zhixing reached out and scraped the bridge of her nose.
Yan Huo covered his nose and said in a muffled voice: "If you scrape the bridge of your nose, you won't be beautiful."
"Xiaoxiao is the most beautiful, no matter how you are," Fu Zhixing said righteously.
Before the chess was finished, the maid came in, but what she sent was not hot milk, but the sweet jujube soup made specifically for Yan Huo by the British wife. Fu Zhixing picked up the bowl and sat next to Yan Huo, preparing to feed her. Yan Huo hurriedly said, "Cousin Fu, I can eat it myself."
Fu Zhixing looked at her with a deep look. Yan Huo looked at him and immediately became timid, opened his mouth, "Hey." He wanted to serve him... Then let him serve him as long as he was happy.
Fu Zhixing's lips curled up slightly, and he fed her sweet date soup spoonful by spoonful. After taking out a handkerchief, he wiped her mouth with a familiar movement.
The guests were all in the hall on the other side of the Xitang, and no one disturbed the two of them, and they continued to play chess. Even if Fu Zhixing gave in, Yan Hu still lost; Yan Hu's eyes turned, "Cousin Fu, let's play Gozi chess."
Girls in Beijing prefer to play Gozi chess, and most men still like to play Go and chess. Fu Zhixing is to accompany Yan Hu, so he naturally would not refuse, "Xiaoxiao or want Bai Zi?"
Yan Hu nodded and made a move first. Fu Zhixing smiled faintly, and the first son was wrong, but he didn't care, so a black son fell next to Bai Zi. Yan Huo's moves neatly and left the second son, which made Fu Zhixing suspect that she was just randomly doing it.
Both of them made a quick move at the beginning, but when the number of pieces on the board gradually increased, they slowed down. Of course, no matter how time-consuming Goji took, it took only a quarter of an hour to decide the outcome. This time the winner was Yan Huo, "Five sons are connected, cousin Fu, you lost."
"Xiaoxiao is very awesome." Fu Zhixing smiled.
"It's not amazing, it's because I play first." Yan Huo knew the tricks of playing Gozi chess.
"Some people will lose even if they hit first." Fu Zhixing also knew that the person who hit first was easy to win, but Yan Huo was so talented that even if he hit first, he might not necessarily win. But if she won, she showed her intelligence.
Yan Hu was about to speak when Amber came in, "Miss, it's time to go to Xitang to watch the fun." The Ningguo Duke's Mansion and the British Duke's Mansion were separated by a street, which was very close. Even if the people from the Ningguo Duke's Mansion gave a title that it was difficult for Zhang Weide, half an hour would be enough for Zhang Weide to pick up the bride.
Amber stepped forward and wanted to hug Yanhu, but Fu Zhixing stopped him with a cold eye. Fu Zhixing picked up Yanhu and "lead the way."
Amber walked in front with a stiff body obediently, and Fu Zhixing hugged Yanhu and followed behind. Soon after, he arrived at Xitang; Yanhu immediately saw Princess Nanping, "Cousin Fu, my mother is there, please put me down and I will go there myself."
"My mother is there too, I'll send you there." Fu Zhixing said calmly. The two Dukes' Mansions were married, and Duke Pingguo's Mansion and Duke An's Mansion were closer to the Duke's Mansion. The two princes' wives came to the Duke's Mansion; Duke Chengguo's Mansion and Duke Li's Mansion had a closer relationship with Duke Ning's Mansion. Duke Chengguo's Mansion and Duke Li's Mansion went to the Duke's Mansion.
Fu Zhixing hugged Yan Hu and went over. Princess Nanping smiled and said, "You girl, I'm going to quarrel with your cousin Fu again."
Fu, the wife of the Prince of Anguo, smiled and said, "He is older than Xiaoxiao, so you should take good care of Gu Xiaoxiao, otherwise what's the use."
One of the ten young men in the capital, the talented eldest son Fu, was the only way to see Gu Yanhu in his eyes. Fu Zhixing smiled and reluctantly returned Yanhu to Princess Nanping.
Chapter completed!