Chapter 42：

Originally, Ming Tan was thinking about telling her husband about Lu Ting's little blackness, but when he returned home last night, he didn't have time to say it, and the cloud and rain behind him, and he only cared about sobbing and falling asleep so tired, he ignored this important matter. Forget it all.

But it didn't matter if she forgot, today happened to be the day of the military exercise of the imperial guards in front of the palace once a month, and Lu Ting was also waiting for Jiang Xu to come to answer his questions.

The entourage around Lu Ting has a good memory. He still remembers what Zhou Jingwan said at the release pool yesterday, but he only remembers his words and doesn't know their meaning.

After Jiang Xu heard this, he couldn't help but look up at Lu Ting.

A rare fluctuation appeared on Lu Ting's perennially cold face: "Your Highness, what does Miss Zhou mean?"

"..."

"I don't want to marry you."

Lu Ting was silent for a long time before he couldn't help asking: "How do you know?"

Jiang Xu watched the soldiers performing martial arts on the martial arts arena, and explained in a low voice: "Knowing that the fish is not happy, it means that she doesn't like the way you propose. If you feed the fish more food, she probably misunderstood that you want to force the marriage with more dowry, so , would rather die than obey."

Would rather die than obey?

Why is this.

After the martial arts performance was over, Jiang Xu walked back. When he passed by, he paused for a moment, and said softly for no reason: "Feed more fish food, you can really talk."

Lu Ting: "..."

Jiang Xu didn't want to take care of Zhou Lu's matter, nor did he have time to take care of it. But Ming Tan was only thinking about his good sisters, and when he remembered this, even when he set off for Qingzhou, he never forgot to send someone to catch up with the messenger.

After reading the exhibition letter, he took up a pen and wrote back one.

"Zhou Zhangyuan is very famous, and the eldest daughter has already entered the Li family, so it is not appropriate to discuss the relatives of Gao Xian's civil servants."

Although it is only a short sentence, the stakes are very clear.

The matter of marriage is not based on Zhou Jingwan's willingness or unwillingness.

His father was in charge of the Hanlin Academy, and he was a prime minister. Fame is a good thing, but if he is too famous, he also regards civil servants as relatives, so it is inevitable that he will make friends and build momentum for his position.

In contrast, Lu Ting is in the front office of the palace. Although he is in command of the imperial guards and has a high position, he is directly under the Holy Majesty and only accepts orders from the Holy Majesty. It is indeed more suitable than other people who come to ask for marriage.

Thinking of this, Ming Tan couldn't help feeling a little melancholy.

No matter how suitable Lu Dianshuai is, Jing Wan doesn't like it either. However, the matter of marriage has never been determined based on whether the daughter's family likes it or not.

That's right, it's probably because her husband got married as he wished, and he was a little carried away. If in the end, Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Zhou think it's suitable, no one else has the right to comment.

In late spring, the flowers are fragrant and the wind is warm, and the days seem to pass much faster than usual. Unknowingly, ten days later, the Late Spring Gathering in Pingguo Duke's Mansion quietly arrived.

Jiang Xu went to Qingzhou and never came back. After all, he didn't catch up with the excitement. But Ming Tan is very good at comforting herself, that's fine, if her husband is away, she can pretend to be a tiger and show off her concubine demeanor.

Su Xin has been suffering from the wind and cold for the past two days, Ming Tan asked her to be raised in his own house, and took Yun Yi, who was dressed as a maid, to go out together.

Yun Yi is a master from Jin Yunwei, since she got the order, and temporarily assumed the title of concubine in the palace, she had to come to Ming Tan to say hello to Ming Tan from time to time.

Ming Tan met her several times and found her to be very interesting.

It stands to reason that the dark guards who have been trained since childhood have blood on their hands, so they are naturally more ruthless, but Yun Yi kills people calmly, and she usually looks pure, kind and straightforward, and feels everything she sees. Curious and fresh.

Because Ming Tan Shang's clothes are too delicate and complicated, every time she comes back to pay her respects, she has to go to Aunt Fang with the clothes in her arms, and ask them to help them dress them before going out together. Today she was going to dress up as a servant girl, so she came to Qi'an Hall with her clothes in her arms, and asked Lue to help her dress.

After dressing up as a servant girl, Yun Yi followed Ming Tan, and suddenly asked without thinking: "Ms. Wangfei, I bought a roast chicken when I went out of the house yesterday. Can I pay the bill from the public? My monthly bill is about to expire used up."

"How did you spend it all? No, why did you go out of the house to buy roast chicken?" Ming Tan was inexplicable.

Yun Yi said bluntly: "I was a little hungry last night, and I didn't want to bother others, so I wanted to sneak to the dining room to find some food, but the palace is too big, I searched for a long time but couldn't find where the dining room is, so I climbed over the wall and went outside I bought a roast chicken. I also bought you a pack of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, so can I pay the bill from Gongzhong?"

"...?"

"Where's the sweet-scented osmanthus cake?"

"I was still a little hungry after eating the roast chicken, so I ate it too."

"No candy, no support."

Lue couldn't listen anymore, is Aunt Yun serious? For such a trivial matter, I have to come to her lady.

Also, her young lady looked like a child when she met Aunt Yun, the dignified princess was arguing with Auntie about some roasted chicken candied cakes early in the morning!

Fortunately, Yun Yi is an honest person, and immediately promised to buy another pack of sweet-scented osmanthus cakes for the concubine tomorrow, and then sincerely praised the concubine for a while for her beauty, she is really a goddess.

Ming Tan was in a very good mood when he was praised, so naturally he became very good-natured, so he immediately changed his mind and agreed.

"By the way, you haven't said it yet, why did you spend all your savings?"

"A few days ago, I went to the east of the city and met a little beggar. Seeing how pitiful he was, I bought him a few steamed buns, but suddenly a large group of little beggars came up and asked me for steamed buns—"

"..."

Well, it's also considered kind.

Today, there are many people in Pingguo's mansion, and Yunyi is brought along, firstly, just in case, and secondly, Yunyi has never seen such a lively scene before, and takes her out to see the world.

Before getting into the carriage, she warned: "When you arrive at the Duke of Pingguo's mansion later, you should follow Lue carefully, do what Lue does, and don't run around."

"Yes, ma'am."

At the Spring Poetry Festival at the end of last year, the Chunzheng Street in front of Pingguo’s mansion was noisy and congested, and Feng Zhao’s car stopped in front of the cars and horses of Jing’an Hou’s mansion, which caused Ming Tan and Ming Chu to stumble over this matter. I said a few words.

This time, the front of Chunzheng Street is still full of hustle and bustle. It can be seen that the carriages and horses with the logo of Dingbei Prince's Mansion are coming.

Feng Zhao watched from afar, sneered, and didn't know what he was thinking.

When such absurd things happened in Daxiangguo Temple, Concubine Yi kept her attitude very low, sent someone to prepare a gift and apologized, and even went to the Eldest Princess' mansion in person.

Although Zhai Nianci didn't want to expose it lightly, Princess Wen Hui didn't want to spread the conflict in her daughter's family, so she decided to suppress it.

Therefore, these days, the two governments are considered to be calm.

It's just that Yi Wang and his wife are determined to marry Feng Zhaoyuan to Shuzhong, and they have been shutting Feng Zhao these days, and they are not allowed to go out to cause trouble again. As for letting her go out today, it was only at Jiang Yanghou's request, so that Jiang Yanghou could meet the princess he was going to reunite at the Gathering.

The chapter contains wonderful and ingenious thoughts. In the name of elegant collection, it is necessary to do all the elegant things.

The spring is just right, the wind is breezy, and while the flowers are competing for spring, the early lotus is also swaying in the lake, and the breeze brings a refreshing lotus fragrance.

The men were arranged to go to the polo field to play polo and compete in archery, while the female family members were led forward by the maids of the Duke of Pingguo's mansion. They didn't say where they were going, and they only heard the sound of the gurgling water. It was actually going to be an extremely elegant feast of "Flowing Cups of Qushui" by the bank of Qingxi River.

"Qushui Liushang" is an old custom of literati. It is nothing more than placing wine cups on bamboo rafts, flowing down from the upper reaches of Qingxi River, and serving them when you want to drink.

It's just that it's a little new today, and the luncheon of the women's relatives is also seated here.

The people sat on both sides of the Qingxi River separately, tasting delicacies. The wine cups were still placed on the bamboo rafts, and they went down the water, but only one cup at a time. Whoever stopped in front of them, the question would be given by the person who stopped the cup in the previous round.

This question can be ordered to write poems and lyrics, or it can be used to guess riddles and explain words, it all depends on the heart.

If the person who stops the cup can't answer, he will drink the cup. If the answer comes up, you can point to any other person to drink the cup.

Ming Tan is the princess of Dingbei, so she sits at the top, very close to the upper reaches, the wine cup is going down by the water, it is almost impossible to stop in front of her, this game has nothing to do with her, she does Have a good time.

The clear stream is gurgling, and sometimes there are falling flowers flowing down the water. Some people compose poems impromptuly, some people sing a cappella, and the polo field can be heard far away. The atmosphere is pleasant and lively.

But this rare good atmosphere didn't last long, and it seemed that Zhai Nianci and Feng Zhao were going to mess it up again.

It turned out that the wine cup went down the water and stopped in front of Zhai Nianci. The people who stopped drinking in the previous round did not dare to embarrass the owner of Yongle County. The question was very simple. After Zhai Nianci answered, he pointed to the owner of Fengzhao County to drink her wine.

Although Feng Zhao's face was not good-looking, he still drank it.

The two of them exchanged a few words, and Zhang Hanmiao rounded up the situation, barely holding on. But who would have thought that just by such a coincidence, the next glass of wine stopped right in front of Feng Zhao.

According to the rules, Zhai Nianci, who was suspended in the previous round, should write the question.

Zhai Nianci seized the opportunity, laughed aloud, got up and said bluntly: "Then please ask Princess Zhao to compose a peony poem."

As soon as this statement came out, everyone looked at each other in blank dismay!

In the past, I only felt that Princess Fengzhao loves to find trouble, but I didn't realize that County Chief Yongle's skill in finding trouble is not inferior to the former one at all.

Ming Tan also watched this good show from a distance, and according to Fengzhao's temper, it is not impossible to directly pour wine on Zhai Nianci's face.

Unexpectedly, Feng Zhao was so angry that he wanted to say something, but he swallowed it. What was even more unexpected was that Feng Zhao actually composed a peony poem while holding the wine.

Although it is poorly made, I didn't say how delicate it must be. There was a moment of silence, but Feng Zhao actually said provocatively: "Since the princess has answered, I will invite Princess Dingbei to drink this wine."

Ming Tan who was waiting to watch the play: "...?"

Why can't she be forgotten in the endless drama.

Soon, the glass of wine was brought to Ming Tan by the maidservant.

Ming Tan was suspicious. Fengzhao has touched this wine before, so there should be no problem, why is she so worried.

But under the watchful eyes of everyone, she had to drink, and she couldn't test the wine in public. If she had a problem with the alcohol test, then let it be. If there was no problem, the slap would not only be Feng Zhao's face, but the face of Ping Guo Gongfu.

When Ming Tan was hesitating, Yun Yi's voice suddenly came from his ear: "Princess, don't worry, I have changed."

Changed?

Ming Tan heard the words and drank the cup calmly.

When no one was paying attention, she asked softly: "How did you change it, and where did you change it?"

Yun Yi was silent, she only cared about getting her own concubine, she didn't care about other people's lives, she just exchanged a glass of wine with a lot of wine that hadn't gone smoothly.

But she made a mark with a scratch.

Oh, unfortunately, it seems to be the cup that the Yongle county lord is drinking.