Chapter 82

As soon as August entered, news came out from the palace that this year, there will be a moon appreciation banquet in the palace for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the royal relatives and all Beijing officials above the fifth rank will be entertained.

The eunuchs and maids in the palace are busy, but the Huayang people are outside the palace, but they are free.

On the evening of August 13th, after the darkness completely shrouded, Chen Jingzong finally returned in a hurry.

Hua Yang had already eaten and was staying on the couch in the second room, so Chen Jingzong asked the servant girl to carry a low table to the couch.

The copper lamp was burning quietly, and he was sitting opposite Hua Yang, eating food and drinking wine, eating with relish all by himself.

Hua Yang looked out the window, and persuaded again: "It's getting darker and earlier, you might as well stay in the guard, so as not to have to worry about it sooner or later."

Although Chen Jingzong said that he would only come back every other night, it was not true. He often came back consecutively, unless it was raining or there was a delay in the Weiwei.

Chen Jingzong: "If I don't come back, what's the point of living here by yourself?"

Hua Yang: "I don't live here just for you. My mother, sister-in-law and third sister-in-law often come to talk to me, and Wan Yi and the others, none of them are more likable than you."

Chen Jingzong had just picked up a piece of meat, heard the words and took a few bites, looked at her and said, "But I'm back, it's more interesting than sleeping in the guard."

Hua Yang shot him a knife.

Although it's not yet the middle of the month, the moonlight is already beautiful tonight, Chen Jingzong insisted on hugging Hua Yang to the window to watch the moon with her.

The moon in Huayang's eyes seemed to be blown by the wind, flickering.

"Interesting?" Chen Jingzong asked in her ear.

Hua Yang supported the table with one hand, and hit him with the other.

Chen Jingzong grabbed her hand and clasped it on the window edge.

"You said, are there really fairies on the moon?" Chen Jingzong asked.

Hua Yang didn't bother to talk to him, no matter what he started, it was impossible to say serious things at this time.

Chen Jingzong said to himself: "If it really happened, wouldn't she have seen you and me like this?"

Hua Yang: ...

Gritting her teeth, she tremblingly broke away from his hand, trying to close the window in front of her.

She didn't dare to close it too hard, for fear that the sound would startle the maids outside the night watch. Little by little, just when the watery moonlight was finally about to be blocked, in the last soft moonlight, Chen Jingzong suddenly connected her body.Clasp your arms and shoulders together.

The wind blew open the windows that were about to close, and the moonlight poured in again, gently illuminating the slightly raised face of the princess in the world.

Like a fairy drunk, like a peony dew.

After an unknown amount of time, Chen Jingzong pinched her chin and kissed her from her hot cheek to the corner of her mouth.

"Just for this, I am willing to come back even if there is a knife in the sky."

In a blink of an eye, it was August 15th.

The Chen family is eligible to participate in today's palace banquet, in addition to Hua Yang and his wife, Chen Tingjian, Sun's family, and Chen Bozong's couple.

Chen Tingjian and others were going to leave for the palace at dusk, and Hua Yang was going to leave after breakfast.

Chen Jingzong, the son-in-law, of course had to accompany the princess to meet his father-in-law and mother-in-law.

Inside the carriage, Hua Yang was wearing a red treasure gold hairpin and a long red satin dress embroidered with peonies in gold thread, showing her innate grace and dignity from head to toe.

Her makeup today is also very bright, with slender eyebrows slanted into her temples, bright and cool eyes, plump and bright red lips.

Chen Jingzong: "Why do I feel that you seem to be deliberately comparing yourself with someone?"

Hua Yang gave him a sideways glance, as cold as looking at an ant.

Chen Jingzong: "Still angry?"

He was so complacent. In fact, she had always been acting like a princess. Although she indulged him in "serving the bed" for more than a year, she didn't like too many tricks. That night, he reluctantly agreed to go to the window to watch her.In the end, he joked that the fairy could see, and she seemed to be seen by someone, and she was panting all the time, and last night she drove him to the front yard to sleep.

Hua Yang: "Shut up, I don't want to listen to you now."

Chen Jingzong would still look at his face and stopped talking.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of the city gate.

Chen Jingzong got out of the car first, looked left and right, there was a carriage in front of him that was about to be pulled away, a young couple had already walked under the city gate, and turned around to look at them.Among them, Chen Jingzong, the man who wore the same color official uniform as him, had met a few times. He was Princess Nan Kang's son-in-law, Meng Yanqing, who was born in the Marquis Mansion.With the gift of Emperor Jingshun, he took a rich and noble job in Jinyiwei.

The woman in the red skirt next to Meng Yanqing was naturally Princess Nan Kang. Chen Jingzong only glanced at her swollen belly, and then quickly looked away.

There are two more carriages coming this way, and beside the carriage in front, there is a man riding a horse.

Chen Jingzong looked at each other from a distance, and then looked at his carriage.

Hua Yang came out, and the sunlight danced on the phoenix hairpin and ruby in her hair, while her flawless white face and neck were like the most beautiful jade in the world.

Standing high on the shaft of the chariot, Hua Yang first glanced at Princess Nan Kang and his wife Zhang Yuan away.

Princess Nan Kang swept her up and down, biting her lip slightly.

The son-in-law Meng Yanqing looked at Hua Yang in astonishment, and was about to smile when Hua Yang looked away and casually raised his right hand.

Chen Jingzong held that soft and boneless little hand, and helped her out of the car.

Hua Yang wanted to go in directly, but she turned her head and saw the approaching carriage and the man on horseback. She couldn't help laughing, and took Chen Jingzong a few steps forward, waiting for the carriage to stop.

After waiting for a short time, Hua Yang said softly to Chen Jingzong: "That's my cousin, the son of the Marquis of Wuqing, the people in the car should be my grandmother, aunt, and cousin."

Chen Jingzong smiled: "I have seen it."

Hua Yang remembered that when the two got married, she covered her head most of the time, but Chen Jingzong had to toast the guests and saw more of them than her.

When the coachman stopped, Qi Jin on the horseback got off the horse first, and saluted Hua Yang with a smile: "I have seen the princess and the son-in-law."

He is tall and tall, with a face like a crown jade, and a gentle and clear voice. He is a well-known handsome man in Capital City.

Hua Yang smiled back.

Qi Jin went to pick up Mrs. Qi first, and his mother, Mrs. Hou, was sitting in the carriage behind.

Hua Yang also took Chen Jingzong to meet his grandmother in front of the car.

"Hey, the princess and the son-in-law are here too, what a coincidence." Mrs. Qi said with a smile, and looked at Chen Jingzong lovingly, boasting: "Long time no see, the son-in-law is even more heroic and upright."

Chen Jingzong returned the salute: "You are so ridiculous."

Hua Yang nodded to his aunt who came over, and asked curiously, "Why don't you see my cousin?"

Qi Jin lowered her eyes, with a sad expression on her face.

Mrs. Qi sighed: "She is already weak, and she has contracted a cold recently, so she should be raised at home."

When Hua Yang just returned to Beijing, she met her cousin Tian Shi at her mother's queen's side.Wake up, at the end of the same year when Chen Jingzong died in battle in his previous life, the Tian family, who was lingering on the sick bed, also lost his life, and passed away early.It's just that Hua Yang himself was in the funeral, so he didn't go to the door to express his condolences in person, and asked the maid to send the funeral ceremony over.

After all, they are all relatives, and they are young, so it is always a pity to die early.

Hua Yang sincerely said to Mrs. Qi: "I'll tell the queen mother, let her send an imperial doctor to help my cousin."

Chen Jingzong glanced at her.

Mrs. Qi sighed: "I have seen all the famous doctors in Capital City, but they are not getting better. It is her blessing to have the princess miss you so much."

Hua Yang: "As a family, grandma will see her when she says so."

As she spoke, she took her grandmother's arm and walked forward.

Madam Hou followed behind them.

Chen Jingzong and Qi Jin naturally stood in a row, one looked at the princess in front of him, the other looked at the family in front of him, and never spoke to each other.

Princess Nan Kang said hello to the group, she wanted everyone to walk in together, but Hua Yang did not accommodate her slow pace during pregnancy, and quickly distanced herself.

Princess Nan Kang snorted bitterly.

Meng Yanqing coaxed her: "Didn't you all deal with each other all the time? Wouldn't it be good for each to go his own way? Why bother to get together."

Princess Nan Kang: "I am an older sister, but look at her, how does she look like a younger sister?"

Meng Yanqing thought to himself, you don't intend to be an older sister either. Concubine Lin Gui and Empress Qi have been competing for favor for many years, and everyone inside and outside the palace knows about it, so why should their daughters act like sisters again.

Hua Yang and others arrived at Fengyi Palace first.

Empress Qi and the prince are all there.

After seeing the ceremony, Empress Qi also expressed her concern for her niece and daughter-in-law, Tian. After she finished her concern, she said to Qi Jin and Chen Jingzong: "Our female relatives are talking, you follow the prince to pay the emperor's peace."

Qi Jin and Chen Jingzong saluted at the same time.

The prince came over with a smile and led the two of them out.

When he went out, he was in front, and when he arrived outside Fengyi Palace, the crown prince came between his cousin and the son-in-law. He turned his head and asked Qi Jin first: "What is my cousin doing recently, it seems that I haven't seen you for a long time."

Qi Jin smiled and said: "In three months, the twenty-six guards will be performing martial arts competitions. I have been living in the guards recently and are busy training soldiers."

The prince nodded. His cousin had been on the battlefield at the age of sixteen, and he was named the commander of the Jin Wu Qianwei at a young age by virtue of his military exploits. Moreover, since his cousin joined the Jin Wu Qianwei, the twenty-six guards in the past few yearsIn the martial arts competition, King Wu's avant-garde ranks in the top three every year.The first place will always belong to Jin Yiwei, there is no doubt about it, Jin Wu Qianwei and Habayashi Zuowei switch between the second and third respectively.

He looked at Chen Jingzong again: "My son-in-law, my cousin is very good at leading troops, you can learn from him."

Qi Jin seemed to have just remembered, and said to Chen Jingzong: "Look at my memory, I forgot to say congratulations when my son-in-law was promoted to be the commander of Daxing Zuowei."

Chen Jingzong: "Your Majesty is joking, my qualifications are shallow, and I got this position thanks to the emperor's favor, so it's nothing to worry about."

Qi Jin: "Your son-in-law is too humble. We have heard about your achievements in rectifying Lingzhou Wei."

Chen Jingzong: "That is because the emperor, empress, highness, and princess are backing me, so the local officials are willing to listen to me."

Standing between the two commanders, the crown prince looked at Qi Jin and then at Chen Jingzong, faintly feeling that something was wrong.

Then, he heard the son-in-law mention him.

The prince was a little happy, indeed, why did the magistrate give face to the son-in-law, besides the fact that the son-in-law is the son-in-law of the emperor, of course it was also because the son-in-law was also the brother-in-law of the prince.

The son-in-law is very good, he is very obedient to his sister, and he is humble and respectful outside, not taking credit for himself at all.

"You don't need to belittle yourself, the son-in-law. With your good skills, even if you are not a son-in-law, in time, you will surely be able to make military achievements and become famous all over the world."

The prince raised his head, his eyes sincerely encouraged.

Chen Jingzong smiled: "Thank you for your favor, I will always encourage myself with this, so as to live up to your high expectations."

Qi Jin lowered her eyes, with a slight smile on her lips.