Chapter 151

Hua Yang only spoke to his aunt about the matter of living in Tangquan other courtyard, and Princess An Le agreed, and asked the day directly: "When are you going?"

Hua Yang: "Let's leave on the third day of the first lunar month, stay for ten days, and come back before the Lantern Festival."

Princess An Le: "Why is it so late? I'll ask someone to clean it up right away. You can stay there for the whole twelfth lunar month."

Hua Yang was thinking about how to explain it, but the long princess Anle smiled and said, "It's no fun to soak in hot springs by myself, so I have to wait for Chen Silang's company, right? Let me figure it out.It's a holiday, and the Chinese New Year is just a few days after the new year, and you have to enter the palace and go to the Chen Mansion, you really can't leave before the year, you can only go out after the year."

Hua Yang: ...

She lowered her eyes and said nothing, but a touch of crimson appeared on her creamy cheeks, adding a touch of charm to the graceful and dignified long princess.

Princess An Le: "Okay, ok, aunt won't tease you anymore, aunt only envies Chen Silang's good fortune, no man in the world is as lucky as him."

Hua Yang was still annoyed, and couldn't help joking back: "What kind of fate is he? He is truly lucky to be able to serve you by your side."

Princess An Le: "I don't have your long love, so Chen Silang is the most popular."

Hua Yang: "Who has a long-term love for him, but the marriage was bestowed by the emperor, and there is the affection of Pavilion Elder Chen, otherwise I would not bother to take him out."

Princess An Le: "Yeah, what Panpan says is what it is."

Chen Jingzong knew that Huayang would visit Princess Dachang today, and when he came back in the evening, he would first ask about the result of borrowing another courtyard.

Hua Yang was teased by his aunt because of him, so he naturally wanted to take his anger out on him, and said deliberately: "My aunt also uses it, ask me to go with you, I have already agreed, but it is inconvenient to take you, when I am not around, you move to live there, just to spend more time with mother and the others."

Chen Jingzong: "..."

Hua Yang picked up his chopsticks and began to eat without paying much attention.

Chen Jingzong watched her every move, and after drinking the pitifully small amount of warm wine poured out of the thin-necked jug, Chen Jingzong thought of a way: "Your aunt and nephew are going to soak in the hot spring. I, a grown man, clearly follow her, and it is really not good for me."It's convenient, but I can sneak there, climb over the wall to find your yard at night, and hide in it all the time, anyway, I have never been in a hot spring, it was you who aroused my interest, and this time I must satisfy me."

Hua Yang: "Auntie also has 300 guards, do you think they are all idlers?"

Chen Jingzong: "Bring all three hundred guards? Then I will go even more, lest you envy her old man with many faces, and secretly raise a few behind my back."

Hua Yang stared over.

Chen Jingzong: "Or I'm going to prepare some gifts, and I will personally intercede with her old man, so that she can stay in Capital City this year with peace of mind, and fulfill you and my husband and wife. You are too thin-skinned, and you definitely didn't say you would take me with you, otherwise sheThe old man has long been fulfilled."

Hua Yang: "I am indeed not as thick-skinned as you."

Chen Jingzong: "I know what her old man likes, why don't I tie Zhou Ji up and send her there?"

Hua Yang: "How dare you!"

Some men are eager to be the guest of their aunt, but Zhou Ji is not that kind of person, and Hua Yang does not allow his guard commander to have any rumors with his aunt, which is ridiculous.

Chen Jingzong brought her food: "Just kidding, I know you like Zhou Lang the most, eat, eat."

Hua Yang stared at him, watching him muttering to himself, thinking about what gift to prepare for his aunt.

Lying in bed, Chen Jingzong was still thinking about it.

Hua Yang heard it funny, and then said: "Forget it, my aunt will not leave Beijing this year."

She thought that Chen Jingzong would complain a few words, or take the opportunity to come to her to beg for cheap, but she didn't expect that Chen Jingzong just rushed over to press her down, and even kissed her several times.

Hua Yang: "Isn't it just a hot spring, as for being so happy?"

Chen Jingzong: "You don't understand."

Hua Yang really doesn't understand, after all, how many times she has soaked in the palace since she was a child, she no longer finds it new, but seeing her son-in-law look forward to it so much, thinking that it will open his eyes and enjoy it, Hua Yang also agrees.good mood.

A plan is a plan, and there is still a whole twelfth lunar month to go.

On the first day of the twelfth lunar month, Hua Yang went to the palace to greet his mother as usual.

Empress Dowager Qi: "I used to think that you came to the palace too often, but now I realize that you are rarely here."

Hua Yang laughed: "I also heard that Nan Kang often comes to the palace to talk with you recently?"

Empress Dowager Qi: "Yeah, she is a lot more stable now, and He Jing and Brother Dun are becoming more and more likable. It's also strange to call out to the emperor's grandmother one by one. It's obvious that they are by my side, but I alwaysthink of you."

Hua Yang said vigilantly: "You won't be urging me to give you a grandson and granddaughter again, will you?"

Empress Dowager Qi: "You don't like to listen to what you say, and I don't bother to offend you. It's just that I'm getting older, and I often think of your siblings when they were young."

Hua Yang: "Brother is not too old now."

Empress Dowager Qi: "It's so much taller than you and me, and it's not too big. There are court ladies thinking about climbing the bed."

Hua Yang: "...Climbed?"

Empress Dowager Qi: "No, your younger brother probably doesn't like it, so someone dragged it down to deal with it."

Hua Yang was silent.

She is a long princess with a good temper, and she won't take the lives of palace people at every turn. The younger brother is different, except for her father, queen mother, queen and father-in-law, her younger brother is rarely bullied by others, so she can't tolerate being bullied by others.For a lustful man, it may be a pleasure for a woman to take the initiative to climb on the bed, and the younger brother will regard this as a contempt and offense to him, the emperor.

"At his age, does the queen mother have any arrangements?"

Hua Yang knows that in many wealthy families, young children and grandchildren will prepare houses for them when they are thirteen or fourteen years old.

Empress Dowager Qi said indifferently: "When you're still growing up, let's be plain, and we'll talk about it when we're in charge."

Hua Yang recalled that in his previous life, his mother also had the same attitude. Maybe he had seen too much of his father's obsession with women. The mother hoped that his younger brother would keep his body clean and not be affected by women's sex.As for my younger brother, he has to go to class every day to study politics, he is busy, and the maids around him are all ordinary and beautiful, and it is never heard that he is not clear with any court lady.

At noon, Emperor Yuanyou came to accompany his mother and sister for dinner.

After the meal, Empress Dowager Qi went to rest tactfully, leaving the siblings to talk.

The palace people around him also retreated, and Emperor Yuanyou looked at his sister who was ruddy and more charming than Huajiao, and first heaved a big sigh.

Hua Yang laughed: "Have you been tired recently?"

Emperor Yuanyou: "It's not tired, it's annoying. That He Qingxian is more strict than Pavilion Elder Chen."

He Qingxian didn't go to Beijing in his previous life, so Hua Yang naturally didn't know how He Qingxian could offend his younger brother, so he asked curiously, "How does he manage?"

Emperor Yuanyou: "He is poor, so he wants us to be frugal with him. He wants to take care of the paper, charcoal and lamp oil in the government office. I see that the Cining Palace and Ciqing Palace are broken, and they want to be repaired. He said that nowThere is no one living there, so there is no rush to repair it. Guanglu Temple is in charge of the meals in the palace, and the salary owed for several months has not been paid. I want to transfer 100,000 taels of silver from the household department.I have to spend all my money on important things, so I can reduce my food. Also, the batch of concubines left behind by my father should be dismissed. There are fewer concubines, and there are fewer court ladies and eunuchs to serve, so the food required is also reduced., then Guanglu Temple can also clear a group of people. Even this year's Chinese New Year, he has done the calculations for the palace, and there will be no lantern festivals, which can save a lot of money."

Hua Yang: "Have you heard everything?"

Emperor Yuanyou looked a little aggrieved: "He wants the whole country to increase revenue and reduce expenditure, so I, the emperor, naturally have to lead by example."

I have listened to it, and I am willing to cooperate in action, but I am not very comfortable.

Hua Yang could only coax his younger brother: "The treasury has been short of money in the past two years. If you can save it, save it. When the new policy is implemented, the treasury will have more money and the palace will be a little extravagant, and they will have nothing to say. It is Mr. He Ge, IWhen he doesn’t believe in the prosperity of the country and the safety of the people, he will continue to eat only coarse grains.”

Emperor Yuanyou: "Sometimes I find him annoying, and sometimes I feel sorry for him. Does my sister know why he didn't bring his family with him when he came to Beijing this time?"

Hua Yang: "Why?"

Emperor Yuanyou: "He said he offended people easily, and he didn't know how long he could stay in the Inner Pavilion this time. He thought he might have to leave in a year or two, so why bother asking his family to follow him around."

Hua Yang: "This sounds like he's trying to sell you badly, implying that you are protecting him."

Emperor Yuanyou: "That's right, but his dark and thin appearance, I really can't bear to think that he helped the people to cultivate and expose it to the sun."

Hua Yang flattered his younger brother naturally: "It shows that you are a good emperor who cares about his courtiers."

Emperor Yuanyou sighed again.

After his younger brother left, Hua Yang was walking back to Qifeng Palace, the corners of his mouth were always curled up.

When He Qingxian came to Beijing this time, he took many matters that should belong to his father-in-law to his shoulders.

For example, dismissing the low-ranking concubines left by the father in the harem, reducing redundant maids and eunuchs in the palace, dissuading the younger brother from suspending the renovation of several palaces, not setting up lantern festivals, etc. These are all things that the father-in-law did in the previous life.

It is true that the younger brother respects his father-in-law, but he also has a little resentment towards his father-in-law's strictness in the past.

It's different when it's He Qingxian. He Qingxian is recognized by the people as a good and honest official, including his younger brother. When He Qingxian asked him to be frugal, his younger brother just felt aggrieved and could not resent He Qingxian.

Just like what Hua Yang said when he felt sorry for his father-in-law, letting He Qingxian come to Beijing to assist his father-in-law in implementing the reform and new policy, at least he can help him share some slander and resentment, including those from the courtiers and the common people, including from the younger brother's side.

Hua Yang also respects He Qingxian, but she doesn't have to worry about He Qingxian, because back then when He Qingxian wrote a letter scolding the emperor's grandfather, the emperor didn't even cut off He Qingxian's head.After a while, my younger brother was so angry that he couldn't execute He Qingxian, and he didn't dare to bear the infamy of the stupid king who killed the most honest official in the world. At most, he demoted He Qingxian to a remote place as a small official.

The father-in-law is an old fox, so he may have left the job of "saving money" to He Qingxian on purpose.

However, Hua Yang will not reduce her respect for her father-in-law because of this. For the sake of everyone in the Chen family and the people of the world, she wishes her father-in-law could be more tactful.

Leaving the palace the next day, Hua Yang went to stay in Chen's residence for two days as usual.

Her mother-in-law, Sun, also mentioned He Qingxian to her: "Ever since Mr. He Ge came to Beijing, he helped the old man to share a lot of things. Now the old man returns home much earlier, but I guess, he mainly doesn't want to be with Mr. He Ge.Stay on duty, and complain to me every time you come back."

Hua Yang: "I also heard from the son-in-law that the two elders often quarrel in the morning."

Sun smiled and said, "It's better to be noisy."

If no one in the court dares to offend the old man, then it is definitely not a good thing, they all listen to the old man, where do you put the emperor?

All of this is due to the long princess' daughter-in-law!

"Are you going to play chess with the old man tonight?" Mrs. Sun asked expectantly. In her own family, the fourth child dared to talk back to the old man, but it was difficult to convince the old man with reason.For the old man, Mrs. Sun especially hoped that the long princess daughter-in-law would say a few words to the old man and let her watch the show too.

Hua Yang: ...

As night fell, when Chen Tingjian came back from the palace, Hua Yang had already returned to Si Yitang, and had dinner alone with Chen Jingzong.

Chen Jingzong: "Did you tell mother about our trip to Tangshan?"

Hua Yang: "It's only the beginning of the month, so it's not too late to talk about the days of Chinese New Year."

Chen Jingzong: "I'm probably the first person in the old Chen family to have a chance to bathe in the hot spring."

Hua Yang: "I remember one year when the winter was extremely cold, and the emperor went to live in the palace for the winter. Not only did we go, but many ministers also drove to the palace to serve as errands. My father was an old man, so he could bring his family, and maybe his mother too.go together."

Chen Jingzong: "... Then I am the first young man in the old Chen family who has the opportunity to bathe in the hot spring."