Mu Hanyang after the court, see Jing Shao himself in the East Garden to practice sword practice vigorously, everywhere not see the figure of small yellow. After all, small yellow is a tiger, even in front of them not much backbone, to outsiders is still very fierce, so Mu Huanzhang has never allowed it to run to the East Garden outside to play, lest hurt people.
Jing Shao saw that his own Wangfei had returned, so he put away his sword and came over, tilting his sweaty face up to wait for his own Wangfei to wipe it off.
"Where's Xiao Huang?" Mu Hanzhang took the cloth towel Zhi Ruoxi handed over and resigned herself to wiping his sweat.
"I don't know," Jing Shao squinted comfortably, "He doesn't want to play with me, he's probably run off to sleep somewhere."
Mu Hanzhang was a little uneasy, so he asked Yunzhu to go and look for it.
The two of them sat down on the long couch under the veranda, and Miaoxi brought sour plum soup to remove the heat.
"Why did you come back so late today?" Jing Shao drank a whole bowl of sour plum soup and breathed a sigh of relief, salivatingly glancing at those slender legs for a few moments, rubbing over as he spoke and quickly laying down on them while Mu Hanyang wasn't paying attention.
Mu Hanzhang put down the small bowl, saw his lap more a big head, perhaps these days at home bored, Jing Shao became more and more sticky him, a free time to come up to kiss and touch. He helplessly touched the top of his hair, sat back and let him lie more comfortable: "Father left me to go to the imperial study to talk for a while."
On the matter of through the sea business, Hongzheng Emperor seems to be very interested in the other day Mu Huanzhang handed over the charter up, after a long time are not moving, but unexpectedly today suddenly called him to go, explored many details, and the emperor is very interested in the matter of through the sea business.
"In that case, it seems that Father did take a close look at your charter." Jing Shao tilted his head to look at his beautifully defined chin.
"Well, perhaps Father also had this intention long ago." Mu Hanzhang carefully recalled Emperor Hongzheng's look today, and seemed to be very interested in this. There were ports where overseas ships docked right in Jiangnan, so if he went to Jiangnan in a while, he might be able to try doing this kind of business first.
"Your Highness, it's not good!" Yunzhu ran in in a hurry.
"What's wrong?" Mu Hanzhang frowned, just now Ran Yunzhu went to look for the tiger, could it be that Xiao Huang had gotten into trouble?
"I just realized after asking half the time that Little Yellow ran away to the stables!" Yunzhu panted.
"What?" Jing Shao immediately sat up, Little Yellow was now not small in size, a roar might be able to scare the tame horses in the stables out of their wits. The horses in the royal residence were all famous horses, and it would be heartbreaking to scare any of them to death.
The two hurriedly followed Yunzhu to the stables, where the horse breeder stood outside the stables in tears, shivering in fear.
"What's going on? Where's Tiger?" Jing Shao asked him.
"In, in Little Black's horse's stall." The subordinate who kept the horse was on the verge of tears, he was so frightened at the sight of the tiger that he couldn't move, and watched as it burrowed into Xiao Hei's exclusive stables.
Because Xiao Hei was the king's favorite horse and had always been placed separately, his stall was much more spacious than the others, with two delicate low walls built, and those reins were tied very long to ensure that he could move around the entire shed at will.
Mu Hanzhang raised his feet and walked towards Xiao Hei's stables, but it was Jing Shao who was relieved to hear this and followed his own princess in unhurriedly.
The stable was very clean, with soft hay on the ground, fresh grass in the trough, and a bamboo pole built on the water trough, with a thin stream of fresh water flowing in, and the excess would be caught by the outer trough, and drained directly to the outside of the stable. The whole stable was very clean, must be because it was cleaned several times a day, there was no smell of horse manure at all.
Blackie was nestled on a haystack, wagging his tail in boredom, and a furry, half-grown tiger was nestled beside him, sleeping on all fours, cuddling a horseshoe.
The crowd was silent for a moment.
Xiao Hei was very happy to see his master come, rubbing his head and standing up, thinking Jing Shao was going to take him out to play.
Jing Shao see this picture is also some words, he knows that small black is born abnormal, not only will avoid obstacles by themselves, face beasts also have no fear, no matter what happened on the battlefield, never seen it has been frightened, and small yellow eat every meal naturally won't hit the idea of small black, so he is not worried in the slightest. But a horse can sleep with a tiger is beyond his knowledge.
Xiao Huang's pillow was suddenly gone, and he got up in a daze, shaking his head somewhat unhappily, and turning his head to see Mu Hanzhang, he ran to him and rubbed around and around.
Coincidentally at this time to the noon, because of the small black stables are not good service, so the underlings of the horse is half a day round, the afternoon on duty underlings come over to the shift, found that today's stables surrounded by a lot of people, thought that the small black out of what happened, panicked and ran over to see. Asked to understand what is going on, that person boldly said: "the king do not have to worry, this tiger cub often come to the stables to play with the little black, has long been familiar with the mix."
But it turns out that the small yellow in the royal residence can not find a suitable playmate, once sneaked out into the stables, jumped to the manger to scratch the small black mane, but was a small black sprayed a face of hot air, scared almost fell, and later found that the royal residence of the living creatures of the only small black is not afraid of it, the afternoon will often come to play with the small black.
"Woohoo!" Seeing that his master was ignoring him, Xiao Huang ran back to Xiao Hei to catch the flicking tail, and Xiao Hei, anxious to get out and play, stomped his feet and turned back to spray it with hot air, only to blow a small Xuan'er out of the fur on top of his head.
Xiao Huang usually comes to the stables in the late afternoon, but today he ran over in the morning, which led to a lot of tossing and turning. Mu Hanzhang looked at Jing Shao, it must be that this guy bullied the tiger so much that he forced the little guy to come to the stables to escape.
Jing Shao averted his eyes somewhat sheepishly, "It's not my fault, I was just bored and teased it for a while."
Mu Hanzhang sighed, he was raised in the inner house since childhood, let him stay in the king's residence for ten days and a half months do not go out is also okay, writing and reading can also pass the time, but Jing Shao is different, let him shut himself in the king's residence is really aggrieved by him: "I've talked to my father, the constitution must be drawn up an exhaustive, my father has already exempted me from the other errand, after the next court I'll be back. "
"Really?" Jing Shao heard, immediately happy, he is not in the dynasty, Hongzheng emperor even the Ministry of war also let Mu Huanzhang take over the matter, and his own Wangfei is a serious work, often after the dynasty back to use a lunch, and then to go to the Ministry of war to stay for the afternoon. Nowadays, as long as you go to the court, if you sleep in the morning, you can see him when you open your eyes.
Mu Hanzhang see him happy, also followed the hook up the lips, he does not interfere with the dynasty politics also another reason. Because of the Huainan king of the private capital of the matter was found by the emperor, under the order to rebuke but has not been able to get a reply, Huainan king of a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water hot look so that Hongzheng emperor a head of fire, the tone of the imperial letter of a more than a stern, it seems to be not far from the withdrawal of the feudal.
And before Gu Huaiqing went to the capital to contact Jing Shao, Hongzheng Emperor still can't seem to get over it, he discussed with Jing Chen to avoid this storm, so the Ministry of War this kind of sensitive place or try to go as little as possible.
Of course for Jing Shao, it couldn't have been a better thing.
Turn to July, the weather is getting hotter and hotter, the situation in the dynasty is also getting more and more tense. Jiangnan for Jing Shao they are crucial, and the four princes are also early on the eye on this "opportunity for success", the removal of the clan's decree has not yet come down, the two sides have been struggling to be Jing Shao so far has not been released, the situation seems to be very favorable to the four princes.
Meanwhile, Qiu is in labor.
"I heard that the young prince of the Rui Wang House is sick again, have you visited him?" Qiu asked with some concern as she took the fresh fruits handed over by her son.
Mu Hanzhang was a man and there were many royal rules, Qiu had been worried that her son would not handle the situation well and hurt her sisters-in-law's peace.
"How would mother know about this?" Mu Hanzhang frowned, underage children are sick, it is taboo to talk about it to everyone, with Princess Rui's nature, naturally she would not be willing to let others know, Mother doesn't leave the house every day, how would she know about this?
"The third madam went to Biyun nunnery for incense, master Mo Pei was not there, heard the little nun say that she went to Rui Wang Fu again." Qiu sighed, raising a child is not easy, if the child is healthy it's okay, often sick always make people worry, just Rui Wangfei is now too biased in favor of that Mo Pei nun, it is not a good thing.
That Mo Pei coaxed the Rui Wangfei in the Biyun nunnery lit forty-nine long bright lamps, that lamps and grass money every month, forty-nine silver, three Mrs. every time on the incense back, have to tsk sigh for a good half a day.
"The child is still small, I'm afraid that going there would be a rush," Mu Hanzhang pursed her lips, "Not to mention that with so many things going on in the court, and the king being grounded, it's not a good idea for me to go to the Rui Wang Mansion."
A few days ago, the old nun counted with the little four is not a few days with the difference between the concubine son, Rui Wangfei said to send the concubine son to the other yard to raise. After Jing Chen knew it was very angry, said she was obsessed, but that Wang Ji mind live, kneeling in front of Rui Wang said he wanted to carry the child to the hospital, now has been living for more than a month.
Qiu heard this and frowned, "Then it's better not to go for the time being." Now that the concubine son is not here, and little fourth son has a fever, I don't know who to blame, it's better not to go and cause trouble.
Mu Hanzhang advised her not to always worry about these idle thoughts. He is very careful about the mother's body, after all, the age, the birth of some danger, so spend a lot of money to hire a famous stable woman to, has been living in the North Marquis of Wei House, Dr. Jiang's pulse diagnosis is also from seven days a diagnosis, changed to three days a diagnosis, to prevent any accidents.
Beiwei marquis women look at are secretly staggered, sigh a marquis son is not the same, even if it is Beiwei marquis wife pregnant with a child, but also broken has not been so well cared for.
By the middle of July, the court and the King of Huainan finally tore their faces off, and Emperor Hongzheng decreed the withdrawal of the clan, while Gu Huaiqing directly blocked the messenger who proclaimed the decree outside the city gates, letting him finish proclaiming the imperial decree under the gates, and immediately declared that he resisted the decree, scaring the messenger to turn his horse around and run away.
Emperor Hongzheng was furious and decided to send troops to attack Huainan.