I really don't want to take shortcuts anymore

Chapter 431 Green Mountains Beyond the Mountains
The gift note is very short, with only one line of words on it, neatly written, simple and clear:
A pair of live geese.

Jing Yuan was stunned. Caiwei didn't want to believe it, so she grabbed the gift list, looked up and down, and found that apart from this item, there was really nothing else.

Jing Yuan has come to his senses now, maybe because of His Majesty's suspicion, there are some things that are difficult to put on paper?
As soon as this thought came together, I couldn't suppress it immediately. He took three steps and two steps at a time, and in an instant he was in front of the cage that was tightly covered with red cloth, and he pulled hard with expectation.

The red cloth was lifted lightly, and its contents were revealed.

The seemingly square thing was just a bamboo cage, inside which lay a pair of live geese with their wings and feet tied up, and even their mouths were tied tightly with red cloth strips.

The unwilling eyes of Jing Yuan and Cai Wei met with the eyes of the living geese, which were full of mercy and begging for life, triggering the fireworks of helplessness.

"He's a marquis after all, and he's just a pair of geese... How can he be so embarrassed to take them?" Caiwei was disappointed and said to herself.

"That's all, it's just acceptance." Jing Yuan quickly adjusted his mentality: "The main event is the betrothal gift, don't complain, lest you lose a big thing for a small thing."

"By the way, the goose meat is delicious. Let's stew one and eat it tonight." He returned to the house with his hands behind his hands.

Weiyang Palace, inside Chengming Hall.

"Your Majesty, Marquis Feng'an refused to go back and said that he must see you..." Jiao Zuo reported with a low eyebrow.

Yu Jin put down the pen in his hand, rubbed his wrist, and asked, "What time is it?"

"Back to Your Majesty, it's still a quarter of an hour before the Shen time. Marquis Feng'an has been waiting outside for two hours."

"Tell him to come in." Yu Jin sighed.

Jiao Zuo withdrew in response, and a moment later Wang Tai entered the hall, his face no longer childish, only gloomy.

He saluted, and when Yu Jing called out, he couldn't wait to say: "Your Majesty, please take back your life - that Yu Chu is already a useless person, how can he be worthy of Mrs. Jing?"

His tone was urgent and somewhat impolite. Jiao Zuo frowned and was about to speak out, but Yu Jin waved his hand to stop him.

"No matter what the Marquis of Xiang is, he is still of the late emperor's blood, and he is my junior. If he is not worthy of Mrs. Jing, then who is worthy of her? Could it be you, my cousin?"

Wang Tai didn't know what was happening to him. When he first heard that Mrs. Jing had been granted a marriage, his heart felt like burning fire, and he only thought about how to get rid of it. As for what he would do after that, he didn't think about it.

But now, standing in the Chengming Hall, seeing his emperor's cousin's half-smiling look, his heart that was as hot as a ball of coal, suddenly became cold.

"I made a mistake." He bowed and said, "I have no lady-like thoughts towards Mrs. Jing. It is only because of my previous life-saving grace that I pay attention to her life-long events."

"It is precisely because I remembered this that I personally issued an edict to arrange this good marriage for her." Yu Jing said lightly: "Otherwise, how could a daughter of Ye Tingcheng's concubine be qualified to marry a member of the royal family? , take up the position of Madam Hou?"

"I have misunderstood His Majesty's good intentions." Wang Tai understood that there was no hope of improvement in this matter, and talking more would be useless, so he changed the subject: "My mother has been thinking about Your Majesty a lot recently, and she also said that when the locust trees bloom in certain days, we should do something Here are some of your favorite locust flower cakes brought to the palace!"

There was a smile on Yu Jin's face: "My aunt's sophora flower cake is refreshing and delicious. I really remember it all the time."

As he spoke, he looked at his only remaining cousin and sighed: "My cousin is one year older than me. He will act more carefully in the future. I will have many places to rely on in the future, so don't let me down."

When he said this, he looked past Wang Taicheng's fearful look with satisfaction and continued: "I have chosen a marriage for my cousin. He is the granddaughter of the second wife of the Jin family. He is only twelve years old and is already gentle and lovely. You go back and tell your aunt and get ready, the order will come later."

When Wang Tai walked out of the palace gate with heavy steps, Huo Yu had swept everything on the table in the public room to the ground, still full of resentment. He panted for a long time before calling He Jian in: "Where is the person I asked you to find now?"

"You can enter Beijing the day after tomorrow at the latest." He Jian said with hesitation on his face:
"Mr. Lang, that man is very evil. The head of the family has repeatedly warned you not to contact him in private again - do you really want to do this?"

Huo Yu glared at him coldly: "That's not something you should worry about."

The door was closed again, blocking out the dazzling sunlight outside.

Huo Yu sat on his back without caring about his appearance, exhaling gloomily, but his eyes were filled with a fierce and sinister look.

"You forced me." He murmured: "From the beginning to the end, I just wanted to get a woman. Why, but I just couldn't get it."

Cui Ge sat by the window of Chunfeng Pavilion, tilting his head and looking at the peach blossoms outside the window, which were as bright as haze.

The beautiful girl kneeling next to her picked up a wine-stained green plum with her fingers as delicate as a spring onion and brought it to his mouth.

Cui Ge was startled for a moment, then bit into it with a smile.

"Lady Lian. Do you think there are people in this world who don't care about fame, status or anything external, but only care about you?"

"Of course I do." The Lotus Lady smiled sweetly. Her body, covered only by a soft gauze, was as soft as a snake. She leaned into his arms and said, "Don't I just love the look of your husband?" "Princess, don't you care about everything else?"

"You?" Cui Ge raised his eyes and glanced at her lightly, with a look of disapproval on his face.

However, he did not escape the resistance, and smoothly took the soft body into his arms.

"Skin, flesh, color, appearance and character." He sighed: "If we talk about these, I would actually feel inferior to him."

The Lien Niang heard this and was puzzled: "I can't understand what Jiulang Jun said."

Cui Jiu smiled and pinched her waist: "That's good for you."

People's hearts are separated from each other. As long as you are talking about yourself in your eyes and mouth, it doesn't matter who you are thinking about.

Maybe that person only valued Yu Chu's appearance, not the title of Xianghou, who was strong on the outside but hard on the inside.

Thinking of this, the mood that had been suppressed for most of the day suddenly felt refreshed.

For the next few days, Luo Qianhuai just pretended that nothing happened and continued to sit in the hall for treatment.

Although she remained calm and composed, the patients who came in one after another were quite excited. Some of them knelt down and called "Mrs. Hou" as soon as they entered the door, which made Luo Qianhuai a little bit dumbfounded.

Huang Juan took the time to come here several times, and told a lot of gossip about Yu Chu in a mysterious and mysterious way. In her words, she was filled with regrets and regrets, as if she was about to fall into a huge pit of fire.

Luo Qianhuai couldn't explain the real situation to her. He could only talk about the imperial edict, and he looked like he was obeying his superiors, but it made Huang Juan speechless.

That night, Luo Qianhuai had just finished eating and was about to check the homework of several apprentices as usual, when he suddenly heard an electronic sound.

"The reward storage period has expired and will be distributed now."