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For a period of time after this, Manager Yuan and the Wu Mansion's secret guards often saw this scene:
Lord Wu, carrying a plate covered with black cloth, walked out of the young lady's room and headed to the basement in the backyard.
Behind him, the young lady shrugged her head and listlessly carried something smaller than hers, covered with a black cloth, following behind Prime Minister Wu like a lost soul.
In the garden that the father and daughter must pass through, there is a place with three lounge chairs.
Miss Ji San was leaning on the lounge chair in the middle, drinking tea and reading a book casually.
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This year, the weather in Dayuchao was favorable and the harvest was good.
On New Year's Eve, the emperor and empress held a banquet in the palace, and the Ji, Wu and Lin families were all invited.
Even Ji Mingxi, who was practicing in the temple, rushed back specially to see his younger brother and sister-in-law.
In order to have a good start of "reunion", a large round table was used for this New Year's Eve.
The emperor abused his power for personal gain and arranged himself, the empress, the crown prince, Ji Mingxi, Ji Yunxi, and Wu Weian to sit at the same table.
These are all the people he likes.
The queen looked at the list and was speechless for a moment, then added Ji Mingyuan, Ji Mingyan and Du Niangzi, Ji Mingshuang and Wanxiang, Wu Weining, Wu Yunan, and Lin Congchong's family of three.
As early as several months ago, the emperor wanted to summon Ji Minghao back to Beijing to celebrate the New Year, but Ji Minghao asked to stay.
Since the soldiers in the army could not go home to reunite with their families, as the general of the army, he naturally had to go with everyone.
For Yu Ji Minghao, his brothers and sisters are his family, and so are these soldiers who fought side by side with him.
No matter where he is, he is not alone on New Year's Eve. He has his family with him. How can he be lonely?
At the New Year's banquet, the empress sat on the emperor's left and Ji Mingxi sat on his right.
His beloved son sat with two other children. The two children were really talkative, chattering back and forth, and calculating with each other how many red envelopes they could get.
The emperor glanced at them displeasedly and whispered in the queen's ear, "I said before that Yun'an and Cong Chong should sit at a different table."
Queen: "Then Cheng Xiu will follow."
The emperor paused, looked at the prince, and said with emotion: "What do you think Chengxiu likes about those two people?"
The Queen twitched her lips and said perfunctorily, "I don't know either."
The emperor shook his head, coughed, and turned to look at the Ji family members beside him.
Needless to say, Mingxi has never been interested in love between men and women since he was a child, and now he is practicing in the temple with his hair uncut.
Mingxi's fifth brother Ji Mingyuan doesn't like to see people. When the emperor was still the prince, he felt that it would be difficult for his fifth brother to get married. However, he had corresponded with Mingxi before, and Mingxi said that Ji Mingyuan had been very close to his junior sister in the sect in recent years.
Thinking of this, the emperor said, "Mingyuan, when do you and your junior sister plan to get married?"
Ji Mingyuan, who was immersed in his own world, was caught off guard and froze on the spot, his face turning red.
He hesitated for a moment, then looked at Ji Mingyan and Du Niangzi, who were whispering in his ear, and asked, "Sixth brother, when are you getting married?"
Ji Mingyan and Du Niangzi raised their heads, their faces filled with excitement as they said in unison, "Wait until we gather all the poisonous...snakes!"
Over the years, they have been traveling around the world, collecting drugs everywhere.
Poisonous insects, poisonous weeds, etc., now only poisonous...snakes are not complete yet.
Ji Mingyuan looked at Ji Mingshuang silently. Ji Mingshuang thought for a moment and exchanged glances with Wanxiang: "Around the beginning of autumn this year."
Everyone looked back at Ji Mingyuan.
Ji Mingyuan didn't like being the center of attention, which made him a little nervous.
In his nervousness, he thought of Ji Minghao who was far away, and said hurriedly: "After my second brother gets married."
Speaking of Ji Minghao, the Emperor interrupted, "Minghao's marriage is indeed still uncertain. How could he meet a woman while in the army? Queen, do you have a suitable candidate? How about I grant Minghao a marriage?"
The Queen was helpless: "Your Majesty, the matter of marriage still depends on Minghao's own wishes."
"It's our parents' orders and the matchmaker's words. You and I were brought together by our mother, so that's all good." The emperor looked at Ji Mingxi, "Mingxi, what do you think?"
Ji Mingxi put down the teacup in his hand: "It's all up to the emperor."
The emperor was satisfied and said to the chief eunuch who was serving behind him: "Please remember this for me."
No one else in the Ji family spoke up to help Ji Minghao refuse the offer. They all looked as if it had nothing to do with them.
Anyway, Ji Minghao is the one who suffers.
"Oh, right." The emperor looked at Ji Yunxi and Wu Weian, "The name of your sweeping boy is so-and-so..."
Ji Mingyan continued, "Your Majesty, it's Xuezhu. There's still no news of Xuezhu. Sister Du and I have looked everywhere for her over the years, but there's still no trace of her."
The emperor, interrupted, smiled faintly: "Really?" He then looked at Ji Yunxi and Wu Weian, "You don't have any news about him either?"
Ji Yunxi and Wu Weian shook their heads.
Strangely enough, Xuezhu seemed to have disappeared from the face of the earth, and even though the two of them used all their power, they still couldn't find her.
The emperor put away his smile and sighed, feeling very regretful: "What should I do? Nothing will happen, will it? I like Xuezhu very much, he is very down-to-earth. If I find him, I would like to have him serve as an official in the court."
Ji Mingxi, who was standing by, picked up the teacup and blew on it: "Your Majesty, no news is the best news. Everything is fate."
The emperor thought for a moment and nodded, "Mingxi is right."
Then the emperor grabbed Wu Weian and Ji Yunxi and talked about their experiences along the way in Jiangnan. After a few words, he changed the topic to his trip to Qingzhou and Liangzhou, recalling the past.
Everyone ate and drank as they pleased, while being affectionate with the people around them. When the emperor finished recounting a story, he paused for a moment and replied:
"Yeah, it's been so long."
"Your Majesty, you are right."
"Your Majesty is wise. What you said is very true."
“…”
After Yun Xiaoan, Lin Congchong and the prince had eaten, they went downstairs and played with fireworks together.
As the night deepens, the New Year’s bells ring, and fireworks bloom in the darkness, magnificent and gorgeous.
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