Rongguo Duke’s Mansion, Jingyang Xuan.

A white carrier pigeon fell on the windowsill. Gui Ye grabbed it, untied the mailbox tied to his feet, and pulled out a note from it. He untied it and glanced, turned around and walked towards the main bedroom.

Lin Chenyao had just left the court and was changing into his official uniform.

"Marty." Gui Ye came in.

Seeing his serious expression, Lin Chenyao frowned, "What's wrong?"

"Zheng Ying fled." The message tube that Gui Ye untied from the foot of the pigeon was exactly what the glimpse came from. "I wonder if he noticed something, but he ran away overnight while the glimpse was not paying attention."

When Lin Chenyao knew that he was a member of the Shadow, he let the surveillance camera closely monitor his every move. Now he ran away overnight. Maybe he really realized something. Since he ran away, he would definitely return to Shadow or contact the organization's people.

Lin Chenyao pondered for a moment and said, "Immediately send someone to guard various levels, and the pigeons heading to the capital should also be paid attention to check one by one. No information can be left behind. The most important thing is to let someone monitor Miss Fu Er's every move."

Gui Ye is Lin Chenyao's left and right hand. He knew from Lin Chenyao that Miss Fu Er was a member of the shadow, so he didn't ask much and was about to turn around to do this. After only two steps, Lin Chenyao remembered something and asked again: "Do Zheng Ying have relatives?"

"Zheng Ying's wife and children did not survive the plague, but he has a nephew Zheng Rong, who is a military general. Zheng Ying cultivated this nephew like a child. Currently under Chu Xiao's command, it was Zheng Ying's personal recommendation. Chu Xiao and Zheng Ying have some friendship." Chu Xiao is Chu Xinyu's second uncle.

"He is quite good at making arrangements for his nephew." Lin Chenyao sneered, "Keep it tight, this person will be useful to us in the future."

"Know."

After Gui Ye went out, Chen Guang came in, and Lin Chenyao had already changed into his regular clothes.

"How are you preparing for the betrothal gift?"

"I am talking about this, and the old lady and the eldest princess have different opinions on this matter, so I have not prepared anything yet."

Lin Chenyao's eyes sank, "What's going on?"

"The old lady had already prepared a betrothal gift, but the eldest princess said that the hiring was too heavy. With the current situation of the Zhongyi Hou Mansion, such a heavy betrothal gift, the other party would have a headache when it was ready for a dowry, so it would be reduced by half. In this way, the two parties would be able to get a balanced marriage, and they would not cause gossip. But the old lady said that this is your marriage, of course, it should be more generous, which means that you should pay more attention to the other party, and this is your lifelong event. It is only once in your life. It is OK to pick a good day, but this betrothal gift must be generous."

"As a result, they delayed the appointment?" Lin Chenyao originally wanted to go to the Chu family to go to the court today. Unexpectedly, the two ancestors in the family were not even ready for gifts. He thought for a while and said, "You go to the warehouse to put things in a box. Those things should be able to hold seven or eight boxes. Then, I returned to Beijing last time, didn't the emperor give me five hundred pieces of silk? You can take half of it, and there are fertile fields shops, and you can transfer half of it."

Chen Guang said in surprise: "Mr. Marquis, isn't this too much?"

Compared to the old lady before, there were more than seven or eight boxes of things in the warehouse alone. The Marquis hadn't entered the warehouse for a long time. The things there were not ordinary things, and any one was enough for the living expenses of an ordinary family of five or fifty years.

"Marrying a wife is my business. Since they don't help me prepare, I can only prepare myself." He didn't understand this, but he didn't want to aggrieved Chu Xinyu. He was more generous so that her face would be bright.

"By the way, my lord." Chen Guang remembered something and said, "You are receiving a bride price, don't you still want wild geese?"

When I gave a geese to a wedding gift in Xu Dynasty, I gave a geese to a marriage, which means the love between husband and wife, and respect each other and vowed each other. The Marquis was so anxious to give a geese, and I thought I would never have thought of catching the geese.

"Yes!" After Chenguang mentioned this, Lin Chenyao remembered his sister, no, now he should call her Xinyu. She used to like swans very much, saying that swans and couples stayed together for life and were loyal to each other.

There is no swan in the capital, and the meaning of geese and swans is similar. He should send a pair of geese, so he said, "You go and help me catch two... No, I'll do it myself."

After saying that, he turned around and went out.

Jin Yuanbao hurriedly walked in, met Lin Chenyao going out, and called him and said, "Master, the old lady asked you to go to Songheju."

"What's the matter again?"

"A betrothal gift."

Lin Chenyao said: "Just tell them, don't worry about the betrothal gifts, I will do it myself. As long as they choose a good day, it's better to choose the most recent day."

The wedding process of the Xu Dynasty focuses on the six rituals, Nacai, Naji, Nazheng, and He is welcomed by his parents.

Since the marriage between Lin Chenyao and Chu Xinyu was granted by the emperor, Nacai skipped the question of the name, and Najib did not need it. Therefore, after the marriage edict was issued, the marriage between the two jumped directly to Nazheng.

"But the eldest princess said that it is too early to be admitted to the throne now. Even if you give a marriage, you have to follow all the rules. She said..."

"Tell them, I'll talk about everything when I come back."

Lin Chenyao rushed to catch geese. He didn't have the time to talk about this. He knew that there were many geese in a swamp in the suburbs. Now, it was when the geese fell to the ground to rest, so catching them was easier than when flying in the sky.

On this side, before Chu Xinyu entered the palace, he knew that it was Concubine Qi who asked her to enter the palace this time. Because her father-in-law asked her to bring her paint, remembering that at the Hundred Flowers Banquet, Concubine Qi said that her birthday was coming soon and she wanted to draw a portrait as a souvenir. She asked the emperor for help and invited her to the palace to paint for her.

She guessed that there was no one in the palace except Concubine Qi who would let her enter the palace at this time, and her aunt would not ask her to enter the palace and even asked her to bring paint.

The person who came to take her into the palace was not the last time Eunuch Fu, but a eunuch named Eunuch Huang. He directly took her to Concubine Qi's Chaoyang Palace.

I heard that Concubine Qi summoned Chu Xinyu to draw in the palace, and Concubine Chang and Concubine Lu, who had a good relationship with her, also came to her palace. They had long heard that Chu Xinyu's paintings were realistic. If they were as rumored, they would also want to draw one. Anyway, it would be free, and they would not draw white or paint.

After Chu Xinyu bowed to them one by one, Concubine Qi told her that her birthday was coming and she wanted to paint a portrait. She was a concubine, and Chu Xinyu couldn't refuse. She wanted to paint a portrait, so she painted her portrait.

"I want to sit in the garden, just sit in front of the peony flowers in the courtyard. Make me more beautiful." Concubine Qi specially put on the palace outfit today, and asked the palace maids to use plum blossom makeup, hoping to keep her most beautiful side.

Chu Xinyu looked at the position that Concubine Qi pointed out, then looked at her dressing today, and said, "The scenery here doesn't match your makeup. It's better to go to the pavilion and hold a silk fan in your hand, so that it matches your palace outfit."

Concubine Qi said, "I don't think anything is wrong there. But the pavilion you chose, don't you think it's weird to stand there?"

Concubine Lu nodded and said, "Yes, the imperial concubine is right. Did you say that just because you didn't want to draw?"

"I just put forward my opinion. If you like this, then that's it." Chu Xinyu was lazy to reason with them. Since he did not accept his opinion, then that's it.

She asked Concubine Qi to sit in front of the peony, holding a silk fan in her hand, while she sat five steps away, set up a tripod with rice paper on it, and Lan Yi was beside her grinding paint for her.

While painting, Chu Xinyu looked at Concubine Qi a few times, asked her to make two moves, and then began to draw. Concubine Chang and Concubine Lu stood behind her and watched her painting on the drawing paper. After about an hour, the portrait came out.

"It's really similar!"

"It looks so good!"

Concubine Chang's eyes were full of envy. She also wanted to draw one. Concubine Lu also had the same idea. The two of them looked at the paintings and praised them for their realistic and goodness. Chu Xinyu had no words.

However, before the two of them had finished praising each other, Concubine Qi smiled and wanted to look at the portrait. But when she saw the portrait, her smile suddenly became quiet, "What, why is this?"

Chu Xinyu said: "Don't you want to draw a portrait?"

"Yes, but what I want is not like this."

"What portrait do you want?"

Concubine Qi said: "What I want is the way you helped the paintings of the marquis and the emperor at Baihua Banquet last time. That kind of portrait is more realistic than this."

Chu Xinyu smiled and said, "Sorry, I will only paint those paintings when I do charity activities in the future. Generally speaking, I will not paint those paintings."

Concubine Qi was puzzled, "What is a charity activity?"

Chu Xinyu explained: "The public welfare activity is to ask me to draw that kind of portrait. I have to pay 5,000 silver taels first, and I donate all of these silver taels to the disaster-stricken areas in China."

"Five thousand taels? Why don't you go and grab it?" Lu Guiren didn't expect that Chu Xinyu was so brave that he actually said in front of Concubine Qi that he would cost 5 thousand taels of silver to draw a painting. Will she give money to Han?

"It is illegal to rob, why not use it if there is a correct way? If you can't afford it, don't be greedy for vain."

"What? You said we are greedy for vain?"

"I didn't say that, you want to take the seat."

Codename: What does Concubine Chang and Concubine Lu frowned, what does it mean?

Concubine Qi stared at the portrait in anger. Although she was very similar to her paintings, it was different from what she had imagined before. What she wanted was the kind of person who could use a brush to brush a few and she could make a human form. Then she looked at Chu Xinyu and smiled and said, "Does this palace say that you went to the palace to draw, and you also want to collect silver from my palace?"

"Of course, it's said it's a charity event. Could it be that I'll help you draw it and I'll pay the silver to donate myself?" Chu Xinyu curled his lips and laughed sarcastically, "If you don't have silver or don't want to donate, don't have many requests."

Concubine Chang and Concubine Lu widened their eyes in disbelief. Chu Xinyu was too brave to talk to Concubine Qi like this? Didn’t she know that Concubine Qi is currently favored by the emperor. As long as she mentioned it to the emperor, she would be thrown out of the palace gate.

Concubine Qi was very angry, "Chu Xinyu, who gave you the courage to talk to me like this?"

Chu Xinyu said: "My daughter is just telling the truth, even if the emperor comes, he will say the same."

Concubine Qi's face was slightly pale, but her eyes were as sharp as ever, and she was not angry and powerful. "I want you to draw again, will you draw or not?"

Chu Xinyu looked at Concubine Qi and said seriously: "My daughter still says the same thing. Even if the emperor comes, I will say the same thing."
Chapter completed!