Chapter 107 What will the Queen do tonight?

Xu Xingxia said in a casual manner: "Luoyang is in the Central Plains, and it is very far from our Ningxia Town. If we want to go to Luoyang, we must first pass Ningxia City, then Qingyang, then Xi'an, then Tongguan, and finally reach Luoyang."

Dongzi couldn't wait to ask, "Where is Qingyang?"

Xu Xingxia went out to the open space outside, took a few small stones, placed them one by one on the ground, marking the locations of each place, and explained them in detail to Dongzi. Originally, he should have drawn a simple map for Dongzi, which was the formal answer. Unfortunately, the Xu family did not have paper or pen. In my impression, Weizhenbao did not sell paper and pens. For no other reason, no one could use it. If no one used it, naturally no one would sell it.

For people at that time, it was already amazing to be able to figure out the location around Weizhen Fort. But for Xu Xingxia, a time traveler, he basically remembered the general trend of the world, the national map, and even the world map. Of course, he would not forget big cities like Xi'an and Luoyang. In addition to geographical location, Xu Xingxia also had a basic understanding of the basic situation of each city, and explained it to Dongzi to know it.

Dongzi said with longing: "Brother, do you think we can go to Luoyang?"

Xu Xingxia smiled and said, "Of course! When you grow up, I will take you there!"

Dongzi stood up excitedly and said eagerly: "Really?"

Xu Xingxia said calmly: "Of course it's true. We not only have to go to Luoyang, but also to the capital, Yangzhou, and Nanjing. There are not only one fun cities in the world. Besides, in this world, there are not only us, Ming Kingdom. There are many countries, many ethnic groups, and many beautiful cities. If you have the opportunity, you should go and take a look."

After a slight pause, Xu Xingxia said seriously: "The ancients said that reading thousands of books is worse than traveling thousands of miles. When you grow up, well, you are twenty years old. My brother will pay you to go to every part of the country to have a look and enrich your knowledge."

Dongzi's eyes suddenly shone, and she couldn't help but feel a little impatient.

Xu Xingxia smiled secretly in her heart. Such temptation is simply too unauthorized. Even if she had changed herself, she might not be able to bear it. However, if Dongzi couldn't even resist it for the past ten years, she would be difficult for her to become famous in the future. No one asked her for ten years and became famous in one fell swoop. It would be difficult for outsiders to understand the hard work of studying.

After the two brothers chatted for a while, Wang asked for a meal. Each of them had a bowl of dumplings full of thin skin and stuffed with real pork fillings, which were chopped very finely and crumbly. Xu Fuqing was very happy and poured himself a small glass of rice wine. Xu Xingxia refused to drink, so she could only let her father drink it slowly by herself.

While eating, Xu Xingxia took advantage of the candlelight and looked carefully at the faces of Da Nan and Xiao Nan, and found that they were not as pale as before. Their appetites were not as big as before. Like Niu Niu, they both ate half a bowl of dumplings and couldn't finish them. It seemed that the daily food was pretty good and there was no need to overeat.

When he had almost finished eating, Wang glanced at his eldest son and said intentionally or unintentionally: "My third aunt came two days ago."

Xu Xingxia actually heard it, but she had no reaction at all. It was like there was only one Mrs. Lin in the entire Ningxia Town, and there was only one third aunt in Weizhen Fort. This third aunt’s full-time job was to be a matchmaker. Xu Xingxia thought that Wang asked for this matter to kiss him. He didn’t want to get engaged so soon. To be honest, Aunt San is just a military woman in Weizhen Fort. What kind of circle can she come into contact with? She is at the level of a hundred households. If she wants to marry the deputy thousand households, she is already unable to meet.

Well, Xu Xingxia still has high standards for choosing a partner. What he requires is not the other party's status, not money and wealth. What he requires is that the other party is good-looking, at least he should be pleasing to the eye. As a time traveler, as a time traveler who has seen countless photos of beautiful women online in later generations, he really doesn't take the seven-point appearance of a woman seriously. No matter what, he must have the same level as Joey Wong, Rene Reis, and Lin Chi-ling.

Of course, some people may say that we should pay attention to inner beauty. A woman with only external beauty and no inner beauty can only marry as a concubine at most, and being a formal wife is absolutely impossible. It is said that marrying a wife is a virtuous person, and taking a concubine is a beauty. However, Xu Xingxia has her own fallacies. If there is no certain external beauty, how can she pay attention to her inner beauty? So Xu Xingxia decided to continue waiting and continue to take a look.

With such a big and so many women in the Ming Dynasty, isn’t there a woman with both external beauty and internal beauty? It’s impossible! At worst, I’ll start a family later and include all the eight beauties of Qinhuai. Of course, if I have the ability, it’s not impossible to snatch all the Mongolian beauties.

Seeing that Xu Xingxia had no reaction at all, Xu Fuqing, as his father, had to cough and repeat: "Aunt San came two days ago."

Xu Xingxia still had no reaction at all. He made up his mind that his marriage must be decided by himself. What kind of matchmaker's words and parents' orders are not good. Of course, it is not good to directly reject the proposal of his parents, so just pretend to be deaf and mute, and talk to him. I hope they understand what they mean and don't continue to bother themselves on this issue. Khan, are parents so worried that their children will not be able to marry their wives in the future?

Wang had to say clearly: "Xia'er, Aunt San came two days ago."

My mother had a public showdown, so Xu Xingxia had no choice but to ask, "Which third aunt?"

Wang said, "Which third aunt is there in Weizhen Fort?"

Xu Xingxia said: "Oh, it's the matchmaker's third aunt..."

He put down the dumplings, looked at his father, and then at his mother, and said seriously: "Aunt San is here to propose marriage to me?"

Wang shook his head and said, "No, I'm here to propose marriage to Dongzi..."

Dongzi, who was eating dumplings, didn't expect that he was the protagonist, so he almost swallowed it. He was only ten years old and had no idea about proposing marriages. However, he could feel that the elder brother didn't like this proposal. Since it was something that the elder brother didn't like, he didn't like it. However, he didn't have the courage to say no, and there was no way, so he could only continue to eat dumplings.

It turned out that he was proposing a marriage for Dongzi, and Xu Xingxia's heart was relieved. He couldn't help but complain secretly. This is really a father and mother. Can you tell the matter clearly next time, causing me a false alarm? He looked at his younger brother sympathetically, frowned and said, "What do you say in Aunt San?"

Wang said with a hint: "She said there was a family named Zhang in Ningxia City. She was born in a hundred families. She had a shop in Ningxia City, a wealth of thousands of yuan, and more than one hundred acres of paddy fields. The girl at home was exactly seven years old, three years younger than Dongzi..."

Xu Xingxia shook her head and said, "Take it down! Dongzi is still young, why are you anxious about?"

Wang said with a little temptation: "After all, others are people in the city. They have shops and fertile land, which is not considered as insulting us..."

Xu Xingxia shook her head and said, "I don't think it's time to go to school and get fame in the future. If you get engaged so early, it will be bad for Dongzi's future growth and it will easily delay other people's girls. I have asked someone to ask the Wei Xue people and said that you can enter school at any time. In two days, I will send Dongzi to school."

Xu Fuqing asked subconsciously: "You will leave in two days? So fast?"

Xu Xingxia nodded and said affirmatively: "Yes! I will leave in two days!"

Wang suddenly became nervous and immediately left all the engagement behind. She was a little anxious to eat the dumplings in the bowl and started to arrange clothes and utensils for Dongzi to go to Weixue. The eldest son stayed at Niujiaoduan for many years, and the younger son was sent to school again. Of course, she, as a mother, was reluctant to let her go.

Xu Xingxia turned to look at Dongzi and asked with concern: "Dongzi, after entering Weixue, she has to live independently. There should be no problem, right?"

In fact, he knew completely that although Dongzi was young and less than ten years old, he was already a little adult. When his elder brother and father were both bedridden and recuperated, he did many of the work of the Xu family, including heavy physical work. When he went to Weixue to study, he just wanted to live independently. He did not have any heavy physical work and had no problem at all.

Sure enough, Dongzi said seriously: "Brother, I can."

Xu Xingxia nodded and encouraged her, "Dad, mom, I, Niu Niu, Da Nan, Xiao Nan, if you have time, you will go to see you. If it's a holiday, you can also come back. In the past few days, you will prepare. When I make arrangements, I will go to Ningxia City with you."

Thinking that he was about to enter school, Dongzi couldn't sit still. After eating, he hurried back to his room and packed his things. Being able to go to Ningxia City to study is definitely the dream of many children in Weizhenbao. However, due to the limitations of conditions, there are very few children who can realize this dream. For so many years, children who can go to Weizhenbao can count them with just one finger.

After eating dumplings, Wang was washing dishes, Xu Fuqing sat in front of the stove and was responsible for boiling water, preparing to bathe everyone. Dongzi went back to his room early and continued to read the villain's book. Xu Xingxia had nothing to do, so she played hand-movie with three little girls. The candlelight tonight was quite bright, and the hand-movie was particularly interesting to play, and the three girls quickly became happy.

While playing, Niu Niu didn't know what she thought of, suddenly stopped her hands, looked at Xu Xingxia with anticipation, and asked curiously: "Big brother, do you think, Queen, what will she do at night? Will she also do hand-movies?"

Xu Xingxia was stunned. This question is a bit too abrupt, right? Why did Niu Niu suddenly ask about the Empress coming? This is simply something that is unrelated. What's even more terrible is that she is only seven years old, so why do you care about the Empress's affairs at night? He looked at his little sister in confusion and asked in confusion: "What Empress?"

Niu Niu said seriously: "It's the Empress in the Palace! It's the Emperor's Woman!"

Xu Xingxia was so shocked that even the emperor's wife came out. If such a title was heard by the spies from the Dongchang and Jinyiwei, they would be inadequate to cause anything to happen. The factory guards of the Ming Dynasty were not a joke, they were really omnipresent. He lowered his business and said seriously: "Niu Niu, why would you ask such a question?"

Niu Niu naturally didn't notice any danger at all. She pursed her lips and said with interest: "Today I was listening to the story in the teahouse. The Taoist priest talked about the Queen. What he said was that the Queen was the Emperor's wife."

Xu Xingxia then breathed a sigh of relief. She thought to herself, this newly opened teahouse is really harmful. What book do you say? Isn’t this harmful? The Empress is the emperor’s wife. This explanation is also a blessing for him to say it out loud. Do you really think that Dongchang and Jinyiwei do not exist? After thinking about it, Xu Xingxia said slowly and seriously: "Niu Niu, the Empress is the emperor’s wife and the emperor’s wife, so you can’t be called a wife."

Niu Niu asked curiously: "What will she do tonight?"

Xu Xingxia was really asked. Yes, what would the Empress do tonight? Ordinary women must sleep with their men. However, the Emperor has so many women who have to take turns to favor him. The Empress must often stay alone in the empty room. What would the Empress do when she stayed alone in the empty room? Music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, songs, or playing cards, playing mahjong, watching operas? Or... purely dazed?

Looking at Niu Niu's eyes looking for knowledge, Xu Xingxia had to correct her expression and said seriously: "The Empress, of course, is... to deal with big and small matters at night. Niu Niu, you have to know that the Empress's mother is in the world, the lord of the harem and the mother of a country. She has many things to do if she wants to manage the entire harem."

Niu Niu said seriously: "Will she be busier than the emperor?"

Xu Xingxia hesitated for a moment and didn't know how to answer. If it were Emperor Wanli or Emperor Jiajing, these two masters must be not very busy. Their queens probably were not busy either. In history, both of these two masters' queens seem to have no reputation. However, if this queen could be extended to Concubine Zheng, she should probably be very busy. She has many opportunities to appear in history books.
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