with words in mind

Chapter 74: Thunderstorm Night Dream Return 3
Early the next morning, Xiaodouzi and his younger brothers and sisters came to Hanzi's door jokingly.

"Brother fool! Get up~ The sun is drying your ass!" Xiao Lai shouted at the crack of the door.

"Brother Hanzi, Aunt Kitchen made almond cakes today, and we'll eat them all up if you don't get up!" Xiaodouzi also shouted at the crack of the door.

The fool in the quilt turned over, pulled the quilt and covered his head and continued to fall asleep. At this moment, he had completely forgotten that he was going to sell books at the morning fair today. He just couldn't get up.
"Brother Hanzi fell asleep." Xiaomu, who was holding the puppet, looked through the crack of the door, "If I can't wake up, let's find my sister!"

"Okay~ I'll go find my sister!" Xiaodouzi happily agreed, and led his younger brothers and sisters to the door of Yan Mo's room. A few people crowded around and probed the crack of the door, only to see that they were tightly covered by the curtains. solid bed
Qi Ming noticed the movement outside the door long ago, and opened his eyes to look at the draped bed. Yan Mo rarely wakes up late, and is still sleeping under the quilt. Qi Ming listened to her even breathing, then closed his eyes and continued to sleep.

"Sister doesn't seem to be awake, let's go in and have a look." Xiaodouzi opened the door first, led his younger siblings to Yan Mo's bed, and quietly lifted the bed curtain.
Stare——the innocent and sincere eyes of the three children seemed to have some kind of power, Yan Mo frowned and woke up, turned his head to see a few little guys surrounding him, and got up and said, "Why are you here?"

"Sister, get up~ Aunt Kitchen has made a lot of delicious food. We can eat it when you get up." Xiaodouzi salivated.

Yan Mo looked at the sky outside, it was really getting late, she got up to get dressed.

After a group of children woke up Yan Mo, they gathered around Qiming on the couch to look at each other. The children looked at each other and let out light laughter. Xiaolai and Xiaodouzi reached into the quilt, ready to scratch Qiming's itch.
Xiaomu still remembered that the big brother robbed her puppet yesterday, so she hid behind Xiaodouzi and peeked at her with her head stuck out.
When Yan Mo was dressed, he saw that no matter how little Douzi and the others snickered, the fox was still sleeping on his back, and didn't move at all. Is this still a fox?

Xiaolai is more daring. Seeing that Qiming has no response, he is ready to pinch his nose!

Just when Xiaolai was about to touch the tip of his nose, a pair of star eyes suddenly opened, and looked at a few children lightly, causing them to hide back!
"Ah ah ah, run!" Xiao Lai was a thief with a guilty conscience, and ran out shouting at first, Xiaodouzi and Xiaomu didn't know whether to laugh or scream, and also ran out together!
Qi Ming got up, and under Yan Mo's inquiring eyes, his movements were natural and elegant, and he was neatly dressed.

"Go back to your palace after breakfast." Yan Mo left a sentence and went out first.

Qi Ming followed her out to the courtyard, the stone table was filled with breakfast of various colors, the kitchen aunt brought hot porridge, and the two started to eat.The kitchen aunt did not dare to share the table with King Yi'an, and was going to lead the little beans back to the kitchen for dinner.

"Aunt Chef, don't make anything special for him, sit down and eat together!" Yan Mo beckoned them to join the table.

Kitchen Aunt: "How about that? After all, we have different identities, so I'll take them to eat in the back kitchen."

"Aunt Kitchen is out." Qi Ming smiled, "This is the largest of your village masters. I don't mind, let's eat together."

When Xiaodouzi heard it, he couldn't help it. First, he sat on the chair, reached out and grabbed the food and started eating.

Aunt Kitchen looked at Yan Mo's affirmative look at her, and sat down as well. Xiaolai and Xiaomu also moved to sit on the chairs and started eating.

Yan Mo picked up the steamed bun and started eating.

"Zhaizhu, I went to call the second master this morning, and found that he left a note, and no one was in the room." The kitchen aunt handed a note to Yan Mo.

Yan Mo took a look, swallowed the food in his mouth and said to the kitchen aunt, "Brother Aoki is leaving for the Western Regions. He said that he would buy more flowers before summer, and come back in about half a month."

"The second master is also true. I finally came back and left as soon as I said it. I didn't say anything in advance, which made me babble in my heart." The kitchen aunt covered her chest and said, "I don't know that the dry food he brought is not enough. "

"Aunt Chef, relax, it's not the first time for brother Aoki to go out. He will take care of himself." Yan Mo comforted himself, but he murmured in his heart. How did it happen so suddenly?

At this moment, two men came in from outside the hospital, it was Feng Zhi and Lu Jiu.

Lu Jiu knelt down on one knee and saluted, "My subordinates see the prince."

Feng Zhi cupped his hands and said, "I have seen the prince."

Qi Ming: "How are things going?"

Lu Jiu got up and said: "The three women have been placed in place. Brother Feng and I asked Shitai and learned that the woman who didn't want to speak was kidnapped by her from the vicinity of the brothel."

Yan Mo: "Qinglou?"

Block: "Yes, the master, we then asked the mother of the brothel, and seeing that she could not explain clearly, I threatened her with a few words, only to find out that this woman was their newly purchased prostitute, and Bought it from human traffickers.”

Lu Jiu: "Afterwards, Officer Liao investigated them and found a few women who came from the wrong way. According to the clues they provided, they found the celebrity trafficker, and they arrested the brothel mother together."

Yan Mo: "What about the women who were trafficked?"

Block: "Some redeemed their bodies, and some stayed."

Yan Mo: "Unexpectedly, I missed a link."

Ban Zhi: "How will the head of the family plan to arrange the woman who is unwilling to speak?"

Yan Mo: "Let's stay in the village for now, and when she is willing to speak, ask her where she lives before sending it back."

Block: "Yes, the master."

Lu Jiu said to Qi Ming, "Master, since the matter has come to an end, shouldn't it be time to go back to the palace and report to Your Majesty?"

Qi Ming put down his chopsticks and said, "The matter of An Yanzhen really needs to go to the palace to file a complaint. Yan'er, you have to come with me."

"You're here all the way, it's fine if you have a statement, why do you need me?" Yan Yan said reluctantly.

Qi Ming looked at Yan Mo and said, "A few days have passed, and the palace must have learned about your recent whereabouts. The palace has its own rules. You are already Princess Yi'an, and you have participated in the whole process. It should be reported to the palace together with this king. Besides, the cottage is not long, the necessary superficial work is inevitable, if your reputation rises, you can also win a good reputation for the cottage, right?"

Yan Mo pondered for a moment, and felt that Qi Ming's words made sense: "Okay."

Qi Ming: "Entering the palace requires a lot of preparation, so I'll go back to the palace with this king in a while."

Yan Mo: "All the red tape is as simple as possible, I can't stand such a toss."

Qi Ming smiled and said, "Don't worry, Yan'er, this king knows."

After the meal, Yan Mo followed Qi Ming back to the palace. Qi Ming sent her to Yanming Courtyard before returning to Yueming Courtyard. As soon as he pushed the door in, he saw Xiao Ren frothing on the table and paralyzed.
"Master, if you don't come back, your subordinates will die and return to the west. There are too many documents to deal with." Xiao Ren said lifelessly.

"How are you preparing?" Qi Ming came to Xiao Ren's case, checked the documents, picked up a few, and returned to his desk to take a seat.

Xiao Ren then got up and said respectfully, "The person has already brought it, and it's ready according to the master's instructions."

"Very good, it will be delivered to the princess, you go down to rest first." He said without raising his head, and began to process the official document.

"Yes!" When Xiao Ren heard this, he didn't have to face the documents anymore, he was liberated, and he had more strength to speak!
It was not until lunch time that Qi Ming got up and left the Yueming Courtyard, and ordered his servants to place the lunch in the Yanming Courtyard.

Bored, Yan Mo checked the inside and outside of the Yanming Courtyard, and practiced martial arts in the courtyard after familiarizing himself with the terrain.Seeing that the maids brought delicious food, she put away her posture and went back to the house.Along with the food came Qi Ming, who led a young man in. The young man looked about 15 years old, with a handsome appearance and clear eyes, and followed his master with downcast eyes.

Qi Ming came to Yan Mo and said, "I see those maids you are not used to, so I specially picked him to serve you."

"Slave Zhushui, see the princess." The young man said and was about to kneel down.

Yan Mo held his clasped hand to get him up, frowned and asked curiously, "What do you call boiled water?! Boil the water?"

Zhu Shui looked embarrassed: "Princess Qi, it is the bamboo of bamboo."

Yan Mo: "Who gave you the name, it's so awkward!"

Zhu Shui glanced at his master shyly, not daring to answer.

Yan Mo looked at Qi Ming and knew it in his heart, and said to Zhu Shui: "If you want to stay, you must call me sister, you can't call yourself a slave, you can use me or a subordinate, you don't have to kneel when you see me, just use the etiquette in the rivers and lakes. But, do you remember?"

Zhushui looked at his prince.

Qi Ming: "From now on, you will be the princess' person, and everything will follow her arrangements."

Zhu Shui then bowed his hands obediently and said, "I have seen my sister before."

Yan Mo was very relieved to see this: "Hey, you are much better than those maids, and it's better for boys to talk."

Hearing this, Zhu Shui rolled his big eyes and looked at Qi Ming, only to see his own prince with a meaningful smile, looking straight at the princess.

Sure enough, you are not only a brother control but also a younger brother control, Qi Ming thought so, and said to the maids: "You all go down, Zhushui stay."

"Yes."

When lunch was all over, Yan Mo just finished his practice and was very hungry, so he sat down and started eating.

Before taking a few bites, the housekeeper Qiu Bo hurried over.

"My lord, the guard is here to report that His Royal Highness's car is about to arrive at the palace." Qiu Bo bowed his body and said respectfully.

Yan Mo stopped his chopsticks when he heard this, his eyelids trembled, Brother Jin.
Qi Ming stared at Yan Mo for a while, then got up and said, "Let's go, let's go to greet the emperor."

As soon as the two of them left the room, Qi Ming said again, "Remember the transaction between us?"

Yan Mo glanced at Qi Ming, just in time to meet the gaze he was looking at himself, and said, "Of course!"

When the two came to the gate of Yi'an Prince's Mansion, the prince's car had just stopped.

"Congratulations to His Royal Highness—" The prince got off the carriage amid the welcoming voices of everyone.

Qi Jin was dressed in a black robe with a gold pattern, which was hard to hide his extravagance, but the black robe made him even thinner, and his complexion was a little haggard.He smiled and raised his eyes, what caught his eyes was Yan Mo's clear eyes, it had been several days since the last time we parted.
Looking into his eyes, Yan Mo only felt that time passed slowly, and the people in front of him were still gentle and bright.
Qi Ming couldn't stop him. He looked at Yan Mo with unpredictable eyes. After a while, he stepped forward and saluted the prince, "Brother Huang."

"Cough cough." Seeing that Qi Ming blocked Yan Mo's figure, the prince could not help frowning, clenching his fists and covering his mouth.
"His Royal Highness!"

"Brother Emperor!"

Yan Mo and Qi Ming both supported him!
"Brother Huang can call his younger brother into the palace if you have something to do, so you don't have to be so burdened." Qi Ming hurriedly said.

"Cough cough. I'm here today to discuss business." The prince grabbed the arms of the two men from left to right, and was supported into the palace.

Qi Ming: "I haven't seen the emperor's brother so weak a few days ago, but his condition has gotten worse?"

"Nothing, maybe it's been too much trouble recently, too much work." The prince said, the hand that was supported by Yan Mo turned slightly, half gripped and half grasped, and the thumb slipped into Yan Mo's inner palm.

Yan Mo looked at the prince in surprise, he was looking down at himself with a slight smile.

Yan Mo's fingers trembled a few times, but in the end they remained the same.

Qi Ming looked sideways at all this with no expression, he knew that the prince's purpose this time was to speak indifferently.

When the three of them came to the hall, after the prince was seated, he let go of Yan Mo's wrist a little reluctantly, and said, "Father, the emperor, ordered King Yi'an to bring his concubine to the palace tomorrow to report on Anyan Town."

"My son obeys the order." Qi Ming respectfully said.

Yan Mo rarely saw Qi Ming look so respectful, and she didn't know that as Princess Yi'an, she should bow respectfully like Qi Ming and listen to the emperor's words, so she just stared blankly at the two brothers opposite.
The crown prince chuckled softly: "It seems that Princess Yan Yi'an is going to learn the etiquette in the palace." When he said Princess Yi'an, his smile faded.

Qi Ming lowered his eyebrows and said, "It's the negligence of the younger brother."

"Cough cough. There are no outsiders here. Brother Ming doesn't need to see outsiders. You must be careful when you enter the palace tomorrow." The prince turned to Yan Mo and said, "The people in the palace are terrifying. handle."

Yan Mo: "Brother Jin, don't worry, the etiquette is just a few moves, it's not difficult, I'm just not used to it."

When the prince heard this, Brother Jin couldn't help being stunned, a flower blossomed in his heart, he smiled and looked at Yan Mo.

"Cough cough." Qi Ming coughed twice, breaking the gaze between the two and asked, "The succession of the magistrate of Anyan Town has not been decided for a long time. Does the emperor know the reason?"

The prince retracted his gaze and said, "Anyan Town is the only place to go when entering Beijing. There are strong personnel exchanges. The transportation tax has always been collected by the Ministry of Industry. However, the Ministry of Household feels that all taxes should be managed by the Ministry of Household, and the two sides have long been at odds. The Ministry of Households wanted to recommend their own people to serve as magistrates of Anyan Town, and the Ministry of Industry also wanted to recommend their own people, so the two sides refused to give in to each other, making it impossible for people inside and outside the Ministry of Personnel, so they had to delay first."

"But the people can't afford it!" Yan Mo said sternly, "How can you delay the appointment of local parents and officials because of the provocation of Xiao Qiang?"

(End of this chapter)