The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 2 Returning to the Palace
When Mu Xu thought about the difference between the original book and the reality, the team had already arrived at the city of Shenjing.

Seeing a team coming to the outer city gate from a distance, and seeing hundreds of iron cavalry in the team, the gatekeeper hastily greeted them, and at the same time guessed which high-ranking official this was.

Without Mu Xu's instructions, his own family will step forward and explain his identity to him.

After hearing this, the city gate officer naturally did not dare to be negligent. After ordering people to control the entrance and exit of the city gate, he personally sent the team into the city gate.

Entering the city, it is a lively scene, people come and go on the street, and there are countless businesses and restaurants on both sides of the road.In this way, the team walked for about two sticks of incense, and turned into the inner city again.After entering Neicheng, pedestrians suddenly became scarce, and the team speeded up in vain.After a while, they arrived at their destination, the Dongping County Prince's Mansion on Yong'an Street at the foot of the Imperial City.

At this time, the door of the mansion was already wide open, and the housekeeper Wu Lai was waiting at the door with a group of servants.Seeing Mu Xu and his party, Wu Lai hurried to the horse to salute,

"Old slave Wu is here, I have seen the prince."

Mu Xu got off the horse and handed the reins to the servant.Nodding to Wu Lai, "Butler Wu is rarely seen, how is everything in the house?"

Wu Lai replied, "Everything in the mansion is normal, but the concubine has urged people to come and ask me several times."

While answering Mu Xu's words, he quickly ordered the servant to send the princess's carriage to the backyard, and took the accompanying family to the back street of the palace to resettle, while he accompanied Mu Xu into the mansion from the main entrance.

While chatting with Wu Lai, Mu Xu walked towards the mansion, when the servants on the way saw him, they naturally saluted him without mentioning it.

As soon as he walked past the screen wall in the front yard and came to the main hall of the mansion, in front of the Shouhui Hall, he heard a shout, "Where is my good grandson, let me see if he has lost weight."

As soon as Mu Xu heard it, she knew that it was her grandmother who had arrived, so she rushed over to meet her.

I saw an old lady with a silver hair and a fine attire rushing towards the main hall with the support of a group of nuns and little maids.

Seeing her grandmother, Mu Xu didn't dare to neglect, walked up to her in a few steps, knelt down and saluted,
"An unfilial grandson greets his grandmother."

Before Mu Xu kowtowed, Concubine Zhang grabbed him and put him in her arms.After hugging for a while, he let go.Concubine Zhang looked up at her grandson, who was taller than her, and reached out to caress his face, with tears in her eyes,

"Good grandson, he has grown taller and lost weight. He must have suffered a lot in Liaodong. He misses his grandmother."

Seeing the old lady cry, Mu Xu was also very moved, and hurriedly wiped away her tears.Although he didn't spend much time in the capital mansion, his grandmother loved him even more than his mother. No matter what good things or strange things were there, they would send someone to Liaodong for him. .So even if he was reborn as a human being, he still regarded this old man as his closest relative in his heart.

"What did the grandmother say? The grandson has grown taller, but he has lost weight. The grandson and his father are in Liaodong, and they always miss their grandmother."

While talking with his grandmother, Mu Xu took the old lady from the girl's hand and supported her personally.

Hearing what her grandson said, Concubine Zhang immediately replied with a smile, "Okay, okay, it's my grandmother who said something wrong, my good grandson has grown up."

"Grandma is still in good health. My grandson brought some century-old ginseng to my grandma from Liaodong, and later invited the imperial doctor to dispense medicine for my grandma."

"Okay, my good grandson is really filial, much better than your father. He has only come back a few times in these years, and he is not afraid that his old mother will go away one day."

Seeing that the grandmother said that her son was not, but her eyes were full of light, Mu Xu didn't know that this old lady stayed alone in the huge mansion in the capital all year round. Except for the servants around her, no relatives were by her side. Missing his son, he quickly comforted him,
"Grandma, what nonsense are you talking about? My grandson is still waiting for the future. You will bring me a great-grandson. You must live a long life."Then he explained to his father,

"Besides, my father is always concerned about my grandmother. It's just that Liaodong's military affairs are busy, and I can't leave the fief without purpose. Before I came back, my father told me to do my filial piety for him in Beijing. If my father heard you say that, my father didn't specify what to do. Sad!"

When Concubine Zhang heard what her grandson said, she really turned her worries into joy, nodded and said,
"Okay, grandma must be waiting to hug my great-grandson. Hey, now that you're gone, Jing'er is alone in Liaodong, so I don't know if she can take care of herself."

Seeing that the old lady had disliked her son just now, but now she was worried again, Mu Xu hurriedly made a show of embarrassment to Nanny Chen who was beside her.

Nanny Chen has been serving the old concubine for decades, and she is mature, so she doesn't know what Mu Xu means.Excuse me now,
"Concubine Tai, the son has been exhausted all the way, so let the son go to freshen up first. You should go back to Songhe Hall first, and wait for the son to have dinner together. Besides, the days will be long in the future. You, you have plenty of time to get close to the son."

Hearing what Nanny Chen said, Concubine Zhang turned her head and asked the girl next to her,

"Chuntao, the arrangement has been made in the Shizi's courtyard, who is looking after it now?"

I saw a beautiful-looking woman in a long green dress, who was a little older than the little girl next to her, and she gave a little blessing to Concubine Zhang and then to Mu Xu, and then she replied,

"If you go back to the concubine, the Zhaohui Courtyard where the son lived before has been settled. The girls in the past were old, and the concubine was merciful and let them go home. Now there is Luliu taking a few girls to take care of it. Going." Then he asked Mu Xu,

"Your Majesty brought a girl you are familiar with from Liaodong, but do you need to re-arrange?"

Mu Xu still remembered Chuntao. When she returned to Beijing at the age of ten, this girl and Lu Liu served him together. At that time, they were just second-class maids beside the old concubine.Hearing her question, he replied with a smile,

"Sister Chuntao, just look at the arrangement. I don't like so many people around me to serve me, so I didn't bring any girls with me when I returned to Beijing, so there is no need to make new arrangements."

Before Chuntao could reply, Concubine Zhang patted his arm,
"You child, after so many years, why are you still so strange? There are not many caring people around you, and your mother will let you. It's strange if I don't talk about her when I turn around."

Mu Xu hurriedly begged for mercy,

"Grandpa, please forgive me. You know that I like quietness since I was a child, and I don't like being surrounded by so many people. After finally persuading my mother, if you say that again, it's okay, and my mother will arrange for me later. A bunch of people, I can't stand it."

Hearing what he said, Concubine Zhang had no choice but to say, "You child, well, it's all up to you." After speaking, she ordered Chuntao,

"Chuntao, take your son there, I don't know if this child knows the way to the mansion?"

Just as Mu Xu was about to speak, Concubine Zhang said to him,
"Hurry up and wash off the dust on your body, and remember to come to Songhe Hall to talk to grandma later." After finishing speaking, he took the people around him with him.

Watching Concubine Zhang leave, Chuntao stepped forward to salute,
"My lord, this servant will take you to Chaohui Courtyard."

Mu Xu waved his hand, "Sister Chuntao, it's not the first day we met, so why be so polite."

Chuntao replied while leading the way, "Master, you should call me Chuntao, lest others say that slaves are not polite."

"Whoever has an opinion asks him to come to me for an argument. Besides, for so many years, thanks to you for taking care of grandma, I will ask mother to reward you well."

"That's the duty of a servant, how dare you let the princess reward you, my son, don't insult your servant."

After chatting casually with Chuntao, they arrived at Chaohui Courtyard. Luliu had been waiting at the door with four maids. When she saw Mu Xu, she hurriedly brought someone forward to salute, "I have met the prince."

Mu Xu waved them off, looked at Lu Liu, still had the same round face as before, couldn't help laughing and teasing her, "Lu Liu, why haven't I seen you for a few years, and your face is getting rounder and rounder?"

Luliu was not afraid of him, and said angrily, "As soon as the prince came back, he made fun of the servants, but the prince has not seen him for a few years, so he is much taller!" Then pointing to the girls behind him,

"My lord, this is the concubine who arranged to serve you. They are all carefully selected. Do you want to rename some of them?"

Mu Xu looked at the four pretty girls in front of him, and really didn't know what to name them.Thinking about it, he suddenly remembered that Xuzhu's four maids in Tianlong Babu immediately took them over, regardless of whether his own maids were quadruplets.

"Well, from left to right from now on, they will be called plum swords, blue swords, bamboo swords, and chrysanthemum swords."

The four maids silently recited their new names several times, and saluted Mu Xufu together.
"Thank you, son, for your name."

Mu Xu signaled the girls not to be too polite, and then explained,

"I don't have any big rules here. You can do whatever you did in the mansion before. However, I usually like to be quiet. If you don't have my order, don't come into my study at will."

Seeing the girls nodding in agreement, Mu Xu said to Chuntao and Luliu beside him,
"Go and serve grandma yourself, I have nothing to do here."

Chuntao and Luliu nodded in agreement, told Mei Jian and the others to take good care of Mu Xu, and then turned and left.

(End of this chapter)