The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 106 Adults
Accompanied Ah Yao to celebrate his birthday happily, and after returning to the Zichen Hall, Xie Zhao had to do something that was not "happy".

Concubine Shu made too much trouble.

There can't be a second time for this kind of thing.Regardless of whether Concubine Shu has the ability to really take people away, Xueli and Ayao will feel uneasy if there are many such situations.

It is true that Sydney didn't mention a word today, but he couldn't pretend he didn't know.Xueli didn't tell him much that she didn't like to complain, but if she really thought it was not a problem, she wouldn't ask Fugui to go to Zichen Palace to report it.

The emperor thought for a while and called Chen Jijiang in.

"Go and tell Concubine Hui that Concubine Shu has caused too many troubles recently, she doesn't need to live in Yuehe Palace, let Concubine Hui arrange a place for her in Roujia Palace. She is not allowed to see Emperor Ping'an again in the future."

Chen Jijiang was startled.

He couldn't react at all, he answered "No" in a daze, and went out to pass the decree. When he exited the hall door, he was blown by the cold wind and woke up suddenly. He looked back at the lights in the hall, and it was too late to say anything. up.

Then I had to pass the decree.

This decree failed to wait until the next day to cause a storm, and that night, the harem was fried.

The concubines want to go out to inquire, but dare not go out, for fear of causing trouble to themselves.

This kind of purpose is too rare.In contrast, punishing the salary and punishing the palace people around them are trivial matters that cannot be considered trivial.

This is even more serious than downgrading.In the palace, all concubines from the second rank and above are in charge of the first palace. His Majesty asked Concubine Shu to move to Concubine Hui's Roujia Palace. The slightest bit of face left in this seat is gone.

Early the next morning, Concubine Shu went to the playbook and asked herself to be the last of nine concubines to repair her appearance.

I heard from the people in front of the imperial court that as soon as the people around Concubine Shu sent in the memorial, His Majesty approved it.

Because of this, Yuqian chatted again, and some said that Concubine Shu...she should be called Shi Xiurong now, doing this to save the last bit of face for herself, at least she didn't have to be ashamed and continued to sit in the seat of the third lady.

But there are also some people who think that she is really out of her mind when she does this.

"Your Majesty has reserved a position for her, so she can stay at ease." A little eunuch said with a light smile, "There is a big gap between Xiu Rong and Mrs. Shu Concubine's monthly schedule. Can't you have a good day?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw Xu Shishui coming out of the hall. He turned his head and wanted to run away but did not run away. Xu Shishui grabbed his ear and patted him on the head: "Don't kill you! This is something you should discuss Is it? How dare you tell me that you want to work with Miss Ruan, since you have no words? Do you know who Miss Ruan is?"

As soon as the words came out, the surroundings burst into laughter, and everyone surrounded the little eunuch and laughed at him: "Yo, do you want to go to Miss Ruan's place? Why don't you tell the brothers just because of Gao Zhi'er's plan?"

In the small courtyard, Xueli didn't bother about Shi Xiurong's matter - it wouldn't be worthwhile to let her celebrate it happily.

However, since she saw A Yao's reaction when she saw Concubine Shu, she found that she felt more and more fond of A Yao.Sometimes when I'm alone, I can't help but wonder how much Ayao has been wronged in Yuehe Palace.On the other hand, she still has a consciousness, knowing that she should not spoil A Yao too much because of this, so as not to harm the child.

So the result of such wild thinking is that after she came back to her senses, if A Yao was by her side, she would definitely immediately hug A Yao and kiss her...

The little A Yao was always confused by her sudden kiss, but she was never unhappy.There was only one time when Ah Yao was unhappy—that was when she was concentrating on eating, when she was suddenly hugged by Xue Li, and immediately stretched out her small hand to press her mouth.

A Yao frowned, and told Xueli seriously: "Auntie, I'm eating!"

Sydney was disgusted by such an older child!

No one saw her, but she still felt very embarrassed, so she ran to the Zichen Palace at night and asked the emperor for comfort: "I just want to kiss her...she still despises me!"

Xie Zhao had no choice but to stare at her for a while, then copied the memorial and patted her forehead: "Are you reasonable? You're quite an adult and you look like a child. It seems that I have to salute you quickly!"

Xue Li's face flushed red in an instant.

Hate……

The day of her marriage is indeed approaching.

The Shangsi Festival, on the third day of March, has always been a suitable time to perform Ji rituals.All kinds of arrangements were called to Xueli in mid-February, and Xueli took it over to take a look-it was actually in Weifu? !

She had heard that the whole family had arrived in Luo'an before, so she thought that the ceremony must be performed at her own home.

The emperor said: "This is what Mr. Mingxuan mentioned. Your family... is smaller. Go to his house and have him as a senior brother in charge. Many things will be easier to handle in the future."

Sydney did not refute.But it wasn't until the end of February that I realized that she was actually planning to let her stay in Weifu for a few days.

Said it looks more like that, otherwise it looks too much like going through the motions.Fortunately, it wasn't far away, and Xue Li had no reluctance, so she packed up her things and planned to take Su Zixian with her.

Ji Li!My best friend is fine!

But the night before, she couldn't bear Ah Yao anymore...

Although she will only stay for three days, she is very worried that something will happen to A Yao during these three days!A little illness is not a problem, the imperial physicians will take care of it, but man-made disasters are more terrible than natural disasters!

With so many people in the harem staring at her, she was very afraid that another person would raise Ayao for the sake of favor...

So that night, Xue Li lay on the couch and hugged A Yao tightly: "Be good, if someone comes to take you away these days, you are not allowed to follow. First let the nanny take you to Zichen Palace to report to your father." Emperor, you saw your father nodding with your own eyes before you allowed to go, do you know?"

"Oh..." Ayao nodded, put her small arms around her waist, and after a moment of silence, said, "Auntie, when will you come back? After a long time, Ayao will miss Auntie!"

One sentence almost made Sydney not want to go!

Before leaving the next morning, Ayao stretched out her little hands and tiptoed to kiss her, Xueli's heart melted, and she knelt down to say goodbye to Ayao, and then repeated her instructions from last night before leaving with Su Zixian .

In the Wei mansion, what was prepared for her was not a wing room, but a single courtyard.

It wasn't until evening that they saw Wei Chen. Wei Chen stood at the door, stared at her for a while, and said to her, "Brother."

Sydney: "..."

Even Su Zixian felt that something was wrong, and seeing that Wei Chen came here with wine, as if he was going to drink here, after thinking about it, he quickly found an excuse to drag Xueli into the house, and said to her: "Wei Chen is here." Something is wrong, sir, we have to be careful!"

"How careful..." Xue Li was also nervous, and looked out, "Maybe I'm in a bad mood, but there shouldn't be any trouble?"

Su Zixian chuckled, leaned into Xueli's ear and said, "'Troubleshooting' may not be possible, but do you know that there is a word called...drinking chaos...then what?!"

Xueli's scalp was numb from the shock of this word.

"Don't make trouble!" She hurriedly covered Su Zixian's mouth, and then said, "Master Wei is my god-brother!"

"I know, I know!" Su Zixian moved her mouth under her hand, and then pushed her hand away, "I just want to remind you, you can drink with her when he is in a bad mood, but you...just be careful anyway! "

After whispering for a while, the two went out boldly, invited Wei Chen into the main room and invited him to sit down, only to find that he had just taken a wine cup.

This meant that the two of them were not allowed to drink at all.The two of them were half relieved, two of them sober were safer than three of them drunk.

But it's strange to watch Wei Chen drink like this!And he drank and didn't talk!
Wei Chen didn't know what was going on in his mind.

He felt that he had something to say but didn't have the courage to say it, so he took wine to strengthen his courage.But after drinking two glasses, I felt that I had nothing to say at all, so I had to drink one after another.

The not-so-small jug of wine quickly drank half of it, Wei Chen poured another glass, brought it to his mouth but didn't drink it down.

He put the wine cup down heavily: "Sydney."

Xue Li immediately sat up straight and listened to him attentively.

"You're a good girl." Wei Chen said with a sigh of relief, "I thought I liked you..."

Sydney: "?!"

do not!She is ready to be with His Majesty...

"Don't be afraid." Wei Chen looked at her surprised face with a smile, and shook his head, "But I think now, it shouldn't be. So I want to tell you..."

Sydney's heart thumped like a deer!

"If you can really recognize me as your brother, I will thank you very much."

Sydney's heartbeat seemed to stop for a moment, she stared at Wei Chen in a daze, unable to recover for a long time.

"You don't know what it's like to be an imperial guard." Wei Chen chuckled and poured another glass of wine, "My father was an imperial guard and died on the way to a job. Fortunately, I was already there at that time, so I inherited him. seat."

He sipped his wine and said with a wry smile: "For so many years, I dare not get married, and I dare not bring my mother to Luo'an. When I go out, only Your Majesty, colleagues, and subordinates can deal with them. When I return to the mansion, there are only servants."

So to him, it seems to be the same everywhere.Living in his own mansion is living, and he has too many errands to live in the yards of the imperial guards. Anyway, he just sleeps and eats a meal, and there is no special person to talk to him.

He finished another glass of wine while talking, and when he wanted to pour another glass, Xue Li hurried to stop him: "Mingxuan...Brother, just say what you want, I'll listen."

Wei Chen smiled shortly: "Look, you are the only one who cares about this."

Sydney immediately felt embarrassed.Withdrew his hand resentfully, not daring to move again.

That's pretty much it.That time when he came back from Luowu and asked to see A Yao, Xue Li first went to the imperial dining room to serve him food and wine, and asked him to eat and drink well, waiting for her to go to Yuehe Palace to pick up A Yao.

Sydney didn't care at all, she thought it was the way of hospitality.But in Wei Chen's view, none of the people around him had ever done this before, so they paid more attention for a while.

But at that time, it had been a long time since he had seen her, so he was very surprised to see "a young girl growing up".While his heart was throbbing, for a long time, he felt that he liked her.

It wasn't until the day of His Majesty's birthday, when he saw her go to the Zichen Palace to deliver porridge to His Majesty, that he calmed down despite being depressed, that he felt...probably not.

He was so envious that His Majesty could have such a caring person to take care of him, but other than that, there seemed to be nothing else.

There is no strong feeling of wanting to snatch Sydney, but more of a sense of loss, which makes him feel that Xue Li has been wronged by marrying, and then thinks that if Xue Li marries other dignitaries... he may still be like this Feel.

It's more like a brother who loves his little sister.Thinking of this, he calmed down, and then he heard that His Majesty was going to give her a wedding ceremony, so he took it off without even thinking about it.

After he finished talking about these complicated and unreasonable thoughts, Xueli didn't know how to respond for a while.

"You're right, Your Majesty is someone you can trust." Wei Chen nodded, then smiled again, "After entering the harem... Be careful yourself, I'll keep this courtyard for you, when will you want to go out to play?" , you can come and live here."

Sydney felt distressed for a while.

For a moment, she felt that such a good person as Wei Chen, why did he become a royal guard?Otherwise, he will have a good family, he will treat his wife very well, and I believe his wife will be a very good person.

But of course, Sydney didn't say that.After hesitating for a while, she stood up, gave Wei Chen a blessing, carefully considered, and said each word: "Brother, then I will... enter the palace like this, and I will come back as often as possible to take a look in the future. But Even if there is no one else in the mansion, don't drink alone all the time, I am worried that your majesty will be hurt by drinking, and I am also worried about my brother."

Wei Chen casually smiled and said that he knew, he said that he would not drink as hard as His Majesty - firstly, no one was pouring him, and secondly, he was afraid that he would miss a big deal if he didn't wake up the next day.

On March [-]rd, the Shangsi Festival, the girls in Luo'an City gathered together, and there seemed to be no special movements, but in fact, the eyes of the dignitaries and dignitaries were all focused on the Weifu.

Anyone who has a little knowledge knows what is going on with this ceremony.Just after the morning court today, His Majesty's imperial driver came towards Weifu.

Since ancient times, there has been a method of "marrying with a hairpin".Girls Ji Li and Hun Li have their front and rear feet, first add Ji to adulthood, and then marry into their husband's family as wives.

The current arrangement for the Ruan family cannot but arouse discussion among the aristocratic families.Many people think that this is because Ruan's current status cannot be lifted up, and he cannot be directly registered as a descendant, so His Majesty deliberately arranged for this to come and hold this ceremony in person, so that everyone from the top to bottom can understand what he means.

But this seems...too absurd.

If such a court lady is registered as a queen, the empress dowager at the palace will be the first to refuse.No one knows whether this matter will be possible, and His Majesty's mobilization of teachers and people makes people even more confused.

After a whole day, Sydney feels so tired!

She got up early in the morning to get ready.Bai Momo didn't know when she arrived at the Wei Mansion, and she told her over and over again the process of the ceremony, how to go, when to whom to salute, when to enter the cabinet, add clothes, add hair... from beginning to end at least give her Said it five times.

But fortunately, Nanny Bai said it.When these procedures were presented to Sydney earlier, she only read them a few times, thinking she had memorized them, and put them down.

When I got to the actual place, I felt a little confused: at least she is not familiar with the layout here...she is not familiar enough.

After going through these five times, after all, she had memorized everything that should be remembered. During the salute, there was always a maid accompanying her, and Su Zixian also reminded her that there was nothing wrong with going through it smoothly from beginning to end!

After the ceremony, she returned to her room, and when she looked in the mirror, she realized that she could be so... graceful and luxurious.

She still combed the little girl's hair before, only half of it was pulled up, and the other half followed behind.Now that her hair is all up, the bun has become bigger, without the hair hanging behind her, she looks more solemn, and the bun is decorated with magnificent golden hairpins. He raised his arms to lift up the lady.

She pretended to be fully engaged in this compartment, when two laughing voices came from the door one after another: "Pfft..."

"what!"

Sydney looked up, it was His Majesty and Wei Chen...

It's over, it's over, it's ashamed and thrown home!
She thought so, and then comforted herself: It's okay, it's okay!This should be considered family now...

So Xue Li followed Xie Zhao out calmly, got into the carriage and prepared to go back to the palace.

As soon as I sat down, I became even more tired...

Back pain and leg cramps made her feel like she was holding two Ayaos in her hands and a Yuxiang on her back.

The unbearable Xueli also felt a little inexplicable grievance in her heart, she rubbed against Xie Zhao's side little by little, and then leaned on his shoulder without saying a word.

She needs a break!very tired!

Xie Zhao looked at her with a smile, let her sleep like this, and closed his eyes for a short rest.

He got up earlier than her, and she went to give the ceremony, but he rushed over after the morning court first to watch her give the ceremony.

The car was quiet, as quiet as if everything had come to a standstill.When Xie Zhao opened his eyes again, he lifted the curtain to look outside, saw that the carriage had just passed the gate of the imperial city and lowered the curtain again, intending to squint for a while.

Looking sideways, she saw that her eyes were also open, leaning on his shoulder without saying a word, her eyes were still a little dim.

"Sydney?" He called softly, nodded and kissed her on the forehead, and asked her softly, "What's wrong? Are you exhausted or..."

He was already familiar enough with her expression, seeing her like this, he knew that she was definitely not just in a daze.

Xue Li's arm around his arm tightened, and after a moment of silence, she said: "I'm thinking... I'm going to enter the harem soon, a little..."

I'm a little scared.She held back the words again, thinking that it was not good to directly evaluate his harem like this.

Her words froze, she said: "After all, I don't know anyone well, and I haven't even entered the gate of the harem a few times."

Since she decided to follow him, she has been deliberately not thinking about it, because thinking about it will make her unhappy.

She thought that she would be able to accept it calmly when the boat reached the bridgehead, but now she realized that this was not the case at all—it was the time when she had to think about it, but when she thought about it, she became more frightened. What kind of poisoning The specific plot of drugging and framing flooded my mind.

However, he didn't tell her at all about the future arrangements.This made her feel both normal and abnormal, and her cranky thoughts became more and more violent.

So she hugged his arms tighter again, raised her eyes to see his expression, and asked him in a weak voice: "Your Majesty intends... What position will you give me? Where will I live? Can I still enter the Zichen Palace? "

Although he returned to the palace in a while, the decree should come down.But she still couldn't help but want to ask first, as if she knew it for a while, it would make her feel much more at ease.

Xie Zhao embraced her and gave a sigh: "I need to discuss this with you."

Sydney stared at him with bright eyes, her sleepiness disappeared.

He said: "According to the rules, the highest canonization of concubines by palace maids is the eighth grade, but in this way, the palace servants around you can keep at most two palace maids and two eunuchs, and Ayao can't let you take them for the time being." , this is not good."

The more Xue Li listened, the tighter his heart became. He paused, and then said: "Fortunately, if I have to break this rule, it's not impossible. I can register you as a third-grade Jieyu first, so that everyone around you can stay. , Ah Yao can also bring it to you. But I feel..."

"What?" She asked immediately, wondering if he had thought of something terrible that she hadn't thought of.

Xie Zhao smiled slightly: "I don't feel at ease putting you in the harem again. It's embarrassing to say it... Cough, I don't know many concubines in the harem well, so I really can't estimate whether anyone will do anything."

Sydney is also very afraid of this!She stared at his expression for a long time, tremblingly: "Then...do you have any other plans to discuss?"

"Yes." The emperor nodded, "You can also stay in that small courtyard, and the people around you will not change, so you can live your life as you want. It's just that, you won't be able to register your position... the front court and the rear palace will be shared. Clearly, if I put the concubine first, the courtiers will be in trouble."

If you want to break this rule, it is far from being as easy as making an exception and conferring a court lady as Jieyu, so after thinking about it, Xie Zhao thinks it's not good—what kind of thing is this?He wanted someone, and then didn't give him a title?There is no such thing!
After listening to Xue Li, the gloom on her face disappeared: "That's great!"

Xie Zhao: "..."

She held his arm in great relief: "Just let me stay in the small courtyard! I'm really afraid of dealing with the harem...I'm not good at that!"

The only thing she is really good at is cooking.Let her enter the harem, she has no idea at all.

Besides, after looking at it over the past few years, she really felt that her status was all vain—at least in the current harem.From top to bottom, no matter how high or low they are, they can't name a favorite concubine, and they live by themselves during the festivals. The emperor can at most order some rewards.

So is there any big difference in this portion?In contrast, she really prefers to guard the world behind Zichen Palace, at least she is familiar with the people here, Mr. Chen and Mr. Xu are still willing to protect her.

And this is not only far away from the disputes in the harem, but also closer to him!Sydney likes to cook a good dish and bring it to Zichen Palace for him to taste immediately, or it is also good to go to Zichen Palace to sit next to him when he has nothing to do.

——Just because of this, she has been studying ink painting seriously with Nanny Bai recently.Because she found that when she stood next to his inkstone and looked at him, he seemed very good-looking.Either reading the memorial seriously, or reading leisurely, or raising her head and smiling lightly at her...

It's perfect from this angle!At night, when the candlelight shines on him, his already handsome silhouette looks even more beautiful, and every time she looks at it, she will be dazed!
If she is allowed to enter the harem, all this will be for nothing.Even if he still allows her to come to Zichen Palace at any time, it doesn't make much difference, since they are so far away, they will definitely meet less often.

"Let's leave it at that, okay?" Xue Li leaned on his shoulder to play tricks, seeing that he was still hesitating, she rubbed against him.

At the beginning, Xie Zhao was still carefully considering whether this would be good for her. He caught a glimpse of a thin layer of white foam rubbed on her shoulder, and quickly raised his hand to hold her head, and said in a low voice, "Don't move! Rubbing me all over with makeup! "

She was the only one who dared to be so clingy to him!Xie Zhao stared at her for a long time through his fingers, but she still looked like this, blinking her bright eyes and asking him: "Is it all right..."

(End of this chapter)