The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 110 Trouble
I don't know who started it first, but everyone in the courtyard began to consciously teach Ayao to call Sydney "mother".

Ayao is still a child, so she has no special feeling about the name change. At most, she just can't get used to it for a while, and there is nothing embarrassing or anything.

On the contrary, Xueli was a little inexplicably nervous for a while, especially if the emperor had just arrived at night, and Ayao ran to the bed the next morning and called "Mother"...

She will have the illusion that "it just passed overnight and the child is already this big"! ! !

On the one hand, Xue Li felt strange, but on the other hand, it was impossible for A Yao to call her mother because of this—after all, she also hoped to have such a daughter.But this feeling was too weird, full of bewilderment, Xue Li told Nanny Bai about it.

She asked Nanny Bai: "Is it true that people who have adopted children will be like this when they are called mothers by the children?"

Bai Momo was dumbfounded by her question, and she didn't know why she had such a feeling for a moment. After thinking for a while, she asked her: "My lady, do you want to...have a child by yourself?"

no? ! ? !

Sydney was taken aback by this sudden question.Her sober consciousness told her that she had been with His Majesty for less than a month, and it was too early to think about being pregnant.

Besides, Ah Yao is only two years old, and it is the time when she needs someone to pamper and protect her. If she is pregnant at this moment, she will inevitably miss Ah Yao.

She was dazed about this matter for a long time, and the more she pondered, the more she couldn't get around it. In the end, she still couldn't figure out whether she wanted it or not, so she put the matter aside for the time being, and took A Yao to read Tang poems.

Ayao has learned Tang poetry very quickly recently, and her articulate words are much clearer than before. Sydney tried to teach her to memorize it—it’s just memorization by rote. She doesn’t ask her to understand the meaning now, just to give her the feeling of reciting poetry.

Ayao also studied very seriously, but sometimes he would string together words when he was in a hurry.

For example, she would say: "You should pity the moss on the tooth marks, and the frost leaves are as red as the flowers in February."

He also said: "A branch of red apricot came out of the wall when the stone path was slanted in the cold mountain."

If Xie Zhao heard this, he would be able to react in three minutes, but it must be Sydney... There is only so much ink in her stomach, she has read it so many times that she is confused even herself, and she didn't even realize that she had misunderstood Thanks to the "bystanders", mostly bean paste almonds or nanny or something, when they entered the room and poured water for her, they were happy to hear it, and then reminded her: "Di Ji misread again."

Just like that, Xueli had to twitch in her mouth twice before she could realize what went wrong with her.

In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of April, and Xie Zhao didn't go to the harem again, and "detained" her in Zichen Palace from the first day to the fifth day of the new year.He didn't bother her every day, and for two days he just slept with his arms around her.

This makes Sydney very happy-even if it doesn't mean that he will never go to the harem, but at least she can "drunk today". If you have a good day today, let yourself be happy first, and then talk about the future thing.

On the evening of the sixth day of April, when she was emphasizing to Ah Yao that "Ying Lian's tooth-printed moss" should be followed by "Xiaokou Chai's door will not open for a long time" instead of "Frost leaves are red in February flowers", Chen Jijiang came up.

Chen Jijiang bowed in front of her: "Lady, Your Majesty calls you over."

It's early today, isn't it?
Sydney looked at the sky, and it wasn't even time for dinner. Recently, she always went there during dinner, and then...well, she won't come back after dinner.

So Xue Li hugged Ah Yao: "Mother, go find your father, let Dou Sha tell mother if there is something."

"Okay." Ah Yao's voice was sweet, and after looking at her, he waved to her, "See you tomorrow, mother."

As a result, Chen Jijiang bowed again: "Lady, Your Majesty said, let you bring Diji over there."

Um?Want to see your daughter?
Xue Li had no choice but to change her words to A Yao: "Let's go, A Yao, let's go see your father together."

A Yao replied more resolutely and happily: "Okay!"

The mother and daughter went out of the small courtyard together, walked southward from the small courtyard to the front of the Zichen Hall, and turned eastward to the gate of the Zichen Hall.There were only a few steps in total, not to mention she was familiar, even Ah Yao was familiar.So Ah Yao jumped and walked fast all the way, and soon opened a distance, Chen Jijiang saw that it was just right.

"Miss." Chen Jijiang stopped for a while, and Xue Li also stopped in doubt. Chen Jijiang raised his eyes slightly, "I didn't say the next thing. How do you know, my lady, I don't know."

This is very strange...

Sydney frowned and listened attentively.

Chen Jijiang glanced at her again, then continued to walk forward, as if he was going to chase A Yao, and said very quickly: "The Queen Mother wants to see you by name."

Sydney was stunned!

She didn't know when the queen mother returned to the palace, and she didn't even hear Xie Zhaoti when she left Zichen Palace this morning, so it seems that he didn't know in advance.

As for Chen Jijiang's words... that was the empress dowager's intention in advance not to let him tell her, so he could only reveal the letter so carefully?

Xueli's heart was suspended, and she didn't have time to feel that she was not smart enough in this kind of thing, so she quickly realized two points: First, she must not say what Chen Jijiang told her in a while, or she would sell Master Chen!
Second, since the Queen Mother called her by name and said that she wanted to see her...then calling Ayao together this time probably meant the Queen Mother.

Xueli made up her mind, stood at the original position and let out a sigh of relief, before trotting to chase after A Yao: "A Yao, come here."

A Yao obediently stopped, and Xue Li caught up with her in a few steps. She smiled and said, "Don't run so fast, mother will tighten your skirt."

Then she walked up to Ah Yao and knelt down, Chen Jijiang immediately retreated to the side, pretending calmly that she didn't know anything.

While slowly dressing A Yao, Xue Li said slowly: "A Yao... After a while, there will be someone in the temple who looks younger than Nanny Bai and much older than Tinghan Qingxi, mother caress about her Call her the Empress Dowager, you will call her 'Grandma Huang' later, do you hear me?"

A Yao tilted her head: "What is 'Grandma Huang'?" She had never heard of it.

"Grandma Huang is your father's mother." Xue Li said, thinking about it and then said, "Grandma Huang is beautiful, generous, graceful, kind and kind, she is a very good person!"

A Yao, who hadn't learned enough words, listened in a daze. In the whole sentence after that, she only understood "beautiful" and "kind", and "is a very good person". I roughly knew that my mother was praising the imperial grandma.

Chen Jijiang frowned in surprise at the side: Why are you still boasting?Against your will or against your will?
Then Xue Li led A Yao to continue to the Zichen Palace, her heart was tense - she felt that it must be a bad thing for the Queen Mother to look for her later!
In the Zichen Palace, the emperor sat in front of the desk with a cold face, reading idle books, and was really too lazy to deal with the mother sitting next to him drinking tea.

He expected that the Queen Mother would definitely intervene in the matter of Sydney, but he still did not expect that the Queen Mother would come back to the palace so quietly—even when the imperial guards knew about it, it was after she entered Luo'an City. Really good enough.

She didn't say much when she entered the Zichen Palace, she just opened her mouth and said "Pass it to the Ruan family", Xie Zhao thought about it and didn't force her to stop, the two of them will meet sooner or later, maybe it's better to see you sooner than later.

So he said to Chen Jijiang: "Go and call Sydney."

The Empress Dowager immediately said: "Bring the daughter of the imperial guard and tell her that it was passed down by His Majesty."

The emperor's expression darkened immediately, knowing that the Empress Dowager intended to compete with him, he thought for a while and didn't say much, just said: "Go and do it."

There's no point in arguing about quick words at the moment, but if she dares to do something to Xue Li in a while, he will definitely not agree.

After that, he waited in such a cold atmosphere.He didn't speak, and the queen mother didn't speak. In the hall, except for the sound of him approving the memorials, there was the movement of the queen drinking tea. All the palace people didn't dare to look up. Even Xie Zhao himself felt that it was too depressing.

Finally, a report was heard: "Your Majesty, Miss Ruan and Emperor Ping'an are here."

He raised his head, and he saw Xueli coming in holding A Yao's hand. A Yao was quite happy, and jumped across the threshold.

Then Xueli said "Your Majesty" with a blessing, and Ayao also shouted loudly beside him: "Father!"

The Queen Mother sneered.

Xue Li's gaze followed the sneer, and surprise flashed across her eyes: "The Empress Dowager?!" After panicking for a moment, she quickly took two steps forward and bowed down, "Empress Dowager Jin'an!"

The Empress Dowager didn't cry out, she lowered her eyelashes and looked at her indifferently: "You are the Ruan family?"

"Yes." Xue Li kowtowed in panic, "Slave Maid Ruan Shi Xue Li."

The Empress Dowager gave a soft "um", glanced at the emperor, and was about to ask another question when a clear voice came from beside her: "Grandma Huang!"

Everyone in the hall was taken aback.

Ah Yao vaguely sensed that the atmosphere was not right, and thought that he was calling the wrong name, but when he looked around, only this person was the most familiar, so he blinked and asked hesitantly, "You...are you Grandma Huang?"

The Empress Dowager looked at her expressionlessly, with a trace of disgust in her eyes, Xie Zhao immediately said: "Ah Yao, come to Father Huang."

Ayao nodded and said "Oh", she was going to pass obediently, the grandma in front of her suddenly asked: "How do you know about Aijia?"

Ah Yao stopped, her bright black eyes were full of incomprehension: "What is 'Aijia'?"

Empress Dowager: "..." She frowned and forced her breath, and asked, "How do you know about me?"

"Oh! Mother said it!" A Yao pointed at Xue Li who was still kneeling next to her with her little hand, and then moved two steps before lying on Xue Li's back, "Mother hug!"

Xueli fell to the ground: "..." Ayao, you are pressing your mother like this, your mother is very tired!

Suddenly, the atmosphere in the hall was not right.

Xie Zhao, who had a cold face for a long time, rubbed his temples as he watched Xue Li knelt on the ground with A Yao stacked on her back.After kneading three times before stopping, he took a long breath and went over to "pick" A Yao off Xueli's body, and then said, "Xueli get up."

Xueli got up as she said, but she didn't dare to raise her head.The empress dowager was so close, she was really guilty in her heart.

The empress dowager saw her guilty conscience in full view.

After staring at it for a long time, she smiled coldly: "People from the imperial dining room, right?"

"Yes..." Sydney wanted to say "no"!

"Okay." The empress dowager nodded leisurely, holding a cup of tea, "The emperor takes you seriously, and the Ai family will not make things difficult for you. Go down and rest first, and come over to have dinner together at night, let's have a good talk."

Sydney is so hung up on kneeling down on the spot!
She looked at Xie Zhao for help, and Xie Zhao made a silent gesture to signal her to go out first, so she had no choice but to salute and leave.

Withdrawing from Zichen Palace, two worries came together, crushing her to death.

One is the matter of eating together later, the Queen Mother will definitely pick out whoever wants to pick her; the other is that Ayao is still in the palace now, she is afraid that the Queen Mother will show Ayao's face...

Although the emperor was there, if the empress dowager just showed dislike or something on her face, even the emperor wouldn't be able to say anything, but Ah Yao could feel it.

Xueli was so anxious that she walked around the gate of the hall, but couldn't if she wanted to go back to the hall.After a while, she stomped her feet and went to the imperial dining room!
In the imperial dining room, everyone also heard that the Empress Dowager had arrived.Everyone was lucky that the serious meal preparation was under the management of the Shang Food Bureau, and then they saw Xue Li coming over with a cold face.

Most of the time, she was smiling, otherwise she would just be blank, and suddenly her expression was so stern, which made everyone extremely nervous.

The maid at the bottom rushed to invite Cui Wan, and before Cui Wan entered the dining room, before she had time to ask, she took the initiative to speak: "Have someone go and answer the Shangshi Bureau, we don't need dinner for them, let's prepare it!"

Everyone in the imperial dining room immediately wanted to kowtow to her!

Ma'am, don't make trouble!Don't hit the Queen Mother yourself!

Lian Zixian also came over to persuade her: "Sydney, don't be angry... After all, the Queen Mother..."

"A Yao is right next to the Queen Mother now." Xue Li gritted her teeth, "As long as His Majesty is here, she may not do anything, but I am afraid that she will make trouble for me in front of A Yao at night."

It's too bad for A Yao to see it, even if the emperor will protect her, it's also bad for A Yao to see her father and grandma arguing!

Now Xueli is panicked and angry, she just wants to hug A Yao into her arms and tell her that the outside world has nothing to do with her!
But this is not acceptable.That's why she told Ah Yao against her will that the queen mother is a very good person, just to make A Yao not to be too resistant to her, and then make the queen mother even more distant from this unrelated granddaughter.

Now is not the time to get angry.The queen mother is His Majesty's mother no matter what. If he doesn't know how to turn against the queen mother, it is far from her turn to turn against the queen mother.

It's better to join hands to whitewash peace first.

Sydney took a breath of silence.

What she can do now is to believe that His Majesty can protect A Yao well before she returns to Zichen Palace; and after she returns to Zichen Palace, they can deal with the Empress Dowager together.

She rolled up her sleeves...

She dare not let her compete with the Queen Mother by herself, but with him by her side, she is fine!
"Sister Awan, help me prepare three small stoves and three small pots. The pot should be a copper pot." She bit her lip thinking about it, and said, "Cut sweet potatoes, carrots, green peppers, yams, and yams. Cut the hob into pieces, slice the potatoes, and prepare shredded green onions and minced ginger."

There are people all around who should "promise".

Xue Li thought about it and continued: "Prepare chicken wings, chicken legs, pork ribs, beef shanks, fresh shrimps, fresh fish pieces with thorns removed...other things look at it, don't want it to be too fishy."

She had already said this, and no one had figured out what she was going to do for a while, so they could only prepare according to what she said in a daze.

Xueli didn't bother to explain first, she let out a heavy sigh of relief, and tugged at Su Zixian's sleeve: "Go, help me mix the sauce."

She was filled with awe-inspiring sense of righteousness!

The imperial dining room was full of sauces, and Xueli took Zixian to taste one by one, and then mixed them together to taste them carefully.I tasted it to close my mouth, and then flipped through the handbook to see if there was anything the Queen Mother didn't like. I was so careful that it didn't look like I was cooking, but it seemed like I was dispensing medicine!

Tried like this for half an hour.

Xueli finally smiled as she savored the concoction in the bowl, when someone knocked on the door suddenly, the two followed the prestige.

Cui Wan said at the door: "If you prepare things according to the person, prepare more, and others will eat together."

"Who?!" Sydney was shocked.

But Cui Wan smiled: "Lord Wei, His Highness the Seventh Prince, and Yi Liangyuan from His Royal Highness's residence are all here."

Alright, help!
Xueli suddenly gained confidence, and thought angrily: Queen Mother, just wait and see!

(End of this chapter)