The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 183 Outside the Palace
A Yuan sat on the couch and choked while watching his father grimace in front of him with difficulty. After seeing three or five grimaces, he couldn't stand it anymore, and shook his father's hand: "Ugly..."

emperor:"……"

It was the first time in my life that I was called ugly!Fortunately, he was told by his own son, and no outsiders were present.

So Xie Zhao was very "fun" and didn't continue to become ugly. After thinking about it, he went to the bed and opened the cabinet to have a look, took out two sheepskin rolls, and lay back on the bed and hugged A Yuan: "Look at this."

A Yuan cried a little confused: "What is this?"

Xie Zhao opened the scroll, and there were long and narrow pockets sewn out of leather inside, each with a silver dart in it.He took one out, looked around, and his eyes fell on a painting hanging two feet away.

It was a landscape painting with no characteristics, which he drew by hand in his free time in the morning.However, there are clouds, mountains, trees, and rivers, which are quite suitable for playing with such things.

Xie Zhao went back to the bed and took off the painting. After looking around, he pushed a low cabinet to a place seven or eight steps away from the bed, and pressed the edge of the painting with an inkstone.

When he lay back on the couch again, he glanced at it, exerted force on his wrist, and then there was a "clang".

"Huh?!" Ah Yuan's tear-stained face lit up, and he stared stupidly at the dart poking on a cloud for a moment, then applauded, "One more and one more!"

Xie Zhao looked satisfied and confident: "Where to vote?"

A Yuan said crisply: "Tree!"

"Dang." Another sound, a willow tree on the riverside was pierced, and the silver dart shimmered faintly.

It was the first time that A Yuan knew that his father had such a skill, he was shocked: "Father is so powerful!"

"One more... the top of the second mountain." Xie Zhao said with a smile, the dart flew out of his hand before he could finish speaking.

Another muffled sound, nailed impartially to the top of that mountain!
Ah Yuan is happy!Don't clamor for a mother and don't want Yuxiang!Lie down in the arms of the father, and continued pointing to the place for him to throw without getting tired of it!
After throwing it, Xie Zhao was sleepy, and touched a silver dart with twitching eyelids.

Ah Yuan became more and more excited: "That cloud on the far side!"

Xie Zhao raised his hand, "Dang--", thinking to himself, why isn't this kid sleepy? !
Xueli fell asleep with Yuxiang in her arms, and it was morning when she woke up the next day.

Candied Zao combed her hair, and Dou Sha came in through the curtain and said: "The second son of the emperor and the little Diji have been taken to Zichen Hall."

"Ah?" Xue Li was taken aback, looking at Dou Sha in the mirror, "When?"

"Last night, after you fell asleep." Dousha smiled behind her, "Zhima went to inquire, and said that His Majesty played with the eldest son of the emperor for a long time, but before going to bed, the eldest son remembered that he was going to sleep with his wife He thinks, my lady, you must have slept with the second son of the emperor and the little emperor concubine, and His Majesty asked someone to carry them over to prove that there was no such thing."

Xue Li: "..." He's not afraid that he won't sleep well!
In this regard, she knew Xie Zhao very well.The children in her Jiuge courtyard each have their own bedroom, and there is a nanny in their room to protect them, so he doesn't care.

But when he went to the Zichen Hall, even though there were two side halls, he would never let the child sleep in the side halls.Every time the two little ones got sleepy when they went to play, he would ask the nanny to carry him directly to the bedroom to coddle him to sleep. The bed in Zichen Palace was wet by them several times...

It's the same if it happens that he wants to take a nap, he is an emperor... he can just put the child in and sleep outside to block it, if the child wakes up halfway and gets up to toss him, he will neither get angry nor shout people.

Closeness between father and son is good, Sydney has always thought so-but it doesn't matter if he got all three of them over last night?He has to go to court in the morning!
After finishing dressing, Xueli hurried to Zichen Hall, and ordered Dou Sha to ask the kitchen to deliver breakfast to Zichen Hall, and she would eat it there directly.

All the way, she couldn't help imagining the scene where A Yuan, A Cong and A Ling bullied her father together at night...

Stepping into the inner hall of Zichen Palace, she saw Acong Aling crawling on the ground at a glance.

These two little things!Even though I can walk, I still love to crawl, especially when I see adults walking fast, I want to crawl and chase people outside, and I have to lean over and touch the ground several times and let the nanny pick it up!

"Mom!" A Ling called out childishly, crawling towards her very quickly.She picked up Ah Ling, dusted her hands, and asked her, "Where's brother?"

Ah Ling pointed at Ah Cong who was sitting on the ground: "Then..."

"It's not this brother, where's the big brother?" Xueli asked her patiently, "Where's the big brother? Where's the father?"

"Oh..." A Ling lowered her head and thought for a while, pointing to the sleeping hall, "Inside!"

Xueli also guessed that it was in the bedroom, but she just wanted to tease them to talk more.Satisfied with Ah Ling's answer, she asked the nanny to hug Ah Cong and entered the bedroom together.

Go in and take a look, Xie Zhao is actually teaching A Yuan how to practice calligraphy?
A Yuan is three years old, and the matter of choosing a teacher for him has been officially mentioned.But he hadn't really practiced calligraphy before, and now his father is writing stroke by stroke, his body twists and turns dishonestly, obviously unable to sit still.

Xie Zhao wasn’t upset about this—don’t say he’s a naughty boy, even such a good-looking Ayao was also unhappy when he first started practicing calligraphy, so he didn’t need to because of this; I wasn't angry with him, so I went over to have a look, and said with a smile, "Have you practiced calligraphy? It's pretty good!"

But it’s okay for the parents not to be angry. As soon as A Yuan saw his mother coming, he immediately put on a posture of asking for help, and said, "Mother... I don’t want to practice!"

Xie Zhao patted his forehead: "It's no use begging your mother for this matter, reading and writing is a must, do you think how well your sister is learning now? Are you willing to know nothing?"

Little Ah Yuan puffed his mouth and fell silent.

He still wants to be able to read and write like his sister.Now he can only be happy when others play, but my sister can read books by herself in the house a lot of the time, and read happily.Niang said it was called "enjoying oneself"--this word sounds so powerful!

It seems that if you don't learn, you can't do it?A Yuan silently told himself that he should study hard, otherwise...it doesn't matter if he doesn't want to learn, but what if his younger siblings also learn well in the future?They all read books by themselves in the room, isn't he the only one left?
A Yuan's mood was very complicated, so although he was reluctant, he did not resist.

Xue Li put A Cong and A Ling on the couch, and A Cong pointed at A Yuan: "I want it too!"

Sydney: "Poof..."

This is really a feeling of reincarnation!At that time, Ah Yao refused to write properly, and Ah Yuan wanted to grab a brush and draw with great interest; now it was Ah Yuan's turn to write and he didn't want to write, and Ah Cong was excited again.

Sydney smiled and patted Ah Cong's head: "Don't worry, it will be your turn in two years."

Ah Cong also nodded seriously, Xue Lixin said, don't let me see that you are unhappy!

Xie Zhao wrote two pages of large characters with A Yuan's hand, and Xue Li babbled a few nursery rhymes with A Cong and A Ling.After a while, the small kitchen delivered breakfast to Sydney, and Ayao came with her.

It just so happened that A Yuan put down his pen, and A Cong and A Ling stopped learning to speak. The gathering of the four children was very lively.Xueli was biting the bean paste bun, and A Yuan's footsteps behind him shouted: "Sister, stop! Sister, stop!"

After taking a sip of porridge, Ah Yao said, "Come here, come here!"

Have another steamed dumpling, Ah Cong: "Hey...brother!"

Holding a pickle with chopsticks, Ah Ling fell down: "Wow..."

The bedroom, which was originally quite solemn, broke up. Xie Zhao smiled and ignored it, grabbed a piece of glutinous rice cake from Sydney's porcelain spoon and ate it leisurely.

While eating, he raised his head again, almost biting his tongue: "Ah Yuan, don't move! I'm hitting you!"

Sydney suddenly looked back...

How dare you!Holding the pillars of the sword frame, we are about to climb!The sword on it was obviously not light, and the nurse next to her turned pale with fright!
The epidemic in the palace disappeared at the end of March, while the epidemic outside the palace lasted until the end of autumn before finally disappearing.

Xueli counted her fingers and realized that the filial piety period has been two years, and everything will return to normal in another year.

Hey... For the past two years, everyone in the palace has been dressed plainly, even the women who occasionally come in from abroad don't see the slightest bit of heavy color on their bodies.The last time she "put on heavy makeup" was on the day of Wei Chen and Zixian's evening ceremony, and now their child is full moon!

Born in mid-October, it was a girl named Wei Jin.

After the child was born, Wei Chen, who was used to beating and killing outside, suddenly didn't like to move around.On the day when Zixian gave birth safely, Sydney heard that he spent the whole morning in Zichen Palace, and insisted on taking a five-month leave!
Commander of the imperial guards is such an important position!Five months off!
Seeing the emperor's livid face, Sydney knew how much he wanted to get rid of Wei Chen's position and let him pack up and leave!
"He's so excited!" Xie Zhao was angry, "If Zixian wants to confine herself to confinement, he has to take care of her child? He is a third-rank official, so he needs to take care of the child himself?!"

——But no matter how you say it, he is right after all.So Xueli didn't try to persuade him seriously, and wrapped his arms around his neck and said, "Calm down your anger! When the child is a hundred days old, I will go and see for myself to see if he is really taking care of the child or is he cheating on the emperor?"

Xie Zhao was angry, and pulled her down with a straight face: "Don't go!"

"Let me go..." Xueli teased him with a playful smile, "I also want to go home and see by the way, Acong Aling is almost two years old, and my parents haven't seen her yet. I will go this time How about just being busy? So you don’t have to separate congratulations and going home.”

She was mostly homesick.Xie Zhao understood what this meant, so he couldn't get angry and stop him, and nodded to let Chen Jijiang arrange various matters.

So on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, Sydney left the palace with her four children.You can stay at home for ten days now, and then let Wei Jin spend a hundred days there.

It happened that Ah Yao's birthday was on the sixteenth day of the first lunar month, and when she heard that her grandparents and uncles were going to celebrate her birthday, she felt very excited—she couldn't explain what she was excited about, but she felt that it must be more exciting than being in the palace. Fun birthday!
When Sydney went home last time, A Yuan was only one year old and A Yao was four years old.Ah Yao is seven years old now, when he got off the carriage, Ruan Song exclaimed, "This is little Di Ji? She's already this old!"

A Yao looked at her uncle and shook her head: "No, I'm the Great Di Ji!" Then she pointed to A Ling who was being held by the nanny, "A Ling is the little Di Ji!"

Everyone laughed and welcomed them in.As usual, Xueli saw her mother first, and she hadn't seen her for four years. Gao hugged her daughter and didn't want to let go, making Xueli blush: "Mother...!"

"What's the matter? Is it okay for mother to hold you for a while?" Gao yelled at her.

Sydney pouted: "There are four children calling me mother!"

"There are eight children who call you mother, and you are also my daughter!"

"Okay, okay...you hug!" Xueli conceded, and took the initiative to hug her mother. The mother and daughter chatted after being intimate for a while. Xueli learned that the son of the eldest brother and the eldest and second son of the second brother both went to private schools. Brother's daughter learned from Qingli first, and Gao asked her how the daughters in Luo'an city are generally taught.

Sydney did the math, and the second brother's daughter is nine years old, so she said: "Well... it's okay to learn from Qingli first, after all, she is still young. In two years, please invite her a mother Fu, after all, mother Fu is more knowledgeable. some more."

Girls also need to be educated—Sydney herself entered the palace early, and she learned whatever was taught in the palace. She can read and write naturally, so she didn't pay much attention to this. Later, I learned that many girls in the folk are illiterate .

She felt that the family would not treat her daughter badly, but she still wanted to remind her mother: "Daughters have to be taught well. Look at Ayao, how is he worse than boys? His Majesty said that sons and daughters should not be underestimated. Follow the prince's family tree."

"Yes, yes, that's for sure." Gao Shi nodded again and again, agreeing with her words.Then he asked the servants in the family to call all the children of Ruan Song and Ruan Bai over to meet them. After a few chats, the children went to play together.

Except for A Cong, A Ling and the three new children added in the past two years by the eldest brother and the second brother who were too young, the other six quickly became one, and when it was time for dinner, no one would go back to their own residence to use it. Simply leave them all behind.

After eating, let the children go back to rest, and Ah Yao and his cousins ​​played for a while.In the evening, Ruan, who was the oldest, came up with the idea of ​​going to Dongshi to watch the lanterns, saying that the lantern festival had already started today——Sydney had no choice but to detain Ayao, and asked them to go with Sour Plum and Wumei.

After playing happily like this for five or six days, Ayao's seventh birthday was very happy, and sour plum Wumei often came to report that the children of the eldest brother and second brother's family wanted to ask them to go out to play, and asked her if she was allowed.She felt that the two girls were too rigidly restrained by the rules before, so they agreed several times.The last time, when they came back, they told her something they had seen on the road.

Sour Mei said: "Master Wei led a large group of people and went out of the city. Several of them are in the same official uniform as when we came... It seems that there are thousands of households? There are no less than 200 people following behind. Wu Mei and I watched for a long time , the talent is gone."

Didn't Wei Chen take a five-month leave?

Sydney frowned: "I didn't find out what you were doing?"

"I didn't ask, how would the people around know this..." Wu Mei said and thought for a while, "But with so many people, it must be an important matter, right? Come to tell you."

Xueli was really a little uneasy in her heart, after thinking about it, she calmed down again - the imperial guards had more important matters to deal with.This time it was because her people bumped into each other and thought it was a big battle, but when they couldn't see, Wei Chen would probably take a "big team" out of the city a lot.

She made up her mind, and called Lai Fugui: "You tell Zhang Suicai to go to the Wei Mansion. Don't ask Zixian, just tell her to send a message if she needs someone to accompany her, I'm outside the palace."

"No." Fugui agreed and left.Sydney weighed it in: This should be fine, she doesn't get involved with the imperial guard's affairs, but if a good sister needs someone to accompany her, she can still lend a helping hand!
In the Zichen Palace, the emperor clenched the memorial in his hand and clenched his teeth, with a layer of cold sweat on his forehead.

It was submitted by Concubine Hui. It is a very thick book. It first briefly stated that she knew that Sydney was auditing the accounts, and also knew that the emperor's eldest son was ill and other dangers caused by it. When he was in charge of the palace power in the past, he was negligent in management, which caused Sydney to take over this mess and caused the life of the eldest son of the emperor to hang by a thread.

At the end of the memorial, Concubine Hui asked for her death.

At that time, he was so shocked that his heart trembled, and he hurriedly looked at the signature, and it was submitted more than a month ago.

Concubine Hui's temper...

Xie Zhao knew very well that Concubine Hui was always very concerned about responsibility. She would not take responsibility for anything that was not her fault, but as long as it was a fault related to her, she would always apologize sternly.

He only remembered to look at the things she presented more than a month ago. For a moment, he was very worried that Concubine Hui would mistakenly think that he blamed her so much that he didn't bother to pay attention to it, and he died.

While thinking about that, Xie Zhao told himself that it was not possible. Although Concubine Hui only brought two married maids with her when she left the palace, the place where she practiced was always guarded by an imperial guard from a hundred households. , I often went to the palace to answer.

However, thinking about it again... He immediately realized that the last time the imperial guard over there came back to report the incident was more than two months ago.

If it's not that she is fine, but she has thought of some way to keep them from knowing that something happened to her...

Xie Zhao's breath was stagnant.Even though he didn't have that kind of affection for Concubine Hui, he didn't want to collect her body so early.

He is 28 years old this year, and Concubine Hui is 26, still young.Besides her...

Xie Zhao shook his head, hoping that what he had heard before would make her reluctant to die.

The temple built for Concubine Hui's practice is outside Luo'an City, not close to the imperial palace.An hour and a half later, Wei Chen turned back and bowed, "Your Majesty."

The emperor held his breath: "Are you alive?"

"Concubine Hui is well, but..." Wei Chen frowned slightly, "But it's strange, she seems to want to die, and she won't listen to what I say, only saying that the crime of harming the eldest son of the emperor is unforgivable, please Your Majesty is complete."

Fortunately, it seems that at least she is still thinking about the fact that the concubine can't kill herself, so she can only wait for him to nod.

Xie Zhao calmed down a little, and pondered for a while, the more he thought about it, the more weird it seemed that Concubine Hui mentioned it.

She is cultivating outside, although she still retains her position in name, it is not impossible to say that she is already outside the world of mortals, why would she suddenly rush to get involved in the affairs of the palace?

The main reason he sent Wei Chen to this trip was to appease Wei Chen and tell Concubine Hui that she was not to blame for those things-he believed that Wei Chen could speak well, but Concubine Hui still wanted to die?
shouldn't be...

He was silent for a long time: "That is to say, concubine Hui won't take oil and salt?"

"That's how I feel." Wei Chen nodded, "He spoke very hard, and said that His Majesty is benevolent in not blaming the blame, but her fault is her fault, please Your Majesty deal with it fairly."

The emperor frowned, and went through all the things he had heard and possible things in his heart, and he had roughly a few guesses, and then slowly said: "Go and pass on a message, just say that I have to think about it before making a decision, let She can live in peace for two more days."

Wei Chen was startled: "Your Majesty?"

The emperor smiled lightly: "Let your people seal up that mountain to me, and spread the news that I want to punish you. Tomorrow afternoon, I will find time to go there."

"Promise." Wei Chen clasped his fists in response, and the emperor said again: "Go and tell Xue Li, lest that stupid li want to be jealous again."

(End of this chapter)