The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 70 Growing Up
Everyone in front of the imperial court could see that His Majesty was happy looking at this "white dumpling", and as long as the ball of white furry entered the palace, His Majesty's smile would seep into his eyes.

But that Bai Tuanzi himself was not very happy, and everyone in front of the imperial court could see it, and the emperor also noticed it.

She takes care of Mrs. Lu He in the small courtyard, but every night she has to come to the Zichen Hall to report back, and she doesn't talk much every time. If he gives her some snacks and asks her to eat in the side hall, after she leaves, the people in the side hall come back and forth. The words must be "looks not very interested".

——But when I asked her if she was worried, she immediately burst into a smile again.The small courtyard also replied that she did her best and joked with Lu Heshi every day, but she didn't see anything on her mind.

This day was like this again, after entering the hall and saying a few words about what Lu He ate and did today, he knelt down and gave a blessing: "Your servant will leave."

"Wait a while." The emperor frowned and called her to stop, then said in silence, "I haven't rested for half a month, go back to your room and rest."

Xue Li was taken aback, thinking about Lu He's in her heart, she shook her head: "I'm not tired, I can't sleep even when I go back to my room, and I almost fell asleep when I walked over there..."

"Then you can walk around in front of the hall." Xie Zhao smiled slightly, so he decided to detain her for a rest today.

Sydney bit her lip and remained silent.

She had never dared to argue with him, and had no choice but to stay obediently after hearing that he insisted on not allowing her to go back.After exiting the hall, I wandered around in front of the Zichen Hall "according to the order", looking up at the sky full of dazzling stars, standing there for a while, my eyes became hot.

If you are not happy, you are not happy!Being with Mrs. Lu every day is not happy. Although Mrs. Lu is a very good person,... the more you think she is a good person, the less happy you are!
On the long steps, Chen Jijiang watched silently. Seeing that she looked at Xing Xing and suddenly lowered her head and raised her hand to wipe her face, she quickly turned and went into the hall.

"Your Majesty." Chen Jijiang bowed as he entered the palace, noticing the emperor's glance, he said again, "Looking at it from a distance, Mrs. Ruan seems to be... crying?"

Sure enough, there is something on my mind.Xie Zhao held his breath and was silent for a while, and went outside without letting him call him back.

When I stopped on the long steps and looked down, I saw a solitary white group in the middle of the huge square, which was very conspicuous. Two small hands kept wiping their faces, as if they couldn't wipe away the tears.

"Wait here, I'll go and have a look." The emperor gave a short sigh, reached out to take the cloak brought by the eunuch, and went down the long steps alone.

Sydney is crying hard, this dark, quiet and empty place is perfect for venting emotions.Thinking that she couldn't cry in the Zichen Palace, and she couldn't cry in front of Lu Heshi, her emotions were suppressed day by day, and the pressure became more and more. Now she is obsessed with this feeling of "very suitable for crying".

It would be nice if it was farther away from the Zichen Palace, so that you can cry aloud, and you can yell out any unpleasantness, and if you sleep again, you will feel that everything will be fine.

She was wiping her tears from left to right, wiping her eyes so deeply that a black hem of her robe came into view through the mist...

Sydney subconsciously stepped back!

"What a water pear. What's the matter?" Xie Zhao smiled, and when he saw that she was about to bow down, he reached out and grabbed her, "I asked you and you still refused to say it, hiding and crying? If so, I can't help you solve it." It's okay, you cry and solve it?"

Xue Li looked up at him, biting her lower lip tightly to hold back her tears, and her thin lips moved with white teeth.

Xie Zhao squatted down, stretched out his hand to hold her arm, and felt her arm tremble through the furry fox fur cloak.He thought for a while, then pulled her closer: "Tell me, what's the matter?"

"Mrs. Lu..." As soon as Xueli opened her mouth, the tears she had just swallowed fell out again, and she wiped them indiscriminately, "The imperial doctor said that Mrs. Lu's body is too weak to make up for it. Give birth When, maybe, maybe..."

may die.

Xie Zhao sighed.

He also knew about Lu He's situation, so he was naturally sad, but he didn't let this emotion go too far - after all, he couldn't do much, the most he could do was tell the imperial doctor to do his best.

So he didn't expect that Sydney's unhappiness for several days was because of this.And she can still try to laugh and laugh with Lu Heshi while feeling sad... It's hard for her.

"With such a kind heart, you and Lu He have only been friends for a few days?" Xie Zhao smiled wryly.

Xueli kept shaking her head with tears in her eyes: "No! Mrs. Lu is very kind and treats everyone very well. Even if I have no appetite, I will try my best to eat more, just because I am afraid that the servants will not be easy to deal with. Every day when the servants come to Zichen Palace, she tells them to Wear more, and when you go back, there will be ginger soup to drive away the cold..."

She cried and said, her voice was hoarse, and she was about to wipe away her tears again when suddenly her eyes went dark: "Woo..."

Xue Li's cry quickly weakened as she regained consciousness, and immediately struggled: "Your Majesty..." But the back of her head was pressed.

Xie Zhao looked down at the person in his arms, feeling a little uncomfortable.After thinking about it, he still didn't let go, and rubbed her tear-stained face against his chest: "Okay, don't be afraid. Listen to me."

She was surrounded by his cloak, and the voice from the darkness was warm and warm.Xueli slowly calmed down, no longer struggled, and just murmured: "Your Majesty, you said..."

"Yeah." Xie Zhaoshou smiled, his eyes just fell on the hairpin she had twisted, and he raised his hand to take it off and put it on her again, and said, "There are many things in the world that people can't hold back, including birth, old age, sickness and death. Some people died unexpectedly, catching people around them by surprise, such as Lu Yong; others, like Mrs. Lu, knew early on that she was seriously ill or could not survive a certain hurdle."

He breathed out silently: "The former one, because of being caught off guard, can only express grief; the latter...is not for people to advance the 'sorrow'." He paused, "If she really suffers But in this catastrophe, the most important thing is to treat her as well as possible while she is still alive. Let her leave with peace of mind, and the living will have a clear conscience."

Xue Li was stunned for a while, she had never thought of such a truth.

He raised his hand behind her head, compared his height on his chest, and joked, "I've grown a lot, why is my temper still the same? You know how to cry?"

Sydney suddenly felt so ashamed!

He reached out to wipe the tears on her face again, her cheeks were soft, but the tears were astringent.He said seriously: "When the wind blows, it's going to be chapped—you'll be crying and ugly, and Yuqian won't want you anymore."

"Woo..." Xueli stopped letting him touch her face when she heard it, and turned her head to hide.

Xie Zhao looked down with a smile. She probably rubbed off on the clothes too much.

Then Xueli didn't know how she was "tricked" back into the palace by His Majesty. Anyway, when she entered the palace and was rushed by the heat, she suddenly realized what stupid thing she had done outside just now!
——First she was held in the emperor's arms and cried, and then covered in his cloak all the way up the long steps into the Zichen Palace, she is also very courageous!
So when the emperor was changing clothes, he glanced at the mirror and saw that she was very "hardworking" next to him.

Helping to collect dirty clothes, helping to fetch new clothes, helping to unfold, helping to pass belts... It seems that I want to help with everything, and the words "I am very guilty, I am trying to make up for it" are written on the brows and eyes.

...so this is just a reaction?Xie Zhao couldn't laugh or cry in his heart, he was a little surprised just now, why she obediently lay on his chest and listened to him without struggling, so she was crying stupid again!

Glancing again at Xueli in the mirror, who was frowningly arranging the tassels of the sachet on the tray, he coughed all his life: "Dummy, go wash your face first."

Sydney: "..." Why did the phrase "Stay pear" suddenly appear? !

The surrounding palace people were trying their best to hold back their laughter, Xueli walked out with her head down, her heart was so embarrassing that she stumbled at the threshold, she let out an "ah", and the palace people inside couldn't hold back anymore.

After a burst of laughter, there was a series of "Forgive Your Majesty", and Xue Li seemed to run away when she heard these noises.

Seeing the disappearing figure at the gate of the palace, Xie Zhao wanted to laugh, so he endured it, and calmly told the palace people who were apologizing for their disgrace: "Forget it, everyone get up."

After Xue Li washed her face and sat in the side hall for a while, she basically recovered to the point where she could look normal even if she didn't think about what happened just now.

——But as long as I think about it for a while, I still blush immediately!

She was a girl, crying in the emperor's arms, and she was still on the square in front of Zichen Palace.There are so many guards on both sides of the long steps, and so many palace people at the gate of the hall.

so embarrassing...

Xueli lowered her head and twisted the tassels of the palace tassel again and again until her fingers were itchy. After twisting more than 100 times, she finally let out a deep breath and got up to go to the inner hall.

"You're back?" The emperor smiled when he saw her, and pushed the porcelain bowl on the table, "Drink the milk that has just been delivered while it's hot."

Xue Li was feeling guilty, and felt extremely embarrassed when he saw him smiling, she walked over with her head down, without touching the bowl of milk, and lowered her head in a sullen voice, "Your Majesty, this servant is thirteen years old."

The emperor looked at her, put down his pen and smiled, "I know, what's wrong?"

Xue Li stole a glance at him and then lowered her eyes: "I'm not a child anymore!"

"...I've heard that before."

"It's really not this time!" Xueli said anxiously, "Everyone can marry, not only the common people... Yi Shi and Chu Shi were only 13 years old when they entered the Zhengzheng Palace! And, and..."

She was so anxious that her face turned pale: "After the new year, you will be 14 years old!"

ho...

Do you have to speak louder about yourself?If she can directly count two years, she can say that she is fifteen!This is really urgent, Xie Zhao smiled from the bottom of his heart and straightened his face: "The words are true. But when you mention this suddenly, what do you want to say?"

"Your Majesty, you can't, you can't..." Xueli stuttered as soon as she got to the point: she wanted to say, "You can't touch your servants", but telling the emperor "Your Majesty, you can't do anything" seems very courteous, and The word "hands and feet" sounds so unkind!

——Thinking about it like this, she herself felt against her own will, she felt that His Majesty must be a good person!
The emperor looked at her with a leisurely smile, curious about what she wanted to say.

Xue Li's face fluctuated red and white for a long time, and the two hands hanging below were pinched to each other and turned red.

"Speak quickly." The memorial in the emperor's hand knocked on her, "I still have business to attend to."

"Your Majesty, you can stop teasing your servants!" Xue Li gritted her teeth and closed her eyes to force out such words.

It was much more tactful than "hands and feet", and the surrounding area was still quiet for a while.

She bit the bullet and refused to apologize, waiting for his reaction—well, it must be like this, why can't he always coax her like that, it's too embarrassing for so many palace people to look at!

Prevent it before it happens, or... fix it!
Xie Zhao calmed down after listening to her, and looked at her for a while before knowing that she was really serious.

I am used to seeing her silly or happy, but it was the first time to hear her make such a serious request with a hint of "resistance". Xie Zhao felt uncomfortable for a moment, and then tried to understand her mind.

Tsk, it's 13 years old...

Such a sentence flashed through his mind, and he was in a trance for a while.After getting along day and night for a long time, he seemed to have ignored this unconsciously, and always thought that she was the 11-year-old girl he just met-in fact, he had prepared birthday gifts for her twice.

It seems like it shouldn't be teasing her like that?
He looked up at her and felt that the request was right, but he didn't want to agree.

——He just discovered that holding her in his arms, Xiao Ruan Ruan Ruan Ruan, is very interesting!
(End of this chapter)