The little lady in the palace

Chapter 107 Dispute
After lunch, He Jing fell asleep on time, so Yu Yin said that she would take the children back to the main courtyard to rest.Meng Junhuai thought about it, and told her that he wanted to ask Ah Li and Ah Qi to come over and talk, Yu Yin also thought about it, and kept A Zuo Ayou.

She said: "They are brothers, let them get closer. Also, don't make Ah Li uncomfortable."

Meng Junhuai was stunned: "You also felt it?"

Yu Yin sighed and left without saying a word, holding He Jing's hand.In fact, how could she not be aware of the relationship between Ah Li and Ah Qi?And Lan Jing is the same.

They live in the same mansion, but the only ones who can often see their father are the three children in her main courtyard. She doesn't believe it when she says that the other children don't feel anything at all.Children are the most sensitive, and what they care most about is their parents' distance and estrangement. They must complain about not being able to see their father often, but, although she is a aunt, she doesn't know how to do it.

The palace is only this big, but as a "home", this place is still too big.It is so big that it is bound to distinguish the distance from the near, and it is so big that once you think about it, it will make people feel tired.

It is impossible for her to bring all the children to the main courtyard, even if it doesn't matter what others think, her own energy is indeed not enough.Then all she could do was to persuade Meng Junhuai to visit the other children more.

However, even if he goes to the residences of the other three children every day, it is still far worse than living in the main courtyard. Many of the children's actions can only be seen by him when he lives here. It is bound to be impossible to walk around and visit.

Also, there is a big difference between "always living with the child" and "occasionally letting the child live with him".

Yuyin observed carefully, the two little boys, Azuo and Ayou, occasionally lost their temper with him, and it was really like a child having a temper, crying whenever they should, and ignoring him if they said nothing.As for He Jing, who is a little older, she will inevitably restrain herself when she loses her temper, but she often rubs against his knees to play tricks, and it doesn't matter whether he agrees with her behavior or not.

But neither of these two things will happen to Ah Li, Ah Qi, and Lan Jing. The three of them are very similar in this respect. They will only get close to him if he takes the initiative to get close to them. If he doesn't express anything, they will never Will take the initiative to do something.

The more Yu Yin thinks about it, the more she feels that this is a knot that makes her unable to do what she wants, and no matter what she does, it will be difficult to do it well, but He Jing, who is holding hands with her, obviously does not notice this.

He Jing squeezed her hand and asked her: "Concubine Mu, is it true that you told me to walk more with my cousins?"

"That's right." Yu Yin pulled back to answer, and He Jing blinked and said again: "Then, can the Xie family cousins ​​and I walk around more?"

"..." Yu Yin raised her eyebrows to look at her, "It's fine, but you're actually going to see your elder brother Ah Cheng, right?"

"..." He Jing, who had been punctured, smiled shyly and fell silent.

Yu Yin tapped her on the forehead: "After the new year, you will be ten years old. You are an older child. It is not convenient to find boys to play with."

"Ah..." He Jing was surprised and disappointed at the same time, her small face wrinkled as if she was about to cry, and then she argued, "I'm not ten years old... I've only turned nine years old and two months old!"

Yu Yin changed the subject: "But we can let your brother Ah Cheng come to the palace from time to time, say to let your father test his homework, or let him practice martial arts with the guards in the palace, it's all okay."

"Really?!" He Jing suddenly became excited, thinking about seeing brother Ah Cheng practicing martial arts, she was happier than going to Xie's mansion.

She bounced and said to Yuyin: "Brother Ah Cheng is very accurate in shooting arrows! The guards in the mansion are no match for him!"

——When Meng Junhuai heard this, he would definitely punish Xie Sheng for copying the book in another way.

In the study, when Ah Li and Ah Qi arrived, Ah Zuo and Ah You had already fell down on the side couch and fell asleep.

As soon as Ah Qi yelled "Father!", his brother covered his mouth, but Meng Junhuai had heard it and looked at them. Ah Li smiled apologetically, "I disturbed them..."

"It's okay, come." Meng Junhuai beckoned, and the two children walked over on tiptoe. Meng Junhuai took the page of A Li's writing and handed it to him: "It's very well written, much better than your younger brothers."

"I'm much older than them!" Ah Li pointed to his three younger brothers, then said Ah Zuo and Ah You, "They just know how to hold a pen!"

"Hmm...but you wrote better than your father when you were this age." Meng Junhuai sneered, let both Ah Li and Aqi sit on the side of the couch, and asked Ah Li, "Do you miss your father?"

"Yes..." Ah Li responded subconsciously, then choked again. He looked at Meng Junhuai and said hesitantly, "I didn't really think about it... I just occasionally... think about it!"

Meng Junhuai sneered and laughed without commenting, and continued to ask: "Then why didn't you come directly to the father? Only let your sister bring the words?"

When he asked this question, Ali was silent for a long time.

Then Ah Li said: "I am an older brother, I have grown up!"

"But I'm your father." Meng Junhuai knocked on his forehead, "Have you ever told your father that you have something to tell your father directly?"

Ah Li nodded: "My father said so."

Meng Junhuai said again: "What about you?"

Ah Li: "...I will be obedient from now on."

"It's more or less the same." He smiled with satisfaction, turned his head and saw Ah Qi going to play with the hair of his two sleeping brothers, and quickly hugged him and put him on his lap.

He asked the two children again: "What do you think of the aunt and concubine?"

"Ah?" Aqi was stunned, and said truthfully, "I'm not familiar with concubine Dimu and Concubine!"

He looked at Ali.

What happened to Ah Li made him have to be careful.He was wondering if it was really because of the responsibility of being an elder brother that he didn't come to see him, or because of what You Shi said to him—for example, You Shi might not want Ah Li to get close to Yu Yin, and he always stayed with Yu Yin , Youshi will not let Ah Li come?
He looked at Ah Li calmly, but Ah Li thought for a while, and just said, "Concubine Dimu...is she okay? I haven't seen Concubine Dimu for a long time, but my sister always says that Concubine Dimu is good!"

Meng Junhuai smiled: "Then you think my sister is right?"

"That's right..." Ah Li nodded as a matter of course, "Sister is the best! Whatever my sister says is right!"

In the evening, Meng Junhuai talked about these things with Yu Yin, and it happened that this day was the day when Lan Jing lived in the main courtyard every ten days, and after he finished talking about what Ah Li said, he asked Lan Jing: "Does Lan Jing like the aunt and concubine? "

Lan Jing, who just yawned, opened her eyes wide, looked at him, nodded earnestly, and said sweetly: "I like it, my concubine is good to me, and my sister is also good to me."

Meng Junhuai smiled, and wanted to ask again, but was stopped by Yu Yin; "Let her sleep quickly, she has been yawning for a long time."

Lan Jing still has an indescribable awe of him, unlike He Jing who can immediately fall asleep in front of him, Lan Jing will immediately regain her spirits as soon as she hears that he is still talking to her .

The two of them were quiet for a while, Yuyin patted Lan Jing lightly to lull her to sleep, and then said again: "I just hope they don't hate me, after all, the side concubine...well, Ah Li is a good brother, Ah Li Zuo Ah You said many times that Ah Li always took care of them when they were studying."

"A Li is a good brother." Meng Junhuai nodded, then said in thought, "I've been thinking recently, when Ah Li grows up, I should find him a title, this kid..."

After all, this child is his eldest son, and besides, he is not ignorant.Even if the throne cannot be given to him, he still wants to find a different future for him.

Yu Yin looked at him quietly for a while: "Jun Huai?"

"Ok?"

"Haven't you ever thought about... making Ah Li the heir?"

——For a moment, she really felt that Ah Li should also be taken into consideration.After all, A Zuo and A You are still too young, and Ah Li is not a bad boy. It seems a bit irrational for him to only think about A Zuo now?
——But as soon as she asked the question, she regretted it!
"Forget it, pretend I didn't say it." Yu Yin turned over and turned her back to him with a guilty conscience.She felt that she shouldn't ask such a question. A Zuo was her own after all, and she shouldn't cut off her own son's future just because of such a thought.

She was stupefied for a while, and with a sneer behind her, Meng Junhuai put his hand around her waist: "Isn't this too obvious for you? At least pretend to be magnanimous?"

"I don't." Yu Yin frowned, "I just treat Azuo and Ayou to be closer, I can't lie to you. Besides, if you want to do this for Ali, then Ayou, who is also a descendant, should also be counted. , sooner or later there will be trouble."

——In the matter of establishing a son, Ah Li lost to the concubine, but Ah You lost to being born only one day later than Ah Zuo!If she said this now, Ah You will feel unhappy when she finds out that sooner or later.If the brothers turned against each other, it would be a real karma!

Yuyin was conflicted in her heart. On the one hand, she felt that she was committing a crime with such selfishness, and on the other hand, she felt that she was committing a crime otherwise.While thinking hard, the back of the neck was scratched slightly by a hot air.

She shrank her neck, and he kissed her softly behind her ear: "Okay, don't think about it, you are right. I always wanted to ask Ah Zuo to seal me earlier, and it was also to make an early decision so as to avoid troubles between brothers." Disagreement."

"En." She responded, feeling his hand protruding in her stomach, and couldn't help taking a hissing breath, "Lan Jing is here..."

"Then I'll take her to the Westinghouse," he said.

She glared at him: "I asked her to come here to take her to sleep."

"Tsk." Meng Junhuai frowned, "Then I'll take you to the Westinghouse, and we'll come back when we're done."

"Hey you..." Xie Yuyin's face was flushed, but he didn't take her, and he had rolled over on the bed and hugged her up.When they stepped out of the door of the east room, the maidservants waiting in the main room all bowed their heads and retreated. Yang Enlu bowed expressionlessly, "I'm going to serve as a slave to prepare water."

Meng Junhuai nodded and entered the West Room. As soon as the door was closed, Yu Yin was put on the bed by him. Before he could say a word, he heard a "呵啦"——

"..." She looked at the torn middle coat and was dumbfounded, "What are you doing?"

"I've been busy for several days and haven't been with you properly, so I'm in a hurry." He said calmly.

Worry about the ghost...

This middle coat is new for her this season!Wearing it for the first time today! ! !

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the new year. This was the first new year after the new emperor ascended the throne. After this year, the year name would be changed.

It is not often seen that there is no need to observe filial piety after changing the emperor.So everyone can take advantage of the new emperor's enthronement to celebrate a new year, and the whole capital is extremely lively.

On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, the Forbidden City, Qianqing Palace.

It was past three o'clock when the emperor opened the memorial presented by Prince Liang, but although he was exhausted, the memorial still made him laugh.

The seventh brother was a little too nervous, and he probably felt a little overwhelmed by taking over the East Factory, so he wrote this memorial very carefully.In every ten sentences, there must always be one sentence to apologise, detailing what he did not do well enough, what he did not do well enough, but in fact, in Meng Junya's opinion... he did a pretty good job!

With a smile on his face, the emperor counted all the sentences of his confession, there were twelve in total.After thinking about it, he took a pen and dipped it in cinnabar, circled all twelve places, and commented at the end: "Understood, it's a good job, so don't be so frightened. Entering the palace in the new year, I will have a few more drinks with you. "

Then he closed the folder and put it aside, heaved a sigh of relief: "Sleeping."

"... Your Majesty." The eunuch next to him stepped forward and told him with a low eyebrow, "The Tai, the Taishang sent a message, saying that you should come over after reading the memorial, you..."

Meng Junya was startled.

After the change that day, Father had never seen him again, and every time he went to see him, he was turned away, more thoroughly than before when Wei Yulin was around.He once felt chilled, and felt guilty that he was the one who let his father feel chilled first.

What's up today...

He took a deep breath and walked out, feeling a little nervous when he was about to be questioned about his homework by his father when he was a child.

After he abdicated, the Supreme Emperor moved to the Hall of Mental Cultivation.But the Hall of Mental Cultivation is not far from Qianqing Palace. Meng Junya passed through Yuehua Gate and Zunyi Gate, and then turned into the Gate of Mental Cultivation, and then he saw the Hall of Mental Cultivation.

The lights in the hall were still on, he hesitated for a while, still worried that his father had already fallen asleep, so he stopped the eunuch's announcement, and walked in the door.

When he arrived in the palace, he realized that his worries were superfluous. His father was standing in front of a window enjoying the moonlight. The cold air outside the window rushed in and turned into puffs of white smoke.

"Father, it's cold outside, be careful of catching cold." Meng Junya said lightly, then walked forward to close the window.As soon as his hand touched the window frame, he heard the familiar yet unfamiliar old voice say, "Let your brother go."

Meng Junya's hands froze.

younger brother?

Does he mean the tenth brother?
Meng Junya couldn't help frowning: "What did the tenth brother tell you?"

"Did you give him a chance to ask him to say something?" The Supreme Emperor glanced at him and chuckled, "He didn't say anything. I saw that he was not among the people who entered the palace on New Year's Eve."

Naturally, Meng Junya did not believe this.

He replied with a chuckle: "Just because he didn't enter the palace on New Year's Eve, do you think it was the minister who punished him?"

"Jun Ya, you said in the past that you wanted me to show some dignity in front of your younger brothers... I thought you really cared about them." The Supreme Emperor walked away from him, paced back and forth, and sat on a chair a few steps away. , and then sighed wearily, "But what have you been doing these past few months?"

Meng Junya's eyes froze slightly: "What have I done?"

"You imprisoned the old ten, dare you say that you didn't want to force him to death?" The Supreme Emperor looked at him with no trust in his eyes, "You put your younger brothers into official positions one by one, dare you say that you didn't want to get rid of them one by one Of."

"Father?!"

At that moment, Meng Junya felt dizzy for a while, and his anger rushed straight to his face.

"You think of me like that? Suspect me to such an extent?!" He couldn't help sneering, "Then why didn't you doubt Dongchang with this kind of heart earlier? That's it!"

The Supreme Emperor frowned fiercely, glared at him and did not speak.

Meng Junya looked outside the hall: "I put all my younger brothers into official positions. The second brother took over the punishment department, the third brother took over the military department, the fourth brother took over the household department, the fifth brother took over the official department, the sixth brother took over the Jinyiwei, and the seventh brother was in charge of cooking. Dongchang...but you go out and see how they are doing! They are all capable of taking on this task, I just give them a chance to show their fists, is it so unbearable in your eyes!"

"Jun Ya." The Supreme Emperor smiled shortly, as if disdainful of his explanation, "I just want to ask you, are you willing to let your tenth brother go?"

"Father, you..." Meng Junya froze.He felt that his father's obsession with this was unreasonable, but he refrained from using such harsh words to fight back.

There was a moment of stalemate between father and son, and he sighed: "I can't let you go."

"why?"

"Just because he is still beating around the bush and telling stories in your ears, I can't let you go."

"Jun Ya!" The Supreme Emperor drank heavily, suddenly a surge of enthusiasm choked his words, he subconsciously covered his mouth, and suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

"Father?!" Meng Junya was shocked, and hurried forward, but was pushed away by the Supreme Emperor: "Get out!" The Supreme Emperor shouted, "I don't have a son like you who doesn't care about siblings, get out!"

Prince Yi's Mansion.

On New Year's Eve, everyone in the entire family got up early as usual.

Everyone from adults to children was so sleepy that their eyelids were battling. When they packed up and prepared to rush to the palace, they stepped out of the gate for the first time and saw the eunuch from the palace rushing over.

The eunuch smiled and bowed: "His Royal Highness, the princess will have a happy New Year, and the slaves have ordered to pass the word that the palace banquet will be skipped this year."

Suddenly free?Both of them were taken aback, Meng Junhuai frowned and said, "What's going on?"

"This..." The eunuch hesitated for a moment, "The Supreme Emperor is seriously ill, and the emperor wants to serve the sick, so..."

In an instant, the entire courtyard seemed to have been cast with a fixing spell.

Until the eunuch left, several people were still frozen, Meng Junhuai recovered a little and said: "I'll go and see!"

"Jun Huai!" Yu Yin grabbed him, frowned and shook her head, "I can't."

The emperor didn't summon him, and even skipped the palace banquet, that's why he doesn't want others to go now.And the eunuch didn't take the initiative to say this, which means that the emperor doesn't want to make things too big for the time being.

"We have to live this year well." She looked at him firmly, and Meng Junhuai looked back at her in shock: "Yuyin you..."

After a while, he finally calmed down completely: "You are right."

Prince Liang's mansion, Meng Junxi felt unlucky after hearing this.

He is different from his elder brothers. These elder brothers are either from high-born mothers or concubines who are favored by mothers. They all had a close relationship with their father in their early years.As for him, he has never been taken care of by his father for as long as he can remember, and it was an accident that his mother and concubine gave him an eleventh brother... So now that he heard that his father was seriously ill, he sighed for a while. , and nothing particularly sad.

In comparison, the loss is relatively large - when he woke up this morning, he just sent back the papers from the palace. The emperor was very satisfied with what he had done recently, and said that he would drink more with him during the New Year's Eve palace banquet. cup.

What a chance to show your face.As a result, the palace banquet on New Year's Eve said no, it was gone!

"Hey, I've got a little back! I've become a 'Supervisor of the East Factory', and it's rare to get close to the emperor's brother to rectify his name, so he's gone?" Prince Liang pouted his mouth and shook his head, wondering if he should show his face again Ah, for example, if the emperor wants to serve the sick, then he will go too?
He didn't come up with an idea for a while, and was pacing back and forth in the room thinking about it, when the eunuch beside him entered the room: "Master."

"Say." Prince Liang yawned.

The eunuch handed over a post and stepped forward: "Prince Yi's mansion has a post, saying that since the palace banquet is gone, why not get together and let the children be lively?"

"Hey, Sixth Brother has a big heart!" Prince Liang was surprised, and felt hot when he saw this post.But he frowned for a while, and then took the post, "What do you mean by Brother Six?"

"This... the people from over there said that they have been busy recently and have not moved around for a long time, which means."

Prince Liang: "..."

No matter how he thought about it, he felt that Sixth Brother must have some deep meaning in posting this post.After all, the Jinyiwei under Sixth Brother's management... is the master who has to play with both the bright and the dark.

"Okay, go back and tell me that I will take the child with me in a while." He handed the post back to the eunuch, and just as he finished speaking, another eunuch ran in: "Master!"

Prince Liang looked up.

The eunuch said: "The tenth master, the tenth master has gone to the palace. He said he was going to serve the emperor. He wanted to ask if anyone from other prefectures went together. Look..."

old ten?

Prince Liang narrowed his eyes slightly, and quickly came up with an idea: "Listen to Brother Six, celebrate the New Year together, and let the children be lively."

(End of this chapter)