The little lady in the palace

Chapter 119 Punishment
After the couple laughed enough, they felt that the tearful son was very pitiful. Yuyin hugged him and patted him to coax him, telling him not to cry, oh, don't cry, the father, mother and concubine didn't mean to laugh at you!
A Zuo choked and choked: "My concubine is bad..."

"The concubine mother is not bad, the concubine mother will explain to you what is going on with this 'prince'." Yuyin said with a smile.

A Zuo had a bitter face: "But I don't like persimmons..."

"...You can tell if you like it or not after listening to the concubine's mother!" Yu Yin said, looking at Meng Junhuai.A few steps away, Meng Junhuai had already sharpened his pen and spread out the paper to write.

He wrote down "persimmon" and "shizi" respectively, and showed it to Ah Zuo, "You know all these words, right?"

A Zuo nodded: "I know."

"Well, this is what you don't like to eat." He tapped the piece of paper with 'persimmon' written on it, "This is a fruit, it will astringe your mouth when it is not ripe."

Then he pointed to another one: "This 'shizi' is another 'shi'zi. This is what you were canonized, it has nothing to do with that fruit. This word means...you will inherit the throne from your father in the future, Prince Yi, take over the palace, understand?"

"Oh..." Ah Zuo seemed to understand, pondered for a while, and asked again worriedly, "Isn't that persimmon?"

"It's not that persimmon, how could your uncle Huang let you be a persimmon? If you really want to turn you into a fruit, it must be the grape you like!" Meng Junhuai calmed down.

Yu Yin: "Pfft..."

After being confirmed, A Zuo burst into tears and laughed, and felt ashamed to cry and make such a fuss because of a wrong word, and was very embarrassed to be buried in Yu Yin's arms.

Meng Junhuai got excited when he saw it, and teased him next to him: "Why don't I call you Little Persimmon from now on? Little Persimmon!"

"Don't..." A Zuo swayed back and forth in Yu Yin's arms, with her little butt sticking out, "I'm not a persimmon! No!"

In the east courtyard, Shancha and Shanzhi anxiously paced back and forth in the main room, but they dared not enter the room rashly.

As soon as the order from the palace spread to the mansion, Youshi kept himself in the room, only the eldest son was with him, and no one else was allowed to enter.Just now when it was dark, an eunuch went in to hold the lamp, he did something very familiar, but for some reason he offended Concubine You, he turned his face and was rewarded thirty boards.

Shancha and Shanzhi were worried, fearing that something might happen inside, but they really didn't dare to try it themselves.They could only wait carefully like this, listening to the movement inside, but fortunately the eldest son was inside, if the side concubine had any accident, the eldest son would call for someone in time.

In the bedroom, Ah Li looked at his mother's pale face worriedly, and brought her a cup of tea: "Drink your saliva..."

Concubine You sat on the Arhat's bed in a daze, and took the water after a moment of reaction.Didn't drink, just put it on the couch table next to it.

She patted the side: "A Lilai."

Ah Li then climbed onto the bed, frowned and asked her, "Mother Concubine, what's wrong with you? Don't you really need to call the doctor?"

"Concubine mother is fine." Concubine You shook her head, stared at her son and hesitated for a long time, and finally couldn't help asking, "Your uncle made your third brother his son, what do you think?"

"What do you think..." Ah Li thought with some doubts, and Concubine You went further: "Do you know what 'Shizi' means?"

"I know." Ah Li nodded, "The eldest son is the one who inherits the throne from the father, and the third younger brother will be Prince Yi from now on! What do I think..."

He didn't quite understand what the mother and concubine wanted to ask, so he thought about it for a long time and said, "The third brother is still young, I will teach him to study hard. I will also study harder. If the third brother has something that he can't solve by himself in the future, I will help you." Help him!"

Concubine You is stuck.Ah Li's answer made her completely at a loss as to what to say.

After a moment of silence between mother and child, she said again: "Then you... aren't you worried about your future?"

"Why should I worry about my future?" Ah Li asked her back without understanding.

Youshi said lightly: "Because there can only be one son, and there can only be one Prince Yi. Your third brother becomes Prince Yi, and you will not have this seat in the future."

"But I can still have another seat..." Ah Li said in a matter-of-fact tone, looking at his mother's expression, and said, "My father told us that children in the clan can be officials, and even if they don't , and there is also Li Yin...Mufei, why are you worried about my future?"

"You..." You Shi finished his sentence, stunned for a moment, and laughed out with difficulty, "You're right..."

She looked away from Ah Li's face, forced herself to calm down her complicated emotions, and waited for a long time before saying the next sentence: "You are right. You...you continue to be a good brother and get along well with Ah Zuo, The concubine is fine."

You Shi insisted that she was fine in front of Ah Li, but the result was that she took all her anger on the servant.

But after two days of work, Yuyin heard that a small half of the servants in the East Court were punished, even the gardenia near Youshi did not escape, besides Ning Zhi who was beside Hejing.

Ning Zhi was delivering things to Ah Li for He Jing, and then it seemed that she had said a few more words to the familiar maidservant in the East Yard, and You Shi was not happy, so the maid directly asked the person in charge of the yard to pull her down. As far as rewarding the board, Ningzhi didn't dare to move it, so she asked to stand in the yard for half an hour before putting it back.

When He Jing came to complain to Yu Yin, her face turned pale with anger: "Why should she punish Ning Zhi, she is from our main courtyard!"

Yuyin also felt that Youshi had gone too far this time.

The marriage with the He family before was a common way to form gangs in the house, and she was stopped by Meng Junhuai halfway, so she didn't bother to care about it; now that A Zuo is the heir, Youshi will be angry, she also guessed in advance Well, if she loves to lose her temper in her own yard, it's up to her.

However, the punishment was still imposed on the head of the people in her main courtyard. Who is this to show embarrassment?I'm afraid that the people in the house don't know that she is also staring at the crown prince?

Yuyin breathed a sigh of relief with a straight face, and said to He Jing: "I know about this, don't be angry, let alone be angry with Ah Li and Ah Qi."

"I know that..." He Jing pouted, and asked her again angrily, "Then can I go to the east courtyard to play a prank?"

That can't be done.

She is here in front of the concubine, and her daughter has to play tricks to vent her grievances?Then she is too showy.

Yuyin asked He Jing to sit down, called Shan Shan, and said softly: "Go and call Concubine You, you must come within a cup of tea."

When it was said that the side concubines or the concubines from the north came to the main courtyard, she never limited the time.Speaking of it now, even though there was plenty of time, Youshi was obviously flustered when he arrived.

"Princess..." Youshi walked into the main room and saw no one. Looking to the west, she saw her standing in front of the table copying the scriptures, and she was very busy, "Wanfu, Wangfei."

Yu Yin hummed, did not speak, and continued copying scriptures.

If she didn't speak, You Shi could only stand and wait.Just now she met Li before entering the West Room, and now she couldn't go any further by herself, so she had to stand in the main room.

At the end of January, it was still cold, and Yuyin knew that the door of the main room was open, and the wind would blow in.

So she didn't wait too long, she just put down the pen on the page in hand, raised her eyes to look at Youshi: "How long has it been since the side concubine served the prince?"

To You Shi, this sentence was like a stabbing knife impartially.

Youshi looked at her with a slight smile, and hesitated for a long time before opening his mouth, with embarrassment on his face: "Yes... for two or three years."

"Two or three years?" Yu Yin smiled slightly and took a step closer, "Azuo Ayou is five years old this year."

In an instant, Youshi's complexion turned pale.

She seemed to have never seen Yu Yin being so mean, and never expected her to be so mean.

But right now she was stabbing her knife in such a way that she didn't know how to fight back.

Yu Yin leaned on the table and let out a sigh: "I know the side concubine doesn't like me, there are some things, let's talk about them here today."

"Princess..." Probably because of a sudden gust of wind, a layer of cold sweat broke out on You Shi's back.

Yu Yin paced slowly and said: "I don't hate you competing with me, because if I were you, I would too. As a concubine and favored person, it's normal to have breathlessness. It’s human nature, I can see it.”

Youshi stared at her suffocatedly, with complex and frightened eyes, as if looking at a monster.

Yu Yin settled her feet: "But I don't like when you always involve irrelevant people when you compete, especially children."

"I..." Youshi wanted to defend, but just after uttering a word, when she met Yu Yin's eyes, she forgot all the words that followed.

She just felt that the peace in Yuyin's eyes was too terrifying. It was different from the peace beyond the world of mortals brought by her when she first entered the mansion. The way she is now... There is confidence and arrogance in her eyes, and every trace of it is a world of mortals The inner emotions are just overwhelming.

You Shi stared at her blankly for a while, then seemed to be defeated in an instant, and hurriedly staggered his eyes.

"You Zexu is your nephew, and He Jing is my daughter, both of the younger generation. I am very unhappy that you have involved them in the recent incident." Yuyin said each word, slowly, and then He continued, "Going forward, it's hard to say that you are not responsible for You Zechang's bullying of Xizhen. As for the other big and small... I'm too lazy to ask more questions, but you better understand that if I want to ask, I can't ask." It can be asked."

Then without waiting for Youshi's refutation, she said again: "You have to understand that if I want to argue with you about such and such things, I can also argue."

"You can sue me when the prince comes over. I just want to remind you that even according to the law, he can't interfere with the wife's punishment of the concubine's room."

After saying this, Yuyin saw that the last trace of blood on Youshi's face had faded.

"Zhao Chengrui." She raised her voice to call for someone, Zhao Chengrui walked into the main room and bowed to wait for orders, Yuyin stepped over the threshold of the west room to the east room, Youshi almost subconsciously stepped aside to make way for her.

Yu Yin took a long breath, and said calmly: "I have a few volumes of scriptures that I want to dedicate to my concubine. I have been busy taking care of Ming Jing these two days, so I have been delayed. I will prepare pens and ink for my concubine in the main room, and ask her to help her." I'll finish copying it."

"Yes." Zhao Chengrui bowed and answered without saying a word.

"Oh, don't close the door, otherwise the charcoal fire will burn brightly and the room will be too stuffy." Yuyin stopped at this point, turned to look at Youshi, and said in a low voice, "Let Ah Li know about this. Up to you. I'm not afraid."

(End of this chapter)