The little lady in the palace

Chapter 152
In the palace, the princes of various prefectures were waiting in front of the Qianqing Palace, the younger ones had nothing to worry about, while the older ones were a little apprehensive.

The emperor summoned the sons of several mansions to the palace, but there were some subtle differences in these summons.

The first ones summoned were the sons of the three mansions of King Ping, the second, Pujun, the third, and Qijun, the fourth. After half an hour, the princes of Mujun, who was the fifth, were summoned.Then, the sons of Prince Liang, Prince Lu, and Prince Chang all seemed to come in on their own initiative, and I didn't hear that there was a decree.

A few older people murmured in their hearts.When they came out, they also saw that the father seemed to have something on his mind, but the father didn't tell them, now they felt something was wrong, but they didn't really want to understand what was wrong.

In Yongning Palace, A Zuo was called by Concubine Ding after dinner.Concubine Ding asked him to go to Qianqing Palace, saying that several of his cousins ​​were there.

A Zuo obediently followed the palace servants.The cousins ​​from various prefectures are not particularly familiar with each other, but they will play together during the New Year and holidays. After meeting, they are still lively, asking each other how is your father and king recently?How is the concubine?Where did you go?Are you eating well?Did you sleep soundly?Is the course work heavy?

After talking like this for a while, A Zuo, who had his back to the palace gate, suddenly saw the servants from all the prefectures not far away kneeling down in unison.

Then there was a voice behind him: "Ah Zuo."

"Uncle Huang!" A Zuo didn't think much, turned around and ran towards the emperor who had just stepped out of the palace gate, and stopped abruptly after smelling "Uncle Huang Sheng'an" behind him.

He was so embarrassed all of a sudden, peeping, the cousins ​​were all kneeling, it seemed wrong for him not to make up the gift now, but making it up... seems strange?
A Zuo was stuck there, staring at the ground not knowing what to do.The emperor ignored the little emotions on his face, stepped forward and bent over to hug him: "I heard that you were jogging in the imperial city yesterday? Was it fun?"

"It's fun!" A Zuo laughed, "The horse that my elder brother picked for me is very good, and it runs very fast. I just accidentally bumped into a female official who was out of the palace...but I called the imperial doctor for her, and the imperial doctor said She's fine!"

"Do you still remember to ask the imperial physician for her?" The emperor also smiled, and said, "Your elder brother said that you ride a horse very well, unlike a beginner, it was your father who taught you?"

A Zuo shook his head: "No, my father is usually very busy. It was my cousin and another brother in the house who taught me. That brother is Jin Yiwei, and he is very good at riding horses!"

As Zuo said, he looked at his cousins ​​kneeling not far away, and kindly reminded the emperor: "Uncle Huang, they haven't gotten up yet..."

"Yeah." The emperor snorted, put him down and patted his head, "Go in and have some snacks first, Uncle Huang will talk to them."

"Okay!" A Zuo bowed to the emperor, and entered the palace as he said.After the emperor waited for him to enter, he looked at the nephews in front of him, and said: "Shizhen, Shiqi, Shizhu also come in, the others should go and rest first."

Everyone got up together, and after seeing the salute, they obeyed their orders and went to various places.There was a bit of awkwardness in the atmosphere, Prince Liang's son Shizhen, Prince Lu's son Shiqi, and Prince Chang's son Shizhu were even more inexplicably nervous at the moment.

The three of them exchanged looks back and forth several times before going inside.But after entering the palace, the emperor didn't say much, he just ordered the palace servants to add a few more snacks, and then let them eat beside him, and went to read the booklet by himself.

Early the next morning, Prince Mu rushed to Prince Ping's Mansion, and the eunuch in the mansion invited him into the main hall.

When King Mu came here, he was worried all the way. When he stepped across the threshold and saw King Ping, his heart was a little loose, and he couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat: "Second brother..."

"Fifth brother." Prince Ping put down the teacup, looked at his expression, and smiled lightly, "Sit down, don't panic. My family's eldest son is also inside, if something happens, it's not your child alone."

"That's what you said, but..." King Mu wiped his cold sweat with his sleeve, thinking that your words are really not comforting.

Then he said: "Second brother, are you being too impatient? Brother Huang has never crowned us princes, probably because he is worried about us, right now you..."

"But this matter is not surprising to the emperor." Prince Ping stood up and paced the room in deep thought, "We respect him because he is the elder brother; We have nothing to say... But right now, the eldest son of the emperor can't take over the throne, and the younger brother should die - all our brothers are his younger brothers, and no one is worse than the other. This dispute is in his heart. There are many."

"But he summoned all the princes from all the prefectures to the palace..." King Mu broke into a cold sweat when he thought about it, "You said that if something goes wrong..."

"We didn't do anything too much, what can the children do?" Pingjun Wang sneered, and when he looked at the fifth younger brother, he couldn't help but look a little more contemptuous, "You, you are so timid! Hold your breath Well, Second Brother will take care of everything!"

Qi County Palace.

After anxiously walking around the room for more than a dozen times, King Qi Junwang fixed his feet, gritted his teeth with luck and smiled: "Hmph, this old sixth is really outrageous!"

Prince Shen of Xingjiu was sitting beside him, holding a cup of tea and looking at him, hesitantly defended: "I don't think it's the sixth brother's fault, he just doesn't want to argue."

"Don't want to fight? He doesn't want to fight? I think the benefits are all in his hands!" Qi County Wang Ming was angry, and when he broke up with Prince Shen, his tone was aggressive, "I don't want to fight, just don't meddle, why is he running away? Who is he running to show? Doesn’t he appear to be loyal? Oh, he ran away and sent the eldest son to the palace. He had a good plan for self-protection but didn’t mention it to any of our brothers! Eleventh and Twelfth were chosen to go out, it seems that he has thought about taking care of his younger brothers, doesn’t he? Hey, why didn’t I find out that he was so slippery before?”

"Fourth brother, fourth brother, calm down!" Prince Shen saw that he was getting more and more angry, so he quickly persuaded him.After a pause, he continued, "I don't think it's useless for you to get angry with Sixth Brother now, let's think about Ah Chen first! Do you think the marriage was slow? Brother Huang may feel that something is wrong from this point of view."

"What's the matter, why don't you think it's wrong?" King Qi stared, "Is there such a thing, don't all my girls have to marry? Don't all girls have to marry a good family?"

"No, fourth brother, you..." Prince Shen didn't know what to say for a while, he felt that it was really bad for fourth brother to be mad at this kind of matter, but he couldn't say it directly.

In Pujun Palace, Pujun Wang, who had been baffled by the sudden summoning of his son into the palace for half a day, was so angry that his teeth almost gnawed when he found out what was going on.

"Brother Ten is trying to force me to help him?" He pondered for a while before laughing angrily, "Childish."

Then he looked at the eunuch beside him who didn't dare to say a word, and his tone was still clearly angry: "Go, don't worry about the face of my good tenth brother, and find out which houses he has sent posts to, and tell them one by one. People, that post has nothing to do with me."

He said with a thought, got up and walked outside.The eunuch next to him was startled: "Master?"

"Don't follow anyone, I'll go into the palace." Pujun Wang Tieqing walked away with his robes in the wind, thinking in his heart that if the tenth brother wasn't his own brother...he would go to the imperial mausoleum to chop him up now !
Qingyuan, Yuyin heard that at noon, Prince Liang, Prince Lu and Prince Chang made a special trip to thank Meng Junhuai, but when he came over in the afternoon, he saw a displeased expression on his face.

"What's the matter?" She asked while pulling him to sit on Luohan's bed, and Meng Junhuai slapped the couch table: "It's really thankless! I know the twelfth brother and the others definitely didn't get involved, so I mentioned them. In the end, I complained to the fourth brother and the others! I don’t even think about it, is it useful for them to rush to me to drag them out-I know when those things happened? That was after I avoided it!”

Yuyin twitched her lips when she heard this, and secretly said that it is easy to be a bad person when there are too many brothers, and knowing that she has nothing to do with such a matter, she changed the subject and said to him: "Lan Jing is cured, so tomorrow come over."

"That's good, come here." Meng Junhuai still frowned, obviously not thinking too much about this matter.

Yu Yin said again: "She couldn't explain it at first, thanks to me asking one more question!"

"What's wrong?" Meng Junhuai looked at her puzzled, "Why don't you want to come over?"

Yu Yin sighed, and told Meng Junhuai that Lan Jing had misunderstood, thinking that they left her because they didn't want her to come, so she couldn't say "tactfully".

Meng Junhuai's face darkened all of a sudden, obviously thinking about Lan Jing's illness in Qingyuan when she was a child.At that time, they felt that the little baby could not withstand the bumps, so they continued to live in Qingyuan with her and Mrs. He.However, He Shi misunderstood that Meng Junhuai hated them. Lan Jing had a high fever for three days before reporting back. Lan Jing might die if she was later.

Unexpectedly, after so many years, Lan Jing's thinking is exactly the same as that of her biological mother.

Yuyin felt that she had failed very much in this matter, and she didn't understand why it happened like this.Logically speaking, Lan Jing now mainly stays with Mrs. Qiao, and lives in the main courtyard every ten days, which is far more chances to get along with Mrs. He.

Neither she nor Qiao Shi are so timid and cowardly... It's been several years, right?But he didn't break Lan Jing over.

Yu Yin was a little discouraged when she thought of the folk saying "Three years old is young, seven years old is old", and asked Meng Junhuai worriedly: "Lan Jing is eight years old now... what should I do?"

Meng Junhuai was also silent for a long time.Compared with Yu Yin's worries, he blamed himself more.

As the aunt in the mansion, she can take care of her husband enough, and she has three children under her knees, and she also needs to take care of Lan Jing.In fact, she had fulfilled her responsibilities as a housewife by handing Lan Jing over to Mrs. Qiao, and even accompanied Lan Jing personally every month... Everyone had to recognize her heart.

But he is different, he is Lan Jing's biological father.In all fairness, he knew that he had less time to accompany Lan Jing.

Leaving aside the four boys, among the three daughters, He Jing and Ming Jing are both in the main courtyard, and he watched them grow up.Thinking about it carefully, he also had to admit that he was indeed biased. Whether it was intentional or not, he was indeed closer to Jing Mingjing.

But this matter is really difficult, Yuyin can't bear to ask Yuyin to take care of one more child.Tell him to always go to Joe's... He is really awkward.

"Let's talk about it when she comes over." After a while, Meng Junhuai said this.

The next day, Lan Jing arrived very early. Yuyin and Meng Junhuai had just woken up early, and were still changing and washing.

Yuyin was a little dissatisfied, and called Qiao in when Meng Junhuai went to change clothes behind the screen, and said coldly: "What time is it? You are here now, when did you leave the house and when did you get up?" Lan Jing's illness is just right, why don't you let her sleep for a while?"

Mrs. Qiao knelt down after being scolded by her, but she was not only wronged, but also eyelid fights: "It wasn't the concubine who urged the master to come out, it was the master who urged the concubine... The concubine also said to let her sleep for a while, don't worry , but she won't listen!"

"You..." Yu Yin still wanted to say something to her, but when she raised her eyes and saw He Jing bringing Ming Jing in, she swallowed her words abruptly.

He Jing looked at Mrs. Qiao, walked up to Yuyin and murmured: "Mother Concubine, don't blame Mother Concubine Qiao... Lan Jing is like this. Otherwise, why do you think we don't like to play with her? We can't even say a word Tell her that getting along is tiring."

Talking with Jing, Ming Jing wobbled around behind the screen.

Meng Junhuai was wearing a waist sash, Ming Jing went over and saw the dangling tassel and grabbed it, grabbed it and stuffed it into her mouth.

"Hey Mingjing!" Meng Junhuai rushed to snatch her up, picked her up with his right hand, and pulled her away with his left hand, and the untightened belt slipped when he let go, and circled twice on his legs and feet.

He wanted to step out and take off the tie, but now Qia Mingjing jumped up and hugged his head!

"...!" Meng Junhuai was suddenly blocked from his sight, and his foot that hadn't come out was tripped by the rope. He leaned forward suddenly, and fell back violently when he thought of Ming Jing in his arms.

Staggering and bumping into the screen, Yu Yin was talking to He Jing, when she heard chaos behind her!

The two turned their heads in horror, and the low screen cabinet between them fell to the ground. Meng Junhuai, who was still stumbling on the rope, finally lost his balance completely, slipped and fell on his back.

Instead, he lifted Ming Jing up with both hands, and Ming Jing said "Huh—" and lay on his chest and patted his face: "Father? Get up—"

"Uh..." Meng Junhuai knocked the back of his head and fell dizzy.

Yu Yin, He Jing and Qiao Shi were stunned for a long time, and all the servants were also quiet.

"Jun Huai?" Then she came to her senses, and He Jing also came to her senses: "Father!"

The two rushed over to help them together, shouting "so miserable" in their hearts and at the same time couldn't help laughing together.Meng Junhuai sat up dizzy from the laughter, and rubbed the culprit Ming Jing on her leg to tickle it!

"Hey... ah ha ha ha ha ha ha!" Ming Jing, who was covered in itchy flesh, burst out laughing, and her childish voice resounded in every corner of the room.

In the main room, Lan Jing who was sitting there waiting nervously was startled by the laughter.

Sister and sister, so happy.

For a moment, she wanted to go in, but Ning Zhi, who was left outside by He Jing, observed her expression, and said, "Master, please go in, the master and the third master are here."

But in the end, she waved her hand.

"Forget it." Lan Jing stared blankly at the screen inside the door and sighed, feeling that the bustle behind the screen seemed to be very far away from her.

"Father, queen, mother and concubine are busy, so I will go to rest first." Lan Jing was silent, and then said to Ning Zhi, "Tomorrow will be another ten days, and I will come to greet mother and concubine again. Mother concubine... Are you busy recently? If I'm busy, I won't bother her."

Congealed for a moment, she really didn't understand why Master Er Weng was worried about this.

In the past few years, how often the prince can see the princess when the prince is busy, maybe which child the princess will take to sleep when the prince is away, but only when the second master comes, they are always "sure" , will never send Er Wengzhu away because of his own reasons.

In other words, in the eyes of an outsider like Ningzhi, Er Wengzhu holds a lot of weight in the hearts of both the prince and the princess. She can live her life easily without worrying about big or small things.

But she just has a lot of worries, as if the concubine, the aunt, treats the concubine harshly.

"Your Majesty, just come." Ning Zhi couldn't help but say something she shouldn't have said.Before waiting for an answer, he took a closer look and found that she was crying while looking at the screen blocking her eyes.

(End of this chapter)