The little lady in the palace

Chapter 158 Growth
Yu Yin thought about it for a while, and felt that it would be better to ask the seriousness before making a decision, so she asked Zhao Chengrui to invite You Zexu over.

When You Zexu left Beijing, he didn't expect that it would take two years. When he stepped into the palace again, he saw that everything seemed to be the same, and there seemed to be many changes in the details. He couldn't help feeling a lot of emotion.

He followed Zhao Chengrui who turned back to the main courtyard, and when he was about to reach the gate of the main courtyard, he heard someone shouting from behind: "Cousin!"

Turning his head, seeing four boys running towards him, he was startled, then laughed.

"Are you all this tall?" You Zexu stretched out his hand and gestured for the height of the brothers. They seemed to be at least two inches taller than when he left Beijing.

But in terms of temperament, it is not much different from before.The four brothers were very happy to see him, Ah Zuo and Ah You dragged him to the main courtyard, Ah Li said he wanted him to stay in the palace tonight, Ah Qi didn't hesitate at all, and ran to the front house as fast as he could Help him arrange.

You Zexu entered the main courtyard while being pushed, and Yu Yin, who was waiting in the main room, looked at it from a distance and laughed.Just as she was about to wait for him to come in for a long time, she saw an apricot-colored figure flying over from the side and hugging him.

Unprepared, You Zexu was bumped and staggered, he stood firm, and the person in his arms made his throat choke.

"...Xizhen?" He was a little stiff, feeling embarrassed, and didn't want to push her away.

As soon as Xizhen heard his voice, she cried: "How did it take so long! You clearly told me three to five months..."

That's right, what he said at the time was that he would go there for three to five months and make a great contribution, and when he came back, he could make a proper engagement with her and wait for her to grow up and then start a family.

As a result, after going there for two years, she counted, and she would be sixteen after the new year.

Feeling guilty for a while, You Zexu just wrapped his stiff arms around her, and looked up to see the princess in the main room.

So it was a bit embarrassing.Yu Yin cleared her throat after noticing his gaze, got up and walked to the door: "Come in, let's talk later."

The two of them entered the room together with Ah Li and others. Xi Zhen's eyes were red, and she followed the rules to sit next to Yu Yin. Yu Yin looked at her and said, "Sit down, we haven't seen each other for two years."

Xizhen moved to You Zexu again, and You Zexu looked at her with a blushing face, and held her hand.

There was no outsider in the main courtyard, and Yu Yin didn't care about these small movements among the children, so she asked what happened as usual.You Zexu said that the process of catching Qian Wu was accidental, and two eunuchs who were not so important were also arrested. Because there are still some details to be investigated, Xie Jiqing continued to be busy in the south, and asked him to take people to arrest him first. The three bet back.

Yu Yin nodded after hearing this, and said: "My lord went to the palace today to see the concubine, is this urgent? Do I need to go into the palace to ask him to come out?"

You Zexu groaned for a while, but he was not polite, and said with a wry smile: "If it is convenient for you... I will trouble you to come. The main reason is that the money is not young at five years old, and it has been hiding around for the past three years, and this time it has been counted. The day is bumpy and empty, and I'm afraid he won't be able to bear it...for nothing."

To put it bluntly, he was afraid that people would die in just three minutes.

Yu Ying thought of a way to invite Meng Junhuai back without disturbing the concubine, and called Ming Jing out.

Ming Jing, who was pulling the two up to the sky, ate snacks and looked at You Zexu curiously, Yu Yin smiled, pointed at You Zexu and asked her: "Do you remember who this is?"

Ming Jing shook her head and said she couldn't remember.

Yuyin then said that you always stuffed him with snacks when he was a child!
Ming Jing generously stuffed the snack in her hand again.

After a while, the mother and daughter arrived at Yongning Palace.Yu Yinzhi walked away from the nanny who led the way, knelt down and asked Ming Jing, "Do you still remember the thing about you pretending to cry last month?"

Ming Jing lowered her head in embarrassment.

That was her bad idea last month.Because she found that when she cried, many requests that her father, mother and concubine would not agree to would be granted. If her father and mother were angry, they would not be angry when they saw her cry, so she began to pretend to cry...

The specific method is to squat on the ground, cover your face and cry.This way the sound is fine, as for whether there are tears, I can't see it anyway!
But she succeeded twice, both in front of her father.The third time it was in front of the concubine mother, the concubine mother rushed over and looked down and saw that it was a fake...

Then she was fined to stand in the yard for half an hour!It's useless to cry this time!

But now Yuyin said: "Come on, you cry again."

"...?" Ming Jing felt guilty and didn't understand what she meant, so she looked at her for a while, then frowned and asked her: "Mother Concubine, what kind of medicine do you sell in your gourd?"

"..." Yu Yin pinched her soaring buttocks, and said to herself, little girl, you have a lot of words.

Then she said plainly to Ming Jing: "There is something that needs to be done by your father and king, but this matter is more scary. The concubine mother is afraid that you will scare your grandma by reporting it directly. You can pretend to cry and concubine mother will help him coax you." The reason for calling him out, understand?"

"Oh..." Ming Jing responded, and thought about it thoughtfully, but then said, "Scary thing? Then we won't let Father Wang do it, shall we?"

Yu Yin: "..."

She quickly coaxed Mingjing to say no, no, no, it's not the scary thing you think.It may scare your grandma, but it will never scare your father.And this matter can only be done by your father, no one else can!
Ming Jing hesitated for a while as if in a complicated mood, and then made a difficult decision: "Okay then..."

Then, all the palace people in the yard didn't know what happened. After the princess talked to the young master for a while, the young master suddenly squatted on the ground and burst into tears.

The concubine also quickly squatted down to coax her, and the accompanying maid and nanny followed suit, but no matter how coaxed she couldn't coax her, the young master just squatted there and cried non-stop.

After a while, the princess entered the palace door helplessly.

In the bedroom, Concubine Ding and Meng Junhuai were puzzled when they heard the cry of the child, when they saw her hurrying in: "Junhuai!"

"Yu Yin?" Meng Junhuai was startled, Yu Yin gave a blessing to Concubine Ding, and said to him: "Ming Jing insisted on coming to the palace to find you, so I brought her here. Just now she suddenly asked if you could come with me Let's go out of the palace together, I think you asked the concubine An Xingxu to go to Qianqing Palace again, so you told her that it's not good, and in the end she... cried."

Meng Junhuai and Concubine Ding were a little confused when they heard it, and they thought that Jing is not a crying child?But the crying outside didn't seem fake, so I thought that children might be unreasonable once in a while?
Yuyin urged Meng Junhuai again, "Go and coax her", Dowager Ding followed suit and said, "Go quickly, I'm fine here", and Meng Junhuai hurried out of the palace.

Outside the hall, he picked up Ming Jing, and Ming Jing fell into his arms, then laughed.

"Smelly girl, you're pretending to cry again!" Meng Junhuai slapped her on the back of the head, "This time you even fooled your mother and concubine?"

"No!" Ming Jing pressed her finger on her lips and beckoned him to lower her voice mysteriously, and she also lowered her own voice, telling him, "Mother and Concubine asked me to pretend to cry so that Father and King can come out. Said I was afraid to scare grandma!"

Meng Junhuai frowned, looked back at the palace, and strode out of Yongning Palace with her in his arms, asking her, "Do you know exactly what's going on?"

"I don't know..." Ming Jing said, thinking about it, "A big brother came to the house and said he was in a hurry... I don't remember him, but the concubine said that I always stuffed him with snacks when I was young! "

...Who is this?
Meng Junhuai said in her heart that there are too many people who have been stuffed with snacks by you, and she doesn't remember people who are called "big brothers"...

Is it the son of the Xie family?
"Oh, my eldest cousin cried when she saw him!" Ming Jing scratched her eye sockets with her index finger, "The eyes are red, like a little white rabbit!"

Made Xizhen cry?Oh, that's You Zexu!
Meng Junhuai patted her forehead for a moment, praised "Ming Jing is the most careful and smartest", and then asked the eunuchs around him to tell Concubine Ding that the Young Master was crying too much, and he would coax her first Go back to the mansion and come in another day to say hello.

In the palace, Yuyin was a little relieved after hearing the eunuch's words, Concubine Ding laughed imagining Ming Jing clinging to her father, and waved her hand to tell her to go back to coax the child as well, she has no shortage of people to take care of her here.

Fortunately, it went well.

Yu Yin breathed a sigh of relief and exited the hall.Think about it half a year ago when the news that the king of Qi County seemed to be walking too closely with the eunuchs first came out, the queen mother was so frightened that she couldn't get sick, and she felt that it was best not to disturb the princess Ding with these things.

Although it is impossible for Meng Junhuai to have any collusion with the eunuchs, but he is on business in Jinyiwei and has been injured more than once, it is impossible for Concubine Ding not to worry about him.

The elders are getting older, and it is better for them to take care of these things as soon as possible.

In the front house of Prince Yi's mansion, several boys all gathered in Ah Li's room.They were waiting for You Zexu to come back, and everyone would talk by candlelight at night, listening to him talk about the anecdotes and strange things he had been outside for the past two years.But he left after noon and never came back until it was completely dark now.

So the candle-lit night talk turned into a few half-grown boys lying on the Arhat's bed wondering what happened.

Ah Li said: "Surely the captured eunuchs are going to be interrogated? It's best to be able to interrogate them. They have disturbed the entire capital and the entire Great Yin. It's better to clean up as soon as possible."

Ah You said: "That's right! They are the worst! I heard that they were responsible for the illness of the eldest brother in the palace. Let them die early and be reborn early!"

"I think it's better for them not to reincarnate." Ah Qi sneered, "It's good to stay in the underworld, and don't reincarnate to harm others."

A Zuo didn't speak for a while, and lowered his head to ponder, as if he had encountered some difficulty.

"Hey, Ah Zuo?" Ah Li patted his shoulder and asked with concern, "What's wrong with you? Are you feeling unwell?"

"No." A Zuo shook his head, looked at them with a frown, and said calmly, "I think we should stop talking about it."

"What's wrong?" Ayou was taken aback.

A Zuo propped himself up and sat up, and said while deliberating: "I think the reason for rushing to invite the father to go is not what Brother You said. Qian Wu is going to commit crimes. If he is really so vain and may die at any time, then don't let him go." I will hurry to bring him back."

The three of them were a little surprised by what he said, but after thinking about it, they found it very reasonable.

A Zuo paused, and then said: "Then what is the specific reason... I'm afraid Brother You can't say it. It seems that this matter must be kept secret, and we have discussed it a lot. In case any sentence is heard by someone who cares What should I do if I go? Will it cause trouble for my father, Brother You, and my uncle?"

In A Zuo's words, several people fell into silence.He himself fell silent, praying that this matter was not as serious as he thought.

He didn't know when it started, the matter about the eunuch had deeply planted in the hearts of each of them.It seems that many seemingly ordinary things are related to those treacherous eunuchs, and it seems that the capital they live in is fraught with danger.

He just hoped that everyone in the family wouldn't get into trouble for this.

"Let's pretend we don't know about these things." A Zuo was thinking about it while discussing with a few brothers, "Don't mention it to others. If others ask, we don't know. Especially... especially to those around us eunuch."

(End of this chapter)