The little lady in the palace

Chapter 18
Although it was just a meal together, Yuyin's mood about this can also be said to be "like facing an enemy".

After Meng Junhuai arrived with He Jing, she ordered Shan Hu to pass on the meal, and when they had prepared the dishes, she went to the table and looked at her, feeling a "thump" in her heart.

According to Wang Hao's regulations, there should be eight hot dishes, two cold dishes, and one soup on her table, a total of ten dishes.Generally speaking, there are half and half of meat and vegetables, but she has been a vegetarian for so long that she can't get used to meat. Usually, only half of the dishes on the table, at most one whole dish, are meat.Which one is meat is determined by the kitchen, but she never eats much, most of the time she only eats one or two bites of meat, and occasionally she can drink a small bowl of chicken soup and fish soup.

But today these eleven things...

Yu Yin looked at the steamed sea bass, braised chicken wings, Sixi meatballs, sweet and sour shrimp, fat beef mushrooms and crab roe tendons in front of him in horror. He immediately felt his chest was covered with meat oil and lost his appetite.

The only two hot vegetarian dishes are shiitake mushrooms and cabbage tofu.

Looking further down, there are two cold dishes, one each with meat and vegetables-salted duck and cold salad with three shreds; the soup is a delicious and rich lamb bone soup.

Yu Yin poked at the table in a daze, not knowing how to eat this meal.She has completely lost her appetite after watching these dishes, and now she just feels that she can't even eat the two vegetarian dishes, but the three of them are sitting at the dining table together, if she really doesn't eat, it is obviously inappropriate.

But after she was seated, she soon realized that the atmosphere was a little strangely quiet.

He Jing ate very well, and she didn't need anyone to feed her or pick up vegetables for her. The first chopsticks picked up a chicken wing, ate it with rice, and went to pick up Sixi balls.

But while she was eating, she stared at Meng Junhuai with bright eyes, looking thoughtful, obviously wondering what happened to her father.

Xie Yuyin was also wondering what was wrong with him, he was eating without talking, and his face was a little gloomy, obviously something was on his mind?

She didn't know how to start the conversation, she glanced around the table, and hesitantly took a piece of cabbage for him.

Meng Junhuai was concentrating on the hidden truth of that matter, when he saw a pair of chopsticks suddenly holding a wide light green leaf and handing it to the plate in front of him, he raised his eyes and raised his eyebrows, picked it up and ate it without making a sound.

Seeing that he didn't respond, Yuyin continued to wonder how to start.After hesitating for a moment, she took another piece of rapeseed and sent it over.

Just as Meng Junhuai continued the train of thought above, considering whether it would be feasible for him to secretly investigate the people in the palace, he saw a narrow emerald green leaf faintly floating over again!

He was slightly unhappy, and his dissatisfied eyes flicked across her face, then he lowered his head again, picked up the piece of rapeseed, and put it into his mouth together with a mouthful of rice.

Yuyin's eyes lit up when his eyes met, and she was about to speak when he lowered his head and didn't look at her again!

Yu Yin: "..."

She looked at He Jing helplessly, and He Jing was also tilting her head to look at her with wide open eyes, she thought for a while, "Three visits to thatched cottage"!

His train of thought was interrupted again by the frozen tofu rushing straight in front of him, and Meng Junhuai was furious: "Princess!"

Yu Yin froze all of a sudden!

He frowned and stared at her, then shouted, "What are you doing!"

Yu Yin was still leaning over, the piece of frozen tofu was still in the chopsticks handed over, it was not right to just put it on his plate, or retract it.

Unprepared to be yelled at by him like this, she was a little flustered, and she froze for a moment before saying: "I, I see, Your Highness...you seem to be in a bad mood."

"What does it have to do with you!" Meng Junhuai blurted out, and only when he finished speaking did he realize that his anger was wrong, and stared at her for a while, before finally letting go of his nerves.

Annoyed, he picked up the piece of frozen tofu in her chopsticks with his chopsticks, and threw it on the plate without eating it.

Yu Yin was able to retract her hand, looked at his expression again, lowered her eyes, and said in a calm tone, "Then I won't ask."

"It's still about entering the palace a while ago..." He opened his mouth at the same time, and after hearing her words, he hesitated, and continued, "You see the doubts are right, but I don't know what to do next .If the will is not what the emperor intended, then someone is obstructing it...but I don't know who it would be."

Is it actually a court affairs?Xie Yuyin regretted asking.

Although she felt that she would be okay after hearing these things, and her father often told her mother about the affairs of the court, but before she got married, her eldest aunt specifically told her.

The eldest aunt said that when she married into the clan, she also entered the clan's back house.Just let her take care of the affairs of the house, and don't get involved in the affairs of the court, not at all.

Yu Yin thought for a while, so she had no choice but to drag this matter to the harem: "Why don't you ask your mother and concubine?"

"Ask mother and concubine?" Meng Junhuai laughed, "Mother and concubine is in the harem, she doesn't know anything about these things."

"No..." Yu Yin shook her head, looked at him and said while deliberating, "Didn't your Highness encounter this after going to greet his concubine mother? If someone really got in the way... Maybe His Highness said something to Concubine Ding What they don't want His Highness to say? So they want to scare His Highness and prevent His Highness from saying more?"

Meng Junhuai was secretly startled.The reason why he entered the palace that day was to tell his concubine about the fire in the banknote alley, but he never told Xie Yuyin about these details, let alone that she would guess it by herself.

But when she thought of this and asked him to ask the concubine mother, she probably felt that there were eyeliners of those people around the concubine mother.

Meng Junhuai shook his head, and said calmly: "You have a good idea, but you can't ask my concubine. Firstly, my concubine avoids troubles. Telling her about this will definitely surprise her; Concubine's side, once they are aware of it, Concubine Mu will be the first to be in danger."

"Oh..." Xie Yuyin nodded hesitantly, the unwillingness in his expression was obvious.

Heh, this little nun helped him worry about these things?Meng Junhuai smiled and shook his head, took a piece of fat beef and handed it to her plate: "I'll think about it, let's eat first."

Xie Yuyin, who had been turned off by so many meat dishes just now, was immediately turned pale by the fat cow in front of her. She looked at Meng Junhuai and then at the fat cow, silently lowered her eyes and pushed the fat cow away, and continued Eat thoroughly stewed cabbage leaves.

Meng Junhuai was startled: Still not used to eating meat?
Not far away, Yang Enlu choked: No one in the mansion dares to dislike His Highness's dishes so plainly...

Xie Yuyin frowned as he tasted the cabbage: It's still delicious!

After lunch, Meng Junhuai stood on the porch to digest, while He Jing yawned and said he wanted to sleep not long after.

Just as Yu Yin was about to send someone to send her back to Concubine He, Zhao Chengrui stepped forward and said: "The house has been cleaned up for the young lady, my slave will take the young lady there?"

Yu Yin was a little dazed, nodded in agreement, and looked at Shan Shan.

Coral had already asked all these "strange things" clearly today, and went up to tell her softly: "Amber went to the dining room to ask, and said that the dining room heard that His Highness was coming to eat, so they arranged the meals according to the rules of four meat and four vegetables." However, they made a list of Missy’s favorite dishes and sent them, so they withdrew two more vegetarian dishes and added Missy’s favorite chicken wings and sweet and sour prawns.”

To put it bluntly, between the "four meats" added for the prince and the "four vegetarian dishes" reserved for the princess, the dining room gave priority to withdrawing the dishes from the princess to satisfy the eldest lady.Coral is so weak, I'm afraid Yuyin will be unhappy about it.

Yu Yin didn't say anything, but asked again: "What happened to the room for He Jing? Does the side concubine know?"

"...It's also a message from the front." Shan Shan leaned forward, "Just tell Zhao Chengrui directly, and Zhao Chengrui will take care of it."

Yu Yin naturally felt that this was what Meng Junhuai meant, so she didn't think about it any more, and just asked Hu Po to call Ning Zhi to accompany He Jing.

After a while, she felt that she had nothing to do, and Meng Junhuai was still there, she couldn't just take a nap and leave him there, so she simply went to see He Jing.

The room prepared for He Jing to take a nap was not quiet at all.

Although He Jing took the initiative to shout sleepiness, but now the two little girls are energetic again when they are together, chatting together.

He Jing pulled Ning Zhi to ask about the affairs of the palace. When Yu Yin came, He Jing was asking whether Ning Zhi Palace was a fun question.

Ningzhi told her, "It's a little more fun than in the mansion! There are more people in the palace, and there are many who are about our age, and we can usually play shuttlecock together!"

In the mansion, only He Jing and she can kick the shuttlecock together, and kicking is no fun.

Ning Zhi recalled the past, curled her lips and said, "Concubine Ding also likes to watch us play, and those who win will still have snacks!"

"Grandma's dim sum is delicious!" He Jing immediately remembered grandma's craftsmanship, and before Ning Zhi had time to say that the dim sum they ate was not made by Concubine Ding herself, He Jing saw Yu Yin by the door.

"Mother Concubine!" She yelled clearly, patted the bed with her little hands, "Mother Concubine, sit down!"

Yuyin's mind was being dragged by what Meng Junhuai said earlier, when she heard the word "Dingfei Niangniang" when she came here, she started to think again.After being called by He Jing, she regained her senses and continued to walk into the room.

Ningzhi immediately stood up from the side of the couch to pay her respects, and when Yuyin took her seat, she pulled her to sit back, Jingshen thought for a while, and asked her: "When you were in the palace, did you often see Concubine Ding?"

"...sometimes." Ningzhi was a little nervous when being questioned, and said cautiously, "Concubine Ding sometimes asks the nuns and aunts in the palace to send people to do things."

Yu Yin nodded, and then her heart brightened.

She asked her again: "Do you know many people who serve in front of Concubine Ding? How many can you name?"

Ning Zhi thought about it, and counted on her fingers: "There are Nanny Chi, Aunt Rui, and Aunt Xing who teaches slaves... and Eunuch Zhang, Eunuch Tao, Eunuch Yan, and Eunuch Ji are also common. Others... ...The servant has no impression."

Yu Yin nodded thoughtfully, she patted her creamy hands and said with a smile, "Don't chat for too long, just sleep for a while" and walked out of the room.

In the corridor, Meng Junhuai saw her coming out of He Jing's room from the corner of his eyes while he was pondering, and looked over, and noticed her serious expression, so his eyes stopped on her face.

"Your Highness." Yu Yin walked straight up to Meng Junhuai, and opened her mouth and said, "What happened just now, what if His Highness and Concubine Mother want to come out alone?"

"Want someone?" Meng Junhuai didn't understand what she meant for a moment.

Yu Yin said "hmm": "For example...in the name of Concubine You's pregnant and needs to be taken care of?"

(End of this chapter)