The little lady in the palace

Chapter 72 Detention
Yuyin entered the palace the next day.All the princes and concubines arrived at about the same time, so they went directly to meet the queen without any delay.

The queen met them in the Jiaotai Hall in front of Kunning Palace.

The weather has not yet warmed up, and the Jiaotai Palace is a bit gloomy and cold, which makes the empress look even more unwell.

After everyone sat down, they were very quiet for a while. The queen took several sips of tea one after another, and then looked at them after a long sigh: "I'm not feeling well, and I haven't seen you for a while. Meal, the imperial doctor ordered to rest quietly, so I had to take it easy."

"It's important for the mother to recuperate from her illness." Princess Qijun on the left spoke first.She is the queen's own daughter-in-law, so the relationship is naturally closer.After she finished speaking, Princess Jin on the other side said: "Yes, everything is not as important as your recovery. It's freezing cold now, so you don't need to care about those vain gifts. You can take care of it at ease. Whenever you want to see us, just let us know." Send a message at any time, we will come into the palace."

Yuyin's seat was a little farther away, and she looked at it from a distance, vaguely feeling that the queen's eyes on Princess Jin were complicated.

Then the queen sighed: "You have your own affairs to be busy, so you don't have to worry about this palace. I hope you can visit the fourth child more often. He fell ill when he went out this time. It's really a disaster. It's said that every mansion Brothers, sisters-in-law, I can't influence your thoughts, I just hope that you will leave room for each other based on your past friendship, and don't go too far."

The atmosphere suddenly froze, following the Queen's words, Princess Qi's complexion turned pale, and she looked nervously at Princess Jin: "Sister-in-law..."

But the queen continued to say slowly: "All of you are concubines, and the lintels of any natal family are not bad. There are some things that you can't say clearly, and each of you knows it in your heart. I will spare myself to explain it to you today. , the fourth child's disease... the imperial doctor said that it is inevitable to leave the root cause of the disease, and you can let go of the things you were worried about in the future."

Her gaze lightly swept over Princess Jin: "If you are still not at ease, I, the queen mother, will say a word of begging. I beg you not to put too much thought on the fourth child. I promise that he will not worry about it at all." I don't have the thought that I should have. If there is, it will be disrespectful to the elder brother, and the first one in this palace will not spare him."

"Disrespect elder brother" is a little word, and the silent princess Jinqin was startled: "Mother..."

She stagnated, took two breaths, walked to the hall and knelt down: "Mother, I think there must be some misunderstanding here that made the queen worry. The prince has never had any doubts about the Qijun king. What happened to the county king when he went out... is really not what the prince can predict in advance!"

"I hope this is the case, but I don't know whether I should believe your words." The queen looked at her, there was no anger in her voice, but deep helplessness.

Princess Jin gritted her teeth: "I dare to swear for the prince..."

"Okay, I don't need you to talk about cursing Junya and myself." The queen shook her head wearily, "If you really still treat him as a brother, you should take care of the Duke of Qi County and don't let him You have to worry about other things when you are sick. You are the elder sister-in-law, and you have to take care of the things that should take the lead, so that there will be no chaos."

"Yes..." Princess Jin hurriedly kowtowed in response, and the queen sighed again: "Get up."

Then she swept her gaze across the hall: "Have the sixth, ninth and twelve concubines come?"

Yu Yin shivered, and hurriedly got up together with Zhu Shi and the Ninth Concubine: "I'm here."

"The three of you all had new children last year, the year before last, and I haven't seen them yet." The queen's face softened, and she smiled, "Let's bring them together some other day for Bengong to have a look at. Usually, no one follows This palace talks, and there are more children, which also makes Kunning Palace lively."

"Yes." The three of them had a blessing together, and the queen said again: "Oh... and Ning Jing from the tenth family, that child was born on the same month and the same day as this palace. You can ask the other party if it is convenient, and if it is convenient, bring them in to see each other See."

They agreed again, and then the queen gave them a few more instructions, and waved them back.

The atmosphere was so oppressive that everyone had no intention of staying any longer. They all saluted and bid farewell, and all asked the queen mother to recover from her illness, and they all left the Jiaotai Hall together.

When Yuyin returned home, she immediately told Meng Junhuai the whole matter.

Meng Junhuai also let out a long sigh in his heart.When it came to the queen, it seemed that the matter was more serious than they thought, but the fourth brother stayed behind closed doors and didn't see anyone, so it was very difficult for them and the brothers to inquire about anything.

He thought for a while, and told Yang Enlu: "Young Master Xie will come later, please come directly to the main courtyard, there are no outsiders."

Yang Enlu replied yes, Yu Yin was startled: "Brother is coming?"

"Yeah." Meng Junhuai nodded, "He has never been idle, and he will come to the palace every now and then. Before you were confinement and confinement, and then you were busy with the New Year, so I didn't let him come. In the future If it’s convenient, I’ll come directly to the main courtyard, so I can see you more.”

Of course Yuyin was happy, and hurriedly asked someone to tell Xiyao, and in the blink of an eye, Xiyao ran in excitedly, and asked, "Can I have lunch with Dad?"

"Okay." Meng Junhuai agreed immediately, bent down and asked her, "Sick of home? Do you want your father to take you home for a few days?"

"Okay! I want to stay for a month!" Xi Yao immediately said, regretting the words as soon as she uttered them, and said instead, "Half a month...otherwise I think I will miss my cousins!"

Thinking about it again, he frowned: "How about ten days... and Ari!"

"There are also younger brothers and aunts and uncles, alas..." Xi Yao became distressed.

Yu Yin held back a laugh beside her and remained silent.

If my brother knew that his daughter would miss seeing him for five days because of the cat, he would be so sad, so it's better not to tell him!

She then said to Xi Yao: "It's up to you. You don't have to set a date in advance. You can come back when you feel like it. Don't take too long. If you can't keep up with your homework, you will be beaten by your husband."

As the new year passed, He Jing was seven years old, and Xi Yao was six years old.So they were also included in the category of "If you don't study well, you will be beaten in the palm". Xizhen, Ning Zhi and the two boys from You's family couldn't help but... cheered for a while!
I probably think this is more fair.

So after Xie Jiqing arrived, the situation of the conversation in the hall of the main courtyard was like this: Meng Junhuai and Xie Yuyin sat on both sides of the Eight Immortals table, Xie Jiqing sat on the side, and just after saying a few words, Xi Yao came in without saying a word He climbed onto his father's lap.

She also held a cat in her arms.

Xie Jiqing, who was originally concentrating on talking about business: "..."

He didn't think it was appropriate, so he said Xi Yao, come down, but Meng Junhuai said it's okay, you can hold her.

Xie Jiqing: "..."

Then he thought for a while before remembering what he wanted to say just now: "The power of Dongchang is indeed not small. I have checked in the past few months and found that there are people related to them everywhere in the palace, the central government, and the six departments of the three provinces. It's clean. What's more...Wei Yulin and several eunuchs under him have recently sold off their Chinese calligraphy and paintings, real estate and real estate, and exchanged them for real money for hoarding."

Selling property?

Yu Yin's first reaction was: "Are you planning to run away?"

"That's what I thought of first." Xie Jiqing sneered, "But when I think about it carefully, it's not them who are in a weak position now, but Your Highnesses are more powerless. It would be too strange for them to run away."

Meng Junhuai frowned: "What is that for?"

"I don't know yet." Xie Jiqing shook his head, "At the moment they just keep selling and hoarding, and the money they get in exchange is not spent at all, and I don't know where to go to suspect that it is right."

"Then continue to keep an eye on them." Meng Junhuai took a deep breath, looked at Yuyin, and said, "There is one more thing to trouble Brother Xie."

Xie Jiqing nodded: "Your Highness, please tell me."

"Brother Xie, you have a lot of tricks in Jinyiwei. Is there any way to make our two children have a minor illness? Fake ones are fine... Fake ones are the best, as long as you can hide it from the imperial physician in the palace."

After he said this, Yu Yin was frightened first: "Ah?!"

Xie Jiqing also didn't understand: "Your Highness?!"

"The queen mother suddenly wanted to call several children into the palace to meet her, and she deliberately mentioned the daughter of the tenth family who was added the year before last." Meng Junhuai settled his words, raised his eyes and said, "I don't think it will be 'meet' It's so simple, the queen mother may want to detain Lao Shi's child in the palace, in case Lao Shi is no longer sensible, but she doesn't want to make it too obvious, so she will also detain the children of other families. I don't think she will treat him badly The child is just my own child, and I still want to stay by my side."

...Is that so?

Yuyin was a little surprised, when she heard the queen say this in the Jiaotai Palace, she didn't hear anything wrong at all.Now that he mentions it like this, she thinks along his line of thought, and it seems to be possible.

Xie Jiqing also nodded: "Then I'll go back and ask His Highness what to do. The children are too young, and they may not be able to use the methods that adults can use."

"En." Meng Junhuai nodded and said that safety is the top priority, and when he glanced out of the corner of his eye, he found that Yu Yin was staring at him.

He touched his face subconsciously, didn't he think there was anything stuck?He asked her, "What's wrong?"

"Husband is very alert..." Yu Yin was still a little dazed, and just opened her mouth to praise him.

He didn't accept it politely: "That is, it's about our own children, we must be alert."

Xie Jiqing turned his head away: "Cough."

Yu Yin came back to her senses immediately, and coughed lightly in embarrassment.

Therefore, two days later, the two youngest sons of the Yijun Prince's Mansion suddenly developed a rash in the middle of the night. After seeing it, the imperial doctor said that although the children did not see pain, itching and crying, the children were still too young and their skin was delicate. .

The queen also immediately sent a message, saying that Yuyin should take good care of the child, and she didn't have to remember the matter of letting the child into the palace mentioned earlier, they are all a family, and there will be opportunities to meet in the future.

Two days later, the other families brought their children into the palace.

The Twelfth Prince's concubine, Zhu Shi, went straight to Yuyin after leaving the palace. Yuyin came to the main room and saw that Zhu's eye circles were all red: "What's wrong with the mother...why does she suddenly want to leave the child behind!"

Is this really the case?

Yu Yin suddenly breathed a sigh of relief, chanted a sentence of Amitabha, then straightened up, calmed down and comforted Mrs. Zhu.

(End of this chapter)