The little lady in the palace

Chapter 73 The Concubine Room
Among all the princes and concubines, Yuyin and Zhu's family were regarded as good friends, but not too deep.So now the Queen's will is placed there, Yu Yinrao wants to comfort Mrs. Zhu, and what she can say is just a few words.

For example, "Don't worry, the Empress will definitely not treat the children badly", or "What is there to be unhappy about? The Empress is willing to take a few children into the palace, which is a grace that no one else can ask for" and so on.

He talked one after another, and before he knew it, it was time for dinner. Yujian saw that Mrs. Zhu was still in a bad mood, so she took the initiative to ask her to join her, and called Zhao Chengrui and said, "Go ahead and tell the master Let me say that the twelve princes and concubines are eating at my place, and it is inconvenient for us to be together today."

Zhao Chengrui responded and went, and came back after reporting the words, and told Yuyin: "The master said he understood, and said that the eldest son was too tired from studying these two days, so he went to accompany the eldest son, and let you and the prince and concubine Take it easy."

Yu Yin nodded and said "Okay", but Zhu Shi immediately stood up when she heard this, "Young Master...?"

She waved her hand to signal Zhao Chengrui to go out first, and then said to Yuyin: "Your eldest son, are you in the side concubine's yard? Then I'd better go, I'm really sorry for the sixth sister-in-law, I didn't want to send His Royal Highness Prince Yijun to you." ..."

"You sit down." Yu Yin hurriedly pulled her back to sit down, and said, "It's okay, he should go to see the child, and Ali often comes to my place on weekdays, and he often passes by. The relationship between father and son is left here, he should go, it has nothing to do with you."

"It's right to look after the child, I mean the side concubine..." Zhu Shi frowned as she said that, "I get angry when I say this, you see, our master treats me very well, and my concubine also likes me. But why does she have to go to the Queen's Empress to ask for someone to add two more concubines to the mansion?"

She pursed her lips as she spoke, and shook Yuyin's hand: "Sister-in-law, don't be so big-hearted, I'd better go... You can find a way to persuade His Highness to come back. There are none of these side concubines in the mansion. An Sheng, don't let them see my master if you can!"

Yuyin didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and didn't know what to say for a while, Zhu Shi didn't listen to her persuasion for a long time, so she had no choice but to send someone to send her off, and told her not to worry too much about the child, the palace would definitely take care of it.

Coral ordered Hu Po and Agate to go together, watched them out of the main courtyard, Coral asked her with a smile: "Then do you want me to invite you back? Twelve princes and concubines are right."

"Don't make fun of me!" Yuyin gave her a thumbs up, turned around and walked into the room, and said, "Speaking of business, no matter how many times His Highness goes to see Ah Li, Ah Qi, and Lan Jing, don't worry about stopping her." , we can't do that."

"Then what if the concubines really hooked His Highness?" Shan Shan asked in a subdued voice.

"That's a matter between our husband and wife." Yu Yin took a sip of tea, then let Shan Shan pass the meal, and called several children in to eat together.

After dinner, she took out the booklet that the queen had sent two days ago and flipped through it, and then it was time to copy the scriptures and amuse the children.

In the east courtyard, Meng Junhuai had a meal with him in Ah Li's room. He obviously felt that his appetite had become smaller. After the meal, he asked him in detail: "What's wrong with you? What's wrong with you? Or do you think the food doesn't suit your appetite?"

But Ah Li said no, and his expression was sincere, and he didn't see any concealment at all.

Meng Junhuai said again: "Then father will take you out for a walk to digest food."

Ah Li shook his head: "No."

"Digesting food is good for your health," he advised.

A Li's little finger pointed to the desk: "But I still have to study for my homework, and I have to write at night. Father, you can digest yourself, okay?"

Meng Junhuai's eyebrows twitched.

He was silent for a while, and asked him: "Is your mother and concubine giving you extra homework?"

"No." Ah Li shook his head, "I want to study more. I have three younger brothers. I want to be a good big brother!"

He talked and thought for a while, then said "Father, wait a minute" and ran to the desk, took two pages of words and handed them to him: "Father, look, Mr. Fan said, I can write much better than before, you What do you think?"

"..." Meng Junhuai didn't know what else to say besides praising him for his handwriting.

Last time, Youshi pushed Ah Li too hard, he could blame Youshi, but now Ah Li has to learn... the child wants to improve, is it appropriate for him as a father to scold him?

Meng Junhuai can only enlighten him, tell him that your handwriting is really good, and my husband recently praised you for reading well, but my father hopes that you will be in good health, so you have to go out more and do some activities, and you can't be bored all the time. Don't go to bed too late yourself.

Ali agreed, but a little reluctantly.Meng Junhuai persuaded him patiently for a while, thinking: "Anyway, you have to go to bed earlier tonight, and I will add a new homework for you tomorrow, and you won't be able to learn it if you don't rest well."

Ah Li was a little surprised: "What homework?"

"You will know tomorrow." Meng Junhuai put it off, "Anyway, in this subject, the older the child, the easier it is to learn. You will suffer a bit, and it will be even worse if you don't sleep well."

"Hmm..." Ah Li frowned and felt aggrieved. After pondering for a while, he finally retreated, "Then I won't study tonight, and I'll sleep in a while."

"Be obedient." Meng Junhuai was very satisfied, patted his head, and told him to play in the yard before going to sleep, then he went out, and just as he stepped out of the threshold, You Shi came up to him .

"Grandfather..." Youshi bowed his knees and blessed him, and lowered his eyebrows pleasingly, "I heard that Master and A Li talked for a long time, let's go with a cup of tea."

Meng Junhuai nodded: "No, I'll go and see Ah Qi, and I'll go back after watching."

The word "go back" fell into Youshi's ears like a burst of strong ridicule, she knew very well that the "go back" he said meant the main courtyard, not the front house.

But she restrained her from asking, and said with a smirk: "Ah Li, this child has been working hard lately... a bit too much. I want to talk to my master about it and see how I can handle it in the future."

Meng Junhuai thought for a while, looked at Ah Li who was looking at him in the room, finally nodded, and followed Youshi into the main room.

After he sat down, You Shi went to make tea with his own hands. While making tea, he said with a smile: "Ah Li will still kiss you. He listened to you as soon as you persuaded him. What my concubine said before was just nonsense."

Meng Junhuai smiled and didn't answer, Youshi said again: "If you have time, you can come and see him often in the future, or you can ask him to go to the front. This child sees you less now, it is inevitable that you will read... ..."

"Let him come to the front, my study is not far from where they study." Meng Junhuai said peacefully.In fact, he wanted to say that Ah Li saw him quite a lot, eight out of ten days they would have lunch together in the main courtyard.But look at You Shi, he held back the words.

So as not to cause Yuyin trouble for nothing.

Youshi made tea, then turned around and served it to him.He lowered his head to sip his tea, and heard a voice above his head: "Master..."

Meng Junhuai looked up, and You Shi looked at him with a trembling expression. After a long time, he forced out a word: "Jun..."

He raised his eyebrows slightly, and Youshi bit his lip hard, and finally forced himself to say those two words: "Jun, Junhuai..."

He put down the teacup.

The atmosphere became inexplicably cold.

"Jun..." She wanted to try to call out again, but suddenly lost all her strength the moment his gaze came over, and knelt down in panic, "Your Highness, forgive me!"

"Side concubine, you..." Meng Junhuai's eyes wandered around the room, and he sighed helplessly, "Can you stop comparing yourself with the concubine? She doesn't even know what you're thinking, what's the point of competing like this? "

"Your Highness, I didn't..." Youshi didn't even dare to raise his head, "I didn't want to compete with the princess, I just..."

At this point, she suddenly realized that she didn't seem to know what she was thinking.It was either because she was competing with the concubine, or because she cared about him.But ever since she heard the address of Wang Hao and him on New Year's Eve, she has wanted to call him by his name so strongly... Is it really because she cares about him?

"For the sake of Ah Li and Ah Qi, I won't delve into this matter anymore." His voice was so faint that it choked You Shi's heart.

He said again: "Once again, you try."

After Meng Junhuai finished speaking, he got up and left the East courtyard without stopping.Youshi knelt there, as if he had lost his soul.

In the main courtyard, Yuyin felt that he was very depressed since he came, so she stayed on the couch, and she finally asked the whole story.

As soon as Meng Junhuai told her, she exaggeratedly clicked her lips: "Oh, I didn't even know that I had the honor to myself? This Concubine You is too presumptuous, I'll take care of her tomorrow!"

While she was talking, she rolled up her sleeves, and Meng Junhuai reached out and pinched her waist: "He has no conscience!"

Yu Yin was pinched and quickly dodged: "Okay, I know!"

Of course she knew why he was angry, it must not be because of the address that Concubine You called him, but because she felt that Concubine You was disrespectful to her.

She turned over and leaned over: "I just want to make you happy, because I have...some unpleasant things to tell you."

"What's the matter?" He stared at the top of the couch with sullen eyes and moved to her face, "Say it, I'll help you solve it."

"Well, this." Yuyin reached out and touched the booklet from under the pillow, "That day, when the empress and empress passed word that Ah Zuo and Ah You should take good care of themselves and not enter the palace, they sent this to me and told me to see it." Let's see if I can add a few people to you, and if you see who is pleasing to the eye, I will call her back..."

She looked at him a little embarrassedly: "I wanted to bring everyone back, anyway...you don't even bother to meet so many people in the north, right?"

"Hehe, it's a big idea." He copied the brochure and slapped her on the forehead, "What about now? Why do you want to discuss it with me again?"

"Because Mrs. Zhu said that the virtuous concubine begged for His Royal Highness the Twelfth Highness." Yuyin said truthfully, "I was thinking that our A Zuo Ayou suddenly fell ill and did not enter the palace, which is enough to attract attention. If the empress empress comes down this time The matter of adding people is not just for one of our prefectures, but for every prefecture, isn't it better for us to follow her wishes?"

(End of this chapter)