The little lady in the palace

Chapter 74
Meng Junhuai didn't let the newcomer chosen by the queen enter the mansion as Yu Yin said, but he didn't directly ask someone to go to the palace to tell the queen that there would be no more people in his mansion.

He took the brochure away, and went to ask Prince Jin the next day if the Queen had mentioned this matter to their house?
"I mentioned it." Prince Jin sighed, "I'll let your sister-in-law make up her mind and choose two to come in according to the queen mother's wishes."

Meng Junhuai was a little surprised: "Do you really want it?"

"Just bring in some delicious food and drink and offer it." Prince Jin shook his head, "Now is not the time to reject the queen mother. Didn't you see that the people chosen by the queen mother this time are different from before?"

Meng Junhuai flipped through the booklet in his hand suspiciously, thinking that there is nothing different?Prince Jin asked, "Did you not look at the portrait?"

"No." Meng Junhuai admitted in a daze, "What's wrong with the portrait?"

Prince Jin smiled, didn't say much, and took him to the study.Walk all the way and explain to him: "It's not your big brother, I'm a womanizer, it's your sister-in-law who put it in the study, and it's confiscated for a while."

Meng Junhuai should say, I know, I know, brother, you have never been a lustful person.As soon as he stepped into the door of the study, he was still shocked by the scene in front of him.

There are a total of eight paintings hanging on the two walls, and each painting depicts a woman. Although they have different looks and postures, each one is beautiful...

Thinking of this, Meng Junhuai hurriedly turned his head away, calmed down and looked again, but deeply felt that the evaluation of "beautiful and beautiful" was not caused by his own temptation.He even felt that even if Yu Yin read this, he would make a similar evaluation.

In the past, the people bestowed by the queen mother did not have such beauty. The Concubine He and the Wang family in his mansion were both plain-looking but well-behaved.On the contrary, the mother and concubine Dingfei picked them up, and all of them are outstanding.

"What does the queen mother mean?" He frowned and looked at his elder brother, and sighed to the prince: "I think the queen mother is a little bit like a soldier because of the matter of the fourth child."

The two left the study room again, and Prince Jin said as he walked: "It's not been a year or two since the fourth son went out of the palace to build a mansion, and the queen mother's eyes were darkened in the palace again, and she didn't know the situation of the mansions outside. As soon as the incident happened, she couldn't help thinking wildly. If you think about the recent events, you will know what it means for her to bring all the children of the ninth, tenth and twelfth brothers into the palace, and then add people to each mansion."

Meng Junhuai frowned: "Exercise both kindness and prestige?"

Prince Jin shook his head: "It's better to say that he lost his position. After gaining prestige, he quickly gave me a sweet date."

Prince Jin told him that the empress mother's approach seemed a bit ridiculous, but it was not difficult to understand after thinking about it.The benefits that can be given to men are the easiest to think of but three: power, money, and beautiful women.

She is in the deep palace, she can't be the master of power, and there is no shortage of money in every mansion, so there are only beauties left?

On the way back home, Meng Junhuai had mixed feelings.While thinking about laughing at the inexplicable disorder of the empress mother, at the same time feeling distressed.

She is almost half a hundred years old, and only the son of the fourth brother suddenly became ill when he said that he was sick, and the imperial doctor said that the root cause of the disease would definitely fall.In an ordinary family, this would be a difficult thing for parents, but in the royal family, there are all kinds of possible infighting behind such a thing that she needs to guess and guard against.

And they all heard that the emperor hadn't seen her for more than a year.Even last year's New Year, when the fourth brother was convicted and grounded, the queen mother knelt outside the Qianqing Palace and begged to see her, but the emperor didn't see her.

It is really hard to imagine how the queen mother lived this year.No wonder Lian Yu told him after he was introduced to the palace that he felt that the Jiaotai Palace was gloomy and cold, and seemed to be lacking in popularity.

Meng Junhuai couldn't stop thinking about what happened when he was still in the palace when he was a child. Although he couldn't figure out many details, he remembered that the queen mother was really good to all the princes and sons at that time.During the holidays, they all love to go to Kunning Palace together, and they have never heard of any palace concubine telling their children to beware of things in Kunning Palace. They can eat whatever their mother rewards them with peace of mind.

How did it suddenly become like this...

Meng Junhuai looked at the brochure in his hand again, and felt that this was the first time his mother had other intentions to choose someone for them.And this intention is not malicious, just want to make all their brothers happy, so that the fourth brother can live a peaceful life.

When they had lunch together, Yuyin found that Meng Junhuai's mood was very gloomy.

"What's the matter?" She picked up a chopstick of Chinese toon scrambled eggs for him, and asked, "What happened when you met Prince Jin?"

Meng Junhuai shook his head, remained silent for a while and said: "You take some time to see Sisao, bring some things that are useful in the house, and prepare a few thousand taels of silver to send to her. Fourth brother's life is not easy right now. The queen mother is very worried in the palace."

Then he sighed, and said: "I will also see fourth brother more often."

"But..." Yu Yin frowned and looked at him, "But there are no people in the Qi County Prince's Mansion right now? Do you think I haven't been there? In the 20 days since the Chinese New Year alone, I have been there four times. The second door was tightly closed, no matter how you deal with the eunuch who guards the door, you won’t be allowed to enter.”

She was also very worried about this.Even if Duke Qi is not related to her, she very much hopes that Duke Qi's family can get through this difficult time well.

Meng Junhuai's face darkened again, and she reached out to hold his hand that was holding on to the chopsticks: "What's the matter? Tell me in detail, let's see if there is any other way?"

Meng Junhuai thought about it for a while, and seriously told her what Brother Huang said today.

After hearing this, Yuyin opened her mouth and said, "Then let's add someone according to what the queen mother wanted?"

Meng Junhuai: "..."

He couldn't laugh or cry: "This doesn't work. The empress mother's uneasiness is mainly because of the fourth brother. We added people according to her wishes, but it was just to make her feel at ease for a while."

"But if you feel at ease for a while, you can think of other ways for a while? What's more, if we reject this matter now, it will make her even more uneasy. Wouldn't that make things worse?" Yu Yin said her thoughts word by word "So I think we should let people come in first, let's enter the palace together to thank you, and if you tell the empress that you like it from time to time, the empress will probably feel better. Let's continue to work hard to talk to the Qijun Palace when we are outside. Walk around there, and when the things that need to be taken care of can be taken care of, this matter will naturally pass."

"..." Meng Junhuai looked at her complicatedly, "You are drinking poison to quench your mother's thirst by yourself."

Yu Yin: "Where do I have it?"

"I won't lie to you. The queen mother picked out all beauties this time. Aren't you afraid that I really like the newcomer and don't want you?" He propped his forehead and looked at her with a smile.

"I'm really not afraid." Yuyin still had a very sincere expression, "To be honest, there are not one or two people in our house who are prettier than me in terms of looks alone. Besides, if you want to like others, is there a new one?" If you come in, you can like others. So I can let this person come in with peace of mind, and I can also let her feel at ease to be favored - it's not her fault to be favored. "

"Is it my fault?" Meng Junhuai continued to ask.

"Otherwise?" She raised her eyebrows and asked back with a smile, then leisurely scooped up meatballs from the wax gourd meatball soup and ate them.Meng Junhuai looked at her with a frown, suddenly convinced by her calm attitude.She made it so clear that he believed that she would not blame the concubine, but only him.

How dare he think otherwise?He didn't want her to feel dissatisfied with him.

Yuyin thought very clearly at the time, and early the next morning, she circled a middle-class Qiao family from the booklet and returned it to the palace.

But half a month later, when Mrs. Qiao entered the mansion and kowtowed, she was still surprised.

——Isn’t this too beautiful?
She felt that Qiao Shi seemed to have stepped out of a painting. At the age of fifteen or sixteen, his face was exquisitely carved.The smile outlined between the bright eyes and white teeth is dignified and delicate, and the bright red lips are like delicate flowers in early spring, and the heart trembles at the slightest movement.

For such a short moment, Yuyin panicked.Then Qiao Shi bent down and bowed down. At the same time, she stretched out a hand and pushed the snacks on the desk closer to her.

Yu Yin looked sideways, and Meng Junhuai's eyes were full of narrow smiles.

He thought, why are you panicking?Isn't that right?It's a bit embarrassing for you to be like this the first time we met!

"..." Yu Yin turned serious and looked at Mrs. Qiao, "Get up. We will live in the same mansion in the future, so there is no need to be so polite. If you need anything, just say it in time, and you should understand the other rules , I won’t say any more.”

"Yes, Princess Xie." Qiao's voice was also soft, kowtowed again, then stood up, took tea from the servant girl according to the ceremony, and served it to the two of them.

The first one was given to Meng Junhuai. He listened to Qiao's saying "Your Highness, please use" in the tea room, rolled his eyes at Yuyin, and replied with a gentle smile: "Miss, you are welcome."

Yu Yin looked down at the floor tiles in front of her eyes and said nothing.

Mrs. Qiao presented another lamp to Yuyin, and said, "Princess, please use it." Yuyin accepted it with a "hmm", thinking that after he said that sentence, she only hummed, whether it seemed A little cold?At the same time, I thought again, why did he just say that sentence?
Does he really like Joe's?

So she looked at Meng Junhuai and then at Qiao's, put down the teacup, and added a smile: "I'll go ahead to see how the children are reading. Your Highness and Qiao Fengyi will talk first."

Qiao was overjoyed for a while, and blessed the princess to send the princess away.But as soon as the concubine left the main room, before she had time to get up, she saw the prince passing by.

Yuyin walked out a little awkwardly but not angrily, and just as she stepped out of the gate of the main courtyard and turned a corner, she was suddenly hugged from behind.

"..." She turned her head slightly in shock, and Meng Junhuai hugged her and kissed her: "Look at you, I know you're not serious."

"It's not so inappropriate..." Yu Yin frowned at him.

"Don't take me so seriously." He kissed her again, and the smile in his voice became obvious, "I'm happy to see you angry for me... Don't hold grudges. You can't blame me for this, you usually You have such a good temper that people can't figure out your thoughts, which makes me worry about gains and losses."

Is that so?She thought that in the current matter, at most, she was the only one who would worry about gains and losses.

She glared at him secretly, and shook his hand around her body: "Let's go, go and see Hejing Ali and the others, we just come back for dinner together later."

(End of this chapter)