The little lady in the palace

Chapter 92 Returning
The three of them found a private room in the tea house and sat down. After talking in detail, Meng Junhuai and Xie Yuyin realized that the emperor had been seriously ill for more than half a month.When Xie Jiqing left Beijing, he was ordered by Prince Jin to tell Meng Jun about the prince of Huaishan County. When he heard the news on the way, he reported it together.

Meng Junhuai put the two things together and thought about it, his brows twitched: "Father has been ill for two years on and off, and he has never been seriously ill. Now that his tenth brother has just been made a prince, he just happened to be seriously ill?"

The implication in the words made Yu Yin's spine shudder, and Xie Jiqing nodded: "I don't want to make random guesses."

Meng Junhuai nodded: "We're going back to Beijing now. Do you have other errands?"

"Yes." Xie Jiqing said, "If the emperor suddenly..." Here is a paragraph of his words, the ominous words are hidden, "then the trouble that Prince Jin will encounter is not only Dongchang and Prince Shan, but also three people with different surnames prince."

"A vassal king with a different surname?" Meng Junhuai was not surprised, and heaved a sigh of relief, "I heard that there are people from them in Suzhou City, are they trying to find out what's going on?"

"Yes, since the emperor was ill for a long time, they have been restless." Xie Jiqing looked serious, "So His Royal Highness asked the minister to bring nearly [-]% of Jinyiwei's troops out of Beijing, in case the three of them caused trouble."

Three adults, that is almost 6000 people.

Xie Yu felt something was wrong: "Brother can't transfer so many people, the current commander..."

"The former command envoy died of a sudden illness a few days ago." Xie Jiqing lowered his eyes, "It is said that he drank with people from the West Factory, and after drinking too much, he walked home at night and caught a cold."

Meng Junhuai and Xie Yuyin looked at each other, they both understood the meaning of the conversation very clearly.

This is because the power of Dongxichang infiltrated Jinyiwei and directly took the commander for his own use, so the commander was assassinated by Prince Jin or Prince Jin's people.

Meng Junhuai then told Yuyin: "You can write a letter to your family and ask Mrs. You or Mrs. He to come to express your condolences, to express your meaning."

"Let Mrs. You go." Yuyin immediately made up her mind, "Mr. He's temperament, I'm afraid she doesn't want to go out to meet people, so I won't force her."

Meng Junhuai nodded, and Yuyin wrote it down.She asked Xie Jiqing carefully when he would leave Suzhou, and Xie Jiqing said that he had to leave that night. There were too many things to delay.

Yuyin also wanted to hurry back to Beijing.She didn't need to think about it to know that Beijing must not be quiet at all, and the wives of each family must be walking around very frequently.But her absence from the Prince's Mansion in Yi County is really inappropriate.

But Meng Junhuai still took her to the Pingjiang River that she mentioned earlier.After buying several snacks, she managed to calm down her eagerness to return to Beijing.

Yu Yin held the crab roe bun he handed over and ate it: "Are you really in no hurry?"

"Naturally, that's my father." Meng Junhuai looked at the Pingjiang River beside him, and sighed at the strings of lanterns reflected on the river, "But no matter how anxious we are, we won't be able to set off tonight. Why don't we go to the river again?" After a few hours, let them pack their bags quickly."

As he spoke, he closed the cloak for her, and tapped her forehead helplessly: "Don't worry too much, do your best, and obey the destiny. I've wronged you, it's rare to come out, and you have to rush back in such a hurry, wait It's over, let's do it again."

"Yeah." Yu Yin nodded, finally smiled, "There's nothing wrong with it, I miss the children too. He Jing still reminds me in letters every day."

In Qingyuan, a suburb of Beijing, as soon as He Jing received a letter and heard that his father, queen, mother and concubine were coming back, he had fun in the house.

Ah Li, who was so scared that she was sleeping soundly, opened her eyes and jumped out, while A Zuo and A You ran in from the door curiously, asking her sister, "What's wrong?"

"Father, queen and concubine are coming back!" He Jing ran over happily, Qiao Shi was afraid that she would bump into her two younger brothers in excitement, so she hurriedly gave her a hand.

He Jing finally made up her mind and asked them: "Do you still remember the father, mother and concubine?"

She heard that such a big child can't remember anything, and she herself doesn't remember what happened when she was more than two years old.

But they thought about it and said they remembered, Ah You also said that he missed his mother.

After thinking about it, Ah Zuo said that he remembered his parents, but he didn't remember what they looked like.

Then Ayou said that I don’t remember either hehehehe...

He Jing: ...I want to sue my father, queen, mother and concubine!snort!

In Yijun Wangfu, You Shi received a letter from the princess, and it was difficult to distinguish his mood.

It had been a long time since she had received such an order.Before the concubine entered the mansion, she was the only one who made decisions in the mansion's communication with other mansions. Going forward, she was ordered by Mrs. Guo... how long ago did that happen?
It seems that Mrs. Guo will explain to her like this when she goes home to visit her relatives. Guo will list who she needs to see, what to say, and how to prepare the ceremony in detail.Then when Mrs. Guo came back, after hearing what she said, he would still find fault with her.

Now, in this letter from the concubine, she didn't say anything specific at all, it only said that the commander died of a sudden illness, and she was asked to come to express condolences someday.

Somehow, for a moment, You Shi felt comfortable because of the simplicity of this letter.And the next moment she was worried again, wondering if Xie Yuyin would be like Guo Shi, and would not be happy to find her afterwards.

In addition to this, there is also a little bit of jealousy creeping in.Mrs. Guo confessed that the matter was only because she went back to her natal family, and Mrs. Xie is now... because she was taken out to play by the prince.

"Camellia." You called the maidservant to come in, "Tell Ah Li to go out with me to meet someone in two days and ask him to prepare."

She said with a slight smile: "I am the eldest son of Prince Yijun."

You Shi became more and more aware that although he was still jealous of the princess, it was not as cold as before.

It's useless to be jealous of the princess, the prince's favor is actually an illusory thing.What she really wanted to fight for was her son's future.

Ah Qi...it is very difficult to have any chance, but Ah Li is at least the eldest son.Even if the heir is the first, the eldest son still has some weight after all.

She knew that this road would be exhausting, but she had no reason to admit defeat now.

On the boat, Yu Yinwai read two pages of scriptures on the couch, felt a little dizzy and put the book down.Looking up, she saw Meng Junhuai was still standing by the window in a daze.

It's been three days since he traveled by water, and he was always so reticent. It was only now that she realized that the relationship between father and son in the Tian family was not as weak as she thought.

Originally, what she saw was that in the past three or two years, he spent too little time in the palace.Most people enter the palace to see Concubine Ding, but at least nine times out of ten times when they go to Qianqing Palace, they cannot enter the gate.The rest of the time was to see him during the Chinese New Year.

Now that I think about it carefully, maybe she really took it for granted - how could they have no relationship at all?At least when Meng Junhuai left the palace and opened the mansion, he was always in the palace.

Yuyin sighed lightly, walked to the window, and put her hands on his back.

Meng Junhuai turned around: "What's wrong?"

"I see you have been standing by the window for a long time." She raised her hand to touch his face, feeling that it was really cool, "It's quite cold, don't blow it like this. If you feel uncomfortable, tell me?"

"I'm fine." Meng Junhuai smiled indifferently at first, but she took the blame and suppressed the smile again.

After a while, he also sighed: "You tell me, I don't know how to say it. Let me be quiet, don't worry."

As soon as the words fell, the hull of the ship shook violently, then seemed to slow down quickly, and stopped completely after a while.

Meng Junhuai looked at the door, while Yang Enlu at the door looked out and asked, "What's going on!"

The boatman's reply came from outside: "Eunuch Yang, there are many merchant ships ahead, once they stop, the river is full, so we have to stop too."

Yang Enlu frowned, thinking that the boatman would not answer, so he had to go forward by himself.

He lowered his voice and asked again: "Keep your voice down, don't shout at the top of your voice. Let me ask you, why did the merchant ship stop so well?"

"Hey... Father-in-law, forgive me." The boatman bowed and said, "It is said that the officers and soldiers set up checkpoints in front, and the passing ships only need to be searched one by one, so the time is slow."

Yang Enlu looked forward and saw people who seemed to be officers and soldiers walking on the pier, so he went back to the cabin to report to Meng Junhuai.

After hearing this, Meng Junhuai felt strange: "It's very good, why set up a card?"

Yang Enlu replied that he didn't know, and immediately asked the guards to inquire. After a while, the guards turned back and said, "I heard that King Guangxin stayed here. He was afraid that someone would commit murder by water, so he interrogated."

"King Guangxin?" Meng Junhuai's face turned cold.

This is one of the three vassal kings with different surnames, whose fief is far away from the border.He hadn't listened to the imperial edict before, but now that everyone is here, he doesn't believe it if there is no ghost.

Meng Junhuai said casually: "Don't hurry, just hand over the post, and the king will meet him."

"Jun Huai." Yu called him, "Let's go back to Beijing first. King Guangxin has the military power in his hands, so it's better to have one thing less than one more thing at this time."

Meng Junhuai pondered, and shook his head: "At this moment, we can't let him feel that even the prince is walking around him, I have to see him, you wait for me on the boat."

After he finished speaking, he ordered the boatman to bring the boat to the shore. Yuyin calmed down and prepared two extra clothes for him.There are regular clothes, and there are also those prepared for grand banquets.

Who knows how they will show off each other when they meet?Be prepared.

Half a quarter later, Meng Junhuai took people off the boat.

Several eunuchs who were serving close to him naturally followed, and Yang Enlu invited some guards to accompany him.Meng Junhuai raised his hand to stop it, and asked him, "How many guards did we bring out?"

"There are 1000 people." Yang Enlu replied, and said again, "I ordered 500 people to go with me, sir, do you think it is enough?"

"Too many." Meng Junhuai shook his head, glanced at the imposing boat behind him, and took a long breath, "Take 50 people with me, and the rest will guard the princess. Also, let the boat wait in the middle of the river." Come on, don't stay on the shore, it's not safe."

"Master..." Yang Enlu was terrified when he heard the number of people, and wanted to persuade him to change his words, but Meng Junhuai looked over coldly: "If the princess makes a mistake, I will throw you into the river to feed the fish."

"..." Yang Enlu was frightened again, choking on his persuasion.Subconsciously looking at Meng Junhuai's expression again, he swallowed his words completely.

He said in his heart, am I afraid that something will happen to you?I'm so kind that I don't want to report it!

(End of this chapter)