The Book of Raising Children by Houmen

Chapter 64
Everyone respectfully left, Zhou Xu suddenly poked his head out of the tent when he heard the voice, frowned and said, "Auntie, you are here, I don't know which of them was sleeping last night. Actually snoring, so noisy that I didn't close my eyes all night."

The four people who had been named all blushed immediately, and some of them were so ashamed that their eyes were red.Zhao Jing glanced at Zhou Xu, and couldn't help shaking her head in her heart: "The empress dowager personally chose her bedroom secretary, how could she snore? If the emperor wants to kick someone out, please choose a different reason."

Hearing this, Zhou Xu couldn't feel his face burning, and hurriedly said: "Go down quickly, even if you don't snore, I can't sleep well because they are here anyway."

Zhao Jing shook her head helplessly, and stepped forward to change the emperor's clothes. Seeing that Fu Manduo had also come in to serve her, she stopped and went to the dragon bed.

The bright yellow sheets were clean except for a little wrinkle.Zhao Jing breathed a sigh of relief for some reason. She didn't want Zhou Xu to be exposed to these things at such a young age, but she didn't know how to persuade him. Fortunately, he is still an emperor with self-control.

After Zhou Xu drank hot tea and ate two pieces of pastry to cushion himself, he went to the front and turned his head.

Dayong has a rule of taking a bath once every ten days. Compared with the current weekends, it is too humane.After sending the emperor away, Zhao Jing could go down to rest for a while, but she was not too sleepy today, so she went directly to the imperial study room, and told the maids and eunuchs there to light the charcoal stove, hot water, and ambergris , When the emperor is in court, everything will be in order.

Zhao Jing spent the longest time in the imperial study, so she has the best relationship with the maids here. Everyone thought that Zhao Jing was leaving, and they felt a little bit reluctant.

"Auntie, when are you leaving?"

"I'll leave on the 25th of the twelfth lunar month." Zhao Jing pinched her fingers and calculated that the 25th of the twelfth lunar month was the day when she entered the palace as registered by the inner government, exactly ten years.

"Why don't you leave after the New Year, and you can definitely get more silver rewards during the Chinese New Year." Most of the palace ladies who work in the palace as errands are from poor families, and it is of course best to receive more silver rewards.

"No, I took this year's and thought about next year's. When will it be the first time? I'll go back earlier, and I can celebrate the New Year with my brother and sister-in-law." Zhao Jing has never seen her parents here, and her brother-in-law came to see She mentioned that the parents here have passed away for more than three years.

"Auntie, did your brother and sister-in-law find someone for you? Last year, my parents came to visit me and said that they settled down a house for me, and they gave me ten taels of silver, so they agreed to wait for me for another three years. "

Although the court lady is decent, she was old when she left the palace. In the environment of low fertility rate in ancient times, it would be extremely risky for a man to wait until that age, so it is common for a man to wait for the silver first. .

"I haven't heard my brother and sister-in-law mention this, but I'm not in a hurry to get married. It's rare to be able to go out and live a comfortable life for a few days. Why worry about finding another elder to serve you?"

These words caused everyone to cover their mouths and laugh, and Zhao Jing also smiled helplessly. After all, to them, it seemed that women were born to serve men...

The big guys chatted for a while, and seeing that it was getting late, they went to their respective places of duty.Zhao Jing sat in the tea room and boiled water. When Zhou Xu went down, he liked to drink a cup of hot Tieguanyin. Tieguanyin can enter Zhou Xu's mouth.

At this time, the tea room was quiet, Zhao Jing rubbed her palms and warmed them on the stove, the chilblains on the tips of her little fingers hadn't healed yet, her hands hurt when they were cold, and itched when they were hot.She took out Zhou Xushang's chilblain ointment from her sleeve, picked out a small piece with her nails, and rubbed it on little by little, when she suddenly heard someone outside the door saying: "So you are here."

Zhao Jing raised her head, and what caught her eyes was a brocade robe embroidered with pine and bamboo patterns in silver and white. Without even looking up, she guessed that the person who came was Uncle Guo Wei Mingzhen.

The emperor was in the early court at this time, and Wei Mingzhen was not wearing court clothes, obviously an uninvited guest.

Zhao Jing stood up with her head down, without looking at Wei Mingzhen from the beginning to the end, she blessed her body and said, "Greetings to Uncle Guo."

Wei Mingzhen smiled lightly, but there was a bit of teasing in his eyes: "You don't even look at me, you know who I am. Thinking about the days when I'm not here, do you miss me so much?"

Zhao Jing frowned, she really underestimated Wei Mingzhen's thick skin, thought for a while and said: "The servant is working in front of the emperor, if I don't even have the ability to know people, I'm afraid the emperor will drive the servant away long ago. .”

"I heard that the emperor is reluctant to drive you away. You just want to leave." Before Zhao Jing invited him, Wei Mingzhen stepped into the waiter. The waiter was small, and Zhao Jing took a step back. The eunuch was guarding, otherwise it would be a bit cramped for the two of them to be in the same room.

Wei Mingzhen blinked his peach blossom eyes, and his eyes fell on Zhao Jing's fingers that had been coated with chilblain ointment, "Hey, you have chilblains on your hands? Are you so ignorant of maintenance?"

Wei Mingzhen took two steps toward Zhao Jing, and Zhao Jing squatted down, sat on the pier in front of the tea stove, and ignored him.She has her own way of dealing with this kind of rascal.

Unexpectedly, she was about to pour water from the teapot when a pair of white and slender hands suddenly covered her. Zhao Jing was startled, she quickly retracted her hands, looked up at him in surprise and said, "What are you doing?"

Wei Mingzhen smiled calmly, his long eyelashes flickered and looked towards Zhao Jing: "I'm afraid you will be hot, I think you don't welcome me here, so I have to pour tea and water for myself."

Choking on these words, Zhao Jing was completely speechless, she just stared blankly at him filling up the teacup and slowly tasting it, as if completely ignoring Zhao Jing's hateful eyes towards him.

Zhao Jing was angry for a while, and suddenly she was relieved. Anyway, she will leave in a few days, and she will no longer have to serve these difficult masters.Her breath calmed down, and she re-clamped the tea leaves with tweezers and placed them in the scalded teacup. The orchid fingers rose slightly, and every movement was full of elegance, skill, and briskness.

Wei Mingzhen put down the teacup on his lips, and was attracted by Zhao Jing's series of movements. She wore a small pearl earring on her ear, which made her neck white and smooth, and there was some fluff at the root of her hair. If she touched it, it must be soft. Soft and greasy feeling.

When Zhao Jing raised her head, she saw Wei Mingzhen looking at her in a daze. She didn't have time to pay attention to him. Zhou Xu was going to court soon, and she was going to be busy again.

(End of this chapter)