Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 66

Ruyi took a slight look at him. The man looked burly, but his face was the opposite of his figure. He looked handsome and young, but there was a hint of wind and frost between his eyebrows and eyes.

"Rail..."

Granny Cao supported the pomegranate tree and stared blankly, her expression was a little bewildered.

"Aunt Cao, what's the matter with you?"

Ruyi only felt that Grandma Cao seemed to be suffering from hysteria, so she yelled softly.

But Nanny Cao came back to her senses under Ruyi's calling, her face was a little uncomfortable, but her eyes were still looking there.

"It may be that the old slave has a hallucination."

Nanny Cao blinked her eyes, but her face was very uncomfortable.

"phantom?"

Ruyi followed Nanny Cao's eyes to look at the man in puzzlement, and said softly, "Nurse is that young man in armor?"

"Your Majesty saw it too?"

Nanny Cao suddenly looked up at Ruyi in disbelief, and asked for confirmation.

"Yes... yes!"

Ruyi was startled by Nanny Cao's sudden sharp voice, but she nodded repeatedly.

"No...impossible! Didn't Ruier die in the northwest!"

Grandma Cao covered her face in disbelief. She leaned against the tree and shook her head.

Riel?

Ruyi is a little puzzled, isn't this name the name of Nanny Cao's son?Nanny Cao is well-known in the palace, and her affairs are not secret. Ruyi heard that Shaoyao said that Nanny Cao's husband and son died on the Northwest battlefield, but this young man, long Is it very similar to Grandma Cao's son?
She was puzzled, and couldn't help but look up, but saw that the young man's face was also very excited. She looked at Zhao Qingze suspiciously, and Zhao Qingze just watched all this with a calm face.

"mother……"

Finally, the young man took a step and suddenly walked in the direction of Nanny Cao.

He is really Nanny Cao's son!Ruyi was also stunned, and it goes without saying that Nanny Cao was shocked. She was afraid that all this was her own illusion, but all this was so real.

"mother!"

The man called out again.

But Grandma Cao was shocked all over. She suppressed tears and called softly: "Rui'er."

This sound seemed to open the emotional gate. Suddenly, Grandma Cao burst into tears, loosened the tree she was holding on to, and was about to run in the direction Cao Rui came from.

However, Nanny Cao is unable to move now, and she fell straight to the ground.

Ruyi was taken aback, and hurriedly wanted to go to help her, but saw that Cao Rui had already rushed over quickly, hugging Nanny Cao.

"mother!"

Cao Rui was crying so much that she no longer had the heroic image she had before, and Nanny Cao's emotions had collapsed. She hugged Cao Rui and cried and beat her: "Where have you been! I don't know, I'm so worried about you!"

"Where have you been all these years..."

The voice was earnest, expressing the heartache of a mother.

Ruyi only felt that her heart was sore, her nose was sore and she wanted to cry.

Zhao Qingze walked over with Aman in his arms, and Ruyi couldn't help wiping her tears with the corners of her eyes.

"why are you crying?"

"fine……"

Ruyi blinked her eyes, held back her emotions, looked at Aman, who was holding her mouth in Zhao Qingze's arms, and looked at Mrs. Cao, stretched out her hand to touch his little face, and said, "Aman just be good? Also, what's going on here?"

"I was very good in the morning, and I didn't cry." Zhao Qingze said softly, but after that, he looked at Nanny Cao and Cao Rui, the mother and son who were sitting on the ground with their heads in their arms, with complicated eyes. When I return to the capital, I will wait for him to come to see the nanny."

"But... Aunt Cao's son..."

Ruyi probably guessed that the hidden story inside might have something to do with Zhao Qingze, so she was a little curious.

"He didn't die back then."

Zhao Qingze didn't say much, and Ruyi didn't ask too much. Just as he was about to reach out to hug Aman, he suddenly heard Cao's crying stopped.

"Mother! Mother!"

Cao Rui hugged Nanny Cao who had fainted. Such a big man was like a panicked child at this moment.

"Aunt Cao..."

"Nanny!"

Zhao Qingze put the child in Ruyi's hands, walked up to Nanny Cao, and shouted to the attendants following behind him, "Hurry up and get the imperial physician!"

"Your majesty, my mother..."

"Don't worry, the nanny has always been in excellent health, it may be due to her emotional agitation, you take her back to the room first. The imperial doctor will be here soon."

It was rare for Zhao Qingze to say a few words of comfort in a warm voice, but Cao Rui was grateful, and after half-kneeling to salute Zhao Qingze, he picked up Nanny Cao and walked towards the house without saying a word.

Ruyi hugged Aman, and at this moment, her heart was also a little complicated, she didn't know whether it was uncomfortable or happy for the reunion of the mother and child, but there was an indescribable regret.

Mother and child have been separated for so many years, and Grandma Cao has only one son, Cao Rui. At that time, her husband died and her child died, but she survived strongly.Now we finally meet again, but Ruyi just finds it unimaginable how Nanny Cao survived those years alone, and she is also a mother.

"Fortunately, Aunt Cao can still see her son!"

Ruyi couldn't help sighing, but Zhao Qingze said softly behind her: "I'm sorry for them."

"Qing Ze..."

Ruyi turned her head to look at Zhao Qingze strangely, but saw that his expression was not good, as if revealing deep guilt.

"I could have told the nanny that Cao Rui was still alive, but I never did."

He seemed to be explaining to Ruyi, but also talking to himself.

"Qingze, you..."

Ruyi was also surprised by this truth. She had just thought about the reason why Cao Rui appeared here, but at most she thought that after Zhao Qingze became emperor, he gained power and found Cao Rui who did not die on the Northwest battlefield. So now He brought them to let their mother and son meet, but they didn't expect to hear this fact.

"You... I believe you have your own considerations."

Ruyi comforted her, but she never thought that Zhao Qingze would treat Nanny Cao badly. After all, when she was at Dongxiangkou, she remembered that Zhao Qingze treated Nanny Cao just like an elder close to her.

Zhao Qingze just nodded, and said to Ruyi: "Take Aman back, I will take him to the ancestral hall in the afternoon."

After Ruyi sent the father and son away, she returned to the room and said to Shaoyao, "Go to Aunt Cao to see how Auntie is doing now?"

Now Cao Rui should still be in Grandma Cao's room, that's all for now, but it would be somewhat inconvenient for Ruyi to go directly there now.So she asked Shao Yao to ask.

Shao Yaoxian had heard about this matter from other palace officials, and immediately responded.

After watching Shaoyao leave, Ruyi took a book and sat on the couch to read it, but after a while, Shaoyao came back with Nanny Cao who had woken up.

"Nurse, why are you getting out of bed and walking around again!"

Ruyi put down her book, got off the couch and hurried over to help Nanny Cao to sit on the couch.

"The old slave is happy, and wants to kowtow to the emperor when he comes back."

Ruyi glanced at Shaoyao strangely, a little puzzled.Nanny Cao smiled, "Kowtow to Madam too."

"What does this have to do with me?"

Ruyi was a little dumbfounded.

"Rui'er's life was rescued by the emperor on the battlefield. We will never forget the emperor's great kindness to the Cao family! Rui'er is a foreigner, so it is not easy to kowtow to your mother in person. I let him kowtow outside the house in the hall. Waiting outside."

Grandma Cao's face was full of gratitude, and she was about to help her stand up and kowtow to her.

Ruyi hurriedly stopped her, feeling ashamed: "Auntie, I haven't done anything, if you really thank me, I will be ashamed."

"No, the emperor and the imperial concubine are both great benefactors of the Cao family!"

But Nanny Cao had to salute, "Even if the empress does not accept this gift, the old slave did not salute the empress after she was enfeoffed, so the empress must accept this gift!"

"Auntie, if you want to salute me, wait until your legs and feet get better."

After all, Ruyi and Shaoyao managed to help Nanny Cao up.

Ruyi looked at Nanny Cao's face carefully, and didn't know if it was her psychological effect, but felt that Nanny Cao's whole person was different from before. Although she was still injured, her face was radiant. With a happy smile on his face.

Ruyi couldn't help being happy for her. Although the former Nanny Cao had the emperor's care, when Ruyi saw her, she always thought of a term "old man who lost his independence" in his previous life.I'm afraid that no amount of glory and wealth is useless to her. Before she gave birth to Aman, all of Cao's focus was on Zhao Qingze, and after she left Aman, all her focus was on Aman again. body.

Ruyi felt uncomfortable just looking at it.

It's good now, Cao Rui is not dead, and Nanny Cao will have her own grandson in the future.

And Nanny Cao seemed to be thinking of going with Ruyi, with the corners of her mouth raised and Ruyi smiled and said: "Ruier is as old as the emperor, and has been separated from the old slave for so many years. Now the emperor has heirs, and he has not yet grown up." Marriage. The old slave is thinking of making a marriage for him quickly, so that he can give birth to a grandson for the old slave, and the old slave has fulfilled his wish in this life."

"Yes." Ruyi couldn't help but smile, "Auntie will go out of the palace to become the old matriarch in the future, don't forget to visit me often in the palace."

"As long as the empress does not dislike it, in the future, the servant girl will have to ask the emperor and the empress for a favor, so that the grandson of the servant girl can be the companion of the little prince born after the empress."

Ruyi smiled and nodded.

I heard that Cao Rui, Nanny Cao's son, was also Zhao Qingze's companion.As for why Nanny Cao didn't say she was the crown prince's companion, Ruyi probably understood a little bit. Generally, when the palace chooses companions, they always choose older or equal children, and seldom choose younger children.

Zhao Qingze may have already made arrangements. When Ruyi changed his clothes for him when he came back at night and talked about what he said to Nanny Cao earlier, he nodded with a smile.

Then, in the back hall of Zhaoyang Palace, we invited Nanny Cao and Cao Rui to have dinner together.

When Grandma Cao saw Zhao Qingze, she repeatedly pulled Cao Rui to kneel down to thank her.

"If the emperor hadn't sent someone to rescue Rui'er on the northwest battlefield back then, this old slave would never have seen Rui'er in his life, and after the Cao family was cut off, the Cao family would really be hard-pressed to repay the emperor's great kindness!"

With tears in her eyes, Grandma Cao spoke excitedly.

Zhao Qingze asked Deng Xian to help Nanny Cao, and said with a smile: "Nurse takes care of me, and A Rui has done so many things for me, nothing compares to my effort. Besides, don't blame me, Nanny Conceal the news that Ari is still alive."

"I don't dare. I understand that the emperor is the one who does great things. A Rui follows the emperor to do things. I, this woman, don't get in the way!" Grandma Cao is satisfied when she knows her son is alive, and now Cao Rui is doing things with the emperor. Let the Cao family shine on the lintel.

"Before I took this position, I was afraid that Cao Rui would be exposed, so I didn't let him show up. Later, when I ascended the throne, an earthquake happened, so I asked him to take people to the disaster area for rescue. This delay made me feel uncomfortable. The nanny waited for so long."

Zhao Qingze picked up the wine glass with a smile, filled the wine pot himself, and then said softly: "At first, I always wanted to give the nurse a commandment, but I know that what I give is definitely not as good as what Cao Rui can earn for you. Now Cao Rui Rui is back, and I can seal the order I have prepared for Nanny for a long time!"

"emperor……"

Nanny Cao was about to pull Cao Rui to kneel down and salute again.

"If the nanny is more polite, I won't be able to respect this glass of wine!"

Zhao Qingze smiled and filled the jug for Ruyi: "Today, firstly, we are celebrating the reunion of the nanny, mother and son, and secondly, I am celebrating that Aman has become my rightful heir."

"emperor……"

Ruyi was a little moved when she heard the words, and picked up the wine.

"I specially asked Deng Xian to choose this wine from the palace wine cellar. Nanny and Cao Ruike don't miss this fine wine."

"Today should be the old slave and Rui'er being rude!"

Granny Cao heard that Zhao Qingze was trying to persuade her to drink, she picked up the wine with a smile, and stood up.

The wine is indeed good wine, but I don't know whether the alcohol content is too high, or Ruyi's drinking capacity is too light, after two sips, she feels a little dizzy.

"Ma'am, are you all right?"

Seeing that the skin on Ruyi's face began to blush, Grandma Cao asked.

"fine."

Ruyi pretended to be calm, but the drunkenness on her face was hard to hide.

"Your majesty, the servant girl and Rui'er are leaving first!"

Cao Rui was also a little embarrassed, and he didn't dare to look up when he stood up.

If this courtier sees the imperial concubine drunk, it is really against the rules.

Zhao Qingze didn't expect Ruyi to drink so lightly, so he smiled and waved his hands to make the two of them retreat.

Ruyi was barely awake, feeling a little apologetic in her heart, it was because she couldn't drink enough to spoil the fun.After Nanny Cao and the others retreated, Ruyi glanced at Zhao Qingze with some reproach: "It's all your fault, I even said I can't drink anymore!"

Ruyi is not overwhelmed, when she drank the first glass, she felt that the wine was a bit too strong compared to the sweet-scented osmanthus rice wine she drank at Dongxiangkou, and she was also afraid that she would not be able to drink, so she withdrew the second glass. Zhao Qingze forcefully poured it into her cup.

"Are you drunk?"

Zhao Qingze looked at the charming look on Ruyi's flushed face, and couldn't help but pat her on the face.

"I'm not drunk!"

Ruyi stretched out her hands to support the table and stood up, wanting Shaoyao to come and help her, but her feet were weak, and she fell back to the chair again.

(End of this chapter)