Traveling through the harem: the favorite concubine

Chapter 69

Cao Rui and Mrs. Cao had already walked out of the hall for a long distance, and Shao Yao raised her head. She looked at their backs with a sad expression, and couldn't help tightly clutching the purse that Cao Rui handed over just now. .

She pursed her lips, and couldn't help but a wry smile formed at the corner of her mouth. She put her purse in her sleeve, wiped the corners of her eyes, and was about to go back.

Unexpectedly, when she turned around, she saw Deng Xian standing behind her.

"Eunuch Deng!"

Shao Yao was taken aback, but her pale face changed drastically, and she stammered and asked, "You... when did you stand here?"

Deng Xian smiled slightly, his small eyes narrowed into small slits by the fake smile.

"Stand, but it's been a while!"

He took two steps forward, walked up to Shaoyao, said in a rather magical way, and then smiled, "Young Master Cao is really generous, I wonder how much reward he gave you?"

"You...I still have to serve the empress."

Shaoyao knew Deng Xian's performance, and obviously told him that she had seen everything, or that she also knew about her.She had a panicked look on her face, but she still pretended to be calm and said.

"The emperor and the empress have already taken a nap, don't worry."

Deng Xian stands in front of Shao Yao.

"Eunuch Deng, what do you want to do?"

Shaoyao looked at Deng Xian with a pale face. She knew that Deng Xian had caught her braid. Although Deng Xian was very loyal to the emperor, he was actually a bit cunning. article?
She looked panicked but said seriously: "I won't do anything to harm my master!"

"Where did you think of going?"

Deng Xian put away his smile when he heard the words, and looked at Shaoyao with an unhappy face: "Although I am a bit despicable, I am not a villain! No matter what you say, the two of us served the master together at the entrance of the East Alley. I am older than you Long, I also treat you as a younger sister."

Shao Yao did not speak, still suspicious.

Deng Xian sighed, and said: "It is a good thing that you are sincere to your concubine and master. As slaves, we must be sincere to the master, and don't do things that hurt the face of the master."

"Eunuch Deng..."

Shaoyao looked at Deng Xian, but heard Deng Xian softly said: "You and I are both lucky. At this age, one has become the chief eunuch next to the emperor, and the other has become the most trusted palace man next to the imperial concubine. Look at you, from A little palace lady has now become the closest and most trusted person around the imperial concubine, and the imperial concubine will let you take care of everything. The other court ladies in the Zhaoyang Palace saw you, and the younger ones called you aunt because they were older than you. If you are still old, you should respectfully call you Miss Shaoyao, on such a good day, don't let your wrong thoughts get lost!"

"I know……"

Shaoyao forced a smile.

Deng Xian sighed, and said again: "You are luckier than me, I have spent my whole life in this palace! What about you, the imperial concubine loves you, maybe the imperial concubine will ask the emperor to marry you out in the future , with the support of the imperial concubine, I will find you a progressive one, and this official wife will do well in the future. If you are lucky, it is not impossible to get an imperial order, but you must not go in a muddle-headed way."

Deng Xian looked around and saw Shaoyao lowering her head, not sure if she had listened.

"I told you something heart-wrenching today, you should give me an answer!"

Shao Yao raised her head and glanced at Deng Xian gratefully, but the smile on her face was still forced: "Thank you, Mr. Deng, Mr. Deng is really a good man!"

After Shao Yao finished speaking, she took a step forward and walked directly towards the house.

Deng Xian stood in place, watched Shaoyao leave, shook his head, and muttered: "I don't know if Shaoyao has listened to my words, this girl Huaichun, a handsome young man appeared again, hey!"

In the afternoon, when Ruyi woke up from her afternoon nap, Zhao Qingze had already gone to the imperial study to deal with the court affairs. She lazily sat up from the bed, rubbed her forehead and said to Shaoyao who got up after she got up: "I haven't seen Aman all day today. I'll go there after washing up, and wear less headgear!"

Aman doesn't know what habit he has developed recently. When he sees bright objects, he has to reach out and grab them.Ruyi seldom goes out on weekdays. Although she dresses up formally every day, she doesn't know how to wear bead rings all over her head, but she rarely wears some, but just like this, Aman still has her eyes on her few hairpins ring.

The first time Ruyi hugged him, he might as well have pulled out a Jinbuyao from her head, and the second time he used both hands to pull out her pair of sapphire hairpins... Ruyi discovered her son's hobby only then, because he was so fond of the nanny. There are a lot of requirements, no sharp objects are allowed on the body, and Aman was weak at first, so he didn't show it.

Since Ruyi found out, every time she went back to see her son, she wore more plain clothes than peony, with at most one silk flower on her head, and mostly plain clothes on her body.Aman, a clever little man, ever since he found out that his mother no longer dressed beautifully came to see him, every time we saw him, he was always dissatisfied and yelled a few times in protest.

But Ruyi is definitely not used to his son's faults. He already has this status and is so "lustful", so he will pay for it in the future.In addition, Ruyi also plans to change the five-clawed four-dragon golden robe that Aman made underneath. There is no need for such a young child to wear such an honorable color all day long. If he develops the habit of being arrogant in the future, he should what to do!
When Ruyi arrived at Aman's room, Aman was wearing a bright red robe and a red hat with the word "Fu" on her head. Looking at her whole body wrapped in red, it looked like a red envelope.

She stepped forward to hug Aman, he opened his mouth, and burped a full milk at Ruyi as a greeting.

Ruyi reached out and touched his belly, it was bulging.

"Just fed Aman?"

Ruyi asked the two nannies standing by.

"Yes."

The nanny replied respectfully.

Ruyi teased Aman with Aman's little toy beside the bed, and at the same time asked a little about Aman.

Although the rules are in place, Zhao Qingze doesn't allow it. Ruyi can't breastfeed and take care of her child like a normal mother, but Ruyi also knows how much she weighs, and even though she says mother's colostrum is the best for her own child , but Ruyi is not very superstitious.Those selected by Zhao Qingze are all healthier than her, and they pay great attention to their daily diet. Most importantly, they have more experience in taking care of babies than she does.

She will not rush to take care of her children in order to show her maternal love, but she must understand and grasp everything about Aman.

After asking some questions, the two nannies couldn't help but wipe the sweat that appeared on their foreheads.

This noble master's questioning is really tormented.Fortunately, the nanny took care of her wholeheartedly, and Ruyi was not a harsh master, and after asking, nothing happened.

Ruyi saw that it was still early in the day, so she thought about it, and wanted to hold Aman and stay in her room for a while.So he said to the two nannies standing beside him: "I'll take Aman to my room, and if I catch up with the shift later, I'll send someone to my room to change."

After finishing speaking, he picked up Aman and carried him to his room, put him on the small couch, and started to play with Aman.

Not long after she returned to the house at this end, Zhao Qingze came back at the other end. When she saw Ruyi playing with Aman in her arms, she smiled and said, "Today I originally planned to take you mother and son out for a play, and I came to report from Luyuan. It is said that the alien beasts who paid tribute from various places have been trained, and I would like to take you there to have a look."

The deer garden is the place where animals are raised in the palace. It got this name only because the founding emperor of the Zhao family was addicted to eating venison and drinking deer blood. He specially encloses a place in the palace for raising deer, and then gradually became a place for raising strange animals in the palace. A rare beast, but the name has not been changed.Ruyi was lucky enough to pass by once when she was a court lady, but she was not allowed to enter inside, and she could only peek at the door. Hearing what Zhao Qingze said, she became interested.

Just looking at the young Aman, she hesitated.

She didn't know if it was because the term parasite was not known in ancient times, but she heard from colleagues that it is best for children not to come into contact with animals, otherwise they will be easily infected.

"Aman is so small, wouldn't it be inappropriate?"

"It's nothing, I just took you outside to have a look, and I won't let Aman touch it."

Zhao Qingze didn't take it seriously, those beasts would naturally not let them out to have contact with them, "Let's take Aman to see it!"

Zhao Qingze walked forward with a smile, stretched out his hand to hold Aman's little hand that kept waving as if protesting his mother not letting him play, and said with a smile.

"Okay, I'll let the nanny take Aman to wear some more!"

Ruyi called the nanny, and gave Aman to her in her arms. Turning around, she saw two strange faces standing in the room.

"Who are these two?"

Ruyi has spent some time in Zhaoyang Palace now, and she knows the people in Zhaoyang Palace fairly well, these two have never met before.

"These two are..."

Ruyi looked at Zhao Qingze in doubt, and asked in confusion.

"At first, I was afraid that you would be tired, so I handed over the affairs of Zhaoyang Palace to the nanny, but now that the nanny has returned home, you, the hostess, have to take responsibility!"

Zhao Qingze put his arms around Ruyi's waist with a smile, and said, "It's the housekeeper who is the lady. You, the housekeeper, now deserve your name."

"Qing Ze..."

"However, all the affairs of Zhaoyang Palace do not go from the harem, so there are many things. I don't want my Ruyi to take care of things and leave me and Aman alone. These two are old palace people, and they will follow in the future. If there is anything around you that you don’t understand, you ask them, and if you don’t want to take care of it, just leave it to them to take care of it. Your focus is still on me and Aman. And what you promised in the first place, you can’t break your promise!”

Zhao Qingze spoke to her slowly in a gentle tone.

Ruyi's heart suddenly became warm, as if it was about to melt.

It turned out that she misunderstood... She nodded repeatedly, and said in response: "Yes, I know!"

She couldn't help leaning her head on Zhao Qingze, she just felt that she was the luckiest woman in the world to meet such a good man.

Zhao Qingze just patted her on the shoulder lightly, with a gentle smile on his face, but he seemed to say casually: "You are the highest position in the harem now, and the affairs of the harem should be left to you to manage, but... "

"I'm not that good!"

Ruyi cast a reproachful glance at Zhao Qingze, and said with a smile, "I'm not a person who can't control myself. I can't control this harem, and I don't want to control it. I just want to control my own family."

"You!"

Zhao Qingze smiled and held Ruyi's hand.

The two held hands, but they didn't separate. Even Aman, who was carried again, failed to attract the attention of his parents, so he could only stay in the nurse's arms aggrieved.

He yelled twice, but saw that his mother just glanced back at him, and his father, who glanced at him indifferently, then pulled his mother to quicken his pace.

Seeing that he was being ignored, Aman held back his small mouth, and buried his small head in the nanny's plump breasts.

Fortunately, the deer park is very far away from the Zhaoyang Hall, and it is definitely not possible to walk there. Deng Xian has arranged for a chariot to wait outside. He hugged him in his arms.

Little Aman finally arrived in his mother's arms, and yelled twice, but her two little hands were tightly clutching the clothes on Ruyi's chest.

"Why did you bring this little guy up!"

Zhao Qingze was a little dissatisfied.

Ruyi explained with a smile: "The nanny can't take the chariot, and Aman is so small and can't sit alone. I'll sit on your side, so naturally I want to take Aman with me!"

"so troublesome!"

Zhao Qingze squeezed Aman's little face in dissatisfaction, stretched out his hand to hug Aman, and said, "Grow up quickly!"

Ruyi couldn't help covering her mouth and laughing when she heard the words.

It was the first time for Ruyi to ride a chariot, and she couldn't compare the difference between this dragon chariot and other chariots. When she first got on this chariot, she was a little apprehensive, but then she became more at ease.

When she was reading short historical stories, she once read a short story. The emperor of the Han Dynasty once asked her Ban Zhaoyi to ride in a chariot with her, but this Zhaoyi refused. At that time, the emperor praised Zhaoyi Yi knew the rules and was virtuous, but later that Zhaoyi was different and was rejected by that emperor.

She also suddenly felt that she seemed to have changed a lot under Zhao Qingze's favor. If it were her before, she would definitely refuse in fear, but now, she was able to accept it calmly.

The chariot stopped at Luyuan, Zhao Qingze handed Aman to Ruyi, got out of the car first, then took Aman, handed it to the nanny behind him, and finally reached out to hug Ruyi down.

Ruyi wrapped her arms around Zhao Qingze's shoulders, and just as her feet touched the ground, she suddenly heard the sound of bells ringing around her. She turned her head and saw a group of beauties in palace costumes walking out of the gate of Luyuan.

(End of this chapter)