The maid is the queen

Chapter 186

Leaning my chin on his shoulder is a bit tired. He is much taller than me. The two of us see things and think differently. After listening to him, I feel a little helpless. Although I am the emperor, I can’t do everything. The injury is probably unexpected to him. The country and the merits that the ancestors have conquered are all on his shoulders. I said softly: "As the saying goes, the world is easy to fight but hard to defend. Don't let him I am too tired."

"I thought you were angry." He looked down at me and smiled.

"There's nothing to be angry about, and we don't have any quarrels, right? And I don't want to worry about you anymore. You want to go on a personal expedition, but now is not the time." In the harem, every step is dangerous, leaving him, who knows what will become what happened.

"Tired?" I asked softly.

"I don't feel very tired now." He smiled and hugged my waist: "I like your approach, Zhiqiu. There are some things I don't want to do, so I need some time to deal with them."

"When Xu grows up, I won't let my father be so tired." Xu looked at him very seriously.

"Okay." He squatted down and let Xu look at Xi: "Xu has to grow up quickly, take care of mother, concubine and emperor brother, understand?"

He nodded in half understanding and half confused, and the baby also sat on the ground and said, "Understood."

"You little girl is just like your mother and concubine. I feel much more at ease in my heart. I'm not arguing or getting angry with you."

"Don't talk about that." Smiling, he tidied up all the things on his desk: "If we have time, let's go to see Viburnum, it's very fragrant, and it will be gone in a few days."

"The concubine has orders, and I have to obey." He sighed: "I like the color of the concubine, and I like her smile. She is soft and beautiful, and her charm and wisdom make people happy."

I couldn't help sighing: "What have I learned these days, maybe I went to listen to some jokes and changed the words, don't read it to the children."

Sometimes, it may be better to go further. It's not that the relationship between each other has faded and changed, but we also need some space of our own to think about our own things.

If he is the emperor, he will definitely not just hang around me like Yun Zhiqiu, but in my life and life, he is the only man, and I can only keep my eyes on him.At that time, I thought that we are all people with edges and corners. If we don’t smooth them out, we will hurt each other. I learned to be content slowly, and retreat slowly, because I want to keep my happiness. Zhiqiu, who is not afraid of death and stubborn, Now that she is a mother, the things she thinks are no longer the same as before.

It's not that it's bad to change, it's not good to stay the same. People always take one step at a time and gradually change.

Xi'er let him hold her and fell back asleep after a while, and he said angrily, "Why do you keep sleeping."

"What do you tell the child to do if he doesn't sleep, shhh, don't disturb him." He hugged him to the maid: "Hold him back to sleep, so nice to watch." It would also be uncomfortable to hug a sleeping little guy.

"Yes, imperial concubine." The maid went down, and he threw my face from behind, leaning his chin on the top of my head: "Yun Zhiqiu, Yun Zhiqiu, you say you care too much about a person, is it a bad thing?"

"I don't know." I pulled his hand away, and the child is here.

Regarding today's prince's bullying Xu, I don't think it's easy to bother him with these things, and he didn't talk about it. He came out of Zhenghua Palace, took me and the child for a walk in the harem, and then went to Nuanxin Palace for use. At lunch, in the drowsy afternoon, he stretched out his hand and pinched my face: "Zhiqiu, I like your generosity and understanding, you go to sleep well, and I will go to the Moon Temple to have a look, Yutang's body is very not optimistic."

I tried my best to clear my mind a bit, and wanted to help him do something to relieve the weight on his shoulders, but I felt that I could do nothing but say, "Take care."

"Well, I know, you should learn to protect yourself in the harem. It's not good for me to be too close to you. It's not good for you or the prime minister. You may not understand, but I think you will understand too. .”

What a selfish person, I don't want to understand at all, but I have no choice but to rely on and fall in love with the emperor, and it is destined that I cannot be alone.

He pulled me a blanket and went out, Xia Junlan, what can I do for you, I feel like I'm so useless.I only take my children and live a rich life. I like to live a life like a folk husband and wife with you. We can share happiness and stress together.

After sleeping and waking up, I felt the cold wind blowing in from the window, with a heavy sense of dampness and coldness. I rubbed my eyes and saw it more clearly. It turned out that it was raining lightly. It will turn cold when it rains in autumn. The chill Nong Chong wondered if Xia Juntang's health was better.

I sat up and wrapped myself in a blanket to keep warm, and went to the window to close the window to prevent the rain from splashing in.

I called the maid to come in and clean up, but I still can't get back to my senses.
The next day, when I was still very pale, the palace lady came to wake me up, and I couldn’t stay in bed like before, and the drizzle under the light pink skirt embroidered with platinum thread was still quietly wet. I don’t like to ride in a car. , I always think that walking more is better for my health. Lin Luoshui's routine always reminds me. Today's drizzle is still falling, and I am wrapped in an extra navy blue coat. Walking with a small silk embroidered umbrella, most of my shoulders were exposed from the wind and rain, I quickened my pace, hoping that she would get less rain.

In Chaofeng Palace, many concubines also came early, and the main hall was filled with a faint warm fragrance.

Concubine Mu looked at Yuxiu frowning, standing alone in the corner, unhappy, suddenly raised her eyes to look for me, and then sighed heavily.

That sigh touched my heart, could it be that she knew that Xia Juntang's injury was getting worse and worse.

Just thinking about it, the father-in-law's clear voice came: "The empress is here."

Everyone bent over to greet her, greetings is a rule, no matter what you have to do, you have to come, Lu Yao became more and more charming and gorgeous, and Hong Kou raised her fingertips, full of momentum: "My sisters, there is no need to be polite, it rained yesterday until today, it is cold The cold is coming, all sisters should take care of themselves."

Everyone promised, I thought I had nothing to do to leave early, but Lu Yao said: "Next month is the birthday of the empress dowager, and the empress dowager prays for Buddha in meditation, so as to ensure that my grandson, the country, can be reproduced and passed down from generation to generation. , Now that the Northwest is fighting, the Empress Dowager originally wanted not to have more birthdays, but we are all great ministers and concubines, to show our filial piety, from now on, there will be fewer monthly tributes in each palace..." She said these I'm quite happy, it's really too extravagant in the future, so I never ask the emperor to build any palaces, pavilions or shrines for me.

In the end, Lu Yao asked me to go to the Embroidery Palace with a few concubines, and was in charge of watching the embroidery palace embroider a large statue of Guanyin within a month.

I am always the queen, and I have to follow orders, but I am not very good at embroidery. Fortunately, the concubines understand more or less. Everyone chooses materials, threads, and workers in the embroidery palace with the nuns. Drawing or something, I didn't even eat lunch, and I was relieved in the afternoon, and finally settled down, I just need to wait for them to embroider.

Missing Xi a little outside for most of the day, he said goodbye to a few concubines and hurried to Nuanxin Hall.Stepping in, he took off his slightly damp coat and asked, "Xu and the baby can eat at noon."

"Returning to the imperial concubine, the little princess ate some at noon, but the eldest prince... didn't come back to eat."

"Qingluo, didn't you ask?"

Qingluo answered me: "The servant girl went over to ask, and the maid over there said that Prince Xu can't come back yet."

"Haven't come back until now?"

"Yes."

I immediately asked someone to find another piece of clothes, and then hurried to the imperial academy, how could I come back now, how dare Doctor Yushi starve Prince Xu.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, and the shoes were wet before arriving at the Royal Academy. The maid was a little afraid and dared not speak out.Entering the courtyard of the Royal Academy, I saw Xu standing in the drizzle with his whole body dripping wet, holding a heavy inkstone in his hand, his small face was already a little pale.

My heart was in extreme pain, I snatched the umbrella from the maid's hand and ran over, my feet were very slippery, I fell hard when I didn't stand still, the fall was so heavy that I gasped in pain.The palace lady also ran over in a hurry, but she also fell on the ground, screaming again and again, I looked up at Xu, he bit his lip and tears slipped from his black eyes, crying so unbearably , Thinking about it but not daring, turned to look at Yuxuetang.

The sound of reading is still loud, and the sound seems to be far away.

I bit my lip and got up, only to find that there was a lot of oil on the ground, no wonder I fell down, my body was wet and dirty, this time I walked over carefully, took the inkstone in Xu's hand, threw it away, and hugged him In his arms: "Xu, why are you standing here?"

As soon as he heard what I said, he whimpered and cried hard. My heart was sore and tears flowed out. I carried him to the eaves to shelter from the rain. He was soaked and cold. Wiping the water from his hair: "Xu, don't be afraid, the concubine mother is here."

Anger arose all over my body, I wanted to see which doctor Yushi was so powerful, and dared to punish a prince like this.

Holding Xu in his arms, he walked towards the imperial school, passed by the window, and heard a female voice faintly say: "Now it's time to ask Prince Xu if he knows his mistake, and let him in if he admits his mistake."

I stopped and looked through the window. Lu Yao was sitting on one side indifferently, with a few posters beside the table, and the imperial doctor could only stand obediently and watch her face.

The mother found me and said: "Empress, Concubine Yun Gui is here."

Lu Yao looked up and saw me, and smiled faintly: "Sister Zhiqiu is here too, which is good. I am about to tell you something, but this child Xu can't be taught. He doesn't study well at such a young age. If you don't listen to Ben Gong's teachings, you simply don't take Ben Gong seriously. How can you say that Ben Gong is also his mother? If sister Zhiqiu doesn't have the energy to teach him, Ben Gong can do it for him. How can the son of the royal family be so small that he can't get on? The person on the table, if you give some cakes to eat, you think that Bengong is thinking about it. It’s okay if you don’t teach him well at a young age. Bengong asked him to think about it, but he was annoyed at Bengong, and even knocked over Bengong’s oil bottle , Didn’t sister Zhiqiu fall on the ground just now? It’s the work of Prince Xu, if I don’t punish him, I won’t learn to be good in the future.”

(End of this chapter)