Daming Yinghua

Chapter 258
The moonlight is like water, and the silver waves rush to the ground.

In the courtyard of the Ciqing Palace, where the fragrance of early osmanthus wafted, Zhu Youjiao, his younger brother Zhu Youjian, and his younger sister Zhu Huiyan sat around a table and ate crabs that were paid tribute from the south by express boats on the canal.

At the beginning of Guizhou, the crab roe is not thick enough, and the meat in the crab body and crab legs is not plump enough, but Zhu Youxiao prefers the soft crab shell.

These slightly elastic shells are clamped and cut with the "Eight Crab Pieces", so they are less likely to be broken into powder and will not stick to the crab meat.

Zhu Youxiao didn't want the help of the little eunuch and the little maid, so he moved his fingers deftly. After a while, white and brown crab meat and light golden crab roe accumulated in the two green-glazed sunflower petals.

Zhu Youxiao poured a few drops of Zhejiang vinegar into it, pushed it in front of Youjian and Huiyan, and watched with a smile as his younger siblings looked like two kittens, tasting the seasonal delicacies.

All three of them lost their mothers when they were very young, and they grew up together. Zhu Youxiao has a deep affection for his younger siblings.

The new crabs arrived today, but Niang Xili did not have dinner at Ciqing Palace, but went to Qianqing Palace.

Before the banquet, Ke Shi quietly told Zhu Youxiao that after Concubine Zheng sent the beautiful palace lady to the Long Live Lord, Xi Li was embarrassed to say anything, but in fact, she was upset that she hadn't been called to bed by the Long Live Lord for half a month Now, it's time to quarrel with the Long Live Lord in the Qianqing Palace, and maybe he will be in the Qianqing Palace tonight.

Zhu Youxiao has become accustomed to Xili not being afraid of the name of usurping, and taking his father's anger out of his hands.

He sighed softly and said, "It would be great if the Long Live Lord named Li Niangniang a queen", but he was really happy in his heart.

The mean and savage Xi Li was not there, and You Jian's adoptive mother, the cold-tempered Lady Dong Li, was also resting in her bedroom due to physical discomfort.

In the courtyard with a bright moon and a clear evening breeze, Zhu Youxiao felt that he had become the lord of the first palace for the first time, and that he could relax and eat delicious food with his siblings, which was really pleasant and enjoyable.

In a good mood, the hands are more skillful.In a short time, Zhu Youxiao assembled the peeled crab shells into a complete crab on a porcelain plate, and showed it to his younger sister Zhu Huiyan to make her happy.

"Brother's hands are really skillful," Zhu Huiyan praised with her lips pursed, and then asked with a smile, "Brother, in the Crystal Palace in Huiyan's courtyard, there are stone carvings of fish, shrimp, crab, and shellfish, but there is no water curtain. Brother is the best at ingenuity, how about making a Dragon Palace water curtain for Huiyan?"

Zhu Youxiao washed his hands in the warm water soaked in chrysanthemums. While drinking the soup, he discussed with his younger sister softly: "How about half a month for the water curtain? My brother wants to go with Youjian to accompany the Wenhua Palace. Lecture master, be a boat for fighting water."

Zhu Huiyan beat her own mother to death, and she was just a princess. Her father never cared about her upbringing. Since she was sensible, she had learned to look at the faces of the eunuchs and eunuchs.

She nodded bluntly: "Okay, master's homework is the most important thing."

Then he looked at Zhu Youjian with a look of longing: "You are only one year older than me, and you can also go to the Wenhua Palace. Does your master teach interesting things in addition to the books written by the master?" ah?"

Zhu Youjian ate the last crab leg, and said seriously: "There are several lecturers, and the interesting one is Master Zheng. Well, she is a woman. In fact, when Master Zheng is on duty to give lectures, Huiyan can indeed go together."

Zhu Huiyan's eyes lit up.

Before she could start asking further questions, Ke Yinyue, who was standing behind Zhu Youxiao and waving a round fan to drive away the autumn insects, said in a soft voice, "Even if Master Zheng starts the lecture, His Highness Ningde can't go."

Unlike her two elder brothers who have not yet been crowned king, Zhu Huiyan was named "Princess Ningde" shortly after she was born because she could not be the heir to the throne, so Ke Yinyue called her by her title.

Zhu Huiyan raised her round almond eyes and stared at Ke Yinyue: "Why?"

Ke Shi said with a smile: "Although Master Zheng is a woman, he brought a young man with a jade face to teach. How can His Highness meet the man outside the palace?"

"Oh..." Zhu Huiyan responded lightly.

Zhu Youjian was furious.Brother Huang's wet nurse is getting more and more outrageous.how?Xi Li is not here today, she actually thinks that she is a servant who can be a servant of the Ciqing Palace?
He didn't know the seriousness of interrupting casually, what he said, and what he said, even slapped Zhu Youjian in the face.

But Zhu Youjian didn't go back as bluntly as he did during the day.

In the young man's mind, master Zheng's trick of hiding needles in the cotton of Ke Yinyue emerged.

Confronting this fly-like servant, losing her temper made her even more proud, and felt that she could anger the fifth prince.

Letting her go is the key.

Zhu Youjian then took up the handkerchief and wiped the crab roe from his mouth, looked at Ke Yinyue and said, "Mother, Eunuch Wei is going to the small kitchen to burn incense soon? Are the lotus flower cakes and chestnut dumplings still ready? Mother Mom, go and have a look."

The fan in Ke Yinyue's hand froze.

Zhu Youxiao is not stupid, and he also knows that his nanny contradicted Zhu Youjian. He was afraid that his younger brother would reprimand Keshi, but when he saw that Mo Shuo said the wind and rain, and even the dark clouds did not appear, he felt relieved, and turned to tell Ke Yinyue: "That's right, Mammy, go and have a look. If the servants are not careful, ask Eunuch Wei to be more lenient and don't punish them."

The corners of Ke Yinyue's mouth, which had been flattened, finally turned up again, and in response, he saluted the three princes and princesses respectfully, and then walked slowly towards the back of the main hall.

……

Next to the small kitchen of the Hall of Ciqing, at the end of the narrow and deep corridor piled with charcoal and sporadic firewood, in a dark corner where the moonlight cannot be seen, the panting of the two men and women finally completely subsided.

Wei Zhongxian put on his trousers, tied up his belt, straightened his loose robe, and contentedly stroked Yinyue's tofu-smooth cheek, and said in a low voice, "How about it? ?”

Ke Yinyue raised her eyes and glanced at the figure reflected on the window paper in the kitchen. The three little maids were there, so she stroked the temples at the back of her head with confidence, but she still had some lingering anger when she said, "That crown doesn't have any The erected little cock has been staring at me and pecking at me since this year, when have I ever been so angry."

Wei Zhongxian comforted her: "Okay, my darling, if that little cock hadn't forced you here tonight, how could you and I have such a good time?"

Ke Yinyue leaned over, sucked a mouthful of the man's Adam's apple, and muttered: "Well, speaking of it, my son's role as the prince is firmly established. It is a happy event for you to be transferred back from the inner treasury to be the father-in-law. But we two It’s inconvenient to do this.”

Wei Zhongxian said: "Don't worry, when I become the crown prince, we two told my brother that Wei Chao has always abused you in places where outsiders can't see since we became enemies, and my brother will feel distressed." , let’s push him and beat Wang An, let us be together, and then we can justifiably sleep on the same kang.”

After hearing this, Ke Yinyue snorted, and said bitterly: "How courageous do you think my brother is? And how courageous do you think Wang An's old man is? Don't even think about taking Wang An's way. Wang An An sees me as the worst, when my brother went to the Wenhua Palace yesterday, that old guy treated me like a maid in a small palace, and taught me a lesson."

"Then, who told you that you are neither father-in-law nor lady-in-waiting? Isn't it only right and proper for him to make a gesture of Joe in front of you?"

Ke Yinyue rolled her eyes, recalled another verse, and complained: "By the way, there is also the Zheng family who lectured to my brother. I heard that he was also a servant of a big family in the south of the Yangtze River, and he dared to give up to his old lady. That pair of yin and yang weirdness just puts on the cheap look of my old lady, my old lady is really, really..."

"Okay, okay," Wei Zhongxian tugged at Keshi's sleeve, indicating that the two of them should leave this place, and continued to comfort her, "No matter how illiterate my old Wei is, I will listen to those eunuchs who are used to adjusting book bags. However, if you can't bear it, you can make a big conspiracy. You just treat all the rags around your brother as dogs and cats, and you must not offend them, and you will be kicked out of the palace by finding a reason. After enduring this for a while, who knows In the coming year, shall we move to Qianqing Palace?"

Ke Yinyue's eyes lit up: "What's wrong? Long live Lord is not in good health?"

Wei Zhongxian smiled wretchedly: "Old Cui on the other side of Concubine Zheng, let the imperial pharmacy rub the pills for fun every day and send them to Qianqing Palace. If it's like this, even a boar for breeding can't stand it?"

Ke Yinyue shoved him coquettishly: "You're promising, you finally dare to think about it. That time I told you, it's best for you to put on the dragon robe as soon as possible, so that we can really have a good life. "

"No, let's go, go to the kitchen and eat a dumpling first."

……

Before the end of the day, Zheng Haizhu took Hua Er and a gift to Baoxu Temple near the Imperial College, looking for Taoist Jingzhao.

That day, after Zheng Haizhu and Lu Xiangsheng had just left the Donghua Gate after completing the first lecture in the Wenhua Palace, a young eunuch hurried over and said that it was Eunuch Wang An who wanted to talk to Master Zheng.

The next day, after meeting at Wang An's mansion outside the palace as agreed, the prince told him straight to the point that regarding the turmoil in front of the three halls, both he and Yang Lian felt that it would not be the same as the eunuch Xue's claim to deceive the Lord Long Live. Instead, Yao Zongwen, the minion of the Zhejiang Party, instigated the underlings to set up a trap, which not only avenged the loss of Chongming's troops, but also made Donglin notorious for recommending a woman who was like a rumored woman as a prince's lecturer.

But while Wang An agreed that Zheng Haizhu would not be in a panic, he also mentioned that Zheng Guifei had a good relationship with the Zhejiang Party, but Taoist Jingzhao, who often ran to her palace, came to her rescue that day.

Zheng Haizhu analyzed that it is possible that Jingzhao is indeed just an outsider. Although he is in contact with the imperial concubine, he does not need to know that Huke is controlled by the Zhejiang Party, so he took care of something that should not be meddled.

It is also possible that after the new king ascended the throne, Donglin gained power, and Fang Congzhe left the cabinet within a short period of time. Concubine Zheng simply made it clear to her cronies that Yikun Palace should show alienation from the Fang party, so as to regain favor with Zhu Changluo and Donglin , Concubine Zheng's title of empress dowager may have a turning point.

Wang An felt that it was reasonable, so he asked Zheng Haizhu, taking advantage of the still warm excuse to thank him, to come to Baoxu Guan as soon as possible, and take Jingzhao's pulse.

After the confession, Wang An couldn't help feeling that what Yang Lian said was really good at the beginning. It would be useful to have someone of his own who could smoothly communicate with the voices inside and outside the palace, and she was a woman.

(End of this chapter)