The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 116 Mutual
There has never been such a misunderstanding between the two of them. After being bored in the quilt for a while, Xue Li found that she was really angry from the bottom of her heart!
Why did he take out his anger on her without asking!
Even knowing that he is the emperor, she is still unhappy, the more unhappy she is, the more she thinks about it.Xie Zhao persuaded her outside that she would not come out. After a while, he was worried that she was bored, so he pulled the quilt up hard.

What caught my eyes was Sydney lying on her side and curled up into a ball, crying with tears streaming down her face.

This is different from crying when she was bullied by him just now. Now she is crying quietly, but the two tear stains just dried a little before being soaked again.She didn't even look at him, she rested her head on her arm, looking very sad.

Xie Zhao was startled, put down the quilt, only exposed her head, and reached out to wipe her tears: "Stop crying, I didn't mean to..."

Xueli stood up suddenly, staring at him with tears in her eyes: "Your Majesty, do you really like me?"

"What?" Xie Zhao was dumbfounded by her question, frowning slightly, "I was wrong today, but you should know how I treat you other than that."

"But you think I'm not happy if I have a heart." Xue Li burst into tears as soon as she said this, and wiped it with the back of her hand twice, she said, "Does Your Majesty not want me to improve at all? Even if I am wronged today... I will gradually understand more and more! Then you won't like me, right? Then..."

She couldn't speak.But the moment she thought of this, she easily thought "then there will be more young women in the palace", and when she knows enough, there will be someone who is like her now, and he may really Don't like her anymore.

But she felt that it would be cruel to say these words.As if she would stab them both to death with one knife, she held back forcefully.

Xie Zhao's eyes were slightly cold, and he looked at the way her voice stopped abruptly and then wiped her tears with her head in suspense. After pondering for a while, she still stretched out her hand to embrace her in his arms.

"Don't touch me!" Xueli said recklessly.The thought just now made her feel that if she was going to fall out of favor again at that time, it would be better for him not to like her now!

Now she still has the courage to dislike him as well, it's just a little harder!

Xie Zhao frowned, "Don't move!"

After all, she was well-behaved, although it seemed that she was only temporarily drunk.

Xie Zhao sighed softly, and held her in his arms with more strength in his hands, and said quietly: "You think I'm unhappy because you have a heart?"

It was!Sydney whispered in her heart.

"I thought you were upset with me because you were paying attention to me." He stared at her and said, "I was very happy to see that you knew more and more... You know that. It's a good thing to have a mind, and you're not bad Heart, but you can protect yourself with a heart, and I know this better than you."

He's been helping her with that, too.That's why he gave her a courtyard full of palace people to manage by herself, and gave her a chance to meet married women so that she could make friends she recognized.Although she looks so innocent that she doesn't understand anything, it's cute, but as she said, she will gradually understand more and more - he wants to be the one who helps her, not the one who stops her.

Xue Li and him looked at each other, for a while, neither of them moved their eyes, until she wiped away tears again: "But I didn't pay attention to you! Master Wei didn't take the initiative to tell me, I knew the seriousness, and I didn't even think about it." ask!"

Her tone was very angry, and the feeling of grievance was very obvious.

"I know. This is my mistake." Xie Zhaoman apologized, and patted her with his hand, "I'm sorry, I have too many things recently. A few days ago, the queen mother even troubled Concubine Hui. I was too worried, so I'm especially afraid that you'll start plotting against me too."

Xueli leaned on his chest, hearing what he said, she really wanted to give him another word to vent the grievance in her heart.But she thought for a long time, but she didn't say anything.

It seems that... I can still understand his feeling.

She also has times when she is under too much pressure, so no one is pleasing to the eye.That kind of feeling... is that there is an unknown fire in my heart that has been burning, and I will not have any extra thoughts to tell myself that I should think more. Most of the time, the closer people are, the more unlucky they are, because they get along more. , also because... well, it may have a taste of "picking up soft persimmons".

So Xueli pursed her lips, rubbed off his chest, lay flat on her own, and said in a low voice, "If that's the case, I won't argue with you anymore."

"Thank you." Xie Zhao nodded, said in a deep voice, "But I can't blame me for this. When the imperial guard reported the matter, he called the name and said that it was the sesame around you who was inquiring about it, and that he was giving wine and wine. What do you think if it's you, the dish?"

The easiest thing to think is that the people above sent her to inquire.It's okay to ask, but they also deliver wine and food... The money must not be paid by Zhima himself.

Xueli frowned, feeling a little guilty: "What does that mean? She did things for others or something? I don't think so. Dousha takes people very seriously. People in the harem can't touch sesame seeds. Who can they do for them?" work?"

The so-called "outsiders" that people in her small courtyard can come into contact with are people from Yuqian Palace. They only go back to Liushangju once in a while, but Dousha never sends her there because of sesame's mouth.

After analyzing it herself, Xueli didn't want to understand it, so she could only look at Xie Zhao dumbfounded.

Xie Zhao thought about it: "I think it's not enough to do things for others. After all, you are outside the palace now, and the circle is too big."

If the people in the palace want to inquire about something, they can have a closer route.Go around outside the palace and then go back?Enough support?I'm afraid he won't be able to find out?

Xie Zhao thought about it, and then said: "You know the people around you better, I just mentioned this possibility - do you think it is possible that they are worrying for you, so I went to inquire by myself, but I didn't expect the imperial guard to be so vigilance?"

Hey?
Sydney suddenly realized.I can't say that's the case, but it might be.

So she sat up again, wrapped in a quilt and tugged at Xie Zhao's hand: "Then, Your Majesty..."

"What?" He looked at her with a smile, knowing what she was worried about without even looking.

Xue Li lowered her head and said hesitantly: "I'll go back and ask. If it's true... I won't allow them to inquire anymore! Your Majesty, don't, don't punish too hard... OK?"

Seeing how angry he was just now, she felt that it was too likely that someone would die.But she felt in her heart that she liked them quite a bit, and after getting along every day, she felt that neither of them was a bad person.

Xie Zhao lightly smiled: "I'll tell you what to do about it."

Xueli immediately moved closer, her bright eyes wide open, and she listened attentively.

"As for you, you don't have to stop them from inquiring. It's a good thing to have palace people around you. After all, the palace is so big, and it's best to be able to see all directions." He said, seeing her nodding in thought, and continued, "But this is Two different things. They may be doing it for your own good, but they should tell you in advance - such a secret and self-assessment, one is that you can't help yourself when something happens, and the other is that you are not that important to them. "

He was angry with her for more or less the same reason.One is that she doesn't even discuss it with him. If she is so stupid, who can help her if she gets too big?The second is that she feels that she doesn't hold that much weight in her heart - mainly because of the second point, which made him really angry for a while, and then he was so angry that he didn't care about it.

But this is for the palace people and Xueli, of course Xueli cares more about the first one.

Yes.She saw them every day, but she didn't know about it at all. She didn't know that they were asking behind her back until he was furious and asked the teacher... Then what if there are bigger things in the future?They also make claims behind her back, and they don't know how much trouble it will cause.

Xue Li bit her lip and asked him, "Then what does His Majesty want to do..."

"Let Xu Shishui go home with you after dawn." Xie Zhao said calmly, "Ask who made the idea, reward the one who made the idea, and watch the rest who knew but didn't tell you, and then Just make it clear, that's all."

"Oh..." Xueli replied in a low voice, feeling faintly in her heart that this matter must not be as easy as he said!
After all this tossing and making noise, the two still embraced each other and fell asleep.Sydney can still sleep as she likes, but Xie Zhao has to wake up after only an hour of sleep.

I have to rush back to the palace to go to the morning court.It's the last moment of ugly time. After rushing back, I should wash up before eating. There should be enough time, and the courtiers may need to wait for a while...

Xue Li was sleepy and stupefied, only knew from the light in the room and the slight voice of the palace man that he had woken up, she moved to the side of the bed, and stretched out her hand.

She wanted to grab his hand or something, but felt that he didn't seem to be very close to him.It took a while to feel his hand being held, and he leaned over and kissed her on the forehead: "Go to sleep, I will save someone to take you back."

"Yeah." Xue Li replied, she slowed down her thoughts for a long time, but she opened her eyes a little, and muttered while looking at his face.

"What?" Xie Zhao didn't hear clearly, and moved closer.

She frowned, closed her eyes again, and repeated word for word: "Don't wrong me again, okay?"

This silly pear!
Xie Zhao grinned bitterly, seeing her ignorantly falling asleep before waiting for a reply, he kissed her lightly on the cheek again, and said softly, "No. Just this time." , I will at least ask you first in the future."

Then she gave another "hmm", she didn't know whether she was satisfied with the answer, anyway, she ignored him, rolled in, hugged the quilt and fell asleep again.

Even if she is still angry, don't blame her. It would be nice if he could spend a little more time with her.

Xie Zhao heaved a sigh of relief, then walked out.Jump on the horseback and rush back to the palace through the night.

When Sydney woke up again, she asked the time, and it was a quarter to noon.

... sleep too long!
So he got up in a hurry, not in the mood to eat more in this restaurant, and hurried home.

When she left yesterday, she didn't tell her family that she wouldn't go back at night. I don't know if her parents would be anxious.

Washing and dressing are very fast. When she was changing, she saw that the maid brought a new chest-length skirt and blushed—yesterday, he tore it hard. When they cleaned it up...the imperial court must have known up!

Ahhhh, the more I live, the more I lose face!
Xueli felt very sad in her heart, and then she couldn't think about the matter of imposing punishments and establishing rules in her yard for a while, her shyness and timidity were twisted together, which made her mood very complicated!

Therefore, when Ruan Song and Ruan Bai greeted her, she saw her sister with her head lowered, her face cold, and she walked in without paying attention to anyone.

The two brothers looked at each other: what's going on?Didn't you say you went out with His Majesty?Is this a quarrel with His Majesty?
... Are you having trouble with His Majesty? !

The two panicked at once, and hurried forward to chase Xueli, left to ask "what's the matter with you, sister?" and right to say "Lizi, are you okay?", but Xueli didn't pay much attention to her.

When she entered their residence, they looked outside again, and they became even more panicked - they saw several eunuchs coming in from a distance, carrying benches and bamboo sticks, was this a formation to beat someone?

They saw their own father endured this, but after all, father is a man, and he works all day, he is in good health!
Is it for my sister this time? !
Ruan Bai's face turned pale, he rushed out and dragged Xu Shishui and stuttered: "Master, my lord... Listen to me, my sister she she she...she is not sensible! Don't..."

"Second brother!" Xueli called him quickly.Only then did she realize that the two elder brothers were thinking wrong, stomped her feet, and pulled Ruan Bai back when she went out, "It's not against me! Leave it alone, I have something to take care of here, you go out and go out..."

Ruan Song and Ruan Bai were pushed out of the courtyard gate in a daze, and then the door behind them was slammed. The two of them thought about it, she didn't want to perfunctory them.

Then it's good that she's fine, let her take care of herself.

In the bedroom, Xue Li took several deep breaths, but still felt very empty.

It would be great if Su Zixian was here.In this matter, Zixian is much calmer than her.

But now she has to deal with it herself!

Sydney calmed down, and called the nanny Jianshi to ask where Ayao was. Jianshi said, "Di Ji went to play with her cousins, and Sister Qi and Madam took it with her."

It just so happened that without A Yao, it would be easier for her to make a snack.

After a while, the court ladies and eunuchs were all called to the main room, Xue Liqiang sat down calmly, first looked at Qingxi Tinghan: "It's nothing to do with you two, go rest."

Qingxi Tinghan is the person assigned to A Yao, and she doesn't like to be troublesome, so she will never come to make up her mind for her.

Hearing clearly, Han looked a little dazed, completely unaware of what was going on, and then looked at the battle that Master Xu had set up outside, and hurriedly retreated.

The rest are hers, and Xue Li didn't make any detours, and said straightforwardly: "Tell me, whose idea is it to let Zhi Zhi go to the Imperial Guard to find out about my father's beating."

Several people were shocked at the same time, but no one spoke for a while.Xue Li looked at them indifferently: "I'm leaving my words here. I did the right thing, but you shouldn't hide it from me. If you keep it from me, I can't tell His Majesty. His Majesty almost blamed me for this incident yesterday. It's rare for me to go home, and I was called to be blamed for no reason, I am not wronged!"

Although the way of "blame" is quite... cough, that's right.But she is indeed wronged!

Xueli waited for a while with a cold face, then Zhima knelt down tremblingly: "Lady, it's me..."

"You did this, but it wasn't your idea." Xue Li looked at Zhima seriously, knowing that Zhima was just a bit playful, but not someone who would make up her mind.

Sure enough, Zhima stopped talking, and after a while, Zhang Fugui stepped forward: "I let Zhima go."

Sydney didn't say a word, waiting for him to continue.

Fugui sighed: "I think we can't be ignorant of this matter. If no one takes the initiative to speak, we have to take the initiative to inquire. What else can you do, lady? Can't we just ask the imperial guard?"

"But you shouldn't hide it from me." Xue Li repeated the point, and Zhang Fugui became dumb.She looked away from his face and asked again, "How many of you know?"

This time, plop plop knelt down for two more times, and Dousha stammered and said, "My lady... I first discussed it with Fugui, and later he told me about it when he came back after arranging Zhima, I know."

Xue Li nodded slightly and looked at Hong Tang, who was about to cry: "I... I was in the room when Brother Fugui was looking for Sister Zhima, and I knew about it."

She seemed to suddenly understand why His Majesty was so angry last night!
In front of her are people she has always trusted and refused to be wronged by them, and then they are all hiding from her, even if it is an unintentional mistake, it makes people feel very blocked!
Xueli took a deep breath, looked outside the house, and said in a faint voice, "Master Xu, I'm sorry."

After this board game, Sydney panicked!

She has never been the one to take the lead and punish others like this—although this time it was also instructed by His Majesty.She couldn't help but wonder in her heart, will the relationship definitely become stiff in the future?Will Fugui and the others refuse to follow her?Is she going to mess up under her hands?

A few days later, she found that she seemed to think too much.

Fugui and the bean paste, sesame brown sugar, and several others who were sentenced to death treated her better.This made her feel a little nervous, and she couldn't ask others for a while, so she had to ask Ah Yao's nanny, Qi Shi, to discuss it.

Qi clicked her tongue: "How normal is this? My lady, do you think that everyone who is punished has to bear vengeance? Those in the palace can't even remember all their vengeance!"

Thinking about it this way, Sydney understands.

She was beaten occasionally when she was in Shangshi Bureau, but she really didn't hold any grudges.She didn't hate Zou Shangshi to Cui Wan. Thinking about it carefully, she thanked them, otherwise she didn't have this skill, and many other things would naturally disappear.

Qi pulled her, lowered her voice, and said: "Also, I heard Mr. Xu tell Fugui the other day... In fact, he did a good job in this matter except that he didn't report to his wife. Also It is said that you, Mrs. Chen, and His Majesty all remember him, and the punishment is only because His Majesty weighs the rules and takes the lead."

Such a thing!
Sydney was completely stunned.Your Majesty is the one who helped her settle her down. Probably one should be a good face and the other a bad face, but he took care of everything first, and then pushed the bad face to her.Not only made her a good person, but also made Fugui feel that her future is very secure.

It's no wonder that Fugui would hate her!

So she breathed a sigh of relief.Five days later, the emperor came to her in the same way as last time, and the first thing she did when she met him was to thank him.

Xie Zhao looked left and right in front of her, a little guilty: "Aren't you angry?"

...I'm not angry anymore!
Xueli lowered her head and said to him in a muffled voice, "I was no longer angry that night."

He breathed a sigh of relief, the look of his long-hanging heart finally being let go made her feel embarrassed!

Xueli rubbed forward, her fingers reached into his cuffs and hooked his sleeves: "Don't be angry, I was too narrow-minded that day."

Thinking about it now, although she didn't say the more ruthless words later, the sentence "Your Majesty, do you really like me?" is quite hurtful.

Xie Zhao laughed, supported her on the horse with both hands, and led her around leisurely, but felt very uncomfortable.

Her words were quite stinging and true, but when it really counted, it was his confusion that day that made her feel uneasy.

Or she was already uneasy in her heart, but she was picked up by him, which made it worse.

Xie Zhao sighed, feeling more and more wronged by her, he strangled the horse with both arms around her: "I won't go back to the palace tonight."

again? !
Xueli thought that night that night, she wished she could push him off the horse now, but she couldn't beat him, so she heard him chuckle and said, "I booked a restaurant nearby."

"I'm not going!" Xueli screamed in panic, causing many passers-by to look back, making her even dare to struggle.

Knowing what she was thinking, Xie Zhao couldn't help laughing again, and solemnly promised, "I won't move you, I just want to watch you sleep."

Hey, are you not moving at all?

Xue Li turned her head and looked at him, seeing his solemn expression, she believed it.

Then, perhaps because she hadn't seen her for another five days, a very shameless thought flashed through her mind: In fact, a little bit...is pretty good!
"Ah!" Xueli came back to her senses and yelled fiercely with a red face. Xie Zhao was frightened and asked, "What's wrong?"

"It's all right!" Xue Li was too afraid to fall into his arms because of that thought, leaning over to hug the horse's neck with hot cheeks, "Don't ask! Don't ask!"

(End of this chapter)