The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 135
This is the first time Sydney has seen New Year's fireworks, and it has been more than four years since envoy Luo Wu heard about it when he came.

But it's really beautiful! ! !

When she was a child, she would watch fireworks at home during the Chinese New Year, which were paid for by the rich people in the village. They would be put on in the middle of the night, and the children would climb on the roof of their houses to watch them.One cluster blooms, disappears, and another cluster springs up, and the colorful sky blooms non-stop.

At that time, these girls would feel very envious when they heard that the ladies of these rich families were standing in their yards watching the fireworks blooming above their heads.The splendor in front of her was a thousand times more beautiful than before, but she still felt complicated when she thought about it at that time. After looking at it for a while, she unconsciously looked at the people around her.

He stood calmly, and the twelve o'clock in front of the crown cast a shadow in the light and fire.Seeing his indifferent expression, she felt an indescribable sense of security in her heart. She wanted to lean on his shoulder but knew she couldn't, so she endured it, and only secretly tugged at his hand.

"Why?" He turned his head slightly to look at her, Xueli pursed her lips: "It's okay."

"Tsk." He smiled lightly and squeezed her hand tightly. Anyway, he was standing so high that he couldn't see below.

After the two stood with their fingers interlocked for a while, he moved a little closer: "Speak up if you have something to say. I'll be busy later. If I don't talk about it now, I'll have to talk about it next year."

next year……

Sydney realized for a moment that he was making a fuss about New Year's Eve!After hesitating for a while, he rubbed his feet against him: "I was thinking just now, my life has changed a lot in the past 17 years or so... People and things are changing, even the fireworks I watch are the same. It was very different back then.”

"Oh." Xie Zhao nodded, "So?"

Sydney's voice was a little softer, and amidst the overwhelming cheers, only the two could hear: "I just want the next 17 years... There won't be so many changes, and it will be safe and sound. It doesn't matter to add new people around, now Don't leave anyone who is important to me."

His eyes trembled a little, and he tilted his head to look at her seriously, held her hand tightly, and lowered his eyes and said, "Yes."

Sydney's heart is soft.

He's never been one to talk love.It's okay to have a few emotional words while flirting, but it's even more difficult to listen to him say tender words in a serious manner.

But he is always like this... Like today, when she said her wish, or asked because of anxiety, he gave her a simple and easy-to-understand promise.

It doesn't sound like enough care, but when Sydney thinks about it carefully, she thinks it sounds better than those flashy words.

When the fireworks have been set off, the cheers in the city have not stopped.In the end, the excited people couldn't help rushing forward. Sydney saw the imperial guards below the city tower struggling to block with the unsheathed Xiuchun knife.

When the bell of Zishi rang, 81 clusters of red fireworks sprang into the sky from the streets in various places, dyeing the sky red three times in succession.At that time, Sydney was still holding A Yuan, and the heavier A Yao was hugged by Xie Zhao. She heard A Yao clap her hands happily while watching the fireworks, and then shouted at them: "Father! Mother! Happy New Year! "

"Happy New Year." The two laughed in unison.

Then, amidst the still endless cheers, Yu Jia walked down the steps and disappeared from the sight of the people.But until they got on the chariot, the shouting outside the imperial city didn't stop, and even at the gate of the palace, they could still hear some movement when they were so far apart.

After entering the palace gate, the imperial chariot went straight back to Hanyuan Hall, while Xueli's chariot did not stop until the gate of the harem, where many concubines and wives were already waiting.

"Qingxi Tinghan, Di Ji is sleepy, you take her back to sleep first." Xue Li calmly ordered.

Ah Yao was indeed sleepy, she was so happy watching the fireworks just now that she didn't feel sleepy, but now that she was told by her mother, she felt sleepy!
So A Yao waved her hand to say goodbye to Xueli, and Xueli watched her leave before going to Yi Shi.

"You're here." Shi Yi shook her hand, "Just now someone from Changle Palace has come to invite you, I think I'll go first and you have to place an order, it's better to wait for you."

Sydney quickly thanked her.Then the two entered the palace gate in front of them with the nurse and the child.

It's not too far from Changle Palace, the two of them arrived within a short while, Yi stepped forward with a smile, and the maid who greeted her said: "Please tell the Queen Mother, I will take Ah Che and Ruan Niangzi with you." His Royal Highness, the eldest son, is here to wish the Empress Dowager and all the concubines the New Year."

The maid simply said "No", and immediately went into the palace to report.After a while, he came out to invite them again and said: "Please, ladies, the queen mother and some concubines are chatting. The queen mother ordered that the ladies should be free."

The two agreed politely, and stepped into the palace gate.Although the queen mother ordered them to "be more casual", in fact no one dared, especially Xue Li, who felt that he had entered a demon cave and would die at some point!
After entering the hall to see the ceremony, the child was placed on the empress dowager's bed, and the two mothers stepped aside.

The two children, one over two years old and the other under one year old, can play together on the couch.Xueli lowered her eyes, staring at the Queen Mother's reaction from the corner of her eye, while Yi Shi was beside her and advised her: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

"A Test, come here and let Grandma Huang hug you." The Empress Dowager hugged A Test with a gentle smile, and let him stand on her lap to look at it, with a look of relief, "I just saw you in October, and you have grown a lot taller. It can be seen that your mother is well-raised."

Mrs. Yi still stood beside her with her head bowed, keeping her etiquette and not talking too much, just bowed her knees and gave a blessing.

"Come on, give Yi the ivory hand stove that Aijia got newly. It's cold, she's tired of taking care of the children, so don't freeze."

The maid next to her hurriedly said "No", and Yi took half a step forward, bowing calmly, "I thank the Queen Mother for her kindness, I wish the Queen Mother a healthy body and everything goes smoothly."

When she bowed like this, all the concubines had the opportunity to compliment each other, one said "this child is sensible", the other said "the queen mother has a good daughter-in-law".

Mrs. Yi respectfully took over the hand stove before getting up. The Queen Mother was still holding A Test, turned her head to look at A Yuan, and said: "The eldest son of the emperor is not bad."

Sydney's heart tightened, just like Yi's just now, she didn't say much yet.

"Reward Mrs. Ruan with the ivory medallion of flowers and wealth." The queen mother spoke again.

Xue Li bowed to the ground: "Thank you Queen Mother for your kindness." There was not a word more.

Then she also waited until she received the reward before getting up. Seeing the Queen Mother waving, the nurses of the two children stepped forward to hug the children respectively.Afterwards, Sydney and Yi's family were blessed together, and they resigned.

Exit Changle Palace, Sydney is so angry!

The queen mother didn't make things difficult for her, and gave her a reward, but the same thing is ivory, and Mrs. Yi got a hand stove, and she only has a sign here, and her likes and dislikes deliberately expressed couldn't be more obvious.

Of course, Sydney doesn't care about a stove, and there is no shortage of good things in her place.But the problem is...

The problem is that this reward is given through children!The Empress Dowager is putting on a face for A Yuan in front of all the concubines, all the palace people, and all the palace people in front of the dowagers, so that everyone knows that this grandson is not as good as that grandson in her eyes!
Which mother can be happy!

"Don't be sad." After walking for a while, Yi couldn't help but shook her arm, "That's what the Queen Mother is like, we don't need to take it seriously. The grievances between mother and child can only be resolved by them, you You should know she's not after you."

"I know." Xueli nodded sullenly, while comforting that Mrs. Yi would persuade her, she also understood that Mrs. Yi didn't know why she was angry.

As soon as Sydney returned to Liugeyuan, what happened to Changle Palace was reported to the emperor's ears.

It happened that the banquet in Hanyuan Hall had just ended, the emperor's face sank, and he went straight to Liugeyuan.

A group of palace people looked at the complexion and cried out. Seeing the emperor entered the main room, they quickly grabbed Chen Jijiang and asked what to do.

Chen Jijiang glanced inside and waved his hands: "It's nothing serious."

His Majesty already knew it would happen today.Therefore, although he was not happy when he heard that the Queen Mother was doing things like this, he would not be too annoyed.

Just now when he heard that the Empress Dowager rewarded Lady Ruan, Chen Jijiang's heart tightened. He was worried that Lady Ruan was showing weakness and getting close to the Empress Dowager. After listening to it, he just said "Thank you for the kindness of the Empress Dowager", and immediately began to praise Lady Ruan for her wisdom and foolishness!
The discord between the Queen Mother and His Majesty has been going on for a long time, and no one can reconcile it.Under the current well-known premise, if Mrs. Ruan shows weakness with the Queen Mother, it will be "accidentally singing a contradictory tune with His Majesty".

But she didn't, and that's fine.She can act according to His Majesty's thoughts all the time, no matter whether it is intentional or unintentional, His Majesty will definitely feel better about this.

Chen Jijiang waited outside calmly.Sure enough, after a while, Mrs. Ruan shouted to the inside: "Let the kitchen prepare a plate of shredded chicken bamboo shoots, a plate of stewed beef, and two pickles, just to go with the porridge."

Look, it's still eaten.

Chen Jijiang was cheerful when he heard it, and turned his head to wink at Brown Tang who was guarding the door, and Brown Tang sent the message as soon as he got up.

After a while, His Majesty also gave instructions: "Go and find some copper coins. It doesn't need to be many, just a few dozen."

... This is not easy to find in the palace!

Chen Jijiang hurriedly asked his senior disciple Xu Shishui to go in person, and the senior disciple called his two senior disciples, and the three hurried out.

Chen Jijiang sneaked a peek inside, seeing His Majesty and Mrs. Ruan holding red strings, he felt happy: they are interesting enough.

In the bedroom, when Xie Zhao arrived, Xue Li was angrily lying on the couch with her arms folded and sighing.

He was also angry, even though he couldn't help but let out a smirk in his heart when he knew she didn't give the queen mother a good face, but he was not happy when his eldest son was put on public face by his grandma on the first day of the new year.

The two of them were silent for a while without speaking, she was lying on the couch and he was sitting at the table.

After being sullen for a while, Xie Zhao suddenly heard: "Your Majesty?!"

Sydney just saw him coming.

The anger in her heart turned into grievance in an instant, and she wanted to go to find him as soon as she was on the bed, Xie Zhaoyi got up and took two steps towards her, wrapping her around her.

"A Yuan is still so young..." Xueli lowered her head and wiped her tears. When she raised her eyes to look at him again, there was still moisture in her eyes, but she didn't let it flow out. Her words were full of indignation, "What did he do wrong! Show his face in front of so many people!"

Her words made him lose his temper.

Now the only person he faces is her, who is he angry with?with her?But she experienced that incident just now, and she felt more uncomfortable than him.

"Okay, Xue Li..." He hugged her tightly and just said a word, Xue Li immediately said: "Your Majesty, don't be angry!"

Xie Zhao: "..." Why did you suddenly steal the white? !

He looked at her in a daze, and Xueli wiped away her tears again and raised her head: "Our own children are in pain, so we don't care whether others like it or not!"

Her face was full of shame and anger, and finally turned into dissatisfaction. She took out her handkerchief and wiped away her tears, and then smiled at him: "I'm fine. Your Majesty, you still have a grand court meeting tomorrow, so go to bed soon." !"

She said that she was going to call the palace servants to come and wait for him to wash, but she didn't mention her own affairs.Xie Zhao turned to look, she was still fully dressed, her brows were slightly frowned: "Are you still asleep?"

"I still have something to do." Xueli smiled and pointed to the red string and copper coins on the couch, "give some lucky money to Ayao Ayuan. The folks do this, but I asked Fugui to go out and find the copper coins."

Next to the pillow on the couch, there were a dozen copper coins and a bundle of red string.Looking closely, the pillow was wet with a large piece - it was from crying for a while before he came.

No wonder she turned around to persuade him when she was all right suddenly.This stupid pear is so generous, is it because he wants him to go to bed early?
If he really fell asleep, she would only have to hold back and continue to suffer.Just looking at how angry she was lying on the couch just now, he also knew that this matter was not so easy in her heart.

"I'm not sleepy." The emperor smiled, walked towards the bed and sat down, "I didn't eat much at the banquet, so let the small kitchen prepare some food and bring it over. Light ones are fine, I want to eat your pickles."

Sydney was a little surprised, but he hadn't seen him happily say that he wanted to eat in the middle of the night.But first, I ordered shredded chicken and bamboo shoots, braised beef, porridge and pickles.

Then he took a look at the red string, and said with a smile, "I want to give the children lucky money too." After he finished speaking, he asked Chen Jijiang and the others to find another copper coin.After eating, dressing and talking for a while, it was his turn to explain her.

It took a little time to find copper coins for cooking, and when the things on both sides were delivered front and back, Xue Li couldn't hold back and yawned on Xie Zhao's lap.

She was also very sleepy, but she was so aggrieved that she couldn't sleep, otherwise she would have fallen asleep before he came.

Xie Zhao looked at the dishes on the table in front of him.

Everything is simple, and the shredded chicken bamboo shoots are the most eye-catching.The bamboo shoots are green and the shredded chicken is slightly yellow. The bottom of the plate is thickened with thick soup.

It just so happened that the kitchen sent not only the porridge she ordered just now, but also a plate of soft steamed noodles.He tore off a small piece of bread, wrapped a chopstick of shredded chicken and green bamboo shoots in it, and fed it to her mouth.

Xueli was lying on his lap, wearing copper coins, and was putting it on. Seeing something being delivered, she opened her mouth without even thinking about it. After eating it, she chewed and frowned: "I'm not hungry, Your Majesty, let's eat."

Xie Zhao let out a low laugh as she wished, and ate two mouthfuls of porridge with the vegetables, telling her seemingly unintentionally: "I will go to the Queen Mother to clarify this matter tomorrow. If you can't treat Ah Yuan well, she will be fine in the future." Don't see A Yuan."

Xueli was stunned, looked up at him, saw that he was spooning porridge, reached out and grabbed his wrist, and snatched the spoonful of porridge into her mouth.

Xie Zhao: "...Aren't you hungry?!"

"Eating biscuits alone is too dry." Xue Li smacked her lips and ate the porridge, turned over and turned to lie down, looked up at him and said, "Your Majesty, don't go, it's not appropriate."

Why is it inappropriate?

Xue Li hesitated and said: "Today, Yi Liangyuan and I have been together, and we were also present when we admired those two things. Your Majesty will go to the Queen Mother tomorrow and say that outsiders will inevitably say that I am jealous of Yi Liangyuan... Those who like her don't want to give others a chance to provoke her!"

I see.Xie Zhao smiled slightly, she lay back, hugged his hand and said: "Your Majesty, you don't have to think about venting your anger for me, I can think about it myself! Besides, I didn't give too much face to the Queen Mother, she gave the reward so that everyone You can clearly see this comparison, I just said that after Yi Liangyuan said auspicious words, and others can also understand what I mean. This game is at best a tie!"

"Heh." Xie Zhao looked at her suspiciously, "The tone is not small!"

"It was originally..." Before Xueli could say "yes", she felt his hand move in her arms, and her cheeks flushed immediately: where to touch! ! !
Xie Zhao leisurely scooped up another spoonful of porridge to eat with his right hand, but his left hand, which was held in her arms, was still dishonest—it's not his fault!Who told her to take the initiative to hug him!
After a while, he felt that Xueli pushed his hand out hard, Xie Zhao smiled lowly, put his hands back and put the couch table on the ground, turned around, wrapped her around her waist, hugged her, and kissed her down.

"..." Xue Li stared at him angrily, "I haven't washed yet!"

"It's okay, I have to wash in a while anyway." Xie Zhao put her down and kissed her again.

Xueli slapped her hand in anger, and inadvertently swung it to the small table next to the bed, and there was a burst of "crash la la la".

The copper coins that had just been delivered bounced all over the floor, and some of them fell on the couch.As soon as she stretched out her hand, she felt hard and cold around her. She intended to fiddle with all the copper coins, but he happened to turn over while hugging her, and Xue Li couldn't touch the copper coins at once.

Outside the bedroom, Xu Shishui quietly closed the door tightly, and turned around to serve tea to Chen Jijiang.Chen Jijiang looked a little proud: "How is it?"

Xu Shishui laughed and praised: "Master is brilliant! Nothing happened, His Majesty didn't lose his temper! Master, you know!"

Chen Jijiang was praised by him as beautiful, so he asked casually, "Have you eaten?"

"This..." Xu Shishui went over the words in his mind, and said tactfully, "Your Majesty has eaten pears."

Chen Jijiang: "..."

This kind of thing has never happened before!The palace banquet on New Year's Eve was late, and there was a grand court meeting at dawn. His Majesty always took the time to sleep on this day, why did he "eat pears" today!

Chen Jijiang broke down a bit, put the tea cup in his hand, stood up and kicked Xu Shishui out with a "bang" kick: "'I have eaten pears' and you are still standing here stupidly! Hurry up and say something to the dormitory!"

"Hey... yes yes yes!" Xu Shishui staggered a few times and stood firm, and quickly responded to the words and went out.

After leaving the small courtyard, he walked for a long time before he filled up his footsteps. After walking for a while under the stars, he laughed to himself.

This is too funny.Since His Majesty got lucky with Mrs. Ruan, it's easy to go to the bedchamber to send a message.

If you want to put it aside, you have to say "Your Majesty went to such and such a palace to meet such and such." Since neither of them is a favorite concubine, the female officials in bed occasionally can't realize who it is in time, so they have to remind them of their status before they can record.

It is convenient now.When Shangshuju recorded the daily life note, if the emperor said "Your Majesty is going to sleep alone today", it means sleeping alone, nothing else.But if you say "Your Majesty is not sleeping alone today"... that means calling Mrs. Ruan!No further words!

It's also normal for Shang dormitory to ask, "If you don't sleep alone, who did you call?".

I understand everything up and down.

(End of this chapter)