The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 159 Guilt
On the night when Sydney returned to Liugeyuan, she heard from Zhima that many people in the harem had been punished.

Zhima said: "Mrs. Concubine Hui is leading the way. It seems that there are two concubines in her palace who live with her and come to Zichen Hall to make trouble. I don't know how big it is. Mrs. Concubine Hui just opened her mouth with twenty sticks. Roujia Everyone in the palace said that they have never seen Madam lose such a big temper."

Sydney then pondered over the meaning of this.

All she knew was that after His Royal Highness Seventh Prince took his leave, His Majesty went to the harem.At first she thought he was visiting the Empress Dowager, but later she heard that he didn't, but went to Roujia Palace.

Did you tell Madam Hui about this?So Mrs. Concubine Hui took the lead in punishing the people in her palace first, so that the palace lords could follow suit?

Xue Li's white teeth scratched her lips, and she was a little surprised: Does he really mean that he doesn't plan to see the Queen Mother?
If he wanted to go, then it would not be appropriate to punish the person who went to kneel today. How can he blame others while listening to persuasion?Now he has not only punished the person, but the crime he mentioned is only "to cause trouble in the Zichen Palace", and he has never mentioned the Queen Mother...

Sydney is somewhat palpitating, the mother is seriously ill and the son refuses to see something, it is still quite chilling to hear at first glance.Fortunately, she knew the twists and turns in it, and she couldn't blame His Majesty for being unkind, but she couldn't help but pray that she would not fall into the same situation as the Queen Mother in the future.

——She must let the child get close to her!Everyone wants to get close to her!

She thought wildly like this for a while, then calmed down, and told Zhima: "Go and call Dousha Fugui and Qingxi Tinghan, and tell Nanny Bai that she has trouble in the past few days. If there is anything wrong, please let me know in time."

"No." Zhima Fu went to call for someone, and then went to send a message to Bai Nanny.

After a while, four other people opened the curtain and came in, gave a shallow salute and waited quietly for orders.

Xue Li looked at Dou Sha: "You have to work hard these few days. Rest during the day and get up at night to help me watch things. If there is anything to do, wake me up immediately, especially if there is a successor from Changle Palace-I don't care if it is a successor." Prince Diji still asks someone else to go, you must tell me first."

"No." Dou Sha responded, and said again, "Then let Xingren serve by your side during the day, she is familiar with the work ahead, and you can also let her bring some brown sugar."

Xue Li nodded, and Dou Sha withdrew to make arrangements.She said to Fugui again: "The four eunuchs who were sent over the year before last have not sent any serious errands. You can make arrangements and let them take turns guarding A Yuan and the nanny. If the Queen Mother wants to see A Yuan, go to Changle Palace. Come on, Dousha alone can't stop it."

"Hey, I understand." Fugui bowed, and Sydney continued: "Peng Qizhong, Peng Qiyu, Dai Xuyong, and Zhang Suicai, you have also arranged for the four to guard the gate of the courtyard. Any outsider who enters or exits the Liugeyuan must pass through them first. Find out."

Zhang Fugui smiled and promised, and he had already figured out what to do in a second.It was nothing more than a rotation. He planned to have Peng Qizhong and Dai Xuyong, and Peng Qiyu and Zhang Suicai together, so that at any time there would be a strong one and a talking one.In addition, he also planned to tell Yang Mingquan to let him move to the room next to the moon gate in the north courtyard, which is closest to the main courtyard, and let him release the fragrance of fish if there is anything to do. It all works!At most, they stepped forward to block it, Yuxiang will bite if he is in a hurry!

Fugui explained these arrangements to Sydney, and Sydney thought it was appropriate, thinking about adding a piece of beef to Yuxiang for a while, and asked Fugui to quit.

Then she looked at Qingxi Tinghan: "I heard from Fugui the other day that you have all booked a good marriage, so I will not keep you until you are 25 years old. When the new family enters the palace next year, the maid will be let out. I will tell Master Chen...but you have to help me train the people around Ah Yao."

Both of them had happy looks on their faces, it was certainly better to leave the palace to marry early than to stay in the palace to serve others.Ting Han then asked: "My lady, how do you want to practice? Diji is still young, and the two of us usually take care of her daily life. Should I hand it over to those four?"

Xue Li nodded: "Staying by Di Ji's side and being able to take care of her are the most basic things, leave it to them. And this time, even though I don't think the queen mother will pass it on to Ayao, you also let the four feel Let's all be on guard - tell them to guard Di Ji but don't scare Di Ji, if anything happens, let them go directly to His Majesty to apologize."

"No." Qingxi also resigned after hearing Hanming's quick response. After they had retreated, Su Zixian opened the curtain and came in. Seeing Xueli rubbing her temples with a distressed face, she smiled: "Isn't it well arranged? Why are you frowning!"

Very annoying!
Xueli raised her eyes and looked at her: "When will you get married? Why did I hear His Majesty said that he asked Mr. Mingxuan a while ago and let Mr. Mingxuan prevaricate? What happened to you two?"

"It's nothing." Su Zixian shrugged her shoulders, "The matter of the empress dowager is on hold, how can he spare time to get married? So he said to wait for the empress dowager...well, after wandering around with black and white impermanence, I think it's fine, otherwise Even if I get married, I can never see him, so I might as well stay in the palace and still see you."

She spoke lazily, completely ignoring Xue Li's cold gaze.

Sydney Xin said that I am the one to relieve your boredom as a co-author!You'd better hurry up and get married!

That night, the emperor did not come to Liugeyuan.Before she was going to change clothes and rest, Xue Li glanced at the gate of the courtyard and saw that the lights were still brightly lit on the other side of Zichen Hall's bedroom, guessing that he might not be able to sleep tonight.

"If your majesty is still awake at midnight, let the kitchen make some food and send it over. Together with candied fruit, your majesty understands." Xue Li looked at the lights over there, and pouted while ordering Dou Sha.

He must be in a bad mood.Xue Li sighed, and went through the arrangement she had made earlier in her mind, feeling guilty while thinking that it should be right.

He didn't intend to see the queen mother, so she could only be with him, so his children couldn't go around him to see the queen mother.It should be fine if everyone is stared at. She can ask him what he means when she knows it in time.

"Ah..." Xueli covered her mouth, yawned and turned back to the room.

In the room, Ayao and Ayuan are all happy!

As soon as the mother was pregnant, the father, who would occasionally sleep in the Zichen Palace, would come over every day, so that they hadn't slept with the mother for several months!

Ah Yao gets angry when he mentions this!A while ago, it was midnight, and her father hadn't come yet, and she happened to wake up from a nightmare again, so she ran over to sleep with her mother - it turned out to be the middle of the night!Father is here!Without saying a word, he picked her up and sent her back to the house!
He also coaxed her with a smile on his face and said, Ah Yao, you are good, your mother is pregnant and you can't kick her.

A Yao is very unconvinced!She is sleeping well now, so she won't kick her mother!

So at this moment, Ah Yao, who heard that his father would not come tonight, was lying on the couch happily scratching his arms and legs, like a little frog.After watching it for a while, Ah Yuan fell headfirst and rowed with her sister. Xueli sat in front of the dressing table and asked Mizao to comb her hair while watching them in the mirror and smiling straightly: "Stop messing around, I'm excited to play." I won't be able to sleep for a while."

"Got it!" After A Yao agreed, she turned over and lay down obediently, but A Yuan was not so obedient, and continued to toss on the couch.Sometimes he even kicked his legs, so annoying that Yuxiang, who was lying sleepy under the couch, couldn't fall asleep.

Xue Li glared at A Yuan from the mirror but ignored it for the time being. She waited until all her black hair was combed, then walked fiercely to the side of the couch and slapped A Yuan's twisting buttocks: "Disobedient! Don't let me You slept in your mother's room!"

Ah Yuan looked at her and giggled with his fingers in his mouth, but she was still staring with a straight face.After staring for a while, the smile on Ah Yuan's face stagnated, and she was trembling in her heart for fear that he would cry, so he turned over and stood up from the couch, walked up to her and touched her forehead: "Don't be angry, don't be angry! "

Sydney: "..." My God, this is obviously learned from His Majesty!

Her heart was full of sadness, she clenched her teeth and told herself that she must remember to remind His Majesty - in the future, she cannot flirt in front of children!
It's good that A Yao is older now, but it's when A Yuan likes to imitate adults!
Your Majesty, your son has not yet learned how to molest a girl because of your great talent, and he has already seen it in his eyes and kept it in his heart!
In Changle Palace, Xie Han, who had endured for several days, felt physically and mentally exhausted.

In the past few years, he always felt that he was caught in the middle and it was not easy to be a human being, but there was never a time that made him suffer like this.

In the past two days, the queen mother has been awake a little more.Sometimes it is continuous for two or three hours, and sometimes it is intermittent.But every time, she would look at him and say, "Go and invite your brother, as well as A Test and A Yuan, the Ai family wants to see them."

Therefore, in the past few days, Ah Che had seen the Queen Mother many times, and later simply lived here with him.But brother Huang...he really can't persuade him, let alone the eldest son of the emperor.

He couldn't leave by himself, but he sent someone to Liugeyuan.Both Ding Xiang and Zhang Kang have been there, and when they came back, they only said that Liugeyuan was watching very closely, and Mrs. Ruan refused to let anyone come here, and they had nothing to do.

Xie Han was furious, but he couldn't lose his temper with Xueli, so he had to endure it.And since last night, the queen mother has prepared pens, inks, papers and inkstones.

She didn't have much strength in her hands, but she refused to let him help her write.He had no choice but to stand back and watch from a distance, and couldn't help crying several times in private.

——This is too painful. The queen mother is obviously close to the time when the oil is running out and the lamp is dying. She can't sit upright when writing.

She had to rest for a while after writing a few words.Sometimes, the eyelids fall down while writing, but they forcefully open them to continue.Xie Han saw that her mother frowned very tightly every time she picked up the pen and dipped in the ink, and her brows were filled with the pain caused by the illness, but she continued to write...

Xie Han guessed that it was written for Brother Huang.Brother Huang refused to come over, so she had no choice but to write to him like this.

He can't stop, can't stop any party from going their own way.Being caught in the middle is like a tree branch supported between a boulder and the ground, every moment I feel that I will be crushed to death soon.

After a long time, the Empress Dowager put down her pen and fell asleep.

Xie Han hurried forward to pack up the things she had just written, so that she would not wake up from a sudden illness and rewrite them.He glanced at it inadvertently, several pages were wet, looked up in panic, only to notice that there were tears on his mother's face.

He was flustered for a while, and while avoiding reading the content, he quickly flipped through it with his hands.I finally found the page with the address written on it. The first four words on the right side are: My son Azhao.

Sure enough, it was for the emperor.

Xie Han felt sore, folded these pages and put them into his sleeves, and decided to go to Zichen Palace again.

He stepped out of the bedroom, and A Test, who was resting in the side hall, ran over and stretched out his hand to hug him: "Father."

"...A Test." Xie Han sighed lightly, without hugging him, he just knelt down and said to him, "You wait here obediently, my father will go find your uncle Huang."

"Okay." A Test nodded in response, Xie Han stood up again and continued to walk outside.

It was already dark, but it could still be seen that it was cloudy.There are neither stars nor moon in the sky, and if you look hard, you can see dark clouds with pale colors.

I don't know if it's like this these days, Xie Han hasn't bothered to care about this for a long time.He walked in a muddle along the way, and the palace people obviously knew that he was in a bad mood recently, and he even kept his voice very low when he avoided giving salutes.

When he walked to Zichen Hall, the lights in the hall were still on, but the eunuch at the door told him: "Your Majesty has rested."

"Get out." Xie Han glanced at him and stepped into the palace door. Some palace servants wanted to step forward to block him, but they had to retreat after meeting his cold eyes.

His Majesty didn't say that he would forcefully stop His Majesty the Seventh Highness, but they only blocked His Majesty the Seventh Highness here because they saw how unhappy His Majesty had been recently.But if it really annoyed the Seventh Highness, it would be of no benefit to them.

Xie Han stepped into the gate of the inner hall, stopped and looked: "Brother Huang."

The emperor put down his pen and sighed.Xie Han handed over the things in his hand: "This is... This is written by the Queen Mother to Brother Huang. It seems that it has not been finished yet. I think she is asleep, so I will bring it here to Brother Huang to have a look."

The emperor didn't speak, and took the few pages of paper, and he naturally understood the anxiety in Seventh Brother's heart.

Seventh brother is different from him after all.Even though the seventh brother has often competed with the queen mother in the past few years, there are still several years of mother-child love before.But he...

He didn't know whether he should say yes or no.It's just that now that he is on the throne, he knows it's better not to see the Queen Mother.He can't let others think that he is still thinking about his relationship with the queen mother, otherwise, the Qu family will inevitably read some hope from it, and when they make some mediation arrangements, the matter will be even more troublesome.

While calculating the importance in his heart, he read what his mother wrote.

He actually apologized to him personally.

The content of the letter is a bit messy, and many places do not match the preamble and the afterword, as if thinking of where to write.From the beginning of his birth, it was written sentence by sentence, some of which he knew, and many of which he did not know.

There is a paragraph with hesitant writing, talking about various struggles in the harem 25 years ago.In the end, the mother finally admitted that because of what happened at that time, she couldn't treat him as a son for many years afterwards.

He still didn't quite understand the queen mother's thinking. The queen mother said that the life at that time was too difficult. After the situation improved, she felt that all the people, things and things related to that time were unbearable.

At that time, the concubine who fought with her was cleaned up by her, and the child in the concubine's belly was also cleaned up by her, and even the palace people who were close to her were directly changed... But only him, he is the emperor. The eldest son, she can't do anything to him.

So she stuffed him to the queen mother at the time.

Xie Zhao read it with mixed feelings, and then read the part expressing guilt, and didn't know whether to cry or laugh.

The queen mother said that since she was sick and went crazy, many things became clearer. She had to admit that she was wrong for being mean and vicious all these years.

——A few years ago, Xie Zhao had imagined such a situation of admitting mistakes.

At that time, what he thought was that one day he would be strong and good enough, so that she had to admit that it was her mistake to value the seventh brother more.But to this day, he can't even stir up the slightest wave in his heart.

Whether she admits that she was wrong is not important to him; whether she admits that he is a good emperor is not important to him.

He put the unread letter on the table, looked at Xie Han: "Go back."

"Brother Huang!" Xie Han frowned, swallowed the persuasive words when he saw his indifference, and changed his words to say, "Brother Huang, can you let the eldest son of the emperor..."

"No." The emperor looked at him flatly, and said quietly for a while, "Ah Yuan is already asleep, don't bother him."

After Xie Han was silent for a while, he bowed his hands and bid farewell. Xie Zhao sat down for a while, then got up and walked out.

It was indeed very late, and the Liuge courtyard was quiet.Looking through the moon gate, you can see that there are still lights on in the side courtyards on both sides. It seems that some palace people are still awake, but the main courtyard is already pitch black.

The red bean paste and almonds, who were at night, wanted to light the lamp immediately after seeing the ceremony. The emperor raised his hand to stop them, and whispered to them to light a small candlestick and put it in the house, and then walked in first.

It was a cloudy day, and the room was so dark that you couldn't see your fingers.It wasn't until the candlestick was brought in that he walked to the side of the couch by the light, and looked down, the mother and son were all on the couch.

A Yao sleeps in the middle, Xueli sleeps on the side of the couch, and A Yuan... A Yuan rolls to A Yao's feet, and sleeps foot to foot with A Yao, with his head on the other side of the bed.

This kid is so dishonest.

He laughed hoarsely and wanted to pick him up and put him in the right place, but just as he stretched out his hand, his wide sleeves rolled up and Sydney woke up.

Xue Li opened her eyes, the light was too dim, she stared for a long time before realizing that there was indeed someone in front of her: "Your Majesty?"

She pushed A Yao in, and she also lay down a little.The emperor was able to lie down next to her and hugged her without saying a word. After a while, he realized that she seemed to be holding her breath.

"What's wrong?" he asked her softly.

She looked at him with bright eyes: "What's wrong, Your Majesty?"

In the darkness, he sighed quietly.

He couldn't tell what kind of mood he was in, he didn't seem to care about the Queen Mother's condition, and he seemed to be a little unspeakably sad.In short... I just feel a little empty in my heart, as if an important piece is about to leave.

She suddenly stretched out her hand and pushed him, he was startled.

"Let's go... let's go to the South Chamber." She yawned, sat up with her hands on his chest, and said in a subdued tone, "I'll stay with His Majesty for a while, don't disturb the children to sleep."

He nodded, and the two got off the couch together.

Xie Li held a candlestick with her stomach upright and was running nimbly. Xie Zhao looked down and was anxious: "Put on your shoes!"

"It's only a few steps away!" She said, she had stepped over the threshold and passed through the main room, and after another step, she would reach the wing room over there.

When he followed her in with a sullen face, she had rolled over on the couch and sat cross-legged, hugging the pillow and looking at him with a smile.

This little look...

Xie Zhao stood in front of the couch and stared at her coldly, wanting to say a few more words about her running away without shoes, she first reached out and tugged at his sleeve: "Sit down, sir, I made a mistake. Ok?"

The veins on Xie Zhao's forehead popped up!

The melancholy just now was still in his heart, and he couldn't help but want to laugh because of her behavior.His complicated mood is almost complicated like a new year's fork that just came out of the pot.

She continued to tug at him: "Sit down, sit down, tell me if you are unhappy...Are you hungry? If you are hungry, I will make you something to eat! Tonight I made a pickled cabbage shredded pork noodle, refreshing Delicious!"

A window in the south room was not closed tightly, and her delicate voice kept wafting out.

Under the wall outside the window, Dou Sha shuddered when he heard it, then laughed, and joked in a low voice, "It's so boring!"

When she was sent to Mrs. Ruan's side, Mrs. Ruan was just a maid in the imperial dining room.Over the past few years, Dou Sha clearly felt that Sydney was getting more and more in control, but as soon as he was in front of His Majesty... That's it!

Dou Sha listened to the movement inside and laughed at Miss Ruan for a long time, and finally felt that she had to go into the house to guard the prince Diji—it seemed that Mrs. Ruan was going to rely on His Majesty tonight, and the children over there had to be watched by someone , or it will be bad if you roll down and fall.

She took two steps, but saw Xingren who was on duty together did not move.

"... Xingren? Xingren!" She called out twice before Xingren came back to her senses, looked at the half-open window in front of her, turned her head and followed her into the room.

(End of this chapter)