The little lady in the palace

Chapter 115 Ming Jing
In the east courtyard, Concubine You kept herself bored in the bedroom, and didn't say a word for most of the day.

It has been seven or eight days since the concubine gave birth in peace, and she has not seen Liang Guangfeng who is in charge of the yard these days.Shan Zhi said that Liang Guangfeng was rewarded with a board the day after the concubine gave birth and was recovering from his injuries. She only thought that Liang Guangfeng offended the prince, but she never dared to ask in detail.

It wasn't until today that she heard that this matter had nothing to do with the prince at all, it was ordered by Ah Li.

Youshi then called Ah Li to question him. Ah Li said that his cousin told him that when his aunt and concubine were giving birth to a little sister, Liang Guangfeng went to the dining room to ask for chicken soup, and argued with Xi Zhen.

Youshi was naturally unhappy when she heard this, she said that Liang Guangfeng was ordering food for her, and asked Ah Li why he punished Liang Guangfeng - when she asked this question, she was terrified, afraid that Ah Li would fall to the main courtyard and stop standing. on my side.

But what Ah Li said was: "Mother and concubine, you have kept your filial piety for the emperor, and Liang Guangfeng went to get you chicken soup... Isn't this intentionally causing trouble for you?"

Youshi was startled suddenly.

Ah Li frowned, looked at her seriously, and said, "This matter is really serious. We ate meat secretly before, so we made a fuss with Uncle Huang. Later, Uncle Huang ordered that children can Eat, but you can do it without mentioning it, so what if others see it? Won't others say you?"

Ah Li's voice was still a little immature, but Youshi was stuck in his voice, unable to speak a single word.

For so long, she and the main courtyard fought openly and secretly, and the more they fought, the more she felt that she was inferior to the main courtyard.But today, she suddenly felt that she was no match for a child...

Is it hard to think of what A Li said?Not difficult.But if Ah Li didn't explain it like this, but Liang Guangfeng directly passed the dispute in the dining room to her ears, she would definitely not think too much about keeping filial piety, and when she heard that Liang Guangfeng was choked back by Xi Zhen, she would be furious I think this is a trouble for Zhengyuan to find her.

She suddenly realized that if she didn't deal with the main courtyard like this, the servants would follow her thoughts and also disagree with that side, and even intentionally try to please her by challenging the main courtyard. She is blinded by it, and ignores the danger because she is moved by the loyalty of her servants, she doesn't know.

This feeling made Youshi very frustrated.

In the past, she only felt that she was not as good as the main courtyard and knew how to please the prince, but now, she couldn't help feeling that her thoughts were not as good as the main courtyard.

In this matter, if Liang Guangfeng overwhelms Xizhen and brings back the chicken soup, it will become her talk.And the main courtyard has never left anything to talk about. In the past few years, it is not that the princess has not cleaned up the concubine's room, but at first glance, she has nothing wrong with it.

You Shi was more uncertain than ever, she was worried for the first time, if this continues, it might be useless for Ah Li to be successful, Wang Hao...they won't be able to fight.

Ali is now eight years old.

Youshi's heartstrings were tense, thinking that if the prince still wouldn't mention the matter of establishing a son when A Li was ten years old, then she would go all out and mention it to the prince herself.It's just that the prince doesn't agree, the most important thing is that she should bring this matter up and let the mansion know which seat she is going to fight for.

She made it so clear that there would always be someone on Ah Li's side in Jingli Mansion.There are always people who want to use their strength to fight for their own future. Helping a son of the prince's mansion secure his position as the heir apparent means that he will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of his life.

In the main courtyard, the two were racking their brains on what to name their child.

The names of the boys can't be helped, according to the rules, they must be given by the palace.But girls, they can make their own decisions, and the two of them became distressed, and they felt dissatisfied no matter how they thought about it.

This distress has been distressing for many days. Many times, they said this, while eating, they suddenly had an idea to say a name, and then shook their heads to deny it.

They have thought about names like Zhenjing and Roujing a lot, but they always feel tacky.

Depressed, Yuyin often hugged her daughter and said to herself: "What name should I give you? Do you have any ideas?"

The child should sleep or sleep, it doesn't matter what his name is.

So they were thinking hard even when they were sleeping at night. Yuyin was sitting on the confinement, and the couple could not do anything while sleeping on the same bed, so they just lay flat and pondered.

Meng Junhuai pondered and said: "Shu Jing? Yunjuan Yunshu's Shu is good? Or Yijing? It's the right one."

After he finished speaking, he himself denied it, thinking that the appropriate word is also vulgar, and Shu has the same pronunciation as shu, which is unlucky.

Yu Yin frowned, thought for a while and said, "Mu Jing? It's auspicious to have a 'harmony' with He Jing!"

Meng Junhuai shook his head again: "Auspicious is auspicious, but it doesn't sound good."

It's not good, the two words are both in the lower tone, which is a mouthful.

Later, I thought about it several times, and the more I thought about it, the more I felt that this was really a problem.She asked how he and Jing Lanjing got their names in the first place, and he said that He Jing's name was thought up by Concubine Ding, and Lan Jing's name was thought up by He himself.

"You haven't named your child before co-authoring?" Yu Yin was discouraged, "That's too bad, we have no experience, it's even more difficult. Why don't you just follow the fate, turn over the word in the Buddhist scriptures, what do you see at first sight?" What is it?"

"No, no, no." Meng Junhuai quickly dispelled her idea, "You Buddhists always talk about the four major precepts, emptiness, and sex. What should you do if you first fall on the word 'sex'? Do you regret it in front of the Buddha, or just let it go?" The child's name is 'Sejing'?"

If it's really called Sejing, wouldn't the children hate them when they grow up? !
Yu Yin: "..."

It seems that this trick will not work, and this risk cannot be taken.She thought about it, settled for the next best thing, and began to pick out words from common Zen expressions.

"Kong Jing? No, it's too much like a monk."

"Pu Jing? More like a monk..."

"Wu Jing? Hey, why do you look so much like a monk..."

Yu Yin said three no three, and Meng Junhuai beside him burst into laughter: "Hahahaha Wujing! This is not only like a monk but also like the third junior brother hahahaha! From now on, I will call Azuo Ayou Wukong Wuneng!"

Yu Yin patted him suddenly: "Hey!"

Meng Junhuai stopped laughing: "What's wrong..."

"Ming Jing! How is Ming Jing?" Yu Yin's eyes lit up, "There is no bodhi tree, and the bright mirror is not a stand. How is Ming Jing?"

"Such a 'Ming Jing'..." Meng Junhuai smiled, and then thought about it carefully, "Yin and Yang are compatible with the sun, and Xin Xinxiang and the moon have good meanings, yes!"

The two recited the name a few more times, and they thought it was not bad, so they settled on it.

Within three days, everyone in the yard from Xizhen Xiyao to Azuo Ayou would have heard the phrase "There is no bodhi tree, and the bright mirror is not a stand".

As for the fact that Ming Jing was almost called "Wu Jing" and A Zuo Ayou was almost given the dharma title "Wu Kong Wu Neng", I will not mention it.

A month passed quickly, Yu led out the confinement child, and began to behave filial piety for the Supreme Emperor.

Seeing that she suddenly became a vegetarian, Meng Junhuai figured out what was going on.But he didn't say it directly, but waited until noon to have dinner with Jing, and said to her: "Feed your mother and concubine some meatballs."

He Jing didn't think much, and fed the ball to Yu Yin's mouth, and Yu Yin avoided it: "No."

She didn't hear the conversation between the father and daughter, but when she turned her head and saw Meng Junhuai turning back quickly, she knew it was his idea, and patted his arm: "Don't make trouble, it's time for me to keep my filial piety, what does it look like to eat meat again?"

Meng Junhuai coughed, and said in embarrassment: "I'm afraid you're weak again."

"Not at all, I think I've become more aggressive during pregnancy." Yu Yin said.

This is the truth, after she got the decree of grace during pregnancy, she didn't owe a single bit of repayment. All kinds of delicacies from mountains and seas were offered every day, and she really felt that she had made too much repayment.

Even from the child, it can be seen that Ming Jing is obviously more moist and fairer than A Zuo Ayou back then.

So on the one hand, she thinks it's okay to be a vegetarian, and on the other hand, she really... wants to control her appetite.Not only did she get pregnant this time, but she also didn't feel the fear of the last time, and she was happy physically and mentally. The combination of the two made her much plumper than last time.The skirt door of the horse-faced skirt didn't fit right, the middle seam of the jacket couldn't be pulled down to the middle, and the collar was also unbuttoned, all of which proved to her how much wider he was.

Yu Yin felt that even if it was not for filial piety, but for herself, she had to obediently be a vegetarian.

After eating like this for a month and a half, it's the Mid-Autumn Festival.

August [-]th is also Ah Zuo's birthday, and Ah You, who was born after a child, should be counted as August [-]th, but in recent years they have been put together.In the morning of that day, Yuyin brought out a horse-faced skirt that Huai Mingjing had previously worn in sapphire blue and bronzing gold, and strangled it for a long time in front of the mirror. :"Very good!"

Meng Junhuai, who was also changing clothes on the other side, looked back and frowned: "Look at you, are you out of shape?"

"...What!" Yuyin teased that she really couldn't speak, walked up to him and waved her hands to make the servants back down, and lifted her jacket to reveal her skirt, "Look, this is Huai Mingjing's previous skirt, now It’s just barely tied on. It’s not really out of shape, it’s just thin.”

Is that right?

Meng Junhuai frowned and looked at it for a long time, no matter how she looked at it, she felt that she was still too thin.Was Huai Mingjing really thinner than she is now?Why didn't he feel it?
The two quarreled over this little thing, and Meng Junhuai said, don't lie to me for being skinny, this dress is new no matter what it looks like.

Yu Yin was stared at by him, and pinched the flesh on her waist: "Where did I cheat you? Look! Can this be kept?"

"You were definitely not thinner than you are now." Meng Junhuai raised his eyebrows coldly.

Yu Yin calmed down: "Why don't you ask someone to check the file and see when this dress was made?"

"I'm not competing with you." Meng Junhuai turned around and ignored her.

Yu Yin: "..."

Unreasonable!She ignored him too!

The two of them got angry and ignored each other, and the rare quietness during breakfast made the children surprised, and they also quieted down together.

But they happened to have something to say, so they passed their gazes to and fro, wanting others to speak first.

When Yu Yin raised her head to pick up the pickles, she saw He Jing winking, so she frowned: "He Jing?"

"Ah..." He Jing's expression froze, and Yu Yin asked her if she had something to do?She hesitated for a while, "That..."

She kept peeking at the others, and they all nodded encouragingly.

He Jing held back for a long time and said: "Well... today is A Zuo Ayou's birthday, don't let them study?"

"..." Several children rolled their eyes in unison.

Everyone thinks the same: Do you need to say this?I didn't even need to study today!
Yu Yin looked away from her face, slightly threatening: "Xi Zhen Xi Yao?"

The two girls arched each other's arms.

"Speak directly." Yu Yin put down her chopsticks, "Who made a mistake again? The three of you are usually good-behaved, but occasionally you are a little bit wrong. I don't blame you."

"No, it's not..." Xizhen's small face turned red and turned white, and after being stared at by Yuyin for a long time, she lowered her head and said awkwardly, "My mother wrote you a letter."

Um?This is strange.

Xizhen has been in the palace for several years, and her parents haven't written a letter directly to the palace. Yuyin knew that this was probably due to her poor status, so she didn't deliberately signal anything.Such a letter was written suddenly, she really couldn't guess what it was.

Xizhen looked very embarrassed, and hesitated for a while before pulling out the letter from her sleeve and presenting it to Yuyin.

Yuyin took it apart to look at it, Meng Junhuai raised his eyes and leaned over to take a look.

Yu Yin dodged subconsciously, Meng Junhuai stretched out his hand to wrap around her waist, and said, "Don't be angry, is my mistake okay?"

"..." Yu Yin squinted at him.Oh right, were they angry just now?

Let this matter interrupt her and forget it.

But in retrospect, there is nothing to be angry about.Just now...Maybe they both got up out of breath, and they were trying to find fault.

She took advantage of the situation and leaned into his arms to read the letter together. The children immediately ate sullenly, with the words: Do not look at evil.

What is written in the letter is roughly that Xizhen is twelve years old, and her husband's family can pick her up in advance.If Ruoyuyin and the others have candidates, they will hand them over to them; if not, the family will propose marriage to the local big family for Xizhen.

The words were very polite, with a faint hope that Xizhen could marry in Beijing, but she was careful not to force her in the slightest.

Yu Yin finished reading and looked at Meng Junhuai: "What do you think?"

Meng Junhuai looked at Xizhen: "What does Xizhen think?"

"I... I listen to my uncle and aunt." Xizhen lowered her head, and after a moment of silence, she whispered again, "Actually, I think... don't worry, it's fine to stay with the princess for a few more years."

This means, at least he wants to stay in Beijing.

Meng Junhuai took the letter from Yuyin's hand, handed it to Yang Enlu for safekeeping, and said, "I'll go back to Beijing to see if there are any young masters of the same age. It has the character of Xizhen on it, so I'll keep it first."

In this way, there were two girls in the mansion who wanted to talk about marriage, and Xi Yao was only one year younger than He Jing, so the topic of marriage seemed to be put in front of everyone at once.

Yu Yin inevitably wanted to mention Xi Yao's matter to Xie Jiqing, but Xie Jiqing's answer was: "What's the rush, I wish I could keep her until thirty or forty."

Yu Yin: "..."

In fact, she also wanted He Jing to be by her side all the time, but this was just to think about it, and the marriage could not be delayed at all.This made her suddenly feel that time has changed, and once again she felt that the children grew up in the blink of an eye, and in the blink of an eye, they would start their own families.

With this kind of mood, that night, she carried Ming Jing over and put her on the couch to watch for a long time.

Ming Jing is soft and small, still in the state of sleeping most of the time.But after being watched by her for a while, she just woke up, and the mother and daughter looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

Meng Junhuai came into the room after taking a bath and saw such a warm scene. He rolled up on the couch with a smile, looked at Mingjing and then at Yuyin: "You are so energetic at night? Go to sleep."

"Hmm..." Yu Yin pursed her lips and sighed, touching Ming Jing's small face, "You think it would be great if people could live for 800 years? We can stay together for a long time."

"Huh?" Meng Junhuai didn't understand why she suddenly mentioned this, she was taken aback, she shook her head and lay down flat: "It's okay, I just let He Jingxizhen and the others make me... always a little worried."

I always feel that parting often comes too close, too fast and too suddenly, no matter how prepared people are, they are not prepared.

"Okay, don't worry." Meng Junhuai also lay down, and embraced the mother and daughter together, "It's impossible for 800 years, but I will never leave if I can accompany you for a day in my lifetime."

Yu Yin smiled, seeing Ming Jing babbling and yawning, she patted her to coax her back to sleep.

"Master." Yang Enlu appeared at the door, bowed slightly, and walked into the room lightly.

Meng Junhuai looked over, Yuyin also turned to look at him, Yang Enlu lowered his voice and said: "There is a message from the palace, saying that the imperial doctor should go back quickly. The servant sees that there is time, so I will let the imperial doctor go first, and come to talk to you."

When Yuyin was pregnant, the emperor originally gave him an imperial doctor, but later this imperial doctor was sent by the empress after Ming Jing was born.This is a blessing, because children are always prone to accidents in the first few months of life, and it is safer to have an imperial doctor watching over them.

Now that it was sent back so suddenly, Meng Junhuai's heart tightened: "Brother Huang, how are you doing?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, the Emperor is fine." Yang Enlu lowered his head and replied, "It is the eldest son of the Emperor who is not in good health."

(End of this chapter)