The little lady in the palace

Chapter 84 Negotiation
After the whole family finished eating, Yuyin and Meng Junhuai took Hejing for a walk in Qingyuan to digest food.When night fell, the three of them returned to their room, and Meng Junhuai coaxed He Jing to sleep in Qianying Pavilion, which was farther away.

He Jing hugged Yu Yin's arm: "No, I want to sleep with my concubine."

"Today the father wants to sleep with the mother concubine, and tomorrow I will let you sleep with the mother concubine." Meng Junhuai patted her head, and Jing puffed his mouth: "No! Today I will sleep with the mother concubine, and tomorrow the father will sleep with the mother concubine! "

Meng Junhuai: "..."

Yu Yin especially loves to hear their father and daughter arguing about this, Youzai listened to several rounds of disputes before squatting down and saying: "He Jing, the cherry blossoms at Qianying Pavilion are blooming right now, don't go and see them later. For a while, I can only see cherries!"

"Then I'll wait until the cherries bear fruit." He Jing had a good idea, "Or the concubine mother and I will go to see the flowers together!"

Hey, do you have a good abacus?

Yu Yin smiled, held her hand and said: "Be obedient, your father was busy a while ago, and mother and concubine haven't talked to him for a long time. Tonight, you let father and mother sleep first, and tomorrow mother Concubine will accompany you?"

"Hmm..." He Jing looked at Yuyin and Meng Junhuai reluctantly, struggled for a while, but finally agreed happily, "Okay then!"

"Call Xizhen and Xiyao to accompany you, and ask Ningzhi to go with you." Yuyin went one step ahead to help her call friends, and then asked Hu Po to follow along with her two maidservants.After the group left, she breathed a sigh of relief and stood up.

As soon as Meng Junhuai hugged her, she raised her eyes and met him with a pair of smiling eyes: "Just now, He Jing didn't retreat half a step, I thought she was being unreasonable again, it's better for you to speak."

"He Jing is very sensible, but now that she is getting older, sometimes she tells her that she doesn't listen to the words of coaxing children, but she always understands when she explains the reason to her seriously."

The two talked and washed, and then talked and went to bed.The curtains were removed, the candles were extinguished, and the sound of breathing on the couch soon became heavy.

His hand was placed under her body, and her wrist was around his waist. The movement lasted for a while, and she suddenly asked, "You came here on horseback today?"

"Huh? Yes." Meng Junhuai replied vaguely.

"Tired?" Yu Yin asked him, "I heard that you tend to have back pain after riding a horse?"

Just as he was about to say "it's okay", he felt that her hands and feet were exerting force, and when he realized that she was about to turn up, he let out a low laugh, so he changed her mind and moved her to the top.

Yuyin felt a chill when her back was aired on it, and felt a little embarrassed for no reason.She stabbed her face into his chest: "Forget it..."

"Forget what?" He put his arms around her and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"I, I, I..." Yuyin's cheeks were blushing, and she was bored for a while before she said, "I'm still, I'm not on it anymore..."

"Hahahaha." Meng Junhuai laughed, and put his arms around her waist, calmly, "It's okay, you were on top for the first time back then."

...Why did you mention that first time! ! !
Embarrassed, Yuyin wanted to come down even more, she slapped her hand beside him, but she couldn't help him.

The next day, the two slept in together.

Yuyin was "tired" at night and naturally overslept. When she woke up, she was startled by the sunlight shining into the tent. Her first thought was to ask Shanhu to come in and ask if the two concubines came to the morning parlor.Then he must have noticed that he was still sleeping next to him.

"..." She hesitated, not quite used to it, but fortunately, she didn't have to worry about being lazy by the side concubine.If he is still here, You Shi and He Shi will definitely be blocked by Yang Enlu's people, and they understand what it means.

So she looked at him quietly for a while, and after a while, he also woke up.

Seeing her bright eyes, Meng Junhuai smiled: "Why are you looking at me like that?"

"It's been a long time since I watched it." Yu Yin sneered, leaning on his extended arm, "Are you done with your work? Or are you going back to Beijing soon?"

"Hmm..." Meng Junhuai's expression darkened, "I'm not done with my work, but I'm not in a hurry to go back to Beijing. I'll take a few days off first, and I have something to think about."

"Then spend more time with the children? It's good that He Jing is older, but A Li and Lan Jing are still young. I wonder if the two side concubines can coax them together," she said.

Meng Junhuai said "Yes": "I have to accompany the children. Tomorrow I will take Ah Li out for a horseback ride, lest he just think about studying again."

He has been paying attention to this since he found out that Ah Li was too motivated, and he first added a new homework for them-throwing pots.This is something that literati should learn, but children are not tall enough, and their grasp of strength is also poor. Most of them don't start learning until they are eight or nine years old, but he still adds it to them first. He told Mr. Fan , for the time being, there is no need to pursue how accurate the votes are, just let them finish reading the book activities.

If it wasn't homework, Ah Li would probably not be willing to spend time on it, but as it was called "homework", Ah Li became serious.

Because of this, Meng Junhuai always felt sorry for Ah Li. He felt that it was not quite right for such a young child to be able to make such progress voluntarily.

The next day when he took Ah Li to ride a horse, he asked him: "Recently, you study so hard, is it because your mother and concubine are suppressing you?"

"No?" Ah Li, who was sitting in front of him, leaned on him, "I'm the big brother, and I can learn better than everyone else."

He said the same thing last time.

Meng Junhuai said: "But you have a sister above you, look, your sister doesn't study like you, you are like her, isn't it good?"

"Hmm..." Ah Li thought for a while, but fell silent.

He remembered what the mother and concubine said. She said that treating his elder sisters well was different from treating him well.He is really kind to him, and they will leave the mansion to marry in the future. The father dotes on them like this now, hoping that they can lead their husband's family to help the manor and boys like them in the future.So they just need to be happy, and they have to make progress.

These words made him unhappy, and he really wanted to ask his father, even if the sisters were going to marry in the future, wouldn't he really treat them better now?

But the mother and concubine didn't let him ask. The mother and concubine said that if he asked, the father and king would be unhappy, and even if he asked, it was useless, and he couldn't change anything.

Ah Li was silent for a while and said, "I have to study hard so that I can protect my sister in the future!"

Meng Junhuai sneered: "It's fine if you want to protect your sister, but you can't exhaust yourself. Besides, you are still young, it's the king's business to protect you."

Ah Li turned his head to look at his father, wondering if he could believe what his father said.

In Qingyuan Mingxin Pavilion, Yuyin was busy with unexpected events.She called Qiao Shi to help, Qiao Shi was dumbfounded after hearing her words: "Find He Jing...husband's house?!"

Yuyin had the same reaction after hearing Meng Junhuai's words in the morning.

He Jing is only eight years old this year...

But Meng Junhuai was very calm: "Well, after the new year, I should have started busy with this matter, and the chaos in the court has never been taken care of."

What he meant was to choose the right person first, and then he would know that the children of this family were not allowed to be engaged or to take concubines. As for when they would get married, there was no rush.

"There are many children in the palace who stay until the seventeenth or eighteenth to remarry. If you want to keep Hejing until twenty, it's up to you." He said it very generously.

Betrothed at the age of eight, stay until twenty, where to wait for 12 years?
Yuyin was a little surprised by this for a while, but then she figured it out—He Jing would be the princess in the future, and even if she remarried at forty, her husband's family could only support her.In fact, let's talk about the princess, the daughter of the Xie family often stays for a few more years, so it's not surprising.

Yu Yin thought about this matter calmly, Meng Junhuai meant that it would be good if he could get married with the Xie family, if the Xie family didn't have anyone of the right age, he would choose from other officials in Beijing.

Yuyin first followed the rules to release the news that "the prince of Yijun is going to choose a son-in-law", and in the next few days, many people will surely post posts.As for the Xie family, she can first figure out whether it is suitable for her.

"Hey, there's one here." Mrs. Qiao helped her look through the roster and found one, "This one is sixteen this year, so we can get married."

Yu Yin: "..."

She supported her forehead and looked at Mrs. Qiao: "I'm just picking someone first. I'm not in a hurry to marry He Jing. I have to find someone who is about her age."

"..." Qiao Shi patted his forehead to react, lying on the table and laughing at himself.

When Meng Junhuai came back in the evening, Yuyin showed him the 20 people he had picked out. The youngest was the same age as He Jing, and the oldest was six years older than He Jing. Five of them belonged to Xie's family.

He Jing hid behind her and hugged her leg, looked at her father shyly and said, "I don't want my husband's house."

Meng Junhuai sighed.

"What's wrong?" Yu Yin patted He Jing to signal her to let go, and stepped forward to ask him, "Did A Li make you angry?"

He shook his head: "There's a letter from Jingli, elder brother wants to promote your brother's official position, and then ask him to investigate some things."

"Then check..." Yu Yin said naturally.

Meng Junhuai was silent for a while, and waved his hands to make the others retreat: "But your brother said something yesterday, which made me suddenly not sure if it was right to follow my brother so wholeheartedly."

Yu Yin was startled: "What do you mean?"

"Your elder brother is worried that elder brother will try his best." Meng Junhuai sighed, "I wanted to be cautious, think about this matter carefully, and then decide what to do in the future, but elder brother suddenly mentioned promoting your elder brother..."

He pondered for a while: "I've never doubted elder brother. When something like this happened suddenly, I wasn't sure what to do. What do you think?"

"I..." Yu Yin frowned slightly, at first he felt that his and his elder brother's groundless suspicions were wrong, but after thinking about it, they felt that they were right.

Every step now may be related to the future. Naturally, the more thoughtful you are, the safer you will be.

(End of this chapter)