Empress Dowager Empress Dowager

Chapter 220
When Huo Mingzhu was invited to Xiaocixuan by the people sent by Mrs. Huo, she knew it.

As soon as he stepped into the hall, he saw Mrs. Huo sitting upright and Huo Zhengde below her. Lin Ruyi and Yu Tong sat next to Huo Zhengde in turn, but Huo Huaiyu was nowhere to be seen.

Huo Mingzhu went to the main hall, and respectfully greeted Mrs. Huo, then Huo Zhengde, followed by Lin Ruyi, who also respectfully greeted Yu Tong, causing Lin Ruyi to look coldly, but Huo Mingzhu ignored it.

After she greeted her, Mrs. Huo asked someone to move a chair for Huo Mingzhu, and Huo Mingzhu sat on the side. Judging by her posture, she probably had something important to say. Huo Mingzhu was not in a hurry and sat upright. Silently waiting.

Mrs. Huo said first, "Ru Yi, why didn't that girl Huai Yu come?"

"Back to the old lady, that girl Huaiyu caught the wind and cold yesterday. When I came here, I stopped by Zhuoyu Pavilion. The wind and cold in Yu'er became more and more serious. I ordered the maid to invite the doctor, and then Come to the old lady first to say hello."

"Yu'er caught the wind and cold? It's getting worse. It's such a coincidence to choose this time." Mrs. Huo didn't know if she didn't believe Mrs. Huo's words, but she actually said these words.

Huo Mingzhu knew that Huo Huaiyu had completely lost the favor of Mrs. Huo at this moment. In the past, if he heard that Huo Huaiyu had a cold, he would have been too busy caring, but at this moment, he was suspicious first.

Lin Ruyi was obviously a little unhappy, but she endured it, put on a smiling face and worried expression and said, "Isn't it just like this, this girl Huaiyu is just so unlucky."

"Really? Since Huaiyu is ill, let's go to the Zhuoyu Pavilion to see her first." After finishing speaking, she stood up, and the old woman next to her hurried up to support her, and she started to walk.

However, after taking two steps, she turned her head and said to Yu Tong: "Tong'er, go back to your Qinghe Garden and have a good rest. If Yu'er really catches the cold, it's not good for you."

"Yes, my wife knows."

Immediately, Mrs. Huo brought Huo Zhengde, Lin Ruyi, and Huo Mingzhu to Zhuyu Pavilion. Huo Mingzhu guessed that Mrs. Huo really thought that Huo Huaiyu was just pretending.

Not to mention the old lady, even Huo Mingzhu herself felt that Huo Huaiyu was pretending to be ill at the moment, but it was not good for her to expose her, so she let him go.

When the group arrived at Zhuyu Pavilion, Huo Huaiyu was still unable to get up on the bed, and when he saw Mrs. Huo, he even burst into tears: "Old lady, Yu'er is feeling uncomfortable and can't get up, so I can't ask you Please greet me like this, the old lady will not blame Yu'er."

In the past, with this scene and such a pitiful Huo Huaiyu, Mrs. Huo might feel distressed. Now, she just looked at it lightly and said calmly: "I'm really sick. , just take a good rest, please do not ask for your peace."

Lin Ruyi had been holding back her anger for a long time. Mrs. Huo obviously didn't believe that Huo Huaiyu was sick, so how could she not be angry? However, she couldn't get angry at Mrs. Huo, so she could only hold back.

Huo Mingzhu glanced at Huo Huaiyu, then said: "Yu'er has indeed looked rather haggard this time, the doctor has seen it, did you take any medicine?"

"I caught it, it's frying." The maid serving Huo Huaiyu hurriedly answered.

"Then you have to fry it on time and watch Yu'er take it. If the cold is a minor illness, you can't delay it." Huo Mingzhu told the maid.

The servant girl hurriedly said: "The servant girl knows."

"It was a good thing in the first place. The queen mother wanted Yu'er to enter the palace to accompany the crown prince. Now that Yu'er is ill, it's a good thing." Mrs. Huo said with a serious face.

When Huo Mingzhu heard this, her heart skipped a beat. Mrs. Huo named Yu'er?
Lin Ruyi said, "The Empress Dowager's order is to let Yu'er go?"

Huo Zhengde glanced at her, and said: "It's not that Yu'er is appointed, but the queen mother thinks it's good to let the daughter of the general's mansion be the prince's companion. .”

Huo Mingzhu stayed in the border town all the year round. For the people in Shangjing, the daughter born to Lin Ruyi might not be considered a concubine daughter. As for what the empress dowager meant, Huo Mingzhu had no way of knowing. The knot with Huo Huaiyu is all descendants.

"Father, if the empress dowager wants to choose a prince to study with us in the general's mansion, the elder sister is the eldest daughter, isn't she the best candidate?" Huo Huaiyu lay on the bed and answered the words 'weakly'.

As soon as Huo Mingzhu heard it, Huo Huaiyu pushed her out so concisely. If she hadn't been willing to accompany her, Huo Mingzhu would have given Huo Huaiyu a chance to speak. When the maid talked about decocting medicine, she would It's time for Huo Huaiyu to suffer.

Lin Ruyi heard it, and then continued: "Speaking of the first daughter, Mingzhu's biological mother, that is, my sister, is the wife of the husband. If it is said first, Mingzhu is also a well-deserved eldest daughter of the first daughter."

Lin Ruyi, who was always thinking of erasing Huo Mingzhu from the General's Mansion, unexpectedly affirmed Huo Mingzhu's life experience on a rare occasion.

"But I forgot about this one." Mrs. Huo said, glanced at Huo Mingzhu, and then said: "Although it is for accompanying reading, it is actually to find a suitable candidate for the crown prince for His Royal Highness. Crown Princess, if you are lucky enough to become a queen in the future, it will be a matter of honor."

The old lady Huo's words have come to this point, if Huo Mingzhu doesn't say anything, wouldn't it be unreasonable, so Huo Mingzhu said to the old lady Huo: "The empress dowager wants Yu'er to be the princess, and Mingzhu has also heard about it. Just like Mingzhu, everyone has heard about it, so the candidate is not sure who it is. Fortunately, the imperial decree has not been issued, and Yu'er is seriously ill this time. I don't know. I also said that Yu'er's illness is so coincidental, so I know that I have to persuade him Even if Yu'er drags her sick body, she still has to enter the palace to thank her."

Huo Mingzhu saw that Lin Ruyi's face changed slightly, but she still signaled Huo Huaiyu to be calm and calm. If Huo Huaiyu hadn't seen Lin Ruyi's eyes at this moment, she really didn't know if she would jump up from the bed immediately Woolen cloth.

Huo Mingzhu finished appreciating the faces of the mother and daughter, and continued to say to Mrs. Huo and Huo Zhengde: "If the general's mansion fails to hand over the person that the empress dowager wants, even if you don't get blamed for coming to the general's mansion, you will lose the empress dowager." Therefore, Mingzhu is willing to invite you into the palace to be the companion of His Highness the Prince."

When Huo Mingzhu spoke, not only Mrs. Huo, but also Lin Ruyi looked at Huo Mingzhu in surprise, wondering why Huo Mingzhu was willing to jump into this pit of fire.

This prince is someone who even the daughters of famous families in the capital are unwilling to marry.

After the old lady Huo was surprised, she looked at Huo Mingzhu with admiration: "As expected of the daughter of my general's mansion, this time entering the palace, she must accompany the prince well, you know?"

Huo Mingzhu nodded: "Yes, Mingzhu knows."

Huo Zhengde also admired Huo Mingzhu, and the corners of his mouth were slightly curved, which had never appeared before.

After the old lady Huo finished speaking, she glanced at Huo Huaiyu, but said nothing to Huo Mingzhu and Huo Zhengde, "I haven't talked to Tong'er properly just now, Zhengde, you haven't been at the house all day, let alone It's because she didn't accompany Tong'er properly, if you are at home today, you should accompany her well."

"Yes, my son knows." Huo Zhengde didn't look at Lin Ruyi, but he knew that Lin Ruyi's face was probably ugly at the moment. Ever since Yu Tong entered the door, Lin Ruyi had always been arguing with him, and he would rather Stay with Yu Tong.

Lin Ruyi became angry when she heard Mrs. Huo's words. What does the old woman mean by asking Huo Zhengde to accompany Yu Tong? .

Staring resentfully at the leaving backs of Mrs. Huo and Huo Zhengde, but meeting Huo Mingzhu's smiling eyes, Lin Ruyi's brain went crazy, and she almost lost her mind with anger.

Huo Mingzhu didn't continue to stir up that anger, and followed Mrs. Huo and Huo Zhengde, and walked towards Qinghe Garden.

Huo Huaiyu jumped up from the bed all of a sudden, and said to Lin Ruyi with a face full of unwillingness: "Mother, why are the old lady and father like this, can't they see that I am still on this hospital bed, but I am going to accompany that little bitch?" , she is only pregnant, and I am sick, so I have to accompany her."

Lin Ruyi was so angry that her face was contorted, she looked at Huo Huaiyu and said, "What are you doing up, lie down quickly, if they come back and see you standing up, they will know that you are pretending."

"Hmph, why are you still lying down? Everyone has left and went to accompany that bitch, why did you come back to see me?" Huo Huaiyu sat down on the stool next to him angrily.

Lin Ruyi suddenly said resentfully: "Let them take a good look at it, I'm afraid the child in this belly won't be able to look at it for a while."

"Mother, what do you mean?" Huo Huaiyu's eyes lit up.

"The baby in Mother's belly will fall, so how can the baby in her belly not fall?" Lin Ruyi said, the horror on that face, even the confidant girl next to her saw it, and she was terrified.

Only Huo Huaiyu was very happy, secretly thinking about the scene after Yu Tong's child fell, the more he thought about it, the more he felt relieved.

It was night, and Huo Mingzhu was about to take a rest when she heard a noise outside the window, so she walked slowly and opened the window, unexpectedly, there was a person standing carelessly outside.

"You don't know, it's so scary, it will scare people to death?" Huo Mingzhu said to the visitor in a familiar tone when she saw the visitor.

The people outside said: "Miss Huo's courage is so extraordinary, how can I scare me down."

The person who came was undoubtedly the man in black.

Huo Mingzhu turned around and went back to the room, she was the only one in the room at the moment, Su Hui had already gone down to rest, she didn't like having people around all day long.

When she left the edge of the window, the man in black jumped into the room, his eyes looking around in the room.

Huo Mingzhu turned her head and saw him coming in, so she said: "If you are a gentleman on Liang, wouldn't it be very dangerous for me to let you in this time?"

"If you really believe that I am the gentleman on Liang, how can you let me in." The man in black laughed sullenly.

Huo Mingzhu also smiled, and said: "Then I can't guess, why did you run into my boudoir so carelessly, such a lonely man and widow are not picking flowers, but why?"

"Miss Huo is really extraordinary. If it's an ordinary girl, I'm afraid I'm going to scream this time." The man in black went straight to the table and sat down as if he was the master, and reached out to pick up a teacup. , thought about it, and let it go again.

Huo Mingzhu didn't think that what he said was a compliment to her or something else, she asked directly: "This time you came to my boudoir, what is the reason?"

The man in black turned around, raised his legs to look at Huo Mingzhu and said, "If I were here, I would have taken a fancy to you, and I came here for a tryst with you, believe it or not."

Huo Mingzhu looked at the man in black for a moment, and said after a while, "Those who disturb people's dreams in the middle of the night will be struck by lightning."

"Haha, I'm not afraid of ghosts and gods anymore, and I was struck by lightning, but I'm here to tell you that if you become the prince's accompanying student, you will get great benefits."

Huo Mingzhu almost rolled her eyes: "Could it be that you came here specially to tell me this?"

"But it's not, I just came to ask, have you seen that jade pendant?" the man in black said.

Just as Huo Mingzhu was about to say something, Su Ling's voice sounded outside the door: "Miss, have you fallen asleep yet?"

"Let me take my leave first, and come to have a good chat with Ms. Huo when I have free time." The man in black said, tapped his feet, and jumped out of the window a few times.He always came and went in a hurry, rarely stayed, as if he didn't want anyone to notice his tracks, except Huo Mingzhu.

(End of this chapter)