Foster son and husband

Chapter 148 Trailing
The emperor was ecstatic when he heard the news, and ran out of the Harmony Hall in Napao. Ji Qingzao was prepared, how could the emperor lose his dignity, and shouted: "Get up and go to Kunning Palace!"

All the servants and guards ran to catch up with the emperor, while adjusting the formation position, the emperor was reminded, he slowed down helplessly, turned around and shouted at Xu Junying who was behind: "Why so slow? Without horses, you wouldn't ran away?"

Xu Junying deliberately lagged behind, grabbed the little eunuch who came back to report the news, and asked him that he could see Mrs. Weiyuan Hou, how is she doing?The little eunuch said that Mrs. Weiyuan Hou was here, and she stayed at Kunning Palace with Mr. Zhang and Taoist Lingxuzi last night, but she looked very happy and energetic this morning.

Xu Junying played chess, chatted, read books, and even fencing with the emperor last night in the Hall of Harmony. He also stayed up all night. A little eunuch came to report every other night. Every time, he said that he hadn't given birth. He knew the empress was in pain and looked at the emperor anxiously. , I felt very uncomfortable in my heart, half worried about the emperor and his wife, and half worried about Mei Niang, afraid that she would not be able to stay up late and could not sleep by the queen's side, she must be sad, besides, she stayed up late with Zhang Jingyun and Ling Xuzi. For a long night, what kind of communication will there be between them?The two old friends broke the unspoken rules among friends, showed their favor to Meiniang, secretly helped her, and worked together to hide from him what Meiniang was doing outside. too close.

The emperor muttered: "Mother and child are safe! Mother and child are safe! That's great, I knew it would be like this! I want to reward Zhang Jingyun, Lingxuzi, and Qin Meiniang..."

Xu Junying said: "The emperor should be called Mrs. Weiyuan Hou, or Xu Qin's family - the minister's wife!"

The emperor laughed: "I'm used to calling her by her boudoir name! What's the matter? I helped you marry her, can't you just call her by her name?"

Xu Junying remained silent, and the emperor didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said to Ji Qing excitedly: "There are also those wives in the Buddhist hall, no matter what kind of rank, they will all be rewarded! Let the imperial chef cook delicious food. Invite them to have breakfast before leaving the palace and going home!"

Ji Qing led his people to go to work, Xu Junying accompanied the emperor to Kunning Palace, saw that the queen mother was already there, holding the newborn eldest prince, smiling from ear to ear, the emperor and Xu Junying one after the other Standing, staggered a little to salute and greet the queen mother, the queen mother only nodded to them, it was considered to be the gift, the emperor also happily went up, looked at his son with a smile, and wanted to enter the inner bedroom to see the queen, but was pulled away by the queen mother live:

"Emperor, come sit down and hug my good grandson. Who do you think he looks like? Like you! When you were just born, you looked like this. Other children can only sleep, but you can blink when you don't sleep. It will pout, but it hurts!"

The emperor hugged the little baby that the empress dowager put into his arms, beckoned Xu Junying to come over, tapped the baby's right cheek with his finger, and said with a smile: "Look, a little baby will look for something to eat." If you touch him like this, he will turn around and look around!"

Xu Junying found it interesting, and also smiled: "The little prince is really smart, my minister's Heng'er won't be like this!"

The emperor laughed loudly: "Heng'er is already so big, he will shout and scream when he is hungry, and he will grab and eat by himself, only newborn children do this - I used to hug two princesses, and I knew it by accident."

Seeing the two big men playing with a little baby with great interest, the Queen Mother couldn't help laughing, and said angrily, "You really don't seem to have grown up yet!"

The emperor stroked his son's little face, put away his smile, and said to Xu Junying: "You sit with the queen mother, I will go in and see the queen!"

After finishing speaking, she didn't ask the queen mother, and quickly walked inside with her son in her arms. The queen mother stretched out her hand and wanted to call the emperor. Xu Junying seemed to block her sight unintentionally, and graciously helped her sit on the seat, and said with a smile :
"The emperor has a dragon son, so happy! The empress dowager has always been worried about the emperor's heirs, this time it should be easier."

The queen mother sighed: "Can the Ai family have an easy life? There is only one grandson of the dragon now, and the Ai family wants to see more dragon grandchildren. The emperor now has two princesses and a prince, but the old sixth king of Qi Always unwilling to marry the princess... Sigh! I always have endless thoughts, and they are all enemies!"

"Don't worry, Empress Dowager, when the marriage comes, His Royal Highness Prince Qi will naturally marry the princess back!"

Xu Junying absentmindedly answered the queen mother, and quickly looked at the door of the inner bedroom. The emperor went in, and the husband and wife were talking, so Mei Niang should come out. Zhang Jingyun and Lingxuzi, where did they go? Will it be there too?
Just after thinking about it, I saw Mei Niang leading out from inside, followed by a few nuns and maids, the queen mother's face was very ugly: "It's just cleaned up, there is still smell inside, the emperor just doesn't like to obey! "

Meiniang walked up to the Empress Dowager, blessed her body, and said: "I will go to the small kitchen to see if the medicinal soup is ready!"

The Queen Mother nodded indifferently: "Go!"

Mei Niang didn't even look at Xu Junying, she took two steps back, bowed her head to salute him, then turned and walked away.

In fact, she didn't have much opinion on Xu Junying. If he could let her leave Xu's mansion as soon as possible, she even thought that she could make friends with him.Yesterday, the Queen Mother gave a lecture in front of the maids and maids. I knew that it was Mrs. Xu who was admiring her. She went around talking about her bad background, lack of education, lack of respect and filial piety to her elders, and she hated the Xu family more and more. The elders don't even want to see Xu Junying anymore.

The emperor held hands with the queen and whispered in private, admiring their love crystallization, she had no choice but to come out, she didn't want to face the queen mother, she didn't want to see Xu Junying, she would rather find a name to go to the small kitchen to stay and watch Lingxuzi cook soup, Lingxuzi In extreme times, I am very careful and conscientious in using medicine. I wrote a prescription and taught people to take the medicine, and then re-prepared the medicine. I personally guarded the medicine pot to cook.Zhang Jingyun said that in the prescriptions prescribed by Lingxuzi, sometimes the heat and the burning firewood are also regarded as blind medicines.

Walking through the flower corridor, turning to the inner courtyard, passing the small flower hall, and seeing Zhang Jingyun sitting in it writing prescriptions through the carved window lattice, she didn't intend to go in and disturb him.The queen gave birth to the dragon son, her whole body was soaked, as if she had just been fished out of the water, she was so exhausted that she couldn't speak, only a pair of eyes were moving, which showed that she was still conscious, and the mother was not allowed to take a bath. Clothes were wet with sweat many times last night, each time the maids just wiped their bodies with dry kerchiefs and put on dry clothes. This morning, it was just the same, but the past few days have been damp and stuffy in spring. When the weather is the time when all kinds of bacteria are most likely to grow and spread, Meiniang asked the queen softly if she wanted to wash her body with water. The queen closed her eyes for a moment, then opened them again. Prescribed a prescription, boiled water with anti-inflammatory herbs such as honeysuckle or field seven thousand gleam, and scrubbed the queen's body. Zhang Jingyun said: You can boil the medicine to wipe the body, or you can use ginger water, but not today, at least until It will be ready after three days, he will prescribe a prescription to keep, and he will use this medicine to rub his body in the next confinement.

In the small kitchen, Lingxuzi was sitting on a small stool, slowly stirring the medicinal soup in the medicine pot with a half-burned firewood branch, concentrating on counting how many times to stir, Mei Niang saw him like that, Feeling playful, she tiptoed to his back, and was about to shout when a sentence came from behind her unexpectedly:
"Don't be naughty, you..."

She was startled, turned around, patted her chest, saw Zhang Jingyun standing at the door, pointed at him and shouted:
"What are you playing? You're going to scare me to death!"

Zhang Jingyun also laughed: "Aren't you trying to scare people? You should be more courageous, why are you scared!"

"Who says scary people have to be bold? What are you doing here if you're not writing prescriptions in Xiaohua Hall?"

"I want to see what you're up to."

"Haha! Don't you have opened your eyes to see what people are thinking. In fact, I didn't intend to scare him when I came. He was too serious, as if he was counting. I couldn't help but mess with him. , so that he can count it over again!"

Lingxuzi stood up with a smile, and pointed at her with the branch in his hand: "Unexpectedly, the mantis is catching the cicada, and the oriole is behind, right? You guessed it, I'm counting, and I need to count a hundred times. But I'm not a cicada, The cicada stops singing once it’s scared, and I can continue to count—you can’t scare me, I’ve heard your footsteps, and don’t look back!”

Meiniang was surprised: "Is the sound of my walking so loud?"

Lingxuzi said: "The sound of footsteps and fluttering clothes is not too loud. I can hear it from my listening practice since I was a child!"

"It's great to have such good hearing. Can I practice?"

Zhang Jingyun looked at her with a smile: "I didn't mean to scare you just now, I just wanted to remind you that he knew you were coming, you can't scare him... Listening skills need to be practiced since childhood, what do you practice this for?"

Mei Niang waved her hand indifferently: "Nothing to do, just for fun, if it's too difficult, I won't practice - it won't be of much use if you practice it?"

Lingxuzi said: "Practice qi and kung fu, usually you need to practice hearing and eyesight, it will always be useful."

Mei Niang went to look in the cupboard: "Ah! There are a lot of fresh ingredients, breakfast hasn't arrived yet, I'll cook for you, okay?"

Lingxuzi smiled and said, "You are Mrs. Hou, do you know how to cook?"

Mei Niang brags: "I'm Cen Meimei, I don't know how to cook, what kind of restaurant do I open? I don't cook too complicated, just a bowl of noodles for each person, and that's it!"

Zhang Jingyun said: "Wait until your hands are healed before cooking, it is not appropriate to touch raw water now!"

Mei Niang looked at her hands, and smiled wryly: "I let you see, the empress gave birth to a prince, and I also suffer along with it."

Lingxuzi said: "I saw it too, it's okay, go back and get you a bottle of ointment, rub it on for two days and then it will return to its original appearance - yes, what are you doing here? Just looking for something to eat?"

"No, the emperor is here. If I am not by the empress's side, I have to stand by the empress dowager's side. If I can't stand it, I might as well come to you!"

Lingxuzi smiled and shook his head: "Don't Junying follow the emperor? With him here, what are you afraid of?"

Mei Niang said: "He and I..."

The shadow at the door flickered, and Xu Junying came in, and said with a smile: "How are you and me? I was only one step too late, and I couldn't catch up with you. You ran really fast, and you didn't say you were going to the inner courtyard." Come on, let me search everywhere but can’t find it!”

The three people in the small kitchen were stunned for a moment, and Mei Niang pointed at him: "Is Wei Yuanhou walking silently? Why can't you hear Lingxuzi?"

Lingxuzi was a little embarrassed: "I...just now I was just joking with you, and didn't listen carefully. Junying came...so fast!"

After Mei Niang came in, Zhang Jingyun came in, chatting and laughing, Meiniang opened and closed the cupboard again, scooped water with a spoon, made all kinds of noises, talking to him, and he had to keep an eye on the fire, so he really didn't go He heard the movement outside, but he also understood that Xu Junying didn't come too fast, but came earlier, he practiced light kung fu very well, if he didn't want the people in the room to notice, it was easy to do.

Zhang Jingyun nodded and greeted Xu Junying. He was in the same situation as Lingxuzi. He didn't notice when Xu Junying came, but he deliberately stood in a favorable position. Anyone who came in from the main courtyard in front would be seen by him if they walked the right way. I just don't know where Xu Junying came from, she should have stood by the left window for a while, and then suddenly entered the door.

Zhang Jingyun was very calm, without embarrassment at all. He felt that it was normal to stand with Meiniang at this time. The three of them were ordered to guard the Kunning Palace. Understand, soon enough, she won't be.

She was like his mother, but stronger and braver than his mother. She refused to be with others, so she resolutely gave up, tried every means, relied on her own intelligence and wisdom, and made preparations for exiting the Hou's residence early.

Xu Junying had a few conversations with Zhang Jingyun and Lingxuzi. He was actually in a bad mood at the moment. He had been worrying all night. After finally seeing Meiniang, she bid farewell to the Queen Mother and walked past him without even raising her eyelids. Feeling like falling into an ice cellar, the Empress Dowager said in a sneering tone that this Mrs. Marquis of Weiyuan was indeed, as your grandmother said, lacking in education, and comforted him: "You don't have to wait too long, I will inform the emperor. I can issue a decree to let you marry your cousin Zhuang!"

The Empress Dowager also said the same things as his grandmother, about how she would get better after marrying Cousin Zhuang, how she would get more good concubines, have more children, etc. Since he lost Mei Niang, her attitude changed. It was so unbearable for him, he didn't care about covering for the emperor, he stopped accompanying the queen mother, and ran out with an excuse, he knew where the small kitchen was, and just as he turned into the inner courtyard, he saw Zhang Jingyun following behind Mei Niang, the two of them They entered the small kitchen one after the other. At that moment, his heart, liver and lungs melted together, and after a few vertical leaps, he jumped under the left window of the small kitchen. When he saw Lingxuzi, he was relieved—as long as it wasn't a man and a man. It doesn't matter if women are alone.

He didn't go in directly, because he was afraid that it would cause Meiniang to resent him even more. After hearing what the queen mother said, he could somewhat guess why Meiniang treated him that way. Old man, in the palace, the Empress Dowager may have helped her grandma and said something to her that caused her resentment and annoyance.

Mei Niang chatted with Zhang Jingyun and Lingxuzi about everything, chatting and laughing relaxedly, while he leaned against the wall, feeling terribly sad.The empress dowager has no one to accompany her in the main courtyard palace, so she must disturb the emperor and empress. The emperor seldom disobeys the empress dowager's wishes in small matters. Today, he will not stay in Kunning Palace for long. Lingxuzi and Zhang Jingyun, as imperial physicians, are in the palace He can come and go freely, and he has the privilege of not welcoming the emperor, but he can't, the emperor is leaving, he has to go, just when he can't make up his mind to leave or stay, whether to enter the small kitchen to meet them, Meiniang thought The words he said made him feel bad, so he walked in without thinking, and directly interrupted the rest of her words, no matter what it was, it must be right not to let them hear it.

　Second watch. . . . . .

　　
　
(End of this chapter)