Queen's Development

Chapter 158

Yuzhi put the wintersweet into a white jade vase, put it on the kang table, and then took off the mink fur jacket covered with red engraved golden peony patterns and brocade surface under Han Lin's service, and then Sit down on the Arhat bed.

Jin'er carefully came in with a green porcelain tureen on a small tray: "Auntie, the stewed pear lily porridge is ready!"

Yu Zhi smiled and said, "Put it on the kang table first!"

Han Lin hung up the mink fur jacket, walked out of the bedroom, thought for a moment, and then said: "Auntie, I don't know what Qiulan is here today!"

Yuzhi was stirring the pear lily porridge in a bisque bowl with a delicate silver spoon, and said, "She must have come here at the order of Concubine Li and Princess Li, or she wanted to see that I have been ill for so long, What the hell is going on; or there is a message to pass on to Dongmei and Aimei so that they can help Concubine Li and Princess Li do things!"

A look of worry appeared on Han Lin's face: "I don't know if they know about Auntie's pregnancy..."

Yuzhi said lightly: "Even if they know, it's nothing unusual. A few days ago, I felt sick and retched several times. Dongmei and Aimei were both in front of me. Maybe I already guessed it!"

After hearing this, Jin'er and Han Lin turned pale: "Auntie, what should I do?"

Yuzhi raised her eyes to look at them, seeing that they were nervous, she smiled slightly: "What are you afraid of? Anyway, if I don't go out, what can they do to me?"

Concubine Li and Concubine Li, nephew, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are scary, but if they are not sure, they dare not take action easily.

As for the rest, she will be careful, do her best, and obey the destiny!
But if Concubine Li and Concubine Li dare to touch the child in her womb, she will definitely take revenge!
In the evening, Lin Jia had dinner with Emperor Yongtai in the palace, and then returned to Lin's Mansion in Yanqingfang.

Li Rui welcomed Lin Jia in, walked north along the east corridor with him, and said in a low voice: "My lord, we have already arranged people in Youlan Palace, but they are all of low status, one is the maid in charge of sanitation , one is the eunuch in charge of feeding the birds!"

Lin Jia heard the words, with a smile on his lips, and said softly: "It is enough to have these two people, and they can play a great role in critical moments. Order them to work hard and report any abnormalities in time!"

He is now in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, with great authority, and he is in charge of matters related to the royal family. It is really easy to arrange people in any palace.

At this time, the snow was still falling, and grains of snow and fine sand fell down densely, making the sound of "sand, rustle, rustle".

The black brocade sable cloak that Lin Jia was wearing had a layer of fine snow on it. As he walked, he asked Li Rui, "Has anyone been arranged in the Empress Dowager's Palace?"

Li Rui hurriedly said: "My lord, the female officer in charge of the Empress Dowager's Palace was originally from Eunuch Ding, but now I have placed a little eunuch in charge of tea and a little palace maid in charge of jewelry!"

Lin Jia let out a "hmm" and said, "It's the same in our mansion, more people will be placed in the back garden and the Anxiangyuan!"

Li Rui agreed, and followed Lin Jia to Tingsongyuan.

Late at night.

Yuzhi took a book and entered the bedroom from the bright room, and saw Lin Jia, wearing only a snow-white coat, sitting on the brocade couch in front of the window leaning on the smoked cage, reading a book in her hand.

His long hair has been dried, and it falls on Lin Jia's thin shoulders like a waterfall.

She walked over with a smile, stretched out her hand to touch it, and felt that it was cool and overcast, exuding a burst of mint aroma.

Yu Zhi's soft hand brushed Lin Jia's long hair, which seemed to spark a series of sparks, and the numb feeling quickly spread throughout Lin Jia's limbs, and it was very comfortable. He closed his eyes and said softly: "Yu Zhi , touch it again!"

Hearing Lin Jia's hoarse voice begging herself, Yuzhi couldn't help laughing, put down the book, stroked Lin Jia's hair a few times, then slid her soft hand down, and got into Lin Jia's coat again, along the Gently stroking his back.

Lin Jia remained motionless, closing her eyes to feel Yuzhi's touch.

After a while, Yuzhi heard Lin Jia's hoarse and aggrieved voice: "Yuzhi, didn't you say that there was a way to make me...? Then why did you break your promise?"

Hearing this, Yuzhi tilted her head and thought for a while, and when she really remembered, she couldn't help but chuckled, and slipped her nimble hand in front of Lin Jia...

The snow is rustling outside, and it is chilly; the red candles are burning high in the bedroom, warm and fragrant, full of spring.

Lin Jiazhong's clothes were in a mess, and he was leaning against the smoked cage and sitting on the brocade couch, his phoenix eyes gleamed slightly, his bright red moon lips parted slightly, and he felt his heart tremble and his whole body go weak.

I don't know how long it took, Yu Zhi's face turned red, her body limply leaned against Lin Jia, and said in a shy voice, "Ajia, I'm so tired!"

Lin Jia felt numb in her heart, and leaned over to kiss Yuzhi's lips.

The next day Lin Jia got up early again and took Hu Yingzhi to the Yamen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

He had to take He Lianshan to the military camp outside the city to deal with the affairs of the House of Internal Affairs, and he might not be able to return to the house until evening.

Yuzhi got up, dressed up beautifully and refreshed, after breakfast, she walked for half an hour in the corridor, and then went back to the inner study to read.

Unexpectedly, she had just read the book for a while, when Mrs. Lan and Mrs. Yuwen, as well as Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zhao, the other two generals' wives, were riding in the snow to see her coming.

Yuzhi welcomed the guests in, and the guests and hosts sat down in the open room.

After Han Lin and Jin'er served tea and snacks, they quietly stood aside.

Yuzhi chatted with the four guests about recent events in Beijing, and she was very happy.

Among them, Mrs. Zhao talked about a recent major event in the capital: "You don't know, Han Qing, the former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, was ransacked. It is said that it is a serious crime of treason!"

She was talking, but her slender eyes glanced at Mrs. Yuwen with a half-smile - her natal family and Mrs. Yuwen's natal family were neighbors, and she had known for a long time that Mrs. Yuwen and Han Qing were friends. It was recommended to become a doctor of the Weapons Division of the Ministry of War, and I thought no one else knew about it!
Mrs. Yuwen's face turned red and then turned white, and she lowered her eyes and remained silent.

Yu Zhi asked with a smile: "What's wrong with the Han family now?"

Mrs. Zhao looked at Yu Zhi with a happy face: "Han Qing is missing, his sister, Concubine Han of Prince Ding'an, and his nephew Lin Lun have all been driven back to the fief!"

She knew that Lin Jia and Lin Lun were rivals, so in order to curry favor with Yuzhi, she added details about Han Qing, Concubine Han and Lin Lun's misfortune.

Hearing this, Yuzhi breathed a sigh of relief.

Lin Jia lost a competitor, and she didn't have to worry about a strange man suddenly appearing in the room while she was sleeping!

At this time, in the heavy snowfall, Li Fu took two young men and escorted a carriage into the post station in the western suburbs of the capital.

Bai Futang helped Mrs. Bai, who was always motion sick, to get out of the carriage, and looked at Li Fu timidly: "Butler Li, are we going to rest here for the night?"

Li Fu squinted at Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai, and said in his heart: That Aunt Yu is like a fairy descended from the earth, she was born with a thousand talents and a delicate heart, I didn't expect my parents to look like this!

He snorted and said, "Start staying here tonight!"

Only then did Bai Futang laugh, bowing and saying, "Thank you, Steward Li!"

Butler Li hurried all the way, and Mrs. Bai vomited all the way, she was almost out of shape, she had to take good care of her!

As soon as Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai settled down in the room, the servant came over and said, "Brother Bai, Mrs. Bai, the housekeeper has prepared a banquet, and I ordered you to come over and invite you to the table!"

When they arrived at Butler Li's room, Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai looked at the table full of chicken, duck and fish, their eyes lit up.

Li Fu made the couple sit down, and called them to eat and drink.

After a few glasses of wine, Bai Futang, who had always been silent, opened up his chatter box and started to show off: "...my son Yuhuai was smart since he was a child, and the teacher in the village school said he was a genius..."

Li Fu smiled and said, "What about your daughter Yuzhi?"

Bai Futang was silent for a moment, and said: "She is also very smart, even smarter than her brother, but what's the use of being smart? Isn't she going to be a foreigner?"

Auntie Bai took a large piece of braised pork and ate it, interjecting: "My son Yuhuai can honor our ancestors and carry on the family line of my Bai family. What's the use of being smart!"

Li Fu looked at Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai: "So you sold your daughter?"

Bai Futang picked up the wine cup and drank it down: "There's no way, it costs money to study for the exam. If I didn't sell my daughter, how can my son Yuhuai have the money to study and pass the exam? My son is a master!"

Li Fu knew why Yuzhi was rich now, and she didn't want to talk to her biological parents!
He smiled and said: "That's right, your son is already a Juren, if you can do that, my master can help your son get real vacancies!"

Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai were all smiles.

Sister-in-law Bai said happily: "Don't talk about this one thing, just come to ten more, as long as I can make it for my son Yu Huaiguan, even if I let me kill my daughter, I am willing! My daughter died because of her brother." , I must be willing in my heart!"

Li Fu: "..."

He didn't expect that there would be such parents in the world, and they would always favor boys to such an extent!
He smiled lightly and said: "If you can't do it, don't blame my master for being cruel and ruthless. Your son is living in the Confucius Temple, and the monk can't escape the temple if he can run away!"

Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai hurriedly laughed and said: "Please rest assured, for my son Yuhuai, we will definitely do it!"

The snow finally stopped, and Yu Zhi was wandering around the courtyard with Han Lin that day, when Ah Xuan trotted over: "Aunt Qi, brother Ah Cheng came over and said that there was a couple outside the gate who claimed their surname was Bai. Your parents, I want to see you!"

Yuzhi was silent for a moment when she heard the words, and then asked: "Do they have any obvious characteristics?"

Ah Xuan thought for a while, and said: "Brother Ah Cheng said, that aunt has a beauty mole on the corner of her mouth recently!"

Yuzhi could almost conclude that they were her parents, after thinking for a moment, she said, "Please come in!"

She knew her mother's temperament well, and the most tricky thing was, if she did not recognize them, her mother would really dare to make a scene outside the gate of the Lin Mansion.

Instead of embarrassing Lin Jia, it's better to let them in and see what their purpose is.

If it is not too difficult, satisfy them so that they will never come to the door in the future.

If the requirements are too harsh, then people will drive them out and escort them back to Wanzhou.

The parents who once planned to sell her to Xinghualou in Yanhua Cave did not deserve her respect.

Ah Xuan agreed, and trotted out again.

Seeing that Yuzhi's expression was not right, Han Lin felt worried, so he hurriedly supported her and said, "Auntie, it's cold outside, let's go back and rest first!"

Yu Zhi hummed, and was supported by Han Lin into the Ming Room, sat down on the Arhat bed, quietly thinking about how to deal with her superb parents.

Bai Futang and Mrs. Bai's wife were thrown in a small back street in Yanqingfang by Steward Li. They walked and asked, and finally found the mansion of Mr. Lin Jialin, deputy envoy of the Privy Council and head of the House of Internal Affairs.

The concierge didn't let them in at all, so the couple waited outside.

Looking at the imposing gate ahead, Mrs. Bai squinted her eyes into a line with joy, and patted Bai Futang on the back forcefully: "I said her father, Yuzhi is a very good girl. When she was a child, the teacher in the school in the village Saying that she is 'not Fanpin', she is really not Fanpin, and she actually found us a second-rank high-ranking son-in-law!"

Bai Futang looked at the guards wearing armor and holding spears lined up on both sides of the gate, and timidly said: "Keep your voice down, don't let anyone hear the joke!"

Auntie Bai smiled: "I said Yuhuai's father, don't let your family down, we are now the old father-in-law and mother-in-law of Deputy Privy Councilor Mrs. Lin!"

The husband and wife were talking, when a very handsome young man in brocade clothes came out and said with a smile: "My aunt is waiting for you two in the inner courtyard, please follow me!"

Mrs. Bai and Bai Futang were happy in their hearts, but they knew they were suppressing their joy, so they pretended to be calm and followed this handsome young man.

(End of this chapter)