Queen's Development

Chapter 236
Hearing the servant girl's report that Li Rui was back, Yu Zhi immediately got up and looked over, her eyes full of expectation.

Li Rui strode in and bowed his hands.

He didn't dare to look at Yuzhi's disappointed eyes, and said in a low voice, "I'm reporting to my concubine, I took the Yuyiwei people to the border of Ganzhou and found the body of the nanny killed by Han Qing. There was indeed a baby in Han Qing’s team, and he even brought two nannies to breastfeed the baby. Han Qing’s people found our trail and disappeared into the Rouge Mountain on the border.”

He couldn't help but look up and saw Yuzhi sitting there with a pale face, a lot thinner, a terrifyingly pointed chin, and a pair of big eyes filled with tears. He felt sad and said, "I have already sent Feiying and others Sneak into Xixia and wait for an opportunity to rescue the princess!"

Yuzhi was numb in her heart, she raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said, "As long as I can be sure that Chang An is still alive, I can rest assured!"

Li Rui thought for a while and said, "The prince is still hiding it--"

Yuzhi thought for a while and said, "Let's keep it a secret!"

Lin Jia specially went to Luoyang this time to experiment with gunpowder and muskets that are more advanced than Western ones. Even though he knew that Han Qing had stolen Chang'an, now that the three kingdoms of Dazhou, Xixia and Liao are at war, no one dares to start the war lightly. , what can Lin Jia do?It will only distract Lin Jia!
Li Rui answered "Yes", but still stood there, looking at Yuzhi with melancholy eyes.

Yuzhi looked at Li Rui as if she were her own younger brother. Seeing his handsome and haggard face all the way, she said softly: "You have been tired for a while, go down and have a good rest. Ah Yin misses you very much, rest up and accompany Ah Shadow play!"

Li Rui then retreated and went to the outer courtyard of Tingtao Court where he and Yeluxiao lived.

Yeluxiao was studying with the gentleman invited by the palace. When he heard that Li Rui was back, he was overjoyed. He looked over, but his head hurt, and then the voice of the gentleman came: "Concentrate on studying!"

Yeluxiao covered her head and read the book obediently.

Now Yeluchen must be recruiting soldiers and buying horses in Shangjing to buy people's hearts, but his direct son can only stay in the capital of Dazhou. I don't know if Yeluming alone can beat Yeluchen...

Thinking of his unknown twin brother, Ye Luxiao was troubled for a while, but no matter what, the husband Lin Jia arranged for him was a great Confucian of the Great Zhou Dynasty. Good reading!
Li Rui fell asleep after taking a shower.

It wasn't until the sunset that Li Rui woke up - he was woken up by the shade of the trees!

Lin Yin became more and more like Lin Jia, her black phoenix eyes narrowed into slits with a smile, her long eyelashes flickering, lying on the bedside, a pair of chubby hands grabbed Li Rui's cheeks from left to right , ignoring the severity, the voice was loud: "Play with Ah Yin! Play with Ah Yin!"

Li Rui's heart was filled with tenderness, he stretched out his arms to hug Lin Yin, and said softly, "Okay!"

Yeluxiao was studying in the room, and when he saw Li Rui playing with Lin Yin, the envy in his eyes almost solidified.

He was looking out the window eagerly, when suddenly his head hurt - he was hit by Mr. again!
Yeluxiao continued to read with a bitter face.

The teacher who taught him to read was Yang Xin.

Seeing that Ye Luxiao started to concentrate on his studies, Yang Xin glanced outside and saw Xiao Shizi, who was white-skinned and red-clothed like a little fairy boy, chasing Li Rui, running and playing, he giggled happily, and he also laughed.

Yang Xin knew Lin Jia's strategy clearly. Lin Jia asked him to teach Ye Luxiao to read and learn Chinese etiquette. In the future, he would send Ye Luxiao back to the Liao Kingdom to cultivate a new Liao Emperor who was close to the Great Zhou Dynasty and emphasized cultural governance.

Thinking of this, Yang Xin glanced at Ye Luxiao who was reading with his head down: "Do you want to go out and play?"

Ye Luxiao looked at Yang Xin with a pair of cute cat eyes.

Yang Xin smiled slightly: "If you can memorize the academic chapters, you can take a day off tomorrow!"

Yeluxiao smiled shyly, "Okay!"

After Yang Xin looked away, the smile on Ye Luxiao's face disappeared. He lowered his eyes and looked at the thin calluses on his fingers - he has been practicing martial arts since he can remember, but now he is in Dazhou, but he is locked up every day. In the inner courtyard of the deep house, the calluses on the fingers are almost gone!
How could he compete with Yeluchen for the throne like this?
Even though Yeluming was twins with him, he was very playful. He didn't know where he went all day long, and his mother couldn't find him, so he couldn't count on him...

Lin Jia has been staying in Luoyang for this period of time. Not only has he successfully tested a musket with a longer range than Western muskets, but he also has the world-renowned Sun Jingting as his adviser, and together with Sun Jingting he has drawn up the new policy. Missing Yuzhi and his children, he couldn't think of leaving.

After crossing the Jinshui River, seeing the capital city in sight, Lin Jia's group speeded up all of a sudden. Even the [-] armored troops who escorted Lin Jia couldn't help speeding up, and arrived at the west of the capital just after dark. Xinghuaying barracks in the suburbs.

Lin Jia originally wanted to return home, knowing that Yuzhi was in the Canal Bieye, and she was going to go there immediately.

But after thinking about it, he stopped again and ordered Jin Yuzhen, the little general who escorted him this time: "Have someone prepare water, I'll take a bath first!"

He is covered in dust and dust, he should tidy up before going to see Yuzhi!
Jin Yuzhen is only 17 years old this year, she was very mischievous, she answered "yes" with a smile, and even went to give orders in person.

As soon as Lin Jia took off her pocket in the room, she could hear Jin Yuzhen talking outside: "...to prepare mint soap, the bath towels to wipe the body must be clean and soft, and the temperature of the bath water must be suitable..."

Lin Jia rested his forehead with his hands—Jin Yuzhen treated him like a playboy!

At this time, Jin Yuzhen continued to instruct the people below: "...the prince's tunic must be embroidered with a gardenia flower at the corner, don't take it by mistake..."

Lin Jia couldn't bear it anymore, strided out with the bag in his hand, raised his leg and kicked Jin Yuzhen who was still standing there gesticulating to his soldiers.

Jin Yuzhen was very naughty, she was not annoyed when she was kicked to the ground, she smiled and said, "My lord, why are you kicking the last general?"

Lin Jia stepped forward and kicked again: "Because you are cheap!"

Seeing Lin Jia kicking over again, Jin Yuzhen smiled and rolled away, as if she was really kicked out by Lin Jia.

Lin Jia: "..."

He was anxious to see Yuzhi and Lin Yin Chang'an, and was too lazy to beat Jin Yuzhen!
Seeing Lin Jia turned around and entered the room, Jin Yuzhen stood up and said triumphantly: "Hurry up and serve the prince!"

He has a cheap temperament, his parents died and wandered around since he was a child, he was adopted by Lin Jia, and placed in the reformatory run by Lin Jia in Qingzhou, so he is very attached to Lin Jia.

Jin Yuzhen had long wanted to meet Concubine Bai, the eldest son, and Princess Chang'an, so she had already made up her mind to follow the prince no matter what.

While Ah Qing snickered, she brought her personal soldiers to prepare Lin Jia with hot water, mint-scented soap and other items.

The prince always thinks that he is a rough man, but in fact, the details of life are the most important. It is true that you need to use mint soap for bathing, the towels you use to wipe your body must be clean and soft, the temperature of the bath water must be appropriate, and you must wear side concubine after bathing. The white silk jacket that I personally made for him...

After washing up in the barracks, Lin Jia was clean inside and out, exuding the cool and shaded mint fragrance, and rode a steed to Canal Bieye surrounded by Jin Yuzhen and other generals.

It was already midnight when Lin Jia arrived at Canal Bieye.

Li Rui picked up Lin Jia and reported: "My lord, the side concubine lives in Tingtao Courtyard!"

Lin Jia nodded and told Li Rui: "Go and settle Jin Yuzhen and the others, I'll go back by myself!"

Li Rui answered "Yes" and led Jin Yuzhen and others to go.

Lin Jia waved her hand to signal Ah Qing and the others to stay, and walked to the inner courtyard of Tingtao Court alone.

When he arrived at the gate of the inner courtyard, Lin Jia was a little timid. He raised his sleeve and smelled it. On the sleeve was the familiar fragrance of mint—Jin Yuzhen and the others didn’t know that his Jade Garden liked the fragrance of mint the most, and loved to eat it. Mint candy, mint tea is his favorite, the reason why he only uses mint flavored soap all the time is because Yu Zhi likes it!

A row of moonlight glazed lanterns hung on the corridor on the first floor of Tingtao Building, illuminating the plum trees in the courtyard dimly, and the cool air was filled with the fragrance of plum blossoms, which smelled very good.

Lin Jia subconsciously lightened her steps.

It's just that he was wearing hard-soled soap boots, and he deliberately stepped lightly. The hard soles of the soap boots stepped on the corridor paved with bluestone, and they still made the sound of "磔磔".

Yuzhi has been tossing and turning, when she heard the sound of boots outside, she immediately got up and went out to meet her.

Han Lin rested on the couch in her room, then woke up and went out with Yuzhi.

As soon as Yuzhi ran to the door, she saw Lin Jia who was about to open the door.

Under the light, Lin Jia was tall and slender, with phoenix eyes and red lips, extremely handsome.

Seeing Lin Jia who had been separated for a month, Yuzhi felt sad, ashamed, and miss all in her heart, and she stood there blankly for a while.

Lin Jia saw that Yuzhi was only wearing a snow-white bed skirt, and she was pitifully thin, so she immediately stepped forward to pick up Yuzhi, and went straight into the room.

Seeing this, Han Lin quietly closed the door and retreated.

Lin Jia hugged Yuzhi and sat down beside the bed, lifted Yuzhi's chin to kiss her.

Yuzhi hurriedly pushed Lin Jia away, and said in a low voice, "Ajia, I lost Chang'an..."

Lin Jia was stunned for a long while before asking, "What happened?"

Yuzhi leaned against Lin Jia and told everything about Chang'an being stolen by Han Qing.

Lin Jia looked at Yu Zhi who was curled up in his arms, her heart was full of pity: "Yu Zhi, you are not to blame for this matter, Han Qing is really hard to guard against!"

He hugged Yuzhi, let Yuzhi lie on his body, and gently stroked her back with his right hand to comfort her.

Yuzhi had been restless during this period of time, but now that she saw Lin Jia, she seemed to have a backbone, and soon fell asleep in Lin Jia's arms.

Lin Jia pulled the quilt over Yuzhi's body, held Yuzhi with her left hand, and continued to caress Yuzhi with her right hand.

He is not in the capital, Yuzhi has to manage both inside and outside the palace, and Yuzhi has to take care of the two children, and this kind of thing happened again, Yuzhi really worked hard...

Lin Jia began to think about how to rescue Chang'an stolen by Han Qing.

Now that Han Qing has just taken Chang'an away, he must have taken strict precautions. It is better to wait until Han Qing relaxes his vigilance and is carrying out operations to rescue Chang'an. No matter what, Han Qing will not abuse Chang'an...

Thinking of Han Qing's obsession with Yuzhi, Lin Jia really wanted to shoot Han Qing in the head with a newly made musket.

But he also knows that Guizhen Sect is a cult created by the devil. No matter how normal a person is, as long as he believes in this religion, he will become a heartless devil.

And now, he still has to rely on Han Qing to control Guizhen Sect!

Only people like Han Qing can be at the top of the Guizhen Sect, but treat the teachings of the Guizhen Sect as a fart, and do their own way!

At this time, Han Qing, who treats the Guizhen religion as a fart, is accompanying the Guizhen leader to participate in the prayer ceremony.

The leader of Guizhen read scriptures loudly in front of him, while Han Qing knelt in front of him and was distracted: What is my little Qing doing?Can she get used to Xi Xia's milk?Do you want to send someone to Ganzhou to snatch some Han nurses back...

He was just thinking about it, but he heard the Guizhen leader in front of him shout loudly: "Everything belongs to the Creator!"

This sentence was the signal of the appointment between the Guizhen leader and Han Qing, and it was the sign of the end of the ceremony. Hearing the words of the Guizhen leader deliberately raising his voice, Han Qing immediately got up and began to follow the Guizhen leader to salute.

After this ceremony, the Guizhen New Year begins. During this one-month New Year, Guizhen believers are not allowed to eat meat or hot food.

However, the only people in the royal palace who can enter Han Qing's bedroom are those he brought back from Dazhou. Therefore, although Han Qing does not let the people of Xixia eat meat, he himself loves braised pork, double-cooked pork, steamed meat, cumin, mutton and beef soup. The Xixia nanny who was locked in his bedroom, although she believed in the Guizhen religion, was also forced by Han Qing to eat meat and drink beef soup and crucian carp soup to feed the little princess.

Back at the palace of Xixia, Han Qing kept walking, first took off Guizhen Sect's snow-white cassock, washed his hands carefully with fragrant soap, and then happily went to see his little Qing in the bedroom——Yuzhi His daughter, who was renamed Han Xiaoqing by him, claimed to be the princess bestowed upon him by the Creator!
(End of this chapter)