Queen's Development

Chapter 258

At this moment Cherry came over with a flower basket, bowed her knees and saluted: "I've seen the side concubine!"

Seeing that her flower basket was full of sweet-scented osmanthus, Yuzhi couldn't help laughing: "Why is there only sweet-scented osmanthus?"

Cherry's snow-white round face was a little red, and he stammered: "It's a slave. The servant is lazy"

Seeing her embarrassed, Yuzhi smiled and said: "Let's go, follow me to cut some flowers and put them in vases!"

Cherry answered "yes", gave Chunyu a wink, and followed.

Among the four new maids, Yingying and Chunyu are friends, and they are often inseparable, and they like to do everything together.

Ah Yin also wanted to play in the backyard, so she followed her mother obediently.

Ye Bi and Ye Ling are now serving Ah Yin, so they naturally followed.

Now it is mid-autumn, the osmanthus is in full bloom, and the whole backyard is filled with sweet osmanthus.

But besides osmanthus, there are snow-white gardenias, delicate begonias, light purple hibiscus flowers, various roses, hollyhocks and impatiens in the backyard, which are colorful and lively.

Yuzhi took the bamboo scissors, picked a gardenia that had just bloomed and cut it off, and cut off a branch with several flower buds, handed it to Cherry, and put it in the flower basket.

At this moment, Ah Yin took a light green rose and ran over: "Mother, a green rose!"

Yuzhi took it over and looked at it, and found that the petals of this rose flower were light green in white, very delicate, so she smiled and handed it to A Yin: "Mmm, it's very beautiful!"

A Yin looked up at his mother, his beautiful phoenix eyes were shining brightly: "Mother, can A Yin help you put the hairpin on?"

Yuzhi was taken aback for a moment—she thought it was strange to have a big flower in her hair.

But looking at A Yin's expectant eyes again, Yu Zhi was shaken, bent her knees and squatted down, and said softly: "Then A Yin should have a better hairpin!"

A Yin supported his mother's shoulder with one hand, and held the light green rose flower in the other. He stared intently at his mother's bun for a while, and finally carefully put the flower hairpin on one side of the bun.

Yu Zhi looked at A Yin with a smile, and said softly, "Is it pretty?"

A Yin nodded vigorously: "It's very beautiful!"

Yu Zhi leaned over to A Yin's cheek and kissed: "Thank you, A Yin!"

A Yin said happily: "Mom, I'll find you some beautiful flowers again!"

After all, he moved his short legs and ran away.

Yuzhi: "."

Ye Ling and Ye Bi chased after them with a smile.

Seeing the side concubine's sluggish appearance, Cherry and Chunyu couldn't help laughing, covering their mouths and laughing secretly.

Seeing A Yin picking a cluster of purple delphiniums coming, Yuzhi was worried that her son would give her a hairpin of delphiniums, so she hurriedly went forward and said with a smile: "A Yin, this cluster of delphiniums is for mother. Take it back and put it in a vase, you continue to look for beautiful flowers, okay?"

A Yin blinked her eyes, and nodded with some regret: "Take me to find some more, and give Ye Bi Yeling hairpin to her hair!"

Ye Ling Ye Bi: "."

Yuzhi smiled secretly, leaving Ye Bi, Ye Ling and Ying Tao to guard A Yin, and she took Chun Yu back to the front yard.

After sitting down on the Luohan bed in Mingjian, Yuzhi thought for a moment, and then told Chunyu: "Go and get the white porcelain vase on the desk in the study!"

When she is busy, it is easiest to calm down and think about her thoughts.

Chunyu and Yiyun soon came over with vases and other things.

Yuzhi took the bamboo scissors and trimmed carefully, but she was planning carefully in her heart.

As soon as she finished pruning a gardenia and put it in a vase, Li Rui came over: "Side concubine, a steward was sent from Guiwen's mansion, saying that Empress Jiang had listened to Princess Yiyang's suggestion, and in the name of His Majesty, sent someone to Send you and your son back to Beijing!"

Yuzhi smiled and said, "Is there anyone who rewarded you for reporting?"

Li Rui frowned slightly, and said, "I've already rewarded you!"

He paused for a moment, then looked at Yuzhi: "Side concubine, I have invited Mr. Liu and Mrs. Ping over!"

"Madam Ping?" Yu Zhi raised her eyebrows, "What are you asking Madam Ping to do here?"

Li Rui's eyes were slightly cold, and he glanced around Han Lin, Chun Yu, Yi Yun and Lian Ji who were waiting in the room.

Han Lin was fine, but Chun Yu, Yi Yun and Lian Ji shrank a little under Li Rui's glance.

Yu Zhi said warmly: "Han Lin stays to wait, Chun Yu, Yi Yun and Lian Ji all go to the backyard and water the spider orchids I planted in the morning!"

After Chun Yu and the others left, Li Rui said: "Side concubine, Mrs. Ping has a skill that others can't match, you will know after trying it!"

After a while, Mrs. Ping and Mr. Liu came in together.

Ever since Mrs. Ping left the Xingping County Palace, Yuzhi had never seen Mrs. Ping again. When she saw her again now, she found that Mrs. Ping hadn't applied makeup, was wearing a simple round bun, a silver lotus flower hairpin, and a light blue clip. She wears a white pleated skirt, which is very elegant.

Mrs. Ping saluted with a red lacquered wooden box, her voice was cold: "I've seen the side concubine!"

When Yuzhi saw Mrs. Ping again, she still felt kind—everyone who treated Lin Jia well, she felt kind, including Emperor Yongtai—she smiled slightly and said, "Mrs. Ping, please sit down!"

Mrs. Ping looked at Yuzhi with clear eyes: "To my side concubine, my original surname is Zhang, please call my concubine Zhang's lady!"

Yuzhi is as good as a gentleman: "Miss Zhang, please sit down!"

Mrs. Zhang didn't expect Yuzhi to have such a good temper, so she couldn't help but glanced at Yuzhi, and said in her heart: If you count her age, this side concubine Bai is 22 years old this year, and she has been with the prince for eight years, all for the sake of the prince. She has a son and a daughter, but her small face is snow-white and crystal clear, her eyes are black and lingling, her lips are pink and tender, her waist is slender and her figure is graceful, she is extremely quiet and beautiful, she is clearly still a girl. Such a person, from the appearance, is indeed It can be matched with the prince!
She glanced at Han Lin, and said with a smile: "Side concubine, please let this concubine try her hand on this elder sister!"

Yuzhi looked at Han Lin, wanting to see if Han Lin was willing.

Han Lin laughed immediately: "Your servant obeys!"

Mrs. Zhang put her suitcase on the small table in the middle of the armchair, then opened the suitcase, and pulled it out layer by layer. It turned out that it was full of rouge, gouache, eyebrow powder and other objects.

Han Lin sat down on the armchair next to him and let Mrs. Zhang do whatever she wanted.

Yuzhi and Li Rui watched from the side.

After about a cup of tea, Mrs. Zhang helped Han Lin, led her to Yuzhi, smiled slightly, and said, "Side concubine, what do you think?"

Yuzhi looked intently, and found that Han Lin, who had a good complexion before, had become sallow and sickly, almost terminally ill.

She immediately clapped her hands: "It's amazing!"

Seeing Concubine Bai complimenting herself, Mrs. Zhang couldn't help but pursed her lips and smiled.

The next day Yuzhi and Ayin got up early in the morning.

The mother and son had breakfast and were sitting in the study, when Li Rui came in to report that Empress Jiang's envoy had arrived.

Yu Zhi held A Yin's hand: "A Yin, do you remember what your mother told you?"

Ayin nodded vigorously.

Yuzhi smiled slightly, and said softly: "If Ah Yin behaves well this time, after returning to the capital, mother will take you to go fishing in Canal Bieye!"

Ah Yin was overjoyed, and looked at her mother with bright eyes: "Mother, a word from a gentleman!"

Yuzhi's eyes turned into crescent moons with a smile: "It's hard to catch a horse!"

The mother and son reached a consensus, and got up and went to Donganjian.

Li Rui went outside to meet Queen Jiang's emissary, the chief eunuch of Funing Palace, Shi Zheng, but found a chubby middle-aged man standing among the followers behind Shi Zheng, who looked familiar.

He took a closer look, and only then did he recognize that this middle-aged man was the new Chief Liang Bixiu of the Grand Hospital.

Liang Bixiu's son married Jiang Zhen's concubine sister, and has always had a close relationship with the Jiang family.

After meeting Liang Bixiu, Li Rui knew that today's affairs would not be good, but no matter what, he wanted to protect the side concubine and the prince for the prince!
He took a deep look at Liang Bixiu, took a deep breath, and said lightly, "Eunuch Shi, please!"

Shishi glanced at Li Rui proudly, and said in a sharp voice, "Please come out and receive the order!"

A sad expression appeared on Li Rui's face: "Eunuch Shi, the son and concubine contracted the epidemic. In order to prevent the epidemic from spreading, they have been recuperating in the room. The son and the concubine are weak and can't see people at all, let alone pick them up." It's a decree!"

Shi Shizheng was in the palace before, and when he met Li Rui, he was flattering and ingratiating. He wished he could lick the dust off Li Rui's soapy boots. Now he has become the chief eunuch in the Queen's Palace, and has become the chief eunuch in the palace. The big red man's tail was going up to the sky. When he saw Li Rui, he couldn't help but think of how he groveled to him back then, so he hated Li Rui to the extreme.

He hehe laughed a few times, and his voice was like a male duck: "Our family obeyed the Queen's order and brought Liang Yuanzheng from the Imperial Hospital together. Let Liang Yuanzheng go to show the crown prince and side concubine first. If Liang Yuanzheng thinks that the crown prince and side concubine can Hurry up, then we will set off today and return to Beijing to report to His Majesty and Empress!"

Li Rui thought for a moment, sighed, and said, "Eunuch Shi, Yuanzheng Liang, please!"

Quartz smiled triumphantly, and entered the courtyard gate with his hands behind his back.

Apart from Liang Yuanzheng, he still has backhands. I don't believe that Bai's mother and son will be arrested without putting their hands up.

(End of this chapter)