Queen's Development

Chapter 268
The weather outside was gloomy, the clouds were densely covered, the new wind gradually picked up, and the inside of the hall became dark.

Qingming was going to light the red-gold plum blossom chandelier on one side, but was stopped by Mrs. Jiang Tai.

Mrs. Jiang Tai said hoarsely: "Qingming, you go down first, and I will tell you to come in again!"

After Qingming left, Mrs. Jiang Tai looked at Jiang Zhen and said in a low voice, "This happened more than 20 years ago, Shu Yan, your aunt, it was so beautiful at that time, and there were so many people asking for marriage. Came to the mansion to beg me? But she just likes His Majesty today, Prince Ming at that time. It's a pity that the Queen Mother didn't like her, so your grandfather promised her to King Xingping"

Mrs. Jiang Tai seemed to be cold, with her arms crossed, her eyes blank: "I know that she met His Majesty the night before she got married, and she gave birth to Lin Jia nearly ten months after they were married. Your Majesty and the King of Xingping County are about [-]% similar in appearance."

Jiang Zhen stretched out her hand to hold Mrs. Jiang Tai's hand, and found that her hand was cold and dry: "Grandmother, there are so many county kings in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and there are many sons and nephews of His Majesty, why does His Majesty treat Lin Jia so well alone? Is it because His Majesty thinks Lin Jia Jia is his seed?"

Mrs. Jiang Tai closed her eyes, and there was pain on her fair face because she was pampered: "Only your aunt knows the truth."

Jiang Zhen let go of Mrs. Jiang Tai's hand, and gently placed it on her abdomen: "Grandmother, I want to give birth to the baby in my womb. During this time, I will ignore everything and focus on protecting the pregnancy. Tell your grandfather and father, Let them help me to find out who Lin Jia's biological father is."

If Lin Jia's biological father is really Emperor Yongtai, it will be a huge scandal if this matter is announced. I don't believe that Lin Jia can still be his crown prince with a face.

If Lin Jia's biological father was King Xingping, then His Majesty must have been deceived by Jiang Shuyan and Lin Jia's mother and son. How could His Majesty spare Lin Jia when he learned the truth?
Mrs. Jiang Tai raised her eyes and looked outside.

The wind was whistling outside, and through the long windows inlaid with crystal carvings, one could vaguely see the dead branches and leaves of flowers and trees shaking in the wind.

Jiang Zhen is her granddaughter, and Lin Jia is her daughter's only son.

But weighing the pros and cons, Jiang Zhen represents Jiang's interests, while Lin Jia is an outsider.

For Jiang Shi, she will arrange for someone to investigate this matter.

After a while, Mrs. Jiang Tai said slowly: "Zi Zhu, the maid who served your aunt back then, is Lin Jia's nanny, Mama Yang."

Hearing this, Jiang Zhen's peach eyes lit up, shining in the darkness: "Grandmother, my granddaughter is in the palace, so I can't send someone to investigate. I will leave this matter to you and father!"

Mrs. Jiang Tai stretched out her arms to wrap her arms around Jiang Zhen's thin and delicate body: "Ah Zhen, everything you do is for Jiang Shi, why would Jiang Shi hinder you? Don't worry, I'll go right away." Tell your father, let someone investigate Zizhu!"

Jiang Zhen gently stroked her abdomen with her hand, and a smile appeared on her beautiful face: "Grandmother, the child in my womb has the blood of our Jiang family, and he must reach the highest position. For this goal , I am willing to give everything.”

The sky suddenly changed, and seeing that it was about to snow, Yuzhi ordered people to start preparing for the winter, distributing cotton-padded clothes, quilts, and silver charcoal for the winter.

After posting everything, Yuzhi was still a little worried about Yuli Garden where the old prince lived, so she planned to take Li Rui to see it again.

Seeing that Yuzhi was about to go out, Han Lin hurriedly instructed Yiyun: "Go and take out the red feather veiled snow fox cloak newly made by the side concubine!"

The four second-class maids Yiyun, Chunyu, Yingying, and Lianji brought back from Qingzhou now have errands. Yiyun and Lianji are in charge of Yuzhi's clothes, Chunyu is in charge of jewelry, and Cherry is in charge of rouge and gouache. It's easy to do the job.

Yuzhi smiled: "It hasn't snowed yet, that one is too hot to wear, take that jade white embroidered green calyx plum cloak!"

She is wearing a pearl head mask today, but the jade white embroidered green calyx plum cloak is more suitable, both are plain and elegant.

Yiyun cast a quick glance at Han Lin with her sharp apricot eyes, then looked at Yuzhi with a smile, answered "yes" crisply, and went with Lian Ji to the east ear room where Yuzhi's clothes were kept.

Han Lin glanced at Yiyun's back, and smiled: "Side concubine, am I afraid that you will blow a cold wind?"

Yu Zhi treats Han Lin differently from others, and said with a slight smile: "I am physically strong, when is it too cold? But you should pay more attention to the prince's clothes, pay attention to the changes in the weather, and remind me in time if there is something that I can't think of! "

Han Lin answered "Yes" with a smile, and said, "I know!"

At this time, Yiyun and Lianji were opening the carved camphor wood wardrobe in the dark room of the east side room, looking for the cloak that the side concubine said.

This large closet occupies half of the wall, and it is filled with all kinds of large clothes of Yuzhi, including cloaks, cloaks, leather jackets, and many rose sachets, which are dazzling and fragrant.

Yiyun and Lianji have seen each other many times, and they are still a little shocked now.

Yiyun's apricot eyes were shining, and she slowly scanned these big clothes.

Lian Ji touched each piece with her hands, her mouth full of envy: "Does it mean that as long as I become the prince's concubine, I will have so many beautiful clothes and jewelry?"

Yiyun smiled, and glanced at Lianji: "As long as you can give birth to a son for the prince, you can enjoy so many clothes and jewelry!"

When Lian Ji heard this, her big dark green eyes became darker.

Waited by Han Lin, Yu Zhi put on a cloak and went out with Cherry and Chun Yu.

Alan, Li Hanxing and Yeluxiao were outside Tingfeng Courtyard to accompany Ayin to set up a dustpan to catch birds, while Li Rui was watching.

Seeing her mother coming out, Ah Yin was having a good time, smiled and waved to her mother, and continued to squat there waiting for the little bird to take the bait.

When Yeluxiao saw Yuzhi coming, for some reason, his heart beat a little faster. He glanced at Yuzhi, saw her big eyes sparkling, and she was full of smiles. He came over and touched A Yin's head. He suddenly envied A Yin, She stared blankly at Yuzhi's hand on Ah Yin's head, wishing that this hand could also touch her own head.

Yuzhi's hands are very cheap, and she likes to touch Lin Jia and A Yin the most. After she touched A Yin's head, her hands were not idle, she reached out to touch A Yin's soft face, and pinched A Yin's. He looked at Yeluxiao with a lot of interest, and laughed: "Ah Xiao, I haven't seen you for a few days. How did you grow so tall? Do children grow so fast nowadays?"

She remembered that Ye Luxiao was 15 years old this year, so tall at 15 years old?

But although Yeluxiao was tall, his face still looked like a boy's, with dark cat eyes, high nose bridge, bright red lips, as beautiful as a little girl.

Seeing that Yu Zhi still treats herself like a child, Ye Luxiao resentfully said, "I, a child, have saved you twice, and you haven't repaid the favor yet!"

After hearing this, Yuzhi restrained her smile, glanced at Yeluxiao, and said seriously: "Don't worry, I will remember that you saved Ah Yin, and I will repay you sooner or later!"

Ye Luxiao glanced at Yuzhi, and thought: If you want to repay me, let me go back!

Everyone knows that the emperor of the Liao Kingdom had three sons, the eldest son Yeluchen and the second son Yeluzheng were born by concubine Timur, and the third son Yeluxiao was born by Empress Tianqi.

In fact, Yeluxiao also has a twin brother Yeluming, but Yeluming is very playful and unreliable, so Yeluxiao is very worried that his mother, Empress Tianqi, and younger brother Yeluming will not be able to compete with the concubine Timur, Yeluchen and Yeluzheng There are three mothers and children.

Yuzhi's mind was intelligent, so she naturally understood Yeluxiao's voice, and said calmly, "December [-]th, the crown prince canonization ceremony, the emperor of Liao Kingdom and Empress Apocalypse came to Tokyo to congratulate him, and I can take you to the State Guesthouse , the right is to repay your kindness!"

This is really good news, Yeluxiao's cat eyes lit up, staring at Yuzhi.

In his eyes, Yuzhi's figure is slender, her features are picturesque, her skin is crystal clear, and she is so weak that it is really pity. Thinking that he will never see Yuzhi again, he feels a little regretful in his heart.

Yuzhi glanced at Yeluxiao with a guilty conscience—the emperor of Liao Kingdom and Empress Tianqi came to Tokyo to congratulate her, and the condition they negotiated with Da Zhou was to meet the proton Yeluxiao. child
Because of her guilty conscience, Yu Zhi was embarrassed to stay any longer, and touched A Yin twice, and told A Lan and Li Hanxing to be optimistic about A Yin, then she got up and led Li Rui and others to the direction of Yuli Garden.

Arriving outside Yuli Garden, Yuzhi heard a burst of laughter from a long distance away, she was a little surprised, and immediately quickened her pace.

As soon as she entered the Yuli Garden, Yuzhi saw the old prince was playing hide-and-seek with the young man with a veil covering his face, his face was full of smiles and he was very happy.

Seeing Concubine Bai coming, those young servants rushed forward to salute, all of them were ashamed.

Among them, the boy in charge was blushing, Na Na explained: "To my concubine, the old prince insists on playing hide-and-seek."

He is telling the truth, but telling the truth is too false - who would believe that a respectable county king in his 40s would like to play hide-and-seek?
Yuzhi signaled them to get up, and looked at the old prince standing there blankly with a pair of wonderful eyes. He saw that his face was ruddy, his eyes were clear, and he was much younger than his actual age. If he didn't know the truth, he looked like a handsome man.

Only then did she feel relieved, and asked the servant in charge: "How is your lord eating now? How about sleeping at night? What do you like to play?"

Seeing that Concubine Bai's expression remained normal, the servant in charge felt relieved and replied respectfully one by one.

After hearing this, Yuzhi felt that it was all right, so she let the servant continue to play hide-and-seek with the old prince, and she took Li Rui and others to the old prince's bedroom.

The old prince is Lin Jia's father, no matter what, she has to take good care of the old prince and not make Lin Jia feel at ease.

The room is extremely clean, the bedding in the bedroom is brand new and thick, and the ground dragon is warm.

After Yuzhi checked everything, she saw that everything was fine, so she walked out.

As soon as she was about to go out, she heard the greetings from the servants outside, "I have seen the prince", knowing that Lin Jia was here, she hurriedly strode out.

Lin Jia was talking to the old prince in the yard, when she saw Yuzhi coming out, she looked over with a smile.

He had one thing to look for Yuzhi. He originally went back to Tingsongyuan to look for Yuzhi, but outside Tingsongyuan he met A Yin who was waiting for the little bird with a dustpan. Only then did he know that Yuzhi had gone to Yuliyuan. Come and pick up Yuzhi.

Seeing Lin Jia, Yuzhi was overjoyed, walked up to her with a smile, stretched out her hand to hold Lin Jia's hand: "Ajia, why are your hands so cold?"

While talking, she pinched Lin Jia's cloak and found that it was filled with a thin layer of clear water sponge. Lin Jia was weak and afraid that she would not be warm, so she ordered Cherry: "Go back and let Yiyun Bring the lord's sapphire blue satin black fox cloak here!"

Cherry hurried forward, her big and round eyes were watery, her lips were bright red, and her voice was like an oriole coming out of a valley, it was very pleasant to hear: "Concubine, the prince has three sapphire satin black fox cloaks, one is cloud-patterned." , one with plain pattern and one with swastika pattern, which one will the servant bring?"

Seeing Cherry answering her own words, Yuzhi glanced at Lin Jia several times, secretly smiled inwardly, but said calmly, "I want the one with the swastika pattern."

After Cherry left, Yuzhi looked up at Lin Jia: "Ajia, where is the ferret cloak you wore when you went out this morning?"

Lin Jia hugged Yu Zhi's waist, with a gentle smile: "I gave that one away, you can make me another one!"

Yuzhi looked at Lin Jia with bright eyes, waiting for Lin Jia to continue to explain.

Lin Jia approached Yuzhi and said in a low voice: "Today, I met a talented prime minister. Seeing that he was wearing thin clothes, I took off the cloak and gave it to him!"

After hearing this, Yu Zhi also laughed and said, "Who is it?"

Lin Jia said softly, "His name is Zhang Zhiping."

Knowing that Lin Jia loves talents, Yuzhi said, "If you are really talented, let alone a cloak, you can even give me a house!"

Lin Jia nodded, seeing that his father was still pulling the boy to play hide-and-seek, he took Yuzhi and left Yuli Garden. He had an urgent matter and had to go back quickly.

(End of this chapter)