Queen's Development

Chapter 306 Mother and Daughter Connecting Hearts
It started to rain at noon.

The drizzle was drizzling, and the flowers and trees in the courtyard were shivering in the drizzle, while the branches and leaves became greener, fresher and tenderer.

Yuzhi stood in front of the window and watched for a while, suddenly became interested and insisted on going for a walk in the rain, so Lin Jia accompanied her for a walk under an umbrella.

In the afternoon, after A Yin finished class, Lin Jia took A Yin into the palace to meet Emperor Yongtai.

Yuzhi ordered someone to pick up Tinglan and Wan'er and play with them.

Han Lin was waiting on the side, seeing Yuzhi looking at Ting Lan all the time, guessing that Yuzhi was missing Naya who was very similar to Ting Lan, she couldn't help feeling a little uncomfortable, while massaging Yuzhi's legs, she comforted her: "Liangdi , counting the time, the letters from Ling Que and Jin Er are coming soon, so don't worry!"

Yuzhi lowered her head, trying to suppress the bitterness and sorrow in her heart, and said after a while: "After all, I am the flesh and blood of my October pregnancy. I know that she is doing well in Xixia, but I miss her in my heart."

Another thing Yuzhi is still worried about is that Dazhou and Xixia have become dirty because of Dali Kingdom. Both sides are preparing for war, and war will break out at any time. She is really worried that Naya will become Han Qing's bargaining chip.
But she couldn't tell Han Lin about these things.

Han Lin looked at Yuzhi's leg and wrist, and found that the swelling was getting worse, he pressed a hole, and hurriedly said: "Liang Di, are your legs okay like this?"

Yuzhi has already given birth to her third child, and she already has experience: "It's okay, Doctor Jin and Mr. Liu have both seen it!"

Han Lin muttered, "It's really hard for a woman to have a baby."

Yuzhi laughed and said: "It's hard work, but when the child is close to me, it's very happy!"

She thought for a while and ordered: "Han Lin, you and A Lan go to find Li Rui together, and see if Ling Que and Jin'er have any letters. If Li Rui is not in the mansion, you and A Lan will go to Nanxi Go find him at his private house in Maqiao West Lane."

This matter is too important, she is worried about others going, so she can only let Han Lin go.

Han Lin answered "yes" and went out with an oil-paper umbrella.

The whole capital is bathed in the misty spring rain.

The West Lane of Nanxi Maqiao, not far from the Prince's Mansion, is quiet. There are many century-old willow trees in the alley. The light yellow and green willows cover the whole alley, making the alley even more quiet.

In the depths of the alley, an ordinary black-painted gate was opened from the inside with a "squeak", and a man in a coir raincoat and a bamboo hat came out, followed by a handsome young man holding an umbrella.

The handsome young man sent the man in coir raincoat to go out, and said in a low voice, "Du Juan, wait for news from your lord first, and don't wander around the capital."

The man wearing the bamboo hat and coir raincoat chuckled lightly, and said, "Raven, don't worry, I'll wait for your lord's orders at home!"

After Du Juan left, Raven bolted the gate and walked into the yard, but after a few steps, there was a knock on the door outside.

He listened carefully, and found that he knocked four times, then three times, and finally once again, which was the agreed signal, so he walked over and opened the door.

There were two people standing outside the door, a man and a woman, the man was dark and handsome, although his skin was slightly dark, but he was very delicate, the woman was tall, with almond eyes and peach cheeks, very pretty.

Raven recognized Ah Lan and Han Lin, and couldn't help laughing: "Why are you two here? Come in quickly!"

Han Lin entered the gate, and when Raven closed the gate, he said: "Is Master Li at home? Liang Di asked me to come and find him!"

Raven nodded: "Yes."

He led Han Lin and Alan to walk in.

It was the first time for Han Lin to visit Li Rui's house, and he was a little curious. He followed the raven inside and looked around.

This courtyard has black tiles and white walls, and the floor is paved with blue bricks. In the east and west of the courtyard, there are a peach tree and a pear tree respectively. The peach blossoms are blooming brilliantly, but the pear blossoms are just about to bloom. There are two plantain plants planted in front of the window, watching everything is quiet and picturesque.

When they arrived at the main room, Raven went in to report, while Ah Lan and Han Lin waited on the porch.

Li Rui was meeting people inside, all from Yu Yiwei.

Hearing that A Lan and Han Lin were coming, Li Rui kicked out everyone in the bright room, and came out to meet Han Lin and A Lan by himself.

He was worried about Yuzhi, and asked as soon as he entered the room: "What's wrong with Di Liang?"

Seeing that Li Rui was so nervous, Han Lin hurriedly smiled to comfort him: "Master Li, Concubine Liang is fine!"

Only then did Li Rui feel relieved, knowing that if he cared, he would be in chaos. Li Hanxing stayed in the gatehouse of Tingsongyuan. If something happened to Yuzhi, Li Hanxing would have sent a message.

Han Lin and A Lan sat down on the yellow rosewood armchair with waist and horseshoe legs placed against the west wall.

She had already discovered that the layout of Li Rui's room was very similar to that of Tingsongyuan's main room, but she didn't say anything. After thinking about it, she told her what Yuzhi wanted her to pass on.

After hearing this, Li Rui smiled slightly, and said, "I went to see Di Liang to report the matter this morning, but I didn't see her. I was thinking of going again at night, but you just happened to be here!"

He ordered Raven to bring over a letter box, took out a letter from it and put it in his arms, and looked at A Lan and Han Lin with a smile: "I'm not far from Pan Tower, it's rare for you and your wife to come out, go to Pan Tower Let's go for a stroll, I'm going to see Liang Di right now!"

After hearing this, Han Lin felt a little moved, and immediately looked at A Lan.

A Lan said softly: "If you want to go, go for a stroll!"

It was getting dark outside, and the rain was still lingering.

Chunyu lit up all the chandeliers in the study in the West Dark Room, and the whole West Dark Room was brightly lit.

Yuzhi took a copy of "Shi Shuo Xin Yu" and was telling stories to Ting Lan and Wan'er.

Some of Ting Lan and Wan'er could understand, some could not understand, but they listened attentively.

Seeing that it was time for dinner, the little maid from Qianlian Pavilion came over and said that the dinner in Qianlian Pavilion was ready.

Only then did Yuzhi let Nanny Dong and Nanny Shen take Ting Lan and Wan'er back to Qianlian Pavilion.

After sending Ting Lan and Wan'er away, Yu Zhi stood on the porch, looking at the wet flowers and trees outside, and still thinking about Naya in her heart—Ting Lan and Wan'er were taught by her husband and she took care of her, but what about her Naya?There is no doubt that Han Qing is good to Naya, but as a bachelor, will he take care of the delicate little girl?

When Li Rui brought Li Hanxing in, he immediately saw Yuzhi standing on the railing in the corridor.

He has known Yuzhi for many years, but Yuzhi is still the same as he remembers, it seems that the years have never left traces on her body, her face is still white and crystal clear in the dark, her eyebrows are black and thick, her lips are bright red, and her eyes are dark again and clear
It's just that the eyes are a little sad at this time.
Li Rui stepped forward and said softly, "Liang Di—"

Yuzhi looked up at Li Rui, laughed, and said, "Why are you here in person?"

Li Rui didn't explain, but stretched out his hand to Yuzhi: "Go to the room and talk!"

Knowing what Li Rui was going to say, Yu Zhi was afraid that the maids would not hear her, so she helped Li Rui back to the Ming Room.

Li Rui handed the letter to Yuzhi, and then returned to the yellow rosewood armchair and sat down.

The letter was bulging, and the kraft paper envelope had been scuffed to the point of fuzz. It was obvious that he came to the capital after going through many twists and turns.

Yuzhi took out a stack of letter papers and unfolded them, and found that they were full of winding words, so she couldn't help but look up at Li Rui: "This—"

A cunning flashed in Li Rui's eyes, and he took out a brand new stack of paper from his sleeve pocket, and presented it to Yuzhi: "The letter from Ling Que is the secret letter from Yu Yiwei, and I have asked Raven to translate it." Already!"

Only then did Yu Zhi feel relieved - she knew that in order to prevent information from being leaked, Yu Yiwei had his own set of words for conveying secret letters, even if outsiders intercepted Yu Yiwei's secret letters, they would not be able to read what was written.

Her heart beat a little faster, she unfolded the letter paper and read it.

Li Rui knew the content of the letter a long time ago, and he was drinking tea with a cup in his hand, but his eyes were on Yuzhi.

Yuzhi read the letter very quickly, and quickly read it with one glance and ten lines.

After reading it, she paused, and then read it again carefully.

After folding the letter paper, Yuzhi said: "Naya already knows a lot of Chinese characters, she has already started to learn how to ride a horse, and Han Qing has made her the heir to the throne of Xixia. Will this make her very dangerous?"

No matter what happened to Han Qing, he was willing to teach Naya to learn Da Zhou's characters, and Yu Zhi was still grateful to him.

But what is Han Qing's intention of making Naya his heir?
Li Rui looked at Yuzhi, and said in a deep voice, "Han Qing is treacherous and cunning, with unpredictable thoughts."

Seeing Yuzhi's worried expression, Li Rui immediately made up his mind: "Di Liang, I will report to the lord, let's go to Xixia to have a look!"

Yuzhi thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "Xi Xia and Da Zhou are now at war, you can't go at this time!"

She stared into Li Rui's eyes and said earnestly, "I'll write a letter to Han Qing. You can find a way to send someone to Xixia, but you don't want to go!"

Seeing that Li Rui was silent and looked at her quietly with deep pool-like eyes, Yu Zhi hurriedly said, "You forgot, I'm about to give birth, what if those people do something wrong with you when you're not in the capital? I Neither I nor Your Highness can do without you!"

It was obviously a very simple word, but Li Rui felt a soul-stirring feeling when he heard it. He knew that in Yuzhi's heart, his status was not low
Li Rui looked up at the Mingjian door hung with light smoky plain gauze, and after a while looked at Yuzhi, and said in a deep voice, "You write the letter now, I'll have someone send it out tomorrow morning."

Yuzhi agreed, called Diller in, and told her to prepare a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and she was going to write the letter on the kang table.

After Yuzhi finished writing the letter, Li Rui put the letter away properly, and then said: "Di Liang, Li Hanxing has something to report!"

Yuzhi's wrist was a little tired, so she asked Dill to rub her wrist, and said, "Is it important? Let him in!"

Li Hanxing came in soon.

Seeing that the room was full of his own people, he saluted and told about the matter that Lin Jia asked him to send someone to follow Princess Pingcheng and Lord Lianhua in the morning, and then said: "The little maid sent by my subordinates found that Lord Lianhua was peaceful. Princess Cheng squatted next to a plant next to the rockery, and talked for a long time, just now this little maid ran over quietly, pinched a piece of that plant and sent it over!"

After finishing speaking, Li Hanxing took out a jade white sweat scarf from his sleeve pocket, unfolded it and showed it to Yu Zhi and Li Rui.

On the jade white sweat towel was a vine of a plant, which was green and very fresh.

Yu Zhi looked at it and said, "It seems to be like a creeper, but also like an ivy. But it's not very similar."

Li Rui took it, looked it over carefully for a moment, and said, "This is a poisonous heartbroken grass."

Yu Zhi looked at Li Rui after hearing the words: "Are you sure?"

Li Rui nodded: "I'm sure."

He had poisoned people with heartbroken grass before, so he knew it naturally.

Yuzhi frowned and said, "What do they want to do?"

Li Rui said lightly, "I just want to hurt someone."

Yuzhi supported her arm with one hand and thought for a long time before she said: "We might as well just follow the plan."

As night fell, Funing Palace was eerily quiet.

Empress Jiang sat upright on the red sandalwood phoenix-patterned arhat bed, her hands trembling slightly, and asked after a long while, "Did Lin Jia catch all of my father's dead men?"

Sitting on the red sandalwood drum pier on her left is Mrs. Jiang.

Mrs. Jiang's face was pale, and the wrinkles became more and more obvious. One by one seemed to be carved on her face with a knife, and her voice was a little tired: "All of them are gone. Your father sent someone to check the ambush outside the city early this morning. There was a lot of blood in the grass, but no bodies."

Jiang Zhen put her hands on her lap slowly, she knew how important these dead men were to the Jiang family.

These people were all selected by her father in the Liaozhou Army. They have always attached great importance to them, and they are rarely used. Unexpectedly, they were all in Lin Jia's hands.

The hall was too quiet, the patter of rain outside could be heard clearly inside the hall.

Mrs. Jiang looked at Jiang Zhen, sighed, and said, "Your father suspects that we have fallen into Lin Jia's trick."

Jiang Zhen sneered, and said: "I fell into Lin Jia's trick, which led to the annihilation of all the dead in our family. Grandma, you go back and tell father, I will definitely take revenge."

She closed her eyes, opened them after a while, her eyes were cold: "Lin Jia killed our Jiang family's dead man, and I killed his son to save my life."

Mrs. Jiang was in a complicated mood and didn't know what to say.

Lin Jia's son is also her great-grandson, but...but she is a member of the Jiang family and can only stand on the Jiang family's side.

(End of this chapter)