After Liu Ling left, Feng Qi, who claimed to go to the cellar to move Tu Su, but never returned, finally shook out slowly. Liu Hui glanced at him obliquely and said, "Didn't you say that there are housework to deal with, why did you come back so quickly?" ”

Feng Qi shrugged his shoulders and said, "Naturally, the patriarch is in charge of these things, and as a junior, I am only responsible for bringing people back." As for what to do with it later, it's not something I can worry about. ”

Hua Lianyue saw that it was getting late, so she instructed the housekeeper to set the meal and leave Feng Qi to eat together. Soon, steamed mandarin fish, slippery shrimp balls, stewed quail in sauce, stir-fried beef tenderloin, peppered duck paws and other delicacies were set up on the table.

Although Hua Lianyue and Liu Hui had lunch in Cining Palace, how could they eat and drink wantonly in front of the emperor and queen mother. returned to the house, and accompanied Liu Ling to drink and dance, and intrigued. The pitiful food in the stomach has long been digested.

Finally, there were no outsiders, and Hua Lianyue opened her belly to eat and drink. Feng Qi accompanied Liu Hui to drink a few glasses before asking, "The prince entered the palace today, did the emperor say anything?"

Liu Hui smiled slightly and said, "The emperor was already dissatisfied with the increasing expansion of the Xie family, and now there is a military supply case, and the main culprit is actually the Xie family. In my opinion, my father will not continue to tolerate it.

Wait, the emperor will definitely wipe out the Xie family's power in the court, and the Xie family's good days are over. And the queen's sudden closure of the palace at this time to recuperate is just the beginning. ”

"Great! this news is worth a toast," Feng Qi picked up his wine glass, took a sip, and drank all the wine in the glass.

Hearing them talk a few more words about the government, Hua Lianyue, who was full of food and drink, suddenly interjected and asked, "Feng Qi, why did you dance the sword to the eldest princess before?"

Feng Qi's face stiffened, and then he said stupidly: "I'm a five-grade guard, how dare I not listen to the orders of the eldest princess." ”

After speaking, he took a big sip of wine depressedly, but refused to continue to answer Hua Lianyue's questions. Liu Hui knew that after Liu Ling's second concubine died, although she no longer wanted to get married, she had many lovers in private.

Some handsome low-level officials, in order to get the opportunity to be promoted, will even deliberately arrange an encounter with the eldest princess. Because they know that as long as they can make Liu Ling look at her and make her happy, it means that they will be able to rise to prominence in the future.

Liu Ling was also coaxed by these shameless men. thinks that as long as it is the man she fancies, if he knows how to hook his fingers, he will fly over like a butterfly and bow down under her pomegranate skirt.

Feng Qi is already good-looking, and he is a noble son from a century-old family, and he has a little more confidence and demeanor than those petty officials in his actions. In Liu Ling's eyes, it naturally became a piece of fragrant dumplings that he wanted to take a bite of. This is also in the Xianwang Mansion, she can only let him dance the sword and feast his eyes. If it is in the eldest princess's mansion, I am afraid that I will be pulled into the bed immediately.

Although Hua Lianyue helped him out of the siege today, the person Liu Ling wanted would definitely not give up so easily. Feng Qi felt a headache when he thought of these things, he could feel it, and in the days that followed, the eldest princess Liu Ling would probably be his lingering nightmare.

In the evening, Feng Qi said goodbye and left, and Qingying was also sent back to rest. Only Liu Hui and Hua Lianyue were left in the warm pavilion.

After Liu Hui washed, as usual, he sat on the soft floor with Hua Lianyue to read the official documents. Hua Lianyue lay on his shoulder, wrapped her arms around his lean waist, and murmured, "Ah Hui, if one day, your mother doesn't like me, what should you do?"

Liu Hui frowned, he put down the official document in his hand and turned his head sideways, and inadvertently, thin lips swept over her warm and soft cheeks. He paused for a moment, feeling her warmth and the faint body fragrance coming to his nose. Then he smiled low and said, "Yue'er, don't worry, the person I like, my mother will definitely like it too." ”

What an optimistic nerd!

Hua Lianyue secretly slandered, but her heart was like a mirror. After she said that she wanted to monopolize Liu Hui, Concubine Shu could no longer like a jealous daughter-in-law like herself.

Her fingertips unconsciously circled the soft flesh around his waist, but she was thinking about how to wake up this optimistic nerd.

Liu Hui held the official document in her hand, but her mind was all on her restless little hand. The long, soft fingers rubbed and ravaged his waist with a slight coolness. From time to time, he gently probed down, hooking his three souls and seven spirits to condense on the naughty fingertips.

But instead of going on as he had hoped, she paused, as if hesitating whether to go on or not.

What a grinding goblin!

Liu Hui put down the official document, took a long breath, and said, "Yue'er, where did you learn this hand?"

Hua Lianyue was stunned for a moment, and then she felt the changes in his body. She couldn't help but hook her lips and smile, simply stretched out the tip of her tongue mischievously, licked his ear lightly, and whispered full of seduction: "These are all the ...... you taught me"

Before the words fell, she only felt that the world was spinning, and she was unceremoniously pounced by Liu Hui in an instant. For a time, the room was full of beautiful spring light, which actually dispelled the wind, frost and cold dew of the harsh winter.

When she got up on the second day, Hua Lianyue was so sore that she couldn't even straighten her waist. When Qingying combed her hair in a bun, she inadvertently caught a glimpse of suspicious ecchymosis snaking down her neck, dotted like red plums, and made a big red face.

Through the rhombic bronze mirror, Hua Lianyue saw her discomfort, so she raised her neckline to cover those ecchymosis, and said with a sneer: "Where did the prince go?"

Qingying hurriedly said: "The prince is practicing swords in the courtyard!"

"What kind of sword practice...... Hua Lingyue casually grabbed a carved mutton fat jade comb on the dressing table and played with it, and muttered stupidly: "It's obviously to attract bees and butterflies!"

Qingying listened to her jealous complaints, and couldn't help but smile: "Madam, it's strange to say." Yesterday, those little hooves still refused to work hard, and they were all dressed like flowers and butterflies, dangling in front of the prince's eyes. Today, they all learned to be obedient, except for a still dressed flower branch exhibition named Fulan, the rest of them actually cleaned up in the courtyard honestly, and did not deliberately make up in front of the prince. ”

Hua Lianyue smiled when she heard this, and said, "I hope they can be smarter and not be used as swords." ”

There is no need to go out of the house today, Hua Lianyue only wears homely clothes and combs a simple ingot. Two or three plum blossom-shaped pearl hairpins are inserted diagonally, which can be regarded as a scene.

After Liu Hui finished practicing his sword, he went back to the room to accompany Hua Lianyue to have breakfast, and then took Feng Qi and other guards out of the palace.

Hua Lianyue had nothing to do, so she picked up an idle book and reclined on the thick cushion to read it. Just as she saw the important point, she stretched out her hand to wrap it on the brazier next to her, wanting to keep warm. only to find that the charcoal fire in the brazier was almost all turned to ashes, and only a few sparks were still burning tenaciously.

So she raised her voice and shouted, "Qingying, Qingying, come in and add some charcoal!"

"It's coming!" answered her not Qingying, but a strange but soft voice.

A young maid of about sixteen or seventeen years old walked in with a basket of silver frost charcoal. She skillfully clamped the charcoal strip with golden copper tongs and placed it on the flickering spark. From time to time, he pouted and blew again and again.

At this time, Qing Ying also entered the house with a bottle of newly opened Limbo Fairy. Seeing a strange maid serving the charcoal, she was stunned at first, and then put the slim Lingbo Fairy on the small table next to Hua Lianyue.

Hua Lianyue raised her hand to caress the slender leaves, and then approached the white-petaled astragalus and smelled it, only to feel the fragrance, she couldn't help but hook her lips and smile. There have been so many things that have happened recently, and it has been a long time since she has been so leisurely fiddling with flowers and plants and enjoying her own leisurely days.

The brazier, which was almost extinguished, was finally rekindled with the efforts of the young maid. The maid wiped a fine bead of sweat from her forehead due to nervousness, and said cautiously, "Madam, the fire is up!"

"Hmm!" Hua Lianyue's gaze was still on the blooming Lingbo Fairy, and she only nodded faintly and said, "Got it, you go down!"

The young maid peeked at her, bit her lower lip, and her face flushed slightly, but she did not withdraw obediently.

Hua Lianyue finally sensed that something was wrong with her, so she raised her head, looked directly at the young maid in front of her, and said suspiciously, "You...... Anything else?"

The maid had already knelt down with a puff, she kowtowed respectfully, and then said: "Madame Mingcha, the slave maid is from Jiangzhou Mansion, and in the early years, because my father was a small official, she was elected to the palace and became a needlework palace maid in the Spring Palace." ”

The maid paused when she said this, she saw Hua Lianyue's big eyes flashing, looking at herself quietly, and she didn't mean to interrupt, and her courage couldn't help but grow a little. So he took a few steps on his knees, and said quickly: "But a few days ago, I heard someone from Jiangzhou Mansion say that my poor mother fell ill a year ago because she missed it too much. And the medicine stone is ineffective, the person has been thin into a handful of bones, I am afraid that he will not survive this winter. ”

Speaking of this, the maid actually covered her face and began to weep.

Hua Lianyue restrained her smile and looked at her quietly with lowered eyes. The maid shrugged her shoulders, and cried pitifully for a while, but she didn't hear Hua Lianyue's voice, and she panicked, and slowly stopped crying.

She lifted the little face of the pear blossom with the rain, and peeked timidly, but collided with the cold and waveless eyes of the flower Lianyue. She hurriedly lowered her head, prostrated on the ground, and kowtowed again and again: "Madame's life! Madame's life!"

Qingying on the side snorted coldly and said, "It's a shame that you are still from the palace, and you are so unruly, you really damn it! Don't you know that since you have entered the palace and become a slave, you will be a slave and maid of the heavenly family for the rest of your life."

The people or things in your family have nothing to do with you. Even if you are a blessed person and become the master's mother, without the permission of the emperor and queen, you will not be able to see your dying mother. Also, since your mother has been sick for a year, why don't you beg to go in front of your old master?"

The young maid opened her mouth and was about to speak, but Qingying had already quickly continued: "Hmph, I'm afraid that in front of the original master, you don't even dare to mention a word." I'm afraid that the master of the palace will dislike you and send you to the treasurers to work as coolies. It's good now, you've just served for the first time in front of our lady, and you're crying like this, what do you mean!"

The young maid was speechless, her eyes drooped dejectedly, and she prostrated more and more humbly, not even daring to raise her head.

Hua Lianyue was condescending, and she could clearly see that her thin shoulders had been trembling slightly, obviously frightened. Although a trace of pity rose in his heart, his face was still faint, and he did not mean to speak.

Last night, Liu Hui secretly told her that the Xianwang Mansion would be fine, but as long as it involves the palace, whether it is people or things, you must be extra careful, because there are all kinds of cumbersome rules and etiquette that need to be followed.

And these maids pointed out in the palace represent the favor of the emperor and queen, even if they don't like it, they can't be sent away at will. Especially now, the crown prince and the courtiers who are close to the prince in the court are waiting to catch the pigtails of the Xian Wangfu, so they need to be extremely careful.

In short, these maids can't stay in the palace for a long time, and if they want to send them out, they need a perfect strategy.

If in the past, a young girl who missed her mother cried in front of her, she would definitely be upset about her. Can ...... now Hua Liyue's brows slowly twisted together.

Fine beads of sweat were already on the young maid's forehead, and there were countless tiny ants crawling behind her back, and there was a tremor everywhere she passed.

She didn't dare to mention this matter, but someone secretly pouted her, saying that her wife was a low-born woman in the rivers and lakes, and she didn't understand the rules of the palace at all. If you are young, you must be thin-faced and soft-hearted. If she wanted to go back to see her mother for the last time, she would go to her and weep in front of her, and maybe she would be kind enough to let her go home.

Now it seems that Madame, despite her youth, is not so easy to fool. The young maid said anxiously: "It's the slave who doesn't know the height of the sky, so she will talk nonsense in front of her wife, Mrs. atonement, Mrs. atonement!"

Hua Lianyue felt a little uncomfortable in her heart, so she turned her face sideways and didn't look at her, only took the bamboo scissors and pruned them on the shallot-like branches of the Lingbo fairy.

Qingying glanced at Hua Lianyue before saying to the young maid: "Since today is the first time, there are a lot of Madame, so I won't worry about you." Go down and do whatever you have to do. Beside me, I advise you to think less. Even if the lady is kind-hearted, the prince will not spare you. ”

"Yes, thank you, Madame, for a lot, and thank you Sister Qingying for your careful teaching!" the young maid kowtowed before she got up and left in a hurry.

Qingying shook her head secretly at her back, poured another cup of hot tea and put it in Hua Lianyue's hand, and said, "Madam, this is lotus heart tea, although it is bitter, it is the most clear fire." ”

Hua Lianyue slammed her hand and glanced at Qingying with slanted eyes: "You think I'm on fire?"

Qingying sneered and said, "If Madame didn't catch fire, how could this bamboo scissor go specifically to that bud." After saying that, she also mouthed towards the Lingbo Fairy Nunu on the small table.

Hua Lianyue was shocked to realize that Fang Cai's own random pruning actually cut off countless buds hidden in the branches and leaves. She threw the bamboo scissors aside a little frustratedly, and really took a hot sip of lotus heart tea.

Qingying said softly on the side: "Madame, but you don't feel happy in your heart, in fact, you can't be blamed for this, her father and mother are willing to send her to the palace, so you should know that this daughter will only have a master and no relatives from now on." ”

Hua Lianyue put down the teacup and said abruptly: "Are they destined to have no chance with their parents in this life?"

"It's not!" Qingying said slowly: "When they turn 25, they will be sent out of the palace, and when they want to go home and get married, they will all be respected!"