That night, the Shen family stayed at an inn near Yuyuantan in western Beijing. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The next morning, Shen Xi accompanied Shen Mingjun and his wife back to the city, he excused himself to have something to do with the yamen, and the carriage got off near the West Fourth Archway, and told Zhu Qi to send his parents home.

Seeing Hui Niang, Shen Xi informed her about Zhou's grave yesterday.

Hui Niang blamed herself a little: "Sister, when I am dead, I ...... I'm sorry for her......"

"She's not your sister, and there's nothing to do with each other." Shen Xi's face was gloomy, "If you call her in front of me in the future, you will always be addressed to the old lady." ”

"Yes, master."

Hui Niang has gradually accepted and adapted to her new identity in the past two months...... She is Shen Xi's slave maid, and she was bought by Shen Xi to make an outer room, and her task is to live well, waiting to serve Shen Xi, and let Shen Xi be happy and relieve fatigue.

Her life in the small courtyard is unusually peaceful, and in order to pass the boring time on weekdays, she asks Aunt Xu to help her find some embroidery female red jobs to do, and she looks forward to Shen Xi's arrival every day, just like a wife looking forward to her husband who has returned from afar.

She is diligent and diligent, regardless of gains and losses, the embroidery is good and fast, the food and clothing are also very simple, and now she is completely able to support herself.

Even if Shen Xi almost never spent the night in the courtyard, she never made any special requests, and she had no regrets.

Hui Niang is not an ordinary submissive woman, but she has a deep sense of humility in front of Shen Xi, whether it is intelligence, foresight, or social status, she is far inferior to Shen Xi, even if Shen Xi possesses her with a little coercion, she has no complaints.

Shen Xi was going to Zhan Shifu in the morning, and the time she could stay with Hui Niang was less than an hour, and every time Hui Niang had to wait for Shen Xi to leave, she would get up and dress.

Shen Xi said: "I have already found a good yard, it is near the goldfish pond in the south of the city, adjacent to Anguo Temple and Tianqing Temple, and the environment is elegant." When are you going to move in, tell me. ”

Hui Niang shook her head and said, "The concubine said that she would stay here and not go anywhere." ”

After two months of getting along, Shen Xi finally felt that Hui Niang accepted him, and no longer always passively obeyed him as before, and even occasionally used some small tricks to attract his attention, but Hui Niang's heart had been sealed for too long, and Shen Xi could only open her psychological defense line little by little.

At present, Shen Xi still occupies the absolute initiative in getting along with the two, and he must be in charge of everything.

"Yesterday, my mother mentioned it to me, so that I could get started earlier." Shen Xi said suddenly.

Hui Niang was originally looking at the window lattice, but she was stunned for a moment when she heard this, and then looked at Shen Xi with a hint of nervousness in her expression. After looking at Shen Xi for a while, he sobbed, "Does it have to be like this?" ”

Shen Xi actually just tried Hui Niang's reaction, he shook his head: "I didn't agree, Xi'er is still young after all, and the road ahead is very long, and your mother and daughter will always have the opportunity to meet." ”

Shen Xi didn't want to hide Hui Niang for the rest of his life, but in the short term, Hui Niang didn't have a chance to show up, and even the family had to try to hide it, which involved the change in his relationship with Hui Niang.

The reason why the Shen family allowed Xie Yun'er to get started was because Xie Yun'er herself was a yellow flower girl, and she had the ability to learn, and the age difference between her and Shen Xi was not very big.

Hui Niang is different.

Hui Niang is a widow, and she carries the reputation of Kefu, and often shows her head outside. The most critical point is that Hui Niang is only three years younger than Zhou and fifteen years older than Shen Xi, which does not match the age between Shen Xi.

Zhou gave birth to Shen Xi at the age of seventeen, and Hui Niang gave birth to Lu Xi'er at the age of sixteen, Lu Xi'er is thirteen this year, and Shen Xi is only fifteen.

From Shen Xi's point of view, Hui Niang is only twenty-nine years old now, just in her prime, but from the perspective of people of this era, Hui Niang is no longer stylish.

Many men in the Ming Dynasty like fourteen or fifteen-year-old girls, and they can play the "cultivation game" when they marry home, just like witnessing a peony, from budding to completely blooming, gorgeous and dazzling, no one will be interested in a "half-old pearl" woman like Hui Niang.

But Shen Xi's impression is always that Hui Niang in her early twenties and in her prime, that was his initial impression of Hui Niang.

Even if Hui Niang is not as young and beautiful as she was at the beginning, but she has more years of precipitation, and she seems to be more and more reserved and introverted, with Shen Xi's mentality, it is also a kind of happiness to be able to accompany the woman she likes to grow old slowly. What's more, Hui Niang is still far from the real old Zhu Huang.

Shen Xi intended to let Hui Niang meet Lu Xi'er, but Hui Niang shook her head resistantly: "People die like lights going out, since they no longer exist, why force them?" ”

In Hui Niang's heart, she is more willing to accept the fact that she is dead, she has carried too much baggage before, only when the original her dies, can she really devote herself to her new identity and be Shen Xi's woman with peace of mind, otherwise she will not be able to pass the psychological hurdle.

"Hmm."

Shen Xi found that there is a long way to go to change Hui Niang, and although the first step has been completed, so that Hui Niang no longer has too much resistance and resistance, it is still out of reach to let Hui Niang pay all her body and mind.

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In the Forbidden City, Zhu Houzhao, who lived alone in the Chufang Palace, spent a few more days studying the difference between men and women. In the end, he found that what Shen Xi said didn't work at all.

"What is long, short, concave and convex. Is this a man a yang or a woman a yang? ”

After careful study, Zhu Houzhao found that the woman's body was much more "long" and "convex" than his body, for example, the palace maid was taller than him, for example, the palace maid's hair was longer than him, for example, the palace maid's **** was convex and he was flat-chested. There was only one place he hadn't studied, but the palace maid wouldn't let him touch it.

Even the palace maids of the Chufang Palace also understand a truth, don't have anything to do with the man who "leads" in the palace, otherwise she will die a miserable death, because there is a jealous woman in the palace, that is Queen Zhang.

Needless to say, the emperor grabs a man with the queen, and the queen can make you evaporate from the world in minutes; As for the prince's side, it was okay, but the prince was young, and he hadn't opened his mind yet, but he was just in the confused stage, if the queen knew that the palace maid was going to seduce the prince, it would basically not be far from death.

So even if they succumb to Zhu Houzhao's authority and do something immoral, the palace maids can still stick to the last bottom line.

This made Zhu Houzhao very disappointed, and he had no choice but to run to ask his wife.

Taking advantage of the fact that he went to Kunning Palace to greet Empress Zhang, Zhu Houzhao sat in his mother's arms, a big person, and he was tired of being the same as when he was a child.

Empress Zhang is not angry, who called this her only son, the prince of the Ming Dynasty?

"Mother, how did the baby come about?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

Empress Zhang smiled and said, "You were conceived and born in October by the Queen Mother. ”

Zhu Houzhao muttered: "It's all like this." ”

"What did you say?"

Empress Zhang looked at her son with a little puzzled face.

Zhu Houzhao smiled: "But...... After the mother, some people say that the child is not born to you......"

One sentence instantly made Empress Zhang's face change greatly, and she shouted: "Who dares to be so presumptuous and rude? ”

This shout frightened Zhu Houzhao a lot, and he didn't understand why his mother cared so much about this sentence. He hesitated, "Yes...... Yes, Mr. said it. ”

"Which gentleman? Since he is an official in the East Palace, he should know that he abides by his duty, and he actually told you about these messy things, you told the queen mother, and the queen mother asked your father to replace him! Empress Zhang said angrily.

Zhu Houzhao wrinkled his nose and said, "He...... He didn't say anything......"

"Dare to criticize the orthodoxy of the emperor's heir, what is this called nothing? Tell me, which gentleman said it! Empress Zhang was so angry that she had already pushed Zhu Houzhao away, as if she was angry with her son.

Zhu Houzhao said aggrievedly: "He just said...... He said that I reconciled yin and yang, queen mother, don't blame him, okay? ”

Empress Zhang was holding back a breath in her heart, but when she heard what she just said about "Yin and Yang Harmony", she frowned and said, "You can listen to what he said." ”

He said so much, where does the child remember, he just said, what male is yang, female is yin, what yin and yang are harmonized...... When the child was confused, he asked him what was the difference between a man and a woman, and he said what was the length and the concave ......"

Zhu Houzhao couldn't summarize Shen Xi's remarks at that time, so he could only vaguely say a rough idea.

Empress Zhang smiled dumbly: "These words are like Mr. Shen's tone, right?" ”

"Yes, that's him."

Zhu Houzhao insisted, "No matter how I ask him, he doesn't want to say, so I have to ...... Well, I wanted to find out, so I came to ask the queen mother. ”

Originally, let her son understand the difference between men and women and guide her son to have a correct concept of men and women, which is what a mother should do, but after all, Queen Zhang is from everyone's beautiful background, and now she is the mother of the country, her writing is not as good as Shen Xi, and she can't even summarize the theory of yin and yang reconciliation, let alone explain this matter to her son tactfully.

"So, Emperor, what don't you understand...... Go and ask Mr. Shen, the queen mother...... There are some things that are inconvenient to explain to you. Empress Zhang's face was very embarrassed.

"But Queen Mother, you always say that I will naturally understand in the future, and even Mr. Shen refuses to explain it to me." Zhu Houzhao began to shout again, "Just say it, the child just wants to know ......."

Empress Zhang was completely speechless, what kind of medicine did her son take, she had to ask such an embarrassing question, wouldn't it be better to wait a year or two to understand it herself?

"Emperor, the next time you go to ask Mr. Shen, just say that the queen mother asked you to ask him, and he has to tell you. But if he doesn't tell you, you will cure him...... The sin of deception. Hmph, dare to say anything about the harmony of yin and yang, remember, you were conceived and born in October by the queen mother, don't believe his nonsense! Empress Zhang said a little angrily.

Zhu Houzhao was confused again, just now his mother asked him to ask Shen Xi, and in a blink of an eye he said don't believe Shen Xi's nonsense.

In the past, if he didn't understand something, even if he couldn't get an answer from others, he could always get it from Shen Xi, but now it's good, not only Shen Xi is going around in circles with him, but even his mother is saying some upside down.

"Isn't it just men and women? If you don't say anything, I'll ask my second uncle. ”

Zhu Houzhao came out of Kunning Palace, his little fists clenched tightly, "If the second uncle doesn't say it, I'll threaten him, hmph, let you all bully me at my young age, who said that children can't know?" I still want to find a palace maid to give birth to me...... Hehe, is it better to have a younger brother or a younger sister......"

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