Chapter 154: Internal Affairs
"Your Highness, Mingzhen has served you for so long, and has always been loved and cherished by you, although she is not a rich and noble daughter, and she has never suffered anything, but these days have really exhausted me to death. Before dawn, I had to get up to help cook, deliver food and laundry to the workers, and clean the outer yard until late at night before I could go back to rest. But there was a freak living in that yard, sleeping during the day and being energetic at night, making all kinds of noise, so that I couldn't sleep well. Woohoo......"
After crying for a while, Mingzhen continued to complain, "Look at it, the hands that used to feed His Highness's grapes were blistered and broken, and His Highness praised my skin for being white and now tanned like black charcoal, I can't eat or sleep well, and my body is thin and dry......"
"Is the Sixth Prince awake?" Lan Sheng asked Xiao Pozi and the two palace maids who were eavesdropping by the window.
Xiao Pozi was so attentive that he didn't pay attention to Lan Sheng's return, so he sat on the ground in fright, and only when he saw it clearly did he pat his little chest, and hurriedly pulled the palace maids to kneel down together to ask for peace, "Yu Niangniang, Your Highness hasn't woken up yet, Mingzhen said that she wanted to visit, and she drove the slaves out." β
"To no avail, go and invite General Book and Steward Wu to come." The palm-sized place is crowded with His Royal Highness, Niangniang, eunuchs, palace maids, generals, and concubines, is this difficult to get along with, or is it rich and noble to have nothing to do?
Lan Sheng went into his room to change his clothes, and when he came out, he saw Mingzhen kneeling with his head bowed, and couldn't help laughing, "Get up, the rule of kneeling at every turn will be strictly enforced when His Royal Highness No. 6 wakes up." When you kneel, there is no place for me to sit. β
Mingzhen stood up and looked forward to Ai Ai, "Niangniang forgives her sins, and the slave maid came to visit His Highness, look at him haggard and thin, and sorrow comes from his heart." Said a few things that shouldn't have been said. β
"It's okay." Mingzhen stood too close to the main seat, Lan Sheng didn't want her hair to be attacked by her spit, so she asked Xiang'er to set up dinner in the pavilion, "Transferred here from the palace, it is inevitable that there will be a gap in my heart." However, everything is only temporary, when His Royal Highness is well and moves into the Six Princes' Mansion, those who should be blessed will be blessed, and those who should be favored will be favored. The body must be really uncomfortable. I'll show you when the imperial doctor comes. β
The streamer's internal injuries have healed. It's just that they don't leave, and the disciples of the Holy Medicine Valley don't have to take care of it, so there is no one in the North Courtyard to diagnose the sick.
Mingzhen is resentful. Although Steward Wu sent her some things to do, they were all easy jobs that she couldn't get tired of. She didn't get the other eye on her before the six princes. It's just an ordinary palace maid. Not so delicate at all. There was no blistering on the hands, and there was no weight at all.
"Knowing what is wrong." But the attitude of admitting mistakes is more insincere.
Mingzhen took a closer look at His Highness's complexion just now, and it seemed to be much better. Open your eyes and smile at the slave at any time. "Remind someone that the Sixth Prince will still pamper her when she wakes up, and it's best not to be too arrogant.
Lan Sheng has a certain nerve, and he can't hear this kind of obscurity, "Sincerity is spiritual." Pray for His Highness today, I am also a little tired, and I want to rest after dinner. Seeing that you are working so hard, I don't need you to serve you. It's not so hard to get back early and rest. Go ahead. "I can't hear it, it doesn't mean that she will be generous and kind to the sixth woman, and sharpen her knife with a smile.
Mingzhen let the knife cut into the bone, clearly realized his identity, and held his breath, but he didn't dare to attack, and retreated in a muffled voice. But when he saw General Book and Steward Qian outside the door, his eyelids jumped. After thinking about it, I thought that I was a person from the Sixth Highness, and I was trusted by Concubine Qi, and that Imperial Concubine Chongxi couldn't do anything with her. Rest assured at the moment, walk through with a high posture.
Lan Sheng saw that Mingzhen had walked away, raised his eyebrows and sneered, "General Shu is derelict in his duties, and there are six princes in the inner courtyard to recuperate, but everyone is allowed in at will. She doesn't care outside the wall, inside the wall is the territory she strictly guards, and cats and dogs are not allowed to run wild.
Booked Ma was stunned, thinking that Mingzhen was the woman of the six princes, but he didn't talk back, "I am willing to accept punishment for my humble position." β
"I know what you think, but Mingzhen Yuezhen was sent out of Yuehua Palace by His Royal Highness half a year ago, even if she is favored, it is a thing of the past. In half a year, who knows the situation of the two of them in the palace, if they are bought by people with bad intentions and do unfavorable things to His Royal Highness, it is not something you and I can afford. "As long as Lan Sheng shows all his enthusiasm for architecture, he can ignore any fight, and his mind is astonished.
The words were awe-inspiring, "It's a poor plan for lowly duties, and in the future, anyone in Nanyue Mansion who enters the inner courtyard must first inform Niangniang." If the mother is not there, she will not put it in. β
"Or ask Youhua, she is in charge of the inner courtyard. I'm not there, and it's the same to ask her. "Lan Sheng doesn't care about the people sent by the palace at all, and now he goes out openly, and he uses only one reason, to pray for the blessing of the six princes.
She also knows that everyone has doubts in their hearts, but in this family, she is currently the biggest. Even if someone is sure that someone will send a message to the palace to sue her, as long as the palace doesn't ask her, she should not know what to do.
The book horse road is, go down and give orders.
Steward Qian said secretly, bowed his head and drooped his head, "Niangniang, Steward Wu is not here today, the little one came to listen to the orders, I don't know if it's okay?" β
"It's the same if you come." She planned to make a bad heart, "Mingzhen and my husband are crying and blistering and thin like firewood and black charcoal, but I see that she is still watery." If His Royal Highness the Sixth is awake, and she still complains like this, and His Highness the Sixth Highness blames me for being stingy, wouldn't I be very wronged? β
Steward Qian felt that he was quite smart, but when Lan Sheng said this, he didn't understand.
"Mother meanβ"
"Before the Sixth Highness woke up, let Mingzhen's pitiful appearance of losing weight and tanning with his injured hands appear. In this way, blame me, and I will be at ease and not be particularly wronged. "As a wife, it would be too bad to let a woman who is not a concubine be bullied, and I can't bear it.
The money steward turned a corner. Generally, the eldest woman will secretly deal with the disobedient concubine and clean it in front of her husband, but the eldest lady of his family does the opposite, and the concubine accuses, she takes it all, and she has to stab her husband to see. This domineering! Although he wanted to applaud, he didn't know what the six princes thought.
He should, "Little Zhilu Dao how to do, tomorrow will let Miss Mingzhen bask in the sun more." What about the Moon Girl? β
"She didn't come to cry, she just sent work as before." After Lan Sheng finished speaking, he asked the money manager to leave.
Xiao Pozi came back to his senses and instructed the two palace maids standing on the side, "Talk less and do more, if I hear you talk too much, be careful of your own life." β
The two palace maids resigned themselves and went to the kitchen to bring soup.
Lan Sheng beckoned Xiao Pozi to his eyes, "You are quite familiar with current affairs." β
Xiao Pozi grinned, "The slave is loyal to His Highness, since Niangniang is married to His Highness, of course the slave is also loyal to you, but it is not the rudder of the wind." β
"That is to say, in the future, His Royal Highness will wake up and treat me coldly, and you will also treat me coldly, everything depends on your righteous attitude?" Lan Sheng began to eat.
ββ¦β¦ Isn't it easy for a mother to want someone to like herself? A few of us chatted privately, and there was no more casual and kind master than Niangniang. "Xiao Pozi, who seems to be obedient and obedient, has his own wisdom.
"You don't have a word of truth in your mouth, sycophant." Lan Sheng waved him away.
Xiao Pozi shouted his sincerity while laughing and running away.
After eating, Lan Sheng went into the house to read the book for a while, and heard the footsteps coming out from the opposite side, so he also walked out. The palace ladies hurriedly held the tray with empty bowls for her to see, which was already a must-do every night.
"Your Highness has a good appetite today." Lan Sheng felt that he was a model among the brides, and he always maintained a "high level of concern" for her sleeping husband.
"It's better than yesterday." Xiao Pozi's expression was bright, his clever eyes were bright, and he turned to the book in Lan Sheng's hand, "What good book will Niang Niang read to His Highness tonight?" β
"Zhuang Zhou Mengdie. This story is short, but there is a lot of truth, and I will talk to His Highness about some common things. Eat in peace, and I will call you when I come out. Lan Sheng put his hands on his back, and seemed to walk in, but in fact, his footsteps stopped behind the door curtain.
"Niangniang really does what she says, the imperial doctor said it's useless, but she still goes to His Royal Highness's bed to read and talk sooner or later, and it is half an hour at a time." A maiden of the first house.
"That's right. I think that in the past two days, Niangniang has finished reading to His Highness, and His Highness has eaten more smoothly, but it has become difficult to feed the lunch. Another maid said.
"Moreover, is it only useful to read the mother?" Xiao Pozi's tone was full of doubts, "I also read to His Highness at noon today, and His Highness missed the soup after a few bites." β
"Your Highness likes beauties, so forget it."
"Why don't I try it tomorrow ......"
The voice faded away before Lan Sheng left the curtain. Looking at the chairs placed by the palace maids next to the bed, and then at the chairs on the table by the window, she moved the chair by the window to the center of the room, as she had done in the past few days, cleared her throat, controlled the volume of her voice, and readβ
"The former Zhuang Zhoumeng is Hu Die, lifelike Hu Die, self-proclaimed and suitable, I don't know...... I don't know ......" stretched her neck, and saw the shadow of the small slope under the crack in the window swaying away, she closed the book, jumped up to stretch her muscles, and began to do warm-up exercises.
Before she got married, she got up early and worked out in the yard at night. Now there are more people, because Changfeng has given Qingyunfang the complexity of this project, she has to go to the construction site every day to see it in person to rest assured. Although she is not the biggest without her husband, she runs out every day regardless of the family and the patient, which will eventually cause something unpleasant, so she came up with this method.
Spend half an hour in the morning and evening, talking and reading alone with the six princes. It not only shows her sincerity in taking care of her husband, but also makes people feel that she is working hard to cultivate the relationship between husband and wife. Of course, for her, the potential miracle of a plant-based treatment is equal to the fitness plan.
She ran and jumped in the house for three sets, and after sweating, she ran in place beside the sixth prince, adjusting her breathing, and she didn't just pretend to be Xiao Pozi and the others, but still talked to him.
said that the bamboo shed was built on the construction site today, and the three brothers suddenly changed their minds and joined in, bluffing those men in Changfeng. Speaking of Xing, his eyebrows fluttered, and he was happy and proud, just like the one who was lying down could really hear it.
When the hour came, she brought her chair back to its place, took the book and left. Lift the curtain and don't forget to look back and say good night and good dreams. However, this is for Xiao Pozi to see. This kid is a ghost, not only listening under the window, but also waiting outside the door, not waiting for her to come out and call him.
Lan Sheng went back to the house to sleep, Xiao Pozi was napping on the table, and suddenly someone pushed him. He rubbed his eyes, yawned to the sky, and grunted how he came.
A red shadow, with an ugly scar and a terrifying face, stood pretty. (To be continued......)