After the heavy rain, there was a sunny day, and for several days, the heat was accompanied by the chirping of cicadas, and it was known that people were coming to summer.

Braving the scorching sun, Concubine Liu rushed to Chaohui Palace with some happy fruits, and said with a red face: "Concubine Ziyang is happy, and specially sent some fruits to my sister to share the joy." ”

It can really be regarded as a happy event, if Yu Zhu gives birth to the first child of the Four Princes' Mansion, the status in the future will basically not be shaken. Yu Zhao replied lightly: "Congratulations." ”

He also ordered someone to prepare some rewards to send over, and when he saw Concubine Liu's happy face, he went out to help Yu Zhu. "She is working hard with her child, Concubine Liu might as well put away the shelf first and let her aunt enter the house to accompany her."

"Since my sister said so...... Concubine Liu raised her head with a noble look, and responded compassionately: "Originally, the concubine room was not on the stage, so let her serve it." ”

Aren't concubines also considered concubines? sneering and suppressing others with his identity, in fact, he has an inferiority complex in his heart, and he will only find some comfort in the more disadvantaged people. Yu Zhao ignored her and did her own thing.

Seeing that Yu Zhao said a few more words to herself today, Concubine Liu began to talk to her. "I heard that Chu Ziyin is back today, Concubine Feng's happy appearance, my sister didn't see it." The tone was a little disdainful: "When you come back, you're also a waster, how can you make a big splash?" ”

Annoyed by listening to gossip, Yu Zhao was about to say something to send off the guests, but before he could speak, someone came in to inform Concubine Feng that she had brought Chu Ziyin to meet her. Concubine Liu immediately quieted down, straightened her figure, and put on a high posture.

This His Royal Highness, who killed the old master of Chaohui Palace, is in Chaohui Palace at this moment, and Yu Zhao also wants to see what kind of demeanor he has. So he commanded, "Please come in." ”

Concubine Feng smiled kindly and brought Chu Ziyin in. Sure enough, as Chu Zikai described that day, his face and hands were all marked, and the clothes on his body were plain, which was incompatible with the wrench on his left thumb. Entered the hall and saluted Yu Zhao and Concubine Liu: "Say hello to Chen Niangniang, please say hello to Liu Niangniang." ”

Humble and polite, he doesn't see that he is a villain who will plan to kill people. This mother and son are not shallow in disguise, and after a long lesson, Yu Zhao will not be easily deceived, nodding and saying, "Sit down." ”

Chu Ziyin did not move, still humble: "Ziyin was able to return to Beijing in his lifetime, all thanks to Chen Niangniang's help, I have come to thank you." As he spoke, he couldn't get up in one breath and coughed hard. As soon as Concubine Feng was busy, she hurriedly smoothed his breath and helped him sit down next to him.

"Don't dare to be, this palace just mentioned it to His Majesty, and he agreed to it after all." Hearing Yu Zhao say this, Chu Ziyin's eyes seemed to be extremely sad, and he let out a long sigh. "It's a pity that my father...... Still refusing to see me. ”

Concubine Liu said sarcastically: "After all, His Royal Highness is still guilty, and it all depends on Concubine Chen's sister to be favored by His Majesty, so that Your Majesty is relieved and allows you to return to Beijing, and we will not dare to mention it on weekdays." It's time to be content. ”

These words were so unpleasant that Yu Zhao couldn't help but look at her, but seeing Concubine Feng's mother and son's expressions as usual, Chu Ziyin said modestly: "I naturally know that in the future, I will keep to myself and silently pray for my father and emperor for the rest of my life in order to fulfill my filial piety." ”

While speaking, Chu Ziyi staggered in with a rattle in one hand, and when he saw Chu Ziyin, he was not frightened by the terrible appearance, tilted his head and looked curiously, and walked to Yu Zhao's side to hug him.

"The fifth brother is almost two years old, it's so cute." Chu Ziyin asked with a smile on his face and a friendly language. Take out two bamboo-woven butterflies from the modest sleeves. Show it to Chu Ziyi: "I met it on the way back, thinking that children would like it, so I specially brought two for the fifth brother." ”

Sure enough, he attracted Chu Ziyi's attention, and looked at it directly, Yu Zhao didn't dare to do anything wrong in front of him, so he agreed. "Go get it, thank you."

Chu Ziyi stepped forward with a smile and took it, and thanked him sweetly, Yu Zhao glanced at Zhuo Yao, Zhuo Yao understood, and came over to coax Chu Ziyi to take him out to play. Only then did he respond to Chu Ziyin's words: "As long as you repent, reflect diligently." Your Majesty is not a heartless person, and he will meet you. ”

Hearing this, Chu Ziyin immediately got up and thanked him. "Xie Chen's teachings must be remembered."

Concubine Feng is a person who can observe words and feelings, and she also knows that Yu Zhao doesn't like to deal with people, so she got up and thanked her again, and took Chu Ziyin to say goodbye. didn't watch the show on the side, Concubine Liu also felt bored, and followed them away.

It was clean again, and Yu Zhao was just about to get up and want to read a book, when he saw Chu Zikai coming out of it, and Yu Zhao raised his eyebrows. "It's not more than three things, do you remember what I said before?"

"Now I'm not afraid." Chu Zikai was a little proud, looked at Yu Zhao walking towards him, took her hand and asked, "Are you still willing to let the dog chase me now?" ”

Too lazy to pay attention to his impropriety, Yu Zhao walked towards the study. He asked, "Your Highness has also seen it, what do you think of it?" ”

Chu Zikai replied: "It is true that there is no publicity back then, but according to the report from the spies, he should have bribed the guards, and he hurried out of the city overnight yesterday, joined the carriages and horses, and pretended to come back from the frontier." ”

Some people will repent and live diligently after suffering, while others will only increase resentment and the city will become more and more profound. Yu Zhao looked at Chu Ziyin's dripping appearance and felt tricky. "If he didn't have anything important, he would never be the first to return to Beijing in disregard of the law, and why could he buy people's hearts so easily?"

"I don't know when he came back, but I haven't noticed any movement in the past few days......" After thinking for a while, Chu Zikai said again: "But he seems to be very rich, which shouldn't be." ”

Yu Zhao looked at Chu Zikai: "Your Highness is envious?" ”

Knowing that this was a joke, Chu Zikai continued: "A little." ”

Yu Zhao sighed with emotion: "I'm also quite envious, money can make grinding ghosts." ”

Chu Zikai looked at her with a smile and said, "The East Palace is not poor. ”

"I don't believe it," Yu Zhao began to settle accounts with him. "You owe me three cents, and you haven't paid it back yet."

Chu Zikai was embarrassed, "I'm ...... now It's really poor and sour, don't say three articles, don't dare to spend a penny. ”

"Why?" Yu Zhao couldn't help but ask questions and walked into Chu Zikai's routine. Chu Zikai pretended to be mysterious and beckoned to tell her secretly. Yu Zhao leaned over in disbelief. I just listened to him: "It's really because the future mistress of the East Palace is too calculating, and she is reluctant to let go of the three pennies, and when she is angry, she loves to let the dog chase me, I am so afraid that I dare not move the money." ”

Yu Zhao: "......"

He turned around and took a piece of fruit and gagged him. Chu Zikai took a bite of her hand, praise

"Sweet."

Another long lesson, don't try to ridicule thick-skinned people, you will be bounced back to yourself after all.

Ignoring too much, Yu Zhao began to talk to him about business: "He is dressed plainly, he can't see anything, and he obviously hides his money and doesn't reveal it." ”

"Naturally," Chu Zikai replied while eating the fruit, "He needs to work every day in the frontier in exchange for money and food, and he has no chance to do business. The Feng family has been depressed recently, and they will never receive it so generously, and this money must have been given to it by the people who supported him behind it. ”

Yu Zhao asked suspiciously, "What did he buy that made you find out that he was rich?" ”

Chu Zikai replied: "Grain, last year's harvest in the frontier was not good, he only told the store to buy it to help poor peasants, and ordered a lot of grain to be shipped over." ”

This is strange, Yu Zhao thought that if he was entrusted to buy food for relief, he would definitely not have to take the risk of returning to Jingzhou first, it must be urgent, and he could not wait for a moment. Yu Zhao suddenly thought of something and blurted out. "Military rations?"

Chu Zikai wondered: "The frontier military rations have never been cut off...... suddenly understood something, the two of them looked at each other, and they both felt that this idea was bold and reasonable.

Yu Zhao hurriedly drove Chu Zikai back and sent someone to track the whereabouts of the grain, Chu Zikai promised again and again, walked to the secret passage, suddenly turned around and kissed her lightly on the mouth. "Thank you, Zhaozhao."

The fruity kiss with a little sweetness made Yu Zhao's brain blank, and before he could react, Chu Zikai fled happily. That touch lingered, forcing Yu Zhao's face to flush, and he hurriedly covered it with a slightly cool hand, and it took a long time to calm down.

After another half a month, there was no movement, and during this period, Yu Cheng actually wrote a letter to inquire about Yu Lu's news. There was a lot of intention to take Yu Lu back to the mansion to be in charge, and he thought it was a flattering move, but in fact, Yu Zhao rolled his eyes. After euphemistically expressing his refusal, Yu Cheng had no choice but to hand over the trivial matters of the Yu Mansion to the second aunt. The eldest lady and Yu Yao have been confined in the room since the hunting, during which the eldest lady's mother's family repeatedly obstructed and tried to rescue the two, but they could not escape the charge, so they only let them out without knowing the whole situation. But his hands were wasted, and his waist was wounded, and he was stuffed in the house all day long, and refused to see anyone.

On this day, Yu Zhu suddenly came to visit, Yu Zhao was checking the seating arrangement of the guests on the Yuan Emperor's Longevity Festival, and the palace people brought her in. Yu Zhao saw that her eyes were red, and she expected that Yu Mansion had something to do before she came to find her, so she asked, "Did something happen to the second aunt?" ”

When asked about the point, Yu Zhu's originally stable emotions couldn't hold back, and Zhuo Yao hurriedly persuaded her: "The side concubine is pregnant with a child, don't be overly sad, take care of your body." ”

After hearing this, Yu Zhu tried her best to stabilize her tone and speak. "My aunt was originally in the palace of the fourth prince to accompany me to raise the baby, and I didn't want to be called back to the main family two days ago. As a result, news came yesterday that my aunt was pushed down the attic by the eldest sister's people, and she is still not awake. I wanted to go and see it, but Concubine Liu didn't let me, so Her Royal Highness secretly took me there. Who knew that my father not only did not investigate the matter, but also secretly proposed to me to take the eldest sister into the mansion to serve His Royal Highness. ”

Oh, my God...... Yu Zhao couldn't say anything else in his heart at the moment except these two words, and analyzed according to her words. It should be Yu Yao who learned that the concubine who was suppressed by her mother in the past is now in power, and she hates it to hurt people. Yu Cheng relied on Yu Zhu's mother and son's good temperament to refuse to accept it, and saw that Chu Ziyang was moved by Yu Zhu's intimate care, and wanted to dispose of this waste daughter by the way.

After being surprised, Yu Zhao asked, "You agreed." ”

Yu Zhu hurriedly shook his head and denied it. "But my father seems to be a little dissatisfied."

It has always been like this, for Yu Cheng, his children are all tools for his family's glorious lintel, so he will not think about whether his daughter has a happy life. If you have the right, he will be kind to you, and if you have a good temperament, he will ask you to follow his wishes, but fortunately, Yu Zhu gradually got rid of his former cowardice and had some opinions.

Since she came to call the shots, Yu Zhao wanted to take this opportunity to repay the second aunt for saving her life. So he promised: "I will ask my father to ask the family law to punish Yu Yao, don't pay attention to him when he enters the house, if you want to go back to see, go back, don't worry too much about Concubine Liu." She's scaring you, you're pregnant with a child, and you don't dare to embarrass you or anything. ”

Hearing this, Yu Zhu hurriedly thanked him and brought Yu Zhao a gift. "Niangniang, this is a pair of flowers that I got unintentionally, as long as they are pasted, in addition to being dipped in this unique gold leaf, they will not fall off when washed and heated, and I am here to give them to Niangniang."

Yu Zhao instructed to accept it, and chatted with her for a while before sending off the guests.

There was another commotion outside, and it was someone from the Garment Bureau who came to deliver summer clothes to Yu Zhao. Each piece is elegant and thin, as thin as a cicada's wings. Yu Zhao looked at it and touched his arm unconsciously, thinking that his clothes were thin, and he was afraid that a little red would be revealed inadvertently. Turned around and pasted the Huadian given by Yu Zhu, looked at it with satisfaction, and put his mind at ease.