Chapter 41: Calculation
The palace courtyard is deep, and the women in the deep palace seem to have nothing to do except eat, drink, raise fish, and raise fish.
When Tong Qingyan finished eating the tenth piece of dim sum, she felt that it was too difficult to enter the palace or not to enter the palace in the future......
"Choking, huh? Take a sip of tea. β
Jiang Ronghua served a cup of tea with a little courtesy, and Tong Qingyan shook her head like a rattle.
"Qiyu Guifei Niangniang, the county lord is used to drinking white water, and he doesn't like to drink tea."
Feiyan exited the siege in a timely manner, Jiang Ronghua's eyes lit up, took another cup of lukewarm honey, and handed it over.
After drinking a glass of honey water, Tong Qingyan felt that her stomach was more supportive, but her mouth was still much more comfortable.
"Niangniang, I can enter the palace today to accompany Niangniang, Yanyang is very happy......"
"Really?"
Jiang Ronghua stared straight at Tong Qingyan with flashing watery eyes, and Tong Qingyan felt furious in her heart.
"Naturally, it's true, it is a blessing for a people's daughter to be a mother's daughter."
Jiang Ronghua retracted his gaze, flipped the tea lid with the tea cup, and gently smashed a heavy thunderbolt.
"If you are so happy, let us stay today."
Tong Qingyan's heart galloped through countless grass and mud horses, but her face calmly watched Qiu Xin add honey and raised a sweet smile.
"If you can often accompany your stepmother, Yanyang is naturally willing."
"Oh? Really? β
"Yes."
"Good! Qiu Xin, send someone to ask the emperor, can you come to Xirui Palace for dinner, Yanyang stayed with the palace today, and Tongfu also sent someone to pass on a message. β
"Whoa."
Tong Qingyan proposed to Jiang Ronghua to visit the garden to eat with the support of Feiyan, and temporarily got out of sight.
The two walked aimlessly in the garden, Feiyan was still quiet, Tong Qingyan looked at the surrounding scenery, and sighed silently.
"If you live in this palace, I'm afraid that right and wrong will keep coming to the door, so you have to leave the palace early."
"Does the county lord have an idea?"
"Nope."
If you have an idea, where to go out and visit the garden to find a way, I don't know if Song Zhan received the news there, so it is better to leave this depressing place as soon as possible.
Tong Qingyan's master and servant were strolling around the garden, Qiu Xin arranged for two palace maids and four eunuchs to guard from afar, and Jiang Ronghua sat by the glass window in a daze.
"Mother's ......"
"Huh?"
"Let's take a nap."
"No, I'm not sleepy today."
"Niangniang really loves the county lord."
"What do you think?"
Jiang Ronghua retracted his gaze on the glass window, and glanced at Qiu Xin with a smile, this maid followed her to marry Emperor Jiaqing, and entered this deep palace, many times she pretended to be confused, and the same was true in the matter of Tong Qingyan.
Qiu Xin felt the concubine scan her gaze, her head hung lower, and her words still showed a faint joy.
"The county lord is very much like... Niangniang's smile at the county lord is much more sincere than that of Miss Jingrou, and the slave boldly speculates that Niangniang really likes the county lord. β
"It's like it, it's not like it, it's not like it. But you're not wrong, this girl has more appetite for me than Jingrou. What's going on with the old witch? β
Listening to his master unabashedly call the Queen Mother the old witch, Qiu Xin's eyebrows didn't move, it couldn't be changed after so many years, and the current Xirui Palace was no longer like the original, so he was not afraid of leaking out.
"The county lord is very smart, the queen mother has suffered a dumb loss, and Father-in-law Qian is afraid that he will be raised for half a month."
Jiang Ronghua chuckled, stretched out his slender jade hand and brushed the jade bead curtain on the side of the soft couch, watching the beads collide and make a crisp sound.
"With this dagger in her hand, I'm afraid the old witch doesn't have the leisure to nest in the small Buddha hall."
"The emperor's ......"
"Don't worry, although there is no evidence of what happened back then, the emperor always has such a pimple in his heart, and the guilt for me is the sharpest knife in my hand, and I can't move it easily. As for Yanyang, this palace doesn't need to do much, as long as she loves her, it is enough to be able to become Anyang's stand-in, which is also her blessing. β
Qiu Xin turned around and picked up the boiling kettle from the stove, poured a glass of white water and handed it to Jiang Ronghua, who was rubbing his fingers.
"How many days does the lady plan to stay in the palace for the county lord?"
"Let her go back tomorrow, has the emperor replied?"
"Gonggong Li said that the emperor wants to accompany the queen to dine at night, so he can't come, and the emperor said that there is the lord of Yanyang to live with the mother, and the mother will not be lonely if she wants to come."
"Hehβyou're still blaming me, that's it, if you don't come, you won't come, turn off the lights and close the door earlier today."
"Yes."
After doing nothing for an afternoon, staying up until dinnertime, knowing that Jiakangdi was not coming, Tong Qingyan's heartstrings finally relaxed a little, and her appetite was better in front of a table of delicacies.
Facing the motherly concubine, Tong Qingyan thought about it for an afternoon and felt that it was good to be the most authentic self, so she opened her appetite for dinner, and was stunned by the palace maids who served the meal.
"The craftsmanship of the people in the stepmother's small kitchen is really good, and Yu Chunxuan's food is much worse than this."
"If it's delicious, you can eat more, and you won't be able to eat it when you go home tomorrow."
"Huh?"
Tong Qingyan's action of picking up vegetables, let herself go back tomorrow? Really?
"What? Reluctant? β
"Of course I can't bear it, my stepmother is so good to me, and there are so many delicious foods. But Yanyang also understands that the rules in the palace are big, and it can't be difficult for the stepmother, so if she has time in the future, she will enter the palace to say goodbye to the stepmother, and she will go back tomorrow when she returns home. β
Jiang Ronghua looked at Tong Qingyan's innocent and scheming appearance, nodded with a smile, what a smart child, he knows that when he sees people, he talks about people, and he thinks that in the future, the old witch of Cining Palace will suffer more and more losses on this child.
In Fengwu Palace, Emperor Jiakang's frequent distraction fell into the eyes of Empress Chu, and only turned into a sigh.
"Since the emperor is so concerned about Sister Ronghua, why don't you go and see her, you haven't set foot in Xirui Palace for a few days."
Jia Kangdi straightened his face, pinched his chopsticks and poked the beef balls in the bowl, pretending to be relaxed.
"I'm thinking about important government affairs, not about her."
"The concubine didn't say that the emperor was thinking about Sister Ronghua."
β......β
Empress Chu's pale face took on a hint of coquettishness because of her sarcastic words, and the whole person was more vivid.
Jiakangdi was speechless for a few breaths, and finally threw away the chopsticks, stood up and looked at Li Zhong, Li Zhong rarely didn't understand the meaning of his own head, and was stunned.
"You old thing, what are you looking at, don't set up Xirui Palace."
"Oh oh, yes, the minion will arrange it."
After sending off Jiakangdi, Empress Chu watched the people clean up the table of delicacies little by little, and still sat in the circle chair and did not get up.
"Why is Niangniang bothering, the emperor accompanies Niangniang to dine today, and Niangniang takes advantage of the situation to leave the emperor behind......"
"What's the use of staying, it's useless for me to leave people behind, let alone ...... His mind wasn't here at all. β
Chu Shumo glanced at his henchman Honglian and showed a very sad smile.
"I know you're doing it for my good, but after so many years, my heart has long been cold."
From the day he married Jia Kangdi, he was destined to never get this man's heart, and he just occupied the name of a wife.
How many women in the world envy their supreme status, but they don't know how cold, lonely, and helpless this position is, and soon there will be new women entering the palace, but after all, they can't compare to the position of Xirui Palace in Jiakangdi's heart.