Chapter 6 Pigeon Soup
In Fengyi Palace, Mu Xiao and the Queen Mother chatted casually, and Yun Jieyu sat down to serve.
"The emperor is working state affairs, and he must pay attention to his body, he has only lost so much weight after not seeing him for a few days." The Queen Mother shook her head, and said to Yun Jieyu again: "Zijin, the mourning family asked you to stew some tonic soup every night to send to the emperor, but are you lazy?" β
Yun Jieyu looked aggrieved and said: "The matter explained by the queen mother, how dare the concubines be lazy, it's just ......" Yun Jieyu looked at the emperor and stopped talking.
How could the queen mother not understand something, she sandwiched a cloud cake for the emperor, "It's because the mourning family didn't care about it and delayed the emperor's business!" β
"The queen mother feels sorry for her son, what's wrong? Recently, there has been an insect plague in the east, and it is lonely that the queen mother is worried! Mu Xiao smiled and took the cloud cake and took a big bite.
"The mourning family is a woman's family, I don't know what national affairs are, in the heart of the mourning family, the emperor's health is a big thing than the sky, since Yun Jieyu is inconvenient to enter and exit, then Su guards, the mourning family will hand over the emperor to you, if the emperor is still so thin next time, the mourning family will punish you!"
Su Moxuan, who had been standing behind the emperor, hurriedly knelt down, "The minister obeys the order, and if the emperor does not listen to the minister's dissuasion in the future, the minister will have a backer!" β
"You monkey spirit, why do you still use the mourning family as a backer!" The Queen Mother scolded with a smile.
"The queen mother has wronged the ministers, this insect disaster, if it weren't for the ministers, the emperor would have come to the east in person!"
"In person?" The Queen Mother put away her smile and reproached: "If the people below don't do well, the emperor can only punish him, no matter how bad it is, he will replace it with some good ones, even the emperor has to come in person, what is the use of raising so many ministers?" β
"The queen mother is not angry, it is the son who is reckless, no, the day before yesterday, Liu Jian, the proud protΓ©gΓ© of the left minister, went to appease the victims, and the news came early this morning, saying that the riot had stopped, and the son had the leisure to hunt, and he would like to thank his uncle."
The Queen Mother took a sip of tea with a smile and said, "Look at what the emperor said, our Yun family has nothing to do, and everyone is not proficient, and it is their blessing to be able to enter the emperor's eyes." β
The emperor lowered his eyes and looked at the kumquat in his hand, a trace of mockery flashed in his eyes, and he quickly returned to normal, changed the topic, and said, "Why hasn't Jing'er come yet?" This girl has been much more honest since she woke up last time! β
"Hey, it seems that this girl is not coming again," the Queen Mother sighed, turned her head sideways and ordered: "Mama Xu, pass the meal!" Send a bowl of pigeon soup to Lingxiu Palace. β
Mama Xu hurriedly took the two little girls to Zhang Luo.
The Queen Mother said again: "In the past, this girl saw her several times a day, and she was almost annoyed with the mourning family, and she didn't see her for two days, and the mourning family thought very much, Zijin, after eating, you accompany me to see Jing'er, I don't know what happened to this child?" By the way, I called Dr. Li, and I don't know if the root of the disease that fell into the water last time has not healed. β
"Yes, the concubine has been there a few times, but the princess doesn't want to see it, and the concubine is also worried about it." Yun Jieyu replied.
Mama Xu was very quick, and it was arranged after a while.
Mu Xiao and the Queen Mother sat left and right, looking at the appearance of a mother and son, although Yun Jieyu is the niece of the Queen Mother, but Jieyu's position is too low, she can only serve Bu Cai behind the Queen Mother, with a smile on her face all the time, but she is very aggrieved in her heart.
As soon as the stewed rotten pigeon soup came up, Mu Jing also arrived with Leqin and Leqi.
"I just told your cousin that I would go to see you after dinner, you are here, if you don't come again, I'm afraid I will forget the queen mother of the mourning family!" The Queen Mother put down her chopsticks and teased, and Mama Xu on the side hurriedly arranged another pair of dishes and chopsticks.
Mu Jing smiled and saluted, "I've seen the imperial brother and the queen mother." β
Not only Mu Xiao and the Queen Mother, but the people in the room were stunned, when did this Princess Mu Jing become so behaving?
Mu Jing was bent slightly, his center of gravity was a little unstable, and he didn't wait for the sound of getting up, and when he saw that the people in the room were staring at him, he panicked, his body was even more unstable, and he almost fell down.
Leqin, who was kneeling behind him, didn't care about the etiquette, and hurriedly stepped forward to help the princess, and said: "If you go back to the emperor and the queen mother, our princess has woken up, and this body has not recovered yet." β
"Hurry up and help the princess sit down, I haven't seen you for a few days, Jing'er feels like a big girl, Mama Xu, hurry up and serve Jing'er a bowl of soup."
"Thank you, Mother." Mu Jing smiled slightly.
"Isn't it a big girl, now she's seventeen, if it weren't for Jing'er's free and easy temperament, she would have chosen her forehead last year." Mu Xiao said.
"Brother Huang......" Mu Jing lowered his head, his face flushed.
"This Jing'er's marriage, the emperor has to choose well, some time ago, Zuo Xiang also said that the Yun family has a cousin, this time the scientific examination took a second place, the literary and military strategies are a little better, and the appearance is not bad, said to bring it to the emperor to see!"
"Although Jing'er has reached the age of marriage, this person doesn't need to be outstanding, just be good to Jing'er, this matter will be considered carefully," Mu Xiao obviously didn't want to mention these anymore, raised his head and drank most of the bowl of pigeon soup, and said: "This wild pigeon is much fresher than the domestic one, give Gu Sheng another bowl!" β
The Queen Mother smiled and didn't say anything more.
After the meal, Mu Jing stayed to accompany the Queen Mother, and Mu Xiao took Su Moxuan back to Hengxiang Palace.
"This queen mother's heart is not small!" As soon as Su Moxuan entered the door, he helped him with one hand, jumped directly on the table, took the dim sum plate on the table, ignored the emperor, and started eating directly.
"Get out of the way and eat, stain the lonely table." Mu Xiao frowned, and raised his leg to kick.
"You're full of food and strength, I haven't eaten anything at noon." Although Su Moxuan was dissatisfied, he obediently jumped off the table, holding a snack in his arms, and took Mu Xiao's tea away, and sat on the chair on the side honestly.
"Then Liu Jian, don't worry, you find someone to go and take a look secretly." Mu Xiao flipped through the book and said.
"Do you still have to explain this?" Su Moxuan's mouth was full of snacks, his words were a little unclear, and he finally swallowed it, and then said: "Among the cronies who followed Liu Jian, one of them is our person, and we will be able to send the message in the next two days." β
"You're thoughtful." The thick sword eyebrows raised slightly, and Mu Xiao squinted at him.
"That's, we grew up together, don't say I'm a roundworm in your stomach, what you think in your heart, I can at least guess it!" Su Moxuan said triumphantly.
"And what do you think I'll let you do later?" Mu Xiao asked.
Soon a plate of dim sum was put down, Su Moxuan patted his stomach, very satisfied, and said lazily: "Isn't it a princess!" I said that you are also troublesome, when this princess used to mess around, you let people follow her, but now people understand the etiquette and abide by the rules, and you are thinking nonsense. β
"Mu Jing is a little arrogant, but she is also Lone's only sister, and Lone doesn't want her to become someone else's pawn."
"Yes, I'll arrange it."
After Su Moxuan left, the people guarding outside the hall hurriedly came in to wait, and the little eunuch who walked at the end, holding a tray in his hand, said: "Emperor Qiqi, this is sent by Du Zhaoyi at noon, saying that the eldest prince will write his name." β
Mu Xiao was stunned for a moment, picked up a thin piece of paper on the tray, Yi An, this is the word on the paper, the strokes are crooked, and it looks like it was written by a child, the emperor looked at it for a while before putting it down, and said: "Gu knows, tell Du Zhaoyi, go to see her later." β
After the little eunuch stepped back, Mu Xiao's gaze stayed on the wood-carved pen holder on the table, and muttered, "It's been three years, so fast!" β
That night, Mu Xiao brought a lot of good Wenmo to see the eldest prince, and crowned Du Zhaoyi as a concubine.
Since the emperor ascended the throne, the position of the four concubines has been vacant, this Du Zhaoyi was named a concubine without warning, this identity can be described as very precious, although the women in the harem are all gritted their teeth with hatred, but the emperor likes it, and has to stutter.
Unexpectedly, five days later, the eldest prince Mu Yi'an drowned......