"How can you not worry..."Mrs. Lu patted the back of Lu Huiling's hand, her expression as if she was about to cry again.

Lu Huiling is Mrs. Lu's first child, and the only girl in the family, naturally grew up in the palm of her hand, although she is a woman, she is no worse than a boy, she can recite poems against her, she can play against her father, she is proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and she has the temper of an official lady in her bones, but her heart is not bad, at least in Mrs. Lu's opinion, Lu Huiling is a good child.

Lu Huiling looked at her mother's appearance like this, and she was also helpless, and she didn't know how to comfort her.

Seeing that Mrs. Lu was about to cry again, Lu Chen hurriedly made a round: "Okay, let's hurry up and eat, my sister finally went out of the palace, she must have thought about the taste of home." ”

As he spoke, Lu Chen also sandwiched a piece of meat from the braised crucian carp fish belly and put it in Lu Huiling's dish, and said, "Sister, eat it too, if you don't eat it, we can't move the chopsticks." ”

Lu Huiling smiled and ate with chopsticks.

After a meal, Mrs. Lu went to clean up the things that were commonly used in the boudoir for her, saying that she was going to bring them into the palace to use, and she was not at ease, and took out the jewelry she brought from her mother's house to give her, Lu Huiling couldn't shirk it, so she had to give up.

Seeing that Mrs. Lu was packing up her things, Lu Huiling accompanied Lu Gaohong for a walk in the backyard.

"Are you okay in the palace?" Lu Gaohong has always been relieved of her, and he felt guilty in his heart, although it was for the prince, but after all, this was his own daughter, if he had a bad life, how should he deal with himself.

"Daddy doesn't have to worry, everything is fine with his daughter in the palace." Lu Huiling is a lot more sensible, although she will complain in her heart that her father sent her to the palace and separated from her family, she can't bear to see her father's gray hair on his temples.

"You were in such a hurry to seal the concubine, but what happened?" Lu Gaohong couldn't help but ask.

He hadn't heard much news before, and he suddenly received rumors of canonization, which really worried him.

Lu Huiling thought that day, the emperor allowed her to change her clothes, she sprinkled some erotic powder between her water sleeves, the emperor always thought that he couldn't help it, and regarded her as Lu Fushuang, but this is what Lu Huiling wanted, she didn't want to stay where she was without progress anymore.

"Xu is the emperor was happy that day, drank some wine, and hastily sealed the concubine. He misses his aunt very much. Lu Huiling didn't dare to tell her father the truth, after all, the means were extremely obscene, and besides, she couldn't tell her father that she had a relationship with the emperor.

Not to mention anything else, Lu Huiling is very envious of the imperial aunt, the woman who is about the same age as her mother, the woman who is graceful and luxurious, the country is beautiful and fragrant, standing on a high place and looking down on all living beings, and the woman who is the mother of the world.

When she once went to the palace with her mother to visit the imperial aunt, she always felt that she was gentle and dignified, gentle and graceful, and her demeanor was generous, and she secretly vowed to become a woman like the imperial aunt.

But in the palace, I heard that before the death of the imperial aunt, she laughed and scolded, wild and uninhibited, delirious, crazy, moody, and no longer the gentle and virtuous appearance of the subordinates, and in the last few months of house arrest in the Qianning Palace, you can always hear the whimpering cries from the Qianning Palace, both the queen and the prince.

But despite this, after the death of the imperial aunt, there are still people who think of the good past and put her in the most important position in their hearts, often thinking of her at night when no one is around, remembering her, and hating why they didn't cherish it in their lifetime.

Lu Huiling often envies such a woman, and wishes to win only one person's heart.

"How is the emperor treating you?" Lu Gaohong saw that Lu Huiling didn't want to talk in detail, and he could guess what was going on, but she didn't want to say, and he didn't want to ask.

"Treat me well." Lu Huiling looked at Lu Gaohong and smiled lightly, "Daddy, don't worry, I'm your daughter, and I will never let you down." ”

"Mei Guifei didn't embarrass you, right?" Although Lu Huiling said this, Lu Gaohong still couldn't rest assured in his heart.

Lu Huiling shook her head, her eyes narrowed slightly, looking at the fallen leaves fluttering in the distance, remembering the happy days of dancing in the backyard, she sighed: "Concubine Mei can't embarrass me now, but I don't want to compete with her, and I won't provoke her easily." ”

Lu Gaohong looked at his only daughter, and he was still a little distressed, as if he had watched his only sister struggling in the harem, smiling and smiling, pretending to accept all the emperor's concubines generously, he knew at that time that the palace was terrible.

But it was also himself who personally sent his daughter to the palace.

"My daughter saw a recital about His Royal Highness the Crown Prince in the Qinzheng Hall today, have you been raising grain and grass for the front-line army recently?" Lu Huiling didn't want to be so sentimental anymore, she smiled and asked back.

Lu Gaohong lowered his head and wiped his nose, then looked up at Lu Huiling, nodded and said: "Well, the front-line war is tight, and it will take some time to drive the enemy army out of the border in one fell swoop. ”

"After the people pay the taxes, the next days are not very good, and now they have to increase the taxes, and it is not easy to have a good New Year." Lu Huiling and Lu Gaohong walked side by side, they walked under the corridor, the autumn breeze was bleak, Lu Huiling asked softly: "This errand is not easy to do, right?" ”

"I am worried that the lower state capital is pressing, and the people will rebel, and there are many refugees from the border state, and the people are panicking, but now they are increasing taxes, which is really difficult to do." When Lu Gaohong talked about this, he shook his head, as if he was more than ten years old.

Lu Huiling pondered for a moment, she knew that this thing was not easy to do, and the people couldn't understand it, but the soldiers always had to eat enough to fight.

"Why don't the court officials donate all the money?" Lu Huiling suddenly asked, "The whole country works together to set an example for the officials, and the people can naturally understand the current suffering of the country. ”

Lu Gaohong suddenly looked at his daughter in surprise, if Lu Huiling was a man, he would definitely not lose his young self.

"Daddy, as the head of the hundred officials, has to be the first to set an example." Lu Huiling looked at Lu Gaohong with a solemn face.

"Nope." Lu Gaohong turned to say, "You have to let the prince set an example." Now that Qi Jingqin is out of the limelight at the border pass, the emperor will be overjoyed when he sees the good news from them, and if he continues like this, it will naturally be unfavorable to His Royal Highness the Prince, and the prince must propose it. ”

"How can Daddy contact the Prince?" Lu Huiling felt strange, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince had lived in the East Palace for a long time, and the proposal was naturally mentioned earlier, firstly, to solve the problem of grain and grass as soon as possible, and secondly, to let the emperor pay more attention to the prince earlier, "Why don't you go to the East Palace in person?" It's much more convenient to come in the palace. ”

"No, you must not let the emperor find out that you have something to do with the prince when you enter the palace so early." Lu Gaohong refused, "Tomorrow for my father, wait in the Jinluan Palace earlier, and then you only need to say a few more words for the prince in front of the emperor." ”

"Does His Highness the Crown Prince know about our plans?"

"Nature."

"He... Will it cooperate with us? Lu Huiling was a little worried that all her efforts were in vain, although she cooperated with Lu Gaohong to climb to her current position, it was not entirely for His Royal Highness the Prince.

"If we are all like this, the prince still doesn't know how to forge ahead, he is a dou who can't be supported, and he doesn't want to worry about him anymore for his father, I just hope that a hundred years later, when she meets Fushuang on Huangquan Road again, she can forgive her brother." Lu Gaohong said sadly.

Lu Huiling didn't say a word, there was a hint of indifference in his eyes, and after the two of them walked for a while, it was almost time for the palace gate to be keyed, Lu Huiling thought about going back to the boudoir first to see if Mrs. Lu had packed up her things.

As soon as she arrived in the backyard, Ning Xue stood at the door with red eyes crying and waiting, she didn't know the whereabouts of the young lady, and asked Xu Lan, but Xu Lan refused to tell her, there were many people in the house today, and she didn't dare to look everywhere, so she could only follow Mrs. Lu to pack her luggage in the young lady's boudoir.

As soon as she saw Lu Huiling, Ning Xue ran up, and knelt down and kowtowed in front of Lu Huiling: "Miss, the slave maid meets Miss." ”

Lu Huiling was taken aback by her sudden behavior, and hurriedly stepped forward to help her up: "Ning Xue, you... What are you doing. ”

Ning Xue refused to get up, looked up at Lu Huiling with tears in her eyes: "Miss, take the slave maid into the palace, the slave maid misses you, thinks of you very much, don't leave the slave maid Okay Miss." ”

Xu Lan pulled Ning Xue and persuaded softly on the side: "Girl... Girl... It's not appropriate, but you will be punished for bumping into the mother. ”

Lu Huiling couldn't bear it, and was about to say something more, when the grandmother who was waiting beside Mrs. Lu came out: "Concubine Ming, Madam is looking for you." ”

The left and right palace gates are about to be keyed, and there is not much time, so Lu Huiling has to accompany the mother who misses him for a long time.

"Xu Lan, you help her to rest first." Lu Huiling hurriedly dropped this sentence and left.

Xu Lan received the order and hurriedly summoned a few palace maids, pulled up Ning Xue, who was crying and out of strength, and helped her to rest under the pavilion.

Lu Huiling walked into the boudoir with her grandmother, and Mrs. Lu was sitting on the edge of the bed and wrapping boxes of precious jewelry for her.

"Mother, there are all in the palace, you don't need to bring it, leave it to yourself." Lu Huiling walked up to Mrs. Lu and grabbed her hand that was wrapping jewelry.

Mrs. Lu raised her head, looked at Lu Huiling, stroked her hand, and continued to wrap it: "That's different, these are all emotional." Although those in the palace are better than these, they are all dead things. ”

Lu Huiling couldn't persuade Mrs. Lu, so she had to sit down by the bed, looking at the old jewelry that was poured out of the bed, these were the dowries that Mrs. Lu brought when she married into the Prime Minister's Mansion, and now more than ten or twenty years have passed, and many of them are dyed with traces of time.