Chapter Eighty-Nine: Anger
After reconciling with Emperor Liu's concubine, Xiao Xuan became a little girl who was tired of her mother's concubine.
Emperor Liu's concubine hadn't seen her eldest son for a long time, so she kept her eldest son and his wife to talk to her. Xiao Xuan leaned on her side and listened obediently.
Concubine Liuhuang, who was talking to Xiao Yu, suddenly felt her shoulders sinking, and when she turned her head, she found that Xiao Xuan didn't know when she had fallen asleep, and she was sleeping soundly on her shoulder at this time.
"This kid." Concubine Liu looked at Xiao Xuan's face and said dotingly.
"Mother, otherwise I will wait for my sister to go back to bed first." Wen said intimately. "Your Highness, accompany the concubine to talk again."
Xiao Xuan couldn't eat and couldn't sleep for a while, and Concubine Liu didn't know it, and she didn't feel distressed. Now that Xiao Xuan's wish has been granted, she will naturally be able to sleep well.
"You don't have to send her back, just let someone help her to sleep in my temple." Concubine Liu Huang was afraid of waking up her daughter, so she whispered.
Fortunately, Xiao Xuan slept deeply, and several palace maids carried her to the bedroom of Emperor Liu's concubine in the back, but she didn't wake up all the way.
Wen deliberately followed, and after watching the palace maid help Xiao Xuan lie down on the bed of Emperor Liu's concubine, he still fell asleep smoothly.
Wen knew that Emperor Liu had not seen Xiao Yu for some days, and the mother and son inevitably had something to say. Besides, Xiao Xuan's marriage is only temporarily decided, and some things have to be carefully pondered.
Therefore, Wen Shi'an sat on the edge of the bed, and Xiao Xuan, who was sleeping peacefully, did not leave.
In the main hall.
"If your sister's marriage really falls in the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion, do you have any plans?" Concubine Liu Huang saw that Wen was helping Xiao Xuan down, and only after a while did she look at Xiao Yu and ask.
"If you go back to your mother's concubine, as long as your sister has a happy marriage in the future, your son has no plans." Xiao Yu actually had a plan early on, no matter how far he could go in the future, he would not take advantage of his sister's marriage.
"You are a good brother, and you know that taking care of your younger brother and sister means that your mother will be gone in the future. As long as you take care of it, the mother concubine can also rest assured. Concubine Liu looked at her eldest son with satisfaction and said. But you still have to explore the wind in the second room of the Zhenguo Mansion, it is convenient for your brother to walk outside, your uncle and Duan Chengwen have a good personal relationship, you want to ask him out through your uncle to ask. I will also summon the county lord of Duansu to the palace and talk to her about family life. ”
"Erchen knows."
"Okay, I've explained everything I should explain." Emperor Liu said. "You have a rare rest today, and you have been disturbed for most of the day, so let's go back with Wen as soon as possible."
Xiao Yu took Wen back home.
"How did Xuan'er sleep?" Xiao Yu took his wife into the carriage and sat down before asking.
"My sister slept well." Wen saw that the hem of Xiao Yu's clothes was a little wrinkled, so he reached out to straighten the hem of his clothes for him, and said with a smile.
"yes, okay." Xiao Yu bowed slightly and said. "In a few days, I will invite my uncle to come over the house for a small gathering, and then I will bother you to buy one or two things in the house."
"It is my duty to take care of the household for His Highness." Wen answered.
Xiao Xuan was sleeping soundly on the bed of Emperor Liu's concubine, and Concubine Liuhuang was sitting on the soft couch by the window not far from the bed, thinking about her thoughts with her eyes down.
Now that she has agreed to Xiao Xuan and Duan Shaolan's affairs, she has to give her eldest sister an explanation.
But fortunately, although the eldest princess of Yongshou came forward as a lobbyist for Princess Mu, she was actually not very enthusiastic about this marriage.
In the face of Princess Mu's plea, Concubine Liu was not easy to refuse directly.
Fortunately, Emperor Liu's concubine knew that Princess Mu was looking for old friends in the imperial capital these days. In the early years, when Princess Mu was not far away from Saibei, she had some friends in the imperial capital. Princess Mu's boudoir friends are also noble daughters of the family, and most of them are married in the imperial capital.
Thinking of this, Emperor Liu's concubine asked Suihong to come in.
"Mother." Suihong, who was outside, listened to the order and hurriedly came in. "Is there anything you want to tell the slave to do?"
"Your Majesty has given you some seasonal fruits early this morning, and you can pick up some good ones early tomorrow morning. You run for me to the mansion of the eldest princess of Yongshou, and Princess Mu will come back if you put down the fruit. If Princess Mu is not here, you will send a message to the eldest princess of Yongshou for me, and ask her to come back to the palace with you. ”
"Okay, the slave knows."
In the evening, before Xiao Xuan woke up, Emperor Chu came uninvited.
Emperor Liu's concubine knew that Emperor Chu must have already known about sneaking out of the palace last night.
"The concubine has seen Your Majesty." Emperor Liu's concubine straightened her skirt and got up to greet Emperor Chu.
"There is no need to be polite to love the concubine." Emperor Liu's concubine curtsied, and Emperor Chu stepped forward and gently helped her up and asked. "Is Xuan'er back?"
"Well, it's back." Emperor Liu's concubine was indeed to reduce the number of branches, so that people could cover up Xiao Xuan's sneaking out of the palace yesterday. But others don't know about this, Emperor Chu, who gave Xiao Xuan the sign of leaving the palace, still doesn't know about Xiao Xuan's exit from the palace last night.
And knowing that Xiao Xuan sneaked out of the palace and only brought a green forest, Emperor Chu immediately sent a banner guard to set off, and secretly escorted Xiao Xuan's master and servant all the way into the Six Princes' Mansion before returning to the palace to resume his life.
Emperor Liu's concubine did not report Xiao Xuan's departure from the palace, and Emperor Chu was biased and Xiao Xuan would not publicize this matter.
"Concubine Ai isn't angry with Xuan'er, right?" Emperor Chu led Emperor Liu's concubine into the main hall and asked uneasily. "Xuan'er is young, so it is inevitable that she will be a little impatient. Later, let her come to me, and I will count and count her for my concubine, and give my concubine a breath. ”
"Your Majesty is not joking." When Emperor Liu heard Emperor Chu's words, she couldn't help laughing, but she deliberately said with a straight face. "Others don't know why Xuan'er contradicts the concubine, can Your Majesty not know the reason? The concubine figured it out, Xuan'er was spoiled by His Majesty, otherwise where would she have the confidence to gamble with the concubine, and dare to sneak out of the palace. ”
"Okay, it's all my fault." Emperor Chu pulled Emperor Liu's concubine to sit down beside him and took the initiative to make amends. "I only looked at Xuan'er's haggard face at that time, she was young and early in her thoughts, where I was willing to fulfill her feelings. Fortunately, the person she likes is not bad, and there is nothing bad about fulfilling her. ”
"Your Majesty, as a monarch's father, is naturally right to feel sorry for Xuan'er." Emperor Liu said. "But the concubine will not harm the child as a mother, she made such a fuss, what else can the concubine do except allow her."
"I know what my concubine is worried about." Emperor Chu gently took Emperor Liu's concubine into his arms, and Emperor Liu's concubine also rested her head on Emperor Chu's shoulder. "It was my fault that I let you enter the palace as a side concubine back then, and I always lowered the heads of others."
"Don't blame Your Majesty, it was the concubine who insisted on entering the palace to accompany Your Majesty." Concubine Liu Huang remembered the past and said happily. "The queen mother is His Majesty's wife, and it is natural for the concubine to be inferior to her as a side concubine. Besides, for so many years, His Majesty has favored the four concubines, mother and son, and the concubines are satisfied. ”
"I know that you are not easy, in addition to Yu'er being calm and sensible, Jun'er and Xuan'er are a little impatient."
"Actually, Jun'er got married and became a father herself, so she knows how to restrain her temper." Concubine Liu Huang was a little helpless when she thought about it. "It's just Xuan'er, but her temperament is not as good as when she was a child."
Emperor Chu and Emperor Liu's concubine were talking in a low voice, and when Emperor Chu inadvertently looked up, he caught a glimpse of a head dangling timidly outside the palace gate.
He looked at Emperor Liu's concubine in his arms, and Concubine Liuhuang nodded with a smile on the corner of her mouth.
"What are you hanging around the door?" Only then did Emperor Chu say loudly to the outside of the hall. "Isn't it the most heat-sensitive? Don't come in yet, beware of the heat outside. ”
"Father." Xiao Xuan walked in with a smile on her face, and she carefully observed Emperor Chu's expression.
"I didn't say anything wrong when I looked at your mother, I spoiled you." The smile on Emperor Chu's face suddenly retracted when Xiao Xuan walked in front of him, and he reprimanded. "It's just a little temper for you to play a little temper in the palace, and you dare to sneak out of the palace with the sign I gave you, I see that your interest is getting bigger and bigger. If it weren't for your mother and I covering up this matter for you, what would people say about you? ”
"Father." Xiao Xuan was the most scoundrel in front of Emperor Chu, and when she saw that Emperor Chu was just talking about her, she didn't really get angry.
She walked quickly to Emperor Chu, suddenly squatted down, and directly hugged Emperor Chu's thigh.
"Hey, what are you doing here?" Emperor Chu was taken aback by her movements.
"Father, I know it's wrong." Xiao Xuan sat on the ground, looking up at Emperor Chu and blinking. "My mother has forgiven me."
Emperor Chu originally just deliberately pretended to be a teacher in front of Emperor Liu's concubine, but Xiao Xuan made such a move, and the expression on his face didn't collapse anymore, and he couldn't help laughing.
"Alright, hurry up." Concubine Liu Huang looked at the appearance of his father and daughter, and scolded with a smile.
In the Yihua Palace, Emperor Chu and Emperor Liu took Xiao Xuan, and the three of them had dinner happily.
And today, after Concubine Chen took Xiao Lu to have a simple dinner, she ordered someone to bring over the purse that Xiao Lu had embroidered most of the unfinished yet, and detained Xiao Lu to continue embroidering under her nose.
Xiao Lu twisted a thin needle in her hand, her eyes looked at the pattern on the purse, but her mind didn't know where it had gone.
Coldly, the tip of the needle poked into her fingertips. In an instant, beads of blood spilled from the fingertips and landed on the bright yellow purse. The blood beads instantly annihilated, staining the purse.
Ten fingers connected to the heart, and the sudden pain immediately recalled Xiao Lu's consciousness. She immediately threw her purse and needle and thread on the ground and pressed the wound on her finger.
"What are you thinking?" Concubine Chen saw the purse she threw on the ground, and said very regretfully. "Oops, this purse is blood-stained and wasted."
"If it's scrapped, it's scrapped." Xiao Lu said angrily, and just shook his hand and left. "What else is there to say?"
Brother Parrot and Mandarin Duck, who were guarding the side, saw Xiao Lu leaving, so they immediately followed her and left with her.