Chapter 21: The Emperor's Eldest Grandson

Lingxi's brain was already full at this time, where did she tell the Empress Dowager Cui.

But at this time, the Empress Dowager Cui had already pushed her in front of everyone, and she couldn't say that she hadn't said it, so she could only stand up and give Emperor Yonghe a blessing and ask for peace.

After a few turns of thought, he cleared his throat and said, "It is rumored that Marshal Tianpeng is greedy for the beauty of Fairy Chang'e and often goes to tease. Fairy Chang'e was angry, so she told the Jade Emperor about Marshal Tianpeng molesting her. The Jade Emperor asked Tai Bai Xing, 'What should be done with Marshal Tianpeng's move?' 'Tai Bai Xing said,' This crime should be punished. The Jade Emperor nodded after hearing this, and said with some regret, "Then let him be a pig." ’”

Lingxi's voice lagged behind, and there was silence on the viewing platform.

Lingxi's heart was beating in his chest, and his throat was blocked and a little nauseous. Just when she was overspending her life in her heart, Emperor Yonghe was the first to react, slapped the table and laughed, "Then be a pig, hahahaha." ”

When the concubines and princes saw Emperor Yonghe laughing, they all laughed along, and they all said that this was funny.

Lingxi breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and retreated after a blessing.

"Queen Mother, the night is a little cold, the slave maid goes to get a cloak." Lingxi said to the Queen Mother.

Empress Dowager Cui nodded slightly, and Lingxi withdrew from the sight of the concubines. By the time Lingxi had been outside for a cup of tea and came back with a cloak embroidered with chrysanthemums, the topic had changed again on the viewing platform.

When Empress Dowager Cui saw Lingxi coming back, she beckoned to Lingxi and said, "Ling'er, come here." ”

Lingxi first handed the cloak to Mama An, and asked Mama An to put it on the Empress Dowager Cui, and then walked to the Empress Dowager Cui and blessed her.

Empress Dowager Cui said to the crown prince Li Chenyi, "Let Yun'er go to Yongshou Palace to change clothes, he should be able to wear the clothes of King Rui when he was young." ”

The crown prince Li Chenyi built a mansion outside the palace when he became an adult, and he did not live in the palace on weekdays, and the crown princess and the emperors and grandchildren would only come to the palace during the festival.

Lingxi saw that Li Lingyun, the eldest grandson of the emperor sitting next to the crown prince Li Chenyi, had a stain on his body, and he should have accidentally sprinkled the soup.

Prince Li Chenyi stood up and said respectfully, "Yes." ”

After that, he looked back at the crown princess Zhu Wan'er and saw that Zhu Wan'er was gossiping with Qin You, the princess of the five kings.

Li Lingyun stood up sensibly, bowed to Li Chenyi and said, "Father, the child will come when he goes." ”

Li Chenyi nodded, and Li Lingyun said goodbye to Emperor Yonghe and Empress Wang respectively, and then went around to Empress Dowager Cui from behind everyone.

Empress Dowager Cui pinched Li Lingyun's face with her hand, and said lovingly, "Yun'er went with the palace maid to change clothes." ”

Li Lingyun bowed obediently and retreated, and went down with Lingxi.

Li Lingyun is ten years old this year, although he is the eldest son of the crown prince Li Chenyi, he was born to Liangyuan. The crown princess Zhu Wan'er only had one daughter, so she fostered Li Chenyi under her knees. It can be seen from Li Lingyun's cautious attitude that he is not as happy as he seems to be in the prince's mansion on weekdays.

After getting off the viewing platform and passing through the imperial garden, Lingxi took Li Lingyun straight to the Changle Hall of Yongshou Palace. Several eunuchs followed Li Lingyun from a distance, neither far nor close.

When King Rui was by the side of the Empress Dowager Cui, he lived in the Wutong Hall, a side hall of the Changle Palace. After entering the Yongshou Palace, Lingxi instructed Mama to fetch the clothes, and he accompanied Li Lingyun into the inner hall.

The little eunuch wanted to follow up, but Li Lingyun frowned and said, "In the palace of the Queen Mother, you must not be rude." ”

Several little eunuchs glanced at each other, and finally chose to stay in the outer hall and wait.

Seeing that there was no one, Lingxi sighed lightly and said to Li Lingyun, "Your Highness, please wait for a while." ”

Lingxi first met Li Lingyun on the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival in early May, when Lingxi was still a little palace maid with no grade behind Mei Meiren (Mei Cairen had been canonized as a four-grade beauty in mid-July).

The crown princess Zhu Wan'er let Li Lingyun walk around the palace, and happened to meet Lingxi who was returning to Yongshou Palace to get things. Since then, when Li Lingyun enters the palace on the fifteenth of every month to greet the Queen Mother, he will say a few words to Lingxi.

Li Lingyun frowned and didn't say anything.

The royal child is precocious, and ten-year-old Li Lingyun has learned how to survive in the cracks of the Prince's Mansion.

After a while, Mama sent a few pieces of clothes into the inner hall, and Fu Yifu said, "His Royal Highness, the eldest grandson, the slave and maid are waiting for you to dress." ”

Even though it's King Rui's old clothes, it's never been put on. Li Lingyun opened his hands, and Ren Mama and Lingxi put on his brand-new old clothes.

After changing his clothes, Li Lingyun said, "Some of them have been drunk." ”

Lingxi hurriedly went out to warm a bowl of goat's milk, and when he entered the inner hall again, Mama was no longer there.

Although Li Lingyun's immature face had no expression, Lingxi knew that this seemingly naΓ―ve master in front of adults on weekdays was really angry.

Li Lingyun took a sip of goat's milk, frowned, and just wanted to drop the bowl, but when he thought that this was the dormitory of the Empress Dowager Cui, he suppressed the anger in his heart.

Lingxi hurriedly stepped aside, afraid of disaster.

Li Lingyun sat on the round stool, swallowed the bowl of goat's milk that was about to fall, and waited until the bowl of milk was drunk, and the breath on his body had stabilized.

Li Lingyun handed the bowl to Lingxi, and said in a flat tone, "You don't have to be afraid. I'm just a tiptoe stone again, and I can't get along with my breath. ”

On the viewing platform, the prince's family sat in the position of Empress Dowager Cui's subordinates, and Li Lingyun and his third brother Li Lingfeng sat beside the prince and the crown princess.

Li Lingfeng is two years younger than Li Lingyun, and was born to Zhu Yiting, the cousin of the crown princess Zhu Wan'er, and is much more favored in the prince's mansion than Li Lingyun. Li Lingyun's second brother Li Lingshu died early when he was two years old, and now in the prince's mansion, there are only two imperial grandsons, Li Lingyun and Li Lingfeng.

The angle of the palace people was a little uncomfortable when pouring wine for Li Lingfeng, Li Lingyun was afraid that the palace people would touch him, so he gave way to the outside, but who knew that this let bumped into the palace maid who served him soup and sprinkled the soup all over his body.

This was a trivial matter, as long as it was covered up, it would pass, but Li Lingfeng jumped up and loudly reprimanded the palace maid who spilled the soup.

The final result was that Li Lingyun was reprimanded by the crown prince Li Chenyi for losing his manners before driving, while Li Lingfeng was praised by Emperor Yonghe and rewarded with a string of hand beads.

Seeing this result, Li Lingyun also understood what was going on. There were not many such things in the prince's mansion before, but he didn't expect to come to this trick before driving.

Lingxi sighed secretly, the child born in the royal family has had many disasters since he was a child. Either you can't be born, or you won't live long after being born, and even if you survive, you will live in intrigue for the rest of your life.

Seeing that Lingxi timidly did not speak, Li Lingyun said again, "Do you have brothers and sisters in your family?" ”

Lingxi raised his eyes and looked at Li Lingyun, and seeing that Li Lingyun had no displeasure on his face, he whispered, "There is also an eldest sister in the family." ”

"Is it good to have a sisterly relationship?" Li Lingyun asked again.

Lingxi nodded, she crossed over to this Dashun Dynasty and didn't know anything, it was Ye Yiling who impatiently told her bit by bit, and took more care of her in life.

"Alas......" Li Lingyun sighed, his eyes showed a little confusion and a little yearning, "Poor family, there are benefits of poor family." ”

Lingxi Yifu replied, "Poor families, everything is sad, otherwise the slave and maid would not be here." ”

Li Lingyun was right when he thought about it, so he asked again, "Have you ever thought about leaving the palace?" ”

Lingxi's heart was shocked, and she left the palace, which was what she had dreamed of. But in the presence of his master, he could not say this.

So she replied, "The slave is not yet old. ”

"Twenty years old," Li Lingyun said lightly, "I'll be old when I really go out......"

Lingxi's heart trembled again.

"Let's go back~" Li Lingyun stood up and sighed, "I always have to go back." ”

When Lingxi took Li Lingyun back to the viewing platform, the moon was hanging in the middle of the sky.

Empress Dowager Cui saw that Li Lingyun was dressed, and said with a smile in her eyes, "The mourning family said that King Rui's clothes when he was young can be worn by Yun'er." ”

Rui Wang Li Chenfeng sat under King Ping's hand, and when he heard Empress Dowager Cui say this, he shook his head and said, "Imperial Grandmother, my body when I was a child was not as strong as Ling Yun's. ”

Li Lingyun respectfully thanked Empress Dowager Cui and King Rui, and sat back on the seat indifferently.

Li Lingfeng looked at Li Lingyun's new clothes, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth.

When Lingxi was away, it was Qian Weishi who poured wine for Empress Dowager Cui, and Qian Weishi saw that Lingxi was back, so he handed over the Linglong pot to Lingxi.

Lingxi shook the Linglong pot seemingly unintentionally, and a smell of wine wafted out.

Lingxi blessed the Empress Dowager Cui, turned around and replaced the wine in the Linglong pot with hot tea, and poured a new cup for the Empress Dowager Cui.

Empress Dowager Cui smelled the faint fragrance of chrysanthemum tea, and breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, she was old after all.

Mama An saw that everyone was already happy, so she whispered to Empress Dowager Cui, "Niangniang, it's not early." ”

Empress Dowager Cui shook her head faintly, and the nine-tailed phoenix hairpin sparkled in the candlelight.

Since the incident of beating Cui Guifei and Concubine Dong, the harem has been very quiet. Empress Dowager Cui has lived in the palace for most of her life, and she has long smelled the unusual atmosphere under this calm.

After laughing for a while, Emperor Yonghe said to Concubine Huigui, "Our Yuerou is thirteen years old this year, right?" ”

Concubine Hui stood up, and said after a gentle blessing, "If you go back to the emperor, you will be thirteen years old." ”

The second princess sat at the same table as Concubine Hui, and she also stood up at this time, saluted Emperor Yonghe politely, and did not speak quietly.

Emperor Yonghe looked at his daughter, who was only thirteen years old, but was already beautiful and moving, and said, "My Yuerou has grown so big, the last time was not good, but her health is better?" ”

The second princess looks like a concubine with three points, her eyebrows are green and green, her lips are red without dots, and she is not very old but has a thousand demeanors. The second princess had a hint of excitement in her eyes, and replied softly after gently blessing her, "If you return to your father's words, Yuerou's body is no longer in trouble." ”

Emperor Yonghe beckoned to the second princess and said, "Come, come up, sit next to my father." ”

The second princess thanked her, walked slowly to Emperor Yonghe's side, and sat on the left side of Emperor Yonghe.

Queen Wang, who was sitting on the right side of Emperor Yonghe, looked at the second princess's eyes full of smiles, and said, "Yuerou is becoming more and more beautiful, and there is a charm between her eyebrows and eyes. ”

The second princess stood up humbly and politely and said to the queen and said with a smile, "The queen mother praised the moon for being soft, and Sister Yirong is the real national color Tianxiang." ”