Chapter 34 Rules and Etiquette
The Queen Mother said: "The marriage is so decided, tomorrow I will send a few grandmothers to Jing'er's mansion to teach the rules of the palace of Miss Shui Ling'er, as well as the rules of the princess."
Situ Jing showed a faint smile and said, "Thank you, Queen Mother."
"Jing'er, thank the emperor first, Shui Ling'er will keep me here first, and the queen mother has something to say to her."
Situ Jing was a little embarrassed, although he was not worried about what the queen mother would do to Shui Ling'er, but he was worried that Shui Ling'er would do something to displease the queen mother.
The Queen Mother chuckled and said, "Look, you are worried about becoming like this, are you afraid that the queen mother will eat her?"
"It's not." Situ Jing saluted and said, "Queen Mother, Shui Ling'er is a wild girl in the countryside, and she doesn't understand the rules of the imperial capital, so I'm worried that she will displease the queen mother."
"The queen mother understands that she will not care about her, so you can go with confidence."
"Yes." Situ Jing picked up Shui Ling'er, who was kneeling on the ground, and whispered to her, "Don't come nonsense."
Shui Ling'er said confidently, "Brother Jing, don't worry." She also patted her chest and promised.
Situ Jing was more and more uneasy when he saw her like this, and sometimes he even doubted Shui Ling'er's definition of nonsense, but he just loved her like this.
After Situ Jing saluted the Queen Mother, he walked out of the Fude Palace.
The Queen Mother said to Yan Hou: "Lord Mingsheng wants to recognize Shui Ling'er as his daughter, so it is better to line up on the wedding day, so that double happiness is coming and auspicious."
Yanhou chuckled and said, "It's still the Queen Mother who thinks about it thoroughly, and Weichen goes back and sends someone to do it."
"Hmm."
After saluting, he left, and when he passed Shui Ling'er, he looked at her coldly, and secretly cursed her in his heart, wild seed.
After the Queen Mother saw Yanhou leaving, she walked up to Shui Ling'er, held her hand, and said, "Come with me to the garden."
Shui Ling'er showed a bright smile and said, "Okay."
The Queen Mother was infected by her smile, and she also became happy, and said, "Look at your smile is so sweet, no wonder Jing'er is so attentive to you."
"Queen Mother, Brother Jing is fierce to me."
The Queen Mother saw her complaining, but she was smiling, this is a person in love, she once longed for it, but when she entered the harem, these are just foolish dreams for her.
She chuckled and said, "I remember that Jing'er has always been polite, even if she is not gentle, she is still steady and solemn." It seems that this woman named Shui Ling'er messed up Situ Jing's square inch.
Shui Ling'er began to tell how Situ Jing murdered her, and added fuel and vinegar from time to time, which made the Queen Mother laugh again.
In the garden pavilion, Rong Ye and Xiao Rou had prepared refreshments and waited for the Queen Mother and Shui Ling'er, and before they saw the figure, they kept hearing the Queen Mother's laughter.
Xiao Rou said to Rong Ye unhappily: "Princess, what kind of charm did this Shui Ling'er girl give to the Queen Mother, and she made the Queen Mother happy like this."
If it weren't for the Queen Mother's intention to resolve the gap between Rong Ye and Shui Ling'er, they wouldn't have stayed here, let alone Shui Ling'er, who made them disgusting.
Rong Ye reprimanded in a low voice: "Xiaorou, don't talk nonsense, be careful of being heard, if it spreads, it's not for you to take it on."
Xiao Rou knew that she had said the wrong thing, and said, "Yes."
The Queen Mother walked over with Shui Ling'er and said with a chuckle, "Everyone sit down to drink tea and chat, if there is any misunderstanding, let's talk about it."
Rong Ye saluted respectfully and said, "Yes."
After the Queen Mother sat down first, Shui Ling'er sat down with her, and Xiao Rou shouted angrily, "This is not in accordance with the rules!" Rong Ye is a princess, so Rong Ye should sit down first before it is Shui Ling'er's turn.
Rong Ye glared at Xiao Rou and said, "Don't be unreasonable, Shui Ling'er doesn't understand the rules, and the emperor has given her marriage, and it won't be long before Princess Jing is the princess." is much higher than the princess she came to marry.
The Queen Mother chuckled and said, "It's still Rong Ye's general knowledge, if you don't change it, it will definitely cause you a lot of trouble, or replace it."
Rong Ye said respectfully: "What the Queen Mother said is reasonable, but Xiaorou has grown up with me since she was a child, and we are like sisters, so I will go back and train her well."
The Queen Mother looked at Xiao Rou coldly, and then said to Shui Ling'er: "Shui Ling'er, this is Princess Rongye, you had some misunderstandings before, replace wine with tea here, and after drinking, this misunderstanding will be resolved." The Queen Mother personally poured two cups of tea.
Although Shui Ling'er didn't like her, she didn't want to embarrass the Queen Mother, and she didn't want Situ Jing to think that she was messing around and didn't listen to the Queen Mother, so she picked up a cup of tea and said, "Princess Rongye, I respect you."
Seeing that the Queen Mother was staring at her, it was difficult to refuse, so she also picked up a cup of tea and said to Shui Ling'er, "I also respect you."
The two drank tea one after another, and the Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction, and said to Shui Ling'er, "You just mentioned that you and Jing'er were captured by the bandits, and then?"
Shui Ling'er stood up, squatted on the chair completely unruly, and told how she and Situ Jing were tied up in the cottage village, and did not forget to add fuel and vinegar to say that she relied on her credit to destroy the bandits' den.
Shui Ling'er said it vividly, which made the Queen Mother laugh constantly, but it felt harsh in Rong Ye's ears, as if she was showing off the deep love and sweetness between herself and King Jing.
A carriage drove out of the palace, and the two people sitting opposite each other in the carriage did not say a word, and the air condensed, as if they were about to suffocate.
Ming Sheng lowered her head, her hands on her thighs clutched her dress, and after a long time, she slowly spoke, "Why are you doing this?"
Yan Hou chuckled and said, "What is Madam talking about?" Of course he knew what she was referring to, but he didn't want to break it.
Ming Sheng raised her head excitedly and looked at him, when she was captured by her father and came back to marry him, she asked herself if she had been a husband and a child for more than ten years, and did her duty as a wife, she was not ashamed of him, why did he push her into a corner, she said, "Do you know everything? Even Shui Ling'er is my daughter, you know?"
Yan Hou looked at her coldly and said flatly, "Yes." She finally confessed to him, but it was too late.
"You know that Shui Ling'er and King Jing are incestuous when they get married, why do you want to promote this marriage?" He did it on purpose! She continued, "Shui Ling'er was born before we got married, she is innocent, and her father and I have not interacted since we got married."
"So what? It is an indisputable fact that she is your daughter, and we have been doll since we were children, and it is you who are unfaithful and give birth to wild seeds with other men."
Mingsheng was speechless, it was her fault, she shouldn't have run out of the palace, let alone met and fell in love with that person and gave birth to Shui Ling'er.
Yan Hou said coldly, "I want you to see your own brother and biological daughter get married, heh." He hated her as much as he loved her.
"You're so ruthless!" Ming Sheng slid down her tears, she softened her body, and pleaded: "Yanhou, in the past few decades of husband and wife relationship, please let Shui Ling'er go, let's go back to the palace and find a way to persuade the emperor to withdraw the holy decree."
"Oh, it's too late."
The carriage stopped outside Yanhou's mansion, and Yanhou easily got out of the carriage and said to the housekeeper standing outside the door, "Lock the lady in her Pavilion and Yu Pavilion, and you are not allowed to let her out without my order."
The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, Yan Hou has always spoiled his wife, although he doesn't know what happened, but Yan Hou is the master of the house, and he is mainly based on his orders, he said respectfully: "Yes."
In the imperial study of the palace, after Situ Jing thanked the emperor, he gave him a seat.
Situ Rui said solemnly, "Brother Wang, do you know why Yanhou cares so much about your marriage?" This is not about Yan Hou at all, but Yan Hou is so concerned that he came to ask him for marriage.
"Wechen doesn't know." Situ Jing didn't dare to say what he cared about, and he didn't even want to touch it.
Situ Rui looked at Situ Jing for a while, and said, "I believe in you."
Situ Jingyi realized that Situ Rui had misunderstood him, and he said, "Your Majesty, Weichen has no intention of rebellion against you, let alone an accomplice with Yanhou."
Situ Rui chuckled and said, "I believe you, I just want to remind you that Yan Hou is afraid that this move will be used to curry favors from you in the future."
"Wechen will pay attention."
Situ Rui took a letter and handed it to Situ Jing, with a traceless handwriting on it, which said that Yan Hou and the old people under the Ming King were planning to rebel.
Situ Jing looked at it seriously and said, "Your Majesty, after the defeat of King Ming, the real power in the hands of these old people has been withdrawn, and only the identity of the clan remains, and they can't become a climate, and they have no military power."
Situ Rui said worriedly: "I don't have the ability to rebel now, but it is difficult to predict what will happen in the future, so I also ask Brother Wang to pay more attention to Yanhou's every move, after all, he is not easy to be kind."
"Yes."
After Situ Jing sat for a while, he got up and saluted and left.
In the imperial garden, Shui Ling'er was lying on the ground with a gray face, blowing vigorously on the fire piled up by the branches on the ground, and after she saw that the fire was okay, she stood up and shouted to the people in the pavilion, "Queen Mother, it would be good to call the flower chicken in a while."
The Queen Mother chuckled and said, "Shui Ling'er, be careful, don't get hurt." Otherwise, Situ Jing would have been distressed.
Seeing Shui Ling'er's dirty appearance, Rong Ye looked at Shui Ling'er with contempt, she didn't understand how King Jing could like such a woman who had no rules and no lady's demeanor.
Shui Ling'er shouted, "Queen Mother, it's okay." She turned around and lay on the ground, fiddling with the fire with a bamboo pole.
Situ Jing came from the other end, and he walked into the pavilion and said, "Queen Mother, be well."
The Queen Mother looked at him and said, "I'm coming to pick up Shui Ling'er so soon." She felt that Shui Ling'er was cute and a little reluctant.
Situ Jing thought that several hours had passed, and it was about to get dark, and it was not early, so he looked at the Queen Mother, and then at Rong Ye, and wondered, "Queen Mother, why don't you see Shui Ling'er?"
The Queen Mother said with a smile on her face: "This Shui Ling'er is really interesting, and the Queen Mother likes it very much." She pointed to the distance ahead and said, "She's there."
Situ Jing looked in the direction pointed by the Queen Mother, and saw Shui Ling'er lying on the ground, and her buttocks were very high, ugly to death, he respectfully said to the Queen Mother, "Let the Queen Mother smile."
Situ Jing walked to Shui Ling'er's side and said coldly, "Shui Ling'er, what posture are you?" actually made such an indecent gesture in public.
When Shui Ling'er heard Situ Jing's voice, she was so frightened that she hurriedly stood up, she reached out and wiped the dust on her face, and said weakly, "Brother Jing, when did you come?"
"Didn't I tell you not to mess around?" Situ Jing took out a towel from his arms and wiped her cheeks.
Shui Ling'er said innocently: "The Queen Mother said that she wanted to eat a flower chicken, so I made it for her."
"The food in the imperial dining room in the palace is delicious in the world, you can ask the chef of the imperial dining room to cook it."
"I don't make it taste like theirs."
Situ Jing frowned and said, "You are so unruly, it's not like words."
The Queen Mother walked over and chuckled and played a round, "Jing'er, don't blame Shui Ling'er, you also said that she doesn't understand the rules, don't embarrass her, she is so innocent and straightforward, the queen mother likes it very much."
Situ Jing said: "Queen Mother, Erchen will teach her the rules when she goes back."
The Queen Mother nodded her head, looked at the dusk in the distance, and said, "The Queen Mother is also tired, you can go back."
Situ Jing and Rong Ye said in unison, "Yes."
Rong Ye and Xiao Rou walked back to their palace, while Situ Jing led Shui Ling'er towards the palace gate.
After walking for a while, Shui Ling'er shouted and said, "It's miserable!"
Situ Jing wondered, "What's so miserable?"
Shui Ling'er turned around and ran towards the garden, and Situ Jing followed quickly.
Shui Ling'er ran to the extinguished wooden pile, pulled out a ball of charred black with a bamboo pole, and she said sadly, "It's scorched."
Situ Jing frowned and said, "What is this?"
"It's called Flower Chicken."
"If it's burnt, don't want it." He pulled Shui Ling'er to leave, but Shui Ling'er squatted down and picked up a charred ball.
Shui Ling'er muttered, "This is still edible, it's a pity to lose it."
"If you want to eat it, go back and bake another one, and throw it away for the eunuch."
"I don't want it, it's still edible."
"If you eat it, it will hurt your body." It's already scorched and black, and you can't see the original flesh color.
"No, I've never eaten this kind of burnt food since I was a child, don't you think my body is still the same?" Shui Ling'er proudly showed her healthy body.
"You're with me, you don't have to eat like this anymore."
"It's a waste." In the past, when there was no money in the cottage village, eating this was a luxury.
"No waste."
Shui Ling'er said firmly, "Waste."
Situ Jing frowned and said, "It's already dark, Shui Ling'er, don't be willful, give it to me, and I'll let the eunuch throw it away."
"I don't want it!"
Situ Jing endured his temperament and said, "Shui Ling'er, be obedient!"
"I don't want it!"
"You!" Situ Jing snatched the roasted black ball called Hua Chicken, and Shui Ling'er was not to be outdone, and used her body to hold the black ball in Situ Jing's hand.
Situ Jing couldn't make a move on Shui Ling'er, so he could only let her snatch it.