Chapter Fifty-Six: The Female General
In the autumn festival, the palace holds a hunt as usual.
The Chu family usually participates in the hunt every year with the three children of the Xiao Chen family, but this time because Chu Nian said a few words in front of the old lady, the old lady grounded the Xiao Chen family and Chu Yuan and Chu Erniang, and only let Chu Nian and Chu Yuanlang go, which made the Liu family surprised, and even thanked Chu Nian.
On the way out, Chu Nian also ran into an acquaintance, it was Mu Qing, before Chu Nian agreed, she got into the sedan chair of the Chu family, and she didn't care how the house slave behind her called her, so she leaned on Chu Nian's side.
"Oh, I didn't expect you guys to be so crowded in the car."
The carriage of the Chu family is small, and it is just right to sit Chu Nian and Chu Yuanlang, but there is one more Mu Qing, and this small space is immediately crowded.
Chu Yuanlang looked at this brand-new face at a loss, but Chu Nian smiled, "Your car must be spacious." ”
Being praised by Chu Nian like this, Mu Qing suddenly became proud, "That's it, my car was designed for me by my father himself, what do you ......want in the car?"
She introduced her own carriage and introduced it heartily, but when she saw Chu Nian's smiling face, she immediately held back, and said with a flattering smile, "Don't drive me back, get to my car, I want to find a place to rely on being preached by Cuizhu, you are free in this car, I want to rely on how I want." ”
It is also that the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion in Zhenyuan is too informal on weekdays, and the Hou Mansion assigned her a maid who specializes in discipline, Chu Nian later learned how fierce Mu Qing's maid is, and can rule the lawless Mu Qing like this.
Seeing her complaining like this, Chu Nian had no choice but to smile and say, "That's it, if you want to sit and sit, just don't stick to me later, I still have important things to do." ”
Mu Qing pursed his lips, "No conscience." ”
When this sentence fell, she looked at Chu Yuanlang as if she was in a new world, "This is your brother?" ”
The Chu family has a total of five children, three ladies and two Langjun, and the two Langjun are all young, especially Chu Yuanlang, who was brought back to the house later, the capital has long been regarded as a joke of the Chu family, but because Chu Yuanlang frequently appears on major occasions these days, and he is a well-mannered person when meeting his elders, and compared with Chu Xiaolangjun's rudeness, Chu Yuanlang's name has naturally become better and better.
At this moment, Chu Yuanlang found that Mu Qing's attention had shifted to himself, and his face suddenly turned red, and he nodded with a light smile, but this scene fell into the eyes of Mu Qing, who was stubborn by nature, and suddenly felt more interesting.
"Hey, your brother is so much cuter than you."
Chu Nian looked at her frowning and shook his head helplessly, "Don't scare my brother, my brother is a good boy." ”
Chu Yuanlang pursed his lips and looked at Chu Nian, as if he was very opposed to Chu Nian's behavior of seeing himself as a child, but he couldn't speak, at this time, a scream suddenly came from the front of the carriage, Chu Nian frowned and looked sideways at the front of the carriage, and saw the person blocking the front of the carriage, his brows furrowed slightly.
It was a person dressed as a maid, but he stood in front of Chu Nian's carriage and shouted loudly: "Don't get in the way!" Let's go first! Can't you see whose car it is! ”
At this time, Mu Qing was so angry that she turned over and was about to get off the carriage, but was stopped by Chu Nian, she turned around and roared, "I don't know whose maid is so short-eyed, obviously she is here to find faults, if you don't rectify it well, people will bully you!" ”
Chu Nian said helplessly: "If you go down, then it will be my Chu family and the Mu family who have joined forces to bully people, you stay first, Yuan Lang, you go." ”
Chu Yuanlang looked at Chu Nian blankly, and when he saw Chu Nian smiling, he understood that this was Chu Nian's opportunity to give him exercise, and he hurriedly got out of the carriage.
The maid saw that it was a thirteen-year-old boy who got out of the car, and her face suddenly became a little contemptuous, "Chu Jialangjun? Please make way for our third princess, otherwise your lord can't afford to bear the anger of the third princess! ”
Chu Yuanlang frowned, third princess? The third sister hasn't mentioned this character yet......
He first saluted to the carriage behind the maid, "I have seen Her Royal Highness the Princess." ”
Seeing that the person who came was so polite, the maid thought that Chu Yuanlang was afraid, and suddenly became arrogant, "Hmph, don't you tell your coachman to give way!" ”
Chu Yuanlang frowned and glanced at the carriage behind him, they were on a narrow road, everyone was going from the palace to the royal hunting ground on the outskirts of the city, Chu Nian felt that the main road must be crowded, and he had to make way for those big officials, so he asked the coachman to choose this secluded shortcut, but he didn't want to, he still bumped into the royal family, and he was still a princess.
And now the carriage of the Chu family, the horses have already walked into half of the narrow road, and they are blocked in the middle of the road by this maid, the carriage has always only had the reason to move forward, this maid told them to give way, how can this be done?
can only let the carriage of the Chu family pass first, otherwise, the other carriages can only be blocked at the back, this princess wants to come with the intention of finding fault.
Chu Yuanlang was a little angry, "You mean to tell our horse to push the cart back with the horse's butt?" ”
Mu Qing in the car was listening with his ears pricked up, and when he heard Chu Yuanlang's words, he immediately burst into laughter, and Chu Nian put the refreshments that had been prepared a long time ago, and he didn't know what was happening outside the car.
The maid was suffocated by Chu Yuanlang's words, "You are disrespectful to the royal family!" You don't respect the emperor! You wait for me to return to the emperor, I ......"
"Respect for the emperor is something that is put in the heart, how can it be said casually, but Her Royal Highness the princess, it is really disrespectful to the emperor to manage his subordinates like this!"
Chu Yuanlang was very angry with this maid, although he was just an "illegitimate child", but with the help of the third sister recently, his reputation has long overshadowed Chu Xiaolangjun as a sister-in-law.
The third sister can say that he is the face of the Zhenning Hou Mansion, even if Wang Zixuan openly slaps the face of the Zhenning Hou Mansion, he has to weigh it!
"You...... You are a strong word......" was mentioned as his maid identity, the maid was obviously even more angry, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Chu Yuanlang's nose, but at this moment, a jade hand stretched out from the side and pinched it gently, the maid only felt a tingling pain, and suddenly screamed.
Chu Yuanlang was stunned and lowered his head to look at the maid who was rolling on the ground with his fingers covered in pain, and looked sideways, Chu Nianzheng walked slowly towards the carriage, "Your Royal Highness the Third Princess, your maid insulted her brother, should this matter be discussed with the emperor?" Or the Queen Mother? ”
There was no movement in the carriage, Chu Nian had investigated this third princess, her biological mother was the eldest concubine of the king of Huainan, and now the good concubine, since the king of Huainan went to the territory, it seems that he has nothing to do with the court, secretly recruits troops and horses in the territory, and has some right to speak in the court, and it can be regarded as a character that Wang Zixuan and the queen mother are afraid of, therefore, the good concubine is rampant and domineering in the harem, and the daughter she gave birth to is naturally spoiled.
In her previous life, she heard that this third princess bullied men and women and did all kinds of evil, but she had never met.
The maid also got up at this moment, and walked around the back of the carriage, when the curtain of the carriage was lifted to reveal a slender hand.
"It turned out to be the unequaled county lord, but the palace didn't know it, and it collided with the unequaled county lord."
The voice slowly floated out, with a little contempt, she bit the word "county lord" very hard, hum, but the county lord still dared to argue with the princess.
Chu Nian raised his eyebrows, "Thank you Your Highness for reminding me, the name of this county lord is still sealed by the emperor himself, and the prime minister has also seconded it, but I don't know, if anyone doubts the decision of the emperor and the prime minister, will the emperor and the prime minister feel that they have sealed the wrong person." ”
There was no sound in the carriage, and even if there was King Huainan as a backer, the third princess would not dare to openly conflict with the Queen Mother and the Wang family.
Chu Nian turned back to his carriage with an indifferent face, Chu Yuanlang glanced at the maid who had broken his fingers in a daze, and then followed Chu Nian into the carriage.
After a while, the carriage of the Chu family moved again, and this time, the carriage of the third princess followed honestly.
Mu Qing teasingly arched Chu Nian's shoulder, "Nian'er, you can really do it, people like Mingyue can be scared by you silently, if it were me, I'm afraid there would be a fight at this time, but you have to be careful in the future, King Huainan is also quite difficult to deal with." ”
Chu Nian shook his head helplessly, handed her a piece of pastry, and sent the tea cup to Chu Yuanlang's hand, "Don't worry about me, let's think about how you don't make trouble, I think that Zhen Yuan is tired enough." ”
Mu Qing sighed, honestly stuffed the pastry into his mouth, and didn't speak again.
After a short time, the royal hunting ground arrived, and at this moment, the imperial hunt was not far away, and the Chu family sisters and brothers and Mu Qing got out of the carriage and went to the imperial palace to salute.
Sitting in the emperor's coffin is the queen mother and a few concubines, the queen did not come today, and the emperor is riding on a horse with the prince and the children of a kind of family.
When the Queen Mother saw Chu Nian and Mu Qing, her eyes lit up obviously.
"Hey, this is Nian'er and Qing'er, who is this little Langjun?"
"Empress Dowager, this is the younger brother who has just returned to Beijing."
The Queen Mother dragged out her tone, and seemed to be extremely pleased, "Oh-Chu Family Yuanlang, come over and tell the mourning family to take a look, hey, your Chu family's bloodline is really, all of them are good-looking." ”
Chu Nian lowered his eyes and said nothing, Chu Yuanlang was held by the Queen Mother, and was trying his best to learn Chu Nian's appearance when dealing with the elders on weekdays and responded with a smile, he knew that he couldn't let the seemingly kind old lady in front of him be regarded as a straw bag, otherwise the few sisters and brothers in the family, the Zhenning Hou Mansion could only be supported by the third sister.
The Queen Mother seemed to be very satisfied with Chu Yuanlang, nodded, and then asked Chu Nian and them to go down, and at this time, it happened that the carriage of the third princess also arrived.
originally wanted to see what the rumored "beautiful as a flower" third princess looked like, but Chu Nian was pulled away by Mu Qing.
"Let's go, let's go, in the end, it's the territory of the royal family, and we'll suffer."
Chu Nian smiled disapprovingly, and soon, he saw the emperor and Ming Xiu on horseback.
She hurriedly saluted, but felt that the first hot gaze was falling on her.
Today, in order to facilitate hunting, she deliberately wore a neat beard suit, her long hair stood up high, only a trace of broken hair fell from her forehead, and her eyebrows were heroic.
Ming Xiu's eyes flickered slightly for a while, and when he saw her looking back, he quickly withdrew his gaze.
Female generals? She didn't need to do so much hard work, she just had to hide behind him and be her female counselor.
When the emperor saw Chu Nian and Mu Qing, he nodded kindly and said, "If Nian'er and Qing'er have any needs, just go to the good concubine, but pay attention to safety in the hunting ground." ”