Three days before the funeral ceremony, the palace sent a ceremonial envoy to the Qiudi Pavilion to read out the edict of Emperor Chengde to draw up the title of loyal and respectful concubine for Cheng Zhaoyi, register the personnel and identities of the people participating in the ceremony in the palace one by one, and explain the process and details of the ceremony one by one.

Posthumously sealing the concubine from Zhaoyi, although it is respectful, it makes Ling Li feel all kinds of feelings in his heart. After returning to Beijing, he had inquired in detail from Ling Zhao about the reason for his mother's death, and he had fully understood what Ling Chong and Empress Zhao were doing behind his back. The day of the funeral ceremony was the day of his reckoning with the mother and son of the Zhao family.

"Your Highness, no, Miss fell off the rockery......"

As soon as the ceremonial envoy in the palace was sent off in the front hall, the housekeeper in the back house hurriedly came to report.

Ling Li's face changed suddenly, he lifted his robe and strode towards the back house.

On the lotus pond outside the waterfront corridor in the backyard, there was already a circle of mothers-in-law and maids, Ling Juan lay on the stone path under the rockery and screamed, but no one around took the initiative to step forward.

"Miss is lying on the ground injured, and you are all watching from the wall like this?!" Ling Li was so angry that he squatted down and wanted to hug Ling Juan.

"Your Royal Highness, Miss looks like she has broken her leg bones, and she is afraid that the bones will be misplaced, so she can't be rashly picked up." An old woman replied cautiously.

Ling Li was stunned for a moment, then changed his posture, held Ling Juan's hand with one hand, and wiped her crying little face with the other. Ling Juan was already crying hoarsely, but she still shouted repeatedly: "Daddy save me, Daddy save me!" ”

This shout made Ling Li only hate to suffer for her. "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, Daddy is here." While comforting her, he turned back to find the shadow of his minister Cao Zhong, "What about Cao Zhongren?" ”

"Cao Neiren just took the list handed over by the etiquette envoy and went out to buy supplies."

Unable to find Cao Zhong, Ling Li changed his words and called Ming Cui again, "Ming Cui, hurry up and take my jade plate and go to the palace to invite the best bone injury doctor!" ”

"Slave and maid, go now." Ming Cui took Ling Li's jade card, turned around and ran out.

Dong Yuejiao followed behind Ling Li, and then rushed over out of breath, and when she saw this scene, she immediately scolded: "Are they all stupid?" The weather is so hot, let His Royal Highness and Miss bask in the sun like this?! ”

Seeing everyone looking at each other, not knowing what to do, Dong Yuejiao stepped forward and squatted opposite Ling Li, blocked the sun for Ling Juan with the silk fan in her hand, and then ordered:

"Qingzhu, hurry up and get an umbrella to cover His Highness and Miss!"

"The slave obeys."

"Zhao Ping, hurry up and take someone to get a door panel!"

"The villain will do it!"

After Qingzhu and Zhao Ping left, Dong Yuejiao ordered her subordinates to get a basin towel to wipe the sweat beads on Ling Juan's forehead, and asked someone to bring cool black plum tea to feed Ling Juan.

After Zhao Ping led someone to get the door panel, Dong Yuejiao and Ling Li moved Ling Juan to the door panel again, and carefully escorted her all the way back to the bedroom.

A moment later, Ming Cui led the imperial doctor in the palace to arrive. The imperial doctor carefully examined Ling Juan's injuries, and sure enough, he broke his right calf bone. The imperial doctor docked the bones and ordered someone to find a wooden splint to fix her limbs. After treatment, Ling Juan was prescribed analgesics.

Dong Yuejiao ordered someone to follow her to the Tai Hospital to retrieve the medicine, and then personally guarded the stove and fried it and took it to Ling Juan's room. Ling Juan cried and shouted that she would not drink the medicine, so she sat in front of the bed and blew the cold medicinal juice, and patiently coaxed Ling Juan to drink it with sugar cakes. It wasn't until the potion took effect, Ling Juan's pain was relieved, and she slowly fell asleep, that she got up and left.

After this busy time, most of the day passed.

After dealing with these, Dong Yuejiao gathered all the servants and maids on duty in the back house, and asked Ling Juan one by one how she fell from the rockery. After all the questions, she took the nurse Lu Shi, Zhou Shi, and the maid Mu Hibiscus in her room to Ling Li to ask for guilt.

"Your Highness, the reason for Juanjuan's fall today has been investigated, and I am here to ask for instructions."

"What's going on today?" Ling Li had just received a letter from his maternal uncle Cheng Beikui, and when he saw Dong Yuejiao coming, he put down the letter and raised his head to ask.

Dong Yuejiao told the ins and outs of the matter. Lu and Zhou took Juanjuan to the lotus pond to pick lotus pods, and happened to meet Hibiscus walking with Moyu. Juanjuan felt that the cat was cute, so she caught the dragonfly to tease the cat to play, and then the cat chased the dragonfly and climbed the rockery, Juanjuan also chased it, Lu's, Zhou's and hibiscus chatted next to it and didn't notice, Juanjuan stepped on the moss on the rockery, and fell down on a piece of bluestone beside the road.

Ling Li was furious when he heard this, and immediately asked Cao Zhong to expel the three people of the Lu family, the Zhou family, and the hibiscus from the palace with forty canes, and the servant woman who was responsible for taking care of the lotus pond rockery and the mother-in-law who swept the floor in the backyard were also fined three months of silver.

"Your Highness, the back house is not well managed, and the concubines are also responsible, please punish Your Highness." Dong Yuejiao took the initiative to plead guilty.

"At the time of the incident, Madame and I were in the front hall to receive the palace envoy, and this matter has nothing to do with Madame." Ling Li has been married to her for many years, and today is the first time to see her change her fear and timidity in the past, and handle the affairs of the back house so decisively, she was surprised and a little grateful in her heart, so she couldn't bear to be harsh. I have been running around all year round, and this back house really needs such a woman to take care of it.

"Your Highness is so magnanimous, the concubines are grateful." Dong Yuejiao lowered her eyebrows and bowed her knees to thank you.

"Juanjuan is naughty, I made you feel wronged a few days ago." Ling Li has been at home for the past two days, and he has also seen Ling Juan's naughtiness, but he loves his daughter very much, and he is afraid that Dong Yuejiao will not be able to take good care of him in private, so he told again: "Juanjuan is injured and bedridden, and her temperament may be more difficult to rest, and I have to bother Mrs. to be more considerate and professed." ”

"Your Highness, rest assured, Juanjuan is also the daughter of the concubine, and the concubine must be carefully cared for." After Dong Yuejiao solemnly responded, she raised her head again and asked, "Your Highness, we have reported Juanjuan's name in the ceremonial book before, on the day of the concubine's funeral, will she still enter the palace to salute?" ”

"If you are injured like this, it is naturally impossible to enter the palace and salute, but it is just ......" Ling Li hadn't considered this before, and when he heard her mention it at this moment, he couldn't help frowning.

The list has been reported, and it is not impossible to go to the Ministry of Rites to withdraw it, but Ling Juan, as the granddaughter of the emperor, is officially registered in the royal register for the first time, and it is related to her future canonization. Moreover, Ling Juan's failure to meet his mother has made him feel guilty, if her name is not on the incinerated condolence list, how can he comfort his mother's spirit in the sky?

"Your Highness, the concubine has a superficial idea, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?"

"But it doesn't hurt to say it."

"I see that Juanjuan's maid silkworm is the same age as her, and she is generally tall and short, and the child is obedient and sensible, why don't you let her go to the spirit on behalf of Juanjuan to fulfill her filial piety?"

"Silkworms?" Ling Li remembered the little girl she brought back from Xili, "However, after all, this is a royal funeral, and the identity of the little silkworm is not suitable to enter the ancestral hall......"

"The concubine knows what His Royal Highness is worried about, and the concubine has not come out, if His Royal Highness allows it, the concubine can adopt the silkworm as an adopted daughter. First, she can go to her mother and concubine on behalf of Juanjuan to fulfill her filial piety, and second, we don't have to go to the Ministry of Rites to withdraw the condolence list, and we have fulfilled the royal etiquette. ”

It's the best of both worlds. Ling Li nodded in approval and said, "Madame has thought very thoroughly, then this matter will be handled by Madame Lao." ”

"I am very pleased to be able to share the worries of His Royal Highness." Dong Yuejiao curtsied again.

After coming out of Ling Li's study, Qing Yu approached Dong Yuejiao and praised in her ear: "Madame's performance in front of His Highness today is fantastic, and the slave maid found that His Highness has seen Madame much more times today than in the past......"

The corners of Dong Yuejiao's lips couldn't help but evoke a hint of pride, "I have been going back and forth between the official mansions of the inner court all day long, and I have watched a lot of good dramas, and it is not difficult to perform such a play once in a while." ”