Speaking of Hongli, a smile appeared in Ling Ruo's eyes again, "Hongli is really a sensible boy. Usually when my concubine feels slightly uncomfortable, he will be so nervous that he will ask the imperial doctor to take a look."
"Yes, you are still complaining to me about this!" After laughing, Yinzhen said: "Hongli is indeed good and can take on big things, but he is still too young and lacks experience. I plan to give him some after the New Year.
Doing things. After all, books are dead and people are alive. Merely studying dead books is not enough. You must also know how to learn and apply them. In those days, I started to learn to run errands at about this age."
Yinzhen valued Hongli so much, Ling Ruo was happy to do so, but he said: "The emperor is so majestic, how can Hongli be compared with the emperor? I am afraid that he will disappoint the emperor."
"No, I have confidence in him. Our children will definitely be better than others. As a mother-in-law, you should have more confidence in him." Yinzhen's eyes flashed with expectation. After such experience,
From another perspective, we can see more hidden meanings. However, Ling Ruo couldn't say much about these. He just said with a smile: "If he can share one or two duties for the emperor in state affairs, then it will be the best."
good."
At this time, Sixi walked in, holding a mahogany tray with green-headed plaques with the names of the concubines on it. He knelt on the ground, raised the plate high above his head and said, "Please turn over the plaques, Your Majesty."
In addition to Yinzhen's explicit instructions not to invite concubines, the Jingshi Room would prepare a green-headed card every day and give it to Sixi, who would present it to the emperor. Any concubine whose card was turned over would be responsible for attending to the bed that night.
Looking at Si Xi who was kneeling down, Yinzhen smiled and cursed: "You slave, when did you become so blind? I'm already in Chengqian Palace, why do you still need to turn over the signs? Tell the Jingshifang, I'm here tonight
Rest here with Concubine Xi."
"Hey!" Following Sixi's agreement, within half an hour, the news that the emperor was resting in Chengqian Palace tonight spread throughout the harem.
Yikun Palace was the first to receive the news. After sending the little eunuch who reported the message, Nian wiped the soup stained at the corner of her mouth and signaled the palace servants to remove the untouched meal from the table.
Then he said: "Where's Third Brother? Why haven't you seen him all day?"
Luyi held the copper basin used to clean hands and said: "When I came back to the master, Master Zhu said that he would take a classics and history exam tomorrow, so the third elder brother stayed in the study all day to review his lessons, and even the lunch and dinner meals were sent to the study.
After my son’s last accident, the third elder brother has become much more mature and sensible than before. I heard that Master Zhu often praises the third elder brother recently!"
Lu Yi originally wanted to please Nian, but she didn't know that Nian glanced at her coldly and said, "Did I ask you? Why do you talk so much? Go and call the third elder brother. I want to ask him something."
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"Yes." Lu Yi was scolded for no reason and did not dare to say more. He quickly came to the study room and saluted Hong Sheng who was writing something: "Brother Three, the master called you over and said yes.
I have something to ask you."
"Eniang, do you have something to ask me?" Hong Sheng repeated strangely, glanced at the explanation of the classics and history that was half written in his pen and said, "Okay, you go back first, and I will come over after I finish this explanation."
In the past, Lu Yi would have naturally retreated as he was told, but this time he said: "Third elder brother, you'd better hurry over. This servant is not in a good mood after seeing the master come back from meeting the fourth elder brother in the imperial garden.
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As soon as he heard Hongli's name, Hong Sheng suddenly became nervous. He put down his pen and walked down to ask, "What did E Niang and Hong Li say?"
Lu Yi thought for a while and said: "It's nothing, I just asked Brother Si to take a look at the jade pendant he wears around his waist."
After listening to Lu Yi's description of the jade pendant, Hong Sheng wailed in his heart. He already knew why Nian was in a bad mood. It was really terrible. How could he be discovered by E Niang? She had not allowed herself to
When interacting with Hongli and others, he must have been very angry when he saw that he had given them the jade pendant given by his uncle.
Thinking of this, Hong Sheng did not dare to delay any longer, and followed Lu Yi to the main hall. As soon as he entered, he saw Nian staring directly at him. His heart trembled, and he stepped forward to salute, and then said flatteringly: "My son, I have been doing this lately.
I just learned the art of acupuncture with one hand from the palace servant. It is most effective for relieving someone's fatigue. Why don't you ask me to squeeze my mother's shoulders?"
"This kind of thing that servants do, how can your elder brother learn from it?" Nian replied coldly, and then said: "The set of jade pendants your uncle gave you when he came to the palace last time, take it out and give it to me.
Let’s take a look at the palace.”
Hearing this, Hong Sheng's scalp was already numb, and he pretended to be calm and said: "My son has already stored it in the cabinet at the top of the house. It will be very troublesome to take it out."
Nian put the tea cup in his hand to the side and said calmly: "With so many palace people here, how troublesome can it be? If that doesn't work, I will turn your whole room over and search for it even on the beams."
Get it. Say, which cabinet is it in?"
"In... in..." How could Hong Sheng dare to tell the truth? Just when he was thinking about how to push it away, Nian had already slammed the table and shouted: "How long are you going to keep this secret from me? Say, that jade pendant
Did you take it and give it to Hongli?"
Seeing Nian's anger, Hong Sheng quickly knelt down and said in fear: "Eniang, please calm down, I will die!"
"Can we say it now?" The back of Nian's hand was covered with tea splashed when the tea cup jumped up, and it was still a little hot, but she didn't care at all and just stared at Hong Sheng closely.
Hong Sheng bit his bloodless lips and said, "Your Majesty... Your Majesty gave two of the jade pendants to Hong Li and Hong Zhou respectively."
"What, even Hong Zhou is involved?" Nian's suppressed anger suddenly burst out, his chest heaved violently like a bellows, he pointed at Hong Sheng and trembled: "You, you want to be angry to death
My wife?"
Hong Sheng quickly crawled to Nian's feet and said, "I don't dare, I beg E Niang to calm down."
"How do you want me to calm down? What did I tell you that you are not allowed to get too close to them? Do you think my words fall on deaf ears? Not only do you not listen, you also give them jade pendants. You want to be angry to death.
Mother?" Not to mention that the jade pendant is extremely precious, but Hong Sheng's actions,
It was enough to make her angry. She took a breath and said again: "The two villains in Chengqian Palace and Yonghe Palace are not good people, and the sons they gave birth to are naturally not good people. They are approaching you deliberately and want to harm you."
You, you are still kept in the dark and you don’t know.”
Hong Sheng hesitated for a long time, and finally decided to tell the truth, "No, Hongli is not that kind of person. During the days when Er Chen was in Chengqian Palace, he treated Er Chen very well, and even went to Emperor Ama to do his best for his mother.
plead."
Nian didn't expect that Hong Sheng would dare to contradict her face to face, and she was so angry that her hands trembled, "According to what you mean, E Niang was wrong and deliberately wronged them?"