The two of them walked side by side on the road back to Meiyuan, with the afterglow of the setting sun dyeing the sky red.
"Tomorrow should be a nice day, so it would be nice to go patrolling the mountains." Mingruo sighed, "It's a pity that I have to attend the Queen's Peach Blossom Banquet."
"I will pick you up after the court is over, and then take you to patrol the mountains." Si Haochen held his little princess, feeling that even if she wanted the moon in the sky, he would have to find a way to break off a piece of it and give it to her.
"Are you going to work tomorrow?" Mingruo found out that Si Haochen's class had to be "fishing for three days and drying nets for two days", which was very unprofessional.
"Go and deal with something." Si Haochen's tone was completely in line with the rhythm of a leader's inspection work.
"Then let's go to the palace together tomorrow."
"You don't have to go so early, the party has just started."
"It's rare for me to go to the palace, so I naturally want to visit my aunt and senior brother." Mingruo tilted her head and said, "I haven't been to senior brother's Lan Yue Tower yet."
"I have never been to Lan Yue Tower," Si Haochen said seriously.
"Ah? What do you mean..." Mingruo blinked her big eyes, it probably wasn't what she thought.
"I will go with my beloved concubine." Si Haochen said matter-of-factly.
"Okay." Mingruo nodded.
The next day, when Mingruo was taken out of the quilt by Zi Su and Aunt Dong to dress up, she regretted it - it was too early.
Mingruo closed her eyes and allowed Aunt Dong to dress her in a palace dress composed of five or six layers of clothes. Zisu then tied up a high bun with clouds, and wore a head and face dotted with emerald beads. Zisu knew that the princess didn't like it.
Heavy makeup, slightly dyed light makeup.#@$&
"Okay, Princess, you can see if you are satisfied with it." Zi Su helped Mingruo open the mirror box.
"Satisfied." Mingruo raised her heavy eyelids and took a look.
Aunt Dong put on Ming Ruo's colorful embroidered silk shawl and said, "Princess, please hurry up. Your Majesty will be late for the court."
"Ah." Mingruo finally opened his eyes, "Where is the prince?"
"It's in the study room." Aunt Dong was afraid that the princess would trip, so she quickly grabbed her long silk robe and followed her.%&(&
Mingruo walked into the study and saw Si Haochen sitting at the desk writing a letter, but didn't bother him.
Si Haochen looked up and saw the well-dressed little princess, his lips curved into a smile - his princess was so beautiful.
"You're going to be late for work." Mingruo reminded kindly.
"Yes." Si Haochen finished writing the letter, dried it and put it in an envelope. He slowly painted it with wax and gave it to the secret guard to send out, and then took Mingruo to the palace.
The courtiers went to the Chengtian Gate and the female relatives entered the palace and walked through the Xuanhe Gate. However, Si Haochen took Mingruo and walked through the Chengtian Gate and even summoned Jianyu.
The eunuch who was in charge of the morning ceremony stepped forward and persuaded: "His Royal Highness Prince Yun, this... princess cannot leave the Chengtian Gate..."
"I will send the princess to Xuanhemen, and then come back to attend court. Can you afford the delay?" Si Haochen looked solemn.
"..." If you miss the time to go to court, you will be fined twenty months' salary according to the law. If the emperor is unhappy, the punishment will be heavier. He, a slave, cannot bear this kind of responsibility.
"How about this? The prince will go to court first. I will arrange for the princess to be sent to the palace through the Xuanhe Gate. What do you think?"
"Yes." Si Haochen got on the shoulder cart directly, as if the king was easy to talk to, "I will get one based on the king's shoulder cart for the princess to ride on."
"Your Highness, Prince Yun, spare your life." The eunuch knelt down directly. Prince Yun's chariot was given by the Supreme Emperor, and its specifications were higher than the Queen's chariot. Where could he go to get another one? "Please accept it, Princess Yun."
Tianmen enters the palace."
Prince Yun stretched out his hand to pull Princess Yun to the carriage, and gave the eunuch a look that said, "You know what I mean".
The carriages were walking along the palace road at a steady speed, and you could also see officials who were out of breath because they entered the palace late and were afraid of missing the time to go to court.
When the carriage reached the entrance of the Qinzheng Palace, Si Haochen got off the carriage. The carriage carried Mingruo and continued to the Jinle Palace of Concubine Xian.
When Mingruo arrived, he happened to catch up with Concubine Xian having breakfast. Mingruo had a breakfast and then checked Concubine Xian's body.
Concubine Xian's belly was already very big at this time. Emperor Danxu attached great importance to Concubine Xian's pregnancy and sent a qualified imperial doctor to take care of her. After all, for a generation of emperors, Emperor Danxu did not have many heirs. That's all.
The few sons are still fighting each other openly and secretly, causing internal strife.
He is now in the prime of his life. After giving birth to a young son, he will raise him for ten or twenty years before he can plan for his throne... Moreover, if the good concubine has a son, Duke Jing will naturally support his grandson, Si Haochen, his grandson-in-law.
He had to step aside. Emperor Danxu felt that giving Xian Fei a son would be of great benefit and no harm.
"How?" Concubine Xian saw Ming Ruo's pulse and pressed lightly around her belly, feeling a little uneasy.
"The child is healthy, but he has grown a little too big." Mingruo continued, "The child has grown very fast in the last two months. If this continues, I'm afraid it won't be possible to give birth."
Concubine Xian only heard from her bridegroom that children can grow well only if they eat well, but she didn’t expect that this ‘supplement’ would become a big problem: “Then what should we do?”
"Control your diet from now on and eat less sweets and greasy food." Mingruo called up a meal menu suitable for pregnant women to control their weight from the medical system, copied it and handed it to Concubine Xian, "Auntie, try to follow this menu to arrange your meals individually.
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"Okay." Concubine Xian took the menu and asked Juyun to look at the arrangement.
In the Qinzheng Hall, Hu Yushi, a member of the third prince's party, had embezzled the funds earmarked for building the canal from Jin Shangshu. The amount was extremely huge and the circumstances were very serious. Even his brother-in-law, the prefect of Qingzhou, was investigated by the people sent by the third prince.
Jin Shangshu never expected that the third prince would do this. The money had gone into his third prince's house. If he really wanted to investigate, could the third prince be able to get rid of himself?
The third prince was always cautious in dealing with things, and he really took care of himself. He even cleverly led clues to the fourth and fifth princes.
The fourth prince and the fifth prince could not bear such a big blame. In order to prove their innocence, they both argued hard.
The fourth prince even more reasonedly analyzed that he was responsible for the construction of the canal. This was a matter of self-stealing and self-stealing. The gain outweighed the loss and he would definitely not do it.
The fifth prince looked frail as if he had just recovered from a serious illness: "Father, I know that my son has recurring coughs in the spring. He has been recuperating in the palace for a long time. He has no idea about the construction of the canal. Ahem..."
The fourth prince and the fifth prince were temporarily cleared of suspicion, but it is an indisputable fact that Jin Shangshu embezzled the money for building the canal. After all, only 1.5 million taels of three million taels of silver were transported to Qingzhou. The silver was less than half.
Before he had time to embezzle other funds to make up for it, the deficit was so huge that even a fool could see it.
