"Senior brother, do you want to draw a circle and curse that person?" Mingruo had never thought before that his backer was so powerful.
"Why is it so troublesome to curse? I can just cut it off for my husband." Si Haochen felt that the second lamp was getting brighter and brighter.
Mingruo also wants to say, don't say these words of beating and killing in front of children.
Xiaotuanzi patted her chest and said, "Xuan'er will also practice martial arts hard. When my eldest brother and seventh uncle are too old to fight, Xuan'er will help my sister-in-law fight the bad guys!"
"Okay." Mingruo didn't intend to offend Xiaotuanzi's good intentions. After all, this is a 'glutinous rice dumpling stuffed with black sesame seeds' that will always throw the blame on the ancestors.
Upstairs in Lanyue, Jun Che and Si Haochen were talking about recruiting the "Four Kingdoms" to surrender. Ming Ruo was teaching Xiaotuanzi how to play checkers.
Zelan came up to make some new tea, and reported: "Eunuch Ke brought a girl to see her, and said she was the princess's maid."
"Ah?" Mingruo paused while holding the chess piece. Could it be that something happened at the medicine hall? The maid found from outside, Mingruo thought, must be A Yuan: "Let them come up."
"Yes." Zelan took the order and left.
When Mingruo saw a girl who was much older than Eunuch Ke, she was very surprised: "Qiushui, why is it you?"
"She is your slave." Qiu Shui stepped forward and gave him a gift, "Young master said that the harem has many dirty tricks, so he asked me to protect the madam." Qiu Shui took out his body deed from his arms and presented it to Ming Ruo.
"This slave will be Madam's from now on."
Mingruo scratched his chin. Although he did not intend to engage in a palace fight, he still needed a technical maid with high martial arts like Qiu Shui.
"Okay, then you can follow me from now on." Mingruo took Qiu Shui's body deed and put it into his 'sleeve pocket'.
"Hehe... Thank you Madam for taking me in." Qiu Shui quickly knelt down and kowtowed to Ming Ruo. She was also worried that Madam disliked her strength and rough appearance and did not want to keep her around to serve her. "Please Madam give me a name for this slave."
"Ahem..." This means that we have to give up the name again and be forced to open the business. "Then you... call me Aqiu."
"Thank you Madam for the name." Ah Qiu liked her new name very much. It sounded more like a girl's name than 'Qiu Shui'. "General Jiang also asked the slave to bring a lot of Beichi specialties as New Year gifts. The slave and his party were delayed by a snowstorm.
I have not made it to the imperial capital before the end of the year, so please forgive me, Your Majesty and Madam."
When she was in Zhongzhou, Mingruo liked Qiushui very much. Besides, it was not her fault that she encountered such force majeure: "It's good that everyone arrived safely. You can go down and rest first."
"Yes." Aqiu and Eunuch Ke bowed and left.
"Haha." Jun Che chuckled softly, "He Lian was determined. He was afraid that the junior sister would be plotted by the women in the harem, so he sent a female guard."
"Since he has a conscience, I didn't help him in vain." Mingruo shrugged.
"It's just unfounded worries." Si Haochen picked up the checkers in front of Ming Ruo and thrust them straight into Xuan'er's base camp. "The harem he imagined does not exist at all."
"Eldest brother...watched the chess without saying a word!" Xiao Tuanzi looked at Si Haochen helplessly.
"Brother, I don't have any words." Si Haochen picked up another chess piece, "I'm just playing for your sister-in-law for a while."
"I don't need you to 'replace' me." Mingruo snatched the chess piece back, "You go talk to your senior brother about serious matters."
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Shangyuan Festival.
At five o'clock in the morning, Mingruo was picked up from the bed by Zisu and Aunt Dong, and they began to change clothes and put on makeup. Mingruo sat in front of the dressing table with her eyes closed, letting Ji Yue apply powder and paint her eyebrows.
"Do you think this makeup is okay?" Jiyue held the silver mirror in front of Mingruo.
Mingruo opened her heavy eyelids and saw the woman in the mirror with eyebrows as distant as mountains, bright eyes and white teeth. The phoenix-feather-shaped flower bud on her forehead made the whole makeup look more elegant and noble.
"Yeah." Mingruo nodded.
"Then my servant will change your clothes." Zisu and Aqiu brought over the phoenix robe and phoenix crown.
"This phoenix crown is very heavy. Let's wear it later." Aqiu put the heavy phoenix crown on the dressing table.
"Let's talk after breakfast." The golden phoenix crown inlaid with various gems made my neck hurt just looking at it.
"Sister Zicao didn't make breakfast today, she only made a small cup of porridge." Aqiu gestured to the size of the soup cup.
"Princess, don't listen to Qiu Yatou's nonsense, this old slave even made Ruyi Crispy Cake." Aunt Dong said hurriedly.
"The snacks that mama makes are smaller than quail eggs, and even ten pieces of them are not enough." Ah Qiu felt that even a plateful of snacks would not satisfy her.
"Mommy, you can only give me two snacks at most." Mingruo also knew that this dress was cumbersome to put on. In order to avoid the trouble of going to the toilet, you would basically have to go hungry while wearing this kind of dress.
"I have to apologize to the princess when I get up early. For dinner, I will make you a crispy lotus root box, assorted crispy fruits, and your favorite hibiscus shrimp balls." Aunt Dong immediately comforted her.
"Why are you still calling me Princess?" Zi Su said with a smile, "From now on, I should be called Queen."
"This is already spoken smoothly, but the brain speaks first." Aunt Dong knocked on her head, "When people get old, their brains are no longer useful."
"Hurry and bring the Queen's porridge, it will be too late soon." Zi Su urged.
"Alas." Zicao turned around and went to the kitchen to pass out breakfast.
"Don't tell me about you, I'm not used to it either." Mingruo leaned on the back of his chair, waiting for his 'scarce' breakfast.
As soon as Ming Ruo picked up a piece of Ruyi Crispy, Si Haochen came in, and Eunuch Ke announced from behind: "The Emperor has come to take the Queen to the Ziwei Hall to accept the worship of hundreds of officials."
Mingruo quickly stuffed the snack into his mouth and chewed it quickly.
"Ha." Si Haochen, who was wearing a black dragon robe, looked particularly handsome and tall. He leaned slightly in front of Mingruo, "Why are you so anxious? I won't steal your snacks."
"That's not necessarily the case." Mingruo vaguely remembered Si Haochen who 'robbed' her of the candied haws. After careful calculation, she and Si Haochen could be considered an 'old couple'.
"Let's go, my husband will take you to eat something delicious." Si Haochen smiled and took Mingruo's hand, walking towards the chariot waiting outside the hall.
"Where can I find something delicious?" Mingruo looked around, but didn't see anything edible.
Si Haochen took out a candied haws from his 'sleeve pocket': "Does this count?"
"Let's just forget it." Mingruo leaned over and bit off half of the red fruit.
"What about this?" Si Haochen took out a box of amber peach kernels from his 'sleeve pocket'.
"Hey?" Mingruo supported his chin with his hand, "What else do you have?"
Si Haochen took out various snacks from his 'sleeve pocket' and offered them to his wife. Mingruo was stunned for a moment: "Why did you remember to bring so many snacks with you?"
"In the past, when I got up early to go to court, Ruo'er carefully prepared snacks for me. Today, if I get up early to go to court, my husband will naturally reciprocate with courtesy."
The two fed each other and had a lot of fun along the way. Eunuch Ke watched silently and felt that the emperor and empress really knew how to play.
