Zhu Bai called a guard over: "Send her back to the Guanya Bureau."
Then he and Zhu Ju stood at the gate of the palace, watching the back of Nannan walking away alone.
Zhu Bai felt very uncomfortable.
Zhu Ju said: "Brother, my daughter is so pitiful."
Zhu Bai: "Yeah."
Zhu Ju: "Bring her into the palace, be my maid, and play with me."
Zhu Bai rolled his eyes: "I was originally innocent and free, but I brought her into the palace to be a slave. Is it a crime? Although your brother and I are profiteers, I can't do such a thing."
Zhu Ju pouted and walked in, then said: "Then she can only spend the New Year alone?"
Zhu Bai: "Yeah."
Zhu Ju: “Celebrate New Year’s Eve alone.”
Zhu Bai: "Well..."
Zhu Ju: "Spending the first day of the Lunar New Year alone."
Zhu Bai: "I know."
Zhu Ju: "A person passes fifteen."
Zhu Bai: "Are you done yet..."
Zhu Ju: "She is so pitiful."
Zhu Bai: "Stop talking. What happens to her has nothing to do with me."
He asked people to take Zhu Ju back to Concubine Hu Shun's palace, but Zhu Bai himself walked around in the palace, feeling restless.
Finally he stopped and sighed: Just think of it as doing a good deed.
Lao Zhu could never refuse the conditions I proposed, but the sacrifice was a bit high.
In Qianqing Hall, Lao Zhu was bored. Seeing Zhu Bai come in, he snorted coldly: "What are you doing?"
Zhu Bai grinned: "I bought some snacks and preserved fruits for my father at the temple fair today. You can try them."
Lao Zhu narrowed his eyes: "Tsk, tsk, tsk. Showing courtesy for nothing is either adultery or theft. Treason, what kind of calculations do you have, tell us before we dare to eat."
Zhu Bai bowed solemnly and said: "I have a request. As long as my father agrees, I will play with my father with the slingshot every day during the New Year. From now on, if my father wants to play, I will also play with you."
.If Yan Guan asks, Er Chen will say that Er Chen wants to play and pester the father, and Yan Guan will never be able to say anything wrong with the father."
Lao Zhu frowned: "What is worthy of your compromise?"
You, such a traitor, suddenly become considerate and ridiculously sensible, which scares us so much.
Isn't it to force us to hand over gold, silver, copper, iron ore or salt fields?
Zhu Bai said: "I have a friend who is lonely, young and helpless. I want her to spend the New Year in the palace. She will not be a slave or a concubine in the harem. She will just be a guest. She will leave the palace after the fifteenth day."
My father must promise my daughter, and no one will embarrass her or deny her permission to leave the palace."
Lao Zhu suddenly realized: "Oh, I'm talking about the little girl from the Guan Ya Bureau."
Zhu Bai's cheeks became warm for some reason, and he answered: "Yes."
Lao Zhu frowned: "You are still young, why will it take five or six years to..."
Zhu Bai said: "My son didn't want to take her as a concubine, he just regarded her as a friend."
Lao Zhu: "She is not a female official, a concubine, or a slave, so what qualifications do she have to enter the palace?"
Zhu Bai blinked: "Oh, that's right, the female official. She is the female official of the Guanya Bureau. The Guanya Bureau is the property of the father, so isn't she a female official in the palace?"
Lao Zhu narrowed his eyes and looked at Zhu Bai: "You traitor, when you need us, Guanya Bureau is our property, and when you don't need us, Guanya Bureau is your own property."
Zhu Bai sneered: "What belongs to my son is my father's. Isn't even my son my father's?"
Lao Zhu pondered for a moment: "Let's discuss this with your mother."
Zhu Boti's conditions were too tempting, and he really wanted an excuse to play slingshot openly.
Zhu Bai: "It should, it should, after all, the queen mother is the master of the harem."
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Lao Zhu told Queen Ma about this matter after dinner, without mentioning a word about the slingshot.
Empress Ma smiled: "It's rare for the Twelve to make a request, so the emperor agreed to it. She is a little girl, so I don't think she can do anything extraordinary. So he brought her into the palace and placed her with the concubines.
."
Zhu Bo is willing to sell his face to beg Lao Zhu, so he must have a special regard for this girl.
Maybe in the future, this child will become Zhu Bai's favorite concubine.
To be on the safe side, I want to win this kid over now so that he can become her spy next to Zhu Bai in the future.
Lao Zhu nodded slightly: "That's fine."
Empress Ma added: "Stay with me, I will train her well. If the emperor thinks she is acceptable, he will give her to Lao Twelve when she is older."
Lao Zhu nodded: "Yes, yes, we think so too."
Lao Zhu asked someone to tell Zhu Bai.
When Zhu Bai heard this, his balls ached.
In fact, he wanted to put his daughter in Concubine Hu Shun's palace, but he didn't expect that Queen Ma would actually put it in Kunning Palace.
It was inappropriate to say anything now, otherwise it would appear that he could not trust Queen Ma.
Offending Lao Zhu and Queen Ma means doing bad things with good intentions.
Not to mention Nannan, Concubine Hu Shun and Zhu Ju will not have a good life in the future.
Zhu Bai was afraid that others could not explain it clearly, so he went out of the palace to pick up his daughter.
When Nannan saw Zhu Bai coming again, she felt a little embarrassed and said, "Your Highness, the Guanya Bureau is closed now. Your Highness should also take a good rest. There is no need to come to the Guanya Bureau every day."
Zhu Bai said: "The Queen said she wanted to see you and asked me to take you into the palace."
When Nannan heard this, she was very panicked, but she didn't dare to disobey her order, so she bit her lip.
Zhu Bai glanced at her twisted hands, feeling a little angry and helpless: He had been planning for a long time, but others didn't appreciate it.
There was a hint of impatience in his tone: "I don't want to do anything to you. I'm just afraid that during the New Year, there will be fewer people on the street at night and the soldiers are a little lazy. It won't be safe for you to stay alone in Guanya Bureau.
."
Nannan lowered her head: "Thank you, Your Highness. I know His Highness's kindness. But I can't leave."
What's strange is that she refused to follow her grandfather back to Changsha before, and she had to stay here life or death.
Why exactly?
Zhu Bai thought for a while and asked: "Are you waiting for someone?"
Nannan hesitated for a moment before nodding.
Zhu Bai said: "Everyone is celebrating the New Year now. If that person is not in Yingtian at this time, he will not come until after the New Year."
Now that I know that Nannan is the daughter of a wealthy family, I thought the person she was waiting for might be an official.
Lao Zhu has called back everyone he wants to call back. Those who haven't been called back now must be out celebrating the New Year.
Zhu Bai added: "After the fifteenth day, I will let you out of the palace. I won't delay you and others."
Then Nannan said: "Okay."
Everyone in the palace was surprised when they heard that Zhu Bai had brought a girl back.
Zhu Ju had already compiled a sad life story for her daughter. She said that her parents had been living on the streets since she was a child. She even forgot her own name. She fainted from hunger in front of the official tooth bureau and was taken in by Zhu Bai.
She originally told the story to Queen Ma, and then passed it on to other people, and eventually everyone in the palace knew about it.
When the palace people heard this, they were originally a little envious, jealous, and resentful towards Nannan, but now they only felt sympathy. When they found out that Nannan was a gentle, quiet and beautiful girl, everyone could no longer dislike her anymore.
Not to mention Zhu Bai, anyone who sees a girl like this in trouble would be tempted to help her.
