After the new widow, I became a tyrant's tender outer chamber

Chapter 28 Damage
The next day, Ruan Yuyi sat in front of the bronze mirror, and Mu Xiang dressed her up. After wearing the hairpins and rings one by one, she always felt that there was something missing after looking around.

After thinking for a moment, Mu Xiang took rouge and put a small vermilion mole under her eyes.This little mole landed on the end of her eyes, making her eyes sparkle and her complexion even more radiant.

At this time, Mama Li opened the door and came in, asked Ann, and said that it was Cheng Zhushi who invited her to have breakfast with her.

Ruan Yuyi nodded slightly, and agreed.

"Put on those earrings, it matches today's clothes." She was wearing a soft silver lily dress today, with a white spot at the neckline, but her ears seemed a little empty.

"Yes." Seeing that the young lady's ears were almost healed, Mu Xiang opened the drawer, trying to take out the pair of pearl earrings.

But there is only a crumpled and unraveled handkerchief inside, and where did the earrings come from.

Both of them were startled.

Ruan Yuyi suddenly remembered that when she got off the bed just now, she felt as if she had stepped on a bead under her feet, her heart tightened, and she got up to check.

"Miss, this..." Seeing her bending over, Mu Xiang moved closer.

Sure enough, he groped for a white bead with a hole in it, which was one of the four East beads on the earring.

Mu Xiang hurriedly looked around for the remaining few.Beads collapsed and scattered, some by the wall, some under the table, it took a lot of work.

Ruan Yuyi held the Dongzhu and the gold thread she had found in her palms, pursed her lips and remained silent.

The incision at the broken part of the gold wire is smooth, and I think someone did it deliberately.She had a vague guess in her heart, but due to identity issues, she couldn't question that person directly.

However, the most important thing right now is that such a precious earring is broken, if the prince asks, what should she do.With the value of this earring, I'm afraid she would not be able to repay it even if she sold herself.

Mu Xiang said on the side, "Miss, these earrings are from Linglong Pavilion, maybe they can be repaired by taking them back there."

"Let's ask in a few days, there is no other way."

She put away the broken earrings and planned to go to Cheng Zhu's first.

As soon as I came out, I could hear the birds chirping clear and loudly in the courtyard, as if the wind that was blowing brought a deeper coolness.

Fearing that she would catch cold, Mu Xiang went back and took a light yellow shawl for her to wear.

When she came to Cheng Zhu's room again, Cheng Xingqiu and others had already taken their seats, but Zhaorong was nowhere to be seen.

Ruan Yuyi gave a little salute and found a place.As soon as he sat down, Cheng Zhushi said, "Sister Yi, did you see anyone when Xun Rui was a child yesterday?"

Being asked such a question, the first thing she thought of was the confrontation between the son and Cheng Xingqiu yesterday.She narrowed her eyes slightly, pretending to be calm and said, "Who is Aunt talking about?"

Cheng Zhu simply said, "This morning, the concubine—that is, the biological mother of King Yu, asked someone to deliver a box of pastries, which she said was for you and Rui'er. The concubine is... who is she?" When did I meet you?"

It turned out that it wasn't what she was worried about.

When she heard this, she breathed a sigh of relief, and explained in a low voice, "The second cousin ran into the concubine's courtyard yesterday, so we couldn't find him."

Regarding the concubine's joy towards Cheng Rui, she had heard it from Wen Zhi, but she never thought that the concubine would send cakes, let alone that the concubine would still remember her.

Cheng Zhu immediately asked, "Why did the concubine send the pastries?" Seeing the lust in her eyes, Ruan Yuyi roughly understood what she really wanted to ask.

So he asked, "Auntie, why don't you ask my second cousin why he went there?"

Cheng Zhushi didn't understand, so he frowned slightly, knowing that she had something to say, so he followed her words.

Cheng Xingqiu on one side thought of how he and Zhaorong coaxed Cheng Rui, and felt guilty, so he got up and left his seat on the pretext of preparing some breakfast for Zhaorong.

After careful calculation, he really didn't think carefully about this matter, even if he didn't want to keep Cheng Rui by his side, how could he coax him to go out of the yard.He was also a little confused at the time, but he didn't stop it.

Hearing that Cheng Xingqiu was going to deliver food to the eldest princess, Cheng Zhu hurriedly ordered Mama Li to fetch a food box, packed some pasta and a bowl of millet porridge for her, and even spoke a little flatteringly.

Cheng Xingqiu was indifferent, he took the food box and left.As long as the next day was free, Zhaorong didn't get up until the sun was up, so he was probably still asleep at the moment.

But after he left, Ruan Yuyi continued, "Although the eldest princess made a mistake unintentionally, she should have thought that the Shenghe Temple is so big that it is very easy for the second cousin to be unable to come back."

"It's still related to the princess at this time?" Cheng Zhu heard something was wrong, "You mean..."

She didn't go any further. After all, she was a princess. Even if it was her fault, what can she do for an ordinary lady?Even if something happened to Cheng Rui, she could only bite her silver teeth and swallow her blood.

"In the future, it's better for my aunt to ask more people to follow my second cousin." Ruan Yuyi took the millet porridge that Mu Xiang had scooped up, and stirred it casually with a spoon.

When Cheng Xingqiu came back and finished his breakfast, Cheng Zhu asked everyone to go down to make some preparations, saying that the concubine helped watch over Rui'er, and also brought cakes, according to the etiquette, they should go to see her.

Especially Cheng Rui and Ruan Yuyi should go.

She ordered Mama Li to inform the princess, but Mama Li came back and said, His Royal Highness the Princess said that she was not feeling well, so she would not go this time.The eldest son said he wanted to stay here to take care of the princess, so he didn't go.

Hearing this, Cheng Zhu's face darkened, she couldn't say it, His Highness, Qiu'er has always been polite, so why would she act so nonsense.

How did she know that Cheng Xingqiu had always held himself upright, in his eyes, he was naturally unwilling to do such flattery.

As for Zhao Rong, she is not in ill health.

She has always known that the concubine brought Yu Wang's son here to eat fast and worship Buddha, but when the first emperor was still alive, this concubine was very at odds with her mother and empress. Don't talk about visiting one or two.

Ruan Yuyi also wanted to evade, but suddenly realized that the son might be with the concubine, so she didn't say anything more, and followed along.

Relying on memory, several people went to the residence of the concubine.After Cheng Zhu adjusted his appearance, he grabbed the door knocker and knocked once, and when the sound was stable, he knocked three more times.

Then she put down the knocker and took half a step back.

The door was opened immediately, and a servant girl leaned out and asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Mrs. Cheng Zhu nodded and said, "I am the wife of the Censor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate. Yesterday, my second son was lost and was taken care of by the concubine. I brought my younger generation here to pay my respects. Please let me know."

"Okay, just wait." The servant girl glanced at them and slammed the door shut.

It didn't take long for the door to open wide, and several people were welcomed in, "The Empress Dowager and Princess Yu are in the side hall, and this servant will lead you there." Her expression was obviously quite submissive.

Originally, he wanted to come here to try his luck, to see if the crown prince was also here, but he didn't expect Princess Yu to be here.Ruan Yuyi consciously took one step behind Zhu's.

(End of this chapter)