The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 73
Although Wei Chen arrived in Luo'an two days later, Sydney didn't see him until Sheng Jia left the palace half a month later.

That day she was sleeping in the room in the dark, when Dou Sha pulled her arm and shook her awake. When she woke up, she was still a little angry, and asked Dou Sha angrily what's the matter, Dou Sha stuck out her tongue: "Master Wei came to see my sister, she's outside."

Xueli woke up immediately, and after quickly washing and dressing, she saw Wei Chen as soon as she arrived in the yard.

"Master Wei!" She trotted over and smiled, and Wei Chen yawned and looked at her: "You don't get up at this hour, are you so free?"

"Isn't it because His Majesty is not here?" Sydney said confidently.

The fact is true, the emperor left the palace and took half of the people in front of the imperial court, and the remaining half had nothing to do.Like their imperial dining room, three or four people are left on duty every day, and it is enough to prepare sour plum soup, mung bean soup and other things to relieve the heat, and they don't need to worry about other things.

Wei Chen made no comment, and said, "I heard Mrs. Lu...has gone, and the child is in Yuehe Palace?"

"Yes, His Majesty made her the Princess of Ping'an." Xue Li nodded and said, "Do you want to meet, Your Excellency?"

Wei Chen smiled: "Your Majesty said that I can see you, so I should have left a message for Mrs. Concubine Shu. But I couldn't find Xu Shishui, can you report it for me?"

He is not allowed to enter the harem as a foreign minister.

Sydney readily agreed, and went to the Imperial Dining Room first, and brought some side dishes to Wei Chen. The meat ones were drunken fish and sauced beef, and the vegetarian ones were stir-fried yam, fungus, mushrooms and rapeseed. Take a look at these dishes, and a pot of fine wine, and carried them back to the small courtyard to Wei Chen.

The food and wine were placed on the stone table together, she handed a cup to Wei Chen, and said with a smile: "Your Excellency, eat and wait, I will hurry back."

"...Okay." Wei Chen looked at the table and laughed, and said with emotion, "You are really a big girl, she is careful and takes care of others."

Xue Li blushed, stuck out her tongue at him, turned and walked away.

Wei Chen looked at her back and unconsciously lost his mind for a moment.

There have been situations where we didn’t see each other after a few months before, but this time it’s different—we saw each other after a few months, but I just felt that she had changed from a “little girl” to a “little taller girl”. It's been a few months... She seems to have grown up all of a sudden, the brows and eyes remain the same but with a little more charm, her figure is slim, and she no longer looks like a child.

Wei Chenqiang took a sip of his wine after regaining consciousness, smiled again unconsciously, and then took the chopsticks to pick up the vegetables.

He always wanted to know the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room in Luowu.

Sydney was very happy to see Wei Chen again, and felt refreshed.

Wei Chen probably didn't know this feeling, nor did the emperor, but she knew it herself.Ever since Lu Yong passed away, she felt sad and indignant when she mentioned Yu Lingwei, and then Mrs. Lu also left, which made her feel that Yu Lingwei was living in danger.

Therefore, in the past few months, whenever she thought of Wei Chen being sent to Luowu on business, she kept saying "Amitabha Buddha" in her heart - she couldn't help worrying that Wei Chen would encounter accidents there.

Sometimes when she was lying on the couch in the middle of the night, she thought horribly in the dark, such things as death in a foreign land, blood splattered on the frontier, and no bones left... Every time she made her heart beat completely, and then she thought about it again. "Amitabha".

So seeing Wei Chen standing in front of her alive and chatting with her now, I really feel relaxed for a moment!

When I am in a good mood, I can walk briskly, as if the road to Yuehe Palace has been shortened by half.After stepping into the palace gate of Yuehe Palace, I had to adjust my mood and become more serious. Ichifu greeted the big palace lady who came out: "Sister, the commander of the imperial guard and Tong Zhiwei are here, and they said they want to see the emperor."

The emperor had explained this earlier, and the court lady understood as soon as she heard it, and said to her with a smile: "Miss, please wait for a while, I will report to Madam."

The two faced each other again, and the maid went into the palace.After a while, the nanny Qi came out with Di Ji in her arms.

Qi Shi is the oldest of the four wet nurses, she is the most responsible among the four, A Yao seems to like her the most.

Xueli came with the emperor every now and then, and Qi was familiar with her. Seeing Ayao babbling and stretching out his hand towards Xueli, he leaned on her, hugged her closer and let her grab the hairpin on Xueli's head.Xue Li smiled, fearing that the hairpin would scratch her hand, she picked a silk flower and brought it down to her: "Here, please be obedient, I will bring you to meet... Uncle? Well, it should be Uncle."

Of course Ah Yao didn't understand, so she heard that she repeated the word "Uncle" twice, and it happened that the pronunciation of this word was simple, so she repeated "Uncle Uncle" all the way.

Xueli teased her with a grimace and said, "You little talker! Talker!"

Then Ayao changed his chanting to "cha-cha-chao".

Sydney: "..."

The three of them talked and laughed all the way back to the small courtyard, Wei Chen heard a voice from a long distance, came out to meet A Yao and reached out to meet him.

Qi Shi was caught off guard and didn't dodge, Ayao was excited and not afraid, and laughed when he held her up high, the laughter drew out Zixian who was too hot to stay in the room.

"Ah, Di Ji?" Su Zixian hadn't seen Ah Yao much before, and seeing her being held up by Wei Chen with a smirk, Su Zixian couldn't help laughing too.

Wei Chen looked at Ah Yao and straightened his face: "Uncle."

A Yao: "Chacha."

"..." Wei Chen frowned, "Why are you called grandma? Uncle!"

A Yao nodded: "Chacha."

Xue Li and Qi Shi supported each other's shoulders and laughed.

The whole afternoon, the laughter in the small courtyard did not stop, but it was a pity that Yue Tingxian was not here after driving out.

Even Dou Sha, who had been taken away by Wei Chen for [-] years and had always been afraid of Wei Chen, laughed and cried several times. Fu Gui climbed up the tree and picked the still green peaches to tease Ah Yao——I can’t eat them. Eat it, but throw it away for fun.

As a result, Ah Yao became more excited, took a hard green peach and patted it on the stone table, picked it up to see if it was not damaged, and threw it towards Wei Chen with a "giggle" smile.

Wei Chen is indeed the imperial guard, he was so close without any precautions, and he caught it as soon as he raised his hand quickly.

Ah Yao was dumbfounded for a moment, and laughed even more happily. He continued to play "Smashing Wei Chen" and had a great time. After smashing, he knew to reach out and ask Wei Chen to get the peach back, and then continued!

She had a total of three peaches in her hand, and after four rounds of playing like this, Wei Chen suddenly turned his hand back with a stern face, and refused to give it to her.

"Yi..." A Yao was stunned for a moment, her little nose twitched, and Xue Li was wondering if she was about to cry, so she quickly reached out to touch the flagon on the desk.

"Hey, hey, you can't play this one!" Xue Li and Qi Shi rushed towards her almost at the same time to grab her.But it was still a step too late, the jug fell off with a snap of the lid...

The wine "splashed" and spilled out.

A Yao was splashed all over with a dazed face, and looked around in a daze, not knowing what happened, why did he suddenly get drenched in water?
Fortunately, there were her clothes in Zichen Hall, Zixian reacted quickly, and ran out while laughing: "I'll go get Diji's clean clothes!"

Qi Shi hurriedly carried A Yao into the house, Dou Sha quickly poured warm water in, Qi Shi went to moisten the veil to wipe A Yao, and just as the veil fell into the water, she heard Xue Li shouting: "Don't Lick...don't lick!"

Turning around, she saw Xue Li holding A Yao's little hand, with a look of dumbfounding.

She was curious about what was on her hands, and the child didn't know anything else, so she licked it if she wanted to know what it was - but it was wine!Sydney even bought some strong wine for Wei Chen!

Being called by her like this, A Yao obediently stopped, then wiped his hands clean first, and licked them without any thought.But the tongue that has been licked in can't do anything...

Anyway, before Zixian came back, Ah Yao fell asleep.

Unavoidably, Xueli was a little worried, so she asked Qi Shi: "Do you want to invite the imperial physician to take a look?" Such a small child, can't drink wine?

Qi's expression was relaxed: "It's nothing. In many places, children in many places have to 'taste a hundred flavors' after five months, that is, give her a little bit of everything, including wine, that's about it, no problem. of."

Xueli was a little relieved, and asked Qi Shi to stay for half an hour longer, and let them go back when Ah Yao woke up and found that he was still in good spirits. He still did not forget to tell Mrs. Concubine Shu ... It will hurt your body, please ask the imperial doctor to take a look."

After Qi's response, he left. Wei Chen let out a smile and looked at Sydney: "I'm better at handling things than before."

"You have to improve a bit..." Xueli was quite embarrassed by what he said, she paused, and then explained, "And I'm really afraid that something is wrong with Ayao. Mrs. Lu and Mrs. Lu are gone, she's the only one left. !"

It was dusk, and the summer evening wind was not cool at all, and it was blowing between the palace walls full of heat, no matter how it was blowing, it was still lifeless everywhere.

Yuehe Palace fell into silence, the palace members all lowered their heads and did not dare to make a sound, and the two accompanying concubines sitting beside them were also silent.

Concubine Shu's face was livid, she gritted her teeth and suppressed her anger for a while, she looked at Qi Shi who was kneeling down and sneered: "You are trying to make me look good."

"Madam, forgive me, slave..." Qi was too frightened to speak.She told the truth about what happened just now, although she expected that Concubine Shu might be unhappy, she didn't expect her to be so furious.

Swallowing her saliva forcefully, Qi Shi fell on the ground and said: "At that time, it was too much trouble... The servant girl and Miss Ruan didn't have time to stop her, but Diji, Diji..."

"If Diji is injured in any way, it's not enough for you and your family to die." Concubine Shu said calmly, seeing Qi's distinct trembling, and said leisurely, "Believe it or not, I will throw your son away now." Go out to feed the dog?"

"Mrs. Concubine Shu!" Qi's face turned pale immediately, and after a moment of froze, he kowtowed again and again, "Forgive me, madam! If there is anything wrong with the imperial concubine, this servant will take his own life, but please madam..."

"Okay." Concubine Shu stopped her words, her expression softened a little, "The imperial doctor has seen it, Diji is fine, if not, you still have your life to kneel here to apologize?"

Qi suddenly heaved a sigh of relief, and sat down on the ground with clear chest ups and downs. Concubine Shu also heaved a sigh of relief, turning the coral bracelet on her hand up and down.

"Uncle..." A Yao lay on the couch, attracted by the red color of the bead, and stretched out her little hand to play, "Uncle!"

Concubine Shu looked at her indifferently: "Little heartless, you can't call mother, but you will call uncle first?"

A Yao bright eyes smiled: "Uncle!"

Concubine Shu looked at Qi Shi again: "You, go to Gongzhengsi to get thirty boards yourself. This kind of thing is not allowed to happen again."

"No...no!" Qi Shi replied in cold sweat, not daring to say a word of excuse, kowtowed, and hurriedly backed away.

Concubine Shu watched her leave with cold eyes, lifted the catkin lightly, and rubbed her temples: "If you think about it, it's not all Qi's fault."

The words that seemed to be talking to himself made everyone in the hall stagnate.

The palace people did not dare to say what they meant, and Qiao Xuanyi who was present also bowed her head without saying a word. The other Lu beauty was more alert, she nodded and said: "Yes... my concubine dares to speak nonsense, madam, please punish me." Qi's punishment was severe. What's wrong with her? Wasn't it because she knew that Diji was going and prepared wine..."

These words fell very well in Concubine Shu's ears.

Concubine Shu smiled slightly: "Come here, go and ask Ruan Shi to come. If Yuqian stops you, tell her that she almost accidentally hurt Di Ji, and I will ask her to ask questions."

(End of this chapter)