The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 94
After returning to the inner hall and sitting down, the emperor started laughing by himself from time to time...

Chen Jijiang squinted at the side, and teased in his heart that you are really good at your majesty, you can laugh at anything when you are with Miss Ruan.If you share [-]% of the smile you gave her to other people, the palace won't say that you are "moody", okay?

But he just thought about it.Even if it is [-]%, give it to others, why?

There is only one Miss Ruan, so she looks different.No one else can do what she is capable of, so why is she in His Majesty's eyes?
Chen Jijiang weighed this in his heart, and beside him, the emperor couldn't help laughing again.

This silly pear!
She plucked up her courage and told him about her engagement.Then he asked, "Who is the husband's family?"

Xueli thought about it, and shook her head: "I don't know. I only know that it's an old friend of the family. I haven't met anyone. It was arranged by my parents."

He asked again: "Where does that husband's family live? What's their name?"

She still shook her head: "I don't know. At that time, I was still young and didn't know much about life-long events. After hearing what my parents said, I turned around and forgot about it. I didn't ask much at all."

——It is estimated that there are not many people as courageous as her!
Forget it, I shouldn't point to what can be understood from her.Xie Zhao had no choice but to ask the imperial guard to inquire.

In fact, this matter is based on his own ideas, he doesn't care about her previous marriage contract at all - he is the emperor of Daqi after all, he wants to keep her in the palace, even if he doesn't say hello to her parents, outsiders can't say anything.

Isn't it just that the emperor detained a court lady, what a big deal?

But Xue Li looked very sincere when she said those words. She said: "I am not afraid to stay in the palace forever, and I also think that no matter who the husband's family is... It must be worse than your majesty! But do you know your majesty? If If you directly detain the servant, the people in the hometown can't blame the servant for not going back, they will scold Your Majesty for not being considerate of the people's hearts, so that the maid can't go back after entering the palace!"

After she finished speaking, she looked at him worriedly, especially worried about his reputation seriously, and her brows and eyes were full of sincerity, which made him want to explain to her that he didn't have to worry so much and could bear it.

——She was doing it for his own good, why didn't he accept the kindness?Besides, it's fine if it's just because of the marriage contract between the two families, but in case someone has a life-saving grace involved in it, it's not appropriate for him to directly destroy the contract, it's better to do it peacefully.

So he agreed very sincerely, and promised her to find out about her previous engagement, and to divorce her originally engaged husband's family properly before talking about other things.

Then he said: "But you also give me a promise. If there is no other marriage to bind you, would you be willing to follow me?"

That pear blushed into an apple in an instant, and hesitated for a long time in front of him, and said very reservedly and carefully: "Since entering the palace until now, Your Majesty has treated your slaves the best!"

Xie Zhao thought about it, and laughed again.Then he realized that he had lost his composure too much, so he straightened his face, and then ordered Chen Jijiang to send a message, asking the imperial guard to send a small flag to Sydney's hometown to find out what happened to her previous engagement.Just do a secret investigation, don't scare people with fanfare.

There are ten people under a small standard-bearer, and it is enough to investigate such a small matter.

Xue Li was bored in the side hall, her face was still blushing—she felt that she hadn't blushed more than these days in her life!It's so popular these days!
She clearly felt that she didn't want to understand this matter, but when he asked him so succinctly if she would like to... She didn't know why she said such a sentence by mistake!

So embarrassing, so embarrassing...

Xue Li slumped on the couch feeling ashamed, and felt that she should make amends for "I don't want to", but after thinking about it, she felt that she couldn't say it.

Not only was he afraid, but he also seemed to be really unwilling to say this sentence in his heart.

Her heart was beating wildly, and she looked dumbfounded at the complicated pattern on the top of the hall, her heart was more complicated than that pattern.

Do I like His Majesty or not...

Sydney sniffled depressedly, silently counting the things that seemed to be listed as "likes".

——Seeing that he likes to eat the things she makes, she is very happy!

The first thing I thought of was eating, and Sydney immediately scolded herself for being worthless!Turning her mind around, she tried to think about something else, and then thought of: eating with him, she would also feel sweet...

Why are you eating again...

Xueli rolled dejectedly and changed to lying on her stomach, her leg hanging under the couch accidentally kicked Yuxiang, who was tired from playing and was sleeping, Yuxiang expressed her dissatisfaction with a "chi" sound, but she didn't mind it.

Oh...the fish fragrance he gave her, she really likes it!And I also like to see him teasing Yuxiang.

He is usually a person who is not angry and pretentious, and he always smiles when teasing Yuxiang.She still remembers the way he touched Yuxiang on A Yao's birthday, with a gentle smile, and patiently stroked Yuxiang's back with his hands, which made her look stupid for a while.

She hadn't seen him for a long time before that—she was fined by him to think behind closed doors for seven days because of the quarrel with Yue Tingxian. Resting in the yard, I haven't seen much for half a month.

Counting forward, he toured the south for more than half a year...

During that time, she really had nothing to do. She always felt that a lot of important things were missing, which made life suddenly boring.

At that time, she was really thinking of him obviously!Occasionally, something was brought to her from the south, and she was happy to see it. The day she heard that Sheng Jia had set off for the palace, she felt a clear excitement in her heart. think……

That is probably the so-called "spring heart sprouting".

Sydney thought about it and made herself crazy.He couldn't help showing a smile, and shook his head fiercely after he regained his senses.

Instead, think about things that can be listed as "don't like him."

This seems a bit difficult to think about, after all, she always thought he was a good person, how could there be so many "dislike" things about a good person?

After thinking about it, she thought: She doesn't like him drinking away his worries.

I especially don't like it!Every time she sees him drinking away his sorrows, she feels so sad to death, and feels that it does all kinds of harm but no benefit.

But it doesn't seem like it's his fault...

No one to talk to him!

Sydney had already silently found a reason for him in her heart.Then he lost his mind, thinking that he was drunk by the feudal lords during the Yuan Palace banquet, she made a bowl of porridge for him to warm his stomach, and he came here the next day to thank him for this!

She was really happy!Thinking about it now, I can still vaguely feel that kind of joy, but I still can't tell why that kind of joy is.

Xue Li conceded defeat... Maybe she also liked him in the first place, that's why she said such a sentence "by mistake".

You can't lie to yourself.

After that, a month passed in a flat manner.

Everything seems to be "as usual", only Sydney and Xie Zhao know that many things are different.

Chen Jijiang found out breathlessly that after His Majesty himself thought about Sydney, he would be sulking, and now that His Majesty will be secretly happy when he sees it...

What's wrong with this!
He felt sad that Yuqian was not serious like this, but if His Majesty didn't talk about Sydney, it was not his turn to talk about it. He could only stare at the side with his eyes, nose and heart, laughing like a pear blossom with this dull pear.

Look, here we go again...

Xueli is still working in the imperial dining room at the moment, and Xie Zhao doesn't stop her if she wants to go.But now she voluntarily stays in the hall for a longer period of time, and she also takes over the work of presenting snacks in the hall in the morning and afternoon.

The snacks this afternoon include a bowl of black sesame glutinous rice balls and a plate of rice cakes.

The emperor seldom put down what he was doing just because he was eating snacks, and today he was eating while reading memorials.He held the memorial in his left hand to read, and touched the porcelain spoon in the glutinous rice ball bowl with his right hand. He probed in the bowl, scooped up one and put it in his mouth to eat, then put the porcelain spoon back, and ate another one when he remembered.

The glutinous rice balls are made small, so there are eight in a bowl.When the third one was eaten, the whole hall heard the girl's "Puchi..."

Xie Zhao looked at her lightly: "What are you laughing at?"

Xueli bit the tip of her tongue guiltily and said nothing, seeing that he was still looking at her coldly, she leaned over and whispered: "Your Majesty, the servant is wrong."

Xie Zhao immediately wanted to hit the table because of her sweet voice!
In retrospect, it seems that he forced it—since she declared to him two years ago that she had grown up, he would stop teasing her with a cold face when she made a small mistake, forcing her to admit her mistake— ——She is nothing more than two situations, one is that his expression is too scary, she knelt down with a "plop";

The latter kind of situation is relatively rare, but those words can immediately soften his heart, and the current change in the relationship between the two can make him vomit blood.

He couldn't wait to blush in front of the palace people, straightened his face, and warned her solemnly: "Don't laugh, I have business to do."

"Oh, promise." Xueli bowed her head in response, conscious that she had done something wrong, she lowered her head obediently, and returned to her normal appearance.

After a while, the emperor stretched out his hand to touch the porcelain spoon to scoop up glutinous rice balls, and there was another sound beside him: "Pu Chi..."

This girl is in high spirits!Hold back your energy and deliberately laugh at him!

Xie Zhao was so angry that he thought I was busy with political affairs so I didn't have time to eat properly, okay?Then make jokes, it's really thankless!

A mouthful of glutinous rice balls was chewing in his mouth, it was obviously sweet and fragrant, but he was full of sour taste after eating it, and saw her unbearable smile on his face...

Really!If he were to be placed in the harem, he would be on fire!Even if we tried hard to brew with her, we couldn't brew it!

Moreover, there was still a tinge of joy in his heart, and he felt that this was good. The more Xie Zhao thought about it, the more he felt that he was so cheap, he rubbed his temples vigorously with his forehead.

After a while, when the third "puchi" came, he finally couldn't bear it anymore.

"Sydney!" The emperor gave a low voice, and Xueli's laughter stopped abruptly.

"I'm obediently silent" - these seven words were written on her face.

The emperor squinted at her sullenly, ground his teeth, tapped his palm, and picked up the bowl of glutinous rice balls.

He tucked the glutinous rice balls into her hand: "Take it and eat it, don't make fun of me here."

"Oh..." Xue Li walked away with the bowl sullenly, and Chen Jijiang was teasing beside him, and he didn't know how to tease her.

Your Majesty, did you really not realize that you lost your temper after being bullied by her?
That's all, you have to be happy.

How about saying that this girl is blessed, putting it on someone else is equivalent to a "life-threatening" thing, letting her here will not only make her fine, but also benefit herself in turn.

——Isn’t this just another five glutinous rice balls?
It was just such a small fight, and to a certain extent, "not overstepping" until the end of July.The weather is getting colder, it's time to drive back to Luo'an.

When the carriage drove out of Yingshan Mountain, Sydney looked at the nearby mountains and forests and suddenly realized: I almost didn’t see the beautiful scenery!
Patronizing to see him in Qingliang Temple.

Xie Zhao could roughly guess what was going on when she saw her stupidly looking out of the car window, and pinched her face with his hand: "Don't worry, there's been a lot of business in court recently, so I don't have time to take you out again. You want to see This is easy, and there will be opportunities in the future.”

Xueli let out an "oh" and put down the curtains, then looked back at him, her face flushed again...

This time she was sitting in his car!

Of course it's not just her, but the little villain Yuxiang is also here - it should have come in a cage car, but this little villain still remembers being put in a cage when he came here, see them It understood as soon as it got in the car, and jumped up when it saw Yang Mingquan coming towards it.How could Yang Mingquan be faster than it?It rushed up towards the car where both Xie Zhao and Xue Li got on, frightened Yang Mingquan kowtowed outside and shouted "Your Majesty forgive me" for a long time.

Then it just stayed on the car and didn't go away!Xie Zhao was lying down to rest, and Xue Li was beside him in a daze, snorting quite comfortably between the two of them!
It made Xie Zhao want to take advantage of the opportunity on the road and have no chance to get closer to Sydney - why is it so close with a lion in the middle!The space in the car is limited after all, let it roll to the side and change the Sydney to the middle, it still doesn't work!
The two of them stared stupidly at a big heartless lion for half an hour, and were forced to feel a kind of sadness in their hearts that "the Cowherd and the Weaver Girl are separated by the Milky Way".So Sydney thought about it, and first reached out to touch the lion. Xie Zhao followed her to touch the lion when she saw it.

How miserable it is to go through the lion to deepen a relationship!

Arriving at the posthouse at night, this situation can be considered relieved, the two of them tacitly looked angry, only two inches between them, and left Yuxiang behind.The guy who had always been between the two of them looked at the place in the middle and was anxious enough. He walked around and looked at them with the expressions on their faces that were about to cry.

Didn't get mad at it for too long.The main reason is that Xueli felt tired, and after having dinner with Xie Zhao, she went back to the house to rest by herself, and Yuxiang was able to lean on her side to dominate the surrounding territory, rolling and groaning.

I'm just jealous that she pays too much attention to Xie Zhao recently and ignores it!
On the other side, Xie Zhao smiled leisurely, and told the dining room to remember to prepare an elbow for Yu Xiang and send it over. He found another free book to read, and after reading the first two pages, there was a knock on the door.

Chen Jijiang went to open the door, and as soon as the door opened, Wei Chen came in and bowed, "Your Majesty."

"Mr. Mingxuan." Xie Zhao nodded, signaling others to go out, and then asked him what's the matter.

Wei Chen's secret investigation recently is about the situation of several aristocratic families, so it's better not to let outsiders hear about it.

After the people withdrew, Wei Chen still had a gloomy expression: "The little flag that His Majesty ordered to send to Sydney's hometown has just sent a letter back, please order another general flag to go."

Xie Zhao frowned: "What's going on?"

There are fifty people in a general banner, why do you need so many people to inquire about a marriage?
What happened?
Wei Chen breathed a sigh of relief, his expression so solemn that the emperor felt uneasy.He motioned Wei Chen to sit down, and resolutely said, "Speak slowly."

Wei Chen didn't even know how to say "slowly"!
Sitting beside him for a while, he said something that he felt very ashamed of: "The eleven people sent were surrounded by people in Xia'an Town, where they were engaged in Sydney."

The imperial guards, who are acting dignifiedly under the orders of the emperor, are surrounded by villagers in a small place with only a few hundred people!After Wei Chen received the letter, he was stunned for a long time, and he even compared the handwriting to make sure that it was Xiaoqi himself and not someone deliberately teasing him, so he finally believed this ridiculous thing.

Xie Zhao didn't understand after listening, and frowned to signal Wei Chen to continue. Wei Chen's tone was very dejected: "Sydney's hometown is in Ruanjia Village, which is more than forty miles away from Xia'an Town. The person who is engaged to her, He is a wealthy squire in Xia'an Town."

As he spoke, he stood up and presented a booklet in his hand to Xie Zhao: "This is the situation in which country gentleman's house."

Xie Zhao turned the page, and the name of the Patriarch came into view.His name is Zhang Dongsheng, born in Jianyun in 22 years, so he is 27-[-] this year.

Looking back, it was the Zhang family's roster. There were a lot of people, and he was a little dizzy, so he asked Wei Chen directly: "Which one is engaged to her?"

"..." Wei Chen was silent for a while, and sighed, "My family advocates Dongsheng, and he is 28 this year. He was only born in Sydney when he was 13 years old. Zhang's family saw the horoscope and thought it was suitable, so they decided on this marriage. Ruan The family accepted a dowry gift of 20 taels of silver from the Zhang family, and promised to send Xue Li to the palace to learn the rules when she reaches the age, and to marry after she is released from the palace on 24 May."

What kind of strange rules are these? !

Besides, by the time Sydney comes out of the palace on the 24th, Zhang Dongsheng will be in his early forties!Suffering on your own for so many years?

The more Xie Zhao thought about it, the more strange he felt, he sank, and asked Wei Chen, "What's the secret?"

"Not too clear." Wei Chen took a long breath, paused, and then said, "Can you say something irresponsible?"

The emperor nodded: "You say."

Wei Chen laughed hoarsely: "I don't think this is a normal marriage contract."

The emperor's face darkened, he thought for a while, and told him: "Don't tell Sydney yet."

(End of this chapter)