The heroine Jiangshan

Chapter 35
In the early morning, while Concubine Huang was still dressing in the inner room, she heard a rumor that the princess had arrived.

"Your Majesty, the princess is really filial. This is when I recovered from my illness, and I come to greet you every day again."

The big maid in her room, Xuejuan, was inserting hairpins for her, carefully fixing her bun, and said jokingly.

Concubine Huang raised the corners of her mouth and smiled, and said casually: "Yes, this child is the most polite."

She said softly to the little maid standing in front of the door of the inner room, "Please sit down for a while", and casually picked a plain hairpin from the jewelry box and asked Xuejuan to insert it for her.

After a while, Concubine Huang looked around in front of the mirror with satisfaction, and asked Xuejuan to help her out.

Before the curtain of the inner room was raised, Concubine Huang's face had already put a smile on her face.Yun Ruochen was originally sitting, but when he saw her being helped out by the maid, he quickly got up and went to the other side to help her.

"How do you feel today, ma'am?"

"Princess Lao is concerned. I still have an appetite for eating and drinking these days, which is much stronger than the previous two months!"

Concubine Huang let out a long breath with a smile, stroking her slightly protruding belly.She really didn't have much morning sickness recently, and her appetite increased greatly. Both medical officers said that her pregnancy was stable for the time being.

"That's great!" Yun Ruochen was sincerely happy.As far as the current situation is concerned, the child in Concubine Huang's womb is related to the prosperity and disgrace of Prince Jing's family, and she doesn't want anything to go wrong again.

Especially when Prince Jing's Mansion is facing an external crisis again, Concubine Huang must be more careful and don't follow suit.

The servants set out the breakfast, and even Yun Ruochen's portion was set.After returning to Beijing, as long as Yun Ruochen came to Concubine Huang's room to say hello, she would eat breakfast with Concubine Huang.This is also a small way for Concubine Huang to bond with her, Yun Ruochen doesn't know, but she is also happy to maintain a friendly relationship with Concubine Huang.

Although it is breakfast, the content is also rich.The thick and fragrant millet porridge, four-color pickles, four-color seasonal vegetables, and a plate of ham slices are all very fragrant and delicious.There was an extra marinated egg in Yun Ruochen's share, but she asked the kitchen to cook it according to her favorite method.

"The princess seems to be very interested in cooking?"

Concubine Huang finished her breakfast and took a cup of tea from Xuejuan to clean her mouth.Yun Ruochen smiled embarrassedly: "No, I just like to eat delicious food." But now he showed a little bit of a little girl's charming appearance.

She didn't forget that she was just an eight-year-old girl, and it didn't matter if she was a bit older in things, and she always acted like an adult, which always aroused suspicion.The key to acting lies in the details!

Sure enough, Concubine Huang didn't doubt that he was there, she just pretended to be a greedy child, and hurriedly asked another maid to bring a rose red box.

"Look at my memory, I almost forgot to have someone deliver it to you." Concubine Huang opened the box herself, and it turned out that there were compartments of exquisite snacks inside.

"This is a crystal roll, this is a glutinous rice ball, this is a butter corner..." She counted the snacks inside, and was very satisfied to see Yun Ruochen's happy smile.

"My eldest sister from my natal family came to see me yesterday and brought me some homemade snacks. Take them and taste them. If they are delicious, I will ask them to bring some more."

Concubine Huang's natal family was a small landlord in a county town on the outskirts of Beijing.Yun Ruochen knew that both her natal sisters were married to the capital, and of course they were not from official families.The eldest sister of her family married a restaurant Shaodong, and the younger sister married a small captain in the patrol department.

Even Concubine Huang herself was only selected to be a palace maid in Prince Jing's mansion.Who would have expected that she would be favored by King Jing, and because she gave birth to Prince Jing's eldest son, she would be made a side concubine.

Life is impermanent and unpredictable.But life depends not only on personal circumstances, but also has a lot to do with personality.King Jing's concubines are not rare, but they have always been kind to Concubine Huang, so she naturally has something special.

Yun Ruochen never dared to underestimate Concubine Huang, but was always wary of her.Such a concubine who knows how to behave, gets along well with the family, but if she doesn't get along well...it's hard to say.

Yun Ruochen seldom trusts a person wholeheartedly, Prince Jing may be an exception.

There is one more...that is Nie Shen.

"Is this made by the master chef of my aunt's family?" Yun Ruochen took it happily. How about the dim sum skills of the master chef of the restaurant?She is very interested.

In fact, she still has a "little" wish, which is to go to the festival night market, which is said to be very bustling, to eat all the snacks in the capital... Alas, it may be difficult to realize.

She happily took the snack box and bid farewell to Concubine Huang. There was still a etiquette class for Madam Zeng this morning, so she hurried back to her room to prepare to go.Otherwise, Nanny Zeng would have to cast a spell on her again!
When Prince Jing's mansion was not on fire, Yun Ruochen lived very close to Concubine Huang.Now the places where they lived before are still undergoing extensive construction and repairs, and the yards they temporarily live in are quite far apart, and it takes Yun Ruochen some time to go back and forth.

She calculated that there was not much time, and hurried back.

"Don't go this way, let's take a shortcut."

Yun Ruochen always believed that "punctuality is the virtue of an emperor", so he didn't want to be nagged by Nanny Zeng for being late.Yinqiao watched her princess turn out from the corridor, intending to walk directly through the garden to another moon gate, so she hurriedly lifted her skirt and followed.

In October, the ground was full of fallen leaves, and the master and servant walked in a hurry, trampling on the branches and leaves on the ground in the garden, rustling endlessly.It was still early, and the two flower kings who had gone to the garden to take care of the trees hadn't come out yet, so they were the only ones walking around.

"Well?"

Yun Ruochen was walking quickly, but he heard the sound of rolling stones not far away.Is it Kao?

"Not quite right..."

She walked all the way, and she was very close to the place where the abnormal noise was just now, but she didn't see a single figure.

According to common sense, if the servants were pruning the trees, they should have seen her.Why did no one come out to salute and say hello?
Could it be that she heard wrong?
"Princess, what's the matter?"

Yin Qiao also walked in a hurry, she never thought that the princess in front of her would suddenly stop, and almost stopped her pace.

She broke out in a cold sweat from fright, thinking that the Princess had sprained her feet when she left too quickly, so she would definitely be scolded to death by Nanny Zeng again!
"Did you twist your foot? This servant will take a look for you?"

Yin Qiao hurriedly squatted down, but she heard Yun Ruochen softly say "it's okay", and continued walking on her own.

Uh?
What the hell is going on, princess!

Yinqiao was stunned for a while, seeing that Yun Ruochen had already taken a few steps, she hurriedly jumped up to catch up.Alas, there are more and more weird behaviors of my little master.That's all, as long as you don't twist your feet!
"Princess, please go slowly..."

Yun Ruochen turned a deaf ear to Yinqiao's call, and her attention was entirely on another matter.

In the garden just now, behind the rockery less than ten steps away from her, there was someone.

She did sense a faint human breath.What's more, there happened to be a gust of breeze blowing by, which made her smell a very faint fragrance of powder.

It smelled like some sort of hair oil.She didn't pay much attention to the hair oils that the women at home put on. She only vaguely remembered that Concubine Huang had sweet-scented osmanthus hair oils, but she never used them because of her pregnancy, and the two cans of oils were always on her dressing table.

As for Yun Ruochen herself, she is still a child, and her hair is not so thick that she needs to be oiled.Besides, she really doesn't like such greasy things on her hair.Although this is the treatment that can only be given to the female family members of wealthy families, if you don't like it, you just don't like it...

The woman hiding behind the rockery, why didn't she dare to come out and face herself?
Unless you're doing something shady, like... cheating?
Impossible, there is only her alone, there is no second person's breath.

This little episode made Yun Ruochen's mood heavy again.

She can't intervene in the affairs outside the mansion for the time being, but she must take care of the mansion.The fire in the backyard could only happen before she came.

With her around, whoever wants to make trouble in Prince Jing's mansion will have to pay a very heavy price.

As soon as she returned to her room to straighten her appearance, Madam Zeng came over.

Ever since Yun Ruochen became "ill" once, Nanny Zeng's teaching intensity has dropped a lot.It used to be more than two hours of class in the morning, but now it only takes one hour.There is no other way, if the delicate little Princess gets tired and sick again, Nanny Zeng will have no face to stay in Prince Jing's Mansion any longer.

"Mommy, what are you going to learn today..." Yun Ruochen smiled and went up to her, when she approached Nanny Zeng, the expression on her face suddenly changed slightly.

Nanny Zeng didn't pay attention to her subtle changes, and directly explained what she was going to learn this morning.

Yun Ruochen forced himself to listen, trying to suppress the surprise in his heart.

The hair oil Madam Zeng used was similar to the one she smelled in the back garden just now!No, it's the same kind!
But, that woman just now shouldn't be Nanny Zeng?
Having been with Nanny Zeng for so long, she is confident that she can sense Nanny Zeng's breath - everyone's breath is different, to put it simply, even the frequency of breathing is slightly different.

The woman just now may be someone she rarely meets.But why does the smell of her hair oil resemble Nanny Zeng... Is it a coincidence?
She cleared up her mind first, and cooperated with Nanny Zeng to finish the morning lessons.What I learned today was etiquette for meeting guests, which was complicated and cumbersome, and it couldn't be learned in one morning. She had been learning it for several days.

When Nanny Zeng's lecture came to an end, Yun Ruochen specially and courteously brought her a cup of hot tea, and chatted with her.The purpose is nothing more than to divert the topic to Grandma Zeng's hair oil.

Madam Zeng didn't know the truth, and thought that the princess was really interested in all kinds of cosmetics, so she casually chatted with her.

"Old slave's hair oil? Oh, those of us are used to using things from the palace, and this bottle of hair oil was distributed in the spring... It's all a tribute."

Grandma Zeng lived in the palace for half her life, and when she talked about using these built-in things, she unconsciously showed a little pride.

In the palace?
Yun Ruochen instantly thought of the four court ladies in Huang's side concubine's courtyard!
Among these few people, there are some weird ones!

　Continue to write, but don't know when it will be posted, don't wait.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)