Zhu Ying went out early in the morning, but Zhu Hong and other guards were all left at home, even though she knew that there was a master like Ah Liu, and Zhu Ying herself went out with a sword, Mrs. Tai was still a little uneasy. Especially seeing that the night had fallen, but the people still hadn't come back, she was naturally even more upset, and she was slightly relieved after listening to her daughter-in-law Jiuniang's two words of persuasion.

"Mother, it's a cold day, it's dark early, if it's in the middle of summer, the sun hasn't set outside yet. Although it is snowing a little now, Yingying and Ah Shou are both children who know how to measure, and they must have not come back because of delays......"

Mrs. Tai nodded slightly, but she glanced at Zhu Er, who was honestly sitting down with her head, but she couldn't help but be angry: "Erlang, you said that you originally planned to go together, even if Yingying drove you away, even if you rely on them, why is it so easy to be moved by her words?" Just let her out? ”

Zhu Er suddenly wanted to cry without tears. Grandmother, it's easy for you to say that, if there is any dispute between me and my sister on weekdays, why don't you count me down, do I dare to provoke her? Last time, I was because my father and eldest brother were fighting outside and the news of defeat was frequent, so I wanted to entrust my sister to Lu Saburo, a person he thought was reliable, but he couldn't hold his head up until now, and he was beaten and scolded and blamed!

If I really followed, you would definitely blame me again when you turned around, and I was not involved in the two of them, but I only knew that it was in the way!

He was about to defend himself, but when he saw Mrs. Tai snorting, he complained that the tea was cold, and he knew that his grandmother was angry at the moment, so he had to keep quiet, so as not to cause more trouble. Finally, a voice like fairy music came from outside.

"Mrs. Tai, Mrs., Second Young Master, Eldest Miss and Shou Gongzi are back together!"

"It's back!" Jiuniang said this on behalf of Mrs. Tai, and then said, "Ask Shou Gongzi, it's getting late, but you want to invite his mother to come over for dinner?" ”

Mrs. Tai nodded at Jiuniang with satisfaction, her daughter-in-law has been practicing in Zhaoming Temple for so many years, and her temperament is finally not as arrogant and difficult to get along with as she was back then. However, a voice came from outside the door not long after: "Shou Gongzi sent the eldest lady to the door of Qing'an Hall, saying that it was too late and it was snowing, so he would go back first, and come back tomorrow to apologize to Mrs. Tai and Mrs. ......"

As soon as the servant woman outside the door finished speaking, the door curtain was knocked open, and immediately after, Zhu Ying entered the house with a gust of cold wind. She flicked the snowflakes above her bullet and hissed softly: "This weather, the sky is still clear when you get up early, and it will snow when you say it's snowing!" Grandmother, mother, Ah Shou was worried about his mother, and said that he was embarrassed to bring me back so late, so he went back first, and let me make a difference to you! ”

"What's the loss for this, he kid!" Mrs. Tai sneered, beckoned Zhu Ying to come over, saw that the person took off the big cuff on her body and stuffed it to the Yutang next to her, and then strode over and sat down next to her and Jiu Niang, she reached out and shook the hand, and found that it was cold, she hurriedly asked someone to bring a small hand stove over, and Jiu Niang asked, "Why did you go all day?" What house to look at for so long? ”

Holding the warm hand stove, Zhu Ying's face was like a flower: "Grandmother, mother, we looked at four houses today......

She chattered to Mrs. Tai and Jiuniang, as well as Zhu Er, who pricked up his ears, and told that when she passed by today's house, Zhang Shou had also arrived home safely from the back door of Zhao Guogong's mansion. Just as Mrs. Tai felt sorry for Zhu Ying, whose hands were frozen cold, Wu also asked Aunt Liu to bring warm water first, watched Zhang Shou wash his face and hands, and then took facial fat to force him to apply it, and then asked what happened today.

Hearing the first three houses she saw today, Zhu Ying all picked out all kinds of faults, and Wu smiled and said: "Yingying is a young lady after all, and she is used to living in a big house that is spacious and transparent, so it is inevitable to be picky, anyway, it's still early, you can always find the right one if you look at a few more places." If you really can't do it, you might as well pick a place to buy the land and build your own house. ”

Zhang Shou was immediately happy: "Mother, why are you exactly the same as what Yingying said before?" Not to mention the cost, building a house is a matter of three years and five years......"

"Ah, that's not going to work!" Wu immediately changed his words, "It's best for you and Yingying's marriage to be done quickly next year, where can it be delayed, the lady in heaven must be looking forward to you starting a family and starting a business as soon as possible!" ”

Seeing that Wu was annoyed when he said it, Zhang Shou didn't want to be self-defeating, so he hurriedly told him about the affairs of the Luwang Mansion. At this moment, he saw that Wu was first frightened, then panicked, and only after he explained did he rejoice.

"The emperor is really compassionate and cares about the younger generation, so you and Yingying don't have to worry about your new home in the future." She happily paced back and forth in the house several times, and finally suddenly stopped, then looked into Zhang Shou's eyes and said, "Ah Shou, after you get married, you and Yingying will go to live there, and I will rent the ......house of Mr. Qi first."

Before she could finish her words, she saw Zhang Shou's face suddenly sink. Although it was a child she had watched grow up in front of her, as she grew up in the past two years, she became more and more handsome, like an immortal, but she also unconsciously regarded him as the backbone of the family, so when she saw Zhang Shou angry, she couldn't help but panic: "Ah Shou, listen to me, I mean ......"

"Mother, you don't have to say it."

Zhang Shou directly interrupted Wu's words, and then said lightly: "Giving birth to grace and nurturing grace are all graces." My mother gave me life to see this wonderful world. And my mother raised me from a little old child, I don't know how much effort it took to do so, even if you think you are just my adoptive mother, I should be filial to you for the rest of my life. ”

Speaking of this, seeing that Wu couldn't help but turn his back and raise his hand as if to wipe his tears, he said softly: "My mother has been my mother for so many years as an unmarried person, how can I not repay it well?" Of course, this reward is not only to provide for filial piety, if you think it is too lonely to just look at me and Yingying, as long as you are willing, I will find a suitable marriage for you. ”

"No, no, no!" Wu Shi hurriedly turned around, his face full of horror and resistance, "I'm good like this, it's good!" ”

She emphasized it twice in a row, and then didn't dare to look up at Zhang Shou at all, but said a little nervously: "I am thanks to my lady to have today, raising you, but it is not enough to repay her kindness, after all, all the expenses in those years were given by the Zhao State Mansion, and I am just like a nurse and a nanny...... I'm in my thirties now, what else do you want to get married? ”

Knowing that his proposal was really a great impact on a person like the Wu family who was so conservative that he was a little stubborn, Zhang Shou hurriedly coaxed with a pleasant face: "Okay, okay, mother, you can do whatever you want, but the house given by the emperor is my home and your home in the future." If you don't want to live there as a mother, live there as an adoptive mother. ”

Without waiting for Wu to agree or object, he said conclusively: "That's it!" ”

In a blink of an eye, it was the twenty-third year of the lunar month, but it was the day of the sacrificial stove to sweep the dust. Most of the many officials began to seal before this day, but just two days before they were busy planning to spend Chinese New Year's Eve, the eldest prince, who had been commanded by the second prince and played by the emperor, finally made a move.

He wrote impassionedly to ask for the promotion of new spinning machines to the world, and at the same time took the initiative to ask Ying, hoping that he would preside over this matter. I have to say that after realizing that he was wrong again and again, he finally came up with a way to break through.

But unfortunately, he came up with the idea a little too late. Although he tried his best to encourage some officials who supported him to support him, however, after several copies of the report, including him and other officials, were sent, most of the high-ranking officials and bigwigs did not react at all, and the emperor seemed to have no idea such a thing, so he was naturally anxious.

When he learned that the new textile machine was not Lu Sanlang's idea at all, but was jointly completed by Zhang Shou and Lu Sanlang's teachers and students, his sense of being deceived became more and more intense. But he still has a little brain, thinking about it, he feels that no matter how capable Zhang Shou and Lu Sanlang are, they don't have the ability to secretly encourage themselves to fight their ideas, and after thinking about it carefully, he remembered that the person who instigated it was Ning Xi.

Remembering this, he entered the palace on the day of Xiao Nian, but he did not go to the Qianqing Palace, and went straight to the Kunning Palace to ask to see the queen.

Because the second prince knelt down to clear the door last time he entered the palace, he left immediately after seeing the emperor, and he didn't come to see himself at all, and afterwards it was revealed that the second prince sued the eldest prince, and the queen was simply heartbroken about this time, and now she heard that the eldest son went straight to herself when he entered the palace, and she suddenly felt a little more comfortable.

However, what she didn't expect at all was that after the eldest prince came in and saw her, he hinted that she would retreat, and then immediately sued Ning Xi, the steward of Kunning Palace. She was so angry that she didn't say a word, so she called Ning Xi to Dongnuan Pavilion, looked at it for a moment, and then patted the handrail with an angry face: "At the beginning, I asked you to send roses to the palace, but if you piggyback, where did I tell you?" ”

Seeing that Ning Xi was frightened and speechless, the queen said angrily: "This matter is also what you said in front of me, and you are the first to tell right and wrong in front of me, how is Erlang, and what should Dalang do!" ”

Seeing that the queen was angry, and the eldest prince was looking at him with cold eyes, Ning Xi suddenly secretly screamed that it was not good. He also tried to pretend to be wrong, but the eldest prince now hates him, and the queen is even more annoyed that he is sowing discord, under the coercion of the two, he found that if he dies again, he is likely to die without a place to be buried, and he immediately sold the second prince without hesitation.

At this moment, the eldest prince, who originally thought that it was the second prince who pit him, suddenly became angry and almost fainted again; And the queen was even more furious, only hating herself for spoiling her second son in the past, so that the two brothers fought in the nest until they were both defeated, and they cheapened outsiders in vain. Therefore, when the eldest prince cried blood and begged for help, and asked the queen to come forward to take care of the second prince, the queen agreed.

"Don't worry, that evil obstacle is no matter how bastard he is, but he can't deny me as a mother...... I will now ask the female official to go to his courtyard with a ring ruler and urge him to copy the "Book of Filial Piety" for me a hundred times. If he can't finish copying, don't think about it! Even the emperor or the queen mother didn't stop me, a mother, from disciplining her son! ”

The eldest prince suddenly burst into tears. Although the queen has always persuaded peace between him and the eldest prince, trying to level the bowl of water, the second prince just refuses to obey him, and this time he is even more embarrassed! At that moment, he couldn't care about the majesty of being a prince anymore, and directly hugged the queen's knee and cried.

He cried, the queen remembered the comfortable years after she entered the palace, and then thought about the fact that now she is alone in the empty room, and the emperor is like a stranger, the queen mother is just mediocre to her, the two older sons are obviously the most promising people to enter the East Palace, but they are so incompatible, she gradually can't help but burst into tears, and the mother and son cried together for a while.

As a result, the emotions of the mother and son immediately infected the entire Kunning Palace, and they were uneasy, thinking that the emperor was about to be deposed, or that the eldest prince had made some big mistake like the second prince and had to be dealt with.

It wasn't until the queen dismissed Ning Xi's Kunning Palace steward brand, scolded her for sending people to Langxia's house, and sent Hu Shanggong out of the palace to apply for the second prince, that the mood up and down finally stabilized a little. However, there were already frightened people who went to Qingning Palace and Qianqing Palace to inquire about the news, and naturally spread the news that the queen and the eldest prince hugged their heads and cried.

The emperor originally because Zhu Ying entered the palace yesterday, and said that he went to see the house with Zhang Shou two days ago, and found out about his arrangements in the courtyard of the former Luwang Mansion, but he was still in a good mood, and when he heard about this matter in Kunning Palace, he suddenly lost his good mood at all, and after thinking about it, he instructed Liu Feng, the steward brand: "Pass the word, I want to go to Concubine Yu!" ”

And when the queen mother in Qingning Palace learned about the farce in Kunning Palace, and heard that the emperor went directly to Concubine Yu's Yonghe Palace, she couldn't help but sigh deeply. However, she still agreed with the queen's appointment to apply for the second prince, and immediately opened her mouth and instructed Yuquan: "Before the second prince killed slaves and maids, the forty rods are approaching the New Year's Festival, and they will be recorded in the account for the time being, you remember to remind me." ”

Such a bold boy, if he doesn't teach him a lesson, maybe he will really make trouble with his brother again one day!

When the emperor only brought a few entourages to Yonghe Palace, he saw only Concubine Yu and a few palace people who came out, but did not see Princess Yongping. Thinking that today was the New Year, he couldn't help but ask, "What about Mingyue?" At this time, she doesn't accompany you as a mother? ”

Concubine Yu saw that the emperor's face was obviously not good, so she said calmly: "I asked her to go to the Zhaoguo Mansion, first, to greet Mrs. Tai, second, to help me bring some cakes I made myself to Jiuniang, and third, I want her to thank Yingying." ”

The emperor knew Concubine Yu's temperament and immediately smiled. He nodded, advanced to the Dongnuan Pavilion, and the palace people who were waiting for him came in to help him take off the big hat outside, he glanced at the furnishings around him that had been like a day for more than ten years, and was so elegant that it was a little shabby, and suddenly smiled: "Jiuniang and you are both this kind of temperament that does not love foreign things, so Mingyue is also raised like this, but Yingying prefers gorgeous clothes and decorations." ”

"She is suitable for fresh clothes and angry horses, gorgeous clothes and beautiful decorations, and besides, the Zhao Guogong Mansion is not without money, how can she be wronged?" Concubine Yu had a smile on her face, obviously in a good mood, "Moreover, she has a wishful husband who treats him wholeheartedly, such a beautiful woman in the sky, she should naturally fly freely and live a relaxed and happy life." ”

As she spoke, she suddenly gloomed: "Unlike Mingyue, I have been a little gloomy by my temperament over the years, and I hurt her." When she didn't know that she had Ah Shou, her fiancé, Yingying knew that the future marriage might not be perfect, but she still went her own way, a picture of how you are, I just care about my own comfort, but Mingyue she ......"

Concubine Yu rubbed her eyebrows with some annoyance, and finally smiled bitterly: "Mingyue is thinking, since she knows that she may be a resentful couple in the future, it is better not to marry!" She always said, why can a man become an official and show his ambitions, but women can only be trapped in the back house, husband and children? If it weren't for the Queen Mother and the Emperor's leniency this time, she didn't know what stupid things she would do! ”