Chapter 56
After Xu Jin left, Fu Rong suffered from insomnia.
In fact, there is no deep hatred between her and Xu Jin.
In total, Fu Rong was annoyed that Xu Jin was nothing more than three things. One was annoyed that he was cold in his previous life and didn’t know how to cherish her. But it was normal for Xu Jin to look down on her. Second, he insisted on looking at her small pit, which was not a big mistake. In fact, if Xu Jin was not cold, Fu Rong felt that he was a bit like his younger brother, teasing her everywhere, hating her but not hating her. Third, he was irritated and insisting on marrying her in this life, but Xu Jin liked her appearance so much. Besides, Xu Jin did not really force her, and he was considered a gentleman who was barely forced.
Don't like it, don't hate it.
So apart from cursing him to death when he was furious, Fu Rong didn't really hope that Xu Jin would die early, and that the couple would be kind to a hundred days a night. What she most hoped was that Xu Jin could be a leisurely prince, be rich and leisurely, live a hundred years old, and live a good life like Xu Yan.
But she was just a woman trapped in the backyard. Her father didn't dare to interfere with the matter outside, especially the prince's struggle, and she was even more powerless. If she married Xu Jin in the future, she would naturally try her best to save his life. Otherwise, she could only hope that long-lived strand would be effective.
I tossed and turned and fell asleep until I was about tonight.
When I woke up, I felt something was wrong. I reached out to touch it and it turned out to be red.
Fu Rong sighed sadly. It was rare for her mother to take her to Feng Laiyi for a walk. This was not enough. She had regular menstruation, but her stomach was not very comfortable on the first day, and no matter how she was treated, she would not work.
Fu Xuan came here in the morning and wanted to go to the front yard with his sister to meet his mother. When Fu Rong learned that he was feeling uncomfortable, Fu Xuan asked her to rest in the bed and went to the front yard by herself. "Mom, my sister's menstruation is here, so I won't have to go there to pay my respects this morning, right?"
Qiao was a little surprised. He calculated the days. It was indeed the past few days. He smiled and said, "No, your grandmother loves us and doesn't mind it. Then after dinner, the mother took Xuanxuan to go shopping." You can't ignore another daughter because one daughter is inconvenient to go out.
Fu Xuan refused: "Let's go when my sister is ready. I'm young and I don't need anything to add."
The little daughter loves books but not beauty. Qiao smiled and pinched her face: "Okay, mom asked your brother to go to the bookstore to pick some good books for you to read."
Hearing this, Fu Xuan finally had a little more excitement and glory that a ten-year-old girl should have.
After dinner, Fu Xuan went to talk to Fu Rong. Qiao was busy helping her daughter and son-in-law choose a house. She didn't need her help in the big house, and she didn't take the initiative to join in the fun.
While Fu Rong was resting at home, Xu Jin entered the palace in a hurry.
The morning court had dispersed, so he went directly to Chongzheng Palace to report his life.
Emperor Jiahe was talking to the prince. When the eunuch Wan Quan reported to King Su to see him, Long Yan was very happy: "Call him in!"
Wanquan bent down and retreated.
The prince's face was filled with surprise: "The fourth brother has been here for more than a month, and the wind and sun are shining. It's really hard."
Emperor Jiahe praised the fourth son without hesitation: "You guys, you are the crown prince, and it is not suitable to go out. The second brother can only eat. I doubt whether he can still ride a horse. The fifth brother and the sixth brother are still young, so I hope the fourth brother will go out to do business."
The prince smiled and thought it was, but his heart was bitter.
He was the eldest son of the main palace and was crowned the crown prince at the age of one year. After his father ascended the throne, he naturally became the crown prince. He seemed to enjoy the favor of thousands of people in the palace knew that the fourth son was the father's favorite son. Because the fourth son was the first prince born after his father ascended the throne, because he looked the most similar to his father, because he was a young general who established authority for the royal family of the Great Wei at a young age...
Footsteps sounded, and someone strode in.
The prince looked over with a smile.
Xu Jin looked at him without squintingly. After coming in, he knelt down on one knee to Emperor Jiahe: "My son pays homage to the father and the prince."
Jiahedi smiled and called him up, looked at him seriously, and said, "I'm black and thin, have I worked hard all the way?"
Xu Jin said seriously: "Why can I relieve my father and emperor's worries?"
He was always serious and didn't smile easily. Emperor Jiahe stopped talking and asked directly what the result was.
Speaking of this, Xu Jin looked serious and handed over the prematurely drafted memorials: "A total of corruption in five counties was found. The sons followed the order of their father. Two more than one thousand taels were beheaded directly, and less than a thousand taels were pressed into prison. The county magistrate of the five counties was ordered to temporarily take up the position of magistrate, and the candidates for magistrates were arranged by the Ministry of Personnel."
Emperor Jiahe took the note and looked at it, sighing: "Every year, officials embezzled silver for the construction of dikes, all of which were lucky. Why don't they think about it? How many lives would it be if the Yellow River breaks the dike? One by one, a few borers!"
The prince said: "Don't be angry with the father. Punishing corrupt officials is not a temporary achievement. The father's examination has been completed, and the corruption trend has been greatly restrained."
"That is the credit of your emperor's grandfather. I just continue to follow it." Emperor Jiahe was not a person who was very fond of merit. He knew his merits and demerits very clearly. He clapped the memorials and demerits in his hand and said to the two: "I have something to do, you can go down first. The fourth brother should not forget to see your mother."
Xu Jin should have gone out of Chongzheng Hall with the prince.
The prince led the way, and Xu Jin was two steps behind. As he walked, the prince turned his head and praised, "Just just now, my father was still praising you, saying that you are the most capable of our brothers. The fourth brother did a good job, so he would worry more for his father in the future. Your second brother is lazy and we can't count on him."
Xu Jin smiled bitterly: "How dare I compare my skills with the prince? If the prince was not inconvenient to go out, these errands would have done better than me. In fact, I can live up to my father's high hopes because the prince has been instructed since childhood. Without the prince's advice, I would have been scolded by my father for a long time, and I would have been better than my second brother Xiaoyao."
The prince chuckled: "The fourth brother, the fourth brother, I'm more and more able to speak when I go out. Okay, I'll go back to the East Palace first, go to visit the Empress Shu Concubine." After that, he turned around and went down the steps outside the hall. The apricot-yellow prince's brocade robe was dazzling in the sun.
Xu Jin glanced at him for a few more times before he went to Zhaoning Palace.
Concubine Shu had already learned that her son had entered the palace and sent someone to prepare the tea fruits that her son liked to eat early. Xu Jin had entered the palace gate and she went out to greet her.
Xu Jin paused and looked at his mother.
In addition to the queen, Concubine Shu is the only concubine in the palace who gave birth to two princes and is also the favorite concubine of Emperor Jiahe. The palace is held every three years. No matter how many beauties of fifteen or sixteen years old come in, Emperor Jiahe will rest in Zhaoning Palace three or four nights a month. Three or four nights may not seem to be too many, but Emperor Jiahe pays great attention to physical care and insists on recruiting people to sleep the next day. In other words, Emperor Jiahe only spends half a month a month to favor the concubines in the harem, including the queen. Concubine Shu is the old man with the most favors. Concubine Duan Xian of the later selection is not as good as her.
Such an identity can indeed afford to be the word "love concubine", but Shufei acts in a low-key manner. She usually dresses no differently than the wife of an ordinary noble family except for attending the banquet. For example, today, she only wore a homemade croaker embroidered with lilac hibiscus flowers, and there was no too much jewelry on her head. She stood there and smiled gently, like a ball of spring water.
Xu Jin's heart was sore.
My mother was so good. After she was seven years old, he never got close to her again. It was not that she didn't want to, but that she couldn't. My mother was the only person in the palace who knew that he was suffering from a strange disease. She was the first to notice and told him that he must keep it confidential and that even the father could not tell him.
"Mom." He called softly.
Concubine Shu looked at him with a smile, and stood three steps away, asking while inviting him into it, "Did you go back to the capital in the morning? Have you eaten? I have already ordered the kitchen to cook noodles for you. You are traveling all the way, probably don't want to eat, drink some soup to make you appetizer."
Xu Jin didn't feel hungry at first, but after saying this, his stomach sweared twice, and his face looked slightly embarrassed: "It's still my mother's thoughtfulness."
The mother and son entered the main house and said a few errands. Soon the palace maid came on a tray. A large bowl of steaming beef noodles, cut the beef into slices, and the noodles were covered with green onion and coriander, which was fragrant. There was a small bowl next to the big bowl. Shufei smiled and brought the small bowl to her: "I will definitely feel greedy just by looking at you. Jingxing, don't joke with my mother."
Xu Jin lowered his head to cover up the sourness in his eyes: "Mom is willing to eat with me, so I will eat more deliciously."
I don’t know what life my mother lived in the palace after their brothers died in the previous life. The queen didn’t like her mother, and the prince always regarded him as a thorn in his eyes. The brothers were gone, and after the father died, wasn’t my mother still allowed to be kneaded?
"Where is the sixth brother?" After eating a few bites of noodles, Xu Jin looked up and asked, "Have you been in trouble recently?"
Concubine Shu shook her head: "No, your father praised him when he was taking the school exam a few days ago, just because he always wanted to run out of the palace."
Xu Jin knew where his younger brother was going, looked at the empty palace, and advised: "Mom, please take my cousin to the palace to stay for a while." On the day my sister died, my aunt successfully gave birth to a cousin. After her mother came out of her sadness, she valued her cousin very much and often ordered people to carry her to the palace. My younger brother and my cousin were childhood sweethearts, no wonder they always wanted to come and find her. Anyway, they would get married sooner or later, so it would be better to summon people into the palace to avoid running away from their own ends.
Concubine Shu thought for a while and said, "Let's talk about it after the Dragon Boat Festival. Let her celebrate the festival at home and accompany me every few days, and your aunt can't bear to leave it."
Xu Jin sneered in his heart. The woman wanted her daughter to come in often. Apart from the grandfather's sincerity towards her mother, who was the rest, wasn't she looking forward to gaining benefits from their mother and son?
After saying that, it was not easy for him, a prince, to stay in the harem for too long. He sat for a while before leaving the palace.
Want to go to Feng Laiyi to see it, Xu Jia quietly reported: "Prince, Miss Fu and her daughter have never gone out today."
Xu Jin frowned. Last night, she said proudly that she wanted to go to Feng Laiyi to choose a better-looking pearl, why didn't she go? Could something be wrong?
He was worried that when night fell, Xu Jin couldn't help but go to Jingyang Hou Mansion again.
Fu Rong had drunk Nuannuan tonic soup and had already fallen asleep.
Xu Jin picked up the gauze tent, and the familiar fragrance of his daughter floated into his nose. He took a deep breath, but smelled a little bloody smell.
Xu Jin was shocked.
His nose was not very effective, but because of that illness, he was particularly sensitive to the body fragrance of a woman, which others could not bear. He had a particularly deep memory of Fu Rong's only daughter Xiang, whom he liked.
But seeing the little girl's rosy little face sleeping, it doesn't seem like something happened.
Xu Jin sat sideways to the edge of the bed, and glanced at her exposed body. Now it was already hot, and Fu Rong's quilt only covered her chest, abdomen, waist, arms and legs were exposed, and her skin was faintly visible under the light pink gauze. Xu Jin did not think about it at this time. He checked inch by inch and confirmed that there was no injury. He gently pulled her quilt away.
It doesn't seem to have been injured either.
Xu Jin was puzzled and couldn't help but approach to identify the source of the smell, and gradually turned his eyes to her.
Xu Jin's face became hot. He thought of the several times he had gone to find her. She felt uncomfortable and could not sleep. He returned in disappointment.
It's really troublesome for women.
Through the gauze, Xu Jin gently kissed Fu Rong's thigh, and then carefully covered her with a quilt. Seeing that she was sleeping well, he looked quietly for a while and was about to leave.
Unexpectedly, when I lifted up the gauze tent, I heard a buzzing mosquito.
Xu Jin's face changed, he quickly put down his tent and looked at the source of the sound.
A small mosquito flew into the bed without any rushing speed, almost unable to see clearly.
Xu Jin had never done a job of slapping mosquitoes. But when he looked at Fu Rong's pretty face exposed outside, he paused, raised his legs and half-kneeled on the bed, and searched carefully.
Chapter completed!