binnovel Chapter 189 Chat
Chapter 189 Chat
"Aunt, why didn't you tell me first that you were going to the palace?"
In front of the Yutang Palace gate, Concubine Zhi Fu Mengli stood in front of the palace gate, looking forward to it.
When she saw her aunt, Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Tonghou, walking towards her, she was suddenly filled with joy, as she had not seen her aunt for a long time.
The coldness in Fu Mengli's eyes melted away like ice and snow in an instant, and her cold temperament disappeared instantly, leaving only the shy posture of a little girl.
"I'm here to greet Concubine Zhi. May you be healthy and happy!" Madam Tonghou bowed with a sweet smile.
"aunt!"
Before Lady Tonghou squatted down, Concubine Zhi Fu Mengli hurriedly supported her arms.
Madam Tonghou raised her hand and pushed Fu Mengli's arm. After bowing, she took Fu Mengli's hand and stood up.
The two of them entered the palace hand in hand, surrounded by a large group of palace servants and eunuchs.
"Our Mengli is now Concubine Zhi. How can we abandon etiquette in front of everyone?"
"My aunt treats Mengli like her own mother. How can Mengli let her own mother bow to me?"
Fu Mengli said aggrievedly.
"You are wrong. The country comes first, and the family comes second. Even if your own mother comes, you have to pay respect to the queen."
Madam Tonghou restrained her kind and gentle smile and her attitude became very serious.
She knew that her niece's son was a quiet and peaceful one, but being too detached and too naive was not a good thing.
"I understand, aunt." Fu Mengli responded in a low voice with her head down.
When Fu Mengli was a child, she often lived with her mother at her maternal grandparents' home. The head of her maternal grandparents' home was her uncle Lin Tonghou, and her aunt Lin Tonghou's wife only gave birth to sons and no daughters.
Fu Mengli was naturally beautiful and had a sweet and cute personality, so Lady Tonghou liked to dress up young Fu Mengli, and young Fu Mengli also loved to follow her aunt closely.
"Well, Auntie is not here to teach you, why don't you see our Fifth Prince?"
Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Marquis Tong, came to the palace today on the instructions of Marquis Tong to present a gift to the empress who gave birth to the eldest son of Xiaoqi to show her attitude. After finishing her business and coming out of the Pepper Room, she took the opportunity to come and see her niece and the fifth prince born to her.
"Mingzhang is in the back hall. Calculating the time, he should be getting up soon. I'll take you to the back hall to see him?"
In a moment, Fu Mengli relaxed her brows and opened her eyes. Only when he was asleep did the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang look cute.
"Since His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince hasn't woken up yet, don't disturb his sleep.
My aunt came very early today, and there are still several hours before the palace gates are locked.
"Your Highness the Fifth Prince can't possibly sleep all day, right? He has to get up for dinner. Wouldn't Mengli want to invite your aunt to dinner?" Madam Tonghou teased.
"Aunt, have you had breakfast? Please stay for lunch and dinner with Mengli! Okay!" Fu Mengli said coquettishly.
"Qingxue, go to the Shangshi Bureau and serve the food. Meihua, take someone to get some tea and snacks. Go quickly!"
"Yes, ma'am."
Qingxue and Meihua answered in unison, then quickly left the main hall and went about their own business.
"It's true that my aunt hasn't had breakfast yet, but she had a lot of snacks in the carriage when she came out of the mansion, so she's not hungry now.
Your aunt will definitely eat lunch at your expense, but you can’t eat dinner. The palace gates are locked, and it’s not appropriate for your aunt, a woman from outside the palace, to stay in the palace.”
As she spoke, Madam Tonghou stood up, looked around, and walked around.
"Your Jade Hall with its jade steps and red courtyard is not much different from the Pepper Room that my aunt just visited.
Yu Tang, Yu Tang, 'The spring breeze makes the willows in the golden house ring, the clear snow makes the plum blossoms shine in the jade hall.', the two palace maids you sent out just now are called Qingxue and Meihua?"
"Indeed." Fu Mengli's face suddenly turned red, and she was very shy.
"Now Aunt not only knows that Mengli's two maids are named Qingxue and Meihua, but also knows that these two names must have been chosen by His Majesty, right?"
Madam Tonghou tapped Fu Mengli's cheek with her finger and said.
"Aunt, how is uncle at home?"
"He is extremely busy every day." Mrs. Tonghou shook her head with a smile.
"You should persuade my uncle to have a good rest and not to work so hard that he becomes dizzy.
When I was a child, my uncle would get seriously ill every year, which scared me to death. I thought my uncle was going to die, so I cried every year. "
Fu Mengli frowned and muttered.
"Your aunt's words are of no use at all.
If you talk to him about it, he will immediately retort that he is used to it, or he will say that life span is determined by heaven.
If you say anything else about him, he will raise the banner of Your Majesty, saying that Your Majesty is willing to use him, and he will be happy, and he will be so happy that he will be busy all the time.
It's obvious that I didn't manage my work and rest time well, but I still use Your Majesty as an excuse.
During the time when he was bedridden every year, when he took medicine, his hands would shake so much that he could even knock the medicine bowl away. Your uncle was full of excuses and loved to argue with your aunt.
Well, when our Concubine Zhi slowly endures and becomes a concubine, you can send an edict to our house to force your uncle to rest on time. "
Madam Tonghou said with a smile.
Only the emperor, the empress dowager and the queen can issue decrees. The emperor issues imperial decrees, while the empress dowager and the queen issue imperial edicts. Once a concubine is promoted to the rank of concubine, she can issue decrees.
"Aunt, please help me pass on a message. When I become a concubine, I'm afraid my uncle will ruin his health."
"You tell me, Madam Zhipin. As for whether your uncle will listen to you or not, I can't guarantee it."
"Aunt, please remind him that Mingzhang, the child born after ten months of pregnancy and suffering, will go to school in the palace in one or two years, and it will only be ten years before he leaves the palace and sets up his own government.
If uncle no longer loves Mengli, let him destroy his own body. If he dies short, no one will be able to do anything about it.
Anyway, Mengli not only has an uncle, but also a biological father."
Fu Mengli knew that in order to control her uncle, she had to mention her biological father Fu Buyi, as the two had a long-standing grudge against each other.
"Our Mengli still has an idea."
"Aunt, how is my second cousin? Is he okay?"
The ex-husband of Princess Qin Miaoyin of Qi State who she divorced was the second son of the Tonghou Mansion, Lin Qingyu.
When Concubine Lin was still alive, she once came to her about the relationship problems between her second cousin Lin Qingyu and Princess Qin Miaoyin of Qi.
He also asked Fu Mengli to write a letter to her uncle and aunt to ask for mercy from the Princess Qin Miaoyin of Qi.
Fu Mengli did write the letter at that time, but the content of the letter was all direct retelling of Concubine Lin Gui's words, and there was no plea at all.
She grew up with her cousins like brothers and sisters from the same mother. Qin Miaoyin broke her brother's leg, and Concubine Lin Gui asked her to plead for Qin Miaoyin? How is that possible?
Fu Mengli just has a cold temperament, but she is not emotionless. She can distinguish between relatives who are close or distant.
Later, she learned from her mother that her second cousin had divorced Princess Qin Miaoyin of Qi State, and she knew nothing else.
Madam Tonghou looked at the distance between the palace maids and the eunuchs and the two of them, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief.
She stretched out her finger and poked Fu Mengli's forehead lightly, feeling a little helpless.
"We know that you and your second cousin have a close relationship, but if someone else hears you asking your second cousin about something, what if they misunderstand you? Even if you ask a few more people, it will be better."
"My second cousin and I are honest and clear-headed, so why should we be afraid of this?
If there really is something, who knows, it might just make it more obvious if you try to cover it up!
Aunt, don't worry, His Majesty will not believe in groundless rumors."
"Are you talking about His Majesty, Aunt? Aunt is afraid of rumors that may kill people!"
Fu Mengli curved her eyebrows.
Mrs. Tonghou understood what was happening immediately and gently patted Fu Mengli's arm.
"You kid, you just love to scare your aunt, and your aunt thinks you don't understand!"
"Aunt, don't worry about me too much. I'm grown up."
"Yes, our little Mengli has not only grown into a graceful young lady, but also married into the palace and gave birth to the Fifth Prince safely and healthily. She is now Concubine Zhi, in charge of the Yutang Palace."
"So, aunt, how is our second cousin?" Fu Mengli asked curiously.
"After Qingyu and the Princess of Qi divorced, he took half a year to recuperate. Later, he has been working for His Majesty and has been so busy that he has never been seen."
"Didn't your uncle and aunt find someone for your second cousin?"
"Your second cousin said he was uncomfortable and didn't want to do it. Then he kept putting it off until the national mourning period came."
"Aunt, what's the situation with that brothel girl?"
"What brothel girl?"
"It was a big news before. It was said that the Princess of Qi and a prostitute were fighting for one husband, who was my cousin. Then my cousin wanted to take the prostitute as his concubine, but the Princess of Qi broke his leg. Later, the Princess of Qi's mansion caught fire, and finally my second cousin divorced the Princess of Qi."
Madam Tonghou's brows were tightly knitted, her eyes full of disgust, but this disgust was not directed at Fu Mengli.
"There was no such thing as a brothel girl. This is all Qin Miaoyin's excuse. Qin Miaoyin went to the brothel and picked up a brothel girl and brought her back to frame your cousin."
Thinking of the year her son lay lying in bed, Lady Tonghou felt filled with resentment.
"Aunt, don't be angry, my cousin and the Princess of Qi have already divorced. He will be free to marry in the future. Your second daughter-in-law will definitely be as virtuous as my eldest cousin's wife."
"We in Tonghou Mansion cannot afford Qin Miaoyin, a great Buddha. Without this great Buddha, your cousin has been getting better and better. He is just missing the virtuous person you mentioned. But that great Buddha has gone to harm Concubine Hui's brother."
Fu Mengli looked at Madam Tonghou blankly with her amber eyes.
"Cousin and Princess Qi parted ways on bad terms, and there's also... the matter of Concubine Hui's brother?"
"Don't get me wrong, your cousin's divorce from Qin Miaoyin has nothing to do with her. It was Concubine Hui's brother who was entangled with Qin Miaoyin."
Madam Tonghou shook her head and sighed.
"If it weren't for the national mourning, Concubine Hui's brother would have followed in your cousin's footsteps."
"Does Concubine Hui know about this?"
"Whether she knows or not is none of our business, but I, your aunt, am very happy to see Qin Miaoyin suffer."
Fu Mengli blinked her amber eyes.
"Mother, mother, mother!" The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang rushed in from outside the palace like a cannonball, trying to rush into Fu Mengli's arms.
"Stop! Slow down!" Fu Mengli shouted hurriedly.
Qin Mingzhang turned a deaf ear to this and rushed forward with a happy look on his face.
Just when he was about to bump into Fu Mengli, he was grabbed by a pair of hands from behind.
Meihua grabbed Qin Mingzhang's collar and froze him in place.
"Your Highness, the Fifth Prince, you are no longer a three-year-old child. You are four years old."
"Let me go. No matter how old I am, it's not a reason for you to commit treason."
A child’s character can be seen at the age of three. The four-year-old fifth prince Qin Mingzhang stared at Madam Tonghou in amazement.
"I am Madam Zhang of Tonghou. I greet His Royal Highness the Fifth Prince. May His Royal Highness be blessed with good health and happiness."
"Hello, Your Highness. Please stand up. Although Your Highness has no interest in knowing who you are, you are indeed much more sensible than Meihua."
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang imitated his impression of Qin Zhi.
"Qin Mingzhang!" Fu Mengli said gritting her teeth.
It seemed that since the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang grew up, she seemed to be losing her coldness and indifference.
She was so angry that she almost died many times every day. It seemed like Qin Mingzhang was here to jinx her.
"Mother, I want some refreshments too!"
Qin Mingzhang's attention was completely attracted by the snacks held by the palace servants behind Meihua. He ignored Fu Mengli's angry shouts and spoke in a childish and coquettish voice.
"What are you eating?" Fu Mengli was about to ask the palace servants to take away all the snacks when she suddenly remembered that they were prepared for her aunt.
"Mingzhang, come and meet your mother's aunt, your great-aunt." Fu Mengli took a deep breath.
Neither she nor His Majesty should be like this. It was unknown who the Fifth Prince Qin Mingzhang looked like. Fu Mengli clenched her fists. Such an arrogant character really annoyed her and tortured her.
Next year, when the fifth prince Qin Mingzhang is five years old, she will go to ask His Majesty to send him to school in the Xuang Palace. You can torture whoever you want, but don't bother her anymore. She can't stand it.
No wonder my aunt liked her so much when she was a child. Who doesn’t like a well-behaved girl?
"Mother, what is an aunt?"
"Aunt is your mother's aunt."
"What is that aunt?"
"My aunt is the wife of your mother's uncle, and your uncle is the brother of your mother's mother. Okay, shut up and say hello to your aunt, no, your aunt-in-law."
Qin Mingzhang wanted to act up again, but he saw the narrowed eyes of his mother Fu Mengli.
"Well, aunt, may you be blessed with good health."
"Your Highness the Fifth Prince, you are too polite. Would you be so kind as to accompany your aunt-in-law to have some cakes and pastries?" Lady Tonghou laughed.
The fifth prince Qin Mingzhang gave Mrs. Zhang, the wife of Tonghou, a look that said, "You are really discerning."
"Then I'd rather obey you than be disrespectful. Meihua, why are you still standing there?"
Seeing the change in the Fifth Prince Qin Mingzhang's expression, Fu Mengli felt her teeth itching.
If he is already like this at the age of four, is there any hope for his future success?
(Things like writer's block are force majeure. Don't blame me. I won't be a eunuch anyway. The main reason is that the early stages are all about the harem. Now that there are scenes about the princes, it is inevitable that the court will be involved in the fight for the throne. Do you have any ideas that you want me to adopt? Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)