in2ebook Chapter 113 Husband is a good name
Chapter 113 Husband is a good name
Chapter 113 Husband is a good name
"What are you looking at? What's so good about her?" Shi Liyuan was unhappy. "When has the royal family ever given face to me? Why are you so kind to give them face? Don't you think you are wasting your life by talking to her?"
"Just treat it as a way to digest the food!" Ye Wenyan said, "You see, I stay in Yanhua Palace every day, and my life is like retirement. It's really boring. And you feed me every meal, and you made me a bowl of fish soup early in the morning. I have to practice the Light Body Skill at least three times a day, and I'm really exhausted. I'll go to Queen Mother Li's place to eat after I finish my meal, and I can eat more when I come back at noon."
Shi Liyuan thought about it and finally nodded, "Alright, let's go! The sooner we go, the sooner we can return."
Ye Wenyan followed Lian Shi with a hop and a skip. He looked at the little girl's back and thought it would be good to let her go out for a walk. The little girl was only fifteen years old and still young. It was not a good idea to keep her in Yanhua Palace all the time. He couldn't be too overbearing a husband and had to give her enough freedom.
Well, husband, this is a nice name.
Ye Wenyan left Yanhua Palace and went down Yanhua Mountain. The happiest person was Zhuier.
She had been idle for so many days that she was almost bored. Finally, she had something to do.
So he followed his young lady closely, refusing to move away from her, and staring at her with his eyes fixed, fearing that she would run away.
Ye Wenyan was terrified by her stare, "Can you be normal? I thought you were going to take a picture of me from behind!"
Zhuier waved her hands repeatedly, "You can hit anyone but Miss! I learned to hit bricks in order to hit bad guys, Miss, don't worry."
She then asked, "Are you really learning how to hit bricks?" Can bricks be used as weapons?
Zhuier nodded seriously, "I really learned it, and I learned it very seriously. It was Eunuch Lian Shi who taught me personally. I have been learning Kung Fu from Eunuch Lian these days. I squat in horse stance every day and practice arm strength. Eunuch Lian said that squatting in horse stance is to make the lower body stable, and practicing arm strength is to swing the brick more powerfully and more accurately. It's just that we are still missing a good brick, and Eunuch Lian has ordered someone to make it. Miss, do you think gold bricks or jade bricks are better? Gold bricks are certainly stronger, but jade bricks are harder."
Ye Wenyan was stunned after hearing what he said, "What have you done these days? Are the palace servants in Yanhua Palace so unreliable?" After saying that, he glanced at Lian Shi who was following behind him. Maybe his eyes were a little sharp, and Lian Shi was scared so much that he quickly lowered his head.
Zhuier didn't think so. "I think that Master Lian is very reliable. I must be a useful person, otherwise I am not worthy to stay by the young lady's side. In addition to practicing brick slapping, I also need to train my physical strength, so that I won't be so tired next time I carry the young lady."
"Stop it now, you are cursing me, your daughter? Why do you even mention next time?"
Zhuier immediately changed his words: "No next time! Absolutely no next time."
The three of them chatted as they descended Yanhua Mountain. Lian had someone prepare a sedan chair for Ye Wenyan to sit in, saying, "Everyone outside thinks that you, the fourth young lady, are missing! The Ye family thinks so too. So in order to prevent someone from seeing the fourth young lady and spreading the news back to the Ye family, thus delaying the eldest lady from punishing the second master Ye's family, the fourth young lady should bear with it and sit in the sedan chair!"
Ye Wenyan then put aside his previous impression of Lian Shi and felt that this person was still very reliable.
It took quite a long time to walk from Yanhua Palace to Yong'an Palace. Along the way, they met many palace servants, and even met the imperial concubine who was walking in the harem with her maid. Everyone saw Lian Shi walking in the palace with a strange maid, and everyone saw the sedan chair, but no one could guess who was carried in the sedan chair, and some people even knelt down from a distance. Because they thought it might be the emperor, after all, only the emperor would take Lian Shi with him when he traveled.
Anyway, kneeling is better than not kneeling. If you are wrong, it will be in vain. What if it is really the emperor? When they arrived at Yong'an Palace, the eunuchs in the palace opened the gate and let the sedan chair in. Lian Shi and Zhuier were about to step inside when they heard a eunuch say, "The Empress Dowager only saw one person. You two should wait outside!"
Lian Shi almost laughed out loud, "Are you talking to us?"
The eunuch of Yong'an Palace nodded, "That's right. We are all palace servants who have been stabbed, and none of us is more noble than the other. This is Yong'an Palace, and if the Empress Dowager says she won't see you, then she won't see you."
Lian Shi sighed: "The servants around Empress Dowager Li are all promising! Really promising! We were indeed stabbed, but how can we say that everyone has his own destiny! You were stabbed, so you can only serve the former queen and now the empress dowager, but after I was stabbed, I will serve the Emperor of Northern Qi. Have you stayed in Yong'an Palace for too long and forgotten what Yanhua Palace is? Believe it or not, when you said these words, the eyes of the old emperor were staring at you!"
The eunuch wanted to say something, but was stopped by Baochan who ran out from the courtyard. He then quickly saluted Lian Shi and said, "Eunuch Lian, please don't be angry. He is new here and doesn't know the rules. The gate of Yong'an Palace can stop anyone except people from Yanhua Palace. Eunuch Lian, please come in!" After saying that, he looked at Zhuier and said reluctantly, "This girl, please come in too!"
Lian Shi followed Zhuier into the courtyard, and the palace servants immediately closed the palace gate behind them.
Ye Wenyan also got off the sedan chair, and Baochan respectfully invited him into the main house.
As Ye Wenyan walked, he asked Baochan: "How can you have such an expression and attitude? Shouldn't you be so angry when you see me that you want to tear me apart with your bare hands?"
Baochan said quickly, "Fourth Miss, please don't have such thoughts. You really misunderstood. No matter whether it is me or the Queen Mother, you have not and dare not have any complaints against me. Speaking of the matter with the Sixth Prince, it was also a misunderstanding, because the idea was proposed by Old Madam Ye, and the Queen Mother did a favor for the old general." "Is that so!" Ye Wenyan nodded, "It's best to think this way. I hope you can keep thinking this way."
She stopped talking until she entered the house, then she straightened her clothes and curtsied to the Empress Dowager Li who was sitting in the main seat: "Your servant Ye Wenyan, greetings to the Empress Dowager of the West Palace." She particularly emphasized the word West Palace, intending to remind Empress Dowager Li that she is not the only one in charge of the harem, there is also a Queen Dowager in the East Palace!
How could Empress Dowager Li not understand what she meant, and how could she not understand that Ye Wenyan only bowed and did not kneel, which meant that she did not take her seriously at all. Although she was so angry that her liver ached, she had no way to deal with Ye Wenyan. Besides, she really did not want to fall out with this Fourth Miss Ye today, and she called her over to plead for her son again.
So she smiled, stood up, walked up to Ye Wenyan and took her arm, and said warmly: "You don't have to be so polite to me. If there weren't some misunderstandings, you should call me mother now."
Ye Wenyan looked at the Empress Dowager with his eyes tilted. It turned out that the women in the palace knew how to maintain themselves. Empress Dowager Li was one year older than Mu Qianqiu, but she looked much younger than Mu Qianqiu. Everyone thought that the mistress of the first-rank general's mansion was a very proud and comfortable existence, but they didn't know that in addition to taking care of the housework, Mu Qianqiu had to take care of her mother-in-law and her uncle. In addition, her husband was not around all year round, and she had been worn out.
Seeing that she was only staring at her but not speaking, Empress Dowager Li felt a little embarrassed for a moment, but she still smiled and said, "You must be unaccustomed to coming to Yong'an Palace for the first time. It doesn't matter. Anyway, you live in the palace now. We will come and go often in the future and slowly become familiar with each other." She took Ye Wenyan two steps forward, pressed him to sit on the chair, and sat back herself. Then she said, "To be honest, since I knelt at the door of Yanhua Palace on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, I have been thinking since I came back that maybe I was really wrong. I was wrong because I shouldn't have listened to Madam Ye's words. I shouldn't have always given her face because she was the widow of the old general and let Lu'er change the main wife to your cousin. Now I think about it, I really regret it. How can such an undisciplined woman be worthy of my child? Only someone as smart and pure as you, Wenyan, is worthy of him!" Lian Shi coughed twice, "Please be careful with your words, Empress Dowager."
Empress Dowager Li did not say anything, but Baochan leaned towards Lian Shi and said, "Don't worry, eunuch. I will be careful with my words."
Ye Wenyan pondered over Mu Qianqiu's hard work for a while, and now hearing what Queen Mother Li said, she couldn't help but frown and asked, "How did Queen Mother know that I'm pure and innocent? You know I've been living in Yanhua Palace for several days. If this word gets out, my reputation won't be much better than Ye Hongzhuang's."
"How can we compare them!" Queen Mother Li immediately expressed her attitude, "The one living in Yanhua Palace is the Emperor, he is a god!"
"Oh." Ye Wenyan nodded, "Since everyone knows that he is a god, why are you still talking about whether I am worthy of the Sixth Prince."
Queen Mother Li was embarrassed again, "Yes, yes, I said the wrong thing. It's our Lu'er who is unlucky. I won't say it again in the future." She laughed for a while, and asked Baochan to peel fruit for Ye Wenyan. After serving her well, she said, "Wenyan, I am a straightforward person. It's not easy for you to come here. So I will speak frankly."
She sat up straight, obviously a little nervous, "Wen Yan, I asked you to come here this time because I have an unreasonable request. It's about the injury of the Sixth Prince. Can you...can you treat it?"
Ye Wenyan laughed out loud. She knew that Queen Mother Li would not wish her a happy new year for no reason. She was asking for something. But she had never intended to treat the Sixth Prince's injury. Queen Mother Li knew how deep the grudge between her and the Su Palace was. How could she have the nerve to ask for this?
Queen Mother Li also knew that she was quite shameless, but this time she was confident that she could persuade Ye Wenyan, because she had a bargaining chip. She believed that Ye Wenyan would definitely be willing to trade with her...