The summer palace is located outside the city. In addition to the royal family, many princes and ministers in the capital also have other courtyards in that area, guarding around the palace.
This time, Jiang Rui took several concubines and little emperors to escape the summer, and there were many female relatives in the city.
I arrived at the other palace in the evening, and it was dark after a rest.
It was really cool in the mountains, the night wind was gentle, and no one bothered, Jiang Ruimei fell asleep.
Early the next morning, many wives entered the palace to greet him, including the Xie family.
Because of the exposure of the previous plan, the Xie family has been very peaceful these days. This is the first time they have asked for an interview since Jiang Rui came here. It was the Queen Mother Xie's sister-in-law and two nieces.
"My wife was in poor health a while ago, and my grandfather and wife were very anxious. It was just because...it was inconvenient to enter the palace. Not long ago, I learned that my wife was coming to another palace to escape the summer, so my wife immediately ordered us to come and say goodbye to my mother. I wonder how is your mother recently?" Xie The eldest grandmother, Mrs. Lee.
"Sister-in-law has a heart, please tell my sister-in-law to let the old man and wife in the house feel at ease. I'm already well." Jiang Rui said.
Xie's family naturally knew about her recovery, and she came here today mainly to express her concern and warm up her feelings.
Li Shi dared to look up at her, but when she saw it clearly, she was taken aback. The appearance of this empress in their family is not only very good, it can be said that she is rejuvenated and rejuvenated. Not to mention herself, the two daughters who follow her are not as good-looking as the empress.
All women don't care about their appearance. Li was very curious about her eldest sister-in-law's method of rejuvenation, but the two of them were not close in the past. Now that one of them is the queen mother, she is even more sparse and reserved. She sat on the embroidered pier and was restrained. Question asked for exit.
Hanyan sent the three of them out of the palace. Seeing that there was no one around, Mrs. Li whispered, "Miss Hanyan, can you take a step to speak?"
Hanyan happened to have something to say to her. The two walked around a pavilion and came out after talking for a while. The look on Li's face was shocked and dazed.
After leaving the palace gate, her two daughters let go and chatted immediately.
"The queen mother is so young, she looks younger than the little aunt."
"Yes, others say that the little aunt in our house is the best looking, but I think the empress dowager is more beautiful than the little aunt. Mother, don't you think?"
But Li shi no longer has the mind to be curious about the appearance of the empress dowager, and his mind is full of what Hanyan just said.
The maiden was actually with Lu Xingzhou, the eunuch of the palm print... and she had to commit herself to the Xie family, this, this...
Li couldn't wait for a moment, and immediately returned to Beijing with his two daughters.
Jiang Rui spent the morning coping with the wife, and in the afternoon she read with the little emperor. In the evening, she was free. After a while, she counted the stars in the sky and the fireflies in the grass, and she stopped after a while.
Just a little sleepy, she noticed a slight noise outside the hall. She turned her body to look at the door, but after a few breaths, she saw a figure appearing behind the screen.
Lu Xingzhou was wearing a black riding uniform, with a cape on his shoulders, and holding a horse whip. His hair that was always neatly tied up was a little messy.
He quietly turned around the screen, but he didn't expect the people in the room to be awake. After a moment's stunned, he slowly raised the corner of his mouth: "I'm here to greet the empress."
In the evening, go out of the capital quickly, go straight to the other palace, and enter the queen dowager's bedroom as if you are in a no-man's land. Jiang Rui said, "Lu Xingzhou, you are so brave."
Hearing her tone, Lu Xingzhou didn't get angry, so he smiled happily: "I have spent half of my courage on my mother in this life."
He approached slowly, considering that he was covered in dust, he did not sit directly beside the bed, but moved the embroidered pier, "There is still half to let the minister climb to where he is today, so that he can meet the empress."
When he spoke, he stared at Jiang Rui intently.
Because she was about to fall asleep, Jiang Rui only wore a pink nightgown and covered her body with a thin satin quilt. At this moment, she was lying on her side, and the quilt outlines her curves exquisitely.
She is now nearly thirty years old, already mature, and because she has never given birth, she has a slender waist and long legs under her plump breasts, and her wrists that are exposed outside the quilt are so white that you can imagine sleeping under the quilt. The body wrapped in clothes must have skin as thin as snow, as fine as condensed fat.
A bit of obsession appeared in Lu Xingzhou's eyes, "The lady is so beautiful..."
"You came all night just to tell me this?" Jiang Rui covered her mouth and yawned.
"No," Lu Xingzhou came back to his senses and shook his head with a chuckle, "I originally planned to take a look at the empress, but now that I can say a few words, I should be more satisfied."
"If that's the case, you can leave now." Jiang Rui said nonchalantly, turned over again, and turned her back to him.
Lu Xingzhou said that he was satisfied, but the soles of his feet did not move as if they had taken root, and his eyes were scorchingly staring at the small pieces of skin exposed on her back and back of her neck.
No one can ignore this kind of sight. If Jiang Rui wants to sleep, she can naturally fall asleep. But she had a hunch that if she fell asleep like this, this person would probably sit by the bed all night.
She turned around again: "Don't you need to go to court tomorrow?"
"My minister has already calculated that I will go back to Beijing as soon as possible before tomorrow's Shining Shih, and I will rush to the court as soon as possible."
It was three o'clock in the morning, and the chickens didn't even get up. Jiang Rui disagreed: "Why do you have to come and go in a hurry."
"But the minister has not seen the maiden for a whole day and night, does the maiden not miss the minister at all?" Lu Xingzhou said softly.
"It's not that it never happened before."
Lu Xingzhou smiled and said, "It used to be the past, and now it is now, of course it's different. Don't be afraid of the empress' anger. The former empress dowager was just the empress dowager to the minister, but now she is the one who the minister wants to be close to all the time."
"Then how are you going to prepare tonight?"
"I don't know either." Lu Xingzhou said frankly with a smile: "Originally, I only planned to see the empress. After reading it, I would either go to the villa outside the palace, or return to Beijing immediately."
Jiang Rui raised her eyebrows slightly: "It's my fault to say that, shouldn't I wake up and ruin your plan?"
"Don't you dare, it's a great blessing for the minister that the maiden is not asleep." Lu Xingzhou said sincerely.
Jiang Rui found another problem, "You said that you originally planned to go to Bie Zhuang or return to Beijing after reading it, but now you plan to go to neither of these places? So... you want to stay in the palace for the night?"
Lu Xingzhou smiled without saying a word.
Looking at his expression, Jiang Rui thought of something, raised her eyebrows again, and dragged her tone: "Or, are you going to sit by my bed all night, or even... on my bed?"
Although he did have a secret idea deep in his heart, Lu Xingzhou couldn't help but excitedly said, "The madam always surprises the ministers. If the minister says yes, what will the madam do?"
Jiang Rui herself was not very surprised, she had considered this since she realized that he had needs in that regard. It's not the first time anyway, so there's nothing to mess with. Although he is missing a certain part, it is more difficult to get up than ordinary men, but with her there, this is not a problem.