The queen opened her mouth, but found that she could not speak, and finally sighed: "Don't be so insignificant, General Nie, you have a lot, it's not too much for you to call Uncle Nie in private, but don't use your identity to do anything wrong."
Xie Yaohua responded absentmindedly a few times, suddenly thought of something, straightened up, and approached the queen as if to please: "Mother, can these **** allow me to leave the palace once? I want to go to Meng's house to see Laiyi, listen. She fell into the lake in winter and almost lost her life."
The queen wanted to refuse, but thinking that Meng Eqi had suffered so much at such a young age, she should not get the justice she deserved now. Concubine Yi is pregnant over there. It is impossible for the emperor to punish the Chu family because of her face. Meng Qiqi can be regarded as the queen who grew up watching her. It is fake that she is not distressed by the queen now. He touched his daughter's forehead and said, "Okay, take a good look at Laiyi on behalf of your mother, bring some supplements, and don't forget to greet Mrs. Meng, there are several other sisters in her family, so bring some as well. Go play."
Xie Yaohua agreed happily, and gestured with fingers like Shujiazhen: "I want to bring a set of peacock feathers that Xiyi sent to Laiyi a while ago, but she has never seen it before! Ye Mingzhu also brought her two, she was afraid at night. Dark. To my mother, the set of silver double-buckle bracelets that you put in the warehouse last time is very beautiful, why don't you take it out and give it to Laiyi, she has thin wrists, so it will look good when you wear it!"
The queen smiled and agreed one by one, turned her head and instructed the maid to do Xie Yaohua's affairs, while saying: "I usually see you two being hot, but she thinks of you at critical moments, and you care about her. Okay, the mother never gave her. You have given birth to older sisters and younger sisters, and you have a sister like Laiyi, which is also very good."
Xie Yaohua was puzzled: "What about other concubines in the palace? Isn't it my younger brother and sister?"
The queen pulled Xie Yaohua to her side and explained carefully: "Yongning, they are also your younger brothers and sisters, but sometimes, they are not as good as ordinary strangers. When you have a conflict of interest, they may stab you with the knife. Although Laiyi has an impulsive and naughty personality, she is not bad. She has a deep relationship with you since you grew up, and you have to rely on each other for anything in the future."
Xie Yaohua didn't understand the reason for the anxiety in her mother's eyes. She was a princess who had no worries about food and clothing. Both her brothers and younger siblings were very humble to her. She would not understand the truth of what the Queen said to her. Maybe she would understand her mother's good intentions one day in the future, but not now.
So Xie Yaohua frowned and thought for a while, and then put it behind her: "Mother, don't talk to you anymore, I'm going to count the gifts I brought to Laiyi."
Seeing her jumping away, the queen smiled and shook her head. She was about to go to check the palace affairs, but she suddenly coughed continuously. Chun'er, the maid of the palace, immediately brought tea and took care of her heart and lungs, deeply worried: "My lady has been coughing like this since the last time I got cold, and I want a servant. , or invite the national doctor Zhang Taiyi to give you a good recuperation."
"No need," the queen waved her hand gently, "Concubine Yi asked Taiyi Zhang to have her miscarriage. Taiyi Zhang is over 60 years old, so why bother him to run around again? Ben Gong's illness is not in the way, you can go back and follow the instructions before. Go to the Tai Hospital to grab a few medicines and drink it every day."
"Yes, ma'am."
In the Meng Mansion, Meng Eqi later fell asleep and had a dream.
In the dream, Nie Xuanlie turned back into a young child, pure and white, shaking his arms and following behind Meng Qiqi, grinning: "Qiniang, hug."
Meng Eiqi picked him up, he was holding something in his palms, and said to Meng Eiqi, "I caught this in the back garden and gave it to Qiniang." He opened his hand slowly, and once A dragonfly stopped in his palm.
Meng Qiqi looked at the pale green dragonfly, it moved its wings and flew away when Nie Xuanlie opened his palms. Nie Xuanlie wanted to reach out to grab it, but he didn't. He was full of regret: "Qiniang, it flew away."
Meng Eqi twisted the tip of his nose: "It's fine to fly away, we don't want it anymore, let's catch another one."
The young and tender Nie Xuanlie watched the dragonfly fly away, laying on Meng Qiqi's shoulder and watching it for a long time.
"Qiniang, Xuan Lie will study martial arts well in the future."
"why?"
"Because of Master Mo, the martial arts are so powerful that it is easy to chase a bird. When I learn it, I will catch many, many dragonflies for Qiniang."
Meng Eqi held him in her arms and said happily, "Okay, then Qiniang is waiting for you."
When Meng Eqi woke up, he found that it was pouring rain outside the window.
The rain in winter is the coldest, so Meng Eqi shivered as soon as she sat up from the quilt.
Yan Sha came over and closed the window, then smiled and said, "It's raining heavily today, Second Young Master, you don't have to go to school with you."
After getting up, Meng Eqi drank a bowl of porridge, and hid in the house surrounded by the bedding to watch the heavy rain outside the eaves. The entire courtyard was submerged in the pattering rain, and the trees were shaking in the wind. She seemed to be able to smell the dampness. Herbal flavor. Yan Sha came from the corridor with an umbrella, her skirt was soaking wet, she twisted the water under the eaves, and did not forget to bring Meng Eqi a bag of hot candied chestnuts.
"Second Young Master ordered it to you before going out." She.
Meng Eqi muttered, "How much do I like to eat in his eyes?" He quickly peeled off the chestnut coat and couldn't wait to stuff it into his mouth.
"Isn't it raining today? Why is he still out?"
Yan Sha was surprised: "Sister, isn't the second young master with you? Mr. Fu from Songlin Academy is going to take the second young master and several other young masters out for a trip, so the second young master is going out to prepare things today."
"Traveling!?" The chestnuts in Meng Eqi's hand fell to the ground: "Then how long will it take for him to come back?"
Yan Sha smiled: "How can there be a certain number, maybe three or five if it's fast, but it will be ten and a half months later."
The ease in Yan Sha's room made Meng Eqi feel a huge wave in her heart.
Sheng Jiayan is leaving her for half a month!
Meng Qiqi thought of this and felt that the sugar-fried chestnuts in her hand had no taste. She sat on the couch and waited until Yan Sha shouted from outside, "Second Young Master is back."
Meng Eqi immediately ran into Sheng Jiayan's yard, and found that the packed boxes were placed in the yard, and Bai Gao was still helping him carry things.
When Sheng Jiayan saw her coming, his expression was not surprised at all. He flipped through the book and asked her, "Is fried chestnuts with sugar delicious?"
Meng Eqi sat down on his suitcase: "This fall is the township exam, are you really going to take the exam?"
Sheng Jiayan put down the book in his hand: "I haven't planned it yet."
Meng Qiqi looked at him as if he didn't care about anything, and was a little anxious: "You have to go!"
"Why?"
"If you don't take the imperial examinations, how will you get promoted and get rich, and how will you stand for your father in the court again? If you don't take the exam, who will speak up for your father?"
Sheng Jiayan looked at her fixedly, there were wind and clouds rolling up in his eyes, and there were surging waves. Meng Eqi looked at him with only concern.
So she believed that her father was innocent
Turns out she was supporting herself.
Meng Qiqi didn't understand why Sheng Jiayan's eyes suddenly seemed to have a ray of light, and he swept away his usual shadows, only to hear him with a smile: "I can't let my grandmother hear this, the ancestors of the Meng family have a lesson. It is said that reading is for the sake of being sensible, not about making a fortune.”
Meng Qiqi knows Sheng Jiayan very well. She knows that Sheng Jiayan has also pursued power in his life, not to mention that he still has all the heroes of the Sheng family army on his body. Reading and taking the imperial examinations is only a means for him to approach the center of power. step.
So Meng Eqi took off the longevity lock hanging down from his neck and put it on Sheng Jiayan's desk: "Then you have to keep it for me, I can't travel with you, so let this longevity lock Help me accompany you."
Sheng Jiayan had nothing to say, and only led Meng Eqi to say goodbye to Mrs. Meng.
"Grandmother, I will be leaving tomorrow, and I will be able to return to Beijing in about a month at most. During this period, please take care of your own body. Qiqi's grandson has already instructed her, so there will be no more troubles." He always did this. With a steady appearance, his handsome profile face has a faint velvet glow in the candlelight, and his eyebrows are flying with suppressed arbitrariness. If he frowns slightly, it will give people a severe feeling.
"How could I cause trouble? I'm relieved!" Meng Eqi protested.
The old lady Meng laughed again and again, and then she patted Sheng Jiayan's hand, and Madam Xu beside her immediately handed over a pack of snowflake silver: "Child, you take this."
Sheng Jiayan pushed back: "Grandmother, grandson can't use these."
The old lady Meng was very insistent: "I must take it. My grandmother gave you this because I was afraid that something might happen to you on the way. The money is easy to turn around. Although you are very capable, sometimes money can make a ghost run the mill. It's okay to prepare a lot. But remember one thing, don't reveal your wealth, and don't give the bad guys a chance."
Sheng Jiayan bowed his head and answered all.
"Although you are not the biological son of my Meng family, but you have been serving me under my knees for so long, I have long regarded you as my own grandson. You have been away this time, and when you come back, you will have to deal with the township examination, and then you will meet Try, and there will be more difficulties to overcome one by one. Grandma knows that you are a person who has your own plans, so I won’t ask you much this time, you must take care of yourself.”
Sheng Jiayan responded in a steady voice: "Don't worry, grandmother, grandson will never forget your earnest teachings."
Sheng Jiayan hasn't been doing well, but Meng Eqi, who is on the side, can't help crying. At first, she was holding back her tears, but now she is found crying like no one else, and she doesn't forget to wipe her nose and tears with Sheng Jiayan's sleeve. .
Mrs. Meng saw that Sheng Jiayan's sleeves were soaked with tears, and shook her head: "Qiqi, you are still a girl's family, you can't do this."
Sheng Jiayan wiped away her tears with his hand and frowned slightly: "It's the same in front of my grandmother, I usually spoil you."
Meng Eqi cried and hugged Sheng Jiayan's arm tightly: "I have never been separated from my second brother. I can't accept it for a while and I'm not allowed to cry, woo..."