Chapter 110 Chapter 110 This time she made a mistake.
Li Shuyao shook her head. How could she know how to raise a child?
Little Yinzhen has not been spoiled by her yet. Firstly, there are many people in Changchun Palace, and she does not need to take care of the little cub personally most of the time. Second, the cub himself is well-behaved and sensible enough.
As a mother, she has no other abilities except giving birth to him.
Li Shuyao has always been able to recognize her own strengths and weaknesses.
She said frankly, "I can't really say, but Prince Chun's wife definitely loves her little prince very much."
"This is her first time being a mother too. Who knows, maybe she was fooled?"
"So I've also been thinking about asking the Imperial Concubine to investigate outside the palace for certain individuals who have connections with Prince Chun's mansion and are relatively close, but who may also harbor some hatred or have had rifts with them in the past?"
Qingyao listened to her words and slowly lowered her delicate eyebrows. She felt that what Shu Yao said was quite reasonable.
After all, it was a matter of royal heirs, and she soon became restless.
Li Shuyao, who was lying beside her like a limp dough, almost fell down when she stood up suddenly.
Li Shuyao was really frightened by her action. The hairpins on her bun jingled and swayed. After she fumbled to hold her body, a trace of panic and fear flashed across her pair of clear eyes like a deer.
——She almost fell face down on the couch.
Although it may not hurt much, the posture... is very embarrassing.
Fortunately, there was no one in the room, fortunately she held on, fortunately...
"Are you-are you okay?"
Qingyao must have been startled by her own "recklessness", and her soft voice was filled with nervousness.
She helped Li Shuyao sit down again, like a gentle and kind elder sister. She reached out and touched Li Shuyao's temples, and then touched her cheek with the back of her hand. After a while, she saw that the expression on Li Shuyao's face slowly returned to normal and her eyes were no longer dull and horrified, so she quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
She was worried that Li Shuyao would come to her senses and "settle the score" with her, so before Li Shuyao could speak, she hurriedly said, "I'll go to Chengqian Palace and talk to the Imperial Concubine Sister about this, then come back to see you. I'll let you have my say on whether I want to punish you or not. How do you think?"
He uttered these words in a hurry and ran quickly on the bottom of the flowerpot.
Li Shuyao pursed her lips, but she was not as angry as Qingyao imagined.
Her expression was calm, but her mind was already wandering, drifting towards the rare treasures in the Yikun Palace's storehouse. Last month, Qingyao hadn't obtained a set of pink hibiscus jade headpieces...
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In Chengqian Palace.
Concubine Tong was very happy to see Qingyao coming, but when she heard her say that she had something important to say, she immediately frowned and asked all the palace people in the hall to leave.
She had some vague guesses in her mind. After listening to Qingyao's words, her face showed no sadness or joy. She calmly took out a file from the drawer of the study and handed it to Qingyao.
If Li Shuyao could think of it, how could His Majesty and she not think of it?
As early as when Prince Chun's Mansion began to frequently invite imperial physicians to the mansion to treat the little prince, His Majesty sent people out of the palace to thoroughly investigate who Prince Chun's wife had met and what she had said during that period.
It was so densely packed that it formed a thick file, and it took Qingyao half an hour to finish reading it.
"It seems there is no problem." Qingyao said with a frown.
Concubine Tong tapped the table with her slender fingers and nodded immediately. If there was any problem, she and the Emperor would have dealt with that group of people long ago. Why would they have to wait until now for Prince Chun's wife to personally carry the little prince into the palace for help?
She tried to comfort Qingyao, saying, "You don't need to worry about Prince Chun's affairs. Just take good care of Yinqi in the palace. During this period, you should have fewer visits to the Cining Palace. You and Qingyao should pay your respects once every fifteen days. Don't linger, or you might get hurt or be taken advantage of by someone. If something bad happens to the little prince, you won't be implicated."
She really treated Qingyao and Shuyao as her own sisters and loved them dearly.
What is the difference between Qingyao and Shuyao's child and her own child?
Naturally, I hope everything goes well for them, that they are safe, wealthy, and have as much honor as possible!
Qingyao put down the file, feeling both grateful and guilty for the Imperial Concubine's words. She had foolishly thought that she and Shuyao had found some clues that could help the Imperial Concubine and the Emperor.
In the end, they were still just two useless, useless little snacks, and could only sit in their own palace with their own children, watching the imperial concubine and the emperor busying themselves, busying themselves...
Thinking this, she walked forward and eagerly poured a cup of tea for the imperial concubine. After fanning it slightly with her hand, she handed it to Imperial Concubine Tong.
Concubine Tong smiled faintly and took the tea. She opened the teacup and took two sips before placing it back on the table. She reached out and tapped Qingyao's forehead, "Did you take my words to heart?"
Qingyao nodded repeatedly, and Furong looked extremely well-behaved.
She said, "When I go back, I will remember to remind Shu Yao."
"That's good."
The imperial concubine felt comforted by her two younger sisters' understanding, but she also remembered that she had not seen Yinzhen for a long time and missed him very much.
Fortunately, I will go to the Cining Palace the day after tomorrow to pay my respects to the two ancestors.
Although the Empress Dowager is not in charge of much affairs nowadays, she is still concerned about the children in the palace. Therefore, every time the concubines go to pay their respects to the ancestor, they will bring their princes and princesses with them, so that they can kowtow in front of the ancestor, show their courtesy, say a few compliments, and please the ancestor.
Two days passed in the blink of an eye.
Since Prince Chun's wife and the young prince were still living in the Cining Palace, this visit seemed much quieter.
The Empress Dowager must have been exhausted and had no time to admonish the concubines. After simply accepting their greetings, she told them to leave if they had nothing to do. Instead, she kept Concubine Tong, probably because she had something to tell her.
Seeing that there was nothing for Li Shuyao to do, she took her fat baby and left.
Without hesitation, as if he had made up his mind long ago.
Changchun Palace was not far from Cining Palace, so she did not take a sedan chair today. In addition, she wanted to train the little boy, so she held his hand and walked with him quickly. Soon they were out of the territory of Cining Palace, and then she slowed down her pace a little.
Little Yinzhen probably knew what was going on, and he followed her obediently all the way. One of his short, fat hands was raised high and was held by Li Shuyao, while the other fat hand was hanging by his side and swinging back and forth, as if this could help him maintain his balance and keep up with Li Shuyao's pace.
When they reached a corner of the palace wall, they suddenly saw two young eunuchs whispering to each other not far away. One of them handed over a purse, and the other quickly put it into his sleeve. Their originally unremarkable looks instantly became shifty and hateful in Li Shuyao's eyes.
"Mom, there's a bad guy!" A clear baby voice suddenly rang out.
The two young eunuchs who were "making a deal" over there were so scared that they trembled all over. Sweat instantly dripped from their foreheads, and soon their collars and backs were wet.
The two men wanted to run but didn't dare to. They stood there fighting for a while before turning around tremblingly and kneeling down towards Li Shuyao and little Yinzhen, with their heads lowered on the floor tiles. Their whole bodies were shaking, as if they had seen the devil. They were so scared that they couldn't even speak.
Without any instructions from Li Shuyao, Nanny Yan beside her glanced sideways, and several tall and strong eunuchs came forward from the end of the team, picked up the two young eunuchs and left.
Nanny Yan said, "Your Majesty, please take your people back to Changchun Palace first. I will follow you to take a look."
The next thing she was talking about was the Ministry of Punishment.
The Ministry of Punishment was a place where palace maids who made mistakes were tortured. Li Shuyao naturally couldn't go to watch the fun, so she could only take the little boy and quickly return to her Changchun Palace.
Not long after we sat down, Nanny Yan came back with a frown on her face.
She first bowed to Li Shuyao without saying anything.
Probably because there was a soft little cub sucking his hands while lazily lying in Li Shuyao's arms. No matter how much Li Shuyao disliked him for being hot, he refused to come out of Li Shuyao's arms.
He just lay there, swinging his fleshy legs, blinking his big, sparkling black grape eyes at Nanny Yan, with the words "want to eat melon" written all over his body.
Li Shuyao was at a loss as to what to do with him, so she could only look at Nanny Yan and ask, "Did the Ministry of Punishment find out anything?"
Nanny Yan replied succinctly, "Those two palace maids stole some imperial treasures from the palace and sold them outside. After making the money, they took advantage of the fact that all the other ladies were paying their respects in the Cining Palace to divide up the spoils."
The wife of Prince Chun was staying at the Cining Palace with her sick little prince. The concubines in other palaces were worried about being involved with Prince Chun's mansion, so they seldom visited the palace during this period and did not even have the heart to compete for favor.
The two young eunuchs finally got a chance to meet each other, and then they bravely sneaked outside the Cining Palace to divide the spoils. They thought that the concubines of each palace would be arrogant and wait for the sedan chair outside the Cining Palace to arrive after paying their respects to the ancestor before leaving. However, Li Shuyao did not take the usual route. She took the little prince's hand and walked towards Changchun Palace, and they were caught red-handed.
The blame should be on Li Shuyao's fast pace. Even if she was just two or three seconds late and missed the eunuch's action of handing over the purse, it wouldn't be so...
Cough cough.
Upon hearing that it had nothing to do with Prince Chun's wife, Li Shuyao lost interest and was too lazy to ask how it would be handled.
She shook the chubby baby in her arms and said, "Aren't you going out to play today?"
Little Yinzhen shook his head: "I don't want to go out, I want to be with my mother."
When he shook his head, the flesh on his face trembled randomly.
Li Shuyao was so jealous that she raised her hand and pinched him.
Little Yinzhen knew the "power" of his chubby face, and his mother had done this more than once or twice, so he not only did not hide, but opened his arms and welcomed it, allowing Li Shuyao to knead it to his heart's content.
Nanny Yan looked at the "loving mother and filial son" in front of her for a while, then smiled helplessly and sighed, then turned around and went out to prepare snacks for Li Shuyao.
During this period, the atmosphere in the harem was very depressing. The concubines all stayed in their own palaces and did not like to go out, and the emperor rarely set foot there.
The ones who traveled most frequently were the imperial physicians from the Imperial Medical Bureau and the eunuchs from the Imperial Household Department. They all walked quickly with heavy expressions, as if they were waiting for some news.
Li Shuyao had been quiet for such a long time, and she was really suppressed.
So when the kid woke up from his nap, she asked people to build a simple shed in the yard with bamboo curtains woven with fine bamboo threads, which just happened to cover the facilities made by the craftsmen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs a few days ago.
Someone sprinkled some water around, and when the temperature in the yard dropped and it wasn't so hot anymore, Li Shuyao led her little boy out, like hanging clothes, and put his two chubby hands on the horizontal bar.
A small snow-white ball appeared and swayed on the horizontal bar.
The little boy may have never played such a game before, and he was very surprised. He was laughing and making noises, and his baby voice could be heard everywhere.
He tentatively raised his foot.
Li Shuyao gently pushed his little butt, and he became like a small swing swaying in the wind, swinging back and forth a few times.
"Hehe, it's fun, so fun, mom!"
"Mother, I want more. I want more."
Li Shuyao pushed again.
The little ball continued to rock back and forth.
"More!"
Li Shuyao asked him, "Do you want to try to shake it yourself?"
The kid blinked and asked, "Why is it shaking?"
He clearly curled his legs, but they didn't shake.
Little Yinzhen knew that this was because he was too heavy. If he could be lighter, he could probably control his feet to make his body shake.
But he...
A flash of embarrassment flashed through Little Yinzhen's mind, but he was quickly overcome by his playful nature. He wanted to have fun a few more times before his hands got sore.
Otherwise, if I fall down and then hang myself up again, I probably won’t have the strength to maintain this posture.
So she kept urging Li Shuyao, "Mother, push me again, mother, push me again, push me~"
Under the constant urging of the little baby voice, Li Shuyao could only helplessly push him several more times, until he could no longer hold on and his palms began to lose their grip on the slippery horizontal bar, and then she carried him down.
Then he threw him into a round wooden drum and asked, "Can you climb this?"
Little Yinzhen seemed to be dreaming back to when he was one year old. He crawled on all fours and nodded his head excitedly. “Yes! Just crawl over there and crawl back.”
Li Shuyao asked him again, "Isn't Yinzhen afraid of the dark?"
Little Yinzhen patted his chest and said, "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid. Mother's belly is even darker than this, and I'm not afraid."
Li Shuyao:?
What nonsense is this kid talking about? What do you mean her belly is black? What’s black about her belly?
She bit her lower lip in anger. Nanny Yan, who was standing beside her, saw what she was angry about and said with a smile, "Young prince is naturally intelligent. He still remembers everything from when he was in the Empress's belly."
Li Shuyao didn't believe it: "How is it possible?"
Wouldn’t that make you a genius?
She didn't guess anything weird like rebirth.
As for little Yinzhen, after saying this, he didn't care about his mother's reaction. He raised his little hands and feet and crawled into the cylinder with a clatter.
It was pitch black inside, and the only sound he could hear was the thud-thud of his hands and knees hitting the cylinder.
But he wasn't afraid at all. He knew his mother would catch him at the end of the cylinder. If his mother wasn't there, it didn't matter. He could just go back. The cylinder only had two exits. How could his mother escape?
Outside the cylinder, Nanny Yan said, "How is it impossible?"
"Our little prince is so smart. He still remembers everything when he was in the queen's belly. What's wrong with that?"
"I've heard that some children are born with clairvoyance, able to see things that ordinary people can't."
Li Shuyao:.
How is it possible? She was wearing an ordinary palace fighting romance novel, not a fantasy or supernatural novel, and there is no such thing as a third eye.
Nanny Yan just knew how to fool her.
She simply ignored it and didn't take the kid's words to heart.
He stood up, identified the kid's current location from the sound, and walked to the other end of the cylinder.
The cylinder made by the craftsmen of the Imperial Household Department is not straight, but rather like a snake, winding several times in the yard, roughly looking like two S's connected together, which adds a bit of exploration. It should be just interesting enough for a two-year-old kid.
However, because the passage was so winding, Li Shuyao could imagine how deep and dark it was inside without even entering.
She was originally worried about whether the little one would be scared inside, but when she listened carefully -
Besides the "patta patta" sound, there were also a few low, baby-like laughter floating out.
I guess he was very happy.
Li Shuyao simply walked to the other end of the cylinder and was about to squat down to catch the kid, but suddenly he remembered something and stood up again and ran quickly to the original end of the cylinder.
He pretended to be calm, and after a while, his eyes met with the little kid who had just crawled out of the cylinder not far away.
The boy was stunned, perhaps because he didn't expect his mother to not be there to pick him up. But he quickly consoled himself and whispered to Li Shuyao, "Mother, wait for me."
After saying that, he turned his round body around, still on all fours, and with a snap, he pushed his head back into the cylinder.
Not long after, when he poked his round little head out of the first exit, Li Shuyao had already mischievously run to the exit at the other end of the cylinder. She raised her delicate eyebrows and looked at the little boy provocatively, "Yinzhen, are you still looking for your mother?"
The kid was silent, the kid was speechless.
He is small, but not stupid.
He immediately rolled out of the cylinder, stood up with his hands on the ground, pushed away the palace maid's hands that wanted to hug him, and without even brushing off his dirty clothes, ran straight towards Li Shuyao.
As fast as a small missile.
Li Shuyao didn't even have time to dodge before the hem of her clothes was tightly grasped by the little boy's fat fingers, leaving a few dark and dirty handprints.
The owner of the dirty handprint was still unaware and not only did he touch her hands, but also her face. His round little face, like a jade plate, pressed against the hem of Li Shuyao's clothes, and his other hand wrapped around Li Shuyao's thigh, "Hold on, mother!"
Li Shuyao: ...
Goodbye, this time she made a mistake.
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