Chapter 52 Chapter 52 Your one year old and my one year old seem not...
But after a while, Li Shuyao understood.
But she was still a little confused, so she asked Qingyao, "By doing this, isn't Concubine Tong afraid of angering the Grand Empress Dowager?"
Qingyao paused what she was doing, raised her eyelids and looked at Li Shuyao again and again.
Finally, she couldn't help herself and raised her hand to gently tap Li Shuyao on the forehead. "Stupid Shuyao, that's Concubine Tong."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She blinked and said nothing, wondering what the connection was and why the Empress Dowager would not punish her if it was Concubine Tong.
Aren’t you going to reorganize the harem?
If you treat everyone so unequally, won't others...
Oh, it seems that it is indeed not the case. After all, she is the famous Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang in history.
Li Shuyao felt that after being hit by Qingyao, her mind seemed to have opened up, and she immediately understood why the Empress Dowager was not angry with Concubine Tong.
She quickly gave Qingyao a flattering smile, then raised her hand and wrapped Qingyao's hand tightly in her own palm.
Then he said to her embarrassedly: "I'm not, I'm exhausted, so I didn't think of it for a moment?"
Qingyao suddenly came closer, her delicate face very close to Li Shuyao. She carefully looked at Li Shuyao's face, up and down, left and right, and then said unhappily, "Did you hit your head on the headboard while serving her in the bed?"
Li Shuyao's body stiffened, and she vaguely remembered that she seemed to have been bumped into.
Then he was pulled back.
Qingyao noticed the changes in her body and instantly understood something. She suddenly widened her eyes and said with a slight stutter, "Really, you really bumped into me?"
"Didn't the Emperor support you?"
Li Shuyao raised her hand and touched her head, puffing her cheeks and shaking her head.
Qingyao's eyes turned, "That means the emperor likes you very much!"
Li Shuyao fell silent.
She found that Qingyao always seemed to be able to divert the topic to these messy things.
What, why do I like her...
The emperor himself never said that.
Besides, doesn't Qingyao know how to be angry? They are now rivals in love!
Li Shuyao suddenly became genuinely worried about Qingyao.
Qingyao disagreed. To put it bluntly, which woman in the palace didn't want to climb onto the dragon bed?
If she gets jealous every day, she will die of jealousy.
People should learn to comfort themselves, learn to be open-minded, follow their hearts, and be happy.
So rather than anyone else, she would rather it be Shu Yao.
At least Shu Yao won't have to serve others anymore, and can be served by others as a master and enjoy all the glory.
Isn’t this good?
The two gradually began to disagree.
…
Fortunately, Lingluo came back in time.
She went to the imperial kitchen and brought back a lot of food.
As soon as I entered the room, I saw the two young ladies sitting face to face, both of their cheeks puffed up. I knew that they probably had some minor conflict again.
Even without mediation, it will be fine in a while.
So she just pretended not to see it and put the big food box in her hand on the table.
When Li Shuyao saw her come in, she suddenly remembered what Qingyao had said in the yard before: if she didn't learn the rules well, Lingluo would take the beating for her...
Li Shuyao quickly dragged her still sore body off the ground and stumbled over to Lingluo's side. While helping her take out the snack tray, she whispered, "Sister Lingluo, are you still in pain?"
Lingluo paused and shook her head, "It doesn't hurt."
"How can it not hurt? They are all old maids from the Cining Palace. Didn't Qingyao say that they are also known as the 'Cold-Faced King of Hell'? So if you fall into their hands, it must be as painful as going to the eighteen levels of hell, right?" Li Shuyao said, with a hint of heartache in her eyes. She looked at Lingluo as if something had happened to her...
Lingluo: ...
Li Shuyao continued to mutter: "If you feel unwell, you must tell me and Qingyao in time."
"You must not delay. Also, if the people in the Cining Palace deliberately make things difficult for you, you can tell me when you come back. Qingyao is about to be promoted to a concubine, so it's not easy for her to show up. But I'm not going to be promoted to a concubine. If I go and beg the emperor, maybe he will listen."
As Li Shuyao spoke, she moved her favorite dessert on the table towards herself so that she could take it later.
Lingluo was still silent, not knowing what she was thinking about. Her expression was pensive, and her hands slowed down a bit.
Li Shuyao didn't notice anything wrong with her expression and thought she had taken his words to heart.
He happily lowered his head and secretly took a bite of the dessert with a small fork.
Qingyao had also washed her hands by then and came over to help. Seeing the bitten snack in Li Shuyao's hand, she asked curiously, "What is this? Which chef in the imperial kitchen made this?"
It smells quite nice.
Thinking about it, she leaned over, took the remaining half of the dessert on the silver fork from Li Shuyao's hand, and put it into her mouth. She chewed it, frowned, and suddenly looked disgusted. "Forget it, I don't want to know anymore."
"This pastry has a strong taste, like it has too much oil and sugar in it. It's choking me."
She frowned, chewed hard a few times, swallowed the snack in her mouth, and turned to get some water.
Li Shuyao looked at her actions and blinked in confusion. Is it sweet?
Why doesn't she feel that?
She thought it was quite fragrant and tasted a bit like a sweeter cheese and egg yolk pastry.
Thinking of this, she lowered her eyelashes and moved the plate of snacks that Qingyao disliked towards herself.
Lingluo arranged the snacks and started to arrange the fruit plate. There was also a large bowl of ice in the middle, as well as seven or eight plates of preserved fruits cut into soybean-sized pieces, some cooked red beans and mung beans, etc.
Li Shuyao suddenly no longer felt that the "egg yolk pastry" she had eaten before was delicious.
She threw the fork in her hand away and was about to sit on the stool behind her while holding the edge of the table. However, Lingluo quickly stopped her and said in a hurried tone, "Don't sit down yet. The chair is too hard. Be careful not to hurt your butt if you sit down."
If I look back, the "stars in the sky" will fall again.
Lingluo helped Li Shuyao stand by the table, turned around and walked into the inner room to get out a few cushions. Several long straps were sewn around the edges of the cushions to facilitate fixing them on the cylindrical solid wood stool.
Perhaps worried that Li Shuyao's physique was too delicate, Lingluo simply tied three cushions to a stool, sat on it herself to feel it, and then carefully helped Li Shuyao sit down.
He then tied the remaining two cushions to another stool.
It was obviously prepared for Qingyao.
Li Shuyao quietly compared the heights of the two stools. After discovering that her stool was higher than Qingyao's, she straightened her back inexplicably happily with a smile on her face.
Lingluo saw the smile and became curious.
Li Shuyao then explained the details in a low voice.
Lingluo glanced at Qingyao's stool. In order to avoid the two of them from "arguing" later, she simply went into the inner room and took out another cushion, and raised Qingyao's stool a little bit.
Li Shuyao looked at: ...
Well, nothing to brag about.
*
About half an hour later.
Li Shuyao and Qingyao finished their snacks on the table and talked about the gossip of the past few days.
There was nothing more to say, and they didn't want to play games, so they just hugged each other affectionately and fell asleep on the couch, just like two beautiful kittens snuggling with each other, which made people feel soft-hearted just by looking at them.
Li Shuyao didn't get enough sleep after serving the emperor all night. Qingyao also didn't get enough sleep after going out early and coming back late for several days to learn the rules.
After a while, he began to snore faintly.
Sounds more like two kittens.
Lingluo came in and added a thin blanket to each of them, and closed the wide-open window a little to prevent the noisy wind outside from disturbing their sleep.
After thinking about it and feeling uneasy, I simply closed all the windows and moved the cabinet towards the window. In this way, not only the sounds outside but also the light were blocked.
She tiptoed out.
It happened that someone from the Palace of Heavenly Purity delivered some of the items that had been in Li Shuyao's previous house.
As well as Tian Jiarou and Wan Liuha Yueshu.
——From then on, the two of them became Li Shuyao’s personal maids.
This is of course against the rules, after all, a court lady usually only has one person serving her.
But...for the sake of Li Shuyao, the emperor has moved all the other court ladies to live elsewhere, and has also promised to give Li Shuyao an official position in the future.
Therefore, Li Shuyao's current status in the Palace of Heavenly Purity is no different from that of the concubines in the harem.
Besides, the Empress Dowager didn't say anything, so how could the palace maids dare to say anything?
They carefully packed up Li Shuyao's things one by one.
Then he returned to the yard, lined up, and asked Lingluo with a smile where Young Master Li was.
They also want to congratulate Miss Li.
He said he was expressing his congratulations, but in fact he was asking for a reward.
Because of her previous experience, Lingluo was very familiar with these procedures and sent those palace servants away in just a few words.
Tian Jiarou was studying quietly on the side, while Yueshu was absent-minded and kept turning her head to look into the house.
After the palace maids from the Qianqing Palace left, Lingluo walked over to the two of them, intending to take them to familiarize themselves with the environment and impart some experience to them.
But Yueshu suddenly grabbed Lingluo's sleeve. The expression on her pretty face was one of hesitation and struggle. After a long while, she asked Lingluo, "Where's Shuyao?"
Lingluo's eyes narrowed, and she said sternly, "Yueshu, no matter how close you were with Miss Li in the past, she is now the emperor's woman and a legitimate mistress in the palace. You shouldn't address her by name in front of outsiders."
The "outsider" here refers to Lingluo herself.
Just like between her and the two young ladies.
No matter how good her relationship with Miss Guo Luoluo was in private, at least she would never call Miss Guo Luoluo by her full name in front of Miss Li.
She hopes Tian Jiarou and Yueshu will keep this in mind in the future.
Yueshu was frightened by her sudden serious expression and her fingers almost couldn't grab Lingluo's sleeve.
She was dazed for a moment, but quickly came to her senses. She nodded solemnly at Lingluo and said, "I understand. I will never forget it in the future. Don't worry, Sister Lingluo."
Lingluo smiled at her and asked, "What are you looking for, Miss Li?"
Yueshu's fingers suddenly clenched, remembering Lingluo's previous words.
Then he silently loosened Lingluo's sleeve, shook his head and said, "There is indeed something very important that I must tell Miss Li in person. I hope Sister Lingluo will not be offended."
Lingluo was very satisfied when she saw that she understood what she meant.
He didn't care about Yue Shu's concealment and just said, "The two young ladies have fallen asleep, but they will wake up in about half an hour. If you are not in a hurry, why don't you wait a little longer? Now I will take you to familiarize yourself with this courtyard..."
Yueshu and Tian Jiarou nodded at the same time.
A few of them walked around in the yard, and after that, they returned to the house. Lingluo explained the structures of the other rooms after they were connected.
"The two young ladies will each have a bedroom... This is the study. After our young lady moves out in a few days, if the emperor doesn't grant her another young lady to live in, you can convert this room into a toy room or a tea room for entertaining guests..."
"This is where... is stored. This is where..."
After the tour, several people each brought a small stool and sat at the door.
Lingluo told them about some of the rules for accompanying the emperor, as well as the preparations that should be made before sleeping with him.
*
In the house.
Li Shuyao didn't sleep for long. Perhaps because she had been shaking all night, she now had some symptoms similar to motion sickness.
I was lying steadily on the couch, but I felt like I was swaying.
From time to time, she could hear someone chattering in her ears. The voice was not loud, but it disturbed her sleep.
He simply got up angrily.
The thin blanket covering her body fell off and landed on Qingyao next to her. She was hit by the blanket and soon woke up, rubbing her eyes. She asked Li Shuyao in a hazy and hoarse voice, "What's wrong?"
"Why don't you sleep?" She murmured to herself while hugging Li Shuyao's hand and rubbing it against her cheek.
Li Shuyao knew that she was probably in a bad mood when she woke up.
...But she didn't want to vent her anger on Qingyao.
So he picked up the soft pillow he had slept on, placed it on his knees and pounded them hard several times.
But he still felt unsatisfied, so he simply raised his hands and threw the soft pillow to the ground.
Qingyao quickly realized the change in her mood.
Then he sat up, glanced at the soft pillow on the ground, and then looked at Li Shuyao's pretty little face, which was white with a hint of red, and looked very beautiful even when she was angry.
After thinking about it, he handed over his soft pillow.
Li Shuyao took it and hit it again, then picked it up and threw it to the ground.
Qingyao rolled up the two thin quilts covering her body into two small cloth balls and put them in Li Shuyao's hands to continue venting her anger.
After losing things several times in succession, Li Shuyao finally felt less angry, her throat no longer felt sore and swollen, and she no longer felt so angry that she wanted to cry out loud.
She took a deep breath, gave Qingyao a slightly forced smile, and said that she had not slept well and had a headache, so she couldn't help but wake up.
Then I asked myself if I had scared her.
Qingyao quickly shook her head again and again, saying that she could understand because she felt the same way sometimes.
Just like last time, when her mother was sick and she left the palace to go home to visit...
At this point, Qingyao suddenly paused, and said to Li Shuyao with a rather depressed expression: "You don't know, last time, my mother didn't call me out of the palace because she was sick."
Li Shuyao:?
She suddenly remembered the original owner's suspicion of Qingyao and Wu Ya's seemingly plausible words.
So it really is...
No, that's not right. The emperor obviously went to the private treasury on a whim that day. The Guo Luoluo family outside the palace did not have the ability to calculate the emperor's mood.
Those words are all nonsense from Uya.
She should trust Qingyao.
Thinking about this, he slowly crawled to Qingyao's side, looking at her with sparkling eyes, and his tone unconsciously had some anticipation, "So what happened?"
Qingyao looked around and found no one in the house.
After holding my breath and listening again, I could faintly hear Lingluo's voice appear at the door.
She finally felt relieved and leaned close to Li Shuyao's ear, "I'm only telling you this in secret. Actually, my mother isn't sick. She accidentally broke her leg and couldn't teach my father a lesson herself, so she called me out of the palace."
Wait, wait, these few sentences contain too much information.
Li Shuyao felt that she needed to sort things out.
However, Qingyao didn't give her any time at all. "My father was off duty that day and was dragged out by his colleagues to drink and have fun. He never liked that kind of occasion, so he secretly sent someone home to report the situation, hoping that my mother would find a way to rescue him."
"But who could have known that the servant who delivered the message had only recently arrived at the mansion and had no tact at all. He started yelling as soon as he arrived at my door, saying that my father was having fun and wanted my mother to join him..."
As Qingyao spoke, a trace of anger flashed across her face. She slammed the table very hard and said to Li Shuyao, "Who can tolerate this?"
Li Shuyao nodded repeatedly after hearing this, and the expression on her face clearly showed her approval.
If it were her, she wouldn't be able to tolerate it.
She was very curious about what Qingyao's mother would do.
Qingyao didn't wait for her to ask and continued, "My mother rushed to that brothel with a whip in her hand. I don't know what happened on the way. Just as she reached the intersection of the brothel, the horse got scared and almost threw her out."
"Ah!" Li Shuyao's eyes suddenly widened, and she quickly asked, "Is your mother okay?"
Qingyao shook her head. "My mother has learned some martial arts, and she can ride a horse and shoot arrows, so of course nothing happened."
"It was just that while I was trying to subdue the horse, the whip accidentally got tangled around my ankle, and then... it was broken."
"After the fracture, my mother was sent back home, and my father was able to escape. He knelt by her bed and admitted his fault."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She really wanted to say that there was no need to tell her the last sentence, especially the words "kneel" and "admit the mistake".
"My mother refused to forgive me, and because of my disability, she couldn't teach my father a lesson, so she had me summoned from the palace."
Qingyao had no idea what "filial words" she had said. After explaining herself, she spread her hands and said, "There's nothing I can do. My brothers have always been scolded by my father, so naturally I have to step in."
Qingyao smiled as she spoke, her eyes curved, and said to Li Shuyao with a mysterious expression, "Let me tell you, when I was a little over a year old, I dared to grab my father's beard and crawl all over him."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She wanted to say it was unfair.
They are both over one year old, so why can Qingyao crawl around on her father's body, while she has to be forced by her mother to train to eat independently?
Or if you don't eat well, you won't have any food to eat...
Your one year old and my one year old seem to be different.
Li Shuyao secretly sighed inwardly. Suddenly, for some reason, she had an inexplicable longing in her mind: if she had a child in the future...
Then she would definitely train him to eat by himself when he was six months old!
Humph, she is such a bad person who tears up other people’s umbrellas after she gets caught in the rain!
And in this way, her future babies will definitely be afraid of her and will definitely not crawl all over her when they are over one year old.
Qingyao continued to brag about his childhood feat: "Later, my father shaved his beard..."
"Another time, when I was about two or three years old, I secretly took a pair of scissors and cut off my Guo Luomafa's beard."
Li Shuyao: ...
She sighed and asked Qingyao in amusement, "Why do you just have a problem with Hu Zi?"
Qingyao shook her head. "I don't know. I just don't like them with beards. Maybe it's because I got pricked several times when I was very young. Is it painful?"
She fell into deep thought.
After a while, I couldn't figure it out, so I just stopped thinking about it.
Then he said to Li Shuyao: "Another time, I picked holes in the pants of all my brothers!"
Li Shuyao: "..."
Qingyao: "Another time, I cut the feathers of my third brother's parrot."
Li Shuyao: "..."
She suddenly realized, "No, you're not against the beard, you just like playing with scissors!"
Qingyao thought about it and it seemed to be true. She asked Li Shuyao again, "Could it be that because I played with scissors so much when I was a child, I am so good at needlework and embroidery now?"
Li Shuyao looked at her without saying a word, and thought of the five purses she had bought with one or two taels of silver.
If Qingyao's embroidery skills are really good... then wasn't her previous efforts really a waste?
No wonder Uya was so surprised at that time.
…
Perhaps the two of them were too engrossed in their conversation and forgot to lower their voices for a moment.
Lingluo soon noticed something unusual.
The rustling sounds outside the house soon stopped. After packing up their small stools, the few people pushed open the door and walked in.
Seeing the soft pillows and thin quilts scattered on the ground, Lingluo was stunned at first, but then she looked as if she was used to it.
She bent down calmly, picked up the things on the ground, patted them twice, and put them aside.
When he raised his head, he met Li Shuyao's delicate little face which was full of guilt.
But Lingluo didn't say much. After packing up the soft pillows and thin quilt, she and Tian Jiarou went to bring in two basins of clean water for the two of them to wash.
After washing up, Lingluo asked them, "Do you want to eat anything else?"
Li Shuyao touched her stomach and felt that the food she had eaten more than half an hour ago had not been digested yet, so she shook her head.
Lingluo said, "How about a cup of sour plum soup?"
When Li Shuyao heard this, her eyes lit up instantly and she nodded repeatedly like a puppy.
Lingluo and Tian Jiarou went out again.
Yueshu did not follow. She stood aside, clutching her sleeves tightly, with a not very good look on her face.
She waited patiently until Lingluo left before she knelt down in front of Li Shuyao and said with a heavy expression, "My lady, I have something very important to tell you. It's about Lianchu."
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