10 Chapter 10
◎Excessive execution◎
"My little princess, the prince wants you to go to the main hall and introduce yourself to all the officials there." Yun Hui said.
Yun Hui is the daughter of Mother Chao. Unlike Mother Chao, she is very strict and methodical. After her fiancé died, she voluntarily tied her hair and never remarried. She usually works as the head aunt, in charge of the liaison between the inner and outer courtyards.
Huiyin glanced at Mother Chao and said, "Mom, I'll go first."
Mother Chao has a hard time expressing her suffering.
Now Li Cheng changed into a royal blue gown with purple and gold floral patterns. He looked energetic and showed no signs of injury. Li Cheng smiled and looked at Huiyin: "Princess, come here. I will introduce you."
Huiyin nodded and saluted, then sat down and listened to Li Cheng introduce a man with a goatee, "This is my staff member, Military Advisor Jian Tanjian."
"Hello, Mr. Jian." Huiyin stood up and saluted happily, because she saw that although Jian Qin was plain-looking and looked like a clumsy old man, he was the first one introduced by Li Cheng, so he must be someone Li Cheng could use.
Then Li Cheng introduced the General of the Central Army Yuwen Dang, the General of Jianwei Guo Zhao and others. Among them, Yuwen Dang had a stern face and a slender figure, while Guo Zhao had a sturdy figure with a scar on his forehead. She did not want to go into details about the other civil officials because she had met them all.
Li Cheng saw that she was very serious. She did not accept the greetings from these people. Instead, she turned aside and only accepted half of the greetings. After meeting these people, she did not rush to talk to them. She just congratulated herself and said, "Congratulations, Your Majesty. You have these good ministers and generals. You will be helped by God in the future."
"Then I'll accept your good wishes, Princess." Li Cheng said with a smile.
Huiyin smiled and said, "I brought a lot of special products from Jizhou. Today, I would like to ask the prince to meet with you. I have specially prepared some gifts for you. Please don't reject them."
Li Cheng didn't know that Huiyin had prepared a gift for the meeting. Huiyin certainly had some preparation. These gifts were prepared during the days since she arrived, because her mother had managed her father's subordinates very well and was very tactful.
The gifts she gave were not unusually heavy or unsettling; they were all specialties brought from Jizhou, including two boxes of walnut-patterned black dates, two boxes of donkey jerky, two altars of clustered wine, a basket of gold-threaded mixed-surface silk, six pieces of gorgeous and elegant silk with lock embroidery patterns, and a piece of Dingzhou brocade silk with purple silk and floral embroidery. The most eye-catching thing was the filigree inlaid with gold to ward off evil spirits.
Although this evil-repelling object is only the size of a palm, it is made using welding, filigree and winding techniques. It is based on a tiger and has been transformed into an animal shape. The shape is vivid and worth playing with.
Li Cheng looked at him and nodded secretly. Although Zheng was young, he was quite polite.
Only after someone brought the gifts did Huiyin say goodbye and leave. She would not really stand here and listen to people praising her or anything like that.
The words on the gift list must have been written by her personally, and her handwriting was very good.
After all this busy work, it was already noon, and the food started to be served. Huiyin was good at this, she had a good appetite. Although she was from the north, she was not averse to rice, especially the soup of the crystal pork elbow poured over the rice, which was really delicious.
She did not have the slender and graceful figure of the Jiangnan women. She looked more plump. She did not go on a diet and ate very happily.
Nan's mother smiled and said, "Sister has never been picky about food since she was a child. Many of us can't get used to the food of the southern barbarians. They say that their noodles are sugared and have too much soy sauce. But you enjoy it."
"Mom, please don't keep talking about southern barbarians. What will the young prince do if he hears it? Aren't people from the north and the south from one country? Just like the food on the table, if it tastes good, we eat more, and if it tastes bad, we eat less. The young prince asked me to meet his officials today, and I saw that he still respected me. In a few days, I will ask him to add an extra stove, and you can just cook by yourselves." Huiyin said.
Nan's mother nodded quickly: "We all follow the princess, so that our lives will have a purpose."
Huiyin raised her chin: "Of course, since we have married and moved to Xuzhou, we must live a fulfilling life."
After dinner, she took a nap. The room became quiet and the servants left.
Mother Chao was also having a headache: "Our new princess is cunning. The little prince was obviously injured, but she didn't care. She just gave me a blow."
Even though Yun Hui was sitting on the chair, she stood straight and said, "Mother, please stop interfering in the affairs of the young prince's room. I know you are worried about his health, but if you talk too much, the prince will get impatient."
"My son, I know this truth, but we are all dependent on the young prince. If anything happens to him, where will we, an orphan and a widow, go to survive?" Mother Chao was worried about herself as well as Li Cheng.
She blamed Huiyin in her heart. As a princess, she only cared about pleasure and ignored the little prince. She would definitely go to the concubine to complain.
Yun Hui comforted her, "Don't think too much. The little prince's injury is not a big deal. Besides, I've seen that the little princess is upright and polite. Both civil officials and military generals praise her."
"That's just flattery. Humph, I was really thinking about her. If she was of the same mind as me, I might as well tell her some things. But she treats her relatives as enemies. She may suffer the consequences in the future." Mother Chao snorted coldly.
Yun Hui was puzzled: "What do you mean?"
Mother Chao looked at her daughter and said, "You don't understand what I said, but don't you understand the character of our Concubine?"
The Queen Mother of King Wu was originally a concubine of the previous emperor. After much difficulty, she gave birth to King Wu, but King Wu was raised by the favorite concubine Huang Zhaoyi. He was not close to his biological mother, but close to Huang Zhaoyi. The Queen Mother of King Wu hated this deeply. Later, when her daughter-in-law Cui gave birth to a son, Li Cheng, the Queen Mother wanted to hold him in her arms. However, Cui was from the Boling Cui clan and was the daughter of General Cui Xun.
Cui's family was powerful, and the couple had only one son. How could they be willing to let the Queen Mother Wu raise him?
However, after Prince Wu and his wife died one after another, Prince Huaiyin and the Concubine Dowager depended on each other for survival, and the two of them developed a relationship. Concubine Dowager Wu also hoped that her niece Xun Rou would be betrothed to the young prince, and Xun Rou could almost become a member of the royal palace in Jianye. She even tried to get rid of all the women around the young prince who had slightly flat hair.
The young prince did not say that he would not marry Xun Rou, but he was a filial son and insisted on observing mourning before getting married, which is how he got married to Zheng.
The cooked ducks have flown away, so Concubine Wu will not do anything to the young prince, but will she still watch over the young princess?
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The dinner served included cooked quail, stir-fried chicken and mushrooms, and deep-fried spring goose in white wine. Just as the meal was served, Li Cheng came in, and Huiyin hurried forward to greet him.
Li Cheng was a little curious and asked, "Which dish did you make?"
Huiyin was stunned for a moment. He was serious. She just said cooking casually. Besides, she said, "I heard today that we should sleep in separate rooms. I thought you were not coming, so..."
"Separate rooms? Who said that?" Li Cheng had never thought about having separate rooms after getting married. Today, his wife generously gave it directly to his subordinates as a reward, so he had to come over.
Huiyin would not tell Mother Chao about this, as they were not close relatives, so she smiled and said, "Then I'll go down to the kitchen and make you some soup tomorrow. What do you like to eat?"
Li Cheng originally thought that she really cooked her specialty today, but unexpectedly she didn't. When she asked him about it, he joked, "What do I like to eat? What can you cook?"
"You can learn even if you don't know how." Huiyin sat down with him and didn't think it was a difficult task.
Li Cheng nodded imperceptibly. Huiyin thought that no matter how cruel a man is, there is a huge difference between having skin affinity and not having skin affinity.
Also, she discovered a problem. Most people would slow down before doing anything, but he was not like that. He would do whatever a newlywed should do and would go into battle even if he was injured. Yesterday, when she casually asked him to cook, he came over immediately.
Alas, she is decisive in big things but procrastinates in small things and even stays in bed late. It seems that her new husband is a person with too strong execution ability.