14 Chapter 14

◎Xun Rou◎

Li Cheng's wounds had almost healed, but he also had to set off for the Huai River to train the navy and could not delay.

He had left without any worries before, but now, looking at Huiyin's sleeping face, he suddenly felt a little reluctant to leave. Huiyin liked to draw the curtains tightly when she went to sleep, so that she would not know whether it was day or night outside and could sleep without any worries.

She noticed that Li Cheng moved slightly, and she opened her eyes and yawned: "Are you leaving today?"

"Well, let's leave after breakfast." Li Cheng touched her smooth face.

The couple went to Baolian Temple to watch the ceremony yesterday. Li Cheng saw Huiyin behaved well outside. When a little girl fell on the roadside, she got off the carriage and picked up the child and handed her to her parents. This was all very good.

only……

There are so many men who stop to look at her face for a long time. Yesterday, he saw a young lady's ears turn red when she saw his wife.

Therefore, Li Cheng was still a little worried: "Don't go out of the house. There are always wars outside. I'm afraid that the enemies will come to find me."

This was a lie, but Huiyin didn't hear it. She didn't know what Xuzhou was like, so she nodded obediently: "Don't worry, I'll wait for you in the mansion."

Li Cheng saw her stand up, raise three fingers, and swear innocently and obediently, and he felt itchy again: "Huiyin..."

Huiyin smiled and said, "A real man should not be sentimental. When you come back, we can talk about our love as husband and wife."

She was wearing a green tube top, goose yellow underpants, and a black shawl. She didn't look like a delicate woman at all. There was no sign of fragility on her. She was a lively and beautiful woman.

Li Cheng used his strong willpower to control himself and got up. Huiyin knew that he was leaving today, so she specially made a bowl of beef ramen for him.

"This time I used beef bone soup to stew it, and added a lot of my good ingredients. The chili oil was also brought from Jizhou. It looks spicy, but it actually tastes not spicy and is fragrant."

Li Cheng picked up his chopsticks and prepared to eat, but seeing Huiyin didn't move, he asked, "Aren't you going to eat?"

Huiyin smiled and shook her head: "I will eat slowly after you leave. I have asked your personal guards about your luggage and they have packed it for you. I just want to see you more. I don't know when we will meet again after this separation."

Li Cheng was deeply moved by these words. When he left, he even said to Manager Qiao, "I am going to Huaishui to train the navy. You must listen to the young princess at home. If I find out that you are disrespectful in the slightest, I will punish you when I return."

Manager Qiao and the others thought that it seemed that the new princess pleased the young prince, otherwise he would not have criticized them like this.

After Li Cheng left, Huiyin's face was clear and she didn't show any real attachment at all. They didn't share hardships or life and death together, so it was impossible for her to give birth to someone who would decide their life and death. If he was at home, Huiyin could cultivate her relationship with him, but he left so soon, so she could only take care of the palace in Huaiyin Palace first.

When Nanny Fan received the letter from Xun Rou, she knew that her previous report had been successful, and she felt relieved. If she was asked to plot, she would just have to do some tricks. This method was actually useful, but Zheng Shi had a favorite. In fact, no matter what happened, when you were in the right situation, no one dared to confront you head-on.

Fortunately, Xun Rou is coming. Miss Xun is the old concubine's favorite person. She can be the whole family in the Huaiyin Palace in Jianye. Now the staff here are all selected by her. The daughter of the steward He here got married two years ago, and Miss Xun gave a large sum of money as a reward. This girl grew up in the palace at the age of seven. She and the little prince have been childhood sweethearts, and their relationship is extraordinary.

The most important thing is that she is very resourceful. When she was only seven years old, her father remarried. It is said that her stepmother was not kind to her, so she secretly hid in the carriage that was carrying gifts to Prince Wu's palace.

She is so courageous at such a young age, not to mention when Princess Wu was still alive. At first, Princess Wu treated her indifferently. Later, when Princess Wu was seriously ill, she bled to copy scriptures, and even Princess Wu was moved. With her coming, there will be really good show.

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Huiyin is slowly sorting out everything in the Huaiyin Palace. Now that she is the legitimate head of the household, she asks Mother Nan to write down any disobedience or rebellion.

"These people are hypocritical and will harm me in the future. You can find his faults secretly. Here are 50 taels of silver. Only when you find his weaknesses can I really understand him."

It is easy to call a horse a zebra, but the truth cannot be hidden.

Mother Nan immediately bowed and said, "Yes."

She also has four maids under her. Le Yun is good at checking accounts. Hui Yin first lets her go through the account book and pick out the ones with problems or those that have obviously been made. Hui Yin then looks at it again. Fu Gui is in charge of the sewing room and the tea room. Anyone who has problems is first noted down and corrected, and then driven out or transferred to another place.

Qiufeng and Dongshun also have their own responsibilities for the remaining land.

Of course, the people in the palace didn't know that Huiyin was a person who wanted to get to the bottom of things, and they all thought that she might just look through it casually and not find anything.

About ten days after Li Cheng left, Yun Hui suddenly came in and said, "Little Princess, Miss Xun's car has arrived."

"Miss Xun? Who is it?" Huiyin was a little confused.

She saw Yun Hui's expression was unnatural for a moment, as if she was facing a powerful enemy, but in the end she just said: "Miss Xun is the young prince's cousin, and she grew up in the palace since she was a child."

So that’s childhood sweetheart?

Could it be that she is Li Cheng's love interest? Huiyin thought to herself, but smiled slightly: "Did she come alone? Why would a girl come all the way from Jianye to Xuzhou?"

The roads are not safe these days, and why is she coming here at this time?

But Yun Hui shook her head, obviously unwilling to say more.

Nan's mother looked at Huiyin with some concern, but Huiyin said, "Now that everyone is at the door, please come in. Yunhui, you are an elder in the palace, so please go and pick her up for me."

Yun Hui was unusually timid, "Little Princess, it's not that I don't want to take over from Miss Xun, it's because she didn't like me when I was in Jianye, so I asked to come to Xuzhou."

"Oh, so there is such a origin. Then let Mother Chao go to welcome her for me, and I'll see what this Miss Xun is talking about." Huiyin was a little unhappy.

Yun Hui hurried out to ask for help.

Nan's mother said, "This Miss Xun seems to be difficult to get along with. From what I have seen these days, Yun Huiren is very careful and never oversteps the boundaries."

"Mom, you are a kind person, but not everyone is." Huiyin said with a smile.

Mother Nan said, "You are too suspicious."

This is not Huiyin's fault. In the Zheng family, they were all under the protection of the Ji family. The only trouble they had was probably that Madam Xu was targeting them. However, with the growth of Zheng Wuheng and the fierceness of Pei Shuo, Madam Xu and Zheng Deyin had long been weakened.

They probably don't know how sinister the hearts of people outside are.

A moment later, Mother Chao came in accompanied by a young girl, who was wearing a light purple shirt, a jade comb in her hair, and golden flying swallow hairpins on both sides of her hair. Even though Huiyin looked at her with a critical eye, she could tell that she was a gentle and beautiful girl.

The light purple dress looked simple, but when the light shone on her clothes, it reflected complex dark patterns. It was obvious that this Miss Xun had very good clothes and lived a good life.

Mother Chao introduced: "Little Princess, this is Miss Xun, our little prince's biological cousin."

"Legal cousin? But the late princess's niece?" Huiyin stepped forward with a smile.

Mother Chao said, "Miss Xun is the great-niece of our old concubine, and the daughter of the governor of Shanglin Garden."

Xun Rou bowed: "Cousin's wife."

"Cousin Xun, please don't be polite. I'm new here, and the young prince has already gone to Huaishui to train his troops. He didn't know that his relatives were coming, so I'm sorry to have neglected you." Huiyin took her hand and exaggerated again: "Such a pretty girl is rarely seen in Xuzhou, even in Jizhou and Beijing. Let's go inside and talk."

The two entered the inner room. Xun Rou saw calligraphy and paintings on the walls. The main hall was filled with books. In fact, the walls of the hall should not be too plain, but they also don't have to be too complicated and gorgeous. Calligraphy and paintings hanging on the walls are easy to be blown by the wind. It is quite artistic to put them on the walls. The four corners of the flower hall are painted with flowers and trees of various colors. Bird cages are hung on them, including thrushes and parrots, which are very interesting.

Xun Rou nodded secretly: "Two years ago, I came to Xuzhou with the old concubine, and this place was just bare walls. Did my cousin-in-law come here to clean up all these?"

"Yes, since I'm going to live here, I must clean it up. Not only here, but also this small study room inside. I asked someone to use wooden lattices as walls and then pasted paper on them." Huiyin said.

The two of them entered the inner room. Huiyin asked Mother Nan to move a chair for Xun Rou to sit down, and she asked someone to make tea.

Xun Rou took a sip of tea, then put it down and said, "Cousin-in-law must be curious about why I'm here, right?"

"I'm not curious about why you're here, I just don't know why you've come so far away. I don't know what you want to do to find the young prince? He's going to Huaisi to train troops, and I'm afraid he won't be back for a while, and it's not convenient for me to disturb him." Huiyin said calmly.

Xun Rou smiled and said, "My cousin-in-law doesn't need to worry about this. I have already written to my cousin. To be honest, I declined to come this time countless times, but the old concubine was worried about her grandson and said that I had helped manage the household in the Huaiyin Palace before, so she asked me to come and help my cousin-in-law."

Help? As the saying goes, how can you allow others to sleep soundly beside your bed?

Originally, I was in charge of this household, and the old concubine had specially sent someone here to do something. But now the country is ruled by filial piety, and even the Ji family has to endure the bullying of Madam Xu on a daily basis, let alone myself.

With the old concubine's order, Huiyin smiled and said, "That's what I want. To be honest, I'm the only one in this palace. Now that a cousin has come to keep me company, I'm really happy. Nan Mama, ask the kitchen to prepare the best wine and food, and tell them that the old concubine specially sent cousin Xun to take charge of the family. We can't treat her badly."

Xun Rou was stunned when she heard this, and always felt that there was something wrong with what he said.