"Yes, I'll take my leave." Chen Qingxuan bowed deeply to Mei Ya, then turned and got into the sedan chair.
Mei Ya watched the sedan go away, and turned around to see the head maid coming out of the side hall. Mei Ya walked towards her, pointed at the side hall, and asked in a low voice: "Are you all asleep?"
"Yes, in reply to the Queen, the prince and princess have been playing in the imperial garden for a whole day and are very sleepy. I have already washed and dressed them for them and they are now asleep," the head maid replied in a low voice. Seeing Mei Ya coming over, she asked in a low voice, "Are you going to go in and take a look, Queen?"
Mei Ya nodded, and the maid in charge lifted the door curtain, and Mei Ya tiptoed into the side hall.
Rui'er and Tiantian had indeed fallen asleep. On a large carved bed, a delicate little baby was lying on each side. In fact, according to royal rules, princes and princesses had to be raised separately, but Zhong Mingwei and Meiya didn't care about these rules, so they raised Rui'er and Tiantian together so that the two siblings could keep each other company. The two little guys grew up with lots of noise, crying and laughing until they were six years old.
Meiya sat on the edge of the bed, looking at Rui'er this way, then at Tiantian that way. She reached out to tuck the quilt for Rui'er and was just bending down to kiss Rui'er's rosy cheek when she heard a noise over there again. Meiya thought she had woken up Tiantian and turned around to look. However, she saw Tiantian was still sleeping soundly, but her rosy little mouth was still mumbling something. Meiya was curious, so she bent down and put her ear close to Tiantian's mouth, and heard Tiantian singing softly -
"Steamed buns, steamed buns, make a good steamed bun, one for dad, one for mom, and one for brother..."
Meiya suddenly smiled, leaned over and kissed Tiantian's fair forehead, and said with a smile: "Tiantian, you have three brothers, brother Rui'er, brother Xiaohe, and your brother Pang. Which one are you going to leave this pitiful little piece of steamed bun to?"
Little Princess Tiantian naturally would not answer her. The delicate little doll frowned, turned over, and faced her noisy mother with the back of her head.
Meiya stroked the back of Tiantian's head, and then, without daring to say anything else, she tiptoed out of the room.
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Sleeping hall.
When Mei Ya returned to the bedroom, the chief eunuch had already changed Zhong Mingwei into pajamas and was kneeling on the ground to take off his boots. There was a basin of steaming hot water for washing feet next to him. The chief eunuch saw Mei Ya coming in and hurriedly saluted to her and said, "My queen, you are back."
"You go down, I'll do it." Mei Ya nodded at him, rolled up her sleeves neatly, and squatted down.
"Yes, then I will take my leave first." The chief eunuch had been serving for a long time and was familiar with how Zhong Mingwei and Mei Ya got along with each other, so he did not feel nervous. He then quietly retreated, while asking other palace servants in the hall to leave as well, and finally closed the door gently.
Hearing the sound of the door closing outside, Mei Ya let out a breath, then simply sat down on the ground, put Zhong Mingwei's calf on her leg, then held the heel of his boot and pulled it down. Zhong Mingwei was sleeping soundly, and Mei Ya was afraid of waking him up, so she didn't dare to use too much force, but this made it inevitable that she would have some difficulty putting on her slippers.
All of Zhong Mingwei's shoes were made by Mei Ya herself, and the pair he wore today was no exception. The square-toed black satin boots embroidered with grass dragon patterns were not very eye-catching. At first glance, they looked similar to the ones Kong Wenmin was wearing today, except... the right sole was half an inch thicker than the left.
Although Gu Changlin's miraculous healing hands finally cured Zhong Mingwei's leg disease, after all, he had been ill for so long and had once rolled down a mountain in a snowy day. Now Zhong Mingwei's legs are still a little different from those of ordinary people. Although the leg disease will not recur, he still walks with a slight limp, but it's nothing. Wearing the shoes made by Meiya ingeniously, Zhong Mingwei walks like an ordinary person.
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