Chapter 181 Let the little princess worship you as her teacher
Bian Wuji smiled silently: "It doesn't matter what her origin is. Your Majesty just needs to know that she is not an ordinary person."
"The princess is related to the fate of Daxia. You must raise the princess well and pay attention to her every move."
Xia Zhengqi really wanted to roll his eyes at Bian Wuji.
What did he say? Is it correct nonsense?
He didn't need to say it, he knew that his daughter was not an ordinary person.
After thinking for a while with his head down, Xia Zhengqi said: "Imperial Master, why don't we wait until the princess's first birthday and ask her to become your disciple? She will be one year old soon."
"She has a special physique, and with the Taoist practice from you, she will definitely become more powerful."
Xia Zhengqi said this, and the picture of Xia Miaoyuan growing up appeared in his mind. She was radiating light from her head, exerting her magic power to benefit the Great Xia, just like a fairy. Thinking
of this, Xia Zhengqi's mouth corners were raised wildly, and he couldn't suppress it.
Bian Wuji had a dark face.
Bian Wuji: Do you think I am an old nanny who coaxes children? You throw a one-year-old baby to me to teach. What do you want me to teach?
Bian Wuji tried hard to control his emotions and said lightly: "Well, Your Majesty, don't you think one year old is too young?"
Xia Zhengqi's face was full of excitement: "Young? But the princess is not an ordinary child! She is a little fairy, how can one year old be young?"
Bian Wuji lowered his head and rolled his eyes, then raised his head and said as calmly as possible: "For a one-year-old child, the most important thing is to play. It is rather boring to practice Taoism in an unrestrained growth environment. Why don't you wait
a little longer?" "It won't be too late to practice when the princess is a little older."
Xia Zhengqi was stunned for a moment, muttering: "Young? Is it too boring?"
Unknowingly, it was noon.
"Your Majesty, how do you want lunch today? It's already been delivered." Debao asked after cautiously pushing the door open a crack when he saw the conversations inside the room stopped.
Xia Zhengqi waved his hand and said, "Let Lipin and Anpin set the table in the small hall. I will have dinner with the Imperial Master today."
The Imperial Master was shocked: "What! Your Majesty actually let the concubines set the table in person to please the poor! I really don't deserve it!"
Debao chuckled and almost burst out laughing. He quickly recalled the saddest thing in the past 30 years and then suppressed his laughter.
Xia Zhengqi glared at Debao and said softly, "It's nothing, Imperial Master. You don't have to worry about it. They were originally responsible for delivering meals and setting the table for me."
Bian Wuji immediately showed an admiring look, "Your Majesty is really different! Instead of letting the concubines stay in the bedroom all day, doing nothing and not knowing how to eat, it's better to arrange some tasks for them within their ability." "Your
Majesty is really good at governing the country! Wonderful, wonderful!" Bian Wuji raised his thumb high.
Debao covered his mouth tightly with his hands, and his body twitched.
Xia Zhengqi's face was dark and he was a little embarrassed. He opened his mouth and stammered, "Ah, yes, that's right. Exercise."
When Xia Zhengqi and the Imperial Master walked into the dining hall, Lipin and Anpin had just finished setting the plates and placing the bowls and chopsticks.
When the two saw Emperor Mingxi and the Imperial Master come in, they bowed at the same time.
Xia Zhengqi glanced at Lipin with a bitter face and said lightly, "Lipin was smiling brightly when she served me dumplings that day. Why didn't she smile today? Is she born not to smile?" Lipin
cursed Xia Zhengqi 180 times in her heart as quickly as possible.
Lipin: Come and try it. You have to get up at the beginning of the morning, three times a day, and carry the food box from the dining room to the Qianqing Palace through nine intersections. Can you still smile?
But she cursed in her heart, but she dared not say it out loud.
Lipin pulled the corners of her mouth hard and forced a smile: "I am smiling. I like this job very much."
Xia Zhengqi smiled secretly, and then said seriously: "Since you like it, then you can work for another three months."
Hearing the words "three months", Lipin's legs softened and she almost fell down.
"Okay, thank you for your grace!" Lipin replied with a little cry.
Although she and Anpin only did the work of delivering meals and setting plates for three days, they already felt very tired.
As concubines, their palace dresses were all designed to be aesthetically pleasing rather than practical, and they felt heavy and tight when they walked.
Moreover, they had to carry a solid wooden food box for such a long distance.
The food box itself was already heavy, and if they put the dishes in it one by one, a packed food box would weigh at least 30 kilograms.
Lipin and Anpin were born in wealthy families and had been used to a life of luxury since childhood. Apart from occasionally embroidering, they had never done any physical work.
Especially after entering the palace, they even skipped embroidery, and just ate and drank in their own bedroom.
To go to other palaces, the journey was a little longer, so they also had to sit in a sedan chair.
Therefore, the physical strength of the two was extremely poor.
Wearing heavy palace clothes, carrying more than 30 kilograms in their hands, and walking to nine palace intersections, for them, it was simply torture.
Not to mention three times a day, just walking once in the morning, the two of them were already exhausted and sweating profusely. Their bodies felt like they were falling apart. When they saw the bed in the bedroom, they lay down immediately, too lazy to move.
Their palace maids had no choice but to feed them.
They lay on the bed in a daze until half an hour before lunch, when they forced themselves to get up and go to the kitchen. This
repeated three times a day, Lipin and Anpin were so tired that they didn't even have the energy to laugh.
And the happiest person these days might be Lipin's son, the eighth prince.
The Eighth Prince found it strange that his mother suddenly became very busy all day long. She was either out for a long time or sleeping in bed without saying a word.
However, in this way, no matter how naughty he was or how mischievous he was in the main hall, his mother would ignore him and would not spank him.
In the evening, after the nanny took care of the Eighth Prince to wash up, the Eighth Prince climbed onto his mother's bed in confusion, but his mother was already sleeping on her back, snoring and drooling. The
Eighth Prince felt that his mother was very strange. He shook Lipin's arm: "Mother, why do you sleep for several hours every day? It's so strange! Wake up!"
Lipin tried her best, raised her hands a little, and said in a very low voice: "Be good, go to sleep! Mother is so sleepy!"
The voice was unclear.
The eighth prince's chubby face was full of doubts, he murmured: "Could mother be possessed by the god of sleep?"
...
Yu Garden.
The cold winter has passed, and spring is coming soon.
In the afternoon, the sun is very strong and warm.
Yao Jinse and the Queen Mother took Liang Zhirou to take a walk in Yu Garden. Yao
Jinse supported the Queen Mother and strolled slowly, the palace maids and eunuchs followed seven or eight steps behind, and the chubby Liang Zhirou jumped in front, playing as they walked.
These days, with the company of Yao Jinse and her daughter, the Queen Mother was in a very good mood.
"Ouch!" Liang Zhirou suddenly fell.
"My dear, why did you fall?" The Queen Mother took two steps forward with concern and helped Liang Zhirou up.
Yao Jinse said gently, "It's common for children to fall down. It's nothing." After that, she ordered two palace maids to take Liang Zhirou back to apply medicine.
"Queen Mother, let's continue walking." Then, she took the Queen Mother's arm again. As
the two walked, they saw a few honeysuckle trees standing firmly on the roadside.
After a winter of destruction, the leaves of the honeysuckle had fallen off, but the dry red fruits were still hanging on the branches.
Yao Jinse walked forward, stretched out her slender hands, picked a few small honeysuckle fruits and put them in her palm, as if to show them to the Queen Mother.
"When I was young, honeysuckle was also planted near my home. However, the honeysuckle berries on the trees were picked and sold to medicine shops before the New Year."
The Empress Dowager showed a trace of doubt on her face and murmured: "Jinse, I remember, didn't you say that you grew up in Yangzhou? Are honeysuckle also planted in the south?"