Chapter 90
After using the meal, Chu Xiuming took Chu Xiuyuan away, and Chen Jin held the yawning Dongdong who was full and said, "Mother, I'll go find you when Dongdong goes to bed."
When Concubine Chen heard this, she smiled and said, "Child is important. When I go back, I will coax the child to bed and see you."
Chen Jin smiled and nodded and said, "When the weather gets hotter, you can let the three children play together."
Concubine Chen nodded and left with Chen Hao first.
Chu Xiuming took Chu Xiuyuan and did not go anywhere else, but went to the study room. At this time, the two brothers in the study room were the two brothers. Chu Xiuyuan asked directly, "Brother, what do you think?"
"Huh?" After Chu Xiuming sat down, he began to deal with the affairs of the border town.
Chu Xiuyuan looked at Chu Xiuming and said with a serious look on his face, "Brother, that's the third brother's child."
"I understand." Chu Xiuming paused his hand, then looked at Chu Xiuyuan and said, "I will find it."
Chu Xiuyuan pursed his lips and said, "Brother, what are your plans?"
Chu Xiuming spoke, "If we let him lead us, we will never find that child."
"So brother, do you want to find a condition that the prince of the British has to exchange with you?" Chu Xiuyuan also understood why when discussing yesterday, Chu Xiuming did not answer his question, but instead said that he would send a spy to the mountain range. Chu Xiuming did not give up on the child, but was just a different method.
Chu Xiuming nodded, and Chu Xiuyuan breathed a sigh of relief and suddenly asked, "Will the Prince of Ying jump over the wall if he is in a hurry?"
"Ha." Chu Xiuming sneered, "He didn't even have the chance to jump over the wall."
Chu Xiuyuan was completely relieved and did not disturb Chu Xiuming. Instead, he sat next to him to help Chu Xiuming classify all the affairs. When Chu Xiuming finished annotation, he took it over and looked at it himself. He did not look at the annotation directly, but first thought about what he would do, and finally read the annotation. If it was different from what he thought, he would take a closer look at the annotation and then think about it. If he didn't understand, he would put it aside alone. When Chu Xiuming rested, he would ask. If the meaning was the same, Chu Xiuyuan would happily put it on the other side.
After handling the new matters, Chu Xiuyuan took out the things that Chu Xiuming had not come back. Chu Xiuming looked at them next to him. Chu Xiuyuan also talked about his thoughts when dealing with things from time to time.
When the two brothers Chu Xiuming and Chu Xiuyuan were approaching each other in the study, the atmosphere between the other brothers in the palace was not so harmonious.
Although King Rui took the initiative to take Princess Rui back to the capital, Emperor Cheng did not relax his vigilance. Instead, he asked King Rui to recall his sons. King Rui agreed on this on the surface, but did not do it at all. Instead, he sat on a chair and lowered his head and listened to Emperor Cheng keep saying that his own difficulties and dangers outside.
"Yes." King Rui responded respectfully, without interrupting Emperor Cheng's words.
Princess Rui arrived in the empress dowager's harem at this time. When she saw Princess Rui, the empress dowager sighed slowly. At this time, the empress dowager was much older than when they first left the capital. Even Madam Zhen around them disappeared, but she had many new faces.
Although Princess Rui didn't know where Madam Zhen went, she couldn't ask, but she just invited the Queen Mother to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother looked at Princess Rui and asked someone to serve tea and pastries and said, "It's good to be back. It's anti-people and the prince of the British outside. How chaotic."
"Yes." Princess Rui smiled and said, "How is the mother doing well recently?"
"What can be eaten and sleep is because I am worried about my son's situation outside." The empress dowager lowered her eyes slightly, fumbled the bracelet on her wrist and said, "Is it going smoothly for you to go out?"
Princess Rui picked up some interesting stories along the way and started talking to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother nodded from time to time. Seeing that she was getting better, Princess Rui said, "The prince brought a lot of things to the Queen Mother. When the daughter-in-law was ordering tomorrow, she would send them to the Queen Mother."
"Well." The Queen Mother waved to Princess Rui and said, "Why did I see you losing a lot of weight?"
Princess Rui stood up and walked to the empress dowager. The empress dowager held Princess Rui's hand and looked up and down, saying, "I really have suffered."
"I think it was a little anxious when I came back." Princess Rui said softly, "It's because my mother looked much thinner."
The empress dowager smiled and said nothing. How could she not lose weight? Since Emperor Cheng came to her palace for a big fuss that day, he took away many useful people around her. Even Madam Zhen was fined ten boards and sent out of the palace. Emperor Cheng said that these people were all bewitching her, but...
When he learned about King Rui’s return, the Empress Dowager felt uncomfortable and a little sour. After all, King Rui has always been a child who values ​​friendship, but it’s a pity... it’s all a sin.
Princess Rui didn't say anything more. The Queen Mother reached out and took off her bracelet and put it on Princess Rui's hand, and said, "This bracelet has been with me for a long time, and I'll give it to you."
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Princess Rui's face was full of joy and shook it slightly and looked at it. She noticed that the palace maids with some faces looked at her bracelet carefully before retracting their gaze.
He said a few more words to the empress dowager. Seeing that the empress dowager was exhausted, he served the empress dowager to rest. The empress dowager didn't say anything else. He just asked someone to carry a box of pastries that had been prepared long ago and asked Princess Rui to take back to the palace. It was all the ones that Princess Rui liked. After knowing that Princess Rui would enter the palace today, the empress dowager ordered the kitchen to make it.
When Princess Rui left the palace, before King Rui came out, she simply waited in the carriage. Not long after, King Rui also came over, but his face looked a little ugly. When he saw his wife, he reached out to hold her hand and let the carriage walk towards Prince Rui's Mansion.
No one spoke along the way, and Princess Rui also saw that King Rui was in a wrong mood. When she arrived at Prince Rui's mansion, Princess Rui got off the carriage with the food box. Princess Rui saw it and asked, "What?"
"It was made by my mother and I specially made it for the prince." Princess Rui explained softly.
King Rui sighed slowly, nodded and reached out to take it. If King Rui still regretted it when he was facing Emperor Cheng in the study, but after seeing this box of pastries, the faint regret disappeared. The two of them went directly into the inner room. Now the King Rui's mansion is much quieter, and even the child is only Shen Rong and Shen Jing who is sick and locked up.
After returning to the capital, Shen Rong was directly locked up by King Rui. After all, she was her daughter and her treatment was not bad, but she could not leave her yard.
Everyone served King Rui and Princess Rui to wash and change their clothes. After all, Princess Rui was managed by Princess Rui. Even if he had not been in the mansion for a while, the situation in the mansion was not messy. After the two of them changed their clothes, Princess Rui sent people out directly, then opened the food box with his own hands and placed the pastries inside. The pastries in it were all the ones that King Rui liked. King Rui looked much slower, but he didn't say anything.
Princess Rui looked carefully and made sure that nothing was hidden inside. Then she took the bracelet given by the empress dowager on her wrist. Princess Rui looked at Princess Rui's actions and asked, "But what happened?"
"My mother... is a little bad." The words used by Princess Rui were quite tactful, but Princess Rui's face had changed. "It was not anything else, but she looked a little tired. Madam Zhen did not serve her mother. Not only that, she also had a few more innocent faces, and it turned out that the few big palace maids in the mother's harem were gone."
King Rui's expression changed again and again when he heard this, "That's the queen!"
Princess Rui shook her head and looked at the bracelet in her hand carefully, and said, "Because there are many innocent faces over there, both me and my mother are concerned about speaking. By the way, can there be news about the second prince?"
"No." King Rui said, "Your Majesty didn't tell me this. He asked me to call Xuan'er and the others back to Beijing."
Princess Rui sighed slowly. They had thought about this situation on the road, but they just asked King Rui to respond and drag it on first. After all, Emperor Cheng did not really issue an order, and they were not considered disobeying the order. Now they only said that it is not suitable to go on the road when it is cold and cold.
King Rui's eyes were red, "Mother Queen... how could he treat Mother Queen like this?"
It goes without saying who he is. Princess Rui didn't say anything. After carefully checking the bracelets and not finding anything special, she turned her eyes to the pastries. She felt that the Queen Mother had something to tell them today, but because there were people from Emperor Cheng around, she could not say it directly, so she used other methods.
King Rui was still sad about the Queen Mother's affairs. Princess Rui had already broken up the pieces of pastries and crushed them. Sure enough, a small ball of paper was found in a piece of pastries. Open the outermost layer of oil paper, which was a very thin gauze with three words on it.
"Prince, look." After Princess Rui wrote down the three words, she called him King Rui.
When King Rui recalled what happened when he was a child, he had to think of the two brothers if there were any good things in the empress dowager... When he heard Princess Rui's voice, he looked over and was stunned for a moment to take the things handed over by Princess Rui, and looked at the words on it and said, "Did the mother give it?"
"Yes." Princess Rui said, "I thought that my mother hid things in the bracelet, and these pastries were the covers. After all, it was safer to wear the bracelet directly on my hands like this, but I didn't expect that my mother hid things in the pastry."
King Rui nodded and said, "What does this mean?"
"Is it a place?" Princess Rui thought for a while and said.
King Rui felt it was possible, "send someone to find him."
Princess Rui stopped King Rui and said, "Prince, I'm afraid that as long as we leave the mansion, our every move will be monitored."
"Then..." King Rui hesitated for a moment.
Princess Rui just smiled and said, "Why would the prince call some authentic Beijing dishes to enjoy the appetizer?"
King Rui understood what Princess Rui meant, nodded and said, "Okay! Call someone to go..."
Thanks to Chu Xiuming who kept people outside, they would have no way to investigate even if there was something given by the empress dowager. However, King Rui thought that Emperor Cheng might make things difficult for the empress dowager, but he did not expect that even if they came back, Emperor Cheng would treat the empress dowager like this.
Princess Rui felt sad in her heart. No matter how many bad the empress dowager was, she was really good to these two sons, but now... this is a cycle of cause and effect.
Chapter completed!