Chapter 53
Chapter 53
As the dusk fell, Jiyue's soft call woke Zhou Shuhe up from his sleep.
"Your Majesty, let's go to sleep on the bed, there's no such thing as a comfortable bed."
She opened her eyes in a daze, and a thin blanket slipped from her shoulders.
"What time is it?"
"It's already the hour of the year, ma'am, do you want to have dinner? The maidservant didn't ask them to withdraw their dinner, but if they are still sleepy, let's go to bed first. The meals are warm, and it doesn't matter when you wake up."
Zhou Shuhe rubbed his eyes and sat up, shook his head and said, "If you sleep in the middle of the night, you won't be able to sleep anymore. Was Sui Sui taken away by the nanny?"
Jiyue called the ladies in the palace to bring up the dinner, and while serving her vegetables, she responded, "Your Highness woke up about an hour ago, and the child needs milk. It happened that Qi Bingbi was in the hall, so I sent your Highness I carried it to the nanny so as not to wake you up."
Zhou Shuhe just woke up, and he was still a little dazed. He took a few mouthfuls of food with chopsticks before he realized it. He raised his head and asked her, "Qi Yu has been here?"
"Yes," Jiyue replied, "It seems that His Majesty will send him to the north to supervise the army. He said that His Majesty dispatched him in such a hurry that it's inconvenient to tell your servants in detail, but you know it."
Zhou Shuhe let out an "oh", bit his chopsticks and stopped talking.
Qi Yu reported to the emperor about the King of Zhenbei, so it is indeed reasonable for the emperor to send him to investigate the case in the name of a supervisory envoy.
It's just that since Zhou Shuhe impulsively said "like" that day and ate the fish soup made by Qi Yu, the two met almost every day. Now he was suddenly ordered to leave Beijing. She was a little hard to accept for a while.
"Don't wake me up when you come." Zhou Shuhe poked the rice in the bowl and complained softly.
Jiyue laughed and said: "You were sleeping soundly just now, Qi Bingbi must not have the heart to disturb your sweet dreams."
Zhou Shuhe thought about it, but remembered that he had vaguely seen him in his half-dream and half-awake state.
In the dream, it seemed that there was a warm and gentle cloud that carefully hugged her and put her to sleep peacefully on the moon, and took out a jar of tinkling stars and left it beside her pillow.
Yun Duo poked her face, and said a lot of words.
"Actually, this errand has only lasted for a year and a half, but I still want to come and see you again."
"But since you're asleep, I won't disturb your dream anymore, and I even feel relieved—don't be angry, it's not that I don't want to talk to you, it's just that I don't seem to be very good at dealing with parting. I've always been a little apprehensive."
"Although I don't know why, the fact that King Zhenbei colluded with Di people seems to be a knot in your heart. Don't deny it, I can see it, so I want to help you solve it as soon as possible, so as not to make you feel uneasy .”
"But at the end of the day, I really want to leave the palace, but I am not happy about it. When I think of not being able to see you every day, I feel unwilling."
He pulled up the hair at her temples, Zhou Shuhe felt itchy in his sleep, and muttered something while frowning.
Qi Yu smiled: "Xiaohe, I'm starting to feel unwilling again."
In the third month after Qi Yu left, Zhou Shuhe drank the last dose of tonic prescribed by the Tai Hospital, and finally ended the half-year postpartum care, and could say goodbye to these bitter soups.
Better never see you again.
She opened the star that Qi Yu left before she collapsed when she parted - a white porcelain sugar bowl full of candies, took out a sour plum candy and threw it into her mouth.
Sitting in the cradle, Sui Sui stared at her with big black eyes like grapes.
Zhou Shuhe chewed the candy loudly and asked him, "Do you want to eat it?"
The child stretched out his hand, babbling and spitting bubbles.
Zhou Shuhe said with a smile: "If you want to eat, you won't give it. Children are not allowed to eat candy."
As she spoke, she picked up the lid, and tightened the baby sugar jar tightly to seal it.
Sui Sui is only over half a year old, and he can't understand words. He doesn't know that his mother is bullying him to make fun of him, but he can only see that she has a gentle smile on her face, and thinks that she is saying good things, so she laughs foolishly. Waving his hands and giggling, Zhou Shuhe's heart almost melted with his white and tender face.
She quickly picked up Suisui and kissed him hard, as if she had lost her memory, she forgot all about bullying the child just now.
In the fifth month, the pot-bellied white porcelain sugar bowl finally bottomed out. Zhou Shuhe shook the jar, and the remaining three or two sour plum candies collided with each other and made a clanging sound.
She put away the sugar bowl, not willing to eat it.
"Did you get to the question? Where did you buy this candy? I asked Wu Xuan to run around several shops in the capital, and they didn't smell like this."
Jiyue walked up to her and reported back: "Ms. Yingying said that Qi Bingbi made this candy herself. She took out the recipe. If the empress wants to eat it, the maidservant will give this recipe to the imperial dining room and ask them to make it." Bring the jar."
Zhou Shuhe took the recipe booklet in her hand, in addition to sour plum candy, it also recorded many recipes, some of which she was familiar with - such as the first crucian carp white jade soup and crystal red bean cake, as well as crane soup, shrimp and orange This kind of dish she loves to eat but doesn't like to cook.
The whole article is written in regular regular script, with firm and powerful silver hooks and tails. Words are intertwined with each other, leaving traces as thin as gossamer.
Youdao is like a person, and Qi Yu is like his handwriting. At first glance, it looks elegant and upright, but there are many hooks flowing in the subtleties, entangled in every detail of her life.
In fact, Zhou Shuhe very much hoped that he could be the same as when he was a child, like the time he went to the Gongyuan in Lingnan Prefecture to take part in the provincial examination. No matter how far he traveled, he would still send her letters from time to time.
Of course, she also understood that today is different from the past, if Qi Yu really did this, it would be easy to cause trouble and put both of them in unnecessary danger.
It's just that she hasn't seen her for five months and hasn't heard from her, so beyond her senses, she inevitably has some regrets.
And this recipe...
"Don't give it to the imperial dining room, I have to do it myself." Zhou Shuhe said to Jiyue with a smile.
This is his delayed audio.
In the eighth month, something went wrong with the tonic that Suisui's nanny drank for breastfeeding. The ginseng slices were secretly replaced by Scrophulariaceae by the concubine's concubine, which was incompatible with another medicinal herb, Astragalus. Can affect babies through breast milk.
"Fortunately, Your Highness has been taking supplementary food since two months ago, and has eaten less milk these days, otherwise if something happens..."
Chunye was so angry that she shed tears, but Zhou Shuhe was unreasonably calm in comparison, comforting her dumbfoundedly.
"Don't worry too much. It is precisely because Sui Sui now prefers to eat pureed surimi that we pay more attention to complementary food. Correspondingly, we neglect the nanny's diet. If he insists on breastfeeding, we will You won't be taken advantage of this kind of loophole. There is nothing left or right, don't blame yourself too much, you have been protecting Suisui with all your heart, I understand."
"It's just that Concubine Jia and I have no grievances in Lanfang Pavilion, but they want to murder Suisui. Presumably, it is to clear the way for her son to ascend to the throne on the dragon chair."
She turned her head to look at the rising sun outside the window, and let out a long sigh.
"Since that's the case, I won't care about King Ning's innocence anymore."
Making the emperor suspect that he was the young eldest son was nothing more than putting the cliché about establishing a crown prince on the surface again-and then killing King Ning.
This trip needs to be planned slowly.
Zhou Shuhe fanned the flames around the emperor, taking advantage of the Dongfeng that the Imperial Academy insisted on establishing a crown prince, and told King Ning that there is nothing in the sky and nothing on earth.It's just that he is only 14 years old after all, no matter how suspicious the emperor is, he will not suspect that a young child can control his throne. Instead, he gradually believes in the virtuousness of King Ning, and he wants to set up the crown prince.
But Zhou Shuhe was not depressed. To be more precise, making King Ning a crown prince and spreading his fame throughout the court and the public was an indispensable part of his strategy.
Only when King Ning stood high enough would the emperor become suspicious, and the more he fell, the harder he fell.
It was also when the plan was advancing step by step that Zhou Shuhe accidentally got a glimpse of Qi Yu's news.
The author says:
Criticizing Guojun Wang by name here, writing letters to Huanhuan every day, is a great negative teaching material.
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