Empress Chu

"It's Chu Zhao." Someone whispered.

Several of them went to Chu Garden to see the excitement and recognized the girl.

After calling out Chu Zhao's name, everyone's eyes immediately turned to Xie Yanlai, with a meaningful expression——

Wearing a dark guard uniform with a vermilion belt and a long knife, the young man still kept his eyes fixed on him.

"Ah Jiu." Chu Zhao asked with a smile by the window, "You haven't recovered from your injury yet, why are you running around?"

Xie Yan didn't even look at her when she came to see her, but looked at the sky: "Someone is really arrogant. He has been fighting with him for a day and still doesn't go home. Are he going to cause trouble everywhere?"

Ah Le snorted: "Ah Jiu, you have a better attitude, we don't have to send you medicine in the future."

Xie Yanlai let out a laugh, and finally looked over: "That's really great, my injury will heal sooner."

After finishing speaking, he urged the horse to gallop forward, throwing away the companions of the imperial guards and Chu Zhao's carriage.

Chu Zhao didn't care. He looked away, nodded and smiled at the other guards.

The imperial guards also smiled and nodded at her, without saying much, the horses and chariots staggered away.

The guards caught up with the young man, and they became noisy, "Yanlai, this is Miss Chu." "Miss Chu also brought you medicine?" Woolen cloth."

No matter what they were joking and joking about, Xie Yanlai ignored them all, stared ahead and turned a deaf ear until someone said, "Yanlai, you have a really good relationship with Ms. Chu."

Xie Yanlai looked at that person: "Are you blind? How can you tell that I have a good relationship with her?"

The man said in a daze, "That's right, it's good, just joking—"

"Who I see is joking and laughing!" Xie Yanlai raised her eyebrows, "I saw Captain Qi joking and joking even more, do I have a good relationship with him?"

The imperial guard listened and said, "That's really not true. Xie Yanlai is an unpleasant person, and he doesn't have a good relationship with anyone, but he has a big family background, and his elder brother Xie Sangongzi is famous, and Xie Yanlai himself is extremely clever and cunning." , although it makes people hate, but they can't handle it, and the officials above can only bear it.

The guard was dumbfounded for a moment, while the other guards were still awake, and said with a smile: "How are men and women the same? Yan Lai, you treat Ms. Liang and Ms. Chu differently."

Xie Yanlai snorted: "Why is it different? She is also not as good-looking as me."

The guards laughed.

Xie Yanlai galloped forward amidst the laughter, and what was even more different, what would happen if the girl heard him say that she was not as good-looking as him?

She won't cry, she won't be ashamed and hide to see no one, she just ran over with a smile and said, "So what? Haven't you been tricked by me?"

Xie Yanlai couldn't help but look back, the girl's carriage had turned into a black spot on the road, and the afterglow of the setting sun was in the distance.

What are you running around outside the city so late?

Doesn't she know how annoying she is?

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"This Ah Jiu is really annoying!"

Ah Le snorted and shook his head proudly.

"In the future, we don't need him anymore, and we don't have to please him anymore."

Chu Zhao smiled and said, "What are you talking about? We didn't please him when we needed him."

"The young lady still protected him from being beaten, and even made him medicine." Ale raised his eyebrows.

"That's a spur." Chu Zhao said.

Ale laughed out loud.

At the moment when the afterglow of the setting sun disappeared, she came to Jingying. Probably because of Third Young Master Xie, she reported her name. The Jingying, which was originally inaccessible, was soon arranged for her to meet her father's people.

But unfortunately, I didn't see Uncle Zhong.

These four soldiers were no strangers, both Chu Zhao and Ale could call them by their names.

"Deputy General Zhong brought people into the city and went to the Ministry of War." They explained, "Goodbye to some old friends, I will stay in the capital tonight, and it will be convenient for me to see you tomorrow."

It turned out to be like this, Deputy General Zhong wanted to see her as soon as possible, and she also wanted to see Uncle Zhong, but missed it instead.

"Okay, I'll wait for him at home." Chu Zhao said, and motioned to Ale, "Hurry up and bring the things to the uncles."

Ale hurriedly moved the baggage from the car: "I know the news is too hasty, I can't choose, so I just bought some on the side of the road."

The soldiers took it with a smile, and thanked the lady for her kindness: "We don't lack anything. In the Beijing camp, no, even thanks to the lady's blessing, we didn't suffer any grievances."

What?Chu Zhao laughed: "Uncles can really talk."

"It's not that we can talk, it's Miss Azhao, you are really good." The soldiers laughed, with sighs and pride on their faces, "Miss Azhao is worthy of being the general's daughter. She came to the capital alone, and she can break out a world."

Chu Zhao laughed, and almost shed tears again, she is so powerful, she lost a life, lost everyone's life, only to get today——

"Uncles." She smiled tearfully, "I will become even stronger."

Ale nodded accordingly: "Follow the young lady from now on, and everyone will not be bullied when they eat well and drink spicy food."

The soldiers also laughed and said in unison, "Thank you, miss."

Because Deputy General Zhong was away and it was getting late, in order to avoid delays in entering the city, he was locked outside, and the soldiers urged Chu Zhao to go back quickly.

"I have something important to discuss with the young lady tomorrow." They laughed.

Chu Zhao didn't stay any longer, and said, "Uncles are also coming home, and I'll entertain everyone in Chu Garden."

The soldiers responded in unison again, watching Chu Zhao and Ale get into the car, and watched the girl's car leave.

Chu Zhao lifted the curtain to look behind, the figure standing far away disappeared into the night, she retracted her gaze and looked ahead, without any sadness, only hope.

Tomorrow, I can see Uncle Zhong.

The day after tomorrow, she will be able to go home with Uncle Zhong.

The day after tomorrow, she will be able to see her father.

Expectation, hope, really makes people happy, she raised her hand, and yelled in the night.

Ale laughed, and then wailed twice.

The clear laughter of the girls resounded on the dark road.

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The hunting ground shrouded in darkness is even busier than during the day.

Xiao Yu was stopped outside the noisiest place holding a bamboo tube.

The burly and strong wrestlers inside were wrestling, and the prince sat in it, applauding with everyone, and beside them, there were countless singing and dancing girls.

This occasion is not suitable for children to be near.

"How long will father end the feast?" He could only ask anxiously.

Eunuch Zhu said respectfully, "Hurry up, hurry up."

Chapter 97 Yenong

Sooner or later, there is no answer.

Xiao Yu passed through the fire guards and the crowd, and saw the prince sitting among them——

He hasn't played with his father for a long time.

He was so happy that his father took him to hunt this time.

He thought about a lot of things. He wanted to ride a horse with his father, draw a bow and shoot an arrow together, chase prey in the forest together, sleep on the ground together, and watch the stars in the sky together——

But in fact there is nothing.

He still can only look at his father from a distance, and his father doesn't even have time to look at him.

"—Your Highness, what are you holding here?" Eunuch Zhu received the hint from Eunuch Qi's eyes, realized it, and looked at the bamboo tube in His Highness's hand with a smile, "Is it a gift for His Highness the Crown Prince?"

Xiao Yu took a step back, hugged the bamboo tube tightly in his arms, and shook his head: "No, this is my toy."

After speaking, he turned and walked away.

Eunuch Zhu looked at Eunuch Qi in astonishment, Eunuch Qi gave him a helpless look, turned around and followed Xiao Yu.

Children are like this, for a while, Eunuch Zhu didn't care, he turned around and hurried back to serve the prince - this delay, those little bastards took the opportunity to grab his position.

Xiao Yu rushed into the luxurious tent with the bamboo tube in his arms.

The heavy curtains were drawn down to isolate the noise, and the luxuriously furnished camp tent was lightly scented, and there were only a few women in it.

The princess sitting in the middle was sewing with her head down, but the needle and thread in her hand hadn't moved for a long time, and the maid next to her was quiet as if she didn't see it.

The tent is like a painting, beautiful and frozen.

Xiao Yu rushed in and tore up the screen.

"Yu'er." The princess hurriedly stretched out her hand, smiling under the lamp.

Xiao Yu ran over with the bamboo tube in his arms, and was about to throw himself into his mother's arms when the maid next to him hurriedly reminded, "Be careful."

Only then did the princess realize that she was still holding a needle and thread in her hand, and almost poked Xiao Yu, she put it down with a smile: "I'm making a pair of socks for you."

As a princess, she does not need to do needlework, but the princess has always been used to making close-fitting clothes for the prince and his son.

In fact, mother has nothing to do except needlework. Xiao Yu is a child, so he can guess this conclusion. His father married his mother and made her a princess, but he didn't have much enthusiasm for his mother. Officials, and other women in the East Palace, those women can drink, sing, dance and have fun unscrupulously - the identity of a mother is not suitable for such a thing.

Mother is like a decoration in the East Palace, as long as she sits securely, it will be fine.

But mothers are human beings.

So the imperial grandfather asked him to live and study in the palace, but he didn't really want to go.

"I want to be with my mother," he said.

But the mother was both funny and angry: "What are you doing with me, your eldest grandson, you are going to study and study, even if you want to accompany me, it is with His Majesty."

His mother stroked his head tenderly and expectantly.

"Yu'er, the glory of mother's life is tied to you."

The little child probably understands that his mother does not need his company, but only needs him to bring glory.

"What is this?" The princess looked at the bamboo tube in his son's arms and asked curiously.

Xiao Yu hurriedly put the bamboo tube behind him: "It's the treasure I found."

The princess smiled and didn't want to look any more. With so many eunuchs and guards around his son, he would have no problem eating, using, and playing.

"Running outside for a day today, are you happy?" The princess asked with a smile, seeing her son's flushed face, dust and grass leaves all over his hair and clothes.

It's a completely different state from being in the palace.

Although he can't love martial arts like the prince, he still has to learn riding and shooting to strengthen his body.

"You have to catch some prey for this hunting, and give it to the emperor's grandfather when you go back." The princess said, "When your uncle was your age, not only was he good at reading, but he was also good at riding and shooting—"

In the past, Xiao Yu liked to hear her talk about her uncle, but today, as soon as the Crown Princess opened her mouth, Xiao Yu yawned: "Mother, I'm sleepy."

The princess hurriedly stopped the topic, and stroked his son's face: "You must be tired from running all day." She raised her head and called for someone, "Hurry up and serve Yu'er to wash up and let him sleep."

The court lady and Eunuch Qi hurriedly responded yes.

Xiao Yu got up, not forgetting to hug the bamboo tube, and followed the palace maid, Eunuch Qi, to go out, but finally couldn't hold back, and turned around and asked: "Mother, will uncle come to see me tomorrow?"

The princess looked at the expectation in her son's eyes, felt very guilty in her heart, and hurriedly nodded vigorously: "Yes, definitely, he is going to your third emperor's uncle's literature meeting today under your father's order, and he can come over tomorrow. There is no way around this, you also know that your uncle is very talented, everyone knows that he can't go to the Wenhui, but he is both civil and military, and he must come to your father's hunting meeting tomorrow to show his skills."

Having said that, he smiled again and winked at his son.

"He, he also prepared a gift for Yu'er, a bow he made himself, and asked me to keep it from you, to give you a surprise, I told you secretly, you have to pretend not to know when the time comes look."

Xiao Yu's eyes were full of smiles, and he nodded happily: "I will, mother, don't worry, I will definitely not let uncle see it!"

The child turned around and jumped up and down a few times happily.

Seeing her son go out, the smile on the princess's face dissipated, and she called the maid: "Go, let someone go to see Yan Fang immediately, and tell him that he must come tomorrow no matter what, and tell him that I have already promised Yu'er for him." Here's the gift."

The maid answered yes, turned around and left.

At night, the capital city has closed its gates, but it is nothing to the Prince's people.

Two guards surrounded the two eunuchs and soon came to the city gate from a distant hunting ground.

In the night, the city gates are brightly lit, and when you look up, you can see patrolling soldiers and guards passing by.