Chang'an Ferry

After staying in Fuzhou for a few days, Mu Yiying returned to Suzhou. After all, there was still a little girl named Jiang Yunling who didn't say goodbye to her properly.

But this time the little girl Jiang Yunling didn't cry so sadly, presumably they had already said in advance that the little girl was already prepared.

"Beautiful brother, I really miss you." Jiang Yunling lowered her head.

Mu Yanying knelt down and touched Jiang Yunling's head, "I can't bear you either, in the future Linger can come to the imperial city to play and I'll take you to eat delicious food."

"Yeah." Jiang Yunling nodded, "Beautiful brother promises to write to me every day."

"Okay, Ling'er has to write to me every day, you know?" Mu Yanying's words made Jiang Yunling a little embarrassed, and looked at her little fleshy hands with confusion, and nodded.

At the beginning of August, when Mu Yanying left Suzhou, the little girl Jiang Yunling was still crying, hugging Ke Qingmu's sleeve and crying a lot.

Taking a boat, going upstream was much slower than when I came here, but fortunately, Mu Yingying began to doze off as soon as she got on the boat, and was finally carried off the boat by Chu Ping.

"Qingshu, where is this place?" He was quite dizzy from his sleep.

"It's Fuzhou, and coincidentally, this is also the room we lived in when we came here before," Qing Shu said with a smile.

"Well, I still remember that the river fresh here is delicious and I met Yangyang here." Mu Yanying got up and walked to the window to watch the river meander away in the distance.

"My lord, shall we hurry back all the way or slowly?" Qing Shu also stood by the window looking at the scenery outside.

"Go back quickly, I haven't seen my aunt and uncle for a long time, by the way, how is my fish?" Mu Yanying asked.

Qing Shu nodded, "It's very good, the fish food is delicious! But it still doesn't grow"

"Yangyang said it was a crucian carp, and it would grow two or three catties at most, but it doesn't matter if you take it back and make soup, it's the same." While talking, he had already arrived at Qingshu's room, and he could hear the sound of swimming water from a distance, "It's still the same." It’s good that it grows so big, otherwise the wooden barrel is not enough for it to move.”

"That's right, I'll take that son into the carriage, and we're about to set off." Qing Shu said while holding the wooden bucket lid to cover it, but Mu Yanying stepped aside quickly.

Hurrying along the way, I finally arrived at the imperial city at the end of August.

Jiang Ning received Mu Yanying's letter early in the morning, and she was not in the mood to settle the accounts, so she went to the door and waited.

"mother"

"Hey, let me see if I'm thinner?" Jiang Ning circled around Mu Yanying, "I'm thinner, but I've grown a lot taller!"

"Well, mother, how are you doing these days?"

"Okay, don't stand at the door, mother has cooked you something delicious." Jiang Ning pulled Mu Yuying and walked into the mansion.

After putting back the salutes brought back, Mu Yanying changed her clothes again and it was already dark. Jiang Ning led a few maids over, "I will eat in your yard today, and rest early after eating." But looking at Mu Yan Ying changed her clothes, "Ying, you are going to enter the palace"

"Well, I'll go after dinner with my mother!" Pulling Jiang Ning to sit down at the table.

"Alright, can you come back that night?"

"I don't know. If my uncle keeps me, I will stay in the palace." Mu Yuying said while serving vegetables. Jiang Ning watched Mu Yuying's heart fly away. It is true that his mother rarely stayed with him, and the emperor and empress took care of him personally.

"Alright, but now that you're older, you can't stay longer, you know?" Jiang Ning still remembered to remind him.

"Mother, don't worry!"

After eating, Mu Yuying hurried into the palace with Qing Shu and Chu Ping, "Eat more fish" I'm going to take you to the pot tomorrow, probably the fish also sensed Mu Yuying's intention tail With a swing, the water splashed Mu Yanying's face.

As soon as Qingshu showed the token, the guards immediately gave way to drive the carriage until they reached the inner courtyard of the palace, and Mu Yanying got out of the carriage. The guard guarding the door stepped forward respectfully and clasped his fists, "Mr. ready for you"

"Thank you" to indicate that Qingshu gave me a big cloth bag. Although Mu Yuying was not deeply involved in the world, the emperor often told Mu Yuying some things about people and the world, which is naturally understandable.

The carriage arrived outside the emperor's Ziji Palace. As soon as Mu Yanying got off, she saw the emperor and the empress coming out together, "aunt and uncle"

"Oh, I said that An'an will go to the palace tonight." The emperor laughed, and stepped forward to catch Mu Yingying who was rushing over. to my chest, now to my forehead"

"Yes." The queen's eyes were reddish, and she raised her hand to quickly wipe away the wet marks on the corners of her eyes. "I'm taller than my aunt, but" I stepped forward and looked carefully, "Why did you lose weight? Is it because you are too tired on the road?"

"If you grow taller, you will look thinner." Mu Yuying ordered Chu Ping not to tell the emperor what happened in Jiangnan, so he didn't know that Mu Yuying had nosebleeds for a few days because of excessive mending.

"Quick, go in and sit down." The queen dragged Mu Yanying in, and the emperor went in together side by side, "I'll stay here tonight."

"I just wanted to stay in the palace for one night." Mu Yanying acted like a baby while hugging the emperor's arm.

"You kid, it turns out that you have made up your mind a long time ago." The emperor nodded Mu Yanying's forehead, "You should sleep in later, the three of us haven't slept together for a long time."

"Your Majesty, this..." Although the queen also wanted to spend more time with Mu Yanying, she also knew that Mu Yingying was grown up now, and if those ministers found out, she would be pointed at her nose and scolded.

The emperor snorted disdainfully, "They will know!"

"Uncle, this is the dragon bed, I, this, I'm afraid it's not suitable!" After changing into pajamas, Mu Yiying realized that the emperor planned to let herself stay overnight in Ziji Palace, and thought it was Changchun Pavilion.

The emperor glanced at him, "What about the dragon bed? You have sat on the dragon chair before, and you even stepped on my head."

Have I done these things?Mu Yanying was stunned.

The queen couldn't bear it, and then added, "Do you know the jade seal? There is a missing corner on it, which you dropped when you were young."

No!Weakly peeking at the emperor, seeing that the emperor did not show any displeasure, "I used to be really naughty"

"Don't be naughty, I insisted on hugging you. You were so obedient when you were a child, I couldn't bear to let go." So when he went to court, he secretly hugged you. The emperor loved Mu Yingying from the bottom of his heart.

"Oh" hugged the emperor, and rubbed against the emperor's chest like when he was a child, "Uncle is so kind!"

"Know that I'm good, that's good!" Bend over and lift the quilt, "Go to bed quickly, look at you, you look tired"

"Um"

Mu Yuying slept on the innermost side, the emperor slept in the middle, and the queen slept on the outside. "An'an, is Jiangnan fun?"

"It's fun, there are mountains and water, misty rain, and the sea. I also picked up a lot of shells and made a lot of wind chimes..."

The next day, when Mu Yuying woke up, she occupied the entire bed by herself and yawned loudly. Manager Cao hurried in with his clothes in his hands when he heard the voice, "Mr. Yuying is awake, but you still want to sleep?"

"No." He took the clothes and put them on one by one, "What time will it be?"

"It's just nine o'clock." Manager Cao bowed his head to help tidy up his clothes, "Your Majesty is going to court soon, and your majesty is in the small kitchen."

"Auntie is in the kitchen" Mu Yanying thought that she brought a fish, just right "I'm going to find my aunt"

"Auntie, what are you doing?" Mu Yanying entered the kitchen, and the queen was squatting in front of the stove adding firewood.

"Yam Lean Meat Congee" The queen reached out and stirred with a spoon, "An'an, what are you talking about?"

"Craucian carp, when I was in the south of the Yangtze River, I followed them to catch fish. They said that the fish soup is very delicious..." The voice became weaker and weaker, because Mu Yanying watched the queen's face become more and more gloomy, and finally the queen picked up the fish on hand. One of the sticks chased after him.

"Auntie, I was wrong, don't do it, ah!" Mu Yanying felt very regretful, and she said it out, saying that she was good at fishing!

"I told you to be disobedient and not to take care of your body." The queen was also worthy of being from the Mu family, and swung the wooden stick vigorously.

The emperor saw this scene as soon as he came back, and hurriedly protected Mu Yanying behind him, "Rong'er, what are you doing, why did you suddenly hit the child?" The emperor's heart aches!

"Ask him, he went down to fish in the river!" The queen was so angry that her chest heaved, why is this child so angry, what if something happens to fish!

The veins on the emperor's forehead twitched, and Mu Yanying secretly thought it was bad when she heard what the queen said, but before she could run away, the emperor grabbed her, "Auntie, uncle, I was wrong." She raised her hands and knelt down to signal the queen to hit her.

After all, the queen was still reluctant to do it. She had no chance of having a child, so she regarded Mu Yanying as her own child. Knowing that her child had done these dangerous things, she was angry, but she really couldn't do it.

Just because the queen didn't do anything, doesn't mean the emperor didn't do anything. He took the stick and hit Mu Yingying's palm a few times, "Your Majesty, you really hit!"

The queen grabbed it, pulled out the stick and threw it far away, then held Mu Yanying's hand, "It's all red!"

"Why don't you fight? I really don't know the north when I go out." The emperor was also very angry. There are all kinds of dirty things in the water. What if something happens?

"Uncle, don't be angry." Mu Yanying pulled the emperor's sleeve and shook, "Uncle"

"Uncle" the emperor flicked his sleeves, "I don't have a nephew like you" and walked towards the inner hall, Mu Yanying quickly chased after him, "Uncle, uncle, I was really wrong!"

"Uncle..."

"Oops, my porridge." The queen remembered that it might be all mushy, so she hurried back to the kitchen.

Fortunately, the fire was not too big, but it was a bit dry, the queen divided it into three parts and carried them to the inner hall.

"This... Your Majesty" as soon as she came in, she saw Mu Yanying kneeling upright, and the queen quickly put the tray on the table, "Your Majesty, why do you still let An An kneel?"

The emperor looked at the book alone, "If you don't punish, you don't know how long your memory will be. If you dare to fish in the river this time, will you dare to go up the mountain to poke a hornet's nest next time!"

"I won't! I don't dare anymore." Mu Yanying lowered her head and knelt seriously.

"Don't dare..." The emperor's book fell, and his beard turned up in anger. "Director Cao, pass an order to the followers, one hundred army sticks per person, if you don't like the master, you will be punished."

"Uncle, I insisted on it. It has nothing to do with Qingshu and the others. If you want to punish me, punish me" and squeezed out a few tears. Sure enough, the emperor softened all of a sudden. There is no rule if you don’t get punished, fifty for one person.” Then he looked at Mu Yanying, “No more, just two hundred.” Seeing that Mu Yanying was still kneeling well, he glared, “Why are you still addicted to kneeling! Can’t get up yet! "

"Yes" Mu Yanying vowed that she would never go fishing again, and she would apologize to Qing Shu and the others for causing them to suffer when she went back later.

"What are you still doing, come over for dinner?" The emperor still remembered that Mu Yanying didn't have breakfast, and his tone was bad, so he still asked people to come over.

"I was just thinking, grab it and make soup for my uncle and aunt." Mu Yanying lowered her head and stirred with a spoon.

The emperor snorted coldly, "It's fish!"

The servant quickly came in with a bucket, and the emperor walked in and took a look, "It's also intentional, Mr. Cao, I remember that there is no fish in the pool behind Ziji Palace, you can carry it and pour it in!"

"Yes"

Don't eat, but keep it. Mu Yanying knew that the emperor was angry and still liked it very much. She smiled at the queen, and the queen immediately realized that she was still angry and turned her head away.

"In addition to fish, I also made some gadgets from shells myself," Mu Yingying said, and soon, the servant brought them up.

The emperor held it in his hand and flicked it a few times, and the sound of the shells hitting was clear and sweet, "You went to the sea to touch this again" written on his face, if you say yes, you will die!

"No, I went to the beach to pick it up, and I wore it myself." Mu Yanying raised her hand, "I accidentally hurt my hand." It was a bitter plan.

Sure enough, the expressions of the emperor and the empress changed, and they stepped forward to check "Why are you so careless?" Then they saw the red seal that the emperor had just stamped "Why are you so ungrateful, bring the medicine!"

"Uncle, I don't hurt." In fact, the emperor beat him very lightly and it didn't hurt, but Mu Yanying's skin was tender and left marks.

"It doesn't hurt!" The emperor rubbed gently, "If there is another time, your aunt and I will never forgive you!"

"No, there won't be a next time." Mu Yanying hugged the emperor's waist, "Uncle, aunt, don't worry!"