Chapter 14
In the early morning, Yuan Zhao woke up and found that the people serving him had indeed changed. Even Luo Yan and the others were not there. They had probably left her to hunt bears secretly.
She moved her left arm, and it hurt...
No matter what, she will only be held back if she is in this state.
After comforting herself, she let the maidservants help her wash up, drink water, and then help her dress up and put on light practice clothes. Her father often taught her to do as the Romans do in the country, and she had to adapt to the inconveniences of being away from home.
If she is not used to it, he can send someone to take her back to Beijing. The house has fine clothes and fine food, a high bed and warm pillows, and the people around her are attentive to her.
That's definitely not possible. Living at home is comfortable, but there are also big rules.
At home, she couldn't take three steps and couldn't easily step out of the house. She had to learn so many things that she was bored to death. With her father, she could at least step out of the door at will, change her clothes and interact with the children nearby.
Get together.
For example, now, when she is at Dad's place, she practices Qigong first every morning; when she is at Aniang's place, she does recitation first in the morning. There is a huge difference.
Children's illnesses come and go quickly.
She had a fever last night and her whole body was weak. She felt better this morning, but she couldn't lie down and wanted to go out to practice.
You need to have good skills to hunt good things.
Since her left arm was scratched a few times and it hurt, she didn't dare to make any big movements. Yuan Zhao had to hold the sword with her right hand to draw and practice her moves. Despite this, every move she made still affected the wound on her left arm, causing a dull pain.
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Her sword was a real sword, shorter, but an ordinary child could not lift it, and it was quite heavy. After practicing for half an hour, she was already sweating profusely, tired, and had cold sweats from pain.
One jumped up with a sword in his hand, lost his balance, and fell down with a crash.
"Hey, Princess, are you okay?" A figure who had been standing at the courtyard gate for a long time saw this and hurriedly rushed to help her up, while scolding the maids distressedly, "You don't have any eyesight, you are just standing there stupidly.
He looks like a wooden figure..."
The maids who were closest to her were a little slow in reacting. They were a little flustered by the sudden scolding from this person and were in a hurry.
Being supported by everyone, Yuan Zhao pushed them away in order to avoid aggravating his injuries:
"Go and put your sword away, and then go about your business."
"promise."
Seeing that she didn't blame her, the maids breathed a sigh of relief and agreed in unison. Then they let her go and ran to pick up the sword on the ground.
They suddenly let go, causing Yuan Zhao, who had just stood up, to almost lose his balance and fall. He couldn't help but sigh:
"..."
Forget it, it is not easy for my father to find slaves who understand the rules in this small county town. She has to adapt. After all, there is only one Uncle Ji and two followers around her. In daily life, she has to do many things by herself and not rely on others.
Even the third brother who is currently under Dad's command is also a confidant and two followers.
In comparison, she has the most people waiting on her.
"This, this," she thought clearly, and the effeminate man who came to help her stared in anger, "these useless slaves..."
Sure enough, it just doesn't work to let a man take care of the children, life is too rough!
"Who are you?" Yuan Zhao didn't care about the rudeness of the slaves, and looked back at the man beside him who was supporting him, "Why can you enter the inner courtyard of this princess?"
The other party called her princess, and even scolded the slaves for her very skillfully. It was obvious that they were... acquaintances?
Take a look and you will see that this man is about fifty years old, with a white face and no beard, and a sinister manner and soft voice. When he saw her looking at him, the man immediately let go of his hand with a smile, held the fly whisk in both hands and placed it in front of him, bowing slightly.
"Princess, do you still remember your servant?"
Servant? I remember, of course I remember, Yuan Zhao looked at him, and familiar scenes flashed through his mind... He just forgot the name.
"I remember you..." Which one is it? She scratched her head. The face was very familiar. She still vaguely remembered, "Yizhang Hong?"
It seems that this person has a very close relationship with Yi Zhanghong.
"Oh, Princess, please don't scare me, an old man like me." The man seemed startled and took a few steps back. "I am old and my bones are fragile. I cannot bear this reward from you."
Hee hee, Yuan Zhao grinned. The innocent smile of a child made people feel happy. He took two steps back and bowed respectfully:
"Sun Decheng, the chamberlain supervisor, has met the princess. How has the princess been doing these past few years?"
The eunuch, the official in charge of the internal affairs of the palace, can call himself a minister or an old man, and no longer needs to call himself an old slave. He traveled in a low-key manner this time, wearing ordinary clothes, and his appearance changed a lot.
The princess was young and hadn't seen her for many years, so she naturally didn't recognize her.
On His Majesty's order, he accompanied the Meng family to discuss this confusing marriage for their youngest son and daughter. This morning, the parents of both parties had already discussed it in the front hall. It turned out that the two children were incompatible with each other, so they had to terminate the engagement.
It's not about breaking off the engagement, and it's about not affecting the reputation of both parties.
In addition, His Majesty has secretly ordered him to meet the little princess alone.
As a close minister of the emperor, he can guess a lot of things without directly stating them. Children's words are unbridled, and children's words can often reveal their parents' daily actions and true thoughts.
However, in the face of his request, Dingyuanhou didn't hesitate at all and let it go. I don't know if he was careless or just aboveboard and not afraid of being plotted against.
"No courtesy." After being reminded, Yuan Zhao suddenly realized, "I remember you, His Majesty's personal attendant."
As for whether to be promoted or not, she couldn't understand it yet.
"The princess has a good memory." Sun Decheng didn't mind and praised, "Your Majesty has been thinking about you all these years. This time, he specially sent his ministers to visit you and brought you your favorite snacks..."
After saying this, he waved to the door of the courtyard, and the four young chamberlains who had been waiting there quietly came in one after another holding objects.
Sun Decheng was a chamberlain in the palace, and it was easy for him to direct the maids to prepare the table, not to mention there were several attendants to help. Yuan Zhao left them busy and went back to the inner room to change clothes. When he came out, snacks had been laid out, and a bowl of meat soup was rich in flavor.
In the early morning, meat soup and smooth noodle soup were her unbeatable meals, with a generous portion of meat-stuffed pancakes at most.
There is no way, because I exercise a lot every day and my appetite often increases.
Today I added a few more items, including rice cakes, jujube cakes, pine yellow cakes and hazelnut cakes, walnut cakes, pine nut cakes, etc.
They were all her favorite food, and she was salivating! She happily ran to the short-legged table and sat on the floor. She was about to reach out, but Sun Decheng stopped her and asked her to thank the palace first, and then let her belly eat.
Yuan Zhao picked up a piece of walnut cake and took a bite of it himself. He picked up another piece with his left hand and handed it to Sun Decheng who was sitting next to him.
"You eat too."
"Thank you, Princess, for the reward. This is a gift given to you by the Holy One. I dare not accept it." Sun Decheng said with a smile. Seeing that her left hand was inconvenient and the maids next to her were stupid, he simply served her food himself, "Princess, your hand
How did it hurt?"
No one has ever really practiced eating without speaking and sleeping without speaking, either in the previous dynasty or in this dynasty. Except for people who are indifferent to family affection, or who pride themselves on being noble and do not know how to adapt.
Even the current Holy Emperor often chats with his ministers while eating, and they have a lot of fun.
"It was injured by a bear." Yuan Zhao did not feel dissatisfied with the other party's refusal, "I wanted to hunt two bear skins for my mother and my second mother, but my father said that the bear skins are precious and should be presented to my uncle and aunt. Then
Okay, but I didn’t expect that there were no bears in the forest, but tigers..."
I should have told the truth truthfully, but remembering what my father said last night, I subconsciously omitted the mention of Ayu's bear paw.
The rest is the truth, she doesn't lie.
Chapter completed!