Snap.
A black stone fell on the chessboard, and the black dragon was unstoppable. It killed the white stone and retreated steadily. Now there is no way to recover.
Wu Qiming held a white piece in his hand and looked at the chess game. After much hesitation, he put the piece back into the basket, sighed softly, and said to Ying Wushang who was sitting opposite him: "I lost because of Wushang's chess skills. It’s getting better and better.”
Ying Wushang hurriedly smiled and said: "How can I be worthy of your words? It's just that my mind is not focused on the chessboard, so I asked your subordinate to take advantage of the game occasionally."
"If you lose, you lose. There is nothing to say." Wu Qiming shook his head and said, "Wushang is too modest. Your chess skills have indeed improved a lot."
Wu Qiming said this, so Ying Wushang accepted it calmly. He said: "Then I have thanked you for your compliment."
It was still early in the day, but the Yamen in Beijing seemed a little deserted. Seeing that Wu Qiming had nothing to do, Ying Wushang came to play chess with him, Quan thought it was to relieve his boredom.
The relationship between the two is considered to be good. After all, although Lu Hanjiang was in charge of the assessment for Ying Wushang's first promotion to Qianhu, the nominee was Wu Qiming, who was the governor of Fusi in Beizhen at the time. If it hadn't been for Li Gui's appearance, With this unusual number of hands, Ying Wushang had already become a member of thousands of households.
Ying Wushang saw that Wu Qiming was frowning, so he tried to say something: "Your Majesty's heart is not in this chess game. I don't know what is bothering me. I am willing to share your worries for you."
"It's a troubled autumn. The miasma in the Miao territory is changing. The Xuantian Sect in the North is causing trouble again at this juncture, and"
Wu Qiming stopped mid-sentence, shook his head and sighed. At this moment, a guard in Jinyi came outside the door to report: "Tell you two adults, the princess's carriage has returned to the house, and the accompanying officers Yan Qianhu and Zeng Qianhu are in the procession." Wait in the lobby.”
After hearing this report, the sadness in Wu Qiming's eyes finally dissipated a little. He stood up and said, "Well, just have a safe trip. Tell the two Qianhus that I will be here immediately."
No matter how troublesome things are in the world, there are many ways to deal with them, but if something goes wrong with Princess Yongle, they will be blamed even if they die.
As His Majesty's current personal soldiers, many of the Jinyiwei brothers had followed the old emperor to the throne. They had killed many of the emperor's relatives and royal bloodline. Wu Qiming himself had dozens of royal blood in his hands. human life.
Therefore, people of their generation do not have much respect for the royal family except His Majesty, but obviously Princess Yongle is an exception.
This princess is not only the apple of His Majesty's eye, but also the niece of Commander Meng. Not to mention, she is also the wife of Lu Zhenfu, their second-in-command.
According to Master Meng's regard for Master Lu, Lu Zhenfu will soon be Commander Lu. By then, Princess Yongle will also be considered half of Jin Yiwei's master, so Jin Yiwei will naturally take her matter seriously.
Princess Yongle didn't learn anything else on her way out, but she seemed to be in better spirits. The fatigue of traveling all the way to Beijing didn't show on her at all. Not long after entering the palace, she went to the palace to get the sign and asked for it. Went to see my mother-in-law.
With Princess Yongle's honor and favor, people in the palace naturally did not dare to look down upon her. In less than an hour, she entered the palace to visit Concubine Meng. Mother and daughter had been separated for half a year, and they were very excited to see each other. The concubine took the princess's hand and said Reluctant to let go.
Seeing this, Ah Xiu, the female official in the imperial concubine's palace, asked everyone to step aside and let the mother and daughter talk.
A'xiu herself also withdrew. She called the two maids who had accompanied the princess into the palace and asked, "This time the princess comes to the palace to pay her respects, will the consort accompany her?"
Although foreign men were not allowed to enter the harem, the consort could wait outside the palace wall. In the past, when royal couples came to the palace to pay homage, this was also the case to show their respect for the imperial power and their love for their wives.
The two maids looked at each other and replied: "As far as Aunt Xiu is concerned, the princess is returning to Beijing alone this time, and the consort is not accompanying her."
Axiu frowned lightly and asked, "Why? I remember that the princess and the consort left the capital together. Why did the princess go back alone this time? Could it be that something happened to the Jinyiwei Yamen temporarily?"
"The slaves and others don't know about this." The two maids shook their heads blankly. The princess did not take them with her when she left the capital. How could they know such a thing.
".That's all. I'll ask the princess about this. There's one more thing."
A'xiu's thoughtful eyes swept over the two maids in front of her, and she said softly: "You are the princess's maids, and you are also the closest ones to the princess. Has the princess told you about who will be arranged to serve the consort? of?"
When the two maids heard this, they both blushed. One of them said as loudly as a mosquito, "Back to my aunt, the princess didn't mention this matter."
"Not yet?"
Axiu was stunned. To put it bluntly, the personal attendants were the girls from the first marriage. It was not that they were rushing to fill the Prince Consort's room, but that the princess was always unfit for a few days every month. It was better to have someone to accompany her than to have someone outside. Hu Meizi reached into the house.
The key point is that the princess has been married for more than a year and is not yet pregnant. If the bastard son is born before the legitimate son, it will be a huge embarrassment for the princess. After all, it will be safer to use her own people.
Although it was originally decided that Yongle's most valued palace maid Xiaoli would be in charge, it turned out that Xiaoli's identity was not clean and she was the queen of the criminal. Not to mention, Grandma Sun later came to report that this person had sneaked into the princess with evil intentions. .
After such a thing happened, it was naturally impossible for Xiaoli to stay with the princess. Logically speaking, a year had passed since then. Could it be that the princess never thought about who should fill this matter?
Axiu was worried about this matter. After thinking about it for a moment, she immediately turned back and entered the palace, pulled Princess Yongle aside and started asking.
The imperial concubine over there, who was only halfway through the relationship between mother and daughter, was naturally unwilling to do so, but with a glance from Axiu, the imperial concubine immediately became honest.
This Axiu is not an ordinary maid. Although the two are master and servant in name, they are actually sisters. Axiu is older than her. When she was a child, she was usually the one who was taken care of. This emotion is naturally different. In the end, The key thing is that Axiu is good at martial arts and really dares to hit people.
Many years ago, when His Majesty was still the prince, Commander Meng was just a young man from an aristocratic family who had not inherited the title. At that time, Concubine Meng was still a little carrot head.
At that time, when the young His Majesty and Commander Meng were traveling to the south of the Yangtze River, they heard that a notorious flower-picking thief had appeared in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, they were young and vigorous, and they could not bear to see such dirty things, so they immediately decided to eliminate the harm for the people.
On the way to chase the flower-picking thief, he met a female hero who was also chasing the thief. That was Axiu.
When A'xiu was young, she was not as calm as she is now. She came from a famous family. She chased the flower-picking thief from the south of the Yangtze River to the north with a cold sword. She killed countless evil gangsters along the way. The world did not know her. Named after the martial arts, it was called the Jade Girl Sword.
Because of this, Meng Yuan and Axiu got to know each other. In the eyes of Concubine Meng, who was still young at the time, the two of them fell in love and would become a good story in the future.
It's a pity that God's will played a trick. Many years later, her brother married the daughter of a wealthy family, inherited the Meng family title, and became a noble of the court. Axiu was also disheartened and planned to return to the world.
Concubine Meng couldn't bear to see her former sisters alone, so she politely begged her to stay. At that time, Axiu was upset and she had a good relationship with the concubine, so she agreed. Who would have thought that within half a year, a decree came from the palace, She entered the palace and became a noble concubine. Axiu was worried about her and entered the palace together.
To this day, the two sisters have been staying in the palace for many years. Now that the princesses have grown up, Axiu has long since given up on returning to the world and focuses on accompanying the imperial concubine in the palace.
Even after so many years, the imperial concubine was still frightened by Axiu's angry appearance, so when she saw that the other party was getting serious, she immediately chose to retreat.
(End of chapter)
