Yunchu's pupils narrowed sharply and his breathing stopped.
"Ma'am, what's wrong?"
Seeing her expression was different, Xie Jingyu felt a little uneasy.
Yun Chu withdrew his gaze, calmed his voice and said, "What Brother An said is not unreasonable. Let your husband and the old lady discuss how to deal with Brother Wei. I have a headache, so I will go back first."
After she finished speaking, she turned around and walked out.
When she walked outside, she saw Jiu'er kneeling in the yard, looking like she was waiting for relief at any time.
"You have nothing to do here." Yun Chu looked at her and said, "The second young master is injured and has a bad temper. Please don't get close to me yet. I need a girl to sweep the floor in my yard. Please help me for two days."
Before Jiu'er could say anything, Yun Chu hurriedly walked back.
This is the side courtyard closest to Zaoshulin, located at the very back of Xie Mansion. Outside the courtyard wall here is a small alley in the capital.
After the guests had dispersed, all the people in the Xie Mansion went to the front yard to clean up the mess. No one could be seen here.
"Hey, didn't you say that the Xie family is holding a banquet today?" Chu Hongyu was lying on the wall, looking left and right, "Why is there no one there?"
"Little, little prince!" Amao's voice came from below, "You and the little princess lie down on the wall. I want to let go."
Chu Hongyu quickly climbed up the wall and held her sister's hand: "Chang Sheng, grab this brick and push up with your legs."
The little girl's pink and tender little fingers grabbed the wall tiles and climbed up hard. Her face turned red and she couldn't go up.
"Chang Sheng, if you can't come up, we won't be able to see my mother." Chu Hongyu reached out to help her and said to the people below, "Amao, you are taller, a little taller."
Amao had a grimace on his face. He was too short. No matter how he stood on tiptoes, he could not get taller.
Fortunately, the little girl worked hard and finally climbed up the wall.
Amao breathed a sigh of relief. He breathed into his palms, then stepped on the wall with his feet and jumped up to the top of the wall. Seeing that there was no one inside the courtyard wall, he jumped down, then raised his head and stretched out his arms: "Little princess, jump down, don't be afraid, my subordinates will catch you."
It was the first time for Chu Changsheng to do such a thing.
She stood up tremblingly and looked down, feeling dizzy and frightened.
But as soon as she thought that her mother lived here and could see her soon, she was filled with courage.
She fanned her long feather-like eyelashes, then closed them, opened her hands, jumped down, and fell into Amao's arms. Amao carefully placed her on the ground, raised her head and said, "Little prince, Come down quickly, I think I heard someone talking."
Chu Hongyu nodded. As soon as he stood up, he saw two people appearing around the corner. When he was about to hide, he realized that the person walking in front was Yun Chu.
He was so happy that he opened his mouth to call her mother.
Yun Chu quickly raised his hand and put his index finger on his lips, making a silent gesture.
The Xie family are all nearby. If the young prince makes any noise that alerts the Xie family, it will become a tool for the Xie family to cling to Prince Pingxi's palace.
"Shh!"
Chu Hongyu also made a gesture.
Xu was so happy that he couldn't stand still and fell down.
Yun Chu was so frightened that his heart stopped.
Fortunately, Amao was standing under the courtyard wall and caught the person in time.
"Brother Yu, did I tell you last time that you can't secretly come to Xie's house again?" Yun Chu deliberately looked at him with a straight face, "It's not enough for you to come by yourself, and you even dragged the little princess to climb the wall with you. , what should I do if I fall?"
Chu Hongyu pointed at her fingers and said: "My sister dreams about my mother every day. It just so happens that my father is not here, so I brought my sister to meet my mother. Mother, look, this is my sister. Her name is Chu Changsheng." .”
Before he could finish his words, he saw his sister, who had always been timid and shy, rolling into Yun Chu's arms like a snowball.
Yun Chu picked her up with a gentle face: "Chang Sheng, I haven't seen you for so many days, I miss you too."
Chu Hongyu stared in disbelief with her round, dark eyes: "Mother, when did you meet Chang Sheng? Why didn't I know?"
"A few days ago, Chang Sheng left the house in the middle of the night, and I happened to meet him." Yun Chu held Chu Hongyu's other hand, "This is not the place to talk. Go back to my yard first."
Tingshuang had already cleared out all the servants on this road and walked back without meeting anyone.
Arriving in the familiar courtyard, Chu Hongyu felt more at ease. He said with a smile: "Mother, my father has received an imperial edict and went to Jizhou to do business. He won't come back for half a month. My sister and I will stay here for the past half month. You are here."
Yun Chu frowned: "Half a month is too long, I'm afraid it won't work."
"How long can we stay?" Chu Hongyu hugged her neck, "How many days mother said we would stay, we will stay for a few days, listen to mother."
The little girl also climbed onto her knees and hugged her neck from the other side. Although the two little guys were small but quite strong, they seemed to be competing and insisted that her neck face theirs. She felt that My neck was almost cramping from being twisted around.
Chu Hongyu was a little angry. He shared his mother's daughter with his sister, but her sister wanted to keep it to herself. If he had known better, he would not have brought his sister here.
However, when he saw the sparkle in his sister's dark eyes, he felt that the trip was worth it.
My sister has been in poor health since she was a child. Although she is four years old, she is thinner and shorter than other three-year-old children. She cannot speak even at such an old age.
The imperial doctor said that there was nothing wrong with my sister's voice. It was due to another disease caused by being weak and sick all year round. She was unwilling to communicate with others and could not see others. It seemed that he was the only brother in the small world, and he could occasionally see his father. But the premise is that something the father said happened to be on the tip of my sister's mind.
This was the first time that he saw his sister accepting another person so well.
He liked his mother so much, so he knew that his sister would like his mother as much as he did.
"We'll stay here for two days." Yun Chu also liked these two little guys. She held one in each arm, "If you stay at Xie's house, you can only stay in my yard and you are not allowed to go out at will. Can you do that?"
Chu Hongyu said in a loud voice: "Yes."
The little girl blinked her big eyes and nodded.
Yun Chu tapped the tip of their noses and said, "You two have turned into little mud monkeys just now when you climbed the wall. Let's take a bath first."
She was really convinced that these two little guys sneaked in and asked Amao to carry a bag containing a change of clothes.
She asked Tingshuang and Tingxue to bathe Brother Yu, while she bathed the little girl herself. After taking off the little girl's dress, her heart was instantly squeezed by a big palm.
She knew that the little girl was thin, but she didn't expect to be so thin. Her whole body was made of bones and there was no flesh at all. The only flesh was probably on her face, which made her so attractive.
If you look closely, you can see that her body is covered with pinholes.
The pinholes were very obvious. It didn't look like someone was deliberately mistreating her, but it looked like marks left by years of acupuncture.
"Chang Sheng, Chang Sheng..."
She called out these two words, vaguely seeming to understand why King Pingxi gave the little princess such a name.
She bathed the little girl with mixed emotions, and while she was busy, Ting Shuang's voice sounded outside the door: "My lord is here, saying that he has something important to discuss with his wife."
Yun Chu took the little girl out of the bathtub, wiped off the water drops on her body, put her into a dress, and said with a smile: "I'll go out first."
The little girl grabbed the hem of her clothes and looked at her with wide eyes, as if she was afraid that she would never come back after she left.
"Be good, I'll be back soon."
Only then did those pink and tender little hands let go of her.
