The lotus flowers are in full bloom, white with pink and pink with red, gorgeous and elegant.
Zhu Qingruo curled her eyes and smiled, naturally she liked it, but she looked at Qin Mu's black hands, and then said in disgust: "So dirty!"
Qin Muche retracted his hand, carefully placed the lotus flower on the stone table, and retreated silently.
Jinhua picked up the lotus, cut off some of the roots, and handed it to Zhu Qingruo.
Zhu Qingruo was happy again, her pink and white face was no bigger than a lotus flower, and her eyebrows were creasingly smiling.
Jinhua was afraid that she would get tired from playing, so she hurriedly took her back.
Xiao Yi felt humiliated because Qin Mu had taken the credit. Even though he was covered in mud, he rushed over to hit him. Qin Mu was short, so he grabbed his collar and lifted him up. He couldn't hide even if he wanted to.
Xiao Yi had a plan in mind, not to hit him in the face to avoid being discovered, but punched him in the stomach and kicked him several times to relieve his anger.
Qin Mu didn't even hum. He held his stomach, patted his pants, and limped back.
As soon as Xu Zhihuai saw the lotus in his daughter's hand, he knew that she had gone out to play again.
Jinhua looked ashamed and took a step forward.
"You just know how to pamper her, and you won't do it again in the future."
Jinhua blushed and nodded repeatedly.
Zhu Qingruo showed off the lotus in her hand and said, "Concubine, how beautiful it is."
Xu Zhihuai took the lotus and asked the maid to get a clean bottle and put it in it. She wiped her daughter's hands and face, and when she saw that her face was not red and she was not breathing, she took her to bed with peace of mind.
After a while, the palace maids presented a porcelain plate with blue glaze and gold, which contained large and small ice bricks, which slowly cooled and became crystal clear.
The ice basin cannot be placed next to the bed, but rests on a brass corner stand a few steps away.
Jinhua took a flower silk fan and fanned it slowly, gently sending cool air into the curtain.
Xu Zhihuai patted his daughter gently and asked Jinhua: "Where do lotus flowers come from?"
Jinhua smiled and pointed to the door, stretching out her hand to draw one taller and one shorter.
Xu Zhihuai shook his head gently: "We won't allow it next time. The water in the lotus pond is deep, and they are still children. Are they still in the yard at this moment?"
Jinhua nodded.
Xu Zhihuai got up and came outside the door, where he saw the two children standing in the shade of the tree in a mess.
The yellow and black mud dries in the sun and freezes into large and small clods of soil, which stick to the body and fall down.
Xu Zhihuai looked them up and down and found that Xiao Yi was covered in mud and his face was stained, but Qin Mu was different, his head, face and neck were clean.
Only then did Xu Zhihuai remember that he had excellent water properties.
"You go back to clean up and have a rest, and come back later."
The two of them should salute.
Xu Zhihuai took a few more glances and found that Qin Mu was walking with a limp. He thought he was injured. After questioning carefully, he found out that he had been beaten by Xiao Yi.
"Is he often bullied?"
"Go back to your Majesty, two children living together will inevitably bump into each other."
Xu Zhihuai smiled: "One is older and stronger, and the other is introverted and dull. Using the big one to bully the small ones is nothing but a bump in the road."
"Go back to your Majesty, this slave shouldn't talk nonsense! This slave deserves to die!"
Xu Zhihuai said calmly: "They have lived in the Ministry of Internal Affairs for such a long time. You should know a lot about them. Tell them all."
The little eunuch told everything.
Xiao Yi was very angry and had a bad temper, so he naturally bullied Qin Mu for more than a day or two.
Hitting and scolding are also common.
Xu Zhihuai asked again: "How about Qin Mu? Doesn't he resist?"
"Back to my wife, Qin Mu is always depressed. He doesn't speak even after being beaten, as if nothing happened."
Xiao Yi and Qin Mu cleaned up and came back.
Xu Zhihuai first asked Qin Mu to come over. She looked him up and down and saw no injuries on his face, so she asked, "Did you pick the lotus?"
Qin Mu lowered his eyes and nodded heavily.
"The water in the lotus pond is deep, are you injured?"
Qin Mu was startled for a moment, then shook his head.
Xiao Yi frowned and looked at Qin Mu's back, feeling uneasy.
Xu Zhihuai said in a gentle tone: "Okay, then roll up your sleeves and trouser legs."
Qin Mu was startled again and raised his head at a loss.
"What? Don't want to?"
Xu Zhihuai raised his eyebrows and looked at him, seeing that his eyes were clear and showed no resentment or grievance.
He slowly rolled up his sleeves and trouser legs.
Bruises were clearly visible on his thin arms and thin legs, and his knees were also purple.
Why are teenagers so cruel?
"Where did you get the injury?"
"Go back to my mother-in-law, the untouchable accidentally dropped it."
Xu Zhihuai said calmly: "Xiao Yi, tell me."
Xiao Yi's eyes rolled, he straightened his chest and said, "The common people don't know what I said to you."
"You guys live together, don't you know?"
"Back to you, Madam, we just live together and are brothers and friends. Common people don't like to meddle in people's business, especially the business of people like him!"
"What kind of person?"
"Mother...he is a thief."
"What did he steal?"
"Back to my mother-in-law, his father is a corrupt official, so he naturally follows his example. He has stolen things from ordinary people."
Xiao Yi knocked down, and Qin Mu finally had some reaction. He turned his head and looked straight at him with hurt eyes.
"I don't!"
"You are a thief, you stole my snacks and my money!"
Xu Zhihuai listened and looked at it, and sighed softly: "The human heart is made of human flesh, how can there be so much malice?"
"Xiao Yi, you come from a martial arts family. Your father and elder brothers are the pillars of the imperial court. They sent you to the palace with high hopes for you, but you are so competitive that you bully the small ones! You can't even tolerate Qin Mu. If I gain power in the future, I am afraid that both the princess and me will not be taken seriously. You can go out and go back to your own home to dominate."
Xiao Yi panicked and didn't dare to argue any more. He knelt down and begged for mercy.
Xu Zhihuai didn't look at him and said to Qin Mu: "The palace needs useless and incompetent people the last thing. Don't think that you will be pitiful if you get beaten. You are going to be a guard of the inner court. You have no blood in your bones. How can you protect the princess?" You are the only one left in the Qin family, and no one cares about your life or death. I advise you to be smarter. If you lose the trust of the emperor and the trust of the princess, your future will only be dead."
Qin Mu silently turned red when he heard this.
Xiao Yi packed his bags and was sent out of the palace that same day.
Xu Zhihuai didn't punish him, but he had already brought shame on the Xiao family.
Zhu Xuxing did not blame her for making the decision without permission: "I'll choose two more people later, and pick slowly."
Xu Zhihuai smiled helplessly: "I never thought that I would have to support a child."
Although Zhu Xuxing was tired, his eyes were bright: "You have always been kind."
"I can't bear those two words, but the emperor is really good at reading people."
Zhu Xuxing stretched out his hand and shook her gently: "I'm not good at reading people's hearts. I think Qin Mu is good because I remembered what my father said. When Wei Li entered the palace and became my personal guard, I once I asked my father, can he, who is so thin and weak, be able to protect me? My father said, a person like Wei Li can do anything to survive and have a meal! If I exchange identities with him, what will happen to me? You can’t survive three days on the street.”
