The King's Concubine_The Feast of Masks【Complete】(175)

Seeing that King Jin didn't speak, Yao Niang was even more surprised: "Have you really just cried? This is really..."

Seeing that she cared more about others than herself, King Jin was a little dissatisfied: "Why do you care so much about other people's affairs, why don't you sleep?"

"This is no one else's business. Prince Qing is on good terms with you, and Princess Qing is on good terms with me..."

"If you don't want to sleep, let's do something else." With that said, King Jin stepped over.

Yao Niang pushed him with her hands, "It's not even two months yet, and I'm still taking medicine."

"like before……"

After finishing the meal and lying down, King Jin looked like a satiated big cat.

Yao Niang lay in his arms, and he ran his big palm down her hair before saying, "Don't worry about the affairs of Lao Qi's family. The couple is arguing in bed and in bed, and you don't know what Lao Qi's daughter-in-law is thinking. If you manage it well, that’s fine. If you don’t manage it well, you may not be a human being inside or outside.”

"I didn't want to care about it." Yao Niang muttered, and asked curiously: "Do you know anything?"

How could Prince Jin know anything? He could only guess what Prince Qing was thinking. After all, this was Prince Qing's own private matter. How could Prince Jin, a grown man, talk about such a thing?

"Anyway, just don't interfere too much. When you have free time, you can go to Prince Qing's Mansion to talk to the seventh daughter-in-law, or she can come to the manor to see you. As for other people's family affairs, just don't gossip about them."

King Jin had already said this, and Yao Niang thought that there might be something complicated here that she couldn't mediate, so she nodded and took it to heart.

Prince Qing came out of Prince Jin's palace and rode back.

The horse walked very slowly, and the two guards who followed him out of the mansion could only follow behind as if crawling.

Prince Qing's mood was very complicated. He understood the meaning behind Fifth Brother's words and felt that he was handling it lightly. But after all, she didn't make any big mistake. In fact, he understood her situation and her thoughts, because he was the same as her a long time ago.

Because his mother-in-law was a Korean, he was the only prince in the palace with blood from another race. As early as when King Qing was still young, he had heard the servants in the palace say that there were women from other races who could serve the Holy Emperor, but none of them could give birth to dragons. It's not because His Majesty and that one are always at odds with each other, otherwise the seventh prince would not be born.

King Qing didn't know who that person was at first, but later he found out that it was Empress De Fei, the fifth brother's mother, who was also his former adoptive mother. In his vague memory, she was a very warm but free and easy woman.

As a child, King Qing didn't understand what free and easy was, and he didn't understand until he grew up.

The prince without a mother had a very hard life in the palace.

Once upon a time, Prince Qing thought more than once that it would be great if his mother were the Concubine De. Even if Concubine De is gone, he can always live in the palace with his head held high like his fifth brother. Even though it may be hard, at least it can be done openly instead of always hearing whispers about 'that seventh prince'...

If the fifth brother's hard work comes from the fighting between brothers, then his hard work comes from the inconspicuous servants who make up the vast majority in the palace. No one paid attention to him, and the slaves took him for granted. The minds of those eunuchs are perverted and twisted. Because they have been groveling for a long time, having a "higher person" for them to torture and enjoy will give them an almost perverted pleasure.

King Qing still remembers that when he first went to Ganxi Fifth Institute, he often didn't have enough to eat every day. The eunuch who served him would never give him food. He would eat his regular dishes and then put the cakes in the room very high. He couldn't reach it, so he moved a chair and sat next to him to watch him reach the pastries on the cabinet.

Once, he moved a chair to rest his feet, but accidentally fell it. Someone asked me about it, and he said that he was too naughty and climbed up and down. After that, no one asked again. When his injuries healed, he still put the pastries on the cabinet that he couldn't reach.

In the end, the eunuch was beaten to death by the fifth brother. At that time, the fifth brother was not a few years older than him, but he was so majestic. Later, King Qing found out why Fifth Brother was so majestic, because Fifth Brother's mother-in-law was different from his own.

Because his mother and concubine were different, his father always regarded him as nothing. Because mother and concubine are different, they study in the upper study room, and no one cares about whether they study well or not. Because his mother and concubine are different, even the princes who are brothers do not bully him because they have never regarded him as an opponent. Because his mother and concubine were different, few servants in the palace took him seriously.

No, no one dared to bully him or look down on him anymore, because Fifth Brother protected him.

Once upon a time, King Qing was very curious about what kind of person his mother-in-law was. After he understood some things and had people listen to what he said, he asked an old palace maid who had served his mother-in-law to come to his side.

From the words of the old palace maid, he learned a lot about his mother and concubine. He knew that she was a very weak and kind-hearted woman, but she also had a very hard life. She had experienced the pain of leaving her hometown and being scorned by others. Fortunately, he met Empress Dowager De and was able to live peacefully for so many years under her protection, and later gave birth to him.

Just like the fifth brother once protected him.

Because he had suffered like this, he could understand why Huizhen would do such a ridiculous thing. It was a subconscious behavior of a drowning person eager to grab any life-saving straw. Because he used to be eager to prove himself, to be taken seriously, and to be looked at differently.

She was indeed wrong, but her emotions were ridiculous and justifiable, but unfortunately no one could understand. Even the fifth brother could not understand, because the fifth brother had never suffered all that.

He could understand, so he subconsciously explained for her just now. Did he disappoint the fifth brother? Would he think that he was indecisive and too soft-hearted?

"Your Highness..."

Someone called him, and King Qing realized that he had returned to the mansion without realizing it.

He gave the reins to the servant and strode into the mansion.

Halfway through, he realized that this was the way to the main courtyard. He subconsciously stopped and hesitated for a long time before returning to the study in the front yard.

In the main courtyard, someone reported to Princess Qing: "My Queen, His Highness has returned from the Prince of Jin's Mansion and is resting in the study in the front yard."

Princess Qing nodded and waved away the visitor.

After sitting for a while, Princess Qing stood up, asked the servants to prepare the soup she had stewed in advance, and asked the maid to hold the lantern and go to the front yard.

Prince Qing was very surprised by the appearance of Princess Qing, and was a little at a loss. He had not seen Princess Qing since he left the main courtyard yesterday, and he always felt a little guilty.

Even now, he was still guilty. Jirou would definitely be angry. Even the fifth brother was a little annoyed, let alone her.

"It looks like you drank a lot of wine. Have some soup to warm your stomach."

After drinking the soup, Prince Qing came to Princess Qing: "It's delicious."

Looking at the young man's face in front of him, handsome, masculine, upright, and heroic, but at the same time he is also fragile and indecisive.

Prince Qing had a trace of discomfort and guilt on his face. He hesitated and said, "Ji Rou, I..."

"What's wrong?"

"I punished her too lightly..." It seemed that after saying this, the following words would be easier to say. Although he was still hesitant, it was not difficult to say: "She did such a bold thing, but I only punished her with house arrest. She cried very hard and said that it was because others looked down on him and Sheng Ge'er that she did such a thing..."

Princess Qing said softly.

As if he was afraid that she would be angry, and seemed to realize that she might be angry, he explained in a hurried tone: "Ji Rou, I will not visit her anymore. She has Sheng Ge'er, so she has someone to rely on in the future. Don't be angry with me anymore. Let's be good in the future, okay?"

"Aren't you afraid that because you haven't visited her for a long time, the servants will not take her seriously and make things difficult for her in secret?" Princess Qing remembered that Concubine Han had used this excuse countless times.

"How could it be? The servants around her have been replaced. No one would be so bold as to do such a thing."

Princess Qing nodded: "If you think it's good, then let's do it."

Under Nanny Mu, there is a person called Nanny Gong, who is now in charge of all matters in the backyard of Prince Jin's mansion.

From small things like changing clothes and needles and threads for servants to big things like the allocation of each courtyard and the in and out of the warehouse, and the allocation of servants. Yao Niang followed and watched for a few days, and only then did she realize that there were only a few people in the mansion, but there were so many trivial matters.

For example, in the backyard, except for the Prince of Jin, there are only five people who can be considered the master, but there are nearly 500 servants. Kitchen, warehouse, garden, large and small courtyards everywhere. There are countless people who sweep, wash, guard the gate, guard the garden, manage the flowers and rough, manage the kitchen, and manage the warehouse.

Take the kitchen for example, there are more than a dozen cooks and maids, and there are also people in charge of purchasing. There are different types of people in the kitchen, some are only responsible for purchasing, and some are responsible for monthly settlement after accounting.

There are so many things that Yao Niang felt dizzy when she first came into contact with it.

This is just the backyard, and the trivial matters in the front yard are more complicated. There are carriages and horses, the affairs department, the government guards, etc. It is said that there are dozens of managers in the front yard.

Even if Yao Niang wants to learn, she can only start from the beginning.

Gong Mama also knows that this master doesn't care about this, because the prince mentioned it once before and there was no movement. It is estimated that this time the prince mentioned it again, and she has become interested, and I don’t know how many days the freshness can last. Gong Mama also came from the palace before, and she especially doesn’t understand the thoughts of Concubine Su. If it were any other woman in the mansion, she would be eager to grasp these things in her hands, for fear that they would be taken away by others.

Because this is power, the power of the head of the household is the most obvious symbol of being a mistress, with the power of the head of the household in hand, no one dares to neglect it. No matter whether you are big or small, favored or not, you have to keep your head down and be an honest person. Even if the favor is gone one day, this is the most powerful guarantee.