Chapter 164
Seeing what she said, Concubine Wen became even angrier.
Could it be that she has become some kind of bandit and bully?
King Zhao patted the new concubine He's soft and boneless shoulders with his big hand and said, "Don't worry, your sister Wen only looks a little fierce, but she is actually gentle and kind. You will know it after getting to know her for a long time."
Turning around, he warned: "Concubine Wen, you should behave yourself!"
It seemed that King Zhao was on her side, but Concubine Wen felt very uncomfortable after hearing what he said. Why did he say so many words of comfort to her but only gave her a harsh sentence "behave yourself"?
This is not as good as when Ji Yunqing was in favor. At least Yunqing was always gentle and kind to her, and to her... to her...
There is a comparison in everything. At first, she felt that Ji Yunqing had snatched the prince's favor and offended her, but Ji Yunqing would never flatter her in public.
Thinking of this, Concubine Wen couldn't help but look at Ji Yunqing who was pretending not to exist.
Seeing her sitting there obediently, Concubine Wen felt much better.
Although she didn't know why she never mentioned this kind of thing again after she said that - maybe she felt that she would not accept it, but now, she really wanted to talk to Ji Yunqing.
Just wait until after paying respects, and then call Ji Yunqing to her yard.
Although it is impossible for her to accept the other party, allowing her to approach him with forbearance can be regarded as a reward for her good behavior!
Just as Concubine Wen was thinking seriously about how to treat Ji Yunqing, Prince Zhao suddenly said: "From today on, each courtyard can visit at most, but cannot stay overnight"
The girls were confused: "...Hmm?"
Why did the prince suddenly talk about this?
Has anyone stayed overnight in the mansion?
Or……
Everyone looked at each other, all with bewildered expressions.
Concubine Wen, who felt the strong gaze of King Zhao, was particularly confused: Why was her cousin looking at her? She never asked anyone to stay overnight.
When the greetings were over, unexpectedly, King Zhao did not leave with Concubine He, but personally named Ji Yunqing and took her away.
Hearing this, Ji Yunqing's scalp tightened. Staring at the eyes of the crowd who wanted to kill him, he quickly took small steps to follow behind King Zhao.
God has eyes. During the morning meeting today, she didn't even look at King Zhao. She really didn't seduce him!
The prince really knows how to make her hate him. He didn't go earlier or later, but chose to call her at this time.
Now, she had to be vigilant about Concubine Cen from time to time, and King Zhao ended up making the newcomer hate her.
What a "enthusiastic person" this is!
Afraid that her life is not exciting enough.
However, despite all the thoughts in his mind, Ji Yunqing appeared to be a bootlicker on the surface.
"Your Majesty, are you tired? Would you like some tea?"
"Your Highness, you haven't seen Ruirui for a long time. The little one misses you so much that he calls you daddy now. Come and listen."
Since the big boss was inspecting the place in person, Ji Yunqing naturally wanted to show off his most important achievement, Ruirui.
King Zhao has been very busy recently and hasn't seen the little guy for a long time. Thinking of the little fat boy, King Zhao raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's go and take a look first."
It won’t be too late to teach this woman a lesson after you finish watching it.
If it weren't for the comparison with the concubine, he wouldn't have known that this woman's attitude towards him was so perfunctory and she didn't love him sincerely at all!
Let’s see how she can argue this time.
Ji Yunqing only felt a chill on the back of her head, and she pushed the door and entered a room.
Smiling, he introduced: "Your Highness, Ruirui has learned to crawl now, and he can easily bump into corners if he's not careful, so I asked him to crawl here."
When King Zhao walked in, he was surprised to see that this room was chosen.
All you see are big square pillows made of soft fabrics, cushions that look soft at first glance, some strange-looking big cushions, and all kinds of small cloth animals.
This is the place for relaxation that Ji Yunqing carefully prepared for herself. It is soft everywhere, and there are several human dog kennels where she can sit or lie down - and read!
In ancient times, there were no mobile phones to play with, and the only ways to entertain themselves were reading, playing chess, playing the piano, appreciating flowers, painting, dancing, writing poetry... and other entertainment activities.
Ji Yunqing was not good at most of them and could only attend them as interest classes in his spare time.
In fact, she only needed to take off her shoes when entering the room, but Ji Yunqing looked at Prince Zhao's big feet and said actively: "Prince, please put on these soft shoes. They are newly made and very soft."
Fortunately she was prepared.
Who knows whether King Zhao washed his feet all day long?
When the little guy saw his mother, he moved very quickly. While the two were talking for a few words, he crawled to Ji Yunqing's feet. The little fat guy held his mother's feet tightly with his paws.
Ji Yunqing's feet sank, and she looked down to see the "large-sized shoes". She stepped in very skillfully.
She didn't need to worry about King Zhao, as the maids and servants came to change his shoes. Ji Yunqing walked a few steps with the child before lowering her head and talking to the child with a smile.
"Alright, let go!"
The child's face was completely bewildered. His soft and tender little face was full of innocence. His big round eyes like grapes kept blinking and his little mouth was slightly open, as if the baby didn't understand.
"ah!"
There was no other way, Ji Yunqing had to bend down and grab the little guy.
Anyone who has raised a child knows that once the little one can crawl, he or she doesn’t like to be held. Until the child finally learns to walk, he or she no longer likes to walk by himself or herself and instead wants to be held.
Now Ruirui is in the stage of learning to crawl.
In order to make things easier, Ji Yunqing simply put a rough strip of cloth on the back of his clothes. Whenever he wanted to hold the child, he could just hold the rough strip of cloth (the handle) and lift the child up with one hand.
But when Ji Yunqing bent down to pick it up, he found nothing.
She was a little surprised: "My Lord?"
It's really a rare thing.
In the past, she would just stuff the child into King Zhao's arms, and he would "reluctantly" hold the child, but now he actually took the initiative to hold the child!
King Zhao had a sullen face as he held the child in his arms, who was moving around in a strange environment. His arms were like steel bars, holding the child firmly in his broad arms.
He lowered his eyes and glanced at Ji Yunqing's white and tender bare feet, and his voice became colder: "How come you don't know any rules at all!"
Why are you suddenly saying she has no manners?
Ji Yunqing looked down in the direction he was looking, but there was nothing there.
"Your Highness, I... forgot to salute?" Ji Yunqing asked tentatively.
Seeing her so stubborn, King Zhao said with even more disgust: "You are so stupid, why don't you know how to wear shoes?"
Are you trying to seduce me on purpose?
Thinking of this possibility, King Zhao narrowed his eyes and the expression on his handsome face softened a lot.
"You only know how to play such tricks!"
After saying this, King Zhao casually put the little one, who kept struggling in his arms and wanted his mother to hold him, onto a strange-shaped soft high cushion on the side, and then hugged the warm and soft baby in his arms.
Ruirui on the side tilted her neck up, looked at the two of them stupidly with her big black eyes, her little mouth slightly open, crystal saliva flowing out from the corners of her mouth.
How do you hug Ruirui's mother?
Don’t you have a mother of your own?
The little guy stood up and waved his hands, trying to chase this annoying person away, but his arms and legs were too short. Although he was cute, he had zero attack power.
King Zhao saw that the little guy was so lively, and he praised him: "Rui Rui is so lively, it's all because you raised him well."
As he spoke, he kissed Ji Yunqing on the forehead again. Ji Yunqing kept repeating in her heart that she must compete for favor. She must behave well and work hard to compete for favor and work hard to create a better life!
Only then did she slowly raise her head and look at King Zhao with tenderness and affection.
"Your Majesty, Ruirui is still watching us!"
Although he thought this place was suitable, King Zhao was not the kind of man who was so shameless as to dare to do exercise in front of children. The two of them just exchanged a few words and then parted ways.
"My Lord, let's go for a walk in the yard!"
Ji Yunqing held Ruirui in his arms, intending to introduce his achievements to King Zhao, so that it wouldn't be considered as him doing nothing every day.
"Your Majesty, look, this is a gourd vine. It will bear big gourds in the future. Come and pick them when you want to eat them.
And this cucumber, it will be ready to eat in a while, this pumpkin... this eggplant... and this string bean, they taste really good, and there are some melons, I don’t know much about the variety, I’ll see whether to make dumplings or stir-fry them.”
Ji Yunqing naturally skipped the watermelon. After all, the ones she planted last year were not very tasty, with thick skin, little flesh, and not sweet. This year, she was not convinced and carefully selected some watermelon seeds to plant specifically.
Every time at this time, she misses Ms. Wu Mingzhu, who has specialized in the study of watermelons and melons all her life. Now she is in ancient times and there is nothing. Her children really want to eat some melon!
The two of them discussed in a serious manner the various ways of eating fruits and vegetables. King Zhao looked at them patiently one by one, and even touched the beans, eggplants and the like with his own hands.
He was in a high position and seldom saw these common vegetables. He only knew that Ji loved to grow them.
In King Zhao's view, there was no difference between Ji's planting vegetables, fruits and melons in the yard and other women planting famous flowers and orchids in their yards.
Nanny An and several maids followed behind to serve, listening with fear and trepidation as their master introduced vegetables that grew long and bore fruit quickly.
The master only has this small piece of gourd vine, and I don’t know how many people he has promised it to?
How should we divide the fruits when the time comes?
Before anyone knew it, it was King Zhao who was holding the child.
Ruirui lay on his father's broad shoulders, opened his mouth and started to bite, kicking his calves restlessly, and only became more obedient after his father patted his butt.
Ji Yunqing took the lead.
"Your Highness, let's go and see the newly dug cellar. See how good it is."
She was very excited. Since it was built, she wanted to let it air out to make it harder, so she hadn't come for many days.
I am rubbing my hands now, looking forward to it.
The entrance to the cellar is on the side of the yard. Ji Yunqing originally wanted to put the cellar inside the yard to prevent someone from breaking into the cellar from the outside and causing trouble for her.
Later, she felt that the original place was too small, so she made up her mind and dug a little more outside, so that half was in the yard and half was outside.
To this end, Ji Yunqing racked her brains to think of the formula of cement. She filled the cellar with a thick paste so that even bugs could not get in, but she was still not afraid of anyone doing bad things!
Ji Yunqing conducted the experiment repeatedly several times, and she spent a lot of money on it!
The entrance had not been covered yet, so Ji Yunqing went in first. When Prince Zhao was about to go in, he was stopped by Eunuch Shi.
He looked at the dark cave entrance as if he was facing a formidable enemy.
"My Lord, how about letting me go in and take a look first?"
It's not that he doesn't trust Concubine Ji, but the prince's body is worth millions of gold, so he must not be careless.
"Need not"
King Zhao looked at Ji Shi who entered and said: "If Ji Shi can go, then I can go too."
"Your Majesty..."
Eunuch Shi wanted to persuade him again.
But King Zhao had already pushed him open and entered.
Ji Yunqing had already lit the oil lamp on the wall, and the flickering flames revealed the entire cellar environment.
Her cellar is just for storing vegetables, not a large underground palace. And it has been left there for so long, so there is no problem of lack of oxygen.
But the space is not small, at least enough for an adult man to move in and out freely without restraint.
Hearing the footsteps coming from behind, Ji Yunqing turned around from the cellar and waved happily: "Your Majesty, feel it, isn't it much cooler here than outside?"
The temperature had indeed dropped a lot, and King Zhao nodded slightly.
He looked around the cellar.
The ground was flat and hard. It was not soft soil, but it was not like bluestone or marble either. King Zhao couldn't help but take two steps.
What is this used for?
King Zhao was puzzled and paid a little attention. Then he was surprised to find that the stone did not have any cracks at all and was completely one piece!
I even looked up and found that the top of my head was made of the same material.
Could it be that Ji was carved from a whole piece of stone?
Isn’t this too wasteful?
No, no, no, King Zhao quickly dismissed the idea. He knew Ji Shi, who loved money very much. How could she possibly spend so much?
Not to mention how such a large stone was transported into the mansion without being seen by anyone.
King Zhao shook his head, noticing something strange, and stepped forward to take a look.
Seeing this, Ji Yunqing also stepped forward.
"Your Highness, this is a small room that I specially ordered to be built. I can store some things there. There is another one on the other side."
This small room is not very big, only about five square meters, and the other side is about the same size.
But the difference is that there is special land reserved underneath the small room in the yard.
Although he didn't know what use it would have in the future, Ji Yunqing was thinking about what kind of vegetables he might be able to store and use.
When King Zhao heard Ji Yunqing's explanation, he confirmed what he was thinking. According to Ji Yunqing, this thing was indeed not made by polishing a large stone.
After showing off his new cellar, Ji Yunqing went up to the surface contentedly.
"Your Majesty, this cellar I dug is great, isn't it? It will surely be very useful in the future."
With this place, she could store a few more bags of rice and flour. If she ever fell out of favor or was confined to her house, she could eat whatever she wanted once the gate was closed.
After visiting the cellar, Ji Yunqing arranged a new program: "Your Majesty, I have made great progress in calligraphy practice recently. Do you want to come and see it?"
King Zhao felt that he was not here to accompany his concubine today, but was here to inspect somewhere.
Why do you keep coming up with one thing after another?
He rejected Ji Yunqing's proposal: "I have something to tell you."