That night, the Shen family stayed at an inn near Yuyuantan, west of Jing.

The next morning, Chen Xi accompanied Shen Mingjun and his wife back to the city. He used the excuse that there was something wrong with the yamen, so the carriage got off the carriage near Xisi Pailou and told Zhu Qi to send his parents home. Seeing the carriage leave, he found a carriage again to go to Beijuxianfang next to Dongzhimen. Huiniang lived in the house behind the Berlin Temple.

When he saw Hui Niang, Chen Xi told her about Zhou's visit to the grave yesterday.

Hui Niang blamed herself, "Sister, I...I'm sorry for her..."

"She is not your sister, and you have nothing to do with you." Chen Xi's face turned cold, "If you call her in front of me in the future, you will be called the old lady."

“Yes, Master.”

Hui Niang has gradually accepted and adapted to her new identity in the past two months... She is Chen Xi's slave, and Chen Xi bought it back as an outdoor room. Her task is to live well, wait and serve Chen Xi, so that she can make Chen Xi happy and relieve fatigue.

Her life in the courtyard was extremely peaceful. In order to pass the boring time, Aunt Xu asked her to find some embroidered female work to do. Every day she looked forward to the arrival of Chenxi, just like her wife looking forward to her husband who was returning from afar.

She is diligent and dedicated, and does not care about gains and losses. She is good and fast in embroidery, and is very simple in food and clothing. She is now able to support herself.

Even though Chen Xi almost never spends the night in the courtyard, she never made any special requests, without any regrets.

Hui Niang is not an ordinary woman who accepts her, but she feels a deep sense of humility when she is in front of Shen Xi. She is far inferior to Shen Xi, whether in terms of intelligence, vision, or social status. Even if Chen Xi possesses a little forced element, she has no complaints.

Chen Xi was going to Zhan Shi Mansion in the morning, and it took less than an hour to stay with Hui Niang. Every time Hui Niang had to wait for Chen Xi to leave before she got up to get dressed.

Chenxidao: "I have found the yard, right near the Jinyu Pond in the south of the city, adjacent to Anguo Temple and Tianqing Temple. The environment is elegant. When are you going to move over and tell me."

Hui Niang shook her head and said, "I have said that I will stay here and never go anywhere."

After two months of getting along, Chen Xi finally felt that Hui Niang had accepted him and no longer passively obeyed him as before. She even occasionally used some tricks to attract his attention. However, Hui Niang's heart was covered with too long, and Chen Xi could only open up her psychological defense line bit by bit.

At present, Chen Xi still takes the absolute initiative in getting along with the two, and he must dominate everything.

"My mother mentioned it to me yesterday and asked me to get started earlier." Chen Xi suddenly said.

Hui Niang was originally looking at the window lattice. She was stunned for a moment when she heard this, then looked at Chen Xi with a hint of nervousness. After looking at Chen Xi for a while, she sobbed and said, "Do you have to do this?"

Chen Xi was actually just trying Hui Niang's reaction. He shook his head: "I didn't agree. Xi'er is still young after all, and the road ahead is long. You mother and daughter will always have the opportunity to meet."

Chen Xi didn't want to hide Hui Niang for the rest of her life, but in the short term, Hui Niang didn't have the chance to show up, and even her family members had to hide it as much as possible. This involved the change in his relationship with Hui Niang.

The reason why the Shen family allowed Xie Yuner to get started is because Xie Yuner herself is a beautiful girl and has the ability to learn, so she is not very different from Chen Xi's age.

Hui Niang is different.

Hui Niang is a widow, and she is also a widow, and she often shows up outside. The most important point is that Hui Niang is only three years younger than Zhou and fifteen years older than Chen Xi, which does not match Chen Xi’s age.

Zhou was born Chen Xi at the age of seventeen, while Hui Niang was born Lu Xier at the age of sixteen. This year, Lu Xier was thirteen, and Chen Xi was only 15.

From the perspective of Chen Xi, Hui Niang is only twenty-nine years old now, but from the perspective of people of this era, Hui Niang is no longer in her style.

Many men in the Ming Dynasty liked 14 or 15-year-old girls. They could play "cultivation games" when they got married, just like witnessing a peony, from budding to full bloom, gorgeous and eye-catching. No one would be interested in a "half-old" woman like Hui Niang.

But Chen Xi always remembered that Hui Niang, who was in her early twenties and in her prime, was his first impression of Hui Niang.

Even though Hui Niang is not as young and beautiful as before, she has a little more time to settle down and seems more subtle and restrained. With Chen Xi's mentality, being able to accompany the woman she likes to grow old slowly is also a kind of happiness. What's more, Hui Niang is still far from being a real old girl.

Chen Xi intended to let Hui Niang meet Lu Xier, but Hui Niang shook her head in resistance: "A person dies like a lamp that goes out. Since it no longer exists, why bother force me?"

In Hui Niang's heart, she was more willing to accept the fact that she was dead. She had carried too many burdens before. Only when she died can she truly devote herself to her new identity and be Chen Xi's woman with peace of mind, otherwise she would not be able to overcome the psychological barrier.

"Um."

Chen Xi found that it was a long way to go to change Hui Niang. Although the first step has been completed and Hui Niang no longer has too much resistance and resistance, it is still out of reach to make Hui Niang give all her body and mind.

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...

In the Forbidden City, Zhu Houzhao, who lives alone in Xiefang Hall, spent a few days studying the difference between men and women. Finally, he found that the trick Chen Xi said was not working at all.

"What are long and short, concave and convex? Are men yang or women yang?"

After Zhu Houzhao studied it carefully, he found that women have much more "long" and "protruding" than their bodies. For example, the palace maid is taller than him, the palace maid's hair is longer than him, and the palace maid's **** is raised but he has flat chests. He has not studied it in one place, but the palace maid doesn't let him touch it.

Even the palace maids in Xiefang Palace understand one thing: Don’t have anything to do with the man who “carries the handle” in the palace, otherwise they will die miserably, because there is a jealous woman in the palace, that is Queen Zhang.

Needless to say, the emperor is robbing men with the queen, and the queen can make you evaporate from the world in minutes; as for the prince, it was okay, but the prince was young and had not yet realized it, and was just in a confused stage. If the queen knew that the palace maid was seducing the prince, it would basically be not far from death.

Therefore, even if you succumb to Zhu Houzhao's authority and have to do something insulting, the palace maids can still stick to the last bottom line.

This disappointed Zhu Houzhao, and he had no choice but to run to ask me.

While he was going to Kunning Palace to pay tribute to Queen Zhang, Zhu Houzhao sat in his mother's arms. Such a big man, he became like when he was a child.

Queen Zhang was not angry either. Who said that this was her only son, the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty?

"Mother, how did the child come from?" Zhu Houzhao asked.

Queen Zhang smiled and said, "You were born from the mother's pregnancy for ten months."

Zhu Houzhao muttered, "Why is this all?"

"What did you say?"

Queen Zhang looked at her son with a little puzzled look on her face.

Zhu Houzhao smiled and said, "But... Mother, some people say that the baby was not born to you..."

A word instantly changed Queen Zhang's face. She shouted sternly: "Who dares to be so presumptuous and rude?"

This shout scared Zhu Houzhao. He didn't understand why his mother cared so much about this sentence. He stammered: "It's... what the sir said."

"Which gentleman? Since he is a lecturer in the Eastern Palace, he should know that he will be able to uphold his duties and actually tell you these messy things. You told your mother that your father will replace him!" Queen Zhang said angrily.

Zhu Houzhao frowned and said, "He...he didn't say anything..."

"I dare to criticize the orthodox imperial heir, but I'm not saying anything? Tell me quickly, which gentleman said it!" Empress Zhang was so angry that she had already pushed Zhu Houzhao away, as if she was angry with her son.

Zhu Houzhao said aggrievedly: "He just said... He said it was obtained by my yin and yang. Mother, don't blame him, okay?"

Queen Zhang was already holding her breath in her heart. When she heard that she was just saying "Mixing Yin and Yang", she frowned and said, "Let me tell him what he said."

"He said so much, how could the child remember? He just said, "What men are Yang, what women are Yin, what yin and Yang are harmonized... He confused the child, and the child asked him what the difference between men and women is, and what lengths and concaveness..."

Zhu Houzhao could not summarize Shen Xi's words at that time, so he could only vaguely say a general idea.

Queen Zhang laughed in silence: "These words are like Mr. Shen's tone, right?"

"Yes, it's him."

Zhu Houzhao insisted, "No matter how I asked him, he didn't want to say it. I had to... well, I wanted to figure it out, so I came to ask my mother."

Originally, letting her son understand the difference between men and women and guide her correct concepts of men and women is what a mother should do, but Empress Zhang was born as a lady after all, and now as the mother of the country, her literary talent is not as good as Shen Xi. She can't even summarize the theory of yin and yang harmony, let alone explaining this matter to her son in a tactful way.

"In this way, my son, what do you don't understand... ask Mr. Shen, mother... there are some things that are inconvenient to explain to you." Queen Zhang's face looked very embarrassed.

"But Mother, you always say that I will understand in the future, and even Mr. Shen will not explain to me." Zhu Houzhao started shouting again, "Just say it, the child just wants to know..."

Queen Zhang was completely speechless. What medicine did her son take wrong and insisted on asking such an embarrassing question. Wouldn't it be better to go and understand it after a year or two?

"Prince, when you go to ask Mr. Shen next time, you will say that it was the Queen Mother who asked you to ask him, and he must tell you. If he doesn't tell you, you will cure him... the crime of deceiving the king. Humph, dare to say that yin and yang are harmonious. Remember, you were born from the queen mother for ten months, don't believe his nonsense!" Queen Zhang said angrily.

Zhu Houzhao was confused again. His mother asked him to ask Shen Xi just now, but in a blink of an eye he said don’t believe Shen Xi’s nonsense.

He didn't understand anything in the past, even if he couldn't get the answer from others, he could always get it from Chen Xi. Now, not only Chen Xi went around in circles with him, but even his mother said something confused.

"Aren't it just men and women? You don't even tell me, I'll ask my second uncle."

Zhu Houzhao came out of Kunning Palace, clenched her fists tightly, "If my second uncle doesn't say it, I will threaten him. Humph, let you all bully me, who would say that children can't know? I also want to ask the palace maid to give birth to me... Hehe, is it better to have a younger brother or a younger sister..."

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ps: The second update!
Chapter completed!