A black stone fell on the chessboard, and the black dragon was unstoppable. It killed the white stone and retreated steadily. Now there is no way to recover.
Wu Qiming held a white piece in his hand and looked at the chess game. After much hesitation, he put the piece back into the basket, sighed softly, and said to Ying Wushang who was sitting opposite him: "I lost because of Wushang's chess skills.
It’s becoming more and more exquisite.”
Ying Wushang hurriedly smiled and said: "How can I live up to your words? It's just that my mind is not focused on the chessboard, so I asked my boss to take advantage of the game occasionally."
"If you lose, you lose. There is nothing to say." Wu Qiming shook his head and said, "Wushang is too modest. Your chess skills have indeed improved a lot."
Wu Qiming said this, so Ying Wushang accepted it calmly. He said: "Then I will thank you for your compliment."
It was still early in the day, but the Yamen in Beijing seemed a little deserted. Seeing that Wu Qiming had nothing to do, Ying Wushang came to play chess with him, Quan thought it was to relieve his boredom.
The relationship between the two is considered to be good. After all, although Lu Hanjiang was in charge of the assessment for Ying Wushang's first promotion to Qianhu, the nominee was Wu Qiming, who was the governor of Fusi, Beizhen at the time. If it hadn't been for Li Gui,
With this unusual number of hands, Ying Wushang had already become a member of thousands of households.
Ying Wushang saw Wu Qiming frowning, so he tried to say something: "Your Majesty's heart is not in this chess game. I don't know what is bothering me. I would like to share your worries with you."
"It's a troubled autumn. The miasma in the Miao territory is changing. The Xuantian Sect in the North is causing trouble again at this juncture, and"
Wu Qiming stopped mid-sentence, shook his head and sighed. At this moment, a guard in golden clothes came outside the door to report: "Tell you two adults, the princess's carriage has returned to the house, and the accompanying officers Yan Qianhu and Zeng Qianhu are in the procession."
Waiting in the lobby.”
After hearing this report, the sadness in Wu Qiming's eyes finally dissipated a little. He stood up and said, "Well, just have a safe trip. Tell the two Qianhus that I will be here immediately."
No matter how troublesome things are in the world, there are many ways to deal with them, but if something goes wrong with Princess Yongle, they will be blamed even if they die.
As His Majesty's current personal soldiers, many of the Jinyiwei brothers followed the old emperor and fought their way to the throne. They also killed many of the emperor's relatives and royal bloodline. Wu Qiming himself had dozens of royal blood in his hands.
human life.
Therefore, people of their generation do not have much respect for the royal family other than His Majesty, but obviously Princess Yongle is an exception.
This princess is not only the apple of His Majesty's eye, but also the niece of Commander Meng. Not to mention, she is also the wife of Lu Zhenfu, the second in command of their royal guards.
According to Master Meng's regard for Master Lu, Lu Zhenfu will soon be Commander Lu. By then, Princess Yongle will also be regarded as half of Jin Yiwei's master, so Jin Yiwei will naturally take her matter seriously.
Princess Yongle didn't learn anything else on her way out, but she seemed to be in better spirits. The fatigue of traveling all the way to Beijing didn't show on her at all. Not long after entering the palace, she went to the palace to get the sign and asked for it.
Went to see my mother-in-law.
With Princess Yongle's honor and favor, people in the palace naturally did not dare to look down upon her. In less than an hour, she entered the palace to visit Concubine Meng. Mother and daughter had been separated for half a year, but they were very excited to see each other. The concubine took the princess's hand and said
Reluctant to let go.
Seeing this, Ah Xiu, the female official in the imperial concubine's palace, asked everyone to step aside and let the mother and daughter talk to each other.
Axiu herself also withdrew. She called the two maids who accompanied the princess into the palace and asked: "This time the princess comes to the palace to pay respects, will the consort accompany her?"
Although foreign men are not allowed to enter the harem, the consort can wait outside the palace wall when he goes. In the past, when royal couples came to the palace to pay respects, this was also the case to show their respect for the imperial power and their love for their wives.
The two maids looked at each other and replied: "As for Aunt Xiu, the princess is returning to Beijing alone this time, and the prince-in-law is not accompanying her."
Axiu frowned slightly and asked, "Why? I remember that the princess and the consort left the capital together. Why did the princess go back alone this time? Could it be that something happened to the Jinyiwei Yamen temporarily?"
"None of the servants know about this." The two maids shook their heads blankly. The princess did not take them with her when she left the capital. How could they know such a thing.
".That's all. I'll ask the princess about this. There's one more thing."
Axiu's thoughtful eyes swept over the two maids in front of her, and she said softly: "You are the princess's maids, and you are also the closest ones to the princess. Has the princess told you about who will be arranged to serve the consort?
of?"
When the two maids heard this, they both blushed, and one of them said in a voice as quiet as a mosquito: "Back to my aunt, the princess didn't mention this matter."
"Not yet?"
Axiu was stunned. To put it bluntly, the personal attendants were the girls from the first marriage. It wasn't that they were rushing to fill the Prince Consort's room, but that the princess was always out of shape for a few days every month. It was better to have someone to accompany her than to have someone outside.
Hu Meizi reached into the house.
The key point is that the princess has been married for more than a year and is not yet pregnant. If the bastard son is born before the legitimate son, it will be a huge embarrassment for the princess. After all, it will be safer to use her own people.
Although it was originally decided that Yongle's most valued palace maid, Xiaoli, would be in charge, it turned out that Xiaoli's identity was not clean and she was the queen of the criminal. Not to mention, Grandma Sun later came to report that this person had sneaked into the princess with evil intentions.
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After such a thing happened, it was naturally impossible for Xiaoli to stay with the princess. Logically speaking, a year had passed since then. Could it be that the princess had never thought about who should fill this matter?
Axiu was worried about this matter. After thinking about it for a moment, she immediately turned back and entered the palace, pulled Princess Yongle aside and started asking.
The imperial concubine over there, who was only halfway through talking about the love between mother and daughter, was naturally unwilling to do so, but with a glance from Axiu, the imperial concubine immediately became honest.
This Axiu is not an ordinary maid. Although the two are master and servant in name, they are actually sisters. Axiu is older than her, and she was usually the one who was taken care of when she was a child. This emotion is naturally different, and in the end
The key thing is that Axiu is good at martial arts and really dares to hit people.
Many years ago, when His Majesty was still the prince, Commander Meng was just a young man from a noble family who had not inherited the title. At that time, Concubine Meng was still a little carrot head.
At that time, when the young His Majesty and Commander Meng were traveling to the south of the Yangtze River, they heard that a notorious flower-picking thief had appeared in the south of the Yangtze River. At that time, they were young and energetic, and they could not bear to see such dirty things, so they immediately decided to eliminate the evil for the people.
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On the way to chase the flower-picking thief, he met a female hero who was also chasing the thief, that was Axiu.
When A'xiu was young, she was not as calm as she is now. She came from a famous family. She chased the flower-picking thief from the south of the Yangtze River to the north with a cold sword, and killed countless villains and gangsters along the way. The world didn't know her.
Named after the martial arts, it was called the Jade Girl Sword.
Because of this, Meng Yuan and Axiu got to know each other. In the eyes of Concubine Meng, who was still young at the time, the two of them were in love and would become a good story in the future.
It's a pity that God's will played a trick on her. Many years later, her brother married the daughter of a rich family, inherited the title of Meng family, and became a noble of the court. Axiu was also disheartened and planned to return to the world.
Concubine Meng couldn't bear to see her former sisters all alone, so she politely begged her to stay. At that time, A'xiu was upset and she had a very good relationship with the concubine, so she agreed. Who would have thought that less than half a year later, a decree came from the palace,
She entered the palace and became a noble concubine. Axiu was worried about her and entered the palace together.
To this day, the two sisters have been staying in the palace for many years. Now that the princesses have grown up, Axiu has long since given up her thoughts of returning to the world and focuses on accompanying the imperial concubine in the palace.
Even though so many years had passed, the imperial concubine was still frightened by Axiu's angry appearance, so when she saw that the other party was getting serious, she immediately chose to retreat.