Chapter 17:

"Yuanbao, let's wait." Once again, he went outside Su Gonggong's inverted house. Huiming remembered what happened yesterday. He still hesitated in his heart. After seeing the ingot, he didn't rush into the house, but called him outside and pressed down. The voice asked, "How is Duke Su's mood today?"
Yuan Bao was astonished: "Also, I thought that my aunt didn't come until noon, and I must be happy to see you here so early!"
Today is not the day of the Dachaohui. A few days ago, the imperial physician appointed acupuncture and massage for His Majesty, plus the warm soup bath before acupuncture, many preparations, etc. All these trivial things, really got up and changed clothes, how to say it is after the time. The imperial physician gave the injections and no idlers were allowed to disturb. During this time, the people in the palace around him could also have some free time. This is also when Huiming heard about it when he was off duty yesterday, so he brought up the meal early in the morning and counted the hour to give it to Su Gonggong. For the sake of coming, sure enough, it was just time.
It's just that Su Gonggong's inexplicable anger yesterday still made Huiming a little uneasy. After hearing the words, he thought about it, and then asked: "Then, did I bring food to Su Gonggong and made Su Gonggong annoyed?"
"Where are you?" Yuan Bao smiled bitterly: "Where is the master angry because of you? It's too late to be happy!"
Huiming has yet to ask more questions, but Yuan Bao has already taken the food box in her hand diligently: "If you have something, go first to discuss with Master slowly, and then stand in the cold wind. Master knows. I must teach me to be ignorant! It just so happened that Master didn’t need to eat this day, so you should persuade me."
Seeing Yuan Bao had already drawn the curtains for her, Hui Ming had no choice but to lower his head and step over the threshold. Grandpa Su was not at the table, but was sitting on the bamboo couch, wearing only a plain shirt and pulling the cotton robe into the cage. Put up.
After hearing the sound, Grandpa Su seemed to think she was an ingot, without raising his head: "You don't need to mention the meal, you use it yourself."
When Huiming heard the words, it was a meal. He put down the food box lightly, rolled up his sleeves and walked over: "I'm here for clothes. Breakfast is the most important thing. Father-in-law should use more."
When Huiming spoke, Grandpa Su suddenly raised his head. He was taken aback for a while, and he stood up suddenly.
"Be careful!" Hui Ming ignored Grandpa Su's reaction. He just took a step forward with his eyesight and hands, and quickly rescued the Jinpao who had almost fallen into the brazier.
The room was cramped, and there was originally no serious smoke-cage fire fighting. Most of them still rely on people to hold their heads on the brazier with their hands. With such a sudden shaking, it is easy to cause sparks to burn ideas. Huiming picked up the cotton robe and thin After reading it carefully, it was fortunate that he was not burned. He just breathed a sigh of relief, and when he looked up, he realized that he had already rushed to Su Gonggong with such a step.
Huiming took a step back in a hurry, but saw that Grandpa Su was even more flustered than she, and he raised his hand and pulled his shirt. Under the fire, a blush was printed on the face that had always been cold: "Huiming, you... what? Is here now?"
In the winter, the clothes are thick. In addition to the outer cotton robe, there is also a quilted shirt inside. It was not a big deal at first. It was just that Su Gonggong hid like this, but Hui Ming looked up with a grimace. He quickly lowered his head and looked at the clothes in his arms and explained: "Thinking about being busy with business, I'm afraid that I won't be free at noon. It just so happened that I was not on duty this time, so I brought breakfast for my father-in-law."
As Huiming said, he also found out that the cuffs and chest of Su's clothes in his hand were moist, and it seemed to be wet. It is no wonder that he had to put it on the brazier to bake. Upon seeing this, Huiming took a step back. Said: "Your clothes are wet?"
Grandpa Su's voice seemed to be calm again: "Yes, your majesty only took a bath. When I was helping, I accidentally touched some water."
Huiming bypassed Father Su again and sat down right where he had just dried his clothes. He put the wetted area on the brazier, and bowed his head again: "Knowing that father-in-law has no appetite, all I mentioned How much do you use for light nourishment?"
As soon as the voice fell, the footsteps of Grandpa Su who Huiming heard immediately turned to the table, and then the food box opened and the bowl was gently put down. After a while, Grandpa Su suddenly remembered something, softly. Asked: "Have you ever used it?"
"Not yet." Now that there is a ready reason, Huiming doesn't have to lie to others, and just said neatly: "I'm not on duty today. Father-in-law will use it for himself. I will dry the clothes later and use it again."
It is very easy for Huiming to have dinner with Su Gonggong. She is an embroidery girl from the Department of Manufacturing Bureau. She knows everything about these clothes and fabrics. She knows that if the Cangzhou satin can be dried directly like this , There will definitely be folds, there is no fire fighting here, she took out the veil, and after soaking it, smoothed and pressed it from time to time, which was better than nothing. Focusing on one thing like this, after a short while, he also calmed down.
Seeing Huiming's bright face and no expression of grievance or unwillingness, Su Jin breathed a sigh of relief in his heart that was not easily noticeable. Huiming lowered his head to avoid suspicion, and only looked at the brazier of clothes in front of him seriously, which happened to enable him to be unscrupulous. Look at her.
The fifteenth girl is distinct and childish, but in the past few days, she has always been full of old people for some reason, sitting down at his close proximity to drying his clothes, in a trance, she called the whole The house is warm and casual, and the Buddha is not in the forbidden palace, nor is he a servant of the imperial palace, but just an ordinary alley. After returning home after a busy day, he will have hot meals at the table and his wife beside him. .
My sweet wife... Su Jin's complexion turned red again, tightly clenched the palm of her hand and put away her own random thoughts, turned her gaze, and asked herself to turn her mind to the breakfast meal in front of her.
He entered the palace at the age of ten. As an official slave, he was humiliated by others. He was stubborn and disdain to please the master in charge. The errands were the most filthy and onerous. Su's parents and grandchildren have to take care of several nephews and cousins ​​who entered the palace together. The days have been long and they have suffered from stomach problems. Although there is no shortage of food and clothing now, the stomach is even more uncomfortable after eating, and he knows his future. If you don't know, you don't care about it, just don't starve to death.
But at this moment, looking at the porridge and shortbread on the table, and thinking about the hard work Huiming brought up in person, Su Jin who was waiting watched Huiming come back to her senses, but there was not much left on the table in front of her. It will only make him feel uncomfortable, and the food that he swallowed hard, only now, has it become a real delicacy.
Su Jin slowly put down the wooden chopsticks and looked at the table in front of her. Her heart was complicated and her eyes were dark, until Hui Minghu on the side spoke softly: "The father-in-law received the task of preparing for the death of the queen yesterday, and then I was afraid It's going to be busier."
"Yes." Su Jin looked up upon hearing this. I only saw Huiming pressing his cotton robe lightly with his bare hand, and his face could not be seen when he lowered his head. Only the black silk on his forehead was slightly beating in the heat on the brazier, and was as lively as joy.
Huiming lowered his head and didn't notice Su Gonggong's gaze. He only tried his best to make his own voice as casual as if he didn't intend to chat: "If the queen worships such a thing, the queen is not possible. It is not that there are virtuous concubines and wives, but they call it already. It’s really rare for a prince to take care of it."
Although she was a little surprised that Huiming mentioned these things, she asked, and Su Jin explained in detail: "Although the concubine is noble, she is also the concubine's room according to the etiquette. The concubine's room is not solemn enough to manage the death of the mistress. In the past, when the first prince was there, the prince personally sacrificed his mother, but now the queen is weak, and his majesty does not want the first queen to suffer such wrongs, so he asked the surrogate mother of Xin Wang from the central palace to worship. This is the respect for the first queen, these It’s always the case in the middle of the year."
Su Gonggong said clearly, Huiming also understood that death sacrifices require big ceremonies, especially according to the ritual law, even if it is to be followed, it is necessary to perform the concubine's house ceremony in front of Yuanpei. This is of course for the first queen. Isn’t the respect for the queen, is it not merciless to the queen?
In this way, the queen's illness has been depressed, but it is not without reason.
It's just that what Huiming is even more puzzled is that since your majesty doesn't even think the status is serious enough, why do you ask Grandpa Su to assist you in the palace? It’s inconvenient to get in and out of the king, but what about the concubine next to him? The concubine's status as the chief priest is not enough, but in terms of status, the decent master, this assistant to help take care of it, should always be more suitable than Su Gonggong?
Although the reason is unknown, Huiming guessed that it should be related to Su Gonggong's identity and family background before entering the palace. The weight of these four characters in the town government office may be heavier than she thought, even if it is full of chaos. After the sinner, but as the eldest grandson of the Su family, Grandpa Su can still intervene in the death of the queen who is not qualified for such a sage.
Huiming paused in the palm of his hand holding the cotton robe, but, facing the grandfather Su in front of her, she didn't say anything but that, how could she poke grandfather Su's scar and ask questions?
Huiming lowered his head slightly, feeling that the clothes were almost dry, so he stood up and folded the clothes, and said, "There are some folds left, and it will not be obvious if you look at them." The person who received the gift, although she didn't take it seriously, Su Gonggong must not want to tell herself to see his untidy clothes, so he just bowed his head and said goodbye.
Su Jin stood there for a moment, and slowly stepped forward and picked up the cotton robe that Huiming had folded before. The clothes that had just been dried on the brazier, with obvious warmth, just held it in his hand. Fang Buddha was burned all the way to the bottom of my heart.
It wasn't until Yuanbao raised the curtain to enter the door that Su Jin came back to his senses and said, "You go back and get me a new coat."
Don’t you just say that it’s done after drying? Yuan Bao scratched his head suspiciously, but still responded, and he stretched out his hand to take the wet clothes in his arms along the way. Who knew that his master hid suddenly, raised his eyes and rebuked coldly: " !"
Hey? Yuan Bao was a little aggrieved, so he turned his head to go to work, so he heard Su Gonggong ask again: "How is Aunt Hui in the imperial front these past two days?"
The master had already ordered her to pay attention to Aunt Hui, if she encountered something or was bullied by someone, she would immediately report it. Yuan Bao said: "It's all very good. Auntie went to the Department of Management to find someone in the first two periods. I want a few pieces of fine mink fur, the apprentice only heard about it yesterday, so I'll send it over if I feel free!"
"Mink? What do you do?"
"I mean to make a pair of knee pads for Mother Xu." Yuan Bao replied without thinking, thinking that he had done the errands ordered by the master very beautifully, thinking about how he could get a few compliments this time, he saw The master's face was somber, and the whole person showed a gloomy air. He was so frightened that Yuan Bao had a pause, and he hesitated and said: "Well, shouldn't it be sent?"
Father Su raised his eyes slightly, his eyes cool.
"The villain is going! Let's go today!" Yuan Bao's heart trembled, and the rare blessing to the soul, clever, saw that the master had no other instructions, and hurriedly turned and left.
The author has something to say:
Grandpa Su: It's cold, it's time to change to a discerning apprentice...
Ingot: Meow meow? ? ?
Thanks to [thick legs and legs] Guliang threw a mine, refill~