Chapter 241： hedgehog

“No, I...I just miss home.”

Chen Tiantian wiped her eyes and stood up: "Xiao Langjun, please don't go. She really didn't bully me. It's just... it's the Queen's will to enter the inner palace to serve the king. I'm afraid that the Queen will know about me in the future. If you don’t obey the order, you will be blamed.”

Xiao Chengjun frowned even more, thought for a moment, and said, "Just follow me."

Chen Tiantian followed Xiao Chengjun silently until he came to the entrance of the main hall.

Just then I heard Xiao Chengjun say to the two chamberlains of the Shou Palace: "I'm bringing people to visit the king."

He is the Queen's nephew and the King's companion. He comes to and from the main hall relatively casually.

Now that you are bringing a little palace maid in, it will be difficult for the doorkeeper to stop her.

So, Chen Tiantian followed Xiao Chengjun into the inner hall.

In the inner hall, Murong Xian, the acting king, was lying down with his eyes closed and concentrating. Hearing the servant announce that Xiao Chengjun was here, he opened his eyes and said with a smile: "My cousin is here."

Xiao Chengjun hummed, lifted his robe and sat on the chair beside the big bed, and asked: "Brother Xian, are you feeling better?"

Murong Xian nodded: "It's much better. Ying Bao said that he can go out for a walk tomorrow. Ahem, cousin, thanks to the recommendation of you and Cousin Mo, Ying Bao's medical skills are indeed superb."

Xiao Chengjun was silent for a moment and said, "That Yingbao is just a few years old. He doesn't have any medical skills. He just relies on her family's ancestral secret recipe."

The King of Dai smiled: "She saved me no matter what. She has the secret recipe handed down from her ancestors."

The two of them talked for a while, and then a chamberlain came in with a bowl of meat porridge, "Your Highness, please use some of the shredded chicken porridge that was just delivered from the imperial kitchen."

Murong Xian nodded, and the waiter at the side quickly helped him sit up, took the porridge bowl, and was about to feed him.

Xiao Chengjun turned to Chen Tiantian who was standing behind him and said, "Why don't you go over and serve the king."

"Yes." Chen Tiantian walked to the bed, glanced secretly at the skinny King Dai, and immediately lowered her eyes.

Dai Wang waved his hand: "No, you can go out."

Chen Tiantian took a step back and looked at Xiao Chengjun at a loss.

Xiao Chengjun frowned and said to Murong Xian: "Brother Xian, how come you don't even keep a maid in your palace? The chambermaids are not as attentive as women. It's better for this little maid to stay in the inner palace to serve you, not to mention it's my aunt's wish."

Murong Xian raised his head and glanced at Chen Tiantian, but said nothing.

He knew that the queen sent a palace maid, and said that the palace maid was blessed with good fortune, so he asked her to stay in the inner palace to serve her.

But he could clearly see the maid's reluctance and fear of him.

Seeing that Murong Xian remained silent, Xiao Chengjun said again: "Brother Xian, don't listen to Jiang Yingbao's nonsense. What does she know? She just has some disagreements with this palace lady and wants to take revenge on her. Isn't the master of Qin Tian Prison not as knowledgeable as a few-year-old boy? ?”

Murong Xian said calmly: "Then let her stay."

After a pause, he added: "First let her learn some rules from the nanny."

So, Chen Tiantian was brought to Murong Xian’s nanny Rong.

Rong is about thirty-three or four years old, with a fair and gentle face. He lives in the side hall of Qingyang Hall.

She sat upright on the Arhat bed, put down the embroidery in her hands, looked at Chen Tiantian up and down, and asked, "How old is she?"

Chen Tiantian lowered her head and whispered: "I am ten years old this year."

Rong: "Where are you from? Are your parents still alive?"

"My father died of illness, but my mother is still here." Chen Tiantian's father actually escaped from the labor camp during the banditry, and his whereabouts are unknown since then.

Han Yueniang thought he was dead and remarried an old widower named Pei who was almost sixty years old. Old man Pei is a warlock, commonly known as a fortune teller. He is good at reading astrology and divination, and is very popular with Xiao Chengjun's father and Luzhou censor Xiao Weizhong.

 Chen Tiantian was brought to the capital because her stepfather, Old Man Pei, recommended her to Xiao Weizhong.

Rongshi nodded and asked Baoping, the palace maid next to her, to say: "From now on, I will leave this child to you to teach."

"Yes." The palace maid Baoping agreed, but she looked at Chen Tiantian with an obviously unkind look.

She also came to serve Aunt Rong when she was about ten years old. She is now sixteen years old this year and has finally become a second-class palace maid. Unexpectedly, another girl in her teenage years came here, and she was sent here based on the Queen Mother's orders. Give Aquarius a strong sense of crisis.

Because in the next two or three years the king will know more about human affairs, he will inevitably select some palace maids with good fortune and good looks to serve him, and this Chen Tiantian is the person who can best compete with her.

Baoping brought Chen Tiantian to several palace maids and asked her to work with them and schedule shifts together.

Such as cleaning the floor in the palace, wiping the dust on the decorations, taking care of the flowers in the flower pots, washing the clothes, etc., and also on duty at night.

“When you have learned these things, then you can learn other things.”

Baoping raised his chin and said: "Now that you are here, you are not allowed to walk around at will. You must go to the dining room to get water with two people. If you are found running around alone, be careful to hit the board."

Chen Tiantian:…

Wandering around, I might as well stay in the original palace maid's room, at least I don't have to work during the day and be on guard at night.

Following that, Chen Tiantian was trapped in Qingyang Hall for several days and could not even touch the threshold of Qilin Hall, so Chen Tiantian became a little anxious.

But she did not dare to go out alone to ask Xiao Chengjun for help, fearing that she would be punished when she came back.

Let’s talk about Yingbao.

She has been very busy these days. She leaves the palace from time to time to go to the imperial pharmacy to prepare medicines. When she comes back, she studies the fate of the king with the imperial doctors.

This was nothing, but every time she went to Qilin Hall, she would always meet Xiao Chengjun, and she would hear some sarcastic remarks from him from time to time, which made her very unhappy. At the same time, she wondered why this guy didn't go home and stayed there all the time. In the East Palace.

When I came back and inquired with Chang Xiu, I found out that Xiao Chengjun had been Dai Wang's companion since he was a child, and usually lived in the side hall of Dai Wang's Qilin Palace.

He went out to Beijing to suppress bandits before, which was also arranged by his grandfather.

I originally wanted to plate my grandson with gold and make some achievements, so that I could ask for an official position with the emperor, but I didn't know that this decision almost killed my grandson and brought him to death.

Fortunately, Xiao Chengjun did not die, and he was granted the title of seventh-grade Zhiguo Colonel as he wished, one and a half ranks lower than his elder brother Xiao Mo.

“No wonder.” Ying Bao listened to Chang Xiu’s words while wandering in the orchard.

Chang Xiu was carrying a bamboo basket in his hand, which contained several bunches of ripe grapes.

"The husbands of the Xiao family all have official positions. Don't talk to the husband from now on, lest he be accused of committing a crime."

Chang Xiu kindly advised: "There are also young ladies from the Xiao family. They often come to the East Palace to play. If we meet one day, the young man must avoid them and don't provoke them."

Ying Bao nodded: "Thank you, Sister Chang Xiu, for reminding me."

She's not stupid, so why do she provoke people for no reason?

However, that Xiao Chengjun is so annoying. If I don't find a way to treat him, I probably won't be able to sleep well at night.

Suddenly, she saw a thorn ball under the fruit tree, eating the fruit that had fallen to the ground.

Yingbao's eyes lit up, and he suddenly thought of a way to punish people.

Hurry over and shout: "Sister Chang Xiu, come and help me catch it! I want to take it back and raise it."