coobybook Chapter 353: No skills, just kindness.
Chapter 353: No skills, just kindness.
"This Madam Liu is very unreasonable. Apart from giving some dancing instructions all day, she never responds to anything I say. It's really hard to talk to her." Concubine Qi looked at Concubine Hua pitifully with hopeful eyes. The implication was very clear: you asked this Madam Liu to come here, so of course she will listen to what you say.
"Sister Qi Fei, are you not in a hurry to take the Third Prince back?" Concubine Hua took the opportunity to help Concubine Xin trim the branches of the rose with gardening shears.
Concubine Qi sent Cuiguo to secretly inquire about this a few days ago. Well, the Third Prince has been much better at memorizing recently and is often praised by the Emperor. It seems that the child has not suffered much under the Queen's care, except that his studies have been a bit difficult.
Otherwise, it’s okay to pick him up later, a little later, just a little bit later.
Concubine Qi hesitated and didn't say what was in her heart. After all, these were not words that her own mother would say. But doing the splits was really painful.
Concubine Qi couldn't sink to the ground for fear that the last push might tear her hamstrings.
"The Third Prince has made great progress recently, but I heard that the Queen sent three maids to accompany the Third Prince to study until 12:30 am in order to prove to the Emperor that she has a good parenting style. The three maids took turns to accompany the Third Prince all the way through the night. The maids got a good rest, but I heard that the Third Prince has dark circles under his eyes that are drooping down to his mouth."
"What!" Cuiguo tried hard to find out but she only found out that the Third Prince was praised by the Emperor. The Queen was keeping a close eye on him and Concubine Qi could not find any breakthrough.
It was just that Cuiguo spent a lot of money to get a few words from Xiaoxiazi.
It turns out that the Third Prince's rapid progress was the result of hard work.
"Anyway, the Third Prince has made progress, and the Emperor is indeed satisfied now, so let's stop practicing this dance. I will ask Madam Liu not to come today." Concubine Hua put down the scissors, stretched out her hand to signal Song Zhi to come over, and was about to go to Madam Liu.
"Hey, hey, hey!" Concubine Qi hurriedly blocked Concubine Hua's path, "No, no, no!"
Concubine Qi turned around and ran back to the place where she practiced martial arts. How could she delay the Third Prince's sleep? How could a child grow taller if he didn't sleep?
"Hongshi, please wait a little longer. Mother will come to rescue you soon."
Concubine Hua couldn't help laughing as she looked at Concubine Qi's back. From a distance, she saw that Concubine Qi's figure had indeed become much softer and her body had become slimmer.
It's just that her physical form hasn't shown up yet. This is what Nanny Liu had someone tell her. No matter how much they force or persuade her, Concubine Qi's recent progress has not been very obvious.
In short, we have entered a bottleneck period.
Only then did Concubine Hua say that she came to visit Concubine Qi and encourage her sister.
Well, it’s really not easy to rejuvenate and win favor at this age.
It's understandable to want to give up halfway.
After all, not everyone is like An Lingrong, a ruthless person.
Just as Hua Fei was about to leave, she ran into Linglong who was just getting out of school.
"Ah, Empress Hua, just right!" Linglong was dangling a roll of rice paper in her hand, and Concubine Hua had a bad feeling, "This is the poem that Fourth Brother wrote for you!"
Hua Fei felt a blue vein throbbing in her temple.
The poem written by the Fourth Prince was really not to be praised. Before, she asked Linglong to bring some snacks to the study to eat and share them with the Fourth Prince. The Fourth Prince was touched when he got a few pieces of snacks. He happened to be learning to write poems, so he wrote a poem to thank Concubine Hua.
It is indeed a poem, which contains eight poems. It describes the appearance of a piece of cake, the joy shared by the brother and sister in the study, and then sublimates to Hua Fei's motherly heart.
No matter how big or small the matter is, it is described in a plain and straightforward manner, easy to understand and clear as words.
Hua Fei felt that if the Grand Secretary in the study could teach at this level, then she, Hua Fei, might as well give it a try.
In order not to discourage the child's enthusiasm, Concubine Hua still expressed her gratitude and asked Lingzhi to prepare another snack the next day.
Then, Linglong took back the triptych.
It's all about emotion, without any skill.
Halfway through watching the snacks, Concubine Hua was wondering if she could make the Fourth Prince spit out all the snacks he had eaten.
The poetry writing craze finally passed, but now it’s making a comeback.
Hua Fei reluctantly took the poem and read it. It began with congratulations to the Nian family on receiving the title, and then went on to praise Hua Fei's graceful demeanor and said she was worthy of a high position. "My son was overjoyed when he heard the news." This sentence seemed pretty good. Did she learn it from somewhere?
Concubine Hua couldn’t remember, but this little fourth child was quite thoughtful.
I heard that when Zhen Huan was in great favor, the Fourth Prince also wrote poems for her, and Zhen Huan even changed the rhyme for him.
The two of them singing back and forth is quite poetic.
But Concubine Hua doesn't buy it.
It seems that if I were not idle and lazy now, the threshold of the Yikun Palace would have been broken down by others.
It's true, when you are in a high position, you are surrounded by good people.
Even this underage child knows which way the head should be turned and which way the wind should blow.
"Songzhi, use it to add firewood to Lingzhi." Concubine Hua couldn't bear to read the plain language poem that followed, which was so long and boring, so she just "threw" it at Songzhi.
"Your Majesty, don't you have any thoughts in your mind?" Songzhi remembered that when the Empress saw the poems written by the Fourth Prince before, she would smile brightly involuntarily. Why did she feel disgusted after reading them today?
"Don't keep it. Keeping this kind of writing will hurt others and yourself." Hua Fei said bluntly. The Fourth Prince is still a child and his mind is unstable. Although Hua Fei is disappointed, she doesn't want to care too much. If she cares too much, she will feel stupid for trusting him.
"And those that were previously placed in the box should all be burned." Hua Fei added.
In the past few days, servants from the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to measure her body and make auspicious clothes for her to be conferred the title of Imperial Concubine several times.
If it were her previous life, she would have enjoyed the admiration of these people, but now, Concubine Hua just felt annoyed.
It's just a piece of clothing, and it's unknown whether it can be worn. This group of people are really eager to show off, fearing that they will miss out on any benefits.
But it was precisely this group of people who, after the fall of the Nian family, avoided the Yikun Palace and avoided it like the plague.
Means nothing.
All people are the same.
It’s not as good as a bowl of hot porridge cooked in the small kitchen.
Songzhi took the draft of the poem handed over by Concubine Hua, took a quick glance at it, and understood why the queen was in a bad mood.
Compared with the Third Prince, the Fourth Prince is indeed much smarter.
Songzhi followed Hua Fei's instructions and sent all the large stack of poems in the box to the small kitchen. Lingzhi sighed, there were many more things that could cause fire.
"Let's burn these things quickly. They are useless." Songzhi said.
Lingzhi understood, added a piece of firewood to make the fire on the stove burn more vigorously, and quickly stuffed the manuscripts of poems into the cave one by one.
At noon that day, the braised pork trotters in Yikun Palace were stewed to perfection.