The Maritime Trade Department was not far from the palace, and Jing Heng would have walked directly there on a normal day. Today, in order to save time and spend more time with Queen Mother Jing, he chose to ride a horse and arrived at the palace gate in less than a moment.

When he walked into Yongning Palace and was about to go to the main hall, a palace maid appeared in front of him, and her soft voice sounded: "I have seen the Marquis."

Jing Heng took a casual glance and recognized her as the maid serving in front of Queen Mother Jing. He nodded slightly and continued walking forward.

Jinxiu was stunned, and the shyness on her face was replaced by a hint of unwillingness. She did not give up and quickly chased after you: "Master Hou, because the Queen Mother misses you too much, she has been in a bad mood these past two days, and her appetite has also dropped a lot.

"

Jing Heng frowned, feeling that this palace maid was very unruly. Remembering that she was Queen Mother Jing's, he did not scold her, but said coldly: "I already know this, so step back!"

Jinxiu raised a charming face and said, "Master Hou..." She was about to cry.

Seeing that she didn't understand what others were saying, Jing Heng thought that she was stupid and had no brains, so he didn't bother to argue with her, and walked straight away without even looking at her.

Jinxiu's face turned pale and her figure was shaky, but she didn't dare to catch up.

Queen Mother Jing was already in the dining room. When she saw her grandson who looked tired and lost a lot of weight, she felt heartbroken and muttered: "No matter how busy you are with official duties, you must take care of your health. You can't just resist because of your youth."

Jing Heng smiled and said, "Grandma, just finish your work for a while. You don't have to worry."

Queen Mother Jing touched his face and saw the red color in his eyes, and said forcefully: "After dinner later, you can sleep here at Ai's house. Don't try to find excuses to escape!"

Jing Heng said helplessly: "Grandma, I still have some official business to deal with in the afternoon. I will definitely accompany you when my grandson is finished."

Queen Mother Jing hummed: "You said the same thing last time."

Jingheng was speechless and didn't know how to coax her.

"That's all. The Ai family won't embarrass you. You can go down and have a rest after dinner. The Ai family will keep an eye on the time and won't let you oversleep." Empress Dowager Jing had no choice but to force him to stay.

After dinner, Jing Heng did not go down to rest, but accompanied Queen Mother Jing to walk in the small garden to eat.

"Is Xiaoxiao's belly almost three months old? When do you plan to bring her back?" Queen Mother Jing has not seen her grandson's wife for almost two months. She can only hear news about her from her daughter and grandson.

Counting the days every day hoping for her return.

"Grandma, my grandson will pick her up at the end of the month, and let her come to the palace to see you then." Jing Heng also wanted to bring her back as soon as possible, but his love for his wife took over and insisted on waiting for three months before picking her up.

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Qin Xiaoxiao lived very happily in the Qin family. When he returned to the capital, he could only stay bored in the house every day. He didn't have much time to spend with her, and he was worried that she would be bored out of her mind over time, so he went to visit the Qin family every time.

She never mentioned taking her back to Beijing.

"There are still more than ten days before the end of the month. You have to prepare the sedan chair in advance, and the bearer should also choose a safe one. Don't make yourself smile. The Ai family remembers that this girl is dizzy in the sedan chair." Empress Dowager Jing was not at ease and asked carefully.

He warned his grandson to prevent him from being careless.

Jing Heng didn't mind her nagging, and listened patiently: "My grandson will make arrangements, so you can rest assured."

The two walked around for a while, and Queen Mother Jing urged him to take a rest.

Jingheng didn't want her to worry, so he sent her back to the palace to rest, and then went to Bishui Pavilion.

Bishui Pavilion is very quiet. Qin Xiaoxiao stayed here when she first entered the palace. Some time ago, she came to the palace to accompany Queen Mother Jing, and sometimes she would take a nap here when she was sleepy.

Jing Heng lay on the bed and seemed to be able to smell the remaining breath on the pillow, and quickly closed his eyes.

The room was quiet, not a sound could be heard. After a while, a breeze blew in, fluttering the thin window curtains, but a graceful woman opened the door and walked in quietly.

Jinxiu came to the window and looked at the man on the bed almost obsessively: "Master, the first time I saw you, my heart fell on you, but you are so cruel, you never want to look at me more.

One look!”

As she said that, she took another step forward, and her voice became even more resentful: "I should have served you long ago, but you were deceived by the fox outside, making me a joke to the entire Yongning Palace. Compared with that background

Ominous country bumpkin, I ask myself if I am not bad, why can’t you see the good things in me..."

As she spoke, she unbuttoned her buttons, with a look of desperate madness on her face: "Master, let me serve you for once. As long as I can become the master, I am willing to die!"

Just as she was climbing onto the bed, before her hands could reach the edge of the bed, she felt a sharp pain in her chest. She flew straight out, knocking over the small round table in front of the bed, and a cold voice rang out: "Then you go.

Die!"

Jinxiu struggled to sit up, covering her chest with her right hand, her face was pale and there was no trace of blood: "Mr. Master..."

She deliberately chose to take action at this time because she felt that the country bumpkin was pregnant and had been hiding in the countryside without coming back. The young master must be thinking a lot after being away for so long.

This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for her. If she misses this time, she will never get it again.

As long as she can let the young master touch her body, even if the country bumpkin does not intend to take her in, she can still beg the Queen Mother to be kind and give her to the young master. However, she never thought that she would not even touch the young master's sleeves.

He was kicked and seriously injured.

"You despicable thing, trying to compare with my wife, you are worthy!" Jing Heng looked at her with disgust, like looking at a piece of rotten and smelly meat.

Jinxiu could stand the slap in the face, but she couldn't stand the disgusted look in his eyes. She spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot with a "Wow" sound.

Dark red blood sprayed on the gray floor tiles, turning into a splatter of black. The thick smell of blood filled the air, making it sickening.

The disgust in Jingheng's eyes deepened, and he couldn't stay any longer, so he raised his feet and walked out.

"My lord, my lord, for the sake of my admiration for you for many years, please give me some mercy!" Jinxiu ignored the pain in her chest and rushed over to hug the man's leg tightly.

Jing Heng's face turned livid, he raised his foot and kicked the crazy woman who was trying to climb onto the bed without mercy: "Get away!"

The force of this kick was heavier than the previous kick, and it landed on Jinxiu's left shoulder.

There was an inaudible "click" sound accompanied by a sharp scream. Jinxiu was kicked and lay on her back. Her entire left arm hung down weakly and was obviously broken.

At this time, the door was pushed open, and Grandma Tan and two little maids came in a hurry.

It turns out that these two little maids were waiting at the Bishui Pavilion, and just now Jinxiu forced her way into the inner room on the pretext that she came to serve Jingheng in the name of the Queen Mother.

The two little palace maids were quite clever. They were not sure whether what Jinxiu said was true or not, and were worried that something might happen. One of them hurriedly went to the palace to find Aunt Tan, while the other continued to watch and clearly heard what was going on in the room.

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"Master Hou, this, this is..." Seeing Jinxiu's tragic situation, Aunt Tan's face changed drastically. She was about to step forward to help her up but stopped, and looked at the dark-faced Jing Heng in surprise.

The two of them were waiting in front of Queen Mother Jing. Jinxiu had a good appearance and a sweet mouth, and she could make Nanny Tan happy. Therefore, Nanny Tan was somewhat sincere in her treatment of her. She had even persuaded her to give up her little thoughts about Jing Heng.

At the moment, Aunt Tan is not sure whether Jinxiu climbed into bed without permission and angered Jingheng, or whether Jingheng had the idea of ​​closing Jinxiu's house and got into a fight because Jinxiu didn't serve her well.

"This wretched maid intends to humiliate me, so I'll take care of it!" After saying these words, Jing Heng left Bishui Pavilion without even looking at Jinxiu.

Looking at his attitude, Grandma Tan was sure that Jinxiu had angered him by climbing into bed without permission. She wanted to slap Jinxiu in the face: "Confused, you are confused!"

Jinxiu lay on the ground unable to move. She endured the severe pain all over her body and begged in horror: "Mom, mama, help, help me, I, I don't want to die, please help me, I, I'm in so much pain, please."

help me……"

At the moment when she was half-dead after being kicked hard, she could no longer say that she was willing to die. She wanted to live, she just wanted to live, and even if she had ten courages, she would not dare to provoke that evil god.

Even though she knew that Jinxiu was suffering from her own fault, Aunt Tan couldn't help but watch her die in front of her. She hurriedly told the maid: "Quick, go to the Imperial Hospital and call a medical attendant."

The medical attendant is not the imperial physician, but his medical skills are inferior to that of the imperial physician, and he specializes in treating sick palace maids. If the palace maid is favored by the master and has the master's grace, she can still ask the imperial physician when she is sick.

It's just that Jinxiu has just made a big mistake and will be severely punished by Empress Dowager Jing. Naturally, Aunt Tan doesn't dare to ask the imperial doctor to come over to treat her. She can only ask the medical attendant to come over first to take a look and at least save her life first.

On the other side, Jing Heng angrily left the Bishui Pavilion. He originally wanted to speak to Queen Mother Jing in the palace, but when he thought Queen Mother Jing had rested, he did not bother him. He walked directly to the palace gate and took the reins from the guard.

He did not go back to the Maritime Trade Department to handle official business, but rode his horse straight to the city gate and galloped towards Qingshan Village.

Qin Xiaoxiao didn't know everything that happened in Yongning Palace. He entertained Old Man Lin and Old Mrs. Zhou in the hall, who were rarely guests of the Qin family: "Grandpa and grandma, we have sent people to the fields to call our parents. They will be there soon. The two elders

Have a sip of tea first."

Old man Lin said with a smile: "Okay, okay, grandpa will drink it now, you can just sit back and do not need to do anything."

Mrs. Zhou also kindly warned her granddaughter: "We are all twins, so be careful when you bump into each other."

Qin Xiao smiled and said, "I'm just pouring water for you. I'm not that rich."

Seeing that her filial piety was still there, the old couple laughed, and the tea they drank was sweet.

There is a girl from Huxi Village who married to Qingshan Village. Two days ago, when she returned to her parents’ home, she met her second elder and told her that Qin Xiaoxiao was happy. The second elder had met Qin Xiaoxiao not long after they separated, but they hadn’t seen each other for such a long time.

Out of curiosity, I walked all the way to the mountain to see her.

"Grandpa and grandma, it's rare for you to come here, so please stay here for a while." Qin Xiaoxiao liked her grandpa and grandma very much. Looking at their thin and somewhat sad faces, she hoped that they could stay at home and relax.

"No, it's the time to plant wheat now, and the delay will affect next year's harvest." Old man Lin waved his hand and declined his granddaughter's wishes.

Qin Xiaoxiao frowned: "Those fields have been allocated to uncle and the others. They can just let them take care of them. You and grandma should not go to the fields at your age."

The second elder is nearly ten years older than his grandparents. The other elders of this age in the village no longer work in the fields. They mostly raise chickens, ducks and feed pigs, otherwise they will suffer heavy losses due to fatigue and illness.

"It's okay, we two old guys are still strong and can do light work." Mrs. Zhou suppressed the bitterness in her heart and comforted her granddaughter softly.

Old man Lin patted the muscles on his little arm and said dissatisfiedly: "Grandpa still has a lot of strength, so he can't just lie in bed and rely on your uncles to support him, otherwise he will become useless!"

Qin Xiaoxiao felt sad because she didn't know the difficulties of the two elders.

There was a lot of unhappiness over the separation of the family. Although the second elder didn't let the big family take over the jujube tree, seeing the hard life of the big family, I felt sorry for them, so I helped them with whatever work they could do.

However, the second brother and the third brother are raised together. If they only help the eldest brother with work, the second brother and the third brother will definitely feel uncomfortable, so they can only help the third brother. Not only will they be tired in the end, the third brother will also feel that they are favoring the other two brothers.

The two elders are both hard-working people, and even though she knew that it was thankless for them to do so, she could not dissuade them.

Probably most old people in the world are like them. As long as they are alive and moving, they will use up their last breath of energy for their children.

Thinking that the two elders were coming over at this hour and had not had time to eat lunch, Qin Xiaoxiao quickly ordered Jingque: "Hurry up and order two bowls of noodles for grandpa and grandma, and put the pot helmets in the pot to fry them too."

At noon, the Qin family had hand-rolled noodles and guokui. There were still a few guokui left, and the hand-rolled noodles were also ready-made. Both were easy to make and could be eaten quickly.

It is true that Old Man Lin and Old Mrs. Zhou did not have lunch, and they were hungry after traveling for a long time on the mountain road, so they were not polite to their granddaughter.

After a while, Xingtian brought the noodle pot and an appetizing plate of broad bean sauce.

The pot helmet was mixed with pork belly and was sizzling with oil; the noodles were boiled with chicken soup and overflowing with fragrance. The two elders felt increasingly hungry, so under Qin Xiaoxiao's invitation, they picked up their chopsticks and started eating.

Jing Que's cooking skills are excellent, and the Guokui and Slim dishes are both delicious and delicious. The two elders deliberately endured them so as not to show off their gluttony.

Before the noodles were finished, the Qin family came back from the fields. Old man Lin and Mrs. Zhou quickly put down their chopsticks and stood up to say hello to their in-laws.

Seeing the old hen with its feet and wings tied up in the corner, Mrs. Miao said angrily: "The in-laws are just here. Why bring these all the way? There are still old hens raised at home."

Mrs. Zhou smiled and said: "What you have is yours. I brought it specially for Xiaoxiao to recuperate. Old girl, just accept it."

When she heard that it was for her granddaughter, Mrs. Miao couldn't help but let her take it back. She smiled and said, "Then I'll accept it and make it for Xiaoxiao to eat tomorrow."
Chapter completed!