Chapter 74

When Madam Zhen came, Chu Xiuming was painting a portrait of Chen Jin. Chen Jin was wearing a high-waisted skirt with a water-red moonlight brocade. Her belly was bulging and leaning against the imperial concubine's couch. There were soft cushions on both sides, her hair was loosely tied up, and more were scattered around. There were a few plum blossoms in the vase next to her, but it made Chen Jin look more beautiful than Hua. After lying for a while, Chen Jin was a little sleepy. When he was half asleep and half awake, he felt a little lazy and charming.

Madam Zhao came in to talk about Madam Zhen's affairs, Chu Xiuming asked, "Since it's private, I think the queen mother doesn't want too many people to know about it, so I just invite Madam Zhen in."

Chen Jin reluctantly opened his eyes and said, "What's wrong?"

"Mum Zhen next to the Empress Dowager is here." Chu Xiuming put down his pen, Chen Bin, who walked to Chen Jin, helped her up and let her sit down and explain.

Chen Jin said oh, then asked, "Have you painted it?"

"Not yet." Chu Xiuming looked at Chen Jin laughing at the time, and suddenly wanted to draw her down, so the scene just now came into being.

Chen Jin nodded, Chu Xiuming helped Chen Jin to the living room. An Ning poured out Wen water and wanted to bring it to Chen Jin, but Chu Xiuming took it over and pressed it against his lips to let Chen Jin drink a drink. Chen Jin touched his stomach and waved to An Ning and said, "I want to change my clothes."

Chu Xiuming understood Chen Jin's little movements. Anping and An Ning helped Chen Jin walk towards the inner room, saying that it was actually Xiao Jie. As the child's month grew older, Chen Jin went to Xiao Jie a lot more times. When Chen Jin finished changing his clothes and came out, he saw Madam Zhen. Chen Jin nodded to her, and after Madam Zhen saluted, he said, "Get up, Madam Zhen sit down."

Chen Jin sat next to Chu Xiuming, Anping took the cushion and placed it on her waist. Madam Zhen thanked her before sitting down. Chen Jin asked, "How is the emperor grandmother?"

"Reply to Mrs. Bo's words, the queen mother is healthy. I remember Mrs. Bo today. I especially asked the old slave to visit her." Madam Zhen smiled kindly and said.

Chen Jin nodded, "It should be my granddaughter who went to visit the emperor's grandmother."

Madam Zhen said, "The Empress Dowager also knew that Mrs. Bo was inconvenient, so she told her to raise her well and then carry her child into the palace later."

Chen Jin responded with a smile, and said in confusion, "Then you have to wait a long time."

When Madam Zhen heard this, she felt a little more certain. This Mrs. Yongning Bo was not that scheming. "Everything is based on Mrs. Bo's body."

"The emperor's grandmother is so nice." Chen Jin sighed.

Madam Zhen smiled and said nothing, and asked a few more questions, such as whether the food is delicious or whether the sleep is good. Chen Jin held her stomach and said, "I didn't eat well."

"..." Madam Zhen actually asked politely, showing the Empress Dowager's care for Chen Jin, but she didn't expect Chen Jin to answer this sentence.

Chen Jin complained with a distressed look on her face, "I think here..." Anyway, the mutton is too mutton, beef is too old, too little fish is too little, and nothing can make her eat it smoothly.

Madam Zhen's eyes twitched, and she began to hear Chen Jin complain that there were too few pastries, and there were no sesame cakes from Old Man Qiao's house... Chu Xiuming sat aside without any dissatisfaction and listened to Chen Jin's complaints. She poured a glass of water and put it on Chen Jin's hand. Chen Jin took a sip and continued, "Even vegetables are not as good as her taste. Last time I ate the pastry roll in the queen's harem, it tasted good, but unfortunately no one could make it..."

At the same time, the empress dowager saw a much thinner queen sitting in her seat. She had been here for half an hour, but she didn't even see the empress dowager's face. She couldn't help feeling a little uneasy. The empress sat on the bench for an hour and saw a palace maid walking out of the inner room. The empress recognized it as the empress dowager's side. The palace maid saluted with a respectful attitude and said, "The empress dowager said that she had no time to see the empress today, so let the empress go back to the palace first."

The queen's face changed before she said, "I don't know the queen..."

The palace maid smiled and said, "When the queen said, the queen mother asked me to give the queen a sentence. The little eunuch has already dealt with it. I just hope the queen understands what the queen is." After that, the palace maid lowered her head and stood aside.

The queen tightened her hand holding the veil and forced a smile, "I don't understand very much. I don't know if I can ask for a meeting with my mother?"

The palace maid said respectfully, "The Empress Dowager has already rested."

No wonder the Queen Mother suddenly summoned her and asked her to sit on the bench for so long. The Queen only felt that her heart was tight. It was impossible. It was clearly arranged properly, so how could she suspect her?

The queen was panicked. When she left, her face turned pale and her steps were inevitably a little flustered.

In the Yongning Body Mansion, in the end, Madam Zhen even felt like she was running away in panic, leaving behind the reward from the empress dowager, and took the little eunuch away. When she returned to the empress dowager's harem, the little eunuch disappeared. The empress dowager seemed to have no idea that there was this person and asked directly, "What do you think?"

"Brother Yongning is very fond of the three princesses." Madam Zhen thought of the little movements between Bos Yongning and his wife. Every time Bos Yongning poured water for Shen Jin, let Shen Jinrun moisten his throat and continued, without any impatience.

The Queen Mother clasped the Buddhist beads and said, "The fate between people..."

When Madam Zhen knew that the Empress Dowager remembered the past again, she lowered her head and did not dare to say anything, until she heard the Empress Dowager ask, "Where is that person?"

"The third princess is very lively." Madam Zhen said, "I am quite happy to speak, and I am still obsessed with the golden silk rolls in the queen's harem."

The queen mother asked, "She didn't ask about the little eunuch?"

"No." Madam Zhen said.

The empress dowager narrowed her eyes and said, "Where is Bo Yongning?"

"Brother Yongning didn't speak." Madam Zhen said respectfully.

The Queen Mother nodded and said, "He is also a proper child.

Madam Zhen served the queen mother for a long time, and she had more courage than others and laughed at her, "I think I am afraid that the three princesses don't know about the little eunuch being taken away."

The Empress Dowager was stunned when she heard this, and then said for a long time, "Yeah." She took a sip of tea and said nothing.

In Yongning Bo’s Mansion, Shen Jin was a little tired and looked at Chu Xiuming with anticipation, "Husband, do you have something to do?"

"Not." Chu Xiuming looked at Shen Jin's appearance and pinched her earlobe with his fingers.

Shen Jin stood up and said, "Then I'll go change my clothes."

"Okay." Chu Xiuming responded, "I'll go to the study to wait for you."

Shen Jin nodded with a smile and looked at Madam Zhao who had just come out and said, "Madam clean up the things that the Empress Dowager has rewarded."

Madam Zhao responded. After Shen Jin changed back to Yuehuajin's dress, she returned to the position she had just lying down, laying comfortably, looking at Chu Xiuming who was seriously doing paintings with a soft cushion. She was not charming and drunk. Shen Jin looked at her for a while, touched her stomach, yawned a little, and started to sleep in a daze again.

While I was half asleep and half awake, I heard the sound of Madam Zhao coming in.

Madam Zhao held a magnolia hairpin in both hands and said, "This was discovered by the old slave in Shu satin when he was packing up his things."

Chu Xiuming took a white jade hairpin, a very simple hairpin, but it can be seen that the jade material used is very good, as if it is often played with, and it is oily and beautiful. Chu Xiuming looked at Madam Zhao.

Madam Zhao whispered, "This is the Crown Princess."

Chu Xiuming frowned and took it, asking, "Confirm?"

"Yes." Madam Zhao said.

Chu Xiuming took it over and looked at it for a long time before saying, "Is there anyone in the Empress Dowager?"

"I don't know." Madam Zhao said respectfully.

Chu Xiuming suddenly saw the imperial concubine's couch. Chen Jin was awake and was looking at them with a curious look on her face. Chu Xiuming put down the magnolia hairpin and walked over. He reached out to sort out the hair on Chen Jin's face and said, "Why don't you speak when you wake up?"

Madam Zhao also brought the water over, and Chu Xiuming sat up with Chen Jin.

Chen Jin held the cup and drank a few sips of water and said, "I'm a little hungry. Has your husband finished painting?"

"It's roughly done." Chu Xiuming knelt on one knee on the ground, put on Chen Jin's shoes, then held her hand to the desk, letting her look at the picture of the beauty sleeping soundly on it.

Chen Jin looked surprised, "Husband is so amazing."

"Not half as beautiful as the wife." Chu Xiuming spoke.

Chen Jin smiled and narrowed his eyes, "Husband is so nice."

Chu Xiuming smiled and saw that his wife was happy and happy. Chen Jin naturally saw the magnolia hairpin on the table, "Whose is this?"

Madam Zhao glanced at Chu Xiuming. After Chu Xiuming nodded, she said the matter again. Chen Jin said oh, then looked at him for a few more times and then ignored him. Madam Zhao said, "What do you think, Madam?"

"It's very beautiful." Chen Jin was talking about his portrait.

Madam Zhao smiled and said, "Not as good as Madam."

Chen Jin laughed happily, and Chu Xiuming asked, "Madam, what should I do with this hairpin?"

"Do you know who stuffed it in?" Chen Jin asked back.

Mama Zhao said respectfully, "I don't know."

Chen Jin didn't even look away from the portrait, and he said naturally, "Are you on the list?"

"Not here." Ma Ma Zhao replied.

Chen Jin said, "Then put it away and put it aside."

Chu Xiuming narrowed his eyes when he heard this. It was true. They didn't know whether the person who put the hairpin was an enemy or a friend, nor did they know what they were looking for. They came out of the empress dowager's harem. Although the empress dowager is now vegetarian and chanting Buddha's name, she was not a simple person in her early years. Otherwise, how could she have gone from a little palace maid to today? Since someone wants to test, they will fall into a inferior position as long as they move. It is better to use static to control the movement. No matter what the purpose is, since this person has made a move, there will be a follow-up.

And as long as he moves, he will inevitably leave clues.

Madam Zhao was actually just a mess of her mind by this jade hairpin. At this time, she calmed down and said, "Since my wife is hungry, I will go to the kitchen to urge me."

Chen Jin nodded, Chu Xiuming reached out and picked up the jade hairpin and handed it to Mama Zhao. Chen Jin frowned and asked, "Can I see it?"

Madam Zhao smiled and put the hairpin on Chen Jin's hand. Chen Jin took it and looked carefully, then gave it to Madam Zhao and said, "Okay."

"Anping, you and Lao Nu go to the kitchen and bring some pastries to cushion the wife." Madam Zhao said.

Anping responded and went out with Madam Zhao. An Ning also left the study room and closed the door from outside. Chen Jin looked at Madam Zhao and the other two, blinked and asked in a low voice, "How did they know I have something to say to my husband."

Chu Xiuming smiled and pointed Chen Jin's nose. Chen Jin's face couldn't hide things. Just now, his face was full of hesitant expressions of knowing something but not sure whether to talk to his husband.

Seeing that Chu Xiuming did not speak, Chen Jin stopped asking questions. He only felt that Madam Zhao and the others had a close relationship with him. He held his big belly and said, "I seem to have seen it with my mother's mother... It feels a bit like this."

Chu Xiuming looked at the magic skill, Chen Jin thought about it carefully before saying, "It's not like this. It seems that the jade quality is worse than this. It seems that the magnolia petals are also slightly curled like this..."

"The Crown Princess loved magnolia flowers very much at the time," Chu Xiuming then spoke, "So many people also became popular with magnolia-style jewelry."

Chen Jin nodded, but these were not the same as other magnolia jewelry. Sure enough, Chu Xiuming said, "I remember Madam Zhao said that the jewelry patterns of the Crown Princess were drawn by the Crown Prince himself."

"Oh." Chen Jin suddenly asked, "When will you draw me?"

Chu Xiuming smiled and said, "Okay."

Chen Jin was satisfied now and no longer cared about the magnolia matter. He took Chu Xiuming's hand and talked about what he liked, for example, she prefers colorful and beautiful flowers that bloom... Chu Xiuming hugged Chen Jin's waist and walked towards the dining room. He already had an idea in his heart, and he also felt that his wife was more suitable for bright colors.

Madam Zhao asked Anping to go out to serve pastries just an excuse. Soon the food was put into place. Chen Jin sat down after cleansing his hands. Chu Xiuming sat next to Shen Jin. They were not too extravagant when they were both. They were all dishes they liked. They should be said to be more inclined to Chen Jin, red rice porridge and small buns. Chen Jin stopped after eating 80% full. Chu Xiuming finished the rest and just finished eating 80% full. Madam Zhao never prepared too much.

When he was sleeping at night, Chen Jin suddenly thought about it and asked, "Husband, where is that little eunuch?"

Chu Xiuming gently stroked Chen Jin's back and said, "I was taken away by Madam Zhen next to the Empress Dowager."
To be continued...