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106. The Past
Cheng Hui naturally did not lock the door after entering the bathroom, and she wished he would come in suddenly.
She took off her clothes and said, "Father-in-law, is everything going well in the palace these days?"
Because through a door, the voice sounded lighter, but fortunately I could still hear it clearly, so I heard Li Youde replied: "It's OK."
Cheng Hui smiled and said, "Eunuch Wang didn't produce any moths?"
She doesn't know who is in the palace and doesn't care too much. Among Li Youde's relationships, the one she knows most is Wang Youcai. Wang Youcai is like an old enemy to Li Youde, similar to the kind of light flashing in the mind of the other person in a Japanese anime movie.
"Hmph, he has to have that ability too! The emperor has paid more attention to me recently, and Wang Youcai can only be a man with his tail clipped!" Li Youde felt proud when he thought of this, and he has done several things recently. Because of this, the emperor now prefers him to be with him.
As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of water coming in from inside. He was startled, looked at the bathroom door in a daze, and hurriedly closed it back.
Cheng Hui dived into the water comfortably, took a long sigh of relief, and asked casually: "Father-in-law, how did you and Eunuch Wang complain?"
How to settle grievances?
Li Youde's thoughts suddenly went back more than ten years ago, without replying for a while.
Cheng Hui waited for a while and didn't wait for an answer. He couldn't help but raise his voice and asked: "Father-in-law, did you hear it? Or did you say you were asleep?"
"No." Li Youde regained his senses suddenly, "What do you ask about these things?"
"I just want to know more about my father-in-law." Cheng Hui said, "I want to know all about the father-in-law!"
Li Youde was taken aback, and he was overjoyed uncontrollably. Then he hesitated to say, but the reason for the grievance at first was really hard to say. He finally said: "My grievance with Wang Youcai, I said no for a while. Qing, I'll talk about it later."
Cheng Hui said, "Don't be my father-in-law, just say one or two is okay." She paused and laughed, "For example, what's the matter with the box at the foot of your bed? Why is Eunuch Wang? Want to give you this?"
Had Cheng Hui not been in the bathroom, Li Youde would have stared at him a long time ago, she could ask anything!
"You don't need to know about this." Li Youde said with an arrogance.
Cheng Hui said: "Father-in-law, just talk about it. You don't need to talk about Yushi... Ah, I thought, father-in-law, you and Eunuch Wang are both in the generations of'have'? Was it the housekeeper in the palace at that time? Are they all given names like this?"
She remembered that Li Youde's reason is called "Li Xiaozhu", but it's better not to shout in front of him if it's nothing. If she was called "Chen Xiaomi", she would not be happy!
Li Youde didn't expect Cheng Hui to ask about the origin of his initial grievance with Wang Youcai. It is still difficult to answer.
Cheng Hui didn’t hear Li Youde talking in it, and became a little angry: “My father-in-law, you are not willing to talk about your grievances with Eunuch Wang, but are there any taboos in the name? I didn’t ask the emperor again. first name!"
Li Youde is not Cheng Hui's opponent, even if she is unreasonable, Li Youde can play rascals with him.
"At that time, our master accepted a total of four apprentices." Li Youde sighed, and finally spread out what happened ten years ago to Cheng Hui.
Cheng Hui was surprised. She didn't expect that she would encounter real brothers and sisters, Wang Youcai and Li Youde!
Cheng Hui said: "Then what?"
Now that I have started talking, and Cheng Hui is not in front of him, Li Youde doesn't have such a big obstacle to speaking, and continues: "Master changed the names of all four of us, and kept our surnames, all of them are of the'yes' character. Yes. I, Wang Youcai, Zhou Youshi... Liu Youyi."
Cheng Hui rubs and washes his hair. There are gains, losses, talents, and righteousness. In fact, these names are a bit vulgar, but they are all quite interesting.
The four former mentor brothers, both of whom have become the eunuchs of the eunuch, but they are in the same situation. This has to make people wonder how the two developed to this point.
"What about the other two?" Cheng Hui asked curiously.
Li Youde said, "I didn't have any more than ten years ago."
Cheng Hui was taken aback, wondering if it was because of a doorway. She felt that Li Youde's tone was calm and untrue when she said this.
"Can you tell me why?" Cheng Hui asked cautiously.
Li Youde said, "What else can it be? There are too many secrets in the palace. If you are not careful, you will lose your life."
Cheng Hui shivered slightly, and then he admired Li Youde very much. He could climb from a low-level eunuch to the current high position. The hardship he suffered in the past is unimaginable. I entered the palace when I didn't understand the fart at the age of six. I grew up in a place like the palace. Isn't it normal to get crooked? For example, the people of the cannibal tribe. They grew up in such an atmosphere. People are also a kind of food in their eyes. Can you say that it must be wrong for them to eat people? At least in their own eyes, that is "common sense" that they are used to.
Cheng Hui feels that this kind of problem is too difficult to consider a result. It is unfair to others to use her own values to ask others, but it is difficult for her to accept the other's values. It can only be said that this kind of social philosophical problem should be left to professionals to discuss. Now that she is in this era, she fell ill and fell in love with Li Youde, so she can only try to accept a true and complete one. Does he try his best to balance the contradiction between his values and his? There is nothing she can do if she can't see and can't control it. If it happens under her nose, she has to be nosy.
Cheng Hui didn't ask more about this, what happened in the palace, she knew so much what she was doing, "knowing too much" is very dangerous, how fast she died.
"Then don't talk about it." Cheng Hui said, "Hey, father-in-law, are the names of the four of you based on your conduct at the time?"
"...No!" Li Youde only felt that he had been stabbed with a sword in the chest. He had been cherishing the name for more than ten years. Can she stop asking!
"Oh, I see, it's the reason for the'lack of what to make up for', right?" Cheng Hui said. Wang Youcai lacks talent and Liu Youyi lacks loyalty. What is lacking in gains and losses? How does it feel ironic?
"No!" Li Youde denied again, "Don't guess, it's all so many years ago, and now what's the point of guessing again!"
Cheng Hui Congshanru said: "Then I won't guess. But among the four names, I still like the father-in-law the most. It sounds full of warmth."
Warmth?
Li Youde was a little bit dumbfounded. He thought, how could she be so afraid of flattering. She was really stingy, so she just said something when she found an opportunity.
"Have you washed it yet?" Li Youde asked, "Don't catch a cold slowly!"
Cheng Hui said: "It's coming, soon, father-in-law, don't rush, I will get rushed when you urge, what should I do if I fall!"
Li Youde didn't say a word. Of course he didn't want her to fall. It was so cold and the ground was so hard. He should feel distressed again if she fell.
"Father-in-law, would you please tell me what kind of person the emperor is?" Cheng Hui said. She doesn't care about the emperor, but she cares about whether Li Youde's work is well done. In fact, what she wants to ask is whether the emperor is a fool or Mingjun, but Li Youde's words were obviously too rebellious, and he would definitely think that the emperor was wise.
Li Youde suddenly became vigilant: "Why are you asking about the emperor again?"
"Because father-in-law, you refuse to talk about your love and hatred with Eunuch Wang, I have to ask about other things." Cheng Hui said plausibly.
"What love, hate, and hatred! Don't talk nonsense!" Li Youde scolded, but he was still not irritated by Cheng Hui to talk about his grudge with Wang Youcai.
Cheng Hui was also afraid that asking too many questions would make Li Youde irritated, so it was fine to ask here, but she remembered something and asked: "Father-in-law, what baby is there in your study?"
When Cheng Hui said the word "baby", Li Youde couldn't help but think about it. He almost jumped up and finally pressed the word "shut up" to his throat and took a few deep breaths. What Hui Niang said must mean something else...
"What are you asking this for?" Li Youde didn't answer the question.
Cheng Hui said: "My father-in-law, I just want to ask if I can go to your study? What is the mistress, but I can go to the storeroom, but I can't go to the study yet."
What she said was a bit sad. It didn't matter whether the study went to her or not, but there were places in the house where she couldn't go, which made her more upset.
"What do you want to see?" Li Youde asked with a frown.
The bathroom door suddenly opened and Cheng Hui walked out quickly. She was fairly well dressed, but with long wet hair. She wiped it a few times, then took the stool and sat in front of Li Youde, naturally handed him the cloth towel, and sat on the stool with her back facing him: "Father, you help me wipe it."
Li Youde felt a little speechless when he saw her natural attitude, but he hesitated for a while, he sighed and wiped Cheng Hui's hair.
After wiping it for a while, Cheng Hui squinted comfortably and said, "Father-in-law, I don't want to see anything, but I just want to go in."
Li Youde, who originally thought Cheng Hui had forgotten about the study, paused slightly. He said, "There are a lot of confidential things."
Cheng Hui said: "Is the father-in-law not trusting Hui Niang?"
It's not unbelievable... It's just that he doesn't think she needs to go in at all.
But before Li Youde can tell the truth, Cheng Hui said: "But the father-in-law won't let Hui Niang go to Hui Niang, so I don't want to cause trouble."
Since Li Youde said that there are secrets in it...Well, if the gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall, then she should not go to avoid suspicion. Otherwise, she couldn't tell what really happened.
Hearing what Cheng Hui said, Li Youde was a little relieved: "It's not impossible to go..."
Cheng Hui is very firm: "I won't go! Even if you force me father-in-law, I won't go!"
Li Youde: "..." Who was the one who clamored to go at the beginning!
Li Youde's emotions couldn't help but fluctuate a little more, and the movements on his hands naturally became bigger. Only Cheng Hui took a breath and shouted, "Father-in-law, you hurt me!"
Li Youde hurriedly let go, Cheng Hui turned around, with a grievance on his face: "Father-in-law, you must make up for me."
She closed her eyes, raised her chin in a rogue manner, and leaned forward, looking like a picker.
Li Youde only stayed for a while before holding her shoulder and turning her back: "The hair is dry, it's time to catch a cold, don't move."
Cheng Hui was not stubborn either, and let him rest assured, he couldn't run away anyway.
When Cheng Hui was a little drowsy, Li Youde finally wiped her long hair almost dry. Cheng Hui's hair is easy to dry, and it will dry easily after rubbing it a little longer.
As soon as Li Youde dropped the towel on the table, Cheng Hui leaned back, he hugged her hurriedly, but saw that half of her face was buried in her hair, and her exposed eyes had long been closed.
He was reluctant to wake Cheng Hui, put her back on the stool, and then stood beside her. After standing there for a few seconds, he finally made up his mind. He inserted one hand into her knees, and the other held her under her armpit. With so much strength, he blushed before he picked him up.
Li Youde felt relieved, Chen Hui Niang was still quite light. Sure enough, hug a person, he is not a problem.
He walked to the door and remembered that the door was still chained, so he had to turn his elbow to open the door bolt, then opened the door and went out.
The outside is colder than the inside. Cheng Hui was awakened by the cold wind. Two seconds later, she discovered her condition. She vaguely asked, "Father, where is this going?"
"Send you back to the wing to sleep." Li Youde said.
Cheng Hui reacted for a few seconds, and finally understood, he immediately hugged Li Youde's neck, and said, "No! I will sleep with my father-in-law today!"
Ah Da and Ah Er thought about it when they heard the movement outside the house, but they dared not move when they saw the situation in the yard. They even looked at each other when they heard it, and only smiled vaguely.
Xiaozhen, who was in the wing, was also waiting for the movement of the main house, but when she heard Cheng Hui's words, her face was flushed with shame before she even dared to open the door, and she didn't know whether to open the door quickly.
"Don't make trouble." Li Youde's voice didn't mean anything to blame, but made people hear a little helpless.
"Father-in-law, you are often away from home. Is it wrong for Hui Niang to want to be with her father-in-law?" Cheng Hui said, and suddenly sneezed.
Li Youde's face changed, really afraid that she would catch a cold. Knowing that she would not be able to stop if she was sent back to the wing, she had no choice but to turn back to the main house and kicked the door shut.
In the end, the princess hug is a laborious job, and Li Youde didn't talk too much nonsense, so he hugged people to the back room and put her on the bed.
Cheng Hui won another victory and smiled sweetly: "Father-in-law, you are the best."
Li Youde said: "Aren't you sleepy, go to bed first. I'll be here in a while."
He turned around and walked out. Cheng Hui heard him tell Ah Da Ah Er to change the water, probably because he wanted to take a bath. She covered her mouth and smiled, raising her voice and asked, "Father-in-law, do you want Hui Niang to rub your back for you?"
"...No need!" Li Youde's voice was a little irritated, "Go to sleep!"
Cheng Hui snickered and rolled over into the bed.
After waiting for a while, Li Youde finally entered the back room when Cheng Hui was about to fall asleep. He stood by the bed for a while, seeing Cheng Hui quietly closing his eyes, he was a little relieved, blew out the candle, and climbed onto the bed.
As soon as Li Youde lay down, the warm body next to him leaned over, only to hear Cheng Hui complain softly: "Father-in-law, why have you been so long...I'm almost falling asleep."
"Go to sleep." Li Youde kept his face up to the sky still.
Cheng Hui touched Li Youde's chest with one hand, and drew circles on his chest with the pads of the index and middle fingers, and was naturally grabbed by Li Youde.
"Go out if you don't want to sleep." Li Youde pretended to be fierce.
Cheng Hui said: "Father-in-law, if you don't tell the story of your grievances with Eunuch Wang, I can't sleep."
Li Youde didn't expect that she would bring up the matter again, and didn't want to answer, Cheng Hui stood up even more, moved to the top of his body, and rubbed it up a little bit...
"If you are not honest, just give me back!" Li Youde drove people off.
Cheng Hui said: "I won't go back, nor will I be honest! Unless the father-in-law tells me!"
She put her hands and feet together on Li Youde, almost like an octopus.
Li Youde was unwilling to say at first. After entangled with Cheng Hui for a while, his strength was useless because he could not hurt her. In the end, Cheng Hui had the upper hand, and during the entanglement of the two, some softness Touched again and again, Li Youde finally had to abstain.
"I'll just say one." Li Youde felt tired, and he was a little pant when talking. "After you say, go to bed obediently?"
"Good!" Cheng Hui smiled triumphantly. At this moment, both of them were a little panting, and she couldn't help but think, if someone who didn't know this was guessing, she thought they had just been out of harmony.
Before Li Youde said, Cheng Hui added: "I want to know the first grievance!"
Li Youde really didn't want to say it, he had never told anyone about it, and it was really not suitable for others to tell it.
"Father-in-law? You can't pretend to sleep in your skin!" Cheng Hui said hurriedly after waiting for a long time. In fact, her original curiosity has not been so exuberant, but who told him to be so concealed? The more concealed, the more her curiosity is enhanced!
"I'm not you, I pretended to sleep." Li Youde snorted and said nonchalantly, "It wasn't a big deal at the time, but it was the master who gave Wang Youcai the name I like!"
Cheng Hui was stunned. She thought about many strange reasons, but she did not think of this one.
"Father-in-law, you mean, you like the name Youcai, but your master gave it to Eunuch Wang, so you hate him?" Cheng Hui smiled.
"Yeah." Li Youde pretended to be calm and breezy, and the darkness completely concealed all his emotions.
Cheng Hui couldn't help but laughed. She can laugh for a year! This is really a murder caused by a name!
"Shut up! Don't laugh!" Although Li Youde had expected Cheng Hui would not respond well, she still hurt his face with such unscrupulous laughter. He almost wanted to kick people out of bed, but she just slept in Inside, it's really more angry!
Cheng Hui suffocated a smile. From the strange reason for Li Youde and Wang Youcai, she seemed to have discovered something...
"Father-in-law..." Cheng Hui stopped laughing completely at this moment, she whispered, "Do you...do you like reading very much?"
Otherwise, why would you like the name "Youcai", and even have trouble with Wang Youcai because of this? Although the reason for this resentment is really ridiculous, it is enough to reflect something.
Li Youde said nothing.
Cheng Hui touched it aside, first touched Li Youde's arm, then went up, and finally touched his cheek.
"Father-in-law, it's a good thing to love reading," she said in a brisk tone as much as possible.
Some things in the past suddenly emerged, and Cheng Hui realized that it had already happened. There is a bookstore in Li Youde's shop, and the shopkeeper said that Li Youde took some books back. At the time, she thought it was for Jiang Bihan, but maybe he also took them and hid them in the study room? They had nothing to do when they were still in the frontier. Cheng Hui took the book and deliberately took the little yellow book for him to read. He was quite interested without knowing it. Regarding Jiang Bihan, she actually has the reputation of a talented woman. Li Youde said that she used her as a vase, and maybe she was able to save her as a talented woman.
Just thinking more about it, Cheng Hui couldn't help but feel distressed. At that time in the bookstore, facing the contempt of those scholars, he looked calm and calm, but he didn't know how sad he was? As far as she saw, he and the civil servants did not seem to share the same appearance, was it out of a secret jealousy?
"My father-in-law, I also like reading, and I love reading all kinds of books." Cheng Hui said softly, "If my father-in-law doesn't dislike it in the future, I will study with him, okay?"
Cheng Hui's voice is too soft and warm, and people are especially prone to become emotional at night. Those words in the dark are like the most silky silk, gently brushing Li Youde's heart, causing him to tremble involuntarily. The emotion surging in his chest made him at a loss.
He really didn't know how Hui Niang could be so sharp. There were some things he had never told anyone before, but she hit the nail on the head.
When Li Youde was a child, before he had time to study, his family suffered an accident. When he entered the palace, although he taught them to read, he would not teach them more deeply. He admired the Jinshi nominated by the Gold List very much. After he had a little power, he also contacted some civil servants who were from Jinshi and Jinshi, in a good way, but only got contempt and ridicule. After so many times, no amount of deep admiration was gone, and he hated those so-called scholars. Oh, what's to be proud of? When he came to power, were they not like dogs when they faced him?
But no one knows that he respected and envied those scholars at first because they were so good at studying, and no one knew that his love for reading was not even shown to his servants.
However, Hui Niang knew. He didn't say anything, she knew it.
Li Youde suddenly touched Cheng Hui's face, and regardless of whether he found the right one, he kissed him suddenly. At first he kissed the tip of her nose, Cheng Hui didn't expect this, and shrank, he followed down, finally found her lips, and kissed her hard.