Chapter 58 Story

Hua Yue remembered the scene when Zhuang Shi took her out of the palace three years ago.

At that time, Mrs Zhuang's eyes were already invisible, and she stood outside the palace gate waiting for her, vaguely watching her approaching, and then reaching out to touch her face.

Her hands were soft and warm, rubbing her outline little by little, and when she touched it carefully, her eyes that had no focus at first slowly lit up, like a candle that was about to go out, lit the cigarette again, and the flame ignited , people are alive two points.

"You'll follow me in the future." She smiled and said to her, "You're so pretty, don't lose your face, the flowers are beautiful outside, and some are alive."

The voice, face and smile are all gentle and beautiful.

Hua Yue closed her eyes, and whispered to Shuang Jiang to arrange a few things. Shuang Jiang listened to them one by one, and stopped talking about Zhuang's business. She just saluted and left, and her skirt disappeared in the corner of the room in a moment.

"Young madam." The housekeeper walked around from the outside and bowed his hands to her in embarrassment. "The third son just received news that he was left by His Majesty to play chess in the palace, and he may not be able to come back tonight."

This is unusual. Li Jingyun first took office, and it is beneficial and harmless to be able to obtain holy family. Hua Yue nodded and asked inexplicably, "Why do you look like this?"

The housekeeper sighed: "The original Madam told you that you will stay in this house, and you don't have to go out to walk around with other houses. If it was normal, it would be fine, but right now in this house, the general is busy with government affairs, the wife is seriously ill, and the third son is not there. It just so happened that the fifth prince was named a prince, so he opened the door and sent an invitation to the mansion to invite us to a dinner party. If the servants do not come to report, the prince will not be able to bear the guilt, but if they do, the third son will come back. Sent the slave to the backyard."

The more he talked, the more worried he seemed, as if thinking of the kitchen servants who had been sent away earlier.

"I thought it was something, but this trivial matter can make you so anxious." Hua Yue disapproved, she put on her skirt and left, "I'll take someone there."

"Why is it okay for the third son to ask?" The housekeeper hurriedly followed her and asked.

Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Hua Yue said, "Young Master San is not that fierce beast either, exchanges between official residences are a common occurrence, and there is no one in the residence at the moment, so if I go there, can he still blame him? You're okay."

The butler breathed a sigh of relief, and immediately ordered people to pack up the carriages, horses and sedan chairs, and bundle up the prepared gifts together.

Huayue has not seen Zhou Hemin for a long time since she said goodbye to Luohua Street last time. She couldn't help asking Badou first on the way: "What kind of achievements did the fifth prince make, and why did he suddenly become a prince?"

Ba Dou sat on the cab and shook his legs and smiled, "It was news that the fifth prince wanted to seal the prince, but now it has suddenly fallen. If you want to talk about merit, he must not have it, because he was in Luohua Street before. He was impeached and punished by the officials, and he was able to open the palace and seal the king, which is considered the favor of the saint."

Huayue was stunned for a moment, and she remembered with hindsight that Jinghua indeed had an imperial order not to ride horses on Luohua Street.

Feeling guilty, Huayue was more devout when she saluted.

"I have seen the king."

Zhou Hemin was eating fruit, and when he saw her suddenly, he smiled and said, "Why are you so unruly? When people come to congratulate and give gifts, they all kneel and salute."

Looking up with a complicated look, Hua Yue glanced at his posture: "Do you look like you want to be polite?"

"What's wrong with me?" Zhou Hemin raised his eyebrows, and raised his chin as soon as the folding fan in his hand turned, "Isn't this dignified?"

It's very dignified, if the lower body is not riding on the wall of the courtyard, it will be even more dignified.

Hua Yue shook her head helplessly, rubbed her neck hard, raised her head and asked him, "Why are you here?"

"I should ask you this." Zhou Hemin lowered his body slightly against the wall and teased, "Ordinary guests are drinking and drinking tea in the main court, how did you find me? Is it the lead of Yue Lao, or is it thrown down from the sky? Magpie Bridge?"

Looking at him blankly, Hua Yue pointed to the toilet next to her.

"It's you who will pick the place." She said, "If you continue, you will not be here before, and the little girl won't say anything."

Zhou Hemin: "..."

After half a column of incense, the two sat in the open and bright hexagonal pavilion. The servants and servants stood in two rows. Huayue sat opposite him and asked him in a low voice, "What happened to you?"

He pouted his lips and sighed deeply: "Life in the palace is always boring, and when something goes wrong, it's the same thing - go to the middle palace to admit the mistake and receive the punishment, then sue the father and the emperor, and then go back to the palace to copy it. Documents, not to go out for half a month."

"That's okay." Hua Yue said, "There is no punishment like the court in the palace."

"It's not a good place to go either." Zhou Hemin sighed, "You didn't see the Empress and Concubine Yao quarreling in the middle palace, huh, if you put your head on your knees, you must be smashed by something."

Hua Yue was stunned: "Yao Guifei, this noble concubine dares to quarrel with the queen and smash things in person?"

You guys are really unruly savages.

"You don't know Yao Guifei?" Zhou Hemin raised his eyebrows, "The crown prince's biological mother, the most favored empress in the palace, she naturally has the confidence to argue with the middle palace, and the royal father also favors her, letting her make trouble without ever asking. guilty."

And so on? Hua Yue was speechless: "What origin is this Yao Guifei?"

"The Yao family is not a famous family. They had a lot of friendship with your general's mansion before. General Li also saved Yao Guifei's life, but after Yao Guifei entered the palace, there was no contact between the two families." He spread his fan lightly. Shao, "My father is not fond of her because of her family background, and I don't understand. Anyway, even if Yao Guifei is lawless, she will be the queen mother in the future."

Hua Yue remembered that every time the Zhuang family entered the palace, she only went to greet the empress, and couldn't help sweating. Will this Yao Guifei hold a grudge against the general's mansion in the future?

"I came here today to tell you a story, why did you listen to me with relish?" Zhou Hemin looked at her with an unpleasant fan, "Tell me, what did you do before you became this maid?"

Huayue returned to her senses and said helplessly: "What good stories can people who lead slaves have? But even if they were raised at home, they once raised a stubborn temperament that they didn't care about. Later, when the family fell down and depended on others, they began to understand. something happened."

"You don't look like a simple family." Danfeng stared at her, and Zhou Hemin smiled, "It's not an exaggeration to say that you were hacked by the whole family. You have hatred in your eyes. I don’t dare to ask for anything, it’s clear that I don’t plan to live to the end.”

The young man with red lips and white teeth speaks as if he is peeling skin and scraping bones. Hua Yue's heart skips a beat when she hears it, and she stretches out her hands to cover her face: "Can you please stop showing pictures to others?"

"It's not that I have to see it, you are too conspicuous." He reluctantly spread his hands, "I have met many people, and none of them are as contradictory as you, they are really better than the shadow puppets hidden in the box. Also fun."

Realizing that she was being treated as a joke, Hua Yue sank her face, got up and said, "After the story is finished, this room will retire first."

"Oh no, I won't talk about this anymore." He held his fan and blocked her way, "Don't rush to leave, how can anyone tell a story and finish it in one sentence? What did your family do before, and how did you get here? The middle and fall, tell me all about it.”

Speaking of this, I am afraid that the newly opened palace will have to be sealed.

Yin Huayue sighed, turned around and sat down, thought for a while, and pressed the tea cup on the table solemnly: "This is a long story, please listen to me carefully."

Then she began to compose it in detail.

The two were sitting in the pavilion, one lying and the other listening, but they were quite comfortable. Zhou Hemin didn't interrupt her, but listened to her from being a literate 5-year-old to being a slave when she was 15, with smiles in her eyes.

When Li Jingyun came back from the palace, what he saw was the dark east courtyard without even a lamp. He was taken aback and grabbed the housekeeper to ask, "Where's the young lady?"

The housekeeper said tremblingly, "I went to the banquet at the palace, but I haven't returned yet."

After all, fearing that he would be guilty, she quickly followed Hua Yue's instructions: "The young lady said she would go, and there is no one else in the house who can support her."

Wangfu, Zhou Hemin's banquet.

Li Jingyun was silent for a while, his eyes fell on the empty gate, and he nodded without smiling: "Okay, I see."

The housekeeper was so frightened that he retreated against the wall. After escaping the sight of this master, he turned his head and ran towards the side door.

It wasn't too late for Hua Yue to come back, but when she got out of the car, she saw the housekeeper came up to him sweating profusely and said, "The Third Young Master has been waiting for you in the East Court for half an hour."

"He's back?" Hua Yue said as she walked in, "It's still early to come back, I don't think there will be any major things to do in the near future."

Stepping over the threshold of the East Courtyard, the lights were bright, she pushed open the door and went in, and saw Li Jingyun sitting on the soft couch with a sullen face, reading the documents.

"What?" She closed the door and asked with concern, "Is something wrong in the palace?"

Yu Guang glanced at her, and Li Jingyun muttered, "No."

"Then what are you doing with that dignified face?" Hua Yue leaned over her head to look, "Which word do you not know?"

Closing the book and throwing it aside, he looked at her and smiled: "You come back so late, so you have nothing to say to the master?"

This is the end of the period, is it too late? She looked at him and decided to follow his wishes: "My concubine came back late, and I asked my husband to forgive me, but today is not my concubine's playfulness. I only went here because the palace had a banquet to greet her."

Recalling what Wen Guzhi said earlier, as long as she knew that she owed the fifth prince, she would not be able to explain it so easily. Li Jingyun felt unhappy and asked coldly, "I invited him with others?"

"It doesn't really count." Hua Yue said honestly, "I said two words alone in the pavilion, with the slaves and maids by my side, and it didn't break the rules."

After she finished speaking, she felt that something was not right, and looked down at him: "Could it be that husband can even taste this kind of thing?"

"Where can I do it?" He turned his face away, "Just ask."

"Then what are you doing?" Hua Yue felt amused, "Is this concubine so unbelievable?"

This is not a matter of believing or not, Li Jingyun finds it annoying, he has never been a stingy person, but he just doesn't want her to see Zhou and Min, Shen Zhiluo and the like, and he is not willing to talk normally, outside of his eyelids See you, it will be more annoying.

Holding a breath in his heart and unable to vomit at her, Li Jingyun picked up the book to cover his face, and said solemnly, "It's alright, go and rest."

The man in front of him did not speak, and the room fell silent.

Li Jingyun stared at the words on the book, but didn't read a single one. After a few incense sticks, his temper went down for two points, and then he began to regret it a little.

Are you talking too much about yourself? Will this puppy think blindly?

Shouldn't you cry again?

Startled, he hurriedly pulled the book down and hurriedly looked to the side.

Huayue brought a plate of candied fruit and was looking at him with a smile, and when he saw him looking up, she handed the plate over: "On the way back, Jing'antang didn't close the shop, so my concubine brought some, if you are really angry, then Just bite two, and you'll be able to put out the fire."

With stunned eyes, he took the plate and felt a little guilty: "You have a better temper now, and you don't make trouble with me."

"Husband has been working hard recently, and if your concubine is still noisy, she will be very tired." She waved her hand, "It is common for you to have doubts, and your concubine has a clear conscience. You will be clear when you have someone check it out. What's good? trouble."

When his heart softened, Li Jingyun pulled her over, bit the side of his neck, and said in a sullen voice, "Master is not a high-ranking person in front of you, and he will not let anyone check on you, that is - if you are not happy for a while, don't do it. Go to your heart."

Hua Yue raised her eyebrows and asked him strangely, "Is it really unappetizing?"

"No." He answered decisively.

There was a smile in his eyes, Huayue touched his shoulder and hooked his lips, thinking that this evil barrier is actually cute, like a child when asked by an adult, saying that he didn't steal the candied fruit, but there was still sugar residue on his mouth. .

"The third master is generous." She smiled.

"That's it." The man bit the candied fruit and said vaguely, "Can people who are going to fight in the future be as stingy as those sour literati?"

"No." Holding his neck, Huayue smiled and looked at the moon outside the window.

The bright moon rises, bright and round, and there is a little smile in the courtyard, dyed with the branches of flowers.

The Shen residence was not far from the altar, but it was a long way from the streets of Jinghua. Every time the car came back, Su Miao felt that her bones were about to fall apart, so she simply stayed in the residence and did not go out. When the sleeves are covered, people lie on the flower terrace and watch the birds outside.

Shen Zhiluo pushed open the door and came in, just in time to see the ice skin and jade skin looming under the red veil.

"Su Miao." He frowned, "What kind of style do you have?"

The man by the window turned his head and smiled at him: "Come and see, there are two birds arguing outside, and the quarrel is quite fierce."

He walked over and glanced at it, his purple eyes half-closed: "It's boring."

With her brows down, Su Miao said aggrievedly, "It's such a big yard, what's the fun in having people stay there every day? Yesterday, I asked you to accompany me around, but you didn't want to."

Shen Zhiluo didn't want to bother with her, but he couldn't help but grit his teeth: "I want to go for a walk on the mountain in the middle of the night, but no one would like it."

With a sweet snort, Su Miao pulled his sleeve: "then tell me a story now. You know so many things, just pick two interesting things to tell."

Sitting down beside her, Shen Zhiluo glanced at the compass in his hand and hesitated.

He had just calculated an extremely bad hexagram about the General's Mansion. He wanted to tell her, but he felt it was unnecessary.

Yin Huayue is right, it is his ability to see the fate of heaven, but if he has to tell others about his bad fate, it is a sin.

After thinking about it, he said: "There is a very interesting thing, I am afraid no one in this world knows about it."

Su Miao grabbed a handful of melon seeds, and the fox eyes stared at him without blinking.

"Many years ago, there was a palace maid who was chosen to go on a mission to a neighboring country. The palace maid was unlucky. She got separated from the team on the way and could only live on the streets of a foreign land. But her luck was not bad to the end. When she was about to die, She was rescued back home, and accepted as a concubine."

"This girl is thankful, and she doesn't even want to go home, so she serves the host family in this mansion. The host and his wife are considered affectionate, and they are also kind to the girl. But the girl found out after a few years. , There are always people in the palace who can't get along with that lady, thinking about Fa'er's pickiness and embarrassment, and even the whole house is at risk."

Su Miao was delighted: "Is this still picked up by a big family?"

"Yeah." Shen Zhiluo said meaningfully, "Big families have always been right and wrong."

"This girl is in a hurry, so I asked the lady in the palace why she couldn't get along with the mansion. After I asked, I found out that this host is incredible. She has an old relationship with the lady in the palace. It was just blowing the pillow wind for the person sitting on the dragon chair, which caused the host's official career to be bumpy, and he was imprisoned several times."

Can you do this? Su Miaozhi frowned: "Immorality."

Shen Zhiluo chuckled: "Guess what the girl had in mind?"

Turning her eyes, Su Miao slapped the case: "Isn't it just jealousy? Pretend to tell the empress that she still has something in the general's heart, even coaxing and deceiving, and then protect the mansion first."

... It's really not that the family doesn't enter the house.

Shen Zhiluo was very emotional: "You are as smart as that girl, but the empress is also smart. You can't convince her with just a few words. She wants the lady of the house to die before she will spare the whole house. What should you do?"

Su Miao was speechless: "Are all the women in the palace so cruel?"

The person in front of her glanced at her: "Be careful."

scratching her ears and temples in distress, Su Miao said, "There is no other way, ask Madam what she thinks?"

"The lady said she was willing, but she was afraid that the master would love her so much that she would not live after her death, and she had to find a way to take revenge, which would affect the whole family, so if you wanted to help her hide it, she said she died of illness. ."

He glanced over at the end of his eyes and raised his chin slightly: "What about you?"

Su Miao's face was all wrinkled: "Isn't this embarrassing? Who would believe that a good person suddenly died of illness? The master investigates, and my survival is not possible?"

"You're smarter than that girl, and that girl chose to agree." Shen Zhiluo hummed, "So she has nothing to do in the future."

Su Miao was not very happy: "What about the empress in the palace?"

"I live well, my son became a prince."

"What kind of interesting story is this?" She was anxious, and rushed up to grab his shirt. "Good people are not rewarded, but bad people are happy. Does it match your saying that there is reincarnation in the way of heaven?"

Being staggered by her, Shen Zhiluo stretched out his hand to support her arm, and whispered, "Samsara also has to go first, what are you anxious about?"

The two suddenly looked at each other, Su Miao swallowed her saliva, the anger on her face dissipated, and her eyebrows twitched again: "Then I'm not in a hurry, I'll take it slow."

Shen Zhiluo: "..."

Gritting his teeth and pushing the person away, he said, "I don't have time to spend with you."

Rolled to the side injured, Su Miao put on her shoes and stayed on the bed, closed the red yarn and said, "Then I'll go out to find someone to play with."

With a tight throat, Shen Zhiluo took her back, pinched her cool gauze and said angrily, "Change into one."

The fox's eyes moved slightly, Su Miao sat on his lap, and sighed: "As expected of my chief minister, it's too obscure and unfathomable, you care about it, and it looks like you like me. But something really happened, and I have no place in my heart."

Shen Zhiluo frowned: "You and I are married, why are you talking about this?"

"I just said it casually, and I won't care about you." After getting up and changing her clothes, Su Miao closed her dress and looked back with a smile, "If Your Highness asks, you can just say that we are like glue, this marriage is secure. ."

The chest felt uncomfortable for no reason, Shen Zhiluo opened his mouth to say more, but the person in front of him had already been blown out like a gust of wind, leaving only two scents lingering on his fingertips.

He sank his face, stared at the door for a while, the rune-embroidered headband was rolled up by the wind outside the window, covering his eyebrows sullenly.

In the afternoon, Shuang Jiang came over. She knelt in front of him and said respectfully: "National teacher, someone asked me to ask, do you count Zhuang's fate?"

Shen Zhiluo sat on the main seat and didn't answer, only said, "If she says she doesn't believe it, don't keep asking."

Shuang Jiang looked up at him: "Others don't know, can you still know? If it wasn't for desperate, she would never have said this to you."

Unknown suffering, not believing in gods and Buddhas, Zhuang's condition is getting worse and worse in the past few days, and Yin Huayue will randomly choose this doctor.

Silently rubbing the Qiankun disk, Shen Zhiluo sighed, and after a long time said: "Life and death are fate, you should let her be careful."

Shuangjiang understood, but when she went back, she didn't dare to speak to Huayue directly. She only made up two nice words to make her feel relieved.

Yin Huayue really believed it and poured a cup of tea into the porcelain cup in front of her with confidence.

She was sitting in a wing of the Qifeng Building. There was a dark hole in the wall of this room, and she could clearly hear the sound from the next door.

"It's been a few years?" Kang Zhenzhong held the wine glass and bowed his hands to the man in front of him with a half-smile, "I didn't expect to be able to sit like this again."

Li Shoutian looked at him with a complicated expression, took the wine and drank, his voice was two more old for no reason: "It's rare that you are willing to invite me."

"I'm reluctant to invite you, but Jingyun that child is pleasing." Kang Zhenzhong sneered, "The way of heaven is also unfair, and a person like you can have such a good wife and good son."

Full of puzzlement, Li Shoutian leaned forward: "For so many years, I have been wanting to ask you, how on earth did I feel sorry for you? You broke the brotherhood for no reason, and I kept sneering and sneering?"

Looking left and right, Kang Zhenzhong laughed: "It's just the two of us here, why do you pretend that you don't understand? Ramadan knows about it underground, I'm afraid I'm so sorry to marry such a cruel person that you didn't even die."