Chapter Seventy-Six: Many Familiar Faces (2)
She suddenly glanced at Lan Niangzi strangely, and then realized that Lan Niangzi did it on purpose, and I think that this morning meeting was also arranged by Lan Niangzi. Jealous woman.
"What about you?" she asked, ignoring Lan Niangzi and Huang Li and Du Juan.
The yellow bird and the cuckoo glanced at each other, but neither squeaked. They are different from pothos, although they are in name only, they can be concubines for the four princes of Chongyang, and now the dignified King of Yanyang, they can't even dream of it, even if they can't get Ying Hao's favor, they will not lack food and clothing in the second half of their lives. They all feel that Pothos is stupid, so they will not "depreciate their identity" like Pothos.
For the two of them not answering, she silently shook her head in her heart. Now, since she has decided to live a good life with Ying Hao, she can't tolerate the two of them.
"Okay, I've seen it today, so let's stop here and disperse. She said coldly. For the time being, she still can't get rid of the orioles and cuckoos, and she doesn't want to see them more, so she just wants to save them from greeting them every day.
"Why is my sister in a hurry to leave?" Lan Niangzi immediately asked uninterestingly.
She glanced at Lan Niangzi and wrote lightly: "Yesterday, I slept late with my lord, and I felt a little tired, and I wanted to go back to sleep." β
Lan Niangzi suddenly felt like a dumb person who had eaten Coptis chinensis, unable to speak, only her expression was full of bitterness. Knowing that she and Ying Hao fell in love all night yesterday, she even regretted what she said about having dinner together, Lan Niangzi was already uncomfortable, so she deliberately found fault today. At this time, she mentioned it intentionally or unintentionally, and Lan Niangzi felt even more depressed.
She looked at Lan Niangzi's bitter expression, but she lost her sympathy. If Lan Niangzi can always play a well-behaved role, she can still turn a blind eye to Lan Niangzi's existence. But now Lan Niangzi is deliberately looking for her fault, and she can't give Lan Niangzi a good face.
"Oh, by the way, sister, I heard that the key to the treasury is in your hand, and I will send a pear to fetch it later. She unilaterally informed Lan Niangzi.
Lan Niangzi was stunned for a moment, opened her mouth, and finally lowered her head and said in a low voice: "Yes." β
Without looking at them again, she got up and left.
When she returned to her yard, she didn't take it seriously to make up for sleep, it was just an excuse. But she felt hungry, so she ordered the pears and plums to be served.
Pear and Plum smiled flatteringly and led her directly to the room. It turned out that the two had already prepared breakfast for her, and they were waiting for her to eat it as soon as she came back.
She did not hesitate to praise the two of them. I was eating breakfast alone, but I felt a little unsavoury.
Five plus five or six, plus these three today, oh no, pothos doesn't count, it's just twelve or thirteen. Okay, you Ying Hao, she thought that he really missed her in this year, and he didn't get close to women. Unexpectedly, the big money owner who spent a lot of money in Meihong Mansion was actually him. In fact, there seem to be traces to follow.
No wonder Xu's mother was flattering to Hao Ting at the beginning, and Yao Kai was also at the beginning. It turned out that he was the one who bought the oriole and the cuckoo. As for the pothos, she was also very surprised, didn't she let the pothos go free? Why did she come to this house to be a maid?
"What do you want?" Unconsciously, she actually took the spoon in her mouth, until Ying Hao came back, and asked her with a smile, "Are you thinking about me?" while consciously adding a bowl of porridge to herself.
Just took a sip, but Ying Hao frowned and said, "Why is this porridge cold?"
Isn't it cold? She hadn't finished her meal for more than an hour. He came back quite early.
Fortunately, she threw away the spoon and started the interrogation directly at Ying Hao, "Say, in addition to the oriole, cuckoo, and pothos, do you have other women hiding in the royal city?"
Ying Hao was stunned, he almost forgot the existence of orioles, cuckoos and pothos. Immediately afterwards, the expression on Ying Hao's face was also very strange.
"Why don't you speak? really?!" she looked at Ying Hao in disbelief with wide eyes.
Ying Hao hurriedly said: "No." It's really gone!alasβ" Ying Hao sighed.
She squinted at Ying Hao, not believing. She stopped talking, and waited for Ying Hao to take the initiative to explain.
Ying Hao understood her and explained: "I didn't buy the orioles, cuckoos and pothos because of you. β
"Huh?"
"They were all trained by you, especially that Huang Li, you sang for her behind the scenes, right?" Ying Hao also squinted his eyes and stared at her with some reproach.
She shrank her head, and the matter of lip-singing was exposed like this, and she was somewhat weak-hearted.
"Hmph! You've deceived me so hard. Ying Hao couldn't help but bring up the old things again.
Is it okay for him to dare to turn over old accounts with her at this time?
She pinched her waist and said arrogantly: "I sang falset-to-lip-synch, what's wrong? This is not the reason why you buy so many women casually and come back." β
"It's because of you. Ying Hao pursed his mouth, but he didn't continue to talk about it here.
"Why is it because of me?" she didn't know what was wrong, so she had to hold on to it.
"Oops!" Ying Hao's face turned red, he couldn't resist her, and finally said honestly: "Because they make me feel like you." β
When she heard this, she suddenly felt a little sweet in her heart. In fact, she also thought of this possibility earlier, and only when she heard Ying Hao say it in person at this moment, she could be sure. But......
"Just because they're like me, you can ...... That's it...... Get them all on?" "The sweeter her heart, the more angry she is.
"What happened to me?" Ying Hao couldn't understand the meaning of "on" for a while.
"Hey!" She was angry, and she had to explain to Ying Hao, but she was also quite speechless, and said helplessly, "It's you who slept with them." Okay?"
"When did I sleep with them?" Ying Hao also quit immediately after he understood.
"You didn't sleep with them?"
"Nope. β
ββ¦β¦ Oh. "Well, halfway through the quarrel, suddenly I can't stop arguing. Because there's no reason to quarrel.
Ying Hao also reacted at this time, she was jealous.
"Poof!" Ying Hao couldn't help laughing. Immediately in exchange for her glare.
"Pears!"
"In. β
"The porridge is cold, why don't you go to the kitchen to warm it up and bring it back. β
Ying Hao wittily summoned Pear and Meizi, and by instructing them to go to hot porridge, this quarrel was completely ended. There's nothing to argue about, so I can't do it.
"You really didn't sleep with them?" she asked again, as soon as Pear and Plum walked on their front feet.
Ying Hao kindly reassured again and again: "I didn't sleep with them, and I won't sleep with them." Not before, and never will be. β
"Then you send them away. β
"Good. β
"Tsk, aren't you going to protest? You paid a lot of money for them. Ying Hao agreed so easily, but she felt sorry for his silver.
Ying Hao smiled and deliberately asked her, "Then do you want to send people away?"
He still dared to ask her, didn't he already say yes before!
"It's all up to you. Ying Hao smiled, took her into his arms, and persuaded: "Although you look very cute when you are jealous, you can't do it." β
"I'm not jealous. She still quibbled, but she didn't break free from Ying Hao's embrace, that is, it was a little uncomfortable for two people to sit on a chair and forcibly hug each other, and she wanted to adjust a comfortable position as much as possible.
The next moment, Ying Hao suddenly pulled vigorously and simply pulled her over and sat on his lap.
"How is it?Does my stomach hurt, do you want me to ask Dr. Zhang to come and take a look at you?" Her old problem of abdominal pain is still there, and her face is actually not very good these days, rather than arguing for no reason because of those women, Ying Hao is more concerned about her physical condition.
Her heart was sweet because of Ying Hao's concern, but she shook her head and said, "It's okay." The recipe given to me by the Fifth Imperial Concubine at the beginning still worked quite well. It's just that she didn't insist on eating.
Ying Hao saw through her weakness, but he didn't expose it, but said: "Since it works, let's continue to eat according to that recipe." You write the recipe, and I'll ask someone to go out and buy it for you in a while. β
"Good. She agreed, but didn't move. She coveted the warmth of his body.
Ying Hao doted on him, and luck covered her stomach in the palm of his hand.
At this time, I didn't expect Ji Chunlan to come again. And while they were at the gate of the courtyard, they heard it.
Ying Hao increased his strength and didn't ask her to get up from his lap. She continued to sit on Ying Hao's lap indifferently.
After Ji Chunlan came in, she was stunned when she saw them like this, and then she hurriedly lowered her head, she didn't miss the gloom in Ji Chunlan's eyes that couldn't be hidden, and said, "Greetings to my lord and sister, sister, it's just the key to the treasury." Ji Chunlan put the key to the warehouse on the table in front of her, and couldn't help but secretly look at Ying Hao.
"Hmm. There's nothing else you can go down to. Ying Hao glanced at the key on the table coldly, and actually said so.
Ji Chunlan raised her head suddenly, opened her mouth, and finally only spit out one word, "Yes." β
After Ji Chunlan left. She seemed to respond to Hao condemningly: "Is it really good that you are so cold to Ji Chunlan?"
"Except for you, I'll be like this to other women in the future, isn't it?" Ying Hao didn't forget what he promised her, and said again.
"She hasn't seen you for a long time, and now she clearly learned that you went down to the morning court, so she deliberately came over to see you for some reason. She said that she would send Lizi over to get the key to the warehouse, and Ji Chunlan didn't have to deliver it herself.
"If you don't want to see her, just ask the pears to stop her in the future. Ying Hao thought she didn't want to see Ji Chunlan.
"If only we could dismiss Ji Chunlan as easily as the yellow bird and the cuckoo. She's been with you for so many years, and it's always bad for you to treat her like this. She persuaded Ying Hao out of consideration that everyone still wanted to live under the same roof.
Ying Hao was silent. Indeed, Ji Chunlan's identity is not easy to dismiss casually. But he was different from her, and he didn't think about it that much. For a woman who has lost the slightest joy, Ying Hao has no intention of spending his mind to please her.
Suddenly, she broke free from Ying Hao's arms.
It just so happened that the pears and plums came back with hot porridge. She looked like she was going on eating. For Ji Chunlan, Ying Hao didn't want to say more, and she had nothing more to say.
No words for a meal.
After eating, Ying Hao said: "I just came back, and the palace will be busy in the near future." β
"Hmm. She can understand this, and she doesn't care about it on her face.
"My father said that I would ask you to go to the palace in the near future. β
"What?" now she is not calm, she doesn't like to enter the palace very much, and every time she enters the palace, she feels very restrained.
"You have been gone quietly for more than a year, and you have to give an explanation to your father. β
"Oh. She glanced at her lips weakly, she had no way to refuse for this reason, but in the end she still begged Ying Hao: "Then wait for my eldest aunt to leave before you go, okay?"
"Yes. Ying Hao nodded in agreement, her complexion in the past few days is not suitable for entering the palace.
Having said this, Ying Hao got up and left.
"Where are you going?" she blurted out without thinking.
Ying Hao smiled, feeling her reluctance, and explained: "I still have some business to deal with in the afternoon. I'll come back to you for dinner. β
"Oh. She looked a little lonely.
"Why don't you go out for a walk in the afternoon, I heard that Liuli Pavilion has just entered a batch of new goods. Ying Hao proposed with a smile, and glanced at the warehouse key on the table, and said generously: "Buy whatever you like." β
Unexpectedly, Ying Hao was so generous, but in exchange for her noncommittal glance, she seemed very interested.
Ying Hao couldn't help but continue to persuade her: "Haven't you seen Crimson and Zhuang Qin for a long time, and you don't want to meet them?"
"My aunt hurts and doesn't want to go out. Let's wait for my aunt to leave. She didn't even glance at the storeroom key on the table from beginning to end.
It's like she said to Ying Hao before, if he has money, that's his. This is also her own habit, and she can't rely on men like this. Besides, she originally had money herself, but it was confiscated by Ying Hao.
"If you're busy, go quickly, and leave me alone. She actually urged Ying Hao to tell him to leave quickly, and the appearance that the pioneer couldn't help but hold on was gone.
Ying Hao opened his mouth, and finally didn't say anything and left. When he left, he had some doubts in his heart, he always felt that he had said something wrong and made her unhappy, but he really couldn't understand which sentence he said wrong.
After Ying Hao left, she lazily stayed in the house for noon, and didn't do anything except have lunch at the end of the day. I have to say that she is accustomed to Ying Hao's day and night companionship these days, although it is understandable that Ying Hao is on business, she does feel lonely.
Pear and Plum couldn't stand it anymore, and proposed, "Princess, didn't you like to read very much in the past? β
She shook her head lazily and said, "I don't want to see it." β
"Just go check it out. For some reason, Pear and Plum repeatedly proposed, with a mysterious look in their eyes.
She couldn't resist the repeated suggestions of Pear and Plum, and finally said, "Okay, let's go pick two books and read them." β
After leaving for more than a year, although the house is big, she never remembers the way to the study. Pear and Plum insisted on leading her to another road.
When she arrived at the place, she couldn't help but marvel. It turned out that Ying Hao had built a new study, which was three times the size of the original study, and a total of three floors were built.
"Hehe, princess, this is specially ordered by the master to build it for you. "Pears and plums finally couldn't help but offer their treasures.