Chapter 156: This Tea Is Good
The maid standing at the door swept the little maid who fell at Xia Hanpei's feet in a low voice, sympathy and unbearable flashed, and slowly closed the door of the east wing. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The little maid who fell to the ground, looking at the door that was about to close, reacted, hurriedly knelt up, kowtowed to Xia Hanpei vigorously, and her voice trembled with horror: "Miss, Min'er is wrong." Miss went around Min'er this time. ”
Xia Hanpei ignored the voice of the little maid on the ground, turned his head and glanced at the dresser, his eyes fell on the knife that cut his eyebrows, touched the scalp that was still faintly painful, picked up the knife and turned back to the little maid's body is a wild stab.
"Ah......h
"If you call me again, I'll sell you to the kiln!" Xia Hanpei stopped, looked at the little maid holding her head with her hands fiercely, and stopped the little maid's screaming with a word.
As soon as the words fell, Xia Hanpei's hands rose and fell and began to tie hatefully again, until the blood soaked in the maid's clothes stained her jade-like soft flesh, and her bent body was a little panting because of the vigorous exercise just now, looking at the maid who fell to the ground and fainted motionless, Xia Hanpei straightened up and exhaled. Jiangcai's actions and the heat of noon have already made Xia Hanpei's forehead have layers of thin sweat.
Sitting back on the chair and looking at herself who was sweating a little in the mirror, Xia Hanpei was angry again, and her damn little hooves caused her to clean her face again.
Turning her head to look at the maid who fell to the ground, the blood stains on her body made her anger disappear, and she turned around and gracefully picked up the brocade and pressed the thin sweat on her forehead: "Drag her down, don't let outsiders find out." Saying that, Xia Hanpei looked back at the two maids who were holding up the two maids covered in blood, and her tone was still gentle and elegant: "If you find out, your fate will definitely be worse than her." ”
"Yes. Hearing this, the two little maids' faces turned pale and hurriedly responded.
"Alright, go ahead. Wan'er, clean me again. Hey, this is a hell of a weather, and hot people sweat when they move their arms. Saying that, Xia Hanpei looked out the window, and the dazzling sunlight sprinkled in the courtyard of the East Wing, making her squint. Thinking of the person who is coming today, the corners of his mouth are slowly hooked. I don't know if he's here or not.
Zhuo Yijia and Zhi drew the courtyard gate of the Zhuo family, got into the inconspicuous carriage sent by Sanniang, changed into night clothes in the carriage, and went straight to the outside of the Xia Mansion along the carriage.
After the Shen time, half an hour later, it was the evening banquet of Miss Xia's birthday, people from outside the Xia Mansion came and went, the carriage and sedan chair stopped and walked, and the door was like a market. The small carriage that Zhuo Yijia rode in was very inconspicuous among these people. The coachman passed through the flow of people and drove the carriage straight into the alley behind the Xia Mansion.
There is a big laurel tree three or four zhang behind the summer house, the tree is about seven or eight feet, and the branches and leaves bloom particularly luxuriantly in the month of August. From a distance, there is a row in the alley, shading a large cool place, with gusts of wind blowing, mixed with the fragrance of osmanthus flowers.
The driver parked the car next to a laurel tree in the eastern corner, which was not so tall that it could feel the branches and leaves on tiptoe. The driver looked left and right to make sure that there was no one, and then coughed.
In an instant, two black shadows flashed and disappeared into the laurel tree, so fast that people thought that the general was just dazzled. With a cough, the driver slowly continued to drive the car forward, as if the general's pause was just a halfway break.
Zhuo Yijia stood on the laurel tree, knowing that the painting was on top of her, picking up the luxuriant leaves, and looking at the Xia Mansion below through the gaps.
The courtyard where the guests were picked up in the Xia Mansion was in the middle of the Xia Mansion, which was a little far away, but because of the large number of people, there were also warm voices one after another.
Zhuo Yijia leaned on the laurel tree, stood firmly on the branches, and looked at the noisy Xia Mansion from the gap. She heard Lin Yuqi talk about Xia Hanpei's birthday today, and the strangeness in it made her suddenly alert, and she asked Sanniang to touch the list of some visitors, and most of them were old ministers left by her father, and some of them were either military attaches who disobeyed Emperor Ming Xian because of a trivial matter in the court one day, or civil officials who disagreed with Xia Chengwen in terms of political opinions. There are also some insignificant petty officials.
The only ones who don't have are those officials and their families who usually have a good relationship with Xia Chengwen and are valued by Emperor Ming.
Originally, according to weekdays, the birthday of the daughter of the Shilang family would definitely not be able to invite so many people, but Emperor Ming Xian said in the court that the daughter of the Xia family is difficult to find, and the sixteenth birthday should be celebrated. The birthday of the daughter of a squire's family was asked by the emperor, and even the princess had never had such a big pomp.
So relying on Emperor Ming Xian's words, Xia Chengwen was fearless when he gave a post to those officials, and it was also because of that sentence that no one dared not come to receive the post.
Zhuo Yijia looked at the central pick-up courtyard with the largest number of people in the Xia Mansion below, and the congratulatory words of people covering up many words of conversation.
As soon as Shen Shi arrived, many noble ladies who had received the posts came and carried them in in soft sedan chairs from the gate of the side courtyard. After entering the house, I turned around and arrived at the East Chamber.
Xia Hanpei sat on the sandalwood chair in the east wing hall, drinking the dragon well before the rain for a while. One by one, the nobles who came came walked into the east chamber under the guidance of the maid, and smiled and talked to Xia Hanpei sitting on it.
Xia Hanpei lightly put down the white jade teacup in his hand, looked at the nobles chattering below, nodded his head, and his posture was noble and detached. Sitting quietly on the top position, there is a kind of nobility between gestures. Xia Hanpei's eyes swept over the nobles sitting below. There is a gesture on his face, but he is already very unhappy in his heart.
On her birthday this year, the posts under her were all handed by her father, and none of them were good friends with her. There are even court officials, no matter how stupid she is, she knows that it is probably some entanglement in her father's officialdom. Xia Hanpei thought of the officialdom, and thought of Emperor Ming Xian's words to praise her in the court, how delicate the daughter of the Xia family is, heh, the entire Jinping City plus the princess in the palace, which one has such an honor on his birthday?
The sound of laughing below made Xia Hanpei a little vague, she came back to her senses, picked up the white jade cup on the table, and took another sip of tea. The tea with a cool feeling made Xia Hanpei drink it with a refreshing heart, listening to the good words that were still flattering below, Xia Hanpei smiled slightly, and took another sip of the cup: "This tea is cold and it is very comfortable to drink on a hot day." Who's soaking it? The voice was extraordinarily noble, and it seemed extraordinarily wide and generous to his own subordinates.
Zhuo Yijia was still standing on the laurel tree, looking motionless at the courtyard of the Xia Mansion below in the leafy branches. Eyes fell on the wing room separated by half of the lotus pond, and occasionally the soft sedan chair of the noble girl went outside the wing room, and got off the soft sedan chair in and out of the wing room, laughing and laughing. Sanniang chose a really good place, which happened to be not far from Miss Xia's yard.