CHAPTER XXV
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I watched her slow and methodical tea splitting, smelling the fragrance of tea, and somehow my heart slowly calmed down. I watched her divide the tea intently, ignoring Chen Huan's whispers in my ear, after drinking a cup of tea, I looked up and found that Miss Guan was looking at me, I smiled at her and gently put down the tea cup in my hand. Chen Xie walked up to me and said, "Ami, let Ah Huan accompany you to the neighborhood, the scenery here is not bad, and I will come back in half an hour to have lunch together." I nodded, and followed Chen Huan along the riverbank slowly. Zhuo Yuting reluctantly followed behind us, I was a little strange, usually Zhuo Yuting and Zhuo Yuwei sisters always appear together in front of people, why are they alone today?
I was wondering, Chen Huan came up to me and whispered, "Sister Mi, do you know about the Zhuo sisters?" I was taken aback and turned around, only to find that Zhuo Yuting had sat down on a big rock in the distance without knowing when, and I was relieved. It turned out that a few days ago, Chen Huan and a few young ladies of the family met the prince Chen Xie when they were wandering on the street, so they dragged him to the welcome building for dinner, who knew that not long after the group sat down, the Zhuo sisters followed, and when they left, the second miss of the Zhuo family, Zhuo Yuwei, tripped over a stool and stumbled into Chen Xie's arms, Zhuo Yuting was angry at that time, and pulled Zhuo Yuwei up, and slapped two slaps. At that time, everyone was calmed down, is this still the beautiful and gentle Miss Zhuo family on weekdays? Chen Huan gloated and said: "Now, her fox tail is all exposed, it turns out to be a brutal shrew, and I don't know how she still has the face to chase Brother Wang around." ”
I thought of Zhuo Yuwei's usual docile appearance in front of Zhuo Yuting, and asked a little surprised: "Why did she treat her sister like this?" Don't the people of the Zhuo family care? Chen Huan smiled and said, "Oh! I forgot, you don't know, the second lady of the Zhuo family was born to a concubine, and she was naturally a head shorter in front of Zhuo Yuting, usually a maid in front of her, Zhuo Yuting was deeply loved by General Zhuo, and the Zhuo family naturally had no one to stand up for her, and I don't know if she went back and was beaten again, and she didn't show up today. I looked at Zhuo Yuting in the distance and asked, "Why do you say that?" Maybe she was just confused at the time. Chen Huan pursed his lips: "In the past, it was rumored that the eldest lady of the Zhuo family would often beat and scold the second lady, but everyone didn't believe it, thinking that Miss Everyone's upbringing would never do such a thing, but now it seems to be true." ”
She paused to look at me and continued: "Brother Wang didn't like her in the first place, but now when I see her true face, I don't want to pay attention to her, in fact, Sister Mi, my Brother Wang has always liked you, and I also hope that the two of you can be together." My face flushed: "I've always regarded him as an elder brother, and I've never had any other thoughts, we won't be together, so let's not talk about this when we change the topic." I hurriedly interrupted her and moved on to other things, and Chen Huan wanted to mention it several times, but I diverted it.
At noon, the meal was very casual, and a tent was set up by the water, men and women sat on two sides, each of them sat on the ground, and the maids displayed the wine and food like flowing water, and two children stood in the middle, one playing the piccolo, and the other singing a small tune in a child's voice. The men were chatting, only Chen Huan occasionally said a few words to me on the women's side, Miss Guan was silent, and Zhuo Yuting only stared at Chen Xie's every move, and had no interest in chatting.
After eating, I had no interest, so I said hello to Chen Huan, and left with the jade butterfly silk, thinking that the weather was hot and it was time to buy new clothes, I simply took two maids to visit the cloth village, the door of the cloth village we often went to was full of cars, the coachman could only stop at the mouth of an alley not far away, I got off the car and a person who came out of the alley almost collided head-on, I quickly took two steps back and stayed close to the bus stop, looked up, only to find that this person was Zhuo Yuwei, the second lady of the Zhuo family, She ran away in a panic and didn't even say hello, but she limped when she left, and it seemed that she was really injured.
I was stunned for a moment, then ignored it and walked into the cloth village with the two maids. Since I am a frequent customer here, the lady in charge of the store led me to the second floor, and brought the cloth that came in for me to pick, I picked a few, and then sent the jade butterfly color silk to pick up the fabric for other people in the house, and I sat upstairs drinking tea and waiting, idle and bored, I walked to the window, looked out through the window, this house is close to the alley, standing by the window just at a glance can see the people in and out of the alley, after looking at it for a while, I found that the people in and out of this alley are wearing the same clothes, it seems to be the family of that family, So I turned around and asked the shopkeeper that the house was in the alley here, and the shopkeeper told me with a smile that at the end of the alley was the back door of the Handan Palace, and the people living in the alley were all the people of the Handan Palace, and I couldn't help but think - what is this Zhuo Yuwei doing here? A vague thought flashed through my mind, but I couldn't figure out what it was. When I thought about it again, Yudie and Caijuan had already picked out the fabric and came back, so I turned around and went downstairs and told the shopkeeper to send the fabric we picked to the house, and the shopkeeper smiled and agreed.
Entering May, the weather is hot, there has been no rain for more than a month, Jicheng is gray everywhere, people's mood is also irritable, King Yan listened to the advice of the imperial hospital, moved to the Xishan Palace to recuperate from the summer, the concubines of the harem lord are with him, Chen Huan also has a Zhuangzi in Xishan, so he invited me to go with him, I can't stand the heat, I also want to go out for a walk, so I agreed.
On May 25, I followed Chen Huan to Xishan, Chen Huan's Zhuangzi was built on the mountain and the area was very large, I chose a small courtyard full of roses, this courtyard has a small gate leading to the path up the mountain, and my subordinates can enter and exit freely without going through the main entrance.
Although I live in Chen Huan's Zhuangzi, I never go to her main courtyard, I use the excuse of being picky about taste, and every day I eat with the chef I bring to the kitchen to cook it by myself, Chen Huan knows that I avoid her, and I don't force it.
I get up early every day, prune flowers and trees in the yard, read books and practice calligraphy in the morning, rest for an hour after lunch, practice female red with Mama Xu in the afternoon, and after eating in the evening, I take the maid out of the small door to walk on the mountain, and when the sky gets dark, I will return to the garden to bathe, and then read the book for a while and rest, I live so regularly every day, my physical strength is getting better and better, my face is much more ruddy than before, and my menstrual affairs are regular, which makes Mama Xu very happy.
June 22, Handan King Chen Pu also went to the West Mountain, said that he had a new purple Ganoderma lucidum the year before last, specially went up the mountain to present to the King of Yan, the King of Yan saw the great joy, so he left the King of Handan to live on the mountain for a few days, who knew that the King of Handan went up the mountain to hunt one day and broke his leg, there is a way to hurt the muscles and bones for a hundred days, so he had to stay in the West Mountain to recuperate.
All political affairs were left to the crown prince.
By the end of July, it had not rained for more than two and a half months, the red sun was scorching, the fields were dry, and the wheat seedlings were withered and burning. The emergency documents of each state and county were delivered to Jicheng one by one, and the prince convened all the courtiers to discuss, but there was no countermeasure.
In August, the drought had been more than three months, and this year's poor harvest was a foregone conclusion, and at the end of August, the common people of Youzhou rioted. King Yan angrily reprimanded the prince for not doing things well. General Zhuo led the army to Youzhou to quell the rebellion.
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