Chapter 55: The Tea House
Xie Wanyan has gone out significantly more often in recent days, but she didn't let Pei'er follow each time.
She only walks around the house, and the left and right gates will not come out, and Pei'er didn't care when she got Mrs. Ye's orders.
Ye Huaijin also gradually discovered the pattern of her travel, and in order to verify it, he sometimes deliberately went to meet her by chance, and he was able to hit it every time.
At first, he would wonder if the other party was deliberately waiting for him, but seeing that her surprise when she saw him was not like pretending, he suddenly realized that he was self-inflicted, and slowly dispelled this doubt.
Every time there was no conversation between the two, sometimes they just nodded slightly, sometimes they just smiled slightly, and sometimes they didn't have anything, and they didn't bother each other.
None of them had an agreement with each other, as if they were born with a tacit understanding.
Ye Huaijin is almost obsessed.
even began to look forward to the meeting of the two every day.
He and Yuan have lived together for six years, and they have never had such a sense of freshness, they have been combined by the words of the matchmaker at the behest of their parents, and they have passed so many years in a dull way, except for the big black cat she raised who only recognized her, and she has never had a child.
It's not that he didn't look for Lang Zhong to show her, the emperor also sent a special imperial doctor in the palace to show her body, but no matter who it was, after seeing it, she shook her head again and again, saying that she was congenitally deficient and unable to have children.
It doesn't matter, the mother is already surrounded by the eldest brother's two grandchildren, so she won't feel that she is missing anything.
And he also has a casual attitude towards this, just raise it if there is no stool, anyway, he is still a caring person, it doesn't matter.
But since he and Xie Wanyan met more often, when he returned to his room and saw that cold-faced person, the more he looked at it, the more unpleasant it became.
Ye Huaijin didn't feel that her mood had changed, but she secretly complained about Yuan, feeling that she was not as good as before.
In fact, at first, Ye Huaijin occasionally thought about whether she was sorry for the Yuan family, but everyone likes to be soft and obedient, and she is not the only one in the world to choose, once or twice, if it goes on for a long time, why bother sticking to her cold ass with a hot face!
Ye Huaijin and Xie Wanyan's chance encounter, either deliberately or by the way, lasted for more than half a month, and finally they spoke again.
The two of them happened to walk directly opposite each other, and they would look very embarrassed if they didn't speak.
But if you ask someone else's girl to speak first, it is indeed not the case, Ye Huaijin quickly passed through thousands of thoughts in his mind when the two were a few steps away, and finally took the lead in opening his mouth when he was one step away, "Miss Xie." Then he apologized, "Do you mind if the girl calls her by her last name like that?" ”
Xie Wanyan smiled faintly, and the wind gently blew the broken hair on her cheeks, and the whole person became a little more agile because of this, shook her head, and said, "It's okay, the second son is free." ”
The corners of Ye Huaijin's lips hooked slightly, "I haven't had a chance to say sorry to Miss Xie for that day." ”
Xie Wanyan was slightly distracted, as if she was thinking about what he said, Ye Huaijin immediately spoke to help her recall, "That day, I was ignorant and bumped into the girl, and I made the girl lose face in front of her mother, I'm really sorry." ”
Xie Wanyan only remembered after this reminder, and shook his head at him again, "The second son is serious, the slave family did not take this matter to heart, and the behavior of the second lady is also human nature, so it doesn't matter." ”
Ye Huaijin heard her say this, and the snubbing she had suffered in the Yuan family for the past few days felt a lot of ironing in an instant, they are also women, why is there such a big gap between them?
"Miss Xie has been walking around the house for the past few days, but she doesn't see happiness on the girl's face, do you think there is no fun in the house, it's too depressing?"
Xie Wanyan's eyebrows flashed with a trace of sadness, and he said lightly: "In the past, the slave family has been floating outside, and now it is a blessing to have such a place, and the slave family has felt that he is so virtuous, how can he feel depressed?" ”
However, Ye Huaijin is such a shrewd person, how could he not see that Xie Wanyan's words are wrong? If she really said what she said, then who did the emotions on her face show it?
Although she used a little careful thought, in Ye Huaijin's opinion, she didn't care, a woman is willing to think about a man, which shows that she has a heart for him.
So Ye Huaijin said: "A new teahouse has recently opened in Beijing, and the pastries in it are said to be very delicious. After saying that, he said very intimately, "Girl, please rest assured, the family has a surplus of carriages, and the girl will never be wronged." ”
Xie Wanyan thought for a while, and his expression was a little embarrassed.
"What scruples does the girl have?"
Xie Wanyan said: "That day, thanks to the rescue of the second son, the slave family was saved from falling into the fish pond, but the second lady saw it and gave birth to such a misunderstanding, and almost made a big incident. ”
"She dares!" Ye Huaijin subconsciously blurted out, and hurriedly changed her appearance, "If Miss Xie cares about this, she is too worried, she has been guarding her cat day and night for the past few days, and she has no time to take care of anything else, and she doesn't even go out of the door, she doesn't care if she goes out or what she does." Don't worry, Miss Xie. ”
Xie Wanyan was still worried, as if he was particularly scared, "Really? ”
Ye Huaijin's desire to protect the weak was instantly stimulated, and she immediately said: "If she really knows, the girl doesn't have to be afraid, there is someone in front of her, and she will definitely not be able to make any waves if she is bold!" ”
After receiving such a promise, Xie Wanyan seemed to finally feel a lot more relieved, raised his eyes slightly shyly and timidly to look at Ye Huaijin, and nodded shyly, "Hmm." ”
Ye Huaijin suddenly felt overjoyed, and couldn't wait to say, "If the girl is okay now, we will go now." ”
Xie Wanyan's face was slightly red again, and he said in a low voice: "Hmm." ”
After a short time as the two carriages left on their feet, a girl dressed as a male slave followed behind.
It wasn't until he saw Ye Huaijin get out of the carriage and help Xie Wanyan down in the back that the house slave dressed as a man was surprised for a moment, turned around and pulled his legs back the way he came.
She ran back to Yuan out of breath, and when she didn't even breathe, she told her what she saw.
"Second, the second young master, take it, take Miss Xie, and go to a newly opened teahouse shop to eat snacks!"
Yuan Shi suddenly smashed the teacup in his hand and lifted the small square table on the couch.
The big black cat meowed, and squatted back to his cage three or two.
"Slut! Slut! ”
In the house on the east side of the fence wall, Cheng Jingxi made a pot of tea, planning to enjoy the winter sunshine leisurely.
Ye Huaiyu observed her for nearly half a month, and found that during this period, she picked up books and studied only a handful of times.
One day, on a whim, he wanted to find the books she had read, but he couldn't find them.
When I asked her, she told him, "The day before yesterday, an old man came to collect old goods, and I saw that they were useless, so I sold them to him, and asked Bi'er to use the money to go out and make some wine. ”
He couldn't laugh or cry when he heard this, and said that the wine was bought from the kitchen.
Ye Huaiyu saw that she was idle, so she took her teacup and proposed: "Shangjing has recently opened a teahouse, and the dim sum in it is really first-class, do you want to try it?" ”
As soon as it comes to eating, Cheng Jingxi's enthusiasm will become high, and she immediately doesn't care about being robbed of the teacups, "Go!" ”
The two hit it off, cleaned up a little, and then got into the carriage and went off in high spirits.
Ye Huaijin asked for a private room and asked the shopkeeper to bring a small plate of all the dim sum in the store.
Xie Wanyan drank the tea stiffly, looking a little overwhelmed.
Seeing this, Ye Huaijin asked, "What does Miss Xie have to say?" ”
Xie Wanyan smiled unnaturally, "The slave family has never been to such a place since the day he was born. ”
"It doesn't matter, in the future, as long as the girl is willing, you can come with the girl often."
Xie Wanyan's eyes flashed with joy, but in an instant, it dimmed again, took another sip of tea, raised his eyebrows and did not speak.
can not speak, but there is still a meaning that silence is better than sound at this time.
How could Ye Huaijin not know what she wanted to say and what she was going to say, after thinking about it, she seemed to have made a lot of determination and said: "Ye has never had a concubine, and now the relationship with his wife has become what the girl sees, if the girl doesn't dislike it, so-and-so will go to ask her mother, no, so-and-so go to ask the emperor, the third brother doesn't want you, so-and-so wants you, so-and-so will definitely give the girl a reliable place to follow!" After a pause, Wen Yan continued, "In this way, it will be more justified to travel with the girl in the future." ”
Xie Wanyan looked at Ye Huaijin in shock, as if he had heard something rebellious.
Ye Huaiyu and Cheng Jingxi got down from the carriage, and the veiled Cheng Jingxi raised his eyes to look at the signboard above his head.
There is nothing new about it, saying that it is a newly opened teahouse, and it is really called the word "teahouse".
"Guest officer, please," the shopkeeper came over to greet them politely, "Do you want to eat in the hall, or do you want to have a private room upstairs?" ”
Ye Huaiyu turned his head to look at Cheng Jingxi, who glanced upstairs.
"Yamama." Ye Huaiyu said.
"Okay, two upstairs-"
Xie Wanyan looked at Ye Huaijin in a daze for a while, and said, "The second son must not say such things in the future!" ”
"Could it be that Miss Xie really plans to stay in the third brother's yard for the rest of her life?"
Xie Wanyan said stubbornly: "Since the slave family was rewarded by the emperor to the courtyard of the third prince, they will stay there for the rest of their lives!" ”
"What if the third brother himself said that he didn't want a girl?"
Xie Wanyan was short of breath for a moment and did not speak.
Ye Huaiyu and Cheng Jingxi walked to the door of a private room, and happened to hear the question, and the two glanced at each other in unison, and both read surprise in each other's eyes.