Chapter 40: The vinegar jar is broken

The milky white soup pot is bubbling with bubbles, and the marinated small ribs are placed on the side of the stove, and the oil is shiny.

Hanazuki put the pulled thin noodles into the pot and gently stirred them with long bamboo chopsticks, looking focused and skillful.

The kitchen ladies all stood in the courtyard, craned their necks to look in, and then retracted and continued to mumble.

"Isn't it already a concubine? Why do you still do the work of the next person? ”

"Yin is in charge of this concubine's room, one has not made up his mind and the other has not accepted the gift, it is a building near the water to get the moon first, and he will stir up while the son is young and vigorous, isn't there it, and it is not a serious master."

"But I heard that the third prince still spoils her."

"What kind of virtue does the third prince have, the new things in the East Courtyard, he will be hot for a while, and when this spring goes to autumn, who will take her seriously."

The voice was not loud, but Hua Yue still heard it clearly, in normal times, she would definitely go out to reprimand, and the subordinates in the general's mansion have always been intolerant.

But right now, she doesn't think it's interesting.

The bamboo chopsticks picked out the boiled noodles, and Hanatsuki poured small ribs on them, intending to end them outside, when they heard a sudden silence outside.

"Frostfall Girl." Someone whispered.

Shuang Xia's eyes were slightly red with anger, and he came forward and scolded: "Which master in this courtyard favors whom and who doesn't spoil whom, it's your turn to discuss?" Even if she Yin Huayue is not the master of the East Courtyard, she is also the head of your head, if you don't want to take the monthly money, you can leave, don't leave it here! ”

Several cooks were yelled at and bowed their heads and shrunk into a ball.

Frost was still puzzled, strode into the kitchen, and when she saw her, she said with a heavy face: "I think you are deaf, and you can't hear the bustle outside." ”

Hua Yue smiled at her, and a rare smile entered her eyes: "I'm in a hurry to deliver noodles to Miss Cousin." ”

"That's all you can do." Frost was angry and didn't choose to speak, "They protected you to survive, did they let you scold people and make noodles here?" Instead of just living like this, you might as well learn from your own routineβ€”"

"Frost falls." Kazuki quickly interrupted her, frowning.

swallowed the taboo name back, and Frost gritted his teeth, unconvinced.

With a light sigh, Hua Yue led her out, past the silent group of cooks, and stepped on the path paved with bluestone slabs.

"I'm just a subordinate."

The bowl in the tray was steaming, Hua Yue looked ahead, and whispered to her: "These are the only things that people can do, I can't do it often, and I can't become Shen Zhiluo, if you are really disappointed, you can pretend that you don't know me." ”

His lips almost bit blood, and Frost said in annoyance: "You are so self-defeating, they will only look down on you more and more." ”

"They look up to me, and I'm just a subordinate of the General's Mansion."

"Lying." She raised her eyes to look at the side of this person's face, and there was fire burning in her eyes, "Whose descendants have this ability to make Xue Ji die quietly." ”

After a pause, Hua Yue subconsciously glanced around, making sure that no one could hear the whisper, so she darkened her face and said, "You don't want to die?" ”

"I just don't get it." The knuckles were pinched white, and Frost said in a muffled voice, "You have the ability to use yourself as bait to trap Xue Ji, why do you still let these dogs step on your head and bully." ”

Xue Ji is Zhou Heshuo's henchman, and once he dies, the Praetorian Guards will have to mess up for a few months, which can give them a huge loophole, and several things that were originally stagnant can also be carried out smoothly.

If the frost fell was the news she received today, she would also think that Xue Ji's death was just an accident and happened to collide.

But she heard it yesterday when Yin Huayue got in the car and left.

The man stepped on the wheel, and said to her lightly: "You prepare earlier, and once the guards of the East Palace loosen up, you will send people in." ”

At that time, she didn't understand why the well-behaved guards of the East Palace were loosened, and it wasn't until she successfully inserted their people into the East Palace just now that she realized that Yin Huayue had been planning for a long time.

Even if the third prince doesn't go to that trip, Xue Ji will definitely die.

When did this start planning? Frost Fall couldn't figure it out, but she knew that Yin Huayue was not useless in Sun Yaozu's mouth, she had her own ideas, and she had even started her calculations.

She didn't even tell her about these calculations.

Her throat tightened, her eyes reddened, and she didn't know what she was angry about, so she just glared at her fiercely.

The noodles in the tray couldn't blow too much wind, so Kazuki took the plate and buckled the mouth of the bowl, and suddenly freed up a hand, pinched his thumb, and shook it gently.

"Are there fewer people who have bullied me over the years?" She stared at her, smiling slyly and calmly, "What's the matter with letting them say a few words, life still has to pass." ”

The frost fell on his face and was unmoved.

"I know that you feel sorry for me, you can't see that the little master of the West Palace, who was not afraid of heaven and earth, has become a slave who is broken by others." She softened her tone and said softly, "But people didn't say anything wrong, people are under the eaves, how can anyone not bow their heads." ”

"If you don't get along with the third son, there will be nothing." Frost muttered in a deep nasal voice, "Knowing that everyone is the most thoughtful, you want to mix with him, do you know how many times the young lady of the Han family has secretly come to investigate?" ”

With a slight pause in his fingertips, Hua Yue said: "I said it, it was a last resort." ”

"Is it really a last resort, or are you pushing the boat with the current?" Frostfall gritted her teeth, "I don't believe that if you really don't want to mess with him, there is no other way!" ”

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Quickening her steps, she bypassed the moon gate, and slightly hastily wanted to step into Miss Table's courtyard.

The frost stopped outside the courtyard gate, and she wouldn't follow in, but she stood where she was, and still said in a deep voice: "Lord Shen is not wrong, you are paranoid about this person, and you will suffer." ”

The voice floated up from behind, and it was inaudible when it was blown by the wind. Kazuki closed her eyes, stabilized her mind, and pushed open the door of the main house with a smile again.

Su Miao fell asleep, and the room was quiet, only Li Jingyun turned her head to look at her.

Slowing down, Hua Yue put the bowl on the table and asked in a confused whisper, "Miss Cousin doesn't eat noodles anymore?" ”

"How do you eat when you're asleep?" Glancing at the noodles she brought, Li Jingyun snorted coldly, "Pasty." ”

"It's inevitable that I'll be a little stuck on the way over." She lifted the plate and mixed it with chopsticks, "It's not too mushy, the concubine has been kneading the noodles for a long time, and it is very strong." ”

Turning his face away contemptuously, Li Jingyun disagreed: "It's not delicious to look at." ”

It's not for you. Hua Yue scolded her belly, flattened her mouth, picked up the bowl and was about to go out.

"What are you going to do?" He asked.

"Send the noodles back to the kitchen and see if anyone else wants to eat them." Hua Yue said, "Miss Cousin can't eat it anyway." ”

Coughing lightly uncomfortably, Li Jingyun knocked on the table: "The things are placed, you go back to the east courtyard first to see if the white deer has been fed." ”

Didn't Bailu keep letting Badou feed him? Hua Yue wondered in her heart, but she didn't say much, and let the bowl go out after answering.

Frostfall didn't mean to block her, and there was no one at the gate of the yard.

With a sigh of relief, Hua Yue lowered her head and walked towards the East Courtyard, thinking as she walked, Xue Ji is dead, Shen Zhiluo and Chang Gui will definitely be busy recently, the East Palace is currently arguing with the Middle Palace about the affairs of the courtyard, Sun Yaozu and Yin Ru are also busy seizing power, and no one will notice her at all.

Then she can trouble a few more people.

There were a few names in her heart, and she repeated them, and her eyes were slightly oozing blood.

"Aunt Yin." Hachito's hand shook in front of her and shouted to her in concern.

Hua Yue came back to her senses and found that she had walked to the gate of the east courtyard at some point, Badou pinched the broom, and when she finally raised her eyes, she hurriedly said: "You two didn't come back last night, but you made people anxious." ”

"What's wrong?" She asked.

Badou scratched the back of his head and said, "It's not a big deal, I just heard about it...... Miss Han hanged herself yesterday. ”

Oh, hang yourself.

Kazuki nodded and calmly continued to walk inside.

"Wait." After taking two steps, she stopped and suddenly turned her head sharply, "What did you say?" Hang oneself?! ”

Badou nodded, pestle the broom handle and said, "As for last night, someone came to us to spread the word, but Childe and you are not there. ”

Gasping, Hua Yue was about to leave in a hurry, looked down at the skirt on her body, thought about it, and went to change into a light white one.

"Auntie." Badou smiled, "You listen to the minion, hang yourself and hang yourself, the person is fine, he has been rescued." ”

Feeling slightly relieved, Hua Yue asked him, "Did you say why?" ”

"Why else?" Hachito stopped talking and glanced at the empty main house.

Kazuki was silent.

If Su Miao likes a person who is enthusiastic and unrestrained, then Han Shuang likes a person who is crazy and intoxicated, and never dies. What kind of game she set up for her last time, Hua Yue still can't see the whole picture, but this time, Hua Yue knows that she is fighting with her life.

Miss Guimen's attempt to seek death is to cause a sensation in half of Jinghua, and if she is someone else, she must suppress the news to prevent people from guessing. But the Han family didn't, and they even took the initiative to inform the other half of Jinghua.

As a result, the news that "the third son of the Li family began to abandon the chaos, and the eldest lady of the Han family sought death and life" quickly spread all over the streets and alleys, becoming the hottest after-dinner conversation in Jinghua that day.

Hua Yue thought that Li Jingyun would be angry and would refuse to see her, or sneer at this kind of daughter's style.

turned out no, Li Jingyun took her to the Han Mansion together, sat on the edge of Han Shuang's bed, and let her cry and wet half of her sleeves.

"I really...... I really didn't lie to you. Han Shuang's eyes were red and she couldn't breathe, "When will you forgive me?" ”

Li Jingyun sat quietly, her eyes swept over her eye sockets and pale lips, she didn't know what she was thinking, and after a long time, she asked, "Do you really want to die?" ”

Glancing at him timidly, Han Shuang sniffed and suddenly showed a tearful smile. Her eyes wandered, as if she remembered something good, and murmured, "My life is yours, I shouldn't have looked for a short time without telling you." ”

As he spoke, tears fell again: "However, you ignore me, marry someone else, and be with someone else, what's the point of my life." ”

Hua Yue stood beside her, a little uncomfortable, she glanced at Li Jingyun and found that he was looking at Han Shuang intently with the corners of his lips pursed, as if he was a little ......

Distressed?

Seeing this emotion in his eyes, Hua Yue was stunned, almost embarrassed to withdraw her gaze, and lowered her eyes to the tips of her shoes.

I thought that this person only had disgust and resistance to Han Shuang, but I didn't expect that something really happened, and I would be distressed. This person is really hard-mouthed and soft-hearted.

"Little sister-in-law." Wen was standing outside the door and suddenly called out to her.

Hua Yue came back to her senses and bowed her head to Li Jingyun to leave. Li Jingyun didn't look at her, only waved her hand, and her eyes were still fixed on Han Shuang.

Pursing her lips slightly, she exited the room and closed the door for the two of them.

"Little sister-in-law." Wen Guzhi dragged her to the courtyard and smiled meaningfully, "It's not good to stay in that room, I'll save you." ”

Hua Yue smiled gently, squeezed her hand and said, "There's nothing uncomfortable about it." ”

He raised his eyebrows, his eyes full of disbelief.

She looked at the hem of her skirt casually: "What a noble person the prince is, there will be no shortage of people around him and in his heart, if I say two words, I will be uncomfortable, then as early as when I had a private meeting with him like water, I will not lose my days." ”

"Like water?" Wen Jiuzhi thought for a while, and suddenly said, "Ah, you said that the singer who came from the prince's side, the third master of the girl will not move, even if she spends the night in the room, there will definitely be nothing." ”

Raising her eyes suspiciously, Hua Yue felt funny: "Can a man not eat the meat that is brought to his mouth?" ”

"It's not a question of meat or meat." Wen Gu knows, "The third master is a measured person, a woman who comes with a purpose, he has never touched it, and no matter how much he likes it, he will not have a skin-to-skin kiss, so as not to cause any trouble." ”

As he spoke, he glanced back at the direction of Han Shuang's boudoir, and said, "This one is the same." ”

"Same?" Hua Yue chuckled, smiling so much that she showed a row of teeth, "Imperial Doctor Wen didn't think he saw how the third master talked to Miss Han, that look, like a water girl, but she couldn't catch up with the horse." ”

Wen Zhizhi looked at her with teasing eyes and chuckled.

"Don't get me wrong." She pursed her ears and said coldly, "I'm just talking about the facts I saw." ”

Tilting his head and thinking about it, he nodded his head: "The two of them have known each other for so many years, and it is inevitable that they are closer than outsiders." It's just that there are a lot of misunderstandings in the middle, and the third master won't treat her too closely. The third master said that he didn't want to marry her, that is, he really didn't want to, and the sister-in-law didn't have to worry too much. ”

What does she have to worry about? Kazuki sneered in her heart.

She is just a shield he casually makes, and it is not for her to worry about who he will marry or not in the future.

But speaking of which, the third prince is really awkward, he can risk his life to go to the East Palace to save Han Shuang, and he is clearly worried about others, but he treats him with a cold face, and he doesn't give anyone half a bit of gentleness.

"Imperial Doctor Wen." She couldn't help but ask, "If you have a girl you like, will you hang her, or marry someone back earlier?" ”

Wen Guzhi raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and a figure quickly crossed over in his mind.

He touched his chin and smiled: "Hang." ”

"Why?" Hua Yue was puzzled, "Be really happy, won't you want to stay?" ”

"If this is a peaceful and prosperous world, then I must have carried her eight sedan chairs through the door. But not now. Wen Jiuzhi shook his head, looked into the distance and said in a very soft voice, "Don't look at us people in brocade clothes and jade food, look at the brightness, I don't know how many swords and swords there are behind our backs." In the current situation, didn't I hurt her by marrying her? ”

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As if her heart had been stabbed by something, Hanazuki unconsciously tightened her sleeves, and her breathing was light.

He was so immersed in his own thoughts that he didn't realize what the listener would think. He smashed his lips and muttered, "That little girl doesn't know when she will understand." ”

I lost my temper with him yesterday, and let him roll as far as he wanted, which was very difficult to coax.

sighed for a moment, and looked up to talk to Hua Yue, but found that the person in front of him had left without knowing when.

The courtyard was bathed in the warm sun, a good spring, but he stood alone, looked left and right, and couldn't see anyone.

Knowing the old age, he pouted and continued to go back to the pharmacy to boil the medicine.

After Li Jingyun heard Han Shuang's crying, she found that the little dog next to her had never come back.

He went out in wonder and asked Wen Zhizhi in the pharmacy: "Have you seen your sister-in-law?" ”

Wen Jiuzhi was fanning the fire, and he didn't raise his head when he heard the words: "I was still in the courtyard before, but I don't know where I went later." ”

It's really getting more and more disagreeable, Li Jingyun frowned and turned away, thinking that this person was quite measured before, but today he was on someone else's territory, why did he still run around.

A thought flashed through his mind, and his heart tightened.

This is the territory of the Han Mansion, Han Shuang is looking for death, the Han family is uncomfortable, don't sprinkle the anger on Yin Huayue's head, right?

The pace quickened, and he looked for two back and forth near Han Shuangxiulou.

No one.

His face became more and more ugly, Li Jingyun grabbed the steward of the Han Mansion and asked in a cold voice, "What about the person I brought?" ”

The steward was taken aback by him, and said tremblingly, "I just left through the side door." ”

Let's go? Alone? Li Jingyun smiled when he heard this: "If you don't break your two bones, won't you tell the truth?" ”

The housekeeper wailed again and again: "Third son, if you are really gone, do you want to go back and have a look." ”

He has said this foolish thing a thousand times by himself, where is he willing to believe it, and he directly twisted the steward to find Han Shuang.

Han Shuang had fallen asleep, but when he woke up and asked, he cried and hit the bedpost again. The subordinates hurriedly went to invite the old lady of the Han Mansion, and a group of people chattered and made a fuss.

Ignoring the angry scolding and condemnation of the Han family and his wife, Li Jingyun angrily searched most of the Han Mansion and made sure that no one could be found, so he went home. He thought about it, if there was no one in the general's mansion, he would take someone back to demolish the Han mansion.

As a result, as soon as he got out of the carriage, he saw Yin Huayue standing by the east gate of the General's Mansion in a good manner.

Still smiling and talking to people.

Full of worry and frozen into a piece of ice, Li Jingyun stood in place and was silent for a while, then strode forward and pulled her away.

"Who gave you the fault you are used to." He pinched her shoulder, and a storm of ice spikes blew in his eyes, "You won't say a word to your master when you leave?!" ”

Hua Yue was so yelled at this sudden scolding that she didn't react, and looked up at him, innocent and dazed.

Li Jingyun was really angry, looking at her appearance, he felt that his act of making trouble with the Han Mansion was a pure fool, and he was played around by her.

"You did it on purpose, didn't you? I want to see the master nervous for you, angry for you, and so anxious that you jump up and down to be satisfied. He gasped, and the hand holding her shoulder gradually tightened, "When can you women clean up this little bit of thought, and you have to make trouble unreasonably to vent your dissatisfaction?" Han Shuang hanged herself, you disappeared when you played, didn't you owe you? ”

Hua Yue was scolded and looked at him blankly, until she heard the last sentence, and then slowly came back to her senses.

She wanted to laugh, but the corners of her mouth couldn't be raised, so she could only sip it in embarrassment.

There was a lump of stuff in her throat, and after swallowing twice, she finally swallowed it, Hua Yue cleared her throat, but her voice was still hoarse: "Concubine...... The slave didn't mean that. ”

Showing him the medicine bag he was holding, she explained word by word: "Fang Cai came to pass the word that Mrs. had relapsed from her old illness, and she couldn't find the prescription, so let the slave and maid come to see the medicinal materials." ”

The frost on the side was already frightened by him, and he nodded when he heard the words.

Hua Yue thought about it, but still hung up her smile, and said softly: "It's wrong for the slave to leave without knowing it, the slave and maid admit her mistake to the childe, and the slave and the maid thought that the son would accompany Miss Han for a while longer, and it was not easy to disturb, thinking that he would go back immediately after grabbing the medicinal herbs." ”

She folded her hands and bowed respectfully to him: "The slave knows the mistake, please forgive the son." ”

I put it in my heart in one breath, and I was blocked here before I could get out. Li Jingyun pinched her shoulder, and she didn't scold, and if she didn't scold, she didn't seem to be able to get down for a while.

He just glared at her, gasping for air.

Frost couldn't stand it anymore, so he mustered up the courage to protect Hua Yue behind him, and frowned: "Third prince, she didn't mean it, you scolded and scolded, dissipate your anger." ”

Originally, I didn't think there was anything, but being so Ichigo made Hanazuki's eyes a little hot.

This person, you can accept any grievance, what you are most afraid of is that someone will protect you if you are wronged, and the more you protect you, the more fierce you will cry. Frostfall obviously didn't understand this truth, and half-hugged her like an old hen protecting her cubs, and patted her gently.

She didn't want to cry in front of Li Jingyun, it was really too embarrassing, so Hua Yue pushed her away, took out her momentum of being in charge, and said with a smile: "If the son is still not angry, he will punish the slave and maid later, for now, let her go and deliver medicine to Mrs. first, and the slave and maid will accompany you back to Hanfu, right?" ”

"No need." He closed his eyes, stepped into the door with his sleeves, and said coldly, "You don't have to go to the Han Mansion for the time being, you come with me." ”

"Yes."

Growing up so big, Li Jingyun hasn't apologized to anyone yet, but now that he calms down and thinks about it, it seems that he has yelled too much, and the little girl's eyes are red.

People are not pampered and arrogant, there is a reason for it.

When he went into the main house and poured a cup of tea, he touched the rim of the cup and hesitated, how to say this, so as not to lose face and let people know that he was admitting his mistake.

Before he could figure it out, another cup of tea was handed in front of him.

Yin Huayue held the teacup in both hands, lowered her head and handed it to him, and said softly: "This cup was just brewed." ”

The attitude seems to be a lot better than before? Li Jingyun wondered, shouldn't the little girl lose her temper when she was wronged, why was she more obedient?

But that's fine, he reached out and took the tea, thinking that the dog just can't be too spoiled, and occasionally get angry, and let her know that she can't act arbitrarily.

So he swallowed the words back and took a sip of hot tea with peace of mind.