The weather is warm and cold.

In a courtyard full of peach blossoms in the northwest corner of the Marquis Mansion in Runan, several maidservants worked together to cover the peach and peach trees with cloth to block the invasion of rain. The peach blossoms are delicate, and they fall a lot in such a toss, and they fall into the muddy water, and they quickly become wet and dirty.

The handmaidens all looked terrified.

"It's all light, don't be careless! I can't save you if you turn around and make your master angry! Mingzhu put up the cloth on his side, and did not forget to remind the people below.

"Yes, Sister Mingzhu." The sound of promise was not clear in the rain.

Mingzhu sighed, believing that this group of newcomers was really clumsy.

The yard had been abandoned for a long time, having only been taken care of four years ago, and everything was old and old. Mingzhu still remembers that when she first moved in, there were weeds everywhere and they grew taller than people. Water tanks, flower pots, and a lot of forgotten miscellaneous items were piled up in the corners, and the cobwebs were bigger than the vegetable plates, and she almost vomited her breakfast with disgust.

They got up early and worked hard for seven days before they could make the yard habitable. But the things here are so old that you can often smell the long-dusty wood in the pearls. Only in the half month when the peach blossoms bloom can she ignore it.

It's not like a place where a young woman lives, it's like the kind of gray-haired old man who sees through the world and has no desires, and lives in this place and grows old with it.

"Crunch-" dragged out, gloomy and heavy tones.

Mingzhu said in his heart, what did I just say?

The next moment she realized something was wrong.

The door opens?

She hurriedly looked towards the door.

A woman in a silk dressing gown came out of the house, the pale apricot color of the dressing gown, which looked slippery and a little dull on a rainy day. The long black and dense hair reaches to the waist, a strand hangs down on the chest, the face is the kind of pale that has not seen the sun all year round, the lips are also light, the palm is the size of a goose egg face, and the eyes are black.

Lonely and lonely.

These four words popped out of Mingzhu's mind.

She forgot when her master started to become like this, four years ago? It doesn't seem that early.

Mingzhu greeted her with a smile, because she was covered in rain, so she didn't help her, "What did the princess come out for?" It's windy and rainy outside, so be careful of the cold. ”

"I'll come and see the flowers." Ruan Yu's voice was faint, out of nature, with a soothing softness, which made people wonder if she was laughing when she spoke.

But no, she frowned slightly, looking worriedly at the peach blossoms ravaged by the wind and rain.

"The slave will cover the peach blossoms, and the princess will go back and rest." Mingzhu urged again.

Ruan Yu glanced at her with a hesitant expression. In the end, I didn't know what I thought, so I pouted slightly and went in.

*

In the evening, Mingzhu and Yingzhu went to the room for dinner together. The room was full of people, and they searched around but couldn't find a place, so they could only wait for someone to finish eating.

"Pearl, pearl! Come here! Come and squeeze with me! ”

Mingzhu glanced in the direction of the speaker, "cut" and rolled his eyes.

Xiangyun of Furuitang, the most intimate girl next to Liu Fushuang, has a smile on her face, but she is an out-and-out human spirit.

Yingzhu was really hungry, so she pulled Mingzhu and said, "It's rare that she is kind, let's go to her table and squeeze it, how about it?" ”

Mingzhu hated that iron could not be made of steel, and pinched Yingzhu's face, "Look at your useless appearance!" ”

The two sat down on Xiangyun's left side, took a few bites of food, and suddenly heard Xiangyun come over and say, "Do you know?" ”

"Know what?"

"Xilianghou is back! The battle achievements are impressive, and I will be sealed when I come back! Xiangyun said as he observed the reactions of the two.

Mingzhu's face was immediately pulled down, so long, so long.

Yingzhu's chopsticks "clicked" and fell to the ground, and her two eyes looked straight into the void, at a loss.

Xiangyun proudly poked the rice in the bowl and said with a smile: "This news has been spread in the capital for several days, and you don't even know it." You are human beings, and you are not ghosts who live in ancient tombs, and you have to come out occasionally to breathe. ”

Mingzhu was almost angry with this little girl.

"If we are ghosts, we must go to Miss Xiangyun's house at night to breathe." Mingzhu slammed back.

Xiangyun was in a good mood, and only laughed when she heard Mingzhu say this, "I'll tell you, don't be ignorant of good people." If you need any help, just go to Furui Hall and find Lady Liu. ”

"Mrs. Liu?" Mingzhu sneered, "There is only one princess in the serious lady of the Marquis Mansion in Runan, what identity does your master deserve to be called Mrs.?" If you don't understand the rules, I'll teach you, you should be called Aunt Liu. ”

Everyone has become accustomed to their bickering, and they are eating their own food with their eyes down, and they hang high on their own business.

Speaking of which, this Runan Hou Mansion is really weird.

In other people's homes, the main mother carries the concubine and is angry, and the concubines show their own powers, and the male owner is indecisive between the wife and the concubine.

In contrast, the Runan Hou Mansion is much quieter.

It can't be regarded as really quiet, after all, the back house is also very strong, but the person who should be in the center of the vortex is living in a simple place to recuperate in a desolate courtyard of the Hou Mansion. It's not that Hou Ye punished her, after all, her status is high, the princess is down, and no matter how bad the relationship between husband and wife is, Hou Ye doesn't dare to offend her face.

It was the princess herself who asked to move in.

The reason is that the back house is smoky and miasma, which disturbs her to recuperate.

……

It's quite a miasma. The Hou Ye was fine when he first attacked the lord, and Aunt Liu only had six concubines. Later, it came in one by one every year, like a draft.

How many are there now?

I can't remember, but there are more than a hundred anyway.

The princess has always been careless, and Aunt Liu is in charge of everything, and over time, everyone calls Aunt Liu "Mrs. Liu", which is indeed a kind of arrogance. But Aunt Liu doesn't have the name of a wife, but she has a wife, and everyone is willing to please her.

The princess rarely appears, and occasionally goes out of the Jade Moss Courtyard to visit her parents in the palace, and she has nothing to do with the Hou Ye. Not to mention Master Hou, he stays in different aunts' houses every day, and from time to time he sleeps outside and sleeps in the willows. is favored by him, and it is time to enter the house after a while.

Marrying a concubine is like a play.

Aunt Liu is busy with the back house of 100 people every day, and she lacks skills, so she naturally has no energy to fight. So the people fighting in the back house of the Marquis of Runan are all small characters who don't have a catty, today you pull my hair, and tomorrow I will step on your shoes.

It's noisy, it's quiet...... It's really just a trivial matter.

is like Mingzhu and Xiangyun bickering, this is also the norm. Saying that the relationship between people is poor, in fact, it is more like a kind of friendship. The princess and Aunt Liu don't get along, so what do the people have to compete with?

Sure enough, they had already bypassed the topic, and Xiangyun smiled and told Mingzhu and Yingzhu what stupid things their aunts had done during the day, and the atmosphere at the dinner table gradually became pleasant.

*

On the way back to the Jade Moss Courtyard, Yingzhu asked Mingzhu anxiously: "What do you mean by Xiangyun telling us this?" Does Aunt Liu really want to help us? ”

Mingzhu held his face and did not speak.

Yingzhu pulled off the pearl.

Mingzhu looked at her with a "you stupid" expression and said, "Aunt Liu just wants to drive our princess out of the Runan Hou Mansion and count on Xiao Yuanji to correct her." But the question is not here, the question is, is the princess willing to go out? ”

Runanhou is Xiao Yuanji, because Xiao Yuanji is not doing human business, so they all call him by his name in private to express their resentment.

Yingzhu rounded the bend in her head, sighed, and nodded.

"Then, do you want to tell the princess the news of Xilianghou's return?" Yingzhu asked.

"Forget it." Mingzhu's face was melancholy: "Anyway, there will be no reaction." ”

*

As soon as it was dark, a sedan chair stopped outside the Marquis of Runan's mansion, and a young man came out of the sedan chair, dusted off the front hem of his clothes, and walked towards the mansion with an angry face.

The Hou Mansion is brightly lit. By the light of the lantern, you can clearly see that the man is handsome, but there is a heavier dark blue under his eyes, his eyes are scattered, he looks dull and clumsy, the corners of his mouth are turned downward, and his body is thin.

A look of overindulgence.

After Xiao Yuanji entered the mansion, he sat in a sedan chair, usually at this time he would report the name of a concubine, and then the sedan chair man carried him to the house of the named concubine.

"Go to Jade Moss Temple." Xiao Yuanji said.

The sedan chair man thought he had heard it wrong, and asked a lot: "Where is Master Hou going?" ”

The person inside sneered, and his tone was weird: "Ben Hou wants to see his wife, what's the matter, can't you?" ”

The sedan chair man didn't dare to speak, so he hurriedly lifted the sedan chair with his partner and headed northwest. The huge Runan Hou Mansion, the northernmost and most remote Jade Moss Courtyard, it is enough to go to the ordinary concubine's house for a cup of tea, and it is at least twice as long as to go there.

*

The sedan chair stopped at the entrance of the Jade Moss Courtyard.

Xiao Yuanji was impatient in the sedan chair, and he thought that the sedan chair man was walking slowly, so he kicked the sedan chair man on the leg when he came out. The sedan man's knee was bent when he was kicked, and he fell to the ground in pain.

Xiao Yuanji didn't look at it, and walked over and slammed the door.

Unlike other courtyards, no one will come at night, so the door is locked early. The sudden sound of slamming the door frightened the maids, and they said that it wouldn't be Hou Ye.

But, how is that possible?

Hou Ye didn't go to find those delicate concubines, what did he do in Jade Moss Courtyard?

When the door opened, it turned out to be Xiao Yuanji standing outside the door, and the maid at the head was startled and jumped open.

Hou Ye kicks people, as we all know, she doesn't want to touch this mold.

Xiao Yuanji's feet were just half lifted, and he was run away by the girl, neither lifting nor letting go, and his already ugly face became more distorted. Stiffened for a moment, stepped over the threshold and stepped on the ground.

He glared at the maids fiercely and headed straight for the main house.

Mingzhu stood outside the door and looked at who it was, and when he found that it was Xiao Yuanji, his face immediately changed, and he turned his head and shouted into the house: "Master Hou is here!" Yingzhu, Qinzhu, Caizhu, you come to the door! ”

After saying this, Mingzhu immediately closed the door and waited for it with a tense spirit.

Yingzhu and the three of them quickly jumped up from their seats, leaned against the door, and asked Mingzhu worriedly, "Can you send him away?" ”

Mingzhu said, "Trust me. ”

During the year, Xiao Yuanji always had to get sick several times and come to Yumoss Courtyard to find fault.

Back to Mingzhu on the front line, stubbornly resisted.

This has become a must-have drama in the Jade Moss Academy every year.