Chapter 18: Autumn Evening
This sleep is extremely unsteady, like a ghost pressing the bed, she always feels that someone is standing next to her and watching her, but she can't wake up. Like a nightmare, a broken whisper came from my ears.
"Can't stay here any longer."
"Wait, it's not time yet."
"That nurse has been found by Lin Wenjing, and the son told me to take her away now."
"No! Go now, where to go, what can you do? The master is still locked up. ”
There was a sound of breaking the sky in his ears, and he struggled to wake up, only to find that the room was empty, only Yancao's even breathing. Just a dream. She let out a long sigh of relief and rolled over.
Qiu Xi recuperated from a foot injury for two or three days, and looked at her coldly, but admired her for doing a full set of acts, and became more and more wary of her in her heart. Speaking of which, she prefers to be around people like Jade. Although they don't like each other, as long as they are clear, they can get along well. Moreover, jade represents the Zhou family to a certain extent, and it is always for Lin Huaijin's sake. Autumn is different.
Emerald doesn't like her, understandably. Behind Jade's words and deeds is actually Zhou's attitude. She didn't expect to change Zhou's opinion of herself through her words, so what she said that day was actually said to Bisi and the others through the mouth of Jade.
As for the autumn evening. She is like a snake lurking in the grass, she will jump out and bite people at any time, and pretend to be harmless to humans and animals. Cersei didn't have much to do with her, and she didn't know why she was targeting her.
Cersei knocked on the side from Mama Zhou and found out that the reason why Bisi hated Yancao, but she didn't like Yancao's careful thinking in front of Lin Huaijin when she saw the sky. If Qiu Xi has a heart for Lin Huaijin, why can't she look down on Yancao like Bisi, but dig a pit for her? Cersei couldn't figure it out, she only felt that Qiu Xi was deep in thought, and she couldn't know what she was thinking or what she could do.
Lin Huaijue didn't get better as quickly as Qiuxi. Cersei was smashed a little hard at the time, he lay down for a month to recover from his trauma, and he still felt dizzy and wanted to vomit. I don't know what kind of drug he was given that night, and when he woke up, he didn't remember what he had done, why he appeared in that place, and he only insisted that he had drunk too much, which made Zhou Yunqing and Cersei both breathe a sigh of relief. The Zhou family disposed of many people in a big way, sold all the little maids who went out that night, and changed the maids in Lin Huaijue's yard to another layer.
The undercurrents and ills hidden below in the house gradually surfaced, and in this situation, the Zhou family actually wanted to hold a flower viewing banquet.
Yan Cao was very happy: "The prince has recently found an errand, and the house should be happy." ”
Cersei asked, "What kind of errand did the prince have?" ”
Yan Cao's eyes lit up: "It is said that the grandfather of the country has been very liked by the saint on an errand recently, and the saint ordered the grandfather of the country to take the prince into the palace to see the driver, and praised our prince as 'the wings of the country, such as the prosperity of the forest', and gave the prince the position of captain and supervised the Yulin army." ”
Clearly. The Son of Heaven is so glorious, no wonder the Zhou family has raised his eyebrows recently. With Lin Huaijue wrapped in grass, Lin Huaijin's star shines brightly.
"When the son of the world is on an errand, it's time to say goodbye." Cersei looked at Yan Cao, who looked like he was honored, and reminded.
Yan Cao understood with a little flick, the light in her eyes flashed, and she went out: "Madame holds this flower-viewing banquet...... Is it ......?"
Cersei nodded. The house has been full of shortcomings for a long time, and the Zhou family used Lin Huaijue's matter to deal with many people some time ago, but he pressed the gourd and scooped it up, and he was so busy that he was too busy. At this time, a flower-viewing banquet is held to show off the emperor's appreciation of the lower Guogong Mansion, and on the other hand, it is about looking at the ladies of the right age.
Yan Cao stopped speaking, and looked at the glass rabbit lamp with a gloomy face. She loved it so much that she put it in a prominent place and looked at it all the time.
Cersei did not speak. There are some things that Yancao should also understand and plan for in advance. At this time, comfort is useless.
"Yo, what's the matter, the atmosphere is so bad, who messed with our sister Yancao?" Qiu Xi pushed the door in.
Yancao was immersed in her emotions and did not answer. Cersei went out to see the lights once since the Shangyuan Festival, and she felt a lot, and her mind was open, she only felt that the sky was high and far away, and it didn't hurt to be free and easy, and she was even lazy to deal with people she didn't like, so she ignored her.
Qiu Xi rolled her eyes and said with a smile: "Sister, this rabbit lamp is really exquisite, but unfortunately I haven't seen it light up, it must be very beautiful." The prince is really different to his sister, such a delicate lamp, and he will send it when he says it. ”
Yan Cao came back to her senses and smiled at her embarrassedly: "Look at me, I think about it, I didn't greet my sister, my sister sit down." ”
Qiu Xi sat down with a smile and looked at Se Se again: "I heard that although the prince has a lot of entertainment after being on an errand, he has to stay in the study for an hour every day, I wonder if I have anything interesting to listen to with my sister?" Yan Cao heard that her words were wrong, and hurriedly defended Sese: "The prince is reading and writing in the study, and he doesn't go to chat, besides, what can he say to us as slaves." ”
Qiu Xi's eyes wandered over Yan Cao's face, looking like he wanted to say something and was holding back. Cersei looked at her expression of wanting to speak, and couldn't help but wonder, could it be that this autumn evening actually fell in love with Yancao, so she was not angry with herself who was with Yancao all day? She thought that she seemed to have heard of the rumors that a young lady from a rich family was desperate not to marry at first, and finally her husband, who had been married for five days, found out that she was having boudoir fun with her maid. Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shudder and found an excuse to leave the house.
In the house, Qiu Xi's interest seemed to return to the lamp: "It's the first time I've seen the lamp made inside, and I heard that this is a picture drawn by the Hou Shizi of Huaihai himself and made by the Internal Affairs Office." This thing takes a lot of work, and even the royal family only has five or six lamps. When our prince provoked the Hou Shizi of Huaihai to make a bet, and when he won it back, the Hou Shizi of Huaihai was so angry that his face turned blue. ”
Yan Cao listened quietly, looking at the lamp with eyes as if looking at Lin Huaijin, so soft that it could drip water.
Qiu Xi looked at Yan Cao expectantly: "This lamp is so rare, it's really enviable." When the prince gave his sister a lamp, did he say something? ”
Yan Cao was stunned: "This is not given to me by the prince himself." ”
Qiu Xi seemed to be stunned for a moment, and then covered her mouth and smiled: "Seeing that I am confused, how can the prince of the world take it back to you with his own hands, it is too eye-catching." It must have been given to my sister by Desheng, but that's the same, who doesn't know that Desheng represents the meaning of our son. ”
Yan Cao's heart was a little heavy: "Desheng gave Cersei, let Cerse give me ......" It's just a few steps of effort, and it's such a precious lamp, why does Desheng want Cersei to hand it over? Yan Cao didn't want to think about it, so she picked up other topics and talked about them. Qiu Xi seemed to be unconscious, and chatted with her for a while, until Qin Sang came in and called Yancao: "Madam just sent someone to say that the prince has a party tonight, and it will be late to come back, so let you boil some sobering soup and prepare it." After speaking, he didn't listen to her answer, and turned around to go.
Qiu Xi said angrily: "She is just a little girl, and she is not polite to her sister at all." ”
Yan Cao was stunned: "She is a person with a head and a face, and I can't compare." ”
Qiu Xi took Yan Cao's hand and said sincerely: "It's just that the dog's eyes look down on people, I can see it, the people in this courtyard are all villains who step on the high and praise the low, and when my sister gets ahead in the future, they will change their faces, and then they will have a good life." ”
Yancao smiled bitterly, and now she looked at the glass lamp, and she was very piercing: "The prince can't look down on me." ”
Qiu Xi looked disapproving: "My sister's talent is the best in this courtyard, who else does the prince look down on you?" It's just me who thinks about it, but the world doesn't understand. ”
"Don't understand?"
Qiu Xi nodded: "Yes, you see in this courtyard, which one is not respectful to the prince, and the prince is clean and self-loving, and never goes to those places of wind and moon, I am afraid that he doesn't understand the girl's mind at all." It's better to ......" her voice grew lower, and by the end it was almost inaudible. Yan Cao couldn't help but lean over to listen carefully, but her face became redder and redder: "No, if Madam knows, she will kill me." ”
Qiu Xi's face was narrow: "Madame chose you, isn't that what it means?" The son of the world doesn't understand, so you should be more attentive. ”
Yan Cao pondered carefully. Qiu Xi didn't say any more and left.
It wasn't until Cersei came back from Mama Zhou that she found that Yancao didn't light the lamp, only elbows in a daze. She lit the lamp, and Yan Cao came back to her senses, remembering that she hadn't prepared the decanting soup yet, so she hurriedly greeted Cersei and went to work.