Chapter 25: The Annex
On the way home, Meng Ruyue kept staring at the plaques of the shops along the road, and finally saw the sign of Guangjitang, hurriedly asked the coachman to stop, and got out of the car with Xiangqiao to buy medicine, and ran back happily after a while, "Sure enough, there is the medicine that His Royal Highness the Prince said, and there is only one bottle left, we are so lucky!" ”
After finishing speaking, he went to tease the sleeves of the volley, but as soon as he saw the injury, the smile on his face disappeared, "Xie Huarong, this bastard, the next time I meet him, I have to whip him too!" ”
Mu Lingkong's exposed arms were smooth and round, snow-white as jade, but an abrupt whip mark lay across the elbow bend, destroying this beauty.
Meng Ruyue uncorked the bottle and carefully poured a little medicine on the wound, and for a while there was a faint fragrance of herbs in the entire carriage. She rubbed it carefully and said, "This medicine smells so good!" ”
Not only did it smell good, but the curative effect was also very good, and the liquid medicine was pushed away, and the wound was wrapped in a cool breath, and the hot pain was relieved a lot.
After taking the medicine, Meng Ruyue corked the bottle again and handed it to Qingli, "Put it away for your young lady, the doctor said that this medicine can reduce swelling in two days three times a day!" ”
After returning home, Mu Lingkong didn't know how Meng Ruyue told the eldest lady, but before they could withdraw from the marriage, Princess Kangping took Xie Huarong to the door first. She didn't go to the hall, she didn't know the details, she only knew that the marriage was completely yellow.
Meng Ruyue was not hit, and after a few days, she sent a maid to ask Mu Lingkong to go to the other courtyard on the outskirts of the city to play, and she had already said hello to the eldest lady.
The suburban courtyard of the Prime Minister's Mansion is actually not far from the Kangping Princess Courtyard that I have been to before, to be precise, the courtyard of the nobles of the family in the city is basically here, because it is surrounded by green mountains, waterfalls and streams, and the scenery here is beautiful, warm in winter and cool in summer, many people will come here to pass the time when they have nothing to do.
The subordinates of the other courtyard had already received the news that the master was coming to stay for a while, and greeted them at the door early in the morning, and the side rooms and halls were cleaned up.
And Mu Lingkong came here for the first time, and after getting off the car, he took Dongxue to look around.
The courtyard is just a three-entry house, mostly decorated with bamboo forest, very elegant, and very close to the waterfall, there is an attic near the waterhole, a small pavilion with a curved bamboo bridge leading to the center of the pool, the pavilion is decorated with snow-white veils around it, swaying slightly in the wind brought by the waterfall flow.
Mu Lingkong felt the difference as soon as she entered this place, and when she saw a peach blossom in full bloom on the side of the corridor of the other courtyard, she had an epiphany, "The temperature here is suitable, are the peach blossoms always blooming and undefeated?" ”
"That's right," Meng Ruyue nodded with a smile, "Because there is geothermal heat here, the flowers in the valley are undefeated in all seasons!" Later, we can enjoy the flowers and soak in the hot springs! ”
As they spoke, they walked along the porch, and when they came to a corner, they suddenly heard a woman's coquettish laughter from a place separated by a wall, accompanied by bursts of lavish sounds.
Mu Lingkong stopped and asked Meng Ruyue, "What's next door?" Listening to this voice, I thought it was a neighbor to a brothel in a green building! ”
Meng Ruyue put her hand to her mouth and whispered, "Next to it is the courtyard of His Royal Highness the Prince, which houses the beautiful Ji he received from all over the place, and it is difficult to bring it into the East Palace with a low status, so she is all raised here." ”
Mu Lingkong thought of Feng Mingzhen's fluttering white clothes and unstained dust, and sighed in her heart, she really couldn't look good, she really couldn't see that she was such a flowery man!
The two of them didn't linger here anymore, and they got off the corridor and were about to go elsewhere, when they walked on the bluestone path, they heard a surprise shout from the opposite side of the courtyard wall, "Isn't this Miss Meng, Miss Meng Er?" ”
The two were stunned for a moment, and after looking at each other, they still looked back, only to see that there was a vermilion octagonal building four or five zhang opposite the courtyard wall, three stories high, and there were no wooden windows on the top floor, all of which were covered by pink veils.
Sheng Yuxi is the son of the Shengguo Mansion, and the Shengguo Mansion is the mother's family of His Royal Highness the Prince, the two are cousins of the Eight Classics, and they have had a close relationship since childhood, so it is not surprising that he appears here.
It's just that the excitement on his face is inexplicable, and it's really incomprehensible. Mu Lingkong and Meng Ruyue nodded at him reservedly, and were about to take a step, when he shouted urgently, "Hey, two Miss Meng, you also come to the other courtyard to play, and partner together!" ”
Meng Ruyue turned around, and was just about to refuse, when he saw three or four women in light clothes and bright makeup sticking up beside him, and the bewitching one also shouted, "The two young ladies come up and play together!" ”
Mu Lingkong raised his eyebrows, and in a trance he had the illusion of standing at the door of the brothel, and Sheng Yuxi was the one who insisted on pulling him to visit the brothel. Thinking of this, she couldn't help laughing, and waved her hand at Sheng Yuxi, "Sheng Gongzi is so fun, we still have something!" ”
Sheng Yuxi watched the two of them walk away, but he was not discouraged, and his eyes turned and he had other ideas. He beckoned to the little guy standing at the door, "Go, go and ask His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come over, just say that there is something urgent to find him!" ”
The pink-clothed woman next to Sheng Yuxi raised her eyebrows when she heard this, "Do you really want to invite His Royal Highness the Crown Prince over?" It's been a long time since he's come to see us! ”
Sheng Yuxi pushed them away and walked to the table, pretending to be unhappy, "Why do you want him to come and see you!" Isn't it good for my son to accompany you every day? ”
The women glanced at each other, and finally said in unison, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is handsome!" It's pleasing to the eye~"
"You superficial women......" Sheng Yuxi shook his head, poured himself a glass of wine, and tasted it carefully.
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When Feng Mingzhen arrived at the courtyard, he didn't see Sheng Yuxi, who said that he was looking for him in an emergency, so he only left a small servant to bring him a message and asked him to go to Guolin to find him.
He stood in place for a while, and intuitively felt that Sheng Yuxi was so pretentious that there was nothing good about it, and when the little guy saw him standing still, he added, "His Royal Highness the Prince, my son-in-law said, you will know when you go, surprise, big surprise!" ”
Feng Mingzhen touched his chin, and then walked slowly towards the fruit forest.
The fruit forest is deep in the valley, nourished by the stream, and there is a fruit tree growing naturally, there are peaches and pears, and the flowers of the valley are in the eye during the flowering season, and the fruiting is full of the fruity fragrance of the valley, and the scenery is different in the four seasons.
He walked slowly along the various fruit trees along the way, and his depressed mood due to the affairs of the court and the middle of the country was also relieved a lot.
After walking for a while, he still didn't see Sheng Yuxi's people, and he was just about to turn back, when he saw a woman in a yellow shirt walking out of the fork in front of him, carrying a small bamboo basket, while looking at the fruit trees on both sides, but he didn't mean to pick them.
Feng Mingzhen couldn't help but pull away a smile, his mood was really good now. He followed the woman silently with his hands behind his back.