Chapter 8: The Pain of Broken Strings
When Xia Bingliang came back from school, he rushed into the palace impatiently, looking forward to seeing what Gu Nu could put the garden in order, and then he would find fault with herself at will to show his dissatisfaction, and then let his father expel her from the palace.
Xia Bingliang imagined light and joyful, the first thing he did when he came back on weekdays was to ask Xia Huaijin for peace, but today he rushed to his courtyard directly.
With a sharp stop, Xia Bingliang looked suspiciously at the back of a strange woman in front of him. She has an elegant and light posture, brightly dressed, not a princess and an aunt, nor a subordinate girl, but she did not suspect An Ronghua.
"Shizi ......" Xiang Gu caught up panting?
"Don't make a noise!"
"Shizi, who is she?" Xiang Gu asked in a low voice.
"I've never seen it, dare to be so swaggering in the palace, follow up and take a look. ”
Xia Bingliang followed up with a suspicious attitude, and An Ronghua's whereabouts were his yard.
"She's going to our courtyard!" Xiang Gu said excitedly.
Xia Bingliang had something in his eyes and chased after him closer.
An Ronghua suddenly noticed that there was a clumsy tracking step behind her, she pretended not to notice, but gradually accelerated her pace. Feng Yi "swished" and hid behind the rockery.
"What about people?"
As soon as the words fell, An Ronghua suddenly rushed out with a firewood stick and struck at Xia Bingliang and Xiang Gu.
"Bold minion! even I dare to follow, you ......" An Ronghua suddenly stopped the fierce attack, frowning and crying, "Xiao Liang'er, it's you!"
An Ronghua let go and threw down the firewood stick, nervous Xia Bingliang was knocked red on the head by himself, and dragged him to care for him like an elder.
"It hurts, right?" The pity in An Ronghua's eyes was like a fake.
"Are you hurting when you are beaten?" Xia Bingliang was so angry that he forcibly broke free from An Ronghua, "Bold slave, even the master dares to fight!"
"I thought someone was trying to disadvantage me, so I defended myself, and it wasn't my intention to hurt the innocent. What's more, who let Xiao Liang'er follow me. An Ronghua defended a few sentences, looking at Xia Bingliang, who was injured by mistake, he was still distressed, and ordered, "Xiang Gu, what are you waiting for, hurry up and get the medicine box, and rub the medicine and bandage it for Liang'er."
"Yes. "Respect the ancients naturally.
"Who told you to listen to the orders of a slave maid!" Xiang Gu's obedience made Xia Bingliang even more annoyed.
"If you're injured, you naturally have to be dressed with medicine. An Ronghua became serious.
"Then you don't need to be hypocritical!" Xia Bingliang resisted An Ronghua's concern and left angrily.
Xia Bingliang left An Ronghua and went to Qin Ke's courtyard, she was sitting and pondering, and she was engulfed by Xia Huaijin's tolerance of Gu Nu, which was completely beyond her imagination. Qin Ke is more concerned about how Xia Huaijin will deal with Gu Nu, and even, will he deal with her?
"Concubine Qin!" Xia Bingliang interrupted Qin Ke's troubled thread, and he walked in in a hurry, with a wound on his face.
"Liang'er, why are you injured?" Qin Ke immediately instructed Yuhe to take the medicine box, personally wipe his wounds, and apply the potion, "How did Liang'er get injured, let your father know that he will be worried." ”
"Father won't worry about me, I think he only knows that valley girl now, only worries about that valley girl, and only cares about that valley girl!" Xia Bingliang's voice was filled with righteous indignation, which made Qin Ke's mind shake for a moment, and he lost his severity, "It hurts, it hurts!"
Qin Ke removed his hand, "Liang'er, why did you say this?"
"I just came back, and I saw a strange back swaggering around the house, so I followed, but she played tricks to hide, and beat me hard while I was unprepared!" Xia Bingliang gritted his teeth the more he spoke, "Mother, guess who she is, it's that valley girl!"
"She'......"
Qin Ke was in a state of uneasiness, Xia Huaijin clearly said that she would ask Gu Nu about squandering money, and it was only a moment before she was able to swagger in the mansion.
"She dares to beat you, what else can't she do?" Qin Ke frowned, Gu Nu's behavior was completely beyond her expectations.
"Niangniang, Gu Nu is too much, even if she is a guest, she can't be so reckless and reckless. It's not enough to squander money, but she also teaches the son of the world, and when the slave and maid look at her, they simply take herself as the mistress of the palace!" Yu He said indignantly.
"Yuhe, Hugh is talking nonsense. Qin Ke reprimanded.
"The slave is just telling the truth, she even dares to humiliate you, if it is not for the prince's preference, why can she squander the money of the palace and get out of it?"
"Mistress, dreaming, she's just a slave!" Xia Bingliang was completely enraged, it turned out that he was almost confused by Gu Nu and believed her.
On the other side, An Ronghua went to Buyiju with the medicine box that she ordered her subordinates to take, she thought that Xia Bingliang resisted herself, and he made a mistake, so he could not take this opportunity to tell Xia Huaijin about himself.
An Ronghua approached the home house and heard the melodious sound of the piano coming from there, lingering in the song, telling the infinite emotions of the player. An Ronghua could hear that it was Xia Huaijin stroking the qin, and couldn't help but stand in the corridor for a long time to listen and enjoy quietly, forgetting everything, and the strings plucked the heartstrings.
Gradually, the sound of the piano was turbulent, Xia Huaijin's thoughts and mood were in turmoil, and what was plucking his fingertips was the obsession and new scene in his heart.
"After all, it's not as good as it was at the beginning. An Ronghua's eyes were deep and heavy.
Suddenly, the strings snapped, and the sound of the piano stopped abruptly.
An Ronghua's ears were shocked, as far as she knew, Xia Huaijin had only broken the strings twice in her life, this was one of them, and the last time was more than 20 years ago.
An Ronghua rushed into the room without thinking, the broken strings were trembling, and Xia Huaijin's fingertips fell a drop of bright red blood and bloomed a bloody flower on the body of the qin.
An Ronghua's eyebrows revealed a strong melancholy, she ran straight to Xia Huaijin, approached without any distance, and grabbed his hand,
"Why was it so careless!"
An Ronghua didn't say a word, immediately opened the medicine box, wiped off the blood marks for Xia Huaijin, and bandaged it carefully. Xia Huaijin was speechless for a while, but the turbulent waves of Fang Cai's emotional outburst were calm at this moment.
"Aren't you leaving?" Xia Huaijin asked in a calm tone.
"Aren't you going to play the piano again?" An Ronghua seemed to be angrily questioning, and only then did he realize that it was difficult to recover.
Xia Huaijin's fingertips twitched, but An Ronghua grabbed him and grabbed his nervous self. He did say that he would never touch the piano again, but the sudden appearance of the piano today made him unable to hide the thoughts that had been deposited for 20 years.
"Queen Mother......" As soon as Xia Huaijin spoke, An Ronghua was completely panicked, "She even told you about it." ”
An Ronghua held his breath in his chest, but he was too suspicious.
"The Queen Mother, her old man, lives alone in the deep palace, if she doesn't tell me, who can she talk to?" An Ronghua expressed her inner pain in a tone of pity.
"Who made her the queen mother, both in a high position, and bitter to herself. Xia Huaijin was ruthless in his mouth and lonely in his eyes.
"Yes, after all, it's just self-inflicted, lonely, miserable and desolate, how can it be compared to Princess Jin, I am fortunate to be respectful to the prince like a guest, raise my eyebrows, and envy others!" An Ronghua showed a slow sourness.
"This is also what the Queen Mother said to you?" Xia Huaijin said concernedly.
"No, I'm speculating. An Ronghua said confidently.
"Come to think of it, a person as arrogant as her only has the envy of her, how can she envy people. Xia Huaijin hid the wounds in her heart.
An Yonghua has no way to refute this.