In the scorching heat of June, the scorching sun was blazing, and the summer cicadas on the locust trees were hoarse.

It was noon, and the business of the tea shop stall next to the official road was not good, and there were a few peddlers sitting in it, chatting with straw hats.

"A few days ago, a big event happened in the capital, have you heard?" The bearded man suddenly began to speak.

The rest of the people stretched their necks curiously: "We all came from Tongzhou, and we haven't been to the capital yet." Besides, what big things can happen in the capital? ”

When he heard that they didn't know, he sat up straight, and said seriously: "Just half a month ago, I went to the capital to pick up the goods, and I saw a notice posted on the city gate. The legendary eldest princess is suffering from an incurable disease! ”

"Princess Huarong?"

"It's not her, who else can she be."

"But didn't the princess just get married to Mrs. Chen's son? How can you say that you are sick when you are sick? ”

The bearded man wiped his face with a sweat towel, sighed, and said with a regretful face: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, who would have predicted?" It's just that Princess Huarong is twenty-eight years old, talented and virtuous, and she will die soon, hey. ”

When everyone thought about it, they couldn't help but sigh.

Princess Huarong is a legend in the Great Yuan Dynasty.

Since she was born, this princess has been deeply favored by the saints of today, and she is even said to be beautiful and beautiful. The princess herself is also angry, Wen can chant poems, and Wu can play with knives and guns. Last year, the envoys of the Southern Barbarians came to the Great Yuan Dynasty to congratulate, and heard that the Great Yuan people were not good at martial arts, so they deliberately let the Southern Barbarian princes and the Great Yuan princes compare and compare. At a time when the saint is in a dilemma, it is Princess Huarong who stepped forward and narrowly defeated the prince of the Southern Barbarians to save face for the Dayuan royal family. Many people are not optimistic about the princess's martial arts, but after this experience, there are no more complaints from the government and the opposition, and even the folk have also raised women's martial arts halls.

The little second in the tea house who was listening couldn't help but interject: "The princess's illness is really not cured?" ”

The bearded man waved his hand and said, "Didn't you see what was written on the notice, the princess is now terminally ill and dying, so she is hanging on to her life by relying on the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and hundred-year-old ginseng in the Tai Hospital. The emperor personally ordered that no one should see the princess when she was sick - it is estimated that it is more than lucky! ”

He said it with a clear eye, as if he had seen it with his own eyes.

Xiao Er refilled a bowl of herbal tea for him, and said, "In this way, Taishi Chen's son can't be a concubine." ”

The bearded man nodded, and was about to answer, but he saw a red and glamorous greeting team coming up the official road, and there were not many of them, but they were all sunburned and sweating profusely.

As soon as Xiao Er saw the guests, he didn't care about bragging nonsense, and hurriedly shouted to greet him.

There are only about a dozen people in the welcoming procession, and the slightly shabby safflower sedan chair is followed by an ox cart that pulls goods, and the dowry placed on it is not expensive, and it seems that it is an ordinary family who is married far away.

But if it is an ordinary family, the eldest brother riding a horse in front of him is wearing soap boots, and he is carrying an official knife that is only available in the yamen around his waist, but Xiao Er can't understand it.

This little second was curious, and when he saw that the person with the knife had a kind face, he couldn't help but ask, "Official, it looks like you are on an errand in the yamen?" How...... Is it true that prisoners are now held in sedan chairs? He pouted at the sedan chair.

The eldest brother with the knife couldn't help but laugh when he saw him like this, but he replied happily: "I am the head catcher of Qingyuan County, Wangzhou, our county master marries and helps pick up people from Yunzhou, don't think too much." ”

Xiao Er suddenly understood, and said with a smile: "Qingyuan County is still five or six days away from here, Yunzhou is close to the capital, and it will be at least a month to go back, such a hot day, but it is hard to work for the official." ”

"It's okay, it's okay."

The big brother with the shoulder knife was about to bow his head and drink two sips of tea, when he heard a "pop" sound in front of him, he looked up and saw that the tea bowl fell to pieces on the ground, and the water flowed to the ground.

An angry rebuke came from the sedan chair: "What kind of tea is this?" It's hard to drink! What about Longjing? I'm going to drink the dragon well before the rain! ”

The eldest brother with the knife suddenly frowned, stepped forward helplessly, and comforted: "Madam, there is no store in the village or behind the village, there is really no good tea for you to drink, so you will settle." ”

"Will? How many times will I go all this way? I haven't experienced this kind of gas in Yunzhou! The woman in the sedan chair was obviously very angry, her tone changed, and she said in a strange manner, "Yang La, I know what your idea is." You tossed me all the way, didn't you just want me to retreat, it's a big deal that I'm not married, where to send me! ”

Yang La was also full of anger, he shouldn't have been on an errand to greet his relatives for ten taels of silver - he blamed himself for being greedy for money!

"Madame, you're overthinking."

After a while, he held back such a sentence.

"Humph!" The woman in the sedan chair did not relent, "Although I, Li Siniang, have been married three times and am a widow that no one wants, I am also a person with backbone, and I don't need his Lin family to marry me in order to fulfill his promise!" What a doll pro, phew, don't have to count! ”

Yang La thought to herself: Do you want to marry you as the county magistrate? A widow who has been married three times, has a bad local reputation in Yunzhou, if it weren't for the fact that Mrs. Lin was seriously ill and remembered your father's life-saving grace back then, who would want to take care of you?

"Madame, take a sip of tea, calm down." Yang La's mouth replied respectfully, but her eyes rolled widely.

It is estimated that the action is too obvious, and the maid standing next to the sedan chair let out a low laugh.

Yang La glared at her angrily.

This maid was temporarily hired in Yunzhou, and her name was Zi Tao. Although he usually doesn't like to talk, he is better than his hands and feet.

Zi Tao is wearing a gray cloth skirt today, with dark skin and dense and long bangs on her forehead, almost covering half of her small face. She always kept her head down, and she had no sense of presence in the team, so that for so long, Yang La still couldn't remember the face of this maid.

"Purple Peach."

Yang La beckoned to her.

Zi Tao stepped forward timidly, lowered her head, and said in a voice like a mosquito: "Yang catches the head...... What is the command? ”

"Bring another bowl of tea to Madame, and be sure to let her drink a few sips to relieve the heat."

“…… Be. ”

Zi Tao nodded hurriedly.

Li Siniang is difficult to serve, and the entire welcoming team knows it. But she is the only one who can serve Li Siniang a little better, which is why Yang La hired her without hesitation.

Zi Tao skimmed the tea leaves from the tea bowl and stood in front of the sedan chair.

After thinking for a moment, she spoke: "Madam, just now Yang Zhutou went to change a bowl of tea for you." Although it is not a dragon well before the rain, it is the most handy jasmine tea in this tea house, how about you taste it on such a hot day? ”

After a while, a snow-white hand stretched out in the sedan chair: "Take it." ”

Zi Tao hurriedly handed it over.

After waiting for a while, Li Siniang handed out an empty bowl and said leisurely: "Although it is not as good as Longjing before the rain, it is better than the coarse tea before." ”

"Madame is really a master of tea debate, Zi Tao can't drink these teas anyway." She's busy patting her ass.

Li Siniang hooked the corners of her mouth when she heard this, touched the gold bracelet on her hand, and said sarcastically: "What can you taste as a maid?" When I was in the capital, I also drank the silver needle of Dongting Junshan. ”

Zi Tao hurriedly said: "I don't know what Junshan Silver Needle is, but that Zhenyu Mansion is the first restaurant in the capital." It's amazing that Madame has been to such a powerful place! ”

Li Siniang didn't know what she thought, and smiled proudly: "Okay, go and bring me a bowl of flower tea again." ”

Zi Tao hurriedly turned around and went to do it.

At noon, the sun was big, and everyone decided to rest for half an hour. Li Siniang slept in the sedan chair, and Zi Tao had to fan her beside her.

Because of Dayuan customs, married women can't let men other than their husbands see their faces, for so long, Li Siniang either sat in a sedan chair or covered her head, except for Zi Tao who had seen her appearance, Yang La and these people didn't know what Li Siniang looked like.

In fact, Li Siniang is very good-looking, with a thin waist and white skin, willow eyebrows and apricot eyes. Although Dayuan allows women to remarry, if they look ugly, they will not marry three times in a row.

Zi Tao shook her fan while reminiscing about the gossip she heard on the road.

This Li Siniang is a well-known beauty in Yunzhou, her first husband was a butcher in the same village, and she got drunk and fell down the mountain and died less than two months after she got married; The second husband was a widower and a talent, and he died in an accident less than half a year; The third husband was a wealthy man in the local area, and finally died of a strange disease.

So the news of Li Siniang's "Kefu" spread far and wide.

When they all thought that she would never be able to marry again, Wangzhou actually handed over a name card asking for marriage, not only that, but the person who came to marry was the county order of Qingyuan County.

I heard that this county magistrate is not only three years younger than Li Siniang, but has never married a wife, and there is not even a concubine in the family. His parents were saved by Li Siniang's father, so they promised a baby kiss between the two. Although they haven't seen each other for more than ten years, they have been in touch intermittently. This time, the old lady of the county order was critically ill, and she thought about this wish before she died.

Although the county order is a sesame official, it is also an official. With such good conditions, how can Li Siniang dislike it? Even if he happily agreed to the marriage. didn't expect the dowry, a few months later, Wangzhou sent someone to greet her, but Li Siniang was not very happy to marry, if it weren't for Li Siniang's father to threaten his life, Li Siniang would not be on the sedan chair at all.

The reason for this is probably only known to Li Siniang herself.

Zi Tao was sighing about the various states of life, but she heard a burst of horses' hooves, she followed the prestige, and saw a team of energetic cavalry running on the official road, raising the dust and smoke on the road. When she saw the leader of the officers and soldiers who led the team, she was so frightened that she buried her head lower.