Chapter 51: Substitute Punishment

"Liu'er, you can get up."

After receiving Ximen Hao's reply, Su Ranhua didn't care about his cold tone, turned his head and said loudly to Liu Er outside the study, his voice was soft and gentle.

Liu Er raised her head and looked at Su Ranhua in a daze, with anticipation in her eyes, but she still looked at Ximen Hao in disbelief, in front of the princess and the prince, she could only obey the prince.

"Get out of the king's sight immediately!" Ximen Hao glanced at Liu'er, who didn't dare to move, and said impatiently.

The cold tone made Liu Er tremble, her kneeling stiff body couldn't help but tremble, she stood up tremblingly, her hands and feet were numb, and she almost fell. But because he listened to Ximen Hao's order, he had to stumble away from the study.

"You go and kneel for her first."

Ximen Hao's voice sounded behind Liu Er, obviously saying it to Su Ranhua. Liu Er paused, stopped, and turned around.

I saw Su Ranhua walk out of the study without saying a word, turn around suddenly, and kneel down facing Ximen Hao.

"Princess!" Liu Er couldn't help but shout as hard as she could, kneeling all night, tired all night, and the voice she shouted was hoarse and low, but it was enough to make people hear the shock in her heart.

It has always been true that even if it is because of the master, the subordinates are punished, but if they are punished, they will be punished, and it is a big deal to give a reward and comfort afterwards, and it is not uncommon to see such a situation as Su Ranhua who is clearly punished for his subordinates.

Giving rewards is just a gesture, and substitute punishments are to be practiced, making it difficult for Liu Er to express her feelings for a while, and there is a choked murmur in her speechless throat.

"Go down!" Before Ximen Hao could speak, Su Ranhua had already preemptively said, with his back to Liu Er, and he couldn't see her expression, but the voice he heard was cold and irreversible.

Liu Er bit her lip tightly, and because of the momentum of Su Ranhua and Ximen Hao, she had to turn around and staggered away.

"Bang!" Ximen Hao closed the door of the study, keeping the figure of Su Ran out of sight.

was to let her kneel humbly in front of her, suppressing the arrogance on her body, but she was also kneeling, but she couldn't see anything soft on Su Ran's body, kneeling, as if she was still standing proudly between heaven and earth, neither humble nor arrogant.

Ximen Hao's action of throwing the door was a little annoyed.

Su Ranhua looked at the closed door, and a smile appeared on the corner of his lips, if he exchanged a momentary grievance for a person's heart, the transaction would be considered a success.

can't blame her careful calculation, in this strange era, in order to survive, she has to use some means, and it is not impossible to bend her waist when she should bend.

If Liu Er can be sincere for herself, then she will do her best to protect her. She needs a competent attendant, and wouldn't it be a blessing for Liu Er to have a master who is good to her?

The autumn wind blows and blows off the yellow leaves all over the ground.

Su Ran painting kneeling in the wind, the thin figure is very thin.

When Steward Lin came to the study, he saw Su Ran painting in men's clothes kneeling in the wind, he was stunned, retracted his gaze, pushed the door into the study, and closed the door tightly.

Ximen Hao was standing in front of the window, the window was open with a very narrow slit, and a cold eye stared out of the window, falling on the thin figure of Su Ran's painting.

Ximen Hao's eyes gradually condensed, and the cold turned deep and dark, like a bottomless quagmire......

"Lord Wang." Steward Lin lowered his hand.

"Uncle Lin, have you chosen a suitable maidservant?" Ximen Hao retracted his gaze, walked to the desk, and sat down.

"Yes." Steward Lin said, pausing slightly, looking a little hesitant.

"What's so hard about it?" Ximen Hao asked, since Xiaorou's death, Bai Yiyi has not had a satisfactory maid by his side, and finally he asked Steward Lin to focus on this matter, and he must set a person who satisfies Bai Yiyi as soon as possible.

"Miss Bai chose Liu'er." Steward Lin said.

"There are so many people in the palace, and even in Jinhua Garden, she just takes a fancy to Liu'er?" Ximen Hao asked rhetorically.

Miss Bai said that Liu Er and Xiao Rou were fellow villagers and had a sense of closeness to her, but it was only because Liu Er had been serving the princess recently that she didn't speak. But this time, because the princess acted inappropriately, Liu Er was wronged, so she dared to open her mouth and wanted to keep Liu Er by her side. Steward Lin repeated what Bai Yiyi meant.

"Yiyi still misses Xiaorou, and it is not in vain that Xiaorou has served her for so many years." Ximen Hao nodded lightly, "Okay, let Liu'er go to Yiyi." ”

"Yes," Steward Lin said, glancing at the gap in the window, "Then the princessβ€”"

"She doesn't need a handmaid anymore." Ximen Hao got up, walked to the window, opened the window, and looked at the people outside the window with gloomy eyes, "There is no one around, isn't it exactly what she wants?" Otherwise, he would not have done everything possible to get rid of Liu'er. ”

"The prince is saying that when Liu Er is not by the princess's side, the princess's whereabouts have become a mystery?" Steward Lin followed the window and looked at the Su Dye painting in men's clothes, which was indeed surprising.

"Confused?" Ximen Hao sneered, "If this king is really curious, he will fall for her plan." ”

Steward Lin looked at the Su Ran painting outside the window, indifferent and arrogant figure, is it really full of calculations in his bones?

"Ahh

Su Ranhua couldn't help sneezing, rubbed his sullen nose, and secretly scolded that Gu Yitian for taking himself to the woods, the autumn night is very cold, not to mention that in the humid forest, he must have caught a cold, and he knelt in the courtyard in the early morning, presumably because he had a cold.

"Let people boil some medicine for the cold." Ximen Hao glanced at Su Ran's painting and said coldly.

"Yes, the old slave will make people boil well, and give the princess a service as soon as possible." Steward Lin said.

"It's for Liu'er." Ximen Hao corrected, "She is going to serve Yiyi, and this king doesn't want to be sick." ”

It turned out that the prince thought of Liu Er's girl's body, and knelt all night, afraid of the wind and cold, which would affect Bai Yiyi. Steward Lin suddenly nodded and said, "Yes, the old slave will go." ”

Steward Lin walked out of the door of the study, passed by Su Ranhua, inadvertently met his four eyes, swept lightly, and strode away.

Su Ranhua chuckled and shook her head, from the eyes of this gentle-looking old housekeeper, she saw a sense of pity, was it sympathy for herself?

If Su Ranhua heard Ximen Hao's words, she would know that she was not even as good as the maid Liu'er at this time.

"Ahh

Another sneeze sounded.

Then, Ximen Hao swept out of the study and stood in front of Su Ranhua, with a mocking look on his cold face, "You should protect your body, so that you can do what you want to do." If you want to gain the mercy of this king by relying on your sick and wilting appearance, you really overestimate this king. ”

"Is the prince's mercy so important to me?" Su Ranhua raised his head, and the corners of his lips were upturned with unconcerned disdain.