Chapter 080: The Backyard of the Palace
"Yuzhu, when you go to Tianxianglou today, do you hear any news?"
As soon as Yuzhu walked back to the inner room of Huiyi Hall with the dowry box, Xu Zhiyi, who was lying on the brocade couch, asked eagerly.
"The slave maid went and said that the powder cake I bought last time used a rash, and I wanted to see the boss to ask for an explanation, and a housekeeper quickly came over to compensate for it, and then changed these more expensive powder cakes for me for free............ Yuzhu opened the lacquer box, let Xu Zhiyi look at the newly replaced powder inside, shook her head and said: "The slave maid really can't find any news, as soon as she enters Tianxiang Building, there will be a female envoy to pick her up, and if you want to find a vacancy, you won't have a chance to go to the backyard to see."
Xu Zhiyi frowned when she heard this, she only felt uneasy in her heart, but there was nothing she could do.
"By the way, on the way back just now, I met Huai Dong in front of the prince and went to Lanwu Courtyard......"
"Oh." Xu Zhiyi was a little absent-minded.
"Since Mrs. Xin'an, the nurse of the prince, died in that courtyard, the maid in the house said that it was haunted, and a good courtyard would become a deserted house. Huai Dong went to the courtyard over there, didn't the princess think it was strange? ”
Xu Zhiyi looked at Yuzhu and said, "What is he going to do, did you ask him?" ”
"I asked, he said that the prince's Pixiu jade had lost it, and asked him to look around." Yuzhu looked puzzled and said, "I'm just wondering how the prince would go to that kind of place?" ”
"The prince is filial, and every year on the memorial day of Mrs. Xin'an, he will personally go to Lanwu Courtyard to mourn ......"
"Isn't it still early for Mrs. Xin'an's memorial day?"
Xu Zhiyi was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "You help me up, I'll go to Lanwu Courtyard to have a look." ”
"Princess, it's still big outside at this time, why don't we go back later, and eat after dinner."
Xu Zhiyi listened and nodded. He also arranged for Yuzhu to go to the treasury to get some incense wax money paper, saying that since he was going to Lanwu Courtyard, he would go by the way to say goodbye to the old lady and ask for a safe pregnancy.
When the sun turned west, after Xu Zhiyi had dinner, she led Yuzhu and the two pregnant mothers-in-law and slowly went towards Lanwu Courtyard.
It is said that Mrs. Xin'an loved seclusion during her lifetime, so Ling Zhao gave her the most remote Lanwu Courtyard located in the southwest corner of the palace. This house is half an hour's journey away from Huiyitang, Xu Zhiyi is pregnant, she doesn't dare to work too hard, she stops and stops all the way, and the sun is out of sight before she arrives.
"Take a look around, find a proper utensil to burn some incense wax for the old lady." Xu Zhiyi commanded.
There was a fire in the palace a few years ago, and after that, Ling Zhao set a rule that fire should not be used at will. After the jade beads should be lowered, he took his two mothers-in-law to look for incense burners, copper tripods and other utensils that can burn paper under the courtyard.
In the dim light of dusk, this once richly decorated courtyard is now peeling off the vermilion lacquer, corrugated grass, and weeping spiders on the eaves, a scene of decay and desolation, no wonder the maid woman rumored that this place is haunted.
Ling Zhao is so filial to the nurse, why don't you let people take good care of this house? Xu Zhiyi looked at the huge cobweb under the eaves, and was thinking in her heart, after a "squeak" sound, a man dressed in black suddenly walked out of the previously closed courtyard door.
When the two looked at each other, they were both startled.
"I've seen the princess, Princess Jin'an!"
The light was dim, and at a glance, Xu Zhiyi thought that she was seeing Ling Zhao, and when the man in front of her bowed down to say goodbye, she realized that she had seen it wrong. It's just that this body shape and this voice are actually very familiar......
"You, it's Chu ...... Yugu? Xu Zhiyi remembered the person who looked like the prince mentioned by Shu Mei.
"Princess...... Know me?! Chu Yugu looked surprised.
"Why are you here?" Xu Zhiyi took a step forward and looked him up and down with her eyes.
"I ...... Mrs. Xin'an is my godmother, and I have frequently dreamed of her old man recently, so I asked the prince for permission and came here to mourn ......" Chu Yugu, who has always been calm, suddenly met this woman who had been grinding with his ears and temples, and he was in a panic.
Originally, he was reluctant to have sex with her on behalf of Ling Zhao, he thought that he was like him, he was misogynistic. But there have been many times, and I don't know when I started looking forward to meeting her. The joy between men and women, little by little, he tasted from her, the kind of natural pleasure that came naturally and naturally, was something he did not know before.
And this kind of pleasure of eating the marrow and knowing the taste, he had to be restrained in front of Ling Zhao. The more restrained he became, the stronger the longing became. Since the imperial doctor diagnosed the happy pulse, he has completely lost the opportunity to meet her. Occasionally, when he couldn't hold back in front of Ling Zhao, he would say that he was worried about the child in her belly, but in fact, only he knew that this was not the case.
At this moment, the woman who made him think about it day and night was in front of him, but he couldn't say anything, he couldn't do anything.
"Mrs. Xin'an is the prince's nurse and your godmother? So do you look so much like the prince? Xu Zhiyi looked at him and asked suspiciously.
He was afraid of her gaze, so he lowered his head and said: "The princess said that she laughed, the prince is long, Fengzi, Fengshen is handsome, how dare I ...... him"
"The slave has seen the prince."
Before Chu Yugu's words were finished, Yuzhu, who had returned from finding the incense burner, bowed down and asked for peace.
The expression on Chu Yugu's face froze instantly. Facing Xu Zhiyi's increasingly puzzled gaze, he immediately turned to Yuzhu and said: "It's getting late, this girl is probably dazzled, and below is Chu Yugu, the owner of Tianxiang Building, not Prince Tongshu." ”
"Huh?!" Yuzhu was stunned.
"Princess, it's not too early, I have to leave the house, farewell." After Chu Yugu asked Xu Zhiyi to leave, he hurriedly walked towards the outside of Lanwu Courtyard.
In the past, when he went in and out of Lanwu Courtyard, he jumped with his arms, crossed the wall and left. When I met Xu Zhiyi today, it was inconvenient to show my kung fu, so I had to leave in her puzzled gaze, stepping on a sharp knife.
And at the moment when he left sideways, the wind driven by his robe swept a familiar breath to the bottom of Xu Zhiyi's nose, and she was instantly stunned.
"Princess, look at his back, it's exactly the same as the prince!" Looking at the back of Chu Yugu leaving, Yuzhu exclaimed.
Xu Zhiyi raised her hand and pressed her chest, her face turned pale, and it took a while to regain her breath.
"Princess, what's wrong with you?"
"It's fine, just a little tired." Xu Zhiyi disguised.
How dare she tell Yuzhu that the man who said goodbye in a hurry and staggered by, his body is so familiar, it is the kind of breath that makes her heart beat and nostalgic?!
Why is he so similar to Ling Zhao? Why was he able to go in and out of the backyard of the palace alone?!
Xu Zhiyi looked around and felt that this mansion was full of strangeness.
She took the jade bead and pushed open the courtyard door and walked in, and walked around inside, and found that it was just some ordinary furnishings, except that the furniture was covered with dust, but there was nothing unusual.
"Princess, let's go back, there is a lot of haze here, and it's not good for you." The pregnant woman persuaded.
Xu Zhiyi nodded in agreement, and let Yuzhu burn the incense candle wax paper in the incense burner brought by her mother-in-law before leaving.