Chapter Thirty-Eight: Okay, Why Not Why?
Cheng Jiyuan comforted his brother for a long time and finally agreed.
She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and diligently poured a cup of tea and handed it over: "Big brother, don't say these frustrating words again, Ah Yuan is not aggrieved, but I just don't want you to embarrass your father." ”
"You, you've been sensible since you were a child." Cheng Ningxu suppressed the discomfort in his heart, took a sip of tea, swallowed the bitterness in his mouth and looked at her with emotion, "Okay, it's okay to go to Zhuangzi to relax, and come back after all these things are over." ”
"Big brother...... Daddy's ......"
Cheng Jiyuan looked at him with some embarrassment.
After all, before this, Cheng Yuandao had bluntly instructed her to stay in the house to recuperate, but now she is going to Zhuangzi......
Cheng Ningxu didn't understand what she meant, raised his hand and knocked on her head, and only after causing an exclamation did he say compassionately: "You girl will toss me, no matter what, it's not bad this time." ”
"Thank you, big brother." Cheng Jiyuan hurriedly thanked her.
The brother and sister chatted for a while, and then parted as the sky outside grew dark.
Then Cheng Jiyuan didn't go to the main courtyard to eat under the pretext that she was not feeling well, but in private she asked Si Qi to start packing up her things, looking at leaving the house early tomorrow morning, and when she walked on the Zhuangzi and settled down, she thought that Cheng Yuandao would not chase after Zhuangzi even if she was angry again.
"Girl, aren't you the legendary first cut and then play?"
Si Qi packed up her things and listened to her girl reading a little bit next to her, and she couldn't help but joke.
Cheng Jiyuan rolled his eyes and glared at her: "What nonsense, girl, I told the eldest young master of our mansion, I can't count it as a prelude first." ”
"Yes, yes, the girl said very much."
Early the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, Cheng Jiyuan woke up from his sleep, but he was still a little dazed when he opened his eyes, staring at the Huansha at the head of the bed for a while before discarding the picture in his mind, and sat up with a soft sigh and called the maid on duty at night.
"Girl, the carriage is already waiting at the side door, but it's still early, why don't you come there after breakfast?"
Cheng Jiyuan sat in front of the dresser, let Si Qi pull a simple bun for herself, picked an orchid hosta and inserted it, and put an orchid jade bracelet on her wrist, simple but dignified.
"This time my father and eldest brother should be up, if you go to the kitchen to order food, you will definitely be known, so don't bother them."
"That girl means ......"
"It's the autumn harvest right now, and the food that I want to eat in Zhuangzi should be very fresh, but it's only a matter of one or two hours, and it won't be good to eat less, just pack up your things and set off directly."
Wouldn't it be better to take advantage of them to go to the court and slip away by themselves?
Si Qi understood her concerns and did not persuade her, but in order not to let her go hungry, she still asked people to go to the small kitchen to ask for a few plates of pastries, carefully put them in the food box, and followed her girl into the carriage.
I don't know if it's a psychological effect, as soon as Cheng Jiyuan got into the carriage, he felt that his whole heart was put down, he lifted the curtain and looked out, looking at the steaming stalls and the sound of selling, and felt much more comfortable.
Maybe it was at this moment that she really felt that she was alive again.
"Girl, will you use some pastries?"
Cheng Jiyuan glanced at the pastry that was still hot, knowing that it was Si Qi's proposition, he glanced at her and did not refuse, twisted a piece and put it in the sandalwood mouth, just took a bite, and was about to praise her twice, but the carriage stopped suddenly, and she was so surprised that she planted it directly.
Fortunately, Si Qi was on the side and quickly helped her, otherwise she was afraid that she would be the only daughter of a minister in Beijing who threw out of the carriage early in the morning.
Cheng Jiyuan looked down at the pastries that were crumpled into a ball due to fright, the sticky touch made her frown in displeasure, and the good mood of the early morning disappeared in an instant, and she said with a little anger: "What happened?" ”
"Back to the girl, someone is stopping the carriage in front."
Jingzhong Avenue, at the foot of the Son of Heaven, who would be so bold and boring in the early morning?
Cheng Jiyuan twisted her eyebrows and was very angry, and was thinking about letting Si Qi go out to take a look, but she never thought that someone had knocked on the carriage.
"Who?"
"Miss Cheng San, is this going to run away?"
A hoarse voice came from outside the car window, and there was a bit of chill in the tone, which made Cheng Jiyuan's body stiffen slightly.
How did you run into him?
Isn't it ghostly?
Cheng Jiyuan closed his eyes speechlessly, until the impatient voice outside sounded again, he reluctantly pushed the car window, raised his eyes and saw the prince of the Hou Mansion sitting on horseback, tried to raise a smile, and said softly: "The prince said that the prince is laughing, the courtiers just went to the Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city to recuperate." ”
"Go to Zhuangzi to recuperate?" Ji Dou looked at her suspiciously, "Why do you want to go to Zhuangzi?" ”
This question was strange, and Cheng Jiyuan felt that there was no point in having to answer, so he just smiled and said nothing.
Seeing this, Ji Dou also understood that his question was wrong, and coughed lightly to hide his embarrassment, and then asked: "It just so happens that the master has an errand to go out of the mansion today, where is the Zhuangzi in the mansion, why don't I give you a ride?" ”
Cheng Jiyuan subconsciously wanted to refuse, but who knew that in the next second, Ji Dou turned over and got off the horse.
Before she could show a stunned expression, she saw the car door open from the outside, and then a slender figure came in, sitting unceremoniously on the side, not forgetting to straighten her long legs, obviously not treating herself as an outsider at all.
Cheng Xiyuan looked at Ji Dou's operation in a daze, and couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth, and said speechlessly: "What is His Royal Highness the Prince doing?" ”
Ji Dou was not interested in seeing her discoloration, because he was hungry too early, he looked at the pastries placed on the low table on the side, and directly reached out and took a few pieces to eat, while eating, he did not forget to ask Si Qi to pour him tea Shunshun, and ate several pastries in a row before he had to reply to her.
"Didn't Fang just say it, it just so happens that the master is also going out of the city, so don't you give you a ride by the way!?"
"If the courtiers are not mistaken, His Royal Highness is sitting in the courtiers' carriage?"
Although she has long been accustomed to Ji Dou's unruliness, she still can't resist talking nonsense with her eyes open.
Especially in the early morning, if he didn't go to the court, he had to go to the outskirts of the city on an errand, didn't she think that she was lame and didn't see that the direction of the horse's head he had just gone was the opposite direction of the carriage?
However, Ji Dou is a person who does his own thing, and he looked at her with a look of not hearing the deep meaning of her words, and pretended to be shocked: "No, Miss Cheng San, it's late autumn now, and it's very cold outside, can't the master take a ride in the carriage of the mansion?" ”
Seeing Ji Dou with a look of "why are you so stingy", Cheng Jiyuan suddenly became abrupt.
But in the end, she didn't dare to be too presumptuous, so she had to look at him and answer: "...... Okay, how not! ”