Chapter 15: Eavesdropping
Seeing that Huo Weilou had been staring at her and didn't give a reply, Shen Xinyue was angry for no reason, "The big man's family, stay or not, give a happy word." This kind of ink is really speechless. ”
With that, he turned around and wanted to leave here.
Huo Weilou grabbed her sleeve and lightly opened her thin lips, "Stay." ”
"Lord, don't be reluctant." Looking at Huo Weilou's appearance, Shen Xinyue sneered.
Huo Weilou: "No. ”
"That's good. Then you can help me find a yard, and when it dawns tomorrow, I will move with Si Qi. ”
Although with Huo Weilou's reply, Shen Xinyue felt that he was not sincere, a little reluctant, so he felt very uncomfortable, and his voice was obviously a lot different.
"Not in my yard, where do you want to go?" Huo Weilou didn't expect Shen Xinyue to stay in the house, but he was going to move to another courtyard, and the joy just now disappeared all of a sudden.
"As long as it's not in your yard, any vacant yard is fine?"
Shen Xinyue said angrily: "You were going to marry Lan Qingruo, I was moved to the wrong bed for you, the two of us should have returned to the road a long time ago, and the bridge returned to the bridge, wasn't there something in your courtyard that was delayed some time ago?" It's time to rectify it. ”
Hmph, who saw that the bride she married was not Lan Qingruo, and almost killed her, but now she is still thinking about detoxifying this person, I really don't know if she hit a stone on her head when she crossed over and broke her brain.
Shen Xinyue suddenly regretted the decision she had just made, wouldn't it be nice to take the talent of the Shen family in Jiangnan to marry to the mansion under her name?
"Don't go anywhere, it's in my yard."
Huo Weilou didn't give Shen Xinyue a chance to repent, threw down a sentence, strode out of the bedroom with a cold face and without looking back.
In the early morning of the next day, Shen Xinyue was woken up by Si Qi's knock on the door.
Yesterday all night, Shen Xinyue didn't sleep well and had a lot of dreams.
I dreamed of some things that I had suffered before I crossed over, and I also dreamed of the tragic situation after I crossed over, and I was bitten by wild beasts, and I was torn and skinned, and I was scared to wake up several times.
So after being woken up by Si Qi, it was inevitable that he would get up a little angry, "Come in, come in." Hey, this early morning doesn't let people stop, can't you even sleep under the fence? ”
Si Qi opened the door and just stepped up with one foot, and when he heard Shen Xinyue's words, he came in a little bit and didn't go out, so he cowardly skimmed his legs and stood at the threshold with a food box and looked at Shen Xinyue, "Shen, Miss Shen, it was the prince who ordered the slave to bring you some breakfast, saying that you were overworked yesterday and need to make up for it."
This is just called the kitchen to make it, this kind of thing can't be eaten cold, and the slave is afraid that you will not feel comfortable eating, so she dares to knock on the door. ”
Si Qi's appearance made Shen Xinyue feel uncomfortable, and her tone immediately softened, "Si Qi has a heart." ”
As soon as Si Qi heard that the master was no longer to blame, he immediately came in and put the food box on the table, turned back to close the door, and came to Shen Xinyue's bedside to wait for her to dress and wash.
"I said it, I'm not the daughter, I have my own hands and feet, it's fine." Shen Xinyue declined Si Qi.
Si Qi was silent, standing respectfully to the side and waiting, but he was thinking in his heart, you are indeed not a daughter now, but you are a princess! O princess of the Regent's palace! What else can Miss Qianjin compare to this? But after all, I just thought about it in my heart.
Shen Xinyue got dressed and washed before sitting at the table to prepare for breakfast.
At this time, Si Qi had already put out the contents of the food box one by one and put them in front of her.
Shen Xinyue asked while eating, "What time is it now?" ”
"It's time." Si Qi replied respectfully.
Shen Xinyue calculated the time in her heart, the food in her mouth almost didn't squirt out, and just now she complained that it was early in the morning, and it turned out that it was already three poles in the morning.
slept until three o'clock in the morning, woke up and had someone to serve, dress and wash, and someone brought the just delicious meal to the front, Shen Xinyue kept complaining about herself in her heart, what kind of complaint did she complain about others?
"I wasn't at you just now, Si Qi, the main thing is that I didn't sleep well last night, and I had nightmares, don't take it to heart." Shen Xinyue was full of porridge and food, and said to Si Qi with a smile.
Si Qi has never met such a master, this kind of thing should be said to a slave and maid by a master, looking at Shen Xinyue with a pair of sincere eyes, "Miss Shen, although you don't let me call you the master, and you don't let you call you the princess, but you are Si Qi's master." If Si Qi is not thoughtful, the master will say what he should say, and what he says is what he should do. Miss Shen, when you talk like this, you are simply tormenting the slave. ”
Shen Xinyue was a little big-headed, pulled Si Qi's hands, and said to her with the same sincerity: "In my place, there is no such thing as a slave and a master. We are all equal. You are from the palace, and I am very grateful that the prince asked you to take care of me. I am grateful to the prince and to you. I really welcome you here, because I have just come here, and I have no relatives and no one to talk to, so I treat you as my sister. From now on, if you do not leave, I will not forsake you. ”
The slaves and maids at that time had never heard such words.
In that society, all people are inherently unequal.
Everyone who worked as a slave or maid was sent or sold to serve others because of their poor family background.
If you have a good life, you will meet a good master, but you will be beaten and scolded less; There are many people who have a bad fate, who are beaten and scolded and even lose their lives.
Therefore, Shen Xinyue's words made Si Qi's tears ripple when she heard it, and she choked up and said, "Miss Shen, Si Qi can't speak." As long as you don't dislike Si Qi, Si Qi will be willing to be a cow and a horse for Miss Shen, and serve you wholeheartedly for a lifetime. ”
"I don't think it's me who can't speak, and I'm crying when I tell you."
Shen Xinyue is not very hypocritical, as soon as Si Qi cried, she was embarrassed, helped Si Qi wipe her tears, suddenly thought of something, and asked, "What about the prince?" Didn't go to the palace today? ”
It is said that if you are usually in charge of everything, you will leave the palace early and go to the palace.
Si Qidao: "The prince didn't go to the palace today, he was still in the house, and he just recruited Huo Xing and them to go to the study to discuss matters." ”
Shen Xinyue nodded thoughtfully, and then asked Si Qi to pack up the food box and go out.
She herself muttered again and again, and also went to Huo Weilou's study.
Shen Xinyue was originally trotting all the way, but when she was about to reach Huo Weilou's study, she suddenly slowed down, tiptoed close to the window of the study, and carefully leaned her ears over.
First of all, I listened to the people inside talk about some things about the court's disaster relief and people's relief, probably the people below reported some information to Huo Weilou, and there were some official titles of the court mixed in.
Shen Xinyue has never understood the ancient official position, and she has been bending over and bending her legs, which is really uncomfortable, and when she was about to leave, she heard someone inside retreating, so she had to quickly flash to the pillar and hold her breath and dare not move.
When those people walked away, Shen Xinyue thought that there were no valuable clues today, and was just about to leave, but she heard Huo Xing's voice inside: "Lord Wang, the person sent to Lanyuan Restaurant just went back and forth, and he has already sent the post over according to your instructions." The shopkeeper of Orchid Garden Restaurant took the post and replied respectfully, ready to welcome the prince at any time. ”
Orchid Garden?
Shen Xinyue tried hard to search in the memory of the original owner, confirming that this should be the property of Lan Qingruo's grandfather's family that Huo Weilou talked about last night, and couldn't help but cover her mouth with excitement, and quietly left here on tiptoe.
In the study.
"Lord Wang, it seems that the princess was eavesdropping outside just now?" Huo Xing looked at Huo Weilou with a look of fun and asked.
I have been with the prince for too long, and I know more or less about the cold looking regent of my family.
If it were someone else, as soon as he stepped into this courtyard from the other party's foot, the regent of his own family would unceremoniously give him a look and let him go out to solve it.
And when the princess came, Huo Xing seemed to catch a trace of a strange look on the regent's handsome and serious face? That look made Huo Xing feel a little weird.
"Yes." Huo Weilou obviously didn't feel very comfortable, his slender fingers pinched his eyebrows, and he looked helpless.
"Hasn't the prince always hated outsiders stepping into the study without permission? Why is this rule broken here by the princess today? Huo Xing continued.
"Let her go. What can you do? I really thought I was a chivalrous woman who could go to heaven and earth. "What can he do with her? Huo Weilou only felt a little headache about this Shen Xinyue at present, and he couldn't be shallow, and after speaking, he suddenly glanced at Huo Xing coldly, and added: "Besides, is the princess an outsider?" ”
"My subordinates know their mistakes. The princess is certainly not an outsider. Huo Xing immediately corrected with a discerning look.
Then he continued to tease, "Lord Wang, are you too indulgent to the princess?" "Even if she is not an outsider, the concubine can't eavesdrop on the prince's handling of business.
"I don't know if I'm pampering her, but I know I'm too pampering of you. When will I allow you to talk more in this palace?! I think you're going to go to the house to uncover the tiles if you don't fight for three days? ”
This Huo Xing is Huo Weilou's personal guard who has been by his side since he was a child, and he is trained by himself, treating him like a family on weekdays, and never seeing him outside, so he dares to tease him here.
Huo Xing smiled cheaply, "The subordinates know their mistakes, but the subordinates don't dare, so the subordinates will go down to get the board by themselves." The prince was angry. ”
After speaking, he rushed out of Huo Weilou's study at a lightning speed.
Zhangfu.
Lan Qingruo's maternal grandfather's name was Zhang Zhizhou, and he was a big family in Zhangjia Town, a suburb of Beijing, with a lot of properties under his name, and "Lanyuan Restaurant" was one of the more famous of all his properties.
Because her daughter married Lan Shiqing, the prince of the dynasty, she directly gave the restaurant the surname "Lan", so she had to take advantage of this uncle's name.
Today, the old lady was sitting in the courtyard of Zhangfu, but when she saw the shopkeeper of the "Orchid Garden Restaurant" hurrying over, she asked, "Why are you so alarmed?" ”
"Back to the old lady, there is a distinguished guest from the Lanyuan Restaurant today."
Shopkeeper Wang looked around mysteriously, and only after confirming that there was no one did he approach the old lady Zhang and said.
"Who is it?" Old lady Zhang asked.
"It's the regent Huo Weilou, he sent a person to come and make a post, saying that he was going to have a banquet for friends in our Lanyuan Restaurant in the near future, and let us prepare wine and food to welcome us. The little one felt that this matter was very strange, so after the man left, he hurried to report it to you without delay. Old lady, this is not an ordinary thing. The shopkeeper looked quite strange.