Shen Yanshu was injured, and the banquet broke up unhappily, but it made the envoys of Daqi settle down a little, and the emperor returned to the imperial study with a calm face.

"Your Majesty, the lady concubine asks to see you. Su Xi stepped forward to report.

The emperor turned around, eased his face, and asked, "What is she here for?"

"Niangniang said, seeing that you didn't eat much at the banquet, she personally brought some snacks over. Su Xi said with a smile, "Concubine Shu Niangniang really has a heart, and she is worried about the emperor's dragon body!"

"Let her in. The Emperor said with a wave of his sleeve, then turned to sit down in his chair.

Concubine Shu came and asked the little palace maid behind her to put the dim sum on the table, then looked at the emperor quietly, and said with a chuckle: "Your Majesty, the concubine specially asked people to bring some cool dim sum, can you try it?"

Concubine Shu has been favored in the harem for so many years, not only is she beautiful, but she is also the most favored by the emperor, and even King Yu is quite favored.

When the emperor saw her so deeply understanding, his anger disappeared a lot: "It's still the concubine who cares about me the most." ”

Concubine Shu said: "Your Majesty, you are the day of this Great Zhou, who else can you care about if you don't care?"

The emperor looked at Concubine Shu's eyebrows, a face that was somewhat similar to hers, but that smile was far from the same, if only she was so considerate to herself, but it was a pity......

"Your Majesty, come and try this. While the emperor was distracted, Concubine Shu had already picked up a small snack and put it in front of his mouth, looking at him expectantly.

He opened his mouth and took a bite of the snack, his mouth full of sweet and greasy taste.

"If today's palace banquet is entrusted to you, it may not be so bad. The Emperor said.

When Concubine Shu heard this, she chuckled and said: "This palace banquet was organized by the queen and King Ning, and the concubine felt that her sister had done her best, and she had spent a lot of thought preparing for this palace banquet! ”

Hearing Concubine Shu's words, the emperor's originally soothing face became solemn again: "It's true that the queen is ineffective, and it's also true that Yu Wenrui deliberately provoked trouble." ”

Concubine Shu comforted again: "The emperor doesn't have to be angry, that Daqi is not to be afraid, although Yu Wenrui is arrogant, but it is not their turn to spread wild on our territory, and they are not pleasing to the palace banquet today, right?

The emperor thought of the scene where Shen Yanshu scared the envoys of Great Qi just now, and couldn't help but want to laugh, and said: "This girl of the Shen family is not bad, I didn't expect Shen Kangzhi to do things so much, and his girl's style of acting is not inferior at all. ”

Concubine Shu's eyes flashed slightly, but she smiled faintly and did not comment.

"The girl of the Shen family was injured, after all, it was an accident at the palace banquet, you can have more snacks and send something to appease you. The Emperor said.

Concubine Shu nodded: "The concubine is provincial." ”

Shen Yanshu took the medicine, redressed the wound and was sent back to the Shen Mansion, the people of the Shen family were worried, and the thought of the blood oozing from her shoulder made them feel intimidating.

Shen Yan'an waited for Shen Yanshu to fall asleep in the dark fragrance residence before returning to his courtyard.

As soon as he returned to the courtyard, a little maid came up to him and saluted.

"Young Master, you're back. ”

Shen Yan'an was still thinking about things in his heart, so he nodded perfunctorily, he didn't have a maid to serve closely, there were only two second-class maids in the yard, Qiu Ju and Xia He. They were sent by the Song family after he came back from Qingzhou, saying that the maid would be more careful in cleaning up the yard, but he couldn't refuse, so he let them stay.

In front of him was Xia He.

"Young master, there is something that the slave wants to tell you. Xia He bit his lip tangled and said.

Shen Yan'an frowned slightly and asked, "What's the matter?"

Xia He said: "It's a finch, today she secretly went out of the house, and she didn't work on weekdays, but today she knew that the young master was going to enter the palace for a banquet, so she went out of the house to play, she was too lazy, and there were no rules at all." ”

Shen Yan'an glanced at her and said, "I agreed to her leaving the house, and it is okay for other people to do the work on weekdays, didn't you do the same when you didn't have her before?"

"But ......"

"But what?" Shen Yan'an interrupted Xia He's words and said, "For her, there is no need to be too restrictive, and I told you at the beginning that she is a first-class maid, and she should be in charge of you, not you." ”

Xia He looked at his young master in surprise, although he was a little unwilling, he could only nod.

Shen Yan'an turned around and went back to the room, leaving Xia He stomping his feet angrily on the spot.

Qiu Ju walked over, sighed, and said: "Look, you don't believe it if you don't meddle in things, people are different from us, so the young master will not punish her for this, if you say too much, it will only disgust the young master, so you should do your own thing." ”

"But why!" Xia He said a little unwillingly, "It's all maids, but that finch is as delicate as a young lady, and I haven't seen her do any other work except serving tea and pouring water on weekdays." ”

"It's just a good looking face. Qiu Ju said, "The finch was brought back from Jiangnan by the young master, maybe she is waiting to carry her aunt in the future, how can she do the rough work done by the next person?"

Xia He said unwillingly: "But obviously we are the ...... that the eldest lady prepared for the young master."

She hurriedly crumpled the handkerchief in her hand into a ball, but she didn't say anything.

When the second young master came back from Qingzhou, the eldest lady picked out the two of them, saying that they were good-looking, and they had served in the second young master's courtyard for two or three years.

And the second young master's yard has her and Qiu Ju, and there are no other maids, and now a finch comes out of thin air, and as soon as she comes, she will crush them, how can she be willing.

After listening to Xia He's words, Qiu Ju just shook her head with a smile and said, "You see that the second master has not been a concubine all these years, maybe the young master is the same, it will only be good to the future young lady, let's not think too much." ”

After speaking, he patted Xia He's shoulder, sighed, and then turned around and went back to work.

And Xia He was still standing in place, her eyes were full of resentment, if there was no contrast with the finch, maybe she could bear to work like this in the yard of the second young master, but since the finch'er came, she felt that she was the same as those third-class girls who worked roughly.

Pei Yining, who didn't know anything, just came back from outside happily, still holding a lot of new things she had bought in her hands, Xia He on the side looked over, those rouge gouache and snacks were almost enough for her for more than a year.

When Pei Yining first came, Xia He helped clean up the room, although Shen Yan'an gave her a separate room, but she didn't bring much things, nothing more than a few sets of clothes and some jewelry, at that time she frowned and said that she was penniless, but now she looks like she has no money.

It must have all been misappropriated from the second young master. Xia He said in his heart, but if he told the young master, he might be scolded by him again, after all, he was too tolerant of the finch.

"Xia He, you're here too. ”

When Pei Yining saw Xia He, she stepped forward to say hello with a smile, and was about to give some snacks in her hand to Xia He, but Xia He glanced at her resentfully, turned around and left angrily.

"Don't want it, don't want it, why are you looking at me like that. Pei Yining frowned, but she didn't take it to heart, she was in a good mood today, she had been shopping with Sister Xiyan for a long time, and she had bought a lot of good things, but she still wouldn't take this little thing to heart.

She just wanted to walk to Shen Yan'an's room, and suddenly thought that this guy was going to the palace banquet, and immediately stopped. There must be a lot of good things at the palace banquet, maybe even happier than her!

Thinking like this, Pei Yining turned around and went towards his room.

Early the next morning, Pei Yining put on the newly bought bead flowers yesterday, admired her beauty in the mirror for a long time, and then reluctantly went to prepare for Shen Yan'an to wash.

Since I became a maid for him, I have been conscientious. Pei Yining snorted coldly in her heart, but she hadn't dressed herself well for a long time, so she could only wear the maid's clothes every day.

She took the washing water to Shen Yan'an's room, but saw that the room was empty.

Pei Yining set up the water basin, then looked into the yard, only to see Xia He cleaning the yard.

"Xia He, have you seen the young master?" asked Pei Yining.

Xia He said: "The young master got up early in the morning and went to where the third lady is, with your slow temperament, how can I wait for you, the young master said that when you wake up, I will help him clean up his clothes, and take the clothes that were changed yesterday to the Huanyi room." ”

Pei Yining looked at Xia He, and always felt that she was a little weird today, although she didn't like this maid, but after all, it was in Shen Yan'an's yard, she lived here, and people had to bow their heads under the eaves, so they could only do it.

Seeing Pei Yining take the clothes in the room out of the courtyard, Xia He's eyes flashed with a gleam, and then slowly walked towards Pei Yining's room.

Shen Yanshu's old injury recurred, Shen Yan'an was naturally worried, and came to the Dark Xiangju early in the morning to see her, and even the lunch was used with Shen Yanshu, although many ladies and ladies of the family handed over posts to visit Shen Yanshu, but they were all rejected by Shen Yanshu one by one, until Ruan Leyao came directly to the door.

With Ruan Leyao and Shen Xi'er accompanying Shen Yanshu to talk and talk about their hearts, Shen Yan'an couldn't stay any longer, so he went back to his yard.

As soon as he entered the room, he saw the washbasin where it was still placed, he shook his head, Pei Yining was still lost when he was such a maid.

"Sparrows. He shouted.

It's just that I didn't expect Pei Yining to come out, but Xia He walked in: "What does the young master command?"

"Take this pot out...... By the way, what about the finch?" asked Shen Yan'an.

Xia He didn't expect the young master to ask about the whereabouts of the finch as soon as he came back, and she said with some embarrassment: "The finch was taken away by the eldest lady." ”

"Why did the eldest lady take her?" Shen Yan'an inexplicably felt that something was wrong.

Xia He said, "Because of the finch, she stole something...... The eldest lady said that it could not be tolerated......"