Mingzhu knelt down and picked up the porcelain pieces on the ground bit by bit.
Biying entered the room, she squatted on the ground, her eyes glanced at the fragments in her hand, and she quickly ran forward, "Girl, don't move, be careful not to hurt your hands."
Biying wrapped the ceramic shards with a handkerchief and found that Miss Mingzhu's fingers had been injured, and several small wounds were poked out of her fingertips at some point.
Biying immediately got up and went to find medicine for her.
Mingzhu sat down absentmindedly, seemingly unable to feel the pain in her fingers.
Biying took the medicine to treat the trauma and carefully raised her injured finger. After applying the medicine to her, she wrapped it with gauze. She warned: "Girl, you'd better not touch it these days." water."
"good."
Biying asked again: "Are you hungry? Do you want to eat first?"
She looked at Mingzhu with worried eyes and hesitated to speak. She wanted to ask but didn't dare to ask. She didn't know why His Highness the Crown Prince and Miss Mingzhu were in such an embarrassing quarrel this time. His Highness's angry words were something she hadn't heard for a long time. Not to mention His Highness the Crown Prince smashed something.
Although Mingzhu has no appetite, she has indeed not eaten anything for a day. She didn't want to have trouble with her body yet, "I'm hungry."
Biying asked the kitchen staff to bring over hot meals. They were all light dishes, including her favorite pork ribs and yam soup.
Mingzhu forced herself to eat half a bowl of rice and drink a bowl of soup, so that a little color returned to her face.
Biying looked at her with uncontrollable pity and distress in her eyes, "Please eat more, your face has lost weight recently."
She has indeed lost some weight these days, and her chubby cheeks don't look as fleshy as before.
Mingzhu said: "But I'm full."
Her mood didn't seem to be affected at all.
Biying removed the plates from the table.
Mingzhu stayed quietly in her bedroom, opened the window to let some air in, and found that the two pots of green radish she kept by the window were not in good condition. The originally green branches and leaves gradually turned yellow from the roots, and they looked like they were dying.
Mingzhu pulled out some of the yellowed roots and poured some water on the pothos. Whether they survived or not depended on good fortune.
Only in the dead of night did Mingzhu have time to think about what happened tonight.
Zhao Shi seemed very angry when he saw it. It would be an understatement to say he was furious. She thought he would be furious if he knew this, because he hated her disobeying him.
Unexpectedly, it passed so lightly. He threw a medicine bottle and said four words - I won't force her anymore.
When Zhao Shi saw her saying those words, he seemed extremely sad and disappointed, very sad. But she herself felt relieved.
Suddenly heavy rain fell outside the window, and crackling jade beads hit the roof.
At the transition between spring and summer, rain always comes as soon as possible.
Mingzhu sat on the couch and listened quietly to the sound of rain outside the window through the window lattice. Her heart sank with the sound of rain.
The heavy rain continued intermittently until the evening of the next day, and the sky remained gloomy.
Mingzhu didn't sleep well, and would wake up after a few hours of sleep. After waking up, she sat by the window and drank tea. With nothing to do, she randomly picked two books from the bookshelf to pass the time.
Open a folk novel and read Zhao Shi's annotations in the third chapter. The clean handwriting is left in the blank space, refreshing and beautiful.
He left comments at the end of almost every chapter, but he had to finish reading these popular novels before she did.
The comments are not all criticism. Occasionally, there will be stingy praise, such as - the story is good.
Mingzhu sighed and stuffed the book back. It's a rainy day and it's a little cold in the house. Mingzhu was covered with a thick blanket, and charcoal was burning in a delicate small copper basin underneath for warmth.
Late spring, when it is suddenly warm and then cold, is the time when you are most likely to get sick.
Biying held the freshly cooked fermented glutinous rice ball soup and placed it in front of her, "Girl, drink it while it's hot."
The glutinous rice glutinous rice is sweet and glutinous, but it tastes a little sour after cooking, but the taste is just right.
Mingzhu would feel sleepy every time she ate the glutinous rice grains, just like drinking wine. However, she had no resistance to the glutinous rice grains and wanted to taste it every ten and a half days.
It was still early, and even if I was sleepy after eating, I could still get some sleep.
Mingzhu picked up the bowl and ate it one bite at a time. Her hands and feet felt warm.
Biying asked: "There is some rice in the pot, do you want more?"
Mingzhu put down the empty bowl and shook her head, "If you don't eat, you won't be able to wake up if you eat for a while."
Biying smiled and said, "That's right. The fermented glutinous rice wine has the same stamina as rice wine."
Mingzhu leaned against the pillow and yawned lazily, blinked her sore eyes, propped her head up and looked out the window at the flower trees whose buds had been knocked off by the wind, "I don't know when summer will come."
Biying helped her close the window, "Just hurry up."
After another four or five days of this, the rainy weather will stop, the sky will gradually clear up, the temperature will also warm up, the sun will shine brightly, and the breeze will blow on our faces. Occasionally, I can hear the chirping of cicadas in the yard. Early summer is really coming soon.
Mingzhu didn't see Zhao Shi for half a month, and she didn't hear any news from him.
She was content with herself, how she should be normally, and how she was now.
Mingzhu didn't know it yet, but Zhao Shi had already moved back to the palace. He went into the palace in the heavy rain that day and almost never came back.
If there is something you need, send someone around you to pick it up.
His Royal Highness is a busy man, there is nothing wrong with that. But with such a busy schedule, no one would believe me if I said there was nothing fishy.
Biying didn't know whether she should tell Miss Mingzhu about this, but her intuition told her that the reason His Royal Highness the Prince left with a cold face that day must have something to do with Miss Mingzhu.
After hesitating for a few days, Biying finally told Mingzhu about the matter, "Girl, His Highness the Crown Prince has not been back for several days. Do you want to send someone to send him a message?"
Mingzhu stopped turning the pages of the book and said, "Your Highness has his own things to be busy with."
"That night, I saw that Your Highness seemed a little angry..."
"Yeah. It's my fault." Mingzhu said calmly.
Biying should have known that Miss Mingzhu was a woman who was soft on the outside but strong on the inside, and trying to persuade her would only be blocked by her.
But what good will happen if you touch an egg against a stone
The sun is getting hotter day by day, and it seems like just a blink of an eye, it's summer.
In summer, the cicadas chirped on the branches, and Mingzhu also changed into a thin shirt. Although the house she lived in had a good orientation, it would still be too hot to sleep in during the summer, especially since she was afraid of the heat. She would often go to the pond in the backyard at noon. Enjoy the cool air and fan yourself in the pavilion.
All the lotus flowers in the pond are in bloom, and they are as beautiful as a painting. In summer, when she saw the water, she wanted to take off her shoes and soak her feet in the water to feel comfortable.
But this is not the side courtyard of the Ming family. If others see it, they will be called uneducated.
Zhao Shi seemed to have forgotten her. She didn't come back for more than a month, and no one came to disturb her life.
Perhaps she felt that Mingzhu had finally fallen out of favor, and the people below her were not serving her so wholeheartedly. You may not always be able to get what you want to eat, and you have to use ice cubes sparingly.
Biying almost quarreled with Grandma Liu several times. Her eyes turned red with anger and she argued with Grandma Liu.
Aunt Liu replied with a few words of sarcasm, saying that the empress in the cold palace was not so valuable.
Biying couldn't find the confidence to argue, and she wasn't sure whether His Highness the Crown Prince was really angry this time and would never come here again.
Mingzhu didn't care about this, she could get through the toughest days.
She wished that Zhao Shi would never remember her and let her fend for herself.
Seeing that she was still calm, Aunt Liu went to the pond to enjoy the lotuses. She smiled and said, "Miss Mingzhu is really not an ordinary person."
Playing hard to get is a trick that has been tried and tested many times.
Mingzhu looked at her smile and felt uncomfortable. There was a certain amount of ridicule in this smile.
Aunt Liu is an old man in the house, and she knows very well the temper of His Highness the Crown Prince. If he is really cold-hearted, he will ignore it and ignore it like he did in the past two months. From now on, I will never look at it again.
Maybe in a few days, the pearl will be taken away.
From the day Mingzhu came in, Grandma Liu felt that she was a nuisance and had long wanted to drive her away.
"I won't disturb the girl's leisure time. I'll go down first."
Mingzhu didn't say anything. She found a small boat and rowed to Huxinzhou, where she picked a few ripe lotus pods. Her face seemed to become even whiter under the brilliant sunlight.
The bow of the boat was already piled with lotus pods. She rowed the boat to the shore, peeled the lotus seeds in the pavilion, and said to Biying, "Make lotus seed chicken soup tonight."
"Okay, these lotus seeds taste so sweet."
"Not only sweet, but also tender." Mingzhu was so hot that her head was covered with sweat. She wiped the wet sweat on her face with a handkerchief and faced the wind. "In the past few days, the lotus seeds will not taste good. ."
"The girl knows so much."
"That's a rule of thumb."
She is a glutton and thinks about delicious food when she is at home.
The sky in the distance was getting darker. Mingzhu admired the sunset for a while, then stood up and said, "Go back."
Mingzhu went back with a small basket filled with lotus pods, and when she saw the guards beside Zhao Shi outside the courtyard gate, she stopped in her tracks.
Biying was obviously much happier than she was, "His Royal Highness is back."
Mingzhu sighed, walked into the room, looked at the man she hadn't seen for a long time, and was speechless.
Zhao Shi didn't seem to want to talk to her, so he grabbed her wrist and went to the bed. She pulled her wrist away and said, "I'm covered in sweat. I need to take a shower first."
Zhao Shi let go of her wrist. He was obviously losing weight. Maybe he was too busy. The whole person looked more serious and cold than before.
What greeted him was an inhumane killing.
He looked at the lotus pod in her hand and chuckled softly, almost mockingly.
Mingzhu had just finished taking a shower and changed her clothes when he pushed her onto the bed. Her soft body sank into the quilt, her hands were clasped together and pressed against the pillow.
The clothes she was wearing were already thin, and the material was even more unruly.
A low groan escaped from his throat unbearably.
After the incident, Zhao Shi, dressed neatly, took her out of the bed and said, "Eat before going to sleep."
After he said this, he straightened his clothes and left again.
Zhao Shi had no intention of staying, and Mingzhu didn't say anything to persuade her to stay.