The soup dumplings in the Nie An Houfu are fresh and tender, fragrant but not greasy, which is what Hua Xiwan likes to eat before leaving the court, so in the early morning of the seventh day of the lunar new year, Mrs. Lu arranged for the servants to make Hua Xiwan’s favorite drink. Porridge, my favorite soup dumplings and various light side dishes.
After Yan Jinqiu accompanied Hua Xiwan to the main courtyard of Fuzhong to greet the second old man, the whole family moved to the dining room to eat this breakfast, which took more than half an hour in the evening than usual.
After cleaning his hands and waiting for Hua Hesheng and Lu Shi to move the chopsticks first, Yan Jinqiu raised the chopsticks, picked up a small soup dumpling that looked crystal clear and put it in Hua Xiwan's bowl, and then poured it down very naturally. A small half bowl of almond milk soup was placed on her left. After doing all this, he began to pick and use the things he liked.
Lu noticed his action, and his eyes showed satisfaction. Even the candied nuts that he usually eats are delicious.
A little thirsty in the morning, Hua Xiwan quickly finished the small bowl of almond milk soup, pushed the bowl in the direction of Yan Jinqiu, and looked at it with a smile. Seeing this, Mrs Lu wanted to instruct the maid next to her to pour her daughter, but seeing that Bai Xia and the other maids did not move, she pretended not to see this scene after thinking about it.
Hua Yiliu's movement of drinking porridge slowed down after seeing the interaction between the two. She looked at Xian Jun Wang's considerate movements, and her hand holding the spoon became stronger, and found Hua Chuyu beside her looking at her. She glanced at each other coldly, lowered her head and continued to drink the tasteless porridge in her hands.
Sun's gaze swept over the two of them inadvertently, and then withdrew his gaze with a smile.
After a meal, Hua Xiwan was about to follow Yan Jinqiu back to the county palace. Before she got into the carriage, she turned to look at her father and two brothers behind her, and after a while she spit out four words: "Don't read, take care."
Hua Hesheng watched his daughter get into the carriage, and a curtain separated his sight. As the carriage moved forward, his eyes moved forward a little bit, until the carriage was out of sight, and then he looked back at his two sons and said: "Go home."
When he just left, although Xiwan only said four words, he could hear the deep meaning behind these four words.
Duke Xian was unfathomable and ambitious, but he was also good at acting. Xiwan didn't want the Houfu to be involved in these undercurrents, so she said the word "take care".
Hua Changbao followed behind his mother with a dignified expression, thinking of his sister who had just been taken away by a luxury carriage, he sighed secretly.
In the carriage, Yan Jinqiu was playing with two nuclear sculptures, tilted his head and smiled at Hua Xiwan and said, "Xiwan knows about the high-flying flower, this flower is always beautiful and domineering when it is in full bloom, but in fact, no matter how arrogant the high-flying flower is. , and only by being attached to something else can it open up.”
"Although a flower like Lingxiao sounds proud, it's nothing more than that," Hua Xiwan raised her mouth slightly, with a half-smiling smile, "a flower like this is just a decoration, just look at it, why bother to study how it grows?"
Yan Jinqiu looked at her with a light smile, and after a while, threw the nuclear carving back into the exquisite box: "You are right."
Hua Xiwan hooked the corner of her mouth, but did not speak.
The carriage entered the palace, and Hua Xiwan got out of the carriage first, and without waiting for Yan Jinqiu to come out, she took Bai Xia's hand to go back to the main courtyard.
"Xiwan," Yan Jinqiu leaned out of the carriage and looked at Hua Xiwan's back, "Why are you walking so fast?"
Hua Xiwan looked back at the man sitting in the carriage, raised her chin slightly and sneered: "If the prince still has something, how can the concubine bother you." After speaking, she turned around and walked away, taking a few steps to see the rockery next to the road protruding toward the side of the road. After picking up a piece, he stopped and said, "This rockery protrudes so much that it doesn't look good."
After saying this, she took a few steps back, flipped the skirt toward her waist, and kicked her leg fiercely, only to hear a click, and the protruding piece fell to the ground.
"It's much more pleasing to the eye," Hua Xiwan turned back and smiled at Yan Jinqiu, "What do you think, Prince Jun?" After saying this, without waiting for Yan Jinqiu to answer, she put down her skirt gracefully and let it go. Bai Xia and a few girls helped her tidy up the corners of her skirt, and then walked away.
There was a dead silence, Mu Tong looked at the corner of the rockery that was kicked off, and felt a faint pain in his calf, he swallowed and said, "What are you still doing, since the princess said that the rockery is not good-looking, she won't let it go. People pushed and rearranged things."
"Yes," the servant who was stunned with fright then reacted. He lifted the rockery with his hands and feet. A daring servant couldn't help but look back at the Prince of the County. It is the prince of the county, even if the princess of the county is so sturdy, she can still sit in the carriage and look as usual.
"Your Highness?" Mu Tong stepped forward and called out.
no response.
"Your Highness?"
Yan Jinqiu tilted his head and gave him a cold look: "Move this rockery away and plant a bunch of roses."
Growing thorny roses by the roadside? Mu Tong glanced at the prince in doubt, and when he saw the serious expression on his face, he lowered his head and said, "I'll take it down."
A rose is a rose, better than the kind of round ball with spikes and no leaves that came from the countries of the Western Regions.
After Hua Xiwan returned to the main courtyard, she took off her palace clothes and put on a fiery red gauze skirt. After pulling up her hair with a blood jade hairpin, she faintly summoned an inconspicuous second-class maid: "I did the green beads yesterday. what?"
After this second-class maid honestly told Lu Zhu's actions all day yesterday, she kept her head down.
"Bai Xia, how many years have the green beads been with me?" Hua Xiwan used a pen to draw a blood-colored peach blossom between her eyebrows, and said with a wink, "Time is the most annoying thing, okay? The bad becomes bad, and the bad can become good.”
Bai Xia and the other three did not dare to speak, because they had been with the master for many years, and naturally knew that the master was already in anger at this time.
"Come on, go and get the green beads," she put down the pen in her hand, looked at her makeup carefully in the mirror, painted her eyebrows with eyebrows, and opened a jewelry box at will, the contents in it almost fluttered. human eye.
"Master," Bai Xia and the others had to kneel when they saw this.
As if she didn't see them kneeling down, Hua Xiwan picked out a pair of ruby-encrusted bracelets from the box and slowly put them on her wrist.
The room was so silent that even breathing could be heard, no one dared to move, and even the breathing was kept as low as possible.
"Prince Princess, Prince County sent someone to send a box of gems." A servant came to report.
"Put it down," Hua Xiwan didn't even look at the gems that the servants brought up, she held the jade teacup in her fair hands, and there was no expression on her face.
After Lu Zhu followed the maid into the main house, she felt that the atmosphere was a bit wrong. When she saw the master in the red flying sleeve dress sitting on the head with no expression, and the other three sisters were kneeling on the ground, she felt in her heart. With a shudder, he fell to the ground with his feet soft.
"Boom," was the sound of the jade cup resting on the table. It was very small, but it was enough to make Luzhu's heart skip a beat.
"Lvzhu is seventeen this year," Hua Xiwan held her chin with one hand, looked lazily at Luzhu kneeling in front of her, and sighed, "You've been by my side for six or seven years."
"Master, the slave is wrong." Before Hua Xiwan could say anything else, Lu Zhu had already opened her mouth to beg for mercy, "The slave was obsessed for a while, I beg the master to give the slave another chance because of the relationship between master and servant for so many years."
Seeing her like this, Hua Xiwan smiled instead of being angry: "What kind of relationship made you want to approach the male master?"
Lu Zhu has always been in the inner courtyard, and has not seen many outstanding men. Seeing that the prince is so gentle with his master, he has moved some thoughts that should not have been there. Now Hua Xiwan is in front of several sisters in the room. His face was exposed, his face was pale, and he couldn't say a word of defense. She knew what she had to say, but under the eyes of her master who was smiling but not smiling, she couldn't even make a sound.
"Princess Princess, the Lord of the County asked Xiao to send you two plates of fresh lychees." Mu Tong walked into the main house, passed Lvzhu's side without looking away, and then bowed in front of Hua Xiwan, "This is the Yuezhou Institute. Can you taste it, do you like it?"
"Leave it," Hua Xiwan didn't look at the two trays of lychees, "Let the prince of the county be bothered."
Seeing this, Mu Tong had no choice but to put down his things and retreat. It seems that Princess Princess is still angry at this moment, I am afraid that it will be useless to send something from Prince County.
"When I got married, the Hou Mansion gave me your deed of betrayal," Hua Xiwan took out a deed of deed of betrayal and put it on the table, and said slowly, "Let's go."
"Master!" Lu Zhu did not expect that the master would not beat or scold her, but let her leave the palace. But she is a young woman, what can she do without the king
"Some words were spoken long before I got married. What's the use of asking for mercy now? When you did things without my back, you should have expected such an outcome," Hua Xiwan looked at Lu Zhu coldly. With a glance, "I let you go, but also to save a face for you, otherwise you don't even need to save your own face."
Lvzhu seems to be remorseful at this moment. She originally thought about the relationship with the master for many years. If the prince really values her, the master will give her a name for obstructing these faces. Who knows how things will happen. In this way, the county prince didn't take a fancy to her, and the master didn't show any affection.
She wanted to ask Bai Xia and others to intercede for her, but when they looked at them, they all knelt on the ground with their heads buried, and they didn't even have the courage to look at her.
At this moment, the despair in her heart turned into anger: "Master, you were born beautiful, and you were born into a rich and noble family. To you, anything is just a matter of words, but the slaves are doomed because they are not as good as those from aristocratic families. If everything goes wrong, and even the man you adore doesn't dare to look at it, how can you understand the bitterness in my heart?"
"What do you love about him?" Hua Xiwan looked at Lu Zhu with a blank expression, "If it's looks, then he will grow old sooner or later. If it's talent, will you recite poetry? If it's temperament, when will he return It's better than you, you don't even know what kind of person he is, and you dare to use the word "love"
"
Lu Zhu was speechless, but she felt that her intentions were not as superficial as the master said. She fell in love with the prince at first sight, not because of anything else.
"Or, what do you value is the talented and handsome Prince Xian? If he was just a poor student, would you still care about him?"
"If the prince of the county is a student from a poor family, will you look at him more, master?"
"Naturally not," Hua Xiwan sneered, "I was born a daughter of a noble family, and I was destined to marry a man from a noble family. If he was a student from a poor family, what chance would he have in front of me?"
"Then what you like is not just the identity of the prince?" Lvzhu felt a little unworthy for the prince. Although she was so considerate to the master, the words of the master were so indifferent that even her maid could do it. Seeing the friendship of the prince of the county for his master, wouldn't a smart person like the master feel it
"Then how do you know what he is looking for in me?" Hua Xiwan closed her eyes and stopped looking at Luzhu, "Go away, from now on, our master-servant friendship will end."
Lu Zhu stared blankly at the red-clothed woman in front of her, and then kowtowed three times, "Master, please treat the prince well in the future. Lu Zhu bids farewell." After speaking, she stood up and turned to leave the main house.
After Luzhu left, Hua Xiwan said lightly, "You all get up."
She was never born to be soft-hearted. She was and will be so in the future.
After Bai Xia and the others knew that Lu Zhu was thinking about the prince, they were so frightened that their expression changed.
How on earth did Lu Zhu's brain grow to be able to say these confused words