"The county master, uncle, please come this way."
The maid with the lantern led the way, Rong Xia took Ban Yan's hand, walked around the nine-curve corridor, and came to Ban Yan's yard.
The yard is very delicately repaired. Even though it is covered with heavy snow, it can be seen that the owner of the house spent a lot of energy when designing this yard.
The maid pushed open the door, and the house was cleaned very cleanly. The red gauze tent was embroidered with pomegranate and other auspicious patterns. Ban Yan turned to look at the maid behind her: "Leave a few people to serve, and everyone else will leave."
"Yes."
The maids lit the candles in the house, saluted Banmao Yu Rongxia, bowed and walked out.
"It's the first time I've entered a woman's boudoir," Rong Xia walked to the bed and looked at it, and found that the head of the bed was made of a small lattice, and when he opened it, he saw some snacks inside, he turned his head and said to Ban Hua, "It's very interesting. , I'll let them do this when I go back."
"It's okay, the mandarin duck bed I used to marry has a small lattice on it," Ban Hua washed off the makeup on his face and put on a tolerant and comfortable nightgown. "Wash and sleep."
Seeing that she was soaking her feet, Rong Xia leaned over and squeezed her feet into the same big basin.
"Don't squeeze with me," Ban Hua stepped on his feet, "there is no shortage of water at home."
"Save water," Rongxia said confidently, "It's not easy for the waiter to run around on such a cold day."
"Uncle, there is still hot water on the stove in the wing." A little maid said honestly, "No trouble."
"It's okay, I'll squeeze with your county master and use it." Rong Xia was not at all uncomfortable when the excuse was pierced, but instead gently scratched the soles of Ban Hua's feet with his toes. Ban Hua couldn't help but stepped on his feet again.
After soaking her feet, Rong Xia slammed Ban Hua onto the bed. The bed was already warmly smoked by Mrs. Tang, and Ban Hua huddled in the duvet and yawned: "It's past time, go to sleep."
Rong Xia took her into his arms, and seeing that she was really sleepy, he gently kissed her between her brows: "Have a good dream."
Ban Hua arched his chest and fell asleep listening to his heartbeat.
"Even if you look like a fairy and turn all living beings upside down, you can't force your feelings. If you let me go, let go of yourself."
"What kind of thing are you, should I let go or not?" The woman in red was riding on the back of a horse, her proud chin raised slightly, looking at him like she was looking at an irrelevant passerby again, "Get out of here. Just get out, don't tell your heart and cry in front of me. I was willing to make a marriage contract with you Xie Lin, but it depends on how beautiful you are. Today you eloped with others, I will not stop you, I hope you two have no regrets one day."
"Thank you for the magnanimity of the county master, Xie will not regret it."
"Hey," the woman on the horse laughed, her eyes full of ridicule, "I've seen a man like you a lot in the book."
She threw a small burden to the woman standing beside him: "This thing is a thank you gift from me. If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what kind of thing this man was."
In the twilight of the morning light, her face was ruddy, her lips were smiling, and her bright eyes were full of chills.
"Second Young Master, Second Young Master, Eldest Young Master has a fever again. The doctor said that the situation is not very good. You should go and have a look."
Xie Qilin opened his eyes, the sky was not yet bright outside the window, he heard the eager voice of the servant, he hurriedly put on a big cloak, and he didn't even have time to put on the robe, so he opened the door and walked out.
"How is your brother?"
"I used a little porridge last night, and I was in good spirits, but I didn't know it would start to heat up at this moment." The little servant carried the lantern and walked on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow. Everyone in the house was sleeping, and no one came to shovel away the snow.
"Where's the doctor?"
"Several imperial physicians and doctors invited from outside are all there." The servant ran back and forth several times, gasping for breath when he spoke, "It's just that they said the situation was not very good."
Xie Qilin's expression changed, and he stepped faster. Walking into his elder brother's yard, he heard his mother's cry and his father's angry scolding.
"We paid a lot of money to hire you. Is this how you paid it back? You still call yourself a genius doctor, why can't even my son be cured?!"
"Father!" Xie Qilin was worried that his father was too sad, and when he spoke, he was impulsive and reckless, and offended these doctors, which did nothing to the eldest brother. Now the elder brother still has to rely on them for treatment, and they can't afford to offend these people.
"Uncle Zhongping," the two doctors stood up, one of them said with a cold expression, "although we are not skilled in medicine, we are also doctors raised by the master of Fule County, not from your Uncle Zhongping's mansion. As the saying goes, beating a dog It depends on the master, the two of us may not even be as good as dogs in the eyes of the uncle, but only the master of Fule County scolds us, not the uncle."
"Uncle asked me on the day of the county master's wedding, and the county master was soft-hearted and asked me to come and treat your son, but it doesn't mean that the two of you should be scolded by you," another doctor added, "Since Uncle Zhongping sees If I can't get the medical skills of the two of us, then we will leave now."
"Two doctors, please stop," Xie Qilin walked in front of the two of them and bowed to them, "My father is in a hurry, and his words are offensive, please forgive me."
"Sorry, Second Young Master Xie, neither of our brothers are good-natured people. If Uncle Zhongping scolds us, it means that we don't take our county master to heart. You don't need to say more, sir, farewell!"
After the two doctors finished saying these words, no matter how Xie Qilin cried and begged, they threw their sleeves and left.
Xie Qilin stared blankly at the backs of the two, unable to say a word. The people of the Ban family have always been like this, and good words will give some face, but if someone hits them in the face, they will stomp the face of the person on the ground, and even the servants are very protective of the master, quite a bit of a slap in the face. The style of the military family.
"Father," Xie Qilin walked in front of Uncle Zhongping, "how is the big brother?"
Uncle Zhongping shook his head with a face full of vicissitudes. After a while, he said: "Qilin, the most regretful thing in my life as a father is to let your sister marry King Ning, and let our family be tied to King Ning's boat."
Xie Qilin looked at Xie Chongjin, whose life and death in bed were uncertain, and suddenly said, "Then our family will get off his boat."
Uncle Zhongping's complexion changed greatly, his lips trembled, and he curled up on the chair, the twilight was dark and lifeless.
There was no dream all night, and when Rong Xia woke up, the sky was already bright. Seeing that Ban Huan was still sleeping, he carefully pulled out his arms, put on his robe, and walked to the outside lightly before letting the maids wait and wash.
Ban Heng came in, saw Rong Xia neatly dressed and sitting on the chair outside, lowered his voice and asked, "Brother-in-law, is my sister still sleeping?"
Rong Xia nodded, got up and walked to the door, "Brother Heng, can you take me for a walk in the yard?"
Ban Heng nodded, "It's still snowing outside. After breakfast, I'm showing you around."
"It's work."
Ban Heng scratched the back of his hand uncomfortably: "Then what, don't be so polite to me. Our family doesn't pay attention to these things. You will understand after spending a long time with us. Rules are for others to see, your own family. In private, how can you be at ease."
Rong Xia laughed out loud when she heard the words: "No wonder Hua Hua is so cute."
Ban Heng shook his shoulders, what kind of eyes do he need to think his sister is cute. Complimenting his sister's beauty is a fact, but it's cute...
This is probably because the legendary lover sees Xi Shi in the eyes. Anyway, his own younger brother couldn't say such a thing against his heart, and he always felt that his conscience was a hurdle.
When it was time for breakfast, Ban Hua hadn't got up yet, Yin Shi said a little embarrassedly: "Xian-in-law, let you see a joke."
"Mother-in-law, it's a blessing to be able to sleep," Rong Xia said to Yinshi, "It's okay to let Hua Hua sleep a little longer."
Yin Shi laughed dryly, not being able to say anything more. If Rong Xia's words were polite, she could still teach Ban Hua a few words, but looking at Rong Xia's appearance, she really didn't feel that she was sleeping late. If this goes on, what kind of lazy girl will she look like
After eating, Ban Heng took Rong Xia to hang out in Ban's yard.
"There are no people in these small courtyards. Our family has few female relatives, and these small courtyards are not used. Therefore, two courtyards were built into study rooms and orchards, and the other courtyards were locked." Ban Heng brought Rong Xia into the room. The orchard was planted with orange trees, with a few oranges hanging from the branches. These oranges don't look very good, but they look gratifying in red and orange. No one picked these fruits, so most of them were already ripe and fell to the ground, and the rest were even hanging on the branches, but when I got closer, these fruits were not very good, and they had no vitality.
"Grandmother's Princess Mansion has an orchard, it is said that my grandfather likes it. Later, after our family moved into Hou's Mansion, we also built such a garden according to the appearance of the Princess Mansion. Unfortunately, my grandmother seldom came to this garden." Ban Hengcong An orange was picked from the branch, and the skin was peeled off. The flesh of the orange had no moisture and turned dry white.
"I wanted to give you a taste, but I can't seem to eat it." Ban Heng threw the oranges into the snow unfortunately, turned his head and said, "My sister is about to wake up, let's go back."
Rong Xia looked at the orange forest, "Do you like this forest?"
"She used to take me to play in the woods, and she even caught Xia Chan on the tree to scare me," Ban Heng took Rong Xia out of the orchard with a smile on his face, "My sister is a bit straight and doesn't know how to be gentle and roundabout. But he has a good heart."
Ban Heng turned to Ban Huan in three or two sentences. The central idea was "Although my sister has many shortcomings, she is a good girl". If you don't mention Rong Xia in a word, you should treat his sister well, but the meaning of every sentence is, They all don't want Rong Xia to disappoint Ban Hua.
"I really envy you." Rong Xia recalled his childhood, but could not find a particularly interesting thing.
The only thing I still remember is that at the age of eleven, he secretly played on the frozen ice with a five- or six-year-old child. Later, his mother discovered that his robe was wet, and he was so angry that he ignored him for several days. .
Later, he learned that the frozen ice surface was very dangerous. Fortunately, there was no accident that day, otherwise he and the child would have been drowned in the water.
I still remember that the child also found a plank, sat on the ice and asked him to pull it away, but he did not agree. He didn't remember what the child looked like, but he remembered clearly the appearance of the other's pouting.
This action, his mother never allowed him to do, because it is not elegant enough.
Ban Heng waved his hand: "What is there to envy."
Rong Xia smiled: "It's good to have someone to grow up with."
"You don't have a brother too, how come there is no one to accompany you?" After saying these words, Ban Heng realized that he had said the wrong thing. The eldest son of the Rong family passed away a few years ago. People poke knives when they are sad.
"I'm sorry..." Ban Heng felt that his mouth was a little indebted.
"No problem," Rong Xia shook his head, "It's all old, there's nothing that can't be mentioned."
He didn't have a good relationship with his eldest brother. Although they were brothers, they were not close because of the Rong family's family style. They respected and loved more than intimacy.
"What are you doing here with such a heavy snow?" Ban Hua stood under the corridor holding the hand warmer and waved to the two of them, "Come here quickly."
Ban Heng ran to Ban Heng: "Sister, you can count."
Ban Hua's cheeks were flushed after getting up: "I slept too well last night, so I got up late."
"Is it cold?" Rong Xia touched her face, it was soft and tender, and he couldn't help but touch it again.
"Holding this in cold hands," Ban Hua put the hand warmer into Rong Xia's hands and covered her face with her hands, "Don't touch it, what should I do if I touch my face?"
Rong Xia squeezed her hand and put the hand warmer back into her hand: "Okay, I won't touch it."
"The county master," Ruyi hurried over, "the two doctors you borrowed from the Uncle's Mansion in Zhongping are back. They want to see you."
"Xie family boss doesn't need a doctor anymore?" Ban Hua raised his eyebrows, "Let them meet me in the front hall."
Xie Chongjin was stabbed by someone. It's only been a few days, so there's no need for a doctor
Could it be... the people are gone
Ban Hua came to the front hall, and after listening to the two doctors talking about what happened, he nodded and said, "You did the right thing, the two gentlemen were wronged, please go to the backyard to rest."
"The county lord is serious, and the Xie family is rude. There is no reason to blame the county lord," the two doctors said. "The subordinates will retire first."
After the two doctors left, Ban Hua snorted coldly: "Xie's family really doesn't know how to praise him. In the future, whoever lives or dies in his family, even if he kneels on the ground and kowtows to me, I won't borrow the doctor to give it to him."
"Okay, let's not borrow it." Rong Xia nodded in agreement.
Outside the Baishou Garden, Xie Qilin, who came to apologize, stood outside the door for a while, and a servant in Tsing Yi came out and saluted him: "Mr. Xie, it's a pity, our Lord and his wife are not in the garden."
"I'm not here, I'm going back to the Marquis of Cheng'an Mansion?" Xie Qilin patted the snowflake on his shoulder and exhaled a breath of heat.
The servant shook his head: "Yesterday was the day when the madam returned to the house. Yesterday, our marquis and madam went to the Jingting mansion, and they haven't come back today."
"Prince Jingting?" Xie Qilin thought he had heard it wrong, "You said you went back yesterday?"
"Exactly," the servant said with a smile, "if you want to see the two masters, I'm afraid you are going to the madam's maiden's house, Jingting Gongfu."
"Thank you."
"Don't dare."
Xie Qilin rode on the back of the horse and took the cloak handed over by the servant to tie it up. Rongxia actually accompanied Ban Hua back to the Jingting Mansion on New Year's Eve. He didn't think of this at all.
"Master, are we going to the Jingting Palace?" The boy holding the horse rope looked at Xie Chongjin. He didn't really want to go to the Jingting Palace, because not only did the two masters dislike each other, but even the People also have to tell each other their signs.
"No need," Xie Qilin shook his head slowly, "Today is the first day of the first lunar month, so I don't want to disturb you too much. Just leave our earnings and posts here."
"Yes."
Xie Qilin was in a trance, he never imagined that Rong Xia would do this for Ban Hua. Celebrating the New Year at the family's family's home, and even staying at Yue's home on the first day of the first lunar month, what's the difference between this and a son-in-law
Rong Xia and Ban Hua stayed at Ban's house until the third day of the first lunar month, before they packed their bags and returned to the palace.
"By the way," Ban Hua leaned on the table and tilted her head to look at Rong Xia, "Are we going to incense for my parents-in-law?"
Rong Xia brought her a glass of water mixed with honey: "You can go anytime."
Ban Hua saw that his expression was slack and he didn't seem to have deep feelings for his parents, so he didn't mention it anymore.
Three days later, when the snow stopped, Rong Xia took her to a room in the backyard, where there were tablets of the second elder of the Rong family and the great man of the Rong family. Rong Xia handed the lit incense to Ban Hua: "It's cold, no. We need to go to the tomb to worship, so let's do it here."
This room is a bit deserted, the room is empty, and there are no other ornaments except the two memorial tablets. Behind the tablet, there are two paintings, the left is male and the other is female, which may be Rong Xia's parents.
Ban Hua didn't know what to say to the icy tablet. She held the incense and bowed three times. After inserting the incense into the incense burner, she lifted up her skirt to kneel and bowed, but Rong Xia held her in one hand.
"No, it's cold on the ground," Rong Xia looked at the tablet blankly, "That's it."
"Oh," Ban Hua took his hand and pulled it gently, "Are you in a bad mood?"
"It's okay, I'm fine." Rong Xia reached out and tapped her forehead, revealing a gentle smile.
"Don't laugh if you don't want to laugh," Ban Hua dragged him and walked out, "Come on, let's take a stroll in the garden." Although the palace was already theirs, she hadn't appreciated it yet.
"Princess, the lord is drunk and can't get up now."
Xie Wanyu stood beside the bed, looking at the man who was sleeping soundly on the bed, turned around and saw several palace servants in the room looking at her in horror, couldn't help sneering, could it be that these people thought she would take this opportunity Kill Jiang Luo
She turned around and left the room expressionlessly.
Although she and Jiang Luo are called husband and wife, they have no relationship between husband and wife. At first, she thought that after marrying Jiang Luo, she would be able to hold down Ban Huan and make her bow her head to herself, but she never thought that she would marry Jiang Luo. a fire pit.
She went back to her room and took out an ordinary-looking box of face cream from the dresser. The box of face cream had a fragrant smell, like the scent of sweet-scented osmanthus blooming in August.
"Princess," a palace maid stepped forward, "do you want to wash up?"
"No need," Xie Wanyu put the one-third of the used face cream back on the dressing table, and said with a half-smile, "Have someone to serve the lord well, I heard that drunk people sometimes fall asleep in their sleep. Choked to death unconsciously."
The palace maid's shoulders trembled with fright and dared not speak.
Seeing that the palace maid was so frightened, Xie Wanyu sneered, "Why, you should be afraid when I say such a sentence?"
The palace people all kept silent.
The princess and the prince are now described as "similar to strangers", which is already a polite way of saying it. The prince caused the princess's brother's life to hang by a thread. How should this kind of hatred be resolved
Ask them to say that the prince has done too much. Xie Jia Dalang is his brother-in-law after all. What kind of deep hatred is there between the two, and it takes a knife to solve the hatred
"You all step back," the smile on Xie Wanyu's face disappeared little by little, "I want to be alone and be quiet."
"Yes."
The room was quiet again, Xie Wanyu took out a note from a hairpin with a short sentence in it.
"Duanning Near East Palace."
She smiled wryly, even if King Ning ascended the throne in the future, with the attitude of King Ning treating her, the Xie family would not end well. But now if the East Palace succeeds the throne, what will happen to her as Princess Ning? In a dilemma, she actually ended up in such a field.
Is there any other way, so that she can not only cut off King Ning, but also ensure that she has no worries of food and clothing in the future
On the seventh day of the first lunar month, the imperial court re-opened the seal, and Baiguan went to the imperial court for the first time in the new year. When they saw that there were not only the second prince, but also the crown prince standing in the hall, they only knew that the ban in the East Palace was lifted.
Although the prince's character is a little weaker, at least he can be called a benevolent character. King Ning's tyrannical nature is really frightening.
In fact, King Ning was even more shocked than Baiguan. Before the prince appeared, he didn't even know that the ban in the East Palace had been lifted. He looked at the prince standing on his left, and with a sullen face, he forced himself to bow down and gave the prince a salute.
The father was actually hiding the truth from him and secretly released the prince.
What does he want to do
"Your Majesty has a decree, His Royal Highness is in good health, so I can share my worries..."
When the prince was placed under house arrest, the reason for the outside world was that he was not feeling well. Now that he is in good health, he will naturally continue to supervise the country. As for King Ning, just be his King Ning obediently.
On the ninth day of the first lunar month, Emperor Yunqing gave King Ning a prince's mansion, and made him move into the mansion a month later.
After the ministers learned of this imperial decree, they finally calmed down.
It seems that this world will eventually be inherited by the prince.
"I don't accept it, I don't accept it!" Jiang Luo smashed everything in the room. "The prince was only born a few years earlier than me. Why does this world belong to him?"
"Your Highness, calm your anger!" The eunuch walked up to King Ning with a cup of tea, "The matter is not in a desperate situation yet, so you must not be in a mess."
Jiang Luo took the tea cup and took a few sips of tea. After the tea was in his stomach, he felt that his mind was much clearer: "I made the prince make such a big mistake, and the royal father only locked him up for a few months. Shut up, what chance does this king have?"
The eunuch took the half-empty tea cup and said with a smile, "My lord, the prince has no military power except for the support of a few civil servants."
"Could it be that this prince has it in his hands?" Jiang Luo sat down on the chair and said impatiently, "It's that Rong Xia has a lot of weight among the civil servants, and he likes the prince a lot, so it's really hard for me not to get rid of this person. install."
"But your last assassination..."
"I won't move him, I'll move his woman." Jiang Luo sneered, "People have weaknesses. If something happens to Ban Hua in his house, I'll see if Ban's family can spare him."
"Do you mean to send someone to assassinate County Master Fule?" The eunuch's eyes flickered, and he lowered his head quickly, "Country Fule died in an assassination attempt, why would the Ban family hate Cheng An? This principle."
"You are an eunuch, naturally you don't understand," Ning Wang snorted softly, "Ban's family is the most unreasonable, and it's common to take anger on others. As long as something happens to Ban Hua, we don't need to deal with Rong Xia, there is a class. At home, Rongxia will be overwhelmed."
"The lord has a good plan, but the slaves are too stupid."
"What did you say?" Xie Wanyu turned to look at the eunuch in front of him, "King Ning wants to kill Ban Hua?"
"Yes."
"Is he crazy?"
Xie Wanyu squeezed the handkerchief in his hand and took a few deep breaths: "You go out, I have to think about it."
The eunuch withdrew silently.
Xie Wanyu hated Ban Hua very much, and sometimes wished she would die.
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