Shen Wen was already familiar with Wanhualou as if she was in her own mansion. She left the Hou's mansion as soon as it got dark. When she arrived at Wanhualou, there were lights everywhere inside. Trees, hidden among them.
Seen from the canopy, the largest hall is full of tables and chairs, the front hall door has been removed, and the seats are facing a bluestone-paved countertop. The tabletop extends into the pool in front of the hall, flat on the water like a pontoon bridge, with various colored lights floating on the water, adding a dreamlike background to the stone platform.
There is an orchestra and pipa playing outside the hall. There are long corridors on both sides of the pool, decorated with long silk, and there are also lights inside. You can vaguely see the slim figure flashing in the corridor, which is preparing for the stage. dancers.
The hall was already full of people, and there were a few sporadic women accompanying the guests, but most of them were maids who came and went, delivering tea and water, and serving paper and ink.
Shen Wen knew that this kind of occasion was mainly arty and elegant, and he paid attention to writing poems and filling in words casually, ordering people to hit the board and sing, and getting people to applaud is the best, and prostitution is the worst.
Shen Wen took a good look at the people inside from the top of the tree, but he didn't see the third prince, so he felt relieved: there is no need to bother to deliver the letter now, maybe it should be like what Su Wanniang said, and look for opportunities later. She was going to watch one or two songs and dances here before returning home.
The sound of the orchestral music gradually intensified, indicating that the dance was about to begin. People stopped talking one after another, while waiting, Shen Wen saw three people walking towards the yard along the lit path, and one of them was the third prince.
The third prince was wearing light green casual clothes, which were embroidered from a distance, and looked like a playboy. The two people walking beside him, one was in his thirties with a fair complexion, he should be a eunuch, and the other looked a little older than the third prince, from his clothes, he looked like a son of a powerful man.
Shen Wen closed his eyes and looked at these two people. Their bodies were full of blood and muscles, and they should all be martial arts practitioners. Especially for the eunuch, the meridian is as clear as a picture, which shows that the qi and blood are extremely accessible. She can't rashly go down to get close to the third prince, these two people will definitely stop her, and she can't reveal her identity yet.
As they got closer and closer, Shen Wen held the note written by Su Wanniang in his hand, and became more and more worried: If the third prince arrives in the hall, where the lights are bright and people come and go, she will have no chance. Do you have to wait for the third prince to leave again?
Suddenly, Shen Wen was taken aback: Did he get into the horns? Why must others not know that the Third Prince received this note? If the people around him are his confidants, they will naturally help him. If the people around him were someone else's, he could still spread the news, so that the First Prince could take action immediately. If it is the eldest prince's confidant, this note can also make the eldest prince think that someone close to him has leaked the news, so why not do it
Thinking of this, Shen Wen lightly broke off a small branch, passed through the paper folded into squares, and threw it at the three people who came over. The branch was too light, so Shen Wen had no choice but to use his own consciousness to increase the frequency of throwing to make it fly farther.
The eunuch-like middle-aged figure first looked to this side, and then the young man also looked up, and the piece of paper fell lightly a few steps away from them. The middle-aged man raised his hands to his chest, Shen Wen turned around and jumped out from the other side of the tree a few times, and ran a long way through the roof and wall. Hearing there was no sound behind him, he turned his head and looked into the distance.
The middle-aged man stood by the third prince's side, and the young man walked back and forth a few steps, looked around, picked up the branch from the ground, took off the piece of paper and handed it to the third prince.
The third prince opened it and was about to turn around and walk out, but was grabbed by the young man, whispered something in his ear, and dragged him to continue walking towards the singing stage. The middle-aged man looked around, walked away a few steps, left the path illuminated by lights, and disappeared in the darkness.
Shen Wen didn't dare to look any further, turned around and hurried outside. She was nearly eight years old, and short-legged, relying on her quick steps. He sprinted to the wall, just in time to see a black figure emerging from a section of the wall not far away.
Shen Wen didn't know if it was to stop her or if it had nothing to do with her, it made no difference at this time, because she heard the sound approaching quickly behind her. Shen Wen breathed a sigh of relief, and rushed up to the wall, and heard a voice from the wall over there: "Huh..." She had no time to turn her face away, and floated down the wall of Wanhua Building like the wind, and flashed into the intricate alleyway. Street, running wildly in the shadows.
There was a faint sound behind him for a moment, and then it was quiet, only the occasional sound of music coming from Wanhualou.
Shen Wen ran back to the mansion, this time, she was a little panting. Su Wanniang changed her clothes in the dark, and asked eagerly, "Are you tired? Are you injured?"
Shen Wen waved his hands: "It's just...it's too hot..."
Su Wanniang breathed a sigh of relief, and asked in a low voice, "Is there any trouble?"
Shen Wen said: "I threw the note to him, and then the eunuch beside him chased me for a long time..."
Su Wanniang said "ah": "Is that a master of the rivers and lakes?! Has he caught up with you?"
Shen Wen smiled: "Where are there so many masters? Naturally, I didn't catch up. Moreover, I found out that there were others who went to Wanhualou, and they met. I don't know who can beat whom."
Su Wanniang sighed again: "Thank God, it's fine as long as I don't catch up with you."
Shen Wen laughed again: "That's what you call nothing to do with yourself."
Su Wanniang nodded Shen Wen's head: "You're going to be talkative! How old are you?"
Shen Wen said in his heart that he was a thousand years old, but he coquettishly said to Su Wanniang: "I'm your younger sister at any age, don't be dissatisfied."
After this matter was done, both of them felt at ease, and they slept well without mentioning it.
This night, in the First Prince's Mansion and the courtyard of the Third Prince's palace, the lights were lit until late at night.
The staff informed the first prince that the third prince accompanied the fifth princess to Zhenbeihou's mansion to celebrate Miss Shen's birthday, and then practiced boxing and kicking with Shen Yi and Shen Jian in the martial arts field for half an hour. Sweating profusely, he was still bathing in the Hou Mansion, changed his clothes, and treated the Hou Mansion as his own home.
Knowing that the third prince would accompany the fifth princess, the Zhenbei Hou's Mansion did not refuse, and even set up a banquet to entertain her. Both Mrs. Old Zhenbeihou and Mrs. Zhenbeihou had a lot of complaints about the eldest prince...
The eldest prince slammed the case and said angrily: "How dare they!"
An aide hurriedly comforted the eldest prince and said: "Those are just women who only look at the things in front of them and don't understand the depth. And the third prince may just be young at heart and like to fight with others."
The eldest prince sneered: "Don't those women know what their husbands are thinking?! Concubine Chen didn't know what kind of tricks she had poured into her father. Not only did her father not shy away from him interacting with the children of the Hou family, but she also said that if she wins, she will go to her father's house." There is a lottery there. How could this be a youthful heart? This is a good plan! Why do you excuse him?!"
The staff member hurriedly bowed his head, not daring to speak again for a while.
Another person came forward and reported: "The third prince returned to the palace after he came out of the Hou's mansion. After dinner, he went to Wanhualou to watch the dance of thousands of flowers. Our people said that the third prince was still happy when he got off the car and entered the hospital, but when he got to the dance floor But Bian looked indifferent, and looked absent-minded while watching the singing and dancing, and the people who followed him were not too attentive. Although the Eunuch Gu who he usually took outside got off the car with him, he did not sit with him. The two dancers danced Afterwards, Eunuch Gu arrived. Our people don’t know where he went in Wanhualou during this time. After Eunuch Gu arrived, the third prince watched two more songs and dances, then got up and left. Wonderful, it seems that something happened in the yard."
The eldest prince was already angry, and he patted the table after hearing it: "Trash! Can't you just follow them all the time? Just pretend to be guests and follow them all the way. Why let them walk in the yard by themselves?"
The staff sighed: "Your Highness does not know, that Eunuch Gu is a formidable person. He practiced martial arts since childhood and is extremely vigilant. The emperor asked him to follow Concubine Chen for many years. Otherwise, how could Concubine Chen give birth to the third prince and the fifth princess safely? Now following the third prince, the subordinates dare not approach."
The eldest prince's face turned black: "Since he is under Father's command, why did Father give him to Concubine Chen?"
Everyone was silent, the eldest prince waved impatiently: "Say it!"
An aide hesitated and said in a low voice: "There are rumors that since the birth of His Highness, none of the children conceived by the concubine survived. Concubine Chen was pregnant, so she cried to the emperor that she was timid and lived alone in the palace, and she was afraid of seeing shadows, which was not good for the child. The emperor told her that this Eunuch Gu under him was very good, and he was very good. Ghosts are afraid, let him guard here, Concubine Chen doesn't have to worry."
The eldest prince frowned: "Why didn't I know these things?"
The staff said cautiously: "If Your Highness does not become the crown prince, knowing these things will not be good for getting along with other princes."
The eldest prince snorted: This means that if he is not the prince, then he should not know about the shady scenes in the harem, after all, these are the emperor's private affairs. Moreover, once he understands it, he will inevitably be involved in it. If the emperor knew that his son had been involved in the disputes between his wives and concubines, he would definitely feel unhappy. But now, he will become the prince, and the prince will also have a harem in the future, so knowing these secrets is also a part of learning.
The eldest prince asked again: "Is there no objection from the mother
The aide replied: "The queen has also troubled that Eunuch Gu several times, but every time the attack occurs, even if she has the upper hand at that time, the people around the queen will soon get sick or die for no reason. As time goes by, the queen also knows it, so she stopped fighting twice. , without disturbing each other, it’s only been so many years.”
The eldest prince gritted his teeth angrily: "He is so rampant! How can the father tolerate him? I will go see the father tomorrow!"
An aide immediately said: "Your Highness, no. Didn't Your Highness see it? This Eunuch Gu was given to Concubine Chen by the emperor. As long as Concubine Chen is favored, Eunuch Gu will protect her and the third prince. Eunuch Gu is not working for Concubine Chen." , Eunuch Gu is following the emperor's will. If the emperor doesn't like Concubine Chen one day, then it may be Eunuch Gu who killed Concubine Chen and the third prince."
The eldest prince nodded slowly: "Then, let's wait and see what happens to Concubine Chen."
The staff members did not know about the conversation between the eldest prince and the empress, and one of them worriedly said: "Although the emperor favors other concubines, Concubine Chen has always been close to the emperor for so many years. The emperor will visit her five or six days a month. It might take some effort to move her."
The eldest prince sneered coldly: "Using sex is a matter of love, and love is fading. People have misfortunes and blessings, and she can't always be healthy."
He probably knew the queen's method. Concubine Jiang Shu died of illness a few years ago, and she obviously knew the reason before she died, and ordered someone to break the fourth prince's leg. One day Concubine Chen will really go there like that, he has to let these people under him understand that this is his method, don't let them think it was a coincidence.
Everyone heard the meaning, fell silent, and stopped discussing this topic.
The third prince returned to the palace, holding the note in his hand, and sat in front of the table in a daze for a long time. Eunuch Gu stood aside and did not speak.
In the middle of the night, the third prince stood up with a sigh and said, "I'm going to see my concubine tomorrow, so I have to tell her no matter what."
Eunuch Gu bent slightly and said, "Okay."
The third prince hesitated for a moment, but still asked: "Who are you chasing?" But immediately said: "If you don't want to say it, it's fine."
Eunuch Gu seemed to have a smile on his face, and said in a low voice: "That should be a dwarf or a dwarf. He is very good at lightness, and he comes and goes like the wind. There is a respondent on the top of the wall, and he blocked me. It was just a false move. I also know that the other party did not hurt anyone." I mean, I didn’t move for real, let him run away.”
The third prince yearned and said: "The one who can be praised by you must be an expert..." He looked at Eunuch Gu: "Is it too late for me to learn Qinggong now?"
Eunuch Gu finally had a clear smile: "Your Highness has already formed a skeleton, so it is true that you can't learn light kung fu. Besides, light kung fu is not only about breathing, but also spirituality. Not everyone can learn it. But your highness has learned fists, kicks, knives, arrows and horseback riding since he was a child." As long as you continue to practice, you will be successful in the future."
The third prince sighed: "I really want to be a general and go to fight in the battlefield in the future. If I was born in... Anyway, I like those sons of Zhenbeihou..."
Eunuch Gu suppressed his smile and did not speak. The third prince said good night to him and left with his head down.
Although the lights were turned off in the fourth prince's dormitory, hearing the sound of the fourth prince turning over on the bed, the servant sleeping outside knew that the fourth prince was still asleep. Ever since he was bumped by that maid outside the city in spring, the fourth prince has often been in a trance.
The servant forgot his name, he only vaguely remembered that he was sold by his family when he was young, and then entered the palace, took the sun pillar of the day, and was named Ding. Later, the little servant always thought what if it was Gui day? Do you want to be surnamed "ghost"
The days back then were unbearably miserable, not to mention purifying himself, he died once and came back to life. He was still young and did the simplest jobs, but he was always beaten and couldn't get enough to eat. Once he was so hungry that he wanted to steal the flowers in the garden when he was watering the garden in the morning, because he heard from other eunuchs that there were concubines who ate flowers to beautify their face. When he saw it, he yelled loudly, and several maids came over and grabbed him, smacked his mouth, and beat him dizzy.
Just when he thought he was going to faint, a voice sounded, he couldn't hear it dimly, but the slapping stopped, and the ladies who beat him left, a woman came to talk to her, his ears buzzed He only said vaguely to the woman who spoke, with her swollen mouth: "I'm hungry..." The woman cried, and someone came to take his hand and take him away.
After he grew up, he calculated that he should be six or seven years old that year, and the woman who led him was the newly consecrated nineteen-year-old Jiang Zhaoyi. It is said that she had just learned that she was pregnant that day.
From then on, Ding Neishi became the little eunuch in Jiang Zhaoyi's palace. He started from doing chores and sweeping the floor. After Jiang Zhaoyi gave birth to the fourth prince, he was promoted to Concubine Shu. He was also promoted and began to help take care of the fourth prince.
He was eight years older than the fourth prince, and he had never had a childhood, but he experienced childhood with the fourth prince. The two chased the ball together, played with building blocks together, and piled sand together... After that, the fourth prince started to study, and when he came back, he would learn how to teach him a few words like his husband.
Ding Neishi is very hardworking, and will read books while tidying up the study room for the fourth prince. When he was not working, he would write the words taught to him by the fourth prince on the ground over and over again.
He was even more grateful to Concubine Jiang Shu, and never violated Concubine Jiang Shu's wishes, until when Concubine Jiang Shu was dying of serious illness and entrusted him to do something, he said "no".
"Slaves really can't..." Ding Neishi knelt on the ground and smashed his head.
Concubine Jiang Shu was dying, and she pointed at him tremblingly: "You... this... ungrateful..."
Ding Neishi cried and kowtowed: "I really can't! I beg my mother... I beg my mother!"
Concubine Jiang Shu had tears in her eyes: "You don't know...if it wasn't like this...it would be hard for my son..."
Ding Neishi also cried: "I know... but I really can't do it, I know I can't do it... I'm sorry, my lady... please, my lady..." He became anxious, and even forgot to call himself a slave.
Concubine Jiang Shu sighed: "You... useless..."
Ding Neishi cried and kowtowed vigorously: "I will follow the Fourth Prince for the rest of my life, and I will treat him well, so I won't betray my mother. Please, please, please..."
Later, the fourth prince fell off his horse, and there was no servant Ding accompanying him, and it was not servant Ding who rushed to "take care" of the fourth prince after hearing the news. After the fourth prince was injured, it was Ding Neishi who took care of him day and night, and after the death of Concubine Jiang Shu, Ding Neishi was the closest to the fourth prince.
A few times, the queen sent someone to ask Ding Neishi for questioning, but the fourth prince refused to let him go. The queen was provoked to say that the fourth prince was unfilial, and the crime alarmed the emperor.
The fourth prince limped and supported Ding's servant's arm to meet the emperor, wept in court, and said that he asked his mother to leave him a servant who knew how to take care of him. If he disobeyed his mother because of this, and he refused to let his servants leave, he asked his father to punish him.
The emperor looked at his haggard son who was inconvenient to walk, and thought of the newly mourned concubine Jiang Shu. He secretly blamed the empress for being troublesome. He comforted the fourth prince on the spot, told him to take good care of his body, and ordered the accompanying servant Ding to take care of him and let them go back to the palace.
After the queen heard about it, she said that the fourth prince was overwhelmed, and that she was just watching Concubine Jiang Shu pass away, and wanted to tell the servant to serve the fourth prince well. Kindness is like a donkey's liver and lungs, so I might as well not bother with it!
For the past three years, the gates of the four emperors' wombs have been locked tightly. The fourth prince reads and writes every day, and sometimes plays chess by himself for a few hours, but he never touches the piano and flute he used to love, and the teenage boy lives like an old man. The courtyard is usually as quiet as death, and the palace people don't even pant loudly.
Ding Neishi has mastered all the connections and contacts of Concubine Jiang Shu. Although Jiang Shufei's natal family was not prominent, it was very wealthy. My heart aches for this disabled grandson. If it's not the prince, I really have to take him home and raise him. There are countless gold, silver and treasures sent in the usual times, and Ding Neishi has been in the palace for more than ten years, and he can figure out who is up and down. Relying on money, he generally maintained the sensitivity of information, and occasionally arranged for the fourth prince to go where he wanted to go without anyone noticing.
He is the fourth prince's personal attendant, so he naturally knows the fourth prince's emotions.
During Xia Ye's drumming, Ding Neishi thought of the mountain temple outside the city, the maid rushed out of thin air and knocked the fourth prince to the ground, she cried so sadly, although the fourth prince didn't reveal anything, but he knew that the fourth prince was in his heart. sad...
Ding Neishi remembered what he had heard. When the Hou's mansion came back from outside the city that time, a brothel woman went to invite the sister who had been bought into the Hou's mansion. Looking at the maid's face, those prostitutes said that the brothel was bought. The woman is likely to be her. If it's an ordinary person, let Jiang Shufei's natal family buy it from the Hou Mansion with a lot of money, and wait for the day to celebrate the grandfather's birthday in the future, and let the fourth prince take the opportunity to go and have a look. But for such an eye-catching person, there must be many people staring at her, so it's best not to have anything to do with her.
After midnight, the fourth prince finally fell asleep, and Ding Neishi also fell asleep at ease. He didn't know that the fourth prince finally made up his mind after tossing and turning all night.
When he got up the next day, the fourth prince with black halos under his eyes was rarely seen sitting at the table, instead of picking up the book immediately, he looked at the door and window.
Waiter Ding knew what he meant, went out, looked under the window, saw no one around, and then entered the door again.
The fourth prince looked down at the pen and ink on the table, and said in a low voice: "Have someone go to Zhenbeihou's Mansion to find out when that maid usually leaves the mansion, who is her name, and who is in her family."
Ding Neishi's heart flickered: I'm really afraid of something. Just about to speak to persuade, but looking at the face of the fourth prince who is not yet thirteen years old but with a calm expression, his nose is sore, and he whispers: "Yes."
It was Shen Wen's birthday, and when he went to pay his respects in the morning, there were several sets of new clothes in red, willow and green in the hall, and several sets of gold and silver ornaments on the table.
As soon as Shen Wen saw it, he pounced on him, making gestures to his body one after another, and asked several brothers and Shen Xiang: "Does this look good on me?" "What about this one?"...
The old lady laughed until there were tears in her eyes, and said, "What's wrong with that? Wen'er looks good in anything at her age."
Shen Xiang pouted: "It's all skirts, mother, why didn't you make her a short one, so she can also ride a horse in the future?"
Yang quickly waved her hands: "That's impossible! You don't look like a girl anymore, Wen'er should wear a skirt."
Shen Wen just climbed on the pole: "I want a blouse too! I want what my sister has!"
Mrs. Yang glared at Shen Xiang, sighed and said, "Okay, okay. Go and have a look at those jewelry."
Shen Wen went to look at the jewelry again, picked it up and admired it, and said to Shen Xiang: "Sister, come and see, do you want anything? The beads on this hairpin are so big!"
Shen Yi smiled and said: "This is the bead given by the third prince, and it's set on the hairpin."
Shen Wen smiled and handed it to Shen Xiang and said, "I'll give this hairpin to my sister. I'm too young to wear it. There's just a big bead on it, and my sister looks neat when she wears it."
Shen Xiang waved his hand and said, "No, that was given to you by the third prince..."
Shen Wen couldn't help but tiptoe and stab Shen Xiang in the head: "Then I'll give it to you now..."
Shen Xiang dodged: "You are trying to scratch my face." He snatched the hairpin away.
Yang said with a smile: "Take what my sister gave you, don't go back and forth like this, it's not good to get scratched." She has a special preference for the eldest daughter, and she originally thought that the younger daughter should also give the eldest daughter something on her birthday. , I was afraid that my little daughter would eat it, so I didn't prepare it. Seeing Shen Wen's generosity now, he hurriedly asked Shen Xiang to take over.
Shen Xiang had no choice but to hold it, Shen Wen clapped his hands, ran back to the table, and said to Shen Xiang: "This magpie playing with Mei Xiaochai is very beautiful!"
Shen Xiang disdained: "I don't want it anymore. Such a cumbersome flower branch is very heavy. What should I do if it falls off when I put it on my head while riding a horse? I have to get off the horse to pick it up?"
Shen Wen picked up another beautifully carved silver butterfly hairpin and said flatteringly, "Then this one is light."
Shen Xiang still shook his head: "It looks like it will break if you touch it, and I have to take care of it when fighting?"
Mrs. Yang clapped her hands: "I'm really afraid of you! You don't have anything to fight or fight? Can't you usually wear flowers? Why do you dress like a young man every day!"
The old lady smiled and said, "Come here, Wen'er, and I'll insert that hairpin for you."
Yang said strangely: "Mother, this is not in season at all."
The old lady pulled Shen Wen over and said, "Who would see it so clearly? It's golden, very rich, and very lively." Everyone laughed.
There is chicken shredded noodles for breakfast. After dinner, Yang said, "At noon, you eat separately. In the evening, I asked them to make simmered noodles. Everyone wants to eat."
Several children mourned: "Eat noodles again..."
Yang said with a stern face: "Then let's have noodles together at noon!"
The old lady smiled and said: "The noodles are delicious, you children are just spoiled!"
Shen Yi took Shen Jian and Shen Zhuo to leave to practice martial arts. Shen Xiang accompanied Shen Wen to the small courtyard and asked Shen Wen, "What do you want to do? I'll take you there!"
Shen Wen glanced at Su Wanniang beside her and said, "I want to walk outside the Hou's mansion in the afternoon and buy some snacks."
Shen Xiang knew that Yang said that she would not let Shen Wen go out at ordinary times, and felt that this younger sister was being held back. Today is her birthday, so she should be happy. He said: "Okay, I'll come over at the time of application (three o'clock in the afternoon) and take you for a walk around the outside of the mansion." After finishing speaking, Shen Wen left without waiting for thanks.
Shen Wen went back to the house and said to Su Wanniang: "Go and pick up your younger brother now, and we will send him home together when I go out in the afternoon." These days, Su Wanniang sometimes brings her younger brother over, and Shen Wen teaches him In a few words, he had lunch here before going home.
Shen Wen rubbed for Yang Shi last time, seeing that Yang Shi felt much better, she just wanted to see what kind of illness Su Wanniang's mother had, and if she could help her. In a few years, she will probably leave the city for a walk. If Su Wanniang's mother is not good, Su Wanniang will not rest assured to follow her away from home.
Su Wanniang didn't doubt that he was there, checked everything in the yard, and left the Hou's mansion to go to her own home. Naturally, she didn't know how many people said behind her back that she was seeking personal gain for herself, and she could come and go freely just because she was the eldest maid of the second young lady.
Outside the Hou's mansion, there was a person drinking tea by the roadside, who saw Su Wanniang leaving the Hou's mansion from a distance, and soon brought her younger brother back into the Hou's mansion, and left.
It was almost noon when the news reached the palace, Ding Neishi said softly to the Fourth Prince: "If that servant girl brings her younger brother into the Marquis Mansion, generally speaking, Shen Shizheng will leave the mansion again in the afternoon to send him home. Then go back to the Hou Mansion by yourself."
The fourth prince got up and said: "Then let's leave quickly." He already knew her name was Su Wanniang, her background and family, and he couldn't wait to see her again. I wonder what she will be like this time
Ding Neishi helped the fourth prince to sit in the sedan chair. He had already arranged these days. The sign for the fourth prince to leave the palace was ready. The group left the palace, took a carriage, and entered the downtown area.
In the car, the fourth prince frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "It seems that she is quite favored for bringing her younger brother to the Hou's mansion so openly." But why did she cry last time
Ding Neishi also whispered: "Isn't this a gesture made by the Hou family, knowing that the eldest prince is talking about this brothel girl, but let her become the second lady's big maid. It is said that in the second lady's yard, This servant girl said nothing, her younger brother was enlightened by the second young lady, she is almost a half-master. Perhaps, the Hou family wanted to raise her..." He suddenly stopped talking, pretending to be vigilant and looking out the window.
Such a beautiful girl will definitely not always be a servant girl, maybe she was trained to be a concubine for a prince or future son-in-law of the Hou Mansion. But these words can't be said like this, Ding Neishi secretly regrets, he usually knows everything with the fourth prince, but when it comes to this woman, he is afraid that his words will be lost, so he really can't speak casually.
Their carriage went back and forth in the busy city and arrived at a tea house. With the support of Ding's servant, the fourth prince took three servants up to the second floor, found a private room, and sipped tea alone.
There was a secret door in the private room, Ding Neishi helped the fourth prince down a staircase behind the tea house, and got into a light carriage that had been waiting there for a long time. Ding Neishi whispered something to the coachman through the curtain, and the carriage headed towards the Hou's mansion.
When they arrived at the gate of the Hou's Mansion, their carriage stopped in the shade of the bustling snack street outside the Hou's Mansion. Ding Neishi and the Fourth Prince sat in the car, staring through the window screen. Ding Neishi felt that life was like years: their time was limited, if something happened today, that maid had already left the mansion with her younger brother and went back, wouldn't the fourth prince just wait here for nothing? How disappointed he must be...
Ding Neishi secretly prayed to Concubine Jiang Shu in his heart: Your Majesty, please let that servant girl... But I thought, if your Majesty is still alive, she may not like the fourth prince to come here to see a maid, and if she is not happy with her soul, she will not let the Fourth Prince wish granted...
In Ding Neishi's random thoughts, the side door of Hou's mansion opened, and several guards came out. In the middle was a tall girl dressed in military uniform, followed by two people dressed as maids, one of whom was Su Wanniang. Behind him was a chubby servant, holding a very handsome little boy by the hand, he should be Su Wanniang's younger brother.
The fourth prince asked Ding's servant in a low voice: "Is that young lady what people call the stupid and stupid second young lady? Doesn't she look like it?"
Ding Neishi also looked carefully: "Probably not, the second lady is only seven or eight years old, this girl should be ten years old, she should be the eldest lady of the Hou Mansion."
The two stared at the group of people, and the fourth prince whispered, "That boy must be a girl."
Ding Neishi nodded and said: "Then it should be the Second Miss."
The Fourth Prince shook his head and said, "I don't see how stupid..."
Waiter Ding said, "It's just a little fat."
Shen Wen took Su Wanniang's younger brother by the hand, pointed to the snack street in front of the mansion and said, "Let's go there and have a look."
Shen Xiang nodded. Just as the guards were about to go this way, a carriage stopped in front of the mansion. There was no sign on the carriage, but someone in the carriage said a few words. Shen Xiang stopped, smiled and said to the people in the carriage : "How did you make it so mysterious?"
Inside the opened car curtain, Zhang Yunjin said anxiously: "Take the box quickly, my mother won't let me come over, but I promised your sister that I will give her some snacks. I came out secretly, you take it, I will Gotta go quickly."
The driver handed over a box. Shen Xiang took the box and asked Shen Wen to come forward to thank him. Zhang Yunjin hurriedly said: "Don't come over, what does she look like when people see her little boy's attire? I thought you and I Your son has something to do with it."
Shen Xiang thanked her with a smile, and Zhang Yunjin said: "Remember to post a post for me when you have time. My mother has to respond once out of ten times."
Shen Xiang agreed, and the carriage left.
Shen Xiang handed the box to Shen Wen and said, "Look, there is food, do you still want to walk this street?"
Shen Wen took the box, smelled it outside, and said happily: "No more, no more, the snacks in her house are delicious. Let's help Sister Wanniang send her brother back, and then go back to the house."
Shen Xiang was happy to have nothing to do, so he signaled Su Wanniang to lead the way, and walked to Su Wanniang's house.
Shen Wen opened the box, took out a snack and was about to put it in his mouth, when he saw Su Wanniang's younger brother looking up at his mouth from the corner of his eyes, he took the snack away from his mouth in embarrassment, handed it to the younger brother, and said: "Come on, little mute, let's eat."
Su Wanniang's younger brother is called Su Chuanya, and Shen Wen called him "Xiaoya" at first, but later he became "Little Dumb" because he felt uncomfortable.
Su Wanniang turned her head and said crisply, "Xiaoya, don't eat first! Be polite and let the lady eat first."
The fourth prince's heart was lifted: she was so unrestrained in front of her master, she sounded like a maid talking, but like the elder sister was teaching the two younger siblings, I don't know how the second lady would react...
Xiaoya really said to Shen Wen: "You eat first, then give it to me."
Shen Wen saw that there were more than a dozen kinds of snacks in the box. If he ate the whole thing, three or four pieces would definitely fill him up. But if he only ate one bite of each, he could try all of them, so he took a bite and gave the snacks to him. Xiaoya. Xiaoya ate it in one bite without hesitation. Shen Wen picked up another piece...
The fourth prince in the car frowned: The second lady didn't mind Su Wanniang's tone, but isn't this insulting? Feed the kids leftovers? Because of Su Wanniang, he didn't think Second Miss was superior at all.
He didn't know that Su Chuanya ate with Shen Wen and Su Wanniang these days, and often ate what Shen Wen had put aside after a few bites. At first Shen Wen still felt bad, and stopped him several times, but later seeing that he was really rushing to eat, she knew in her heart that this might be a sign that the little mute wanted to treat her as a family member. Anyway, boys are growing up and have a big appetite, and it is normal for children to eat one bite at a time, so they don't care about it, and the two often eat a cake together.
Ding Neishi told the coachman to follow the group of people, and seeing Shen Wen and Xiaoya eating while walking, he began to agree with the rumors about the second lady of the Hou Mansion: Which lady from a rich family would eat on the street like this? No manners at all! No wonder the reputation is so bad, it's not as sensible as a maid!
This group of people arrived in front of Su Wan's mother's house, and when the door opened, they all went in. Only Shen Wen, who was dressed as a servant, turned his head and glanced at their slow-moving carriage as if inadvertently. Waiter Ding only felt his heart sinking, and hurriedly asked someone to stop the car.
They waited outside for a while, watching those people leave Su Wanniang's house, and walked all the way back to the Hou's mansion, the fourth prince nodded, Ding's waiter asked the coachman to drive back to the teahouse, went upstairs through the secret road, and then returned palace.