Under the moonlight all over the ground, Xie Nanjia came all the way to Xikuoyuan.
Counting her past and present lives, this is the first time she has come back here. In the past, even when she wandered around the park, she had never walked past here, only glanced at it from a distance.
The West Cross Courtyard is the second largest courtyard in the Hou Mansion, and it is also the most luxurious and gorgeous courtyard in the whole house. It is said that it is full of exotic flowers and plants, antiques and treasures, and even the ground in the courtyard is paved with white marble.
The courtyard is self-contained and rarely interacts with the outside world. Except for Zhao Jingyu and his guards, the maids and servants are very cautious and do not step out of the courtyard. Therefore, no matter how they fight with the other masters in the house, they all have to fight with the other masters. It has nothing to do with this.
They are like a small independent dynasty.
It's just that the supplies of this dynasty have to be paid for by the public, and they are the largest expenditure among the public.
Otherwise, we wouldn’t be able to feed the dozens of mouths in the yard.
A master born as a concubine needs dozens of people to serve him. Zhao Jingyu can be called the first concubine in the Zhou Dynasty.
While Xie Nanjia was thinking, she walked slowly to the entrance of the courtyard, faced the closed door, and realized that she had come at the wrong time.
In the middle of the night, a girl, holding a sprig of osmanthus, came to visit the romantic second master. It was really ridiculous and weird.
She shook her head and laughed at herself, pinned the osmanthus flower on the door knocker, turned and left.
Come here in good spirits and return in disgrace, that's about it.
After walking a few steps, he suddenly heard the sound of clothes breaking through the air. Xie Nanjia was heartbroken. He looked up and saw a white figure speeding past on the courtyard wall. After a few ups and downs, he disappeared into the vast night. .
There's a thief!
This thought flashed through Xie Nanjia's mind. Without time to think about it, Xie Nanjia turned around and knocked on the door knocker. The moment it touched the door knocker, someone silently grabbed her wrist from behind.
Xie Nanjia was shocked. He opened his mouth to shout, but his mouth was covered the next moment.
The man grabbed her wrist with one hand, covered her mouth with the other, pressed her whole body into his arms, and said in a deep voice: "Don't make a sound, or I will break your neck!"
Hearing this voice, Xie Nanjia stopped being surprised, and his whole body relaxed.
The man was stunned for a moment, then chuckled: "You surrendered so quickly. Did you come here specifically to throw yourself into my arms?"
He did not let go of Xie Nanjia, but hugged her harder, put his chin on the top of her head and took a deep breath: "It smells so good."
Xie Nanjia leaned in his arms, sticking closely to his strong body. For a moment, she was in a trance and forgot to struggle.
One of his hands was still covering her mouth, and his palm was warm and soft, giving her a strange feeling.
She didn't know why, but she suddenly felt the urge to cry.
It had been too long since she had been hugged.
Then, her tears really fell.
Zhao Jingyu felt a slightly cold liquid fall on the back of her hand. He quickly let go of his hand, pulled her shoulders and turned her to face him, and said in a teasing tone: "You want to cry even if you think about me?"
"Get out!" Xie Nanjia blurted out.
Zhao Jingyu chuckled: "This is my territory, you are the one who wants to get out."
Xie Nanjia was completely awake now. Looking at his touching smile under the moonlight, she broke away from his hand and turned around to leave.
"No!" Zhao Jingyu grabbed her wrist again, "You're already here, come in and sit for a while!"
"Let me go." Xie Nanjia whispered, "There is a thief in your courtyard. You'd better quickly check to see if any treasures have been lost!"
"No." Zhao Jingyu said with certainty.
"You didn't even look at it, how do you know it wasn't lost?" Xie Nanjia asked.
"Because the baby is in my hands!" Zhao Jingyu joked.
Xie Nanjia couldn't help but feel embarrassed: "What I said is true."
"What I said is true." Zhao Jingyu said affectionately, "In my eyes, you are the biggest treasure. As long as you don't lose it, it doesn't matter if I steal the entire Hou Mansion."
"..." Xie Nanjia said with a serious face, "These disgusting words are of no use to me, please save them!"
"Then tell me what is useful to you." Zhao Jingyu chuckled, "Do you hold me like you did just now?"
Xie Nanjia was really angry this time, so she simply shut up and ignored him.
This guy is a big talker, and a lawsuit with him would probably last all night.
Sure enough, as soon as she fell silent, Zhao Jingyu could no longer make trouble, let go of her hand and asked, "Why did you come to my place in the middle of the night?"
Xie Nanjia took the opportunity to take two steps back and said, "I didn't see you at the banquet, so I came to take a look."
Zhao Jingyu immediately smiled as if he had stolen two cans of honey: "So you still miss me?"
"..." Xie Nanjia said with a serious face again, "If you don't act upright, I will leave!"
"Okay, okay, I'm serious, serious." Zhao Jingyu said seriously, "There are so many people at the banquet, but you are the only one who cares about coming to see me. Thank you very much."
Xie Nanjia said harshly: "I didn't come here specifically to see you. I came out of the old lady's courtyard and turned here by the way."
Zhao Jingyu turned around and looked at the way she came. He was afraid that she would be annoyed again, so he did not expose her and said with a smile: "Thank you too. To express my gratitude, can I invite you in for a cup of tea?"
Xie Nanjia was still hesitating, and he pretended to threaten: "If you don't agree, I won't let you go."
The non-threatening threat made Xie Nanjia relax and agreed with a smile: "Can you drink, I don't want to drink tea."
Zhao Jingyu was overjoyed: "It couldn't be better."
He reached out to knock on the door and found the sweet-scented osmanthus pinned to the door knocker. He took it off and put it to his nose to smell it: "Xiang, did you give it to me?"
"Yes." Xie Nanjia suddenly felt a little embarrassed and forcefully defended, "Don't get me wrong, I gave you the sweet-scented osmanthus in the hope that you will study hard and win the crown in the Toad Palace in the future."
Zhao Jingyu said: "Then I don't care, I just know that it is enough for you to send me flowers."
Xie Nanjia: "..."
Zhao Jingyu lightly knocked on the door knocker, and the door quickly opened from the inside.
It was Wei Jun who opened the door.
Wei Jun didn't seem surprised at all when he saw Xie Nanjia.
Seeing how calm he was, Xie Nanjia smiled calmly at him.
In fact, because Mr. Hu came to teach tonight, Wei Jun had been standing guard at the door. He knew that Xie Nanjia was coming when she approached the door. He was about to report to Zhao Jingyu when he heard that she left again. Just then Mr. Hu After teaching and leaving, Zhao Jingyu sent him out. Xie Nanjia saw that the white figure on the roof was Mr. Hu, so he came back and knocked on the door. Zhao Jingyu got Wei Jun's hint and climbed out of the courtyard wall, pretending to have just come back from outside, and caught him Xie Nanjia’s hand.
After entering the yard, Zhao Jingyu held Xie Nanjia's arm again and said, "The yard is big, and it's dark, so I'll hold you up to prevent you from bumping into it."
When he said this, he automatically ignored the bright moon above his head and the red lanterns hanging all over the courtyard.
Probably because people tend to become emotional on full moon nights, Xie Nanjia somehow managed not to refuse his support and walked side by side with him.
Xie Nanjia didn't want to go to the room, so he suggested having a drink in the pavilion in the courtyard, where he could avoid suspicion and enjoy the moon.
Zhao Jingyu felt that sometimes she was so shrewd that it made people laugh, and sometimes she was so stupid that it made people laugh. She had already gone out to drink with men in the middle of the night, and she was still thinking about avoiding suspicion. She really didn't know what kind of suspicion she could avoid.
He led Xie Nanjia to the waterside pavilion in the lake in the garden, and ordered Wei Jun to prepare wine and food.
Xie Nanjia said: "It's best to have a big plate of beef. I'm very hungry."
Wei Jun: "..."
Zhao Jingyu couldn't help but laugh at her: "It's so elegant to have a drink with the moon, but you actually want to eat meat."
Xie Nanjia said: "Fengya is a pastime for people who are full and have nothing to do. People who are hungry cannot be elegant."
Zhao Jingyu thinks it makes sense.
As expected, Wei Jun brought over a large plate of beef, several plates of snacks, two jugs of good wine, and two wine glasses.
Xie Nanjia wondered why two wine bottles were used, and Zhao Jingyu explained half-truthfully: "He was afraid that you would poison me."
Xie Nanjia said casually: "I even fed you with my own hands at Zhuangzi. Why didn't you see him afraid?"
After saying that, he blushed first, but fortunately it was night and he couldn't see it.
Zhao Jingyu likes to seize every opportunity he can to tease her: "Why don't you still feed me?"
"... Your yard is so beautiful." Xie Nanjia poured herself a glass of wine, taking the opportunity to cover up her slight embarrassment.
"Isn't it beautiful?" Zhao Jingyu clinked glasses with her, "You were not happy when I asked you to come. Do you regret it now? Do you want me to give you another chance?"
"Okay!" Xie Nanjia said, "If the opportunity has no expiration date."
"Of course not. I welcome you anytime you want to come." Zhao Jingyu drank the wine in one gulp.
Wei Jun quietly retreated to the shore, leaving space for them.
The moonlight spread all over the lake like broken silver, and the night wind brought the fragrance of unknown flowers. There were only two people sitting opposite each other in the world, one was drinking and the other was eating meat.
Huangfu appeared next to Wei Jun like a ghost, stood side by side with him, looked at the pavilion in the middle of the lake and said quietly: "Second Young Master is in good spirits tonight. Usually he would be paralyzed from exhaustion as soon as Mr. Hu left, but today he is still able to Drinking.”
Wei Jun said with a dull face: "If I give you a beauty, you can do it too."
"Pfft!" Huangfu punched him with a smile, "You underestimate my will."
Wei Jun said: "Whether the will is firm or not depends on whether the beauty is beautiful enough."
Huangfu laughed again: "You are usually an honest person, but I didn't expect you to be wilting."
Wei Jun said: "This is what the Second Young Master said."
Huangfu smacked his lips: "I see that the second young master's will is not enough on the little girl. I'm afraid the second young master will be in trouble this time!"
Wei Jun said: "It's already been done!"
Huangfu asked: "Where did you see it?"
Wei Jun said nothing and pointed towards the pavilion with his chin.
Huangfu looked over and saw the second young master taking off his cloak and putting it on the little girl.
"Tsk tsk..." Huangfu smacked his lips again, "It's true."
Zhao Jingyu put the cloak on Xie Nanjia, and finally tied it with a bow carefully. She looked at it carefully under the moonlight and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, it is tied very symmetrically."
Xie Nanjia was slightly drunk, no longer stingy with her smile, and gave him a beautiful smile.
Zhao Jingyu's legs were weak from her laughter, but she heard her ask: "I told you there were thieves, why were you indifferent? You are not with the thieves, are you?"
Zhao Jingyu did not comment, poured a glass of wine with her own hands and handed it to her: "It seems you haven't drunk enough."
Xie Nanjia sneered: "You want to get me drunk, but you're still far away!"
A quarter of an hour later, Zhao Jingyu shrugged at the sleeping person lying on the table: "It's not that far off!"
He rushed to the shore and waved, asking Wei Jun and Huangfu to come over and send the people back. However, before they touched Xie Nanjia's clothes, he changed his mind again: "Forget it, I'll do it!"
He bent down to pick the person up and frowned: "Why are you so light? Don't you usually eat?"
Xie Nanjia unconsciously hugged his neck, shouted "Mom", and leaned her head into his arms.
Zhao Jingyu: "..."
Huangfu was holding back a smile from behind.
The second young master treated her like a treasure and was not allowed to touch her, but in the end, she treated him like a mother.
…
The next day, Xie Nanjia was woken up by a burst of laughter. When she opened her eyes, she found that she was sleeping in a strange place. The bed was very large, covered with light gauze bed vines woven with gold and silver threads. The bed was crowded and crowded. Several dark-haired heads poked their way in, looking at her curiously.
Xie Nanjia was secretly surprised, but did not get up in a hurry. She looked at the girls and secretly touched her clothes under the quilt to make sure there was nothing unusual before she felt relieved.
"Wake up, wake up." one of the girls shouted.
"Why doesn't she speak?" asked another.
"Don't be scared by us, right?"
"How come, we are not ugly."
They are indeed not ugly. Not only are they not ugly, but each one of them can be said to be like a sinking fish or a geese. Their beauty is far superior to all the female relatives of Dingyuan Hou Mansion.
Needless to say, she must be the beauty Zhao Jingyu raised in the Xikuo courtyard.
I just don’t know which beauty’s bed she is sleeping on now.
Xie Nanjia felt a trace of inexplicable anger in her heart. She sat up from the bed, put on her shoes without saying a word, straightened her clothes, and walked out the door.
"Hey, don't leave!" A girl ran over to stop her, "The second young master went to do morning exercises. You can wait until he comes back before leaving!"
"Get out of the way!" Xie Nanjia paused, his eyes suddenly becoming cold.
The girl was startled by her, but she didn't move away: "Young Master will blame us if he can't see you when he comes back."
"Yes, yes..." Other girls followed.
"That's your young master, not mine." Xie Nanjia said coldly, pushed her away and went straight out the door.
As soon as he arrived at the door, he met Zhao Jingyu. He was wearing a thin and tight-fitting white training uniform, holding a gleaming long sword, and strode towards the rising sun. He had broad shoulders, a strong waist and long legs, and his masculine spirit replaced his usual appearance. It's so enchanting that people can't take their eyes away.
"Are you awake?" He came over and greeted Xie Nanjia very naturally, as naturally as if Xie Nanjia had lived here eight hundred years ago.
Xie Nanjia thinks this is because he has too many women. Dealing with women has long been a habit, so how could it be unnatural
She really didn't want to see this man again, so she walked past him with a sullen face without looking back.
Zhao Jingyu was stunned, looking at her, then at the group of girls, and asked, "What's wrong?"
The girls shook their heads, and one of them blinked innocently and guessed: "Maybe you're angry when you wake up?"
Zhao Jingyu: "..."
(End of chapter)