Liu Liu was very dissatisfied with her formal "first meeting" with Xiao Tuo.
Following Zi'an back to the prime minister's residence, he began to summarize the reasons.
When Nanny Yang brought the tea up, she saw Zi'an's hand injury and frowned as she asked, "Miss, what happened to your hand?"
Liu Liu then realized, "Your hand is injured?"
"I was accidentally scalded by the tea, it's no big deal!" Zi'an said calmly.
Nanny Yang stared at her and said with a hint of meaning, "Young Miss, be more careful in the future."
"Got it!" Zi'an responded.
The dinner was very simple, with one meat dish and two vegetable dishes. The four of them sat around the table and started eating. As for Yuan, before she started eating, Nanny Yang served her first.
While eating, Liu Liu said to Zi An, "I have packed my belongings. I will live here with you from now on."
Zi'an said with a smile: "My food here is simple and plain, it doesn't matter if you are used to it, Miss."
"What's there to be unaccustomed to? The food I usually eat is spit on. I don't think I'll have to eat spit-stained food here, right?"
"Why didn't you report this situation to your brother?" Zi'an knew that her sisters-in-law were particularly mean. It was really unreasonable. The seemingly arrogant Miss Chen actually lived such a miserable life.
"What's the use of telling them? If they go back and scold those women, won't they make things difficult for me in the future? Besides, I can't tell my grandmother. She's been in poor health for the past two years. If she gets angry, she might die. That's not worth it!"
Xiaosun stared at Liuliu with eyes wide open, "Ms. Chen, how can you call your grandmother an old thing? Wouldn't she be angry if she heard it?"
Liu Liu thought there was nothing wrong with it, "She calls herself that."
"She can call herself that, but you are her granddaughter. Isn't it disrespectful to call her old?"
Liu Liu tilted her head and thought for a moment, "Really? But she also called those old generals "old things", but she really loved and respected them in her heart."
Zi'an glanced at Xiaosun and said, "Don't bother her about this issue. She doesn't understand."
Nanny Yang smiled and said, "Yes, Xiaosun, you will be killed if you argue with Miss Chen about these things. She was raised by the old lady since she was a child. At that time, the old lady was still active in the military camp. Although she did not hold an official position, the emperor always asked her to train soldiers in the military camp. Miss Chen was also with a group of rough men who sweated profusely every day. You can imagine what she would become."
Xiaosun was stunned for a moment, "But, shouldn't girls behave like girls?"
Chen Liuliu was so annoyed by this question, "Xiaosun, shut up, or I'll throw you into Stone Village to live with the zombies."
"Zombies?" Xiaosun was shocked. "Don't talk nonsense. Where are there any zombies?"
"Su Qing said today that Jingzhao Yin went to the palace today and said that there are zombies in Shitou Village." Liu Liu said.
Zi'an remembered that Jingzhao Yin came today and talked about zombies
"What's going on?" Zi'an didn't believe in zombies, but after treating Murong Jie's injuries today, King Liang had already returned home, so she had no choice but to run around the palace again.
"Don't you know? The prince didn't tell you? You stayed in the prince's room for most of the day, and he didn't tell you? The prince is not kind enough to keep such a fresh and interesting thing to himself."
"Stayed for half a day?" Madam Yang glanced at Zi'an, "Can you stay for half a day just for treatment?"
Zi'an's face turned slightly red. That arrogant Murong Jie said he was sleepy after healing his wounds, but he couldn't fall asleep. He asked her to sing a song. It was embarrassing to say it out loud.
While she was singing, he kept staring at her with indescribable complexity in his eyes.
For a moment, Zi'an thought he had a new son, an eldest son.
Zi'an, who has a little knowledge of psychology, actually understands why he does this.
Research shows that the stronger a person is, the more obsessions they have that they cannot let go of. They wrap their hard hearts in layers, and in some corner, there is always a pain as small as a needle tip.
Murong Jie's pain point should be the noble concubine.
It's not that he has never received the concubine's maternal love, but this maternal love has now deteriorated. As rational as he is, he knows that the past cannot be retrieved, so in a corner of his heart, he has kept this past mother-son love, but will not allow it to become a disaster.
"Liu Liu, can you tell me what zombies are?" Zi'an changed the subject.
Liu Liu swallowed a mouthful of rice and said, "The Jingzhao Yin reported that a zombie appeared in Shitou Village and bit two people. After being bitten, the two people turned into zombies again. When they were about to bite other people, they were caught and sent to the government office. They are now incarcerated."
"A biting zombie? Besides biting, are there any other symptoms?" Zi'an asked.
"I haven't heard from Su Qing. Why don't you ask him?" Liu Liu picked up the chopsticks and put them down again. "I really want to go see zombies. I've never seen one before."
Xiaosun was startled. "Oh, Miss Chen, you can't go see this. Zombies are scary. If they bite someone, that person will become a zombie and will never survive in this life."
Zi'an asked, "Are there two or three so-called zombies being captured now?"
"We caught two, and the zombie that bit people escaped." Liu Liu swallowed another mouthful of rice, "So, Jingzhao Yin came to ask for permission to send people into Shitou Village to look for the zombie."
"So we're going to search the village?"
"That's what it sounds like."
"Has the prince ordered a search of Stone Village?" Zi'an asked.
Liu Liu shrugged, "I don't know, ask Su Qing."
Zi'an naturally didn't need to ask Su Qing, he just thought that this was not a zombie, maybe it was an exaggeration
Everyone just treated it as a strange story and no one investigated the matter further. However, Xiaosun felt terrified and had several nightmares at night.
As July approaches, the weather is getting hotter.
Murong Jie's injuries have fully recovered, and the scars have only left purple and light red marks, but she asked Zi'an to go to Prince Liang first, then to the prince's mansion, and send someone to take her back in a carriage in the evening, just like she did when she went to work every day.
During this period of time, Concubine Sun has not come to cause trouble. In fact, Zi'an has not even seen Concubine Dowager Gui, as if these people have disappeared from the palace.
Moreover, the prince had not come to see Xia Wan'er during this period. Xia Wan'er was very anxious, so she secretly went to the palace to find Concubine Mei and asked her to ask the imperial physician for some beauty cream to remove the scars on her face.
It’s just that the scar is too big and the color is too dark, so the beauty cream didn’t help much. It just lightened the color a little, but the scar is still very clear and conspicuous.
She hated Zi'an very much, but she didn't have the heart to deal with him at the moment, because Prime Minister Xia told her that he was about to marry Ximen Xiaoyue, the eldest granddaughter of the Dukedom of Jin, as his second wife.
Ximen Xiaoyue is 23 years old this year. She got married at the age of 16. Her husband died in the battlefield right after she got married, and she has been moving back to her parents' home ever since. The Duke of Jin has always wanted to find another husband for her, but because his grandson-in-law died in the battlefield, it was difficult for him to bring it up. So, when he heard that Prime Minister Xia wanted to take a concubine, the Duke of Jin found the Queen Mother, hoping to make it happen for the two of them.
(End of this chapter)