Lin'an is a good place for flowers, and has long been known as the capital of flowers.
There is a saying that goes well, good scenery comes from Kyoto, and good flowers come from Lin'an.
Another spring, Lin'an Huadu is full of flowers in Lin'an, and the fragrance of flowers can be smelled everywhere.
Huayan sat bored on the rattan chair in the yard, basking in the sun, and complained to Qiuyue, "This day is really boring, when will I be tall?"
Qiuyue whispered, "In half a month, His Royal Highness will send someone to pick you up. If you bear with it, the ban will be lifted soon."
Huayan curled her lips, "Even if he sends someone to pick me up into the East Palace, it's just moving from the Huafu to the Prince's Mansion. One cage is put into another cage, and I can't be free. It's nothing like lifting the ban."
Qiuyue persuaded, "Although there are many rules in the East Palace, you are the prospective princess. Apart from the prince, you are the biggest in the East Palace. It is said that the emperor's health is not getting better recently, and all the court affairs are pushed to the prince. The prince is busy with court affairs. , if you go to the East Palace, the Crown Prince probably won't have time to watch over you. It's better than being stared at by the old master, old lady, master, madam, and uncles in Huafu."
Huayan thought for a while, and said, "If you weigh the pros and cons, it's actually better to enter the Eastern Palace than to be in Huafu."
Qiuyue coughed, "It seems so at the moment."
Huayan reached out and grabbed a flower and threw it into her mouth, chewed it a few times, and after getting some taste, she suddenly asked, "Is the prince's name Yunchi?"
The corner of Qiuyue's mouth twitched, "Miss Hui, this is the crown prince's name."
Huayan asked again, "Are there concubines, concubines, concubines, concubines, etc. in the East Palace?"
Qiuyue froze for a moment, then said, "Maybe"
Huayan looked at Qiuyue, "Maybe what does it mean?"
Qiuyue coughed again, and speculated, "After all, it's the prince. The sons and brothers in the mansion of the noble family have prepared a room for a long time. The prince has a distinguished status, so there should be no lack of it."
Huayan blinked, looked up at the sky, and said for a while, "A place with many women should be fun."
Qiuyue woke up immediately, and said hastily, "Miss, that's the Eastern Palace. Even if there are many women, they are still the crown prince's women. You can't play with them. You must not have such thoughts."
Huayan let out a "tss" and said disdainfully, "What's so great about the prince's women? They're women. I like to see women who are so cute, crying, and flamboyant. They look so charming."
Qiuyue was speechless, and wanted to remind Huayan, don't forget that you are also a woman, and now you can be regarded as the woman that the prince has ordered.
Huayan looked at Tiandao again, "There is still half a month, it's too long, no, I can't take it anymore, let's go to the East Palace right now, if we stay in the mansion, I will be suffocated to death."
"Ah" Qiuyue was stunned.
Huayan stood up briskly, patted the tidbits that fell on her body, and said bluntly, "The scent of flowers in Lin'an has been smelling for a long time, and it's really tiresome. Let's go to the capital to smell the fragrance of beauties."
The corner of Qiuyue's mouth twitched, "Miss, it's not good for you to go to the capital without waiting for the prince to send someone to pick you up."
Huayan said nonchalantly, "If there's anything wrong with it, he'll send someone to pick it up. Those who mobilize the crowd will be in trouble. Why don't we go by ourselves, pack lightly, how easy it is."
"Will the old master, old lady, master, wife, and uncles agree?" Qiuyue hesitated.
Huayan rolled her eyelids, "I took the initiative to go to the East Palace, and I won't stay at home and let them stare at them every day and have a headache. Their mouths are probably full of joy. I'm not running away, and they probably agree with it with both hands and feet."
Qiuyue looked at Huayan, "But the foster mother hasn't taught you all the etiquette, so if you go to the East Palace recklessly like this, I'm afraid it will be wrong then"
Huayan picked a flower casually and stuffed it into Qiuyue's mouth, "It's really long-winded, if you don't want to go, hurry up, if you don't go, I'll go."
Qiuyue spat out the flowers, her face wrinkled into a ball, "It's so bitter"
Huayan went back to the house, packed her bags in a few moments, walked out, and saw Qiuyue squatting on the ground spitting out the bitterness in her mouth. She said in a good mood, "It is said that there is a Phoenix tree planted in the East Palace. Someone once commented, A phoenix tree in the East Palace is better than thousands of flowers in Lin'an. I want to go and see how beautiful that phoenix flower is."
Qiuyue straightened up, and said helplessly to Huayan with a bitter face, "Miss, you misunderstood, the deep meaning of this sentence is not to say that the phoenix is beautiful, but the implication is that the prince is beautiful. Not to mention Lin'an, the whole world is also No one can match the prince's appearance."
Huayan curled her lips, "He is quite good-looking, a big man, so good-looking
Whatever you do in the future Liugong Fendai, won't he be compared to him?"
The corner of Qiuyue's mouth twitched fiercely again.
"Let's go." Huayan carried the package and walked towards the west wall.
Qiuyue immediately said, "Miss, you're going to climb over the wall again and don't tell Mrs. Mrs. Didn't you just say you won't sneak away this time?"
Huayan said without turning her head, "You are responsible for leaving a letter for them. It's too troublesome to tell them in person. I guess when I heard that I took the initiative to go to Beijing, I might be afraid that I would change my mind and run away. Even if I agree, I will send a big basket People who follow, I can’t stand it just thinking about it.”
Qiuyue nodded, "Alright then, I'll leave the book."
Huayan waved her hand and urged her, "You have to move faster, I will wait for you with a cup of tea."
Looking at her relaxed appearance, Qiuyue probably didn't have two pieces of clothes in the package, but only bank notes, and reminded, "When the master grounded you, he raised the west wall by three feet."
Hua Yan said without worry, "Zheng Erhu probably has been guarding outside the west wall for eight days, waiting to pick me up. What are you worried about? He has a ladder, and he won't die if he falls."
Qiuyue was completely speechless, thinking that Zheng Erhu was really brave, did he dare to come if he didn't have enough prison cells.
Huayan climbed a very tall old apricot tree trunk with its lower body stripped off, its branches bare, but its branches were densely clustered with flowers. She climbed up the high wall of the west wall with great effort, wiped off her sweat, and rode over the top of the wall There was an apricot blossom, and I saw Zheng Erhu squatting by the west wall, waiting sleepily. Hearing the movement, seeing her appear, he suddenly became energetic, and said repeatedly, "Grandma, you finally came out. I'll wait for you." The flowers are almost withering."
Huayan laughed happily, and knocked on the wall with an apricot branch, and countless apricot petals fell on his tiger head, "The flowers are in full bloom, why are they thankful?"
Zheng Erhu immediately said, "The flowers in my heart are about to wither."
Huayan sneered, "I didn't see it."
Zheng Erhu hurriedly said, "Grandma, I'm going to move the ladder, so don't ride on the wall and chat with the little one. Hurry up, your old man keeps a close eye on me, sent people to drive me away several times, and threatened me not to leave again, Let the people from the yamen arrest me and eat in prison. Last time, because I helped you escape, I was imprisoned for more than half a year. This time, I don’t want to go in and eat in prison again.”
Huayan looked at him, "Last time you spent half a year in prison because of me, I paid you off the ten thousand taels of silver from Wanfu Gambling House. I didn't owe you. I don't think you are afraid of going to jail, but this time I owe you more money." How many times have you begged me to run away quickly?"
Zheng Erhu scratched his head, smiled shyly and said, "Not much, thirty thousand taels."
Hua Yan snorted, "Your life is not worth so much, and ten years in prison is not enough."
Zheng Erhu quickly said, "It's different this time. It's a big risk to help you. After all, it's stealing from the prince. It's about 30,000 taels."
Huayan laughed, "You know how to calculate."
Zheng Erhu begged for mercy, "Grandma, help me, I have a gambling father, I can't help it."
Hua Yan raised her eyebrows, "You spent half a year in prison, and he was not hacked to death for gambling, so you don't care what he does?"
Zheng Erhu pouted his neck, "He is my old man after all, the one who gave me my life, my mother died early, I am the only relative in this world, he is just a gambler, such a small hobby, I will be my son Yes, you should be filial."
Huayan tutted, "I have met countless people since I was born in this world, but your filial piety is really a lesson from the sun and the moon. All right, I promise you, I will help you pay off the 30,000 taels of gambling debt, but you You have to follow me, from now on, listen to my arrangement."
Zheng Erhu hurriedly brought a ladder from a distant alley, and while helping her to climb down the wall, he readily agreed, "Okay, wherever you go, the younger one will follow, from now on, the younger one will be yours. It’s more cost-effective to serve you than to spend ten years in prison.”
Huayan smiled and handed the apricot branch to him, "Here, take a step first and send this to the East Palace."
Zheng Erhu was startled, looked at Huayan, dumbfounded, "Send this apricot branch to the East Palace"
Huayan nodded, "That's right, give it to the prince, and tell him by the way, there is no need for him to send someone to pick it up, I will go by myself."
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When I was writing Fenzhuang Dumou, I began to think about what kind of story to write in the next book. After more than a year of collision of inspiration and precipitation, I finally found a matching point. This book made me unable to put it down even during the 2018 Spring Festival. I can't help but write a little article every day, and I like and even love it without sleeping or eating. I hope that when this article is published, everyone will like and even love Happy Lantern Festival as much as I do.