37. Chapter XXXVII
Sitting in the carriage back, Chu Huan wrapped his hands around Ruyi's waist as usual, but was obviously absent-minded.
"What's going on?" Ruyi pinched his ear.
Chu Huan was silent, tilted his head out of the car, and sighed lightly.
"What the hell is going on?"
Ruyi felt very curious, he was fine in the Hou Mansion just now, why did he fall in a blink of an eye?
"Are you feeling unwell?"
"I want to drink sour plum soup." Chu Huan pursed his thin lips, "I want to be chilled." β
When Lao Taishan entered the door, he was served sour plum soup by Ruyi himself, and he only had a cup of warm water brought by the maid, and the difference was too big.
Ruyi tilted her head and smiled secretly.
Chu Huan endured it, but he couldn't hold back, and reached out to pull her face over and face to face with him, "What are you laughing at?" Well? β
"Aren't you not in good health?" Ruyi patiently explained to him, "When you're well, I'll boil sour plum soup for you to drink, okay?" β
Chu Huan hooked her chin, and the corners of her mouth finally raised.
When I returned to the mansion, I went to see Mrs. Shen first.
The summer days are long, and tomorrow is not dark yet, but Mrs. Shen has already rested, and only sent the big girl Jade out to tell SΓΉ Ruyi to go back to rest.
"Sister Jade, what's wrong with Grandmother?" Ruyi is curious. Mrs. Shen's body is very strong, and after dinner, she usually has to walk around the Xuancao Hall, and then go to the small Buddha Hall to read a scripture before resting. Why is it so early?
Jadeite looked at the old lady's room with a look of displeasure on her face, and saw that the light was still very dim, and it was obvious that the old lady had not called the lamp yet. I felt even more panicked in my heart, and when I saw Ruyi asking, I only pulled her sleeve, raised her chin to the outside of the yard, and signaled to go outside.
Ruyi glanced at Chu Huan, walked out with Jade, and came to the lotus pool.
"Xianggong will go back first?" If you think that Jade is always a little afraid of Chu Huan's appearance, she said to Chu Huan.
Chu Huan didn't say anything, and only went to the water pavilion on the side by himself.
Ruyi spread his hands at Jadeite, Jade sneered and laughed, and said softly: "The prince is really good to the eldest grandmother." β
Although she is a maid, she is not much older, and she has grown up beside Mrs. Shen since she was a child, so she naturally has a bit of decency. Ruyi has always liked her cheerful and loyal, and Jade also admires this grandmother in her heart, and the two have some topics.
With a little annoyance, Jade explained the reason for Old Madam Shen's unhappiness.
Ruyi listened to it and felt a little speechless.
If you want to talk about this matter, it's not a big deal, it was originally caused by Chu Yu and Zhao Rong'er.
In the past few days, the heat has been hot one after another, and after the sun has set in the west, the owners of the houses who have been stuffy in the house all day will come out to relax.
Chu Yu has been detained in school some time ago to learn from the female red to do homework, because of the recent heat, Mrs. Shen also asked the three female gentlemen to rest, and also told a few girls not to get heatstroke.
Originally, he couldn't sit still, but when the weather was a little cooler, Chu Yu took his two maids to wander around the garden. In fact, it is the season when the new lotus first blooms, the lotus pond in the garden is connected to the water pavilion, the round leaves are clear and lotus, the veins are fragrant, and it is comfortable to look at, and it is a little cooler than elsewhere by the water vapor.
Such a good place naturally has more people.
Chu Yu had just entered the water pavilion, and found that Zhao Rong'er was already there, leaning on the railing of the water pavilion and breaking a piece of dim sum to feed the fish, the misty purple light gauze coat seemed to hold her in a cloud of light smoke, compared to the appearance of always being soft and weak before tears flowed, it was actually a little more immortal.
Zhao Rong'er seemed to have just bathed, and her hair was scattered over her shoulders, only half of her hair was loosely pulled up, and a jade hairpin with an extremely delicate wood hibiscus style was inserted in her hair, and the stamens were all thin gold threads. Chu Yu's eyes were sharp, and she could see at a glance that this was a new summer style that Cai Diexuan had just come out of, and a few days ago she saw that Rong Guogong gave Zhao a piece, and after grinding for several days, she couldn't let Zhao give it to her. Why is Zhao Rong'er wearing it upside down on her head today?
Could it be that her mother gave it to her?
Chu Yu is an unforgiving character, thinking that her mother must love her niece, and secretly stuffed good things to her, and at that moment she was angry in her heart, she walked over and pushed Zhao Rong'er, and asked her loudly where the hairpin came from, whether she stole her mother.
Zhao Rong'er was unexpectedly pushed to the ground directly by her at this moment, and her clothes were light in summer, and Zhao Rong'er's white and tender arms were broken and oozing blood.
In front of several maids, Zhao Ronger was angry, ashamed and painful, and couldn't help crying. didn't dare to turn her face with Chu Yu, after all, her aunt Zhao loved Chu Yu the most now.
I had to explain in a soft voice: "I bought it a few days ago, cousin, don't misunderstand." β
Chu Yu was willing to listen, pointed at Zhao Rong'er's nose and sneered: "You bought it?" Do you know how much silver this hairpin is? β
As for Cai Diexuan's head, even if it is only a jade hairpin, it is difficult to win it without hundreds of taels of silver. Even if Chu Yu wanted one, he had to grind with the Zhao family many times.
"You are an orphan girl without parents, didn't you come to the Guogong Mansion to raise her, I'm afraid you won't be able to eat enough, and you have the money to buy these?"
Zhao Rong'er is actually very similar to Zhao's eyebrows and eyes when she was young, and at a glance, she is the kind of soft woman who has snow as her muscles and bones and flowers as her intestines. Hearing Chu Yu's undisguised ridicule, where did he receive it? Only with tears in her eyes, she shook her head desperately, "It's really my own." My aunt is very kind to me, and I am also a daughter of the Zhao family, how could I do such a thing? Cousin, don't wronged me! β
In the end, it was unusually tough.
Seeing that she dared to fight back, Chu Yu naturally became even more angry, ignoring the maids' obstruction, rushed forward and gave Zhao Rong'er a slap, and pulled Zhao Rong'er with her hand, only shouting: "Let's go see grandmother, see mother!" β
Only with this pull, Chu Yu found out again that the clothes on Zhao Rong'er's body turned out to be a good twilight cloud veil. Dusk cloud yarn comes from the south of the Yangtze River, cool but not light, it is the most comfortable clothing in summer, Chu Yu only used clothes made of twilight cloud yarn when he was a child, but this material is extremely expensive because of the cumbersome weaving process. It's not a noble eunuch's family, so you can't buy it at all. Now Chu Yu is even more jealous, she doesn't have such good clothes this year! She remembered that before the summer, an official from another province came to Beijing to give gifts, and there were two twilight veils inside, right?
The more he believed that these were all secretly given to Zhao Rong'er by the Zhao family, Chu Yu's eyes were red, and the hand he was pulling was even harder.
Where is Zhao Rong'er willing to be pulled away by Chu Yu like this? Her sleeves were grabbed by Chu Yu and dragged out, and a strand of hair was also pulled, tears flowed from her eyes, and she struggled desperately.
During the stalemate, the sleeve of the dress stabbed and was torn off by Chu Yu, and the placket was also torn apart, revealing the pink underwear inside. Partial birth, Chu Ke Chushan and others, who also came to the garden to cool off, rushed over when they heard the sound, and Zhao Rong'er's wolf appearance made her cousins and cousins look at it, and they were even more ashamed and wept silently.
Chu Yu didn't expect this to happen, bit his lip, and the wicked person sued first, only pulling Chu Ke to say that Zhao Rong'er stole their mother's jade hairpin clothes, and now she didn't admit it when she found out.
At that time, there was already a layer of people in the water pavilion, and they couldn't help but have some disdain for Zhao Rong'er when they heard the words. Zhao Rong'er's misty eyes slowly swept across the crowd, and suddenly she turned over and jumped off the lotus pond.
Chu Ke didn't care if Zhao Rong'er really stole something, so he hurriedly asked someone to go into the water to save people. But in addition to Chu Yu, there are maids in the water pavilion, where is there any water that can be wet?
In desperation, Chu Ke pulled Chu Shan and jumped down together, and the brothers finally pulled Zhao Rong'er, who had already fainted, onto the water pavilion.
Xu was unlucky, when Zhao Rong'er jumped down, the corner of her forehead happened to hit a rockery, and she made a cut, and the blood that flowed out stained her clothes red. The troublesome jade hairpin is also gone.
When things come to this point, it's already a big deal. Even if Chu Ke wanted to cover up for Chu Yu, it was impossible.
The things that followed were all solved on Rong Huaxuan's side.
"I only heard that Grandpa Guo was angry, slapped the fourth girl twice, scolded her for being vicious, and locked her up, saying that he didn't call out if he didn't say anything." Jade sighed, "When the old lady heard about it, she was a little unhappy at that time, and it was useless for dinner, so she only said that her chest was stuffy, and she fell asleep." β
Ruyi listened with relish and couldn't help but be curious, "What about the jade hairpin?" β
But whoever has a little brain, he will not steal anything, and wear it on his body and swagger everywhere.
"The rest of the slaves and maids are not very clear, but I heard that the hairpin may have been broken, and the horizontal and vertical were not caught. As for the clothes of the cousin girl, it is not a twilight cloud yarn at all, but a new material sold in the Splendid Workshop outside that only comes from the south, what is it called? β
Ruyi was a little dumbfounded. Chu Yu, how did this girl grow up? Do things on impulse, but brains? Zhao Rong'er is also pitiful, she suffered such a crime for no reason.
After the jade gossip, seeing that the sky was almost dark, he blessed his body with Ruyi, "The slave maid went to take a look at the bird's nest porridge stewed in the small kitchen, if the old lady is hungry, she can also use some." The eldest grandmother and the prince also went back to rest earlier. β
He blessed Chu Huan in the water pavilion again, and went all the way.
At this time, the sun had set, but the western sky was still covered with burning clouds, and a few stars were exposed, twinkling and twinkling. In the lotus pond, Chu Huan beckoned to Ruyi.
Ruyi shook his head and jumped mischievously onto a stone by the pool. The evening breeze blew the hem of her skirt and swept away a lot of heat.
Her eyes were staring at the few double-petaled red lotus plants in the pool, and when she saw that the lotus leaves were as green as jade, and the petals were dark and pink overlapping, swaying in the wind, it was really lovely, so she wanted to jump over and pick one and insert it in the house on a whim.
looked around, lifted the skirt and put it around the waist, revealing two white calves.
Chu Huan in the water pavilion stood up.
Ruyi smiled at him and jumped over another stone.
One by one, they soon reached the outermost red lotus. She stretched out her arm as much as she could, hooked it forward, picked the lotus flower, waved her hand at Chu Huan, and put it in front of her to sniff lightly.
In the twilight, the beautiful and delicate girl is like a fairy who has fallen into the dust, and between the eyebrows and eyes, she can brush away the heat and anxiety in people's hearts.
Ruyi twisted her waist and wanted to jump back to the shore. However, these lake rocks are not smooth, and in the water, it is inevitable that they will be slippery, and the Ruyi girl only cares about showing her light and agile skills, but she didn't pay attention to it. But as soon as his feet slipped, the whole person fell backwards.
"Ahh
The expected wolf bèi overboard did not come. Her waist was tightly wrapped around her by a pair of warm arms, and then she was already on the shore.
There is no danger!
Before he could exhale, his chin was lifted by Chu Huan and pecked lightly.
"Oh, it's out there!" Ruyi pushed Chu Huan away, his face flushed.
Chu Huan took her hand and walked back, "Go back and teach you a lesson!" β
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