40. Chapter 40

"When I was a child, I was very naughty, and I often came to this back garden at night to hide, and I was very happy to see the nurses and maids looking for me everywhere but not finding me." Chu Huan leaned on an acacia tree, held Ruyi in his arms, and told her to lean on his chest. He pinched a firefly and shook it in front of her eyes, "At that time, I was only three or four years old." ”

"Aren't you afraid?" When you were three or four years old, you dared to hide in the garden by yourself?

Ruyi didn't expect that the beauty who always held a pair of cold shelves on weekdays could be naughty when she was a child, but after thinking about it, maybe at that time, it was a short period of bright days in Chu Huan's childhood, right?

couldn't help but feel very distressed, and secretly cursed Rong Guogong and Zhao in his heart, and wrapped his hands around his sturdy waist, "You sued me for this Qiao Zong'er, if you disappear in the future, I will know where to look for you." ”

"What a silly girl." Chu Huan smiled and stroked her long silky hair, "I'm twenty-four years old this year, how can I do the stupid things I did when I was a child again?" ”

Thinking about it now, it may not be that the nurse can't find him, right? Just to make him happy.

"What's stupid?" Ruyi looked up at him, but unfortunately he was a little smaller, and only saw his graceful chin. "When I was a child, I also liked to hide and seek, and I used to climb trees and hide. Once the eldest brother and the second brother couldn't find me, and they were in a hurry, and when the second brother looked up, he saw me lying on the tree laughing, so he scared me and said that there was a snake in the tree. The second brother was frightened and used himself as a mat to catch me. If he hadn't been smashed by me and almost bleed, he wouldn't have been able to escape his father's and mother's beating. ”

"Your brother and sister have a good relationship."

Ruyi smiled very sweetly, "Yes, the eldest brother and the second brother have loved me since I was a child." ”

Chu Huan pursed the corners of his mouth, and suddenly picked her up and flew up to the tree. Settled Ruyi, who was full of surprise, on a low branch, and went down by himself, but opened his arms towards her, "Jump down, I'll pick you up." ”

Ruyi: "......"

Can we not be so naΓ―ve?

She now deeply doubts, if she said that she was still thrown up and caught by her grandmother when she was a child, would she have to be thrown into the air by the prince of the world the next moment?

Looking down, Chu Huan's face was not clear under the mottled shadow of the tree, but Ruyi was very clear, his eyes were staring at him without blinking. She also knew that even in the dimly lit night, he would catch her.

Closing her eyes, she let out a low cry of joy and jumped down.

Unexpectedly, he was caught by Chu Huan and held him firmly in his arms.

"Do you remember, once upon a time, I caught you like this?" Chu Huan's fiery breath sprinkled in Ruyi's ears, and there was a hoarseness in her voice that made her want to retreat.

It's just, "When?" ”

Ruyi has apparently forgotten.

Chu Huan shook his head and pinched her chin, "Wait until you think about it." ”

Seeing that it was not early, "Let's go back first." ”

Ruyi, who was led out of the wall, was about to scratch his heart and lungs, and halfway through the words, he would suffocate people!

No matter how Ruyi asked along the way, Chu Huan kept his mouth shut and didn't mention when he hugged someone. After asking too much, he smiled in her ear: "In the dead of night, if you talk too much to attract the night patrol, I will leave you on the road." ”

Ruyi flattened his mouth, and finally closed his mouth, only secretly determined to ask questions.

When he returned to the back alley of the Guogong Mansion, Chu Huan frowned, and his steps slowed down.

"What's wrong?" Ruyi was about to fall asleep in his arms, and asked with a dazzle. As soon as I opened my eyes, I was stunned.

It's almost midnight, why are there some brightly lit postures in the Guogong Mansion?

Faintly, there were voices in the night.

Chu Huan squinted his eyes and jumped in with her in his arms. Ruyi wanted to come down and go by himself, so as not to be bumped into, Chu Huan didn't agree, and picked up a secluded place all the way back to the residence of the two people.

It was pitch black here, and no one seemed to notice that the two masters had gone out for a spin and had come back.

Only then did Ruyi be stuffed on the bed, and someone knocked on the door outside.

The lights were lit up in the small courtyard, and a maid went to open the door, and after a while, Mama Fang's voice came from the door: "Shizi, the old lady, please go to Ronghui Hall." ”

"Got it." Chu Huan responded.

"Shall I go too?" Ruyi heard Mama Fang's voice trembling a little, I don't know whether she was angry or sad, but she still cried a little. What happened to such an old and serious person, and what happened to him?

Could it be that Old Madam Shen is sick?

Chu Huan groaned for a moment, then nodded. When the two went out, they saw Mama Fang pacing back and forth under the verandah, looking extremely anxious.

"Mama Fang, but what's wrong with grandmother?"

Ruyi asked hurriedly.

Seeing that Ruyi was dressed neatly, and obviously wanted to go over together, Mama Fang was stunned for a moment, and forced a smile, "Go back to grandma, old lady...... There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that there are some urgent things for the prince to talk about. ”

The implication is that the grandmother will not go over.

"She came with me." Chu Huan's voice was not emotional, as if he was saying something that was normal. Mama Fang was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly followed the footsteps of Chu Huan and Ruyi.

At this time, in the Ronghui Hall, the real lights were bright, and there were at least a dozen or twenty servants and maids standing in the courtyard, all of whom were standing respectfully with bated breath, and some of them heard the footsteps of Chu Huan and others, raised their heads and glanced at them quickly, and then quickly lowered them, as if they were trying their best to reduce their sense of existence.

Ruyi Nahan, but as soon as he went up the steps, before he could enter, he heard a low cry from inside.

Mama Fang sighed, raised the curtains, and Chu Huan went in first. Mama Fang whispered in Ruyi's ear: "Grandma, just don't speak." ”

Ruyi knew that there must be something big, and this was Mama Fang kindly reminded her, so she nodded.

Rao was mentally prepared, and as soon as he entered the room, Ruyi still had a faint feeling of bewilderment.

In the main hall of Ronghui Hall, there is not a single maid and servant.

Old Madam Shen was only wearing a light gray bedclothes, and her hair was only in a bare bun, and there was no pearl at all, obviously in a hurry. She was full of tears, and her usual spirit seemed to be gone all of a sudden, and the whole person showed a decadent old state.

Zhao fell on a chair, his face as pale as gold paper, his eyes tightly closed. Fang Shi was rubbing her heart and breathing for her with tears in her eyes.

Chu Ke stood aside, his face pale, and he pressed Chu Yu, who was about to jump to his feet.

On the ground in the middle, there were Rong Guogong and Zhao Rong'er kneeling.

Zhao Rong'er had a bruise on her forehead, and she was only wearing a snow-white middle coat, kneeling there whimpering, and her delicate and helpless appearance made people feel pity when they saw it.

These two ......

Ruyi's eyelids jumped, and she only thought in her heart, it wouldn't be what she thought, right? Really, right?

At this point, she kind of regretted that she had to come along. Nothing else, it's so embarrassing!

"Hengzhi, Hengzhi ......" When Mrs. Shen saw Chu Huan, tears rolled down even more, beating her chest and crying, "I can't live with the ancestors of the Chu family, I'm sorry for your deceased grandfather, I'm sorry!" ”

She has been so strong in her life, and her heart is much harder than that of ordinary women. Her husband's eldest son died on the battlefield one after another, and she endured her grief to support the entire Rongguo Mansion, even now, when people in the capital mention the old lady of the Rongguo Mansion, who can't admire it? However, strong people are often slapped in the face by their relatives.

"I'm going to be strong for the rest of my life!" She was so sad that she couldn't help herself, and her usual dignified love and kindness had completely disappeared, pointing at Rong Guogong and scolding, "What kind of life did you not cultivate and catch up with this evil obstacle today!" ”

Rong Guogong's old face had already turned purple when Chu Huan Ruyi came in. He didn't expect that Old Madam Shen actually called her son and daughter-in-law over, but she didn't leave him a trace of decency.

"Grandmother." Chu Huan went over and shook Old Madam Shen's hand and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

Ruyi walked behind Old Madam Shen silently and shrank there without saying a word.

"He, your faceless father!" Old Madam Shen gritted her teeth, "You ask him, ask him what good things he has done!" ”

In the middle of the night, together with that Zhao Rong'er, he was pulled out of the rockery cave by several mothers-in-law who patrolled the night and beat him as a thief!

"Mother's ......"

"You call me!" As soon as Rong Guogong spoke, he was stopped by Old Madam Shen, "I don't have a shameless son like you!" ”

Zhao Shi breathed a sigh of relief at this time, opened his eyes and saw the two people kneeling on the ground, a wave of anger was irrepressible, waved away Fang Shi, rushed over and slapped at Zhao Rong'er, and cried: "I took you to the mansion to feed, is that what I asked you to do?" ”

Seduce your own uncle!

Zhao's heart was so distressed that he was about to break. In her life, she regarded Rongguo Gong as more important than anything else, and from the moment she entered Rongguo Mansion as a teenager, a heart was tied to him. Even if he knows that he is a colt, knows that his wife is the most noble princess in the world, and even knows that he will not have any chance to marry him as a wife in this life, he is willing to stay by his side. She loves this man like this, how can he do this to himself?

"Cousin, you ...... "You have failed my heart!"

Seeing that she was so sad, Rong Guogong moved his lips, but Zhao Rong'er next to him had already cried and fell to the ground.

"Aunt is not, not what you think!"

Her head of green silk was scattered over her shoulders, lining her body more and more thin, and she was on the ground, which made people unbearable. Chu Ke sighed, didn't hold it, and asked Chu Yu to rush out.

"Slut!" Chu Yu grabbed Zhao Rong'er's hair and scolded, "You still have the face to cry? I said, where did you get the money to buy hairpins and buy twilight yarn under the fence without your father and mother, it turned out that this is how you came! ”

She said this viciously, as if Zhao Rong'er had exchanged these things for a despicable method.

Zhao Rong'er's scalp was pulled by her in pain, tears rolled down, and she screamed in a wailing voice: "Cousin, you misunderstood!" Let go, let go! ”

She cried, looking at Rong Guogong with tears in her eyes.

When Zhao rushed over first, Rong Guogong was still a little guilty, but he didn't move, but when he saw that Chu Yu actually came to beat someone, he was immediately angry, got up and pushed Chu Yu away, and rescued Zhao Rong'er. What kind of personality does Chu Yu have? Where are you willing to let go like that? raised his foot and kicked it on Zhao Rong'er.

Zhao Rong'er was being held in front of Rong Guogong, I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, her body went down, as if she couldn't stand, and fell to the ground. Chu Yu jumped on the high kick and kicked it firmly on Rong Guogong's body.

Rong Guogong screamed in pain and bent down and covered his lower abdomen.