Glory in Troubled Times: The Empress' Growth Path

Chapter 26
Hua Qiong and Zhao Tingan's chariots and horses galloped towards Baizhen without stopping, from the sky full of stars and moon to the east.

On the other side, on the street of Baizhen, a carriage was walking on the street under the escorts and guards. Although the decoration on the carriage was minimal and it tried to be low-key, compared with the carriages and horses driving on the road, it still felt luxurious. An can't stand it.

The county magistrate Lu Ping had been waiting in the mansion for a long time, and his wife, Li Chang, was also anxiously pacing back and forth in the front hall. A person in an official position like him would be less restrained by the world, but he was still not exempt from it.

"Why does the wife master pace back and forth, they will be here soon."

"Oh! How could such a thing happen, what should I do!"

Seeing the heavy gate of the mansion finally opened with old steps, Li Chang and Lu Ping suddenly became much more relaxed when they saw the chariots and horses in front of the gate, and ran towards the gate.

I saw two people walking out of the stopped chariots and horses.

A young girl of sixteen or seventeen, dressed in a moon-white dress, embroidered with countless blue flowers, with a green translucent ring hanging around her waist, and a blue flow pendant hanging from the ring, with red phoenix eyes and flowing eyes; Graceful.

A young man aged seventeen or eighteen came down first, dressed in a dark blue robe, with meticulous hair and a capable appearance, then he held the woman firmly and got out of the car.

"Auntie, I'm here."

"Meng'er! My Meng'er, you are finally here. Your cousin hasn't had water or rice in three days, and she doesn't want to ask a doctor to come and see her. Go and persuade her."

After Ran Meng briefly saluted the county magistrate and his wife, he walked towards the mansion with his aunt under the leadership of his servants.

I saw that the scenery in the mansion was still the same as when I was a child. Except that many plants withered in winter, the layout did not change much.

I had a New Year's Eve dinner with my cousin last year. I should have been happy to see her today, but when the servants came to report, it was my cousin who hadn't finished the rice in three days. What happened?

Full of suspicion, he followed Li Chang in the courtyard, looking at his aunt from the corner of the eye from time to time.

The maintenance is really good, the years are slightly traced.

"Meng'er, how many regular servants are there in your house now?"

"My mother has ordered two of them for me. One of them will travel with me today. The one you saw just now is surnamed Wang."

Li Chang sighed, took Ran Meng's hand, and said confidingly: "If your cousin is half as obedient as you, the county magistrate and I won't have a few more gray hairs."

"Aunt and the county magistrate don't need to be sad, I have a secret recipe for growing black hair, but what happened to my cousin?"

"Some time ago, when she came back from other provinces, she choked with me and stopped eating. At the beginning, I thought it was the same petty temper as before, so I ignored it. Who knew that now she didn't eat anything. Go on a hunger strike, look at her."

Ran Meng comforted Li Chang and advised her to rest assured that she and her cousin had played together since they were young, and they talked about everything, and they could always ask for some reason.

"Auntie, it's cold outside, you go back to the house and wait for me, I'll go find you later."

Li Chang glanced at her daughter's room not far away, sighed, and left first.

Ran Meng retreated from the people on the left and right, and walked towards her cousin's house alone.

As soon as he walked to the door, he heard suppressed sobbing. Just as he was about to open the door and go in, there was a voice in the room, obviously not his cousin's.

Thinking of the group of robbers that were exterminated just a while ago, could it be that they revived and ran to the county magistrate's mansion to take revenge?

Isn't that cousin!

"Yi'er, why bother to stay here and spoil yourself."

Lu Yueyi is her cousin's surname and surname, and her baby name is Yi'er, only those who are very close know her.

"How dare you come into my mansion during the day, be careful of your life."

"You were not like this before, why?! Could it be that you really fell in love with the regular attendant appointed by Venerable Li?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Then why didn't you come to me?"

Ran Meng was listening to the quarrel between the two outside the house, feeling helpless, the two of them were making too much noise in the house in broad daylight, should she go in now?
Cousin will be embarrassed.

Could it be that her hunger strike had something to do with the man in the room?

Ran Meng listened quietly outside the house, even without getting too close, she could hear the movement inside the house.

At this time, there was the sound of breaking things in the house, another sound of collision, the sound of closing the window, and the rest was the sound of my cousin sobbing.

Ran Meng ran to the side of the house, and saw a man about seventeen or eighteen years old, who jumped over the wall in twos and threes.

Yo, I still have some kung fu in my hands.

After he left, Ran Meng sighed, waited for a while, pretended that she was coming later, straightened her clothes, and then gently knocked on the door.

"Cousin, it's me, Meng'er."

The weeping voice in the room obviously stopped, and after a while of silence, the door opened.

I saw my cousin wearing a goose-yellow warm jacket with red and gold trim, and the water vapor in her eyes was like the mist on the lake that was about to dissipate.

Ran Meng pretended not to see, happily took Lu Yueyi's hand, and hugged her affectionately.

"Cousin, you've lost weight, was your appetite taken away by some attendant?"

Lu Yueyi bowed her head and smiled sheepishly, "I had a few arguments with my mother recently, but I never thought I'd recruit you, a girl."

When Lu Yueyi closed the door, she took the opportunity to look around, but no one was here.

No one seemed to notice that he was gone.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Turning to greet Ran Meng with a smile, she saw her face was rosy, her brows were stretched, without any worries, but looking at herself, she was extremely haggard, as if a heavy weight was falling from her body.

"Cousin, look what I brought you?"

Ran Meng took out a thin notebook from her bosom and held it up in her hand, "This is a new picture book, it's specially about ghosts and ghosts, it's very interesting, I specially picked it for you."

Lu Yueyi took the story book, and saw Zhong Kui catching little ghosts on the cover, the brush strokes were delicate and very real, and she just flipped a page casually, and there was "A Dream of Huangliang" written on it, her expression changed suddenly.

"Cousin doesn't like it?"

Ran Meng was a little nervous, not to mention some things in the book, which touched her mind.

"There is nothing I don't like. It's very novel when I saw it suddenly."

Lu Yueyi calmed down to avoid being seen by Ran Meng.

"Did you see it when you came over? You saw me here, the boy coming in and out."

Ran Meng thought it was funny, this cousin of hers had always been ignorant of men and women, and she and all her sisters teased her in private for being a dull tree that didn't bloom, and now it's spring.

I must take a good look at what kind of person I am. If she really likes it, it is not difficult to persuade my aunt to let my cousin marry someone.

Can the Lord only have one permanent attendant?
(End of this chapter)