The courtyard is deep in spring

Chapter 52
In the early morning of the second day, Ye Zhaoqing was still having breakfast with Lin Xirong in the living room, when she suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside the door, she turned her head to look, just in time to see Li Yu and Murong Jin coming from the door one after the other walked in.

"See His Royal Highness the First Prince!" The two hurriedly got up to pay their respects, and at the same time greeted Murong Jin: "Mr. Murong, why are you here?"

Li Yu didn't answer, he walked straight to Ye Zhaoqing, looked her up and down, and then his eyes fell on her right calf.

The next moment, amid everyone's surprise, he suddenly lifted up Ye Zhaoqing's skirt!
Ye Zhaoqing was ashamed and embarrassed, snatched back her skirt, covered her legs tightly, and said angrily: "Your Highness, it's so early in the morning, why are you so crazy!"

Fortunately she was wearing a petticoat and undershirt, otherwise she would have made a fool of herself.

Li Yu didn't answer, but said with a gloomy face: "It was my fault last night, I shouldn't have left you and left. Who caused your injury? Was it Murong Shen? I'm going to kill you now." he goes!"

"Think twice, Your Highness! If you kill my elder brother, you will be deceiving your master and exterminating your ancestors!" Murong Jin, who was on the side, became anxious when she heard this, and hurriedly said: "Besides, my elder brother sent her back to Lin's residence last night. You can't wrong a good person what!"

Li Yu didn't even look at him, just stared at Ye Zhaoqing closely, and asked in a deep voice, "Is that so?"

Ye Zhaoqing glanced at him and said, "Murong Shizi saved me, but he took Fen Ji away."

As soon as these words came out, the room fell silent.

"Hehe..." Murong Jin smiled awkwardly and said, "I just said that her injury has nothing to do with my elder brother..."

Li Yu grabbed his sleeve and said viciously: "But he took Fen Ji away! How much effort Zhaoqing took to get it yesterday, how important it is to her, are you blind?"

"But in the final analysis, if you hadn't left her and left, Your Highness, this kind of thing wouldn't have happened..." Murong Jin stretched out her hand to break Li Yu's hand away, slowly pulled back her sleeve, and said with a sneer : "Besides, he saved Miss Ye's life, didn't he?"

Hearing what he said, Li Yu's excited mood finally calmed down. He glanced at Ye Zhaoqing with regret and self-blame in his eyes.

What Murong Jin said was absolutely right, it was all his fault!
"Miss Ye. This is what my elder brother asked me to tell you." Murong Jin took out a bank note from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Ye Zhaoqing, "He said you proposed it yourself."

Ye Zhaoqing glanced at him, and took the bank note with his hand.

The number of words on it is scary.A full 10 taels!Thirty thousand more than what she mentioned yesterday.

"Tell your elder brother, don't think that giving me an extra 3 taels of silver will make this matter smooth." Ye Zhaoqing folded the silver bill into a square and small piece, stuffed it into his purse, and said, "He is the rescuer. It’s not bad for me, but he threatened my life and forced me to give Fenji to him. I will ask him to pay back this shame sooner or later! As for the grace of saving my life, it has already been cancelled!”

Li Yu was shocked when he heard this: "What? He threatened his life?"

After Ye Zhaoqing heard this, he suddenly showed a wry smile: "If it wasn't so, how could I give him Fen Ji!"

After hearing this, Li Yu's eyes flashed with anger, and he suddenly turned his head and gave Murong Jin a hard look.Murong Jin is the one who acts like this to bully the weak.

"Your Highness, I'm not my elder brother, don't stare at me like that..." Murong Jin said helplessly, "If Your Highness has the ability, you can personally ask my elder brother to get that sword back!"

"I'm crazy to provoke him!" Li Yu didn't want to be fooled at all after hearing this, "Besides, if I do this, why do I need you?"

After hearing this, Murong Jin blurted out: "Could it be that you are unwilling to do this for Miss Ye?"

Hearing this, Li Yu's expression turned so ugly that he was dying.

But in the end, he didn't open his mouth to refute.

Murong Jin sighed immediately, and said: "I was impulsive, I shouldn't ask your Highness such a question. Alright, what do you want me to do?"

Li Yu faced Shen Ru and said, obviously he didn't want to say anything.

Seeing this scene, Ye Zhaoqing smiled immediately and said, "Mr. Murong, thank you for your kindness, but I will settle this matter by myself! You and Your Highness are both people who do big things, so there is no need to waste time on such things small things."

It's okay not to say anything, but when Li Yu said that his complexion was even worse, he suddenly stood up and said: "Wait! I will try to get that sword back to you right now!" out!

"Your Highness!" Murong Jin hurriedly opened his mouth to shout, but Li Yu ignored him and had already disappeared.

Murong Jin shook her head helplessly, turned her head to look at Ye Zhaoqing, then sighed suddenly and said: "A beauty is a disaster!" After saying that, she lifted her foot and walked out.

Ye Zhaoqing suddenly felt baffled: "What's wrong with the two of them?"

"Zhaoqing, you don't know something." Lin Xirong stepped forward and said: "Murong Shizi is knowledgeable and talented. Although he is young, he is very wise and intelligent. He is the teacher appointed by the Holy One for the First Prince. He usually disciplines the First Prince. Very strict, the eldest prince is very afraid of him."

When Ye Zhaoqing heard this, he immediately recalled the scene of last night in his mind. Under the moonlight, the man was as imposing as a rainbow, as if riding the wind and waves, with a beautiful face, but his behavior was very strange.Obviously saved her, but snatched her sword.

What a freak!

Ye Zhaoqing really couldn't tell what kind of feeling it was, but when Murong Shen was mentioned, she felt a little uncomfortable.

"Really? Then he's really young." She tried to pull out a smile: "I thought that those who can be crown princes and tutors are usually old people with gray beards who are over sixty years old!"

"Who said it wasn't?" Lin Xirong said with a smile: "Murong Shizi is the first one since the beginning of the dynasty! No, if you go back 200 years, there may not be such an influential figure like him!" Her tone was full of worship.

Ye Zhaoqing glanced at her, and asked with some doubts: "Even though he is a teacher, but the eldest prince is the future heir, with a high status, why are you so afraid of him?"

"This!" Lin Xirong burst out laughing when she heard this, and said, "That's because the eldest prince has done a lot of excessive things in these years relying on the emperor's favor, which caused the emperor a headache. This situation will never happen again, so the emperor trusts him very much."

"What he says is what he says. The eldest prince's homework and study, the emperor has entrusted him to the supervision of the eldest prince. He even has the right to punish the eldest prince, and the emperor will not say a word." Lin Xirong was full of admiration. Said: "That's why the eldest prince is very afraid of him!"

When Ye Zhaoqing heard this, her heart was no longer as simple as being surprised, she murmured: "This person can punish the eldest prince at will, and even get the emperor to praise him, he really is a talent."

"Who said it wasn't?" Lin Xirong smiled slightly, and said: "The old Duke Ding has been at home all these years, if it wasn't for the support of His Royal Highness Murong, the Marquis of Dingguo's mansion would never be as beautiful as it is now."

Hearing this, Ye Zhaoqing raised his eyes to look at Lin Xirong, and said, "So what you mean is that if the eldest prince really went to find Prince Murong to ask for the Fenji sword, it would be hitting a stone with an egg at all?"

"It can be said that." Hearing this, Lin Xirong's face suddenly showed a trace of worry: "Teacher Murong will not hand over the sword to him easily, the First Prince will definitely be punished for this."

No wonder Li Yu hesitated so much just now.

Ye Zhaoqing didn't know what to say when she heard this, she sighed and said, "I should have stopped him just now!"

Seeing her blaming herself, Lin Xirong immediately comforted her: "Okay, you can relax! The First Prince is the First Prince after all, presumably Mr. Murong would not dare to do anything to him."

"I hope so."

……

After half a month of recuperation, Ye Zhaoqing's leg injury is almost healed.

In the scorching summer, among the fragrant orchids and water pavilions in the Lin Mansion.

The sandalwood round table is filled with melon and fruit snacks, and ice basins are placed around the gazebo.The maids in indigo gauze skirts filed in one by one, and put bowls of lotus seed soup that had just been taken out of the ice cellar in front of everyone at the table.

Sitting upright in the upper seat, Madam Lin, who was dressed in a blouse sprinkled with flowers and wearing a pearl hairpin, looked at Lin Xirong and Ye Zhaoqing who were sitting opposite her with a smile, and said: "This soup is very refreshing, Miss Ye, You try to see how it compares to your Lin family?"

"Then it's better to be respectful than obedience." Ye Zhaoqing smiled slightly, reached out to pick up the spoon and took a sip slowly.

"How?" Mrs. Lin asked with a smile.

Ye Zhaoqing put down the spoon and praised: "The lotus seeds and white fungus are boiled so soft that they melt in the mouth. The soup is rich and cold and invades the lungs. It's really delicious."

Lin Xirong smiled and said: "It's just a bowl of soup. We eat it every day. I didn't expect that Zhaoqing could say so many tricks. I will learn it someday." "

"Why are you joining in the fun!" Mrs. Lin turned her head and cast a reproachful glance at her daughter, then turned her head and said to Ye Zhaoqing with a smile, "I'm used to speaking out loud about this child, Miss Ye, don't take it to heart."

"Of course not." Ye Zhaoqing said.

Mrs. Lin glanced at her, and said with a smile: "I heard that Miss Ye is not favored in Ningguohou's mansion. I think you rarely drink this iced lotus seed soup, right? Today, you should take this opportunity to eat more."

"Mother! What nonsense are you talking about!" Lin Xirong frowned immediately after hearing this: "It is clear that she is the eldest daughter of Ning Guohou's mansion no matter how unfavored she is! No matter how much Mrs. Ning Guohou doesn't like her, how can she still be despised? What to eat? This lotus seed soup is not something precious!"

After hearing this, Mrs. Lin glanced at her daughter without changing her face, and said: "You are not right, lotus seed soup is indeed not a precious item, even ordinary people can eat it every day. But the bowl we drank today But the lotus seed soup is extraordinary."

"Oh? What's so unusual?" Lin Xirong was suddenly curious.

Mrs. Lin smiled slightly, and said: "This lotus seed is grown in the lotus pond in the imperial garden, and the lotus was planted by Concubine Rong herself, because His Majesty likes lotus. How can a lotus bathed in His Majesty's dragon energy be compared with ordinary lotus flowers?" As he said, he paused and said: "The tremella is a tribute from the palace, a gift from Concubine Rong, the quality is very good, ordinary people can't get it."

"Then what about the water for making the soup?" Lin Xirong couldn't help laughing when she heard this, "Mom shouldn't be willing to use ordinary water to boil such a precious thing, right?"

"It's natural." Mrs. Lin smiled slightly, and said, "This is the mountain spring I specially sent someone to fetch from Huangquan Temple in the suburbs of Beijing."

Huangquan Temple, of course, only the royal family can go.The spring water there is the best in the world.

"In that case, it's really rare." Ye Zhaoqing said with a slight smile.

Mrs. Lin said with a smile: "Miss Ye really has vision." Then she paused and said, "Why don't you drink it? But you think it tastes bad?"

"Where." Ye Zhaoqing raised the spoon and said, "It's just that this porridge is too cold. I haven't had a good appetite these days, so I want to put it away before eating."

Saying that, scooped up a spoonful and put it in his mouth.

Mrs. Lin saw her drinking, an imperceptible light flashed in her eyes, she smiled and said: "That's a pity, the soup is the most delicious when it's chilled. Forget it, you can leave it first, the coldness will not be so strong later gone."

"Yes, madam." Ye Zhaoqing said.

While the two were talking, Lin Xirong had already drank his bowl of porridge in two mouthfuls, clamoring for more.

"This is cold stuff after all, you should drink less!" Mrs. Lin gave her a reproachful look, and said, "Look at Miss Ye, she is a doctor after all, she just knows how to keep healthy."

Lin Xirong curled her lips when she heard the words: "She has a bad appetite, I'm different from her, okay?"

"Of course you are different." Mrs. Lin said with a smile, "You are my mother's good daughter." As she spoke, she ordered someone to bring another bowl of lotus seed soup to Lin Xirong.

Mrs. Lin herself didn't eat much.

On the contrary, she kept persuading Ye Zhaoqing to drink more.

Because of what she said just now, Ye Zhaoqing felt a little uncomfortable, but he still restrained himself and drank the bowl of lotus seed soup that had been placed in front of him for a long time.

As for the taste of this bowl of soup that Mrs. Lin boasted, Ye Zhaoqing didn't taste it at all.

She felt that it was the same as the lotus seed soup she usually drank?

But at this time, she heard Mrs. Lin call the maid beside her, and said: "Yinglan, you have worked hard these days, and I give you this bowl of soup."

"Thank you ma'am!" Yinglan immediately took the bowl with joyful hands and retreated.

Madam Lin turned her head to look at Ye Zhaoqing again, seeing that she had finished her drink, she immediately smiled and said, "Miss Ye, can I have another bowl for you?"

For some reason, Ye Zhaoqing always felt that her smiling face was too dazzling, she shook her head and said, "No need, I've already had a lot to drink."

"Oh, that's really a pity. In order to entertain you, I made the kitchen boil a lot!" Mrs. Lin said regretfully.

Ye Zhaoqing didn't foolishly ask her, what was rewarded by Concubine Rong in the palace was so wasted.She knew that Mrs. Lin had more reasons to block her back.

In the scene before him, Ye Zhaoqing knew no matter how stupid he was, Mrs. Lin was trying to ridicule her with a night of soup, or to express that in her eyes, she was like a lowly maid.

Really, he spared no effort to trample her under his feet!
Ye Zhaoqing couldn't help showing a sarcastic smile.

"I'm a little tired after sitting for half a day!" At this moment, Mrs. Lin turned her head to look outside the pavilion, and then asked the rows of maidservants outside the pavilion, "What time is it?"

"It's too late to answer Madam's words." Yinglan, who had just received a reward, replied crisply.

Mrs. Lin was a little surprised: "It's already this point? I have to go back to take a nap!" Then, she turned her head to look at Lin Xirong and Ye Zhaoqing and said, "I'm getting old, and I can't stand it without taking a nap. I know you young people are spirited. Well, you must not be sleepy, you sit down and I will go back first."

"Mom, go slowly!" Lin Xirong said immediately.

Ye Zhaoqing also stood up and saluted: "Madam, go slowly."

"Sit down!" Mrs. Lin smiled, and was supported by two maids to get up and leave.

As soon as she left, Lin Xirong smiled and said, "Zhaoqing, I asked them to make something delicious, do you want to try it?"

"Don't want it?" Ye Zhaoqing said with a smile: "You just ate two bowls of soup, aren't you full yet?"

Lin Xirong blushed, and then said: "After all, it's soup! I'm not very hungry." Then, she winked at her own maid Liu Er: "Go and get it!"

"Yes, Miss!" Liu'er replied, and immediately turned around and retreated.

Lin Xirong smiled at her.

Seeing her smile, Ye Zhaoqing suddenly felt that there was something deceitful in it, and hurriedly asked: "Don't be fooled, what is it?"

At this moment, she suddenly smelled a foul smell.

Ye Zhaoqing was taken aback for a moment, and following her, she saw Liu Er walking in from outside with a plate in her hands.There were a few pieces of fried golden stuff on that plate.

"Stinky tofu?" Ye Zhaoqing was dumbfounded.

"That's right!" As soon as the stinky tofu was on the table, Lin Xirong immediately leaned forward to sniff it intoxicated, and said with a smile, "Zhaoqing, you must have never eaten this thing before, right? It's delicious!" As she spoke, she took her chopsticks Picking up a piece, he was about to hand it to her, and said, "Let me tell you, when I ate this thing for the first time, I was also suffocated by its smell, but after I ate it, I fell in love with it." smell……"

Ye Zhaoqing looked down at the piece of stinky tofu brought in front of her, she didn't cover her nose with her hand, and there was no disgust in her expression, she just smiled and said: "You put it in a bowl, I'll pick it up myself." "

"Okay!" Lin Xirong immediately put it into the small bowl that Liu Er brought up.

Ye Zhaoqing picked it up with chopsticks and took a bite, praised: "Is it freshly fried?"This girl Liu'er runs really fast..."

"It's not that I run fast, it's because our lady specially invited the woman who fried stinky tofu to come to the house!" Liu'er said with a smile: "Miss said that freshly made ones taste the best."

"That's right, that's it." Ye Zhaoqing ate, smiled and glanced at Lin Xirong, who was also enjoying the meal, and said, "You really know how to enjoy it."

Lin Xirong was about to answer, but at this moment, there was a sudden sound of vomiting from outside the gazebo: "What is so smelly? Are you eating shit there?"

Lin Xirong's complexion darkened, and she turned her head quickly. When she looked down on the tall and thin man standing outside the pavilion, a trace of anger appeared on her face: "If you think it smells bad, don't come here? Who allowed you to enter the mansion? Get out soon !"

"Tsk tsk, cousin, I haven't seen you for half a year, can't you be more polite?" After retching, the man immediately took out a handkerchief and wiped the corners of his mouth, then lifted his robe and walked in.

When Ye Zhaoqing saw that he was wiping the corners of his mouth, he was still cocking his orchid fingers, and he felt stunned in his heart.

To be honest, this man has a long face, good features, and the clothes on his body are very expensive, he is obviously a rich man, but his behavior is really...

Ye Zhaoqing really couldn't find a good adjective.

Lin Xirong's expression was filled with disgust, she stood up abruptly and pointed outside and said, "Zhao Anting, you don't understand human language, do you? I tell you to get out!"

The man named Zhao Anting immediately covered his mouth and retched, and it took a while for him to return to normal and said: "Cousin, you are a lady of a great family, can you always eat the things that the lowly people eat? They are all for the princess. You are so ignorant!"

"I want you to care!" Lin Xirong's complexion changed, and she immediately said viciously: "Also! What are you talking about, when am I going to be the princess?"

"Just pretend!" After Zhao Anting finished speaking, he passed Lin Xirong and walked to the table, looked at Ye Zhaoqing and said with a smile: "I have long heard that the two young ladies of Ningguohou's Mansion look like gods. Come on, it really is!"

"So it's Mr. Zhao." Although Ye Zhaoqing hated this person very much, but she was living in the Lin Mansion at the moment, and this person actually called Lin Xirong's cousin, so she asked politely.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Anting pushed his nose up and sat down at the table with a smile on his face, leaning close to Ye Zhaoqing on purpose.

Ye Zhaoqing stood up immediately: "Xi Rong, have you eaten enough? It's time to go back!"

"Okay! Let's go!" Lin Xirong nodded immediately.

"Hey! Don't leave!" Zhao Antin immediately reached out to stop Ye Zhaoqing, and said with a smile: "I just came here and you are leaving, Miss Ye, do you have any objections to me?"

"Master Zhao, please respect yourself." Ye Zhaoqing looked at the arm stretched out in front of her, the ninja's urge to chop it off, and said in a cold tone.

Zhao Anting chuckled, with a somewhat smug look on his face, but also a little arrogant: "Miss Ye, you are so beautiful, the next time I see you, I fall in love with you, I wonder if you can..."

"No!" Ye Zhaoqing said coldly.As he spoke, he grabbed Lin Xirong and left from the other side of the round table.

Zhao Antin didn't stop them this time, he just stood there smiling and watching them leave.

After everyone had left, he suddenly looked down at the sandalwood round table.

Finally, his gaze landed on the seat Ye Zhaoqing had just sat on, and there was a half-bitten stinky tofu in a bowl on the table.

"Tsk tsk, you are obviously a daughter of a famous family, but you like to eat these cheap foods. It's unreasonable!" He muttered to himself, and suddenly stretched out two fingers to twist the half piece of stinky tofu left by Ye Zhaoqing in the bowl and stuff it. into the mouth.

"It's delicious, it's really delicious! Everything a beauty eats is delicious..." The next moment, he shook his head and sighed.

I don't know whether I am lamenting the fragrance of beauty or the fragrance of stinky tofu.

Soon, this scene reached the ears of Lin Xirong and Ye Zhaoqing through the mouth of the maid.

"This apprentice! This rotten man! I have to kill him!" Lin Xirong trembled angrily, smashed the teacup in her hand, turned around and ran out the door: "No! I have to tell mother , drive him out!"

(End of this chapter)