The little lady in the dining room

Chapter 17 Visit
Sydney took out the paper and opened it, and there was only one line of words on it, written vigorously but smoothly and gently: Congratulations on the Year of the Golden Chai.

The signature on the left is the same handwriting, a name she has never heard of: Yan Chenghuai.

That night, Sydney tossed and turned for a long time and couldn't sleep.

The hairpin was placed under the pillow, together with the note in the box.She put it back several times, and couldn't help but take it out after a while to have a look.

There was only one candlestick left in the dark room, and the light penetrating through the bed curtain was negligible, but it still illuminated the nobile very beautifully.

The white jade petals are so thin and translucent, warm and moist, delicate and lovely.

12 years old, the year of the golden hairpin...

Xueli stroked the thin golden stamen with her fingers and was stunned for a while, then put the hairpin back into the box and tucked it under the pillow again, feeling entangled in her heart.

Although she has never seen the name "Yan Chenghuai", it is not difficult to guess who it is - she has seen too few high-ranking and powerful men, so few that there are only the imperial guards.There are only two people in Yulingwei who have more intersections, one is Wei Chen, and the other is the commander.

It turns out that his name is Yan Chenghuai...

The surname "Yan" is so rare.

Xue Li looked at the apricot-colored bed curtain next to her, let out a long breath, and involuntarily touched the box again, gritted her teeth and stopped as soon as she touched it, and tried her best not to take it out to look again.

no!If you look at it again, you will really see it in your eyes and can't pull it out!

This thing is so ingeniously and beautifully made, she likes it from the bottom of her heart and sincerely, but the more she thinks about it, the more she feels that she can't accept it.

I and the Commander have only met each other a few times, how can I receive such an expensive gift?What's more, she also heard a few troublesome words from the commander. He has so many people and so many things to worry about in the officialdom, so there must be a lot of places to give gifts, right?

Well, she can't accept this gift!
Thinking about the seriousness, Xue Li decided to return this only birthday gift with great distress.It just so happens that tomorrow is November [-]th, and the Commander will be in the small courtyard every Monday...

She will leave tomorrow!Lest the longer the time, the more reluctant!
Stretching out her hand, Xueli stuffed her head into the quilt, trying to sleep.

The next day was on duty again during the day.

Woke up early in the morning, helped Cui Wan cook a few dishes for lunch, and after a nap, was called to learn the rules with the new palace maid.

This incident is more painful for Xueli and Zixian than being punished for copying recipes.These little maids have been in the palace for more than three months. According to the usual rules of the female officials, if they randomly check the basic rules now, if they can’t answer, they deserve to be slapped and swollen; I consciously went to the bottom of the wall to kneel with the bowl on my head for an hour.

But neither Xueli nor Zixian could bear it. They found a few who were not tough, and they just used "After the new year is the time when 32 people will be selected to be promoted to the middle school, do you want to be promoted?", it seems to be nothing. use……

Fortunately, it wasn't just the two of them who came to deal with these little girls, there was also Yue Tingxian.Yue Tingxian had always studied well, and the female officials liked her very much, and she seemed to have higher prestige in front of these little palace ladies, so the two of them turned their attention to asking for help.

"..." Yue Tingxian froze, and called out the one who had even memorized the maid's rank by mistake just now, and said sternly, "I still can't even remember this. Before coming to Shangshi Bureau, Shangyi Bureau How did I teach you? Reach out!"

The little girl was so drunk that she didn't dare to breathe, and stretched out her hands tearfully.Xueli and Zixian stared at each other with bated breath: Are you really good at it?
Yue Tingxian gritted his teeth secretly, dropped the board in his hand, and put it directly in the little girl's palm: "Go to the female Shi sister who brought you to receive the punishment!"

……Hey?

This idea is... so clever!

They can't do it, but the female historians can do it.And it's not wrong to push it to the female historian who is in charge of her, maybe it makes the female historians think that the three of them are afraid of making mistakes and dare not make decisions without discretion and act cautiously!
Xueli and Zixian looked at Yue Tingxian with admiration, and silently wrote down the trick.Even if it can't be pushed to female history every time, there are still Dian Ji Dian Shi Xuan Shi Chang Shi!
So busy until the end of the unitary hour.

It gets dark early in winter, and the three of them stepped out of the room only to realize that it was almost dark.

Su Zixian went to the Shangyi Bureau to find something to do with her cousin, and left in a hurry. Xueli was also in a hurry to return the commander, but Yue Tingxian grabbed her and said, "Xueli, wait."

"Huh?" Xueli turned her face back, and Yue Tingxian took her hand and ran to a quieter place, saying, "Zixian is walking too fast, but you can tell her...don't be so sharp as Yuyao Yes, Yuyao is full of anger now."

"Ah?" Just after the matter of adding rock sugar, and now hearing Yue Tingxian mention it again, Xueli was nervous all over, and immediately asked, "What happened?"

"She might want to tell the ladies what's wrong with you." Yue Tingxian said in a low voice, "She knocked on the door outside Min Si's dining room this morning, and the serving lady asked her what's the matter. We lived together... Later, the female official Shangshi asked the food stewards to discuss the matter, so I didn't hear the details."

When Su Zixian was about to fight, Sydney was still fighting, but now that she heard this, even she wanted to fight Jiang Yuyao!

What are you doing... It's not that they stopped her from being promoted, but she went to the female officials to sue them?

Xue Li breathed a sigh of relief, thanked Yue Tingxian for the reminder, after the two said goodbye to each other, she headed towards the small courtyard.

It was very late at this time, Xueli walked all the way in a hurry, and when she arrived at the gate of the courtyard, she was still not sure if anyone was still there.

Tried to knock on the door, then waited for a while and knocked again, the courtyard door opened.

Unlike the last time when she saw the commander who opened the door flustered, this time, Xueli raised her eyes and blessed her steadily: "Master Yan."

The commander was taken aback, and then opened the door to invite her in.Xue Li stepped over the threshold, her eyes fixed on his hand pulling the door knocker: "Are you injured, sir?!"

Although it was dark, the palace lanterns hanging under the porch were sufficient for lighting.The commander's right hand was obviously stained with a lot of blood, and he was still holding a piece of white training in his left hand.

"Just now I practiced the sword, and I accidentally scratched it." The commander walked back to the stone table to pick up the medicine he had just taken out in his usual tone.The medicine powder was poured on Bai Lian, and he skillfully wrapped Bai Lian around the wound on his right hand, and when he wrapped it around the back of his hand to tie a knot, he couldn't get "proficient".

Bai Lian doesn't seem to be long enough, and his left hand really doesn't know how to tie knots...

Xue Li looked up at him, he kept wrestling with Bai Bai for a long time without saying a word, his brows were getting tighter and tighter, but he still couldn't tie them.

Finally couldn't stand it anymore: "I'm coming!"

The commander was slightly taken aback, and after a little hesitation, he handed her his hand.

Even if you don't mention that the little maid is inherently dexterous, her hands must be faster than his left hand.A beautiful knot was quickly tied, and Sydney smiled with satisfaction.

"Thank you." The commander thanked him, and Xue Li looked at the blood stains on the stone table: "My lord has bled a lot, why don't you invite the imperial physician to take a look?"

The commander sighed lightly and shook his head: "No, it's a trivial matter."

He looked preoccupied again.

Xue Li noticed the empty wine cup on the desk, and frowned: "My lord is drinking alone again? You will always get bored like this..."

The commander's eyes froze slightly, but her voice kept silent.

But I feel like I said nothing wrong.

The commander raised his eyes to look at her, paused for a long time with some searching eyes, then smiled softly: "You really care a lot."

"Ah?" Xue Li was stunned, thinking back seriously, she was sure that she only "cared about" that one sentence.

The commander still looked at her with a smile, and slowly shook his head: "Even my close relatives wouldn't say such things."

His laughter was a bit self-deprecating, and Sydney felt his heart tremble. He lowered his eyes and continued as if talking to himself: "Mother only cares about my younger brother, as if I am not her son."

The commander stretched out his hand to pour wine from the jug again: "My younger brother recently stayed at my house and got a little sick, so she wrote to reprimand me several times—it was the same as last time. But then I got sick, and her There is no worry at all in the letter, I only blame myself for not being careful."

Xue Li was dumbfounded, and couldn't help guessing wildly that the Commander had met his stepmother, or he himself was a concubine who fell in love with a narrow-minded aunt...

I have guessed several possible complicated family relationships, and the more I think about it, the more pitiful I feel.Yuan originally slandered how inappropriate it was for him to complain about family affairs to her, but now he was willing to listen.

He must have put too much pressure on this kind of thing in his heart, so he couldn't help but want to talk to someone!
The commander drank the glass of wine and smiled coldly: "That's all right, but she insists on making even my subordinates know."

"Master Wei, they won't care..." Xueli explained dryly.

The commander looked slightly stern: "But I care."

She was startled.

The gaze he cast over was full of confusion, and he sighed heavily: "I don't understand, how can my eldest son make her look down on me like this? It's worthless... he doesn't even care about my face in front of outsiders." Is it worth it?"

"How come, you are the commander..." Xue Li wanted to explain him, but she didn't know what to say.Seeing him pouring wine from the pot again, he stretched out his hand to stop him before thinking too much, "My lord!"

She wanted to cry but had no tears, she really didn't know how to persuade her.I murmured many times in my heart, "Your Commander is so pitiful", but I couldn't say it out.

"Li Bai said, 'Raise a glass to relieve sorrow and worry more'!" Xueli tried her best to quote the scriptures, saw him look over, and said, "If your lord is really unhappy, I will tell you what to do!"

The commander frowned in disbelief, and Xue Li said solemnly: "Really! It's the easiest way to make yourself happy, you don't have to drink!"

(End of this chapter)