Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 20 Another New Year's Eve
Su Xi pursed her lips, and looked around subconsciously. This was clearly the inner courtyard. Why did Fu Shaoyun bring Li Yan here.She took two steps back, her eyes rolled around, "Why is Cousin Shaoyun here?"

Fu Shaoyun didn't miss her small gestures, and the smile in Taohua's eyes deepened slightly, "The Luyang Hou Mansion sent a pot of black chrysanthemums, and my grandmother ordered the servants to move to the backyard, and asked me to come along with me."

Su Xi drooped her ears annoyed, this Mrs. Qing Guogong really had good intentions and insisted on matching her and Fu Shaoyun.But with so many girls in the backyard, isn't Mrs. Qing Guogong afraid that Fu Shaoyun will bump into other girls?Besides, why is Li Yan here?As soon as she saw Li Yan, she thought of the things in her previous life, and the days when she and Li Yan had different dreams, she felt a little uncomfortable.

Fu Shaoyun saw her repulsion, and introduced: "This is Li Yan, the eldest son of the Marquis of Luyang, and also my cousin."

Su Xi lowered his head in Li Yan's direction, but didn't look up: "Mr. Li."

This attitude of drawing a clear line couldn't be more obvious. They don't even look at it, because they don't want any contact.Li Yan looked at the little girl in the octagonal pavilion. Because she lowered her head, Li Yan could only see her thick eyelashes and small chin. She was not tall, and she was only about ten years old.He suddenly remembered that that day in the General's Mansion, the little girl had the same attitude, neither cold nor hot, even with a trace of disgust.

Li Yan's face remained unchanged, he nodded and said, "Miss Su."

Fu Shaoyun asked the servants behind to bring the flowers over and put them in a more conspicuous place. He suddenly remembered something and asked Su Xi, "I saw you drinking tea just now, and you seem to be quite dissatisfied with the scented tea in my house? What's wrong, it can't get into Sister Xi's mouth?"

Su Xi originally wanted to walk away, but now she could only explain: "Hibiscus scented tea itself has a light scent, which can easily make people feel tasteless. Although mint and orange peel are added to this scented tea, the two are strong in flavor, and the petals themselves cannot be brought out. The fragrance of the tea is even more suppressed. If you try to cook it with Emei Xueya, the taste of the tea will be much better than now."

Su Xi also likes to drink tea. In her previous life, she collected a lot of precious tea leaves. Although she can't talk about the right way when it comes to tea, she still has some insights.

Fu Shaoyun raised his eyebrows after hearing this, and said with a light smile, "I don't know if sister Yi will feel ashamed when she hears your words."

This hibiscus flower tea was made by Fu Yi, every time the Duke of Qing's mansion came back, they would use this kind of tea to treat them.Most people would praise the tea for its fragrance and elegance, and then praise the girls in Duke Qing's mansion for their ingenuity. Even my own family members think that Fu Yi's tea is pretty good.It's rare for someone like Su Xi to bluntly say that tea is not good, and even give advice.

However, Su Xi didn't deliberately step down on Fu Yi, but just didn't know that the tea was made by Fu Yi. If she knew, she wouldn't bother to say it.

Whether Fu Yi's stuff is good or not has nothing to do with her, she wished it would never be good.

As a loyal fan of Fu Yi, Li Yan couldn't help it when he heard Su Xi's words, and said: "Every flower is in everyone's eyes, this tea doesn't suit Miss Su's mouth, it doesn't mean it's not a good tea, maybe someone loves it all This kind of tea taste."

Su Xi rolled her eyes silently in her heart, this "someone" refers to himself, right?This Li Yan really liked Fu Yi so much, she just said something bad about the coffee table, so he couldn't help but stand up and refute himself.His thoughts on Fu Yi are simply Sima Zhaozhi's, everyone knows, he was blind in his previous life, how could he not see it?

Su Xi was too lazy to talk to Li Yan, and pretended not to hear him, pointed to the other side and said, "I'll go over there for a walk, so I won't disturb Cousin Shaoyun and Young Master Li." She said and walked away.

"Youyou." Fu Shaoyun called her to stop, took out a small round box with painted moiré patterns from his sleeve, handed it to her, raised his lips and smiled slightly: "I know you're coming today, this is what I ordered someone to buy from Four Seasons Fruit Preserves." Candied winter melon, try it."

Su Xi didn't know whether to answer or not, she hesitated for a while, and then slowly shook her head under Fu Shaoyun's gaze.She said: "Thank you cousin Shaoyun for your kindness, but I don't like to eat candied fruit now, cousin Shaoyun will not give me food in the future, let alone trouble you, if others know about it, it may be misunderstood."

Fu Shaoyun's movements froze slightly, his eyes were a little dazed, and he quickly smiled and said: "What are you talking about, little girl? I am your cousin, and it is my intention to bring you delicious food. There is no misunderstanding about this." Knocking on Su Xi's head, he said again: "I think a lot at such a young age, let's go on, look at your face, you don't have much flesh, can the people in your family treat you harshly?"

Su Xi said, "Of course not..."

Seeing that she still didn't answer, Fu Shaoyun handed the small round box to Ting Yan, and said in a slow tone, "Try it first, if you don't like it, I won't buy it in the future."

Speaking of this, Su Xi couldn't refuse even if she wanted to.Until Fu Shaoyun and Li Yan walked away, Ting Yan held the candy box like a hot potato, turned her head and asked Su Xi: "Girl, what should I do about this..."

Listening to Yan serving by Su Xi's side, she knew that she didn't eat any sweets recently, let alone sweets, and she ate less food.

Su Xi thought about it, and it was Fu Shaoyun's wish after all, so she couldn't throw it away, so she said, "Give it to you and Tinghe."

In that room, Fu Yi and a few girls are playing guessing tokens.

Li Anyi turned around and stuffed pine nuts into one hand, forming a fist, and held it up in front of Fu Yi to ask her to guess which hand the pine nuts were in. Not only did she have to guess correctly which hand it was in, but also how many there were.

Fu Yi thought for a moment, then pointed at Li Anyi's left hand: "I guess it's this hand, it has three pine nuts."

Li Anyi opened his eyes in disbelief, and slowly spread out his palm, there were indeed three pine nuts lying inside.Is Fu Yi amazing?Li Anyi went up to pester her: "Sister Yi, how did you guess right? Tell me."

Fu Yi just smiled and said nothing, and then Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun also tested her respectively, and she guessed right one by one.

Li Anyi's eyes were as big as copper bells, and he yelled: "This is impossible, did Sister Yi secretly read it? Otherwise, how could she get it right?"

Fu Yi smiled and said, "I'd like to bet and admit defeat. Well, the three of you have to do something for me."

Li Anyi Laipi said: "Sister Yi doesn't tell me how I got it right, I won't do things for you, who knows if you're cheating or not."

Fu Yi is also good-tempered, she didn't care about her, she still had a smile on her face, and said, "Since sister Yi wants to know, I'll just tell you. Actually, I'm not sure which hand it is in, but I found out that once I Which hand you look at, if you have panicked expressions on your face, it must be in that hand."

Li Anyi showed a look of comprehension, but still refused to let go, "Then how do you know how many we have?"

Fu Yi said: "Your hands are not big. If you put a lot of pine nuts, it will be easy to see, so it is usually between three and seven. Sister Yi's birthday is in March, and Sister Rong likes 'five' the most. As for Sister Yun... ...I guessed seven at random, but I didn't expect to be right."

After learning the truth, the guessing order becomes less magical.However, Li Anyi is still quite convinced of Fu Yi, willing to gamble and say: "Sister Yi, tell me, what do you want us to do? Apart from picking the stars in the sky, we can do anything."

Fu Yi was amused by her tone, pointed to the peach tree next to the octagonal pavilion and said, "I saw that the flowers on that tree are blooming well, please help me pick a peach blossom."

It's easy, Li Anyi, Su Lingrong, and Su Lingyun walked towards the Bajiao Pavilion together.

When he arrived under the peach blossom tree, Li Anyi looked up and found a peach blossom that was in full bloom. He tiptoed to pick it off when he heard a slightly surprised voice not far away——

"Second brother?"

Li Anyi looked curiously, because across a moon gate, she could only see a horse-face skirt with colorful embroidered flower and bird patterns. The skirt looked familiar. She thought about it, it seemed that the nine girls in the General's Mansion were wearing this kind of dress today. skirt.

Who is Miss Nine talking to?Li Anyi couldn't see who the other party was from the position she was standing in. She withdrew her arm, changed direction deliberately and nonchalantly, stood on the other side of the peach tree, and while observing the peach blossoms, she secretly glanced into the Moon Cave Gate.

At this glance, he was stunned.

Standing opposite Su Xi was a man who looked as old as her brother Li Yan.Perhaps it was not easy to enter the backyard, so she stood outside the Moon Cave door and only called Su Xi out. She had just heard Su Xi call the man "Second Brother", so he should be Su Zhi, the second master of the General's Mansion.

Li Anyi has never seen such a good-looking person, with sword eyebrows and star eyes, plump and handsome, and the aura around him is a little cold, but the eyes he looks at Su Xi are very gentle, just standing there gives people a feeling of freshness feeling.Li Anyi forgot to pick the flowers, and it wasn't until Su Lingrong and Su Lingyun picked the flowers and called her that she suddenly came back to her senses, hurriedly bid farewell to a peach blossom, and when she turned her head to look over, Su Xi and the man had disappeared.

Su Zhi came to see Su Xi on important matters.

People in the general's mansion sent news that the old man suddenly passed out while practicing boxing today, and the masters in the mansion were not there, so the steward hurriedly ordered someone to invite a doctor first, and then came to the Duke of Qing's mansion to inform Yin and Yu.

Su Zhi also came to Duke Qing's mansion today, and after getting the news, he came to look for Su Xi, and hurried back to the General's mansion with the Yin family.The third wife, Mrs. Yu, stayed behind to explain to Mrs. Qingguo's mansion, and then led Su Lingrong, Su Lingyun and sixth master Su Yu back to the mansion.

When Su Xi and the others rushed to Mrs. Su's bedside, Dr. Hao was giving him an injection.Dr. Hao is a doctor specially hired by the Su family. He has excellent medical skills. Xinglin Chunnuan is also Ting Lu's master. He takes care of all the serious and minor illnesses of the Su family.

Su Qingbo was lying on the head of the bed, with silver needles pierced in several big acupoints on his body, his eyes were closed tightly, and there was no movement.

Elder Master Su Zhen also rushed back from the officialdom, and asked worriedly: "Doctor Hao, what happened to my father?"

Dr. Hao took the old man's pulse again, and said: "The old man suddenly developed a disease, and the initial diagnosis and treatment should be a stroke."

Su Zhen was shocked, the old man would punch once every day when he got up, and besides, he just got off the battlefield a few days ago, so how can you say that a stroke is a stroke?He said: "Is there any cure? What will happen to my father in the future?"

Dr. Hao said: "Thanks to the old man's boxing and fitness all the year round, the illness is not too serious this time. If he takes daily medicinal diet and acupuncture treatment, he will recover slowly."

Su Zhen heaved a sigh of relief, bowed his hands respectfully to Dr. Hao, and said, "Then I will have to trouble Dr. Hao."

Dr. Hao prepared several medicines for Su Qingbo, and asked Ting Lu to go to his room to get the medicine and boil it, and feed it to the old man.

The old lady heard about the family's affairs in the Xiangshan Nunnery, and hurriedly asked people to pack up, and rushed home from the mountain overnight, and arrived at dawn the next day.

Seeing Su Qingbo half lying on the bed, unable to move her lower body, the old lady couldn't help but her eyes were red, and she sat on the bed and wept silently.Su Qingbo had already woken up, but his legs couldn't get off the ground. Seeing this, he held the old lady's hand tightly, and wiped her tears with the other hand, but said in his mouth: "Why are you still crying when you are so old? Don’t your children and grandchildren laugh at you when they see it? Dr. Hao has said that as long as I take care of it properly, it’s not a problem to stand up and walk on these two legs again.”

The people from the second room and the third room stayed outside all night yesterday, but they were driven back by Su Qingbo early this morning, and only Su Zhen is outside now.

Tan suppressed her tears and said: "You take good care of your illness. I will take care of you. Even if you can't walk, it doesn't matter. You don't have to go to the battlefield in the future. I have always felt that fighting is too dangerous, and I always give birth to you." Don't listen to me."

The old lady shook her head and said, "A woman's opinion." But she didn't say anything more.

The old man's illness has lasted for a year, and the whole family has been very careful during this year, for fear that something will go wrong and the old man's condition will be aggravated.During this period, Emperor Zhaoyuan learned about the old general, and the most embarrassing father-in-law in the palace sent many precious supplements, and said, "I hope General Su will recover soon, and I am very worried."

As a result, many courtiers who had been holding a wait-and-see attitude since Old General Su had a stroke couldn't calm down. They gathered medicines and supplements from all over the place and came to the General's Mansion to visit Su Qingbo.For a while, the general's mansion was full of people, and there was no room for supplements in the warehouse, which really made Wang Guanshi very distressed for a long time.

A year later, Su Qingbo was not only able to get off the ground, but also moved slowly while holding a cane.

Su Xi would go to the room to visit the old man after finishing get out of class or dancing with Dong Lan every day, and occasionally walked and talked with the old man.During that time, the old man recovered very quickly, and he could still do half a set of punches in the yard when he got up in the morning. Of course, it was not comparable to before he was not sick, but it was not easy.

Another year passed in the blink of an eye, a heavy snowfall had just finished during the day, and today was New Year's Eve and also Su Xi's 12th birthday.

(End of this chapter)