Fenghou

The little donkey passed by the woman, Lu Xiu couldn't help but look back at her a few times, seeing that she was struggling.

"let me help you!"

Lu Xiu handed the whip to Yu Lian, and helped her lift the other side. It was much easier for two people to carry a bucket of water, and they carried it up the long slope in one go.

"Thank you!" The woman thanked in a low voice.

"fine!"

Lu Xiu pursed her lips into a smile, and decided to be a good person to the end, "Let's carry it into the city together!"

Chapter 378 Cooking

"Why don't you use donkeys? Don't every household distribute one?"

The woman lowered her head and said, "I don't have a donkey!"

With a thought in her mind, Lu Xiu suddenly understood that this woman must be the group of women her husband mentioned. The poor women who were kidnapped from the palace before attacked Fengxiang and rescued a group of them.

Lu Xiu's heart was filled with sympathy. She was the lucky one. After the first Jin soldiers attacked Bianliang and withdrew to the north, she escaped from Bianliang with her family and hid in Yingtian Mansion.

After the Jin soldiers broke through Bianliang for the second time, their family fled south with a large group of people like a frightened bird.

Although the road was bumpy, they were still lucky, and they were able to cross the Yangtze River in the end, but the Bianliang Palace suffered a catastrophe.

Men are incompetent, but in the end let women bear the pain.

Lu Xiu kept sending the young woman to the small courtyard where she lived, put down the wooden barrel, and asked out of breath, "What's your name?"

"Me? My name is Zhao Qiaoyun."

"My name is Lu Xiu. If you have any difficulties, just come to me. I live in the First Hospital."

The woman nodded, "Thank you for helping to carry the water."

"Is a bucket of water enough?" Lu Xiu asked a little worried.

"How about! Shall we carry another bucket?"

"No, I'm enough for today alone, thank you!"

Lu Xiu smiled and said: "Then I'll go first, remember to find me if you have any difficulties."

Lu Xiu waved her hand and left.

Zhao Qiaoyun watched Lu Xiu go away gratefully. Her name is Lu Xiu, and she is from the first hospital.

Zhao Qiaoyun suddenly realized, isn't No. [-] Hospital Chen Qing's residence?Could it be that she is... Chen Qing's new wife?

……

Lu Xiu and the others took four buckets of water to fill half of the tank, and Lu Xiu was too lazy to go, so she asked Yu Lian and Yu Ying to continue to fetch water for Li Qingzhao, she was going to cook.

Even when she was fleeing, Lu Xiu never cooked, but now she actually wants to cook by herself.

She scooped three bowls of rice in the clay pot, and she didn't know what to do next?

After thinking about it, she came to the courtyard wall and shouted loudly: "Master!"

Li Qingzhao was writing new words in the room, when she heard the shout, she hurried out, "Xiu'er, what's wrong?"

Lu Xiu was really embarrassed, so she bit the bullet and asked, "Master, I'm cooking and scooped up three bowls of rice, what should I do next?"

Li Qingzhao laughed, "A daughter of a thousand golds actually cooks by herself, it's very simple, add water to the rice, you guess it's almost done, put it on the fire and cook until it's done."

"It's that simple?" Lu Xiu couldn't believe it.

"Cooking is so easy!"

"Then what should I do with my mutton?" Lu Xiu asked again.

"Mutton? Of course it's best eaten roasted."

Lu Xiu rolled her eyes, "If you dare, this one can't cook!"

Li Qingzhao's maid Ah Luo came out of the kitchen and said with a smile: "Miss Lu, put it aside, I'll come over and do it right away."

"No! I want to learn how to cook, just teach me."

"Ah Luo, you go and teach her, she wants to cook a wife-loving meal for her husband, so you can fulfill her!"

Li Qingzhao lost her interest and went back to her room to continue writing her poems.

Ah Luo rubbed his hands, and ran over to teach Lu Xiu how to cook.

"Ma'am, chopped mutton is the best stewed radish!"

……

In the evening, when Chen Qing returned home, he smelled a strong smell of mutton soup as soon as he entered the yard, and even chopped green onions were added.

"It's so fragrant, whose craftsmanship is it?"

"Of course it's my craft!"

Lu Xiu rushed out of the kitchen wearing a green flower apron, raised her face, and pointed to her pretty face. Chen Qing kissed her hard on the face, which was regarded as a reward for his beloved wife, and then Lu Xiu smiled. Chen Qing pushed to the west room.

"Go and wait for a while, I'm warming the wine for you! It will be ready soon."

"But this is Alian's room!"

"I've already changed it. This is now the husband's study room and the living room. There is no meeting guests next to the bedroom. It has been changed to my living room over there."

As soon as Chen Qing sat down, Yu Lian and Yu Ying came up with food. Chen Qing grabbed Yu Ying and asked in a low voice, "Is she really cooking the food?"

"Madam really made it. This is the third pot. The first two pots of rice were burnt. You pretend not to know!"

"Dang! Dang! Dang! Here comes the wine."

Lu Xiu's happy voice came from outside the house, and Chen Qing sat down quickly.

Lu Xiu walked in quickly carrying a clay pot with a jug of wine boiling in it, and Yu Lian followed behind, holding bowls, chopsticks and wine glasses.

Lu Xiu smiled and said: "Today is the first day, and I specially brought a jug of good wine to celebrate. I stole this from my grandfather's study, and gave my husband a taste of the emperor's sake."

"Don't you call your master after drinking good wine?"

"Called, she will come right away."

Just as he was talking, Li Qingzhao came over with two dishes.

"Actually, I've had dinner, but it is said that there is good wine, so I can have another glass."

Yu Lian quickly moved a chair for Li Qingzhao to sit down.

Chen Qing looked at it, and actually cleaned up a table of food and drink, and said with a smile: "Not bad! Very rich, Ah Ying, put five cups, everyone has a drink."

Yu Ying poured wine for everyone, and Chen Qing raised his glass and said with a smile: "I also know that there are all kinds of inconveniences, and everyone is working hard to overcome them, but I believe that they will get better little by little. Even if we clean up the dust for everyone today, we have done it." This cup."

"cheers!"

……

At night, the husband and wife were loving each other, and Lu Xiu lay in her husband's arms and said coquettishly, "Husband, did you behave well today?"

"Aside from cooking for yourself, what else did you do today?"

"We went to fetch water in the morning. We ran twice with the little donkey, and we only got half a tank of water. My waist is almost exhausted. You rub it for me!"

Chen Qing rubbed his slender waist for his beloved wife, and said with a smile, "It's the donkey who carries the water, not you, how could the waist be so tired?"

"How did you know that today I helped a little maid carry water, but she couldn't carry it, so I carried it with her, from the river to the gate of her courtyard, don't you think you won't be tired?"

"You mean that I rescued those concubines and concubines?"

"It's them, why doesn't your husband give them donkeys, and ask them to carry water by themselves?"

Chen Qing said with a smile: "In the past, soldiers helped them carry water, but later a donkey was assigned to each of their small courtyards, and then they went to carry water by themselves. It's not hard!"

"That's strange, why doesn't that maid named Zhao use a donkey?"

"Surname Zhao?" Chen Qingxiao asked, "What's her name Zhao?"

"It seems to be called Zhao Qiaoyun!"

Chen Qing was stunned, "Such a coincidence?"

Lu Xiu tilted her head and asked with a smile, "Husband knows her?"

"I know her, she is quite special, in fact, you should have heard of her, she is Empress Xiande."

Lu Xiu was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth from ear to ear, "Is she a princess?"

Chen Qing nodded, "She's a princess, but she doesn't want to be a princess anymore, she insists on being a commoner girl. Originally, I treated her preferentially, but she was determined not to treat her preferentially. I just let her go."

Lu Xiu said for a while: "I should know her. I also participated in the ceremony where she conferred the emperor concubine. I was only eight years old at that time, no! She is actually two years older than me, and she looks so thin."

"She was only 12 years old when she was taken away. She has been working as a little maid in the Jin Kingdom Palace. She must have been bullied and abused. She is a princess of the Song Dynasty, and her life will definitely not be easy. This year, she was given Wanyan Drinking Lisa, and she came to Fengxiang .”

Speaking of this, Chen Qing sighed softly, "Every time I see her, I feel sorry for her, but she is very strong, I am not allowed to pity her, and I am not allowed to help her, so I just leave her alone."

Lu Xiu's chivalrous heart welled up, "I'll go see her tomorrow and find out why she doesn't use a donkey to carry water?"

Chapter 379

Before dawn the next day, Chen Qing got up early and made several trips himself to fill up the water tanks in his house and Li Qingzhao's.

Under the influence of Chen Qing's example, all the generals were ashamed to ask the soldiers to carry water, so they went to battle one after another. Even a fat man like Zheng Ping personally carried water to fill the water tanks at home.

In the morning, Lu Xiu went to yesterday's small courtyard, knowing that Zhao Qiaoyun was actually the emperor's concubine, Lu Xiu was also full of sympathy.

She participated in Zhao Qiaoyun's canonization ceremony when she was eight years old, and she had seen the beauty of Zhao Qiaonv when she was canonized, but she never imagined that she would be reduced to carrying water to live by herself.

However, it seems that I am also carrying water from the river myself!How come no one has pity on yourself?

As soon as Lu Xiu came to the gate of the courtyard, she saw a tall and plump woman coming out leading a donkey.

Then Zhao Qiaoyun chased after him, "Chunshui, it should be my turn to use the donkey."

The tall and plump woman smiled back and said, "Today I want to take a bath, so I need to fetch more water, so please help me!"

"Yesterday you said the same thing, I gave it up to you, and you are here again today!"

The woman's face darkened, "I don't care about you! Take the donkey back if you have the ability."

She snorted and led the donkey away. Zhao Qiaoyun was trembling with anger and shouted through gritted teeth, "Bian Chunshui, you only bully me!"

A woman's laughter came from afar.

Lu Xiu stepped forward and asked with concern: "Is she bullying you?"

Zhao Qiaoyun turned her head and saw Lu Xiu, she was startled, and hurriedly gave a blessing, "So it's Miss Lu!"

"Why did she bully you?" Lu Xiu asked dissatisfied.

"Because... I am thin and weak, and I can't beat her."

"It's that simple?"

Zhao Qiaoyun nodded, "I was bullied by her all the time in the Jinren Mansion, she is used to it."

"She's not the only one bullying you!"

Zhao Qiaoyun's eyes turned red, she turned her head and said nothing.

Lu Xiu sighed, "My husband told me that you don't want to be a princess, but in fact, if you regain the status of a princess, you won't be bullied anymore."

"You are... General Chen's wife!"

Lu Xiu nodded, "Actually, we met before, you forgot, and I forgot too."

"We met, when?" Zhao Qiaoyun asked in surprise.

"In the summer of the fifth year of Xuanhe, you were conferred the title of Emperor Concubine, and I also came to watch the ceremony. I stood in the first row, and my grandfather was Lu Yihao."

"You are……"

A smile appeared on Zhao Qiaoyun's face, "I remember you, did you secretly take a piece of candy, and there was no place to put it in your skirt, so you kept holding it in your hand."

Lu Xiu laughed, "It's me. I have been naughty since I was a child, like a kid. My grandfather said I was the most unruly."

"You were young then, and now you are married."

"You're only two years older than me!"