Zheng Xiao Mistake: The Mistake of Rebirth Provoked the Cold Master

The next day, it was just dawn.

As he promised, Rong Yan did not show up. Instead, two unfamiliar palace maids came with a handwritten letter.

It was said that the Concubine Dowager had been chanting scriptures in the palace recently and felt quite confused and lonely. She heard that a pair of sisters from the Zhu family had just returned from Fanlin Temple, so she invited them to stay in the palace for a while.

Old Madam Zhu was so happy that she saw him off with drums and gongs along the way.

Zhu Zheng sat in the carriage, looked at her grandmother's increasingly smaller figure, and let out a long breath.

We drove all the way to the outskirts of Shengjing East and parked the car in a three-story courtyard by the water.

When getting off the car, Zhu Qing naturally became suspicious, "Why are you here?"

"Yeah..." Zhu Zheng immediately agreed, "That's right, how did you drag us here!"

Zhu Qing obviously didn't buy it and looked at Zhu Zheng, "Is this your idea again?"

Zhu Zheng chuckled, "What do you think, sister? Were you fooled by me?"

Zhu Qing frowned, "How dare you use the name of the Concubine to make trouble? What's the matter with the handwritten edict?"

Zhu Zheng wanted to prove it, so she evaded the question by saying, "I asked someone to write it in advance."

"you……"

"Sister, since I can fool you, I can definitely fool Grandmother. I can't tie the scarf for nine months. I rented this garden, which is dozens of miles away from Shengjing. Don't worry, no one will come looking for us."

Zhu Qing's expression remained calm, "Grandmother..."

"Grandma wants to find a son-in-law every day just to have a baby, right? Let's prepare a surprise for her." Zhu Zheng pushed Zhu Qing into the garden. "Since we are already here, why not stay for a few days."

After finally fooling Zhu Qing, Zhu Zheng led her all the way into the last courtyard and pretended to stay in a side courtyard next to hers.

The maids that Rong Yan arranged seemed quite clever, but Zhu Zheng didn't trust them, so she gave them money and sent them back. Then she went to a nearby farm to find an old lady who had taken care of a pregnant woman. She looked kind and honest, so she gave her a large sum of money and told her to keep her mouth shut and take care of her sister's daily life.

After a whole day of hard work, Zhu Zheng accompanied her sister for dinner and watched her sister go to rest. She took her valuables and divided half of them into the farthest courtyard in the front yard.

First, guard the door and screen anyone who breaks into the garden.

Secondly, although Rong Yan did not show up today, he might visit someday, so she must be careful not to let these two ancestors meet.

After a quick tidy up, Zhu Zheng quickly tied on her fake belly and walked around to familiarize herself with the structure of the place as quickly as possible.

The sun began to set in the west, and the garden was filled with warm orange light. Zhu Zheng stood in front of the garden and looked around. This garden was very carefully maintained, with quiet and elegant small scenes everywhere. Dozens of flowers, plants and trees were arranged sparsely and orderly, and the whole garden was green. Yellow orioles lived there for a long time, chirping.

In the twilight, it feels a little unreal.

There was a tree planted under the porch in the front yard that was full of small white flowers with yellow stamens. They swayed gently in the wind, and a few of them fell on her head.

Zhu Zheng looked up and saw that it was a green tangerine tree, and no fruit had yet been produced.

"Fourth Miss," someone called her softly, "Why are you standing here?"

Zhu Zheng turned around and saw that the person coming was Liu Feng.

Zhu Zheng didn't know how Rong Yan had asked him to accompany her, luckily her fake belly was only the size of a four-month-old belly, and her skirt was loose, so nothing unusual could be noticed at first glance.

Liu Feng only looked up to see what Zhu Zheng was looking at, and said, "Fourth Miss, are you thinking about eating green tangerines? Forget it. I don't know where the seedlings of this tree came from, and it's not good enough. I saw adults often picking them to eat, and I thought they were delicious. I asked adults for one, but it was bitter and sour..."

Zhu Zheng was a little confused, "Is this planted by your parents?"

"Yes." Liu Feng nodded, and then changed the subject, "Why did the fourth lady send away everyone in the garden? They are all good children carefully selected by the adults, and they spent a lot of effort."

Zhu Zheng had no choice but to explain this first, "Strangers are not trustworthy after all, and my sister doesn't need anyone to take extra care of her. She always likes quietness, and you guys should not go to the backyard in the future."

Liu Feng hesitated for a moment, but finally said "eh" and "ok".

As he spoke, he picked up a food box in his hand and asked, "Has the fourth lady had dinner yet?"

Zhu Zheng wanted to answer directly that she had eaten, but she saw a layer of sweat on Liu Feng's forehead, thinking that he must have run a long way to deliver it. She couldn't refuse his kindness, so she shook her head and said, "I haven't eaten yet."

Sitting down in the pavilion with hanging flowers nearby the lake, Zhu Zheng asked Liu Feng to put down the lunch box and eat it here while enjoying the sunset.

The food box contained all nutritious dishes. Zhu Zheng looked at it guiltily. His already full stomach was now pressed down by another stomach, so he really couldn't eat any more.

So I just took a few bites and put down my chopsticks as a gesture of politeness.

There stood a stone by the lake, on which were written three large characters in a flourishing hand.

Listen to Xiaoyuan.

The handwriting looked quite familiar, so Zhu Zheng couldn't help but take a few more glances at it.

Liu Feng saw Zhu Zheng looking at that place, "It was proposed by the master. In the past, the master would come here to stay for a while during the summer vacation. Summer is coming soon, and the fourth girl likes to look at the water view, so the master specially chose this garden to settle down."

Zhu Zheng heard him talking about an adult on the left and an adult on the right, but the deity was nowhere to be found, so she couldn't help but ask, "Where is your adult?"

I haven't seen him all day...

"My Lord is still handling affairs in the palace. There has been unrest in the court recently. The Crown Prince has not returned to the court for a long time. Some people took the opportunity to impeach my Lord..." As he spoke, Liu Feng suddenly slapped himself on the mouth, "Hey!"

Zhu Zheng was startled, "What's wrong?"

Liu Feng groaned twice, "I forgot that adults forbid us to talk about this."

The master was preoccupied with matters at the palace, and was still concerned that Ting Xiaoyuan had arranged for newcomers. He was afraid that the girl would be bored, so he told him to chat with her when he came to deliver food.

Liu Feng is not good at many things, but speaking is definitely his strong point. He had happily accepted this task, but he did not expect that the adults would draw a circle for him, so he could not speak as he pleased. It was really a big challenge.

"Did your master specifically instruct you to do this?" Zhu Zheng frowned and asked, "Is there anything else you can't tell me?"

"And he can't leave Beijing to do anything..." Liu Feng almost fell into the trap, "Hey, Fourth Miss, why are you deceiving me?"

"What if I said it?" Zhu Zheng was puzzled. "Will your parents punish you?"

Liu Feng hurriedly shook his head, "Master never punishes anyone."

Hearing this, Zhu Zheng's brows relaxed slightly and he suddenly chuckled. He had a distant and self-restrained look, but seeing that his junior fellow apprentice liked him so much, he really wasn't the kind of person who would be harsh to others.

Liu Feng saw Zhu Zheng laughing and thought she didn't believe him, so he quickly said, "Really, Fourth Miss, I have been following you since I was nine years old and have never been punished."

Zhu Zheng was a little surprised, "Nine years old?"

"Maybe eight years old?" Liu Feng hesitated for a moment about the age, then finally had the chance to sell out his parents' kindness, and he poured out all his thoughts in one go.

"Have I ever told you that before I met you, I was called Gray Dog and I was a beggar in Wild Boar Alley?"

"When I was cold, I would strip the dead of their clothes. When I was hungry, I would eat pig slop from the pig pen. At that time, I thought that this was how my life would be. Everyone would be like this. We were born in Wild Boar Alley and we would die in Wild Boar Alley..."

"Who would have thought that I had the best luck, that I met an adult who picked me up, cleaned me up, gave me a respectable identity, gave me a domineering name, and asked me to sleep in a big house and eat well every day."

Liu Feng finally found something to say. He knew that there were no restrictions on his own affairs, so he spoke freely in one breath.

Zhu Zheng's eyes welled up with tears after hearing this heartfelt speech. She handed him a new pair of chopsticks and said, "Eat all of this."

Liu Feng waved his hand, "I have already had dinner."

Zhu Zheng saw through his politeness and asked, "Can't you eat anymore after dinner?"

Liu Feng swallowed and said, "I can eat it."

Liu Feng, no longer shy, took the chopsticks and devoured the food in no time. Zhu Zheng left him alone to eat his fill while she took a book and went to enjoy the end of the sunset by the lake.

The sun was about to set, burning half the sky like molten gold. In the twilight, a handsome figure walked into the hanging flower corridor in the last afterglow.

"Sir? Come here..." Liu Feng called out when he found him.

Rong Yan raised his finger to his lips, signaling him to be quiet.

Liu Feng lowered his voice to the level of a mosquito, "The fourth girl just fell asleep while reading a book."

Rong Yan nodded, his eyes falling on the rocking rattan chair, where Zhu Zheng was curled up with her arms and legs hunched over, her eyelashes tightly closed, a book half-clenched in her hands, the evening breeze blowing her drooping hair across the pages, a soft and light sense of tranquility.

Liu Feng reported quietly what Zhu Zheng had eaten and that all the followers had been sent away, then tiptoed down.

Rong Yan gently took the book from Zhu Zheng's hand, flipped through two pages, leaned over, picked her up, and carried her back to the bedroom.

When he put the person on the bed, her black hair accidentally got caught on the Chilong ring on the pendant. Rong Yan pulled it casually and pulled the jade ring off her robe.

The person in my arms only moaned softly, rolled into the bed spontaneously, found a comfortable position and hugged the soft pillow, but did not wake up.

Rong Yan stood silently beside the bed, not knowing whether to be glad that he did not wake her up, or to regret that he did not wake her up.

He sat down next to the couch and patiently untied his hair from the white jade ring. The jade ring was not tied tightly, but Rong Yan untied it very slowly, as if only in this way would he not have to find an excuse to stay a little longer.

But it was finally solved.

I tidied up the few strands of her hair that were sticking up and tucked them behind her ears, then pulled up the thin blanket and covered her with it. There was nothing else to do.

Rong Yan didn't find anything else to do. He just sat there quietly, looking at her peaceful sleeping face.

It was quiet all around. In the silent spring night, only the chirping of unknown insects could be heard, like a long and endless sigh.

Until the moon was at its zenith, Zhu Zheng turned over, and the thin blanket that covered her was kicked away again. Her skirt hung at her side, revealing a slightly bulging curve on her abdomen.

Rong Yan pulled the blanket back to cover her, took her hand and prepared to put it in the blanket, suddenly turned over her wrist and placed it in his palm, pressed down with three fingers, and listened to her pulse.