I heard my brother is a tyrant

Ye Chu stayed in the palace like this, to her it was a change of place to live, nothing else seemed to change, except that it was more convenient for Xie Dan to come back, three meals a day could be eaten at home.

When he arrived at the palace, Xie Dan still had to govern the country, and he hardly saw anyone before lunch.

He can't have breakfast with Ye Chu very much.Ye Chu had to get enough sleep every day, which was already a habit of her since she was a child, and Xie Dan got up early to practice martial arts and study since childhood, and went to court every day in the past few years, it can be said that he never got up late except deliberately staying in bed, that is, Xiu Mu I also get up early to practice swords for a while.

So when he got up in the morning, he had eaten his breakfast and it was time to get busy. Ye Chu got enough sleep, slowly combed his hair, washed his face and ate a small snack, usually a cup of nourishing soup stew. Seriously have a breakfast.

So the little girl can't eat much for lunch.As for Xie Dan, who was really busy all morning, it was customary for the Imperial Dining Room to deliver a snack in the middle.

Xie Dan came back to eat lunch, if there was no important government affairs, he would just go home in the afternoon and enjoy himself, these few days he accompanied Ye Chu to familiarize himself with the environment, leisurely and leisurely, walking around in the palace.If there are major government affairs, he will go back to Qingliang Palace after lunch to deal with political affairs, summon courtiers, and go home early every day for dinner.

Then Chen Lianjiang and Chang Shun screwed up.

The emperor went back to Yuqianzhai to eat with his younger sister for three meals a day. What was the imperial dining room doing?Except for the occasional lunch, which was reserved for the cabinet ministers and close ministers, it was used in Qingliang Hall, other than that, there was almost no need to prepare meals in the imperial dining room.

However, whenever the emperor was in the Qingliang Hall, the imperial dining room had to prepare snacks, especially in the morning when there was a regular delivery of snacks, usually a bowl of soup, a few cakes or snacks.

So Chen Lianjiang turned his mind to this snack.He is in Qingliang Hall, so it's not easy to come and walk around in the Yuqianzhai, but he can ask someone to send a snack, right?

When it comes to dim sum, there is probably nothing in the world that can compare with the Imperial Dining Room. The Imperial Dining Room has a wide variety of dim sum, and there are five or six hundred kinds of dim sum on record, not counting the seasonal dim sum created by the imperial chefs from time to time.

So Chen Lianjiang told the imperial dining room to deliver snacks to the girl twice a day, once in the morning and once in the afternoon.

In the middle of the day, the dim sum from the imperial dining room was delivered to Qingliang Hall, and the same portion was delivered to Yuqianzhai.Chun Jiang brought out the dim sum and said with a smile, "Girl, Manager Chen has brought you dim sum again."

"Why does he bring me snacks every day?"

"It is said that the adults know it. It is good for the adults to have a snack, so I ask you to prepare one."

Ye Chu walked over to have a look. The dim sum that Chen Lianjiang sent was not much, but they were very delicate. I have to admit that these beautiful and delicate pastries are easy for little girls to like.

What I delivered today was a small dish of chicken shredded cold noodles, a bowl of lotus leaf soup, plus four fixed cakes every day, a sweet jade bean cake, a hazelnut lotus cake, a salty pine nut lily cake, and a small ingot The same thing, the person who sent it said it was called silver ingot cake, which was made by frying salty and crispy ingredients with salt and pepper.Several snacks are put together like flowers, so beautiful that people want to have a bite even if they are not hungry.

Ye Chu rubbed her stomach, she actually just had breakfast half an hour ago, these days Chang Shun competed with Chen Lianjiang, and the small kitchen did her best to prepare meals, she was already very full from breakfast.

Ye Chu called Chun Jiang: "Help me eat this cold noodles and lotus seed soup, take a food box and put these four kinds of cakes, ask our kitchen to make another four kinds of cakes and put them together, and take them to Han Jingshu Try it."

Chun Jiang laughed and said, "Girl, if this goes on like this, all the maids in our room will gain weight."

Han Jingshu arrived a few days later than Ye Chu.He had never been to Xuanpinghou's mansion before during the summer vacation. Xuanpinghou has been stationed in the northwest for a long time. There is only Xuanpinghou's wife in Beijing.

After Han Jingshu arrived, she asked someone to deliver a letter to Ye Chu, and the two agreed to go horseback riding together.Ye Chu went down from the south gate of the palace to meet Han Jingshu. Han Jingshu was leading a bay red horse and was already waiting for her. Ye Yu was also there.

The last time I ate apricot milk piglets in Fan Lou, and I haven't seen him for almost a month, so Ye Chu got off the horse and wished Ye Yu a blessing.

"Don't be too polite." Ye Yu looked at Ye Chu and said with a smile, "Go and play, I have other things to do, so I won't follow you. Shu'er is naughty, if you don't dislike her, I'll take her She left it to you."

The two little girls were very happy with these words, Ye Chu smiled and said, "Thank you Madam Han."

Ye Ling nodded and smiled, "Don't worry Madam Han, we will take good care of Miss Han."

Ye Yu called two servants to follow Han Jingshu, gave them a few instructions, and let them go to play.Ye Chu seemed to feel that Mrs. Han was different from before, and this time she didn't pull her to ask questions.Ye Chu was quite happy about this.

Ye Chu and Han Jingshu went for a run down the mountain, and Han Jingshu told Ye Chu that her mother would go back in a few days.

"Why, didn't you come here to escape the summer heat?" Ye Chu asked curiously.

"My mother will go back, and I will stay with my grandmother for a while longer." Han Jingshu said, "The fourth aunt is getting married, and my mother has to go back home to prepare a dowry for her."

"Your fourth aunt is getting married?"

Ye Chu was really surprised.The fourth aunt Han Jingshu mentioned was Han Jin'er, but Han Jin'er was only about the same age as her, and her imaginary number was only fifteen, and she was about to get married.

Ye Chu really felt that it was a bit unbelievable. In her eyes, Han Jin'er was just like her, almost a child, at most a half-grown child.

Han Jingshu babbled and told her that Han Jiner was engaged two years ago, and she originally wanted to wait until Ji to get married, but the man's grandmother has been sick for the past few months, so she proposed to advance the wedding date. Secondly, I am afraid that the old lady is really going to die. The children and grandchildren have to observe filial piety for three years, and the two can only get married after filial piety.

Han Jingshu said: "Mother, go back first to prepare for the fourth aunt to marry. I will stay with my grandmother for a while and go back at the end of the month. The fourth aunt will get married on the eighth day of June. Sister, can I come and play with you often?"

Ye Chu said: "Okay, I will find you to ride a horse."

The two little girls slowed down their horses and chatted while walking. Seven-year-old Han Jingshu rode a tall horse, while Ye Chu rode her little pearl and wore a veiled hat. The two walked side by side. attention.Ye Hui and Ye Ling followed behind them all the way, one person and one horse.

In fact, Ye Chu also wanted to ride a tall horse, but Xie Dan refused to let him, besides, Little Pearl was too obedient.The people who will appear at the foot of the mountain, except for the local villagers, are all the clan courtiers who came to escape the summer heat, but no one dares to disturb them at will if they can know which noble daughter they are in this team.

The two spent more than half an hour at the bottom of the mountain. When they came back, they met a group of more than a dozen carriages on the road at the foot of the mountain. The front one was a four-horse carriage with a green man and red roof. The other party's carriage was wider. Ye Chu and Han Jingshu Take the initiative to avoid the side of the road and wait for them to pass first.

The carriage passed by them, and after a few steps, it stopped suddenly. A maid in green got out of the carriage, came over and said with a smile, "Excuse me, are you two from Xuanpinghou's residence?"

"Yes," Han Jingshu tilted her head and asked, "Do you know us?"

"I've met Miss Biao." The servant girl said with a blessing, "We are from the Prince Zhong's Mansion. Our county lord invites Miss Biao to come over and talk."

Following her words, a woman in the carriage opened the curtain to look over, and said with a smile, "Cousin, do you remember me?"

The woman only showed most of her face from the car window, with a dignified bun and a red gold hairpin with five phoenixes.

Han Jingshu didn't respond for a moment, and the woman smiled and said, "Why are you here? I'm afraid I've misidentified you. But my aunt is here too?"

Han Jingshu only met Guo Zijin once, when they just returned to Beijing, when Guo Zijin visited his aunt, Han Jingshu was called to her and left after a hasty greeting.She was young and didn't know much about the politeness, so she scratched her head and said, "I... don't really remember."

Ye Chu heard the words "Zhongwang Mansion" and "County Lord" from the side, and she probably understood that this is the county owner who insisted on buying their Zhuangzi. She looked at it through the hood, and Guo Zijin showed his face from the car window. , Ye Chu looked at it and felt that it seemed a little familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had seen it before.

But the words "Lord of the Prince Zhong's Mansion" were enough to make Ye Chu feel uncomfortable, and she didn't know that the county lord was actually related to Mrs. Han.Ye Chu said to Han Jingshu, "I'm going back first."

"Sister, you go first, I'll go play with you another day." Han Jingshu waved her hand, and Ye Chu took Ye Ling, Ye Hui and the four guards and rode away.

Guo Zijin looked at Ye Chu's back, and asked with a smile, "Cousin, who is this? I thought it was your aunt just now."

"She's Sister Ye." Han Jingshu said.

"A member of the Ye family?" Guo Zijin paused and laughed, "How did she ride such a small pony? It's really interesting to walk with her."

Han Jingshu said: "She is not a pony. Sister Ye's pony is Fanbang's pony. It is already two and a half years old and can be ridden. You don't know it yourself."

Guo Zijin asked: "Are you here with your aunt? I will visit my aunt another day."

Han Jingshu said truthfully: "Then you should go early, my mother will go back in two days."

Guo Zijin made her feel a little embarrassed for a while, Han Jingshu saw that she didn't say anything else, thought for a while and said: "County Lord Cousin, if there is nothing else, I have to go back first."

"Then you go and greet Auntie for me." Guo Zijin said.

Han Jingshu rode away, and the maid beside Guo Zijin looked at her back and frowned and said, "Why are these two people more rude than the other? Isn't the education of the Xuanping Hou Mansion too negligent?"

"She is young, how old is she? They are all relatives, so don't neglect her when you see her." Guo Zijin said angrily to the servant girl.

Several maids all claimed that they were, and one maid asked: "Which family does that Miss Ye belong to? She didn't say a word when she met the county magistrate, and she even wore a veiled hat. The material she was wearing looked like Wu gauze, and she looked like a woman. It shouldn't be an uneducated family."

Guo Zijin was also puzzled, and instinctively went to Ye Yu's natal family.

The Ye family has been exiled to a bitter cold place at the border. A while ago, someone sent a letter to ask King Zhong to help him ask the emperor for a favor, so this woman cannot be a direct member of the Ye family.Guo Zijin thought: "Maybe they are relatives of the Ye family."

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Ye Chu rode a pony into the palace from the south gate.After entering the palace gate, Ye Hui and Ye Ling got off their horses and handed over the horses to the guards, while Ye Chu rode Little Pearl along the bluestone road leisurely.

The rules in the palace are not allowed to ride horses, but how did Ye Chu know that the guards in front of the imperial court turned a blind eye to each of them, and the little girl just rode the pony and went home on her own.

She had only been here for a few days, but she didn't know the way at all, the road to the palace was winding along the mountain landscape, Ye Ling and Ye Hui followed her, Ye Hui was narrow, so she deliberately didn't tell her.

Ye Chu walked out for a while, stopped the pony suspiciously, turned back and asked, "Do you think this road is not right?"

Ye Hui was holding back her laughter, while Ye Ling pretended not to know.Ye Chu knew at a glance that Ye Hui was playing tricks again, and said angrily, "I knew you were the worst. Just wait, I will play tricks on you next time."

In fact, she played tricks on Ye Hui a lot, and now Zi Ye Hui laughed out loud.The three of them laughed and quarreled for a while, and Ye Ling led the pony through a small path, back to Yuqianzhai's path.

"By the way, don't you think that the county head just now looks familiar." Ye Chu asked, "Have we met her?"

Ye Hui and Ye Ling looked at each other, their expressions were a little strange.Ye Hui hesitated and said, "Girl, that county magistrate... looks like... a bit like you."

"..." Ye Chu was stunned, and muttered, "I said so!"

Look at your face in the mirror every day when you do your makeup.If you think about it this way, it does have a bit of a resemblance.

Ye Ling and Ye Hui have only heard of the county magistrate Jiayi, knowing that she is now known as the "born phoenix" by the government and the public, and have never met her in person.Just now, Guo Zijin only showed his face from the window of the carriage, thinking about it carefully, the two of them couldn't help feeling a little subtle.

When I went out in the morning, the weather was still not so hot, but when I came back, it was hot and the sun was shining. As soon as Ye Chu returned to Yuqianzhai, Chunjiang quickly took off her veiled hat, and while serving cold tea, she was warmed up again. I washed my face and applied cold floral dew.

Before finishing tidying up, Xie Dan came in with his hands behind his back, and saw the little girl lying on the beauty couch covered with an ivory mat, her whole body was limp, her face seemed to be wiped with something, and there were a few roses stained on her face petal.Xie Dan couldn't help smiling.

"Hey, what is this?"

Ye Chu didn't move, and said with a smile, "Wash your face. Chun Jiang said you'll get tanned."

"Go out to play?"

"I'm going to ride a horse with Han Jingshu."

When Xie Dan came back, the maids began to pass meals, and while asking someone to clear the table, Chun Jiang took off the petals for her, washed her face with a soft handkerchief, and then applied a layer of cool and transparent balm.

The little maid brought a copper basin to clean Xie Dan's hands, Ye Chu got up and sat cross-legged on the bed, and told him about today's adventure: "...I also said that it looks familiar, the county owner actually looks a bit like me. I was wearing a veiled hat at that time, if I stood together with the hat on, people would definitely say that I look alike."

After Xie Dan washed his hands, he took the handkerchief with one hand, flicked it on her forehead with the other hand, and flicked a few cool drops of water.

Ye Chu clutched his forehead and stared at him in protest, and said seriously: "Really, if you don't believe me, bring her to have a look. I even took a look in the mirror when I came back. It really looks a bit like it."

"I've seen it before." Xie Dan said calmly, "Maybe there is a little bit of similarity in the eyebrows and eyes, there are so many people who look similar in the world, you have a very different temperament from her, and the people you are familiar with don't look like her at all. "

"Really?" The little girl asked with a smile, "Then who looks better, me or her?"

Xie Dan put down the handkerchief after wiping her hands, stretched out his hand to pinch her face and said with a smile: "Of course our An'an is the most beautiful, and our An'an is the most beautiful in the world. The county magistrate is rigid, and our An'an is more aura and cute."

Ye Chu felt comfortable now.

After all, he found that he looked like a high-ranking county lord, and the county lord once tried to buy her Zhuangzi by force, and he frightened her because of this, everyone would feel a little uncomfortable.

Ye Chu said: "It turns out that she is Mrs. Han's niece, and Mrs. Han never mentioned it. Does she think that I am so warm to me like her niece? I don't want to get along with this Mrs. Han next time."

Xie Dan couldn't help but smile in his heart, Ye Yu didn't know how he would feel if he heard her words.

"Madam Han has also arrived at the hotel?" Xie Tan asked.

"Yes. But she is leaving in a few days. Han Jingshu said that her mother has to go back to prepare for her fourth aunt to marry." Thinking of this, Ye Chu immediately diverted his attention, and talked to Xie Dan with a depressed face. Said, "This is too unbelievable, she is only about my age, she is still a child, why is she going to get married?"

Xie Dan actually heard about the marriage in the Xuanping Hou Mansion, and because of his attention, Chen Lianjiang chatted with him while he was free.As a concubine, Han Jin'er was not willing to marry her to a noble family as a concubine in the Xuanpinghou's mansion, so she could only concede to a lower marriage, and promised a fifth-rank local official's second son. The in-law's family chosen for the concubine is not bad, but Han Jin'er will leave the capital after getting married.

Xie Dan didn't know how to explain it to her for a while. Generally speaking, women get married when they are fifteen years old. It is not uncommon for three-year-olds to marry.Concubine Kong, who was staying in the capital palace at this moment, was actually only 15 years old.

But in Ye Chu's perception, she herself, including Han Jin'er, is still a little girl who hasn't grown up yet.After all, the four Chun around her, as well as Ye Ling and Ye Hui, are all older than her, and none of them are in a hurry to get married.

In Xie Dan's perception, it is very common for folks to marry at the age of fifteen or sixteen, but his An An is still a child.

"Brother, you said that Han Jin'er and I also know each other and have played together. Should I add makeup to her when she gets married? Shu'er said that she and her grandmother would go back before putting on makeup."

Xie Dan said: "You were not in the capital at that time, if you want, you can give her a gift or something."

After lunch, the two flipped through a few pages of books in the room, and Ye Chu went to take a nap as usual.Xie Dan went back to his study, called Ye Hui and Ye Ling over, and asked about how Ye Chu met Guo Zijin today.

Ye Ling spoke in detail, and asked: "Master, in the future, when the servants and maidservants go out with the girl, do they need to avoid people who meet Prince Zhong's Mansion?"

"No need." Xie Dan said, "What kind of guy is he loyal to the Prince's Mansion, and he also deserves a girl to avoid them."

The Yingshan Palace is such a big place, and sooner or later we will encounter it.

He pondered for a while, and then ordered, "Let the girl go wherever she wants to play. She won't go too far anyway, as long as she doesn't go out of the range guarded by the armored guards. Whatever she likes, the girl doesn't like to take so many guards out, you guys Just arrange a few more hidden guards."