I heard my brother is a tyrant

Ye Chu was at a loss for a moment, seeing that Xie Dan had already lit three sticks of incense sticks, he followed obediently, took the incense sticks and respectfully worshiped three times, inserted the incense sticks into the incense burner, followed him to kneel down in front of the incense table down.

She really has no impression of her mother. After all, she was too young at the time and grew up so big. The word "mother" is just a warm symbol to her, without any concreteness.Unexpectedly, his brother set up a memorial tablet for his mother here, and for a moment Ye Chu couldn't tell what it was like.

Xie Dan lowered his eyes and wished silently, and when he turned around and saw Ye Chuduan kneeling upright, with downcast eyes and a silent face, he stretched out his hand and pulled her to stand up together.

The two stood silently in front of the memorial tablet for a while, Xie Dan swept away the heavy, smiled and said to her: "I just want to tell Madam, let her know that you have arrived in the capital. Come on, let me show you this house."

Xie Dan took her to look around the house, the furnishings in the house were a bit old, the two rooms at the west end were empty except for a few large pieces of wooden furniture, and the entire set of curtains and curtains embroidered with broken branches and begonias were hung on the east side , the color of water green is old and gray, and there are no sleeping or daily things. It seems that no one has lived in it for a long time, but it is spotlessly clean everywhere.

When he walked into the yard, Ye Chu asked in a low voice: "Brother, you offered a memorial tablet for your mother, why didn't you have one for your father?"

"Because your surname is Ye." Xie Dan said casually.

Ye Chu still didn't quite understand why her surname Ye didn't offer her father's memorial tablet?But Xie Dan has already calmly changed the subject.

"It's a little late today, and I'll bring you to play next time when I find time. The village is still very interesting. This village has 240 acres of land, more than 30 households, and a hundred people. Most of these people have rough backgrounds and have nowhere to go. Well, after Zhuangzi came into my hands, I didn't take much care of it, and I never asked them to pay rent or tribute. The farmers are all indentured, so you can rest assured to ask them to work. This Zhuangzi will be yours in the future. When you want to come, Just tell your brother, brother will bring you here."

Ye Chudao: "I don't want it. Brother is weird, why do you give me Zhuangzi as soon as we meet? I don't care, what is yours and mine, isn't it our family's?"

"..." Xie Dan paused, then laughed, "An'an is right, I was thinking about it, and they all belong to our family."

Xie Dan looked at her with tenderness and pity in his eyes.She probably wouldn't know that Zhuangzi was more than just Zhuangzi to her.It's just that there are some people and some things that he doesn't want her to know now.

Maybe there's no need to tell her in the future.

The two returned the same way, and when they turned from the small road to the official road, Chang Shun and the motorcade were already waiting by the roadside.Seeing them coming back, the guards bowed their heads to salute, Xie Dan didn't call out, and rode straight to the carriage, sent Ye Chu back to the soft sedan chair, and followed beside the carriage on horseback.The team continued to march towards the capital, slowly and leisurely, all the way into the city gate.

The carriage walked for a long time, the sky was getting dark, and because of his tired body, Ye Chu, who had just arrived in the capital, didn't have the heart to watch the scenery, so he just tilted in the soft sedan, the wheels rolled over the bluestone road, the soft sedan shook slightly, It makes people sleepy without realizing it.

When the carriage finally stopped, it was already dark.The courtyard was brightly lit, and two long red lanterns were hung on the gate, illuminating the words "Ye Zhai" on the lintel.

"An'an, we're home."

Xie Dan opened the car curtain, only to find that the little girl was leaning on the cushion, drowsy, and a smile could not help but appear on the corner of his mouth.

There is still a distance from here to the inner house, Xie Dan didn't want her to change the sedan chair that had been prepared, so he simply asked someone to untie the soft sedan chair, and gently lifted it down with the pole of the sedan chair, and carried it all the way in.

The soft sedan was carried through the gate, passed through several courtyards and went straight to the main courtyard at the back, before landing at the gate of the main courtyard.The servant who carried the sedan chair retreated, the maid raised the curtain of the sedan chair, and Xie Dan reached out to hug her down.

"Well, are you here yet?" Ye Chu sat up dazedly.

"Here we are, come down."

Ye Chu rubbed his eyes, helped Xie Dan's hand down, stepped through a door with hanging flowers, and was led into the room by him.

"My brother prepared this house for you. Let's make do with it tonight. Let's see what you don't like tomorrow, and then ask someone to decorate it, okay?"

"Ah."

"Take a break and eat something, what do you want to eat?"

"Well... not too hungry, want to sleep."

Ye Chu actually wanted to crawl on the bed as soon as he entered the room. Xie Dan knew that she was tired and sick, so he knew he couldn't just let her sleep like this, but he indulged in watching her kick off her shoes and climb on the bed.

Ye Chu probably couldn't settle down from the day he was born, and he changed many places from childhood to adulthood, so he never said he accepted his bed.Besides, there was her brother here anyway, so she felt very at ease. She climbed into bed and fell asleep with her eyes closed.

Xie Dan covered her with a thin quilt, sat down next to the edge of the bed, and looked at her tired little face with distress.

Fortunately, it will not happen in the future.

The servant girl asked in a low voice: "Master, do you want to wipe the girl with warm water, so that she can sleep more comfortably?"

"Let her sit for a while, don't disturb her." Xie Dan sat for a while, got up and walked out, and asked the servant at the door in a low voice: "Is the water from Luzhou here?"

The servant said that he arrived less than half an hour ago and had just been delivered from the palace, Xie Dan said: "Ask someone to boil the water, prepare some light food, and fry the medicine."

He walked into the courtyard, only a crescent crescent was left in the night sky tonight, but the stars looked brighter, the servants were doing things lightly, and the surroundings were quiet.Xie Dan took a deep breath, looking at the warm yellow lanterns under the eaves, he felt very at ease.

Ye Chu fell asleep for more than half an hour, and was woken up. Xie Dan pinched her earlobe to wake her up, and teased: "Little lazy cat, get up and eat something, I can't sleep anymore."

Ye Chu grabbed his annoying paw, hugged it with both hands to prevent him from messing around, and continued to sleep with his forehead resting on his arm.So Xie Dan calmly held her ear with the other hand: "Get up, be good, eat something, rest your stomach before going to sleep."

Ye Chu grabbed his hand and used his strength to sit up, looking at him with dazed eyes and a sad face, but Xie Dan wanted to laugh inexplicably.

A maid came to help her put on the embroidered shoes, Xie Dan coaxed her to go outside.The two sat down in front of the small round table, and the servant girl brought a large lacquer carved tea tray, and there was only a small bowl with azure lotus pattern in the tea tray.

Xie Dan picked up the bowl and handed it to Ye Chu: "Drink it."

Ye Chu took it, looked left and right, no matter how you looked at it, it was a bowl of clear water.

"what is this?"

"Water." Xie Dan said solemnly, "Water that has been imbued with immortality, if you drink it, you will be able to relieve the dissatisfaction with the water and soil."

Ye Chu didn't believe it at all, looked at him questioningly, but smiled when he saw him, and obediently drank it.She tasted it, and it was indeed clear water, what kind of mystery did my brother play.

Ye Chu held the small bowl and drank it in small sips, and the maids brought the food up.

It was too late to say that it was dinner, it should be regarded as supper, besides a dozen pastries and snacks, exquisite side dishes, and soup, there were also four palm-sized small black-glazed casserole served on a tray.

"What is this?" Ye Chu asked.

Xie Dan motioned to the maid next to her, and the maid smiled and said, "Miss, the kitchen heard that you have been ill for the past few days and your appetite is poor, so I made some more porridge."

As she spoke, she opened the small casserole pots one by one. It seemed that except for one red one, the other three were white porridge.

The servant girl pointed and said, "Miss, please look, these two are salty, fresh fish broth porridge, mushroom chicken soup porridge, the ingredients are only crucian carp and hen broth, and the mushrooms are dried wild mushrooms from Yunjianfu. , convenient and delicious, the girl used Haokehua at night; the same sweet, sweet-scented osmanthus rouge rice porridge, put brown sugar; there is also this original flavor, which is white rice porridge boiled with soybean pulp and charcoal fire for two hours. The people in the kitchen Said, please give me a favor, try the salty one first, and then use the sweet one, so that it will not be too sweet and greasy to affect your appetite. You can save the soy milk and white rice porridge for the last time. .”

Hearing what she said, Ye Chu looked at the small casserole with some interest. Xie Dan didn't expect her to eat much, so he gave her a bowl to fill half of it.

"Master, come here, servant girl." Seeing his action of serving the porridge, the servant girl couldn't help but flinch a little. The emperor served the porridge himself. Does this mean that they don't serve well?

Xie Dan ignored it, just put the porridge in front of Ye Chu, and served it to himself.Ye Chu stirred the porridge in the bowl with a spoon, took a sip or two of the salty and sweet ones, then turned to the soy milk and white rice porridge, and immediately understood what the maid said, "sweet the taste", and the fragrance of the soy milk and white rice In the mouth, the original freshness of salty porridge and the sweetness of sweet porridge are washed away, leaving only the sweetness and refreshingness of soybean pulp in the mouth.No wonder it is recommended to eat at the end.

The maid was feeling anxious when she suddenly heard Ye Chu ask: "This porridge is delicious. What's your name?"

Who knows that the servant girl said blessedly: "Miss, I don't have a name for the servant girl, I'm waiting for the girl to give me a name."

"..." Ye Chu drank the porridge, slowly looked up at Xie Dan.

"They will be your maids in the future, so naturally I want you to name them, whatever you like. You can use these people first, and when you get familiar with them, you can keep them by your side and use them if you think they are suitable. If they are not suitable, just tell me and I will send them away." They go do something else."

"They?" Ye Chu turned his head and asked, "How many of you are there?"

"Miss, my lord prepared for you, there are four personal maids, eight second-class maids, eight third-class small maids, and there are rough envoys and needleworkers. Those girls who are not usually seen, I don’t serve you in front of me, and I don’t need your name.”

It turns out that being the daughter of an official family requires so many people to serve her, Ye Chu thought about it and asked, "What are your names?"

But the servant girl said: "The slaves don't have names. It's a rule for the master to give names. The slaves are lucky enough to follow you. Girl, you don't care what name you give, as long as you like it."

My brother is also unreliable sometimes, why did he ask her to do such a laborious job as soon as we met!

After all, in Ye Chu's heart, what a person's name is is very important, how can he just give someone a random name, and there are so many people.

Ye Chu curled his lips and complained: "Brother, why don't you name the maid you hired, anyway, it's all your business. I don't know how to name it, so help me."

She was habitually soft and slow in speaking, and she sounded more like a baby when she said words to evade complaints.Xie Dan ate the porridge by himself, and said with a smile: "Your brother is very busy. Anyway, you are idle when you are idle, so think about it slowly."

It didn't help.

Ye Chu scooped up the porridge in the bowl, and when he remembered, he asked him, "By the way, where are uncle, aunt and cousin?"

"It's been a tiring journey, I'll let them settle down first." Xie Dan asked, "Ask them to come here?"

Ye Chu said no need, they are all resting.

Ye Chu ate more than half a bowl of soy milk and white rice porridge, and also tasted a bite or two of the other three porridges. He felt that his appetite had improved a lot in the past few days, so he put down the bowl and chopsticks and watched Xie Dan eat.

Seeing that she had finished eating, Xie Dan drank up the porridge in the bowl in two or three mouthfuls, put down the bowl and chopsticks and said, "Go tell the kitchen that tonight's meal is really good, the girl praised the soy milk and white rice porridge, reward."

He picked up the teacup to rinse his mouth, and suddenly asked Ye Chu: "An An, if my brother lied to you about something, would you be angry?"

"Cheat me?" Ye Chu said slowly, "Didn't you lie to me often before, and it's not like you haven't lied to me before."

"??" Xie Dan said, "Is there any?"