I heard my brother is a tyrant

Ye Chu couldn't help feeling puzzled.The uncle and aunt are the elders of their brothers and sisters, and they have taken care of her for more than three years. Where has the elder brother been placed?My brother was busy taking care of her last night, so don't be negligent in your busy schedule and neglect your elders.

However, her brother is not at home at the moment, so it is useless for her to ask.

So Ye Chu had no choice but to temporarily put aside her doubts, walked out of the house, and decided to visit her own big house first, starting from the courtyard where she lived.

There are five main rooms in this courtyard, the middle and the first three in the east are her living room and bedroom. They are all covered with linen carpets and lichens with dark red lotus pattern, and the curtains are mostly pink and tender, and the furnishings are bright and bright. Lively, it looks like a little girl's house.The first two rooms in the west are arranged as study rooms.

Ye Chu entered the study room with great interest, the two rooms are connected, the outside room has writing desks and ink, and the other room has bookshelves, and there are really many books on it.It seems that my brother intends to use this place as a school for her.

Ye Chu looked at the group of unnamed maids behind him, it was really inconvenient, since he couldn't find his cousin to help, he decided to rely on himself.

She took out a collection of poems from the bookshelf, flipped through them casually, and found an article "Chun Jiang Hua Yue Ye". Thinking that she had been floating on the boat from early spring to early summer, she waved her small hand and looked at the book. The poems boldly set the names of the four maids: Chunjiang, Chunchao, Chunliu, and Chunbo.

When Sichun heard this, he quickly saluted solemnly and thanked the girl for giving her name.

Ye Chu smiled and said, "Let's leave the names of the remaining sixteen to you, anyway, you will take care of them in the future."

"Yes, I listen to the girl." Chun Jiang smiled and said, "Girl, we have chosen the names later, and we will bring them here to salute you, so you can have a look."

Chun Liu said with a smile: "Girl, after seeing the house, you should be hungry too, you haven't eaten breakfast yet."

Go back to the house for breakfast.

The kitchen didn't know whether it was because they were overly excited because they won the award last night, or they were eager to show off their achievements. The breakfast was served on a large table, which was a bit exaggerated.

In fact, the kitchen just started to serve her, and she couldn't figure out her taste preferences at once. Although Xie Dan explained, the kitchen staff also asked He, but after all, it is not so specific and easy to grasp, so we can only do as much as possible. Some tricks, fumbled to come.

Ye Chu Mingming just ate a small bowl of steamed eggs with milk, but he wasn't really hungry, so he sat there with his chopsticks pointed, picked a piece of chestnut yam cake and a piece of radish cake from the table full of snacks, and ate half a bowl of green rice porridge , put down the chopsticks.

The maids moved away from the table, and soon Chun Jiang came in and said tentatively, "Miss, the kitchen has sent a cook, Li, to ask for a visit."

"Meet me? What?"

"Your maidservant looked at it, the girl didn't eat much for breakfast, and the food was almost untouched, and the food was removed as it is. The stewards of the kitchen are probably frightened. They are worried that the food does not suit your taste. It must be that they have not done their job well."

Ye Chu was a little helpless, he didn't have much to eat, why was he frightened?

How did she know that the people in this house are all carefully selected, whether they can be loyal and reliable, and whether they can serve well? Handle with care.

Ye Chu said: "Go and tell her that I eat a small amount of food and have been ill for the past few days and have no appetite. I already ate a bowl of steamed eggs with milk in the morning. It's not because they didn't do well."

Chunjiang was entrusted by the kitchen steward, so he asked with a smile: "Then girl, is there anything you would like to eat for lunch, so I can ask them to do it."

Ye Chu thought for a long time, at least he ordered a shrimp and a mandarin fish.In fact, she was not familiar with the methods of cooking in the kitchen, so she only ordered the ingredients and told her that it would be better to cook them lightly.

I don't know if it's because he had taken enough medicine, or if the water with the magic spell was effective, Ye Chu took a short nap after breakfast, and felt much lighter, not as tired as he was a few days ago, so he let the four springs lead the way and continue To explore the house, Sichun took her to the back garden.

It took Xie Dan a lot of effort to choose this house.On the surface, "Ye's House" looks like an ordinary official's house, which is quite satisfactory, not too big or too small, but in fact the house is full of holes.

Ye's house is located in Baima Lane, East City. It was originally the mansion of a fourth-rank official. The backyard is separated by a wall from Yongchang Hou's mansion. Yongchang Hou is a close friend of Emperor Yanshi. In Dan's hand, his house was confiscated by an imperial decree, and Marquis Yongchang was imprisoned, and his family and clan were sent to exile in Yazhou, which was thousands of miles away. Now, even if he is still halfway there, Marquis Yongchang's mansion will be vacant.

Xie Dan decided to place Ye Chu outside the palace, so he chose this place a few months ago, and asked people to renovate Ye's house, make some changes, open up the backyard, and reorganize the original garden of the Yongchang Marquis Mansion , and came in to become the back garden of Ye Zhai.The mansions around the front, back, left, and right sides have been emptied and used as the training camp for the Armored Guards outside the palace. Several Iron Armored Guards were given the mansions of the generals, and the Ye Mansion was surrounded like an iron bucket, so that no water could enter.

This place is not only because the garden of Yongchang Hou Mansion is big and beautiful, and the whole place is quiet enough, but also for himself.White Horse Lane is next to the palace city, but in fact it is separated by a palace wall and the Yuhe River, but the access control for civil and military officials and palace people is the main entrance Meridian Gate, so it is far away, and you have to go around half of the palace city.But if you go to Chaoyang Gate, you will only have a short distance to go out of Chaoyang Gate, and you will arrive soon by riding a horse.

There is a lot of attention in the palace, the twelve palace gates have their own purposes, Chaoyang Gate is not allowed to pass through, but he is an emperor and a tyrant, the rules are useless to him.

Xie Dan returned to the Zichen Palace early in the morning, and summoned several ministers who were left behind by him after the dynasty was dispersed, including Xuan Pinghou who finally recovered from illness and went to Beijing today.After dealing with the important political affairs, it seems that it is almost noon.

He was supposed to go back at night, but for some reason, he always felt that today the Zichen Palace was a bit deserted, and there were so many servants standing like stumps inside and outside, but they were still deserted and lonely.Besides, An An just came here, and I don't know if she is used to it, how she slept, and whether she had eaten.

When she was a child, she would cry when she woke up and couldn't see him.

So Xie Dan repeated his old tricks, picking the important papers and approving them as soon as possible, and putting aside the unimportant ones first. As for the daily papers about greetings, showing merit, and flattering, he didn't even plan to pay attention to them.

Chen Lianjiang was about to ask when the meals would be passed on, when he saw the young emperor stand up from behind the desk, put down an approved booklet in his hand, and walked out.Chen Lianjiang saw that he didn't plan to have a meal, so he hurried to follow.

"Your Majesty, I'm going to take a walk in the Imperial Garden. The servants have someone prepare the chariot."

"Prepare the horse."

So Eunuch Chen watched the emperor get on his horse and walk away.

Anyway, he changed his people along the way, so Xie Dan only brought two bodyguards with him, and returned to Ye's house briskly all the way.

The people in the house did not expect him to come back at this time. The guards guarding the gate were startled, and hurriedly opened the two gates one at a time, removing the high movable threshold.Xie Dan drove his horse into the outer courtyard, dismounted and walked straight in, Chang Shun trotted up to meet him.

"Master Wan'an." Chang Shun saluted, got up and followed behind him with small steps.He didn't expect that Xie Dan would come back at this time, the mansion had already prepared lunch, and the main courtyard was about to prepare the meal, and the emperor came back to catch up on his job.

When he came back like this, how many people would be in a hurry.

While thinking about the next arrangement quickly, Chang Shun felt a little uneasy, and tentatively said to Xie Dan: "Master, this servant will go to greet the girl in the morning, and would like to ask the girl if the layout of the courtyard is satisfactory, and if there is any additions to be made. , the girl is busy and I didn’t see the servant girl. The servant girl... the servant girl is too stupid to be a good job, you let the girl punish the servant girl..."

As soon as Xie Dan heard it, he understood his careful thinking: Your Majesty, you specially appointed me to serve the girl, but the girl has been refusing to see me, I don't even know what's wrong, and I don't even have a chance to show my loyalty. Are you in no hurry?

Xie Dan slowed down his steps, and smiled playfully in his heart, there is no way, Chang Shun, even if you are an eunuch, you are still a stranger and a man in the eyes of your girls, she doesn't want to see what you can do.

However, Xie Tan remained calm, and said: "When you come here, you belong to the girl. You can serve the girl as you please. She has a quiet temper. You just need to be your own servant and take care of the inside and outside of the house." Now, there is a maid in the girl's courtyard, so you don't need to bother her every day to say hello."

"Yes, servant girl understands."

Ye Chu was not surprised that Xie Dan came back at this time, shouldn't it be taken for granted, whose elder brother is out on errand, so he is not allowed to go home for lunch.

When Xie Dan came in, Ye Chu was already sitting at the table waiting to eat, the kitchen brought four cold dishes and four appetizers, and the hot dishes were not served yet.

Ye Chu knew her appetite, Xu Yuanzhi told her that she didn't dare to eat too much food for a while, so she just picked a few sweet and sour water radish shreds to taste, sweet and spicy, crisp and refreshing, this season The small water radish has no residue at all.

Chun Chao stood aside silently remembering that the girl seemed to like to eat radishes, and she also ate a piece of radish cake for breakfast.

Then Xie Dan strode in, and everyone in the room hurriedly saluted in fright, but Ye Chu didn't feel it, he only had his own brother in his eyes, and stood up happily to meet him.

"Brother, you are back for dinner, are you tired from working in the morning?"

"Don't move." Xie Dan raised his arm, avoiding the little hand she pulled over, and said with a smile, "I'll wash my hands first."

He went straight into the side room, washed his hands and face, came back quickly, and sat down opposite Ye Chu.

"What's for lunch today?"

"I don't know," Ye Chu shook his head foolishly, "I ordered shrimps and mandarin fish, but I don't know how they make it. Anyway, I said it should be lighter."

"You are a greedy cat, you just love to eat fish. But you can't be picky eaters, you have to have vegetables, poultry and meat."

Xie Dan looked at her face carefully while talking, Ye Chu thought of the result of sitting in front of the dressing table for more than half an hour this morning, smiled and stood up and turned around, asking: "Does it look good?"

"It's not good-looking." Xie Dan said, "Ugly."

"??" Ye Chu stomped his feet, "Hmph!"

Seeing that the little girl was upset, Xie Dan hurried back to make amends: "I mean, these rouge powders don't look good when rubbed on your face. My sister is so good-looking, she is naturally beautiful, she looks like a fairy, she is like a fish and a wild goose... how can I use it?" these things."

A little maid almost burst out laughing, but quickly lowered her head and held back.

Ye Chu curled his lips and glared at him, but Xie Dan laughed indulgently.

She combed two knots on her head, on one side she wore a ring of hairpins made of pearls, on the other side was a golden silk flying phoenix, and hanging down a string of suet and white jade embellished with red coral beads, followed by Her movements jerked back and forth.

In all fairness, it is very suitable for a young girl like her. She is luxurious and bright, but also lively. If she goes out like this, she will probably overwhelm all the noble girls in the capital.

But the little girl may not like it herself.

Xie Dan reached out and fiddled with the white jade beads on her head, and asked, "It's pretty, do you like it?"

Ye Chu shook his head and complained: "At first I thought it was pretty, but now I don't like it anymore, my head is heavy."

"Don't wear these vulgar things like gold and silver for girls in the future." Xie Dan reached out and pulled out the golden step, and put it aside casually. Four springs felt that they had done something wrong, and hurriedly bowed their heads and said yes.

Xie Dan said: "It's good to be comfortable and casual at home. The girl is young, so you can prepare some small silk flowers for her, or pick a few flowers in the garden. Don't even put on her makeup, the girl is weak, so put on these powders I can't see my face."

Ye Chu was satisfied, it was her own brother.

At this time, the hot dishes were delivered, and the kitchen sent them to the yard in a carrying box, and the maids brought them in again.Ye Chu sat back at the table and waited to eat, and asked, "Brother, where are uncle, aunt and cousin?"

Xie Dan paused for a moment while holding the chopsticks, and said with a smile: "Eat first, your brother is hungry, let's talk after eating."