Chapter 354: White Lotus Brews Green Tea, the Tea Fragrance Fills the Air
When they stayed at the exiles' post station in the evening, no matter what methods the exiles used, they were able to remove the shackles from the necks of those penniless and bandit-like men.
An Xin, Zhu and Chen Runzhi were assigned to a room. The three of them hurriedly tidied up the room, and then they heard the door being pushed open.
An Xin looked up and saw the mother and daughter Shanshan walking in late.
The woman with a big black mole on the corner of her mouth saw that they had tidied the big bunk bed and covered it with the clean blanket that Qingfeng had put in his bag to give to Anxin Road.
There was a sly flash in her eyes, and she said as if embarrassed: "We are arranged to stay together tonight. It is a blessing for me to sleep on such a clean bed during my exile."
Chen Runzhi glanced at An Xin and folded the blanket back. At three-fifths of the long bunk bed, Zhu looked at the mother and daughter and took an old package and placed it in the middle.
An Xin smiled when he saw the behavior of Chen's mother and daughter. They expressed the meaning of keeping out of each other's way perfectly.
When the old woman saw An Xin and the others like this, her face turned dark instantly. Just as she was about to say something, the girl next to her grabbed her sleeve and pulled her out.
After the girl pulled the old woman out, she saw a man standing in the yard out of the corner of her eye. Her eyes immediately turned red as if someone had bullied them in the house just now.
Her eyes were as shy and timid as hooks as she glanced at Zhu Shijing who came out of the flood and into the house to wash.
However, the woman's seductive eyes were destined to be cast on the blind man, because Zhu Shijing didn't even look at her and walked straight into the house.
The young woman's expression froze.
She gently lifted her sleeves and wiped her cheeks, wondering if the dust on her face from the journey obscured her beauty.
Otherwise, why wouldn't this handsome man be willing to take a second look at her when he passed by her just now?
Wiping her face clean secretly, the woman turned to look at several exiled officials who came out to fetch water for washing.
Because the woman's facial features were indeed delicate and charming, most of the men passing by her couldn't help but look at her a few more times. Only then did Wei Yuejiao regain her confidence.
The middle-aged exiled official who helped the mother and daughter pay the money to unlock the shackles saw that her eyes were slightly red and she looked aggrieved and about to cry, and his heart of sympathy for her broke out.
He came over and asked with a pitying tone: "What's wrong? Who bullied you?"
When the others saw him like this, they looked at the middle-aged man with strange eyes, walked away and went about their own business, but they would still occasionally glance at them from the corner of their eyes.
"No... nothing happened." The woman's tears seemed to be about to fall, as if she had been wronged but was unwilling to speak.
If An Xin saw her like this, he would definitely think that the technique of brewing green tea with white lotus is a tradition that has existed since ancient times.
The middle-aged official who was exiled with An Xin and the others took a look at the house they had just entered, and suddenly realized what was going on. He immediately felt that he had discovered the truth.
"Did the people inside bully you?"
“No, no.” The woman pretended to be evasive. “My mother and I didn’t have anything to use on the road. When my mother saw the blanket they spread on the bunk bed, she thanked them… but it wasn’t them… they…”
The middle-aged man looked unhappy. He strode over and knocked on the door. "Listen, everyone inside. Miss Yue Jiao'er will be under my protection from now on. You exiled women should stop bullying her, otherwise..."
"What else?" she asked calmly.
The middle-aged exiled official who knocked on the door froze in his face. He never expected that the person living in the same room with the mother and daughter was An Xin, a troublemaker in the court who even Prime Minister Xiao did not dare to offend easily.
"We are all exiled people. The road to exile is difficult. We should help each other. I know that women are usually petty.
But Lady An is a court lady who has been in the imperial court, so she should be broad-minded. "
I am being called narrow-minded and selfish.
An Xin walked out gracefully and looked at the man with an indescribable expression.
I don’t know how he passed the imperial examination and entered the court with such an IQ, and was promoted to the rank of Zhongshu Shilang.
This man had served in the same dynasty as An Xin, so of course the two knew each other.
"This is such a stingy person, why not let Minister Wei take the silver sent by Madam Wei and give the flowers to the beauty with a broad mind?"
An Xin raised the corners of her lips and smiled faintly: "This girl has nothing. Lord Wei is so generous, he will definitely give them the items he brought, right?!"
"This...this..." Of course, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat Wei Yaoxin was unwilling.
But when he turned sideways and saw Wei Yuejiao looking at him expectantly, Wei Yaoxin's heart was moved, and he said, "Of course."
When other people saw this scene, some thought An Xin was selfish, while others thought Wei Yaoxin was blinded by beauty.
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So when Wei Yuejiao and her daughter, who were empty-handed and had nothing, entered the house again, they had a bulging bag in their hands.
The two men opened the bundle and took out a piece of fine blue bed sheet. They touched it curiously with their hands, and then spread it on the bunk bed on their side with a hint of pride.
"Thank you for getting me the things I need for the journey. You are such a good person."
An Xin heard the delicate voice coming from behind him, and the corners of his mouth twitched. He turned sideways and said matter-of-factly, "You should go thank the person who gave you the gift."
Wei Yuejiao's eyes flashed darkly and she pursed her lips. In the past, she showed her weakness to others, and even the coldest people would be polite to her.
I didn't expect the woman in front of me to be so difficult to deal with.
Wei Yuejiao and the old woman opposite looked at each other and frowned, knowing that if they failed to complete the task assigned by the young lady, they would definitely not have a good ending.
The evening meal consisted of some mixed-flour steamed buns and porridge. If you wanted to eat better, you had to pay extra for it.
An Xin's group of people, except for Doctor Su who was taken directly from the palace and thrown into the cell, his son who was not as good as barbecued pork did not come to see him off before he left.
He was truly incorruptible and penniless, even the second branch of the Chen family was arrested.
Upon hearing the news, Chen Runzhi, who was sensitive and shrewd, secretly hid the money she had saved over the years in a place on her body that she could not tell anyone.
As for whether it was shameful or not, when Chen Runzhi heard her personal maid say that soldiers had broken in to search the house, she knew that nothing was more important than leaving herself and her family with an alternative plan.
After all, she understood that money was not everything, but without money, it would be extremely difficult to do anything.
Not only did An Xin have a lot of silver bills and small change in the bag that Qingfeng gave her, but the servants of Leng Xiangbai, Zhu Shijing, Jiang Zhou and An Rui also stuffed a lot of silver into their bags when they saw them off.
A group of people who were not short of money would certainly not treat themselves badly. In the evening, they paid for a few extra dishes and everyone had a good meal.
(End of this chapter)