Chapter 172 He is so nervous about you
The kitten fell on the hem of the skirt.
Mother Zou sighed deeply. When will these days end?
Previously, Cheng Nianying had been planning to leave the mansion, saying she was going to arrange a place for Zou's mother. But she was always hoping for the best, thinking that her plan would fail and that the Princess might come back... so she stayed at the mansion.
Today, when the Prince's Mansion announced that "the Princess of the County has passed away", Mother Zou knew that there was no hope.
Now that she had lost her princess consort, Mother Zou was unwilling to return to the Marquis of Wuning's mansion, so naturally she could only do rough work in the outer courtyard.
Seeing that the servants in the mansion were gradually losing interest in the cat, Mother Zou simply took it home to raise. Feeling that they were in the same situation, she still harbored a glimmer of hope that she couldn't tell anyone else...
What if... What if he comes back?
"Mother Zou, you can't even take care of yourself, how can you care about those beasts?"
Two young maids stayed behind with Madam Zou. They had been arranged as dowry servants by the Marquis's Mansion, their indentures carried with them to the Prince's Mansion. With the Princess's "death," they too became a legacy. Their resentment was even greater than Madam Zou's.
Mother Zou curled her lips and said, "You haven't been short of food. Why are you arguing with a cat?"
"Am I wrong? This cat was originally raised for the Princess. Now that she's gone, why are you still chasing her?"
"Yes, I heard that Mother Zou left the house yesterday. But did you go back home? Didn't you get ridiculed? ... I think we should think about our own future. It's better than serving animals here."
The two little girls were talking to each other excitedly and even reaching out to grab the kitten.
Mother Zou was so angry that her face turned green and she was about to pinch someone's waist and hit him.
The courtyard door was pushed open from the outside, and an old woman coughed loudly.
"The prince is here."
Mother Zou paused, then suddenly turned her head in ecstasy.
Fu Yi walked in and saw kittens frolicking all over the floor. The female cat was a little afraid of him, so she arched her body and growled at him silently.
A kitten jumped onto his shoe and rubbed its butt against it.
Fu Yi suddenly recalled some not-so-wonderful memories. His face darkened, and he immediately bent down to pick it up, grabbing it and walking away.
Mother Zou was a little confused and called out quickly: "Master, Master, are you going to..."
You can't take your anger out on a cat when someone's dead, right?
Fu Yi turned around and stared at Mother Zou for a moment, which made Mother Zou frightened, and even the two little girls behind him were scared to death.
"I remember you." Fu Yi said softly, "The Princess used to like taking you out."
Was this a sign of joy or anger? Mother Zou felt her scalp tingle.
Fu Yi said: "Take her with you."
Mother Zou wiped the sweat from her forehead and hurried back to the house to pack her things. She came out a moment later and spat at the two little girls: "You are so short-sighted!"
Then she went out happily, twisting her waist.
As soon as he went out, he was put on a carriage without even taking a nap, and the wheels were rolling out of the imperial capital.
"Master, this is to..."
"Did you know when she was planning to escape from the palace?"
"Your servant, your servant..." Mother Zou suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.
"Why are you panicking? If I were to punish you, you would be dead by now."
Mother Zou forced a smile and watched the kitten crawling on Fu Yi's lap.
"Well...well, thank you very much, Master, for not killing me. Thank you very much, Master. Thank you very much..."
"Do you know why I brought you along?"
Mother Zou shuddered: "Yes, yes, I'm going to see..."
She swallowed her words and suddenly shouted, "Stop, stop!"
Fu Yi glanced at her.
Mother Zou, under immense pressure, said, "It's been several months... She must be missing the flavors of Imperial Beijing."
Fu Yi paused for a moment and said, "Yeah." Then he lifted the car curtain and said, "Take her to buy some things."
He glanced at Mother Zou again and said, "You are very attentive."
Mother Zou felt both joy and pressure. Didn't the recovery of these two depend on her?
*
The river is clear.
Cheng Nianying didn't expect to fall ill when she first arrived at the Pei family.
Yin Ping was so anxious that he was running around beside her.
The eldest and second sons of the fourth house were peeked at the door from a distance. The old man said, "He said he was going to call the two sisters from the third house and take them out for a walk today."
The second brother glanced at him and lowered his voice: "Don't you think it's strange that she came here?"
The eldest brother smacked his lips. "What's so strange about it? I felt close to it the moment I saw it."
The second child rolled his eyes: "Of course we are close, she looks like my aunt's daughter."
"You mean... Qin Yurong?" The eldest brother recalled carefully, but that cousin didn't like to play with them when she was young, and they would avoid her when they met her at their grandparents' house.
The only impression I have is that she married the popular Prince Danshuo in the court, and later died of illness.
The eldest brother muttered, "No, I didn't feel close to her when I saw her before."
As they were talking, Chu Lin came closer.
The two men quickly changed their posture, straightened their robes, and bowed solemnly to Chu Lin: "Mother."
"I've consulted the doctor, and it's not a serious problem. Now that you have time, call the third wife's sister and accompany Miss Jiang to walk around Heqing Street."
The boss nodded and said quickly, "I'll go right away!"
Cheng Nianying leaned over here and glanced in the direction of Chu Lin from afar.
Chu Lin followed Pei Yuanwei away after a while.
Instead, the girl from the Pei family came over quickly and warmly invited Cheng Nianying to go out with them.
Thinking that she would only stay for a few days, Cheng Nianying did not refuse.
It was just Yin Ping who was busy at the back, carrying the hand warmer, grabbing the cloak, and picking up the umbrella... and was having a lot of fun.
Send the younger ones out.
Pei Yuanwei then went to see his father and brothers.
After a long conversation, when Pei Yuanwei returned to the courtyard, Chu Lin immediately went up to him and asked, "What did father say?"
Pei Yuanwei said, "She has a close relationship with the Yin family. How could my father not agree?"
Chu Lin suddenly showed an expression that seemed to be both crying and laughing.
Then, she showed hesitation again: "But I don't know how to tell her."
"Then there's no rush."
"Um."
Chu Lin slowly calmed down and looked at Pei Yuanwei hesitantly with a hint of embarrassment.
Different from the weird atmosphere here.
Cheng Nianying came to the market, and the girl from the third room smiled and said, "Smell it."
This girl is the ninth daughter in the Pei family, so Cheng Nianying calls her "Jiu Niang".
"Do you smell it?" she asked.
"Fragrance." Cheng Nianying said, "I smelled it as soon as I entered the city."
"He Qing's perfumed powder and ointment are truly exceptional. What scent do you like?"
"All good."
"How can all of them be good? I have to pick one. You are the guest, so I will buy it for you." Jiu Niang said with a smile.
"What kind of perfumed powder or ointment?" Chu Lin's eldest son leaned over and pointed to a shop. "The things they sell there are really interesting. When the wind blows, they spin, and the little people painted on them move with them."
The second child scoffed: "How childish."
"Tsk, Sister Jiang, come with me and see if you like it?" The eldest brother jumped off the horse.
Cheng Nianying's eyes flashed, thinking about the blood that was at least half connected, so she jumped out of the carriage.
The eldest brother stood in the shop and picked up an extremely exquisite lantern with his left hand. He puffed up his cheeks and blew hard, and the paper lantern turned, and the little man painted on it really moved.
"Isn't it fun?"
Actually, it wasn't much fun. But Cheng Nianying had never played it before.
She held out her hand: "Yeah." She smiled: "Fun."
When she was not in the Prince's Mansion pretending to be the Princess, she rarely smiled, and even when she came to the Pei family, she mostly had a cold expression.
The moment he smiled, people were stunned.
The eldest brother was immediately inspired. He turned around and looked at his younger brother. He waved his hand and said, "I'll buy it for you."
The second brother was speechless: "You've already spent all your money this month."
The boss held out his hand: "Lend me some."
“…” “I’ll buy it.” The second brother stepped forward and took out the silver.
The eldest brother was unhappy: "How can you be so stingy when you are my brother?"
The two brothers argued for a while, and finally the second brother bought the lamp. The eldest brother still borrowed money from the second brother and said that he would take Cheng Nianying to see other new things.
So the group walked out again.
The girl from the third room went into the perfume and powder shop.
The second brother acted like an older brother and did not leave them behind. He turned around and chased them into the perfume and powder shop.
For a moment, only the boss was still talking to Cheng Nianying.
"Have I talked too much?" The eldest brother touched his nose.
"Not bad." Cheng Nianying thought for a moment and said, "Yin Ping talks more than you."
Yin Ping made a bitter face behind him: "No way!"
The eldest brother was amused and felt it was rare that this sister surnamed Jiang didn't dislike him.
Cheng Nianying received a lot of gifts from them, and the girl from the third room finally bought her powder and ointment.
Jiu Niang said, "I'll choose the scent I think you'll like."
Cheng Nianying took the pills Fu Yi gave her and could now smell the scent. She unscrewed one and sniffed it. It was sweet osmanthus.
I unscrewed another one and smelled it, and it was the scent of plum blossoms mixed with a cold air.
Jiu Niang said with a smile, "You look sweet, but your expression is cold. I think it would be best to buy two."
After she finished speaking, she lifted her skirt and left, feeling embarrassed.
Cheng Nianying felt better as she watched them leave.
For several days afterward, Chu Lin's eldest and second sons accompanied her to the market, along with girls from other families. Today it was Ninth Lady, tomorrow it was Fifth Lady...
The Pei family is really thoughtful.
Cheng Nianying was so thoughtful that she didn't realize that the eighth day had arrived by the time she counted on her fingers.
She had only said she would stay for a few days... If we wait any longer, it won't be considered "a few days".
Fu Yi didn't come to Heqing either...
Has she gained true freedom since then? From now on, she no longer has to worry about the life and death of the Wuning Marquis Mansion.
Cheng Nianying was a little confused for a moment, so she asked Yin Ping: "Where do you think is good in the world?"
Yin Ping was stunned by the question: "Why do you ask that, young lady?"
"If it's a good place, I'll go there."
Yin Ping chuckled, "Then of course our hometown, Yuzhou, is the best! Miss Jiang, are you going to Yuzhou? Go ahead, go ahead, it's a great place! Even better than Heqing!"
"What's good?"
"Well, the Yin family is there. This is good. Yuzhou produces good ink and paper. Have you ever seen the sea? Yuzhou has a sea! And..."
"I haven't seen it." Cheng Nianying interrupted him and said, "Well, let's go to Yuzhou."
She turned around and packed her things. At this time, the younger generation of the Chu family came to find her again, saying that there was a cocktail party in the city today and she should go and take a look.
This was something she had never seen before.
She thought it would be better to stay one more day.
This way it’s only nine days.
It has not exceeded the limit of "a few days".
"Okay." she replied.
The streets were very crowded today and the carriage could not enter the alley, so they simply got out and walked slowly.
Cheng Nianying squeezed in the crowd, thinking of what the eldest lady said: there will be many things happening in the streets in spring... It's probably going to be even more lively than it is now.
"Don't push! Don't push!" The eldest brother raised his arms angrily and protected Cheng Nianying on both sides.
The servants of the Yin family also tried their best to keep the crowd out.
For a moment, it seemed that no one was distinguished from the rich and the poor, and everyone was having fun together.
No one shouted at me, asking me which house I was from and asking me to make way quickly.
It is different from the places Cheng Nianying has been to.
Slowly, the smell of alcohol wafted out.
Cheng Nianying couldn't help but ask, "So many people, are they all here to taste the wine?"
"Half, mostly just to watch the show."
"Well, there's a performance of 'The Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea', and there's also a drinking contest..."
As he was speaking, the boss's voice paused.
Cheng Nianying couldn't help but look back, but found that Yin Ping and the others were pushed away, and only the eldest brother was still standing beside him. After all, he was tall and strong and could not stand being squeezed.
But he looked strange and looked down: "Who grabbed my hand?"
He had just finished speaking.
Cheng Nianying felt a force as someone grabbed her arm and pulled her.
Cheng Nianying was about to kick, but hit a face.
That face was incredibly handsome, with a hint of annoyance in it. He asked, "Is it fun?"
...Fu Yi.
Cheng Nianying's breathing became lighter.
He came to Heqing.
He still came to Heqing.
He suddenly appeared in the crowded crowd.
His clothes were slightly wrinkled from being squeezed.
When Cheng Nianying was wondering why he was not afraid of getting dirty... he was already pressed into Fu Yi's arms.
Behind him was Chu Lin's eldest son's unhappy voice: "Where did you come from, you lecher—"
Before he could finish his words, he was dragged away by the guards.
Whether it's the servants of the Pei family or the servants of the Yin family, how can they compare to the skills of these guards?
Fu Yi grabbed Cheng Nianying and walked out against the crowd.
Cheng Nianying was squeezed in his arms and couldn't even struggle.
They soon came to an alley.
There was a carriage parked in the alley, and next to the carriage, several familiar faces looked over here in horror.
Cheng Nianying didn't have time to look at their faces carefully.
"Who are you?"
"open!"
Chu Lin's eldest son struggled.
Fu Yi let go of Cheng Nianying, suddenly drew his knife and pressed it against his neck, then turned around and asked Cheng Nianying, "Who is he?"
"Speak!" Fu Yi's tone was slightly cold.
Cheng Nianying gave him a strange look: "...the eldest son of the fourth branch of the Pei family."
Fu Yi: “…” “Oh.” He threw the knife back into the sheath.
Mother Zou hesitated beside the carriage and didn't dare to call Cheng Nianying.
Cheng Nianying turned around and gave her a reassuring look, then asked Fu Yi, "Why are you here?"
"You're gone and never coming back, so I shouldn't have come?"
Cheng Nianying pointed at his outer robe and said, "It's dirty."
Fu Yi: "..." He untied the belt without changing his expression, took off his outer robe and threw it to Wu Xun beside him.
At the same time, someone immediately brought a new robe.
Cheng Nianying: "..."
Fu Yi put on his new robe again, grabbed Cheng Nianying's wrist again, and led her to the carriage.
Cheng Nianying blinked and did not struggle.
The curtain dropped.
The angry voice still rang out from outside: "Who are you? Let her go!"
Even though he knew who that guy was, Fu Yi was still unhappy: "He's so nervous about you..."
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