Chapter 4 The Prince Calls Her Again Tonight
Li Runrun ran all the way back and it was Li Da who opened the door for her.
Seeing her come back, Li Da opened his mouth as if he wanted to ask something, but in the end he didn't say anything and just told her to go to bed quickly.
They probably also knew that for people with backgrounds like theirs, thunder and rain were all blessings, and it was not something that a lame old man like him could have any say in.
But the next day, Li Da still asked her awkwardly: "Ruan Ruan, Prince, did you get any reward?"
"Dad, what's wrong?"
Li Da was a little embarrassed, but still said, "Dad's legs hurt a lot in the winter. Now that autumn has arrived, I'm thinking of finding a doctor."
Li Ruanruan was a little embarrassed: "Dad, the prince never gave me any reward."
"Sister, are you not serving me well enough?" Li Mutou, the younger brother beside him, touched his head and said, "The prince can't be so stingy, right?"
When my brother said this, Li Ruanruan's face turned red and then white.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Hurry up and go to work, don't be late again, or the steward will deduct your lunch."
After her brother left, Li Runrun quickly took out the scraps of fabric she had torn apart and said to Li Da, "Dad, although I don't have any money, the prince gave me his clothes as a gift. Look at this fabric. I'll embroider a purse in the next few days and sell it to get some money."
Li Da nodded and finally breathed a sigh of relief.
My daughter's body has been taken away, and the whole family has been laughed at. If I don't get any benefits, I will really have trouble living like this.
Nanny Song tormented Li Ruanruan for a few more days.
Seeing that she couldn't get anything out of her, she lost interest and went to look for a new wife for her stupid son.
Li Runrun's workload became lighter, so she took advantage of the time to embroider purses and sell them.
Give the money to Li Da so that he can get treatment.
As for the prince, she still didn't think about him. It had been half a month, and the prince was so busy that he should have forgotten about her.
On this day, Ye Yunchu, who had recovered from his illness, had a huge rage in Zuixianlou. He executed the dancer who had the audacity to drug him, and he also thoroughly investigated Zuixianlou and punished many people.
Everyone in Zuixian Tower was in panic.
I happened to meet a good friend who came for a drink and joked about how arrogant he was.
The two of them entered a private room, and after three rounds of drinks, Ye Yunchu stared at the purse on his friend's waist for a long time.
His friend Gu Yuanqing was drunk and tore off his purse and threw it to him: "What are you looking at? If you like it so much, I'll give it to you."
Ye Yunchu closed his folding fan, picked up the purse and took a look. Seeing the familiar cloud pattern, he confirmed what he was thinking.
Oh! This was the first time he had encountered such a thing.
He played with the purse and asked Gu Yuanqing, "Where did you get it?"
Gu Yuanqing laughed: "I embroidered it myself."
"This embroidery is quite good."
"Is it possible to catch the eye of Master Ye?"
Gu Yuanqing stopped joking. "The other day, I was browsing with my sister and bought some of these. There were quite a few of them! I remember you had a dress made of similar material, and I made a comment about it, and those purses were immediately snatched up by the young ladies from official families. If it were me, the shop owner should be thanking me."
Ye Yunchu thought for a moment and hummed softly, "Suzhou tribute of brocade cloud pattern silk, only this one piece was presented as tribute, and the emperor gave it to me as a reward. Isn't it similar?"
Gu Yuanqing woke up instantly: "Ah?"
Ye Yunchu said with a forced smile: "I have something to do, I need to go back."
Gu Yuanqing stroked his chin and thought about it, but couldn't figure it out, so he gave up and continued drinking.
Then when I checked out, I realized something was wrong: the purse was in Ye Yunchu’s hand!
"Give me back my silver." Gu Yuanqing slammed the table and said to the waiter, "This meal will be charged to the prince's account."
In the Marquis' Mansion, Li Runrun hung up the washed clothes to dry. The sun was still not warm enough for her body. Her hands were frozen, red and swollen, and it was simply unbearable to look at.
Li Da came back from outside and saw that she couldn't hang up a thick cotton coat, so she hurried over to help.
After the father and daughter hung up the clothes, Li Da looked at his daughter's hands and felt distressed: "It's almost swollen like a pig's hoof. I bought you some ointment, please wipe your hands well."
Li Runrun looked at her hands, blew a breath of warm air on them, rubbed them, and hid them in her sleeves to warm them. Her arms were shivering from the cold.
She couldn't help but stamp her feet: "Dad, why are you spending this money? I'm not a lady in the boudoir who has to wash clothes every day. This ointment is not cheap, right? Go and return it quickly."
Dad doesn’t have enough money for medicine, so why is he buying her hand ointment? Li Runrun shook her head and refused.
"It's better to keep her, just in case... the prince wants to see you one day." Li Da hesitated for a moment, but still didn't listen to his daughter. "And here, take a look at this book. You can read it even if you can't read. When the time comes, serve the prince well."
Li Da was a rough man. He stuffed the book and ointment into Li Ruanruan's hands and left with a limp.
Li Runrun had no choice but to return it herself, but she didn't know where her father bought it.
She had no choice but to open the lid and smell it. In ancient times, ointments were made of lard and scented. The most commonly used ones were osmanthus and mugwort. When Liruanruan opened it, she really smelled a strong scent of osmanthus. She felt that it was not as good as the scent of mugwort. She liked light scents.
She went to look at the book again, and it turned out to be a medical book with the words "Traveling Doctor's Notes" written on the cover.
Li Runrun could actually recognize words, but the words she recognized were somewhat different from the words we use today, and only people with missing limbs could recognize them.
So, she was a little confused. Why did Lida buy her a medical book? And a medical book that she could read even if she couldn't read.
She was about to open the book to see what was going on when she heard someone calling her.
"Pear soft!"
Li Runrun turned around and saw that it was Haitang. She was startled and hid the book and ointment in her arms.
Haitang came over and asked anxiously, "How did you offend the prince? He came back from drinking outside with a cold face and said he wanted to see you. You should go quickly."
How did she offend the prince? She didn't know.
But when the master loses his temper, the servants will always be in trouble, let alone a lowly servant like her.
Li Ruanruan was scared and whispered, "Then I'll go take a bath and burn some incense..."
Haitang grabbed her arm and said, "Hurry up and go. The prince told you to get out of here. How long are you going to delay? Does he have a temper that can wait?"
Liruanruan's panicked face turned pale as she tried to ask Sister Haitang, "I don't know what I did. Sister Haitang, can you guess something?"
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