Nghi An Marquis' soup dumplings were fresh and tender. They were fragrant but not greasy. Hua Xi Wan loved to eat them before she was married. Therefore, on the seventh day of the Chinese New Year, the Lu Clan arranged for the servants to prepare Hua Xi Wan's favorite porridge, soup dumplings, and various light side dishes.
Yan Jinqiu accompanied Hua Xi Wan to the main courtyard of the residence to greet the two elders. Then, the whole family moved to the dining room to eat breakfast, which took more than an hour than usual.
After washing his hands and waiting for Hua Hesheng and the Lu Clan to start eating, Yan Jinqiu picked up his chopsticks, picked up a sparkling and beautiful soup dumpling, and placed it in Hua Xi Wan's bowl. Then, very naturally, he poured half a bowl of almond milk soup and placed it on her left hand side. After doing all this, he began to choose the things he liked to eat.
The Lu Clan noticed his actions and revealed a satisfied look. Even the candied nuts that they usually ate were much more delicious.
Hua Xi Wan was thirsty when she woke up in the morning, so she quickly finished the almond milk soup. She pushed the bowl in Yan Jinqiu's direction and looked at him with a smile. When the Lu Clan saw this, they wanted to instruct the servant girls to pour some for their daughter. However, when they saw that Bai Xia and the other personal servant girls did not move, they thought for a moment and pretended not to see this scene.
Hua Yi Liu's movements slowed when she saw the interaction between the two. She looked at Xian Junw.a.n.g's considerate actions, and her hand that gripped the spoon tightened. She found that Hua Chu Yu beside her was looking at her. She glanced coldly at the other and then lowered her head to continue to drink the tasteless porridge in her hand.
Madam Sun's gaze seemed to casually sweep across the two of them. Then, she smiled and looked away.
After the meal, Hua Xi Wan was about to follow Yan Jinqiu back to Jun Wang's residence. Before she boarded the carriage, she turned around and looked at her father and two brothers behind her. After a while, she said, "Don't miss me. Take care."
Hua Hesheng watched as his daughter entered the carriage. A curtain blocked his view. As the carriage moved forward, his gaze also moved forward bit by bit. When the carriage was out of sight, he turned back to look at his two sons and said, "Return to the fu."
Before leaving, Xi Wan had only said four words, but he could hear the hidden meaning behind those four words.
Xian Junw.a.n.g's thoughts were unfathomable and full of ambition, but he also had a personality that was good at acting. Xi Wan was not willing for the marquis fu to be involved in these undercurrents so she said "take care."
Hua Changbao's expression was grave as he followed behind his mother. Thinking of his sister who had just been taken away by the luxurious carriage, he sighed inwardly.
In the carriage, Yan Jinqiu played with two stone carvings. He tilted his head and looked at Hua Xi Wan with a smile. "Xi Wan, do you know the trumpet flower? When this flower blooms, it is always beautiful. But in reality, even the proudest trumpet flower can only bloom when it attaches itself to something else."
"A flower like the Ling Xiao might sound proud, but it is just so." The corner of Hua Xi Wan's mouth was slightly raised in a mirthless smile. "Flowers are just decorations. Just look at them, why study how they grow?"
Yan Jinqiu smiled faintly and examined her. A moment later, he threw the stone carvings back into the exquisite box. "You are right."
Hua Xi Wan's lips curved, but she didn't say anything.
The carriage entered Jun Wang fu. Hua Xi Wan was the first to get off the carriage. She didn't wait for Yan Jinqiu to come out. Holding Bai Xia's hand, she was about to return to the main courtyard.
"Xi Wan." Yan Jinqiu poked his head out of the carriage and looked at Hua Xi Wan's back. "Why are you walking so fast?"
Hua Xi Wan turned to look at the man sitting in the carriage. She raised her chin slightly and sneered. "Jun Wang Ye is still alive. How can this concubine disturb him?" She turned to leave. After taking a few steps, she saw a piece of the rockery protruding from the side of the road. She stopped and said, "This piece of the rockery doesn't look very good."
After saying this, she took a few steps back. She lifted her skirt to her waist and kicked it hard. With a crack, the protruding piece fell to the ground.
"This is much more pleasing to the eye." Hua Xi Wan turned and smiled sweetly at Yan Jinqiu. "What do you think, Jun Wang Ye?" After saying this, she didn't wait for Yan Jinqiu to answer. She elegantly put down her skirt and let Bai Xia and the other maidservants tidy it up for her. Then, she walked away.
There was dead silence. Mutong looked at the broken corner of the rockery and felt a faint pain in his calf. He swallowed his saliva and said, "What are you waiting for? Since Jun Wang Fei said this rockery doesn't look good, let's move it and rearrange it."
"Yes." The servants who had been stunned in fright finally reacted and scrambled to lift up the fake mountain. One of the bolder servants couldn't help but look back at Junw.a.n.g Ye. He sighed inside. As expected of Junw.a.n.g Ye. Even though Junw.a.n.g Fei was so ferocious, he could sit on the carriage with a normal expression.
"Jun Wang Ye?" Mutong stepped forward and called.
There was no response.
"Jun Wang Ye?"
Yan Jinqiu tilted his head and looked at him coldly. "Move this rockery away and plant a cluster of roses."
Plant thorny roses by the roadside? Mutong looked at Jun Wang Ye in confusion. When he saw the other party's serious expression, he lowered his head and said, "This little one will remember."
Roses were roses. It was better than planting those spiky and leafless balls that were passed down from the countries of the Western Regions.
After Hua Xi Wan returned to the main courtyard, she took off her palace dress and changed into a fiery red gauze dress. After tying up her hair with a blood jade hairpin, she calmly called for an inconspicuous second-class maidservant. "What did Green Bead do yesterday?"
After the second-class maidservant honestly told her about Green Bead's behavior yesterday, she lowered her head and didn't say anything.
"Bai Xia, how many years has Green Bead been with me?" Hua Xi Wan used a pen to draw a blooming blood-colored peach blossom between her eyebrows. Her eyes were like silk as she said, "Time is the most torturous thing. Good things can become bad, but bad things can become good."
Bai Xia and the other two didn't dare to speak. They had been with their master for many years and naturally knew that their master was in a rage.
"Someone, call Green Bead over." She put down the pen in her hand and carefully looked at her makeup in the mirror. Then, she used an eyebrow pencil to draw her eyebrows. She casually opened a jewelry box. The things inside were dazzling.
"Master." Bai Xia and the others saw this and could only kneel down.
Hua Xi Wan acted as if she didn't see them kneeling down. She picked out a pair of bracelets inlaid with rubies from the box and slowly put them on her wrists.
The room was so quiet that even the sound of breathing could be heard. No one dared to move, and even the sound of breathing was suppressed as much as possible.
"Jun Wang Fei, Jun Wang Ye sent someone to deliver a box of gemstones," a servant reported.
"Put it down." Hua Xi Wan didn't even look at the gemstones that the servant brought over. Her fair hand picked up the emerald teacup, and there was no expression on her face.
After Green Bead followed the servant girl into the main room, she felt that the atmosphere was a little strange. When she saw her master, who was wearing a red dress with flying sleeves, sitting at the head of the table expressionlessly while the other three sisters were kneeling on the ground, her heart skipped a beat. Her legs gave way and she knelt on the ground.
"Dong." This was the sound of the emerald teacup being placed on the table. It was very soft, but it was enough to make Green Bead's heart beat violently.
"Green Bead is seventeen this year, right?" Hua Xi Wan supported her chin with one hand and looked lazily at Green Bead kneeling in front of her. She sighed and said, "You have been with me for six or seven years."
"Mistress, this servant was wrong." Without waiting for Hua Xi Wan to say anything else, Green Bead had already opened her mouth to beg for mercy, "This servant was possessed for a moment. Mistress, please give this servant another chance on account of our many years of master and servant relationship."
Seeing her like this, Hua Xi Wan didn't get angry. Instead, she smiled and said, "What kind of relationship made you want to get close to the male master?"
Green Bead had always been in the inner courtyard and hadn't seen many outstanding men. When she saw how gentle Jun Wang Ye was to her master, she gradually had some thoughts that she shouldn't have. Now that Hua Xi Wan had exposed her in front of the other sisters in the room, her face instantly turned pale and she couldn't say a word to defend herself. She knew what she should say, but under the gaze of her master, she couldn't make a sound.
"Jun Wang Fei, Jun Wang Ye asked this servant to send two plates of fresh lychees to you." Mutong walked into the main room, his eyes looking straight ahead as he passed by Green Bead. Then he bowed in front of Hua Xi Wan, "This is produced in Yuezhou. Do you like the taste?"
"Put it aside," Hua Xi Wan didn't look at the two plates of lychees, "I've troubled Jun Wang Ye."
Seeing this, Mutong could only put down the things and leave. It looked like Jun Wang Fei was still angry. He was afraid that anything that Jun Wang Ye gave her now would be useless.
"When I married, the marquis fu gave me your indenture contracts," Hua Xi Wan took out a contract and put it on the table. She slowly said, "You can leave."
"Mistress!" Green Bead hadn't thought that her mistress would neither scold nor hit her, but ask her to leave Jun Wang fu. But she was a young woman. What could she do if she left Jun Wang?
"Some words were said before I married. What is the use of your pleading now? When you acted on your own behind my back, you should have expected this kind of result," Hua Xi Wan looked coldly at Green Bead, "I let you leave to save some face for you. Otherwise, you won't even have any face left for yourself."
Green Bead was full of regret at this moment. She had originally thought that based on her many years of friendship with her mistress, if Jun Wang Ye really valued her, her mistress would give her a status for the sake of their relationship. Who knew that things would turn out like this? Jun Wang Ye didn't like her, and her mistress didn't give her any face.
She wanted to ask Bai Xia and the others to plead for her, but when she looked at them, they were all kneeling on the ground with their heads bowed. They didn't even have the courage to look at her.
At this moment, the despair in her heart turned into anger, "Mistress, you were born beautiful and rich. Everything is just a matter of a word to you. But because this servant's background is not as good as those noble ladies, it is destined that everything will go wrong. I don't even dare to look at the man I admire. How can you understand the pain in my heart?"
"What do you admire about him?" Hua Xi Wan looked expressionlessly at Green Bead, "If it is appearance, then he will grow old sooner or later. If it is talent, can you recite poems and compose essays? If it is temperament, when has he ever been good to you? You don't even know what kind of person he is, and you dare to use the word 'admire'?
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Green Bead was speechless, but she felt that her feelings weren't as superficial as her mistress said. She fell in love with Jun Wang Ye at first sight, and it wasn't because of anything else.
"Or is it that you admire Prince Xian, who has outstanding talent and looks? If he was just a commoner, would you still care about him? "
"If Jun Wang Ye was a commoner, would Mistress take a few more glances at him?"
"Of course not," Hua Xi Wan sneered, "I was born as the noble lady of the Marquis' household, and I am destined to marry a man from an aristocratic family. If he was a commoner, how could he have the chance to appear in front of me?"
"Then isn't it just Jun Wang Ye's status that you like?" Green Bead felt that it wasn't worth it for Jun Wang Ye. He was so considerate to her mistress, but her mistress's words were so cold and emotionless. Even a servant girl like her could see Jun Wang Ye's feelings for her mistress. How could her mistress, who was such an intelligent person, not be able to sense it?
"Then how do you know what he likes about me?" Hua Xi Wan closed her eyes, no longer looking at Green Bead, "You can leave. From now on, our master-servant relationship is broken."
Green Bead looked dazedly at the woman in red in front of her, and then heavily kowtowed three times, "Mistress, please treat Jun Wang Ye well in the future. Green Bead will take her leave." Finishing, she stood and turned to leave the main room.
After Green Bead left, Hua Xi Wan said lightly, "You can all get up."
She was not a soft-hearted person, in the past, and in the future, she would not be soft-hearted.
After Bai Xia and the others knew that Green Bead had feelings for Jun Wang Ye, they were so scared that their faces turned pale. Now that they were ordered to get up, their expressions did not soften much.
What was wrong with Green Bead's brain? How could she say such silly words?
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