90 Days of Spring: Twelfth day

Huayu Mountain is located three to five miles west of the city, and it takes about half an hour to drive. The official road is smooth and unimpeded. On the road, I ran into a chariot from the Palace of Seven Kings, and the two groups of people walked along the road. At the foot of the mountain, there are green grass and beautiful mountains and rivers; when looking at the top of the mountain, it is covered with ice and snow, with overlapping peaks and peaks, just like two worlds.

The four kings and the seven kings abandoned their chariots and rode on horses, followed by several servants, galloped on the horses, and disappeared in front of everyone in a blink of an eye.

The rest of the accompanying maids sat in the car and slowly wandered to the top of the mountain. It was already an hour later. The official hunt will only start tomorrow, and princes and nobles will arrive one after another this afternoon, and it is inevitable to exchange pleasantries.

The fourth king, Yang Fu, moved to another courtyard. He didn’t even attend the royal family banquet on the first day of the Lunar New Year. When he was about to reach the top of the mountain, he was invited by the prince to condolences. There is a garden on the top of the mountain, which is exclusively for the heirs of the emperor who hunt every year. The saint named it Chang Garden. The garden is surrounded by a forest of white leaves, tall and straight, covered with a layer of snow at the base. Looking from a distance, the snow is endless, like a jade city and snow ridges.

The prince temporarily lives in Mingzhang Courtyard, where red plum blossoms are in full bloom, embellishing the vast snow scene on the top of the mountain, like a bit of cinnabar in the snow-white jade skin, extremely beautiful. The crown prince was more ostentatious than the others, and the servants and servants brought thirty or fifty people, and even Jiao Ji and concubines were waiting on the left and right, which made the courtyard quite noisy.

The prince and the princess have always been at odds, this is not new in the capital, but it is a bit too much for him to blatantly treat the princess as nothing. The Crown Princess really hated him so much, but she loved him to the bottom of her heart, there was nothing she could do about him. After crying and quarreling, he still couldn’t retain his affection, and held his warm heart in front of him, but was finally smashed to pieces.

The two had a big quarrel last night, and the prince Yang Chen was in a bad mood at the moment, and the servant girl served the tea tremblingly, for fear of harming the fish in the pond. It wasn’t until Yang Fu came to Mingzhang Courtyard that his face softened a bit, and after he gave up his seat, he said meaningfully: “It’s still wise for the fourth brother to hide in another courtyard outside the city in order to refuse marriage, and spend his time at leisure. It’s not like me, staying at home all day long. Restless, every day goes smoothly.”

Yang Fu narrowed his eyes and smiled, “Second brother has won the award, Qi Hao just has no intention of paying attention to the girl from the Jiang family, and he didn’t think so far.”

Yang Chen sighed sadly, “I think this Jiang Alan is pretty good. She has beautiful willow eyebrows, graceful flowers, and a dignified and graceful temperament. She is many times better than the one in my family.”

The Jiang Alan mentioned by the crown prince is the granddaughter of Jiang Taifu in the capital. The fourth king was over twenty-seven years old and hadn’t married a wife yet, so Empress Wei had to worry about it, so she intentionally married Jiang Alan to Yang Fu as his wife. However, Yang Fu refused to marry again and again. This time, to avoid this matter, he even moved to another courtyard outside the city, and he has not been in the capital for many years.

Empress Wei is very sad, she doesn’t know what’s going on with this child, she doesn’t like any girls, does she really plan to never marry for the rest of her life? How can this work!

Hearing this, Yang Fu flicked the tea leaves in the bowl, raised his eyes sincerely: “Second brother knows, I don’t have such thoughts at the moment, I just want to be a lazy person.”

“That’s right.” Yang Chen smiled, his fourth younger brother was outstanding in everything when he was young, and was deeply loved by saints. Ever since he and his concubine Yuyu were buried, he was deeply hit, and he seemed to have changed since then. Sluggish and self-willed to be mediocre, the sage reprimanded him several times for this, but to no avail, he gradually gave up on him.

Yang Fu was born of Empress Wei, but was brought up by Concubine He since he was a child. Concubine He treated him like his own flesh and blood, and the relationship between mother and child was harmonious. I don’t know what happened more than ten years ago. Concubine He died suddenly overnight. Afterwards, although Yang Fu returned to the name of Empress Wei, his temperament changed drastically. He lacked grand strategy and martial arts strategy, and could not produce exquisite literary talent.

Many people feel sorry for this, thinking that Dai Viet lost a talent. What’s more, Yang Fu is proud and conceited, he is proud of his talent, and he was not diligent in his homework when he was young, so he is mediocre now.

What other people think of Yang Chen doesn’t matter, but he thinks it’s not bad. As the fourth younger brother, it’s best for him to be like this for the rest of his life.

The two said a few words, and after a while, the six kings and nine kings arrived together, and the seven kings also came here to join in the fun. By the time Yang Fu returned to his courtyard, it was already sunset.

*

Originally the prince wanted to keep some people for dinner, but they have just arrived and there are still many things to prepare, so they let it go and left separately.

Yang Fu’s courtyard is in the northwest corner of Changyuan. The plaque outside the courtyard mentions the word Han Fong, which was named by him himself. If you want to pursue the deep meaning of it, it is a long time ago. Yang Fu calmed down, walked into the courtyard, walked around the relief wall with landscape patterns, and saw the servant girl was busy cleaning the house, and when he came back, she hurriedly bowed her head and saluted.

One of the little maids was very excited to see him, her bright eyes fell on him, and her face as bright as the moon was filled with smiles, as if she didn’t want anything more after seeing him. Between heaven and earth, he is the only one.

Yang Fu looked back at her, nodded with a smile.

Miaomiao held her cheeks behind her, and the prince only smiled at her. Does this mean that she is special?

She rushed to the front, hot water had already been prepared on the stand of the sandalwood basin, she took the towel and wrung it out, and waited for Yang Fu to wash in a dignified manner. I didn’t have time to deal with the burns yesterday, and the back of the white and tender hands were covered with red marks, and there were several blisters of different sizes, which looked very serious.

Yang Fu looked at it for a while, until Miaomiao tidied it up properly, and then asked in a low voice, “Why did you burn your hand?”

Miaomiao paused, and Cen Yun applied ointment on her when she went out in the morning, and the pain was no longer serious, and she didn’t care about it just now, but he still noticed it unexpectedly. “I bumped into someone when serving hot water yesterday, and the water spilled on my hands…” She probably felt embarrassed, so she pursed her lips and smiled, “It doesn’t hurt so much anymore.”

The maids in the mansion are taught by their mothers, how could they be so reckless?

Yang Fu was sitting on the Eight Immortals chair, and the maid was arranging the meals. He asked unhurriedly, “Can’t you watch the road? Who did you bump into?”

Miaomiao pursed her lips and thought hard, “I forgot her name…”

It’s really stupid, Yang Fu stopped talking, got up and went to the side hall for dinner. When the kitchen in the garden heard that the prince was here, they had already prepared meals. Although they were not as exquisite and delicious as in the palace, they were all delicious mountain delicacies. Miaomiao still thought that she had said something wrong just now, so she didn’t dare to come to serve, and stayed silently in the main room to wipe the seats.

After Yang Fu finished his meal, he was not in a hurry to go into the house to rest, and asked Leshan to fetch the crabapple wood longbow that he needed tomorrow. Ointment.”

Although Leshan didn’t understand what it meant, he didn’t ask: “Yes.”

He went back after a while, holding a wooden box carved with red sandalwood flowers in his hand, inside the box was a longbow, the bow was slender. The servant girl following behind was holding a silver needle of ointment, and the two stood in front of them, “My lord, what you want.”

Yang Fu slid across the smooth lines of the longbow thoughtfully, calling out in a low voice: “Miaomiao.”

Miaomiao has been standing at the door, heard the words and entered, “My lord.”

Yang Fu didn’t raise his head and said, “Use a candle to heat up the silver needles, pierce the blisters on your hands, and apply ointment. If you can’t handle it alone, let Yu Yan take care of it.”

Yuyan is the maid who takes the medicine, one year older than Miaomiao, she is a diligent and dull person. Miaomiao is very different from her, and likes to be noisy, so the two rarely meet each other, and they are still not very familiar with each other. Compared to this matter, Miaomiao was even more surprised by Yang Fu’s words…

What does he mean, is he caring about her?

However, there was no trace of concern on his face, Miaomiao was delighted, but also somewhat disappointed. She bent her eyes and smiled, thanked Yang Fu for his concern, and went to the side hall with Yuyan to heal her hand injury.

At first she was terrified, and kept withdrawing her hands, but Yu Yan ruthlessly held her down, and burst the blisters on the back of her hands one by one. Miaomiao was so frightened that she choked up and had tears in her eyes. Fortunately, Yuyan moved gently and did not hurt her. It wasn’t until she finished applying the ointment that she sniffed and said slowly, “It doesn’t seem to be very painful.”

Yuyan smiled lightly, “It didn’t hurt much at first, you were the one who scared it. Well, the ointment given by the prince must be effective, and it will be fine in two days.”

Miaomiao endured so much that her eyes turned red, she nodded vigorously, “It’s really thanks to you…”

She kept thanking her, but at the end Yuyan was a little embarrassed, and stood up blushing: “This is what the prince meant, you don’t have to thank me.”

A layer of gauze was wrapped around the back of her hand, Miaomiao stared at it for a moment, then slightly curled the corners of her lips.

*

The next morning Yang Fu set off from the courtyard, bringing only Leshan and Leshui with him.

The servant girl and concubine could only stay in the garden and wait. Miaomiao secretly ran out of the cold courtyard, hid behind a tree, and watched the situation at the door. Yang Fu got on the horse, his movements were smooth and handsome, he suddenly turned his head and glanced into the garden, Miaomiao was so frightened that he quickly backed away, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

When she looked again, the group of people outside the door had already gone away.

Miaomiao sighed in disappointment. She thought she would be able to see a lot of beautiful scenery when she came to Huayu Mountain. Unexpectedly, she just changed from one yard to another, and she couldn’t go outside at all. Cen Yun said that at this time there are many animals haunting outside, especially in the depths of the mountains, pheasants, hares, jackals, tigers and leopards, hunting must be very thrilling and exciting.

Miaomiao is gearing up, she really wants to go out and have a look…

I have been absent-minded all morning. Anyway, there is nothing to do on the mountain, and most of the servants are sneaking around when they are free. Yang Fu came back at noon, and only harvested two pheasants. I heard that the crown prince hunted a female wolf, and the harvest was outstanding. Even so, Miaomiao still thinks Yang Fu is the most powerful, and looks at him with admiration.

Yang Fu laughed, “The prince’s archery skills are superb, I am ashamed of myself.”

Le Shui opened his mouth when he heard the sound behind him, but stopped talking. If the wolf hadn’t been conceded by the prince, how could it have been the crown prince’s turn?

After lunch, rest for half an hour, and continue to set off in the afternoon.

This time Miaomiao couldn’t hold back, the guards at the gate of Changyuan were not strict, so when the two of them were unprepared, Miaomiao sneaked out cautiously, dodged and hid behind the wall, crept around the garden, and went to Bai Ye walked in the forest.