Red apricots make spring

Chapter 229
Lu Ce walked out of the study and walked to the Wutong Pavilion. As soon as he entered, he saw Wen Rou sitting under a tree with a maidservant, holding sunspots in their hands, frowning and thinking.

At that time, the sun was rising in the sky, and the warm sunlight pierced through the leaves and shone on Wen Wen's body mottledly, making the outline of her side face extraordinarily peaceful and soft, Lu Ce couldn't help slowing down his pace.

The maid who was playing with Wenrou felt someone approaching, raised her eyes to see Lu Ce, and was about to stand up, but was stopped by Lu Ce's gesture, so she had to lower her head and continue to sit there restlessly.Ruan Wen was so engrossed in thinking about chess that she didn't realize that someone was standing behind her watching chess. After thinking for a while, she dropped a piece and reached for tea from the small table beside her, only to catch a glimpse of Lu Ce's robe corner, surprised Then look back.

"Why didn't you make a sound when you came? You startled me."

"Look at you playing chess." After speaking, Lu Ce frowned slightly and asked, "I can't understand what kind of chess you are playing."

"Of course you don't understand." Gentle laughed, how could she know such elegant things as piano, chess, calligraphy and painting?It's just that she was bored, so she pulled a maid to play backgammon with her.This chess seems unclear at first glance, but in fact the move is extremely simple, as long as two sentences are clear, anyone can know it.

At this moment, the maid hurriedly stood up and said, "Sit down, I'll make tea."

Lu Ce nodded, sat down on the seat she had vacated, raised his eyes to carefully look at Wen Wen's eyes, and said with a faint smile, "Did you sleep well last night?"

"I'm going to sleep like a pig." He said with a gentle smile, "I thought that I would sleep too much before nightfall, and I would be sleepy at night. Who would want to lie on the bed, and hear the leaves rustling outside the window, and fell asleep again in a trance. One Jue Tianming, I didn’t even dream.”

Seeing her calm expression, Lu Ce looked down at the chessboard for a while, then suddenly picked up a white piece, placed it on the chessboard, and intercepted Rourou's black piece that had already formed four pieces.

Gentle and surprised, looked at Lu Ce, then at the white piece, feeling a little speechless.Although the moves of backgammon are simple, it is not easy to accurately see the rules from the endgame in a short period of time before it is broken.

"It's your turn." Lu Ce smiled lightly.

Nodding gently, he took Heizi and took a step.

The two continued a few moves in silence, and the maidservant brought tea up, and then quietly withdrew.At this moment, Lu Cefang asked, "Did you hear the gossip when you got up early?"

"You're talking about Qingru?" Rourou lowered her head and made another blow.

"Ah."

"I heard you, it's good that you're fine." Gentle raised her head and smiled at him.

Lu Ce's heart warmed, knowing that there was no need to explain this matter.

The two looked at each other without saying anything.

After a game of chess was over, the two sides actually fought to a tie, gently pushed the chessboard and smiled: "I can't play anymore, you intend to let me."

"I'm not familiar with this kind of play, and I'm too busy to deal with it. How can I spare you?" Lu Ce smiled and picked up the chess piece into the chess bowl.

She smiled gently and said: "Don't coax me, I'm a bad chess player. Before you came, I lost several times. How could I draw with you?"

Lu Ce avoided answering, but said, "Isn't it boring to live here?"

Gentle nodded and said: "I used to live in the Hanlin Mansion, and I was still busy cooking three meals, managing the shop, and talking to Xiaohuan. Now I'm living in your house, stretching out my hands for clothes, opening my mouth for meals, and don't even care about the shop." , I'm really bored, or else I wouldn't play such a boring game."

Lu Ce thought for a moment and said, "I originally wanted to buy another house, but I was afraid that it would not suit your wishes, so why don't you go and pick out the house by yourself later, and buy the house you like, and we will move out. live."

"Move? It's okay if I'm alone, do you... your father and grandfather agree?" Wen Rou hesitated and said: "Besides, you have already bought a house in the east of the city, and you want to buy it again?"

"The house in the east of the city is prepared for your mother and younger brother to live in." Lu Ce said with a smile, "As long as you come back to visit my grandfather from time to time, he has no objections. As for my father, I have my own ideas."
Rou Rou nodded, and she didn't object. She was a "false concubine" at first, and there's nothing wrong with taking her family to live with her. If she really wants to marry Lu Ce, it's better for the two of them to live alone. Wen Gang will also marry a wife in the future It is really inconvenient to have a child and set up a separate family and squeeze together in one place.

The two were chatting, when Xi Zhu found it, he said in a low voice: "Master, Doctor He, please go."

Lu Ce stood up and looked at Wen Rou apologetically.

"Go and do your work, don't pay attention to me." He said with a gentle smile, "Leave the bamboo, and accompany me to see the house."

Lu Ce nodded, gave Xi Zhu a few more instructions, and then left.

Rourou watched Lu Ce leave, and asked Xizhu to find a suit of men's clothes. After changing into men's clothes, she quietly slipped out of Lu's mansion through the back door, walked out to the busy street, and then breathed a sigh of relief, and said lightly, "Can you?" It's nice to get out for a walk."

Xizhu couldn't help laughing and said: "There are many people in the family, and the rules cannot be sloppy. Living here is quite tiring. Otherwise, why do you always like to run outside? Madam, please bear with it for a few more days."

With a soft smile, he said: "Don't call me madam, will people be surprised if they hear it?"

Xizhu agreed, and looked at her face while walking, seeing that she was in a good mood, he smiled and said: "What happened this morning has nothing to do with Master, that Qingru..."

Gentle interrupted him: "There's no need to explain for your grandfather, I know he's not that kind of person."

If Lu Ce loves beauty, how can he not marry the stunning Shen Mengyi and Princess Anning?That Qingru is an old member of the Lu family, so she doesn't have to wait until now if she wants to get involved.These principles are easy to see, but if it was in the past, she might not be able to tell the difference when her head became hot. At this moment, Lu Ce and Lu Ce had just experienced a life-and-death ordeal, and the two knew each other deeply, so how could such things cause misunderstandings?
Seeing her acting like this, Xi Zhu heaved a sigh of relief, nodded secretly, and led her to the east of the city where she could live comfortably, to find a house there.

Not to mention tenderness, just talking about Lu Ce, he found He Lin's residence, saw that the door was not bolted, he pushed it casually into the yard, looked up and saw He Lin was squatting by the well cleaning a pile of porcelain vases, seeing him come in, Immediately muttered: "It's such a troublesome place to use water!"

"If you think it's troublesome, why don't you just buy a servant to do these chores for you?" Lu Ce went into the room and brought out a chair, and sat in the courtyard to talk to He Lin.

He Lin hurriedly waved his hands and said, "I was born to work hard, and I don't know how to command others. Don't talk about buying people, it's too inhuman!"

"Human?" Lu Ce frowned slightly.

He Lin was taken aback, and hurriedly lowered his head to pretend to concentrate on cleaning the porcelain vase, and did not speak again.

Lu Ce knew his temper, so he didn't ask any further questions, he just said, "Why are you looking for me?"

Hearing this, He Lin immediately jumped up with his wet hands tied together, and said depressedly, "You are so embarrassed to ask this question! Solve the trouble you caused me for me, quickly solve it for me."

Lu Ce laughed and said, "What's the trouble? Tell me clearly."

"Those hidden guards in the palace!" He Lin snorted angrily, "If I hadn't lied for you, why would I have provoked these people? I've been poking around my house all day long. My room is full of precious medicinal materials. If I lose them, who can find them?" go?"

This is expected, and besides, the Ninth Prince also reminded him, Lu Ce didn't panic at all, he just felt that it was rare to see He Lin angry, it was really interesting, and said with a faint smile: "You know that there are dark guards watching you, why don't you?" How dare you speak?"

He didn't say anything, but when he said that, He Lin straightened his neck and shouted loudly towards the outside of the courtyard.After scolding, he vented his anger, and then squinted at Lu Ce and said, "Don't pretend, don't you know? How dare you walk into my yard?"

Lu Cerao was usually indifferent to people, so he had nothing to do about He Lin. He just shook his head and smiled wryly, "We can't hide what we do from people, but we just cover up our tongues. Now it's done, so I naturally have no scruples."

"Isn't this the end?" He Lin thought he was cursing a bit, and let out his anger, his voice was much more relaxed, but his face was still displeased and he said: "These people can't go away even if they scold, they provoke me. Annoyed, hurry up and find a way to get them away!"

Lu Ce was not in a hurry to speak, and listened carefully, making sure that there was no one around at the moment, and then said softly: "Thanks to you, I will naturally try to get rid of these hidden guards for you, but you should restrain yourself, and you can do it right now." Relying on the Holy Majesty to use you, I will not kill you, in the future..."

Before he finished speaking, He Lin interrupted him impatiently: "What are you afraid of? Didn't we make an agreement earlier, let the old emperor hang himself alive or die! I will only treat the symptoms for him. To cure the root cause, his illness can’t be completely cured, so he dares to kill me? I just didn’t expect him to be so annoying, and even sent someone to monitor me day and night, but I’m not easy to mess with..."

Speaking of this, He Lin laughed, leaned in front of Lu Ce, and said in a low voice, "I know he wants to send someone to spy on my method of curing the medicine, but I won't let him do what he wants! I'll change it every few days. The prescription made him dizzy! On the prescription that the Ninth Prince came to pick up today, I wrote hundreds of medicines, and only a few of them were used to cure the illness of the old emperor. The rest, hehe, I filled my pocket , I accepted it with a smile!"

Lu Ce smiled wryly when he heard the words, knowing that he no longer needed to worry about He Lin's life or death, it was just that his outspokenness, though frank, made people startled for him, but he knew it would be useless to persuade him, so he nodded and said: " Leave the matter of the hidden guard to me, but you still have to prescribe the medicine for my grandfather, I saw that his legs and feet were not as sharp as before when he was chasing my father today, I'm afraid he may have another illness."

He Lin waved his hand and said, "What's wrong with him? He just eats too much meat! That's all right, all right, I'll give you a prescription, and you let him take it according to the prescription." He said, in the dirty He wiped his hands carelessly on his clothes, and walked towards the back room while muttering: "Knowing you is the biggest mistake in my life! Trouble, too much trouble!"
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(End of this chapter)