Queen's Development

Chapter 26 Rainy Night
After several days of careful care by Yuzhi, Lin Jia's body finally recovered.

Dr. Meng, Xinglin's medical officer, was invited again, and he personally said that Lin Jia didn't need to take any more medicine.

Yu Zhi looked at Lin Jia's thin body and pale face, she didn't quite believe it, and she still worried about Lin Jia quietly.

It rained again that night.

It wasn't raining much, it just kept pattering down.

It was very cold outside, but the house was as warm as spring because of the earthworms growing there.

Lin Jia was writing letters in the inner study in the west dark room of the main room, while Alan waited on her side.

After writing the letter, Lin Jia sealed it herself and handed it to A Lan: "Send it to Ye Chunshan, and ask him to send someone to Jiang Shangshu's residence in the capital, and hand it over to my grandfather face to face."

His mother, Concubine Jiang, was born in the Jiang family, a noble family in the capital. His grandfather Jiang Yuntian had just become an official from the Ministry of Officials, and several uncles were also officials in the capital.

Alan took the envelope and was about to withdraw it when Lin Jia said calmly, "Let Yuzhi come here."

"Yes, my lord." Alan agreed and stepped back.

Yuzhi is sitting on the embroidery couch in the room doing needlework.

Lin Jia probably had too much nutrition recently, and she grew a little longer, so the white silk jacket she wore inside had to be redone.

Sitting next to her, Qing Cha said, "Yu Zhi, what are you going to do for lunch tomorrow?"

Yuzhi had already thought about it, and smiled when she heard the words, and said: "The last time I went to the vegetable butcher shop, I heard from a daughter-in-law that the vegetable butcher shop is further ahead. There is a river pier, and there are fishermen on the pier who specially row boats to sell seafood. , let’s go to the pier tomorrow morning to buy some seafood, and cook some seafood at noon, so that you can change your taste!”

After Qingcha heard this, she squinted her eyes and smiled - Yuzhi was so kind to her, whenever she prepared delicious meals for the young master, she never forgot to leave a portion for her.

She suddenly remembered that she had run out of balm to wipe her face, so she said: "Yu Zhi, I have run out of balm to wipe my face, let's go shopping tomorrow, let's go to the rouge gouache shop by the way!"

"Okay, I just have to buy some balm for my lips!" Yuzhi smiled.

Qingcha raised her eyes to look at Yuzhi opposite.

There are candlesticks on the small kang table, the candles are dimly lit, making Yu Zhi's small face white and tender, with thick eyebrows and long eyelashes, straight nose bridge and bright red lips, she is really beautiful.

Qingcha couldn't help laughing: "Let me tell you, you were born with this appearance, you don't need to use anything but moisturizing balm, but you like to dress up!"

Yuzhi carefully threaded the needle and locked the side: "I just like rouge, gouache, powder and eyebrows. They are delicious and fun! It's just that the money is limited, so I dare not buy more."

Qingcha smiled and said, "We also like beautiful jewelry and clothes, can't we afford them!"

Hearing this, Yuzhi stopped what she was doing, and if she felt regretful, she said: "This is really..."

She thought about it, and soon became happy: "However, we can slowly save money to buy jewelry, and we can make dresses by ourselves!"

Both of them are ingenious, and when they see other people wearing good-looking styles, they can basically make them look like them.

Qingcha nodded: "Based on what you've said, I think we're doing pretty well!"

She smiled and looked at Yu Zhi who was concentrating on hemming the second son's white silk jacket, and felt that she was really lucky to have a friend like Yu Zhi as her companion.

Yuzhi never seems to know any worries, nor is she afraid of anything. No matter how bad the environment is, Yuzhi can try her best to make her life more interesting, more comfortable and more happy.

When she is with Yuzhi, she really doesn't have to worry about anything, just listen to Yuzhi, anyway, Yuzhi is kind by nature, although she is smart, she never cheats others.

Thinking of this, Qingcha felt a little melancholy: "Yu Zhi, if you were a man, how wonderful it would be!"

Yuzhi was a little surprised, and looked up at Qingcha with a smile: "Huh? Do you want to marry me?"

Qingcha nodded earnestly: "Marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat. I think if you are a man, I will marry you and live a good life!"

Yuzhi felt that the idea of ​​Qingcha was really strange, she laughed and said, "Although I'm not a man, if you want, I can always take care of you!"

"Really?" Qingcha looked at Yuzhi with sparkling eyes.

Yuzhi smiled and nodded, her eyes were as bright as black gemstones in the candlelight.

She is born full of motherhood and love, and Qingcha depends on her like a puppy or child, and she also likes Qingcha's dependence.

Qingcha breathed a sigh of relief: "Hey, I've been counted on for life, and I can eat, sleep, and think about nothing in the future!"

Yuzhi: "..."

Why did she feel that the conversation between herself and Qingcha had turned in a strange direction!
At this time, Yuzhi had finished locking the hems, so she tied the silk thread into a knot, took out the scissors and cut the thread, and then began to inspect the completely finished white silk jacket.

At this moment, A Lan's somewhat cautious voice came from outside: "Yuzhi, the second son told you to come over!"

After hearing this, Yuzhi hurriedly agreed.

She carefully folded the white silk jacket that was about to be sewn, and got off the embroidered couch. While arranging the skirt, she told Qingcha: "I will come as soon as I go. If you want to sleep, go back to your room and sleep. Tomorrow, the young master will ask you to sleep." Go to Dian Mao, we have to get up early to serve!"

Qingcha said with a smile: "When the time comes, you'll wait for the young master to wash up, and I'll prepare the young master's breakfast in the kitchen, okay?"

Yuzhi glanced at her, and said softly: "You should go to the young master for a while!"

Qingcha stretched out her arms and hugged her small waist: "Yuzhi, I just follow you!"

She is not smart and doesn't like to use her brain, but her intuition is very accurate. She thinks that Yuzhi is reliable, and she plans to depend on Yuzhi for the rest of her life!
Yuzhi raised her hand and tapped Qingcha on the head, and then went out with the folded white silk jacket.

Although it was raining lightly outside, from the west wing to the main room, it happened to be possible to walk through the corridor, but it was not rained.

Lin Jia was studying "The Law of the Great Zhou" in the inner study, when she heard Yuzhi's voice, she looked up.

The inner study room was lit with a red gold chandelier, and more than a dozen candles were burning together, illuminating the entire inner study room brightly.

Lin Jia saw the white silk jacket in Yuzhi's arms at a glance, her long eyes flickered.

Yuzhi was very clever, and found that Lin Jia was looking at the white silk jacket she was holding in her arms, so she smiled sweetly and held it up for Lin Jia to see: "My lord, the white silk jacket newly made for you by this servant, the white silk jacket is the best. Songjiang white silk, the cotton inside is the best Songjiang Qingshui cotton, try it on!"

Hearing Yuzhi's crisp and pleasant voice, Lin Jia felt that his heart seemed to be immersed in the warm spring water, comfortable and relaxed, he got up and untied the black satin embroidered belt, took off the moon white brocade robe on his body and handed it to Yuzhi .

Yuzhi put his moon-white brocade robe on the back of the brocade chair, unfolded the white silk jacket in her hand, and helped Lin Jia put it on.

Although Lin Jia was only 16 years old, she was tall and slender, and Yuzhi had to stand on tiptoe to help him dress well.

When Yu Zhi went over to help Lin Jia arrange the white silk jacket, Lin Jia smelled the elegant fragrance of wintersweet on Yu Zhi's body, and asked softly, "Do you like the fragrance of wintersweet?"

Yuzhi was busy with her hands, her voice was brisk: "I like mint scent!"

She sniffed the smell of mint on Lin Jia's body, squinted her eyes and smiled: "It's the smell of your son. When I was in the Prince's Mansion, I picked some mint in the garden and made several mint sachets and Where's the mint bag!"

Lin Jia was a little puzzled, lowered her eyes and thought.

Yu Zhi looked at Lin Jia, and realized that she had made the white silk jacket a little too big. Lin Jia was really too thin, and she couldn't just eat and drink well, so she really had to find a way to make him suffer!
Lin Jia still didn't know that Yuzhi was thinking about how to force her to practice in summer and winter in winter, but she just felt that the white silk jacket was light and warm, and it was very comfortable to wear, making her whole body warm.

He wanted to say thank you Yuzhi, but unfortunately he was always taciturn and didn't know how to say those nice words, so he asked after a while, "Yuzhi, do you know how to read?" I'll teach you if you don't know how to read!
Yuzhi smiled triumphantly: "This servant can read!"

Even in the Prince's Mansion of Xingping County, there are very few maids who can read and write like her, so Yuzhi is a little proud, thinking that she is a model of self-taught.

Lin Jia glanced at Yu Zhi, raised her hand to her nose, coughed lightly, and asked again: "Can you write?" If not, I'll teach you!

Yuzhi smiled even more proudly. Seeing that the pen, ink, paper and inkstone on the desk next to her was complete, she glanced at Lin Jia, and then looked at the desk: "My lord, let me write a few words with your pen."

Lin Jia: "...Okay!"

Yuzhi rolled up her sleeves, walked to the desk with great ambition, took a piece of Xuelang paper and spread it on the desk, pressed it with a Duyu paperweight, then picked up the Zihao pen resting on the inkstone, dipped some ink carefully, and started Write on snow wave paper.

Lin Jia approached unconsciously, and found that Yu Zhi wrote "Yu Meiren" written by Jiang Jie in the previous dynasty.

He stood aside and chanted this poem in his heart:

"A young man listens to the song of rain upstairs, and the red candles are dimmed. The middle-aged man listens to the rain in the boat, the river is wide and the clouds are low, and the wild goose is called the west wind. Now he is listening to the rain under the monk's hut, and the temples are already stars. Sorrows and joys are always merciless. Before the first step, bit by bit Until dawn."

The smile on Yuzhi's face also disappeared, and she wrote intently amidst the sound of the dripping rain outside.

Her handwriting was practiced on the sand with a small stick by herself. It is more like official script, but it is very beautiful. Although it is a bit immature, it is not bad.

After writing this poem, Yuzhi turned her head and looked at Lin Jia proudly: "My lord, how about the servant girl's writing?"

Lin Jia nodded, reluctantly said: "...It's okay..."

His "not bad" was enough to make Yuzhi happy, she leaned over and carefully blew the ink on the Xuelang paper, and said: "Tomorrow I will frame this paper and stick it in my room!"

She was so complacent, she was negligent for a while, instead of calling herself "servant", she said "I".

But Lin Jia didn't care. He stared at the song "Poppy" written by Yu Zhi, feeling an inexplicable sadness in his heart, but he didn't understand why.

After waiting for Lin Jia to wash and wash, Yuzhi was making the bed and spreading the quilt when she suddenly heard Lin Jia's voice from behind: "You...stay here tonight..."

Yuzhi: "..."

Her back became stiff, and she turned around stiffly for half a day, and looked at Lin Jia with a fake smile: "Your...Young Master, this servant is only...ten...14 years old..."

Hearing this, Lin Jia's face instantly turned red, even her ears were red, and her long and beautiful eyes became watery.

(End of this chapter)