Just when Tian Zhuo and Mei Lan couldn't stand it anymore, they began to persuade or prepare to stop Zizhu's stall.
"Zizhu, it's okay."
A cool and refreshing voice of command floated in the wind.
Manager Wang was like a frightened bird. Hearing another voice from behind the wall of people, he immediately took out the short bamboo flute used to call the guards urgently without even hearing the content.
This is a method that Danyang and Mr. Xu came up with together:
The sound of the flute is clear and crisp, and if played hard enough, it can be heard throughout the princess's residence. And when calling for help, it can also make intruders somewhat fearful. Not to mention, in addition to inviting foreign aid, there are many other uses.
It's just that at this moment, the flute holder Danyang and his party encountered was the outermost kind - he could only shout for help and didn't know how to control his strength.
For a moment, Danyang felt as if he had shot himself in the foot.
She was going to see her mother, but what she was doing now... Even without Zizhu's reminder, she herself was as bright as a mirror, and it was not appropriate to wander around Mingxia Residence!
Fortunately, there are capable people around me at the moment.
"Han Qinglan!"
Before Danyang could say the instructions, Han Qinglan quickly raised his hand to pinch a branch, then turned his wrist and knocked the thing out of Steward Wang's hand.
It was probably due to the fact that the two of them had spent almost every day together recently. This kind of tacit understanding and understanding made both Danyang and Han Qinglan unable to help but be stunned afterwards.
The moment the bamboo flute fell, the two of them glanced at each other involuntarily, and then immediately changed their gazes.
Except for the two people in Danyang, not to mention Zizhu Tianzhuo and others, even the person who got hit, Manager Wang, didn't know what happened. He behaved in an empty manner and stretched his hands shaking like fallen leaves to his mouth.
"Huh-huh?! Dizi, where's the flute?!"
"...Ahem, Manager Wang, right? You did a good job before. What's your surname, Wang? What's your first name? Where are you responsible for?"
At this time, Danyang had seized the opportunity to step out of the moon and stand in front of Manager Wang.
Although he was in a state of embarrassment and there was a faint smell of strangeness around him, his natural arrogance and nobility, as well as those unforgettable eyes, even a small steward like Wang Guanshi who could only sneak into the governor's hall could recognize him immediately. come out.
"Hey?! You, you, you..."
After Wang Guanshi talked incoherently for a long time, Danyang sighed secretly, turned around and nodded to Han Qinglan:
"Mr. Han is making a joke. Please move to the flower hall and wait."
After finishing her words, without waiting for Han Qinglan to respond, she turned around and asked Mei Lan to lead the way. After a brief pause, she raised her hand to call Tian Zhuo, whispered a few instructions, and then left with Zizhu.
The four people who stayed in place, except for Manager Wang who was still messy in the wind, could not help but look at each other and then smiled helplessly.
"Master Han, please."
Although Mei Lan deeply felt that her princess was always coming up with her own ideas, at the same time, she couldn't stand some of the actions of this young Treasury official - his frivolous and laissez-faire behavior of leading his master around in private.
But since she had the princess's orders, she would not treat the guests rudely and bring down the face of the princess mansion and the princess.
Han Qinglan also responded with a very polite "Thank you" to the little maid in front of her who raised her hand in a polite manner. Naturally, she did not miss the secret annoyance and displeasure between her eyebrows.
However, this slightness is so ordinary to him, and it is not even as good as the breakfast time he has to face every morning at home.
In contrast, there are such forbearing servants around Danyang? This somewhat surprised him and he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows secretly.
On the other hand, after Tian Zhuo whispered a few words to Manager Wang according to Danyang's instructions, he turned around and returned to the two people who were about to go to the flower hall in the outer courtyard.
"Master Han, please stay. My princess has ordered that if you want to take a bath and change clothes, you can follow me to Qingsongyuan first."
Han Qinglan's surprise this time was completely undisguised.
"Huh? What did your princess order?"
Without waiting for Tian Zhuo to repeat, he was already thinking to himself with a wry smile and said:
"Haha, let a foreigner just bathe and change clothes in the princess's mansion so casually? Tsk, should I say that your princess is too flattering to me, or do you want Jinshang to take action and vent her anger on her behalf?"
Tian Zhuo had not been here for a long time, so naturally he couldn't understand the true meaning of Han Qinglan's words, especially the second half of the sentence. But his upright temperament prevented him from thinking too much and just replied:
"Do you think the princess is too informal? But that doesn't matter. As for you, when I was still in my hometown, not to mention the clothes you wore looked like they had been soaked in sour water..."
Just as he said the rude words, Tian Zhuo suddenly reacted and suddenly remembered that he had heard that the person opposite seemed to be a high-ranking official? He seems to be a military attaché!
"Uh, I'm not, I didn't mean to..."
Seeing the other person's description becoming darker and darker, the little maid standing by her side had a bitter look on her face.
Han Qinglan laughed secretly, and was so amused by the child's panic that she immediately grinned. Stretching out his hand, he patted the boy's shoulder, pulled him closer and said with a smile:
"You have a pretty good nose, kid. I deliberately chose one with a lighter smell. Your princess didn't notice it, but you smelled it too?"
"Go on, what exactly did you want to say in the second half of your sentence?"
As he spoke, he motioned with his eyes to Danyang's maid to lead the way for him, and at the same time quietly brought Tian Zhuo along with him.
Tian Zhuo lived on the streets as a child and was beaten violently for irritating a drunken military attache. Deep down in his heart, he had always resisted and feared those who practiced martial arts.
Even if he went to work as a tavern servant in the future, he would be exposed to more things. On the surface, he tried hard to overcome his old habit of trembling at the sight of a military attache, but the fear in his heart was not completely eliminated.
Therefore, because of the fear that touched the bottom of my heart, I lost my usual alertness. He was incoherent, shivering like a little quail that got wet.
Just as I was panicking in my heart, I saw the man suddenly smiled at me very kindly and stopped me in a very approachable manner. So when most of the fear was gone, he naturally obeyed Han Qinglan's request very smoothly.
"Well, that's right, even if you rolled in the mud and looked like a mud monkey, you could talk to the uncles and aunties under the tree at the head of the village, take a good bath at home, and change your clothes."
"Even if you don't have any money to give me, and I can help you with the work for half a day, or if your mouth is sweet enough, or more likely because you have a crush on me, it's not impossible to give it to you for free."
After Tian Zhuo got back to the topic, he gradually relaxed and became bolder again.
"Hey, if it weren't for the great disaster that year, I had to escape from the village to survive... The days were so comfortable at that time, how could it be like in the seemingly prosperous but cold capital of Chang'an. There were so many inexplicable rules, and everything was divided. Three, six, nine, etc., I think even those rich people and ladies and gentlemen who have no worries about food and drink are living uncomfortably."
"Actually, why bother? I heard that those young ladies who have not left the palace only behave in order to marry into a good family in the future, and they are not even free to eat. Although the princess is weird and regards etiquette as nothing, But when it comes to doing things according to her heart, I really admire her."
After Tian Zhuoxu was frightened, he also received Han Qinglan's non-stop encouragement, cheering and chatting, and actually kept talking almost all the way.
The topic has long gone to unknown places.
But Han Qinglan was reminded by these seemingly nonsensical words, and suddenly stopped her feet. After a moment of silence, she nodded and said:
"Well, what I said is right. So, may I ask, how to get to Qingsongyuan?"
It wasn't that he was too hesitant and repetitious, but that Princess Danyang was too out of the ordinary and didn't play by the rules.
And he suddenly remembered the string of words that Princess Danyang muttered when he was pulled into the princess's mansion.
Therefore, because it was too impolite to bathe and change clothes in the princess palace, and was impeached and removed by the censor, or directly killed by the emperor's anger, he sent secret guards to vent his anger, and when he was not bathing in the princess palace, he was impeached and removed by the imperial censor because of the sudden whim of Princess Danyang. , had to face greater difficulties with this embarrassing situation.
After repeated consideration between the two, he decided to face the desperate situation more decently, so as to be worthy of the food that helped him work hard to grow to such a big size.
