Daytime.
After listening to the play, Hu Zihan came to the wing, sat at the table and drank the tea prepared by Qianqiu Lou. Looking at the man in front of him, he felt a little nervous.
Liu Rumeng's face was much cleaner after taking off her makeup, and her long eyebrows were slightly raised, giving her a hint of charm.
So beautiful!
Hu Zihan's eyes were full of inevitable desire. She stretched out her hand to hold Liu Rumeng's slender palm, but the keen Liu Rumeng avoided it.
She looked at her empty palm, shook it vaguely in mid-air, and quickly took back her hold on the tea cup, with a natural look on her face, pretending that the action just now had never happened.
Of course Liu Rumeng would not expose it intentionally. He pulled his sleeves and then added some tea to Hu Zihan and his own tea cup.
Hu Zihan drank all the tea. The embarrassment and discomfort he felt just now were quickly covered up by the tea.
Liu Rumeng's scene today was in the morning, and it was still very early after it ended.
Hu Zihan looked at the light coming through the window, squinted his eyes, then turned to look at Liu Rumeng, and said affectionately:
"Rumeng, I love you. Are you willing to follow me into the house?"
Liu Rumeng was overjoyed. He did not expect that his plan would go so smoothly. After entering the General's Mansion, he could slowly plan some of his own affairs.
However, I heard earlier that the general's daughter was a romantic woman. Would she be so easily tempted?
Liu Rumeng raised her eyes and looked at the deep affection in the eyes of the person in front of her. She suddenly became suspicious and asked:
"Girl, in what capacity do you want to take me into the general's mansion?"
Hu Zihan thought he meant to agree, and a hint of secret joy flashed in his eyes, followed by an unnoticeable boredom.
She expressed her thoughts to Liu Rumeng.
"I can make you my good servant. I am not married yet, and you will be the highest status person in the house."
Yanchu State allowed women to have three husbands and four attendants. The three husbands were one main husband and two husbands, and the four attendants were two good servants and two minor servants.
In addition, there are some Tongfang or other male masters who have almost no status.
A good waiter can be regarded as a position of some status in the backyard.
In other words, what Hu Zihan said was true, but if Liu Rumeng looked carefully, he could find that she was hiding a lot of things.
For example, if you have an unmarried husband now and have a main husband and a side husband in the future, your status will be instantly reduced. Then you will still be bullied when you enter the general's mansion.
Another example is that although Hu Zihan is not married now, there are many men in his backyard.
It's not that she doesn't want to have a side husband, it's because her grandfather wants a high-status young master to join the family and use his in-law relationship to gain influence in the general's family.
Hu Zihan had neither fame nor military power, and there was no suitable young master willing to join the government, so the matter was delayed.
The husband's affairs were delayed, and Hu Zihan did not change his romantic nature, so he carried a room full of beautiful men to the backyard.
The four servants and countless low-ranking men were crowded in the backyard.
This promised position of good servant was only vacated by Hu Zihan, who was currently attracted to Liu Rumeng and went back to the backyard to belittle a disgusting man.
Women have been ruthless since ancient times.
I have become one of them. After a few days of freshness, I am afraid that I will be forgotten again.
Liu Rumeng realized that he was very scheming and would not let Hu Zihan get tired of him casually.
But what's the point of letting yourself be stuck with this kind of person for the rest of your life?
Hu Zihan took the peanuts on the plate and peeled them and ate them, thinking that the matter was settled and there was no need to run away, so he felt very relaxed and at ease.
Liu Rumeng nodded and lowered his eyes, seeming a little shy, but the darkness in his heart continued to spread, and even his eyes were covered with a gloomy color.
Now, he could finally see the true face of the person in front of him.
If she can't even give her a good identity when she likes her now, then what can she expect from her in the future.
In everything, you can only rely on yourself.
Even if Hu Zihan is really willing to welcome him into the house as a formal husband in the future, he will no longer put his hopes on her.
A dandy girl in the General's Mansion, an old and frail old man, if...
For the first time, dark thoughts emerged.
Thinking only for a moment, Liu Rumengzhen lowered her head slightly and made an embarrassed expression when she remembered that Hu Zihan was still waiting for her reply.
"Rumeng is overjoyed to be valued by a girl. But..."
Halfway through his words, Hu Zihan knew that this meant a polite rejection.
She didn't even bother to listen to Liu Rumeng's excuse. She stood up suddenly, looked at him with an unclear expression, and snorted coldly,
"You are an actor, and you are not much different from the Hwarang of the Flower House. You still want to have a higher status. What you don't want to do more is what others want."
After saying that, Hu Zihan rolled his sleeves and left angrily.
Liu Rumeng knew that she felt humiliated by the rejection. She also felt that as an actor, she was not qualified to reject her. Her self-esteem and face were greatly damaged.
The insulting words she said casually were probably her true words.
Oh, what a ridiculous person.
In the next ten days and a half, Hu Zihan is afraid that he will not come.
However, Liu Rumeng did not show the slightest sadness because of being verbally insulted and having his plan thwarted. He had long known that in this world, except for Bao'er, no woman was good.
He wouldn't waste his emotions on such a person.
Speaking of Bao'er, she should have arrived at this time.
With a bright smile in Liu Rumeng's eyes, she went back to her room to change into bright clothes, and then went to the specially reserved private room to wait for her distinguished guest.
When Rui Baoer arrived, there were many beads of sweat on her forehead and she was panting.
Liu Rumeng felt very distressed and took out her handkerchief to wipe her sweat.
"Why is Yuan sweating so much today?"
Rui Baoer laughed twice,
"Today, my aunt suddenly came to the house. When she saw me, she was stunned and wanted to grab me to go horse racing. I ran around for a while, but I was afraid that I would not be able to make the appointment with you in time, so I sneaked away. I ran upstairs and sweated a little. It doesn’t matter.”
Liu Rumeng's hand on Rui Baoer's forehead suddenly stopped and soon began to wipe it.
The look in his eyes dimmed a bit.
My aunt, isn’t she the current queen? Even though Baoer was able to run away without fear of punishment when he caught her and ran a horse race, one can imagine how favored she was.
Liu Rumeng once again realized how vastly different her identity was from Bao'er's.
"alright."
After wiping her sweat, Liu Rumeng pulled Rui Baoer to sit down at the table and handed her the fresh chestnut cake she had bought in line at Liji.
Rui Baoer took it unceremoniously, then took out a dragon-patterned wooden hairpin from his arms and handed it to him.
"I have become interested in wood carving recently, so I asked a master to teach me. Unfortunately, my hands are a little clumsy. This is the only finished product I have carved that can be seen by others. Don't dislike it."
Liu Rumeng took the wooden hairpin. Its shape was indeed not as delicate as the wooden hairpins bought outside, and there were some slightly raised sawdust at the edges.
