The Words of the Number One

We arrived at King Zhao’s Chengling’an after the Lantern Festival. Before entering the city, Lord Cheng Guang sent someone to pick us up, so we changed into the carriage in the mansion of Lord Cheng Guang and entered the mansion of Lord Cheng Guang. All these arrangements were very low-key. Presumably, except for those who paid attention, not many people knew that Ji Yu had come to Ling'an.

As soon as Ji Yu and I entered the mansion, we saw the girls were already waiting in the lobby. Seeing Ji Yu's appearance, everyone's eyes lit up, and a row of beauties stood in the courtyard looking forward, asking other servants in the mansion to turn their eyes from time to time. come over. After they saluted, Ji Yu walked up to Mo Xiao and asked, "I heard that you were injured when you were attacked?"

Mo Xiao shook his head and smiled confidently: "That little injury is nothing."

"Now it's different from before, don't be brave." Ji Yu said with a smile.

He greeted each other one by one, all the questions were business matters, but his tone was gentle as if he cared, even the least talkative Bi Lu timidly called a young master. When the greetings were over and he walked towards the inner hall, he walked in the front as usual, Xia Wan was on his nearest right, and the others followed behind in two rows.

Only at this moment did I have a sense of reality, he was still Young Master Ji Yu, and I was just one of his nine maidservants.

Zikou and I were walking side by side, she approached me and said softly, "Sister Azhi, you seem to be a little fatter."

I turned my face to look at her, and the naughty girl smiled and said, "I miss you so much, you are finally back!"

I also smiled and replied, "I miss you too."

Shen Baiwu lived in the largest Xueming Pavilion in Chengguangjun's mansion, while Ji Yu was arranged in the second largest Wen'er Court. These two places happened to be on the east and west of the mansion, and the distance between them was the furthest. Ji Yu went to meet Cheng Guangjun, and we dispersed to our respective residences as before. I put the clothes I brought back from Wu into the closet and put them away. Zikou stared straight at him and said excitedly : "Is this your new clothes for Chinese New Year? It's so beautiful!"

While tidying up my clothes, I asked her, "Do you know where Ji Yu and I went and what we did?"

Zikou's face drooped, she twisted her skirt and said, "My sisters won't tell me... There are many things my sisters won't tell me, I'm used to it."

Sure enough, she didn't know.

Thinking about the other girls, except for Xia Wan who knows more, they probably don't know the details, otherwise Changle will find out that Ji Yu and I are a fake couple, and they should find me unhappy at this time.

Seeing her listless, I comforted her, "Do you have any clothes you like? I'll give them to you."

Zikou's eyes lit up, then she shook her head, and she whispered, "Sister Azhi, you don't have many clothes, so you give them to me, it's not good."

Most of those clothes were made by Mo Lan with me. They are gorgeous and expensive, and I am afraid that I will not be able to wear them after I become a maid. They always remind me of the deception of Molan, so I don't really want to wear them.

I expressed that I wanted to give Zikou a piece of clothing as a New Year's gift, and Zikou happily picked out a piece of clothing. It was the pale pink embroidered golden lotus flower jacket that I picked up Ji Yu when I was in the evening clouds and the first snow.

I was stunned, but Zikou didn't notice, she liked this dress very much, and asked me eagerly if this one was okay. I remembered that she liked pink the most, so I smiled and said, "Okay, I'll give it to you."

Some things are better not to be attached to.

Be it the first snow, new clothes, or people.

Zikou was very happy to get the new clothes, and sat by the bed with me and chatted about the days when they came to Chengguangjun's mansion. When they were assassinated, Mo Xiao and Nan Su protected them. Mo Xiao and Nan Su's kung fu was very good, and the assassin's main target was Ji Yu, so they retreated after capturing Ji Yu and me.

Xia Wan took them to Ling'an to find Mr. Cheng Guang. Mr. Cheng Guang seemed to know Xia Wan very well, so he let them live in the house without saying a word.

As I listened, I thought of Cheng Guangjun.

Cheng Guangjun, Shen Baiwu, was the hostage with Ji Yu in the country of Yan, the one who survived the poisoning incident except Ji Yu and Yan Shizi, and now His Royal Highness King Zhao, who is newly enthroned, is the son of Shen Baiwu and his mother. younger brother.

Shen Baiwu used to be the son of Baiwu. As the son of Zhao Guo, he had a great reputation when he was young. He was brilliant, bright, open-minded and good at managing political affairs. He was once known as the number one son in the world.

He was deeply injured by the poisoning incident in Yan State. After returning from Yan State, he was lingering in bed and was in critical condition several times. So he asked himself to abolish his status as the eldest son, and elected his younger brother Shen Baifeng as the new eldest son. After the death of King Zhao, Shen Baifeng succeeded to the throne, and Shen Baiwu was named Cheng Guangjun.

Considering that Shen Baiwu is twenty-five years old this year, his younger brother, the new Zhao Wang, is not yet twenty years old, so he is really a young monarch.

"Did you get along well with the young master during this time?" Zikou's voice pulled me back from my thoughts, and I smiled and said, "Okay, why do you ask that?"

Zikou breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "When I was in Fan Kingdom, I always felt that you didn't like Young Master very much, and I was afraid that you would get angry."

"Have you ever seen your son angry?"

"Very little." Zikou thought for a while and shook his head. She counted with her fingers: "I met you four years ago. Sister Wan has been with you since she was a child, and the second longest sister is Lingshang, who started to follow you when Yan Kingdom fell. Sister Wan seldom talks to us. Talking about the young master, Sister Lingshang said that the young master has always had a good temper, as long as he is not sick, he will not be angry."

"Get ill?"

"Yes, young master occasionally gets sick. Once sick, young master's temper becomes very bad, even sister Changle dare not approach young master."

That was because he had been in a state of illness for a long time, and that illness brought him countless painful memories.

It's just that it was also used to test poison for Yan Shizi in the Yan Kingdom, why did Ji Yu recover as before, but Shen Baiwu is still weak? This is really puzzling.

On the second day when I came to Cheng Guangjun's mansion, I met Shen Baiwu.

Shen Baiwu hosted a banquet in honor of Ji Yu. Ji Yu's musical maids were famous in Kyushu, so the girls naturally had to prepare to play music. I, a useless idler, helped them clean their musical instruments and set up their scores. When I took the rosin and went back to the room, I saw the butler coming along with a young man on the corridor.

Looking at the butler's respectful attitude, he thought that this man was Shen Baiwu, the owner of the house.

So I gave way to the side of the road to salute, but I saw a pair of cloud boots parked in front of me in my narrow field of vision. I raised my head in some doubts, and I met the probing eyes of the man in white.

He was thin and tall, as if he could be blown away by a gust of wind. His face was almost morbidly pale, his eyebrows, eyes and lips were pale, his face lacked a trace of blood and he was dressed in white clothes. His whole person was like unmelted snow, with a fragile beauty.

Just like his name "Bai", the first impression of this person is that he is white from head to toe.

He looked at me coldly and said, "You look very unfamiliar, are you Ji Yu's new maid, Ah Zhi?"

I bowed my head and answered, "Yes."

"Ji Yu said you are very smart." He narrowed his eyes slightly and said, "Ji Yu doesn't often say that people are smart."

"It's probably because the other girls have special skills, and Mr. Cheng Guang will be able to see them later. But I don't have any special skills, so the young master can only say that I am smart."

"You are exactly the same as him." Shen Baiwu concluded lightly, with a bit of disgust in his tone. He seemed to lose interest, and turned away without waiting for my answer.

I looked at his thin white back as he went away, and heard that this Mr. Baiwu's temperament changed drastically after he came back from Yan Kingdom, and he seldom showed his face. From his tone just now, it seems that he doesn't like Ji Yu very much.

Are they not friends?

I took rosin to Lingshang and wiped the pegs on her pipa. It happened that Lai Ying, who was in the same room as her, was also in charge of most of Ji Yu's account books. When she saw me coming, she said to me: "Young master told me that you and Han Bo had studied accounts, so I handed over the secret accounts to you." I'll take care of it for you."

Dark account?

Seeing the surprised look on my face, Lai Ying nodded and said, "Yes, it is a secret account. For example, Han Bo's business is not owned by the young master on the surface, but in fact it is the property of the young master. These accounts are of great importance. Ah Zhi, the young master’s willingness to hand it over to you shows that he trusts you very much.”

I don't think Ji Yu and I have a relationship of mutual trust. Is it a new temptation for him to entrust me with such an important account?

I took a stack of accounts from Lai Ying, flipped through two pages casually, and sure enough, I used Yan Guo's counting method, and I also used the encryption and decryption method taught by Han Bo to read these chaotic words.

Ling Chang came over with her pipa in her arms, and said with a smile: "Lai Ying has to take care of the accounts, and we haven't been able to spare much time for practice recently. Now that Ah Zhi is here to help Lai Ying, the burden on Lai Ying is much easier."

After a pause, Lingshang turned to me again, and asked with some embarrassment, "Azhi, how is Han Bo? Ah, I didn't tell you, right? He is mine..."

"I know, it's your father." I replied, "Han Bo is in good health, and he is still waiting for you to send winter clothes back."

Lingshang was stunned for a moment, then with a happy expression on his face, he murmured that it's good, and then said with some regret: "It's been a long time since I saw my father, I really miss him. You can tell me about this man, it's weird not to see him, see you I get angry every day after seeing it."

She asked me to put down the account and sit in the room for a while, and then went to pour me some water to drink. Looking at her figure in a hurry, I asked Lingshang: "Why do you follow the young master?"

"Hahaha, if I say it, you should think I'm weird, but it's okay, Lai Ying is just as weird as me." Lingshang cast a look at Lai Ying, and Lai Ying shook her head in disgust.

"In the beginning, my father gave me to the young master to repay his kindness. The young master refused at first, but he insisted on it after I fell in love with him. Later, the young master accepted me. At that time, I loved the young master very much. Look at Changle's attitude towards the young master now. Attitude, I was worse than that at that time. It’s just that after a long time, I realized that there are so many people in Kyushu who love you, but no one except Mrs. Xin is waiting for you. Yes. I am a restless person by nature, and I am especially unwilling to stick to one world. Over the years, I have traveled around with my son to appreciate the scenery and folk customs of various places, and only then did I realize that the world is vast. I like this day."

Lingshang plucked the strings a few times with her fingers, and said, "Most women in this world hope to have husbands and children, and to have a harmonious family. There are really few people like me."

"How is it rare? So what if there is too much? Life is not lived by myself." Lai Ying took over the conversation, she was still sorting out the part of the accounts she was responsible for, and said while sorting out: "If I hadn't followed the son, I would have married by now People, who have spent their whole lives around children's boilers and stoves. A woman in charge of accounts and business? It will only make people laugh."

She moved her joints slightly, as if remembering something happy, and said with a smile: "When I said that I like to manage accounts, I thought the young master would laugh at me, but who knows that he directly entrusts me with all the accounts and never follows me?" I said women should do what they want. I will never get tired of this job for the rest of my life.”

I took a sip of water from the teacup and smiled back.

The kindness of knowledge and encounter, kindness and reinvention.

Ji Yu is indeed eclectic and has no prejudices. He can see the girls' talents and deepest desires, and he can use them and fulfill their desires, and gaining their complete loyalty is a win-win situation. He was initially curious about me, probably because he couldn't see my desire.

As for Mrs. Xin, Song Changjun mentioned this name to me. She was Ji Yu's childhood sweetheart cousin, one of the three beauties in Kyushu, and she had a marriage contract with Ji Yu since she was a child. Later, Ji Yu ran away and broke the contract, so she married Lord Qingning of Weiguo. Mrs. Xin passed away a few years ago and Mrs. Xin has been widowed ever since.

Song Changjun also said that he was Ji Yuzhen's favorite person.

That alone makes me really envious.