Han Rui got up as usual, dressed and went out to wash up, but he was a little more rough while washing up.
If we hadn't known that he was an elder of the Xue Ji clan, we would have thought that he was just a wild man walking in the mountains.
From the moment he opened the door, Han Rui felt that there were many pairs of eyes looking at him dangerously.
But how could he show any flaw? After washing up and pretending not to notice, he returned to the woodshed and started sorting the firewood.
After a while, Fat Chef also got up.
Xue Wuchen wanted to get up with Han Rui, but Han Rui stopped him.
Unlike Han Rui, Xue Wuchen was too young to get up so early.
You have to be meticulous when acting.
Han Rui told Xue Wuchen to let him get up after Fat Chef got up.
After Fat Chef left the house, Xue Wuchen slowly got up.
After gathering their strength, the three of them began to get busy.
Xue Wuchen originally went to the woodshed to have a look, but Han Rui winked at him and asked him to go back to the kitchen.
After all, sharing such a small woodshed with two people is a bit too luxurious.
When Xue Wuchen returned to the kitchen, help had already arrived.
Fat Chef's eyes lit up when he saw Xue Wuchen approaching, and he hurriedly greeted him.
"Oh, you came just in time. There are still not enough helpers in the kitchen."
Then he handed Xue Wuchen a basket of potatoes and asked him to peel them.
"I don't think you can use two people in your woodshed. How about you help in the kitchen?"
Xue Wuchen took the potatoes and said, "Okay, my father just happened to say so. If he gets tired, I will switch to chopping firewood for him, and the two of us will help you in turn."
"Oh, what a handsome young man!"
Most of the kitchen helpers hired by the housekeeper are older women, and they can't even walk when they see a young man like Xue Wuchen.
"What's the boy's name?
Where do you live?
Are you married?"
Xue Wuchen rolled up her sleeves and sat down with the lady, saying, "My name is Liu Yu. I live in a village in the south. I'm not married but I have a fiancée."
The aunt let out a sigh of regret and said: "What a handsome young man, I still want to propose a marriage to you."
Xue Wuchen chuckled and said, "Thank you, aunt. My fiancée and I have a good relationship, so I won't bother aunt."
"Ouch!"
The woman next to Xue Wuchen said: "Look at how sweet this kid's mouth is. He looks like an aunt with every mouthful, unlike others who look like a grandma with every mouthful."
"How does aunty look like grandma?"
Xue Wuchen looked at that person's face and said angrily: "If I weren't afraid that aunt would think I was superficial, I would have called aunt sister!"
There was a burst of laughter and laughter in the kitchen. Xue Wuchen had a cheerful personality and soon chatted with them.
Xue Wuchen looked at the smiles on their faces and thought it was time to get down to business.
Lowering his head and picking vegetables, he asked casually, "Hey, ma'am, when do you think His Highness will come?"
"When I came here today, I met some officers and soldiers at the back door who came to talk to the housekeeper," the aunt recalled. "I heard that he said that the monarch wanted to pray for His Highness, so he could only come at noon."
Xue Wuchen chuckled and said, "The king is so kind to His Highness. Alas, I have never seen what Your Highness looks like."
"Hey" the aunt was happy and said: "Look what you said, it sounds like we have seen it before..."
Before she could finish her words, she was interrupted by someone on the side: "We sometimes see the eldest prince and the third prince on the street, but the second prince doesn't leave the palace once a year. I really haven't seen him before."
"If you are curious, you can go to the door and wait for His Highness to take a look when you are done with your work." The lady next to her paid attention to Xue Wuchen, "Or when there is an opportunity to deliver food to His Highness, you can go and have a look."
Xue Wuchen's eyes lit up instantly, but he couldn't show it yet and said: "Really?"
"What's so true about this?
Anyway, we’ll have nothing to do after we finish our work in a while, right Fat Chef?”
The fat chef was cooking. Hearing this, he turned around and said with a smile: "Yeah, go and see if you want to see it. What's the point?"
"Young people are very curious, unlike us who lose interest in everything when we get older."
Xue Wuchen smiled sheepishly, and the movements of his hands sped up involuntarily.
If His Highness Ruiye moves into the mansion today, then maybe they will also move Yuxianzao here today.
Although Han Rui and he were unable to defeat the secret guards in the mansion, there was no harm in taking a look first and then waiting for the opportunity.
When the work was almost over, Xue Wuchen stood up and said, "I'm going to help my dad chop wood."
The time was coming soon. Fat Chef's cold-repelling soup had been brewing for almost a day and a night. Now was the critical moment. He waved his hand to Xue Wuchen without saying a word.
Xue Wuchen came to the firewood shed, and at this time Han Rui was visiting the firewood he had just chopped.
He pretended to be excited and said to Han Rui: "Dad, my aunt just told me that after I finish my work in a while, I can go outside to see His Highness to please you."
Han Rui was stunned for a moment, then said: "Don't delay your work."
Xue Wuchen knew what he meant and said: "I know, I know, I'll come back after seeing it."
When it was almost noon, Xue Wuchen finished the work in the woodshed, went around the kitchen again, said goodbye to them, and slipped out through the back door.
Servants could not go through the front door, so Xue Wuchen took a detour to the back door, which connected to the countryside.
Xue Wuchen walked around in a long circle before arriving at the main entrance.
There are already many people on the two streets near the main entrance.
They all came here to please me today.
His Highness Ruiye has lived here for more than two hundred years, so he naturally likes money much more than the two previous Highnesses.
Although Ruiye's mansion is in the wilderness, there are many officials who came to congratulate her today. In fact, they all came because of Ning Yu's face.
Because Ruiye was not in good health and was not suitable for welcoming guests, these officials waited until the gifts were delivered before going back.
In the middle of the road, there is a red cloth that was laid out at an unknown time.
The red cloth stretches from the Imperial City to Ruiye Mansion.
The people in the city were shocked by Rui Ye's battle out of the city.
The monarch looked down from the platform in the morning and saw the red envelope stretching from a distance. He frowned slightly and asked the guard next to him: "What is that?"
"This is the red road prepared for His Highness to leave the city today."
The monarch's eyebrows furrowed even deeper. Although it was worthy of celebration that Ruiye had just left the city at this moment, spreading the red cloth from the imperial city to the suburbs would be too extravagant and wasteful.
"Who prepared this?
Such extravagance and waste!
"
"Your Majesty..." The guard glanced at the angry monarch, lowered his voice and said, "Master Ning prepared it..."
…
For a long time, the king did not speak.
Naturally, what Ning Yu prepared would not use money from the treasury...
"Forget it, who made him rich..."
Ning Yu's business was spread throughout the Winter Dynasty, and he was involved in almost all industries, large and small.
Only one year's taxes could support half of the officials of the Winter Dynasty.
It was also for this reason that the monarch showed great respect to Ning Yu.
People from three floors inside and three floors outside surrounded both sides of the road, giving Xue Wuchen no chance to enter the perimeter.
Fortunately, he was tall, so he found a step on the nearby house, held up the pole and looked at the other end of the road.
The crowd stood lively for a long time. It was already noon, but no one wanted to go home for dinner.
Xue Wuchen didn't understand what the people around him were doing, so he just stood on the steps with difficulty and looked at the other end of the road.
I looked up at the sky, the sun was shining brightly, and it was already noon.
While Xue Wuchen was thinking why His Highness Ruiye hadn't come yet, he heard a burst of firecrackers.
What followed was the lively laughter of the people at the other end of the road.
For no reason, Xue Wuchen became nervous.
In the blink of an eye, a blurry shadow appeared at the other end of the street.
“Look, look, look!
Your Highness is here!
"
The crowd, which had been waiting for a while, suddenly exploded.
Then people began to squeeze in front. When Xue Wuchen saw them squeezing, he also squeezed in front.
Because he was tall and strong, he actually squeezed to the front.
The shadows were getting closer and closer. The first one was a man riding a horse, followed by His Highness Ruiye's carriage.
And the person at the front is a face that Xue Wuchen will never forget in his life.
Ning Yu led the team on horseback and kept walking towards Ruiye Mansion. He looked at the people around him with no expression on their faces. Only when he occasionally looked back, there was a hint of warmth on his face.
Not long after, the team had arrived in front of Ruiye Mansion.
There was a man behind the carriage who kept throwing something down. Xue Wuchen only glared at Ning Yu and did not see clearly what was being thrown among the crowd.
It wasn't until he was rushed to the front of the carriage by the surging crowd that he could clearly see what the man was throwing down.
He was shocked as soon as he saw it clearly.
He had thought that His Highness was very rich, he was a prince after all.
At first, when Fat Chef said he would give out wedding money, he didn't take it seriously, thinking it was just copper coins or something.
result…
The golden leaves falling down at that moment really opened Xue Wuchen's eyes.
He has never seen such a arrogant Xi Qian in his life.
Even if he is a prince, he can't be so arrogant, right?
The big bag in the hand of the man behind the carriage was full of gold leaves, and it wasn't just a thin layer of gold, it was gold leaves that had been scattered and fell straight down.
Because Xue Wuchen was at the front, he was taken directly to the person who was throwing money.
Several golden leaves fell directly onto Xue Wuchen's head.
And judging from the way they came along just now, the gold leaves may have been scattered all the way...
Not long after, the man behind the carriage scattered all the gold leaves in a large bag, put the gold embroidered cloth bag into his arms, waved his hand and said: "Okay, okay!
there is none left!
Spread to both sides!
Your Highness is coming out!
"
The crowd immediately dispersed to both sides, and Xue Wuchen also took this opportunity to sneak to the other side of the road.
He held four or five gold leaves in his hands and stared closely at the person on the red horse.
That man seemed to be in a very happy mood, and he was wearing a bright red shirt today. For those who didn't know, he thought this was a procession to welcome a bride.
Ning Yu first glanced back, then a smile appeared on her lips, she stretched her long legs and got off the red horse.
He was in high spirits at the moment, as if something great and good had happened.
Arriving next to the carriage, the coachman immediately came down respectfully, then took a horse stool and placed it under the carriage.
The sedan chair is a very gorgeous one. The horse stool alone has six steps.
Ning Yu took three steps and then stepped onto the carriage.
He bent down slightly and buckled the wooden frame of the carriage.
"Your Highness, we're home."
There was a sound from inside the carriage, and then Ning Yu's slender fingers opened the stretch door curtain on the carriage, and then slowly opened the curtain.
Jade stretched out her hand inside and immediately welcomed Rui Ye out.
This scene was seen by the people, and some good people said: "Hey! I thought who this person is, it turns out to be a eunuch!"
"
"What's wrong with the eunuch? The eunuch can get on the bloody horse and guide His Highness, can you?"
Some people couldn't bear to hear it and retorted.
The man sneered and said, "I can't, but I am a real man, not like a eunuch, a hermaphrodite who is neither male nor female."
After saying that, he ignored the others, picked up two gold leaves in his hands, squeezed through the crowd and walked out.
"Go home and have a drink..."
The bad-mouthed person turns around and leaves after saying the hurtful words, completely ignoring the person he hurt with his words, and he feels that no one can hear what he said.
When he walked into a small alley, a gust of cold wind blew by. He actually thought it was a sudden change in the weather, so he wrapped his clothes tightly and spat: "This damn weather..."
Before he could finish his words, his throat was clamped by a strong hand.
At noon, the roosters fed by individual households crow, and a man's soul falls into hell as the rooster crows.
A dark figure walked out of the alley, and a secret guard threw the two gold leaves that he pulled out from the man's hand to the ground, and then disappeared under the sun.
Ning Yu became an eunuch, and the secret guards never laughed at him.
Of course, if others laugh at Ning Yu, they will only die.
At the same time, Rui Ye held Ning Yu's hand and came out of the carriage.
He was wearing thicker clothes today than he was wearing in the room, but because there was a robe outside, he couldn't tell.
The moment he came out, he squinted his eyes. At this time, the sun was shining fiercely on his face.
Throughout the year, he had few opportunities to bask in the sun, and most of the time, he stayed in his room.
The sun is shining brightly today and he is in a good mood.
Ning Yu helped him out of the carriage, waved to the people symbolically, and went straight back to Ruiye Mansion.
Xue Wuchen, who was on the side, looked at the scene, and his heart surged into waves.
His Highness watched it...but...that's it?
Just him?
Xue Wuchen looked at the long road behind, almost all of which were boxes of various kinds.
Xue Wuchen was unwilling to give in. He didn't leave either. He stayed at the door. After entering a box, he wanted to feel it.
But until the last box entered the house, he still didn't feel any breath of Yu Xian Zao.
The doubts in his heart made him a little dazed, and he almost walked into the house from the main entrance.
Fortunately, the person standing in front of the house now is not an outsider, but a housekeeper receiving guests.
When the housekeeper saw that the person was Xue Wuchen, he frowned and pushed him away, scolding him in a low voice: "Go, go, you, a kitchen helper, are you worthy of walking through the front door?
Get back to the back door and get back to work!
"
Fortunately, the housekeeper didn't have any evil intentions. He kicked Xue Wuchen down and continued to welcome guests.
After Xue Wuchen went down, he walked slowly towards the back door.
After walking for a while, I felt a pair of eyes looking at me from behind, and then I tightened my body and quickened my pace.
Fortunately, he was not the one who came out to please anyone in the mansion. When he was at the back door, there were several servants walking in with smiles on their faces.
Xue Wuchen returned to the kitchen, and his aunt greeted him: "You're back?
Are you happy?"
Xue Wuchen chuckled, "I got it, thank you, ma'am!"
After hearing him say that he had got it, the aunt immediately wiped water on her body and asked in a low voice: "How much did you get? Tell me about it."
Xue Wuchen didn't say anything. He smiled and held the golden leaf's hand, stretched it out to the aunt's eyes and opened it.
"Hey! Good guy!"
Xue Wuchen stretched out his hand again in an instant, smiled and ran towards the woodshed behind.
Already in the woodshed, he heard the aunt's shout: "Golden Leaf! I'll be a good boy! If I had known about Golden Leaf, I would have gone too!"
"
“The gold leaves are still so thick!
There are five in total!
"
The excitement was still coming, and Xue Wuchen had returned to Han Rui at this moment.
Han Rui had finished chopping firewood for the next three days and was lying next to the haystack with his eyes closed and taking a nap.
After hearing the movement, he opened his eyes slightly and saw Xue Wuchen coming in.
First, he surprised Han Rui at the gold leaves he picked up outside, and then said to Han Rui in a low voice with a frown on his face: "I didn't sense Xian'er's aura."
Han Rui's face, which was pretending to be happy, instantly darkened.