Since being adopted as a son by Yan Zhongying, Yu Yan has his own courtyard.
Emperor Qian was not in charge of things now. In the imperial city, Yan Zhongying had more power than the prince.
As Yan Zhongying’s adopted son, Yu Yan’s courtyard was naturally very spacious and grand. Especially as a eunuch with a rank, Yu Yan stayed in the front palace most of the time unless summoned by the noble masters.
Now Noble Concubine Jiang, who was in charge of the harem, couldn’t control these powerful eunuchs.
At this time, Yu Yan stayed in his own small study. The thin woman standing not far away, dressed like a palace maid, was Xiang Tan, a palace maid in the Palace of Peace and Harmony.
When she reported the previous contents, Yu Yan’s expression did not change. But when she said Ah Wu asked her about his movements, his hand that was reviewing the memorials paused in mid-air.
Because of Yu Yan’s pause, the wolf hair brush that was full of ink finally couldn’t absorb the cinnabar water, and a few red ‘plum blossoms’ bloomed on the memorials.
“She asked you about my movements?”
There was no emotion or anger in Yu Yan’s voice.
“It seems…it seems that the Master has picked up something lost by the Seventh Young Lady Ling, so she wants to express her gratitude.”
Xiang Tan lowered her head, and except for the hesitation just now, her tone did not fluctuate.
She didn’t know what the Master’s purpose was for letting her stare at the Seventh Young Lady Ling.
If it was said to be malicious, everything the Master asked her to do was beneficial to the Seventh Young Lady Ling.
If it was said to be goodwill, one of them was a eunuch who was sent to the palace to be castrated when he was young, while the other was a pearl that was lost and recovered by the Marquis’s Mansion. There was no intersection at all, so where did the goodwill come from?
Could it be that the Master was attracted by the Seventh Young Lady Ling’s beauty?
Xiang Tan had had such an idea before. Who made the young lady she served look so good, and her temperament even suppressed those young ladies who had been carefully trained by the noble families for more than ten years?
But nobles are nobles.
Even Yan Zhongying, who was powerful, dared not attack the daughter of the Marquis’s mansion. Unless he first destroyed the other party’s family and made the noble lady into nothing. Then, he could make her his own concubine.
In just a few breaths, many thoughts flashed through Xiang Tan’s mind.
But why should she think so much? As a slave, she only needed to obey the orders of her master.
Just to express her gratitude?
A hint of disappointment flashed through Yu Yan’s heart. He himself did not understand what he was disappointed about.
Perhaps deep down in his heart, he still hoped that Xiao Wu could recognize him. The reason why she asked Xiang Tan about her movements was to find out if she recognized him.
Just rejected it directly.
But when he opened his mouth, Yu Yan expressed a different meaning.
“Tonight at You time1酉时, yǒushí: 5-7 pm (in the system of two-hour subdivisions used in former times) , I will go to the plum forest to admire the moon.”
After saying this, Yu Yan fell silent.
Reason told him that with his current identity, it was not a good thing to have too much contact with Xiao Wu. But emotion told him that once was not enough. He wanted to see Xiao Wu a second and third time.
Anyway, she didn’t recognize him, right? Just treat it as seeing Xiao Wu a few more times as Yan Yu.
Yu Yan did not take back what he had just said. He began to look forward to meeting in the evening.
When Xiang Tan heard the Master’s words, she almost couldn’t help but raise her head in surprise.
Although the weather was getting colder now, it was not the time for plum blossoms to bloom, so whether it was day or night, the plum forest was always deserted and no one would go there easily.
At this moment, the Master told her that he would go to the plum forest to enjoy the moon tonight. He definitely didn’t really want to enjoy the plum blossoms and the moon. His real intention seemed to be to express his intentions today to her.
At the time of You, there was exactly one hour left before the curfew of the time of Xu2戌时: xūshí: 7-9 pm in the palace.
The Palace of Peace and Harmony was only half an incense stick away from the plum forest, which was enough for the Seventh Young Lady Ling to meet the Master.
Could it be that her guess was true?
At this moment, Xiang Tan had to believe that her master might really have some ulterior motives for an eleven-year-old girl.
***
“I heard that Deputy Eunuch Yan will go to plum forest to enjoy the moon at You time tonight.”
When delivering dinner, Xiang Tan suddenly said this.
From the moment Xiang Tan spoke, Ah Wu knew that her guess was correct.
The news of her brother’s death that her father had investigated was false. Everything was done intentionally by someone with ulterior motives. Because that person didn’t want her to know that ‘Yu Yan’ died and left another person alive.
In fact, the suspicion had already existed when her mother Mrs. Fan asked her to choose a maid. The life experience of the maid she named Hu Lu was so resonant that she wanted to force her to choose that girl as her maid.
There were very few people behind the scenes who could send someone like that who obviously came with a purpose but had no ill intentions to her side.
What followed was her comfortable life after entering the palace and being obviously taken care of.
Ah Wu was not a naive child. She would not think that her charm was so great that all the palace people in the Palace of Peace and Harmony were vying to serve her.
Finally, and most importantly, was the reaction of the person after she deliberately lost her purse.
Ah Wu wanted to cry with joy, but unfortunately, Xiang Tan was there, so she could only hide her excitement by lowering her head to eat.
He didn’t want to say it, so she pretended not to know.
Being able to see him was already a happiness stolen from God.
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