Spring Courtyard Forbidden Pet

Yun Zhui brought over a plain gauze gown with cloud patterns embroidered on the lapels and waistband, which was very similar to Li Xuan'an's plain gown.

Li Xuan was worried that those people had not left, and Ye Zhen would be easily discovered in this khaki slave outfit.

Ye Zhen didn't hesitate and followed Yun to a clean side room. She saw a bronze mirror and a comb in the room. She changed her clothes and simply tied her hair into a bun.

In the bronze mirror, the clothes would look bulky if they had more shoulder or waist, and would lose their flowing feeling if they had less. Ye Zhen couldn't help but be surprised at the fit.

I thought it was a random set, but now it seems that it was prepared specially for me. But how did he know his size?

Suddenly, she thought of the days in Baiyun Temple, when Li Xuan also knew her taste, and Liuxia said that the Second Master was very calculating and knew everything. Even so, Ye Zhen still felt her face turn red and her heart beat fast when she thought of him using his slender fingers to calculate her fatness and thinness.

I don't know when this dress was made.

Coming out of the wing, Yun Zhui respectfully led the way for her. Ye Zhen thought that the gauze was expensive and it would be bad to wear someone else's for free, so she said, "I'll ask someone to send the money over later. The gauze is inconvenient to wash and it's not easy to return it."

Yun Zhui's steps staggered. This dress did cost a lot of money, but...it sounded as if the second master of their family was very poor.

He also thought that since the Second Master had visited Ye Zhen's winery, he began to understand the importance of money. Although he had more money on hand during this period, it was still far inferior to the luxury of the room in the winery.

Yun Zhui puffed out his chest and said, "It's not a lot of money, Miss Second, don't worry about it."

"This huge garden belongs to our Second Master. We have hired workers to renovate it these past two days. We don't need to worry about the cost of a piece of gauze."

Ye Zhen's heart moved. This garden belongs to Li Xuan'an?

In his previous life, he didn’t even have money to buy medicine, so where did he get such a big house in such a good location?

Although they had arrived at the front yard and there were few workers on either side, Ye Zhen had seen them when she came out just now. How could this be called a renovation? It was clearly a land reclamation and no one had lived there before.

She couldn't figure out why Yun Zhui said this, she just felt that Li Xuan seemed to have many secrets.

After coming out of the garden, he saw Liuxia and Rongfei after walking a few steps. When they met, he realized that Li Xuan had someone send them a letter.

Ye Zhen breathed a sigh of relief.

"Those four were also taken away by the Embroidered Uniform Guards. I don't know if they confessed." Rong Fei was nearly stabbed in the heart by those four men at that time. Fortunately, Shen Du arrived with his men in time.

Ye Zhen suddenly had an idea. "Go find Zhiyan's brother and get as much information as you can. Hide him and find a chance to send him out of the capital."

Without further ado, Rong Fei set off immediately.

Ye Zhen and Liu Xia took a small path back to Changjie, where they ran into Meng Qianru who was returning to the palace after giving out porridge.

"This servant pays respects to the princess."

Ye Zhen knelt down and bowed. Now that Ye Yunsheng no longer worked in the Imperial Hospital, she was just a commoner and was not even worthy of touching Meng Qianru's skirt.

Yinxiang lifted the carriage curtain, and Meng Qianru's bright red Begonia skirt was particularly eye-catching in the sunset. Her face was hidden in the dark, but it did not prevent her from being dignified and friendly when she spoke, "I haven't seen Miss Ye for a long time. You have lost weight."

"Such a big thing happened to the Ye family. It's hard for you to hold on."

"If you need any help, just come to me."

Ye Zhen lowered her head, her tone slightly terrified, "Thank you, Your Majesty, for your sympathy."

Meng Qianru was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked, "This light gauze of yours... I remember that this material was given to the Second Master by His Majesty years ago."

Ye Zhen's body tensed up, she had not expected that this veil had such an origin.

With people coming and going, wouldn't Meng Qianru's words make people think more?

Ye Zhen made up her mind, "My Lord, this is far from the tribute. If you don't believe me, try it."

As she spoke, she was about to take off her coat. Yinxiang frowned and said, "The princess never touches anything that has touched others."

Ye Zhen paused, thinking back to the day when Baiyun Temple distributed porridge, someone bumped into Meng Qianru, and she had to rest because she burned the back of her hand. Then she thought again, when she first arrived at the city gate, Meng Qianru was not wearing this dress.

Meng Qianru didn't know that Ye Zhen had already thought of this, and smiled contemptuously, "I was wrong. The Second Master accepted it at that time to make clothes for Taoist Chen Buchu."

"But..." She drew out the tone, making Ye Zhen's heartstrings tense again.

"The style and pattern are very similar to the plain robe that Second Master wears."

Meng Qianru's tone was slightly low and her tone was very unhappy.

Ye Zhen found it difficult to explain herself. There were not many plain clothes in the shop, and the patterns were of various kinds. Even if they were made of the same color silk thread, the ladies would always embroider their favorite patterns, and rarely embroider cloud patterns or auspicious patterns.

How could she explain it so that it seemed like she had nothing to do with Li Xuan!

Before she could speak, Meng Qianru sighed, "This is not the place to talk. I am thirsty, so please come and have a cup of tea with me."

Ye Zhen had no right to say no.

The guards were standing outside the teahouse, so no customer dared to stay. The owner skillfully closed the door and cleared the place to serve Princess Pingyang.

Meng Qianru sat down at the big table by the window on the first floor. When tea was served, she brushed off the tea foam and lazily ordered, "Take off her clothes."

Ye Zhen's eyes shone, "What do you mean, Princess?"

Meng Qianru didn't even raise her eyelids, her whole body exuding the pride and majesty of a superior, "This princess has warned you many times not to harm the Second Master's reputation."

"Now it seems that these words have been heard by the dog."

"I sympathize with your situation. The decline of the Ye family has caused you to be unable to find a good family. I understand that. You want to cling to the powerful and raise your status so that you can live in the capital without being too embarrassed. I can turn a blind eye to this."

Meng Qianru put down the teacup, her almond eyes filled with anger, "But you should never, ever, provoke the Imperial Master."

"Yinxiang, what are you still standing there for? Take off your clothes!"

It was the first time that Ye Zhen saw the governor of Pingyang County angry. She felt like a bloody massacre with thousands of troops, and she seemed like a king standing on the top looking down at the ants.

Ye Zhen quickly dodged Yin Xiang and asked Meng Qianru, "It's just a piece of clothing. The Second Master didn't care about it. Why did the princess get so angry?"

Upon hearing this, Meng Qianru slammed the table and said, "His mercy is not an excuse for you!"

"Miss Ye Er, are you going to force me to call the guards in? If the doors and windows are wide open, I won't be able to save your face."

Ye Zhen shuddered. Being stripped of clothes in public was more painful than being tortured to death. From now on, she would not have the face to walk out of this door.

There were guards everywhere outside, and Princess Pingyang was not someone she could afford to offend.

Ye Zhen clenched her fists and pushed Yin Xiang away, "I'll do it myself."

Yin Xiang sneered, "It would have been better if you had known better earlier, so as to avoid getting the county lord angry."

"Don't you see what you are? You want to stick to me, aren't you afraid of dying without a burial place?"

Meng Qianru's face was full of disdain, as if Ye Zhen was some kind of dirty thing, and looking at her any longer would be an insult to her status, "This time it was just clothes, if you dare to tarnish the Second Master's reputation again, next time you will peel off more than just a layer of skin."

She spoke each word with great emphasis, as if it were poisoned, and Ye Zhen felt cold all over.

But she finally realized the fact that Meng Qianru was not interested in Li Xuan...

Oh, she can’t bear just a piece of clothing. If I tell her that this was made specially for her by the Second Master, and that the Second Master also bears the responsibility for her future illnesses, I wonder what the dignified and generous Princess Pingyang will do?

Ye Zhen felt happy, but she would never risk her own safety at this moment.

She quickly took off her outer garment, leaving only her pure white undershirt. Meng Qianru was still unwilling to give up, "Continue."