A month later, the group arrived at the royal capital.
Yue Lingxi's impression of this place is only limited to the words she heard in her parents' mouths when she was a child, when she was still young, she only knew that there was an uncle who was a big official in the royal capital, with infinite majesty and glorious lintel, but she didn't know why her mother asked her father to write a letter to borrow money from him when the rice jar at home was at its bottom, and her father was always sad.
At that time, she didn't understand the difference between concubines and concubines, and she didn't understand that human affection was the most despicable thing in the big family, and when she heard the news of that uncle later, the whole family had been exiled from the customs by him.
For the first time, she resented someone she had never met.
Now that she thinks about it, everything she has learned about the royal capital is like those little people behind the lantern stage, although they look like each other, but after all, they are only a small corner, and with the passage of time, they gradually yellowed and faded, and they can no longer see anything clearly, and now she is in a new and strange place, and it is also the most prosperous place in her homeland.
The long journey is finally over, and the separation is getting closer.
The carriage stopped at the empty Futai Street, and went straight ahead to the Outer Imperial City, and to the south was the civilian area, before Liuyin had carefully described the general situation of the royal capital with Yue Lingxizai, so she chose to get off here.
There is a way to send the king a thousand miles to say goodbye, Chu Xiang doesn't seem to have anything to say, from the beginning of entering the north gate, his eyes have not been taken away from the fold, Yue Lingxi estimated that he would use these things when he entered the palace for a while, so he didn't bother him, and he didn't make a sound until he got out of the car.
"From Mengcheng to the royal capital, there are many ways to be taken care of by the prince, Ling Xi is grateful in his heart, but he may not have the chance to see him again in the future, and I hope the prince will take care."
When he heard the words "no chance to say goodbye", Chu Xiang raised his eyebrows slightly-this word is used in a set of ways, it seems that he is not in vain.
Yue Lingxi saw that he didn't speak, so he saluted in front of the car through the curtain, and greeted Liuyin with his eyes, and then turned around and left, who knew that he stopped him after walking a few steps.
"Come back."
She walked for a moment, turned back suspiciously, but saw Chu Xiang leaning out of the inside, supporting the wall with one hand and holding a strip of blue silk with the other, and the thing hanging under her head shook in front of her, exquisite, clear, warm and charming.
It was the jade pendant he gave her when he was in Xiyi.
"As soon as I don't notice, you quietly put it back."
Chu Xiang pulled her closer, and a few slender knuckles were tied to the ribbon around her waist, "I said that you and I exchanged it, remember clearly?"
” Yue Lingxi said in a daze: "Got it." ” Chu Xiang showed satisfaction at this time: "Okay, let's go." ” Watching Yue Lingxi walk away with his burden, Liuyin breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart, he was afraid that something would happen between the two of them in the past month, Yue Lingxi took advantage of this to entangle Chu Xiang, who knew that she walked crisply, and she had no intention of entanglement with Chu Xiang at all, she was really a decisive and atmospheric girl, and he had spent the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain before.
Thinking of this, he silently withdrew his gaze, bent over and asked softly, "Your Majesty, do you want to return to the palace immediately?"
” Chu Xiang put the curtain back in the car, and his voice was no longer soft: "Go back to the palace, Xuan Pei Zhao will see you." ” Master Pei?
His Majesty has just come back and is in such a hurry to summon him, what is he doing?
Is it still for the last time I checked?
Liuyin didn't know the bottom of his heart, and he didn't dare to ask more, so after answering in a low voice, he drove to the outer imperial city.
Yue Lingxi on the other end came to the largest mansion in the city.
She had thought before that the royal capital was so big, and the clues she had at hand were very limited, and it was almost impossible to find Duanmu Zheng in a short time, and it was inevitable to live here for a long time, so it was definitely not cost-effective to stay in the guest house, so the only way to rent a small courtyard was to rent a small courtyard.
She privately learned from Liuyin that the laws of the Chu State stipulate that any industrial transaction must be guaranteed by teeth, which is safe and reliable, so she came here.
Eight cypress doors are open to the street, the six-layer bucket arch eaves go straight to the sky, the canopy in front of the hall is gathered, the door is like a market, this is the business shop of the royal capital, from the inside to the outside are full of wealth and atmosphere.
Yue Lingxi stood in front of the door and looked at it for a while, and found that different doors led to different halls, the left was for the sale of houses, the middle was for house purchases, and the right was for rent, so she entered the door on the right.
Although there were people coming and going, the guys who greeted the guests were extremely clever, and when they saw a new guest coming in, they immediately stepped forward and asked enthusiastically.
"Good day, girl, I wonder what the little one can do to help you?"
Yue Lingxi pursed his lips and said, "I want to rent a single courtyard." ” The so-called single courtyard is only a brick yard, the living room and the bedroom are next to each other, very close to the gate, there is no extra space to raise fish and flowers, in the royal capital is the most ordinary house, in addition to the layer of fence is relatively safe, there are almost no other advantages.
Generally speaking, this kind of small business will make a few taels of silver when it is big, and the guys are generally not very welcome, but the guys in this shop did not have the bad problem of raising and stepping on the low at all, but also brought many small albums for Yue Lingxi's reference, and helped her introduce them one by one, which made her a little surprised.
"You see, although this yard is smaller, it has plenty of lighting, and the price is moderate, only 300 yuan a month, as for this, it is a little more expensive, but it is close to the rich area in the east of the city, the security is very good, and there is a well in the yard, so you don't have to walk a few miles to get water, which is very convenient."
Yue Lingxi looked at the place he pointed, his body was slightly on one side, and the jade pendant on his waist inadvertently shook out of the folds of his skirt, and his eyes were sharp, and he immediately saw the elk emblem printed on it, and he was quietly startled, and then moved away quietly.
"Girl, you take your time first, and the little one will pour you a glass of water."
Yue Lingxi didn't notice anything abnormal, only thanked him softly, and then buried his head and carefully picked it up.
After a while, the water came, there was crushed ice in it, and there were a few thumb-sized plums, which looked extremely relieving of the heat, but the person who served the water was no longer the guy just now, but an elderly man, with kind eyebrows and a lovely smile, Yue Lingxi took the initiative to introduce himself when he was puzzled.
"Girl, I am the shopkeeper of this shop, my surname is Ye, just now I saw that the guy was busy and sent things for him, you can find me if you have something."
Yue Lingxi didn't have any concept of the word shopkeeper, so he didn't doubt him, pointed to a page in the album and asked, "I don't know how much the rent of this yard is?"
” The night shopkeeper took a closer look, then stroked his beard and smiled: "The girl is really discerning, because the owner of this courtyard is in a hurry to rent, the price is thirty percent lower than that on the market, only two hundred yuan." ” "Urgent rent?"
Yue Lingxi paused, and directly asked the guess in his heart, "Isn't there something wrong with the house?"
” The night shopkeeper's smile remained unchanged, but his tone was categorical: "Girl, rest assured, our night house will never rent or sell a problematic house, this matter is known in Beijing, the girl can go and inquire." ” He repeatedly emphasized the Ye family, Yue Lingxi had some impressions, it is said that the Ye family is the head of the royal family, and the reputation and prestige are extraordinary, so she should not deceive customers, she thought about it for a moment and decided to rent this house.
"Shopkeeper, then I want this, please go through the formalities for me."
"That's within my equal reach, the girl doesn't need to be polite, come, please come here."
The night shopkeeper seemed to appreciate her decisiveness, and bowed slightly to lead her to the private room next to her.
After the negotiation is done, the formalities are fast, the signature and seal are not in between things, the shopkeeper is very enthusiastic that night, afraid that Yue Lingxi will not be able to find a place, specially sent a guy to send her over, to the yard to see, it is really not different from the atlas, sitting north and facing south, the ventilation is excellent, even the furniture is made of good rosewood, but Yue Lingxi does not know much about these, so he didn't care too much, just feel that these furnishings are simple and exquisite, this price is indeed very cost-effective.
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She thanked the man, who told her that if there were any problems with the house, she could go to the dental store to find someone to deal with them, and she said yes and watched him drive away.
The first thing I did when I came to the royal capital was done.
Time flies too fast, it's not early in a flash, and smoke is wafting from every house, she wants to go to the agreed place for a while to try to contact the lower end of the wooden kite, but the first task is to fill her stomach, and when she comes back, she has to clean up the house, otherwise she can't sleep at night with so much dust.
After making up her mind, Yue Lingxi went out to forage for food, when she came by car before, she found that there was a small market two streets away, there were a lot of small snacks in Beijing, what salted bean curd, plum cabbage button meatloaf, brown sugar dumplings and so on, she was not too hungry anyway, just buy two to solve the problem, there are still a lot of things to do, and you have to come back before the curfew.
However, she didn't expect that as soon as she stepped out of the house, the door of the house next to her also creaked, and then a woman walked out, turned her head and found that she was about to lock it, and immediately covered her lips and exclaimed.
"Oops, there's a new neighbor!"
As she spoke, the woman came over to her, and she could not leave at once, so she had to stop and greet her: "Madame." ” "Hey, don't call me that, I'm just a rough person, just call me Aunt Liu."
The woman waved her hand, and there was a refreshing energy all over her body.
Yue Lingxi complied with his wishes and called out to Aunt Liu.
The woman saw that her face was well-behaved, and her voice was soft and soft, and her good feelings doubled for a while, and she said a lot of things like pouring beans into the bamboo tube: "We are old neighbors with the owner of this yard, and his son is in high school this spring, no, he should go to the field to take up his post soon, so he is in a hurry to rent out the house, since the girl is here, she will live with peace of mind, and if there is anything you don't understand in the future, just come and ask the aunt, not to mention anything else, the aunt of the small market in the south of the city is still clear." ” So that's what happened.
"Thank you, Aunt Liu, I'll trouble you in the future."
At last, the woman noticed that she was going out, and tried to ask, "Is the girl going out for dinner?"
” Yue Lingxi nodded and said, "When I came here just now, I saw a market in the east, and I was about to go over to have a look. ” "Ouch, it's all messy snacks sold there, how can you eat it as a meal!"
The woman patted her leg, only to think that she had come from other places and was thin, presumably because she was shy, so she simply took off the basket on her arm and stuffed it into her hand, "Well, there are a few side dishes here, and they are still hot, you can quickly take them back and eat them." ” Yue Lingxi was slightly stunned, and then excused himself: "How can this work, I ......"
"There's nothing that can't be done, it's not easy for you young girls to come all the way to the king in order to be a female official, don't be polite to your aunt, the most important thing is to take care of your body, be obedient, go in quickly!"
It turned out that she thought she was here for the examiner......
It's no wonder she thinks so, since the women's scientific examination began to be held ten years ago, the number of female officials has risen sharply, presumably the people of the royal capital have seen a lot, so it's okay to misunderstand, so that others don't doubt her identity, but this meal is ......
The woman saw that she was still hesitating, so she simply pushed her into the courtyard, and then turned and went to her house, saying that she was going to pack another meal for the man to deliver, and before she could thank her, the woman turned into the door and disappeared, leaving her alone to hold the basket of hot food, and her eyes were faintly misty.
The taste of this home meal......
It's been a long time.