"Why don't you use a donkey? Don't every household have one?"
The woman lowered her head and said, "I don't have a donkey!"
Lu Xiu thought about it and suddenly understood that this woman must be the group of women her husband mentioned. The poor women who were kidnapped from the palace in the past, this time they attacked Fengxiang and rescued a group of them.
Lu Xiu's heart was immediately filled with sympathy. She was the lucky one. After the first Jin soldiers attacked Bianliang and retreated to the north, she escaped from Bianliang with her family and hid in Yingtian Mansion.
After the Jin soldiers captured Bianliang for the second time, their family was like a frightened bird and fled southward along with the large group of people.
Although the journey was bumpy, they were still lucky and were able to cross the Yangtze River in the end, but the Bianliang Palace suffered a disaster.
Men are incompetent, but in the end it is women who bear the pain.
Lu Xiu sent the young woman to the small courtyard where she lived, put down the barrel, and asked breathlessly: "What's your name?"
"Me? My name is Zhao Qiaoyun."
"My name is Lu Xiu. If you have any difficulties, just come to me. I live in No. 1 Hospital."
The woman nodded, "Thank you for helping to carry water."
"Is a bucket of water enough?" Lu Xiu asked a little worriedly.
"How about we go pick up another bucket?"
"No, I am enough for today, thank you!"
Lu Xiu smiled and said: "Then I'll leave first. Remember to come to me if you have any difficulties."
Lu Xiu waved and left.
Zhao Qiaoyun looked at Lu Xiu with gratitude as she walked away. Her name was Lu Xiu, from the first hospital.
Zhao Qiaoyun suddenly realized, wasn't Chen Qing's residence in Hospital A? Could it be that she was Chen Qing's newlywed wife?
Lu Xiu and the others fetched four buckets of water before filling half of the tank. Lu Xiu was too lazy to go any further, so she asked Yu Lian and Yu Ying to continue fetching water for Li Qingzhao. She was about to cook.
Even when she was fleeing, Lu Xiu had never cooked, and now she actually had to cook for herself.
She scooped three bowls of rice into the clay pot and didn't know what to do next?
She thought for a while, then came to the courtyard wall and shouted loudly: "Master!"
Li Qingzhao was writing new words in the room. When she heard shouting, she quickly came out, "Xiu'er, what's wrong?"
Lu Xiu was really embarrassed and asked bravely: "Master, I was cooking and scooped out three bowls of rice. What should I do next?"
Li Qingzhao laughed and said, "A rich lady actually cooks her own food. It's very simple. Just add water to the rice. You think it's almost ready. Put it on the fire and cook it until it's cooked."
"So simple?" Lu Xiu didn't believe it.
"Cooking is easy!"
"Then how do I cook mutton?" Lu Xiu asked again.
"Mutton? Of course it's best eaten grilled."
Lu Xiu rolled his eyes, "I bet this guy doesn't know how to cook!"
Li Qingzhao's maid A Luo came out of the kitchen and said with a smile: "Miss Lu, put it aside, I will come over and cook it right away."
"No! I want to learn to cook, you just teach me."
"A Luo, go and teach her. She wants to cook a wifely meal for her husband, so just make it happen!"
Li Qingzhao lost interest and went back to the room to continue writing her lyrics.
A Luo wiped his hands and ran over to teach Lu Xiu how to cook.
"Madam, it's best to stew the radish with chopped mutton!"
In the evening, Chen Qing returned home. As soon as he entered the yard, he smelled a strong smell of mutton soup, and even chopped green onion was added.
"It smells so good, whose craftsmanship is it?"
"Of course it's my craft!"
Lu Xiu rushed out of the kitchen wearing a small green flower apron. She raised her face and pointed at her pretty face. Chen Qing kissed her hard on the face as a reward for his beloved wife. Lu Xiu then smiled.
Chen Qing pushed to the west side room.
"Go and wait for a while. I'm boiling the wine for you! It'll be ready soon."
"But this is Alian's room!"
"I have changed it. This is now my husband's study and living room. There is no room for receiving guests next to the bedroom. That side has been changed into my living room."
As soon as Chen Qing sat down, Yu Lian and Yu Ying came up with food. Chen Qing grabbed Yu Ying and asked in a low voice: "Is it really the food she cooked?"
"It's really made by Madam. This is the third pot. The rice in the first two pots was burnt. Master pretends not to know!"
"Dang! Dang! Dang! The wine is here."
Lu Xiu's happy voice came from outside the house, and Chen Qing quickly sat down.
Lu Xiu walked in quickly carrying a clay pot with a pot of wine boiling inside. Yu Lian followed behind, holding bowls, chopsticks and a wine glass.
Lu Xiu smiled and said: "Today is the first day, so I specially brought a jug of good wine to celebrate. I stole this from my grandfather's study to give my husband a taste of the emperor's sake."
"If you drink good wine, why don't you call you master?"
"Call, she will come right away."
Just as he was talking, Li Qingzhao came over with two plates of food.
"Actually, I've already had dinner, but I heard there's good wine, so I can have another drink."
Yu Lian quickly moved a chair for Li Qingzhao to sit down.
Chen Qing looked at it and actually cleared a table full of food and wine, and said with a smile: "Not bad! It's very rich. Ah Ying, put five cups on it and let everyone have a drink."
Yu Ying poured wine for everyone, Chen Qing raised his glass and said with a smile: "I also know that there are various inconveniences now, and everyone is working hard to overcome them, but I believe that it will get better little by little. Even if we are here to wash away the dust for everyone today, we have done it."
This cup."
"cheers!"
At night, the couple were loving each other. Lu Xiu lay in her husband's arms and said coquettishly, "Husband, did you behave well today?"
"Besides cooking, what else did you do today?"
"We went to fetch water in the morning. We made two trips with the donkey to fetch half a tank of water. His waist is about to break from exhaustion. Please help me rub it!"
Chen Qing rubbed his beloved wife's thin waist and said with a smile: "It's a donkey carrying water, it's not you carrying water, how can your waist be broken by fatigue?"
"How did you know that today I helped a little palace maid carry water, but she couldn't lift it. I carried it with her from the river to the entrance of her courtyard. Do you think you can do it without getting tired?"
"You mean the batch of concubines and maids I rescued?"
"It's them, why doesn't your husband give them a donkey, but still requires them to carry water themselves?"
Chen Qing said with a smile: "In the past, soldiers helped them carry water. Later, they were given a donkey for each small courtyard, and then they carried the water themselves. It was not hard at all!"
"That's strange. Why doesn't the palace maid named Zhao use a donkey?"
"The surname is Zhao?" Chen Qingxiao asked, "What is her name Zhao?"
"It seems to be called Zhao Qiaoyun!"
Chen Qing was stunned, "What a coincidence?"
Lu Xiu tilted her head and asked with a smile: "Does your husband know her?"
"I know her. She is quite special. In fact, you should have heard of her. She is Emperor Xian De."
Lu Xiu was so shocked that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear, "She is a princess?"
Chen Qing nodded, "She is a princess, but she doesn't want to be a princess anymore. She insists on being a commoner girl. Originally, I treated her well, but she was determined not to treat her well, so I had no choice but to let her."
Lu Xiu said for a long time: "I should know her. I also participated in the ceremony for her to be crowned Emperor Ji. I was only eight years old at that time. That's not right! She is actually two years older than me and looks so thin."
"She was only twelve years old when she was abducted. She has been working as a maid in the Jin Kingdom Palace. She was probably bullied and abused. She is a princess of the Song Dynasty, and her life will definitely not be easy. This year she was given Wan Yan Ji Li Sa, and she came here
Fengxiang."
Speaking of this, Chen Qing sighed softly, "Every time I see her, I feel that she is very pitiful, but she is very strong. If I am not allowed to pity her or help her, I will not care about her."
Lu Xiu's chivalrous heart arose spontaneously, "I'll go see her again tomorrow and see why she doesn't use a donkey to carry water?"