Chapter 108 The First Sister-in-Law of the Sick Jiao Fu (7)
Su Taoyao's courtyard was burned down, so she had to temporarily change it to a smaller courtyard next to it, which was closer to the general's mansion than the previous one.
The original owner was already weak, so after being frightened by such a torment, and suffering from fractures in both ankles, Su Taoyao fell ill.
A high fever broke out overnight, the most charcoal was burned in the room, and the thickest quilt was covered with it, but I was still shivering from the cold.
This illness lasted for another half month, and I didn't leave the courtyard for a whole half month.
In half a month, no one from the Su family came to visit except the master of Puhui Temple who came to visit a few times.
Even the other ladies who came to practice in Jizhao Nunnery said privately that the Su family was really cold-hearted. It seemed that the legitimate young lady must have had a hard time in the Su family before. A child without a mother is like a piece of grass.
The small courtyard where Su Taoyao lived seemed to have completely become a corner forgotten by the world.
At first, Xiao Yan was afraid that Su Taoyao would be sad, but later he realized that his young lady didn't seem to care that anyone in the Su family cared about her at all.
After Su Taoyao got better and was able to stand up and sit for a while, she asked Xiao Yan to buy another Ling Yun spiritual tablet and place it in the side room connected to the room.
Almost every day, she would spend most of the day shutting herself in an ant room, offering incense to Ling Yun and chanting sutras.
Xiao Yan often lamented that her young lady was really a crazy lover, but it was a pity that God was jealous of his lover and took away General Ling so early, leaving the young lady to suffer alone in the world.
However, although Su Taoyao did not go out, her contact with Huo Guang was not broken.
Xiao Yan would still go under the bridge every day to get secret letters, and Huo Guang would write a sealed letter and hide it there every three or four days, reporting on what Ling Fei had accomplished by using Su Taoyao's information.
Su Taoyao did not ask Huo Guang to report to her. Huo Guang took the initiative because he felt guilty. As long as it was not an absolutely confidential matter, he would write it in the letter.
Su Taoyao will also help make suggestions according to the situation, or use the golden finger that knows the trajectory to remind Ling Fei of something with "foresight", and let Huo Guang convert it into his own thoughts to remind Ling Fei.
With Su Taoyao as the divine assistant behind him, Ling Fei regained power at an astonishing speed.
In just one month, because of his meritorious service in rescuing the assassinated prince at a manor on the outskirts of the capital, Ling Fei was relieved of his six-month ban by the prince upon request from the emperor, and could move freely outside.
And I don’t know what he did, but he fell in love with the prince so much that he invited him to the palace to be his companion.
He became an inseparable celebrity around the prince, assisted the prince in accomplishing several major events that benefited the country and the people, and shocked the jaws of many well-informed and powerful people in the upper echelons.
In the spring of the following year, Ling Fei, a young fool who was known as the most cynical idiot in the whole capital, participated in the Spring Festival held every three years.
He had already passed the examination in the past few years, and this time he won the first place in the Chunwei examination. He was also selected as the number one scholar by the emperor in the palace examination.
A blockbuster, nothing more than that.
On the day when the number one scholar was paraded through the streets, the tall and handsome Ling Fei was sitting on a majestic horse, wearing a crimson official uniform, with a big red flower on his chest, holding the rein freely. He was really proud of the spring breeze and very handsome.
As for the proud Ling Fei, when he was parading in the street, he saw the crowds of people cheering him on the roadside, as well as the official ladies throwing handkerchiefs at him in the teahouses along the street, and he only felt ironic.
He had a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes, and did not hide his sarcasm. He glanced at every noble girl and young man from aristocratic families in the teahouse, with a faint smile on his lips.
He would never forget the night when his brother died and when he was rescued ashore, what kind of eyes did the rich men and women who got off the flower boat look at him, and how they made things worse for him.
Suddenly, his eyes stopped on the second floor of a certain teahouse, and his riding speed slowed down.
He saw Su Taoyao standing in the corridor on the second floor of the teahouse.
She was wearing the simplest plain dress and a white fox fur collared cloak. She was holding a simple copper-colored small heater with a light gauze hat. She stood there coldly, unable to take it.
Look at him with any emotion in your eyes.
There were many people on the street and in the teahouses along the street. When the breeze blew her curtain hat, he happened to look up and caught a glimpse of her.
She stood there alone, and her cold temperament was incompatible with the excited crowd around her.
She looked at him with eyes that were neither sad nor happy, not filled with the enthusiasm of those young masters and ladies who had changed their minds and couldn't wait to fawn over, nor the resentment of former enemies who saw him triumphantly.
She looked at him with eyes without any emotion.
She realized that he had seen her, and his eyes finally moved, and a flash of sadness quickly flashed through her eyes, as if... she was looking at another person through him.
Yes, he suddenly remembered that when his brother Ling Yun returned to Beijing with a great victory in his first expedition at the age of fifteen, he was riding a tall horse like this, and was walking on this road surrounded by excited crowds.
At that time, he excitedly followed his brother's horse and saw Su Taoyao waiting for his brother on the second floor of the teahouse.
At that time, she was smiling, looking at his brother from a distance, and throwing him a sachet that she showed off with her own hands. The next day, she became a childhood sweetheart in the capital.
So...she is looking at his brother through him?
Ling Fei, who had gradually calmed down after a month, began to feel depressed and panicked again for no reason.
The joy of being slapped in the faces of those who won the first prize in the exam disappeared instantly. He did not see Su Taoyao's surprised and excited expression. He suddenly felt that the feeling of being slapped in the faces of these people had become boring.
But at this moment, Su Taoyao, who discovered that Ling Fei had seen him, showed almost no nostalgia, turned around and left without expression, waving his sleeves without taking away a single cloud.
Ling Fei was left standing still on horseback, looking in the direction of the tea house. After a long while, he was reminded by the procession guards before he rode forward again.
But his eyes were dark, and his mind had already flown elsewhere from the grand champion parade.
The girls in the teahouse all blushed at Ling Fei's halting glance. Some of the bold and confident girls thought Ling Fei was looking at them and stirred up a pool of spring water in their hearts.
There is also a young lady among them who is the sixth princess, the prince's sister.
The sixth princess was so disturbed that the handkerchief in her hand was almost torn. She blushed and murmured to herself: "We have to find a way to get him alone..."
Oh, yes, for the spring hunt held in the suburbs of Beijing next month, I can ask the emperor brother to send him a message and ask him to join the emperor brother team, so that I can be the first to win the first prize!"
As for Su Taoyao, who left without looking back, the slag removal system was a little anxious: "Well, it's not that I don't believe you, it's just that we have been here for three months, Ling Fei is so kind to you.
The sensitivity is still 0,
Now that you finally have a chance to get in touch with him, are you just going to leave without doing anything?"
Su Taoyao smiled: "Who said I didn't do anything? Didn't I get enough sense of presence today? Don't worry, I have something in mind. What, you can't wait to see the mosaic?"
The slag-removing system that thought it was dead a long time ago and is not afraid of being scalded by boiling water: "...Do you want to stop looking at what you are talking about?"