After returning to the room, Zhu Zhanzhen lay on the bed. He thought he was pretending, but he didn't expect that he was really dizzy. He caught a cold and had a fever when the cold wind blew. His physical fitness still needs to be improved.
Chu'er was already in a daze because of today's boat ride. She didn't follow her when she went out before, and she didn't have the strength now. Although she insisted on coming to serve Zhu Zhanyi, Zhu Zhanyi ordered her to go on and rest first.
In the small courtyard, a girl came in with fried medicine. Yang Song stopped her in a daze, but Xiaosheng let him go. The person who came was none other than Cao Xinyue.
Xiaosheng wanted to take the medicine, but Cao Xinyue refused: "My mother asked me to serve the Fifth Highness."
Xiaosheng, who was well aware of His Highness's temperament, made an invitation gesture and followed her into the house.
Zhu Zhanzhen, who was lying on the bed, was quite surprised when he saw that the person coming was Cao Xinyue. Even though he felt a little uncomfortable now, he still had no problem dealing with this little girl who kept coming.
"Hey, Xiaosheng, call the doctor here quickly. I feel pain all over my body."
"Your Highness, I will immediately ask someone to call you. You should drink the medicine first."
"This medicine won't be poisonous, right?"
Cao Xinyue reluctantly picked up the medicine and took a sip first: "My mother cooked this medicine herself."
"Then you feed me something to drink."
Before drinking, Xiaosheng tasted the medicine to make sure it was fine.
Seeing that Cao Xinyue didn't move, Zhu Zhanchen added: "I am sick now and feel weak. You feed me."
"It's too hot, blow on it."
"Blow again."
"Go get me a towel to wipe my face with."
"Wipe your hands."
Zhu Zhancheng summoned Cao Xinyue. Although Cao Xinyue was angry, she couldn't help it. Xiaosheng voluntarily left the room when nothing happened.
Yang Song asked in confusion: "Is it okay if you're not in there? Then Cao Xinyue is not easy to deal with."
"It's okay, my Highness has never suffered a loss in matters related to women."
The eldest lady of the Cao family, Cao Xinyue, had to serve Zhu Zhanzong like a maid at this time. The eldest lady with a bad temper had to endure her anger because her status was too high.
He is only the eldest daughter of a merchant family, while the other party is the direct grandson of the royal family. There is a huge difference.
It's just that in her eyes, the lazy and covetous Zhu Zhanyang is far different from the emperor's grandson in her imagination. When the little girl was dreaming, in her imagination, the emperor's grandson should be so heroic.
He looks like a young man, has great literary talent, is polite, and has rules for doing things.
Zhu Zhancheng doesn't take advantage of her either, but he likes to tease girls at a young age.
Only when Zhu Zhanchen jumped into the river by himself, he rushed down without thinking, which is a rare shining point.
If such a simple-minded eldest lady were placed in the palace, she would not be able to survive a single round in the hands of Hu Shanggong. Let alone Hu Shanggong, Chu'er would be able to give her a good treatment.
"When you have a fever and your shoulders hurt, rub them for me."
Cao Xinyue had no choice but to comply with Zhu Zhanzhen's request and started massaging Zhu Zhanzhen. However, she didn't know how to massage him. She didn't massage him twice. Zhu Zhanzhen said again: "Forget it, you can't massage it well either."
The eldest lady of the Cao family was disliked in every possible way, and her eyes became red again.
"Feel wronged again?" Zhu Zhanzhen asked lightly.
Cao Xinyue wiped her tears and said: "No, Your Highness should rest early after eating. The daughter of the people will leave first."
"No, I have a fever and I need someone to take care of me all night."
Cao Xinyue was so anxious that she almost cried.
"Okay, I won't tease you anymore." Zhu Zhanzhen sat up, feeling a little dizzy, but it wasn't a big problem.
"I'll ask you a few questions. If you're satisfied with the answers, you can leave."
Cao Xinyue stood beside the bed: "Your Highness, please ask."
"First, why are you following me?"
Naturally, Cao Xinyue couldn't answer that she wanted to see what the emperor's grandson was like and his style, otherwise she felt that she would be laughed to death by Zhu Zhanyi.
"The emperor's grandson suddenly came to visit. I didn't know what was going on, so I wanted to follow you and have a look."
"Oh~ you're really not that good at lying. With your three-legged cat tracking skills and this young lady's temper, you can imagine that you want to see why I'm here?"
"Your Highness, if you don't believe it, there's nothing you can do. It's true."
Zhu Zhanchen shook his head: "I'm afraid you're not interested in seeing me."
Normally, Cao Xinyue would have turned the table over at this time, but when the other party was Zhu Zhanzhen, she would have done nothing.
"Your Majesty says so."
"The second question is, how much land does your Cao family own, how much taxes do you pay, and how many stores do you have?"
"have no idea."
"kindness?"
Cao Xinyue sighed and said: "I really don't know. My mother and father never let me touch the family business. I am a girl. My mother hired a teacher to teach me various etiquette and culture since I was a child, and I also learned some poetry and songs.
"
Zhu Zhancha said in disbelief: "You don't look like it."
Cao Xinyue had no choice but to take the tea set in the room, order tea and burn incense calmly, not to mention this process was skillful and elegant.
Not many people ordered tea in the Ming Dynasty, it was only done by elegant people.
While doing these things, Cao Xinyue seemed to be a different person, calm and elegant, which was in great contrast to her usual image of a reckless Mao Yatou.
The little girl also has two faces.
"How's it going? Do you believe it?"
"I didn't expect that after learning so many things about cultivating one's mind and character, how could you still be so irritable."
Cao Xinyue felt unhappy and said respectfully: "I won't bother Your Highness to worry about it now."
"The third question is, how old are you now? Have you ever been married?"
This question was the same as Zhu Zhanzhen's question when he teased her at the beginning. Cao Xinyue blushed all of a sudden. The little girl's emotions were so straightforward that she couldn't hide them, and they were all written on her face.
She didn't know for a moment whether Zhu Zhanzhen's question was a deliberate tease or a genuine inquiry.
If you really ask him what he means, why should you care about whether you are married?
"I am now thirteen, and I have never... never been married." Cao Xinyue answered Zhu Zhanzhen's question with a blushing face.
"Okay, then you can go out first."
"ah?"
"Ah what, you really want to stay the night."
Cao Xinyue hurriedly walked out of the room, closed the door and quickly left the yard.
Zhu Zhancheng smiled bitterly and shook his head. No wonder Mr. Chen's sister was able to control this big family. She was also a powerful person. He arranged for the little girl to come over while he had a fever. If he was dizzy from the fever, the little girl would be under his control.
After being waited on in the room all night, even if I wanted to get angry, there was nowhere to do it. After all, I had been waited on all night.
Even though the two of them are young, if this matter spreads out about a man and a woman alone for one night, it would be a shame.
Chen Xu saw his daughter coming to the mourning hall and quietly brought her to the side: "Why did you come out if I didn't ask you to serve His Highness the Fifth Prince?"
"He was fine, so he let me out."
Chen Xu sighed and touched his daughter's hair: "Silly girl, women sometimes have to fight on their own in this life."
Cao Xinyue obviously still didn't understand what her mother meant, so she asked instead: "Mom, can I go to watch my father's funeral tonight?"
"No, you are a daughter, and the clan elders will not let you enter the mourning hall."
"Why." Cao Xinyue was not angry, because this matter was not the first day, and her argument was useless.
Chen Xu touched her head lovingly and said nothing more.