Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 147 Sister Hua, are you hungry?

After leaving the dormitory area, Gui Jing'an took Hua Lei and the others to a row of small brick houses in front of them. As Hua Lei expected, it was the students' dining hall. The dining hall was a series of small brick houses connected together. There were twenty long tables in each room, which could accommodate eighty people to eat together.

The kitchen is hidden in the row of brick houses behind the small one. There is a long row of large iron pots against the wall. At this moment, the chefs are standing in front of the large iron pots waving shovels. Students and parents will eat here at noon today, so that parents can inspect the situation in the dining hall.

Because Hualei was most worried about Xiaoyuan's eating problem, she carefully checked the hygiene of various kitchen utensils in the dining hall, including the freshly washed vegetables waiting to be put into the pot, and the chickens and ducks hanging on the side to drain.

I looked closely at the flower buds, fearing that some of them were not cleaned properly and had insects. But I was still very satisfied with the result. After all, today was the Parents' Open Day, and the Imperial College really attached great importance to the health of students.

Anyway, the kitchen was cleaned and the utensils were neatly arranged. Even the wooden basins, bowls and chopsticks used by the students were cleaned without any oil spots, which showed that they had put a lot of effort into it.

Rong Jue saw Hua Lei staying close to the chef, staring at the vegetables in the wooden basin, so he quietly came over and asked, "Sister Hua, are you hungry? I am hungry too. But I think meat is still delicious, it smells so good."

Hua Lei smiled and whispered in Rong Jue's ear, "Rong Jue is absolutely right. I'm hungry. I think meat is delicious, but I'm embarrassed to stare at it." The two dimples bloomed quietly, but Yun He and Gui Jing'an, who had been paying attention to her, glanced at her at the same time.

After finishing their lunch at the Imperial College, the group walked out of the gate of the Imperial College. The carriage of the Marquis' Mansion was already waiting there, and several people got on.

Not far behind him, Yun He and Yun Hai also got on the carriage. They returned to Dingxi Marquis Mansion. Back in his study, Yun He called the servant beside him and ordered, "Go and check the matter about the Hua family siblings. The more detailed the better." The servant bowed and took the order and left.

Since Xiaoyuan's registration was all done, Hualei decided to take Xiaoyuan to the manor to relax and have some fun. Xiaoyuan had not been to the newly purchased Yuanying Manor yet. Rongjue had already followed Xiaoyuan as a matter of course, without Hualei's invitation.

Rong Jin also asked several guards to follow with a few horses, planning to find a more open place to take Rong Jue and Xiao Yuan to practice horse riding after arriving at the farm, which made Xiao Yuan and Rong Jue very happy.

In front of the Marquis's house, Hualei and the others had already gotten into the carriage and were about to tell the driver to get going when Zhenzhu quickly climbed into the carriage, holding up her skirt with one hand and carrying a small bundle with the other. Before she even sat down, she hurriedly asked the driver, "Uncle Fu, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up." The carriage moved forward quickly.

Hualei was dumbfounded and asked, "What are you doing? You're like a thief."

Zhenzhu lifted the curtain on the wall of the carriage and quietly glanced into the gate of the mansion. Seeing no one following her out, she heaved a sigh of relief and said, "I might as well be a thief. I have been suffocating these past few days. You don't know that my mother has locked me up in the yard to embroider for the past two days and has not let me out.

This is not the worst. The worst thing is that my cousin sits next to me every day and says she wants to teach me how to embroider. Oh my god, it’s torture.”

Pearl looked resentful, "Look at my hand, it's almost like a hornet's nest." Pearl stretched her hand in front of the flower bud. Her white and fleshy hand was clean, and there was not a single needle hole on her slender fingers.

"Where did it hit?" Hua Lei asked puzzled.

"Hey, Sister Hua, do you have any sympathy at all? You have to make me poke my hand until it bleeds so that you can see it, right?" As he said that, he put his finger less than an inch away from Hualei's eyes and said, "Did you see it?"

Hualei smiled, held Zhenzhu's hand, rubbed it, and said with a smile, "Okay, okay, I see, it really is a hornet's nest. Why did you come out today? Did your aunt agree to let you come out?"

Pearl smiled, took back her hand, leaned against the wall of the carriage and said, "How is that possible? If I want my mother to let me out on her own initiative, the only way is for the sun to rise from the west."

"Then why did you get out today? Did you sneak out?" Hua Lei stared at Zhenzhu in surprise, a little bit unbelieving.

"Hehe, it's not really like I ran out sneaking out..." Pearl touched the bag beside her and said with a wry smile.

"You lied again?" Rong Jin glared at Zhenzhu, with an expression that seemed like he saw through her.

"Haha, I just told a little lie, just a little bit..." Pearl said, gesturing with her fingers, looking at her nails.

"What did you say? Are you dragging me into this again?" Rong Jin frowned.

“Hehe…” Pearl looked as if she felt she was seen through.

"What exactly did you say?" Rong Jin asked.

"I told my mother that I was going to make you a robe. While you are here, I will go to your yard to measure your size..."

"Do you think Mom will believe it?"

"It doesn't matter whether mother believes it or not, as long as my cousin believes it. These days mother has asked my cousin to sit next to me and watch me, for fear that I would walk out of the gate of the Pearl Courtyard. Hehe... I told my cousin that I wanted to measure your size and asked her if she wanted to go. She definitely went.

Halfway through the walk, I told her that I forgot to take something and asked her to wait for me in your yard. She went over and I took the opportunity to run out. I guess my cousin is still hanging around the gate of your Qixia Courtyard. Alas, it's pitiful. Not to mention being able to enter your yard, Qingzao Qingsheng didn't even let her sit on the stone bench at the gate of your yard. "Zhenzhu looked sympathetic.

"You...Uncle Fu, turn around and send the pearl back." Rong Jin shouted outside.

"Hey, hey, don't do that. Uncle Fu, keep going, keep going, hey, hurry up, my brother is joking." Zhenzhu hurriedly urged Uncle Fu who wanted to stop the car and turn around. She turned around and acted coquettishly to Rong Jin.

"Brother, I have been locked up for six days and eleven hours. Just think about it, more than six days, and only one hour left to seven days. My eyes are almost staring through the gate of the Marquis' Mansion." Zhenzhu pointed at her eyes exaggeratedly.

Hualei glanced at Zhenzhu and couldn't help but smile. Ever since August 20th, when they went to the gate of the Imperial College to look at the admission list, and later met Jiang Yunqi on Suzaku Street, Zhenzhu had indeed not come out.

It is said that after Madam Han knew that Zhenzhu took the initiative to stretch her hand out of the car window and waved goodbye to Jiang Yunqi, she never let Zhenzhu leave the Zhenzhu Courtyard. She was confined to the courtyard every day and asked Han Qingge to accompany her to embroider. Zhenzhu must have been suffocated.