Legend of the Orchid

After Li Zhonglan returned to the Marquis' Mansion, the maids cheered when they saw Mr. Lan, who they hadn't seen for a long time, but when they heard that Mr. Lan was about to move, they were all as depressed as frost-beaten eggplants.

Jin Yan immediately ordered the other guards to sort out Mr. Lan's things, probably under Zhao Tingjie's order, Li Zhonglan had no choice but to say goodbye to Li Yu quickly.

Li Yu was still very thin, but after only half a year of suffering after Xiao Zhou, he was so thin that he lost his shape, which surprised Li Zhonglan very much.

"Thank you, Mr. Lan, for your rescue last time." Xiao Zhou murmured, but his eyes quickly turned red.

She didn't say anything about the latter situation, and she couldn't say it out loud. Later, Zhao Guangyi still got her hands on her.

Li Zhonglan said politely: "I will serve my wife, and I will die!"

Li Yu hesitated for a long time, picked a nice word and said: "Mr. Lan, although the Southern Tang Dynasty died, as the people of the past, we should not forget our roots."

Li Zhonglan nodded and said, "I have never forgotten that Jiangning is my hometown."

Li Yu faltered and said: "You have a very good friendship with His Royal Highness Zhao. Can you help us to mention our old people on weekdays? You and I fought side by side, and now it is a fate that is closely related."

What a close relationship, if you expose my identity, don't you have to bear the death penalty of a bully?

Li Zhonglan sneered in her heart, but felt sorry for the troubled emperor who had no backing in front of her, so she promised: "I must say a few good words for the master."

Just as he was talking, a servant sent a letter. It turned out that Xu Xuan wanted Li Zhonglan to go to his house.

Li Zhonglan was panicked at the moment, he was not afraid of anyone but his teacher, the pores of his whole body stood up when he thought that the teacher would teach him righteously and sternly.

However, the teacher's order was hard to disobey, so Li Zhonglan had to go to see the teacher again in a sedan chair.

When Xu Xuan met Li Zhonglan, he gave Li Zhonglan a blow and asked the students to kneel down facing the south.

Li Zhonglan was terrified, and did what she did, only to hear Xu Xuan reprimand: "As a man, the word 'loyalty' is the most important thing. As a citizen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, you are disloyal by colluding with the son of the former emperor of the Song Dynasty; Being a courtier of the Song Dynasty, but being arrogant and rude to the current emperor, not even coming to the early court, is unrighteous, how can you become so disloyal and unrighteous now, have you ignored the teacher's daily teachings?"

Li Zhonglan was obsequious, but vaguely felt that something was wrong. Before he had time to think about it, Xu Xuan said again: "As a man, you should focus on the people's livelihood and society. Why... Sigh!"

Li Zhonglan blushed and listened to the teacher's lecture in a muffled voice.

Xu Xuan stroked his goatee, and sighed heavily: "Thinking that I, Xu, was born decent, how could I have taught you such an indecent disciple! Forget it, let's stop the relationship between you and me as a teacher and apprentice!"

Li Zhonglan was anxious, with tears in her eyes, and begged: "Teacher, the student is wrong! Please, teacher, don't sever ties with the students!"

Xu Xuan nodded and said: "It's good to know your mistakes, you have broken contact with His Highness Zhao now, and you will be an official from now on, and it is not in vain to teach you as a teacher!"

Li Zhonglan couldn't do this request no matter what, he hesitated again and again, and finally made up his mind and said firmly: "Forgive the students for being difficult to obey."

"You!" Xu Xuan was so angry that every wrinkle on his face was filled with anger, he even said a few "good" words, and finally said: "If this is the case, then today you are no longer my student, you can do it yourself !"

Li Zhonglan's eyes were red, and she kowtowed to the teacher a few times. He worshiped Xu Xuan as his teacher when he was seven years old. He has been a teacher and apprentice for ten years, but he did not expect to become a stranger with the teacher today.

After returning to Zhao Mansion in a trance all the way, Li Zhonglan said to Ting Jie sullenly, "I want to buy a house in the city."

Zhao Tingjie frowned, and asked with an uneasy expression, "What do you mean?"

Li Zhonglan faltered: "If I don't live with you, there won't be so many gossips..."

Zhao Tingjie sneered: "I can be emperor without gossip? What other people say is none of my business!"

Seeing that Zhao Tingjie was so firm, Li Zhonglan suddenly felt warm sunshine in his heart, full of warmth, but he still hesitated: "If one day you become the emperor, you still have to take into account the thoughts of the ministers, I'd better move out first."

In fact, he couldn't pass the test in his heart, and the vigilance of wandering all the year round made him not want to be the target of public criticism.

Zhao Tingjie was angry: "Is it important for me, or those gossips?"

Li Zhonglan murmured: "But we are above the court..."

"Enough!" Zhao Tingjie interrupted him, "Move if you want, I will help you find a house as soon as possible!"

That night, Zhao Tingjie did not return to his room, and Li Zhonglan tossed and turned for a long time before falling asleep.In the early morning of the second day, Li Zhonglan still went to court in Zhao's sedan chair, but Zhao Tingjie came to court on horseback, and he didn't even look at Li Zhonglan until the next court.

In the next few days, Zhao Tingjie treated Li Zhonglan like air, not only did not talk to each other, but also had very few opportunities to meet each other. One night, Li Zhonglan couldn't help being lonely. Search for Zhao Tingjie's whereabouts.

Tingjie is with Mrs. Chen, and her second son, Zhao Weiji, is also there. Tingjie is teaching the children calligraphy, and Mrs. Chen is helping to grind the ink. It is a scene of family happiness.

Li Zhonglan felt sorry for her, so she withdrew her hands sadly, covered her head in the quilt, and shed tears for half the night.

After the next day, Zhao Tingjie walked fast again, Li Zhonglan had to chase after him closely, it looked like he was stalking him, and after finally catching up, Li Zhonglan shouted timidly: "Tingjie... ..."

Zhao Tingjie turned his head, the starlight in his eyes was gone, only the indifference of the sky was left.

Li Zhonglan was apprehensive, and couldn't explain the reason he just made up. He wanted Zhao Tingjie to take him to Songhe Tower to become a top player, but with Tingjie's attitude, how could he take him there!

He didn't open his mouth, but Zhao Tingjie opened his mouth: "The house is found, it's in the south of the city, you can move there today!"

Li Zhonglan was stunned, the south of the city and the north of the city were really far apart, Zhao Tingjie must have done it on purpose!

After Zhao Tingjie finished speaking, he disappeared in the blink of an eye. When Li Zhonglan returned, all his belongings had been packed into the carriage, and he was waiting for others to move to his new home.

The house that Zhao Tingjie was looking for was quite big, but there was no servant, so it became more and more empty. After the servants of Zhao's house put down their luggage, they left Mr. Lan, who had his little fingers not touched by Yang Chunshui, there, and said goodbye one after another.

Li Zhonglan stood alone in the house, like a bare tree. He didn't have much luggage, so it wasn't very difficult to pack it up, but the house needed to be cleaned and various supplies needed to be arranged.

He walked around the house and got acquainted with the environment a little, then found that he was hungry, and when he touched his pocket, he didn't even have a penny.

Fortunately, Zhao Tingjie didn't give him any money, but he left him a salary voucher, and Zhong Lan couldn't move the daily necessities, rice, oil and salt, so he decided to go to the household department to receive the silver salary for the past six months.

When I went to the Ministry of Households and asked, I found out that the grain, rice, and cloth distributed by the imperial court had to be collected quickly in the past few days, otherwise the salary payment day would be due soon, and the salary for the past six months would have to be confiscated.

Li Zhonglan went to the bank to change the silver taels, and went to the restaurant to buy some food to satisfy his hunger. After walking around, he suddenly felt back pain and couldn't help but want to go to court.

No, what he should be thinking is to quickly find a housekeeper.

But he is really inexperienced in finding a housekeeper, and it is not so easy to find a capable housekeeper. Why don't you ask Ting Jie to help him find it?

Li Zhonglan finally found a suitable reason, so excitedly hired a carriage and went to Zhao's mansion, but when he reached the gate, the gate guard stopped him and said with embarrassment that His Highness Zhao ordered that Mr. Lan is not allowed to enter the mansion.