Chapter 4 — Phu Chan

Luc Van Hac bowed his head and looked at the words on the ground. Then he raised his head and looked at me again. Suddenly burst out laughing. "What you say, it seems a bit true." "See?" I smiled proudly. "And the word 'retirement', is it like a person who is tired from walking and leans against a tree to rest?" "And the word 'family' means a pig is raised in the house, a house with pigs becomes a family."... Since then. Every time I enter the palace, he deliberately comes to find me. I taught him to memorize 《Tiu Thien Level》. He again guessed word puzzles and sentences with me. "Drawing is round, writing is square, winter is short, summer is long." "Thousands are on the head, wood is in the middle of the body, the sun rises from below." "Stone skin is hard, the ancient moon is bright." The first emperor loved Luc Van Hac very much, so he was especially strict with him. The learning methods I teach have helped him study much easier. That time passed very quickly. So fast that the edict of four marriages had just been written. The first emperor fell ill. At that time, Luc Van Hac always hid in the corner of the garden and cried silently. I immediately brought cinnamon flower candy to comfort him. Then the first emperor died, and the palace became a mess. Patriarch and father become filial archers. I couldn't enter the palace, nor could I meet Luc Van Hac. I had to write him a letter. But he never responded to a single letter. Later I learned that all the letters I sent were kept by my father. After the first emperor passed away, His Majesty sent his confidants to secretly monitor all the families. At that time, writing a letter to Luc Van Hac was like harming him. The period of national mourning for the emperor has just ended. Luc Van Hac was sent to the border. On the surface, it was said to be for training, but for an eight-year-old child to go to the cold Tay Cuong region. No matter how you look at it, it seems extremely ungrateful. I heard that the Queen Mother just proposed to Luc Van Hac. Not long after, he fell into a coma because of the "illness" and was taken to the palace to recuperate. The day Luc Van Hac left the capital. I secretly stood on the wall to see him off. Watching his carriage go farther and farther away. Until returning to the room. I discovered on the desk there was a letter he left behind. Just four words. "Wait for my return." My response cannot be sent to someone in the government. On the surface, the Ta family is absolutely not allowed to have any contact with King Tuyen. Otherwise, it will be very easy to be accused of forming a gang. Fortunately, the emperor left Luc Van Hac a team of secret guards. Luc Van Hac also sent a few people specifically to protect me. From then on, we all asked secret guards to pass letters back and forth. Every winter, I asked my cousin's caravan to bring him cotton clothes and medicine to the border. When the caravan returned to the capital, they brought us animal skins and dried fruits from foreign regions sent by Luc Van Hac. I told him interesting stories in the capital. He told me about the wind and sand on the border. Half a year I stayed at my grandmother's house in Giang Nam. He even secretly came to visit me. That night, as soon as I pushed the window open, I saw him standing under the flower trellis in the yard. His body was covered in road dust, but his smile was strangely beautiful. "Your birthday is coming soon. I was passing by so I stopped by to give you a birthday gift." From the border to Jiangnan, it's thousands of miles away. It's truly "convenient". I don't expose him. Just smiled and invited him to eat a bowl of noodles. The broth has been stewed in advance by the kitchen. The noodles were overcooked, so soft they were almost crushed. Even the fried eggs were a bit burned, but luckily they were still edible. Luc Van Hac also did not criticize. He ate all the noodles and water. After eating the bowl of noodles I cooked, drinking the tea I made, then sitting and chatting with me for a while longer. It's not yet dawn, Luc Van Hac has to set out again. Before leaving, he took out a white jade hairpin from his chest and gently placed it in his hair.

"Wait for me to come back." I stood by the window, watching his back go over the wall and leave. The heart still cannot calm down. The carriage slowly stopped in front of the Ta palace gate. The maid helped me get out of the car. I stood on the steps, looking up at the crescent moon at the end of the horizon. Silently calculating the time in my heart. … As soon as I entered the gate of Ta Phu, I felt the atmosphere was unusual. The servants were all silent, not even daring to breathe loudly. The butler quickly stepped forward and lowered his voice: "Miss, the master is waiting for someone in the study, and the lady just fainted." My heart suddenly tightened and I quickly walked inside. Sure enough, everyone in the palace already knew what happened at the flower reward banquet. The mother lay on the bed, her face pale. As soon as she saw me walk in, she tried to prop herself up and sit up. I quickly stepped forward to catch her, gently holding her back. "Auntie, don't move, just rest well." "It was me who was blind, leading the wolf into the house, almost harming you." "Auntie, people's hearts are hard to fathom, we can't blame you for this." I adjusted the corner of the blanket for her, while softly comforting her. It took a long time for me to calm my mother down. Leaving the room, I went straight to the study. Father sat behind the desk, his face heavy. Seeing me enter, he put down his pen and got straight to the point: "How do you plan to handle today's matter?" "The daughter sent someone to follow Tuyen Khanh Khanh. As soon as she returned to the palace, she immediately ordered someone to search the house where she lived." Father nodded, remained silent for a moment, then asked again: "As for the Crown Prince..." "The daughter also sent someone to follow, and she already had a plan in her heart." Father did not ask further. He just looked at me deeply and sighed softly. "My daughter has really grown up." By the time he left the study, night had fallen. Return to your institute. As soon as I sat down, a dark shadow quietly landed down the hallway. "Miss, after the banquet ended, the Queen became angry and intended to punish Tuyen Khanh Khanh."