Chapter 207: Letter
A few seconds later, Yue Yue asked curiously, "I wondered, how could the plague spread so quickly when the northern and western regions were so far apart?"
Xi Xi shook her head and answered, "I don’t know either. However, a close friend of my elder brother’s who works in the Imperial Physician Court said that the plague may be spread through water. As for the details, my elder brother said it’s best not to know too much."
While the two young ladies talked in low voices, Ye Huiyu listened to their conversation carefully. After a while, the two ladies changed the subject, and she stopped listening to them. When she took another sip of tea, Ye Huiyu frowned slightly because the tea was cold.
She calmly placed the teacup on the table, thinking about what she heard that night after she and Duan Qinwang returned from the imperial palace banquet six days ago. While she was recalling the conversation between Duan Qinwang and her father, a servant came over and whispered something to her.
After the servants left, Ye Huiyu looked at her guests and said, "Madams, Young Ladies, the food is ready. Let’s go to the pavilion by the lake and enjoy the scenery while having our meals."
The madams and young ladies stood up one after another, bent their knees slightly, and said in unison, "Yes, Duan Qinwangfei."
After saying that, they took a step back and waited until Ye Huiyu walked past them before following her toward the pavilion by the lake. The flower-viewing banquet at Duan Qinwang’s Mansion lasted for several hours. As the madams and young ladies left one after another, the sky slowly changed color.
After sending out her guests, Ye Huiyu returned to her courtyard and entered the study. She sat behind the large desk and prepared a piece of paper. Seeing this, her personal maidservant poured a little bit of water on the inkstone and began to grind the ink for her. With the ink ready, Ye Huiyu picked up the writing brush from the brush holder and wrote a letter.
After a few minutes, she blew on the letter and put down the writing brush. Then, she carefully folded the letter and handed it to her nanny.