Chapter 260 — The Ninth Day
Purple Streets of Chang'an · Page 4 of 4
Song Yan started, then said hurriedly: "No need. I am on leave tomorrow, and the day after I enter the palace in the afternoon."
For some reason, Dou Yan felt her heart ease.
Seeing that Song Yan still wore the court robes he had worn the day he entered the palace, she ordered the maids to bring water to attend him in washing and changing, and said: "How are things in the palace? Shall I prepare a few changes of clothes for Chen He to carry, so you may change whenever you please?"
On the road back, Song Yan had been thinking all the while of what sort of scene it would be to see Dou Zhiwei again.
There were no other women in the household, and she knew no one in the capital — would she be very bored?
He had not been home, and he did not know whether his father had made things difficult for her.
Dou Yan, after all, bore the name of daughter-in-law; even if his father made things difficult for her, Yan Che and the others could hardly intervene.
Would she come to regret marrying him?
What he had never in ten thousand years expected was that, on returning home, he would be faced with a Dou Yan so calm, so at ease, so caught up in the trivial talk of household matters.
And yet this Dou Yan was precisely what set Song Yan's heart at rest.
"Things are quite fine in the palace. It was only that Her Majesty the Empress worried, and so she kept us all inside," he explained with a smile. "We are the Emperor's close attendants, and the palace has bathhouses set aside for us. Though I have no duty room of my own there, I do have a cabinet for my clothes and bedding, and there are servants who help air and sun them..."
Dou Yan nodded, took the court robes Song Yan had changed out of, and handed them to Suxin. She let the little maid attend him while he washed, and sat on the kang herself, turning over what he had just said.
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Song Yan is back... o(n_n)o~
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