lady, please calm down

Chapter 180 Why?
Sajin Lane, Chen Mansion.

At night time.

Candles were lit for the first time in Hanchun Hall, the three-story main building in the back house.

In the bedroom on the second floor, Chen Chu, who was only wearing underwear, chatted with Maoer about Tongshan's recent trifles, and asked casually, "During dinner just now, why didn't you see Yunong and Xiaoniang Chen? They went out to play?"

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In front of the dressing table, the cat, who had just come out of the bath, was wearing an Aolai-style black silk suspender pajamas made by himself. The narrow shoulder straps crossed the thin shoulders, pressing the slender and exquisite collarbone, revealing a touch of white and greasy curvature.

Although the capital is not too strong, but this faintly visible, on the contrary, it brings out the advantages of the petite figure to the extreme.

In addition, after just taking a hot bath, his skin was slightly flushed, which formed a shocking contrast with the black pajamas.

The cat didn't seem to hear Chen Chu's question, turned around, pinched a pair of silver rabbit earrings inlaid with rubies with his left hand, pinched agate pinch gold earrings with his right hand, and held them up to his chest to show Chen Chu, slightly wrinkled his little Qiong nose, A little distressed: "Officer, which of these two pairs of earrings is better?"

"Well, it's a little rabbit, it's cuter." Chen Chu smiled and gave his opinion.

"The cat is not a child anymore, so there is no need to be cute. I look at this pair of agates, they are more stable."

Mao'er said so, but tilted his head slightly towards the bronze mirror, and put on the pair of silver rabbit and ruby ​​earrings as Chen Chu said.

The ear piercing on the round earlobe has just been pierced, maybe it hasn't fully grown yet, the cat, who was slightly hurt when wearing it, frowned slightly, and there was a cute little pimple between the eyebrows.

At the end of August, Chen Chu raided Zheng's house and obtained a large number of women's jewelry and heads.

There are many fine pieces, including exquisite and scarce ornaments left over from the Imperial Palace of Tokyo City in the Zhou Dynasty when Ding Wei was in trouble.

Chen Chu accepted all the orders and informed Mao'er in the letter.

Just like the wooden box on the dressing table at this time, there are gold-inlaid jade buds, precious stone gold hairpins, jade-encrusted gold hairpins, precious flower butterfly gold hairpins, etc.
Under the candlelight, it is dazzling.

Take out any one, it is worth a few years of wealth of a well-off family.

This is only a small part.

Mao'er couldn't help thinking of those copper hairpin and silver rings that his mother risked her life to keep. Compared with the gorgeous and expensive ornaments in front of him, they were simply shabby.
But the mother lost her life because of this.

Can't help sighing faintly.

Chen Chu guessed what Maoer was thinking, stepped forward two steps and walked behind Maoer, caressing Maoer's round shoulders comfortingly, then took out a four-plate pearl flower silver step from the dowry and helped Maoer put it on the hairpin , and took off the silver hairpin with flower and butterfly pattern on her head, and threw it on the dressing table.

The silver hairpin landed on the solid wood table, making a muffled ding dong.

"What are you doing!"

Mao'er hurriedly grabbed the silver hairpin with flower and butterfly pattern in his hand, turned his face and glared at Chen Chu, and said dissatisfiedly, "Be careful, what if it breaks!"

"If it breaks, don't want it, anyway, there are better ones." Chen Chu said casually.

The slightly rustic hairpin that Mao'er held in her hand was a birthday present from Chen Chu when she was married to Ji last year.

For some reason, hearing what Chen Chu said, Mao'er felt a little sad.

Lowering her head, she carefully stroked the crude hairpin with her thumb, which was no longer worthy of her status as Mrs. Chen Dutong, and murmured: "No matter how expensive and new the hairpin is, it can't compare with the Just in case in my mind."

"Huh?" Chen Chu heard something.

Mao'er lowered her eyelids, and whispered softly: "The official is rich now, and in the future there will definitely be a lady who is noble, younger and more beautiful than Mao'er, who will like the official. Ordinarily, they are abandoned by the officials as if they were worn-out shoes.”

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Where is this going?

"Okay, okay, if you don't have a hairpin, you don't have a hairpin. Let's return it."

Chen Chu shook his head helplessly, took the silver hairpin with flower and butterfly pattern from Mao'er's hand, and placed it on Mao'er's head again.

Mao'er was very measured and didn't continue to show his temper. He turned around and gave Chen Chu a charming and charming look, as if saying, this is more or less the same.

In that appearance, there was a bit of Cai Hua's shadow.

Those who are close to Zhu are red and those who are close to ink are black. It seems that Maoer has learned a lot from Mrs. Cai San.

The occasional small temper was to remind Chen Chu that you have been ignoring me recently, and it was also a small interest between husband and wife. Afterwards, the cat regained its ladylike demeanor, and divided the various ornaments in the jewelry box into three parts, " I will keep one copy, and these two copies will be given to sister Cai and Yunong. The remaining ones will be kept, and the officials will have a lot of entertainment, and they will be used as gifts and rewards when dealing with other women's family members."

"Hehe, okay, you decide."

Actually, Chen Chu had already secretly given Cai Wei a copy, but the fact that Mao'er could say this meant that he regarded Cai Wei as his family.

Chen Chu picked up a carved tortoise shell comb, and helped the cat to comb out the waterfall-like blue hair that naturally fell on its back.

This action made Mao'er feel better again, but he still couldn't help jokingly said: "If the official has any other women to give, please tell me quickly, otherwise Mao'er will lock these up."

"Ha ha."

Chen Chu smiled, and suddenly remembered the question that was asked just now, but was diverted by the cat, "Hey, by the way, why didn't you see Yunong and Ayu at dinner tonight? Are you coming back?"

This time, Mao'er was ready, and pretended to be relaxed and replied: "Ayu moved out."

"Moving out? She doesn't know anyone in Caizhou, so she won't live in a hotel?"

"No, I temporarily moved to our family's other courtyard in the city."

"Uh oh."

"There are maids and mother-in-laws in the past, and Yunong is also specially accompanying her, officials. Are you worried?" Mao'er turned back, opened those watery peach blossom eyes, and looked at Chen Chu.

"Uh, she's a child, and she has no family or reason in the city. Before Chen Xianzun sends someone to pick her up, we should take care of her."

"Hee hee~"

Mao'er pursed her lips and smiled, and said jokingly, "Ayu is only three years younger than the official, so he's still a child."

"Hehe." Chen Chu smiled and continued to comb the cat's hair.

Mao'er looked back at the bronze mirror and felt a little nervous. Letting Chen Jinyu move out today was the result of discussions between her and Cai Wei, and she didn't tell Chen Chu in advance.

The bedroom was quiet for a while, but the cat explained softly again, "Officer, although Ayu is not married, she has a marriage contract. She lives in the back house of our house, so it will inevitably cause people to gossip. I am doing this for her." good."

It is unknown whether the second half of "for her good" is true or not, but in the first half, it is a vague reminder to the officials that "there is already a marriage contract".
Chen Chu chuckled and said, "I know."

Seeing this, Mao'er pulled Chen Chu's big hand to his cheek with his backhand, rubbed his small face against the back of his hand meekly, and murmured: "Officer, don't you miss Mao'er? We haven't seen each other for more than a month, late at night is it?"

"Haha, think about it."

Chen Chu understood, and forgot everything else, leaned over and picked up the cat.

Mao'er let out a low exclamation, wrapped her arms around Chen Chu's neck, her little face was slightly red, her peach blossom eyes were full of spring, and her soft voice was sticky and muffled, "Officer, Mao'er here. Give birth to a baby, Aunt Yang and the others are urging me all day long."

Little is better than newlyweds.

The next day.

After Chen Chu came on duty, Mao'er took Bai Lu to inspect this mansion for the first time. The exquisite layout of the various courtyards in the house naturally made her very happy.

However, when she passed by Qingpu Garden, she saw that Cai Wei's people were moving, and she couldn't help being astonished, and hurriedly found the latter, "Sister Cai, why did you move out?"

"What's the matter?" Cai Wei, who was busy, gave Mao'er a sideways glance, and said, "I didn't steal anything from your house. It's just her."

Cai Wei pointed to Li Cuilian, who was carrying a big bag in each hand, and said, "She and Li Zhaodi were signed by me personally. I took Li Cuilian away, and Li Zhaodi left it to you. She is also a loyal person. If you use her Stay if you like, if you feel that the person I recruited is against you, then resign."

"Sister Cai knows that I don't mean it!"

The cat was a little angry, and shook Cai Hua's hand, "This house is so big, why did you move out? Others thought I couldn't tolerate you."

This time about Chen Jinyu, the two teamed up, and Mao'er even felt that he could talk to Cai Wei when something happened, which would give him a lot of peace of mind.

Furthermore, officials and Cai Wei have long been an open secret, and sooner or later there will be a place for Cai Wei in the back house of the Chen family, so she doesn't understand why Cai Wei moved out.

Cai Wei, however, grinned, broke away from the hand held by the cat, and said leisurely: "No matter how big the house is, it can't accommodate two people to make decisions."

"We can discuss something." Mao'er blurted out, but regretted it after finishing speaking.

"Hey~ It's not that simple, even if you and I don't care about it, after a long time, the people under us will also develop suspicions."

Cai Wei is talking about 'humanity'.
If they live together, it will be full of troubles in the future, such as the maids in their respective yards, who has more moon silver in the yard, and whose yard has less; when the master is not around, whose maid and mother-in-law can make the decision; that is Whoever gets the first bowl of rice at a meal is very particular.

Even if the two of them don't care about it, the people below will still compare, and conflicts will inevitably arise over time.

Unless there is one person who lays down first and makes a small move.

But Cai Hua doesn't want to be a concubine, and Mao'er values ​​the status of a married woman most.

At present, it seems that there is no solution, but moving out to live is the best way.

Cai Wei's words gave the cat who lacked such experience a little understanding, so he stopped persuading him, turned back to Hanchun Hall, took out a box, and handed it to Cai Wei.

time.

Several carriages drove out of the Chen Mansion in Sajin Lane and headed for Shuyuan Street.

There is a three-entry house there, which Cai Wei begged from Chen Chu early on.

"Wow!"

In the carriage, Ru'er couldn't help being amazed when she saw all kinds of exquisite gold and jade jewelry in the box.

Cai Hua lazily took a look at a hairpin with a jade carving and a phoenix pattern, then casually threw it to Ru'er, "Your reward."

"scare!"

Ru'er frantically picked it up, and couldn't help but say "Ah! Be careful, it's broken, it's from Yu!", and thanked happily.

This hairpin might be worth her monthly money for several years.

Cai Wei curled her lips indifferently, then lifted the curtain of the carriage, and waved to Tie Dan who was riding a horse outside.

When the inexplicable Tie Dan got closer, Cai Wei picked up the wooden box and handed it out, then winked at Tie Dan, and said meaningfully: "Tie Dan, this is the headgear given to you by your brother Chen."

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Tie Dan picked it up in a daze, but Cai Wei said mysteriously: "Tie Dan, this is a gift from your good brother behind his wife's back, so you have to put it away."

"Brother Chen, why did you give me a face?" Tie Dan flashed densely curled eyelashes, and his chubby baby face was full of confusion.

Cai Wei, who poked his head out of the car window, looked at Tie Dan like an idiot, and said in surprise, "Don't you know? Your brother likes you."

"By the way, Chen Dutong didn't allow me to tell you. Hee hee, Tie Dan, act like I didn't tell you"

Cai Hua retracted her head.

Tiedan is left alone in a daze in the autumn wind.

Inside the car, Ru'er was even more surprised.

That box of jewelry can be exchanged for a good house in Caizhou, and the third lady will give it away if she says so?
"Third lady," Ru'er called out hesitantly.

Cai Hua seemed to have guessed what she wanted to ask, so she couldn't help but arrogantly said: "I have a lot of jewelry, I don't care for it."

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Ru'er glanced at Cai Wei carefully, and said in a low voice, "But Chen Dutong gave you those, why do you lock them up and not even let the servants take a look at them?"

"Can it be the same!"

Cai Wei said as a matter of course: "It was given to me by my lover, why should the little wild cat reward me?"

(End of this chapter)