boudoir

Chapter 26 Please enter the urn
She gave Yan Hua a deadly look, and shut her mouth tightly.

However, the news brought by Mrs. Nie confirmed her previous prediction that the Holy Majesty would indeed want to collect food and attack far away. From this point of view, this war will have to be fought for a few more months, and the marriage between Yuhua and Qi Yunhan is just a matter of time. There is still a delay - if fate still arranges for her to marry into the Qifu, will He Cengli ask for this envoy?

Yan Hua pointed at her and said, "How dare you stare at me! You see, she has a guilty conscience and admits it! Eighth sister, tell me how she provoked you!"

Huanhua bit her lower lip tightly, looked at Qi with tears in her eyes and shook her head.And Qi Shi was indifferent.

Yanhua said: "Huan'er, tell me quickly!"

The old lady said: "Enough!"

Yan Hua was startled, retreated to Nie's side, and calmed down.

"After all, I'm still cheap in my bones, so far away, we can still get together!"

The old lady spoke word by word, still maintaining the previous posture of lying half crooked on the couch.

Everyone didn't dare to speak anymore, Mrs. Qi dragged Huanhua away, Huanhua looked back at Liuli, Liuli bit her lips and smiled, and Huanhua's tears rolled down, making Liuli's eyes sour.

Biyun walked in and said with a smile: "Old lady, your favorite chicken soup with coconut flakes has been delivered. If you don't serve any food, I'm afraid there will be coconut trees growing in the soup! Ladies are all precious, so why not let them Eat tree bark?"

The old lady's complexion turned pale, and she said with a chuckle: "I forgot about this one, it's my fault for making the wives and ladies hungry!"

As soon as the old lady opened her face, the atmosphere suddenly eased, and Mrs. Yu hurriedly ordered people to prepare a meal, and the turmoil ended with Liuli being dumb.

The young masters greeted and went out, the wives and the two young mistresses accompanied the old lady to the upper table, and the girls all sat down.On weekdays, the old lady would take turns to wait on the four servants at meals, but today it was the turn of the third and fourth servants.Mrs. Qi set the chopsticks for the old lady, Mrs. Nie added soup for her, Mrs. Yu and Aunt Su, although they were not on duty, were also fighting beside each other, listening to the dingling of the bowls and plates for a while.

According to the ranking of Liuli, Huanhua was originally on the left, but now he has swapped positions with Zhenhua, Min Hua is on the right, and Yanhua is on the opposite side.

Yan Hua was very proud of herself, she sat on the side of the table first, looking at the colored glaze with squinting eyes.Yu Hua sat under Min Hua, but he always ignored Liu Li.

Liuli finished eating without saying a word, and went to the side to rinse her mouth.Min Hua put down the bowl and chopsticks and went to the side to rinse his mouth and drink tea.After the old lady finished her meal, Aunt Su took a spittoon and rinsed her mouth. Seeing Min Hua by her side, she beckoned her to come over, picked a piece of tangerine for her to eat with a toothpick.

When Aunt Su saw it, she scolded: "It's so unruly! The old lady hasn't eaten it yet, so you should eat it first!"

Min Hua quickly put it down and stood up.

The old lady sighed: "I gave it to her, why do you do this?"

Mrs. Yu came over and took Min Hua, who was ashamed, and drove away: "Mother loves you. Your mother is crazy, don't talk to her!"

Aunt Su smiled: "The more sister loves her so much, the more she hurts."

When she said this, her eyes were shining, as if there was a villain hidden inside.Corresponding to the old lady's words "I'm still cheap in the end", I feel that there is another meaning.

There was such a commotion just now, and everyone felt that it was boring, so they gradually left.Liuli also said goodbye, and the old lady gave a light hum and waved her to go.

Back in the small courtyard, Rui'er came to meet her, Liuli gestured for her to shut up, entered the room, and pushed Cuiying away before she could speak.

Rui'er took out three pieces of small silver sticks from her purse, a square mirror as big as the cover of her thumb, and a small box of ink pads, "This is what Grandma Sun brought back early in the morning. The original said that the engraving would take two or three days to come out." Take it, the slave girl was afraid that the girl would need it urgently, so she made her own proposal and asked him to engrave it now, and hoped that the girl would not blame it. This is leftover money. There is also this ink pad. Can the girl use it or not?"

Liu Li didn't put three pieces of silver into her purse, and glanced at the chapter again. The material was ordinary, but the carving was fine, so she said: "Very good!" Stamped yesterday's painting with the ink pad, and then said : "I'll take this painting and frame it tomorrow."

Rui'er thought for a while, and said: "If I go out tomorrow, Madam will probably ask about it. Right now, I can only look for Nanny Sun. She lives in a back alley and often goes in and out. See if there is any way for her to take her servants."

"Okay, then you go."

Rui'er went out, Liuli found a pillow and lay down to refresh herself.

As long as the painting is framed and back, she can confess to He Cunli. If He Cunli has not seen the painting, then he will accept it without any doubt. If he has, then she can also pretend that she does not know. .All in all, before she figured out his purpose, she didn't want to take it out so easily.

Ruier just came back when she got up to pour tea:
"Girl, something happened to Grandma Sun's house and she just went back suddenly. I'm afraid she won't be able to come back for a few days."

Liuli frowned: "What happened?"

"It seems that Nanny Sun's husband had a dispute with Steward Qian's brother-in-law, Lu Crucian, and one of his legs was broken."

Liuli said: "Her husband is also working in the mansion?"

Rui'er said: "That's not true. Grandma Sun's daughter, Mier, is in the fourth wife's room, and Lu Crucian is in charge of two dowry shops for the old lady. This Lu Crucian already had a wife and children, but somehow he was I fell in love with this girl from the Sun family, and have been pestering her for several months. Today, the girl went to her home for a half-day holiday, and Lu Crucian followed her to harass her again. When she was spotted by Sun Nanny's husband, she wanted to beat her. Lu crucian carp hit."

After Liuli listened, she took a sip of tea and looked at her: "You know it very well."

Rui'er's face turned pale, her usual brilliance was gone.

But Liuli seemed to be just saying that casually, picking up the painting and thinking about it.

The fact of going out is a big problem, Yu's place is naturally watching here all the time, even if Nanny Sun helped this time, she doesn't know who to turn to next time, so she has to think of a long-term and safe way.

But what is the long-term safe way?When it comes to safety, these people in my house are not simple, and they are not really safe at all.Mrs. Yu is in charge of the power of the inner and outer courts, and it is simply impossible to tear a hole from her.Only the big kitchen still has an opportunity to take advantage of, but now her hands can't reach there at all, and it's useless to use all her strength.

Unless, through the back garden gate...

The words "Houyuanmen" flashed in his mind, and Liuli seemed to see the dawn suddenly.Feng Chun'er's husband, Lai Wu, guarded the back garden gate, and it was the main road when going out, so few people came in and out on weekdays.If he could be taken down, wouldn't it be more convenient to do things in the future?

It's not impossible to do this, but she can't do it alone, she must find a helper.

After thinking for a long time, she rolled up the painting and temporarily put it in the drawer under the desk.

Cuiying said outside the window: "Tian'er go get the food!"

Tian'er glared at her, and picked up the food box without saying a word.

Rui'er went out and said: "You are cured, I'd better go." Tian'er was annoyed: "I haven't seen you coming out for a long time, and now you're pretending again!"

Rui'er was so choked by her that she couldn't speak, she stood there clutching her skirt, her face was as red as an eggplant.

Liuli beckoned her to come in: "Has Tianer's old lady been here in the past two days?"

Rui'er thought for a while, and said: "That day when the girl went to pay her respects to the old lady, she seemed to have come here once. At that time, the servant was washing clothes by the well, and her back was always turned to this side. When she got up later, she saw a person coming from the house. Go out, she looks like Mama Cheng."

Liuli hummed and looked her up and down a few times.Rui'er was a little at a loss, and unconsciously lowered her head again.Liu Li said: "What do you think of Tian'er?"

Rui'er was stunned, glanced at her toes and then at her, said for a long time: "Tian'er, Tian'er is fine, she is a child of a family, many things..."

"Yes!" Liuli interrupted her with high fives, "I also think she's pretty good, and her mother is beside the eldest lady. Although she's a little out of tune, she's loyal and reliable. I have something I want to entrust to her."

After speaking, she seemed to have clarified something, and returned to the table with confidence and sat down.

Rui'er was speechless for a while, and after a long time, she tentatively said: "Whatever the girl wants to do, the servants can also do it for me."

Liuli shook her head: "I know you are careful and do things well, but only Tian'er can do this." She didn't seem to want to go into details, so she waved her hand and stopped.But when Rui'er was about to turn around, she hummed again, as if she still couldn't hold back and said: "Aunt Su is very close to the eldest lady. This matter is related to Aunt Su, so I can only let Tian'er go."

Ruier turned around: "Aunt Su?"

Liuli nodded and sighed: "That's right, it was an old incident 15 years ago."

After speaking, Liuli lowered her head and began to embroider flowers, as if she no longer wanted to talk, Rui'er had no choice but to withdraw.

After Tian'er came back with the meal, Liuli really left her in the room to talk for a while, and when she came out, Tian'er's face looked very smug.Even Cuiying felt this, and while Liuli was eating in the porch, she stepped forward and said, "Tian'er has gone to the big kitchen to gossip again! She said that four people in a room eat, and she was sent to do things alone. The girl has to take care of her!"

Liuli glanced at her and said, "How do you know?"

Cuiying choked, and it took a long time to come back to her senses, "I also said it while listening to the gossip of the people in the big kitchen."

Liuli paused for a moment, and said: "There are a lot of people in this mansion, sister should not listen to these gossips, if Madam finds out, I'm afraid I will be blamed for not obeying boudoir precepts." Looking up, she looked worried , smiled again at the moment, and said: "Speaking of these rules and so on, I am young and ignorant, and I don't understand many things, so I have to rely on my sister to remind me a lot! My sister was sent by the old man, so I naturally have supervision If there is such a thing in the future, you don’t need to ask me, but it’s up to my sister to make up her mind.”

During these days when Cuiying was with Liuli, Liuli has always been reticent, and she has never said such heart-to-heart words. She couldn't restrain herself and couldn't help saying: "Miss, you can't beat Cuiying! Cuiying is an outsider, and Cuiying also takes it as her duty to serve the girl wholeheartedly!"

(End of this chapter)