boudoir

Chapter 59
Huanhua shook her hand and wanted to go out, but Liuli held her hand and pointed to the carved window.The two of them stood up and cautiously looked out the window, only to see Nanny Li turning her head and looking around, with her hips on her hips, scolding Liuli as a "little hoof", while Hongxiu said impatiently, "Hurry up, you hurry up to reincarnate!"

No one had ever dared to scold Huanhua like that. Huanhua glanced at Liuli, Liuli smiled casually, and pulled her to sit quietly behind a bush of hibiscus flowers.

At this moment, it was almost noon, the sky was blue and far away, and the sun shot down from behind through the hibiscus branches, stretching a pair of petite shadows.

Liuli stood up when the sound of silk strings stopped in the distance, "You go back first, I'll leave later, lest they get suspicious."

Huanhua hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Then you have to be careful!"

Liuli agreed, watched the movement outside from the window, and pulled her out of the courtyard.

Huanhua turned around after walking a few steps: "Be careful!"

Liuli nodded, waved her hand, and she walked quickly.

Liuli stood under the sun for a while, then slowly walked in another direction.

She knows the terrain of He Mansion very well, which road and how to take to reach the destination, she can tell three or four sketches even with her eyes closed.

Right now she is going to the Erdao Gate, from here to the left until the big screen wall engraved with "Purple Qi Comes East", which is where the Erdao Gate is located.Today, because of Mrs. Yu's birthday, some of the servants were transferred to errands, and some of them didn't know where to gather to have fun because they were left alone.

Liuli was standing under the shade of the flowers. It was almost noon at this time, and the meal time was about to arrive. He was afraid that there would be some errands in the rear, and the people who left the post should return one after another. There was a man in his 20s in the crowd, with a long body and a white face. Sword eyebrows and straight nose, a pair of peach blossom eyes lined with a circle of halo, at first glance, it is a person who has hurt his body due to alcoholism.

Liuli walked out of the shade of the flowers and went up to the corridor in front of him. There was someone on duty under the corridor, dozing off.Liuli walked over and knocked on the door, and the old man suddenly raised his head.It was a little girl in front of her, and she didn't even look like a little maid, so she immediately regained her senses.

"Miss, who is this?" A girl who has not left the pavilion does not go out of the second door all year round. Even if she has been guarding the door in the He Mansion for decades, he is not sure what the origin of this little girl who came out alone.

Liuli said crisply: "Excuse me, is Hu Jin Hu's steward's mansion here?"

The old lady hurriedly stood up, "Will Manager Hu be here—"

Before he finished speaking, someone beside him said lazily: "What's the matter?" Just now that peachy eye had walked up to him, and raised his eyelids to look at Liuli.

Liuli said timidly, "Are you Manager Hu?"

Hu Jin nodded.Liuli said: "I'm the nine girls in the garden. Just now a little girl lied to me that someone from Erdaomen was looking for me, so I came here, but I don't know how to get back. Sister Hongxiu and Sister Caiqin don't know what to do now." Looking for me, I heard that you are the cousin of the Fourth Madam, and you are in charge of the house, so it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to go in, can you give me a ride?"

Hu Jin's eyelids twitched, "Red Sleeve?"

Liuli was surprised: "You don't know her? I have personally heard her talk about Caiqin—"

"No!" Hu Jin stretched out his hand and waved it, stopping her from continuing, "How could I not recognize the red sleeve next to Da Furen! Let's go, I'll take you back."

Hu Jin didn't regard this Nine Girls as someone who should be respected. After saying hello, he put his hands behind his back and waited for Liuli to go forward.

Liuli smiled without a trace, and left first.

Of course she would not come to Erdaomen to look for Hu Jin for no reason, how could he let it go after he suffered such a great humiliation in the cave?A while ago, he suddenly asked to be transferred to Erdaomen, and then acted as a woman in the big kitchen, Liuli didn't believe that he had no other purpose.

She is a person who will take revenge, and Hongxiu dragged Nanny Li out to embarrass her. If she let her be happy like this, wouldn't she feel sorry for the title of Nine Girls?And even if Hongxiu was instigated by Yu Shi, this cannot be a reason for her to let her go.

There are not many reasons in this world. Human life is cheap. If you are weak, she will be strong. If you are strong, she will be weak. Liuli is not here to be a Bodhisattva. She must protect herself. Hongxiu is to blame, but her own fate not good.

When the two of them walked halfway, Hu Jin casually picked off a leaf and fiddled with it between his fingers, asking: "Young lady just said that she heard Hongxiu mentioning me, what did she say about me?"

Liuli is also very casual: "It seems that you told her that you bought some medicine for the Fourth Madam. In fact, I didn't overhear it, and I didn't understand it very well. I know that you and Hongxiu must know each other, so Come to the second gate to find you."

Hu Jin was calm on the face, but he couldn't help being surprised and angry in his heart. The shock was that Hongxiu didn't keep his promise and revealed these things. Shouldn't he be beaten to death by Mrs. Nie?After thinking so quickly, he firmly believed that the culprit who humiliated and tortured him that night was Hongxiu, and at the same time hated her even more to the bone.

After a while, when I arrived outside the main courtyard, I saw a group of more than a dozen women carrying food boxes into the courtyard.The strings and strings of opera singing have stopped, but the laughter and laughter of the whole room have been heard.

Hu Jin didn't intend to retreat when he reached the ground, and Liuli didn't want him to retreat, so he quickened his pace, looking for places where Hongxiu might be.Under the porch of the Begonia Courtyard, I met Huanhua looking forward anxiously. When I saw her, I let out a breath and patted my chest. Liuli nodded slightly at her, and walked into a side room.

Mrs. Qian vacated this wing for temporary use by Mrs. Yu and Mrs. Nie. Mrs. Yu had to change clothes before entering the banquet, so the red sleeves must be here at this time.There was no curtain at the door, and Hongxiu was bending over to clean clothes, Liuli went straight in and said, "Sister Hongxiu, I heard you are looking for me?"

Hongxiu turned her head and raised her eyebrows when she saw her: "Where did the girl go? Let us find it easily! Today is the birthday of the eldest lady, and she is so unruly, isn't it just embarrassing for the lady?" ?!"

Liuli groaned, and said: "Just now when I was watching a play, a little maid who didn't know where came said that the master called me to see me in the front yard, so I went, but I didn't know it was a lie, and I lost my way and couldn't come back. This manager Hu sent me back."

Hongxiu glanced at Hu Jin, and also recognized him as Nie's cousin and the steward of the mansion, so he smiled across the threshold: "So it's Steward Hu, so I'm sorry for your trouble."

Hu Jin felt that Hongxiu's smile was very tricky and insidious, and it was full of irony. This little hoof dared to play tricks on him secretly, but he still smiled at him in public. If he didn't give her some color, see , wouldn't she be underestimated!
Hu Jin looked at her, smiled slowly at the moment, bent over and made a bow.

Hongxiu also thought this Hu Jin was a bit strange, but he couldn't tell what was wrong with him. I heard that this man usually pleases women very much, but he hadn't looked at it carefully before, but now he looks really flirtatious in his eyebrows and eyes.

Turning around at the moment, it is inconvenient to talk to him again.Seeing that Liuli was still standing aside with her arms folded like an old man, she said with a double entendre: "It's almost time to start the banquet, what are you still doing here?"

Liuli hurriedly turned around, and Hu Jin, a smart man, of course also retreated together.Where Hongxiu couldn't see, Liuli sighed and said: "Thank you for your hard work. Manager Hu, Hongxiu usually follows the eldest lady, and has many things to do, so she speaks more straightforwardly. Besides, tonight, Mrs. Qian invited them, the big maids, to live in Lihua. I don't know how late the quarrel lasts when I drink in the yard, and I'm busy with so many things during the day, so it's inevitable that I have a bad attitude, so don't take it to heart."

Hu Jin picked out the main point from her bunch of nonsense: "You said they are going to have a drink at the Eastern Ewha Garden tonight?"

Liuli said: "That's right!"

Hu Jinchong glanced at the direction where Hongxiu was, then turned his head and bowed to Liuli: "Retire!"

Liuli nodded, and calmly walked towards the banquet.

Hongxiu's "lifelong happiness" depends on Hu Jin.Even if she had to face cruel attacks from all sides because of that Golden Silk Butterfly, before that, she would take the "salary" of Hongxiu from Mrs. Yu's side with her own hands.

Not many people at the banquet noticed Liu Li's late arrival, only Yan Hua habitually ridiculed her a few words.And Liuli would not be so stupid as to have a spat with her on this kind of day.

Across the curtain, two tables were also set up in the outer hall, which were prepared for the masters and young masters who have gone to court, but in fact He Wei was detained by the Holy Majesty, the old man was caught by the household affairs, and He Tingyu also went to Xie Shangshu In the house, several young masters also ate in the school, so the seats were actually not full.

After the banquet, because the old ladies and wives had the habit of taking a lunch break, they left after having tea.

Nanny Li has been missing, and Liuli doesn't expect her to serve her, so the so-called Nine Girls of the Shangshu Mansion just went back to the house alone.

Rui'er was still eating, sitting on the porch holding a clay bowl.Liuli walked over to look at her bowl, there was a pinch of fried cabbage, a few slices of fermented tofu, and then half a bowl of brown rice. She frowned and said, "Today, all the maids have extra vegetables, why are you still eating this?"

Rui'er stood up and said, "This is pretty good too..."

Liuli frowned even more deeply, and entered the room without saying a word.

Rui'er then came in and said softly: "Miss, you don't have to worry about the servant, if you can be with the girl, the servant is satisfied with having something to eat."

Liuli sighed, and said: "Did you know? Tonight, Mrs. Qian invited Hongxiu and the others to have a drink in the front yard. If I have a stronger status, you can go too."

Rui'er hurriedly said: "I don't want to join in the fun with them, this kind of thing is not called a slave."

Liuli remained silent, bowed her head and pondered.

Rui'er didn't dare to disturb, went back outside and ate the brown rice, and then went back to the room to bring a scroll wrapped in silk to Liulifang.

After receiving it, Liuli looked at it carefully, nodded and inserted it into the painting tube in the corner.

Rui'er didn't know the purpose of this calligraphy, and seeing that she was satisfied, she also happily said: "When the shopkeeper of this 'Shangpin Study' saw this calligraphy, he was shocked and asked where it came from. When I said it was written by my 'young master', he even said that the copy was too similar, it looked like the real work of Mr. himself!"

(End of this chapter)