boudoir

Chapter 94
Thinking of this, the numbness in her heart seemed to become more tangled.

Everyone said that she was proud and strong, but who knew the pain of a barren woman?What's more painful is that she still can't put this pain on the face, so that He Pusong can see through her fragility and fear.Sometimes she also hates herself. As the granddaughter of a previous grand master, she used to know everything about piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. Why is she born in the most terrible aspect but unsatisfactory?If she could have children, maybe He Pusong would not take concubines?If he hadn't taken concubines, if he didn't have those concubine children, she wouldn't have become more and more worried, maybe she might be able to conceive, right?
She gritted her teeth and closed her eyes.

Seeing the pain in her heart, Nanny Wu couldn't help feeling distressed: "Madam should be more open-minded, she was too worried in the past, if you take care of your body, there will always be opportunities in the future."

Qi's eyes lowered faintly, and he said disheartenedly: "In my life, there may be no hope for my descendants."

"Why does Madam think so?" Mother Wu urged, "You are only in your thirties. How many people in the world have given birth to children after forty? Not to mention our old lady, isn't it just fast?" Did you have the fourth master when you were forty? You have been taking care of your body these years, maybe there is only a little difference somewhere."

Qi said: "When the old lady gave birth to the fourth master, she had already given birth to four. How can I compare with her?"

Nanny Wu sat down next to the edge of the bed, and said, "There is no rush for this matter, we must continue to take care of it and prepare slowly. The nephew of the old lady's natal family, Ji Rong, the official Ji, is just doing it." Is it in the medicine business? He is familiar with the imperial physician, if we get connected with him, it may be feasible to ask him to ask the imperial physician for a recipe for conceiving a child."

Mrs. Qi thought for a while, and said for a long time: "How can I entrust a man with a foreign surname for this matter? Besides, it's not good to hear about it."

Nanny Wu said: "If we don't trust outsiders, can we still entrust people in our house? As long as we get in touch with Mr. Ji, we can entrust a reliable person to talk about it, and we won't get involved with Madam. Isn't it over?"

Mrs. Qi was moved by the words, walked to the window and remained silent for a while, then nodded almost invisibly after a while.

Nanny Wu stepped forward, helped her back to the table and sat down, "Let's ignore these things for now, Madam should eat first and take care of her body, so that she won't have any worries."

After her persuasion, Mrs. Qi's mood gradually improved, and he immediately picked up the chopsticks, but when he looked at the food on the table, he couldn't help thinking of the mess in the big kitchen, so he put it down again with a frown. "The old lady only gave three days. Where can I find someone?"

Nanny Wu knew her difficulty, so she gave her the tip of a wing, and couldn't help but sigh.Thinking about what happened in the big kitchen that day, he suddenly raised his head: "As soon as Madam said that, I thought of someone. There was Cheng Yingniang in the kitchen, who was recommended by the steward of Master Lin's house last year, and it turned out that she was also in Master Lin's house." The kitchen is in charge of the small stove. I saw this person yesterday, and he is quite different from other people." Immediately, she also said Cheng Yingniang's actions and words, because she was the one who made the idea for her, and her tone inevitably carried Some words of appreciation: "This person is calm and stable, and she doesn't look like someone who is good at opportunism. I see that it may be appropriate to let her go to the small stove."

Mrs. Qi thought for a while, "But Cheng Yingniang who is in charge of the case at the big stove? The one who doesn't talk much on weekdays?"

Nanny Wu nodded: "Exactly! Madam thinks it's feasible?"

Mrs. Qi kept silent, thinking about it.

The next night the old lady came back early, and the old lady ordered to prepare yam porridge. Liuli injured her foot and was unable to walk, so she asked Qingshang to go.Qingshang came back with the porridge, the old man tasted it, and said with a relaxed eyebrow: "This porridge is very good." The old lady didn't take it seriously: "Those bastards, what good things can they make?" The old man shook his head: "Try it taste."

The old lady really tasted it.Half a day later, he nodded and said, "Who made this porridge?"

Qingshang said: "The third madam changed her mind today and pointed out that a nanny surnamed Cheng is working on the small stove, she is the one who cooked the porridge."

"The surname is Cheng?" The old lady looked at Liuli, "Is the woman you said to turn off the fire that day also surnamed Cheng?"

Liuli thought for a while, and said: "It should be. Anyway, I saw that she was in charge of the case, and seeing that everyone on the small stove had left, I quietly sealed the stove."

Qingshang said: "Isn't she the one who handles the case? The third madam asked her to work in Xiaosuozao for a day. Today's porridge and soup are all made by this person."

The old lady nodded, "This person is not bad."

Mrs. Qi was taking off her make-up in front of the dressing table, and Nanny Wu happily lifted the curtain and came in, "Madam, good news! Just now I found Qingshang's place, and both the old lady and the old man praised Cheng Yingniang's porridge well."

After hearing this, Mrs. Qi frowned immediately, as if a big rock had fallen to the ground.

Liu Li didn't get up until the next morning, and the news that Cheng Yingniang had been appointed as the steward of the small stove in the big kitchen spread into the main courtyard.Liuli just pretended it was none of her business, she listened to it, and remained calm.

With Cheng Yingniang's matter settled, Liuli has fulfilled Aunt Su's entrustment.Two or three days later, Aunt Su came and brought a basket of freshly picked lotus pods from the lake, saying it was for the old lady to taste.When Liuli took it down, Hengwei followed, and said: "My aunt asked me to thank Miss Nine. It's a logical thing to do, and now the third lady has never doubted it at all." Liuli smiled and said nothing.Heng Wei said again: "My aunt said, the girl has taken care of the old lady, and she relieved my aunt of her worries. If you have any difficulties in the future, you can also come to my aunt. Maybe I can help you a little bit."

Liuli remained silent, she lowered her jaw and went down.

If there was no such thing as Rui'er, she might have taken the opportunity to stand in line with her. After all, she hoped so much at the beginning and needed to find a backer in this mansion. Maybe Aunt Su was not the most powerful one, but she did. She is the safest one, because judging from the incident with Cuiying Tian'er, her hatred of the Yu family will never be lower than her own, although she still doesn't know whether she wants to punish the Yu family. To what extent, but it is foreseeable that with this woman's means, she will never let her live a good life.

Now the old lady promised Liuli a future, but that may not be what she really wanted, and to put it bluntly, given the current situation of the old lady, the fight in the several rooms was so fierce, plus Su Meiyin was secretly She doesn't know how long she can last, and she may not be able to put her promise into practice.In the final analysis, she is still a weed weed floating on the water, and has not taken root here.

Liuli insisted on pushing Cheng Yingniang to the stove, she believed that on the one hand, Su Meiyin was trying to prevent the Yu family and Qi family from suspecting herself, and on the other hand, she was trying to find out where Liuli's scheming methods went. Not qualified to be used by her, maybe she intends to win her over, but before seeing her do something with her own eyes, this woman who has endured for more than 20 years will not easily reach out.So whenever Liuli was in trouble, she would just stand by and watch.

Now what happened to Cheng Yingniang made Su Meiyin very satisfied, and everyone was happy, but it happened that she made Ruier's idea.That is someone Liuli trusts so much. Even after she kicked her out of the house, she occasionally misses her carefulness and thoughtfulness. Conflicts, even beatings, if there is no Su Meiyin, Rui'er can bring her warmth in this cold mansion.But all these were destroyed by Su Meiyin, Rui'er was driven by her to be a slave in Zhuangzi, so even if every step is so difficult now, she can't immediately turn around and reconcile with Aunt Su.

She owes nothing to her.As for what kind of trouble she wants to make with the big kitchen, that's not what she wants to control, and she can't control it.The He Mansion finally has its destined direction, and this ship is not her final retreat. Now she can only carefully stand on her feet step by step, and watch the future things as she goes.

Maybe Aunt Su heard Hengwei's message and understood Liuli's meaning, so she didn't look for her alone after that.And Liuli thought that Mrs. Yu would do something about the big kitchen next. Unexpectedly, after the middle of the month, the mansion started to get busy again, because the second grandmother Wang has entered the period of labor, and the eldest grandmother Xie is also in her month. It's approaching, and the third young master's wedding date has already been set in August, Mrs Yu has no time to be distracted by the matter of hiring a stable wife and a matchmaker recently, so she seems to have forgotten about it.

In addition to being busy with Wang's waiting for childbirth, Erfang has also settled the matter of He Jianghong's transfer to a certain place in the southwest as a co-prefect. Liang's face is faced with the choice of whether to accompany her or not, and she is also worried all day long.

Something happened in the big kitchen of the third room, but recently there was news that the third lady was deficient in energy and blood and needed to be recuperated. In addition to paying respects to the main courtyard, she would not see any outsiders.On the contrary, Aunt Ning walked out a lot from time to time. Once when she was walking in the back garden, she met Aunt Su and they chatted for a while.

Needless to say, Aunt Cui was newly accepted in the fourth room.Because it was the old lady who personally promoted her, Nie was angry and resentful, but she didn't dare to show it too much. She always laughed and called her younger sister, and she was no different from Aunt Feng in terms of supply.He Xiu originally wanted to give Nie a bad name, but these days he stayed in the backyard every day, and he didn't even set foot in the door of Nie's room.Mincui suffered such a big loss from her, now with the support of the old lady and He Xiuyuan, how can she still be as easy to handle as before?Every day, he was lazy even to ask for peace, and sometimes he let the servant girl wait for dinner before coming, and when he was late, he blamed He Xiuyuan for tossing too hard the whole night, and every sentence stabbed Nie's heart like a knife. .

As time went by, Mrs. Nie became ill from anger, and she was sluggish and listless every day.This day I had a little lunch, and I was resting on the mat, when the fourth young master Tingbang suddenly burst in with a happy face: "I have some good news, mother, do you want to hear it?!"

Seeing it was him, Mrs. Nie let go of her hands and sat up, not interested in the good news from his mouth, but said: "I haven't seen you for several days, where have you been?"

(End of this chapter)