Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 22
Putting the food box in his hand on the table, Gu Sixiao's eyes widened with an arrogant gesture.

"Mother Cheng, don't blame me for not reminding you. I'm getting food for the officials, not snacks for myself. If I want to delay things, the officials blame me for suing your kitchen..."

"I heard, even if the officials want it, they have to wait for the pot to come out..." Mother Cheng, who was in charge of the kitchen, curled her lips and muttered: "Everyone, they are all little ancestors. They have only been in the mansion for a few days. You can, if you have the ability, you can use it to me..."

Complaining in his mouth, when he turned around and saw the girl walking into the kitchen, he immediately greeted her with a smile, "Miss Lan, I came early today, wait a minute, I'll go get the lady's food box - and Ah, didn’t you say that some sisters wanted to eat egg custard in the morning, and I steamed it for you, and you can come and pick it up later.”

Lan Xiang nodded and smiled in response, picked up the food box and was about to turn around, when she heard a little girl muttering: "Watch people order dishes! Really, I don't have eyes to please people..."

After a pause in her footsteps, Lan Xiang turned her head and glanced at her, a little strange, she was a newcomer to the mansion.

"Which courtyard are you from?" How did Aunt Gu teach you to be so arrogant when you entered the mansion.

Gu Sixiao murmured, but before she made a sound, a girl ran in quickly outside, reaching out to pick up the food box, "Sister Lan, why did you come to pick up the food box, I still do this kind of thing..."

Turning her gaze, she saw Gu Sixiao, and couldn't help being a little surprised, "Hua'er..." Look at Lan Xiang's cold face, and then look at Gu Sixiao's expression, "Sister Lan, this is..."

After licking her lips, Wanrou didn't dare to say anything more.Lan Xiang raised her eyebrows, and squinted at Wan Rou, "You know this?"

"Yes, Sister Lan Xiang, this is the painting that entered the mansion with me, and is waiting in the back study..."

"The back study?" Lan Xiang snorted, "No wonder you're so arrogant. I heard a few days ago that the girls in the back study are amazing. Looking at it now, it's really amazing—what's the matter, I just entered the mansion Do you look down on those of us who are sisters? We sisters eat egg custard, you don’t like it, do you?”

Gu Sixiao blinked her eyes, her face was stern, "I, our sister Caiyi wanted to eat egg custard yesterday, but the kitchen said there was no..."

"Oh, that's right! Then Mother Cheng did something wrong! Your sister Caiyi is such a great character! Why didn't you give her egg custard?"

Lan Xiang poohed, suddenly her face sank, and she pointed at Gu Sixiao and cursed: "Shameless girl! You want to use that colorful clothes to suppress me, don't you?! Don't even look at her What is it that can be your backing? I'm bah! Don't talk about my aunt, she's not even a housekeeper. She has no name and no role and wants to pretend to be big in the Gu family! Let me tell you, stinky girl, don't talk about her now It's nothing, even if she really became an aunt, don't even think about pretending in front of us——Gu family, a decent housewife is our master!"

Biting her lips, Gu Sixiao seemed to be scared, but she still murmured: "Sister Caiyi is the most favored by officials. If she wants to be an aunt, she can be a concubine at any time. You are the one who is careful—you can't climb high branches even if you want to." superior……"

Before she could finish her sentence, Lan Xiang had already reached out to grab her head, "Smelly shameless little girl, you won't know how high you are unless you teach me a lesson..."

"Ah——" Gu Sixiao screamed, pushing Lan Xiang but couldn't break free. She was hit hard several times in a row, and finally broke free, but fell to the ground. If Wanrou and Cheng's mother hadn't come Stop it, maybe you will get kicked.

"Smelly girl, I will teach you to be good today, let's see if you dare to provoke me in the future..." Lan Xiang cursed loudly with her hands on her hips.

Mother Cheng kept stroking her back, "Miss Lan, don't be as knowledgeable as this little hoof, she is also confused, who can't learn well, learn from that..."

Although she spoke vaguely, Ke Lanxiang knew who she was talking about.

"Well, I've only climbed into bed for a few days, and I consider myself the master, and when I was kicked out of bed, she cried..."

Mentioning the food box that Wanrou had just put on the ground, Lan Xiang snorted coldly and walked away.

Squatting in front of Gu Sixiao, Wanrou was angry and resentful, "Hua'er, what are you doing? Follow Caiyi carefully—what are you messing with?"

Rubbing her hair, Gu Sixiao didn't speak. Seeing her stubbornness, Wanrou was even more angry, "I know what she is doing for Caiyi, but what about you? What is it for? You In this way, sooner or later, I don’t even know how to die..."

Knowing that Wanrou is willing to say this to her, it is also for her own good, but Gu Sixiao still shakes off Wanrou's hand, "Don't worry about it! I know you are all jealous of Sister Caiyi..."

Wanrou was angry, looked at Gu Sixiao, opened her mouth but stopped talking, and then snorted coldly with her mother: "If she is going to die, can you stop her from dying? Leave her alone, Wanrou, come here, Your meal is ready."

"Take the one from our courtyard first!"

Gu Sixiao rushed over, even though she had just been beaten, her hair was a mess, she still looked arrogant.

Glancing at her, Wanrou didn't make a sound, just stood aside.

Mother Cheng hummed and yelled, and someone came over with two food boxes. Gu Sixiao picked up the food boxes, turned around and left the kitchen. Like a victorious general.

After turning a corner, Gu Sixiao's face collapsed.

It really hurts...

Putting down the food box, she rubbed her scalp, thinking about it, but smiled again.

In the past half a month, he didn't learn anything else, but he learned a lot from Caiyi in his favored and proud appearance.Perhaps, these days, besides Caiyi, she, a newcomer to the mansion, is the one who annoys the servants of Gu's mansion the most.

There was indeed a reason for the beating just now, she suffered this because she provoked people's eyes, it was very painful, but it was not in vain.

It is said that the water is clear but there are no fish, so she will muddy the water. The more restless the Gu family is, the happier she will be.

What about the bad guys?Anyway, she has nothing left, so who can she show her?

Carrying the food box, before entering the courtyard, Gu Sixiao slapped her face hard again.

She didn't even enter the study, she yelled timidly at the door, and Caiyi said angrily, "Why are you coming back so late? Ah, what's wrong with you? This——there are robbers at home?"

With a twitch of her eyebrows, Gu Sixiao grinned, and cried, "Sister Caiyi, I was beaten by Lan Xiang from the lady's courtyard..." Gu Sixiao just learned what happened just now, and Gu Sixiao just missed Hugging Caiyi's leg, wept loudly, and finally added: "The more I lift Sister Caiyi, the more she beats me, and she also said that Sister Caiyi will cry in the future..."

Her beating was all because of you, Sister Caiyi!

Although it was not stated explicitly, this is what it means.

Caiyi was angry and hated, looking at Gu Sixiao's pitiful appearance, she also felt disgusted, "Don't cry, have you stayed with Xiaohua for a long time? At first, I thought you might be a capable person." , It turns out that you are just an idiot! Okay, okay, don't be wronged..."

Stirring her hands, she said bitterly: "Sooner or later, I will deal with those bastards! If you have the ability, go and please the officials. Pretend to me, what a skill!"

She frowned and waved her hands again after she finished speaking, "Go and clean up, this ghostly look, you won't be scared when the officials come back..."

Gu Sixiao blinked her eyes, "Well, Sister Caiyi, how about I just let the officials see it, so that he can know that someone is bullying us."

"You pig-headed!" Caiyi gave her a white look, "It was you who was beaten, not me, and the officials would not pay attention to it! Besides, with your current appearance, you are ashamed, and the officials will look at you Scared, how could I feel sorry for you, and help you get ahead! Let your sister teach you to be good, if you are wronged, if you want a man to help you get ahead, you can't make yourself so miserable, you have to learn—well, learn Those Huadans on the stage, with pear blossoms and rain, resentment and sorrow..."

Squeezing the orchid fingers, Caiyi gestured, and suddenly changed his face, "Hurry up, hurry up, you don't understand if you tell me--a bumpkin, I probably haven't even seen the show..."

Gu Sixiao just smiled, and obediently obeyed, as if she really regarded Caiyi as her master.

Caiyi didn't bother to train her anymore, took the food box, and didn't go back to the study, but went to the side room to eat by herself.

The food box contained Gu Yong's rations. It stands to reason that if Gu Yong went out to meet friends today, the lunch could be avoided, but Caiyi asked Gu Sixiao to take the lunch as usual in the name of an official. When she came back, she enjoyed the master's share as a slave, just like she lived in the wing room in this courtyard as a slave, without any scruples.

Seeing Caiyi close the door, Gu Sixiao swept away the flattering expression just now, put down the food box, turned to the back ear room, washed her face, combed her hair again, and then left the small courtyard with the food box.

Caiyi ate slowly, so she didn't care where she was going right now.

Carrying the food box, Gu Sixiao trotted along the stone path to the bamboo forest in the corner.

Grandpa Shitou lives in a hut next to Zhuli.Small bamboo house, simple but unique.Although he is a male servant, but because of his old age and the reputation that he once served the old man, he is the only servant who can live in the back garden.

"Grandpa Stone," Gu Sixiao immediately smiled when he ran into the bamboo forest and saw the white-haired old man looking back at her.

With a bright smile and an indescribable ease, in this bamboo forest, she put down the mask she had been wearing since entering the mansion.

"Grandpa Shitou, come and eat quickly! Well, let's see what's delicious today..."

Looking at Gu Sixiao, Gu Shitou smiled and put down the work in his hands, and said with a smile: "Huaer, I told you, you don't have to bring food here every day, grandpa has food here..."

"I know!" Gu Sixiao looked back and smiled, as if coquettishly, "Grandpa Shi, you also know that in our courtyard, Caiyi doesn't eat this regular dish, and I can't finish it by myself, so naturally Grandpa, please help..."

Gu Shitou nodded with a smile, his eyes were gentle, but he didn't say any more.

This girl, does he really think he doesn't know her intentions?
Ever since he offended that gangster Gu Fu that time, his old man's quota has always been deducted, not to mention anything else, that is, three meals a day, at most two meals, and sometimes even one meal a day.

When I went to the kitchen, he was also kind and said, "Oh, I'm sorry, old man, I forgot in a hurry, and I must pay attention next time."

It sounds good, but I will forget it next time.He is an old man, it's useless to get angry, a person who is so old that he has died, who will pay attention to what he said?But the girl Hua'er always came to visit her with something to eat.

"Eat, eat..."

The sunlight fell on the bamboo, reflecting Gu Sixiao's bright smiling face.Seeing that smile, Gu Shitou couldn't help but said: "Hua'er, you are such a good girl, well, everyone named Hua'er is a good person..."

(End of this chapter)