Peach Blossom at the Bottom of the Fan

Chapter 71

"Painting..."

Hearing the cry, Gu Sixiao turned her head, looked at Wanrou who was catching up quickly and smiled slightly, "Sister Wanrou came to the kitchen in person?"

"Well," Wanrou smiled, and said casually: "Miss Hu wants to eat fresh fish soup, so my lady asked me to come over and tell the kitchen."

"Really? The lady is really kind to Miss Hu." Gu Sixiao smiled, thinking that Gu Yong probably ate in the main courtyard today, right?
These days, the entire Gu family seemed to be revolving around that Hu Wanwan.

It's not just Zhang's pampering, she can ask for all kinds of food and drink, even Gu Yong is also trying to please her in every possible way.I don't know if he stayed in the main courtyard because he already had some relationship with Hu Wanwan, but that love is quite like the emperor's favorite concubine.

Even Gu Sixiao who lives in the back garden has also heard the story of Gu Yong spending a lot of money to buy glazed lamps and hang them all over the gallery of the main courtyard, inviting beauties to look at the lamps.

Although Mrs. Zhang was also admiring the lantern at the time, anyone with a discerning eye would know that the lantern was not for Mrs. Zhang, but was specially bought for Hu Wanwan.

Not only that, Mrs. Zhang also specially bought a girl from outside to serve Hu Wanwan.However, listening to Wanrou's description of how that girl and Hu Wanwan got along, Gu Sixiao always suspected that this girl might not really be bought just now, maybe she was someone Hu Wanwan was used to handling in the past.

It's just that a daughter of a scholar who said she sold herself to pay off her debts, why does she have a girl to serve her at home?Speaking of which, Hu Wanwan doesn't look like a poor person, food and clothing, and what she likes are not what a poor scholar can afford.

But Gu Sixiao is just suspicious in his heart, let alone Hu Wanwan's identity, if her identity is really weird, then Gu Sixiao will be the happiest.

She doesn't have to do anything, the Gu family can do it all by themselves.If the fight goes on like this, this Dong Gu, who is said to be noble and has a scholarly family for many generations, will have to lose by himself.

It is said to be a concubine, but the west wing in Muchun Courtyard is being repaired wantonly. It is said that it is a luxury. People who have seen it say that the golden house is nothing more than that.

In contrast, Caiyi, who rushed to move to Muchun Courtyard first, immediately fell behind. It was self-evident which of the two new concubines received the most attention.Before even a match, Caiyi had already lost in a complete mess.

Everyone in the servants has a steelyard in their hearts, and they have used the scales in the house to measure the weight. I'm afraid that Caiyi's life will be difficult in the future.

Carrying the food box and walking towards the back garden, Gu Sixiao saw a familiar figure in the distance.

That is the chrysanthemum that has just followed Caiyi. Although he is not very shrewd, he is a good hand at work.It's just that such an honest person would have a better time in the rough envoy's courtyard, but if assigned to the Muchun courtyard, it would really be useless.

Caiyi is not easy to get along with, she has always felt that this girl is careless and can't help her at all, she has embarrassed her in front of people several times, and even beat her.

Although he didn't see it with his own eyes, Gu Sixiao heard a lot, and even knew that this chrysanthemum cried bitterly in front of people several times.

"Chrysanthemum..." called from behind, and Gu Sixiao was about to go over when she saw Chrysanthemum squatting under the tree with her back facing her, shaking her body and tidying up the things in her hands in a hurry.

Frowning, Gu Sixiao quickly turned around, only to see that Chrysanthemum was holding a snack box in her hand.The box was half-open, and there was a dim sum inside, and Chrysanthemum was also holding a piece of pastry, but her hand holding the pastry was a bit dirty.

His eyes flickered, but it took only a moment for Gu Sixiao to figure it out.Chrysanthemum is holding the dim sum, probably not for stealing it, but for dirtying the dim sum, right?Looking at the ashes in her hands, it is obvious that they have just been wiped on trees and stones, right?

Seeing Gu Sixiao staring at her but not speaking, Chrysanthemum became more and more anxious, and hurriedly put the snacks in her hand into the box. She rubbed her hands on the hem of her skirt nervously, and said timidly: "Hua'er, can you do something in front of me?" Didn't you see it?"

Before Gu Sixiao could speak, she became anxious, "I know you and Aunt Caiyi are good, I really don't want to harm her, just, just..."

"I understand, Aunt Caiyi has a bad temper."

Gu Sixiao said something with a smile, which aroused Chrysanthemum's excitement, "You, you don't know how hateful Aunt Caiyi is, she called me treacherous, slippery and fond of food in front of so many people, and even suspected that I stole Her stuff! I really didn’t take it! I just ate her share, and that’s what she asked me to eat, not what I wanted to eat..."

Speaking of this, her voice paused, and she covered her mouth in a panic.

"Aunt asked you to eat her share?" How could someone as selfish as Caiyi be so kind?Oh, it's because I'm afraid that the food sent by the kitchen will be poisoned.

Looking at the dim sum in Chrysanthemum's hand, Gu Sixiao was thoughtful, "Is this dim sum bought for my aunt?"

"Well, ah, I didn't buy it. I didn't sneak out of the house. I asked Brother Xiaogui to buy it."

Gu Sixiao didn't listen carefully to Chrysanthemum's defense, but asked: "Has she been eating these dim sum recently?"

"There are also fruits, and sometimes I eat boiled eggs..." Peeking at Gu Sixiao, I saw that she did not intend to scold her, and Chrysanthemum became bolder when she spoke, "I told my aunt, it's my mother." She wasn't as greedy when she was pregnant with her little brother, she just wanted to talk about snacks, so it didn't burn her heart? But my aunt ignored me at all, and she scolded me even if I said it, and she didn't allow me to say it outside."

Naturally, she is not allowed to speak out, Caiyi like this is nothing more than to prevent the food in the big kitchen from being poisonous and harming the child in her belly, if she speaks out, it will cause another disturbance.

It's just that I don't dare to eat this, and I dare not eat that. I don't need others to hurt me, my body will pass first, so why wait for others to hurt me?

Sighing secretly in her heart, Gu Sixiao was thinking about a meeting, and wanted to persuade Caiyi, but thinking about the situation of the relationship that day, even if she tried to persuade Caiyi, Caiyi would still suspect that she wanted to harm herself.

After thinking for a long time, I finally gave up.

In a few days, the west wing in Muchun Courtyard was repaired, and the Gu family specially set up two banquet tables without inviting outsiders, but their own family had a good meal, which was considered a wedding banquet.

Before the banquet, Caiyi and Hu Wanwan offered tea to Gu Yong and Mrs. Zhang, and Mrs. Zhang sat firmly on the seat. When Caiyi and Hu Wanwan offered tea, she nodded with a smile, and personally put silver hairpins on the two of them.

On the side, Xu's mother acted as the host of ceremonies, and said with a smile: "Today, I am favored by my lady, and I will respect my lady as a sister in the future, and I will be under her control for the rest of my life..."

Hu Wanwan agreed generously, and said to Zhang with a smile: "Sister, Wanwan will entrust her to her in this life." However, when she said this, her eyes were quietly aimed at Gu Yong, charming Such as autumn water.

Compared to Hu Wanwan's delicacy, Caiyi's answers were a little dull.However, I haven't shown up in front of people for more than ten days, but the whole person seems to have lost a lot of weight. Because of the thinness, the pregnant belly looks a lot bigger, and the two big eyes are gloomy and fierce, looking at Hu Wan. When he was in Wanwan, he made no effort to hide his disgust.

How could it be possible to like it? As soon as Hu Wanwan entered the mansion, all the love that originally belonged to Caiyi was taken away.

Today is also a new concubine, but Gu Yong never glanced at Caiyi.

That night, the Muchun Courtyard was very lively. I don't know if it was Zhang's intention, or Hu Wanwan was really that good at being a human being.

In the flower hall of the upper room, a banquet was set up. Four concubines sat at the same table and ate wine with the officials.

Looking at the beauties under the lamp, Gu Yong was slightly smoky from drinking, his drunken eyes swept away, he only felt that these four women had their own charms, and he hugged left and right like this, it really was a blessing.

Hehe smiled and stood up, Gu Yong's body was crooked.

"The officials are going to relieve themselves? I serve the officials." Aunt Liu smiled and stood up.

Gu Yong waved his hand, "You sit, you sit, it's enough for Wanwan to serve me..."

Hu Wanwan smiled, stood up as expected, helped Gu Yong out.

"Just ask a girl to go." Caiyi hummed, picked up the wine glass, took a sip sullenly, and lifted the chopsticks to pick up the plate of braised pork next to Gu Yong's seat.

After holding the cup, Aunt Liu took a sip, then looked at Caiyi with a smile, "How long has it been since you ate? Why do you look like a starved ghost reincarnated?!"

After eating with the chopsticks in her hand, Caiyi snorted: "I want you to take care of it!" The chopsticks in her hand didn't stop, she hesitated and turned around when she had eaten enough.

"Want to eat this?" Seeing her hesitation, Aunt Feng smiled and picked up the chicken feather vegetable in front of her chopsticks and put it on her plate, "Eating more green vegetables is also good for the children."

Staring at her, Caiyi pursed her lips and said nothing, but her chopsticks didn't even touch the mouthful of vegetables.

Aunt Liu giggled, "Good intentions are not rewarded, Sister Feng, put away your kindness! You are kind, people are afraid that you will harm her!"

Aunt Feng smiled and didn't take it seriously, she still looked calm and breezy.

Caiyi turned her head unnaturally, "Why haven't you come back?"

After a pause, she stood up, walked to the door, looked at the lights in the room on the west wing that had been repaired for a long time, frowned and said, "Why is the light on? Could it be..."

"What else?" Aunt Liu looked at her with a smile, "Aren't you so blind? I really don't know how you hooked up with officials. Can't you even tell when a man is in love?"

What relief?It's just pulling people to find a place to fool around.

Caiyi was angry and hated, but there was nothing she could do.

Coincidentally, at this time, Hu Wanwan's girl Linghua entered the door, and she smiled and saluted as soon as she came in, "Three aunts, the official said that they will not go back to the table, the three aunts can do whatever they want."

"What's so casual? Do you want us to continue eating cold wine and cold dishes? Or do you want us to listen to the newcomers' corner?"

Aunt Liu smiled, her gaze on Linghua was cold.

Linghua didn't answer, just smiled into her eyes.

After staring at Linghua for a while, Aunt Liu snorted coldly, stood up, and went out with Yucui without talking to others.

Passing by Linghua, Aunt Liu didn't look sideways, but Yucui tilted her body and bumped into Linghua heavily.

Linghua tilted her body, supported the door, and then stood up. Yuyan had already come to comfort her, "How is it? But it hit hard? Don't pay attention to Yucui, that girl is arrogant!"

Smiling, Linghua nodded to Yuyan, but didn't speak, she really looked like Hu Wanwan.

"It's really getting faster." Seeing that Yuyan was trying to please others again, Caiyi snorted.

Aunt Feng didn't seem to notice it, she just smiled.

The tables were all gone, but she seemed to have just realized that the dishes on the table were delicious, so she picked up the chopsticks carefully.

Caiyi stared at her for a while, then picked up her chopsticks, "That's right, it's better to eat here than go back and listen to the corner."

Looking up, Aunt Feng smiled slightly, but she didn't mean to be angry.

On the contrary, Caiyi herself was a little embarrassed, but she didn't apologize, she just stretched out her chopsticks to pick up the food that Aunt Feng had eaten.

(End of this chapter)