Gu Erbai's Pastoral Life

Chapter 286
"I just said, if you do good deeds, you will definitely be rewarded."

Gu Erbai was suddenly moved and burst into tears.

"However, the owner still insisted on paying the money, but in the end the widow said that it would be a wedding gift from her, so he gave up."

"Humph……"

Gu Erbai shook his head, thinking that he must teach this prodigal son a lesson when he comes back at night.

"Okay, let's stop tidying up, and hurry up to greet the empress, and ask her if she would like to go to see Rouge with us."

Xiao Taozi nodded cheerfully, pushed open the door, looked at the wonderful sky outside, and suddenly turned her head as if thinking of something, "By the way, Ma'am, I just listened to the owner's orders this morning, and forgot about the emperor and the empress." The attendant ordered, saying that the empress is not allowed to go out today, and we can only come together when he comes back at night."

"..." Why is the family education so strict?
Gu Erbai rolled his eyes and nodded slightly, "Forget it, let's go by ourselves."

Little Taozi nodded, "Well, Changgong Garden is also very far away from here. Taozi reckons that the emperor chose to be far away on purpose."

Gu Erbai raised his eyelids and looked at her strangely, "What do you mean, why did you choose to be farther away on purpose?"

Xiao Taozi paused, stretched out her hand and scratched her head inexplicably, pouted in bewilderment, "Little Taozi doesn't know, I just heard rumors that the emperor is sympathetic to the owner of the field, and he is afraid that he will be stimulated in the middle of the night... I don't understand .”

"... Cough, we should go."

Gu Erbai coughed twice, lowered his head and went out.

This emperor...why does he feel so bright and bright, why is he so dark-hearted, he said this sentence without wanting to provoke Uncle Qing, isn't this intentionally provocative, how did he provoke him?

Yesterday, it was obviously the empress who was chasing her with a brick, which was too protective.

The complaining little woman shook her head, but she didn't know that the emperor was only worried about his brother Qing who had been married for 28 years.

……

Yuchun Hall is a side courtyard.

Gu Erbai stood in the yard, and a group of maids and servants gathered around them, introducing themselves actively and enthusiastically, some of them were so enthusiastic that her smiling face stiffened a bit.

Xiao Taozi walked up the corridor, stood in front of Xingzi's door and knocked gently on the door, "Little Xingzi, are you there?"

After knocking on the door for a while, there was still silence and no one responded.

Gu Erbai couldn't help being annoyed by being surrounded by a group of overly enthusiastic little maids, so he slightly raised his head and asked her, "Is the door open yet?"

Xiao Taozi turned her face away, frowned and shook her head, "No."

I don't know if it's because she's not there, or I still remember what happened yesterday and don't want to pay attention to her.

"Sister Xiaotaozi, don't knock. Sister Xingzi left the house early in the morning. I don't know where she went. She was so mysterious that she never told us."

At this time, a little girl with a single bun next to Gu Erbai pursed her mouth slightly, with a strange air, and a faint smile appeared at the corner of her mouth.

Xiao Taozi withdrew her hand when she heard the words, frowned, and asked her with some displeasure, "Since you knew that Xingzi was not in the room, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

The girl with the single bun is from Tanzhang's office. She is usually very pleasing and has a good temper. After a long time, she is considered a leader among the maids. She occasionally speaks recklessly. It was so heavy that no one else dared to say anything.

Most of the affairs in the mansion are managed by Housekeeper Liu and Tan Zhangshi. The old lady has a broad mind and doesn't bother to pay attention to these things. She is not the head of the house, and the management is loose, which leads to many maids forming cliques in private.

At this time, the little girl in a single bun couldn't help becoming annoyed when she heard Xiao Taozi scold her for no reason.

However, due to the presence of his wife, it is naturally not easy to choke with her, so he slightly lowered his voice, looking aggrieved, "Sister Xiao Taozi, what are you talking about? Usually you and Sister Xingzi have the best relationship, hers Why are you not as clear as we are about your whereabouts? How do we know that you were knocking on the door to show your wife a show just now, or we really don’t know. "

"you……"

As soon as Xiao Taozi heard that there was something in her words, she was irritating, she raised her eyebrows angrily, as if rushing down to argue with her.

"It's okay, come down."

Gu Erbai lowered his eyelids faintly, and called Xiao Taozi in a plain and straightforward voice.

The crescent eyebrows that were rendered beautiful by Luo Zidai swept slightly at the little girl with a single bun beside her. Just now when she arrived in Yutangchun, she seemed to be the first one who came up to pay her respects cleverly.

Xiao Taozi is an impatient person who can roll up her sleeves and fight with others when she gets angry, but this time she suppressed her in front of the madam. Originally, she wanted to go out to play today, not to care about these stalking girls, so as not to ruin the madam's day in vain good mood.

It's rare for the little girl with the single bun to see Xiao Taozi being so low-key, and she couldn't help being more patient if she didn't let her go on, she turned her flattering face to Gu Erbai, "Ma'am, you have something to do with elder sister Xiao Xingzi Sister Xiao Xingzi usually serves by the old lady's side and doesn't ask about other things. There are a lot of things in this mansion that she doesn't know. On the contrary, everything has to go through the hands of the Tanzhang. Qiang'er is the Tanzhang's office. If you don’t know anything, you can ask Qiang’er.”

Xiao Taozi came down and saw her flattering and flattering face, her face darkened, and she frowned in annoyance, she came up and took Gu Erbai's hand.

"Madam, since Sister Xingzi is not here, let's look for it elsewhere."

Gu Erbai nodded, "Okay."

Behind her, Qiang'er looked at Xiao Taozi holding his wife's hand tightly, and couldn't help becoming more angry, and looked at Xiao Taozi with jealous eyes.

In this mansion, she is the most capable, the best treatment, and no one else can mess with her, but she can't stand her eyes, didn't she come a few years earlier than her?Apart from knowing how to climb high branches, what else is there to do? I climbed the old lady, I climbed Shen in charge, and now I still want to climb the madam!

Seeing her getting up red-faced, several maidservants in the same room around couldn't help coming up to persuade her, it all depends on her seniority.

But she still couldn't get angry, instead, she was persuaded to become even more angry, and the resentment in her heart gradually leaked to her lips.

"It's hypocritical to look for Xiao Xingzi, I think I deliberately picked a time when Xiao Xingzi is not around.

Usually in front of outsiders, pretending to be a sister is just wishful thinking. When will Xiao Xingzi treat her as a sister?I pretended to be obedient and coquettish in front of the old lady, monopolized the favor, and made a big show of power in the house, pushing everyone away from him. Why did I ever leave a little chance for Xiao Xingzi, didn't I just want her to be inferior?

Now that the new wife has entered the mansion for a few days, she has not been warm, and she ran up to flatter her with sharp eyes, never thought about her sisters, but be careful of retribution..."

Although Qiang'er spoke in a low voice, she articulated every word very clearly, and she clearly wanted the protagonist to hear her posture.

This completely annoyed Xiao Taozi, Xiao Taozi became very angry and wanted to rush over without distinction.

Gu Erbai grabbed her tightly and shook his head.

Xiao Taozi turned her face and saw Madam shaking her head, she couldn't help feeling annoyed and aggrieved between her brows, she was about to shed tears in a moment of urgency, Madam wouldn't really think that she was who they said she was.

As the saying goes, three women make one drama.

Where there are many women, there must be right and wrong. Gu Erbai was born in an era when everyone was chasing palace fighting dramas. Pressing the remote control with his left hand is the spy movie of the palace, changing the channel with the right hand is the palace lock bead curtain, and the midnight theater is broadcasting The Legend of Zhen Huan. Early in the morning is the legend of Wu Meiniang, so naturally he is very familiar with these.

Originally thought that these bloody things would only happen in deep palaces or deep houses.

But I don't want to, there are so many bad things in the pastoral scenery of these ten miles and eight villages.

But having said that... Gu Mansion's Waterside Garden and Chang Gong Garden are separated by a few miles, and there are thousands of servants and maids in the mansion. How can it be like a country scene?It's so alive that it can be compared to the magnificent imperial palace, and it's completely normal to have these little awkwardness and tricks that are not up to the mark.

It’s just that Gu Erbai was thinking, for a lively and cheerful personality like Xiao Taozi, he might forget these sarcastic remarks in a second, but for Xiao Xingzi’s restrained personality, it’s no different from Glass Heart meets Keyboard Man.

No wonder, she has been silent and depressed all the time.

But she thought that she hadn't justifiably married into the Gu family after all, and it would be unreasonable to deal with these jealous maids privately now, so she comforted Xiao Taozi to suppress her anger, and said it by the way when she saw Steward Liu.

"Ma'am..." Xiao Taozi lowered her head and wiped her tears.

"It's okay, look at you, how did you learn to be like Xiao Xingzi?"

Gu Erbai looked at Xiao Taozi's tears, and couldn't help reaching out to pat her on the back in a funny way.

Unworthy, just after saying this, from outside the warm-colored arched stone door... Xiao Xingzi walked in.

Xiao Xingzi walked into the side courtyard of Yuchun Hall, raised her head slightly, and when she saw Gu Erbai and Xiao Taozi, she seemed to be unresponsive. There was no expression on her face, and the corners of her eyes were slightly rosy and swollen. She was stunned for a few seconds , Wei Wei blessed his hands, and bowed to Gu Erbai, "My servant pays homage to Madam."

(End of this chapter)