Concubine, please respect yourself

Chapter 12

It's time for people to decide, and the silver hook is hung up. In the mansion of Lu Guogong's mansion, except for the eldest son Lu Zhiting who picked out lamps and books in the courtyard, only the young lady in Lanyue Pavilion still has a red candle.

"Hurry up and get some hot water." The maid, Lian Yi, was standing at the door of the young lady's boudoir with her skirt wet, and called the little maid to fetch some hot water from the stove.

"Yes, sister Lianyi." The little maid bowed and bowed, nodded lightly, took the barrel in Lianyi's hand, and was about to turn around and go to the kitchen.

"Ah Ruo, come back!"

The little maid named Ah Ruo, with doubts on her face, brought up Qun Ru and walked back.

"Sister Lianyi, what else can I order?" A Ruo looked up at her immature face, which was lightly sunken, so cute that one couldn't help but want to pinch her pretty face.

"Miss has been complaining of chest tightness for the past few days, and she always turns over more frequently at night. Later, you go get a bottle of yellow vanilla essential oil and put it in the water." Lianyi saw Ah Ruo's cute little bun and rubbed her head , and explained to her before turning around and entering the house.

In the house, the moonlight pours on the carved wooden bed, the light gauze curtains, and the red candles emit incense.

"Miss, do you want to add water?" Lianyi carried the wooden barrel through the six screens in one side room of the house, and arrived at the bathroom, seeing Luo Ning making a hissing gesture towards her, signaling her to speak in a low voice.

Lianyi bit her jaw lightly, and gave Luo Ning a wink, reassuring her.

He took two light steps, walked to the large bathtub, stretched out his hand to test the water temperature, felt that it was too cold, scooped up two spoonfuls of hot water and added it to the bucket, and took out a porcelain bottle of essential oil containing yellow herbs from his sleeve. Take a few drops and drop it into the bucket.

Glancing at his young lady, she seemed to be still in a light sleep, her phoenix eyes lightly narrowed, but she seemed to be somewhat peaceful, her delicate body was hidden in the pink roses floating on the water, and her black hair covered her. , her crimson lips parted slightly with a delicate air.

Luo Ning and Lian Yi are maidservants specially chosen by the eldest wife of the Lu family, Shen Shi, to be close to Lu Ziyu. Also often see distracted.

One day, the two of them cleaned up the lady's lunch in the kitchen, and they discussed why they always stared at the lady in a daze. At first, they were always worried that they might not be grinding their mirrors?After a final analysis, I thought in my heart that the young lady was too bright and charming.

"Luoning?" The woman in the bathtub murmured, as if she had woken up.

"Miss, do you want to get up?"

"Um"

After taking a bath, the woman in the barrel took a short nap, and was already sleepy, so she responded delicately and waited for someone to dress her.

Lianyi took two steps forward to help the young lady out of the water, and Luo Ning hurriedly took the dry cloth from the wooden stand, shook it off and wrapped it around the young lady.

This tandem service is done with utmost care.

The dry cloth was taken away after the water was drawn, revealing a graceful and graceful figure of a woman, with water droplets rolling down her chest, her jade feet seemed to have touched the cold, and she flinched a bit, which made people feel unsympathetic.

Luo Ning took the gauze dress and put it on the young lady to hide the spring light, and then took a cotton cloth to dry her hair. After finishing everything, she and Lianyi helped the young lady out of the bathroom and returned to the bedroom in the pavilion.

Lu Ziyu was extremely sleepy when he returned to his room, and let Luo Ning and Lianyi smear his face and hair.

After tidying up thoroughly, he was sent to the bed, the curtains were closed and the lamp wicks were drawn, and he went to bed.

Two days later, before noon, a servant from Mu Cangzhai brought over the dance clothes that had been made in a hurry, and matched them together with the jewelry she was wearing, saying that it was Shopkeeper Baili who asked the lady to try it first, and see if there was any difference. fit.

Lianyi took the tray with the clothes from the servant, took out a few copper coins from her purse and gave it to the servant, saying that it was money for the young lady to reward her brother for drinking tea.

The boy was also a man of sense, so he accepted the copper coin and thanked Lian Yi before saying goodbye.

Lianyi carried the tray into the inner courtyard, and saw the young lady standing in the courtyard with a tambourine in her hand, singing a little song: "When Luo Yu remnant brilliance orders troops, take it home and return it every day?"

After the song was sung, many servants in the courtyard put down their work and listened to the lady's singing quietly. Now that the northern frontier is constantly fighting, they are in the southern border. No one knows about their safety, so they just prayed for God's blessing, so that the second son can return home safely.

After hearing this, Lianyi knew that the young lady must have missed the second son, suppressed the tears in her eyes, and thought in her heart: Don't let the young lady see that she is sad.

Raising the corner of his mouth, he stepped into the yard.

"Miss, look, shopkeeper Baili has made you a new dress again." With a smile on her face, Lianyi walked quickly to her own lady and presented the tray.

Seeing Lianyi approaching, Lu Ziyu put away his worried face, lazily looked at the people in the yard and said, "I won't sing today, instead, Miss Japan set up a stage, please let the people in our yard listen for a while." ,how?"

When the servants in the courtyard heard this, they were overjoyed, and hurriedly shouted hello, and the discussion started.

"Hurry up and do some work for me. If I can't finish today's work, you won't be allowed to attend the lady's banquet in the future." Lianyi rolled her almond-shaped eyes and yelled at the servants in the yard and corridor, and everyone shrank their necks and went back to work.

"Leave the things to me, you can go get busy too." Lu Ziyu took the tray in Lianyi's hand, gave instructions, and entered the room by himself.

This dress was worn to participate in the ten-gallery painting contest, if someone saw it and knew that the fourth lady of Lu Guogong's mansion and the lady Ying of Fengxianlou were alone, would it be okay?
After entering the house, Lu Ziyu shook off his clothes, and couldn't help admiring Baili Yao's dexterity.

She wears a fairy dress with wide sleeves and wide sleeves. There is no embroidery on the skirt, and it is only woven with silk thread into a small net ring around the waist. Each of the nets puts a glazed stone, which looks extremely vivid under the light.

There is also an agarwood wooden box on the plate, and when opened, there is a gold crown with tassels, exquisite and compact, full of elegance.

Lu Ziyu was overjoyed, and hurriedly sent someone to take the authentic work of "Quiet Tan Fourteen Plum Blossoms" painted by Wang Zongshen hanging in his study to thank Shopkeeper Baili.

Some time ago, Lu Ziyu invited Bailiyao to come to his study to discuss the new objects on Mu Cangzhai. He saw Bailiyao staring at the painting four or five times in half an hour, and his heart ached. I knew she liked it, and I just sent it along with the river today, so Sister Yao must be happy.

"Miss Si, where can you go, Eldest Young Master?" As soon as Luo Ning walked to the gate of Lanyue Pavilion, he saw Tong Yun, the attendant next to the Eldest Young Master, trotting over, saying that the Eldest Young Master was in a hurry to find Fourth Young Miss, Luo Ning did not Dare to neglect and hurry to call Miss.

Lu Ziyu knew that his eldest brother must have made progress in the matter of collecting salt, so he hurriedly packed up his clothes and rushed to Lu Zhiting's courtyard.

Lu Ziyu made a few turns around the mansion before making a detour to the elder brother's courtyard. Lu Zhiting had been waiting at the door, and when he saw Lu Ziyu coming from a distance, he hurried up to meet him: "Yu'er, come quickly."

After finishing the words, he led Lu Ziyu into the house, and gently closed the door.

"As you expected, today I sent my servants to buy salt from various salt shops in the city under his name. Unexpectedly, the price of salt has risen to five yuan a bucket, and some people who went to buy salt even quarreled with the shops. The skin is broken and driven away."

"You know, which shop did you beat up?"

Lu Zhiting thought about it for a while, and raised his eyebrows: "It's the salt shop of Jia's family in the city."

Lu Ziyu was convinced that the Jia family and the officials in the city colluded with each other and raised the salt price privately to obtain huge profits: "How much rock salt did you store?"

"It's already two hundred shi." Lu Zhiting opened the salt book that was sent by the housekeeper this morning, flipped to the last page and handed it to Lu Ziyu.

"It's still not enough, brother still needs to get people to buy another hundred stones"

"Do you still need a hundred shi? The price of salt is already high now, why don't you discuss this matter with your father?" When Lu Zhiting heard that his younger sister wanted to buy another hundred shi salt, he was afraid that he would be held accountable by his father for moving too much money in the house. .

"Brother, you don't have to be afraid of this matter. If the price of salt is skyrocketing after a few days, and the people in the city are rioting, then my Lu family will use salt to avert this danger. Father will definitely praise brother when he knows this. After all, where's the accountability?" Seeing that his elder brother wanted to tell his father first, Lu Ziyu was in a hurry, so he pulled Lu Zhiting's wide sleeves and acted coquettishly.Father was hesitant to act, and it would take three or four days before he made a decision. What if there was a commotion in the city by then?

"Okay, okay, my cuffs are going to be stretched by you, but my brother is still confused."

"Why?"

"Why does the salt application need to be delayed until three days after the salt price skyrocketed?" This is what Lu Zhiting was puzzled about. If he wanted to avoid chaos, it would be better to start adding salt when the salt price went up.But my little sister has to wait for three days.

Lu Ziyu covered the light in his eyes, and replied with innocent eyes: "If I tell people in advance that my Lu family has already planned a plan, if I ask someone with evil intentions to make trouble, I'm afraid it will be bad for my elder brother to be an official in the future."

When Lu Zhiting heard this, he just patted himself on the head, and suddenly said: "Oh, why didn't I think of this, Fourth Sister is more delicate."

As soon as the voice fell, he pushed open the door of the house, and went to call the young man to buy salt again, and at the same time, keep quiet.

Lu Ziyu thought to himself: My eldest brother is really good-natured, if there is no backer in the family in the future, he will be used by others in the officialdom, he must first hold the Ninth Prince in his hands.

At this time, in the Suzhou inn, he was leaning over his desk at the desk, watching the Ninth Prince Ying Su who was handed over by the spies in Beijing, but he didn't know that he was already being cared about by a fox who had become a spirit.

It was already noon, Fuyun brought some dishes of food from the inn, went upstairs and returned to the room.

"Master, have you ever been hungry? Why don't you eat earlier?" Fuyun picked up the food from the plate and placed it in front of the Eight Immortals wooden table in the room.

Walking to the side of his master, he saw that the master was looking at the secret letter with his eyes focused, and only whispered back for a moment.

"Fuyun, send a letter to Mo Ya immediately, and ask him to come here to meet me quickly." After reading the secret letter, Ying Su raised his hand and rubbed the center of his brows. Although his eyes were tired, there was a coldness in his eyes, which made people feel palpitations. extremely.

He had just received a report from spies, saying that Li Wei, the governor of Suzhou, secretly colluded with the third-rank officials in the court to cover up the matter of selling private salt between himself and local merchants, but the names of these third-rank officials were unknown.

Ying Su knew that it would not be so easy to solve the case by himself and Fu Yun alone, so he had to call in the dark guard Mo Ya to come round.

"Here."

At night, Ying Su slept under a brocade quilt and clothes, her thin lips were lightly pursed, and there was a little sweat on her forehead, as if she was in a nightmare, sleeping extremely unsteadily.

In the dream, Ying Su saw a woman walking towards him slowly with bare feet, her steps were light and her figure was flowing, she couldn't see what kind of clothes she was wearing, only saw a green kingfisher on the hem of her skirt following the woman's steps Flying, but two steps to his bed.

Stretching out his bright wrist, he untied the handicap on the side of his skirt, revealing his enchanting and exquisite body, turned over and sat straddling his waist, lowered his head and said softly, "Jiulang thinks, do I still catch my eye?"

Ying Su resisted in her heart, but she couldn't help reaching out to grab the woman's slender waist, but unexpectedly, she suddenly woke up from the dream, sat up and cursed secretly: "Damn it."

Lying sideways on the head of the bed, exhaling a few mouthfuls of turbid air, but the desire was still there for a long time, so I had to get up and open the window in the house, and sat in front of the desk to enjoy the cool breeze all night.

(End of this chapter)