Qingying finally drank the bowl of porridge brought by Xia He.

Minced chicken and minced ginger were added to the porridge. Qingying started to sweat after a few sips. When she finished drinking, a wave of heat washed over her internal organs, which seemed to have been dead for a long time. After a while, she fell asleep again.

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Xia He quietly packed up the dishes and went out. She saw a little maid boiling medicine in the corridor again. She thought about it and walked over, took a small purse from her waist and handed it over:

"Do you want to eat candy? You can get one of the two pieces here."

After a pause, Xia He added: "I'll give you the purse too."

The little maid had been in the village since she landed and had never seen much of the world. She looked at the exquisitely embroidered purse with reluctance several times, but still did not dare to reach out:

"Aunt Xia, if I take your things, I won't have any errands."

Normally, Xia He would have rolled her eyes and cursed when she heard this. Now she put her purse back in embarrassment and said with a pinched voice:

"Miss Achi is really good at taking care of people."

Xia He could swear to God that her words had no other meaning, but it sounded weird, as if she was cursing someone.

Xia He took out the caramel and placed it next to the bowl of medicine. Xia He walked away in disgrace.

Along the path, we returned to the innermost courtyard. In the courtyard, several other concubines of Xie Fengan were still taking the maids to make clothes. Seeing Xia He come in, Liu Tianxing ran over happily:

"Xia He, how is Qingying?"

Xia He didn't want to say more, and just walked to An Niannian: "An...Sister An, can we have a few words in private?"

An Niannian, who was cutting cloth, put down the charred willow branch in his hand, wiped his hands, and said, "Come into the house with me."

Xia He came to borrow clothes for Qingying and An Niannian. Qingying would definitely not wear her own clothes. After much deliberation, Xia He could only borrow clothes from An Niannian.

"I didn't take your clothes for nothing. I also have a piece of fine silk. I will bring it to you at night."

Xia He struggled to do things like bowing his head to others, and it was hard for him to use his tongue.

An Niannian didn't answer anything, and looked at this woman who had always been arrogant, vain and domineering with a pair of black and white eyes.

When they were in Ning'an's uncle's house, the young lady did not care about anything and provided them with the same amount of food and clothing. Although Liu Tianxing was highly regarded by her uncle, she was too simple and honest. Her own grandparents were all in Ning'an every year.

She was the old lady's concubine and had no status in the mansion. Only Xia He, who was always trying to be strong because he was a son of the Xie family, forced the two of them to fight against Su Yao'er, who was born in Qinhuai.

Later, when Cui Jinniang entered the house, she always encouraged Xia He to come forward. Xia He was worried about An Niannian giving birth to Xie Feng'an's eldest son and daughter, and kept away from her and Liu Tianxing, thinking that they could not hold up the wall.

burden.

After waiting for a few breaths, An Nian Nian didn't say anything, and Xia He became more and more guilty:

"If you don't like fine silk, I also have a pair of shoe uppers embroidered with hibiscus flowers..."

There was a sound on the cupboard door, and Xia He saw an additional baggage in front of his eyes.

An Niannian sighed on top of her head and said slowly: "I packed these out last night. You can wear them for Qingying. Most of them are 89% new. I heard that she keeps getting red, and there are a few more in them."

The menstrual belt I made last night, the soft shoes inside are made of sweet apricot, and she hasn't worn them yet. When she heard that I was looking for clothes for Qingying, she happily sent them over."

Xia He couldn't say a word, so he just held the bag and bowed to An Niannian.

An Niannian quickly avoided it and glanced at Xia He's bare earlobes.

Xia He carried the bundle back to his room. As soon as he entered the door, Xia He frowned.

"Cui Jinniang, what are you doing in my room?"

Cui Jinniang glanced at the yard outside the house through the window. She took advantage of Achi's absence to find an opportunity to find Xia He.

"Xia He, did you hear the noise in the front yard the night before yesterday? I suspected that the second master came to look for us, but the young lady stopped him."

Hearing the words "Second Master", Xia He was startled for a moment and said calmly:

"On one side is Su Yao'er and on the other is Miss Feng. In the eyes of the second master, there is no place for us to stay. We have all been driven to Zhuangzi. Why don't you give up?"

Hearing what Xia He said, Cui Jinniang secretly laughed in her heart. This Xia He looked powerful, but he was the best among these women, because he was not as dull and boring as Shen Shiqing, and not as bold as An Niannian. She is dull and dull, not like Liu Tianxing who is happy with her stutter. She is smart, but also infatuated. She was born as a slave and is unwilling to be humbled.

In short, Xia He wants everything, and Cui Jinniang can manipulate her in various ways.

"You are willing to give up, Xia He, are you willing to give up? Su Yao'er, a woman from a brothel, has only one daughter, but she can occupy the second master's heart..."

Xia He lowered his head slightly. She was naturally unwilling to do so in the past because she had feelings for the second master.

When she was six years old, she was chosen to work as a maid in the lady's courtyard. What she saw and thought about was her second master, who was three years and four months older than her. The second master was wearing a brocade robe and a jade crown hanging from his waist. Wearing a gem pendant, he looked a hundred times more energetic than the servants in the yard. The second master could also recite poems and paint, and he would also carry bird cages to make these little girls happy.

But as for the second master, on the day she was sent out of the house, the second master didn't even look at her. The Mrs. Song who escorted her out was the in-law of the second master's wet nurse, Grandma Liu. She always had a smiling face when he saw her. But he was very vicious that day and even snatched the box where she kept her money from her hand.

She, Xia He, didn't ask the second master to treat her with his whole heart. She was an aunt who was born as a maid. She didn't deserve it, but she only wanted that little bit. She was so heartless and did all the bad things that she only wanted that little bit! She Is it wrong?

"Cui Jinniang, just tell me what you want to do."

Cui Jinniang touched her temples and said with a smile: "Xia He, you can come in and out of our yard, so why not take a chance and look ahead..."

Until Cui Jinniang left, Xia He frowned and said nothing. When she was the only one left in the room, she raised her hand and touched her earlobe, then opened the cabinet and took out the clothes she had made for the second young master. , and stuffed the clothes into the deepest part of the cabinet.

When Xia He was carrying the things he had packed for Qingying out of the yard, he happened to meet Achi.

"Ms. Xia, please stay one step longer."

Achi stopped her.

"Since Qingying was rescued by our girl, she will naturally be taken good care of. A few pieces of caramel and a chicken drumstick can be afforded by our village, and there is no need for Madam Xia to spend any extra money."

While talking, Ah Chi took out a purse from his waist and poured out a pair of silver lilacs inlaid with gold beads.

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After delivering the silver lilacs found in the kitchen to Xia He, Achi turned back to the main courtyard and almost died of fright when he raised his head.

"Girl! You are menstruating! How can you move rocks?"

The more than 20 kilograms of stones made Zhao Surui grit his teeth. He avoided Ah Chi's help and moved the stone with a lot of shaking, and finally moved the stone to a corner of the back road.

His waist was so sore that he almost knelt on the ground. Zhao Surui held on to his legs and managed to stand, panting and saying: "Since you are determined to practice strength, you must start doing it immediately. You also said that menstruation always comes four times a month. Five days, should I rest for four or five days this time and have to rest for four or five days next time?"

When will Shen Sanfei's dilapidated body be allowed to ride a horse and hunt?

Ah Chi was speechless for a moment and could only watch his girl take a breath and then go back to move the rocks.

Zhao Surui was wearing a pair of leather gloves on his hands, and he was wearing a black patchwork jacket worn by men, and an ivory-colored double-breasted hood on the outside. They were also men's clothes that Achi had driven out for him. He was well dressed. , Zhao Surui really doesn’t know how to comb his hair, so his hair still looks like a woman’s, and he still wears a hairpin, which looks really nondescript.

Seeing that his girl was sweating profusely from exhaustion, Achi sighed and took out the cloak from the house, and immediately put it on her after she finished practicing.

More than twenty stones, big ones weighing more than twenty kilograms and small ones weighing more than ten kilograms, were moved from a corner of the yard to the path about twenty feet away. After more than a dozen people walked back and forth, Zhao Surui was already dizzy and his arms were shaking, but He gritted his teeth and finished moving the stone.

A Chi was eager to give him a leather cloak, but he pushed him away.

"It's not over yet!"

He opened his posture and stretched his muscles and bones with the basic long fist posture. After completing the whole set, Zhao Surui almost collapsed.

Achi even helped and pulled him to take him back to rest. Zhao Surui gasped and said, "Don't sit down...walk, just walk for a moment."

"Girl, why do you bother yourself like this?" Achi wrapped his girl in a cloak and almost cried.

"Tossing? People, every day a person lives, he has to toss every day, otherwise why not lie down in that three-foot pit early?"

After saying that, Zhao Surui stood up straight with a smile.

If he were to stop just because he was in Shen Sanwasi's body, he would be just another Shen Sanwasi.

After walking a few steps and squeezing his arm, he was a little surprised: "This arm is better than I thought. It won't be sore after a while, and I can add the bow in a few days."

After walking a few more steps, Zhao Surui turned back and looked at Ah Chi, who was standing there.

The girl and the maid in the blue armor had tears all over their faces, which startled the wise Emperor Zhaode, who had a sore back.

"why are you crying?"

Achi opened his mouth, and finally couldn't hide his cry: "Girl! I haven't seen the girl like this for many years! Wuwuwuwu! Girl, I will accompany you to practice. When we have finished practicing, we will go to Saibei. Let’s go horseback riding! We’re going to Jiangnan and Quanzhou... Wuwuwuwu!”

Zhao Surui was so upset by the little maid's crying that he didn't even have the strength to yell, so he could only say with a stiff face: "Stop crying!"

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

Glancing at the sky shrouded in sunset, he had a look of despair on his face and could only say:

"Okay, okay, I understand. Your girl will take you to ride horses in Saibei, Jiangnan, and Quanzhou. Can you go to all of them?"

"Yeah!" Seeing his girl coaxing him helplessly, Achi finally broke through tears and smiled.

"When you've cried enough, go tell Tunan and get something solid to eat tonight."

He was so hungry when he was moving stones that Zhao Surui felt that most of the elbow he had eaten for lunch had been digested.

"I want to eat schnitzel!"

"Let's have something light in the evening. Remove the meat from the shrimp and make it into shrimp paste. After adjusting the flavor, roll it up with blanched cabbage leaves, lightly fry it with shrimp skin and star anise, and steam it in a pan."

The rays of light shone into the hall, and Shen Shiqing, who was still correcting the memorial, casually handed over a recipe.

The three cats quickly wrote it down and looked at the chicken again.

Yiji shook his head slightly.

"If you have something to say, just say it. There's no need to play riddles in front of me."

Shen Shiqing put down the pen in his hand and put the memorial in his hand on the corner of the table: "Send this memorial to the household department and ask them if the household department can't even calculate the accounts correctly. Why is it that the harvest this year is great? At the same time, let these feudal princes come and cry to me about their poverty."

"Yes!" Ergou picked up the folder with both hands and walked out.

Sanmao smiled carefully and said: "Your Majesty, I don't mean anything else. It's just the harem... It's the Queen Mother who sent someone to ask, is it time for you to be lucky? Forget about others, Queen Mother, you are the second one. I haven’t been there for more than ten days.”

Shen Shiqing: Alas, it’s another difficulty.

Zhao Siri: After eating the elbow, eat the fried pork slices! Delicious!
Chapter completed!