In Aunt Zhao's small garden with floating bells, the eaves were decorated with lanterns, the doors and windows were decorated with colorful decorations, and everything was filled with joy.
The maids, all dressed up in gorgeous costumes, carried candied fruits and melons, as well as delicacies, and brought them in like a flowing stream.
Xiangyue put down her things and came out of the house. She raised her hand to wipe the sweat from her face. She looked at the darkening sky and felt secretly anxious.
Aunt Zhao seemed to be deliberately trying to hold her and Xiang Qiao back. She ordered the things to be done one after another. It took most of the day to do this.
It was almost time for dinner, and she and Xiangqiao were both here. It was still a big problem who would get food for the one who was pretending to be sick at home.
"Hey, Xiangyue, please take this plate of shortbread to the back room."
A passing maid casually stuffed a tall porcelain plate into her arms. She took a deep breath, turned around and entered the house again.
In fact, as Aunt Zhao is a concubine, she cannot do anything grand when celebrating her birthday. The most she can do is set off fireworks and firecrackers, her children come to greet her, and Uncle Quan Ning gives her the honor to come and have a meal with her. Then
That's it.
But this year she wanted to show off how much she was pampered, and her expenses were all over the standard, and she was almost catching up with the eldest lady.
Xiangyue was worried about Ning Yujin in her heart, and she was also thinking about some miscellaneous things in her head. She was absent-minded for a moment, and when she was placing the plate, she swept her sleeves and actually dropped one of the offerings of fruit next to it.
She sighed: "Why are you as clumsy as Xiangqiao?"
She resigned herself to getting under the table. As soon as she picked up the fruit, she heard footsteps coming from outside, and she could still vaguely hear a voice: "Okay, you all stay outside and watch."
It's Ning Yuning!
Xiangyue panicked and hurriedly stretched out her hand to pull up the table. The large round table could cover her whole body.
She held her breath and listened carefully to what was going on outside.
"Auntie, I'm worried."
"Silly boy, my aunt is here for everything. Why are you so anxious?"
The voices of the two people talking became closer and closer, and finally they stopped near the round table and both sat down.
Under the table, Xiangyue looked at the two pairs of embroidered shoes exposed on the left and right sides, nervously bending her body to maintain the twisted posture, not daring to move at all.
"What does father mean?"
"He, I don't know why, but he has been obsessed with that little motherless little hoof recently. When I suggested that Ning Yujin marry you, he actually hesitated, and he still hasn't given me an accurate answer."
Aunt Zhao was wearing a newly made rose-red dress. The satin was softly shimmering and the color was bright. She looked extremely festive and beautiful.
However, there was a look of dissatisfaction on his face, and Danko, painted in bright red, was slowly smoothing the fallen hair on his temples.
"Ugly people tend to do mischief." Ning Yuning poured a glass of water to drink, brought it to her mouth and put it down again, and said angrily, "Father is not sure of the truth. Auntie, are you not afraid that father will annoy you if you do this today?"
"
Aunt Zhao stopped her hand and sighed: "Oh, our second young lady is going to be the princess. Now that things have happened, I can't control that much."
Seeing that Ning Yuning's eyebrows were filled with worry, she reached out and patted the back of her hand: "Besides, who knew I was the one who did this? It was obviously the two of them who were alone and had an affair, and I just had an affair.
Even if the master doubts me, when you become Princess Ding in the future and he becomes Prince Ding’s father-in-law, I’m afraid you will still have to thank me for everything I did today.”
"Having said that, I'm always uneasy..." Ning Yuning didn't understand where her uneasiness came from. It seemed that a pair of cold eyes would always appear in the depths of her mind, a bit like Ning Yuning's.
When Jin was not smiling, those eyes were staring at her from the abyss, making her shiver.
She suppressed this emotion and only asked with some anxiety: "Will anything bad happen there, madam?"
"Her?" Aunt Zhao sneered coldly, her gorgeous red lips curled up in a sarcastic arc, "I asked the second young master to reveal that Ning Yuanzhi skipped class and fought with crickets and was scolded by the teacher. I'm afraid Mrs. Qu is busy at the moment.
Teach your son a lesson, you don’t have time to meddle in other people’s business.”
Just as he was talking, he heard a maid reporting from outside: "Aunt, Second Young Lady, the master is here."
"I know." Aunt Zhao responded, stood up and patted Ning Yuning on the shoulder, "Okay, after a while you and the second young master will toast and keep an eye out. If there is anything unusual over there, you will immediately take care of it."
If you catch him, I will take you there again, and nothing like the last time will happen again."
She held a breath in her heart when she thought of how her negligence had allowed the eldest lady to get a huge advantage last time and almost sent Nanny Lin beside her away.
However, the overall situation is the most important thing at the moment. There will be many opportunities to settle the grievances between her and the Qu family one by one in the future!
"Aunt I know, I will make Qi Yue and Ning Yujin suffer a lot this time!" Ning Yuning also swept away her recent depressed mood, her eyes shining brightly.
Aunt Zhao trimmed her hair and smiled gently: "Okay, let's go out to meet your father."
Hearing the footsteps getting further and further away, Xiangyue, who was under the round table, almost crawled out of it, rushing out without even standing firm.
She felt that she was going crazy, and there was only one sentence that kept echoing in her head: Aunt Zhao and Ning Yuning were going to plot against her lady... they were going to plot against her lady... they were plotting against her lady...
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"Young mistress, please come over." Ning Yujin looked at the jade plates of delicacies placed one after another. Her eyes were clearly glowing green and she swallowed frequently, but she still pretended to be calm and rushed to arrange her chopsticks.
The mistress said.
After all, she is a person with status, so she has to maintain this image.
"What did the Third Miss say? If the big housekeeper asks the younger one, he must not neglect the Third Young Miss. If you have anything to do, just give him the order."
The third son looks about thirteen or fourteen years old. He is small, has dark skin, and has a row of white teeth when he smiles. He looks very honest.
Ning Yujin took the chopsticks he handed over and smiled at him: "You'd better go back to the housekeeper quickly. He should be serving uncle Zhao at Aunt Zhao's place right now. You go there to help look after the incense."
It's a coincidence, don't let her get into trouble."
The mistress suddenly became excited, but she touched her head and said with some embarrassment: "Then Miss San, you are here..."
"I don't need you to serve me, just go ahead."
Ning Yujin persuaded the mistress to leave after some hard talking. When she saw that there was no one outside the door, she threw away the chopsticks in her hand and stretched out her hand to tear off a chicken leg.
"Tsk, life is all about eating meat and drinking wine to be happy."
Originally, she planned to keep the little boy down to eat some, but she was afraid that the way she wolfed down the food would frighten the little boy, so she simply sent him away and ate alone.
Okay, it's all nonsense, the last sentence is the key point.
The table was full of Taibailou and Huixilou's signature dishes. Ning Yujin ate it with such joy that she couldn't stop eating it once she started.
After she finished chewing a salt-baked chicken wing, the taste made her want to chew up the bones and swallow them, and then licked them clean with her fingers one by one before she gave up.
Just as I was getting ready to rush into the foodie battle, I heard several knocks on the door from outside.
Ning Yujin paused, listened carefully and heard nothing. She thought she was hallucinating. She shook her head with a smile, brought the braised prawns in tomato sauce in front of her, and was about to sharpen her knife.
"Knock knock knock..."
The knock on the door rang again, this time accompanied by a man's voice: "Is there anyone there?"