Cao Xiwan was well prepared and had his own plans for Mrs. Hou's neglect of her, but Liu Shusheng, the spy who was just hanging around, actually came to see her. Could it be that he felt pity for her?
"Dad——! Are you talking about me in front of outsiders again?"
"Poor child, my dear. You haven't been out for several days."
"I went to the Hou Mansion."
"You don't go shopping, you ride horses, you ask the gangsters to beat your uncle, and you hide at home crying and digging on the ground every day."
"...I'm not crying. I'm growing herbs. I can save some money."
She quickly explained, but Mr. Cao shouted: "I am just a new daughter-in-law, and she dares to suppress my old family members as soon as she enters the house. I want to go cry in front of the old lady."
"..." She stared blankly, speechless with anger. After finally convincing her father, she immediately forgot about the herbs in the field and decided to go out every day, not only to go to the Hou Mansion to deal with Mrs. Hou, but also to play silly
.
We must not let the dawdling spies think that she is hiding at home and feeling miserable.
One day.
She weighed half a catty of melon seeds and half a catty of roasted chestnuts with sweet-scented osmanthus in a roasted seed shop. When she came back, she met Liu Shusheng in the alley and pretended not to see them.
"Ms. Cao?" Liu Ruhai called her.
She didn't seem to hear him, turned around and walked away quickly. She was just going to the house slave's neighbor's house to find a little sister to visit. He laughed, vaguely aware of her growing coldness, and remained calm.
Seeing that she was carrying two lotus leaf bags of snacks, which should be roasted seeds and nuts, she walked into the neighbor's house at the bottom of the alley. There was a woman's laughter inside, thinking that she was chatting with her female companion.
He smiled, turned around as usual, carried the yellow wooden medical box on his back, and strolled out.
She had a hard time as a child, and she worked too hard in the Yamen in previous years. She should play more.
One afternoon, when she returned home from the Hou Mansion, she saw the door of Cao's courtyard was ajar.
She was puzzled when she entered the main room and saw a thick cotton blue winter curtain that had just been hung in the main room. When the curtain was lifted, a man dressed as a waiter came out carrying a food box.
It turned out that it was the waiter from Sister-in-law Ji's tea shop who came to her house to collect noodle bowls and wine bottles.
She was confused, and when she asked carefully, she suddenly became angry.
"I'll pay for it."
"Let me know, sister, Liu Xiucai paid the money over there. Uncle Cao is enjoying the meal."
She was so angry that she rushed to the east room, lifted the curtain and took a look, and sure enough her father was back.
He was full and drunk, and he was leaning on the blue satin heart-embroidered pillow, with noodle sauce and meat residue at the corner of his mouth.
It turns out that my father loves to be lazy, so he sneaked out of the house to go home for a drink during his shift, and ate a bowl of shredded pork noodles and pickles invited by Liu Shusheng.
Liu Xiucai had already paid for the meal.
"Dad! If you eat someone's bowl of noodles, you think they are a good person? If he is a real scholar and spends money lavishly when he goes out, he is not a person who knows how to live a successful life."
Cao Xiwan spat a few words, telling his drunken father to quickly fall asleep in the back room.
On the lacquered red wooden cabinets stacked beside the bed, she saw two pieces of bright silk material that Liu Ruhai had sent yesterday. They said they were a return gift for two pairs of clothes. Father Cao muttered:
"This kid! It's not easy!"
What kind of child? I am your biological daughter. She endured her anger.
"Tell...tell your mother to ask him to come to your house for dinner tonight. It's not easy to go out...it's not easy to be away from home. He is also a scholar and has a good reputation." Her father was lying on the pillow with drunken eyes.
"no."
She flatly refused and tucked her father into bed.
"You...your child, he still wants to ask me for medical advice, although it's not as good as me...it's not easy to be away from home..."
Liu Xiaozi is much better than you in medical skills! He also makes more money than you by doing medical consultations! Just coax you.
She got angry and left the room.
She was squatting by the kitchen stove, stirring the fire, making sour bamboo shoot soup to sober up alcohol, planning to let her father drink it, in case the house manager was a bit messy, and he would have to stand up to be scolded and embarrassed. She squatted and sighed.
Once upon a time, she spent money more generously than Scholar Liu, and even less financially. The Marquis valued her, and felt that she received a monthly salary each from Jinyi Yamen and the Marquis' Mansion, and her double salary income was not as good as most men in the world.
she.
She has no worries about having no money to spend in her life. When the Marquis inherits the title, she will be able to survive. Her parents can enjoy the blessings with her.
Now that the previous emperor has passed away, the new emperor has ascended the throne and is firmly established.
The Marquis was also promoted to Deputy Governor of Jinyiwei and inherited the title of the Marquis.
Everything was as she expected.
She was unlucky.
The fire in the double stove was strong, so she took the hot porridge for her own food, leaned against the black door frame of the kitchen, and drank it slowly.
When she heard a donkey braying outside the door, she quickly put down the bowl and went to find Liu Ruhai to pay for the meal.
When he opened the door, he saw that in the cold wind of late autumn, another guy from the donkey and horse store came to collect the donkeys from his house. But he missed the donkeys.
Liu Ruhai is not at home and has not returned from Wang Laodang's house.
It's been too long?
She remembered that the tea and wine shop he owned in Shunyifang was called Fuxing Building. There was a private room on the third floor that had been reserved by Eunuch Wang's parents for many years. Could this guy have bought a share in the restaurant to have a private meeting with his new wife?
But she then thought about it. She had seen the new wife of the Wang family, Mrs. Lei, and she didn’t look like it. Mrs. Lei was a scholarly woman who had a heart but not a courage. Besides, Mrs. Lei shouldn’t be at home today? She was raped again today.
My wife has taken me to the Hou Mansion.
She closed the door and was confused. Could it be that she had made an appointment with her new wife and that he was going to wait for her to come home? They had known each other for a long time? Ordinarily, with his medical skills, he was not short of money, but he was spending money carelessly.
The body given by the new wife?
I heard that Mr. Wang gave a lot of money to his daughter-in-law to make her feel at ease.
While she was muttering, she suddenly realized:
not good.
She was fooled.
She stood frozen under the date tree.
The autumn wind is bleak.
She was shocked at her laziness.
"Xiaowan, Xiaowan?" Her mother came in and called her twice, but she didn't hear her.
Aunt Wu was off duty because she suffered from low back pain in the autumn and winter, and the government did not dare to ask for leave. Fortunately, as soon as she entered the house, her daughter's newly invited mother, Hong, came to Cao's house on time to try out the work.
Mother Hong only worked for an hour, cleaning the yard, wiping every room, carrying water and stacking firewood. Mother Cao personally measured half a liter of rice for Mother Hong.
Cao Xiwan was completely unaware. She stood in the courtyard with only one thought: Could she have been fooled by a spy?
Mother Cao didn't dare to take care of her daughter, and Mother Hong was diligent and didn't like to talk too much. When Mother Hong left with the rice, Aunt Wu was used to working hard: "Xiaowan, I'm going out, don't stand in this yard."
Cao Xiwan was still in a daze.
Aunt Wu sighed and touched her daughter's hand. It was warm and she was not sick. She then thought that it was because her wife bullied her daughter and refused to let her into the house, which made Xiao Wan sad.
Aunt Wu also wanted to find a job for her daughter, so she changed her clothes, picked up the gifts, and hurried out.
There was no one in the courtyard. When Cao Xiwan woke up, he felt cold all over his body. He quickly entered the room and found the map of the capital he had drawn.
"Wan'er wow -" her father was yelling again.
"Sleep with you!" she said loudly.
As the head of the group of ghosts and beasts in the city patrol department, she didn't actually need her secret map of the capital. She had quickly flashed through the streets and rivers of the entire capital in her mind. She stopped at Shunyifang where Wang Laodang was located.
She clearly remembers the topography of the neighborhood in Shunyi.
Shunyifang is close to the palace, and there is a river flowing through it in the south. Once you turn the fork, you will enter the water gate of the palace.
She stared at the map and traced the river with her finger.
But this is on the surface. There are also hidden rivers and secret passages on her map, and there are secret passages crisscrossing Jinling City. She often patrols and remembers that there is an undercurrent in the river that should... pass by Eunuch Wang's house.
The undercurrent is just under the new wife’s boudoir window!
Directly connected to Miyagi Minato.
She slammed the table and was furious. Where did the spy dare to sneak into the palace?
This is to fool Jin Yiwei as if he were a fool!
She stood up suddenly and reached out to grab her sword.
His right hand came up empty.
The sword stand beside the bed was empty. She was already a disabled person. Even her flying fish uniform was put away.
She sat down slowly, thinking, I can bear it.
Now, she has retired from her job to retire.
"Yes, don't be angry, don't be angry..." She comforted herself, she was not the only one around the Marquis.
Eunuch Wang also has two hidden stakes in his family.
Moreover, it was Chen Qianhu who was in charge of the eunuch Wang's house. It was Chen Qianhu who carefully designated the character "D" for Liu Ruhai.
Chen Qianhu's family is related by marriage to the sixth wife's natal family. They are also related to Chen Ming, the ghost healer.
She had clearly retired, but she still wanted to cause trouble, not to mention others. People like Qin Meng would definitely feel that she looked down on him.
Even if Chen Ming and Su Jintian were on good terms with her, they might think she was nosy.
She reluctantly suppressed her aggrieved mood, took the hangover soup to the east room, and sent her father to drink it before going to bed. After the ginseng slices were cooked in the kitchen, she ate most of the bowl in the kitchen.
She thought that the imperial doctor said that she had a weak foundation and lost her strength due to overwork and illness. The serious illness was in the lungs and it was difficult for acupuncture and stone medicine to reach her.
If you want to save your life, you have to think less and worry less.
That's right.
It's none of her business. Even if Liu Xiaozi wanted to dive and assassinate the emperor, the palace's internal supervisors would still be in charge.
She thought, yes, let those dead eunuchs who don't deal with Jin Yiwei know how powerful they are!
She washed the porridge bowl happily.
Unknowingly, he sighed.
If she is like this, Mrs. Hou ignores her and deliberately leaves her free at home, so she doesn't have to worry about it? The opposite family is an assassin.