"Cousin——" Ting Niang's timid voice sounded, and she was startled and woke up.
Yes, she is retired.
As soon as her anger was vented, her eyes softened. The newly painted house in front of her was deep and heavy with embroidered doors. She sighed, what else was she busy with?
Especially when there are guests in this mansion, you can see red, autumn fragrance and bright blue flying fish clothes when you look up. She holds her cousin's hand and glances calmly around, walking in and out of Zhou's mansion to congratulate her.
Out of ten, you can catch two or three Jin Yiwei.
Fanzi, Xiaowei, Baihu, Qianhu, etc. are all there.
What is she worried about?
In the old eunuch's house in Shunyifang, it doesn't matter that Liu Xiaozi can get in. But to enter the palace, you have to go through at least eighteen levels of palace bans and six hidden stakes of Jin Yiwei. And what if he comes to the Zhou family?
This week's family is all the slaves of the Hou family. Even Chen Qianhu and the others in official uniforms in the hall, if they were not usually close to the Marquis and fawning, they would not be able to get in at all.
Who is Liu Xiaozi?
But Ting Niang pulled her, not Liu Ruhai. It turned out that the two of them had already walked to the corridor of the main hall.
The servants all saluted at the foot of the steps.
The master of the Hou Mansion is here.
The host and guest in the hall are actually the masters of the Hou Mansion.
"That's the second master of the second room of the Hou Mansion." She could only teach Ting Niang how to recognize people for the time being. "The second master is the most talkative and the least arrogant."
That's why he was robbed of his title by Song Chengming from the third room.
The second master, Song Chengjie, and the second master, Song Weiren, the most fun-loving idlers, are here.
With such dignity, it’s no wonder that Manager Zhou accompanied him with a glowing face.
Cao Xiwan didn't care about this matter.
"Sanxi! Come here." She caught a familiar person and waved.
Sanxi, the young servant in the second room of the Hou Mansion, was bragging in the corridor. When he saw it was her, he quickly dropped the fruit in his hand, wiped his hands and came over: "Godmother, call me son?"
Ting Niang laughed, and Cao Xiwan also laughed, cursed, and spat at him. While they were laughing, Niu Qing'er, the young boy who was talking to him, also came over to salute, and then took away the spy ring that Cao Xiwan secretly gave him.
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Sanxi and Tinglang didn't notice at all.
Cao Xiwan delivered the news, and then Sanxi whispered quietly: "Is your sixth son's matter settled?"
"Without godmother's help, how can we be sure?"
"Hit you."
She clenched her fists and said, "Call me sister."
San Xi'er shrank her head and then sighed: "Yes, Sister Xiaowan, we originally agreed that if the Marquis accepts the title, he will compensate our second master to some extent. We only say this in our hearts."
"I know. You said."
"The Marquis wants to get married, but he agreed a long time ago. After the important things are done, he will declare his identity and submit it to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Personnel to double-sign, making our son a member of the royal guards for hundreds of households. Thanks to Sister Xiaowan for helping me -"
He looked at Cao Xiwan in disdain. Originally, he only knew that the girl in front of him was the eldest girl in the mansion, working as a steward in the study outside the Marquis, and she was very proud.
Later, in order to enter the Yamen, the Sixth Young Master specially asked him to secretly give gifts to Cao Xiwan. Only then did he hear that Cao Xiwan was working as an errand in the Yamen with the Marquis and could speak well.
San Xi was a smart kid, so he quickly asked his own mother to find Aunt Wu from the Cao family. He insisted on asking Aunt Wu to be his godmother. He only asked his godmother Cao Xiwan to put in a good word in front of the Sixth Young Master and mention it for San Xi.
Errands.
Aunt Wu was always easy to talk to, so she immediately stopped the marriage proposal. She asked her daughter to handle the matter directly.
"Thanks to Sister Xiaowan, you helped me talk to the young master. In the future, I can also follow Ma and go to the Yamen to gain experience. In the future, I will show my respect to Sister Xiaowan. But Mr. Hou has no time to spare these days. We, the Sixth Young Master,
The errands haven't come down yet." After saying that, Sanxi looked back at the second master in the hall, "Our second master thought that we need a few words from the old lady to help, so we came over to talk to Manager Zhou."
"What are you busy with, Lord Marquis?" She sneered.
Sanxi was about to speak but stopped, and looked at Tingniang.
"My cousin."
San Xi'er then whispered: "I heard from my sister - my wife brought four dowry girls when she got married, and one of them named Xiliu was a vixen. She immediately fascinated the Marquis."
His sister Bai Zhi? Cao Xiwan thought that this girl, like her, had just been transferred to Mrs. Hou's room to be the eldest girl.
She is still idle at home, while Bai Zhi works on errands every day.
This news must be true.
Cao Xiwan thought that Suyun didn't mention anything when she entered the house last time. That was because Suyun was waiting on the old aunt in the old lady's yard. She probably hadn't heard about it. Her good friend Liu Ying'er was at the old lady's house.
In front of me, but I have been at home on leave these days, so I must not know it either.
When she thought about it carefully, she felt that Mr. Hou was really heartless and unkind.
Mrs. Lou is so stupid.
How many years have she waited for this result? But she couldn't figure out why the Marquis was like this?
He has feelings for Mrs. Lou.
What's more, Mrs. Lou's natal family is not easy to offend.
She sent away the three joys, picked up a camellia, and meditated all the way.
"Cousin, what's wrong?" Ting Niang asked worriedly, not knowing that she was thinking a lot.
She put her worries aside and sighed: "It's nothing. Anyway, you remember that the three sons of Zhou's family are all kind people. I have never heard of them being messy in the past few years. You are only in front of Liu Ying'er. She and I are good friends."
It’s here.”
Inner hall.
Among the distinguished guests, in addition to the wife of the second wife, she immediately spotted the reckless wife of the sixth room, Mrs. Liu. She also recognized several Qianhu wives from the Jinyiwei Yamen, who were the principal wives of several families.
The sixth wife was originally the eldest daughter of the Jinyi Liu Qian family. She took the path of Zhou Da's steward, and was arranged by the old lady to marry the sixth concubine. Naturally, she wanted to come to congratulate her and give face to Zhou's parents.
Now the sixth wife brings the concubine of the fifth house, and several aunts are here. The master of the sixth house gave birth to a child late in life. He was married for only three years, but he still has no children.
Ting Niang could see that the women in the hall were dressed in fragrant buns and had beautiful hair and pearls. Even the concubine was a serious young lady, let alone the second wife and the sixth wife who were sitting at the head of the table.
In her eyes, she looks like a fairy.
Cao Xiwan glanced at her and saw that her eyes were nervous, but her face was calm.
She was secretly relieved and asked:
"Have you thought about it?"
"I've thought about it. Thank you cousin for being considerate of me." She pursed her lips and nodded. She subconsciously tightened the lake silk cloak around her body to embolden herself. She was not here to be a maid, so she couldn't be timid and throw it away.
Cousin's face.
She and Ting Niang walked back together, and Ting Niang saw it with sharp eyes: "Cousin, it's your mother and my mother."
Cao Xiwan held her hand and walked quietly to the corner. He heard her second aunt talking nonsense again:
"Xiao Wan became the aunt of the Marquis, and asked Ting Niang to be the eldest girl in his yard. Her flesh and blood are reliable! I tell you, ask Xiao Wan to beg the Marquis, and let Ting Niang be brought into the house as a second-class person first.
Girl, when you get married, just ask her to be the eldest girl, so that Xiaowan won’t have anyone close to her."
Walls have ears, and it’s not just Cao Xiwan.
Liu Ruhai frowned, and he heard it too.
This corridor is connected to the back garden, and there are patterned windows. When the wind blows, Liu Ruhai is eating tea in the small hall of the back garden and vaguely hears a few words.
He looked calm and coughed, which startled Aunt Wu: "Is there anyone?"
"No way? Sister, you are used to being cautious in the Marquis' Mansion." The second aunt smiled with disdain in her eyes.
This sister-in-law of the Wu family had some good looks back then, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to be sold into the Marquis's mansion, but in her middle age she turned out to be just a night-wife with a domestic slave. She was really stupid.