There was also a feast of fish and meat in the girl's room, and the charcoal fire was endless. Mr. Hou naturally stood up in the main room these days, and ordered Mrs. Hou to let Cao Xiwan make medicine in the small kitchen to take. He healed the hidden wounds on his back.
Prepare it first.
Mrs. Hou said angrily: "Why do you need to say anything? The mother beside me also needs to take medicine. They knew each other in the past. They had called her a long time ago. We are taking care of each other, and I can rest assured about Mother Chen. She is older, so why not
Miss Cao is young."
The Marquis was naturally very happy.
Privately.
"It turned out to be a medicine jar." Mrs. Hou asked Mother Chen in surprise.
Wenxue thought for a while and said, "She looks a little dull. She doesn't usually like to talk."
Mother Chen sighed, knowing that Qing Luo was pretending to be stupid again, presumably because she was too lazy to argue with his wife's dowry girl.
Thinking about it again, there was no way that Wenxue and the other girls were spying on Qing Luo but she knew that she probably realized that the wife wanted her to move out. Mother Chen expected that this would never be possible, so she said: "Xu has suffered a lot of old wounds and is a rude person."
, her brain is inevitably a bit stupid. So Lord Marquis pities her. But I think she is still clear in the account book."
"In that case, let her take the medicine according to her own wishes in a few days, and then go out."
Madam Hou didn't treat her harshly, secretly thinking that she didn't know how to speak or behave, but she was just as reckless as when they first met. Instead, she sighed, "Now it's hard to make Mr. Hou unhappy over trivial matters."
There was a charcoal basin in the room, and Cao Xi, who was on duty, slept in the maid's room. He was still too cold to sleep in the first half of the night.
She kind of misses her parents, who always keep her room warm.
In the middle of the night, as soon as she fell asleep, she was hurriedly woken up by her roommate Yanzhi. She combed her hair and dressed, swallowed two pills of Baizhen Pills, and both Yanzhi and Yanzhi took two bites of pancakes and drank warm porridge. Then they rushed to the main room.
.
She is on duty today.
On a winter night, the double-layered dormitory windows of Baihuatang were closed, and I vaguely saw that the lights had just been turned on in my wife's room.
There was only the sound of water in the inner room, and the wife had finished washing her face.
Mr. Hou didn't sleep here last night.
The wife might get angry and scold others. Cao Xiwan thought that although she was thick-skinned and flexible, she didn't want to be scolded.
Holding her breath, she struggled to lift the last brass charcoal bucket with lotus flowers into the inner room.
No one slept in the Nuang Pavilion at night, only a fire was built, and it was still a little cold in the morning.
She is responsible for heating the hothouse.
After finishing her clothes, the wife will come over and stand up in the conservatory, where guests are entertained.
She picked up the kettle and changed the water for the narcissus. She flicked the water droplets with her fingers, and the wintersweet bonsai was sparkling with crystals. The illustrations and books on the desks were all fresh and elegant. She played with them for a while, just to make them clear and coherent.
After her duties were completed, she felt that being a girl in the Marquis's mansion was quite easy, so she went to the door of the Nuan Pavilion, took the copper basin in Yanzhi's hand, and washed her hands with the residual water from her wife's washing.
"Where's the wife?"
"Coming to comb my hair."
The comb was handed to Yanzhi's hand, and Yanzhi handed it to her. Her hands were handed to Mrs. Hou's maid Wenxue.
Wenxue handed it to Xiliu.
Oh, the rumored newly favored Xiliu.
Cao Xiwan finally saw her. I heard that although Mr. Hou rested in his wife's room on the winter solstice, when Mrs. Hou went to the old lady's room a few days ago, Mr. Hou talked to Xiliu alone in the east wing for a while.
Nowadays, people in the mansion are spreading rumors that in a year, Xiliu may have a yard of his own.
The last girl who was rumored like this was Cao Xiwan.
Cao Xiwan dared to say that all the girls in the main room, whether it was Wenxue and Yunzhu who were dowry, or Yanzhi from the original Hou Mansion, and Cao Xiwan, were all looking at Xiliu.
Delicate and frail, delicate and frail, this was Cao Xiwan's first impression of Xiliu when she saw her. She was a somewhat pretty girl, only slightly inferior to Yantou Yanzhi, the most beautiful girl in the Hou family.
And the rumors in the mansion gradually spread to everyone.
A traitorous slave who betrays his master.
Dare to carry Mrs. Hou on his back and climb into Mr. Hou’s bed.
——After all, the Marquis was talking to Xiliu alone in the east wing, and there was no one around at that time.
Cao Xiwan was curious, this Xiliu was an ordinary girl, not a naughty girl.
Xiliu was not on duty today, but he came earlier than her, and even startled her. When the main room turned on, Xiliu went in ahead of her and Yanzhi to say hello, and waited on the lady to get dressed.
It seems that it is still the rule to marry a girl.
But last night was the fifth day of the Winter Solstice Festival, and the Marquis was not resting in the main room, nor in the study.
The Marquis went to Xiliu's room, said a few words, and left with Xiliu.
At least Yanzhi didn't get any news before locking the door.
Neither did Mother Chen.
This can't help Cao Xiwan.
"In the young master's pagoda courtyard." She whispered to Yanzhi. She climbed up the wall in the middle of the night and looked at the security arrangements on all sides. She saw Granny Song, who was on duty tonight, in the big pagoda tree to the east.
She then knew that the Marquis should go to Huaiyuan.
The Marquis went to see the little concubine who was usually inconspicuous. Xiliu should be waiting on him.
Of course, Cao Xiwan would not take the initiative to report to Mrs. Hou. According to the rules, it is not allowed. She is a good girl.
But if Mother Chen came to ask, she would still say it. After all, Mother Chen hinted that she would give up the shopkeeper of Siwei Hall. She, Cao Xiwan, also had to make a living.
"The young master is sick?" She was confused because the young master was born with a weak constitution. During the autumn and winter, he had to cook medicine every day like his old aunt.
Most importantly, the young master never went out. She didn't care too much.
"When did this happen?"
She asked, and last night Yanzhi whispered: "I don't usually go out, but I come to Mrs. Hou to say hello. I came two or three times to have cakes and tea."
"Is this so?" The [poisonous] note was still in her sleeve, and a corner of the water chestnut cake was shown to the medical ghost Chen Ming, and it was not poisonous. She asked Yanzhi: "Write two words and show them to me."
"……what."
"Write. Just write two words." She smiled and muttered, and she was tired of Yanzhi. Yanzhi was so worn by her that she could only write one: "Nankang."
Cao Xiwan looked at it carefully and saw that Yanzhi's handwriting was consistent and neat, not like the handwriting of a spy. Also, Yanzhi's explosive temper could not make him a spy, and his secret would definitely be exposed. She looked at Yanzhi carefully:
"Good sisters, forever."
"...What are you doing again?" Yanzhi spat at her.
Cao Xiwan turned to grind Angelica dahurica and Ziyun. As for Mr. Hou, he must have been persuaded by the spy Liu Ruhai. So he and Mrs. Hou were quarreling again during the Winter Solstice.
Immortality elixir?
"Yes. That's what I heard." Ziyun whispered to her.
Cao Xiwan thought that it was thanks to the second manager who quietly handed her the news about the longevity pill that Liu Ruhai and Mr. Hou actually mentioned it. In addition to Ziyun, she also quietly eavesdropped on the quarrel through the back window of the main room. During the Winter Solstice Festival of Mr. Hou,
It's like asking your wife for immortality pills, but she refuses to give them.
The Marquis asked her if she had used it. The wife thought that the Marquis suspected her of poisoning her, so she got angry and quarreled.
This should be the second time that Mr. Hou asked about the longevity pill.
She sighed and thought that the Marquis actually didn't believe in these pills. It was entirely Liu Xiaozi who instigated the dispute. Why should the madam make a fuss? If the Buddha statue had been given to her earlier, wouldn't everything have been fine?
But she had just asked her wife for an old shopkeeper. She couldn't ask for the Buddha statue without making a contribution.
She was thinking, should she go threaten Xiliu and tell her the rules of the Marquis' residence so that she would not seduce the Marquis?