While thinking wildly about how to get the Buddha statue, Cao Xiwan looked at Xiliu, who was combing her wife's hair.
Candlelight flickered in the room.
Calculating the time, if the Marquis has been guarding the concubine and only asked Xiliu to serve him, Xiliu will wait for the Marquis to get up and go to court, then serve the concubine, and then rush back to serve the wife.
It's not easy for a girl to work as an errand in a house.
She sighed.
There was a cracking sound, and when Xiliu was combing her hair, she broke Mrs. Hou's jade hairpin.
Cao Xiwan saw two pieces of broken white jade hairpins on the carpet, and hurriedly knelt down to pick them up, feeling the suffocating air above his head.
She secretly wondered, does Mother Chen want to beat Xiliu?
Yan Zhi said that General Lou was a military attaché with a mud-legged background, and the wife he married did not look like an old lady. She came from a family of officials. The rules in Lou's mansion were like those of an army massacre.
I heard that some of the dignified ladies in the mansion had bad tempers. If the married eldest daughter made any move, she would slap people in the face, strangle them with a rope, and cut her face with her fingernails.
As soon as the news came, the four girls in the Hou family reminded each other not to offend the wife.
You will be beaten. Losing your dignity is a small thing, and being embarrassed is a big thing.
Mrs. Hou sat upright and said nothing.
"Go down." Mother Chen said firmly, "I'll go find Su Cai's family later and get ten pieces of money."
"...Yes." Xiliu lowered her head, put the comb in Wenxue's hand, and quietly stepped back to make way for her to comb her hair.
Mother Chen looked at Cao Xiwan. Cao Xiwan quickly lowered her eyes and looked away. She was worried that she didn't know how to do such a delicate and complicated bun.
Mother Chen looked coldly and glanced at Yanzhi: "You."
Yanzhi stepped forward silently, took the comb and combed Mrs. Hou's hair.
Cao Xiwan felt relieved, and when she heard Ziyun coming behind her, Bai Zhi breathed a sigh of relief unconsciously.
She understands, and Mrs. Hou seems to follow the rules.
At least Mother Chen followed the rules. She glanced at Yunzhu, Wenxue, and Jianghe. At this time, they were sorting out Mrs. Hou's books and letters, and it seemed that they all knew how to write.
After finally retreating, Bai Zhi and Ziyun exchanged glances. Cao Xiwan could tell what they were thinking at a glance. The four girls who had moved to the main room, except Cao Xiwan, the other three said privately,
I'm afraid that the rules of the Lou family are inconsistent.
Not to mention anything else, is it possible that everyone in the building is like Xiliu and has only been married for less than two months, so they dare to seduce the Marquis?
Even Yanzhi secretly felt that Mrs. Hou's family had no rules.
"What is this? The daughter-in-law asked a dowry girl to bully her?" Yanzhi sneered, "Our eldest daughter, Miss Sun, enters the palace, and the fourth daughter marries into the Duke's palace. There has never been such a rule!"
Cao Xiwan thought deeply.
"You're in a daze again, why don't you take your medicine quickly?" Yan supported her.
"Oh." She took the medicine honestly. The medicine was still hot, and she blew on it. A Granny Ma came to the small kitchen and sent the boiled medicine to her room. She looked at Granny Ma and exchanged it with her.
gave a cryptic look.
Mother-in-law Ma used to do chores in the outer study, and she was Cao Xiwan's accustomed confidant. She left the outer study, entrusted a second manager, and transferred Mother-in-law into the inner house. The mother-in-law gave her the medicine bowl and put it in her sleeve.
With a few gestures and eyes, the message was conveyed to Cao Xiwan:
The second steward Lianyang sent Granny Ma to Huaiyuan.
Is there really a problem in Huaiyuan? Cao Xiwan thought. Is the young master's illness bad?
Xiliu went out and went to find the housekeeper's wife, Su Cai's wife, to get the board.
Before leaving the house, Cao Xiwan felt that Xiliu looked back at her.
But she thought that the note with the word "poisonous" was probably not written by Xiliu. She checked the signature that Xiliu had made when he received the monthly payment. Xiliu couldn't read, so he only pressed his fingerprint.
"Porcelain." Xiliu said in a very low voice.
Cao Xiwan deliberately walked around to a corridor and passed by Xiliu who was leaving. Sure enough, he heard her whisper these two words.
Was it the porcelain she used to have tea with her last time?
[Toxic] The note was originally stuck in the recess under the saucer and porcelain plate. Xiliu knew? She thought.
On this day, Mrs. Hou was away from home for a special occasion. When she came back, she seemed to be very satisfied with the way Yan Zhi combed her hair. She took a few photos of it in front of the mirror, grabbed it from the makeup box and said, "This is for you."
Cao Xiwan's ears pricked up, he was rewarded!
However, only Yanzhi and Wenxue were rewarded because of Yanzhi's skill in combing her hair. Wenxue followed them out.
She watched with covetous eyes as Yan got a pair of red gold earrings, and then looked at Madam Hou. She couldn't comb her hair so she wouldn't be rewarded? She was obviously very loyal and willing to do it.
Lou Shuluan looked at her doubtfully, and she blinked: "Madam, last time I saw Mrs. Six wearing this tassel with five treasures surrounding the clouds."
"Oh?" Lou Luanshu touched her head and saw a row of five grids of gems and pearls under the silver mink-furred rabbit. She turned to look at Mother Chen, "Did Mrs. Six say that the horseman
The one that broke when I hung it up?"
Mother Chen also remembered it, and even told the origin: "The old woman also saw that one, but it was inconvenient to tell Mrs. Six, for fear that she would send it to a goldsmith to repair it, and it wouldn't be repairable."
"oh?"
"My wife is young and I don't know. The one about Mrs. Six originally came from our house."
"Is there such a thing?" Jianghe couldn't help but ask, "Madam, let mommy tell you."
Mrs. Hou favored Jiang He: "You gave Mother Chen a cup of tea, and she said so."
Laughing, Mother Chen ate her tea and said with a smile: "About ten or twenty years ago, when Kaifeng City was captured by the late emperor's army, it was our general who took the lead. There is a box of five precious stones from the Western Regions in the treasury, which is rare.
But at that time, a Xian daughter of a Mongolian prince was also captured. It happened that the late emperor was listening to the scholars reading history in the palace. When he heard the name of this Xian family, he asked if there were any descendants, so he ordered her to be taken into the palace. At that time, we
The general received the order, and since he was a noble person, the general made a good connection and prepared for the dowry. There happened to be an old craftsman who made four strands of the cloud-shaped hair bun made of five treasures. No one else is so skillful.
Two of them were left in the house, and the other two went to the palace. Later, the nobleman disappeared. These things were scattered, and the old woman thought that one of them might have ended up in the sixth wife's house."
The girls all listened curiously, as if they were reading a book, with admiration in their eyes.
Even Cao Xiwan felt that an old woman in the army like Mrs. Chen would always talk about allusions one after another. As for why Liu Qian's family had this five-treasure necklace, Mrs. Hou asked, but Mrs. Chen was
I didn't know, but suddenly looked at Cao Xiwan: "Miss Xiaowan, you should know."
Cao Xiwan did know it in her heart, but she couldn't say it.
Liu Qianhu, of course, found this jewelry during a house raid. The Mongolian nobleman was gone and she had no brothers or sisters, so the jewelry was distributed to the palace servants who served her during her lifetime. There was an eunuch in the palace who got this thing.
It was resold to Prime Minister Hu's house. When Hu Weiyong's family was in ruins, this thing was sold by the government. Liu Qianhu happened to marry his wife, so he bought a large box of jewelry at a low price. At that time, the property book said "Rubbish"
A box of silverware.
Mrs. Hou looked at her.
Yan Zhi, Wen Xue and several other girls were curious, so she had to say a few words: "The former Commander-in-Chief of Jinyi Guards, a commoner, found this jewelry when he ransacked his house in the Hu Mansion, and secretly swallowed it up. Fortunately, our Lord Marquis is upright, and he has
There are six wives and in-laws who follow loyally to eradicate evil and evil and expose treacherous plots for His Majesty the late Emperor——"
"Okay. I understand." Mrs. Hou looked at her boredly.
Mother Chen is good at telling allusions. She is the daughter of a prominent family, and she is also a precious gem. She has the memory of the late emperor who read history and recognized beauties, the general who made good connections and sent dowries, and is decorated with the unique skills of the old craftsmen that have not been passed down from generation to generation. These few necklaces
It was immediately worth hundreds of pieces and was extremely precious.
What about Cao Xiwan? Why didn't she read the imperial edict and confiscate her home?
Several girls were holding back their laughter.
But Cao Xiwan stared at it, and sure enough, after a while, the wife took off her makeup and ordered the girl to get a long bamboo silk box with gold mother-of-pearl. Lou Shuluan personally put the Weiyun Five Treasures Necklace String inside, and ordered: "Little girl