After staying in the main room for a few days, she did three things every day: take medicine, be in a daze, and work on errands. She was quiet and well-behaved, and never came to the Marquis. On the contrary, she got along well with the wife's dowry girls.
She hasn't found out where the note came from, nor has she found any poison in her food.
She felt that she needed to check in the inner house, but the three days of waiting time after the Winter Solstice Festival had passed unknowingly, and the wife was afraid that she would be kicked out. After all, the young master's illness should be cured.
Strangely, there was no movement.
The most popular one is the thin willow.
Xiliu was beaten and rested in the room. Even Cao Xiwan could see that this girl had not suffered much at all.
Even if the Marquis didn't ask her not to hit her, even the second steward must have intervened.
But Xiliu's face is now gone.
Cao Xiwen quietly went to her room at night, but Xiliu was pretending to be asleep. She probably didn't want to explain the word "porcelain" clearly. She smiled, expecting that the wife knew that Xiliu was just a shield for the marquis to sacrifice his wife.
Son, she ordered a rough lady who was used by Mother Chen to remember to come to the Xiliu Room every day and deliver a pot of hot water.
Thin willows are still being raised.
The plum blossoms in front of my wife's house were in full bloom, and when I opened the window, snow covered the branches, and the fragrance was subtle.
Wenxue, Yunzhu and several girls came out of the Nuan Pavilion after their shift. The cold wind was blowing on the corridor. They ran back to the girls' room to warm themselves up by the fire. Halfway through, Wenxue sneered and looked at the old lady carrying a pot of hot water.
Water entered Xiliu's room, but no one among them went to her room.
Jiangheyuan did not share the same room with Xiliu. Xiliu actually lived in a separate room. Cao Xiwan secretly asked Yanzhi: "They don't seem to be in the same group."
"I heard that Xiliu bought a new mansion last year. The four girls who were going to be married had all been with his wife since they were young. Suddenly one of them got seriously ill and was moved back home. The girls who were chosen by the mansion again had their appearance and temperament.
It's better to ask Wenxue and the others, so Loufu has no choice but to buy another one."
"Emergency illness?" she pondered.
Perhaps because Mr. Hou had been at odds with Mrs. Hou in the past, he favored Xiliu. The wife had learned from the past, so she increasingly felt that Cao Xiwan was not a threat. The wife just pretended that she did not know that Cao Xiwan was in the main room, let alone that she was lazy and hiding as a maid.
, so no one drove her away.
She then had the opportunity to find out the origin of the note.
And what Xiliu told her: porcelain. She thought it should be the porcelain she had tea with. Jianghe was in charge.
The clouds are scattered, the sky is gray, and the snow is dancing in the wind.
Cao Xiwan could not find a chance to enter Jianghe Guan's teahouse for the time being, so he simply recited Buddhist scriptures and copied Thousand Buddha Pictures in the girl's room as usual at home.
Several girls came over to visit and talked to Yanzhi Baizhi. They were surprised when they saw it, but they got used to it in two days.
When she saw that the older girls in the main room had relaxed their vigilance, she took the opportunity to say that she wanted to send Thousand Buddhas to Chengfu Temple to pray for peace. She privately asked Wenxue, Yunzhu and several other girls to do it for them.
She wrote the word "Buddha".
She looked at it and saw that the handwriting didn't even look like the word "toxic".
She sneaked into her wife's small kitchen again. She peeked out and saw that Mother Chen was there.
Inside, the large and small stoves were all burning brightly, and there were a few careful women in charge who were sent by the Marquis. She thought, it couldn't be them.
"coming?"
"Yes." She greeted Mrs. Chen and got a plate of the new water chestnut cake.
She squatted in front of the kitchen threshold, eating hot water chestnut cakes on the green clay stove where she usually cooked medicine.
Mother Chen didn't care whether she was really stupid or pretending to be stupid, she felt that she was quite comfortable in the small kitchen.
She was only thinking about how to get into the restaurant. When she finished eating, her hands were covered with rice flour syrup. She asked for some hot water to wash her hands.
It took a long time to wash off the sticky residue. She couldn't help but think about it. Did the wife's sets of porcelain come with her as a dowry?
She had looked at it carefully in the past few days. The last time she had tea in her wife's room, she used a set of new green porcelain products from Greenland, which was somewhat similar to the jian kiln porcelain green pine leaf bamboo hat used to entertain the sixth wife. But she Cao Xi
The late-use porcelain cannot be jian kiln porcelain, but it is the jian kiln porcelain from the Song Dynasty that Mrs. Hou cherished and collected.
She sneakily arrived at the door of the tea room. After taking a few steps in, she saw what she wanted to take. As soon as she stretched out her hand, a girl behind her called out: "Who!?"
"It's me -" She turned and looked at Jianghe. In front of the door, this girl stared at her with suspicion. Cao Xiwan smiled and said, "My wife asked me to get a bag of tea." She raised her hand and picked up a paper bag.
Loose tea, "I said this is what Mrs. Chen often eats. It can nourish Qi. Let me eat it too."
Jianghe snorted: "That's it for this pack. New tea will be available only in spring. If you eat it, Mother Chen will be gone."
She still smiled as usual: "Mother Chen and I are getting along well. Just tell her, I'll take it." After that, she put it in her arms and left in a big way. Jianghe secretly glared at her, why are you so proud!?
Jianghe squatted on the corridor outside the teahouse, washing the porcelain carefully and not allowing others to touch it. Cao Xi stayed by the side to scoop water for her late at night and showed her courtesy. Jianghe gradually softened his expression and chatted with her:
"This set of green porcelain? It is newly produced by the official kiln in the capital. It is also very good. I have used it several times. Because it was you that day, I picked up this set in a hurry." After speaking, Cao glanced at her.
Xiwan laughed with her, carrying a hot water bottle and adding more hot water to her basin: "Thank you, sister, for giving me dignity."
Jianghe wrinkled his nose and smiled.
Snowflakes outside the eaves penetrated the curtains, fell lightly, and melted into the large boxwood basin.
Cao Xiwan knew that Jianghe was not telling the truth.
She glanced at the large basin. There were seven or eight sets in black, white, blue, and green. Two of them were green porcelain, both hats and cups. They looked very similar on the surface. The difference was that the ones from the official kilns in the capital were imitated from the Song Dynasty.
Cao Xiwan could tell the style of the kiln at a glance. Jianghe might have picked up the wrong porcelain that day.
Jianghe took the real kiln set used by Mrs. Six and gave it to Cao Xiwan by mistake.
Cao Xiwan put down the hot water bottle, squatted on one side and held her chin, watching Jianghe dry the washed porcelain and put it into the basket, and put the saucers one by one.
"I'll help my sister carry it," she said diligently.
Jianghe pursed his lips and smiled: "What a good girl, no wonder."
No wonder the Marquis took special care of me.
She thought, it seems that Jianghe hasn't found out her background yet.
Mother Chen would not say anything unless absolutely necessary.
She helped carry the basket and arrived at the waiter. She peeped at it.
There is a tea stove, a hanging basket in the room, and yellow rattan-topped standing cabinets placed along the wall.
Jianghe wouldn't let her touch it, so she took the key from her waist with her own hands, opened the cabinet, and placed the porcelain in the cabinet one by one, just in time for Cao Xiwan to see clearly.
Two sets of green porcelain are placed in two similar cabinets.
She took a look at the set of green pine leaf kiln tea saucers. There was a recess underneath the saucers.
In this case, maybe in the tea room, someone had hidden fish-fat glue in his hand and stuck the "poisonous" note under the plate. Jianghe was in a hurry when delivering tea and took the wrong porcelain, so he didn't find it that day.
That [Poisonous] note is for Mrs. Six?
She burped, and Jianghe glared at her with disgust: "What did you eat just now?"
"Water chestnut cake." She smiled shyly.
"Are you related to Mother Chen?"
"It's old school." She thought for a moment.
Jianghe snorted and allowed her to warm her hands by the tea stove. Seeing that she was extremely lazy, he kicked her away. She took the opportunity to carry the hot water kettle and went to the small kitchen to once again look at the rules of coming and going in the kitchen.
For half a day.
My wife's yard has three rows of rooms in the front and back, and the third row is the small kitchen.
The corridor leading to the kitchenette is only a few steps away. The tea room occupies a corridor room, where sets of new porcelain are displayed. The precious porcelain is managed by Jianghe.
The smoke and snow were falling, and plum branches were piled with snow in front of the porch. She walked around between the kitchen and the tea room a few times, and then she saw that Mrs. Song and Mrs. Wang in the small kitchen must have been trained by Mother Chen. There were also two rough ladies.
She is also from Mother Chen.
She felt that it was impossible for anyone to poison here, otherwise Mother Chen would definitely know.
"Mother Chen." She approached quietly.
"What."
"Do we have a grudge?"
"...No." Mother Chen looked at her angrily.
Cao Xiwan smiled naively. She remembered that she didn't. Otherwise, she would have killed Chen's mother preemptively. Moreover, Chen Ming, the medical ghost, had tested the pastry. It was not poisonous and was normal.
Why is there a note?
She thought for a while, then went back to get some fish fat or rice cereal to see if she could stick the paper under the plate.