In the cold wind, it was the deep winter weather with plum blossoms like snow and plum blossoms like snow. She held up her sleeves and shrank her head like an old woman. Cao Xiwan wanted to go to the kitchen to make some fish fat, but then she changed her mind.
I had an idea and decided to go back to my room to lie down and warm myself by the fire.
"Sister Xiaowan."
"...Is something wrong?" She looked reluctant.
"My wife asked us to deliver things to Huaiyuan."
There was a little snow in the green corridor. Yanzhi came back from home the day before yesterday. Today she changed into a purple coat, with a purple damask flower between her eyebrows. She was born well, with red lips and white teeth, as beautiful as a fairy daughter.
With this appearance, let alone going to the young master's Huaiyuan for his wife, she is still a decent enough girl to go to the Marquis.
She called Cao Xiwan and stood on the green brick corridor, holding a big red lacquer food box in her right hand and a black oil umbrella in her left hand.
Cao Xiwan looked at the beauty, then at the box, shaking her head secretly. At this time of year, what kind of food would the madam send to the young master's room? What if he poisoned someone to death?
Yanzhi looked around to see if there was no one around. When she came closer, she whispered: "My wife asked again today if Dr. Liu is in the house. If the doctor is here, nothing serious will happen."
Cao Xiwan nodded, shook his head again, frowned, and still felt that he shouldn't go.
Yanzhi spat: "Look at how cowardly you are. It's just a few sets of pastry and chess sets. My wife used them for the Winter Solstice Festival at her parents' house. She picked them out years ago. The young master saw it last time and said he liked it. My wife asked someone to replace it.
Made one."
When Cao Xiwan heard this, she walked up to the corridor, lowered her head and took the box in her hand, and took a closer look. The double-layered red box had a sketch of the three immortals of fortune, longevity and longevity. It was used to pack the box, but it was polite.
.
Yanzhi reluctantly moved the lid of the box halfway, and she looked inside. Sure enough, they were molds of sheep and dogs. They were actually made of bright silver.
"My wife is so rich." She envied her. Not counting the farm shop and servants, she had at least 70,000 to 80,000 yuan as dowry.
"..." Yanzhi glared, looking at Cao Xiwan with an expression that really wanted to screw you, you were so embarrassed.
She stuck out her tongue, closed the lid, and took the double-layered red rui sketch painted box: "Thank you for your hard work, girl, I'll pick it up."
Yanzhi smiled, held up an umbrella, and walked out of the corridor into the snow together, holding hands with her and whispering: "My wife asked me to see if the young master is sick. Why has he not been seen for several days?"
Cao Xiwan shrank his head to hide from the snowflakes floating under the umbrella, thinking to himself, Madam, she was aware that it seemed too quiet in Huaiyuan today.
She humbly asked for advice: "Tell me, if my wife and the Marquis have bad relations and have a quarrel, who will be the most unlucky?"
With the wind and snow blowing all around, Yanzhi saw how pitiful she was. She was born thin and weak, and spent every day with her old mother Chen.
Ma was mixed up and the medicine was always on her lips. She had no choice but to tilt the umbrella over Cao Xiwan's head and hold her arm to prevent her from falling. The two of them walked on the path of the house as if they were one person, listening to her
When asked, Yanzhi said: "Of course we servants are the unlucky ones. Don't you know that Xiliu is unlucky?"
Then he sighed, "She was an orphan. She was sold to a mansion and then came to live with us. She has no companion."
——That's right, otherwise the Marquis wouldn't have had to use her as a scapegoat.
Cao Xiwan nodded. The Marquis and his wife were at odds, and it was she, Cao Xiwan, who suffered the most.
The wife doesn’t like Mr. Hou and doesn’t care about Mr. Hou’s face. How can she reward her with a Buddha statue?
The light snow fell on the umbrella, rustling like drizzle. She glanced and saw the shimmer of light swaying on Yanzhi's white ears. They were a pair of golden autumn cicada fallen leaf white pearl earrings, exquisite and cute. They fit her perfectly.
A new purple coat with white copper buttons made at home.
This earring was awarded to Yanzhi because of her skill in combing her hair. That day, Cao Xiwan also listened to Bai Zhi and Yanzhi discussing what kind of clothes to wear with this jewelry. She asked her mother to make it for her.
Now that Yanzhi went home and entered the house, she had new clothes on her body. She was indeed loved by her parents.
Cao Xiyang thought, now I can reward a pair of earrings. Sooner or later, I can reward Buddha statues and immortality pills. No need to steal or rob. How easy.
She had to please her wife, so she didn't have to go to the Marquis and talk about random things.
She would never show the [poisonous] note to Mr. Marquis.
"Look! Who is that?" Yanzhi pushed her.
She raised her eyes.
On the wind and snow corridor in front, there are layers of corridors passing each other, and a man in a flowing green brocade robe is clearly walking.
This place is already the inner corridor of an inner house, and there are few strangers outside.
But he is different.
He has a straight back and a straight waist, a steady step, and a strong and graceful posture. Because he also carries an old yellow wooden medical box on his back, he is inseparable, and he does not let the little boy who leads the way do it for him. Even Yan Zhi also takes a look at it.
Find out who this person is.
Not to mention Cao Xiwan.
She was surprised to see that he and Manager Lian Er were walking together. This man was obviously Mr. Shoushi Liu Ruhai, whom the wife asked about every day.
She couldn't help but stop and looked at Yanzhi who was also surprised. The young master was sick again.
At this time, Lian Cheng was also worried and personally led Liu Ruhai into the Huaiyuan. Neither of them knew that two girls from the main house were coming behind them. After all, Mrs. Hou was careful to avoid taboos and the girls usually did not come here.
Yanzhi dragged her and followed her to Huaiyuan. Cao Xiwan delayed her step by step, thinking it was better not to go. She advised: "Slow down."
Yanzhi refused to listen and dragged her for a while. When she was about to go down the corridor, she suddenly woke up. Don't rush Qiao to make the Marquis suspicious. She quickly slowed down and said, "You are right. Doctor Liu should be able to cure it."
All right."
Maybe, Cao Xiwan thought.
She and Yanzhi stopped on the porch, and from a distance they could see the towering old trees and stacked cedars in the locust courtyard. This concubine's courtyard did have some charm, and it was obvious that the Marquis was always looking after it.
After all, Mr. Hou has been waiting for Mrs. Hou for many years, and he only has this child. Even a concubine is worth a lot of money.
"It's none of our wife's business, but Mr. Marquis comes to my wife every day. My son went back home the night before, and my mother said that the old lady suddenly told the fifth wife. In the past few days, my mother has been
"Tell me to be careful in the main room, don't get close to the people in front of the Fifth Master, and remember to talk less." Yanzhi whispered. Isn't this just for the sake of the young master? "My mother said, the Marquis told the old lady,
It is said that the Fifth Master has placed people in Huaiyuan. When the Marquis said it, it was very desolate."
The Marquis went to the old lady again and pretended to be a dutiful son without his mother.
Cao Xiwan thought, the Marquis has inherited the title and been promoted, but this has not changed?
After all, the old lady's eldest granddaughter, the eldest master's biological daughter, is still serving as a concubine in the East Palace.
Cao Xiwan didn't hear the news. She was standing here a few days ago, looking at the young master's Huaiyuan, and saw Granny Ma and Uncle Mo arresting the fifth master's people. She thought for a while:
"Stop for a while. After he writes the prescription, we still have to go see the situation and send a message to my wife."