The weather in June has become very hot. Fortunately, there was a heavy rain last night, knocking down countless flowers that had just bloomed on the branches. They were scratched to the ground and their pink petals scattered. The air after the rain was clean and fragrant. Early in the morning,

It makes people feel comfortable. ~[ ][ ]

Qin Sang raised her hands and rolled up the bamboo curtain with all her strength. She turned around and smiled softly: "While the sun has not come up yet, let the room get some fresh air quickly so that it doesn't get stuffy inside."

A little girl stood waiting holding a wet little bamboo basket. On the table were various small fruit plates, including white porcelain, pastel, crystal, anise, and sunflower petals. They were all so beautiful.

Xiao Tao rolled up her sleeves and placed various fruits still stained with water drops on the plate one by one. She raised her head and grinned: "The rain last night was really scary. It was slapping with a whip. I listened.

The sound of water falling to the ground made my heart tremble."

Ruomei had a beautiful face. Hearing this, he frowned slightly: "No matter how scary I am, I am not as scary as the master. I... I have never seen the master lose such a temper. It's scary to death."

"You deserve it!" Luzhi stepped in from outside, put down the tea tray in his hand, and walked to the table to get some water.

Qin Sang glanced at her and said with a smile: "Ma'am, are you done with your meal? Hey, don't be in a hurry, drink it slowly, who will steal it from you?"

Lu Zhi put down the glass of water, and even though it was not enough, he poured another large bowl and drank it, "This morning, the fried salt-and-pepper fried quail eggs on Madam's table tasted really good. Madam rewarded me with it, but I couldn't stop talking.

, I ate a few more, and I was so salty... Tsk, tsk, I had to endure Sister Dao Cuiwei and Dan Ju coming back before I dared to come out."

"You deserve it." Xiao Tao glared at her, "I asked you to eat alone, but you didn't even give us some."

Lu Zhi put down the tea bowl, put her hands on her hips, and stared back: "My wife left my eldest sister for dinner this morning. I saw that she ate a lot. Even if I didn't eat, I wouldn't be able to leave anything for you."

"It's done, what's the point of arguing over a few quail eggs? Madam, how much food and drink do you need on weekdays?" Ruomei waved her hands and then asked in a low voice, "You two should talk about what you served last night.

Madam was ordered to deliver food to the master. What happened there? When I went there, I saw Wuer being dragged down. His body was covered in blood and it was so oozing."

Luzhi wiped his mouth with a handkerchief, looked out the window, walked inside and sat down, and said nonchalantly: "It's nothing strange. Last night, the gentleman from Kouxiangyuan entered the study without even coming here.

Wu'er didn't even come out, so she got upset and asked someone to carry a food box to the study to "care" for the master. Xiaoshun stopped Wu'er from asking him to go in, so she deliberately squeaked and raised her voice to call the people inside.

The master heard it, who knew..."

She covered her mouth and smiled, "Unexpectedly, the master who provoked me was so angry that he ordered me to be beaten on the spot and gave him thirty strokes. Huh, you deserve it!"

"That's it. It's your own fault, and you are no different from others." A touch of contempt appeared on Ruomei's face, and he said disdainfully, "Those two beside Aunt Gong, because they are better born, dress up in colorful clothes all day long, come here and go in and out

Those who poke their heads out, I wish I could let the master see me. I really don’t respect myself and love myself.”

Qin Sang and Lu Zhi looked at each other and smiled secretly: Although this person is a bit arrogant and narcissistic, and her words often have a sour taste, which is annoying, she is still clean-minded. Whenever Gu Tingye is around, she will either hide in the back room and not come out, or she will not come out.

I won’t come back elsewhere for a while, and try not to show up in front of the male protagonist.

"The master has a bad temper, but he only restrains himself a little with Madam. Last night, the master threw out a cup of hot tea, splashing a lot of hot water and breaking the porcelain. Xiao Shun and the guards in the outer courtyard didn't dare to move at all." Xiao Tao said casually.

said.

After she put the last fruit on the plate, she took the green branches and leaves that had just been washed with water from the side, carefully broke off a few small bunches, and slowly garnished the tender fruits, while saying: "Otherwise, you can't go to Lingding Pavilion."

Why are you so honest? I heard that she originally brought four girls, not for any reason. One was beaten to death on the spot, and the other was beaten half to death and did not survive a few days. Miss Fengxian was frightened at that time.

I was sick, and it took me several months to get out of bed...Okay, Chun Ya, throw these out, and then bring me the basket hanging outside."

She clapped her hands, straightened up, gathered up the scattered fruit leaves and handed them to the little girl. The little girl was only about ten years old, with a round face, and she went out obediently.

The speaker had no consciousness, but the listener was trembling in his heart. The girls in the room were horrified for a moment and were speechless for a while. After a while, Luzhi exclaimed: "Why didn't you tell me earlier! The master was so late last night?"

When we came back, Caihuan kept thinking about her, saying that she wanted to go 'on behalf of my wife' to see 'how the master is doing'."

Xiao Tao was dumbfounded: "...you didn't ask me?" Although she likes to inquire, she is never chatty, and Minglan is her only audience.

To become a qualified spy, one must not only have a honest and honest appearance, but also speak carefully at all times. In this way, no matter who leaks gossip to her, they can rest assured that it will never be spread.

Just as he was talking, Chun Ya came back, carrying two black gauze baskets woven from purple bamboo on his two little arms. Xiao Tao opened the layers of baskets and put the arranged fruit plates inside.

"... If I had known better, I would have let her go, which would have made me tired of trying to stop her." Lu Zhi was still angry with himself.

Qin Sang couldn't help but said: "Don't be too meddlesome, always thinking about being tempted and causing trouble. Please be careful before Sister Cuiwei hits you!"

Luzhi remembered the past, stuck out his tongue and stopped talking.

Ruomei let out a long sigh: "It's better not to be tempted. The master was born in the army, so he is not as compassionate and kind-hearted as the scholar. Fortunately, the master likes my wife, otherwise..." She looked melancholy, half-bringing her elbows, like a shackles

So clear and sad.

Luzhi and Qin Sang looked at each other again with flat lips.

After hearing this, Xiao Chunya raised her head and said innocently: "My master's temper has gotten much better. I heard that one time, before my wife came in, a sister from the inner courtyard mistakenly walked into the outer study. The master didn't say a word and called someone at that time."

Take it down."

Everyone listened with rapt attention and quickly asked: "What happened next?"

"Later...then it disappeared. ~" Chun Ya closed the lid of the carrier, dumbfounded and confused.

Everyone was furious: "How come there is no more? What happened to that person?"

How could anyone spread gossip like this and still leave a tail? Lu Zhi's finger almost poked her forehead. Chun Ya held her head and cried: "I don't know, that sister never appeared again."

The girls looked at each other, feeling that this sentence was full of unknown horror, more frightening than the shame of selling the board. The room was silent. After a long time, Luzhi remembered something, glared at Chunya and said: "This matter

how do you know?"

Chunya had a naive look on her face and said smoothly: "I heard what Brother Xiaoshun said, what Master Gongsun said, and what Guard Xie heard about, what Second Master Tu said."

Luzhi fainted for a while, Ruomei's mouth opened wide, Qin Sang couldn't laugh or cry, pointed at Xiao Tao and Chun Ya and said: "It's true that the person who is close to the ink is black, follow her every day, you have also learned this virtue, quickly leave this hoof,

Just come and follow me."

Xiao Chunya immediately hugged Xiao Tao's arm and said sweetly: "Thank you to Sister Qin Sang, but I can't bear to leave Sister Xiao Tao. My sister treats me well. She saved all the delicious food and clothes and gave them to my mother and sister."

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Xiao Tao smiled and hugged Xiao Chunya: "Why are you so upright? No matter how nice I am, I can't say it so straightforwardly. I have to be more humble. [ ]"

The girls staggered and fell down for a moment.

The little maid was ignorant and laughed happily, but Minglan was not so lucky. At this time, she had a splitting headache.

When he came back from the Marquis Mansion yesterday, Gu Tingye shut himself in the study without saying a word. He did not go back to the house for dinner. He only invited Gongsun Baishi to discuss it for a while.

Apart from asking people to bring food and tea, and showing some care, Minglan never left.

As a mature man with a strong will, Gu Tingye should be thinking about the problem at the moment, rather than feeling sad. What he needs is calm thinking, not the comfort of a wet nurse.

He chose to go to the outer study instead of the inner study, expressing his meaning in a very subtle way.

Minglan waited quietly in the room, sitting in front of the candles until midnight, when she couldn't hold on anymore, she fell asleep.

Unexpectedly, I woke up in a cold sweat in the middle of the night. When I opened my eyes, the room was dark, and I saw a tall figure with many shadows sitting by the window. A pair of bright eyes looked at me without blinking.

So profound.

Minglan was half-awakened by fright.

The man did nothing, just stared at her face. The rain outside suddenly pounded the ground violently, which seemed to hit her heart. Minglan felt even more uneasy and curled up involuntarily.

He knew that he had woken her up, so he hugged her hand and foot into his arms. He didn't know how to comfort her, so he rocked Minglan like a wet nurse coaxing a little girl to sleep. The gesture was extremely unprofessional, but the effect was very good. Minglan

Lan asked him a few vague questions, but he didn't answer and only shook her more vigorously. She was so sleepy that she fell asleep again.

She slept lightly that night and was always in a very unstable state. It was natural to have a headache when she woke up in the morning. When she woke up, her pillow was empty. On the low couch next to the bed were the clothes she had changed out of yesterday, with double-woven fabrics.

He just threw the thin silk robe, embroidered with dark patterns of green pine and rock, and the shiny embroidery threads seemed to be faintly flickering.

None of the younger brothers in the Sheng family dared to do this. Sheng Hong decided to pass on poems and books to the family, so that his younger brothers could cultivate themselves and reflect on themselves. No matter how tired they were, they should not throw things away. In addition, with Changbai as an example, the effect would be even better.

But this man was born with the temperament of a young man. When he was young, he was well-dressed and well-fed, arrogant and wanton. When he was living in the world, he had no one to look after him. After he joined the army, he was cared for from head to toe.

Minglan secretly made up her mind that she would never let her children imitate them in the future. She suddenly realized her thoughts and couldn't help laughing.

While dressing up in the mirror, Minglan asked Cuiwei to give three Buddhist scriptures to Gong Hongxiao, telling her not to come to pay her respects in the past few days, but to stay in the room and copy each Buddhist scripture a hundred times to prevent "lax discipline".

"Can I go to the master's outer study at will?" Cuiwei covered her face with frost and was ordered to lecture, "There are so many important things in there, it would be too much to beat that girl to death on the spot! Auntie should take care of it."

In the third section of the training course for the housewife, "How to maintain strict authority in front of concubines and servants," Old Mrs. Sheng said: Never show emotion or anger in front of them, be concise and concise when praising, and try not to speak out yourself when reprimanding.

Let the decent wife-in-law speak, just sit upright and make clear the rewards and punishments.

——Minglan summarized concisely and took down notes very learnedly.

When Qiuniang brought Sister Rong to pay her respects, Minglan saw that she was a little trembling, so she rewarded her with two new strings of red musk beads, and a high-quality palace fan newly given by the palace, made in the royal workshop.

Even though it was an ordinary thing, it was also extremely exquisite and precious. Qiuniang immediately broke into a smile and hurriedly bowed and thanked her repeatedly.

Sister Rong was still young, so she didn't pay much attention to these things. But when Danju led the two girls into the second room to set up breakfast, the aroma wafted up. She tilted her head and took a few more glances, and Minglan casually said to leave her to eat.

, who would have expected that she actually agreed in a low voice, and Qiuniang had to go back first.

Not only that, the little girl had a great appetite and ate up two bowls of mung bean and white fungus porridge, half a plate of crispy salted quail eggs, and another large piece of golden jujube cake. Minglan held the rice bowl and looked at it slightly stunned.

Our lady shouldn't be such a glutton for eating Haisai, but Minglan saw that she had a handful of bones but had not yet grown a few taels of meat, so she put it aside for the time being. I don't know how much effort Mrs. Sheng spent back then.

, I have made myself fat, round, and rosy. I think back then, the reserved and gentle old lady probably had to endure it again and again when she looked at her eating appearance.

After clearing the table, Minglan felt that Sister Rong had eaten too much after all, so she quizzed her on a few words, briefly demonstrated how to hold a pen, and then asked Xiaotao to take her for a walk in the garden before sending her back.

.~

Minglan looked at Sister Rong's back as she left, her eyes thoughtful - should we move Gong Hongxiao out of Kouxiang Garden?

I didn't sleep well all night, and I had to think about this problem, and my headache came again.
To be continued...