"Sister." Yilan called out softly, ran to Ling Ruo, and carefully supported her. She looked very well-behaved and sensible, completely different from the person she was just now.
"I just arrived a little while ago." After saying this, Yinxiang looked at Ling Ruo for a while. He looked at Ling Ruo very strangely. He touched his face and said, "But I didn't sleep well. There are marks on my face?"
"No." Yinxiang frowned and said, "It is said that women will gain weight when they are pregnant, but I see that except for your belly being a little bigger, sister-in-law, there seems to be no change in other places, and there is still no fat on your face."
"People have different physical constitutions. How can we generalize?" Ling Ruo smiled and invited Yin Xiang into the room. After Li Wei served the freshly brewed hot tea, he smiled and said: "Why do you have time to come here today? You don't have to be busy.
Is it about the Ministry of War?"
Yinxiang took off the lid of the tea and plucked a bunch of tea leaves that were rolling in the water and said with a smile: "We are always busy, so we have to take the opportunity to take a break. Besides, my sister-in-law is pregnant with my future nephew, so I won't come to see you more often."
Look, what will happen if he doesn't know me as my thirteenth uncle in the future?" At this point, he frowned and said, "By the way, sister-in-law, why did this girl Mo Yu run away when she saw me?"
Seeing his confused look, Ling Ruo couldn't help but shook her head secretly. Everyone around Yinxiang was very smart, but he was extremely insensitive to matters of love. She wanted to wake him up but was concerned about Mo Yu's thoughts, so she had to say
: "You, please stop teasing Mo Yu from now on. The thirteenth brother of the great Qing Dynasty is always quarreling with a little maid. If word spreads about it, won't it make people look down on him and make him talk for no reason?"
Yinxiang said nonchalantly: "Are there too few people who look down on me? They can say whatever they like when it comes to others. As for me, as long as I feel comfortable, I don't care what others do?!" At this point,
He looked straight and said: "Sister-in-law, how are you doing recently?"
"Very good." He said this, but there was always a lingering sadness between his eyebrows.
Yinxiang sighed and said: "I know that the fourth brother took an official woman as his concubine, and I also know why the fourth brother took her in. It is inevitable that the sister-in-law will feel uncomfortable, but she still has to be more open-minded, even if it is not for the sake of
Do you also have to think about your children? One day, the fourth brother will understand who is truly worthy of his cherishment."
"I know." Ling Ruo suppressed the sourness in her heart and stroked her bulging belly and said, "I don't want to think about anything right now. I just want to give birth to this child safely."
"That's good." Hearing what she said, Yinxiang was quite relieved. He was afraid that Ling Ruo would get into trouble if he couldn't think about it for a while, so he took the time to come over and take a look.
After talking for a while, until it was almost noon, Yinxiang stretched out and stood up and said, "It's time to go back. Biyun is still waiting for me to have lunch with me." Biyun is Zhaojia's maiden name, and the two of them
They have been married for several months, and although they are not affectionate, they still treat each other with respect.
Before leaving, he suddenly thought of something, walked up to Yilan, patted her delicate cheek and said with a grin: "Don't get so angry in the future, you know?"
"Oh!" Yilan shook her little feet and agreed reluctantly. After Yinxiang left, Ling Ruo asked Yilan in confusion, "What happened just now?"
Yilan hurriedly shook her head and said it was okay, looking slightly panicked. She knew that her sister treated her servants very well and never criticized her harshly. If she knew that she punished Li Wei and others to kneel in the courtyard in the winter, she would definitely be displeased.
How could Ling Ruo fail to see that she was clearly hiding something from him? She immediately turned her gaze to Li Wei, who was standing aside with his hands down, and said, "Tell me."
Li Wei hurriedly apologized and said with a smile: "It's nothing serious. It's just that the servants accidentally did something wrong just now. The second lady just scolded the servants a few words."
"Is it true?" Ling Ruo glanced at him suspiciously, not entirely convinced, and asked Li Wei to call Shuixiu and the others up, and asked what happened. Others were fine, but Shuiyue turned red.
Eyes, but she is also a person who can distinguish the serious from the serious. Although she feels aggrieved and uncomfortable, she still bites her lips and does not make a sound. Little does she know that her abnormality has long been noticed by Ling Ruo.
"Tell me! What happened?" She slammed the table and said with a stern expression: "Are you going to wait for me to invite Master Thirteen back before you are willing to tell the truth?"
Seeing that she was angry, everyone quickly knelt down and said, "Master, please calm down." As for what happened, they still refused to mention a word.
Seeing that Li Wei and the others were refusing to say anything, Ling Ruo turned his attention to Yilan again and said coldly: "If they don't tell you, Lan'er, what's going on?!"
Yilan had never seen her sister speak to her so sternly, and she immediately felt a little unhappy. She jumped down from the chair and pouted: "Isn't it just to punish them to kneel outside for a while? There is no need to make such a fuss.
, do you have to ask clearly?"
"Why do you have to kneel down as a punishment?" Ling Ruo asked with a frown.
"Why are there so many of them but none of them understand the rules? They knew that my sister and I were sleeping inside and they still yelled loudly. I said something to them but they still talked back. I couldn't get angry, so I punished them by kneeling outside."
Yilan hugged Ling Ruo's arm and said with tears in her eyes: "Sister, you don't know how exaggerated they are. They said that I can stand here just because of my sister. I am not justified and I have no right to say it."
them."
Seeing her look like this, Ling Ruo couldn't help but feel soft. He took off the veil and wiped away the tears that accidentally rolled down her cheeks and said softly: "Even so, you shouldn't punish them to kneel outside. It's freezing cold right now."
, what should I do if I get frostbite?"
Yilan said nonchalantly: "It's just a disease. They're just a bunch of slaves anyway." She still didn't understand why her sister was so polite to these cheap slaves.
"You are not allowed to talk nonsense about being a slave or not." Ling Ruo sighed, stroking the silver-blue jade beads in Yilan's hair and said: "No one is born to be a slave and be bullied. Li Wei and the others are
We are all the same
There is no one of flesh and blood who was not born and raised by his parents and regarded as a treasure. They were sold to others as slaves just to make a living. Being slaves is pitiful enough, so why should we, the masters, treat them harshly?
"
These words made Li Wei and others' eyes turn red, and they were so moved that they knelt down with a plop and cried: "Master is kind, and slaves can't repay you even if they die ten thousand times!"
Ling Ruo was about to wake them up when he suddenly caught a glimpse of a red palm print on Shui Xiu's face. Looking at the size of the palm, it seemed... He raised his eyebrows and asked the disapproving Yi Lan with a solemn expression, "Have you ever been beaten?"
Is the water showing off?"
Yilan's heart skipped a beat and she said harshly: "So what if she was beaten? Who told her to speak rudely!"
Shui Yue, who was kneeling on the ground, his eyelids twitched when he heard this, raised his head and retorted: "Shui Xiu has never been disrespectful to the second lady at all. It was the second lady who was unhappy, so she took it out on her."
Yilan didn't expect her to be so bold. She accused herself in front of her sister. She was so angry that her face turned red and she wanted to slap her away. This Shuiyue was really hateful. After a while, she calmed down and sneered: "
Shui Xiu is not disrespectful, so you have it, right? I heard you muttering behind your back."
Ling Ruowan didn't expect that Yilan would hit someone at such a young age without any remorse, so she said coldly: "Kneel down!"