The cries of Qiutong courtyard can be heard from far away.
"There's no way I can live..."
"I must die clearly..."
There were murmurings interspersed with each other, attracting countless spectators.
"You haven't seen how virtuous Magpie Branch is..."
"Now she is more beautiful..."
"That's it, using chicken feathers as arrows..."
"Oh, Qin'er, you've become more capable. These words sound so elegant. I didn't wait for pen and ink in the third young master's study in vain..."
A group of little girls gathered on the road, talking, laughing and visiting.
"Are you all free?"
Someone behind me said nonchalantly.
The little girls looked back and ran away in fear.
"Auntie, look what's going on..." Ah Jin didn't like the girls who were scattered around, so he whispered to Aunt Zhou beside him, with a hint of anxiety on his face, "Young Madam, you are too hasty this time.
Got some…”
Aunt Zhou slowly shook her fan, with a slight smile on her lips.
"Then let's see if she can get through this," she said.
A trace of anxiety flashed across Ajin's face.
"Young lady is still young after all, how can you hold back the battle, aunt..." She couldn't help but whisper.
Aunt Zhou glanced at her, and Ah Jin's words slowly became quieter until she fell silent.
"Ah Jin." Aunt Zhou raised her feet and walked slowly, "Do you think in your heart that I am so cruel and heartless? Just watching the young lady suffer and refusing to help, it is really in vain that the old lady loved me in every possible way...
"
Ah Jin's face turned pale, and he knelt down without caring that he was outside.
"I don't dare. I just want my aunt to be alone and have many people to help me..." she choked.
"So." Aunt Zhou didn't ask her to get up, but said slowly, "We have to see if she has the ability to help me. If she can, I can naturally do it. If she can't, what can I do."
A Jin kowtows.
"This slave is confused, this slave is confused," she said repeatedly.
It wasn't until her forehead was bruised from the bump that Aunt Zhou patted her shoulder with a fan.
"Get up, what are you doing?" She smiled.
Only then did Ah Jin dare to get up, not daring to say another word all the way until he arrived in front of the third young master's yard.
Just as Aunt Zhou was about to enter, a girl rushed out and bumped into Aunt Zhou.
Aunt Zhou raised her hand and slapped her.
The girl covered her face and knelt down to kowtow.
Only then did Aunt Zhou see clearly that this person was Caijuan, the second-class girl in front of the third young master.
"What are you doing? Why are you so careless?" She raised her eyebrows and yelled, "Are all the people in front of the Third Young Master like this?"
Caijuan kowtowed repeatedly to apologize.
"Auntie, I asked her to do something, so she was in a hurry." Chang Yunqi walked out of the house after hearing the sound, and said with a smile, while looking at Caijuan who was kowtowing on the ground, "Go quickly."
Caijuan stood up and was about to leave, but Aunt Zhou called her to stop her.
"Don't be careless with me. It's because of your good temper that you spoil the people below." She shook her head and said, "Tell me, what are you doing?"
As expected, Caijuan looked panicked.
While he was talking, another girl bumped in from outside.
"Third Young Master, I saw that the Young Madam went to the Crown Prince's courtyard..." She said hurriedly, but before she could finish her words, her eyes widened and her mouth widened in shock.
Aunt Zhou looked at her, her usually quiet and gentle face suddenly turned pale.
"Drag her out and beat her to death," she pointed at the girl and shouted.
The girl was so frightened that she collapsed on the ground.
"Shut up." Aunt Zhou pointed at the third young master who was about to speak and yelled. She looked at Ah Jin with her eyebrows raised, "Are you still waiting for me to do it myself?"
Ah Jin came back to his senses and immediately called the girls.
"Auntie..." The girl just opened her mouth to say a word, but Ah Jin stuffed her mouth with a handkerchief, and the other girls held her down and dragged her out.
"Kneel here for me. Don't get up without me." Aunt Zhou looked at Caijuan on the side and shouted coldly.
Caijuan had already knelt down when the girl was talking. At this time, she didn't dare to say a word. She kowtowed and knelt straight down with her head bowed.
"Auntie." Chang Yunqi couldn't help but shout, "What are you doing!"
"You understand what I do, do you understand what you are doing?" Aunt Zhou turned her head and shouted at him.
"I didn't do anything." Chang Yunqi shook his head and said.
Aunt Zhou sneered, stepped forward and slapped him.
"You think I don't know your thoughts..." She said bitterly, but before she could finish her words, she was interrupted.
Aunt Zhou immediately calmed down and returned to her normal appearance.
"Okay, Aunt Zhou, why did you start with the third young master?" Su's mother said calmly outside. As the first housekeeper of Mrs. Hou's house, she does not need to be so polite to these aunts.
"After a few words of bickering, I couldn't hold it back for a moment and bumped into the third young master..." Aunt Zhou said. As she spoke, her eyes were slightly red. She picked up the handkerchief and wiped her eyes. She seemed to have thousands of grievances that she couldn't express.
She is an aunt and half a master, but to the young master, she is still half a slave, even though the young master was born to her.
"It's nothing, Mother Su." Chang Yunqi said. The slap marks on his face were very obvious, which showed that Aunt Zhou had been cruel.
"Really, what kind of chaos this family has become." Su's mother shook her head and sneered, "My aunt beat the young master, and the lady in charge is crying...it's really...it's only been a few days...I can't say anything..."
While shouting to the girl next to him.
"Go and see, has the young lady come back?"
The girl responded and was about to leave. Aunt Zhou suddenly remembered the sentence she had just heard in a daze. Then she saw that the girl who spoke had been dragged out. She glanced at Chang Yunqi and thought that the information he was asking for was not false, so she stood up.
Take a step forward.
"Mother Su is looking for the young lady?" she said, "I saw her when I came here just now. The young lady is in the prince's yard."
"What?" Su's mother turned around.
A faint smile appeared on Aunt Zhou's face, and she looked with satisfaction at Mother Su's momentarily shocked and somewhat uneasy expression.
"Yeah, I don't know what I was doing before we came back together. Maybe I haven't finished talking about something yet." She said softly.
At this time, Qi Yue was already standing in front of a courtyard with Aru.
"Is this the prince's courtyard?" Qi Yue asked, waving her fan.
This is a spacious courtyard with five main rooms and six side rooms.
"Yes." Aru replied. Even though she had agreed in advance, when she really came here, she was still filled with uneasiness when she thought about what Qi Yue was going to do. There was a voice in her heart that kept urging him to hurry up.
Take her back with your young lady's hand. You must not act like this...
After receiving the news, the girls and women who came out of the courtyard were standing on both sides. Most of these people saw this young lady for the first time. In addition to the news they had just heard, they were all curious and surprised.
When I secretly looked at Qi Yue, my first impression was that she is a beauty.
I heard that when the old lady was proposing to marry her, the Marquis met the young lady dressed in a beautiful dress. He only said that her appearance was enough, and he did not mention her birth status, good character, and virtuous character.
Everything is good when people are beautiful. This has always been the principle pursued by Mr. Hou.
For a man like Mr. Hou who has read countless beauties, what kind of beauty can be praised so highly by him? I have seen it today, and it is indeed well-deserved.
"It's the young lady." A girl wearing a blouse and skirt said with a smile, "Why do you have to come here today? If you have any orders, you can just send someone to tell me, so why did you come here in person?"
This girl is about sixteen or seventeen years old. She is not ugly, but she is not very good-looking among the beauties in Dingxihou Mansion. She has a beauty mark on the corner of her mouth, which adds a bit of charm.
Perhaps it was because Qi Yue was standing on a lower step. From her perspective, the girls who walked out looked at her as being condescending, and their manner of speaking seemed casual, without the slightest awe.
"You mean, I can't come over if I have nothing to do?" Qi Yuexiao asked as he stepped up the steps. Everyone looked at each other and felt much better.
Unexpectedly, she choked as soon as she opened her mouth. The girl was stunned for a moment.
"I don't dare, slave," she said with a smile.
Qi Yue glanced at her and didn't see any sign of "dare" on her face.
The Hou Mansion has good rules in this regard. People can be distinguished by their clothes.
"Are you the prince's maid?" Qi Yue asked.
"Yes, slave Qiuxiang." The girl replied with a smile, still standing steadily at the door, like a doorkeeper, with no intention of giving way.
Qi Yue burst into laughter, which made the girl a little confused.
"Not bad, not bad, a good name." Qi Yue waved her fan and said, then looked up at the door plaque, "Why doesn't it have a name?"
He raised his head and looked at the empty plaque hanging on the door, like in other courtyards, and asked casually.
"It's just done here, Madam said, leaving it for the Crown Prince to decide a name himself." Qiuxiang smiled and looked up.
The words had been exchanged for several times, and both parties were still standing at the door without moving an inch.
A'ru sighed inwardly, the young lady's status has not improved at all...
"I'm thinking of a name. The prince is a general in the army. Let's call him Pengcheng Yuan. He has a long journey, which has a good meaning." Qi Yue thought for a while and said with a smile, "What do you think?"
Aru didn't know how to answer and just kept mumbling, while the girls in the Imperial Palace all smiled and said nothing, some didn't even smile, and they didn't hide their impatience on their faces.
"Remember it? I'll have someone write it down and hang it up later. It's not good to live in the house without a name." Qi Yue smiled and walked inside, "Is the prince here?"
What's the meaning?
She wants to name the prince's courtyard?
The maid Qiuxiang looked at everyone in astonishment, and the others also looked at her in astonishment, and then they all laughed.
It's really... overestimating one's abilities and being self-righteous.
Qi Yuecai ignored their reactions and just walked through them and walked towards the threshold.
"Young madam, what are you going to do?" Qiuxiang asked quickly after regaining her composure, taking a few steps and blocking the way without hesitation.
"Go in and take a look." Qi Yue said, waving her fan.
"The prince is not here, he went to the madam's place." Qiuxiang said with a smile without any intention of getting out of the way.
Ah, that's great.
Qi Yue said in her heart, her face more relaxed and casual.
"Oh, it's okay. I'm just taking a look." She smiled and then took a step forward.
Qiuxiang stood in front of her.
"Young Madam, this is not a place where anyone can just come and take a look." She said with a half-smile.
Virtue, as expected, a master or a slave, look at those condescending eyes, ah bah.
"Whose yard is this?" Qi Yue looked at her, stopped shaking her fan, and asked suddenly.
"It belongs to the prince." Qiuxiang replied, with a hint of arrogant smile on her lips.
"Who am I?" Qi Yue asked.
"You are the young lady." Qiuxiang replied.
"So, am I a casual person?" Qi Yue stopped smiling and asked her word by word.
Qiuxiang was startled. From a rule perspective, of course not, but from a habit perspective, it has always been...
"I want to see why I can't enter my yard!" Qi Yue said slowly, emphasizing the word "I".*** (To be continued)