Xia Shang felt much better when he woke up in the morning.
It seemed that he got up a little late, Qin Huairou and Xiaoyue helped Xia Shang tie his hair and dress together.
After working for a while, I ate some rice porridge and sat down in the living room of the east wing.
It turned out that the girl from the Liu family had been brought to their home for a while. After Xia Shang was ready, her servants would inform her.
After a while, a young woman in red makeup came to the door with the help of two maids.
The clothes are simple and low-key, and the red color does not have too many decorations. Although she is wearing heavy makeup, there are not too many gold and silver hairpins on her hair accessories.
Because it is a concubine's room, there can be no etiquette and music. You don't enter the house through the main entrance, but directly from the backyard to the east chamber. The only thing you have to do is to serve tea and greetings to the master and his wife. You will inevitably do such things in the future.
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Liu Ruyan lowered her head, seeming a little nervous and a little reserved, and her little hand holding the tea cup was shaking a little.
He arrived in front of Xia Shang first, half-kneeling on the ground, and respectfully said: "Master, Wan'an."
"Master?!" Xia Shang choked, his eyebrows twisted with worry, "Call Master!"
"If there is no elder in the family and a concubine is established, she should be called Master." Liu Ruyan said calmly.
"Oh, if I ask you to call me Young Master, just call me Young Master! The old master is so unpleasant."
Xia Shang felt that this woman was a little rigid and a little irritable, and her tone was a bit harsh.
When Liu Ruyan arrived for the first time, she felt uneasy. When Xia Shang drank it, she was so frightened that she almost knocked over the tea and said repeatedly: "Yes, yes, master, from now on I will call you master. Master, please have some tea."
Liu Ruyan was extremely scared. What should she do if her husband didn't accept the tea?
Fortunately, Xia Shang took the tea cup and took a sip.
Speaking of which, concubines in ancient times were quite pitiful. Although they were also masters, they were also servants and were always inferior to the main wife.
If a woman he really likes marries her home and suffers such unfair treatment, Xia Shang will definitely love her even more. It's a pity that this woman has no feelings at all, he doesn't know her, doesn't know her, doesn't like her... She has been subjected to a lot of negativity.
The emotions were so mixed that Xia Shang didn't feel much about this woman. He just dealt with it mechanically, without even looking at her.
Qin Huairou liked it very much. She took the teacup from Liu Ruyan's hand, took a sip, and responded with a smile: "Ruyan, from now on we are sisters and a family."
"Yes." Liu Ruyan responded shyly, looked at Qin Huairou gratefully, and then glanced at Xia Shang worriedly.
But he found that the man he had helped before didn't look at him at all, and he couldn't help but frown his beautiful eyebrows like smoke.
After a simple tea ceremony, Liu Ruyan followed the married maid back to the new pavilion, waiting silently for nightfall with a hint of worry and expectation.
Seeing that the new sister was gone, Qin Huairou restrained her solemnity, exchanged a few words with Xia Shang, went back to her room, changed into plain clothes, and prepared to go to the Guanyin Temple to fulfill her vow.
The lady had made up her mind, and Xia Shang knew that persuasion was of no use, so he sent her all the way and invited her to the car out of the city.
The separation lasted for a hundred days, more than three months, and Xia Shang felt uncomfortable all over. Thinking about how he could sleep peacefully without a warm person to hold him in his arms at night? Moreover, he had been in Xia's house for a long time and had already become accustomed to Qin Huairou's presence.
Do you know what it will be like at home after she is gone?
Xia Shang was reluctant to leave in the end. Seeing that the car was about to leave, the pretty person opened the curtain and said goodbye to him. He knew there would be no results but still couldn't help but said: "Madam, why don't you go? A hundred days,
There is no end in sight, and there is no one to take care of everything at home, how can we get better?"
Qin Huairou knew it well and understood that her husband was reluctant to leave her, so she chose to say it more decently, funny and touching, and smiled back with stern eyes: "Don't miss me, sir, I have left the housework to Xiaoyue and Yazhi. The new arrival is like this."
Sister Yan is a smart and capable person, and she can also help with the matter. But...if Mr. Xiang thought about it, he would come to the Guanyin Temple to see it, and I would feel at ease."
There were a few more reluctant words, but the cars drove further and further away, until they could no longer see any figures, and then they went their separate ways.
Xia Shang returned to the main hall of the mansion, sat on the main seat and looked at the door of the mansion from the door, and then saw the long street in the distance.
Nowadays, the courtyard is bigger and the house is more dignified, but it still feels a little less popular and deserted.
It happened to be in sharp contrast to the endless stream of pedestrians outside the door.
As soon as his wife left, Xia Shang felt a little empty in his heart and didn't know how he would survive the days to come.
After sitting for a while, Xia Shang got up and went back to the bedroom.
There was still Qin Huairou's residual warmth in the room. I wonder if it was because she hadn't felt it for a long time. At this moment, Xia Shang felt particularly warm and cozy.
On Qin Huairou's dressing table, the rouge and gouache were all placed properly and meticulously, and the bronze mirror was polished to be as translucent as a mirror. This was definitely not something Xiaoyue's maid could do, it must have been done by Qin Huairou herself.
When Xia Shang arrived at the dressing table, he didn't know what to do. He just looked at it twice. Unexpectedly, with this casual glance, Xia Shang discovered a small note.
The small note was very inconspicuous. It was placed in the corner of the dressing table, pressed down with an unused moisture box, and a corner was exposed.
It seems to be something Qin Huairou forgot.
When I opened it, I found a sentence written on the note.
The poem says: "Reining the horse and holding the whip to come straight, half worried and half disaster. Just like a house burned by fire, and when the sky falls, the rain turns it into ashes."
Seeing this poem, Xia Shang frowned and vaguely felt that it was not a good thing. He quickly found Xiaoyue and asked her if she knew where this judgment came from.
Xiaoyue didn't understand the meaning of the poem, but she knew that the lady asked for it from the Guanyin Temple.
Xia Shang asked again: "How many times have you and your wife gone to Guanyin Temple?"
Xiaoyue was a little confused, thinking she had made some mistake, and replied hesitantly: "Once... once."
"Did Madam do anything strange after that?"
Xiaoyue thought for a while and shook her head.
Xia Shang breathed a sigh of relief and was about to ask Xiaoyue to leave. Unexpectedly, Xiaoyue's eyes lit up as if she remembered something, and she hurriedly said: "After that, Madam went out several times by herself, and each time she rented a car.
I don’t want Xiaoyue to follow me for one day. I don’t know if this counts..."
Xia Shang frowned again: "Step back first and let me think about it for a while."
Xiaoyue walked away in a daze, not knowing what happened.
Xia Shang stayed in the room and was lost in thought. Looking at the sentence on the note, there was nothing wrong with it. It was just one of the solutions to the lottery in the Guanyin Temple. Qin Huairou was not the only one who got this sentence.
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But Xia Shang felt uncomfortable.
After thinking about it, Xia Shang decided to take a peek at the secret to see if his wife's hundred-day fast had anything to do with this sentence.
Xia and Shang spent half a day calculating and calculating, and finally got the guidance of the hexagram.
The only saying is, "Blessings, misfortunes, illnesses, and misfortunes are not the will of God, but a good wife will be troubled if she has good fortune." (To be continued)