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Chapter 868 I am an outsider (seeking a monthly ticket)
It's just that if you want to talk about it today, there is definitely no way to talk about it. You can only wait until tomorrow.

Because of his son's marriage, Li Xu also specially gave him a day off, promising that he would not have to go to court tomorrow.

In the evening, he drank a lot of wine with the adults in court, and finally watched his son enter the bridal chamber happily.

Chen Nian couldn't help feeling a little sad.

From today onwards, if I come back in the future, I can only live in the Tan Mansion. As for my sister at the dim sum shop, it is meaningless to go back and live by myself.

On the other hand, Hai Mansion is the home of my sister's in-laws. My sister married into the Hai family, so she is from the Hai family. Speaking of which, I have become an outsider.

In Hai Mansion, Hai Mingxian arranged a separate room for him, and also assigned a maid for Chen Nian to send at any time.

But Chen Nian didn't have anything to do for the other party's help, so he asked the other party to go back early to rest early at night.

The next day, as the cock crowed, Chen Nian also opened his eyes. Looking at the strange roof, Chen Nian suddenly felt dazed.

"Did I enter a new dream again?"

"No, am I not in a dream? How can I enter a new one?"

"Is it a dream within a dream?"

"Inception?"

Feeling that there was something wrong with his mind, Chen Nian hurriedly opened the recipe in his mind, carefully looked at the name of the theme of the dream space marked on it, then calmed down and closed the recipe.

"What should my sister do today?"

"Get up in the morning, and then go to greet your in-laws."

"I'll probably go to the Da Furen's side to take a look after that, but the Da Furen of the Hai Family looks quite talkative, she doesn't look like that kind of savage person."

"After that...you should be fine after that, right?"

Thinking of this, Chen Nian got up and prepared to go out to get some water to wash up. The little maid arranged by Hai Mingxian was already waiting at the door.

"Mr. Chen, you're up. I'll pour hot water right now. You can wash up first."

"Xiao Ju doesn't need it." Hearing this, Chen Nian quickly raised his hand, and was about to stop him.

But the maid named Xiaoju didn't seem to hear it, and ran out of the yard, and came in with a copper basin after a while.

As she walked in, Xiaoju was still thinking about what Young Master Hai said to her before: "My little brother-in-law is polite to everyone, so when you are serving him, sometimes he doesn't ask you to do something, so you just treat it like nothing." Just listen and do what you have to do.”

"It's really like what Young Master Hai said. This Mr. Chen is really kind. My sister has married into the Shangshu Mansion, and she is so polite with me as a maid. If it were me, hehe... I have to let the maid stay here Keep watch at the door and call me up early to go to work."

But just after she finished thinking about it, she seemed to realize something was wrong: "No, why did I ask the maid to guard the door and tell me to go to work? If I were Mr. Chen, I wouldn't need to go to work at all."

Thinking of this, she felt a little distressed, as expected, the earth pigs couldn't eat the chaff.

"Master Chen, come and wash up."

After bringing the basin back to the house, she put it on the shelf, then she directly took the towel and rubbed it in hot water, wrung out the water in it, and handed the warm towel to Chen Nian.

Chen Nian took the towel while sighing, "Xiaoju, actually you don't need to do this, I just do it myself."

Xiaoju couldn't help but wanted to laugh, but she still said respectfully: "Mr. Chen, you are the brother-in-law of the third young master, and that is the brother-in-law of us servants. It is right to serve you when you wash up."

"Oh, how embarrassing that is."

"What are you sorry for, little uncle, even if you are not related to the Hai family, you are still the imperial cook in the palace, and you have an official position, and you have a very good relationship with the third young master and Master Fu Xin of Honglu Temple. Alright, we have to call out to you when we see you, if you stay in Haifu, Xiaoju will serve you like this."

"Okay, thank you very much."

Chen Nian can't change the world, I can only say one more thank you.

When Xiaoju heard this, she felt warm in her heart. It was the first time for her to see someone like Chen Nian after she had grown up to be a maid for four or five years.

"I would actually say thank you to a maid."

Xiaoju felt that Mr. Chen seemed a little funny.

But when she continued to help Chen Nian rub the towel, the thank you that Chen Nian just said to her was always in her mind.

Thinking about it, I don't know why my nose is sore.

"Master Chen, do you want to wipe your face again?"

"Okay, then I'll wipe it again."

Chen Nian took the towel and wiped his face again, he felt a little strange, why did this little girl look like she was crying?
The tip of the nose is a little red, the eye sockets are also a little red, and there is a hint of crying in her voice.

And Xiaoju also noticed this, and quickly turned her head away.

"What's the matter, Xiaoju? Are you not used to it? Or forget it. I'll tell my brother-in-law later that you won't serve me anymore."

But after Xiaoju heard this, she turned around quickly: "No, Mr. Chen, I'm not unaccustomed to it, it's just... no one has ever thanked me even though I've grown up to be a maid for others."

Hearing this, Chen Nian suddenly laughed.

"What's the matter, you rubbed the towel for me, so of course I have to thank you."

"But you are my uncle, and I am just a maid."

"What's wrong with the maid, the maid is also a human being."

Hearing this, Xiaoju was stunned.

Are maids human too?

A servant...can be considered a person?
Thinking about these things, Xiaoju mechanically washed the towels and then picked up the basin, ready to throw it away and wash the basin again.

Just at this moment, Xiaoju slowly raised her head to look at Chen Nian with tears in her eyes: "Mr. Chen, you can say that these Xiaojus are very happy, but Xiaoju is a maid, a servant, and a maid cannot be regarded as a human being."

After she finished speaking, she buried her head and walked out quickly.

Chen Nian looked at Xiaoju's back and sighed.

"Well, if such a girl is likely to be a lively girl who can have many children in reality, but in this world, she can only be a maid."

This is not because the heart of the old lady is flooded, but that an educated person will have such thoughts in his heart when facing such a situation.

"These things are beyond my control. This time it's Xiaoju, and next time there will be Xiaomei, Xiaolan, and Xiaofang."

Thinking of this, Chen Nian sighed and walked towards the kitchen.

But when he came to the kitchen, Zhao Liang stopped him.

"Xiao Nian, that's what I call you, but yesterday you were the one who took care of the third young lady, but today you are the younger brother of the third young lady, so you don't need to come here to do it yourself, just tell the servants what you want to eat." One sound, when we are done, someone will bring it to your room."

Chen Nian was stunned for a moment: "But it's probably okay if I do it?"

Zhao Liang shook his head: "That's not going to happen, if the master finds out, he'll talk about us."

Chen Nian still felt that he belonged to the kitchen from the bottom of his heart, but he never thought that now that his sister married to Haifu, he would also be transformed into a relative of the official family and a master. "

"Or I'd better do something for you."

At this time, Zhao Liang showed a look of embarrassment: "Mr. Chen, you should go back and rest."

"But when I was in the Tan Mansion, I often cooked too?"

Zhao Liang sighed: "Mr. Chen, this is different, your teacher is in the Tan Mansion, and you can cook in the kitchen when you get there, but in the Shangshu Mansion you are both a member of the Hai Mansion and a distinguished guest of the Hai Mansion... "

Chen Nian can't help it, everyone has said so, he can't just go into the kitchen and cook forcibly.

The only reason in this world is to grab food, how can there be people who rush to cook?

"Okay, then I will work hard for a few masters."

Afterwards, Chen Nian had no choice but to go towards his own room, and met many servants of Haifu along the way, and they all saluted Chen Nian respectfully.

It's just that when Chen Nian returned to his yard, he heard someone crying softly in the corner as soon as he entered the yard.

Looking around, it was Xiaoju who was squatting under the grape trellis, wiping away tears.

"What's the matter, Xiaoju?"

"Master Chen, you are back, didn't you go out?"

Xiao Ju quickly wiped away her tears, stood up, came to Chen Nian and asked.

"I originally wanted to help out in the kitchen, but Master Zhao refused to let me do it, so I had to come back."

"It's like this. If you are still working in the kitchen today, the master will definitely punish Master Zhao and the others after hearing this, so it is better for you to rest. Mr. Chen, what do you want to eat? I will go to the kitchen for a party One sound."

"It's okay, you can eat whatever you want."

Xiaoju nodded, and was about to run to the kitchen and wait there, bringing Chen Nian's breakfast.

But as soon as she took two steps, Chen Nian stopped her: "Just go like this, you cried just now, if you run out like this, people who don't know will think I have done something bad."

"I'm sorry Mr. Chen, I didn't think of it, so what should I do now?"

Xiaoju rubbed her eyes, and the result became redder and redder: "Xiaoju is too useless, and has caused trouble to Mr. Chen."

Chen Nian smiled: "What's the trouble? You just stay here for a while, I just happen to be bored by myself."

Xiao Ju nodded, watching Chen Nian sit down on the steps, thinking in his heart that Mr. Chen had no airs of being an official at all, he would sit directly on the steps without being a royal chef, and he would not be too dirty.

"Xiaoju, how old are you this year?"

"Master Hui, Xiaoju is 16 years old this year."

"Then how long have you been in Shangshu Mansion?"

"For more than four years, Xiaoju remembers it very clearly. When she was 12 years old, Xiaoju entered the mansion."

"That's still early."

Chen Nian thinks that when he was 12 years old, he had just entered junior high school.

However, Chen Nian himself runs a restaurant, so he is also very talkative. Xiaoju, who chatted in a few words, forgot the sad things before.

In turn, he also started to ask Chen Nian about being an imperial cook in the palace.

"In the palace, there are actually a lot of rules, much more than in Haifu, and they are usually very busy, and they have to go to work as soon as they wake up every day."

"Mr. Chen, there are so many royal chefs in the palace, are everyone so busy every day?"

"That's not very beneficial. I usually have nothing to do. I only start to get busy when there are bigger banquets in the palace."

"Then Mr. Chen must cook delicious food, right?"

"It's okay, but it's not as good as my master's. Part of the reason why I'm busy is to help the master cook, and on the other hand, it's also because His Majesty likes to eat the dim sum I make, so I have to eat it every morning. Go get ready."

"Mr. Chen, what kind of dim sum are you best at making?"

"That's too much." Chen Nian slowly told the dim sum that he was good at making, and Xiaoju also sat beside Chen Nian, holding his chin, listening carefully, smacking his lips while listening , as if I really ate those snacks.

But after chatting for a while, someone from the kitchen brought breakfast.

Then Chen Nian gave Xiao Ju part of his breakfast, and ate it by himself.

Xiaoju was a little embarrassed to eat at first, but Chen Nian said that no one else here knew about it anyway, and Chen Nian didn't like to eat alone, so Xiaoju took some and ate some.

After eating, Xiao Ju sent the breakfast tableware back to the kitchen, and returned to Chen Nian to stay there.

Anyway, her current job is to serve Chen Nian, and she doesn't need to do other things.

Just like that, they chatted here for a while, when footsteps and voices suddenly sounded outside.

Chen Nian heard that his sister and brother-in-law had come.

So he got up and went out to meet him.

"Sister, brother-in-law." Chen Nian saluted while speaking.

"We're all a family, so don't be so polite, Chen Nian, how is your stay here? Are you still used to it?" Hai Mingxian said with a smile.

"I'm used to it." Chen Nian nodded.

"Well, that's good. Since you're still used to living here, you can come back here when your menstruation is released in the harem. I happen to be on duty at Honglu Temple during the day, so you can still be with me when you come back." Talk to your sister, we can have a drink or two when I come back in the evening, and then I will call that kid Fu Xin over."

"Okay, brother-in-law."

Chen Nian did not refuse, because being able to come here is indeed more lively than going back to the shop.

And even though he lives in the Tan Mansion, the people there welcome him very much, but after all, he has his relatives here.

"By the way, sister and brother-in-law, you got married yesterday. I was busy in the kitchen and didn't have time to give you gifts. This time I specially prepared two gifts for you."

After talking about Chen Nian, he returned to his room.

First, he clamped the exquisite wooden box containing the lipstick under his arm, and then he carried out the gift for his brother-in-law.

"Sister, this is a gift from me."

With that said, Chen Nian gave the box to Lu Ke.

Lu Ke took it and opened it, and found a small square tube inside, with a very delicate shape.

"what is this?"

"This is a lipstick." As Chen Nian said, he took out the lipstick and opened the cap, "Sister, you can use this to apply on your mouth when you put on makeup in the future, and then cover the cap after use. I did it myself."

There is no woman who is not interested in this kind of cosmetics, not to mention the delicate design of this lipstick.

Even a twist underneath can make the lipstick rise again.

"Thank you, I like this gift very much."

But after she finished speaking, Hai Mingxian couldn't wait any longer.

His wife's gift was a small square box, and he could only see the mystery inside when he opened it, but he was a little puzzled by the gift his brother-in-law wanted to give him.

Such a big thing is placed here, and there are two wheels at the front and back that look like a car, but how can there be such a long car?

Aren't the wheels usually side by side?How can there be placed before and after? "

"What is my present?"

Chen Nian smiled, raised his hand and patted the seat: "Brother-in-law, this thing is called a bicycle."

(End of this chapter)