After the clearing, I became the soft bag of the fourth master

Chapter 20 The Lotus Pond

After April, the weather gets warmer. This time is the most pleasant time. Sometimes, when it is raining outside, Wu Ling hides in the house to sleep, not to mention how comfortable it is.

Spring after the rain.

It is the warmth wrapped in the damp, and the freshness mixed with the mud.

The wall of the back garden was covered with vine branches almost only after one rainy night, and a few purple flower buds could be faintly seen among the green vines, growing towards the sun.

There are also some vines, climbing along the marble railings of the lotus pond, and the branches cross the railings, and then go down vertically, touching the cold water of the lotus pond, but then hold back. But it has already withered and yellowed.

This lotus pond looks peaceful and peaceful, and the lotus flowers in the pond seem to be growing vigorously, but in fact, a hundred or so fish have died here and there. Minions release new fish, and the cycle repeats.

It's not an option to go on like this, so at the family banquet afterwards, Di Fujin mentioned this matter.

This family banquet is all fresh dishes, and the ingredients are all grown in their own back garden.

Clear water cabbage, lettuce lettuce with minced garlic.

These are quite in line with Wu Ling's appetite. She has endured too many "greasy" kisses from the fourth master recently, so she needs to eat something light to relieve the greasy.

This time, the fourth master was not here, so the women in the mansion ate together, and the dishes were light, so everyone was not interested.

Except for Wu Ling, who was alone with his head depressed, eating deliciously.

Then, the eunuchs serving meals brought another small dish, Wu Ling thought it was fried pork with crispy lotus root, took a bite and found out that the lotus root was noodles, she didn't like the taste so much, so she simply put it down and didn't eat it.

After tasting the lotus root, Fujin also frowned: "Is this lotus root?"

Li Fangfujin replied: "This is the lotus root that was picked in the lotus pond last year. I didn't finish eating it during the Chinese New Year, so I simply kept it until now. The lotus root powder is glutinous and soft. It doesn't taste good."

After hearing this, Di Fujin frowned even more, and the other concubines she was sitting on the table heard that they were lotus root picked in the lotus pond, some of them were shocked, some Tears flowed, and some even retched.

Wu Ling, who was cooking rice, was still wondering, what's going on?
In other words, in that lotus pond, more than a hundred fish died within four months. Even if you don't know the details, anyone with a discerning eye can tell that the water in this lotus pond is definitely not clean. It wouldn't be any better, otherwise, the lotus pond would be that big, and there must not be many lotus roots picked last year. In this way, the hundred or so people in the entire Baylor Mansion couldn't finish eating, what can explain it?
It means that the people here dare not eat the lotus root from the lotus pond at all.

Fujin reprimanded slightly: "Since it's last year's lotus root, don't eat it this year. It's not like the mansion can't afford the money to buy vegetables."

"Yes, what Fujin said is very true." Li Fangfujin smiled, but her eyes were full of dissatisfaction, she pouted and said: "But in this season, when you go out to buy, it is also the stock left over from last year's picking , are all the same, since Fujin doesn’t like the lotus root in his own lotus pond, then I will follow Fujin’s advice and go outside to buy it.”

After speaking, Li Fangfujin picked up a piece of lotus root and ate it by himself, as if eating some delicacy in the world, and then smiled and said to the people around him: "What are you all doing in a daze, eat it all, Fujin Don't like it, don't you like it too?"

Who would dare not listen to Li Fangfujin's words? He wanted to eat even if he was afraid, and he wanted to eat even when he was crying.

Then, Li Fangfujin turned his head to look at Wu Ling: "Sister Wu, why don't you eat?"

"what……?"

"Don't force them." After all, Fujin couldn't stand it anymore, she was slightly angry: "Everyone has their own love, they don't like to eat lotus root, why do you force them to eat it?"

With these words from Fujin, Wu Ling secretly put back the piece of lotus root that Wu Ling had just picked up.

Li Fangfujin disdained: "I didn't force them, I just greeted them curiously."

"Let's eat."

Di Fujin endured for a long time, but in the end he only said these three words.She may also know some of the things that no one has discovered. She also knows that by doing this, Li Fangfujin is actually putting pressure on the women in the entire Baylor Mansion, including her, of course, the Baylor Mansion. It seems that Di Fujin and Li Fangfujin don't take her seriously anymore. In the past, Difujin always pampered her. After she got sick, she handed over the power of housekeeping to Li Fangfujin. Over the years, She is more and more freewheeling and defiant, which is not a good sign.

After thinking about it, Fujin still opened his mouth softly: "Wu Ling, you always go to the back garden recently, how about the lotus pond?"

"Ah...?" Wu Ling was taken aback by the question, these days, Di Fujin had been alienating her, this sudden greeting made Wu Ling a little overwhelmed.

Di Fujin is getting old, her looks are fading, and she doesn't want to participate in the open and secret fights in this mansion. Now, Wu Ling is very favored by the fourth master. Li Fangfujin is in a bind, Song Gege was not up to date in the past, not only what will happen to Wu Ling now.

Wu Ling paused for a while, and she replied: "The current lotus pond, with lotus leaves in the sky and vine branches clinging to it, is just fish in the pond, some of which have turned white."

Ok.

well.

This is the answer that Fujin wanted.

Di Fujin said: "The fish turned white, what do you think is the reason?"

The corner of Wu Ling's mouth twitched lightly. She didn't want to confront Li Fangfujin, but Di Fujin pulled her out. He wanted to push her into the fire. Wu Ling replied: "Maybe... Those fish don't quite adapt to the new environment..."

"Maybe the water in the pond is not clean." Di Fujin expressed her thoughts, and she then said, "When Fourth Master comes back tomorrow, let Fourth Master send someone to change the water in the lotus pond."

Hearing this, the corners of Li Fangfujin's mouth twitched, she forced a smile, and said: "If Difujin wants to change the water in the lotus pond, just ask my concubine to send someone to do it, why bother Fourth Master. "

"Although the lotus pond in the back garden is not very big, changing the water is still a big project, so it's better to let fourth master know about it."

What Fujin said was obviously in a tone that could not be questioned.

Even if Li Fang Fujin wanted to say something again, Di Fujin had already finished his meal, and Tao Xiang supported her and left gracefully.

Snapped!
Li Fang Fujin put down her chopsticks suddenly, and after Di Fujin left, she stopped eating, and after glaring at Wu Ling, she also left angrily.

(End of this chapter)