Houmen maidservant, she doesn't want to be in power

Chapter 12
Seeing Second Master Qi and Shi Mo stepping out of the corner door one after the other, Shi Jin poked his head out and picked out the lotus leaves in the dustpan and turned them in the sun.

She cut the lotus leaf into small square pieces, and sliced ​​the hawthorn for later use.When she was free to leave the house, she went to the pharmacy to add cassia seeds and tangerine peel, and added some rock sugar, so that these ingredients could be divided into small portions for easy cooking.

Seeing that Shi Jin was done with work, Si Qi asked her to teach her how to order tea.

Shi Jin had a bit of bitterness on his face, "Sister, please forgive me. If I'm on duty again tonight, I'm afraid I won't be able to hold on."

Siqi laughed at her, "What's the matter? Could it be that the second master punished you?"

——Worse than punishment!The second master wanted my life yesterday!

Shi Jin pursed his lips, but didn't say anything.

Siqi saw that she was really not in good spirits, so he lost interest in teaching for the time being.

The two found a quiet place, one sewed clothes and the other tied the net.

Zhihua was in charge of taking the little girls to move the flowers out of the house, to see the sun, loosen the soil, and water them.

On the carriage outside the residence, Shi Mo hesitated again and again, and glanced at the expressionless Second Master.

The second master's face was heavy, he only held the lacquered gold and ebony folding fan and tapped his palm, and even the rabbit fan pendant also shook up and down.

The carriage drove out of Mao'er Nine Alley and finally stopped at the entrance of Xiangju Building.

This Xiangjulou is the largest restaurant in Haojing. It is said that it was created by a wealthy merchant from the south of the Yangtze River. The cuisines of the north and the south are all unique.All the princes of the aristocratic families and the children of the royal family like to come here to meet friends with tea and appreciate the fragrance of tea.

Second Master Qi is obviously a frequent visitor here.When he got off the carriage, the courteous young man from Xiangju Building came up and led the second master to the private room on the second floor.

There are twelve private rooms on the second floor, especially the four rooms of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum.Second Master Qi didn't choose these four private rooms, but stopped in the Songhe Room opposite Mei Jian.

The servant helped Second Lord Qi open the door of the private room, and waited to bring a plate of tea with fruit, and then bowed and retreated under Shi Mo's gesture.

From the direction of Qi Erye, you can see the situation in the opposite private room, and you can also see the actors playing and singing on the high platform on the first floor.

At this time, sitting on the high platform and playing the pipa is Fangdie, the most famous actress in Xiangjulou.Her singing is crisp and melodious, full of twists and turns and touching.

Different from other actors who often write sad autumn and spring, Fang Die's singing is often exciting, but heart-warming.This girl loves to laugh, and when she smiles, her two crescent-like eyes are full of joy, which makes people feel like a spring breeze and refreshing.

Sure enough, after the song "Partridge Flying", the spectators in the lobby on the first floor picked up broken silver coins or copper plates and threw them to the high platform. For a while, there was a layer of broken coins and copper plates under Fangdie's feet.

Fangdie couldn't help bowing down, her voice was as mellow as a yellow warbler out of the valley, "Fangdie is here to thank you all adults~"

Second Master Qi couldn't help but cast a glance in Mei Jian's direction.Sure enough, the handsome man sitting in a rosewood wheelchair and covered with a thin silk blanket said something to the people around him, and the thin man in black clothes ordered him to stand by the handrail on the second floor.

"My father likes Miss Fangdie's new works, and I will give you a thousand taels of silver as a reward." After finishing speaking, the man took out a thousand taels of silver and threw it down from the second floor.

Fang Die's face showed surprise, after confirming that the elegant guest in the plum character room was not joking, she couldn't help bowing down again, "Thank you for the reward, Fang Die will try her best to make a new song, please taste it..."

Before she finished speaking, she saw another stack of bank notes thrown down from the second floor, and it turned out to be the Songhejian opposite the Meizijian.

Shi Mo leaned on the railing, and said down, "My master rewards you with 5000 taels of silver, please come up and tell Miss Fangdie."

At this time, the huge lobby on the first floor was boiling.

I thought that the nobleman before was extravagant, but I didn't expect the guest from Songhe Jian to be extravagant.

Everyone couldn't help but looked up, but Shi Mo closed the door of Songhejian after saying this, only reacted quickly, and vaguely saw that the rich guest was wearing a white and noble robe, with a long body, he was actually a handsome man appearance.

On the opposite side, between the plum characters, the thin man in black bent down, and was about to ask his master how to deal with it, but he saw his master gently clasp the knuckles of his left index finger on the rosewood armrest, but the corners of his lips twitched slightly. With a playful smile, "Interesting."

He beckoned to the people around him, "Go and invite the big guy on the opposite side."

The subordinate took the order and left, but after a while, he only brought Fangdie.

He glanced at his subordinates, who bent over to answer, "The opposite is the second master of the Jing'an Houfu. This subordinate just went to invite that master over. He just wanted to have a good relationship with you, so I ordered my subordinates to come over." Bring Miss Fangdie here."

Jing'an Hou Mansion...Second Master Qi?

The nobleman waved his hand, signaling his subordinates to go out, then turned his head to look at Fang Die, "Then Second Master Qi, do you know him?"

Fang Die looked solemn and nodded slowly, "The poems written by my family are all written by the second master Qi..."

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"Master, are you going back to Tiqisi?" Shi Mo asked in a low voice.

Qi Mojing raised his eyelids and glanced at Shi Mo lightly, then got up and left.

Adjacent to Songhe Room are Wanbao Room, Yingxue Room, and Bitao Room. After these three rooms, there is Bazhen Room. Qi Mojing will walk to the door of Yingxue Room, and the door of Bazhen Room is open , the second son Qi Tianyi and the second son Kang Wenxiu walked out from the inside.

Qi Tianyi put his hands on Kang Wenxiu's shoulders, and Kang Wenxiu was too reserved, the two walked side by side and went downstairs in unison, but fortunately they didn't see Qi Mojing.

Passing through Bitao's room again, there was only a crisp sound of "pop", and a woman cried from inside, "Mother, my daughter doesn't like this sour idiot, why are you forcing me?"

Shi Mo sucked his teeth and felt a headache.How lucky is this to hear the verbal lawsuit between the eldest lady and the third lady.

He was about to ask the second master if he needed to remind the eldest lady, when he saw his second master passing by the door of Bi Tao's room without looking sideways, pretending he didn't hear him!

Shi Mo quickly followed, the sky is big and the earth is big, the second master is the biggest!
The sun was shining in the afternoon, and the whole Qingfengyuan suddenly became quiet.

After dinner, all the servants hid in the shade, and Shi Jin was no exception.

Although the second master's main room was cool, it made her a little anxious, so Tete found a covered bridge near Qingfengyuan to take shelter.

The covered bridge is not very deep in the water, and there are stone piers standing under the bridge, which can just be relied on.

Shi Jin found an unobstructed pier and sat down, continuing to sew clothes by the water.Occasionally someone passed by on the covered bridge, and their whispered words could be heard.

My younger brother is already eight years old, and when she is growing in stature, she does needlework for a while when she has free time, and now she has a piece of clothing.

Just as she put away her needlework, she hesitated again.Cui Xiucai helped take care of my younger brother, it was very hard, last time I saw a small hole in his coat, it was obvious that he lived frugally on weekdays.

After all, this Cui Xiucai could be regarded as her distant cousin, named Xuzhang.When he was in the pharmacy before, his mother hadn't passed away, but there were full of jars of medicines, so whenever Cui Xiucai came to buy medicines, Shi Jin only charged the cost, and he often gave medicines as gifts.

Because of this relationship, after Shi Jin's father passed away, Cui Xiucai helped her siblings quite a bit, but it was only limited in her power, and that's for later.

Thinking of this, Shi Jin thought about making clothes for Cui Xiucai as well.Right now she doesn't have enough fabrics, so she has to go back to the ear room to see if there are any leftovers.

Thinking so, she got up, patted the floating dirt behind her, took the sewn clothes, turned around and climbed up the protruding rafters under the covered bridge.

Just halfway through the climb, I heard the cry of a little girl on the opposite side.

(End of this chapter)