Soft-waisted little maid

Chapter 7 What does the Third Young Master want?
The night was eerily quiet.

Liu Zhu walked in front holding a lantern in his hand. The lamp was dim and swaying gently back and forth in the slight night wind.

There was only the sound of two people's shoes on the road, one after the other.

After bypassing the courtyard where the servants of the Dong Mansion lived, there was a fork in the road. Two long corridors led to the left and right of the eyes, one leading to the third young master's study and the other to his living room.

Sun Zan stopped here.

After Liu Zhu realized this, he also stopped. Seeing that he turned back to look in the direction he came from, he asked aloud: "Third Young Master, are you worried?"

Sun Zan shook his head.

"I don't understand. Since you came together, if you had come forward just now, my grandson would have been so scared that he would not even dare to step across the threshold of our second room in the future. Then why did you..."

Sun Zan did not listen to what he said, but reached out to reach for the lantern in his hand: "If this is the case, if that drunk surnamed He spills the beans, do you think your second mistress will call this snow?" The guest’s girl was eaten alive and then skinned?”

Only then did Liu Zhu realize that he had made a mistake and quickly covered his mouth.

"I went back to the house to read. You told her as I just taught you. After all, she is also a member of our courtyard now. There are some things that are not convenient for me to come forward. Please keep an eye on her." Sun Zan finished his instructions. , turned around and took only two steps, then stopped again.

"Master, do you have anything else to give me?" Liu Zhu asked.

"Light up more lights in the yard at night in the future."

"Yes."
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When Xue Ke arrived at the study, he felt something was wrong.

Suddenly I realized that the entire courtyard was much brighter than usual, as if it was half daylight. I don’t know when all the lanterns in the courtyard were lit.

She thought about it as she got closer, but she still didn't find the third young master. Instead, there was only Liu Zhu sitting on the steps in front of the house, taking a cattail leaf fan to fan herself.

"Here we come." He glanced up, then stretched out his hand and pointed into the house, "Go in."

Xue Ke was puzzled and looked inside, then turned back and asked Liu Zhu: "Where is the third young master? Didn't he ask me to come here?"

Liu Zhu put away the cattail leaf fan and stood up on his knees: "Master went back to the house. Did you see the floor I cleaned inside? Just now when Master was writing, I accidentally spilled the ink and fell it to the ground. After cleaning it, there was still a trace of ink. The smell won't go away, so the young master ordered me to open the windows for ventilation at night, and you can stay here to keep watch."

Seeing that Xue Ke's expression was still confused, he continued to explain: "It might rain at night. Master is afraid that the books will get wet. You can sleep here at night. If you hear the sound of rain, get up and close the window." Then he said Leave the case to Snow Guest, "Just lock the door from the inside. It's up to you to turn on the lights or not. Third Young Master has warned you, you don't have to keep watch all night. If the rain is heavy enough to wake you, just close the window." It’s too late.”

After explaining this, he left, leaving Xue Ke standing there alone with a confused look on his face.

I really don’t know whether to call it a coincidence or she is just lucky.

Xue Ke followed Liu Zhu's instructions and locked the door from the inside.If she were asked to sleep in that room tonight, I'm afraid she would have to go there in fear all night, and even have to leave the door open to wait for the incense to be applied.
She originally planned to turn off the lights, but she was still a little scared, so she turned directly into the ear room where she usually took a nap.I saw a piece of ice that was supposed to be placed at the front door of the study, but someone pushed it into the room. No wonder she didn't feel hot at all after standing there for so long.

After thinking about it, she guessed that Liu Zhu had helped her place it before she left, and she felt warm in her heart.

The nerves that had been tense at first relaxed at this moment. She calmed down, put on her clothes and lay down on the couch.After this sleep, she actually slept until dawn. It was not until the intermittently chirping of birds on the branches outside reached her ears that she slowly opened her eyes from her sleep.

One night passed, the weather was fine, and green leaves fell all over the house.Several volumes of books on the desk were blown open and the pages were turned.

"Miss Xueke? Are you up?"

As soon as she got dressed, there was a knock on the door.She recognized Liu Zhu's voice and immediately went to unlock it.

I saw the other party wearing plain casual clothes, holding a broom, standing in front of the door with arms akimbo. Early in the morning, her tone was not good: "Miss Xueke has slept for a long time, thanks to the young master today." You don’t need to go to school, otherwise all the books you need are still in the study room, and then the academicians in Renzhuang will have to wait for you to get up before starting classes."

Xue Ke smiled awkwardly in response.After this period of time, she finally understood the temperament of Liu Zhu before her.He was a sharp-tongued man who spoke with both guns and sticks, but there was no malice in his words, so she just thought it was a joke and was not upset, saying, "I was wrong. I will have to ask the third young master to punish me later." She looked at it again. Looking behind Liu Zhu, he asked, "Isn't the third young master coming over today?"

"The third young master went to the old lady's place. He said that you should stay here for the night and go back to rest in the morning. I can come here." That's what he said, but Xue Ke could see that he felt aggrieved. He cursed in his heart, knowing that this little girl had slept all night, so she was not on duty.

Xue Ke smiled apologetically, exchanged a few casual words with him, and then returned to the house.

But as soon as he walked outside the courtyard, he happened to meet Tu Xiang coming out.

On weekdays, she would only go off duty when she was sleeping, and when she was on duty, she would still be asleep. Therefore, even though they lived in the same room, the two of them had not spoken much.

Xue Ke was a little surprised to meet her at this time, so he asked, "Don't you have to be on duty today?"

Tu Xiang stopped, his eyes lingering around her, as if he snorted softly from her nose, and left immediately before Xue Ke could speak again.

Xue Ke tilted his head, unable to understand.

Tu Xiang just seemed to be thinking, "Just her?". What does this mean?
As the only man in the Sun Mansion who has not married and had children, Sun Zhilu still lives with his concubine Lin in the West Mansion.

He was notorious for not being upright since he was a child. Mr. Sun was also quite troubled at first. Seeing that his first three sons had become successful one by one, only this youngest son, who was in his late twenties, did not even have a main wife, and was even more neglected. After talking about having children, the two of them blew their beards and stared at each other and broke up unhappy several times, but as time passed, Mr. Sun finally looked away.

At present, the other three sons are not around, but this one is not engaged in a serious career. At least he is still a filial son, so he gradually stopped mentioning the matter of starting a family and a career for him, and simply let him go.

Today, he had just returned from drinking at the home of the newly-appointed Meng Dianshi in the county early in the morning. He was about to catch up on his sleep when he saw the third brother from his second brother's house. For some unknown reason, he was standing at the door of his courtyard, respectfully saying. Wait for him.

"Fourth uncle." Sun Zan saluted and asked politely after standing up, "My nephew has something that I need to trouble you to come forward."

(End of this chapter)