Concubine like a house

Chapter 24
The more I think about going out of Xiuxiu, the more I realize that if the Yun family, which has been standing for hundreds of years, is not popular among the people, how can it gather the wealth of the world?This trip, she asked herself, was not in vain.

On this side, Chuxiu was sighing secretly in his heart, but suddenly he heard Yunci mention his name: "I will go to Mu Wang's mansion for about two or three days, and Zhuying, Qianyun, and Danxin will accompany me. Chuxiu It's not convenient, I want to take this opportunity to let her train with you for two days."

As soon as this remark came out, Chuxiu was immediately shocked.It turned out that Yunci brought her here with such a meaning!But why put yourself here with Mrs. Tai?Is it because you are worried that no one will protect you?

Chuxiu tried her best not to think too much, she secretly looked at Mrs. Tai again, and saw that the high-ranking Mistress of the Yunfu was neither surprised nor hesitant, and naturally smiled and agreed: "Alright, wait for you to come back and find me to ask for someone. "

In a word, the destination of Chuxiu is determined.

On the same day, Yun Ci set off for Prince Mu's Mansion, and left with Zhu Ying, Qian Yun, and Dan Xin, and many Yun Mansion guards.That day, Chuxiu lived in Mrs. Tai's Rongjin Hall, and Mother Chi placed her in a separate room, comparing her treatment in Zhiyanxuan.

"Since Master Hou sent it to Mrs. Tai for training, and Mrs. Tai handed you over to me, so let's not be polite. Say what you want." Mother Chi smiled and said to Chuxiu, "Mrs. Tai's rules here It's no different than Lord Hou, she gets up early, you have to get up at the end of every day, and serve Madam Tai for breakfast at the beginning of the day."

Chuxiu nodded to mark it down.

"Mrs. Tai has breakfast every day, and she has to go to the Buddhist hall to recite scriptures for an hour. To show sincerity, the scriptures are copied in person in our mansion. You are also serving pen and ink in front of Lord Hou, so you can copy the scriptures every day. You can share the errand of the scriptures." Mother Chi said again.

Chuxiu took orders again.

Chi's mother nodded in satisfaction: "Mrs. Tai is not short of manpower here, but a few caring people who know the cold and the hot. You should do the errands of serving breakfast and copying scriptures first, and then listen to the rest." Her old man ordered."

Mother Chi thought for a while before adding: "Oh, by the way, every morning, the second concubine and the third concubine would come to accompany Mrs. Tai for breakfast, and the fourth concubine would not come when she came. Gotta make a note of it."

Is the concubine of the two rooms coming to accompany her for breakfast?Then why doesn't Fourth Aunt Dudu come too?Chuxiu was a little surprised in his heart, but he didn't dare to show it on his face, and sent Chi's mother all the way out of the house respectfully.

In the early morning of the next day, Chuxiu got up very early, and went to the dining hall as Chi's mother ordered yesterday.She thought she was early, but she didn't realize that there were already two maids setting the dishes in the living room.Chuxiu hurriedly started to help.

According to Mrs. Tai's rules, there are eight cold and ten hot meals for breakfast every day, appetizers, some rice noodle snacks, and four soups with two sweet and two salty dishes.Compared to Yun Mansion's status and family background, such a scale of breakfast is not considered extravagant, not to mention having concubines and wives to accompany the meal.

Chuxiu and a few maidservants worked for a while, served the appetizers and eight cold dishes, and then stood aside and waited.After a while, there was a faint chatter and laughter, with the calmness and self-cultivation unique to women.However, Mrs. Tai was helped into the dining hall by Mama Chi, followed by two women in their thirties, both dressed as women, one wearing a dark red shirt and the other wearing a painted blue shirt, each with its own charm.

The woman in the dark red shirt is a bit mature, with willow-leaf eyebrows, Danfeng eyes, straight and sharp nose, looks a bit fierce, and her whole body is very eye-catching with jewels.

The woman in the blue shirt is younger and more plain, her complexion is extremely fair, and her facial features are not as good-looking as the woman in the dark red shirt, let alone the wife.But her demeanor is quiet and gentle, making people forget the vulgarity, and she also has a special charm.

These two are the concubines of the old Hou Ye - the second concubine and the third concubine of Yunfu.When he came out of Xiuxiu, he saw that the two of them each brought a servant girl, and they both had a residual smile on their faces, and followed Mrs. Tai into the dining hall.

The two concubines kept their eyes on each other and sat on the left and right of Mrs. Tai respectively.Chuxiu observes where the two are sitting, thinking in his mind who is the second wife and who is the third wife.

The woman in the dark red shirt sat on the left of Mrs. Tai, and she should be the second concubine Taihua who entered the door first; the woman in the blue shirt sat on the right of Mrs. Tai, and she should be the third concubine Taiwen who entered the door later.As Mama Chi said, only the second concubine came to accompany Mrs. Tai for breakfast, and the fourth concubine never came.

It's only a matter of thinking about it for a few times, but Mrs. Tai has already ordered: "Come out of Xiu, order to serve."

As soon as these words came out, Chuxiu immediately noticed that there were two eyes on him, from the Hua family and the Wen family.She didn't dare to look or think too much, so she hurriedly bowed her head and walked quickly to the small kitchen. After a while, she led a few maids to serve the dishes.

Just now those two gazes have been withdrawn, Huashi and Wenshi have normal expressions, and they started to eat with Mrs. Tai.The maids on the side served by the side, serving dishes and soup from time to time, very well-regulated.

The meal went on silently like this, but at the end, Mrs. Tai spoke again and said to Huashi indifferently: "Where is the second child? Teach him to come to my place for breakfast."

Hearing this, Mrs. Hua felt a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "Now the second master lives alone in the garden, and I don't know where he is. I'll send someone to check it out later."

Mrs. Tai gave a "hmm" and said unintentionally: "Nowadays there is a plague in Fangzhou, although it didn't reach Yanlan City, we can't ignore it. Yesterday, Lord Hou went to Mu Wang's Mansion to discuss countermeasures, and the third child also ordered all the rice Donate alms and distribute rice, but the second child is idle, and he is always sent to sharpen it."

In front of "outsiders", Mrs. Tai insisted on calling Yun Ci "Lord Hou", obviously she was her own mother and son, but Chuxiu was a little moved by the sincerity and courtesy of this statement.

At this moment, Mrs. Hua replied to Mrs. Tai in a shy way: "You are right, the second master should indeed share some affairs for Lord Hou."

Hua's glance was quick, but Chuxiu himself caught it.Chuxiu thinks that this glance is like what Mrs. Cai said just now, it is quite meaningful.

Just imagine Mrs. Tai has been in charge of the Yun family for many years, with high morals and high prestige, and her words are worth a thousand gold. How could she prevent the second aunt Tai Hua from coming down at the dinner table in front of a few maids?Mrs. Tai clearly meant something, and reprimanded Second Master Yunqi for certain actions.

Mrs. Tai must have known about Yun Qi molesting her.The old man was expressing her position to Yunci through herself, and she was also warning the second room mother and child from the side.

Thinking of this, Chuxiu felt a little inexplicable in his heart, and he didn't know whether he was flattered or apprehensive.She originally wanted to live in this mansion in a low-key manner, but she was forced to push it in front of everyone, and even felt that she was about to be on the cusp of the crisis.And this feeling reminded her of the days in Zuihualou.

A breakfast was spent in the minds of several wives.Chuxiu had finished packing in the dining hall, and was about to go to the Buddhist hall, when he saw his second concubine, Tai Hua, leading her maids, pacing in front of the dining hall.

Before Chuxiu had time to react, Hua had already seen her with sharp eyes, and said with a smirk: "After breakfast, I will take a walk here. Miss Chuxiu hasn't left yet."

This is not a walk, it is clearly waiting for someone deliberately.Chuxiu had no choice but to go down the steps and salute Hua.

Hua watched her salute and got up, and then smiled again: "Master Hou treated you well, everyone has gone to Mu Wang's mansion, and I still don't forget to send you to Rongjin Hall..." When she said this, she suddenly changed the subject, She sneered, "No matter how much you are favored, you are just a servant girl, and no matter how beautiful you are, you cannot be Mrs. Hou Ye. You still have to weigh yourself."

Chuxiu pursed her lips and said nothing, with a forbearing expression.

"Yo! Forget that you are dumb and can't speak anymore." Hua Shi covered her face with a smile and sighed sharply, "Don't think that you can seduce people everywhere because you are beautiful!"

After saying that, she suppressed her smile, let out a soft snort and walked away in a flick of her sleeves, she stopped after taking two steps, turned her head and said cryptically: "There are similarities in flowers, similarities in people, girl from Chuxiu, don't let extreme joy lead to sorrow. "

Flowers are similar, people are similar...Chuxiu thought about this sentence silently in his heart, and only felt that Hua's meaning.There are also those four words "Extreme joy begets sorrow", as if it is also...

"Miss Chuxiu!" Mama Chi's voice came from not far away, interrupting her doubts at the right time, "It's almost time for Mrs. Tai to recite scriptures, you don't know where the Buddhist hall is, I will lead you there."

Chuxiu came back to his senses and nodded in agreement, silently following Mother Chi.

Mrs. Tai's request was simple but not difficult, and she only gave Chuxiu a volume of scriptures to be copied, requiring that each page must be exactly 81 characters, and no one place should be smeared.

The pen, ink, paper and inkstone were all prepared, Chuxiu polished the ink himself, and began to copy the scriptures stroke by stroke.After more than an hour like this, I copied half of the volume, but there was not a single typo.Although Chi's mother didn't comment on seeing her, Chuxiu could see that she was very satisfied, and she couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Miss has been copying for more than an hour, let's go back and rest. Before lunch, Madam Tai will be chanting scriptures in the Buddhist hall. If she has any orders from the old man, she will send someone to summon you." Mother Chi put down these words , took the scriptures copied out of Xiuxiu, and went to Mrs. Tai's house to answer.

"After breakfast, the second aunt really went to find her bad luck." Mother Chi handed the scriptures to Mrs. Tai and said in a low voice, "As for what she said, I haven't heard it yet."

Mrs. Tai concentrated on looking at the scriptures, and said after a while: "Wuying dare not say anything."

Mother Chi sighed softly in her heart. She knew better than anyone else that the words "Hua Wuying" for the second aunt were the lumps that Mrs. Tai had kept in her heart for 20 years: "It's been so many years, but you still can't let it go."

Hearing this, Mrs. Tai only put the scriptures on her lap, closed her eyes slightly and said: "Back then I wanted to make the decision to assign her to Lord Hou as a housemate, but she said she didn't want to, but she carried me behind her back...she is my wife. Brought from my natal family, how can I not be chilled if I do such a thing?"

"The second aunt was also confused for a while back then. It wasn't that after the second master was born, the old master also treated her coldly. Besides, she never dared to exceed the rules in front of you all these years, and the second master didn't discipline her very much. It's just to make you feel at ease." Chi's mother persuaded in a low voice, "It's not worth being angry about her. You still have to go to the scriptures, so you can't be resentful."

Mrs. Tai nodded, then picked up the scriptures, and sighed while reading silently: "It's this handwriting, which makes me feel uneasy."

"This... Maybe Master Hou took pity on her for being dumb, so he taught her to write." Mother Chi defended Chuxiu, "She doesn't look like a thoughtful person."

"Back then, Wu Ying didn't seem to be thoughtful. It turned out that she didn't like being just a roommate, and wanted to be a serious concubine." Mrs. Tai expressed her worry, "Besides, she is too beautiful, and she is a disaster at first glance."

Mother Chi didn't dare to speak again.

Mrs. Tai looked at the thin gold font on the scriptures again, and seemed to be thinking: "Chuxiu can't be turned into a second flower dancer. Now Ci'er has passed the weak crown. When the plague is resolved, his marriage It can't be delayed!"

(End of this chapter)