Nong Zhaohua

Chapter 8

Hong Qu followed Yan Zhaohua back to Qingque Residence, thinking that Yan Zhaohua would say something to her, but Yan Zhaohua only asked her to take the tableware to the kitchen to clean it, and then return it to the small warehouse. Hiding things, itching, and after finishing everything quickly with his hands and feet, he hurried back to the main courtyard.

Yan Zhaohua was picking books and reading in the small study behind the bead curtain, and Qingzhu was rubbing ink for her. Hong Qu didn't want to go in and disturb her. It's just that it's just about today, if she doesn't ask clearly, she probably won't even be able to sleep at night.

Hongqu opened the bead curtain, Qingzhu looked up at her, but Yan Zhaohua didn't respond, standing in front of the bookshelf, flipping through a book in his hand, Hongqu walked over to Qingzhu's side, holding a book on his shoulder. He bumped into her lightly, Qingzhu turned his head and stared at Hongqu, Hongqu stared back at Qingzhu forcefully, pointed to the outside, meaning to let Qingzhu go out, and then snatched the ink stick from Qingzhu's hand , Grinding it in the inkstone according to the previous movement of green bamboo.

Although Qingzhu was taken by Yan Zhaohua's side, after all, she hadn't made it clear to let her come back. She was still a servant girl borrowed from the utility room, so she couldn't compare to Hong Qu, who was a first-class maid, and she didn't speak in front of her. For the sake of resistance, what's more, the young lady knew that Hongqu was coming in, and she didn't say anything, so Qingzhu had no choice but to go out.

After Qingzhu left the small study, Hongqu began to grind for Yan Zhaohua anxiously. Yan Zhaohua chose the book and turned around, glanced at the inkstone under her hand, and said softly:
"The ink has faded."

Hong Qu was stunned for a moment, and looked down at the ink in the inkstone. Previously, she was only concerned with adding water, but didn't pay attention to the thickness of the ink. In fact, she didn't know what the thickness was. Sit down, open the pages of the book, still as stable as Mount Tai, and don't want to say anything more to Hong Qu.

Biting her lip, Hong Qu pulled out the hairpin that Yan Zhaohua had given her when she rolled her eyes, and put it in the palms of her hands, then went to Yan Zhaohua's side and knelt down, raising her hands above her head, Only then did Yan Zhaohua turn his attention to her and asked:

"what happened?"

Hongqu only felt a little ringing in her ears. She knew that the next words might not be said, but she still couldn't help it. After all, there seemed to be a big stuffed pie in front of her eyes. If she asked clearly, maybe this stuffed pie It really fell on her head. When she was doing things before, she had already thought about it. As long as the eldest lady can implement the matter between her and Lord Hou, she will definitely take care of her wife's affairs regardless of whether she worked for her wife or not. Tell the young lady the whole truth about her true colors, and she will be loyal to the young lady from now on.

After all, the wife only gave her a small amount of money, but what the eldest lady did today was obviously to promote her to be the aunt in the house.

A first-class servant girl is nothing more than a servant girl after all. Even though my aunt is lowly, she is a master after all. Hongqu feels that the best luck in her life is about to come.

"Such an expensive gift, I dare not accept it, so I came here to return it to Miss."

Although he was excited in his heart, he still had to be calm on the surface, Hong Qu said in a low voice.

Yan Zhaohua, on the other hand, said calmly, said 'uh', then continued to read the book, and said while reading, "It's nothing expensive or not, but it's just to make you happy."

Hong Qu's nervous heart blocked his throat, he swallowed and asked:
"No, I don't know if the servant girl is happy, where does the joy come from?"

The corners of Yan Zhaohua's mouth twitched, he put down the book in his hand, reached out to support Hongqu's hand, and made Hongqu stand up to speak, but he didn't say clearly, but said ambiguously:
"It's hard for me to say this. The so-called great joy, you should realize it by yourself. But there is a sentence I want to say before, no matter what happens in the future, if you drink water, don't forget me, the well digger. .”

Although Yan Zhaohua didn't say it clearly, but these obvious words made Hongqu's heart completely convinced that the meaning of the eldest lady is that, asking her to drink water and not forgetting the well digger, doesn't it mean that she is made an aunt and not forgetting the eldest lady How could she not understand this kind of kindness? That is to say, her red canal is about to fly up to the branches, and she can't become a phoenix, at least she can be a canary. This is the dream of many girls in the house. What a great opportunity, I was immediately moved and knelt down to kowtow to Yan Zhaohua:

"Missy is so kind, the servants will not dare to forget."

Only then did Yan Zhaohua turn his head and cast a sidelong glance at her, waved his hand softly, and said lightly:
"Get up, let Qingzhu come in and grind it."

Hongqu was full of joy, at this time her heart was like a flower that exploded, she would not eat the jealousy of the little girl Qingzhu, she nodded immediately, wiped the thin sweat off her face happily, and then opened the pearl. The curtain went out, but what Hongqu didn't know was that Yan Zhaohua's eyes were not on her back, but at an imperceptible black shadow under the carved fishbone window adjacent to the corridor, Yan Zhaohua There was a sneer on the corner of Hua's mouth.

It was night, the main courtyard of Changninghou's mansion was brightly lit, Changninghou was receiving guests in the study, and Mrs. Xie was waiting for him in the room.

"What? This cheap maid really said that?"

Mrs. Xie was wearing a silk dress, and when she heard Mrs. Wang's report about the spies' return, she couldn't control her emotions and said angrily.

"Yes, it's not once or twice that Xiu'er inquired about it. She dared not spread rumors. She heard what the young lady and Hongqu said with her own ears. The young lady also gave Hongqu a very expensive hairpin. Hongqu When he walked out, the smile on his face was like blooming flowers, could it be fake?"

Under Xie's instigation, Wang sent someone to investigate the matter in Qingqueju, and someone came back to talk at night. Xie was already worried about this matter, but now he heard Yan Zhaohua and Hongqu's plot 'Zhi Zhiyan, she was so angry that she didn't show her anger in front of Chang Ninghou, but it didn't mean she really didn't have any anger.

Originally, I wanted Hongqu to stare at Yan Zhaohua, but I didn't expect this girl to be restless, and the toad wanted to eat swan meat, so he got his mind on it. I really don't know how much I weigh. .And that Yan Zhaohua, she said that the past two days have been a little strange, and she really didn't know what she had discovered, but she actually wanted to use such a low-handed method to deal with her. His subordinates are doing things for her, hmph, the wishful thinking is really loud, do you really think she is just paper?
Seeing that Xie was so angry that his fists turned white, Mrs. Wang stepped forward to wait for orders. After Mrs. Xie said a few words in Mrs. Wang's ear, Mrs. Wang nodded and left, leaving Mrs. Xie standing alone. Under the lamp, there was a fierce light in his eyes.

Two days later, Hongqu was almost dragged back to Qingqueju, and many servants stopped to watch along the way. Qingzhu ran into the study in a panic, as if she was frightened, her face turned pale.

"Miss, because she... broke a vase of the wife in the main courtyard, and was punished twenty times by the wife. It seems that she is about to die."

Yan Zhaohua was painting, and he didn't lift his head when he heard Qingzhu's words. He just nodded and said, "Yes, I see. Go ask Dr. Lin to come over and take a look for her."

Qingzhu looked at her young lady, although she felt that the young lady's reaction was too calm when she heard the news, but she didn't dare to delay the young lady's order, and went out after paying her respects. Talking about how miserable the Red Canal is.

Hongqu sent copied Buddhist scriptures for Yan Zhaohua to worship in front of the altar in the main courtyard. Xie's family worshiped Buddha, and Yan Zhaohua sometimes copied scriptures for Xie's family. Come back, Mrs. Xie might be really angry this time.

Yan Zhaohua put away his pen, and a piece of bluegrass was drawn like this. The wrist strength of a 12-year-old is always not enough. The painting has its shape, but it has no spirit. Yan Zhaohua picked up the rice paper and blew the ink, sighed and said :
"Not so bad."

Not long after, Qingzhu ran in again, and said to Yan Zhaohua:

"Miss, Miss, Dr. Lin went to see it, and said that the red canal is probably going to die, and the lower body can't stop the bleeding... What do you think should be done?"

When Yan Zhaohua heard that Hongqu was 'doing bad', he frowned slightly, thinking that Mrs. Xie really did something cruel, but she didn't feel guilty about this girl Hongqu, who was not a good person in the first place. For petty gains, she has been childless all her life. Although she is not the mastermind behind the scenes, she deserves it after all. Xie wants to place the red canal by her side, so there is no reason for her to suffer in silence. Since Hongqu wanted to die, so what did she do to keep her?I just don't know that Mrs. Xie killed the person he sent to her with a stick, and felt that he took revenge on Yan Zhaohua. Yan Zhaohua didn't understand Mrs. Xie's psychology. He could only say that women's jealousy is really It was too scary, and Hongqu was naturally a victim of Xie's jealousy.

"What can we do? The wife is in charge of the house. Hongqu has done something wrong, and the wife should be punished. Is it possible that we still have to question the wife? Go back to Manager Zhang and ask him to go back to his wife. Hongqu’s status, let’s send her back to her hometown in the countryside to recuperate, Manager Zhang will take care of the rest, so we don’t have to worry about it.”

Seeing her young lady like this, Qingzhu felt a little cold in her heart, although she didn't like Hongqu, but after all, it was a life, and the life of a maid was cheap, so she felt a little sympathetic to it.

Seeing her like this, Yan Zhaohua couldn't guess what she was thinking. Qingzhu and Ranxiang are people she will use more in the future. These two maids are very pure in character. , Maybe they really think of themselves as a ruthless person.

Yan Zhaohua put down the painting in his hand, walked out of the desk, and came to Qingzhu. She was one year younger than Qingzhu and Ranxiang, but she was not short. She stared at Qingzhu for a while with her pair of cut eyes, and then stretched out her hand to hold her. Qing Zhu walked towards the inner room, Qing Zhu changed from chilling and frightened to curious.

Yan Zhaohua brought Qingzhu to the bed, pointed to a quilt on the bed, and said to Qingzhu:
"These days, you are the one who sleeps in my room at night, do you know why I only wear a fur coat instead of a quilt?"

Qingzhu remembered that in the past few nights, Yan Zhaohua was indeed like this, asking her to take out the leather cloak from the cupboard every night and put it back in the cupboard in the morning, but Qingzhu didn't understand why the eldest lady did this.

Yan Zhaohua walked to the bed, pulled off the taupe-coloured, silver-colored, clay-made and satin quilt, took it to the tip of Qingzhu's nose, sniffed it, and said:

"The spices on this are poisonous. This quilt was ordered by my wife to change for me. Do you think I'm being unreasonable to her? Then I'll tell you today. What Hongqu wants is my life. She wants to kill her." My life, should I just stand still and let her kill her? Now she is punished by his wife. Although I am also responsible, I don’t think it’s wrong. I have no sympathy for a person who wants to kill me. You understand ?"

Qingzhu did not expect that Yan Zhaohua would explain to her in this way, just like when she was a child, she spoke without any grievances and without concealment. Qingzhu was also very shocked by what Yan Zhaohua said. Life, although she is kind, does not discriminate between right and wrong, so she immediately knelt down to Yan Zhaohua and said:
"Your servant understands. Thank you, miss, for telling me about these things. From now on, my servant will never dare to question my lady again."

Yan Zhaohua helped Qingzhu up, and said softly:

"It's good to understand, now... follow me out to witness."

(End of this chapter)