Mistress

Chapter 12

When Nanny Cui, Qi'er, and Qing'er surrounded Li Yan to the gate of the mansion, Li Yan was almost blinded by the alluring woman in front of her.

Not to mention Aunt Zhang's concubine-colored skirt, her swan bun is combed a bit high, which is exaggerated. The cloak of colorful weaving flowers and flying butterflies, the whole person looks radiant, really catches people's attention, I don't know if the prime minister will feel his eyes hurt after looking at it.

Anyway, Li Yan felt dizzy after only a few glances at her, so she had no choice but to move her eyes to Song Ruzhi.

Aunt Song is more low-key, dressed in emerald green.The emerald thin cotton shirt, the emerald cloak, and she is wearing a celestial luan bun with a long emerald hairpin, without losing the femininity of a little woman, at least it looks fresh.

Li Yan glanced at Aunt Ji again, she is really young and has capital, she only wears a gauze robe with plum pattern inside and a very soft white fox fur cloak outside, she is full of fairy spirit, graceful and elegant, this It is a well-deserved beautiful frozen person.

Li Yan shivered suddenly, well, she is naturally afraid of the cold, and seeing others wearing less clothes, she seemed to be able to feel the cold of others.

She couldn't help laughing in her heart, it was just to welcome Xu Cheng, how could everyone be so grand as if waiting for the emperor to choose a concubine, this Xu Cheng is really worth all these women's painstaking efforts to dress up and wait?

When the three of them saw Li Yan coming, they all squatted down to salute, and when they got up, they all glanced at Li Yan. Madam is Madam. No matter how beautiful the three of them are dressed, they are worse than Madam in appearance. So how much.In fact, what they were jealous of was that Madam Qi'er, Nanny Cui and others devoted themselves to serving her, because these people were rare people with foresight and dexterity.

Li Yan stood in the middle of the front of the mansion, the three of them stood on the right side, the children stood on the left side, and the servants stood behind their respective masters, and more than 100 other servants and maids and women stood neatly in front of them. on both sides of the road.

Except Mrs. Tai and Mrs. Wang beside her did not come out to meet her, no one else dared not to come out. Those servants who were beaten for a hundred days and could not get off the kang were all carried by others. At this time, they could not stand up. They all prostrated themselves on the ground, facing their master with the most respectful attitude.

Mrs. Tai was also coming, but it was too cold outside and the ground was slippery. Considering her old and ill body, Mrs. Wang persuaded her.She is Xu Cheng's biological mother, so there is really no need to greet her in person.

Li Yan saw that everyone was looking at the east end of the road, so she had no choice but to keep looking at that end, but her neck was really sore after staring for a long time.

Just when she was about to reach out to rub her neck, she saw people riding from Dongtou, a total of six riders.The clatter of horseshoes mixed with each other, getting louder and hitting the eardrums.This was the first time Li Yan saw someone riding a fast horse not on TV, but in front of her eyes.

"The master is back! The master is back!" Everyone shouted excitedly.

Seeing that the six riders had rushed to the gate of the mansion, they held the reins and lifted them lightly, and then reined in the horses.Except for one person sitting on the horse standing still, the other five jumped off the horse with agility, then kneeled down on one knee towards Li Yan, clasped their hands together, and shouted respectfully: "Ma'am!"

Li Yan didn't come to her senses for a moment, she was stunned for a moment, then quickly bent down to help them up, and said kindly: "Get up, these days are really hard for you."

Li Yan really felt what it was like to be the prime minister's wife, and she was a little nervous.She encouraged herself, at least she is a person from the 21st century, and has seen a lot of things in the world. There is nothing but a prime minister and his five guards and entourage in front of her, nothing to be afraid of, nothing to be afraid of.

When the five stood up, all the servants in the mansion knelt down on their knees and kowtowed to the one on the horse, shouting in unison: "Master!"

At this moment, Li Yan saw that Aunt Zhang and the others were also kneeling on the ground. She was a little at a loss. Although the carpet had just been laid on the ground, she still couldn't kneel down. How could she kneel so easily?What's more, she has grown up so big, and she has never kneeled before anyone.

She is the wife of the wife, so she shouldn't have to kneel down to her husband, right?When she thought about this, she squatted down deeply and performed a blessing ceremony.

The person on the horse was still silent. When Li Yan got up and looked up, she saw Steward Lin get up, and then quickly moved the prepared stool for dismounting, put it under the horse, and waited for the person on the horse to step down on the stool.

It's just that the man on the horse looked awe-inspiring, and immediately jumped off, extremely nimble and agile, no need to get off the horse stool.Li Yan thought that she had nothing to do with the word "nymphomaniac", but looking at the person in front of her at this moment, she was a little demented.

Xu Cheng was wearing a black mink fur cloak, which, coupled with his burly figure, made him look even more mighty and noble.Seeing his attire, Li Yan didn't look like he came back from the battlefield at all, but rather like a leisurely prince.But looking at his face, he suddenly felt that he was not like a leisurely prince, but like a majestic general.

As expected, he looked only 30 years old. Li Yan felt that it was really old for everyone to call such a high-spirited 30-year-old man Master. He didn't look like a father with a ten-year-old son at all.

He has clear eyebrows, sharp-edged face, deep eye sockets and bright black eyes.It's just that his eyes are slightly cunning, and he seems to have seen everything in the world in a blink of an eye. His cold expression made Li Yan's mind unknowingly come up with the word, black belly!

Li Yan was thinking, this person is handsome and majestic, but also cold and arrogant enough, how could she manage such an arrogant, black-bellied, young and promising prime minister!It is estimated that she was played to death by this man in minutes!

Xu Cheng's eyes fell on Li Yan, and Li Yan was embarrassed to meet his eyes, so she nodded slightly.Her eyes were down, and naturally she didn't know what kind of expression the other party was looking at her.When she raised her eyebrows slightly to look at him, he had already glanced at the three aunts, and indeed he just glanced at them, and then looked away.

"Get up." He said very coldly, and strode towards the gate of the mansion.

His guards and entourage were also ready to follow, Xu Cheng just waved his hand, they stopped, and obediently headed towards the northwest courtyard.What Xu Cheng meant was to tell them to go to rest. These days, everyone is too tired.

As for their four wives and concubines, one is dignified and graceful, one is enchanting and gorgeous, one is delicate and soft, and the other is fairy-like, all of them are too beautiful to behold.If it were an ordinary man, he would look at it happily for a long time and would not be willing to take his eyes off him, but he glanced so quickly and didn't stop at any one of them for a moment. Could it be that he has seen a lot of them, and these women don't attract his interest at all? ?
Li Yan sighed that she was not as good as him, because as a woman, she couldn't help but keep glancing at the three aunts.

Of course, she didn't have the time to pay too much attention to the three aunts at this time, but followed closely behind and followed Xu Cheng into the mansion.

Xu Cheng's steps were too big and fast, where Li Yan could keep up, Aunt Zhang and the three of them naturally couldn't keep up, and they all rushed forward.

At this moment, Li Yan suddenly stopped walking, her legs and feet were a little immobile, because she saw Xu Cheng as if going straight to her Jinxiuyuan!
Li Yan paused, Aunt Zhang and the others followed and stood by Li Yan's side.

Li Yan glanced sideways, and saw the astonishment on the faces of all three of them, but the astonishment was accompanied by unconcealable jealousy, especially Aunt Zhang.

They thought that when the master just came back, the first place he would go to would be Mrs. Tai's Green Pine Courtyard, and then settle in his own Zhihui Hall, because every time he returned to the mansion for the first few days, he would go to Zhihui Hall to rest, There have been no exceptions for many years.

But today he went in the direction of Jinxiu Courtyard.In terms of common sense, he should go to see Mrs. Tai first, otherwise he will be suspected of being unfilial, not to mention that in these years, he has never been so abnormal as he is today.

Aunt Zhang, Aunt Song, and Aunt Ji thought about this in their hearts, but they didn't dare to say anything. Seeing Li Yan stopped and looked at them, they thought she was preventing them from following, so it was difficult for them to move forward. up.

Qi'er and Qing'er trotted to the Jinxiu Courtyard earlier, the master was almost here, but someone had to serve the master, leaving only Nanny Cui to follow Li Yan.

At this time, Nanny Cui said, "Madam, the master is almost at Jinxiu Courtyard, let's hurry up and take care of him, aunts, or...you go back first..." Her words were very clear, meaning that you should hurry up Go back to your own courtyard, don't stay here anymore.

Maybe it was because there was a hint of complacency in Mammy Cui's words, or maybe it was because the three of them were supercilious and felt that there was a little arrogance in Nanny Cui's words. The faces of the three of them were like a palette, ever-changing and rich.

Aunt Zhang was annoyed at first, and then smiled with a straight posture.Aunt Song's eyes were watery, she glanced at Li Yan with grievance, then stood beside her, biting her lip lightly.Aunt Ji's face was tense, and she glanced coldly at Nanny Cui.

They all thought to themselves, Master didn't go to Cui Song Yuan first, but went to Jinxiu Yuan, Madam Tai will have a good face towards Madam after knowing about it?What's there to be proud of!
Aunt Zhang kept her smile all the time, and gave Li Yan a little blessing, "Madam, I'm going to arrange the evening family banquet. I really don't have time to delay here. I'm leaving first."

"Well, let's go." Li Yan replied dignifiedly and kindly.

After Aunt Zhang finished speaking, she turned around and took her close maid and mother-in-law away, thinking while walking, if she got a chance, she would definitely stir up this matter in front of Mrs. Tai, and it would be best to show Li Nianyun's ugly face at the family banquet!Having made up her mind, she sneered and walked to Xianghe Tower swaggeringly.

Whether it is a family banquet, a birthday banquet, or a banquet for important guests, all the banquets are held in Xianghelou.It has been a long time since the mansion held a banquet in the Xianghe Tower, and Li Nianyun was in charge of the banquet before, this time it was her Aunt Zhang who took care of it, and she felt quite honored in her heart.And this time, I can take the opportunity to show the master that she is no worse than Li Nianyun.

Aunt Song and Aunt Ji also left resentfully, and they spent half the morning dressing up, but Xu Cheng just glanced at them, and they felt very aggrieved.But they are not discouraged, isn't there still a dinner party, when the time comes to show their kindness to the master as much as possible, just be more courteous to the master.

Seeing that they had all left, Li Yan let out a sigh of relief, and brought Cui Momo and others to her Jinxiu courtyard.When she came to the door of the main room, Li Yan's heart was beating suddenly, what happened to her, she was just a man, why should she be nervous?She stabilized her mind and stepped in.

(End of this chapter)