Mistress

Chapter 4

When Aunt Ji heard Li Yan's questioning, she knew that she must have been concealed by Nanny Cui, Qi'er and others. She asked in surprise: "Madam doesn't know?"

Qi'er, who was standing behind Li Yan, was in a hurry. She knew that according to Madam's previous temperament, she might be sad when she found out about this matter.Madame is in vain, what should I do if she falls ill again?
But Qi'er was just a little girl after all, so it was not easy to intervene at this time.

Just at this moment, Nanny Cui came in. She had listened to what was said in the house just now. As soon as she came in, she blessed Aunt Song and Aunt Ji, "The two aunts are here, Qier, Qing Son, why are you standing there in a daze, why don't you rush to show the two aunts tea."

When Aunt Song and Aunt Ji saw what Nanny Cui had said, they couldn't bring up Dr. Xu's matter again.Nanny Cui is the most respected and oldest nanny in the mansion, and the two of them usually respect her publicly.

Aunt Song quickly responded: "Mother, you are welcome. Sister Yanqiu and I are from our own family, and we are not guests. Where do we need tea?" Say hello there, and don't delay here."

Li Yan then said: "I haven't seen Mrs. Tai for two months, and I was planning to go before you came, so that's fine, let's go together, the three of us."

Qi'er and Qing'er hurriedly helped Li Yan put on the gown, and Aunt Song picked up the dark purple cloak that was put aside, and walked over to put it on Li Yan very gently.

Aunt Ji watched quietly, thinking to herself, this Aunt Song really doesn't know how to honor herself, they are noble concubines, not lowly concubines, why do they need to serve Madam with such a shameless face?Even if a concubine should serve his wife, there are still so many servants in this house, it's not their turn at all.

After dressing properly, Aunt Song, Aunt Ji, Nanny Cui, Qinger, and Qier surrounded Li Yan and went out. When they came outside, the maids of Aunt Song and Aunt Ji also put on cloaks for their masters , Putting on wooden clogs, a group of people walked towards Mrs. Tai's emerald green pine courtyard in such a mighty way.

Due to the heavy snowfall all morning, the snow on the road was very deep.

Although Ji Yanqiu was supported by her two maids to walk, she was still cautious, and couldn't help complaining: "Where are those sweeping boys? Snow?"

Song Ruzhi sighed, "Perhaps these servants didn't expect the masters to go out on such a snowy day, so they thought they could hide for half a day."

Ji Yanqiu immediately responded in a low voice: "That's right, as long as they didn't think about sneaking out of the house, they would be lucky."

Song Ruzhi paused slightly when she heard this, and then continued to walk forward without making a sound.

Li Yan didn't bother to care about what Aunt Ji said about escaping from the mansion. In such a situation, let alone people having evil thoughts, she wouldn't find it so strange even if their aunts had evil thoughts in their hearts.People are not for themselves, heaven and earth will destroy, she will not believe that the two of them will love Xu Cheng to the point where they are willing to spend their lives together.

She is not as delicate as the two of them, not to mention walking in the snow, she used to go downstairs with her father to shovel snow every snowy day, and she was unambiguous in doing housework.She thought to herself, the women in these ancient big families are really delicate. If one day they wandered out alone, wouldn't they just have to wait to starve to death?

They came to Cui Song Courtyard without haste, and before they stepped into the threshold, they heard a violent coughing inside, and then heard the voice of a middle-aged servant woman, "Mrs. Madam, Madam and Aunt Song, Aunt Ji is here."

"Ma'am? Are you talking about... Nianyun? She...she...can get up?" Mrs. Tai's voice was extremely weak and trembling.

This maid is Wang Pozi, she has been in the mansion for fifteen years, she can be regarded as an old man in the mansion, she replied softly: "Madam is not only able to get up on the kang, but she is also recovering from her illness."

Li Yan stepped into the inner room of the Green Pine Courtyard, and saw an old woman with silver hair lying on the warm kang from a distance.When she walked into the kang, she found Mrs. Tai looked sad, her eyes were dim, and she was in a trance.

Li Yan, Aunt Song, and Aunt Ji said Wanfu together, and then Li Yan sat on the edge of the kang, while Aunt Song and Aunt Ji stood on both sides.

Mrs. Tai's eyes were not good, she looked at Li Yan vaguely, but failed to recognize Li Yan, she said weakly: "Yu Liu...is that you? You come here frequently, it's just Jun'er and Yue'er... Why didn't you come to see my grandmother today?"

Li Yan was quite embarrassed, Mrs. Tai recognized her as Aunt Zhang, and she was thinking that she was also Aunt Zhang's children.Just now Mrs. Wang clearly said that it was Madam who came, but Mrs. Tai herself asked about Nianyun being able to get up the kang.At this moment, she recognized Zhang Yuliu again. It seems that Mrs. Tai not only has poor eyesight, but also confused mind.

Li Yan was about to explain that she was Li Nianyun, but seeing old tears falling from the eyes of Mrs. Tai, she choked up and said: "Cheng'er...my Cheng'er, can mother still see you? Yuliu, you have to be careful Teach...Teach Jun'er, he is Cheng'er's eldest son, and he will inherit the great responsibility in the future."

As soon as Mrs. Tai said this, the air suddenly froze, except for Cui Mama, who looked embarrassed, everyone else looked at Li Yan as if they were watching a play.

Li Yan didn't know what to say now, it's not too much for Mrs. Tai to value her niece too much.What's more, there is another very embarrassing thing in the mansion, that is, the wife has a pair of children, and Aunt Zhang also has a pair of children.It was only two months after Li Nianyun gave birth to his eldest daughter Xu Jun, Zhang Yuliu gave birth to his eldest son Xu Jun.Two years later, Li Nianyun gave birth to his son Xu Xiao, and Zhang Yuliu gave birth to his daughter Xu Yue.

In this way, the eldest son is a concubine, while the legitimate son is the second eldest.Of course, no one in the mansion dared to call the eldest young master and the second young master that. They all called him young master Jun and young master Xiao, thus avoiding a lot of embarrassment.

Logically, even if the son-in-law is not the eldest son in the family, the position of the eldest son should be his. This is understandable and no one should worry about it.However, Mrs. Tai loves her eldest grandson very much. There are three reasons. Xu Jun is the eldest son of Xu Cheng, Xu Jun is the son of Zhang Yuliu, and Xu Jun is flexible like his mother. Thoughtful and considerate, she is well versed in the world at the age of ten.

But Xu Xiao, the son-in-law, is a person with a true temperament. He cries when he is sad and laughs when he is happy. He doesn't care much about other people's eyes. Better than Xu Jun.

Song Ruzhi has two sons, but the eldest is only six years old, and the youngest is only three years old, and they are both bastards, so she can't compete if she wants to, so she is usually very low-key, as long as the two sons are liked by Prime Minister Xu Cheng .

Ji Yanqiu has been in the mansion for four years, but has not had any children, but he has settled down easily.

The possibility of Xu Cheng Kaicheng surrendering is relatively small. If he really dies for the country, the emperor will definitely not treat his son lightly in the future, so there must be a prince in the mansion.

At this time, when Madam Tai said this, the position of the son of the world became confusing.

Li Yan thought to herself, no matter if this mother-in-law is really stupid or pretending to be stupid, since she is recognized as Aunt Zhang, then she should go, "Mrs. Tai, I will raise Jun'er well. He has always been a sensible person. Don't worry about it, just calm down and recuperate."

Mrs. Tai narrowed her eyes and looked at Li Yan for a while, feeling a little confused.

Li Yan didn't make a sound anymore, at this time Mrs. Wang brought a bowl of soup and medicine, this medicine was brought yesterday, that's all that's left.

When Mrs. Wang saw Li Yan, she did not explain that she was not Aunt Zhang, but whenever Aunt Zhang came, if Mrs. Tai wanted to drink soup, Aunt Zhang would feed it herself.

Mrs. Wang hesitated for a moment, but still handed the medicine to Li Yan, and she and the two maids went to help Mrs. Tai and let Mrs. Tai lean on the pillow.

Li Yan was holding the medicine bowl, feeling extremely uncomfortable. It's fine for this old lady to treat her as Aunt Zhang, but she wants her to serve and feed the soup and medicine?Even if she had a sudden kindness and was willing to do this, the old lady would not think of her kindly, and she still regarded it as a good deed done by Aunt Zhang.

Suddenly, an idea came to Li Yan's mind, she wanted to test whether this old lady was really confused or pretending to be confused, anyway, she was free now, so she just treated it as a joke, in fact, she admitted that she really had such doubts in her heart.

Li Yan first fed a spoonful of medicine in a fake way, seeing Mrs. Tai's old-fashioned appearance, and remembering that she must have given Li Nianyun a lot of anger in secret, she coughed twice. With this cough, the hand holding the bowl also trembled , some of the decoction was spilled out, and it was sprinkled on Mrs. Tai's chest impartially.

Mother Cui was so frightened that she ran over in a hurry, and while wiping the decoction on Mrs. Tai's chest, she said, "Ma'am, you probably coughed because of the cold just now. Let me feed Mrs. Tai the medicine."

Mrs. Wang was embarrassed to ask Nanny Cui to do it for her. After all, Nanny Cui had never served Mrs. Tai before, so she came forward to take the bowl by herself.

Li Yan handed the bowl to Mrs. Wang, then took out a silk handkerchief to cover her mouth, and coughed twice again.Immediately afterwards, Qing'er and Qi'er, who had been waiting outside, trotted in when they heard the sound. They nervously asked Madam what's wrong, what's wrong?
Li Yan shook her head, "It's okay, it's just that my throat is a little itchy."

Supported by Qi'er and Qing'er, Li Yan sat on the arhat chair beside her, and glanced at Mrs. Tai.Since so many people are calling Madam, will Madam Tai not hear you?Even if she pretends she can't hear, and now it's Mrs. Wang who feeds the medicine, will Mrs. Tai be blind?Even if she was really blind and thought it was Zhang Yuliu coughing and taking medicine, she should care about her niece, right?What's more, she just said so many things that are still sober, so she won't be deaf and blind and have no consciousness, so that she doesn't know when the soup is sprinkled on her chest and Mammy Cui rubs it like that?
Li Yan waited for Mrs. Tai to react, only to see Mrs. Tai squinting at her slightly, then sighed quietly, "This medicine is really... really bitter."

Li Yan secretly said in her heart, what a traitor!

(End of this chapter)