Houmen Yixiang

Chapter 74
Jiang frowned, and said impatiently: "Enough, what do you mean by asking again and again?"

"Isn't it me that Madam, Second Sister and Third Sister bought it?" Lu Xinyan blinked in confusion, "When you obviously signed up for me, you were all full of confidence!

Madam asked me not to disgrace the Hou Mansion, and the third sister said that I would definitely win the first place! "

She said with a half-smile, "Why don't you believe me when it's time to pay the money?"

"Sister-in-law," Gong Rou blushed, "I wanted to buy you to win..."

"Then why didn't you buy it?" Lu Xinyan interrupted bluntly, "Do you think I will lose? Or do you think you have too much money and want to go out?"

Faced with her aggressiveness, Jiang became furious and stood up abruptly, "Yu'er, follow me to meet some ladies! As for you, follow if you like, or follow if you don't!"

Gong Yu had places she wanted to go, but Jiang shi didn't give her a chance to speak at all, so she just dragged her there.

Gong Mei looked at Jiang Shi and Lu Xinyan, and said, "Fourth Aunt, Sister-in-law, I will be with Second Sister."

Gong Rou bit her lip and hesitated, "Mother seems to be angry, fourth aunt, sister-in-law, I'll go and coax mother."

The two headed in the direction of Jiang Shi and Gong Yu.

Gong Jin rubbed the center of her eyebrows, "Zhuzhu, go play by yourself, I'm a little dizzy. Qiuhua, come with me to the wing."

"Si Gu, are you okay?" Lu Xinyan asked.

"It's okay." Gong Jin twitched the corners of her mouth, she just didn't want to see the familiar plants and trees in Wuyang Hou Mansion.

"Then I will accompany you."

"No, it's enough to have Qiuhua with me." Gong Jin rejected Lu Xinyan's kindness, got up and went to the wing.

The people in the water pavilion had almost left at this time, Xiao He, who had been holding back for a long time, finally couldn't help but say, "Miss, let's go for a walk, shall we?"

Xiaohe has a restless temper, and it was difficult for her to stand still for so long just now, Lu Xinyan nodded with a smile, "Let's go."

Wuyanghou Mansion is full of rockery and boulders, and winding corridors. For banquets, the courtyard is covered with flowers and fragrant.

The three of them watched while walking, unknowingly they had reached a remote place.

Lu Xinyan looked around, and suddenly saw a figure of a woman in front of her wearing ancient smoke patterns and green clouds, and disappeared around the corner in an instant.

The clothes looked so familiar, Lu Xinyan's heart moved, "Go, follow and have a look."

Not long after, the woman met a woman in a peach-red dress. The two looked around cautiously, and then walked further inside.

Of those two, one seemed to be laughing at her in the morning, Mrs. Miao, the owner of the three Xiaomei sisters, and the other was a woman who followed Mrs. Cai, looking at her appearance and attire, she should be my aunt.

Mrs. Cai did not reveal anything to Lu Xinyan about the matter in Ge Anping's backyard, so Lu Xinyan did not know that the woman was Aunt He, but since she was able to follow Mrs. Cai back to her mother's house for the banquet, she must be very favored.

"Qingtong, follow up and listen to what they said, see you at the waterside pavilion later."

It's not a rare thing for a wife of a fourth-rank family to curry favor with an aunt of a first-rank grand master's empress's family, but the odd thing is that the two want to sneak around, which makes people suspicious.

Moreover, the three Xiaomei sisters were brought to the banquet by the Miao family just after they bought them. This is also very suspicious.

"Yes, ma'am."

Qingtong is skilled and has good eyes and ears. It is more convenient for her to go alone than three people. Lu Xinyan takes Xiaohe to go elsewhere at ease, "Xiaohe, this place is a bit off, let's turn back the same way."

"Miss, do you know those two people?" Xiao He asked curiously.

When I visited Madam Cai in the morning, as Qingtong and Xiaohe's servant girls, I couldn't get in, so I could only wait outside the courtyard gate, so I didn't know Jiang and Miao's cynicism towards Lu Xinyan.

Lu Xinyan didn't intend to tell Xiao He, and responded casually: "It's sort of."

"Miss, you are so perfunctory." Xiao He pouted unhappily.

"The little girl is getting smarter and smarter." Lu Xinyan pinched her face with a smile and said, "You're so smart, when the lady tells you about your husband's family, you will have to worry about it."

"Miss!" Xiao He stomped her feet with a blushing face, "I don't want to say that my in-law's family is married, I want to be with you for the rest of my life!"

Lu Xinyan blinked in surprise, "Forever?!" This girl was a little clingy to her, but she didn't expect her to have such thoughts.

"The son is not good to the young lady, I can't leave the young lady alone to be bullied!" Xiao He said seriously: "If I marry someone, I won't be able to stay with the young lady, so I won't marry!"

Although she was young, she also began to understand that if a married woman is not favored by her husband, she can only live alone for the rest of her life.

But such a good lady, how could she bear to let her be alone?

So after Xiao He understood the meaning of getting married, she secretly made up her mind: she will stay with Miss for the rest of her life.

It was so!
Lu Xinyan was suddenly inexplicably moved. She didn't expect that in just over a month of company, Xiao He had already treated her like a real family member.

"Silly girl." She pampered Xiao He's head.

"Young madam, it's great to see you!" At this moment, the hurried voice approached from far away, accompanied by the thud of Xiao ran.

Mi'er stopped in front of the two of them out of breath, with an anxious expression, "Young madam, did you see Miss San?"

Lu Xinyan frowned and asked, "Third sister? Aren't you with your wife and second sister?"

Mi'er seemed to have lost her last hope, her eyes were reddened, "Miss San was with Madam at first, but later Miss San said her stomach was not feeling well, so this servant accompanied her to the latrine, but after waiting for a long time, Miss San did not come out. I hurriedly asked the nearby maids, and they said that Miss San had already left.

The servant rushed back to the madam, but she didn't see the third lady, so the servant reported to the madam, and the madam asked the sisters to go find it quietly without making any noise.The servant girl searched many places but couldn't find it, thinking about the friendship between the third lady and the young lady, so she asked someone to come, who knows..."

"Could it be that the third sister is tired and went to the wing to rest?"

"My servant asked and went to see it, but there was no one!" Mi'er was in a hurry, "If something happens to the third lady, my servant..."

"Don't talk nonsense, calm down." Lu Xinyan calmed down and stopped her, "Maybe she was attracted by something, and forgot to go back for a while, look slowly, and you will always find it."

"Young madam, please help me too, this servant is the servant girl of the third lady, and I can hardly absolve myself of the blame!" Mi'er choked on her sobs and begged.

Lu Xinyan nodded, "Third sister called me sister-in-law, and I don't want her to have anything to do."

"Thank you, Young Madam!" Mi'er was overjoyed, "Then let's split things up! The servants over there have already looked for it, and there are three directions left, the servants' side, Xiao He's side, and the rest of the north, I will trouble the young lady! I'm leaving."

After Mi'er finished speaking, she ran towards the south, looking very anxious.

Lu Xinyan raised her red lips and quickly put them down, "Go, Xiao He, be careful."

"Miss, you should also be careful." Xiao He obediently ran towards the west.

Lu Xinyan straightened her sleeves and walked slowly towards the north.

Sure enough, after not walking very far, he saw a bright yellow hem of his clothes and a faint cry beside a big tree by the lake.

"Third sister, what happened? Why are you here alone?"

The crying stopped abruptly and turned into a tiny sob.

Lu Xinyan walked over and saw Gong Rou was squatting there with her hands hugging her knees, her whole face was buried between her knees, her shoulders were shaking.

Hearing her voice, Gong Rou raised her head, her small face was covered with tears, her eyes were red and swollen, as if she had been crying for a long time.

"Sister-in-law~" Gong Rou called out pitifully, with a red nose and a soft voice, she looked like some kind of small animal, very endearing.

Lu Xinyan asked: "Third sister, aren't you with your wife? Why are you crying here alone?"

"Sister-in-law, I'm sorry~" Gong Rou wept, but refused to say a word.

Lu Xinyan asked again: "Did Madam scold you? Don't be afraid, tell me, and I'll judge for you."

Gong Rou shook her head desperately, but she didn't make a sound, but she looked extremely aggrieved.

Lu Xinyan had no choice but to say softly: "Then I'll help you go back and wash your face and touch up your makeup. It's not good for people to see you like this."

Gong Rou nodded, trying to stand up, but found that she couldn't stand up.

"Sister-in-law, I've been squatting for a long time, and my feet are numb~" She said in a pitiful tone that people couldn't refuse: "Sister-in-law, can you help me?"

"Of course." Lu Xinyan approached and bent down to help her. At that moment, Gong Rou whispered: "Sister-in-law, I'm sorry."

At the moment of whispering, Gong Rou suddenly pushed Lu Xinyan hard, but nothing happened as she wished.

"Sorry for what?" Lu Xinyan changed her tone and asked with a half-smile.

(End of this chapter)