in spring

Chapter 44
Manru frowned, Chunying frowned too, and even the maids sitting in the corridors on both sides also frowned.It is well known in Huanhuaxuan that Qing'er loves to trouble Manru.Some people took pleasure in other people's misfortune, but some people thought it was wrong, but Manru had just been let down during the day, and Qing'er had a lot of seniority, so they didn't bother to care about it, and some people immediately got up and went back to the room.Seeing that even Shi'er had returned to the house, Chunying felt a little uneasy, and hurriedly stood by the door to see what Qing'er was going to do.

Qing'er smiled at Manru, and was about to reach out to pick up the tray: "I'm afraid the third young master is not happy to see you, so leave this to me."

Manru hurriedly took a few steps back holding the tray, lowered her head and said, "Don't bother, this is my job."

Qing'er closed her smile and snorted coldly: "It was originally your errand, I'm afraid it won't be your errand after a while. You should be more acquainted, so that everyone can get together and get together. When you go out, I think you can For the sake of working with you for a few months, maybe I can beg for you and ask the third young master to allow you to take out all the rewards you got."

Manru's face turned blue: "Nonsense! The third young master has already punished me, why let me go out? I won't listen to your nonsense! Get out of my way!" .

Qing'er lowered her face, stretched out her hand to block it, and knocked a half-foot-high white porcelain bottle on the tray. It swayed a few times and nearly fell over. Manru hurriedly helped her up, and said angrily, "What are you doing?! Hit something If you flip it over, you won't be able to please!"

Qing'er was also taken aback, and was a little embarrassed when she heard the words: "Hold on tighter, and naturally you won't turn it over..." Clearing her throat, she said again: "I meant to remind you kindly, don't be ignorant, Show me face! Do you think that the third young master has been punished lightly, and it’s over? Don’t forget, the second young master still misses you! If he asks the third young master for you, will the third young master give you? Yes, If you lose face, if you don’t give it, you will hurt your brother’s feelings. If it gets to the old lady, don’t worry about it, you will definitely be kicked out. You say...is this the truth? "

Manru's face was already pale, and she felt cold all over.Although Qing'er often targets her, after all, she has served in the mansion for many years, and is more familiar with the behavior of the two young masters than she is, so maybe she will really guess correctly.But, how could she be willing to do this?She has struggled until today, and has not fulfilled her wish, so how could she be kicked out? !
Seeing her expression, Qing'er was secretly complacent, sighed heavily, and said: "Actually...you want to stay in the mansion...it's not impossible." Seeing her, her eyes were wide open: "What's the way?!" Qing'er broke away her hand angrily, and said with a sneer, "If you want to know, just follow me. It's not easy for people to hear you." Chu pointed and signaled Manru to follow him.

Manru stepped forward immediately, and then stopped after taking two steps. She looked down at the tray: "These things... have to be delivered to the upper room, and it will be cold if it is delayed."

Qing'er glared at her angrily, saw Xia He coming out of the tea room with a brass kettle in his hand, and called her: "Xia He, come here!" Xia He pouted and complained: " What are you doing? Sister Lan Xiang wants to make calming tea, and I want to send hot water to the back."

"That's just right." Qing'er shoved Manru's tray into her hand, "Okay, let me have a few words with Manru, you..." After thinking about it, "Wait here, don't go away! "Such a rare pastry, the third young master will definitely be happy to see it, there is no reason to give up this opportunity to the little girl.

Xia He watched Qing'er and Man Ru leave helplessly, looked down at the tray in his hand, and changed the gesture of carrying the kettle.Things are so heavy, and the draft in the yard is so cold, she really wants to find a place to sit down...

Chunying looked at Xia He standing in front of Erjin's door with a mournful face, she was quite sympathetic, she turned around and asked Shi'er hesitantly: "The thing Xia He is carrying seems to be quite heavy, do you want to help her?"

Shi'er was stacking and washing the clean clothes just brought back from the room, without raising his head: "Don't go, Sister Qing'er will definitely scold you when she sees you there when she turns around."

Chunying had no choice but to give up, and looked out the window, seeing Qing'er and Manru talking in the corner, Manru's face seemed to be getting worse and worse, she turned her head and was about to leave, but was held back by Qing'er, the two of them Argue.It's a pity that they all lowered their voices, Chunying couldn't hear the content of the quarrel, so she could only guess in her heart, Qing'er must have said something good, right?
"Hey! Lu Chun'er!" Xia He found Chun Ying peeping, and called her, "Come here quickly! I'm exhausted!"

Chunying turned to look at her, hesitated for a moment, and ran out anyway: "Are your hands tired? May I help you?"

This was exactly what Xia He wanted, and she stuffed the tray into Chunying's arms without saying a word, but unexpectedly, the hot water in the kettle splashed out and splashed on her feet, causing her to scream in pain, With one jump, the entire tray was overturned.Chunying was startled, and rushed to rescue her, only in time to support the white porcelain bottle, but half of the liquid in the bottle was spilled, giving off a strong milky fragrance, and the box of pastries flew out, and the pastries fell into pieces. On the ground, the kettle fell to the ground with a loud noise.

Xia He was stunned, and burst into tears, Chunying was taken aback again, and hurriedly asked her: "What's the matter? Is it too hot?" Xia He just cried.

Qing'er and Manru rushed over when they heard the noise, and seeing this situation, the latter's face changed first: "What are you doing?!" She hurried to pick up some snacks, but they were already stained. Not long ago, the little girl watered the sweet-scented osmanthus beside it. The muddy water was mixed together, and it was not dry yet. Obviously, the dessert was not edible.She looked at the dirty snacks, and then got up to look at the half of the milk left in Chunying's hand, she couldn't help but startled.

The people in the backyard had already heard the sound, Lan Xiang walked to the door and asked: "What's wrong? It's so noisy!" Chunying subconsciously turned her head to look at her, but there was a strong force grabbing her hand, preventing her from turning around, turning her head At first glance, it turned out to be Manru.

Manru quickly put the box of dirty snacks on Chunying's tray, stood in front of her, and smiled at Lan Xiang: "Xia He accidentally knocked over the hot water, maybe it's scalding. I I will take care of her, and send a pot of hot water back later."

Lan Xiang frowned and looked at the kettle on the ground. The light was dim, and she could only see a rough outline. Although she felt that it was strange that Chun'er had her back to her, she didn't ask any further questions. What does it look like? Tell her to shut up and boil the water quickly!"

Manru answered yes repeatedly, and she was relieved when she watched Lan Xiang enter the upper room, and looked back at the box, feeling a little panicked.

Chunying simply gave her the entire tray, and then went to look at Xia He's feet: "Take off your shoes, let me see if it's too hot?"

Xia He had stopped crying, and did as she sobbed. Chunying helped her take off her socks, looked at her a few times by the light of the lantern in the corridor, and saw that she was just a little red, so she was relieved: "It's okay, I will apply cold water later. , just take some medicine, do you have any medicine here?"

"Yes..." Xia He twitched, looking at the tray in Manru's hand in fear, "Sister, don't punish me..."

Qing'er, who had been silent all this time, suddenly smiled: "Why not punish? You, Chun'er, and Manru, you three made a mistake, even if the third young master doesn't care, Mei Xiang will punish you." She glanced Take a look at the snack box: "That's the snack made by the cook brought back from the north by the second master of the Dongfu. No one else can make it. There is also this milk, which is only available in the Dongfu. This is specially given by the old lady. The third young master's late-night snack was overturned by you, this crime... is not small!"

Manru suddenly raised her head and stared at her: "What do you mean by that? I didn't overturn things!"

Xia He cried again in fear: "I... just my feet hurt so much..."

Chunying felt wronged even more, she obviously just came to help out of kindness, but seeing Xia He crying like that, she couldn't embarrass the child too much, so she had to say to Qing'er: "This is obviously just an accident, just for a few snacks, Why are you so scary? Get to the bottom of it, you handed this thing to Xia He yourself!"

"That's right!" Manru stared at Qing'er, her face as white as paper, "You were the one who blocked my way, took the tray away, and handed it to Xia He. Now that something happened, how can you blame me?" On my head?!"

Qing'er sneered: "You picked up the supper, so it should be delivered directly to the third young master's house. Don't you just leave your serious errands and hand things over to others, is it reasonable for you? Xia He didn't hold it steady and knocked over Of course it was a big mistake, and Chun'er ran out to disturb Xia He, causing Xia He to overturn the hot water and snacks, which is another mistake. I didn't wrong you for these three mistakes!"

The anger in Chunying's heart came up all at once, wishing to smack that smug face immediately, but she still remembered Qiuyu's exhortation in her mind, so she endured it.

However, Manru did not restrain the hatred in her eyes at all, her gaze on Qing'er almost made her freeze to ice.Qing'er bit her head and said: "You... what do you see me doing?! I... this is your fault!" She swallowed, and lowered her voice: "Although it's just a few snacks, it's not a big deal , they are young, at most they will suffer a few boards. You just offended the second young master today. Go out of the house, just obediently follow my idea!"

Manru didn't answer, but just stared at her with sharp eyes, Qing'er seemed to have confidence, and stared back without giving in.The scene fell silent for a moment.

Xia He had already stopped crying, frightened by the confrontation between the two second-class maids, she moved a little closer to Chunying, and whispered tearfully, "What should I do? I don't want to be beaten..."

Chunying didn't want to be beaten even more. Isn't it too innocent to be beaten for a few snacks?It's just that the snacks are overturned, what should I do?She said: "Don't worry about the quarrel, let's settle the supper first. The third young master doesn't know what the old lady rewarded, so how about we take the other things first?"

Qing'er glanced at her contemptuously: "What do you think it is? Can you find something to put it on top? Even if there is, where can I find it now? Sister Lanxiang just had a fight with the kitchen during the day. A few days ago You also quarreled once, try to find the people in the kitchen and see if they ignore you?"

Chunying said unconvinced: "Who said that supper must be made in the kitchen? Isn't there a stove in our yard? There is hot water and a clay pot. As long as there is cake, it can be steamed immediately! Even if it is not as good as the original Well, at least it can guarantee that the third young master will not go hungry!"

Manru's attention was also attracted: "But what other cakes are available in the courtyard? I remember there were two apples in the upper room, and there were some cloud cakes and jujube cakes in the snack box, but the third young master didn't like them. Jujube paste."

Chunying thought for a while, then set her gaze on the half bottle of milk, and suddenly had an idea, and asked quickly: "I remember you all use eggs to wash your hair, do you have eggs on hand now?" Shouted to wash my hair.

Manru and Xia He both said yes, and the former seemed to understand something: "I still have some sesame oil. What do you want to use the eggs for?"

Chunying smiled confidently: "I have a solution, as long as I take ten...no, I can do it in a quarter of an hour!"

Manru's face softened a little, Xia He also looked at her with hope, only Qing'er looked at her coldly, with a disdainful smile on the corner of her mouth, but a trace of uneasiness leaked in her eyes.

(Have you guessed what Chun'er will do?)

(End of this chapter)