White Hedge Dream

Chapter 28 Words and Actions

The small kitchen in the prince's courtyard started to be busy early in the morning.

The person in charge of the kitchen was Mama Lu. She was having breakfast in the house when she heard Xue Liu coming and rushed out to greet her.

"Miss Xueliu came just in time." She said with a smile, "I have stewed bird's nest porridge for you and was about to have it delivered."

Xue Liu yawned: "I have no appetite now, let the girls send it over later." Then asked, "What kind of food are arranged there?"

Although she was too lazy to mess around with the young lady, she still had to do what a maid should do.

She doesn't let people find fault with her.

Hearing this, the servant girl next to her smiled and said, "It has been sent over."

Xue Liu was stunned, looked up at the sky, and said with a smile: "The wife here is really leisurely."

It was not easy for the maid to get involved in talking about her master behind his back, so she smiled and went in to get busy.

Mother Lu's eyes flashed, and she asked Xue Liu to sit on a low stool: "Why don't you wait until you finish eating?" Then she brought the bird's nest porridge, "Young girls should also take care of themselves."

Xue Liu hummed and sat down, taking the bowl and taking a sip.

"Maybe the young lady is not feeling well." Mother Lu whispered from the side, "When it was still dark, the spring moon came and cooked Bupleurum and Guizhi soup."

Sick? Snow willow spoon slows down.

"The young lady looks to be in poor health. She is so thin, walking lightly, and her face is so pale..." Mother Lu continued to say.

Xue Liu glanced at her and curled her lips and said, "Mother Lu, your eyes can diagnose diseases, right? It's a loss for you to be in charge of the kitchen. You should be a doctor in the house to support me."

Mother Lu's face turned red.

"I'm just worried. The prince doesn't understand these things as a man, and he got married outside. I don't know if he has asked the questions that should be asked before marriage." Mother Lu explained with a smile, and then lowered her voice, "Miss Xueliu, are you a biological child?" Among the famous families, I don’t know the tricks in the market. The matchmakers can make the lame and the blind look like the whole person. It is not until the wedding night that I find out that there are even those who have hidden physical diseases and even those who are infertile..."

Xue Liu slammed the bowl down, stood up and said angrily: "Mother Lu, I think you have lost your mind and gone crazy in the past few years, and you are talking nonsense."

Mother Lu was startled, and the maids in the kitchen also looked over in fear.

"I'm so frustrated and crazy!" Mother Lu immediately raised her hand and slapped herself in the mouth, "My wife asked me to take care of the prince's yard. The prince is not at home. It's not enough for me to enjoy leisure. I actually contracted the problem of chewing my tongue. This mouth It really deserves to be smashed.”

Sure enough, she hit her hard once or twice.

Xue Liu sneered: "Mom, please be more careful. When the prince comes back, if you do this again, you won't have your mouth smashed." After saying that, he rolled up his sleeves and kicked off.

Mother Lu watched her follow her, and kept hitting her face with her hand, but every time she hit her, she turned her head in advance. The movement was quite big, but in fact it was just the wind blowing across her cheek.

Xue Liu's back was no longer visible. Mother Lu stopped and curled her lips.

The servants hiding in the kitchen came out and said, "Mother Lu, why did you provoke her?" "You can't provoke Xue Liu."

Mother Lu snorted: "What can't you mess with? You're not from our family, so why are you putting on airs if you don't deserve it?"

A servant woman whispered: "Previously, because there was no new wife, the prince did not take in concubines. Now that he has a new wife, he will definitely take in concubines and take over the house within two years. Xue Liu was the one that the first young lady pointed out to the prince." ”

Mother Lu shouted: "You also said that Mrs. Xiantou, now that there is a new person, what is Xiantou?" At this point, she sighed again, pretending to be heartbroken, "I am doing it for her own good, to wake her up. What is the difference between now and before?" It’s different, and I still can’t think of a way, does she want to be a maid for the rest of her life?”

The servants didn't dare to offend Mother Lu. Mother Lu was right. After all, Xue Liu belonged to Uncle Ding'an's family. Even if they were afraid of her, they should wait until she really became an aunt.

but…..

"You are the instigator behind the scenes." A well-connected servant woman sat down and whispered, mouthing towards the location of the Crown Prince's wife, "If she finds out, be careful what I say to you."

Said two more words, she meant a lot.

At that time, the new young lady came in and met with their mother who was in charge. She didn't give them face when she opened her mouth and said directly, "Everyone should perform their duties first. If there is anything wrong, we will talk about it later."

Hearing these two words, Mother Lu gritted her teeth. She was really young and had a bad temper. She was given to the prince by Mrs. Hou. She was a new little girl who didn't like her mother-in-law and had no family power to rely on. She wanted to slap her in the face! Live your own life first.

It is not easy for a new daughter-in-law to live a good life. Mother Lu smiled half-heartedly: "How could I instigate you? I only care about the young madam. The young madam had her cook the Bupleurum Guizhi soup, and I didn't just make it up."

After saying that, he looked at the half bowl of bird's nest left by Xueliu on the table.

"If you don't want to eat such a good thing, I will eat it."

She said and took a big mouthful to eat.

….

….

Xue Liu walked back to the yard holding her stomach full of anger. When the little girl saw her, she hurriedly stepped forward to please her and said, "Sister Xue Liu, after the young lady has finished eating, I will bring you some food."

After the master has finished eating, the maids can eat.

Xue Liu said angrily: "I won't eat it." Then she threw the curtain and entered the house.

The little girl stuck out her tongue, wondering why Xue Liu was angry.

"Leave her alone." Another little girl greeted softly, "Xiaodie was on duty at the young lady's place just now and was rewarded with a bowl of sweet cake. She asked us to try it together."

The little girls were all seven or eight years old, the age when they were greedy, so they all ran away after hearing this.

"The young lady praised Xiaodie for her sweet smile, so she rewarded her."

"Young lady is so kind."

Listening to the chirping of the little girls outside, Xue Liu just wanted to throw the tea cup on the table. When the lady was here, she rewarded the maids more, but the lady was the concubine of Ding'an Bo Mansion. She brought a dowry and spent a lot of money. How can this person be empty-handed? I don't know where the wild girl who comes to the door can compare?

After so long, no one remembers my wife.

The thought flashed through her mind, and Xue Liu sat down again. Five or six years had passed, which was a long time, enough to forget a person and erase her traces.

Otherwise, Mother Lu would dare to lie about her daughter-in-law's hidden illness and cheat her into a marriage. This was a taboo topic in the Dongyang Marquis Mansion.

When the third lady passed away suddenly, the Dongyang Marquis Mansion and the Ding'an Bo Mansion were also unhappy. Especially after the Ding'an Bo Mansion wanted to marry another daughter but was rejected, the private conversations between the two parties began to get ugly. Ding'an Bo Mansion questioned the wife's He contracted the disease after being mistreated here, and the Dongyang Marquis Mansion reported that the lady concealed her illness and got married, so there was almost a quarrel, but the prince stopped it.

"I lost my wife and you lost your daughter. They are all close relatives. The most tragic thing in the world, why does it have to be more painful and the living people turn against each other?"

So far, the two families have reconciled, and the Dongyang Hou Mansion will never allow any mention of hidden illnesses to cheat marriage.

Now that hateful old woman dared to say this in front of her. It seemed that she was thinking about the current young lady, but in fact she was mocking the former young lady.

Xue Liu stood up and went to tell Mrs. Hou!

But he slowly sat down again, looking a little anxious, so what if he told Mrs. Hou to drive the old woman out? That old woman dares to do this, what about the others?

The most important thing is that I don’t have a serious status.

No matter how unhappy Mrs. Dongyang Hou is, she is still a decent daughter-in-law.

What's more, my wife may not always be unhappy. Once I take her out, her attitude will change a bit...

Xue Liu twisted the handkerchief, raised her head, took a deep breath, and strode out.

The little girls who were sitting around eating sweet cakes at the door of the yard saw her coming out and hurriedly stood up and saluted, "Sister Xueliu—"

Xue Liuli ignored them and went straight away.

Looking at the direction she was going, a little girl said: "Sister Xueliu is not going to the Young Madam's place, but to Madam Hou's."

The other little girl was not surprised and murmured: "Just let Sister Xue Liu work as an errand for Mrs. Hou."

In this way, the young lady can have one more place for a maid. If the sisters above mention one, they can also be promoted one by one.

The little girl from before laughed: "Stop talking nonsense, who can make Sister Xue Liu leave the Crown Prince's place?"

(End of chapter)