Chapter Thirty-Seven: Zhang Ji Sets Up a Trap
The family banquet went for another hour, and at the end of the second watch day, Wei Zhen returned to the room, only to feel that the stomach and intestines were not smooth, the banquet was perfunctory, and there was the glory of Wang Xie Dahu in front of him, and then he saw Fu Xuan flirting with the maidservant, only to make her five internal organs depressed, and when she returned to the house, she leaned on the Ruan couch and belched. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
"Miss, what's the matter?" Yinglang covered the door and hurriedly stepped forward to care.
"Eat and eat. ”
Yinglang also knew that Wei Zhen hadn't eaten much, how could she accumulate food, so she knew that she was not happy in her heart, and said: "Yinglang went to make a pot of tea for Miss to relieve stagnation." ”
Wei Zhen waved his robe and said, "Forget it." Take me out for a walk in the garden. ”
Yinglang took a sky blue velvet shawl from the inner room, and carried it on his elbow to prepare for the young lady's clothes when the wind rose. Wei Zhen was also lazy to change his clothes, still wearing the bright brocade robe, and went out to relax.
Today, there is a happy event in Wuyi Lane, since the lanterns are different from usual, even the dense forest under the high wall is also tied with lamps and candles, the garden is not bright, and the lanterns on the lake reflect the night to look more luster. Although the family banquet is over, but the maid has just begun to clean up, there are a large number of maids walking around the garden with their heads bowed and briskly, after this feast, no one in the house knows Miss Weizhen's magnificent temperament, and when the maid passes by her, they all bow and say hello. Wei Zhen didn't care about this, just regarded it as an ordinary thing, and was only depressed that there were so many people in the garden today, and it was so quiet and elegant that he didn't even have a place to relax.
"Miss, there are a lot of people here, so it's better to go back. "Yinglang Road.
"Do you have a purse?"
"Brought it. Why did the young lady ask about this?"
Wei Zhen glanced at the brightly lit place and said, "Take it and go with me to a place." ”
Yinglang followed closely, and soon stopped in a quite familiar place, Yinglang looked, isn't this the stove room where the food is poured during the day, and then raised his eyes to look at Miss Wei Zhen, and then he smiled with a broad smile, and waited to listen to Miss Weizhen's fall.
The maids who were washing and washing in the stove room saw Miss Wei Zhen coming, and they were even more surprised than when Yinglang came to pour the vegetables, and quickly put down their hands to wipe their hands to salute, and the first dream was continuing the water tank, the closest to the door, and when they saw Wei Zhen coming, they greeted him and said: "I have seen Miss, Miss is such a daughter, how can I come to this greasy stove room in person, and why do I need to do the ward, or what was wrong with the past, please ask Miss to forgive." ”
"Is it you?" Although Wei Zhen's mouth was simple, she thought in her heart that this maid was a clever mouth, she had never made a difficulty, and she had said all the words.
"Yes. I was the one who served the food to the young lady at noon. ”
Wei Zhen asked again, "What's your name?"
"The little maid is a cheap name and the first dream. ”
Wei Zhen repeated the word "first dream", as if tasting the meaning, the smile was quite intriguing, and said: "There is a girl who has a first dream for me to pass the food, I came this time to thank you for the stove room practitioners, a small reward, not as good as you for a few years a day for Wang Xie family to work hard, I also returned to Uncle Zhang Bing, it is Wei Zhen himself who is tired, poor appetite, but seems to be involved in the stove engaged in them, Wei Zhen is deeply sorry. At this time, it was placed in the palm of Wei Zhen's palm, and Wei Zhen pulled the jade gold and silver wire drawstring, and used his index finger and middle finger to clip out some of the five baht coins in it, and it fell in front of the first dream.
"Little maid, don't thank Miss Xie for the reward. Yinglang saw that Chu Meng did not spread his hands to receive the money, and hurriedly said.
"The little maid is grateful for Miss Ming's kindness, and she was terrified for a while, and she was rude, please forgive me. Chu Meng said that he quickly stretched out his slender palm, arched it into a lotus shape, and let the coins between Wei Zhen's fingers fall into the palm of his hand.
Yinglang saw that Chumeng took the reward and retreated aside, and hurriedly shouted: "Next, line up." And a group of maids in the stove room ran from small steps, lined up in a row, like a refugee waiting for Wei Zhen to give a reward, the first dream in the side of the eyes, apricot eyes as clear as a spring, all this clearly, but with a shallow smile, not a word.
When he was young, the money was divided, and Wei Zhen was led by the elderly maid who was in charge of the stove room to inspect a circle, and the maid introduced the stove room and utensils to her one by one, and Wei Zhen also inquired about how the roast pigeon was cooked, but the old imperial chef in charge of the kitchen had already gone back, and the details were not known. Wei Zhen also made up her mind when she came to the stove room, she didn't want to be close to these inferior maids, and it was such a smoky place, but in order to show her gentle and virtuous side, she also gritted her teeth. Wei Zhen and the maid chatted not salty, and was about to step out of the door, but coincidentally glanced at a swill bucket at the foot of the door, which contained discarded vegetables, Wei Zhen stared left and right, as if it was the discarded dishes in his room, the white fish was still full of mustaches, but only this roast pigeon, but was eaten by a large mouthful, the pigeon's legs were full of fat and half of the wall was missing, Wei Zhen pretended to joke: "Your stove room, there will be no mice, right?"
"Miss, where is this? The leading maidservant hurriedly said, "The black clothes stove room has always been the most important thing to clean, don't say it's a mouse, even the black flies can't fly in, it's cleaner than the old maid's face!
"It's just a joke, don't take it seriously. Wei Zhen smiled, turned around and was helped back by Yinglang.
Back to the wing room, Yinglang knew that this Miss Weizhen had always been clean, and went to such a lowly place, and urgently ordered someone to boil water to bathe, when it was young, the rosewood bath barrel was ready, the goldfinch Su embroidered screen was erected, the black cedar incense was burning, and Yinglang waited for Weizhen to change clothes and bathe. Only a bucket of hot water in the bath bucket is passed in from the outside to the inside, Wei Zhen undresses widely, the robe falls lightly to the ground, she walks up the wooden steps by the barrel, stands on tiptoe to test the temperature of the water, the heat is smoking, and a layer of thin crystal broken pearl is condensed on her jade skin, the light is shining, penetrating the fog, as if the skin can't hide the white jade brilliance, and it is still scorching without carving.
Wei Zhen lowered her head and held the water on her arm, a layer of balsam was already greasy in the water, looking at her shiny and moist skin, she suddenly sneered: "How can I, a lady of the royal family, still compete with a servant girl who steals her mouth?"
Yinglang was pouring water on Wei Zhen's back with a wooden scoop, and he heard it like a voyeur through a veil, so he said: "Which maid dares to come to Miss You to steal your mouth? Look at me Yinglang doesn't teach her a lesson!"
Wei Zhen fiddled with the hibiscus petals floating in the water, suddenly showed Ling Guang, stared at Xue Liang with his eyes, and said to himself: "Maybe it's not a maidservant, it's a rat spirit." If you want to steal so much, I'll tell you to steal enough tomorrow!"
Wei Zhen bathed and changed into pajamas and lay down to rest, and Yinglang had nothing to say all night, at noon the next day, lunch came in a hurry, or the first dream came, only this time Wei Zhen specially ordered her to go down and ask her to take it to the outside of the chamber garden, and then Yinglang handed it into the inner room. After the first dream passed the dishes, he was about to leave, but was stopped by Yinglang and said: "Miss ordered, you just wait here, and when she finishes eating, you take the plate back." ”
Chu Meng said "yes" in a low voice, and did not dare to disobey, so he stood and waited at the main gate of the Xiangyuan. When it was young, the clouds overhead drifted away, and the sun shot down so fiercely, baking a cloud of green smoke on the ground, like the summer solstice. The entrance of the Xiangyuan is open and bright, no shade shelter, the first dream hangs his shoulders and stands silently, like a fledgling with wet wings, after a while, the sun is hot and warm, the first dream is wearing a lock collar and a maid's shirt, it is extremely hot, this is not waiting, but more than an hour has passed, the guards in Wuyi Lane have also patrolled back and forth several times, but no one has come out to hand the wooden case, and after a while, the sun is more majestic like desperate baking, a heat wave hit, the first dream immediately felt the blood surged, the eyes were full of gold stars, the lips were also white, the body was about to sway and can't hold on, Yinglang seemed to say that it was okay to come out with the wooden case jade plate, only to push the wooden case, and said with a cold face"Take it." ”
Chu Meng staggered two steps to the corner of the wall with a weak breath, supported the wall, barely stood firm and took the wooden case and groped away, every move, but asked Wei Zhen to see clearly behind the screen window in the house, the smile on her face was quite insidious and vicious, and the coquettish makeup on her face was extremely incommensurate, Yinglang came into the house and said with a smile: "Miss is still watching, she has gone back, the sun outside is so poisonous, Miss Mo let the scorching sun shake her eyes." He approached the table and cleaned up the open Xiaoye Purple Sandalwood Dankui box and said: "It's still a good young lady, so it's a good thing to see!"
Wei Zhen also took away his eyes and approached the table, put his finger on the box and said, "Yinglang, you say...... Will we be going to take this medicine hard?"
"Ahem, miss, what the hell are you doing. Yinglang took out a purple jade ice cracked bottle from the box and said, "This bottle of good medicine brought by the family is the Hu people's treatment of abdominal secretion and closure, and it is only diarrhea when you eat it thoroughly, just to help the mouse clean up the rotten intestines, besides, we only dripped a small half bottle of liquid medicine, nothing can happen, besides, this stealing food is not a glorious thing, even if she is tricked, she will swallow her anger, dare not publicize it, and no one will make the decision for her." ”
Wei Zhen was always a little stunned, and said: "I thought the same way, one out of ten thousand is exposed, so I can push the blame to the maids in the stove room together, saying that their hands and feet are not clean, but ...... There is always some uncertainty. ”
"Miss's strategy is perfect, and Zhuge Kongming's plan is not as comprehensive as Miss's plan when he is alive. Yinglang's voice was not stopped, he knew that this sycophant had been patted, and he didn't dare to look at Wei Zhen's expression, so he hurriedly replied, "Miss just did a reasonable thing, that dish was originally cooked for Miss to eat, even if Miss didn't eat it, it would never be the turn of the maid to eat, they ate secretly, it was trespassing, and they should be held accountable, Miss is very benevolent if she doesn't expose it." ”
"That's it. Wei Zhen said, "I'm tired, make my bed for a nap, and let Brother Xun go?"
"Went out to play. ”
"Forget it. Regardless of him, don't tell him about this, he is such a generous man, and he has a straightforward disposition, which he will not understand. ”
At that time, Chumeng's face was pale and he took the leftover wooden table back to the stove room, and it was already the time for the maids to take a nap and rest, but the maidservants did not go to bed, and they were only looking forward to the first dream. Half of the shadow of the first dream swayed into the garden, and when they saw it from afar, they went out to meet her, and carefully carried her back to the shade, who was almost collapsed.
"I've heard that. You've been harassed by Miss Na Wei Zhen!" Before the door of the stove could be closed, a servant girl was already complaining.
Chu Meng sat down for a while, drank a few sips of strong tea, and his face turned bloody, and said slowly: "Miss has also spent a lot of time eating, and I can't complain about her." And we think about the good. ”
The fat maid brought cold water, moistened a handkerchief, and wiped the sweat on her forehead and neck for Chu Meng, and said: "It's hard for you, why do you say that Miss Weizhen is making things difficult for us? We are just a group of little maidservants, and we have no grievances with her in the long past, and there is no enmity in the near future, is it not because we are happy?"
The thin maidservant said, "You can see that the post she sent about her habits is so thick, it can be seen that she must not be a good lord!"
"But she gave us a reward again, who of the guests who came to stay in the alley before would take care of us and give us the reward?"
Chu Meng cleared his voice and said with difficulty: "Don't discuss the rights and wrongs of the head of the family." Look at the few things I brought back, I was dizzy all the way, and I couldn't even see the road clearly......"
The fat maid hurriedly went over to the wooden table, opened the silver jade dust cover covering the jade plate one by one, and shouted: "You guys have eaten, all the other dishes have been eaten, but the roast pigeon she named has not been touched at all!"
The maids looked at each other, and had no idea, and someone in the crowd said strangely: "This is really strange, isn't the roast pigeon named by her lady, and she doesn't eat it after it's cooked, and I haven't seen anyone come to say that it tastes bad, this Miss Tongzhou, what's the trouble!"