Chapter 5 Pothos
Qian'er is a rough little maid, she is not qualified to enter the master's house, and before Qian'er called her in, she had never stepped into Nan Qingxi's house, let alone the inner room. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
But when she passed through the hall, not only did she not show a trace of envy on her face, but a layer of green frost was condensed, and when she entered the inner room and saw Nan Qingxi's haggard face, she cautiously asked, "Does the girl still use ginseng now?" ”
Seeing what she said solemnly, Nan Qingxi knew that something was wrong, her expression was grim, and she said: "Except for today's ones, they are all used every day, but what's wrong?" ”
Originally, Hongzhi recruited her because she knew that Qian'er had always understood ginseng.
Qian'er sighed, and said after a while: "When I came in just now, I smelled the fragrance in the hall and there seemed to be something wrong, it seemed that there was a heavy amount of quinoa mixed with the spices, but maybe I smelled it wrong." ”
When Nan Qingxi heard this, she was stunned, looked at Qian'er carefully for a long time, and muttered, "Pothos, who lit the incense these days?" ”
Green Pothos thought for a moment and said, "Several sisters in our house who are in charge of spices have stayed in Lizhou, and I don't know anything about spices, and the fragrance in the girl's house is in the hands of Biyu herself. ”
Kou Er said: "These days, Sister Biyu has been sick with the wind and cold, so she handed over the spices to the little maids who lit the incense according to the amount, so as to avoid the trouble of going back and forth every day to get them. ”
With guilt, the red note said busily: "I was negligent, and the maids and mothers-in-law who are serving in our house now are all here in Nizhou, not from Lizhou." ”
Kou Er lowered her voice and hurriedly said: "The girl has just returned to Nizhou, and there are many new maid mothers in our house, even I, I don't know a few until now, besides, a few days ago it was the Shangyuan Festival, and there were many people up and down the house, and a few high-class people in the pothos and red notes were not in the house, and there were some people who were unable to do it." ”
Nan Qingxi only felt a headache, and when she thought of ginseng and quinoa, she was in a cold sweat, so she stroked her forehead and said, "Qian'er, you don't have to worry about anything else, you can tell me, how did you know spices?" ”
Qian'er said: "Before I was sold into the house, my family was in the spice business, and I lived in the spice pile since I was a child. ”
Luthos was busy as if she had just woken up from a dream: "Girl, when I came back, I felt that the fragrance in the hall was strange, but the little maids were lazy and took the wrong incense, so that the little maids changed it again, but I am afraid that this will be a surprise to the snake." ”
Qian'er raised her eyes and glanced at the pothos, and said affirmatively: "No, I'm sure that the incense I replaced also contains quinoa, but the weight is a little lighter, but the smell in the hall is probably because the original incense spot is long, so that it will not disperse for a long time." ”
When Luluo heard this, she looked at Nan Qingxi, Nan Qingxi nodded slightly at her, and Luluo went out with Qian'er.
After a while, the little maid with the little incense came in nervously with her clothes, and the three of Luluo, Kou'er, and Qian'er stood guard at the door, and no one in the courtyard was allowed to enter the house.
The little maid saw that Nan Qingxi was sitting on the bed in the west room, so she knelt down in front of Nan Qingxi with bated breath, Nan Qingxi saw her cowering, she couldn't help but sigh, and asked, "You ordered the incense?" ”
The little maid was at a loss, so she responded, "It's me who keeps an eye on it every day, and I don't dare to wait for the incense to go out." ”
Nan Qingxi sneered when she heard this, and asked again, "Who took it from you in that Xiangsu Riri?" The little maid was silent for a while, a little timid, and seemed to whisper: "Every day, Sister Biyu personally took it and gave it to me, these days Sister Biyu is not good, and before resting in the house to recuperate, she handed me all the spices for several days, and I just lit it according to the daily amount, and I didn't dare to increase or decrease it in the slightest." ”
Nan Qingxi's face softened slightly, and then asked, "So you still have the remaining spices in the house?" ”
The little girl nodded like a chicken pecking rice, and said, "Because it is the incense used by the girl, I dare not slack off, so I put it in the cabinet and locked it, for fear that there will be a case." ”
The red note called the pothos to come in for Nan Qingxi, and since she went out to guard the door, the pothos asked the little maid for the key to fetch the remaining spices in person. After two teas, the pothos folded back again, empty-handed, and his expression was not very good, so he only replied, "There is nothing in the cabinet." ”
The little maid was so frightened that she cried, and hurriedly said, "How could it not be, because there is a girl's medicinal herbs in the cabinet, and I am the only one who holds the key, how can there be nothing!" ”
Seeing that Nan Qingxi's eyes dimmed, and the pothos didn't allow her to say more and was about to pull her out, the little maid suddenly had a spirit, grabbed the corner of the pothos's clothes, and cried: "Sister, don't send me to teach Mama, beg my sister." ”
The pothos looked grim and shouted in a low voice: "Useless things!" ”
Somehow, Nan Qingxi suddenly coughed loudly and kept coughing, and the green pothos hurriedly asked Kou Er to come in and hand the spittoon, but accidentally saw Nan Qingxi coughing up a large mouthful of blood in the spittoon, which made the green pothos cry silently, and didn't care about the little girl.
In the panic, the red note didn't know when she came in, she grabbed the little girl's hand tightly, her voice was so cold that it made people tremble, she lowered her face and pasted it to the little girl's ear, "Today's girl vomited blood because of you, if you say it, the girl has no intention of punishing you, and you can't pass the old lady's place, so you have to hang your heart!" ”
The little maid raised her eyes and looked at the bright red blood stains on the corner of Nan Qingxi's mouth, her face was almost as pale as paper, and she didn't know what to do, so she was taken down by the mother-in-law who called from the red note.
Kou'er brought new tea and served Nan Qingxi to drink, because she asked: "Girl, I just sent Qian'er to Sister Biyu's house to see, Qian'er came back and said that Sister Biyu was not in the house, she was sick, and she didn't know where she went so late?" The little maid seemed to have no idea about the loss of spices. Girl, what should we do? ”
Nan Qingxi was angry when she heard this, and her breath became disordered again, and she was about to speak but spurted out a mouthful of blood with a "wow", splashing on the scarlet carpet.
Nan Qingxi was panting as if she was about to get out of breath, and the three of them turned pale with fright, and the red note took the lead in calming down and called a few safe mothers to come into the house.
The mothers were busy feeding medicine and cleaning up the blanket and putting it on, Nan Qingxi's eyes that were originally as bright as paint became dim, and the red note helped her into the inner room, and waited for her to lie down on the paint bed to rest, and she smelled a few hints of medicine on her body.
As soon as Hongjian thought of the events of these days, her heart was like a knife, seeing Nan Qingxi's tearful appearance, she knew that she was also exhausted, coupled with the illness in these days, looking at her eyes also brought a bit of extra sadness and pity, Hongjian couldn't help but sigh, and stretched out her hand to tidy up her scattered sideburns for Nan Qingxi.
Nan Qingxi smiled bitterly, her eyes were already full of tears, and she said softly: "Red note, I'm afraid this matter is only related to Jasper." ”
Hongjian listened to her voice with a little disappointment in sadness, lowered her eyelids, only felt that her sideburns seemed to be sweaty, and said sneeringly: "Jasper? ”
After Pothos calmed down, she also felt that the matter had something to do with Jasper, so she hurriedly took Kou'er to Jasper's house in person, and when she returned, she ordered Kou'er and Qian'er to stay at the door, and she entered the inner room with a pale face.
"Girl, Jasper is gone!" Green Pothos blurted out in a hurry, and before the words fell, there was a voice from outside from the voice of Kou'er's announcement, "Grandma Yin, this has already been lost, why is your old man here?" ”
Because Kou'er's announcement was very loud, Hongjian and Nan Qingxi ignored the words blurted out by Fang Luluo.
Hongjian and Luluo only felt that this Mama Yin came suddenly, but Nan Qingxi knew that her grandmother's henchman Mama Yin came late at night, and there would definitely be nothing good, her heart was already cold, and she shouted lightly: "Please come into the house and have a cup of tea to warm up before talking!" ”