Chapter 3: Separate Courtyard
Aoyagi Town, Fulai Inn. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Hewang was tidying up Li Guan's change of clothes, and two little maids came in with food.
"Just put it there." She pointed to the couch by the window.
The little maid answered softly, put the dishes on the table with her hands and feet, and withdrew.
Hewang walked into the ear room, Xun Fang and Chu Fang were waiting at the door, there was a large bath bucket behind the screen, Li Guan was taking a bath, his elbows were resting on the edge of the bucket, his eyes were closed, as if he was asleep.
"Miss, the water is cold, beware of catching a cold."
Li Wan said "um", opened his eyes, stood up with the bath bucket, and Hewang took the bath towel to dry her.
There was no need to go out again, Li Wan only wore a white silk shirt and walked out of the bath.
"Starving!" She muttered and sat cross-legged on the couch.
The food at the inn is not as good as at home, but it still looks delicious. She couldn't wait to take a sip of the porridge and raised her eyebrows in satisfaction.
Hewang took a cotton cloth to wipe her hair, and she waved her hand: "Don't worry, you can also sit down and eat something." ”
"I'll eat later." Hewang replied with a smile, the movements of his subordinates did not stop at all, and it was not good to wear wet hair.
Li Guan drank a bowl of porridge with side dishes, was full for seven minutes, and played with chopsticks to pick peanuts in cold dishes.
He Wang helped her comb her hair, took a shawl to drape her, and then sat down on the other side of the couch to eat.
"Hey, the food is cold." Li Wan pressed her chopsticks and told the little maid to make the kitchen again.
As soon as he finished speaking, a red figure suddenly rushed in from outside the door.
"Miss, where are you hurt?" Before Li Wan could react, the person had already pounced on him. Long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, a ruby fell in front of his forehead, and his delicate face was full of worry.
Li Wan was stunned, and knocked over with a finger: "Crazy girl!" Surprise me! ”
The little maid standing on the side turned her face sideways and smiled.
Hewang shook his head helplessly and told the little maid to move a stool.
"Ibis, sit down and talk."
Li Wan couldn't cry or laugh, and pushed her: "Don't squeeze me, sit aside." ”
"No, you let me see where the injury is." The ibis did not give up, and a pair of beautiful eyes looked at her with admiration. Li Guan couldn't do it, so he had to brush his hair and show her the wound on her neck.
"A little injury, it's fine."
The wound had been bandaged, and Ibis gently touched the gauze with his hand, his brows trembling in distress.
"I knew that I should send a few people to protect Miss, those guards are all waste eating idle meals!"
Crane looked at him, and a few little maids retreated outside.
"Nonsense again!" Li Guan said angrily, "Let's sit down first." ”
With a bitter face, Ibis sat down on the stool: "Could it be that I have wronged them?" A few little minions couldn't hold it down, and they robbed Miss, it's not a waste! ”
"It's the people in the house after all, just talk about it in front of us, don't let people hear it." Crane said.
The ibis pouted.
"Okay, okay, let's not talk about that. How did you get here? Li Wan asked her with a smile.
"I estimate that when you arrived, you specially sent someone to pick it up, who knew that there would be no one after the hour, so I thought that maybe something was delayed, so I looked all the way over."
"Well, how are things going, are they going well?"
"Don't worry, everything is in order."
Li Guan smiled and nodded. Although the ibis is a little anxious, it is still very reassuring in business.
The three of them were talking, and the little maid suddenly came, and the shopkeeper asked to see her.
"I'll take a look." Hewang went out with the little maid.
After a while, Ibis was talking to Li Guan about the interesting things they encountered when they went out, and the two laughed, and Hewang opened the door curtain and walked in.
Without waiting for Li Guan to ask, she said: "It's not a big deal, someone wants to change our yard and ask the shopkeeper to talk about it." I've turned it down. ”
Li Wan nodded, didn't take it to heart, and continued to laugh with the ibis.
Half an hour later, there was a sudden shouting outside.
Hewang frowned and sent Fang out to have a look.
Chu Fang answered softly, walked out and stood on the steps, only to see a middle-aged woman with two girls arguing with the guards guarding the door, and the shopkeeper of the inn standing on the side wiping sweat.
She cleared her voice towards the courtyard door, "Who's making noise there?" ”
The door was suddenly silent, and the people guarding the door saw that it was the people in the master's house, and they all raised their eyebrows and silenced, and the woman said loudly when she saw this: "I am out of the house, and there are many people with luggage, I want to ask your house to make it convenient, let this single courtyard out, and trouble the girl to talk to your master." There was a bit of arrogance in the politeness.
Her voice was so loud that she didn't need the little maid to communicate with her, and everyone in the room could hear it clearly. It was the first time Li Wan had encountered this kind of thing, and he felt that it was quite fresh, and he was muttering in his heart what was the origin of this person, and the ibis on the side raised his eyebrows, and his eyes showed a bit of sharpness.
"My master is tired of driving and horses, and now that he has stopped, you might as well find another way."
Outside the door, Chu Fang said nonsense without flashing his eyes.
Already rested? This point is still dinner time, when she is a fool. The woman's face showed a little impatience: "Girl, let's go and say goodbye." ”
"Chu Fang, who's arguing outside?"
The woman was thinking about whether to raise her name in the house and force the other party to give in, when suddenly a clear voice came from the room.
She turned around and opened the curtain, and a person walked out of the room, and the woman's eyes lit up.
A sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl, wearing a red dress, long eyebrows and phoenix eyes, and a ruby on her forehead, she is magnificent and luxurious.
It is the ibis language that comes out.
"Girl." Pick up the blessing of the body.
The ibis raised his eyebrows and said to the servants in the courtyard: "Noisy, there are no rules at all!" His eyes swept over the woman, "Pick Fang?" ”
"Back girl, this lady wants to change our yard."
Ibis had already heard the ins and outs of the house, but when she heard the words, she still didn't know anything, and looked at the woman: "I don't know what you call it?" ”
The woman was pressed by the sharp posture of the ibis, and her words were a little more cautious: "The old woman is the housekeeper mother of Tong Mansion in Tonghua Hutong in the capital, and her husband's surname is Liu." ”
"Oh, Mother Liu, the maid is not sensible, please forgive me."
"Don't dare. My master is returning home, and there is a delay on the way, so I can only rest here for one night, please ...... Girl, it's convenient. Liu's mother didn't know the identity of the ibis, so she had to call her a girl with the pick.
"It wouldn't hurt if we let it go in the past, but now it's getting late, and it's inconvenient to act, I'm afraid it will be difficult to obey our fate."
"It stands to reason that it is cheap to go out and do things cheaply, but there are many female dependents traveling with you, lest some people who do not know the number of etiquette disturb the purity of the master, and those of us who are slaves and maids will die in death, and please forgive the girl."
Hearing this, the ibis snorted coldly in her heart, and was about to stab her, when a little maid came out of the house and whispered in her ear.
Ibis frowned, and a trace of unwillingness flashed in his eyes.
"Shopkeeper!"
"Hey!" The poor shopkeeper was waiting with a heart on his side, and when he heard the ibis calling him, he stood up tremblingly, "What does the girl command?" ”
"Do you have any rooms here?"
"Yes, yes!" Seeing that things had taken a turn for the better, the shopkeeper nodded again and again, "It's all clean and comfortable upper rooms, and you can live at any time, are you?" ”
Ibis didn't bother to pay attention to him, and said straight to Liu's mother: "My young lady understands my mother's hard work, and my mother can go back to her life." ”
"Thank you, our master said, as long as you are willing to let out of the yard, we will pay for the house......"
"No need, it's just a few room money, and we can afford it." Without waiting for her to finish, Ibis raised her eyebrows and ordered, "Don't be stunned, pack your things!" ”
After saying that, he turned around and went into the house.
The girl next to Liu's mother frowned: "What kind of attitude does she have!" ”
"Don't talk too much, it's done." Liu's mother's face was also a little worried, just thinking that the other party was a rich man, she didn't know the etiquette, and went back with the girl to restore her life.
Ibis Yu was anxious when he returned to the house, and came to Li Guan: "Why do you want to give in, what is the Tong family, but they rely on the merits of their ancestors to eat idle meals, and they are putting the score to us!" ”
"Your mouth, sooner or later you'll have to suffer." Hewang took the freshly brewed tea from the maid and brought it to Li Guan.
Li Guan lowered his head and studied the pattern on the teacup: "The Tong family is nothing special, but it will be difficult to say later." ”
The ibis bit her finger and thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't understand it, and looked at the crane inquiringly.
"You! Usually let you pay more attention to the things between the various families, you don't always care. ”
"I don't bother to listen to those things!"
"Then you don't care about the Tong family." Crane Wang turned to busy with his luggage, and the ibis followed tightly.
"Oh, good sister, just tell me!"
"Aren't you too lazy to listen?"
"I ......"
The two of them went out without saying a word, and Li Guan took a sip of tea comfortably and smiled slightly.
As soon as the morning dawned, Li Guan and his entourage set off to rush back to the capital. When it was close to noon, I finally saw the gate of the capital.
The Li family had already received the letter, and sent someone to be at the gate of the city, and as soon as they saw them, they hurried to meet them.
"Lord Qing, it's been hard all the way."
"Steward Chai is serious, it's just a matter of duty, and I don't dare to bear the word hard work." Qing Yan flew off the horse, his face was ashamed, "Qing Yan was not well protected, and Miss was injured, and it is really hard to escape the blame." ”
"Lord Qing doesn't have to blame himself too much, everything is decided by the lord and wife."
The two exchanged a few words, and Steward Chai stepped forward to greet Li Guan, and the group went straight to Li's mansion.
Li's house is in Qixian Hutong in the north of the city, and as soon as they arrived at the street, two small servants rushed back to report the news.
Mrs. Li waited at the door with her maid and mother-in-law, and as soon as she received the letter, she craned her neck to look.
"It's done!" Mrs. Li smiled happily, and the servants also looked happy.
"I don't know how Wan'er's injury is, it doesn't matter." Mrs. Li thought of Li Guan's injury and said worriedly.
The eldest girl Mianyue hurriedly relieved: "Miss is a blessed one, don't worry, this is not right away." ”
Mrs. Li nodded.
Without saying a few words, Li Guan and the others arrived. The carriage stopped at the door, everyone gathered around, Mianyue stepped forward to open the curtain, Hewang got off the carriage, and turned around to help Li Guan.