CHAPTER XXIII
In the past few days, Cao Lihuan and Hui'er don't know what to discuss, the two of them close the door and stay in the house for a day, Cao Lihuan has to go to the garden from time to time, and usually comes back after a day. Huairui slipped out to play all day long, and no one stared at and scolded all day long, so Xianglan felt a lot more relaxed.
At noon that day, Xianglan went to the teahouse to have lunch with Mrs. Liu, and after the meal, Mrs. Liu looked at no one around, so she quietly asked Xianglan: "I heard that there are any rumors in the house recently?" ”
What rumors? Xianglan swallowed a sip of tea, thought for a while and said, "Recently, I only heard that the second wife wants to say that the third master wants to say goodbye, because she is in the filial piety of the old lady Zeng, so she only secretly looked at a few of them in private...... There is also the uncle's concubine, Aunt Lan, who was diagnosed as two months pregnant......"
Xianglan counted a few with her fingers, and Mrs. Liu shook her head, pretending to come over mysteriously and said, "I heard that the third master of the pavilion and the girl of the ring are looking at each other!" ”
"Huh? This, this can't be! Xianglan was taken aback, "How can the third master of the pavilion look at the girl in the ring, the girl in the ring is not a beauty, and the family background can't be mentioned on the table, not to mention that she is three years older than the third master!" ”
Mrs. Liu slapped her thigh: "Who said it wasn't!" The old sister asked me about this, and I was also shocked to sweat. But now there are already people in the house who have spread the word, some people saw these two people walking together in the garden, and chanting 'wet' and 'dry'; there are also people who said that they saw the girl Huan giving a purse to the third master, and said that these two people were red and full of affection; and even said that the third master wiped his tears on the falling flowers because he remembered that the girl was about to get married...... In short, the more it spreads, the more miraculous it becomes, and I almost said that I saw the third master kissing his cousin. ”
The more Xianglan listened, the more frightened she became, and when she heard the last sentence, she couldn't help but laugh, and said: "What is mom doing with this heart, it is their master's business, and it has nothing to do with us." ”
Mrs. Liu said: "Why is it irrelevant, if the first-class words are true, or the girl Huan takes the opportunity to rely on the third master, how can it be good to really become the master of the Lin family." ”
Xianglan fiddled with the crony and said casually: "What Mom is talking about is the wishful thinking of the cousin, she has a big heart, and she is not afraid of stealing chickens and rice." ”
Mrs. Liu sighed and said: "How can this kind of thing be said clearly, in case it really depends on the third master, it is not impossible to ask for a concubine in the Lin family with her identity." ”
Xianglan said: "Are you a vegetarian when you are wives? It's better to fiddle with when she enters the door, casually saying that she is not in good health and sent to Zhuangzi to 'recuperate', and after a few decades, no matter how powerful and vicious she is, what tricks can she make? ”
Mrs. Liu blinked, looked at Xianglan and pursed her lips: "Ouch my son, I thought you were a sick cat cub before, but you can say such a thing, it really surprises my old woman." ”
Xianglan smiled but said nothing. She has seen ten times more ruthless methods, but in real terms, although Cao Lihuan's tricks are not clever, they are extremely effective, she is open-minded, in order to covet the wealth of the Lin family, she can actually destroy her reputation.
The two were talking, but they heard Hui'er shouting outside: "Xianglan! Pandan! ”
Mrs. Liu scolded: "Just after eating lunch, it makes people uneasy!" ”
Xianglan sighed, put the cup down, got up and walked out, Hui'er glanced at her, and said, "Miss Huan is looking for you in the house." ”
Xianglan came to the house, Cao Lihuan handed her an envelope, and said with a pleasant face: "You take this and go to Woyun Courtyard and hand it to the third master of Ting." ”
Xianglan "chuckled" in her heart, and then secretly sneered, saying that Cao Lihuan had a good calculation, so she would leave the matter of private teaching and receiving to her, and if someone thoroughly investigated the rumors in the future, she would definitely find out on her head, and she couldn't wash it even if she jumped into the Yellow River. He didn't need to take it with his hands, and hesitated: "Girl, this is ......"
Cao Lihuan was very impatient, wanted to scold a few words, held back her temperament, and said with a smile on her face: "This is a poem manuscript, the third master knows about this, you just have to teach him, you must teach him with your own hands, you go and go back quickly." After speaking, he grabbed a handful of money for Xianglan for the first time.
Xianglan came out of the house, secretly hated as she walked, and said in her heart: "I was already disgusted with Cao Lihuan, and now I am calculating me in this matter, and I am still not used to her villain behavior, but now in my hands, I will not let her get her wish!" ”
Xianglan thought slowly, out of the garden, the afterglow swept back, saw Huairui was following her from a distance, she couldn't help sneering, out of the garden turned a door is the Woyun Courtyard where Lin Jinting lived, Xianglan stepped in, and saw a little girl in the yard watering the flowers, so she stepped forward and greeted: "I'm Xianglan from Luo Xuewu, Miss Huan sent me to deliver something, I don't know if the third master is there?" ”
The maid glanced at Xianglan and said, "The third master is talking to Uncle Song in the house." ”
As soon as Xianglan heard this, she couldn't ask for it, so she hurriedly said: "Then it's inconvenient for me to bother, may I ask which sister with a head and face is next to the third master?" Miss Huan said that she was giving something important, and asked me to give it to a proper person. ”
The maid glanced at Xianglan again, turned and went into the house. After a while, the curtain opened, and out of it came a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl, born with a peach face and apricot cheeks, some posture, but not extremely beautiful, but with a dignified temperament, a white melon seed face, curved eyebrows and apricot eyes, slightly high cheekbones, wearing a plain white embroidered jacket, a moon-white skirt, wearing a hairpin wrapped with silk and beads on her head, and white jade and ginkgo earrings hanging from her ears.
Xianglan was vigilant in her heart, with such a dress, her status is by no means as simple as a first-class maid, she should be the "person in the room" of the third master. The maid said, "This is Sister Su Ju, you have something to tell her." ”
Xianglan smiled and said: "Sister Su Ju, I am a child of the family, I just entered the house a while ago, my name is Xianglan, and now I am on an errand in Luo Xuewu, and Miss Huan asked me to hand this over to the third master." As he spoke, he handed over the envelope.
Na Suju pinched the envelope and looked Xianglan up and down a few times, and said, "I know, I'll hand it over to the third master when I turn around." ”
Xianglan saw that the little girl next to her was carrying a kettle to water the flowers elsewhere, so she said to Su Ju: "The cousin girl sent me to deliver something, or this kind of letter, I feel that it is inappropriate, and the girl told me to hand over the letter to the third master, which is even more inappropriate...... But we can't do anything about being a girl, and now that the third master is older, I have also heard some rumors about Miss Huan and the third master, and I asked Sister Suju to consider it. Fang Cai's words, Xianglan first pointed out that she was the son of the Lin family, and had nothing to do with the Cao family, and faintly hinted that this was inappropriate, if you were smarter, you would be able to understand what she meant.
Su Ju was stunned, she never expected Xianglan to say such a thing, and couldn't help but hesitate: "You...... What do you mean? ”
Xianglan's heart sank, and she said in her heart, could it be that this Su Ju only has a bright skin, she just said this so bluntly and clearly, Su Ju still can't understand? Xianglan was a little depressed, smiled slightly, and said, "Sister Suju, although I serve Miss Huan, in the end, I am the maid of the Lin family, and my heart is still towards the Lin family." ”
Su Ju was stunned, still ignorant. Xianglan was just about to say more, when she saw Song Ke coming out of the house, with a look of surprise on her face: "Why are you here?" ”
Xianglan was blessed and said, "Please Uncle Song's An, the little maid has sent something." ”
As soon as Song Ke opened his mouth, he saw Su Ju standing next to him, so he said to her, "Xiu Hong said that he wanted to eat parfait, let you in." Su Gu saw that Song Ke was uncomfortable when he came out, and hurriedly entered the house when he heard the words, Song Ke smiled and said to Xianglan: "I haven't seen you for a few days, what are you doing these days?" ”
Xianglan looked at Song Ke's familiar attitude, as if the two had been friends for a long time, and couldn't help but have a headache, if she was blunt and flirtatious, or domineering, she could make an alienated and cold appearance, but Song Ke had a modest attitude, and often had a warm smile on his face, which was really annoying, and sighed and said: "It's nothing, just do needlework every day." ”
Song Ke wore a dark green bottom embroidered satin today, with an eight-treasure belt around his waist, and only a bat flowing cloud hairpin on his head, which was even more handsome and graceful, and said to Xianglan with a smile: "You have a good job, and when you go back, you can make me a set for the four treasures of the study." ”
Xianglan smirked and said, "There are so many maids around Uncle Song, you will definitely be able to make one quickly and well." ”
Song Ke said with a smile: "Their craftsmanship is not as good as yours, you see the purse you mended, I carry it every day, and even my mother didn't see that it was mended again." As he spoke, he pointed to the purse around his waist and showed it to Xianglan.
Xianglan had to be perfunctory: "Then wait for me to have leisure." Saying that he wanted to leave, his mind turned, and he said to Song Ke, "Uncle Song, today it was Miss Huan who asked me to come over and send a letter to the third master, Miss Huan said that the letter was some poems, and repeatedly told me to hand it over to the third master by hand." ”
Song Ke's face changed slightly, and then he smiled again, nodded, and said quietly: "Then what?" ”
"I feel that this matter is inappropriate, but I can't be a girl, and I believe that I just gave it to Sister Su Ju. At noon today, I heard some rumors about the third master and the ring girl, and there is no need to say more about how powerful they are. Xianglan took a deep breath, "Just now I told Sister Su Ju that I am the maid of the Lin family, and my heart is still towards the Lin family, so I said these words more......"
Song Ke still had a slight smile on her face, and interrupted her: "I know, I'll ask Xiu Hong to go to the second wife with the letter when I go back, and this matter won't affect you." ”
Xianglan breathed a sigh of relief, talking to smart people is worry-free. He nodded and said, "Thank you Uncle Song, then I will leave." ”
Song Ke said: "If you make a stationery cover for me, you should thank me." The voice was very low, and the wind blew into Xianglan's ears, and Xianglan pretended not to hear it, and walked out across the threshold.
Back at Luo Xuewu, Cao Lihuan called Xianglan and asked, "Did you hand over the things to the third master?" ”
Xianglan nodded.
Cao Lihuan looked happy, and asked again: "What did the third master say?" What could you say to me? ”
Xianglan was very disapproving, and thought: "In order to stay in the Lin family, the cousin girl really let out her whole face, alas, but it's a pity that she doesn't understand the meaning of 'sometimes there must be in life, and there is no time in life to force it'. He made up some words and said, "The third master only took the envelope and sent me away without saying anything." ”
Cao Lihuan said sharply: "How can it be that you didn't say anything!" What did you tell him about it? ”
Xianglan looked honest and obedient: "I told the third master that this envelope is the poem manuscript you handed over to him, and said that you know everything as soon as you see the contents of this envelope." ”
Cao Lihuan raised her eyebrows and said coldly: "Then the third master didn't say anything? ”
Pandan let out an "um".
Cao Lihuan lowered her face and flicked her handkerchief into the bedroom. Hui'er hurriedly followed behind her. Xianglan breathed a sigh of relief, sat on the soft couch and poured half a bowl of tea, but somehow, suddenly thought of Song Ke, remembered that he had a warm smile, and his gentle appearance was somewhat similar to her husband Xiao Hang in her previous life, and she couldn't help but get up in her heart, staring at the water cup for a while, and Yu Guang saw a piece of stone blue material on the pillow, thinking: "This material is brocade, just enough to make a stationery cover for the four treasures of the study, and embroider a few bushes of bamboo to make it even more fine." Then he made two "bah bangs", thinking how could he make needlework for the scheming master again, put the material aside, sat down in front of the embroidery frame, looked at the five-colored mandarin duck on the bright red pillowcase and sighed a long sigh, cheered up and embroidered one stitch and thread.
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