023 Roast on fire
Uh, this chapter is nearly 4,000 words, it's not easy to disconnect, so I'll send it up all together, which can be regarded as two more. Hee-hee,There's no update at night.,(*^__^*)
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There are three days left before the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, and the masters in the Hou Mansion and the maids who run errands are busy.
The courtyard was filled with lanterns of various styles overnight, from the luxurious palace lanterns given by the imperial court to the lanterns rolled by folk craftsmen.
Lanterns are hung in the corner of the eaves corridor, and there are many flowers and trees with lush foliage. There are auspicious lamps painted with Fu Lu Shou Samsung, there are jade rabbit lamps and monkey lanterns that imitate the zodiac, and there are more round, oval landscape flower and bird lights, even the most complicated process of making zuΓ², there are all kinds of cave sky octagonal beauty revolving palace lights, colorful in the night flashing blurred halo, more blowing down, stars like rain, a piece of eye-catching prosperity.
Two days before the full moon night of the Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth, the palace sent angels to various noble families to distribute gifts to Yizhou.
The Marquis of Zhongyong has always been valued by the imperial court, not only the emperor gave a reward, but even the queen of **, in addition to the routine cakes, also gave an additional silk flower bead hairpin and some brocade pearls belonging to the tribute, specially for the wife and daughter of the Marquis of Zhongyong's mansion to have a long face.
When Chi Linglong saw Hongyan who was delivering things to her yard, her face was silent, but she was a little surprised in her heart.
Hong Aya is a first-class maid by Zhou's side, and she has more face than her, an unfavored master, in the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhongyong. In previous years, the queen mother in the palace gave the pearl hairpin brocade to the back house of the Marquis Zhongyong, although Chi Linglong was not the last to choose, but when it was her turn, there were no good things left. However, this time, she didn't even have a chance to choose, and Hong Aya actually sent things directly to Qinglan Temple.
The two little maids behind her were holding two brocades with bird's rank Ruihua brocade and pomegranate red beads on peacock pattern brocade, and one holding a tray with two beads in it, and a few delicate-looking begonias and magnolia silk flowers, as well as a string of small lily of the valley and a string of finely broken Danruo; The petals of these silk flowers are vivid, and the stamens are lifelike, and they look so realistic that when you come up and smell them, it seems that the air is floating with a refreshing fragrance of flowers, which makes people happy.
Jiang's mother personally sent Hong Aya out, and Biyue couldn't help but feel a little uneasy when she saw that this time the weight was extra heavy, and the gold content was obviously more than a few grades higher than before. She wanted to speak for a while, and then hesitated to speak: "Girl, in previous years, there was only one brocade and two silk flowers, but this time the eldest lady sent so much, will there be anything wrong?" "Wouldn't it be that I skipped the third girl, the sixth girl, and the second girl, and the seventh girl, and picked up the best ones and sent them to the girl, right?!
If the sixth girl and the seventh girl know about this, it is nothing, and the second girl may secretly give the girl eye medicine if she knows about it, but if the third girl knows, with her explosive nature, there is no need for the other girls in the house to provoke and provoke, and the third girl can also kick the gate of Qinglan Courtyard away!
Such an obvious thing even noticed Biyun, a second stunned person whose nerves were thicker than steel pipes, how could Chi Linglong ignore it? However, after Jiang's mother sent Hong Aya back, she frowned and thought for a while, and asked, "Could it be...... In order to give face to the Anguo Mansion? "After all, the Duchess and the third prince of the Anguo Mansion are all in Yizhou this year.
Jiang's mother didn't know about Mu Xie and Zhou's desire to marry sisters, so it was not surprising that she would guess like this. Biyue and Biyun glanced at Jiang's mother, and finally whimpered, straining their necks to endure it, so that they didn't say the unseemly plan that the two wicked women came up with, but they couldn't help but hate it in their hearts.
"Biyun will send some of the fat I developed some time ago to the fourth and ninth girls' rooms in a while." Chi Linglong was holding a delicate begonia silk flower in her hand, but her brows couldn't help frowning, not only feeling bad for Zhou's uneasiness, but also feeling that her obvious favoritism might cause more gossip. I could only sigh in pain, "That's it, the rest of the girls will also send some over." β
Although Biyun knew that the girl asked her to listen to the news, she was responsible for it, but when she thought that the girl was going to take out a little flour fat that she had spent more than half a month to develop, she was inevitably a little dissatisfied, and called "girl" sullenly. Not only did Biyun feel sorry for those facial fats, but even Biyue and Jiang's mother felt a little painful.
At that time, the girl read a recipe in the book and tried to make it. After tossing for more than half a month, I picked all kinds of seasonal flowers in Qinglan Courtyard and the Seven Girls' Courtyard, but only made three or five boxes.
That fat is really good, much better than the dozens of gold boxes of fat sold by the best fat powder shop in Beijing. The facial grease is applied to the face, not to mention the moisturization and shinyness, and it does not melt when it encounters water, which makes people look ruddy, and the complexion is particularly bright, I am afraid that it is a tribute used by the ladies in the palace, and there is no such good.
Although the girl never likes to do some retouching on her face, she never applies grease and powder, and she is refreshing all day long, but this kind of good thing that money can't buy, even if it is dry and put as an ornament, it is also a kind of face, who will be too much?
They all felt pain when they were begged for a small box by the seven girls before, and now they have to send it to the rest of the girls who have no merit and have a good relationship with their girls, Biyue stomped her feet a few times one after another when she went out, but she couldn't swallow the breath in her heart.
Biyun goes fast, and he doesn't come back slowly. When she left, the little girl who followed behind her was holding a fat box in her hand, and when she came back, she also brought back a lot of return gifts.
Biyun's face was a little unsightly, and Mother Jiang took the little maid to return the gifts of the girls in each room, and left after saying a few words. Since Chi Linglong entered the boudoir school in the house and learned the way of running a house, Jiang's mother has slowly handed over the matters in the girl's courtyard to the girl in an orderly manner, but whenever Chi Linglong can solve the things by herself, Jiang's mother never interferes too much.
In the inner room, Biyun began to babble with a heavy face: "Girl, fourth girl, ninth girl, second room girl, eighth girl, tenth girl, this time the share is the same as the one in our courtyard in previous years, one brocade, two silk flowers. "These are all girls from the Mansion of the Marquis of Zhongyong, and they are from the same table as Chi Linglong.
He added: "The sixth girl and the second girl's room are the same as the girl's today, two brocades, five silk flowers, and two beaded hairpin jewelry. But...... According to the slave maid, the reward that the second girl received today was far less than the girl's share. β
The sixth girl, Chi Mingzhu, won't talk about it, after all, she crawled out of Zhou's belly, and no matter how much Zhou came out of the moth, she would not treat her daughter badly. The second girl is not good, not to mention anything else, just as Zhou's disagreement with the old lady and the second lady, although Zhou's face will not treat the second girl badly, he doesn't like it in his heart, the real master of the house in this house is still the Zhongyong Marquis Mrs. Zhou, who is married to the Ming media, and it is too easy to do something.
For example, the bird title Ruihua Jin that the girl got today, the sixth girl has it, but the second girl doesn't, and it can't be clearer than the other.
As soon as Bi Yue heard that the girl was more generous than the second girl in the house, her face suddenly became extremely ugly. It's not easy for the girl to be in the house, and now the Zhou family wants to roast the girl on the fire again, right? Biyue hurriedly said, "How about the sixth girl?" What did the three girls get anywhere? Biyue asked busily.
Biyun looked speechlessly at Biyue, who was stupid, and only cared about twisting the handkerchief as a twist, and said speechlessly, "The six girls naturally get the best." As for the three girls, the three girls are there......"
Bi Yun swallowed, Bi Yue wanted to beat her anxiously, and her eyes were red: "You should say it quickly, what is going on with the third girl?" β
Bi Yun's face flushed, she pouted and looked at Chi Linglong innocently, and then at Bi Yue, and then said in a whisper: "I didn't even enter the door at the third girl!" "Hmph," Sister Bai Qi said, the third girl was infected with the wind cold, and she was a little uncomfortable, so she didn't allow me to go in. At this point, I was even more unconvinced, and muttered in a low voice, "But I obviously heard the third girl scolding angrily in the room, and I also heard the sound of banging, and the third girl broke the vase and teacup in the room to vent." "The three girls have a hot temper, and they drop things whenever something doesn't go their way, and the furnishings in the room are the most diligent.
Biyue's neck stalked, and she almost didn't catch her breath. Biyun's habit of complaining anytime and anywhere really has to be changed, otherwise, sooner or later, she will choke to death. Biyue relieved herself, and looked at Chi Linglong without tears, "Girl, it's over......"
Chi Linglong, who had not made a sound, stopped fiddling with the interstitial screen in her hand, and glanced at Biyue who was looking at her with "you are dead" in a funny way, and the corners of her mouth were irrepressibly raised, "What's over?" β
"Girl" Biyue wanted to cry without tears. The third girl has always looked down on the concubines in the house, and the girls in the big house and the fourth girl are even more thorns in her eyes and flesh for various reasons. Since Biyun heard the three girls beating and scolding her subordinates, she must have been wrong, according to Cheng DΓΉ, who was well-informed by the three girls, she must have known that today's girl's share was comparable to her, and she was angry. Biyue said: "The third girl must hate the girl to death this time." β
Chi Linglong sneered indifferently, "I just treat her as a bodhisattva, and she also hates me to the core." It doesn't matter if she is not in charge of this Hou Mansion. β
Biyun stopped talking, Biyue wanted to say a few more words Seeing the girl's sinking face, she hesitated for a while, but didn't say it in the end.
After a long time, Chi Linglong inserted the newly folded mandarin duck jasmine in the interstitial, cleaned her hands, and asked Biyue while drinking tea, "What is Bikong doing these days?" β
Biyue frowned, but Biyun took the first step to reply: "She is still the same character, and she runs diligently in the courtyard of the three girls all day long. Hmph, eating dog things inside and out, her eyes are on the top of her head, and she almost forgets who her master is. Girl, Bi Hollow Heart is no longer in our courtyard, what is the girl still doing with her dangling in front of us? Doing nothing all day long obstructs our eyes out of thin air. Hmph, she has long regarded herself as a person from the third girl's Zhenlang Pavilion, maybe even the fact that the girl got this time is different from the previous one was also revealed by her to the third girl! β
Biyun is angry with Bi Kong, Bi Yue never tells people right and wrong behind her back, and at this moment, she has a rare frown that can kill a mosquito.
Biyun said again: "Girl, you can find a way to send the blue sky out." Sleeping in a room with such a betrayal thing, watching her cause trouble and sow discord everywhere every day, the slave is really afraid that she can't help but strangle her for a while. β
The teasing smile on Chi Linglong's face made Bi Yun's voice lower and lower, and Bi Yue couldn't help but hold her handkerchief and laugh.
"It's easy to get out." Chi Linglong took a sip of the foam in the tea with a tea cup, and then said casually: "It's just that she is her mother's person after all, if you move her, and your mother sends a powerful one over, can you still deal with it?" β
Although Bikong eats inside and out, her heart is simple after all, and she thinks what she does is secret, but in fact, all the maids and women in Qinglan Courtyard who have a little calculation in their hearts are in their eyes. She didn't move her before, not because she didn't know that her body was in Cao Ying's heart in Han, but because she was worried that she would anger the Zhou family, and then send someone to come over, and since then she has been living under surveillance, and everyone's life is not easy.
It's just that at this time and that time, there are only those who have been thieves for a thousand days, and there is no reason to prevent thieves for a thousand days. Zhou put her on the fire this time, and it seems that the next plans for her will be put on the table one by one, blue sky...... Can't stay any longer!
"Give me all the rewards that my mother has given me today...... Keep it. Chi Linglong was silent for a moment and then instructed Biyue unhurriedly, "...... Sue her, everything is good, and after the Mid-Autumn Festival, ask Zheng Xiuniang to go to the house to make me two sets of clothes, and keep them for a few days when I go to Qingyang Bofu to participate in the old lady's birthday banquet. β
The expression on Chi Linglong's face was light, and even the tone of her voice was careless, but whether it was the blue sky or the blue moon, it seemed to smell the smell of blood, and there was a feeling of fear.
- Girl, this is it, you're going to do it?!
Biyue responded cautiously with her heart, and went out to do errands in a blink of an eye. But I couldn't control my anxiety in my heart, Bixiao......