038 Ulterior motives
In the afternoon, Li Minfeng personally visited Li Weiyang.
After sending away the doorkeeper's mother, as soon as Li Minfeng arrived at the door, he saw a girl wearing a green silk vest and a moon-white dress sitting against the door of the West House, talking to a little girl.
"What is Sister Ziyan embroidering?" The little girl asked curiously.
Ziyan smiled and showed her the embroidery in his hand, Li Minfeng's eyes were excellent, and he saw a pair of colorful mandarin ducks embroidered on the handkerchief from a distance, playing in the lotus pond, and the lotus pond was full of lotus flowers, which was very lively and lively.
The little girl's eyes rolled and she smiled: "Sister Ziyan, this is trying to get married!" Gai Ming'er, you beg Miss San, let her promise you a good family! β
Ziyan's face suddenly turned red, and she took the handkerchief and hammered the little girl's shoulder, and spat: "Don't talk nonsense!" β
Ziyan is only fifteen years old this year, and she has a duck egg face, fair skin, and her smile is like a dizzy lotus flower, which is a bit eye-catching. Li Minfeng glanced at her lightly, and a strange look flashed in his heart.
The little girl smiled: "Don't be ashamed, the third lady will definitely choose a good husband for you!" β
Ziyan's smile faded suddenly, and she said softly: "The third young lady can't help herself, how can she manage the slave maid-"
The little girl was stunned for a moment, wanting to say something, but she wanted to say something and stopped. Indeed, the third lady is a concubine girl, although she has won the favor of the old lady, but she is not the heart of the eldest lady, and she is afraid that the marriage will be difficult in the future, and the master is unhappy, and the girl can have a good way out.
Ziyan sighed, quite a little unspeakably troubled, but suddenly heard someone coughing heavily, and was suddenly startled, and when he raised his eyes, he saw a young man in brocade clothes and jade belt standing in front of him, and immediately blushed, stepped forward and saluted: "Big young master." β
"Well, your name is Ziyan?" Li Minfeng looked very kind and glanced at her.
Ziyan's face turned even redder inexplicably, and she said in a low voice: "Yes, the slave is the big girl Ziyan next to the third lady." Does the eldest young master want to see Miss? β
Originally, he did come to see Li Weiyang, but now he changed his mind, Li Minfeng smiled: "No, I just accidentally lost a fan nearby yesterday, and now I am about to ask the third sister to help me find it." β
Ziyan smiled and said, "The slave can help with this matter, where did the eldest young master's fan go?" β
"It's in the grass not far from the door." Li Minfeng said.
Li Minfeng and Ziyan walked out, the little girl watched quietly, suddenly frowned, picked up her skirt and walked back to the house quickly.
Li Weiyang was talking to Mo Zhu in the house, and Mo Zhu said: "Although the old lady doesn't like extravagance, she doesn't eat everything. For example, when eating fish, the old lady only eats the piece of meat from the fish's eyes; If you eat chicken, you will only eat seven points of fat; Eat sea mushrooms, and only pick those with fat belly and small head. Among all the food, the old lady's favorite is the stewed duck, this duck is more refined than ordinary people's practices, first wash and remove the internal organs, put it in a porcelain jar, and cook it for three days with a simmer to steam the duck meat to crisp, and the whole duck, the duck palm is made alone, remove the bones and palm hard calluses, mixed with spices and magnolia flowers, not to mention how fragrant the taste is. β
Li Weiyang nodded, sending goose feathers for thousands of miles, the gift was light and affectionate. The old lady likes to drink tea and eat duck, and Li Minfeng's approach is enough to prove that he is a fine person.
At this time, a little girl outside the door probed her brain.
Li Weiyang's eyes were bright for a moment, Xiusheng looked over, the little girl was frightened, and she only heard Mo Zhu say inside: "Who's outside, Miss let you in!" β
The little girl came in nervously and kowtowed to Li Weiyang: "Miss, the slave has something to report." β
Li Weiyang glanced at her lightly, and Bai Zhi said softly: "Miss, this is the little girl Xiu'er in the pantry." β
The little girl in the pantry? Puzzled in his heart, Li Weiyang's eyebrows were very gentle: "What's wrong?" β
Xiu'er said: "Just now, the eldest young master came, saying that a fan was thrown in the grass outside, and then he wanted to ask the young lady to help him find it, Sister Ziyan was originally doing needlework in the yard, so she volunteered to go and let the slave and maid go back and forth to the young lady." β
Li Weiyang stared at Xiu'er for a long time, and suddenly smiled: "Bai Zhi, reward her with a purse, and bring it up to be a second-class girl in three days, and she doesn't have to go back to the pantry, just wait in the courtyard." β
Xiu'er was overjoyed, and hurriedly kowtowed: "Thank you, slave, Miss!" β
A little girl who does rough work is promoted to be a second-class girl overnight, which is really a great thing, Xiu'er left with a smile. Li Weiyang took a sip of tea gently, Bai Zhi suddenly understood in her heart, and said, "Miss, Ziyan should have reported to you first, but she was negligent, don't blame her." β
A girl went out of the courtyard with the young master without reporting, does this not take her master to heart, or is she already happy and completely forget her identity? Li Weiyang smiled faintly and said, "It may be that she was negligent for a while, or it may be that she has a big heart and thinks my temple is too small." β
Miss said this very strictly, Bai Zhi's face turned white at the moment, Li Weiyang glanced at her, and said: "Ziyan, like you, is a girl who came from Pingcheng with me, I am more kind to both of you than to others, but this does not mean that I can tolerate anything." β
Bai Zhi lowered her head, becoming more and more frightened in her heart, and secretly blamed Ziyan for being too self-assertive, and her master asked her to guard in the courtyard, but she ran away with someone like this.
At this time, Bai Zhi had not yet realized the deeper meaning, but Mo Zhu had already frowned.
"You go and call all the girls and mothers in the yard." Li Weiyang commanded lightly.
"Yes." Mo Zhu walked away quickly.
After a while, except for Ziyan, who had been gone for half an hour and had not seen anyone, everyone else had arrived.
Li Weiyang sat on the chair, glanced at everyone, and then pointed to one of the mothers: "I hate people who don't do things responsibly, you go back to the housekeeper by yourself, and say that my yard can't accommodate you, so find your own way out!" β
"Miss, slave maid......" Once you are driven out of the house, it is equivalent to a dead end. Mother Liu's face was pale, and she trembled with fright, "The slave doesn't know what she did wrong-"
"What did you do wrong? Where did you just go! Why didn't you report when the eldest brother came, do you want others to say that I deliberately neglected the eldest brother? β
Mother Liu was taken aback: "It's the eldest young master who said that there is no need to report ......"
"Full of nonsense! Where is there no notification when you enter someone else's yard! The eldest brother is a well-educated person, how could he say such a thing, it is obvious that you are deliberately lazy! actually opened his mouth to frame the eldest brother, and then went to get twenty boards! Li Weiyang said coldly.
Liu's mother didn't have time to plead, so she was dragged down by Mo Zhu's commander. Everyone only dared to look at Liu's mother with sympathetic eyes, but they didn't dare to ask for a favor. They have already understood that as long as the old lady still likes the third lady, then the owner of this courtyard is and can only be the third miss, and it can never be someone else!
Ziyan happened to walk in from outside the door with a smile on her face, and when she saw this scene, she suddenly turned white!
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Everyone asked, why Li Changle never married in his previous life, there is a reason, but this part has not been written for the time beingβ_βb Khan