Chapter 28: The Bugs Are Coming
Walking to the door of the courtyard, she turned her head and said thank you to Feng Mingzhen again, remembering that the handkerchief was still on her, she quickly ripped off the handkerchief and held it in her hand, "Your Highness's handkerchief, I washed it and returned it tomorrow!" ”
"No need, I'll take it back and let the maid wash it!"
Mu Lingkong was not hypocritical, and obediently put the handkerchief on it.
After the prince returned to the courtyard that day, Zhuang Chong only felt that His Royal Highness the prince was very strange. First, he sat in front of the desk with a handkerchief for a long time, he observed, it was His Royal Highness the Prince's own handkerchief, and then he saw that he packed the handkerchief in a sandalwood box, he peeked before, and there was a delicate golden hairpin in the box, and he didn't know what His Highness was doing when he put it away like this.
Feng Ming really put away the things carefully, and said to Zhuang Chong on the side, "Go check the matter!" ”
Zhuang Chong's expression was pale, and he listened to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say slowly, "Go and check, which young lady went to the hot spring this evening!" ”
Zhuang Chong almost suspected that he had misheard, why did His Royal Highness care about this, but he still gave his hand, "Yes!" ”
On the other side, Mu Lingkong went back to the courtyard to look for Dongxue, and when she found the dusty Dongxue in the kitchen, she was already powerless, "Dongxue, why did you come back?" ”
Dongxue squatted in front of the stove and looked up stupidly, "Miss, didn't you say you want to drink bird's nest stewed pear?" Let the slave come back first, and then you will come back with other ladies! ”
Looking at her black and gray face, her cheeks flushed by the fire, she really couldn't get angry, and said sullenly, "Who told you that I want to drink bird's nest stewed pear?" Can you eat what you stewed! ”
Dongxue scratched her head, "It's not, Qingli isn't there!" ”
Dong Xue is honest and honest, she does her duty in everything she does, and she is not very outstanding, but she is really not good at cooking. Qingli is the opposite, smart and clever, and she doesn't need to say anything to understand her master's mind. But among the two maids, she is more inclined to winter snow. This time, Qingli had something to do at home to take leave, and she only brought Dongxue out.
She looked at the pot of half-burnt things stewed on the stove, and pulled the winter snow up, "Even if I want to drink it, don't you know to ask the people in the kitchen to help?" ”
"But Miss, you said you want the slave to stew it with your own hands!"
That's why she was detained in the kitchen for most of the hour, with no way of knowing her situation.
"Let me ask you, who sent the message to you to stew the soup?"
Dongxue thought about it for a while, "The slave maid is not familiar with the maids of other young ladies, so she doesn't know her, she began to stay outside the forest with me, and after a while, she went in, and when she came out, she kept asking about this, did you have something going on?" ”
After thinking about it, Mu Lingkong decided not to tell her first, otherwise this solid-eyed little girl would probably blame herself for a long time. She turned around and walked forward, thinking to herself, since she couldn't find who did it, then she even sat down, knowing that she was the only one left in the pool, and there was no one guarding outside, no matter who was the mastermind, the rest of the people were finally accomplices who stood by and watched!
The next day, when the sky was still bright, she called for winter snow, and borrowed Meng Ruyue's maid Xiangqiao and Xiangyun to shuttle through the forest that was still filled with mist and humidity.
Feng Mingzhen had just finished practicing swords in the forest in the morning, washed in the hot springs, and returned to the courtyard with Zhuang Chongzheng, and saw these people busy in the forest, and didn't understand what they were doing for a long time, so he jumped lightly, jumped on the branch, and was standing behind Mu Lingkong, watching her use chopsticks to pick up a fat green worm and throw it into the jar, and couldn't help but speak, "What are you doing?" ”
Mu Lingkong didn't notice that there was someone behind him at all, and suddenly heard a voice behind him, and in a startled, he stepped on the air under his feet, and fell down stupidly like a quail. Feng Mingzhen reacted very quickly and leaned over, grabbed Mu Lingkong's waist and brought her back to the branch, and when she stood firm, she asked again, "What are you doing here?" ”
Mu Lingkong looked at the jar full of squirming insects of all colors, and said without blinking: "I recently raised a bird, and the food is very large, so I brought a few maids out to catch insects for it to eat!" ”
Feng Ming was really silent, he really couldn't imagine that any bird could eat so many insects, but he didn't demolish her, and told her gently, "Then you be careful!" ”
After saying these few words, the two of them sensed that something was wrong almost at the same time, and then looked down to see that Feng Mingzhen was still holding her waist tightly!
The two took a few steps back almost at the same time, Feng Mingzhen put his hands behind his back, and clenched his fists in vain, "I still have something to do, go first!" ”
Mu Lingkong nodded indiscriminately, and watched Feng Mingzhen jump off the branch and go farther and farther.
Seeing that the insects were almost collected, Mu Lingkong took a few people back to the other courtyard.
On the table in the room, there were four or five coarse cloth bags that Dongxue had made overnight last night, Mu Lingkong asked people to put all the jars on the table, so he let Xiangyun Xiangqiao and the two go back first, sat down at the table by himself, and raised his eyebrows at Dongxue, "Let's do it!" ”
Dongxue's face was full of puzzlement, "Miss, what are you going to do?" ”
Mu Lingkong pointed to a few bags, "Put all the insects into the bags, and the amount of each bag is about the same!" ”
Dongxue's brows were about to become tangled into earthworms, she didn't quite understand what Miss was going to do, but she didn't dare to ask more, so she obediently began to pretend to be insects.
After the insects were loaded, Mu Lingkong went out with a few bags of insects, and he didn't want Dongxue to follow, so he walked out of the courtyard by himself.
Last night when she was soaking in the hot spring, she listened to a few young ladies chatting opposite, today they were going to go to the flower forest halfway up the mountain to enjoy the flowers and taste wine, and when she arrived in the forest, she really saw a few young ladies in the hot spring yesterday, and the stars were Song Lanzhi.
Mu Lingkong squinted slightly, took out a delicate slingshot from his sleeve pocket, and the cloth bag turned between his fingers. She hadn't done anything like this in a long time, and she didn't know if the skill was still there.
The corners of her mouth hooked a mischievous smile, she waited for Song Lanzhi to be a little out of the group, and then easily threw the squirming cloth bag on Song Lanzhi's head, and immediately a stone chased the clouds and hit the cloth bag with a fierce wind sound like a moon, and the cloth bag was biased, and everyone noticed that there was something strange on the top of their heads, and before they could raise their heads, they heard an earth-shattering scream from Song Lanzhi not far away, and the sound was about to break. Everyone turned around in horror, only to see that Song Lanzhi, who had always had a lot of manners, was jumping up and down like a monkey, and there were countless insects of all kinds hanging on her hair and clothes.
The young ladies grew up with brocade clothes and jade food, and they had never seen so many disgusting insects, no one dared to step forward, and they hid to the side without taking care of themselves, only Song Lanzhi's two maids endured the nausea and stepped forward to help her shake off the insects on her body.
Before anyone could stop, three more young ladies were covered with insects, and suddenly everyone was in a hurry, and those who were a little calmer found that someone was deliberately playing a prank, and looked around in horror, but there was nothing unusual except for the sound of the wind passing through the woods.
A group of people didn't dare to stay here anymore, and ran down the hill crying. After making sure that everyone was gone, Mu Lingkong jumped down from a tree in the distance, walked to a few places full of insects, picked up the bag, trembled, and walked down the mountain humming a small tune. Not only are the bugs disgusting, but she can see that there are some caterpillars in there!