This sleep until ten o'clock in the evening, Xu felt that these days were too tired, and the mandarin ducks and ripples did not wake her up.

When Kou Shu opened her eyes, she saw the afterglow of the setting sun slanting into the room.

"Ripples?" Kou Shu got up and shouted, sure enough, Ripple was outside the door, and when she heard her voice, she immediately lifted the curtain and came in: "The master is awake, are you hungry?" Would you like dinner now? ”

Her series of questions stunned Kou Shu, who had just woken up, and it took her a while to react, and she scolded with a smile: "You are the master of the master?" I ask you, why didn't you call me in the afternoon. ”

"The mandarin duck wants to call you, but the slave maid sees that you are sleeping soundly, and thinks that you have been tired lately, so she wants you to sleep a little longer." Originally, she was the one who always listened to the news of the palace, and now she is also the one who feels sorry for Kou Shu's poor rest. Although she is much calmer now, Kou Shu can't do anything about her.

"If I have something important and I am delayed by this sleep, can you afford it?" Kou Shu asked angrily.

"If the master has something important, he must have ordered me in advance, and we naturally dare not delay the master's business." Ripple replied with an innocent expression.

It seems that she is at fault for not telling her. Kou Shu smiled helplessly: "You are full of truth." ”

Ripple grinned and said, "It's good that the master doesn't blame me." ”

As he spoke, Ripple didn't wait for Kou Shu's command and shouted Mandarin Duck: "The master is awake, and now he is hungry, hurry up and put the meal on the table." ”

"What if I don't want to eat it?" Kou Shu asked.

"Then the slave and maid coaxed the master to want to eat." Ripple smiled and stepped forward to serve Kou Shu to get dressed, and said as he wore it: "The master has not slept well recently, and it is not good to use, we all see it." It's rare that the master woke up from sleep today and looked good, and the slave and maid naturally had to serve the master well. ”

Kou Shu was stunned for a moment, sat in front of the dresser, touched her face and looked left and right in the mirror and asked, "Do I look happy?" ”

"yes." Ripple combed Kou Shu's hair, looked at Kou Shu in the mirror, and smiled: "Mandarin duck and I have been with the master for many years, and we can see whether the master is really smiling or smiling reluctantly." ”

Kou Shu smiled and didn't answer.

There are many people around her, but there are not many people who care about her like Ripple and Mandarin Duck. Maybe it's because they care about themselves that they can detect their true feelings from their subtle expressions.

But it also gave Kou Shu a wake-up call, making her realize that her disguise was not so perfect. It is said that knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles, and perhaps the one who knows himself best is the enemy. And if you leak such an obvious flaw to the enemy, then it will undoubtedly give the enemy an opportunity.

Not long after, the mandarin duck came in with a food box and put the meals on the table one by one: "The small kitchen in the yard has been cleaned up, and the slave went out today to buy some ingredients, and whatever the master wants to eat in the future, you can directly make ready-made." ”

When I first came to Nanzhao, because the yard had not been lived in for many years, it was very old, except for cleaning up a few rooms to live in, I didn't clean up much.

This courtyard was bought by Kou Yunwu when he was in Nanzhao, and Kou Shu told Xuanqing that the courtyard was rented, but he didn't want Xuanqing to find out about himself through the name of the owner of the deed.

Because the time I came to Nanzhao was short, and there were not many people around, I bought meals outside these days. But Nanzhao's food is not as delicate and delicious as Daxuan's, so Kou Shu doesn't eat much, and even Ripple and Mandarin Duck are used to eating the dishes in the palace, and they can't eat it.

Before Mandarin Duck was sick, Ripple took care of Kou Shu, Yuan Yun and Yuan Ming were both people who protected Kou Shu's safety, so naturally they wouldn't do such a thing as cleaning up the yard, so it wasn't until Mandarin Duck got better and followed Kou Shu in alternate shifts with Ripple that the two of them started to clean up the yard.

The first thing this yard did when it was cleaned up was to go out to buy vegetables, rice, oil, and salt.

They really didn't want to eat Nanzhao's food.

The long-lost Daxuan dish made Kou Shu's eyes shine. Although Mandarin Duck's skills may not be as good as those in the palace, the Daxuan cuisine alone is enough to make her salivate.

"I didn't expect the mandarin duck to be able to cook." Kou Shu only felt an appetite, picked up dinner and picked up the dishes.

"The master forgot, there used to be a small kitchen in the palace, and the mandarin ducks also cooked." Ripple said with a smile on the side.

Thinking that although Ripple and Mandarin Duck were palace maids, they were also carefully flattered by the people below in the palace, where had they suffered so much, so he smiled and said, "You guys also sit down and eat together." ”

The mandarin duck hurriedly refused: "This is unreasonable." ”

Ripples, who had a more lively temperament, immediately sat down: "What the master ordered, you dare not listen?" ”

Kou Shu smiled slightly, and said approvingly: "Now that you are outside the palace, you don't have to pay so much attention." Besides, I made you sit down to eat together, and no one will blame you. She thought for a while and said, "Yuanyun and Yuanling sit down together." "As for Yuan Wu, because he is a man, he doesn't eat at the same table, so Kou Shu didn't mention him.

"No need." Yuan Ling coldly refused.

Yuan Yun glanced at her, knowing what she was afraid of, she didn't speak, just sat down.

Kou Shu didn't force her either.

The mandarin duck glanced at the food on the table, felt that it was not enough for a few people to eat, and brought out the food from the kitchen that was originally reserved for himself and Ripple and others.

"It's enough to eat at one table, but you can't eat in the same bowl as the master." Mandarin duck said.

Kou Shu smiled, no longer reluctant.

A room full of master and servant had eaten together, and it was getting dark. At this time, Ripple annoyed himself: "It's dark, the master only slept in the afternoon, and now he can't sleep." ”

Kou Shu thought it was funny, so she only took a sip of tea and said nothing.

When the mandarin duck saw it, he couldn't help but discipline: "What's the use of you remembering now, the master has taken a nap in the afternoon, and he won't be sleepy in another hour or two." ”

Ripple knew that she had done something wrong, so she only dared to mutter: "Didn't I see that my master was tired recently, so I wanted her to rest more......"

"Master, do you want to go out for a walk?" Hearing the ripples and still unrepentant, the mandarin duck simply didn't look at her, and turned around to ask Kou Shu. She slept for so long during the day, and she could go out for a walk at night. Mandarin Duck has already inquired, Nanzhao is open, the night market is very lively at night, and many noble ladies in Nanzhao will go to the night market to walk, so if Kou Shu can't sleep and go out for a walk, it's nothing.

Thinking of the last time she visited the night market, it was the Shangyuan Festival many years ago, and Kou Shu was also slightly moved. She raised her eyes to look at the mandarin duck and happily responded: "Then let's go to the night market." ”