Chapter 23 Lotus Leaves

"Master, you have to take care of Sisi's girl. On the second day of the first month of March, I went out with the maid Chuntao, this, the sun on the fourth day of the first month of March is about to come out, and I haven't seen her figure yet. A girl's family turned out to be a few days and nights and did not return home. If this gets out, sir, where will your face go? ”

In a small restaurant in the Liu family's mansion, Liu Yuanwai was sitting at the small dining table slowly and unhurriedly eating the glutinous and refreshing red bean and lotus seed soup cooked in a small porcelain bowl. The words of Yun Shi, who was sitting across from him and complaining about his second daughter, seemed to be deaf and indifferent.

"Alright, alright. It's breakfast, can't you stop for a while? Liu Yuanwai drank the soup in the bowl, and handed the bowl to the Yun family who was sitting opposite him: "Go, I'll bring another bowl to your master."

"I, you, Yoo Se-hoon, did you hear me talking to you? You ......" Yun Shi said this, glancing at a little maid who was standing by the door of this restaurant with her head slightly bowed: "Mmmm, that, Xiaocao'er, go and bring another bowl of red bean and lotus seed soup to your master." No, no, no, you go to the small kitchen and even bring the warm purple sand jade gold pot, and bring it to the master, go quickly. ”

"Yes, ma'am." The maid, who was called Xiaocao, bowed slightly, turned and opened the door, and carefully and gently closed the door, and then hurried away in the direction of the small kitchen.

"You're here to give your lord a good look at me. But don't say it, you really did the right thing by letting Xiaocao'er bring it to the pot. Yesterday, I was checking the accounts in the Dream Red Mansion, and I happened to meet Master Yuan who brought a few family members to my building to drink tea. Oh, this is a little ghost who has to think of ways to go around and maybe can't be invited. Liu Yuanwai said that he suddenly stopped and didn't go any further, only to see that the maid Xiaocao had already pushed the door in with a mahogany tray and the claypot.

"Little grass, things put down. You go out to the street and see if the second lady has come back. ”

"Yes, ma'am." Xiao Cao'er gently put down the tray in her hand on the edge of the small dining table, lowered her head and took a few steps back, and then turned around, breaking her steps and wearing the blue-green one-piece pleated skirt, like the lotus leaves gently swaying in the wind in the pond in the back garden of the Liu family's mansion in the summer evening.

"Okay, don't look at it. You old thing, this little is gone. Hum! ”

"Uh-huh, good, good-looking, infinite youth. After another year and a half, my lord and I will choose a good day just like eating this red bean lotus seed soup, and swallow this little grass girl in a round way. Haha......"

"You, old and immodest thing, drink your lotus seed soup." Yun Shi took a bowl of red bean and lotus seed soup, and with a "pop", he put the bowl on the table in front of his master: "Drink more, it's best to drink all the things in this claypot, aphrodisiac."

"Huh? Good, good, good. Delicious. Waxy and soft, sweet but not greasy, smooth as milk. This red bean lotus seed soup is not only aphrodisiac, but also nourishing yin. Come on, madam, I'll give you a bowl too, sir. Liu Yuanwai took a big sip of the bowl, his mouth slowly squirmed, and while tasting the taste, he slowly stood up, took the empty bowl in front of Yun's, and put a bowl of red bean lotus seed soup back in front of Yun's face: "Madam, come, try." Don't know to eat your nachos every morning. ”

"I, I'm the hard-working man, I grew up drinking this corn flakes porridge. It's like you, sir, you were born in this wealthy family. I, I, I'm not a lady. What kind of lady am I? For so many years, my daughter has been married to the eldest son of the Ma family for two years. Yes? Although the Ma family is richer than our family, his eldest son, on the surface, outsiders have to praise him for being a dignified guy, but everyone who knows the inside story knows that the big son of the Ma family is a fool. It's all you, it's you who cheated our mother and son. Woowoowoo......"

"Alright, alright, don't cry. It's a good day to cry early in the morning, and it's unlucky. You are a woman, how many twists and turns can you understand in this business field? The reason I did that was ......"

"I don't care what kind of business you have or not, I only know that I have been with you for so many years, serving you wholeheartedly, and taking care of all the household affairs inside and outside this house. The subordinates in this house are all respectfully shouting Mrs. before and after Mrs., but in private, they are not all muttering. Say what kind of lady I am, it's just that when I was young, I took advantage of the drunkenness of the lord and seduced the lord and your little maid. It's just that I was lucky and got pregnant with the eldest lady, so I was able to save my life. And say, and say, that, that cheap...... No, I also said that the lady's death was a curse I had secretly given. Tell me, tell me, sir, back then, Mrs. couldn't conceive a child at the beginning, and she always had miscarriages and miscarriages. But seeing that I, the maid, was pregnant first, I desperately wanted to keep the fetus in the womb, and then I had Sisi's girl. And although my daughter is the eldest lady in the Liu family's mansion, she ......"

"Bang, Bang...... Bang dang, bang bang...... Jingling...... Ding Ding ...... Clanging bells. ”

The sound of tables and chairs falling to the ground, pots and pans falling to the ground and breaking sounded chaotically, and soon it was surprisingly quiet again.

"Enough, enough, you clumsy woman is going to talk nonsense again. Yun Siniang, you don't have a good life. Master, I have good food and drink for you, your mother's family, your only surviving relative, your younger brother who was originally far away in the northeast and didn't know which poor ravine and ravine was waiting for death, and now he has long been the shopkeeper in my dream red mansion. Among the many industries of my lord, whether it is bright or dark, he is the youngest. Over the years, do you still need to check the accounts in that building? It has long been secretly the private treasury of your sister and brother, am I a fool if you are the master? Yes? As long as it is from your northeast, as long as it is his grandmother's northeast accent, your younger brother is, and the one who comes to beg for food is to give food, meat and wine. As for those who came from the north, who had nothing to do and fled to wander, he could give food and settle down, but he couldn't settle down, and he gave money for the way home. Yes? Who does he think he is? Qing Dynasty Meng tasted Jun? It's all my money, it's my money. Although the old man's dream red mansion was originally opened, it was only for the convenience of having a partner or competitor in the business field, as well as those large and small masters in the officialdom. Talk about things and do things in your own yard, after all, there is no need to worry too much about safety. But over the years, I have also seen that this Menghong Mansion has become one of the best places in Haizhou City, and people who don't have some status don't even want to enter it. Hehehehe, in fact, I still admire your younger brother and my brother-in-law, Yun Xiaoliu is indeed shrewd and capable, but if you are not your sister, he is nothing, and I don't know which mountain in the Northeast is there. Hum! Liu Yuanwai listened to this Yun Siniang more and more energetic, I don't know what taboo he had committed in his heart, he was furious, and suddenly overturned a small dining table to the ground.

"Sir, sir, I was wrong. I, it's Siniang, I said the wrong thing. You, just punish me. Yun Siniang suddenly knelt on the ground, trembling slightly.

"Punishment? Hahaha...... Okay, okay, go to my study first, lie on the desk in my study as in the past, sir, I'm going to go to the thatched house first, and then I'll clean you up with the family method later. Hehehe...... Yesterday, that damn Master Yuan didn't drink himself, but let a few nurses get too much of the master and me, grandma's, master, I will drink with me personally? Oops, my stomach is rumbling again. Let's get up first, arrange for someone to clean up here, and then go to the study and wait. Ha ha...... Remember to do the same as always, hahaha...... The tone of speech in the Northeast is interesting, good, good, good. Liu Yuanwai flicked his sleeves, stepped forward and opened the door of the small restaurant, and went to the thatched house in the back garden.

"Yes, sir." Yun Siniang lay on the ground, waiting for the footsteps that were fading away outside, so she slowly knelt up and raised her head, her face expressionless and indifferent, completely without the panic and anxiety just now.

The two light hollow carved wooden doors of the small dining room swayed gently with the breeze blowing in from outside the door, and in the slight "squeak" sound, Yun Siniang was slowly standing up from the cold and hard bluestone ground one leg at a time.