Chapter 68 Plan ahead (2)
Huilan blushed: "The girl is just talking, but her wife still has to let her..."
Duan Niang shook her head: "You are coming into the mansion soon, and I'm not afraid of you making fun of it. As long as we don't step on her head, she will ignore everything. It would be better if nothing happens every day. Any little movement will make her feel unhappy... You are guarding the garden this afternoon, haven't you seen anything yet?"
Huilan's mouth slightly closed, and she wanted to speak but stopped.
"Shad it! Shad it!" Duan Niang sighed there, "No matter what, I am just a servant, not to mention that I am going to my hometown in Shuzhou soon..."
"Ah!" Huilan said in surprise, "Aunt, why do you want to go back to your hometown..."
Duan Niang smiled bitterly and said, "I was waiting by the side of the Grandma. When the Grandma left, she let out several girls in the house. I married to the mansion. Later, my husband passed away and the child died. Even the wife pityed me and had no place to go, so she asked me to be a wet nurse for the second girl... After so many years, I am worthy of Mrs. Lian. Now I have a little savings in my hand, so I just want to go... I don't have to worry about the messy things in the girl's house!" After speaking, my tone was sighing.
Huilan smiled and said, "Wouldn't that girl want to add someone to her house?"
Duan Niang smiled and said, "There are some nannys who accompany the room at home. The girl said she would not let the girl out of the room, so she just added one or two to serve her around."
Huilan's eyes flashed: "Miss, please ask Xinghong and Mo Ju if they are willing to leave the house. Although the girl is better than the young ladies from ordinary families outside..."
Duan Niang was stunned and said, "Oh, you reminded me. I haven't asked about the two girls yet!"
As he was talking, Mo Ju's rosy-colored horns flashed in front of the kitchen door, and Duan Niang called her: "Mo Ju, why are you outside? Who is waiting in front of the girl?"
Mo Ju came in and said, "The girl asked me to come out and said she wanted to talk to Xinghong."
Huilan gave Duan Niang a wink, Duan Niang nodded slightly. She smiled and said to Mo Ju, "Mo Ju, your sister Huilan is about to come to the mansion to be your company, and she is not considered an outsider..."
When Mo Ju heard Huilan coming into the mansion, she smiled at Huilan kindly. Just as she was about to say something, Duan Niang continued, "I have something to ask you, you want to answer me carefully." Mo Ju suddenly became serious when she asked again, hurriedly curled her smile and said respectfully: "Aunt, please give me instructions!"
Duan Niang hesitated for a while and said, "Mo Ju, you also know the girl's current situation. She just waited to settle down and wanted to marry. I also want to make some preparations first. I ask you, what are you going to do?"
Mo Ju knew that she was asking Gu Xiyan, and lowered her head and said nothing.
Duan Niang said, "If you don't think about it for a while, you will reply in two days, or you are embarrassed to tell me, and just go to the girl." After that, he said to Huilan, "We'll be out for a while, so go back to the house and wait, so as not to find someone after the girl and Xinghong talk."
Huilan responded, picked up the lacquer plate, and was about to appear with Duan Niang, but Mo Ju grabbed Duan Niang's sleeve: "Aunt, I think, I want to beg the girl to let me out." After that, she looked at Duan Niang with a eager look.
Duan Niang was happy and really gave the girl the right information. She naturally believed Gu Xiyan's instructions more deeply, and hurriedly sighed as Gu Xiyan's instructions and said, "You really thought of going with the girl, and that's the same thing."
Mo Ju felt relieved, her face was filled with joy, and she illuminated her pretty little face as bright as a flower, saying, "I remember the girl's kindness to me. I will never let the girl go to her husband's house alone. When the girl gets married, I will wait for the girl for a few more years, and it will not be too late to ask for this grace."
Duan Niang touched Mo Ju's head with relief: "What a girl, I'm sorry, I'll love you for a while."
Huilan was thinking.
Several people brought the mung bean soup with ice cubes to the main house. After waiting for a while, Gu Xiyan finished talking to Xinghong and entered the house. Xinghong was standing there with a red face. Duan Niang and the others pretended not to pay attention and just went to Gu Xiyan to drink mung bean soup. Gu Xiyan did not have so many concepts of esteeism and treated Duan Niang as an elder. The iced mung bean soup is rare in this era. Mo Ju gave Gu Xiyan a bowl, and Gu Xiyan asked her to give Duan Niang first, and took the second bowl himself. Mo Ju, Xinghong and Huilan all divided a bowl each.
When women are together, there is no one who doesn’t talk. Several people gather together to drink ice mung bean soup while chatting, and the atmosphere is harmonious. After drinking mung bean soup, Huilan rushed to pack up the dishes and pulled Xinghong to clean them. Duan’s mother sat for a while, got up and said she wanted to see what was going on for dinner. Mo Ju hurriedly stood up: "Aunt, let’s talk to the girl, I’ll go pick up the food box."
Duan Niang refused, and Gu Xiyan didn't block it, so Mo Ju had to let Duan Niang go.
As soon as Duan Niang left, Gu Xiyan asked her: "What's going on with Liu Ting?"
Mo Ju said: "Aunt Qin asked me to apologize to the girl on behalf of her, saying that I will go looking for a house in the past two days."
This was expected, and Gu Xiyan asked again: "How is their accountant?"
Mo Juqi said: "How can the girl know that something happened to the accountant's tent next to Aunt Qin?"
Gu Xiyan just asked casually, trying to find out some news, but she didn't expect to be a mistake. As soon as Mo Ju finished speaking, her face turned pale: "What happened?"
"Look, the girl is worried." Mo Ju smiled and said, "My aunt didn't say anything. But when I came back, I faintly heard my aunt's apprentices muttering, saying that their accountant had collected the silver from the Changsheng class and disappeared. My aunt had no choice but to move away..."
Gu Xiyan just lowered her head and thought.
Mo Ju saw Gu Xiyan's face unhesitant, and looked around and was cautious and did not dare to speak.
After a while, Gu Xiyan raised her head and was in a daze.
The two of them sat opposite each other for a while, and heard a light footsteps approaching. Huilan and Xinghong came in with a smile. They entered the room and saw Gu Xiyan and Mo Ju confronting silently, and were both stunned. Huilan smiled and walked forward and said, "What's wrong with the girl? But Mo Ju made the girl angry. The girl should take care of her health..."
Mo Ju raised her eyebrows and looked at Gu Xiyan.
Gu Xiyanqiang smiled with energy and said, "It's nothing, it's just that I'm not in good spirits!"
Huilan hurriedly instructed Xinghong: "It's too hot, give the girl a fan!"
Xinghong responded and found a banana fan to fan Gu Xiyan. Huilan blocked it: "This is not noon, find a round fan, be careful to make the girl cool." Xinghong hurriedly took the banana fan and found a silk fan. Huilan took it in her hand and sat on the edge of the bed to fan Gu Xiyan.
"I saw that the lotus flowers in Yuanxiang Lake are blooming well, and they have small lotus pods. If the girl is bored, we might as well get up tomorrow morning and take a boat to pick lotus pods." Huilan was shaking the fan of Gu Xiyan and chatting with her. "If you want to talk about lotus, it is best to say that there is a bright lotus in the early morning. When thousands of rays of light shine, the lotus flowers bloomed "bang bang bang", and the fragrance filled the yard. It was a rare sight..."
"Is that true?" Gu Xiyan replied with a smile, "I rarely saw lotus flowers before, let alone appreciate lotus..."
"Then I will accompany the girl to the far-fenxiang Lake tomorrow..."
Under Huilan's affection, Gu Xiyan gradually showed a gentle smile.
Mo Ju looked around and gently pulled Xinghong's neck of her clothes. The two tiptoed out of the door and stood under the eaves and whispered.
"Duan Niang asked what I mean, and I said I wanted to let the girl let me leave the house in a few years. How did you tell the girl?"
Xinghong said: "I said I will follow the girl's arrangement."
Mo Ju nodded and said, "We'll be together then!"
Xinghong hesitated and said, "Huilan said, let me stay with her by the girl. She said that the world outside is not good. If someone like us is out of the house, she will inevitably be idle even if she leaves the mansion. It is better to make sure and just wait by her son-in-law..."
Mo Ju said disdainfully: "But being a concubine is always bad..."
Xinghong lowered her head and blushed: "Huilan said that if she could give birth to a son, it would be the same..."
Mo Ju was stunned when she heard this and said anxiously: "Don't listen to her nonsense. As a concubine, she is also a mistress even if she gave birth to a son. How can she get the aunts' turn to discipline her..."
Xinghong interrupted Mo Ju: "Hei Lan said that if she was favored by her master, the mistress would have nothing to say..."
Mo Ju felt sweat on her forehead: "Don't be stupid, don't you want to go past the girl!"
Xinghong lowered her head and said nothing, and her meaning was already very obvious.
Mo Ju jumped straight: "You shouldn't be with this Huilan in the future, she is not a good person..."
Xinghong rubbed her embroidered shoes under her feet, but she was unreasonable.
Mo Ju looked at Xinghong in surprise, as if there was a stranger in front of her. After a while, she smiled bitterly: "Yes, everyone has their own plans. But you must also be cautious and be careful to be used by Huilan... Look at Huilan's attitude of serving the girl today. We have never been to the girl like this. What's wrong with the girl... Xinghong, not everyone has a good temper like a girl..."
Xinghong looked up and said to Mo Ju: "Girls are humans, but we are not humans. In terms of appearance, girls are not much taller than us... I also have to plan for myself..." There was a dissatisfaction in my eyes.
Mo Ju opened her mouth and couldn't say a word.
Xinghong changed her previous gentleness and stared at Mo Ju without any retreat.
The two of them were at a strife and Duan Niang's shout came from behind: "What are the two standing there for? Don't come and help!"
Mo Ju glanced at Xinghong helplessly and ran to help her mother carry the food box.
That night, Huilan stayed in Wuyuan. Xinghong was supposed to be on duty, but Xinghong said that he had to exchange for Mo Ju for a night. Gu Xiyan was not very particular about these things, and sometimes he didn't want them to be on duty at all. Hearing Xinghong say this, he said, "Then don't be on duty, go to bed!" Xinghong rarely insisted and insisted that Mo Ju stayed on her for the night. Gu Xiyan nodded indifferently and agreed. But Mo Ju was still thinking about what she said with Xinghong this afternoon and wanted to persuade Xinghong again, but Xinghong was always with Huilan, and she didn't find a chance until Gu Xiyan was about to rest. (To be continued. If you want to know what happened next, please log in. More chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)
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