Seeing that Liu Huai'an was not disgusted, Dai Shishi continued to test carefully: "Tonight on New Year's Eve, Shishi is going to personally cook some delicious dishes for the prime minister to try. The prime minister won't leave tonight, okay?"
Liu Huai'an had already been swayed by the temptation of her Wu Nong's soft words. How could he care about what she said?
On New Year's Eve, during the New Year's Eve dinner, Huaizhu and I hid in our small courtyard and continued to cook a small stove.
The maids and ladies in the mansion were discussing privately that the prime minister's wife and her dowry maids were really miserable. Those who celebrate the New Year are still sitting on the bench in the house, without even a decent New Year's Eve dinner.
We have long been accustomed to these remarks. After all, haven’t we been doing this for so many years since we have been in the government?
I have long regarded Huaizhu as my dependent relative in this world. As for others, they are not within my scope of concern.
It's because I drew a flower pattern that it started a small trend among the maids in the house.
A few hours before the New Year's Eve dinner, everyone draws their favorite shapes on their foreheads or at the corners of their eyes, or next to the pear dimples, in order to celebrate.
Liu Huai'an, who was having a drink in the Wutong Courtyard, saw that the maids in the mansion were all painted with flowers, and couldn't help but pull one of the smart maids and asked: "Why are you all painting such shady things on your faces? Isn’t it good to show people their true colors?”
The maid thought that Liu Huai'an didn't like it and wanted to punish her, so she quickly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy: "Mr. Prime Minister, please spare my life? I saw how beautiful the lady painted such a pattern on her face, and because it was New Year's Eve, I thought Just to celebrate, if the Prime Minister doesn’t like this slave, just wipe it off now.”
After saying that, he quickly took out his handkerchief and tried to wipe off the flower patch on his forehead.
"Wait a minute." Dai Shishi sat next to Liu Huai'an and stopped him.
Looking at the beautiful flowers, she secretly clenched her back teeth with jealousy, then sneered, helped the maid up personally, and looked at her: "Beautiful is beautiful, but it's a pity that the master is the master, and the slave is the slave, no matter how you obey me, Painting a ladle is just a copycat, does Mr. Xiang say so?"
Liu Huai'an nodded: "Shishi is right, don't imitate all her unreasonable tricks, just get rid of them, so as not to spread the word and be laughed at."
The maid was nervous and frightened, and hurriedly wiped the flower patch on her forehead with tears in her eyes.
Dai Shishi signaled that she could go down, and she returned to her seat to eat with Liu Huaian. After drinking for three times, she naturally talked about the maid again, and Liu Huaian promised her that she could choose the one she liked in the house.
After achieving this goal, Dai Shishi felt much better.
She needs a confidant girl who can protect her all the time, just like Huaizhu protects me.
When she has a considerate maid to help her secure her position in the Prime Minister's Mansion, is she still far away from her position as aunt?
On New Year's Eve, she worked extremely hard to serve Liu Huai'an obediently. Because of the annual vacation, Liu Huai'an was also immersed in the gentle land and couldn't extricate himself.
Huaizhu and I also fell into a trap.
We don’t know about the maid, but on the first day of the new year, the news about Huadian spread throughout the capital.
All the women imitated the flower-painted makeup. Not only were they exquisite and charming when walking on the street, but they were also beaming with joy. It was also a beautiful sight on the street.
A few days later, I sat in front of the dressing table, pulled my bangs, rubbed my forehead with my fingertips, and confirmed again and again that the bruises were indeed gone, and then I breathed a sigh of relief: "Thankfully, it's okay, otherwise it would be troublesome to draw flowers every day."
Huaizhu said with a smile: "Don't tell me, Miss's magic touch has already spread throughout the streets and alleys. It looks very lively."
I looked back at her and asked, "Is it so exaggerated?"
"Yes." Huaizhu nodded seriously.
I silently said in my heart, Shangguan Wan'er, I'm sorry for you, I didn't mean to imitate you.
I just finished packing when Dai Shishi came.
She is just a little bit more smartly dressed than before. In the past, she was indeed dressed too plainly.
Huaizhu thought that Liu Huai'an had given me so many beautiful clothes, and it would be hard to wear them if she didn't wear them. She spent every day thinking about them and changing the patterns to style them for me.
After she came in and saw me, she pretended to be intimate and said, "Sister is dressed so beautifully today, it would be a pity not to go out."
I told Huaizhu to put away the remaining things and asked her, "Is something wrong?"
Dai Shishi held my arm: "My sister has already asked the prime minister for instructions, and is planning to find a new girl for my sister today."
I looked at her with confusion on my face. Are there not enough maids in the house for her to handle?
As a result, Dai Shishi saw my doubts and immediately pulled Huaizhu and said with envy on her face: "My sister also wants a personal maid like Huaizhu."
I pulled Huaizhu back, protected her, and said seriously: "I think Miss Shishi made a mistake. I have never regarded Zhuzhu as a maid, she is my sister."
Huaizhu looked at me with moved eyes.
Obviously Dai Shishi didn't believe what I said, thinking that I was just doing superficial work and telling it to an outsider like her.
Dai Shishi smiled and said: "No matter how good the relationship is, a maid is a maid, there is no doubt about it."
I didn’t want to continue to argue with her on this topic, and I also knew that she had always had the ambition to climb up the ladder and looked down on the servants in the mansion. I changed the topic: "There are so many maids in the mansion, I will let you choose."
I asked Uncle Fu to summon all the maids and women in the house and gather them in the courtyard to wait for me.
Huaizhu helped me to the courtyard. I looked around at the group of maids and women, old and young, fat and thin, and said to Dai Shishi: "Which one Miss Shishi likes, take it back yourself, don't look back and follow her." The prime minister complained and said I won’t give you anyone.”
How could Dai Shishi like these maids? She still refused to choose one.
I casually pointed at the more eye-catching one in the crowd, and asked Huaizhu in a low voice, what is it called?
Huaizhu answered me in a low voice, that the boy was petite, fair-skinned, and pretty-looking, his name was Yurao, and he came to the house in the middle of last year.
I thought he was only a little older than me, so he was quite smart.
I didn't know it was her whom Liu Huai'an scolded before.
I pointed at her and said to Dai Shishi: "Since Miss Shishi doesn't like her, I will make the decision and give Yurao to you. As long as the girl is still in the house, she will be the girl's personal maid. I think she and Huaizhu They are similar in age and look smart, so they are more than capable of serving girls."
Dai Shishi's expression changed instantly. She thought I was deliberately going against her, so she rewarded Yurao to her.
In the days that followed, Dai Shishi would hit and scold Yurao, and would find excuses to vent on her whenever something didn't go his way.
This matter was so widely spread among the servants that Huaizhu secretly told me.
It wasn’t until I saw Yurao hiding in the backyard one day with wounds all over her body, sobbing secretly, that I knew all this was true.
The reason was that on New Year's Eve, Yurao had flowers painted on her forehead. She thought that Yurao was also a vixen and was good at seducing men, and I sent her here just to seduce her.
I don't care what she thinks, I agree to her request, and the rest is her fault.
But I ignored that in this yard that eats people but doesn't spit out their bones, if people don't unite to deal with me, then I will be the one who is dealt with.
