Xu Nuo originally wanted to get rid of Zijuan, the most important person around Xu Qian, and then ask her father to punish her, at least grounding her for three months. Even if it didn't work, her father would be deeply suspicious of her. 【Read full text】
But after Aunt Du interfered with her like this, her father would no longer doubt Xu Qian.
However, Aunt Du didn't get away completely by doing this. She abandoned a smart maid next to her who could pretend to be a madman, and made her father hate her and the Yumeiwu where she lived.
As for whether Xu Qian will accept Aunt Du's love, Xu Nuo thinks she won't. She can see that Xu Qian hates Aunt Du's background from the bottom of her heart.
Qi Qi and Chun Tang saw Xu Nuo come out and hurriedly followed.
After returning, Xu Nuo asked Qiyue to pay attention to Zijuan and Lian'er's punishment. He stared at them and asked Chun Tang to prepare light food and send it to his mother's room.
Then he lay on the couch and fell asleep.
On the other side, Xu Qian sent everyone away and returned to the house with dull eyes.
She was always cautious in doing things and was confident that she had done nothing wrong. Even if her father discovered that Zijuan's brother was working in a medical clinic, he should not have known which medical clinic her brother was in without asking Zijuan. There was no reason to say that the medical clinic had poisonous prescriptions for my mute mother, not to mention that my father had only been back for a day, so how could he find out at once.
Xu Qian was puzzled, but she was secretly glad that her father did not doubt her. In the end, this incident was nothing more than a blind maid who wanted to be his father's wife, and she teamed up with her maid to poison her mother. It had nothing to do with her, the Fourth Lady.
Xu Qian thought for a while, then calmed down and started playing the piano. A vague figure appeared in her mind. She had more important things to do.
As Xu Nuo expected, Xu Qian was not grateful for Aunt Du's sacrifice today, but felt that she should have done so.
In the following days, rumors about the poisonous mother of Liu Niang of the Xu family not only did not subside in Suzhou City, but there were more rumors, each one more difficult to hear than the last.
The ladies of the Xu family seemed to have never been affected by the outside world, and their morning and afternoon homework never stopped. The promised piano skills and female workers did not make any progress. The more she learned the tea ceremony, the better she got, which made Xu Qian and others jealous.
It rained the night before the Cold Food Festival, and the sky was cloudless and blue the next day, very clear.
The willow branches are getting brighter and greener, and the water in the pond is also moving.
Chun Tang Mao woke up Xu Nuo.
Xu Nuo hurriedly asked Chun Tang to open the window, and went to the window wearing only her middle coat, greedily inhaling the moist air.
Not long after promising to wash up, Grandma Li came over. After being carefully dressed, she looked five or six years younger than usual: "Madam asked me to come over and help the lady wash up. I don't want the lady to get up so early."
After saying that, he picked up the newly made clothes on the hanger and put them on Xu Nuo. At the same time, he told Xu Nuo what he had asked yesterday in detail. Then he personally combed Xu Nuo's hair into a small bun and prepared it a few days ago. Take out the hair accessories from the jewelry box and give them to Xu Nuo to wear.
Xu Nuo studied the chess records he got from Xu Qian until late at night last night. He woke up early again and was so sleepy that he couldn't open his eyes. When he woke up, he was fully dressed and standing in front of the bronze mirror.
I saw that I was wearing a goose yellow short jacket with a round neck embroidered with begonia flowers, the collar and cuffs were edged with silver thread, and a pink eight-panel skirt embroidered with white half-open peonies. The weather is getting warmer and I don’t wear a t-shirt, but it also allows this elegant and exquisite underskirt to show its original flavor.
Xu Nuo was stunned and stared at the skirt for a long time. In her previous life, she had never worn pink clothes since her mother passed away when she was seven years old.
Turning his eyes to his face, his forehead was smooth and plump, and the few blushes on his oval face made his skin fairer. The style of the bun is simple, but a lot of effort has been put into all the accessories on the head.
There is a lifelike butterfly on the gold hairpin on the right. The butterfly's eyes are made of sapphire, and its eight thin legs are extremely delicately carved. Wearing a small and exquisite jade comb on each side of the hair, the whole body is bright and unobstructed, obviously the finest jade. There is also a small begonia beaded flower on the head, which contrasts with the begonia pattern on the jacket.
The whole body is elegant and handsome, very good-looking. Xu Nuo looked at it but smiled bitterly in her heart. Her mother actually valued Mr. Ding's birthday so much. Could it be that her mother also fell in love with a young man like Mr. Ding did?
Not long after, Qiyue and Chuntang came in with smiles, each holding a few willow branches in their hands and a few mustard flowers in their heads.
Chuntang performed a magic trick and held a bunch of mustard flowers in front of Xu Nuo: "Which one do you want, I'll pin the little one on for you."
Xu Nuo picked two flowers and gave them to Chuntang, who happily put them in her hair.
It is customary to insert willows and wear mustard flowers during the Cold Food Festival. Xu Nuo took a few of them and stuck them on the door and windows, and asked Chuntang and the others to put willow branches in their own house and kitchen.
I exercised for half an hour last night before reading the chess scores. When I woke up, I realized that my chest was pressed against my back from hunger.
When I picked up the snacks and stuffed them into my mouth, I remembered that the Xu family's tradition during the Cold Food Festival is that the whole family spends morning prayers in Langyuan Hall in the morning, and then goes to Ding Mansion to celebrate birthdays.
After packing up, Xu Nuo hurried to Yingcheng Courtyard. Xu Qian and Xu Pingqi were already waiting in the house, and her mother and father were talking inside.
Xu Qian was dressed very plainly. She wore a white plum-collared jacket and a blue six-piece long skirt. The skirt was embroidered with navy blue cloud patterns. The colors were matched appropriately, giving her a unique flavor.
Xu Pingqi wore a moon-white robe, with a willow branch stuck on his silver belt.
The family of five went to Langyuan Hall together.
There is a green incense burner on the high table in the upper room. Three incense sticks are half burned. There are also offerings on the table: noodles, snakes and rabbits, jujube cakes, fine barley, and sacred food.
Fires are not allowed during the Cold Food Festival, so the meals are all cold food, such as cold food porridge, cold food noodles, cold food pulp, green rice and glutinous rice. However, these cold food are exquisitely made and very refreshing after eating.
Mrs. Zhang did not go to celebrate her birthday because she was ill, but ordered a nanny beside her to follow her. She said that she wanted an experienced nanny to watch over her, so as to prevent the younger generation from doing something wrong.
Her face was rosy, and she didn't look like she was unwell. No one dared to say anything, and they just said that mother should take care of herself.
Xu Nuo knew very well why Zhang did this. She must be concerned about her reputation as a poisonous mother with unfilial children and grandchildren, and was unwilling to go out and ask for trouble, lest she lose face in front of a bunch of old ladies.
Zhang is also a timid person who hides his ears and steals his bell.
A large family got into the carriage outside the Chuihua Gate, with Mr. Xu and his three sons in the same carriage. Ding was in the same carriage with her three legitimate daughters and her concubine, but there was no fifth lady with her concubine. Mrs. Lu and her three children were in one car, and Ms. Zhong and her two youngest sons were in one car.
As soon as the group got into the car, there was a noise outside the door. Xu Nuo looked through the curtain and saw a luxurious carriage parked outside.
Mrs. Lu hurriedly got out of the car and went to greet the carriage. Grandma Li also looked happy.
I saw a young woman getting off the carriage. She was dressed in gorgeous clothes, without any hair accessories on her head. She had a bright smile and her skin was as good as snow.
When he saw those familiar peach blossom eyes, Xu Nuo immediately understood the woman's identity.
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ps: My mother suddenly said that I would stay at my grandma’s house for two more days, so the author had two more days to code on his mobile phone. Hey, hey, he hasn’t touched the computer for many days. New characters will appear in the next few chapters, and the author’s character list is on my computer at home! There are also customs about the Cold Food Festival that the author compiled on the computer. I memorized them and searched them on my mobile phone today. The Internet speed was so slow that the author almost cried.
Seeing how pitiful the author is when he uses his mobile phone to code words, please save more and vote for recommendations.
The author is so shameless that he took the path of pathos to seek collection.
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