Under Xiao Ai's lead, the maids also cried out in aggrievedness.
Yan'er heard the movement outside the house, opened the curtain and walked out.
Seeing all the maids in the yard crying and crying, I was very upset, and all my anger was directed at the leader, Xiao Ai.
She pointed at Xiao Ai's nose and cursed: "On weekdays, I only know you as a greedy idiot who likes to put on makeup, but today I underestimated you. You still have the ability to make people cry in mourning! Who is missing in our yard? You guys Who are you crying for in the yard? Are you crying for the prime minister? I will leave my words here today. Even if you cry your heart out, no one will come from the front yard to give you a few bites of food. It's all because of you that Pingtian made the lady upset!"
As soon as these words came out, the little maids did not dare to say anything anymore.
Xiao Ai also quickly wiped away her tears and glanced at the back room. Seeing that there was no movement, she felt a little guilty in her heart.
The girl must have heard such a loud noise.
"I...I'm going to see the girl." Xiao Ai was worried and was about to run to the back room.
Yan'er grabbed her and said sternly: "First, wash those handfuls of horse urine off your face. Miss loves you the most. How can you feel better after seeing such a miserable look?"
"Sister is right! It's all my fault."
Xiao Ai repeatedly admitted her mistake and said to the maids in the yard: "You should go to work quickly. I will remember your grievances. I will definitely make the girl love you even more in the future."
Everyone dispersed, and Xiao Ai went back to his room to freshen up.
Just as Yan'er opened the door curtain and entered the house, she heard Mu Rong Ruo'ai sighing sadly as she leaned on the warm couch.
"Why are you talking about her? She has a straightforward personality and is young. She can't hide things in her heart."
Yan'er sat on the other side of the warm couch, picked up the embroidery work on the table, and started doing it.
"It's all the young lady's fault! If you're young, the little mirror in the yard is only ten years old, but he's much more sensible than her."
"Most of the people in my yard play with me. They are not very old. There is only a stable mother Zhang. She recently returned to her hometown to visit relatives. If she were here, Xiao Ai would not be involved in matters in the yard."
When Mu Rongruo said this, he looked at Yan'er's expression and saw that she didn't say a word, so he continued: "I really miss her after being gone for so many days. I don't know how many days she will be back."
"Ten more days and a half!" Yan'er said lightly, still not stopping her embroidery work.
Mu Rongruo smiled. It seemed that she didn't care about Zhang's mother at all.
There is a Chengde Pawn Shop on Longxing Street, which is the largest pawn shop in the imperial capital.
On this day, the shopkeeper was doing the accounting in the inner room, and the clerk outside suddenly ran in excitedly and said with excitement: "Boss! There's a big deal coming out. The younger one didn't dare to make the decision, so he asked the boss to take charge of the business."
When the shopkeeper heard this, he immediately put down the account book in his hand and followed the clerk out of the inner room.
Sitting in the VIP room in the outer room was a young man with handsome features and a dignified appearance.
The sensible boy had already served him hot tea, but the boy didn't drink it, he was just playing with an object in his hand.
"Boss, this is our distinguished guest."
The clerk led the pawn shop owner over, then smiled at the young man and said, "Young gentleman, this is the owner of my house. Can you show him the treasure?"
The young man glanced at the shopkeeper and gave the items in his hand to the shopkeeper without any expression, without saying a word.
The owner of the pawn shop carefully took the object. His eyes were immediately attracted to the fine white jade in front of him, and he couldn't bear to move it away for a moment.
"It feels warm to the touch, translucent throughout, and has no flaws. It's such a good piece of jade!"
The shopkeeper couldn't help but added, "I've lived for such a long time, I've handled countless jades in my hands, but I've never seen such high-quality materials, it's just..."
The shopkeeper looked at it again and couldn't help but shook his head with regret.
"It's just that such good materials were wasted like this. It's really a waste of resources."
The white jade object in the shopkeeper's hand is not big, it only occupies half of the shopkeeper's palm.
The shape is weird, not square or round, very irregular.
Even the animals carved on it are completely different.
It has the head of a tiger and a tail of a dragon, with a single horn on its head and feet like eagle claws.
I really can’t tell what kind of carving this is.
Moreover, there are several runes engraved on the bottom of this object. The shopkeeper temporarily calls it runes. After all, if he can't understand it, it must not be characters.
The shopkeeper looked at this extremely beautiful white jade with distress, and at the messy carvings with distress, and secretly cursed the clumsy carver who ruined this jade.
Finally, the shopkeeper raised his eyes and said sincerely to the young man: "Young gentleman, to be honest, this piece of jade of yours is extremely precious. If it is made into a jade bracelet or hairpin ring, it will definitely be worth a fortune. But now this piece of jade is extremely valuable. The material was made into such a thing, it’s completely ruined.”
"No need to say more, how much can you bid?" The young man looked impatient.
The shopkeeper thought about it carefully and stretched out five fingers, "Five hundred taels."
Afraid that the young man would run away, he added: "I am the only one in the entire imperial capital who can give you this price. I'm afraid you won't treat this as an object if you go anywhere else."
"Five hundred taels is five hundred taels!" The young man was more happy than the shopkeeper imagined.
Seeing this, the shopkeeper immediately smiled and asked, "Does the young man plan to live or die?"
The young man looked unconcerned.
"It doesn't matter, this thing is only useful if it's in my hands anyway!"
The shopkeeper didn't understand the meaning of the young man's words, but he didn't bother to delve deeper. Anyway, he got the baby, and he was very happy at the moment.
When Jiang You left the gate of Chengde Pawn Shop, he already had five hundred taels of silver notes in his arms, and he was very happy.
When he heard the commotion in Mu Rongruo's yard in the morning, he realized that although she was the wife of the prime minister's palace, she was short of money.
Thinking of her previous generosity in buying medicinal materials for herself and her senior brothers, I couldn't help but feel a little warmer in my heart.
She treated him well, how could he let her suffer.
Thinking of this, Jiang You prepared the money and walked towards the most prosperous street in the imperial capital city.
In the early morning, the spring sunshine shines warmly on the flowerbeds of Lixiang Courtyard.
Butterflies that had not been seen for a long time appeared in the bushes and played.
Xiaojing, the maid who got up early, saw the butterfly and was about to get a net to catch it. Passing by the corridor at the corner of the yard, she suddenly found a big basket.
The small mirror curiously walked in to take a look, and a childish and crisp exclamation resounded throughout Lixiang Courtyard, startling Mu Rongruo who was dressing up in the back room.
"Go and see what's wrong with the little mirror?"
Mu Rongruo put on the robe Xiao Ai handed over and quickly walked out of the back room with the two maids.
As soon as I walked out of the door, I saw a group of maids gathered together in the corridor. Everyone's face was as bright as the jasmine flowers blooming in early spring.
"What's going on?" Mu Rongruo walked towards the crowd.
Before Mu Rongruo could get closer, Xiaojing happily raised the two big apples in his hand and said with a smile: "Look, girl, I don't know which fairy mother-in-law was so kind to me at night. I feel sorry for the girl because she didn't eat or drink. They brought such a big basket of food into our yard."
After what the little mirror said, Mu Rongruo and the two maids beside him hurriedly walked to the wooden basket, and sure enough they saw a basket full of food stuffed inside.
The top layer is filled with candied fruits, pastries, and a partition in the middle is opened. There are actually slaughtered chickens, ducks, and fish underneath.
Xiao Ai couldn't help but drooled.
"Girl, this is really where the living Bodhisattva appears and comes to save my five internal organs temple."
Xiao Ai cried with joy as she picked up a piece of snack and stuffed it into her mouth.
"It's actually a snack from Lianxiangzhai. The last time I had it was when the girl gave it to me at the tea party in Liuli Garden last year."
Hearing what she said, the other little maids also drooled.
They all know that the most famous snacks in the imperial capital are Lianxiangzhai's dim sum, but there is a chef specializing in pastries in the Prime Minister's Palace, and even their ladies can't often eat outside, let alone them.
"I don't know who sent it. It's definitely not my father. Could it be my mother?"
Mu Rongruo looked at the basket of food in front of him in confusion.
"No matter who he is, he has something to eat now, so we just have to eat it first and then talk about it."
Xiao Ai stuffed another piece of pastry into his mouth.
"You, a short-lived ghost who starved to death in your previous life, will not be afraid of starving you to death in this life."
Yan'er looked helpless as Xiao Ai devoured the food.
However, after Xiao Ai tried eating this basket of food of unknown origin, and looking at her lively appearance, it proved to be non-toxic.
No matter what, it would be better to give her young lady a tonic first.
These days, Mu Rongruo's little face has lost a lot of weight as he eats porridge and cabbage every day.
"Xiao Jing, take the chicken, duck and fish meat to the small kitchen in our courtyard, and tell them to make a good meal today. Keep the meal in the lady's room, and give the rest to the girls in each room, so that everyone can eat meat. Xiaoshuang and Si'er, you two each prepare a plate of fruits and snacks and send them to the back room, and the rest will be distributed among the various departments in the yard."
Yan'er gave the orders one by one, and the maids were so happy that they carried the food in the basket to the kitchen.
Listening to the laughter in the yard, Jiang You, who was standing guard at the door, raised the corners of his mouth, showing a nice curve.
During lunch, Mu Rongruo looked at the delicious food on the table. She couldn't help but swallow her saliva after not smelling the aroma of meat for a long time.
When there are no outsiders, the two maids in her house always eat at the same table with her.
At this moment, Xiao Ai couldn't help but pick up the chopsticks, and his eyes wanted to plunge into the fragrant dishes.
"Wait a minute." Just as Xiao Ai was about to put down her chopsticks, Mu Rongruo immediately tapped her hand gently with the chopsticks.
She looked in the direction of the door of Lixiang Courtyard and said to Xiao Ai: "Jiang You, like us, eats porridge and cabbage from the kitchen every day these days. He has just recovered from a serious injury and really needs to take a lot of medicine. Go to the door quickly. He called us to come and have some food with us."
"Okay..." Xiao Ai ran out quickly.
In an instant, she pulled Jiang You, who was standing guard at the door, into the back room.
It was so fast, as if she was afraid that the table full of delicious food would disappear when she came back.
"Girl, you called me?"
Mu Rongruo nodded, pointed to a table of food and said, "I don't know who kindly sent these. We haven't seen meat in the yard for a long time, so you should try it too."
Jiang You looked uncomfortable and said: You guys eat it! I can just eat out. "
Mu Rongruo exposed it and said: "You are the only one outside, there is not even a change of guard. I heard that on some days you only have breakfast and dinner. You are in good health now. You can't waste it like this. Come and sit down quickly." , don’t make me unhappy.”
Jiang You still wanted to shirk, but Xiao Ai pushed him down on the stool and begged: "Good brother, please sit down and eat together. I'm getting hungry. If you keep talking, the food will get cold."
Yan'er also handed over the chopsticks: "Miss loves us, there are not so many rules, Jiang Weifei need not feel that we are overstepping our bounds."
Only then did Jiang You take the chopsticks and start eating lunch with Mu Rongruo.
Mu Rongruo was worried that Jiang You was afraid of life, so he kept helping Jiang You pick up the vegetables, and soon a pile of chicken, duck, and fish appeared on his plate.
Seeing this, Xiao Ai ate and pouted, "The girl used to only treat me like this, but now that Jiang Guard is here, the girl doesn't even give Xiao Ai anything to eat."
What she said made Jiang You very happy and his appetite improved.
He cleaned the rice and vegetables in the bowl in several mouthfuls, and said with a smile on his face: "I want another bowl."
After hearing this, Yan'er quickly served him another bowl of rice. Xiao Ai curled his lips and complained: "It's really delicious, even better than me."
Mu Rongruo continued to pick up vegetables for Jiang You, filling another bowl with it. Looking at him gobbling it up, he smiled and said, "It's the time when you're growing, so it's good to eat some."
Jiang You met Mu Rongruo's eyes, and his heart was filled with warmth.
He put a piece of meat in front of him into Mu Rongruo's bowl and said, "You can eat it too."
Mu Rongruo nodded and put the piece of meat into his mouth. Jiang You instantly grinned, revealing a row of neat white teeth.
"Has anyone ever said that you look good when you smile?"
It was rare for Mu Rongruo to see Jiang Youxiao and he forgot to eat.
"Then I will... try to smile as much as possible in front of you."
It's not that Jiang You doesn't know how to laugh, it's just that he hasn't had anyone or anything that can make him happy for too long.
After eating and drinking enough, Xiao Ai started to feel melancholy.
“I enjoyed my meal, but I don’t know where my next meal will be.”
Jiang You immediately comforted him and said, "After this meal, the next one will come naturally. You don't have to worry about it."
Although he was answering Xiao Ai's words, Jiang You's eyes remained on Mu Rongruo.
Mu Rongruo was a little surprised and asked, "Why do you say that? Do you know something?"
Jiang You smiled and said, "I just think that since someone doesn't want the girl to suffer, he will naturally continue to help her."
Murong Ruo was thoughtful. Until Jiang You resigned, she did not fully understand the meaning of Jiang You's words.
