The splendid years of a talented lady

Chapter 542
"Anyone at home?"

A woman's voice calling for the door came from behind, which was very ear-catching.

Su Xiazhi turned around and opened the door, looked at a middle-aged woman standing on the steps and asked, "Who is that?"

"This is Lord Min's residence, right?" the woman said with a smile on her face.

After buying this house, Su Xiazhi just put the inside back inside, and the plaque of Min's family was never hung outside, so occasionally someone would knock on the wrong door.

"Yes." Su Xiazhi nodded.

"Ma'am, this is it!" The well-dressed middle-aged woman looked like a servant. After hearing what Su Xiazhi said, she hurried to the carriage under the steps: "Come on down, Mrs. Too stuffy."

"I rushed out of the city so early in the morning, what Min...why does he live in such a poor place."

Complaining, the woman in the carriage, called the eldest lady, stretched out half of her body while supporting the servant's hand, and stepped on her feet slowly to get off the carriage.

In her hand is a round fan made of ivory bone. The fan is not stretched with the common embroidered surface in the Central Plains, but is stretched with a piece of splendid brocade woven with gold and silver threads. Even a person like Su Xiazhi, who is ignorant of these toys, can see that That fan is worth a fortune.

"Quickly go in and make a report, and say that the wife of Mr. Ji, a doctor from the household department, has come to visit your wife."

The woman who had talked to Su Xiazhi earlier said to Su Xiazhi while helping the woman who just got off the carriage to tidy up her dress.

"This house looks good, but the land boundary is too low. It's already in the southern city, and it's still the outer city!" The woman called the eldest lady shook her round fan lightly, looked up at the gatehouse of Min's house on the steps and said in a low voice.

"Ma'am!" The servant girl pouted, indicating that there were still outsiders standing on the steps, so she had better be careful when speaking.

"It's just a servant..." The eldest lady curled her lips, stretched out her left hand to lift the hem of her skirt, and walked up the steps like a willow in the wind: "Why don't you go in and report to your wife?"

The woman climbing up the stairs looked very young from afar, and Su Xiazhi still saw deep fine lines on her oily face.

She was wearing a lake silk gown, which is the favorite of aristocratic women in the current imperial capital, with a straight collar and a pair of skirts, and a peach-red leopard around her waist. With the light pink color of her gown, she looked very watery!

It's just that although the color and style of the clothes are juicy, she is already past the age of a girl after all, such a dress only makes Su Xiazhi feel that the other party is gritting her teeth and stomping her feet and refuses to grow old...

"Why bother..." The visitor's makeup only made Su Xiazhi feel tired, she shook her head secretly, and waited for the woman to come forward without saying a word.

"Excuse me!" Because this trip today was ordered by the master, the servant did not dare to miss it.Seeing that Su Xiazhi just stared at her eldest wife without saying a word and didn't go in to report, she hurriedly took out a small piece of silver that she had prepared earlier from her sleeve pocket and stuffed it into Su Xiazhi's hand: "My God Hot, it's not easy for us to come out, please help me in and report..."

"Ma'am, are you going to the vegetable market now?" Yan Xi took the bamboo basket and walked towards the door, looking at Su Xiazhi on the steps and asked.

"I'm afraid I won't be able to go." Su Xiazhi said softly, looking at the hand that kept stuffing money into his hand with a cold expression.

"Ma'am?" The maid stopped moving, and a small piece of silver in her hand rolled to the ground...

"You are the main wife of Mr. Min, Mrs. Da Furen?" A group of pink and tender Mrs. stood in front of Su Xiazhi and looked at her from up to down. woman's identity.

"I'm that Min's official wife. There is no 'big lady' or 'little lady' in my family. My husband-in-law only has me as his wife." Su Xiazhi said with a half smile.

"Ouch!" The pink and tender lady was startled for a moment, then waved the round fan in her hand, and slapped Su Xiazhi with a pungent smell of powder. She giggled and held Su Xiazhi's hand, pretending to be He said familiarly: "I just said that you looked at Mian Shan, we used to be a family, and I came to find you today!"

"Hehe!" Su Xiazhi smiled faintly: "Since you are looking for me, then go in and talk."

"Okay!" The eldest lady saw that she had found the right door, and even though she almost mistook the person, she stepped into the courtyard nonchalantly.

She didn't believe that Su Xiazhi could do anything to her, a girl from the Ming family!

"Sit down." When she reached the wisteria flower, Su Xiazhi stopped the eldest lady who was still walking forward. She pointed to the stone bench under the flower vine: "It's cool here." But even the main room wasn't ready to let guests in. in.

The eldest lady stopped abruptly, looked at the door of the Min family's main house, and said displeasedly: "Just sit in the yard?"

"How about we go by the gate? It's cooler there." Su Xiazhi asked with a smile.

"Then, let's sit here!" The lady's sleeves were tugged twice by the servant woman who supported her. She first gave the servant woman a look, then walked to the stone bench under the wisteria and sat down sideways.

Su Xiazhi winked at Yan Xi and motioned her to make tea.

"I'm talking about you, we are the wives of the fifth-rank doctor, how can we open the door by ourselves? Is it possible to support those servants in the mansion for nothing?"

"There are no servants in my family, they are all 'Masters'." Su Xiazhi spoke in a soft voice, but very out of tune.Madam Ji choked again when she heard that.

"The house doesn't look small..." Mrs. Ji drew a half circle on the stone bench with her buttocks. She looked around the spacious courtyard of Min's house and the magnificent wing rooms on both sides, and couldn't help but consider to herself: as long as you enter the courtyard, Not small!It's more enjoyable than looking at the courtyard in the city...

"Isn't that girl who called your wife just now?" Mrs. Ji was out of words, and wanted to compliment Su Xiazhi: "Your husband and I are colleagues, we are not outsiders."

"Hey!" Su Xiazhi understood that Mrs. Ji was mistaken, thinking that she was just like the woman she met in the courtyard, just deliberately showing that her husband was a clean and honest official, and the family didn't have any extra money to buy houses and raise servants... …

"You're talking about her!" Pointing at Yan Xi who came over with a tray, Su Xiazhi said loudly: "I dare not call Yan Xi around... She is a female official in the palace's clothing bureau, the queen's empress I personally appointed a master who will teach my little girl how to do needlework and embroidery!"

(End of this chapter)