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Chapter 222 The Fish Takes the Bait (Part [-])

Xun Yan opened his lips, but he hesitated but didn't know how to speak.

Song Qinghuan looked at Liuyue, and said in a cool voice, "What's wrong?"

Liu Yue took two steps forward to her, a little bit of righteous indignation, "Your Highness, they came here today and said they don't want to work in the small kitchen anymore, they want to come back. The servant girl said that there is no shortage of people in the yard for the time being, so let them rest in peace in the small kitchen." The kitchen is working. I didn't expect them to still dawdle here and refuse to leave."

Song Qinghuan's eyes glanced coolly at Xunyan and Qiu'er.

Xunyan and Qiu'er were the people Yin Zhan placed next to Shen Chuhan. She had just married into the prime minister's mansion and didn't have much energy to guard against them, so Liuyue found an excuse to send them to help in the kitchen.

Maybe it was because Yin Zhan hadn't provided any useful information to come here this time, so Yin Zhan was in a hurry and sent someone to put pressure on them?
There was a cold smile on the corner of his mouth, "Do you want to come back?"

Xun Yan nodded timidly.

Qiu'er looked up, her eyes flickered slightly, she seemed unwilling, but her tone was still respectful, "Returning to Madam, it's not that I don't want to be in the kitchen, but I just feel that I can't play the most effective role in the kitchen, so I want to beg Madam ,"

"Oh?" Song Qinghuan twitched the corners of her lips playfully, "Why?"

Seeing the cold look in her eyes, Qiu'er was inexplicably startled, her original confidence was suddenly vented, she lowered her head and hesitated, "Slave... Slave..."

At this time, Xun Yan, who had been silent all the time, bravely said, "Returning to Madam, Sister Qiu'er was trained as a personal maid before, so...so she doesn't know how to work in the kitchen."

Song Qinghuan looked at her thoughtfully, then quickly turned her eyes to Qiu'er, "You can read?"

Seeing that her attitude had softened, Xu Shi's eyes lit up, and she nodded hastily, "Yes."

"Ma'am, sister Qiu'er is also proficient in poetry and books." Xun Yan also relieved his nervousness, looked at Song Qinghuan and smiled flatteringly.

Can read, know poetry and books?
Song Qinghuan raised the corners of her lips. It didn't sound like something a maid should know, but rather like she was trained to be a concubine for a wealthy family.

Although Qiu'er was a little proud, she was not stupid. She naturally knew what the mistress of a big family was afraid of, so she hurriedly explained, "Ma'am, this servant only knows superficially, not proficient. Ma'am is only surrounded by elder sister Chen Xing and Sister Liuyue and Sister Liu are afraid that sometimes they will be overwhelmed. If Madam can trust the servants, the servants can do some work of serving tea and water in the Madam's courtyard, and the servants are pretty good at making tea."

He's not stupid at all, he knows how to avoid suspicion, he doesn't mention Shen Chuhan in his words, and only says that he wants to stay by his side.

Liu Yue secretly rolled her eyes.

Bring tea and water to Your Highness?But don't go to Shen Xiang's side carrying it.

Song Qinghuan smiled lightly, there was a streamer in his eyes, with an unpredictable look.She glanced at Qiu'er and Xunyan lightly, "I don't have a lot of people around me recently, if you really want to come back, I can ask Liuyue to adjust the staff and make an empty seat. Which one of you wants to come back?"

Liu Yue raised her eyebrows in surprise, not knowing what Song Qinghuan's plan was.

After hearing this, Qiu'er's eyes lit up, and she glanced at Xun Yan, but she was too embarrassed to speak up.

Xun Yan blinked, with a look of regret and envy on his face, "Ma'am, this servant thinks it's better to let Sister Qiu'er come back, she looks good and knows poetry and books, and the Master will occasionally ask her to tidy up the study. The servant girl is not as ingenious as sister Qiu'er."

Hearing Xun Yan's words, a smile flashed in Qiu'er's eyes, she quickly fixed her eyes, and said respectfully, "Ma'am, the lord only asked the slaves to tidy up the study room once, usually it's Mu Bai's guards and Xuan Ying The guards sorted it out."

"Okay, since you have already made a decision, come back Qiu'er, Xun Yan will stay in the small kitchen first." Song Qinghuan glanced at them lightly, and opened her red lips lightly.

Several people present were startled.

Qiu'er looked up in a daze, her face was filled with unbelievable surprise, Xun Yan was slightly disappointed, but quickly adjusted her mood, nodded in response, "Yes."

"You move the things back first, and I'll let Liuyue arrange work for you later." Song Qinghuan said, no longer looking at them, turned around and brought Liuyue and Shen Xing into the room.

As soon as she entered the room, Liu Yue looked at her hesitantly.

Song Qinghuan took off the cloak and handed it over, and said with a smile, "What? Don't understand?"

Liu Yue hung up the cloak, nodded and said, "Yes, the two of them seem to have bad intentions at first sight, why does His Highness keep them by his side?"

"They came here today, obviously they haven't found any news for so long, and they are under pressure from their superiors. If we don't give them something sweet to eat, they will soon become useless. At that time, Yin Zhan will definitely send someone over again Instead of bringing a few more people who don't know the details, it would be easier to keep them by your side."

Shen Xing nodded, added some charcoal to the charcoal basin in the room, and said, "The reason why His Highness only keeps one is to make them fight among themselves, right?"

Song Qinghuan nodded.

"However, that Qiu'er seems to be a proud and shrewd master, why doesn't His Highness keep Xun Yan?" Liu Yue was still a little puzzled.

Song Qinghuan pursed her lips and said in a clear voice, "Do you think Xunyan will be the simple master?"

Liu Yue hesitated for a moment, and said hesitantly, "Theoretically speaking, the people who can be selected by Emperor Liang and sent to the mansion should not be good people. But I feel that compared to that Qiu'er, Xun Yan seems to be a good person. It's better to deal with it."

"It's just an illusion." Song Qinghuan said lightly.

"During her conversation, she kept mentioning Qiu'er's ability to read poems and books, and she also said that Ashu once asked her to tidy up the study. She seemed innocent and harmless, but did she really say that because she thought Qiu'er was better than her?"

Shen Xing pondered for a while, then understood, his eyes darkened slightly.

Liuyue thought for a moment, and suddenly realized, "Could it be...she said all this on purpose?" Normally speaking, the headed mistresses of these rich families are very jealous of the maids around them who are too good, because such people will climb up to the master's house. The bed is too likely.So they would rather keep the useless maids by their side than plant a threat to themselves.

So Xun Yan mentioned Qiu'er's "goodness" repeatedly, just to make His Highness take precautions against Qiu'er and thus reject her.But she didn't want His Highness to make an unreasonable move and let her little thoughts go blank.

From this point of view, most of Xun Yan's timid and cowardly appearance is just pretending.

She thought it was strange before that even if Emperor Liang wanted to intervene, he had to intervene with a few capable people.Qiuer Shangxing, this Xunyan, apart from good looks, really has no other advantages.

Unexpectedly, she has been pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!

Fortunately, His Highness has sharp eyes and saw through her tricks.

Thinking of this, he breathed a sigh of relief, his eyes were foggy, "With such a scheming heart, I can't take her lightly in the future."

"En." Song Qinghuan nodded in response.

"Then Qiu'er...?" Liu Yue asked for instructions.Since Qiu'er was left in the courtyard, he had to arrange some kind of errand for her.

"As she wished, I'll do some daily cleaning and tidying up." Song Qinghuan said, suddenly remembered something, her eyes flashed, and a smile appeared on the corner of her mouth.

Perhaps, they can make good use of Qiu'er.

*
Two days passed.

The cold wind is still bitter, the moon is covered by dark clouds, and the night is a little bleak.

Shen Chuhan accompanied Song Qinghuan to eat in the room, and called someone to come in and remove the dishes.Liuyue and Shen Xing went to prepare for Song Qinghuan's bathing, and it was Qiu'er who came in.

"Young Master, Madam." She saluted the two of them with a respectful expression.

Shen Chuhan didn't look at her, he just stood up and looked at Song Qinghuan.Song Qinghuan nodded, glanced at Qiu'er, and ordered, "Take these away."

With that said, she stood up with Shen Chuhan's support, and went into the small study room next door together with him.

Looking at the handsome figures of the two men, Qiu'er's eyes flashed a trace of unwillingness, she quickly covered it up, and called someone to come in and remove the dishes from the table.

After tidying up, she ordered someone to make a pot of tea, carried it herself and entered the room again.

Just now when she entered and exited the room, the door was not closed, so she raised the felt curtain at the door and entered the room easily.

Shen Chuhan and Song Qinghuan were still in the small study, and there were faint conversations.

A few intermittent words drifted into her ears, as if she heard the word "Emperor", Qiu'er's expression froze, and she approached quietly.

The study room and the main hall are only separated by a felt curtain, so if they get closer, the conversation between the two will be much clearer.

"You said Qinshui Emperor Ji came to Shengjing for Dead Yeqing?" Song Qinghuan's voice was the first to reach his ears.

Qiu'er frowned, not understanding what "withered leaf green" Wuyang Diji said, but listening to her tone, it was definitely not a trivial matter, and she held her breath even more, not daring to miss a word.

"She wants to exchange Qingyuan fruit with the emperor for dead leaf green."

Hearing Shen Chuhan's answer, Qiu'er became more and more confused, "Qingyuan fruit"? "Green withered leaves"?What are these things?
Song Qinghuan's tone became a little surprised, "Does the emperor not know that the Qingyuan fruit in Chen Kingdom was stolen before?"

"I probably don't know, otherwise, how could I make this deal with Emperor Qinshui?"

"You... want to tell the emperor?" Song Qinghuan pondered for a moment before continuing.

"The emperor doesn't trust me at all now. Even if I tell him, he thinks I have ulterior motives. In my opinion, I'd better not get into this muddy water for the time being."

After saying this, there was the sound of a chair moving, as if someone had stood up.

Qiu'er was taken aback, quickly collected her mind, and spoke first, "My lord, madam, this servant has brought you tea."

The felt curtain was picked up, and Shen Chu's cold and stern face appeared in front of her, "What are you doing here?"

His voice was too indifferent, and his whole body exuded a cold air, which made Qiu'er tremble, and she didn't dare to look at him anymore, she hurriedly lowered her head, "The servant just took someone to clear the table, thinking about the son and madam Maybe I want to drink hot tea, so I made a pot of tea and brought it over."

"How long have you been here?" Shen Chu stared coldly, with a sense of ruthlessness in his eyes.

Qiu'er's heart became more and more lost, with cold sweat oozing from her back, but she had to force herself to be calm, "Your servant just came, do you have any orders?"

Shen Chuhan's eyes were still cold, he just stared at her and didn't speak anymore.

Just when Qiu'er felt that she was about to be suffocated by Shen Chuhan's stare, the felt curtain was raised again, and Song Qinghuan walked out.

"what happened?"

"The maidservant brought tea to the young master and the madam." Qiu'er was sweating coldly on her back, and looked at Song Qinghuan with a smile.

Song Qinghuan didn't seem to think much, "Oh" said, "Give it to me."

Qiu'er breathed a sigh of relief and handed over the teapot.

Shen Chuhan took it halfway, and gave her a cold look, "Go out."

Qiu'er felt relieved, hurriedly saluted, and quickly retreated.

Watching her figure disappear at the door, Song Qinghuan's lips twitched, and she smiled at Shen Chuhan.

It seems that the fish has been hooked.

I hope that Qiu'er will not disappoint their expectations, and it is better to provoke the "alliance" relationship between Su Rao and Yin Zhan.

But I don't want to, this night, the palace is not very peaceful.

The deeper the dew, the colder the north wind.

In the cold weather, all the people in the palace returned to their respective palaces early, the road was empty, and the patrolling Imperial Forest Army hurried past with their heads buried.

In the deep night, suddenly two black shadows flashed by, jumped onto the tree, looked around, saw nothing unusual, then quickly performed lightness kung fu and jumped forward.

Skillfully avoiding the patrol of the Imperial Forest Army all the way, the black shadow arrived at the southeast corner of the palace unimpeded.

Here, there is a majestic palace, with six guards standing at the gate. Although the weather is severe, they still have a solemn face, and they dare not take it lightly.

A row of lanterns hung under the eaves of the hall, spinning in the cold wind, and the candlelight was long, making it more chilly.

Under the dim light, several gilt characters on the ebony plaque in front of the hall were illuminated——

Cangzhen Pavilion.

(End of this chapter)