Rebirth as Hou Menfu

Chapter 27

"Go and ask Baoqin to come over. I have something to ask her." Yingxiu lifted her foot onto the couch, and there was still a burning pain in her knee. Qingbi walked out with Ziyan. Not long after, Baoqin Qin rushed in, saw Yingxiu leaning on the couch, and looked at her protruding knee, "Miss, why did you hurt your knee?"

Qingbi came in and tapped her forehead, "I ran away before I finished listening to the words, did you do that?"

"Aren't I worried about Miss, besides, you didn't go to Madam's place with Miss, how could you hurt yourself!" Baoqin wanted to reach out to touch that knee, but was pulled back by Qingbi, "Don't touch it, Miss, I have something to ask you."

"Baoqin, you went to get the Guqin back. Who was the woman who was watching the door when you went to get it? Does she know what is in this box?"

"Of course I don't know, such a big box, if I didn't open it, I don't know, I only know that it is a custom-made item, that's what the boy who delivered it said so." Baoqin thought for a while and said, Ying Xiu looked at Qingbi, "You took the incense and the bracelet, do you know what they are?"

Qingbi shook her head, "Miss, could it be that Madam knows that these were not given by Master Biao?"

"Of course she doesn't know, but I'm curious, how she can know that there are guqin and incense through the mother-in-law." Holding the piano, she shook her head and said, "Impossible, the mother-in-law of the gatekeeper How do you know what’s in there, besides, the person didn’t say who it was for.”

But Qingbi immediately thought of something, subconsciously looked at the door of the curtain, and lowered her voice, "Miss, we are in this yard." Yingxiu reached out her hand to signal her to stop talking, "It's good that you know what's going on, I'm tired, Rest for a while, and if someone comes looking for you, just say no.”

Baoqin wanted to ask something else, but was dragged out by Qingbi, Ziyan and Xiangling walked over at the door, Xiangling saw Baoqin's hesitant expression, and joked, "Baoqin, what are you doing?" Yes, my face is red from holding back."

"Miss reprimanded her a few words." Qingbi stretched out her hand and pulled the back of her shirt, and answered for her.

"I heard from Zi Yan that Miss was injured. Miss was not at Madam's place just now, why did she get injured when she came back?" Xiang Ling glanced at the room and asked Qingbi with a smile.

"Also, it's all sister Qingbi's fault. I didn't take good care of the young lady and got hurt when she came back. In the end, I was the one who got scolded, huh!" , Qingbi smiled at them helplessly, "Miss is sleeping in it, and no one is allowed to go in and disturb her, you go, I'll go and see that girl."

Baoqin ran back to her room, and Qingbi followed in. Baoqin ran over and closed the door and said to her with a smile, "How about sister Qingbi, have I learned well?"

Qingbi patted her on the forehead dotingly, "It's a shame that you are still the person next to Miss, so reckless, how will you take good care of Miss in the future, remember what Miss said, don't say everything when you are happy!"

Baoqin covered her mouth and nodded violently, Qingbi let her go out with satisfaction.

Yingxiu was lying on the bed and did not fall asleep. She heard the voices outside the house just now. She really did not wrong the wrong person. Didn't the gatekeeper have clairvoyance to see everything brought into the house? It can be seen that only the people in her yard know what is sent. At first, I thought that this girl just had a second heart, but now that I think about it, she was not her own from the beginning. This heart has never been directed towards her. .

The capital is so big, where can I find a few servants, Mrs. Shen couldn't have called her cousin to confront her, because she wasn't sure. As for Qi Haoming, since he dared to do this, he must have full confidence. Although she didn't dare to believe it all, she had to gamble, not to gamble!don't win!
When Ping'er brought the food box from the kitchen that night, Baoqin had to roll up his sleeves to trouble the cook. What are these things? I was too lazy to do it, and it looked like I was picking leftovers, "Pinger, why did you just bring these here, how can Miss eat!"

"This is given to me by the mother-in-law in the kitchen. I didn't know it would be like this inside. It must have been taken by mistake. Miss, I will take it back and change it." Yingxiu stopped Ping'er from taking the plate back, "You're right, that's all."

She was reprimanded by Mrs. Shen, and she wanted to come back and reflect on herself. The rumors in this mansion are faster than the wind. The most obvious thing in the big kitchen is the food. Yingxiu picked up the chopsticks and put some in her mouth, and ate it. I stopped eating half a bowl of rice, "Take it away."

Ping'er hurriedly put all the plates back into the food box and evacuated them, Baoqin was still angry, "Miss is too bullying in the kitchen, you should tell Madam that they treat you like this."

"Without Madam's acquiescence, how could this kitchen be so courageous." Qing Bi cleaned up the table, "If miss is hungry, you can ask Ping'er to go to the small kitchen to cook some food."

"Okay, you guys go to eat quickly." Yingxiu waved her hand, not paying much attention, such a move would not last for a few days, if she really had any problems with eating, it would not be such a simple matter in Shen Heye's ears Now that Concubine Kong is pregnant, which wife doesn't want to guard her husband's heart, and be so stupid as to be angry all day long.

After delivering the food for the young lady and the young master, I brought the food for the maids in the yard, which was also much worse than usual. The master made a mistake, and the maids below couldn’t escape. Sure enough, within three days, the food in Yun College resumed. It's normal, just like Mrs. Shen let out a sigh of relief, Yingxiu won't insist on arguing about such a trivial matter.

The sky is getting hotter and hotter, and when the windows are opened in the afternoon, the heat will rush into the house. Master Shen sent someone to buy some ice and put it in the cellar. Each courtyard can get some ice cubes every day for use. town heat.

Baoqin fanned the ice cubes in the basin with a fan, and approached the basin to cool off. As long as she stepped out of the door at noon, the sweeping heat seemed to burn people.

The weather in the capital is not like that in the south. In summer, it is hot and dry, and all the moisture in the air seems to be boiled away. In the dog days, it takes less than half an hour to pass out under the scorching sun.

Yingxiu was sitting on a couch covered with mats, holding a needle and thread, embroidering a peony, with the cool breeze blowing by, and when she looked up, she could see the cute and foolish look holding the piano, the corners of her mouth raised involuntarily A smile.

The curtain was pulled open, and Zi Yan walked in with a stack of dried clothes, "Miss, the butler just came to report that Miss will go to the study after her afternoon nap, and the master is looking for you."

"Understood, by the way, Zi Yan, Ping'er is still stewing some mung bean soup in the small kitchen, you will take it out later and let it cool down, and send it to Mother Qiao and the nanny first, and the rest of the maids will drink some." Yingxiu put down the embroidery frame in her hand, and Ziyan came over to help her put on her shoes, "Then I will save some more for you, miss."

"Go and prepare some for me first, and I'll take it to my father."

When Shen Shigang arrived, the sun was still very strong. Yingxiu walked in the shadow of the corridor, and some flowers and plants in the yard looked listless. When she arrived at the door of Shen Heye's study, the butler at the door opened the door for her, and Yingxiu took the Baoqin. The food box in his hand went in.

"Father, here is some freshly cooked soup. You can drink some to relieve the heat." Yingxiu opened the food box and brought out the mung bean soup. Master Shen just finished reading a book, picked up the bowl and took two sips to drink, "Sit down .”

"I'm busy with business these days, so I didn't go to see you." Shen Heye took a brocade box from a shelf and put it in front of Yingxiu sitting, "Your birthday is coming soon, but the shopkeeper said that ladies like this, I I bought a pair and brought them back to you."

Yingxiu opened the brocade box, inside was a pair of gold bracelets, designed in a hollowed-out shape, and there were small rolling beads inside the jade bracelet-like thickness, which shone brightly and were very beautiful upon closer inspection.

"Thank you father, Xiu'er likes it very much."

"You, your temperament is becoming more and more like your mother." Shen Heye looked at the grown-up daughter, and suddenly said with emotion, "When I was wronged when I was young, I would rush into my arms, but now I refuse to do anything. Say."

"Father was joking. When I was young, I was punished by my mother to act like a baby." Such days are long gone, not to mention how she can still act like a baby beside Shen Heye without any grievances after so many years of neglect. .

"It's dad's fault. Even this birthday, your cousin remembers it better than me." Shen Heye glanced at Yingxiu and sighed.

Qiao Jinze was put on a tall hat unknowingly, Yingxiu shook her head, "Xiu'er's birthday is still a few days away, my cousin gave it to me early."

Shen Heye only felt that the older his daughter was, the more he had the shadow of his ex-wife, and he was more afraid to face it. He was a cowardly man, and his ex-wife took the risk of conceiving because of the pressure from the Shen family in Chenzhou, but he was powerless. She struggled, but she was determined to be strong, and she finally got pregnant with her second child, but the situation was not optimistic. She managed to save the pregnancy, and in the end, she was killed and killed twice.

Shen Heye has so much guilt that he doesn't want to face the daughter who lost his mother all these years, and even wants to marry her far away so that he won't have to see her all his life and bear this burden .He couldn't make any choice. Before Qingran died, he promised her that he would definitely raise this child well and watch her find a good husband's family in the future.

Married again, and two children with Tang Wan were born, he has missed too much, and he seems to have never fulfilled any of the things he promised Qingran.

Yingxiu looked at the sudden change of expression on Shen Heye's face, and looked around the study room. There was still a portrait of her mother in the study room when she was a child, but now there is no portrait left, and she shouted softly, "Daddy, do you still remember the portrait of her mother?" What does she look like?"

Shen Heye's standing body trembled. Ever since he married Tang Wan and entered the house, Yingxiu had never called him father, and she always referred to him as the distant father. He rushed towards him with his arms wide open, yelling 'Daddy, Daddy' non-stop.

"Why are you asking this?" Shen Heye felt as if a stone was stuck in his throat, unable to speak.

"Xiu'er doesn't remember what mother looks like, so I want to ask daddy, do you still remember what mother looks like?" Yingxiu put the gold bracelet on her hand, and with a slight movement, there was a pleasant and light voice, "Father and mother loved each other so much in the past, father will never forget what mother looks like, right?"

Shen Heye felt like a gnat in his throat, looking at this daughter with somewhat similar eyebrows, Qiao Qingran's appearance appeared in his mind. When she was a girl, they just met by chance during a Lantern Festival. That smiling and lively girl was like It was a fire that ignited his quiet life, it came quickly and then disappeared quickly, he opened his mouth with difficulty, "Your mother is very beautiful, she always likes to wear peach pink clothes, likes to drink sweet-scented osmanthus, likes Sitting there motionless and carving..."

Shen Heye couldn't continue. In his mind, his memory would always only be Qiao Qingran's appearance when she was young. During the years at the girl's house and the four years after marriage, he couldn't imagine how she would look when she grew old.

Yingxiu knows that very well, the dead will always leave a mark in the heart of the person concerned, they will not grow old, and they are rivals in love that the living can never defeat in their lifetime.

(End of this chapter)