concubines are respected

Chapter 36
The old lady did not lose her word. She promised to include Suxian's mother's name in the main wife column of the genealogy on the day of the old lady's birthday, and personally lead Suxian to worship the Lin family's ancestors as the direct line of the Lin family.The ceremony was simple but dignified. Although the eldest lady and the third aunt were unwilling, but the words of the marriage letter had already been printed by the official media, they could only accept this fact.

Suxian was promoted to be the daughter of the Lin family, and she was not arrogant. She still went to the Yulan Garden every morning and evening as usual, and her free time was the same as in the past, and she accompanied the old lady to copy scriptures for her. The old lady loves it even more.Even the eldest lady and third concubine who deliberately picked on her couldn't find her fault.

Lin Zhilan and Lin Yinglu's attitudes toward Suxian have softened a lot due to their status change, although they gritted their teeth secretly with hatred, but it was in vain.

However, the white crystal powder taken out from the bottom of the large nanmu box in Yixiangju's bedroom that day became Suxian's heart disease. Afterwards, she looked for a chance and asked the doctor to help find out what it was. After the doctor identified it, she only knew that it was a It is extracted from the juice of a species called Fanmucao.The luxuriant wood grass is not native, so it is rare, but this grass is not poisonous, but it is quite acidic. Although it will acidify the surrounding things if it is left for a long time, it will not cause much harm to people.

Suxian's doubts increased. If this object would not cause harm to people, why would someone put such a painstaking effort in placing this object at the bottom of the box? Suxian was puzzled and had no choice but to leave this object temporarily. Put the matter aside for a long-term discussion in the future.

Time passed quietly, and in a blink of an eye, it was midwinter, and the temperature dropped sharply. The bird garden was in disrepair for a long time, and the room was getting colder and colder. She went to live in Yixiang Pavilion, under the kindness, Suxian couldn't refuse to refuse, so she officially moved into Yixiang Pavilion on a certain day.

On this day, Suxian was leaning on the couch, leaning on the soft pillow, holding the soup mother-in-law that had just been poured for her with herbs in her hand, closing her eyes and meditating.

The heavy hanging curtain at the door of the room was lifted, and Cui Ya walked into the room quickly with a cold air, rubbing her hands together, and whispered softly, "It's so cold, Second Miss, it's snowing outside, it can freeze the slaves to death gone."

"Hurry up, get on the kang to warm up, where have you been?" Suxian sat upright, moved the cushion beside the kang, and beckoned Cui Ya to sit down.

"The silver charcoal is distributed in the front yard, and the servants went to collect the silver charcoal. The old lady has ordered that this year is colder than in previous years, and the distribution of silver charcoal needs to be more than in previous years. The servants only took a charcoal basket. I have to go to the front yard again to get it." Cui Ya sat sideways beside the couch, her nose was red from the cold, but her dark eyes were full of expression.Although it was cold, my heart was very warm. I recalled that at this time in previous years, the three of them, the master and the servant, were sitting in the hut in the bird garden, burning the dead branches they picked up to keep out the cold, and there was no good silver charcoal to spend.Today is different from the past, the status of Suxian has risen, and everyone can finally have a warm winter.

"Here," Cui Ya pursed her lips outside the room, and said to Su Xian with a smile, "The servant handed over the silver charcoal to the vanilla, and the vanilla will light the charcoal stove soon, and the room will be much warmer later Well, the second miss doesn't have to hug the tough Mrs. Tang to chill."

At this moment, Xiang Cao poked her head in from the door of the room, her face was still stained with dark charcoal, which was very interesting, "Second Miss, the charcoal stove in the side room has not been used for three years, and the bottom has rusted." A few small holes were leaked, and the servants burned for a long time, but they still failed to ignite the proper fire."

"Hehe," Suxian chuckled, hurriedly greeted Xiangcao to enter the room to warm up, and said softly, "Come in and talk, it's very cold outside. It's true, the charcoal stove in Yixiang Pavilion has not been used for three years, it is rusty Wearing the bottom is inevitable, so I just made do with it today. I will go to the front yard tomorrow to ask for a new heater."

Xiang Cao entered the room, patted the charcoal stains on the corner of her skirt, rubbed her hands together, put her mouth on the heater, and said with an apologetic smile, "I've wronged Second Miss today."

As soon as the words fell, hearty laughter came from outside the courtyard, "How can you wrong the second lady to suffer from the cold in this cold day? Thanks to the thoughtfulness of the old lady, I asked the old slave to bring a new heater. The second lady suffered from the cold, isn't it the slaves' fault."

This is Yue's mother's voice.

Hearing this, Suxian immediately put on her shoes and walked out to greet her. She saw thin snow petals fluttering down in the courtyard, and Mother Yue walked ahead with a smile, followed by two servants carrying a copper stove, and a The plane was camera-sensitive, and a maid carrying a basket of silver charcoal greeted her.

"Mother Yue is here, hurry up and rest in the house." Suxian had a good impression of Mother Yue, and when she saw her personally deliver the stove in the wind and snow, she immediately said affectionately.

"Hehe, the second lady is polite." Mother Yue stepped up the steps and gave Suxian a deep blessing, then turned around and told the maid behind her, "Xi'er, turn on the stove quickly."

"Yes." The two servants put down the stove, and the maid called Xi'er nodded respectfully, and immediately put down the charcoal basket in her hand and started to work quickly.Not long after, the fire in the stove was blazing vigorously. Mother-in-law commanded two young servants to carry the stove into the room. Suddenly, the room was filled with warmth, and Su Xian's palm holding Mrs. Tang also leaked a little sweat. .

"I have to thank Mother Yue, these tasks should have been done by Xiangcao and Cuiya, how can I trouble Mother Yue's people to do it myself." Suxian asked Xiangcao to bring tea, and said politely to Mother Yue.

"Haha, Second Miss was joking, Xi'er is not a slave, she belongs to Second Miss now." Mother Yue raised her voice, took a sip of the tea served with vanilla, and turned her head to say to Xi'er Said, "Come and see Second Miss soon."

Xi'er immediately stepped forward and treated Suxian respectfully, "Slave Xi'er, I have met Second Miss."

"This." Suxian looked at Yue's mother puzzled, and asked in a low voice, "Yue's mother, this. What's going on here?"

"Second miss, I don't know something. The old lady was worried about the lack of manpower in Yixiang Pavilion, so she specially asked the old slave to pick a clever girl from the front yard to come and serve the second miss. Although Xi'er has only been in the mansion for more than half a year, she won You are clever, and your feet are fast. Second Miss, you are now the daughter of the Lin family, how can you be without someone around you. In the future, Xi'er will be a member of Yixiang Pavilion. If there is any mistake, Second Miss will punish you." Mother Yue spoke to Suxian with a happy face.

Xi'er was also clever, and immediately followed Yue's mother's words, "Second Miss, don't worry, Xi'er will serve Second Miss wholeheartedly, and will not dare to neglect in the slightest."

"Grandmother cares about Suxian, please ask mother-in-law to thank grandmother on behalf of Suxian." Suxian no longer refuses. The two were really too busy.It's just the right time for Yue's mother to bring her maid Xi'er today.

Mother Yue chatted with Suxian, then retreated.

Mother Yue had just left, and without Suxian's instructions, Xi'er was already busy on her own, first adding a few pieces of silver charcoal to the stove, and then tidying up the rest of the silver charcoal, saying to Suxian, "Back to the second Miss, when I was in the front yard just now, I heard that there was still a basket of silver charcoal in Yixiang Pavilion that I couldn't collect in time, so I decided to bring it for Sister Cuiya. It also saves me another trip in the freezing weather."

"Hehe, you're smart." Cuiya on the side laughed lightly when she heard the words, and turned around and said jokingly to Suxian, "Second miss, sister Xi'er is really good, and the servants will be happy to be free in the future."

"Hehe, Cui Ya, take Xi'er around the garden, distribute the work, and then arrange the living quarters." Suxian is in a good mood. Although Xi'er is only thirteen or fourteen years old, she has a pretty face. A pair of big watery eyes are even more shrewd, which suits her perfectly.

The fire in the room was blazing, Suxian felt warm all over, she felt a little sleepy, yawned lazily, leaned on the soft pillow and took a nap.Seeing that Suxian fell asleep, Vanilla didn't want to disturb her anymore, she waved her hand to Cuiya and the two of them, signaling them to retreat, and the three retreated lightly.

Xi'er has a very lovable personality, not long after she came here, she became friends with Cuiya and Vanilla, laughing and talking all day long, which made the empty Yixiang Pavilion a bit more lively.The chores in the garden are always scrambling to do, from bringing tea and water to chopping firewood and burning charcoal, they almost do what they see, Cuiya and Xiangcao are much more relaxed.

And the madam's room has also become quiet, and she seldom seeks out Suxian. Although the Yixiang Pavilion is not full of birds singing like in the sparrow garden, Lin Shujian still comes to talk to Suxian from time to time, back and forth. Became a frequent visitor to Yixiang Pavilion.However, San Yiniang was extremely reluctant for Shujian to come to play in Yixiang Pavilion, as long as Shujian stepped forward, she would immediately find Shujian and carry him back.It seems that San Yiniang is still brooding over Suxian's promotion, and Suxian just laughed it off and didn't take it to heart.

At noon that day, although the chill hadn't abated, the rare winter sun hung high above.Shujian managed to get rid of the third aunt's supervision, happily holding the parrot copper stand, while teasing the parrot pacing back and forth on the copper stand, while entering the gate of Yixiangju, he shouted crisply as soon as he entered, "Second sister , Second Sister, come and see if this parrot has learned other words again."

"Shh!" Vanilla immediately came out of the side compartment when she heard the sound, and raised her hand to her lips as a gesture of silence, "Second young master, keep your voice down, our second young lady had lunch and just fell asleep not long ago."

"Sleeping again?" Shujian pouted dissatisfiedly. Although his voice lowered a little, he didn't stop. He walked towards the main room and murmured, "Since Second Sister moved to Yixiang Pavilion How can I be lazy, I just sleep all day. I came to talk to her yesterday, and she was sleeping too. No, I just want her to play with me."

Shujian was full of playful spirits, striding towards the bedroom regardless of Xiangcao's obstruction.

Seeing that she couldn't stop Shujian, Xiangcao had no choice but to change the subject, standing in front of Shujian and pointing to the parrot in his hand, "Isn't this the parrot bird that our second lady gave to the old lady? How could it be the second young master?" Is it possible that you took advantage of the old lady's unpreparedness and secretly took it for fun?"

"Nonsense, I went to play in my grandmother's room a few days ago, and my grandmother was very happy, so she gave me this parrot, and I stole it to play." Shujian pouted his mouth and tried his best to explain, very dissatisfied He glared at Vanilla.

Vanilla was originally intended to be amusing, seeing Shujian was a little sullen, immediately raised his hand and patted the corner of his mouth, and said with a smile, "Yes, yes, it's all the servants who said something wrong, how could the second young master take it for himself without asking, please second young master Forgive me."

The two chatted and laughed a little, and Suxian's lazy voice came from the room, "But the second brother is here, it's cold outside, so don't come in to keep warm."

"Hey, Second Sister, Shujian will go in right away." Hearing Suxian's voice, Shujian happily raised his voice and walked quickly into the room.

(End of this chapter)