Chapter 27 Being embarrassed
"crash"
Jiang Xueqing returned to the room and swept everything on the table to the ground like a madman, followed by the incense burner, the vases and anything else that could be smashed.
Qiu Ruo stood aside and shrank her neck. Ever since they were driven out of the villa, the girl became particularly scary. At the very least, she would throw things like she was doing now, and at the worst, she would beat her to death.
"Liu Yu, Liu Yu..." Jiang Xueqing gritted her teeth and called out Liu Yu's name, with deep hatred in her red eyes.
It's her again,
She remembered that at the Shui Xie, her aunt warned her before she left:
"Aunt, please behave yourself, otherwise I don't mind telling my second brother what you did." He looked at her with disgust.
Obviously Chen Xiyao sympathized with her, she sympathized with her, but everything changed because of Liu Yu.
She wants her to pay.
Jiang Xueqing suddenly turned around and looked at the shivering Qiu Ruo, with a strange smile on her face.
Qiu Ruo trembled like a sieve: "Auntie."
"I heard that one of the people in the East Courtyard is from your hometown."
"Yeah." Qiu Ruo didn't dare to lie.
"Chen Xiyao actually thinks that Liu Yu has good character. Then let her see more clearly what kind of hypocritical person Liu Yu is." Jiang Xueqing stuffed a piece of mutton-fat white jade into Qiu Ruo's pocket, then leaned over and whispered something in her ear.
Qiu Ruo's pupils suddenly shrank and she looked at Jiang Xueqing in disbelief.
"Hurry up and do it."
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On the other hand, although Liu Yu met Jiang Xueqing at Shuixie and had an unpleasant encounter, he still accompanied Lian Baoer for a walk in the backyard of the Chen Mansion.
"Sister Yu'er, this Chen Mansion is so big! And the flowers and animals are so big, I've never seen them before. Do you think all the mansions of officials are this big and beautiful?"
Lian Baoer pulled Liu Yu, his excitement beyond words.
"Be careful." Liu Yu lifted her arm with his backhand and told her to pay attention to her steps.
Liu Yu first sent Lian Baoer back to Duobao Pavilion. A maid brought them some water and they washed their hands.
Lian Baoer handed the towel to Liu Yu first: "Sister Yuer, you wipe it first."
Liu Yu smiled, took it, wiped his hands, and answered Lian Baoer's previous question:
"The Chen family's ancestors were all successful candidates in the imperial examinations and entered the government. The family has a history of more than 200 years. With the accumulation of each generation, the family has a profound cultural heritage. Not all officials can compare with them."
"Is that so?" No wonder her aunt said that it was for her own good, and she was willing to divorce her uncle and sell her to the Chen family. Even Bao'er's eyes flashed with sarcasm.
But it was only for a moment before she suppressed it.
"Xiao Lian, set up lunch!"
Xiao Lian took the order and retreated.
Soon she came back and there was a little girl standing at the door, her face looking very wrong.
Lian Baoer frowned, turned around and left the house.
Liu Yu glanced outside the door and saw that the little girl had tear marks all over her face, with obvious red marks from a slap.
I don’t know what she said in Lian Baoer’s ear, but Lian Baoer’s eyes instantly turned red.
Liu Yu and Gu Yu exchanged a glance, dropped their handkerchiefs, and walked behind Lian Baoer. Looking at the three masters and servants with red eyes, he tried to ask in a gentle tone:
"What's going on here?"
Knowing that Liu Yu had a say in front of Mr. Chen Sanye, the little girl was about to speak but was stopped by Lian Baoer.
"Sister Yu'er, it's nothing. Your hands are fine now. I'll take you back to Qinyuanju!"
The fact that both the master and the servant were crying must have meant that they had encountered some serious trouble. If it were someone else, Liu Yu might not necessarily care, but this person was Lian Baoer.
During these days of getting along with her, Liu Yu felt a sisterly love from her that he had never felt before.
She couldn't bear to see the cheerful and lively Lian Baoer sad and upset.
Liu Yu shifted his gaze away from Lian Baoer and looked at the little girl at the door.
"Say it!"
The little girl looked at her master and didn't dare to say anything.
"Guyu, go to the kitchen and ask what happened." Liu Yu turned around and instructed Guyu behind him.
Lian Baoer stopped Guyu and nodded to the little girl.
Without warning, the little girl burst into tears and choked up as she told what had happened.
It turned out that the little girl, under Xiao Lian's instructions, went to the kitchen in the East Courtyard to get the ingredients needed for lunch. However, she was told by the kitchen manager that the mansion had exceeded the budget at this time of year, and that the food and clothing expenses of each courtyard would be reduced in the future, so lunch was directly waived.
The little girl thought that if she didn't have the ingredients for lunch, she could always take the ingredients for dinner back first! But the maids only gave her half a bowl of fermented dried vegetables.
The little girl was so angry that she argued with the kitchen maid, but she was not only unreasonable, she also beat her.
"Liu Yimian, I know that the Third Master has entrusted you with the management of the East Courtyard. My Yimian's life has become more and more difficult since she came to the East Courtyard. Please, for the sake of my Yimian's good relationship with you, help my Yimian go to the kitchen and the warehouse to talk to you!"
Liu Yu turned around and looked around the room.
No wonder it feels hot. In this hot autumn season, there is not even an ice cube in the room.
Considering that Mr. Chen San hadn't entered her room for just a few days, and the food at Qinyuanju had become much worse, Liu Yu had nothing else to understand.
Last time, Mr. Chen San asked those people to go to Qinyuanju to familiarize her with it, with the intention of letting her learn how to manage the affairs of the East Courtyard. But what they didn't know was that she politely refused in front of Mr. Chen San.
Lian Baoer saw Liu Yu's expression and remained silent for a long time, knowing that this was something that would offend people. Although she also saw that everyone in the East Courtyard had been ordered to go to Qinyuanju last time, it was a fact that Sister Yuer did not care about the East Courtyard.
"What nonsense are you talking about here?" Lian Baoer scolded the little girl and turned to look at Liu Yu:
"Sister Yu, I know you are not in charge of the East Courtyard affairs. You don't have to worry about this little girl. My life now is much better than when I was in Pingzhou. You don't have to worry about me."
Lian Baoer's words were not false. When she lived in the village, she had no idea where her next meal would come from. Sometimes she was so hungry that she had to go to the mountains to dig tree roots to fill her stomach.
She thought about it for a moment, then went back to the room and found a bag of flour weighing about three or four pounds in the cabinet under the bed. She handed it to the little girl:
"Take it, and go to the kitchen to make some glutinous rice balls and sweet soup."
"Yes." The little girl was delighted, forgetting her sadness just now. She took the flour and ran quickly to the kitchen of Duobao Pavilion.
Seeing Liu Yu looking at her, as if he didn't know what he was thinking, Lian Baoer pretended to be indifferent and said:
"I used to flee frequently in the village, and I would put food in the cabinet next to my bed out of habit."
"Yeah." Liu Yu has always been aware that life in this world is not easy.
Lian Baoer had two stools moved outside the door, and pulled Liu Yu to sit down. He changed the heavy topic and asked about what happened in the Shui Xie Pavilion:
"Sister Yu, the three girls who came here with Jiang Xueqing on the boat today to express their gratitude, I heard you call her the little girl in purple clothes, do you know them?" But he didn't look like he knew them.
"It doesn't count as acquaintance."
When the three of them were sent out, Qiu specially sent someone to tell them about the situations in the rear quarters of Prince Qi's Mansion, the Chen Mansion, and the Yuan Mansion. She guessed them based on those characteristics.