Chapter 209: To Zhuangzi
If the fourth master's grounding, Erfu did not have the slightest resentment, it was absolutely a lie, and even she felt that she seemed to have fallen into a trap arranged by the fourth master in advance. The favor in the past few years has come for no reason, and even the grounding seems particularly absurd, as if it is like the unlucky female supporting actress played in those idol dramas, all of which are just to set off the flawless heroine.
But at this time, looking at the fourth master, who had always been cold-faced, handing tea and water to the front, Erfu's heart, which was gradually hardening, fell uncontrollably again.
"Are you still angry?" the fourth master asked softly as he turned his back to him and turned his back to him.
Erph resisted the urge to laugh and shook her head reservedly.
"Then why don't you look at the master?" the fourth master sat next to Erfu, moistened his throat with the tea bowl that Erfu drank a few sips, and continued to ask.
"That's my teacup. Erfu looked at the fourth master with some disgust and roared.
Yuqing, who was outside at night, seemed to hear the movement in the room, and asked with some anxiety: "Master, are you having a nightmare?"
"It's okay, I'll get up and drink saliva, you can sleep!" Erfu glanced at the fourth master with disgust, and said loudly to Yuqing outside.
"Are you still angry?" the fourth master insisted on.
"No!" Erfu looked at the fourth master's eyes seriously and whispered.
Only then did the fourth master gently kiss Erfu's cheek, and said loudly: "Yuqing, you step down, the master and your master have something to say!"
Yuqing outside was stunned for a moment, and then quickly got up from the low couch. He didn't even care about the robe, so he ran to the tea room in the ear room with the futon and clothes, until Yuqing sat on the embroidery pier in the tea room. The whole person hasn't recovered from the surprise just now, and he didn't blame his master for looking at the fourth master before!
"Ahem, ahem...... I said Miss Yuqing......" Su Peisheng rubbed his nose a little embarrassed and reminded softly.
Yuqing almost screamed out, hurriedly lowered his head and gathered his clothes, and put the wrapped robe on his body, which could be regarded as completely calming down, looking at Su Peisheng who was red at the tips of his ears. Rolled his eyes angrily, "I said Grand Duke Su, you are also a person with a head and a face in front of the master." Why don't you make a movement to remind the slave maid, is this a deliberate attempt to see the slave and maid make a fool of themselves?"
"......" Su Peisheng was also very depressed, okay, obviously the fourth master was resting in the study, and he was suddenly pulled out by the fourth master. I also climbed over the fence of the west courtyard and got in. He hasn't come back to his senses yet, right?
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In the main room, the fourth master sent Yuqing, and then pulled Erfu to sit on the bed face to face, and casually dropped the delicate red light gauze bed curtain, forming a small hidden space between the spacious stepping bed and the inner room.
"I didn't want to tell you about this, but seeing you leave gloomily, Ye is distressed!" The fourth master reached out and touched Erfu's red cheek, and said in a low voice. "There is unstability in the house these days, and I originally wanted to take this opportunity to send out a few restless people. But I don't want the main courtyard to suddenly intervene and make things more complicated, and there are some unavoidable reasons, which makes you feel wronged!"
As he spoke, the fourth master's eyes, which were always bright, dimmed for a moment, as if he was sad that he couldn't make his own decisions.
Erfu smiled and grabbed the fourth master's big hand with his backhand, and said in a low voice: "I don't understand what the master said, but I know that the master is thinking about me, so I am happy, and the grounding is not a grievance, and I don't like to go out and walk around."
It's even better to be grounded, at least I don't have to get up early every day to say hello, and I don't have to invite people I don't like.
It's just that next time there is such a thing, you have to tell me in advance, lest I cry too much, and tears will be worthless!"
"Nonsense again......" The fourth master pinched Erfu's cheek, and finally regained his former virtues, pulling Erfu to behave nonsense again, the bed curtain swayed slightly, and ambiguity spread in this small field.
Before waiting for dawn, the fourth master rubbed and woke up Erfu, who had worked hard in the middle of the night, and said in a low voice: "These days, the house is not peaceful, the master arranged for you to go to the Zhuangzi on the side of Xiaotangshan to live for a few days, and it just so happens that there is a hot spring there, so that you can have a good time playing in the water to nourish your body." โ
"Ye really hurts people, I'm afraid that others are going to talk about it again, is this a punishment or a reward?" Erph rubbed his eyes that had not yet fully opened, lazily rubbed his long loose hair, and said with a smile.
The fourth master frowned and pinched the tip of Erfu's nose, "Okay, I'll leave before noon today, you can also get up early and pick it up, although there are people cleaning it up all year round, but it's not as good as the house, if there is something missing, the master is not good to send it for you." โ
"I won't be in any danger, like those fallen concubines in the script!" Erph suddenly felt that this trip was not very good, and asked worriedly.
โ...... Don't worry, that Zhuangzi in Xiaotangshan is an imperial village, and there are brothers on the left and right, there are no outsiders, and the manpower on that Zhuangzi is also reliable, and you won't be really wronged!" The fourth master explained with a smile, put on the dark robe he wore when he came last night, and quietly returned to the study in the front yard.
And Erfu saw that the fourth master was gone, and thought about the reputation of Xiaotangshan Hot Spring, but he felt a little excited, simply put on a homely robe with cotton, and called Yuqing and others who were waiting outside into the room, and whispered the news that he was going to the hot spring villa to be grounded.
Except for Yuqing in the courtyard, no one knew about the fourth master's coming over last night, so the big guys felt that this matter was a little strange, and waited for Erfu to explain.
Before the big guy could pack up his things, Mama Fu's voice came from outside, Erfu frowned slightly, and raised her chin at Yuqing.
Mama Fu entered the door and gave a shallow salute, and talked about letting Erfu go to Zhuangzi to live for a few days temporarily, and she didn't forget to add color to her master. The matter of letting Erfu go to the hot spring Zhuangzi to be grounded said that the Wulanala clan felt sorry for her as a new mother, and specially asked for the grace of the fourth master.
Elof smiled noncommittally. asked Yuqing to send Mama Fu out of the house and called Mama Fu to come over to help.
Last night, the fourth master gave a clean account of the good things he had done, and the belt in the red brocade box had naturally become the exclusive belt of the fourth master, and the hosta that was broken into N halves was just something similar to the Erfu hairpin. It's not the hosta that Erfu thought, and the candidate for this initiative has also been betrayed by the fourth master. It's not someone else, it's the grandmother of the fourth master, the grandmother who has an extraordinary status in the house.
At this moment, as soon as the eldest grandmother entered the door, she was a little flustered by Erfu. Hurriedly leaned over and pleaded guilty.
But Erf was having fun. Naturally, she will not turn her face with the eldest grandmother who follows the instructions of the fourth master, and the reason why she lets the eldest grandmother take care of the affairs in the yard is also because Erfu does not want the fourth master to suspect that she has any calculations, so she is still very satisfied with the special identity of the eldest grandmother who listens to her on her face and does things according to the instructions of the fourth master behind her back.
Besides, knowing that the people around him did not betray, Erfu's heart fell to the ground, and he smiled and asked Yuqing to help the eldest grandmother, and then whispered about going to the hot spring Zhuangzi to live temporarily.
Although Erfu went to Zhuangzi. But the West Courtyard can't leave people behind, but leave others. Erfu is always a little uneasy, so Erfu selected the candidates for the eldest grandmother and a few second-class maids, as for the first-class maid Yuqing and others and Xiaoqi's grandmothers, it is naturally to take them away, this is also yesterday Erfu specially discussed with the fourth master for half an hour, and signed a treaty of loss of power and humiliation in exchange, otherwise the fourth master would not let Xiaoqi go to Zhuangzi, after all, Zhuangzi is far away in the city, and it is inconvenient to ask for a doctor or something.
Hundred steels can't escape the fingers, not to mention Erfu's unusual enthusiasm, which made the fourth master instantly become an animal with the lower half of his body in charge, but he still got back Imperial Doctor Lin, who had returned to the palace on an errand not long ago, and invited a imperial doctor who was good at pediatrics to follow Erfu to Zhuangzi.
Yujie and Yulan quickly packed up five or six large wooden boxes, which were still streamlined by the two of them, otherwise they would not be able to pull down two or three carriages.
Because he was going to stay in the hot spring village temporarily, Erfu specially brought all the different swimsuits that he had made out when he was bored before, and asked people to bring two jars of wine that he had made before.
"Master, get in the car quickly, it's cold outside!" Yuqing watched Erfu stand in a daze for a long time, and reminded uneasily.
Erfu unconsciously glanced at the surrounding grandmothers and maids who were hiding in the dark and listening, and then turned around in frustration, looked at the hanging flower door with carved beams and pillars, and said softly: "He didn't come?"
"Master, the master is busy, let's hurry up, so it's better to settle in Zhuangzi as soon as possible!" Yuqing said soothingly.
Erfu looked at the courtyard gate in front of him again, and then he held Yuqing's wrist in frustration, and got into the carriage step by step, the moment the curtain fell, Erfu, who was still crying and mourning, seemed to have changed as if he had changed a person, and told Yuqing to prepare hot tea, biting a piece of sesame candy with taste, and gossiping with a smile.
A train of four carriages slowly drove out of the Fourth Master's Mansion, Erfu led Xiao Qi and Yuqing and Yulan to sit in the second carriage, Yu Bing and Yujie sat in the first carriage, and the four grandmothers led their four small buns, sitting in the two carriages at the back, and the carriages were dragging a big wooden box, so that those onlookers had a feeling that Guerjia side Fujin would never return.
In the winter months, the weather is getting colder, and the leafy trees on the roadside seem a little lonely, not to mention the clumps of yellow weeds on the side of the road, which makes people feel sad when they look at it, but Erfu feels that this kind of free air, every breath is worth being happy, like a bird in flight, along the way with Yuqing, Yulan said all kinds of jokes, some from the book, but some are seen in modern times, after a little modification to say, can always cause the two little girls to laugh and laugh.
Along the way, there was laughter and laughter in Erfu's carriage, but the grandmothers in the first two carriages were not very happy, they were all from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they originally thought that Guerjia was the favorite concubine of the fourth master, and they could also have a good future, but now that this favorite concubine went to Zhuangzi so grayly, their future is a little uncertain.
It's just that these four grandmothers don't know that this is just a scene played by the fourth master and Erfu, even the driver who drove the car is a good hand specially arranged by the fourth master, just to protect Erfu and Xiaoqi, and also to test the heartiness of these people, after all, the grandmother around Gege is going to follow Gege for a lifetime, and when Gege gets married, these people are going to take care of the things in their hands for Gege, if they are too selfish, it is likely to make Gege's life difficult, so the fourth master asked Erfu not to tell them the truth, and take the opportunity to see their minds clearlyใ
The carriage is on the official road to Xiaotangshan, the speed along the way is not satisfied, the wooden wheels run, there are always some bumps, Erfu rode in the Zhulun canopy carriage is fine, but the maid and the grandmother are not very comfortable sitting in the carriage, the first to complain is the usual favorite to go around in front of Erfu Mama Yu.
Mama Yu is only twenty-five or sixteen years old this year, she was originally a second-class palace maid in front of the palace concubine, and when she got the concubine's eye, she pointed her to a family that worked as an errand in the internal affairs office as a daughter-in-law, and did not let her become a housewife again, but became a more promising grandmother.
Now the child is just seven months old, and will be able to sit up, and he is also one of Xiao Qi's favorite playmates on weekdays, one of which is said among her four friends, which means that Xiao Qi does not particularly like her children.
Erfu listened to the coachman whisper about the movement in the car behind him, his smooth eyebrows condensed into Sichuan characters, and he said in a low voice: "It's just a servant who serves people, and he is still so picky and thin, and it's a shame for me to let me go out for a walk, otherwise I really don't know that these people's hearts and eyes have long grown into a sieve!"
"Master, for the sake of such a villain, it's not worth it, so it's a big deal!" Yuqing hurriedly handed over a cup of tea and said softly.
"I know, we have been in Zhuangzi for these three months, you all cheer me up, I have to take a good look at the minds of these grandmothers, if it doesn't work, I will all drive them away, I would rather my Gege leave home without a housekeeper's grandmother, and I can't let those people who are not indiscriminate go to Xiao Qi. Erff said ruthlessly.
It's not that Erfu is a little worried, it's really that Xiao Qi is just a few months old now, and she is not sensible at all, if she lets these people with bad intentions, her Xiao Qi may be raised into that kind of timid and fearful child, even if it is not so, she will be taught by them without rules, and it is difficult to guarantee that she will not cause any trouble.
After all, it is only the end of Kangxi's forty-second year, and there are still seventeen or eighteen years before her Lao Tzu ascends the throne as emperor, if she doesn't have a kind and upright heart, how can she cope with all kinds ......of changes in the coming years!
PS: PS: Adversity sees the truth, and Erf's full team is about to arrive!