My uncle is Zhu Di

Chapter 18: The Burning Heart of Gossip (Seeking Follow-up Reading)
Shiyue thought Xu Qin had a romantic debt outside, so she spoke to him in a sarcastic tone while helping him put on clothes.

These two maids dote on Xu Qin very much. Maids from other courtyards are not allowed to get close to Xu Qin. In their words, the young master is theirs, and other maids are not allowed to climb onto his bed!
Xu Qin heard it, and slapped Shiyue on the buttocks, saying, "I don't know what's going on in your head all day long. What's wrong? Do you want to gossip about your young master?"

"Hehe, I heard from the doorman that the woman outside is very beautiful!" Shiyue looked at Xu Qin with a smile on her face.

"Ah!" Xu Qin felt that the two girls around him were hopeless.

Soon, Shiyue helped Xu Qin put on his clothes. Xu Qin walked outside and Shiyue followed him.

Xu Qin stopped, turned around, looked at Shiyue who was staring at him and asked, "What are you following me for?"

"Master, if that woman acts unreasonably and you can't do anything, I can. I will beat her hard!" Shiyue stood there, with a confident look on her face, as if to say, "Don't worry, I'm here."

Shiyue and Mufeng have been practicing martial arts since childhood and their skills are pretty good.

As Xu Qin's personal maids, they also have to learn a lot.

Xu Qin rolled his eyes helplessly and could only walk outside with his hands behind his back. Shiyue immediately trotted after Xu Qin.

When Xu Qin arrived outside the mansion, he saw Xiao Ningyue, followed by two maids and four guards. In addition, in the distance, there were a large number of carriages.

"Hello, Mr. Xu!" Xiao Ningyue saw Xu Qin coming out and bowed to him politely.

Shiyue was standing behind Xu Qin. When she saw this scene, she realized that this was not a prostitute.

"Don't come so early next time. I haven't even had breakfast yet. Shiyue, take her to the side door and warn my father that in the future, when they come to buy spindles, sell them to them. Sell them as much as they want according to the market price!" Xu Qin turned his head and said to Shiyue.

"Yes, young lady, please follow me!" Shiyue immediately stood aside and bowed to Xiao Ningyue.

Xiao Ningyue also secretly looked at Shiyue and found that although Shiyue was a maid, not only was her appearance as good as hers, but her temperament was also not worse than hers.

"Okay, if you have any problems in the future, you can come to my house to find me. If I'm not here, find Shiyue!" Xu Qin said with a wave of his hand and went in. He was going to the front yard to have breakfast. He was hungry!
"Yes, Mr. Xu!" Xiao Ningyue bowed to Xu Qin.

Xu Qin walked into the mansion with his hands behind his back, while Shi Yue stood there and bowed to Xiao Ningyue, saying, "Miss, please follow me!"

"Okay, by the way, my name is Xiao Ningyue, you can call me Ningyue or Xiaoyue! By the way, your name is Shiyue, we both have the word "yue" in our names!" Xiao Ningyue said to Shiyue with a smile, wanting to establish a good relationship with Shiyue.

"No, I'd better call you Miss Xiao. I'm a servant and I dare not overstep my bounds! Otherwise, the housekeeper will punish us and say we have no rules!" Shi Yue bowed to Xiao Ningyue and said, her eyes turned and her gossipy heart ignited, "How do you know our young master?"

"Well, let's talk about it while we walk!" Xiao Ningyue was a little timid. If she said that she stopped Xu Qin on the road last night, would it cause displeasure to the servants in the Xu Mansion?

Xiao Ningyue was also born in a wealthy family. She knew that the people around the young masters and young ladies in those mansions were all very protective of their own young masters and young ladies. If they were offended, they would show off in front of their own young ladies and young masters.

On the way, Xiao Ningyue made an excuse, saying that she met Xu Qin by chance, and her house happened to be short of spindles, so she came to Xu Qin to buy spindles.

But Shiyue's gossiping heart could not be extinguished so easily, so she continued to ask: "Are you familiar with our young master? You want to help our young master, but our spindles are easy to sell!"

"Oh, it's just helping each other. I'll come to the mansion to do the transportation. Wouldn't this save a lot of trouble?" Xiao Ningyue continued to talk with a smile.

"Oh, I see. That's right! It seems that you are very familiar with our young master!" Shiyue nodded and then asked, "How long have you and our young master known each other?"

"This..." Xiao Ningyue felt a little embarrassed. She had just lied, and now she needed more lies to cover it up. She could only bite the bullet and say, "It's been a while!"

"Oh, does your family run a cloth shop?"

"What's the name of your cloth shop?"

"How's your cloth business going?"

"Where is the business going?"

Shiyue asked as they walked. These questions were not difficult for Xiao Ningyue, and Xiao Ningyue answered honestly.

They soon arrived at the side yard. Shiyue asked Xiao Ningyue to wait outside the mansion. After all, Xiao Ningyue couldn't get in because the Jinyiwei were guarding the door.

After Shiyue entered the mansion from the side door, she went to find Xu Huizu and told him what Xu Qin had instructed her to do. Xu Huizu then had the spindles dragged out on a cart and loaded.

Shiyue had been standing at the door chatting with Xiao Ningyue.

After the car was loaded, Xiao Ningyue took Shiyue's hand and said goodbye very warmly, thinking in her heart that she and Shiyue had finally established a good relationship.

Little did she know that after Shiyue and Xiao Ningyue disappeared in the alley, her face immediately darkened, and she snorted coldly, "A merchant girl dares to show off in front of our young master! What do you think our Xu Mansion is?"

After saying that, he returned to the mansion. Instead of going directly back to the courtyard, he went to find Xu Qin's mother, Li! Li hadn't gone to the other mansion yet. When she saw Shiyue coming, she smiled and called her over.

"Madam, just now, the young master asked us to sell the spindles in our mansion to the eldest daughter of the Xiao family's cloth shop. The eldest daughter is quite pretty, and she actually came here in person to buy the spindles. I thought that this woman came with other intentions and wanted to seduce our young master!" Shiyue walked to Li's side, saluted and said.

After hearing this, Li frowned and thought for a moment before saying, "The Xiao family's cloth shop is not a small one. Are you sure it's the eldest lady?"

"Indeed!" Shiyue nodded.

"This kid, misses a woman? You two?" Li said, looking at Shiyue.

Shiyue blushed immediately, and then muttered, "The young master kicked us out even when he was sleeping!"

"Two useless girls!" Li said and tapped Shiyue's head with her hand.

"That's not our fault!" Shiyue muttered with her head down.

"Is the young master okay?" Li asked worriedly.

Shiyue immediately shook her head and said, "No, I'm fine!"

"Okay, a merchant girl can't enter our house. Go ahead and keep a close eye on her. Don't let Baoer get fooled!" Li said to Shiyue.

"Yes, ma'am, but if the young master wants to go out, what should we do?" Shiyue stopped there, looked up at Li and asked.

"Go out with one!" Li said.

"Yes, ma'am!" Shiyue said happily.

"Silly girl, if you have a young lady in the future, you'd better be smart!" Li said to Shiyue with a smile.

After all, she was a maid who was raised from childhood, and also Xu Qin's personal maid, so Li doted on her very much.

"Yeah, yeah!" Shiyue said with a smile and nodded.

"Go and serve Baoer!" Li waved her hand. Shiyue bowed to Li and went out.

When they returned to the courtyard, they didn't see Xu Qin, so they asked Mu Feng. Mu Feng said that the young master had gone out. Shiyue told Mu Feng what happened today, and said that if the young master went out in the future, the two of them would go out with one of them.

Mu Feng heard it, looked at Shi Yue with contempt and said, "That girl came over, why don't you scold her? How can a grown woman show up so easily?"

"That's the young master's friend. If the young master knew about it, he would definitely punish us! Anyway, you should be more careful in the future. The young master hasn't gotten engaged yet. If his reputation is ruined by that woman, how can our young master marry a good wife? If he marries an uneducated one, then we both will be in trouble!" Shiyue reminded Mu Feng.

"Yeah, yeah!" Mu Feng nodded repeatedly.

Xu Qin had no idea that the two maids in his house were so gossipy!

He has been busy with the dyeing workshop now, and all the tools need to be installed, which will take several days.

In the Xiao family's workshop, with the addition of spindles, the looms started weaving again.

Xiao Ningyue stood there, her brows slightly relaxed, but before she could be happy, a servant rushed to her side and said to her, "Miss, that, that Master Chen is here again, and he brought a lot of young masters with him!"

"What?" Xiao Ningyue was frightened.

Everyone else in the workshop looked at her nervously!
Xiao Ningyue looked at the servants, took a deep breath, and knew she couldn't escape. Moreover, she was the only one who could take care of things at home now. Her two younger brothers were still young, the older one was only twelve years old, and the younger one was only seven years old.

Xiao Ningyue had no choice but to leave the workshop with her maid and guards. She saw Chen Tangjin sitting on a bench at the door of the workshop, with more than a dozen young men standing behind him. The fathers or grandfathers of these people were all court officials.

Xiao Ningyue walked over and bowed to Chen Tang, saying, "Greetings, Master Chen! I didn't know you were coming to visit me, I'm sorry for not welcoming you!"

"You are quite capable. You can even buy spindles!" Chen Tangjin stood up, holding the hand warmer in his hand, and looked at Xiao Ningyue with a smile on his face.

Chen Tangjin is quite handsome, with narrow eyes and a sharp look in them, but his face is very delicate!

"I dare not. It is Mr. Xu who is generous and allows me to buy the spindles!" Xiao Ningyue said to Chen Tangjin.

"Mr. Xu? Whose Mr. Xu are you? You are so brave! Come, tell me. Today I will let you see my strength. I will make the Xu family get out of Nanjing city!" Chen Tangjin said confidently to Xiao Ningyue.

"This!" Xiao Ningyue pretended to be scared after hearing this, but she sneered in her heart. Let the Xu family get out of Nanjing? Not to mention that Xu Qin is the nephew of Empress Xu, Xu Qin also has a cousin named Xu Jingchang, who is a duke! Chen Tangjin still has the ability to drive away a duke?
(End of this chapter)