I was a queen in ancient times, no, a maid!

Serve the spicy hot pot, one bowl per person, with both meat and vegetables.

Cheng Yu also specially prepared sesame paste, which he added some soy sauce and some minced garlic.

Whether you like garlic or not, it’s up to you to decide how much to add.

A dish of sesame oil was also prepared.

We started chatting while eating.

"I was helping out in the kitchen earlier, and I wanted to leave as soon as possible so I could come back to cook for my wife. I told Madam Li that I would teach her a few dishes later. But after hearing what Dingxiang said about her, I realized that she is not good enough, so I won't teach her anymore."

Ding Xiang chuckled.

"I hate her for being mine. If she hasn't offended you, it doesn't matter if you teach her. I just despise her for secretly withholding our eldest lady's food. I saw it. People who didn't see it don't know how much she withheld. Look at how fat she has fed herself. She doesn't look like a servant at all. She looks like she is here to be the ancestor."

Several people laughed when they heard this.

Ziwei said, "Don't talk about those bad things. We have a lot of things in the sewing room. The eldest lady has no material to make clothes, and the maids came to borrow it. She just borrowed it and let it go. Later, she said that she didn't have it. It's also because our lady is generous and doesn't look down on these things. But I, who manages the sewing room, am furious."

Cheng Yu listened carefully.

No wonder Zhao Rulan was bullied so badly later. It turned out that she didn't take it seriously at the beginning. Others thought she was easy to bully, so they became more and more aggressive.

"The mistress is kind-hearted, but being too kind-hearted can also offend people."

Cheng Yu whispered.

Dingxiang and Ziwei were eating spicy hot pot, while Zhu'er was concentrating on eating and didn't pay any attention to what was happening outside.

After eating the spicy hot pot, Dingxiang smelled an odor on her body. The mistress couldn't stand the smell, so she went back to the room, changed her clothes, and then went to serve the mistress.

Ziwei didn't leave immediately. She sat down and talked to Cheng Yu. Zhu'er was diligent for once. She took the dishes and went to the small kitchen, cleaned up and came back.

When I returned to the room, I saw Ziwei had already left.

"Yu'er, are you really going back to the palace? When will you go?"

"I don't know. Just listen to my wife's arrangements. Aren't we maids just bricks? We can be moved wherever we are needed."

Cheng Yu said this and stretched his waist.

She had to wash up and go to bed quickly.

The piece of material that Ziwei sent today was very good. She thought about cutting it into clothes, but then she thought that she wanted to be low-key in the first place, and if she wore a pink dress, how could she be low-key?

She planned to take it outside and sell it, hoping to get some silver.

Nothing is better than money these days.

Zhu'er was still muttering that if Cheng Yu went to the palace, she would not be able to eat the special meals prepared by Cheng Yu.

Cheng Yule was not happy.

Tell me, can I not come back?

I'm just going to take care of the prince for a few days, and also to help my lady check on him, to see where he is injured and whether the injury is serious, and to show concern for my brother on behalf of my mistress.

***

The next day, Zhao Rulan met Cheng Yu alone and asked her what she thought.

Cheng Yu thought to himself, you have already made the decision, and you still ask me what I think? What can a working man like me think?

Isn't this equivalent to a business trip from another unit?

"Everything is up to my wife's arrangement."

"Don't worry about anything when you go to the palace this time. Just take good care of the prince. Ask more about what happened in the palace and tell me later."

"Yes, Yu'er remembered it."

Seeing how well-behaved, obedient and docile she was, Zhao Rulan didn't say the words of criticism she originally wanted to say and let Cheng Yu leave.

Then he called two maids over, reminded them of the rules, and said a few words to remind them to remember the main mission of this trip to the palace.

In addition, two maids should keep an eye on Cheng Yu and prevent him from being too close to the prince.

One is Madam Zhang, who is in charge of the warehouse affairs, and the other is Madam Wu, who is in charge of the maids. Both of them are about thirty-five or thirty-six years old.

Zhao Rulan asked the two mothers to go to Prince Jing's Mansion with Cheng Yu.

The carriage was prepared. The driver was another person, who was also Zhao Rulan's dowry driver. He filled the carriage with some nourishing medicinal materials. Two carriages were enough for both the people and the things.

Cheng Yu deliberately wore a new dress, which was still grey. Her attire was even more plain than those of the two maids.

The three people were riding in a carriage, and the carriage behind was loaded with nourishing items.

They got in the car and left, and Dingxiang even went out to take a look.

Dingxiang waited until the carriage left before replying.

"I'm already on the carriage. It will arrive in two hours. Don't worry. I've told Yu'er that if there's any situation, I'll have the driver send you a message immediately."

Zhao Rulan hummed.

Dingxiang hesitated again and again, looking at her mistress, as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.

"Just tell me what you want to say. Do you still want to hide things from me?"

"Just now, I saw the Second Master, who was about to go out, and asked him some questions. I didn't tell him that the Young Master was injured. I just said that the Madam missed her family and asked the maids to go back to see them."

"You did the right thing. No one is allowed to tell anyone about the prince's injury."

Ding Xiang: "Madam, the Second Master is going out at this hour, I'm afraid it's not for official business. But I need you to send someone to keep an eye on him."

"Is it useful to keep an eye on him? All I have to do now is to give birth to my child safely. As for the Second Master, let him be."

At first, Zhao Rulan was so worried about Lu Zhaowen having a mistress that she cried at night and couldn't sleep. Later, she thought carefully and realized that there is no man in this world who is not passionate.

Her wet nurse and governess taught her everything she should have.

She was also considerate and took a concubine for her husband.

"Go find Xianglian and Sujuan and give them a good warning. Ask them to think of a way to keep the Second Master. If they can't give birth to the Second Master's children, how can they raise their status?"

A young girl's love is a dream.

Now that Zhao Rulan's dream has been shattered, she has to face the reality that her husband will not love her alone.

Then we should add a few more sisters to the inner house to make it more lively.

As for the one she kept outside, she felt extremely unhappy.

If she raised the girl after her marriage, and if the girl was a decent person and was taken into the house as a concubine, she would allow it.

However, that mistress was someone Lu Zhaowen had kept outside before he married her.

As for the time when she almost had a miscarriage, she had no evidence whether it was the incense given to Lu Zhaowen by the mistress, but her intuition was that the incense was related to the woman outside.

Zhao Rulan would not let the woman outside in.

Being a concubine has to follow the rules of being a concubine.

What kind of thing a concubine's son raised can be allowed to come in and call her sister?

Also match!

Zhao Rulan felt unhappy and suddenly felt dizzy. She held her forehead and pressed it.

Dingxiang saw that she was feeling uncomfortable, so she immediately stepped forward and pinched her temple.

"Don't be angry, my lady. If you are angry, it's not because of someone out there. I think you might as well stop giving Second Master his spending money. Who knows, maybe he spent all that money on that woman out there."

"If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten it."

She had heard Cheng Yu say that men become bad when they have money. She hadn't thought much about it at the time, but now she remembered it.

Could it be that she was too kind-hearted and allowed the Lu family to bully her?

"Tell the accountant to stop all private supplies to the kitchen."

When Zhao Rulan was in charge of the Lu family, she saw that the food in the big kitchen was not good, so she paid for it with her own money. The old lady can still eat so well now because of her payment. All these incomes should be reimbursed to her.

The loose change that Lu Zhaowen used privately would be when he went out to spend money on something. The store would come to his store and the bills would all be sent to Zhao Rulan, who would pay for them.

"Also, from now on, you need to bring all the account books for everything you buy to me first. You can't just go directly to the accountant like before."

Zhao Rulan didn't want to cut off Lu Zhaowen's money all at once.

After all, they still have to maintain a harmonious appearance.

Moreover, Zhao Rulan still has some feelings for Lu Zhaowen.

She just wanted to make Lu Zhaowen change his mind, and she didn't want to break off her relationship with him.

She is doing this now to prevent Lu Zhaowen from spending money on other women again.