The Concubine's Daughter Travels Through Time and Space and Takes the Road of Confrontation

There were two more people at Qiufengyuan. Tonghua returned from the kitchen carrying a lunch box and snorted heavily as she passed them. Jinna took out the food from the lunch box one by one and placed it on the table.

When Qiman heard the delicious food, she put down the book in her hand, walked out from the inner room and sat down at the table.

A plate of stir-fried white fungus, a plate of steamed bacon, a bowl of vegetable soup and a plate of white rice.

Qiman moved her chopsticks a few times before saying she was full. With a sullen look on her face, she asked Jinna to take the food away. Yinhua muttered as she walked into the house, carrying a teapot. "Miss, with the current situation in the yard, you should come up with some rules."

Qiman continued reading. "I don't know what's going on in my yard."

Yinhua pouted and said, "Look, those two stand at the door like door gods every day, motionless. Whenever I want to go to the front to get something, I will be questioned. Everything was fine before, how could it change so suddenly?" She already had a hint of complaint at the end.

Qiman looked up and said, "Yinhua, what do you think I should do?"

Yinhua's eyes turned, "Miss, in the past, people often used sound to spread messages in the mansion. Now we can't leave, but we can use sound to lure people here." She became more interested, "I remember you brought a handful of satar. Our yard is close to the garden, and the garden is the only way to get to Mingde Hall."

Qiman nodded as if agreeing with her statement, "Then go find Satar. I haven't played it for a long time, so I'll practice for a few days first."

In the afternoon, a deep and hoarse sound of piano strings was heard in Qiufengyuan.

Qiman sat in the corridor, holding a tall satar with a wooden face and playing a shepherd song.

Yinhua got goosebumps all over the floor. "Miss, do you know anything else?"

Qiman grinned. "It's just practice. I know what I'm doing."

Yinhua felt relieved and closed the window as soon as she entered the room.

Jinna smiled secretly, gestured to her mistress, and turned to go into the house. Qiman pulled her for five times before stopping. The two people at the door saw that she finally stopped and breathed a sigh of relief.

What's the difference between talking about the joy of herding sheep on the grasslands with someone who has lived his whole life in the mountains and playing the lute to a cow?

In the evening, Qiman chased Yinhua away and kept Jinna. When it was late at night and everyone was asleep, Qiman said, "Jinna, the food we send to the courtyard is getting worse and worse." After a pause, she continued, "I'm running out of money. How am I going to make a living from now on?"

Qiman turned over and went outside, pulling aside the curtains, only then did she feel a little cooler. "Yinhua asked me to use Satar to lure the Crown Prince here today, and then become his concubine. Do you think I should do it?"

Jin Na: "Miss, the master originally sent you to be the Crown Prince's concubine."

Qiman: "I know, but what's the good of being someone's concubine? My father's concubines are controlled by the madam and they don't even dare to eat a little more. They can't even make new clothes."

Jinna: "You don't have any money now."

Qiman was discouraged. "Is there no other way? The cloth that the princess gave me is really beautiful."

Jinna: "Miss, you can't go out now."

Qiman muttered to herself, "It's really strange. Why is the princess suddenly angry? Did I do something wrong last time?"

In the darkness, Jinna shook her head and said, "I don't know."

"If only I could get out of the yard." Qiman said to herself, "I wish I knew what I did wrong."

After a moment, Jinna hesitated and said, "Miss, I have a way."

Yinhua had long been reluctant to go to the kitchen, so when she saw Jinna wanted to go, she handed the lunch box to her without a word. Jinna left the yard and headed straight for the kitchen. She walked around the kitchen first, then saw the lunch box with the Anlan Hospital label still there, so she came out again.

They waited until they saw Miss Tonghua from Anlan Courtyard. Jinna nodded at her, and the two of them walked into the kitchen one after another. The kitchen manager smiled and personally handed the food box to Miss Tonghua.

Tonghua thanked him politely and turned to leave, but unexpectedly a dish was spilled at her feet.

Tonghua was startled and dodged to the side. Jinna, standing nearby, had already started arguing with someone. It wasn't quite right to call it an argument, but she stood there with red eyes, letting the woman in the kitchen pinch her waist and scold her.

"Are you blind? You can't even hold such a big dish?"

"What a waste of good food! Do you know how much effort it takes to make such a delicious dish?"

It was not until the housekeeper scolded her that the daughter-in-law stopped talking with a look of indignation on her face.

Jin Na wiped her tears and put the remaining vegetable soup and white meat in the food box she brought with her. She looked at her wife eagerly and asked, "Is there any food?"

The wife impatiently poured a bowl of mushy rice into the man's mouth and said, "Here, this is all we have."

Tonghua had suffered a lot when she was a maid in the front yard, so she felt sorry for what she saw. She didn't get angry right away, but only called out to Jinna after she left the kitchen.

Jinna's eyes were still red. Tonghua handed the food box in her hand to the maid behind her, then took the food box from the maid, opened it, took out the steamed preserved meat at the bottom and handed it to her. "Is this all you have been eating in your courtyard lately?"

Jinna didn't dare to take it, and said hesitantly, "Miss Tonghua, I appreciate your kindness, but I can't accept this." After that, she bowed to Tonghua and turned to leave.

Seeing this, Tonghua had to explain in a low voice, "These are not the master's share, but the people below..."

Jinna understood before he finished speaking. She hesitated for a moment before reaching out to take it and putting it in the food box, then bowed again.

At the courtyard gate, Tonghua handed the maid's food box over to her, then returned to her room and handed it to Sister Caihe. Lu Yun had a good appetite today and ate several bowls of food. Caihe was setting the table, and after a few chopsticks, she realized something was wrong.

After the meal, she pulled Tonghua aside and said, "Tell me, why is one dish missing from the master's meal today?" The people in the kitchen didn't have the guts to withhold the food from their Anlan Courtyard.

Tonghua hung her head and said, "Sister Caihe, I made a mistake today. Please punish me."

Cai He pretended to be serious. "You know you made a mistake, but why don't you explain everything in detail? Do you want the master to worry about such a small matter as yours?"

Tonghua waved her hands hurriedly, "Sister Caihe, don't let the master know. If you want to punish someone, punish me. I, I took the liberty of giving the master's rarely used cured meat steamed together to Qiufengyuan."

Cai He frowned, "Why are you doing this? Is there another reason why Qiu Feng Yuan doesn't need you?"

Tonghua's eyes flushed as she recounted what she had witnessed in the kitchen today. "I felt so sorry for them, I couldn't bear it any longer and just moved them out."

Cai He's face turned ugly. "You only made one mistake, which was not taking the master's things to give as a favor. I don't have the power to punish you with a stick. The master has to make the final decision on this matter."

"Wait here first, and come in when I call you."

Tonghua was extremely depressed and nodded to indicate that she understood.

After listening to what happened, Lu Yun thought about it carefully and understood, "Forget it, it's just a dish, don't make things difficult for Tonghua."

Cai He disagreed and said, "Master, a dish is a dish. But the most important thing for a housekeeper is to clearly distinguish between rewards and punishments, so as to win the support of the people." If you let a dish go today and let something else go tomorrow, it will be difficult to set rules in the long run.

Lu Yun smiled and said, "You are right. Then go and bring Tonghua in."