Soft and crispy waist

Ambush.

The weather is extremely hot. I am sweating as soon as I wake up in the morning, not to mention it is sunny.

Xia Zheng brought a bowl of iced mung bean milk to Madam Liang who was checking the account books in the room outside the courtyard.

"It's so hot today, Mammy, have a bowl of ice milk to cool down."

Madam Liang glanced at the bowl in Xia Zheng's hand and didn't take it. "I told you, young lady, you don't have to do these chores now. The kitchen will provide you with food."

"The young master is not at home, and I have nothing to do. I don't know how to do anything else, so I can only make some food to kill time." Putting the bowl next to Nanny Liang, Xia Zheng tidied up the messy account books next to it.

Nanny Liang saw it all but said nothing and just minded her own business.

Xia Zheng was helping out on the side.

It wasn't until Nanny Liang settled the last account and closed the account book that she sighed and said, "Miss Xia Zheng, it's useless for you to help an old woman like me all day long. I'm just a housekeeper, and the young master is the master. I can't influence anything. Besides, you're the only girl in Shushiju now, so you're the only one left. Why worry?"

Xia Zheng was exposed, and she touched her nose and smiled awkwardly: "Although it was a unique case, you also know that it was just the young master who got drunk that night. I am different from before, but after all, I am just a maid, unlike Concubine Huan. It was an early affection. The young lady can be promoted to a concubine when she enters the mansion. I have no one to rely on, so I am always afraid."

"You are the young lady's person, and the young lady will definitely help you." Since no one came to deliver contraceptive soup after that night, Nanny Liang knew what the young lady meant.

"It's better to rely on yourself than on others, Mammy said."

Glancing at Xia Zheng, Nanny Liang also had no one to rely on, climbing step by step to where she is today. She understood the pain she had endured. She had also witnessed Xia Zheng's every move over the past few days. Finally, she said with relief, "Young Master loved crystal bowl cakes when he was young. There's a piece of land by the Luofeng River where we grow yam."

"Thank you for the reminder, Ma'am."

After thanking Nanny Liang, Xia Zheng put on a straw hat and headed towards Luofeng River under the sun.

She had to keep Gu Yizi in Soseki Residence tonight.

Before returning from Fanghuayuan that day, Caiwei came to tell her that she didn't need to go to Fanghuayuan to pay her respects in the next few days, and should stay at Sosekiju and take care of Gu Yizi. She must find a way to keep Gu Yizi in Sosekiju in the next few days.

But Gu Yizi didn't return home at all in the first two days, and he stayed at Wei Qingqing's house the next day. Although he handled official business in the study of Shuseju afterwards, Wei Qingqing would send people to invite him every time with various reasons, and Gu Yizi either went there or went out on official business.

Until today, it is already the seventh day.

Yesterday, Nanny Zhao came to look for her again. Although she was not there at the time and did not see her, she understood that the young lady was getting anxious because she had not been able to keep her here for several days.

Even though the young lady said that she was thinking about her offspring, what Wei Qingqing said was the truth. Neither of them was pregnant. Now that Gu Yizi stayed in the capital, it was particularly important who could give birth to the eldest son. If Wei Qingqing got ahead, the young lady's position would be unstable.

She is the young lady's person. If the young lady's position is unstable and Wei Qingqing takes power, she will not be able to climb up. She may die in a dry well at any time. If she is lucky, she will be driven out of the house.

But Gu Yizi ordered her not to have those thoughts, and she had to stop him from going to Wei Qingqing again, so she had no choice but to...

"But you refused to give me a glass of ice juice when I asked you for it. You are so stingy." Qin Yang complained while wiping the sweat from his forehead while sitting under the shade of a tree in Luofeng River with his fishing rod.

Gu Yizi lifted the rod and pulled up the fish that had just taken the bait. As if he didn't hear Qin Yang's words at all, he cut the fish into pieces and threw it into the bamboo basket. He put bait on the rod again and cast the rod, then sat there waiting quietly.

"Hey, you!" Qin Yang was so angry that sweat broke out on his forehead. "I remember the maid who made the ice juice last time was from your young mistress's courtyard. Even though she's from the inner courtyard, it's okay to borrow an outside chef to help. She made the ice juice so good that I went back and asked several of my cooks to make it, but they couldn't. I was so greedy. If you refused, I would send someone to find your young mistress. If she finds out, I'm afraid you won't be able to go to the farm again today."

"That maidservant is no longer in the inner courtyard."

"Gone? Then where did it go? Was it released?"

Gu Yizi didn't respond, but just leisurely weighed the fishing rod and teased the fish below.

"That shouldn't be the case. Didn't your housekeeper say last time that she had just arrived at the mansion? She shouldn't be very old, at most... at most, just like the maid over there." Qin Yang pointed to Xia Zheng, who was squatting on the ground behind the woods on the opposite bank, digging something with a small hoe.

Gu Yizi looked over and saw Xia Zheng turning around and taking off her straw hat. She was holding a small hoe in her hand and wiping the sweat off her face with her sleeve.

The dirt rubbed onto my face without me noticing, making me look like a little cat.

When she took off her straw hat, some of her hair was blown off and fell on her temples. The wind blew her hair behind her ears with her hands. Because it was hot in summer, she wore only a coat, which she now rolled up with her sleeves, revealing a pair of arms. The silver bracelets on her hands reflected the sunlight, making her arms look even whiter and more slender.

Sweat soaked her clothes, making the already thin clothes stick to her body, outlining all her curves, and every move seemed to have a unique charm.

"A lotus blossoms from clear water, no, a peony blossoms, radiant and gorgeous, comparable to the scorching sun. When did such a distinguished maid appear in your house? I've never seen one before... Ah~!"

A scream of pain interrupted Qin Yang's words.

Looking at the fish that had hit him in the face and was still thrashing and struggling at his feet, he turned to look at Gu Yizi, whose fishing rod was still twitching. Just as he was about to curse, Gu Yizi uttered two words. "Accident."

"What an accident! You obviously did it on purpose!"

Gu Yizi ignored him, stood up, picked up his bamboo basket and left.

"Hey! Not fishing anymore? Not going to the garden anymore?"

"I never said I was going." After saying this, Gu Yizi turned and went behind the moon cave door.

"That's exactly what you meant just now!" Qin Yang shouted, but got no response. Turning around, he saw the maid on the other side had disappeared, leaving him alone. Frustrated, he kicked the struggling fish into the water. "What the hell is this!"

Xia Zheng didn't realize that she had caused Qin Yang a lot of trouble just by digging a sweet potato. She just focused on carrying the basket and walking back quickly. She had to make the crystal bowl cake before dinner, otherwise it would be too late.

But as soon as he walked to the door of Soseki Residence, he saw a tall figure standing inside the door.

If it’s not Gu Yizi, then who else could it be?

"This servant greets the young master."

Seeing her beauty, especially her figure, even though she was covered in mud, Qin Yang's previous words and his eyes, which were so understanding to men, came to his mind unconsciously. He couldn't help but ask with a hint of blame: "No one in the kitchen sent any sweet potatoes, so you have to dig them yourself?"