The Daily Life of a Concubine's Daughter After Transmigrating

Zhilan and Liuyun Qiuyue exchanged a glance and both smiled.

"Second miss."

Cuihong suddenly appeared before everyone, carrying an exquisite wooden box.

"Second Miss, the Eldest Miss sent me to deliver a gift to you."

Liu Yun put down the wooden box and took the wooden case.

"Second Miss, Eldest Miss said she thanks you for remembering our sisterly bond. She also specifically instructed me that you must open this gift box yourself," Cuihong reminded her.

"I understand, you can go back now," Li Anqi said.

After Cuihong left, Liuyun and Qiuyue examined the wooden box for a long time, but couldn't figure it out.

Li Anshu looked at the wooden box with a puzzled expression.

"Miss, shall we open it now?" Qiuyue asked.

Li Anqi nodded, then suddenly remembered something and immediately said, "Wait, let's go to the courtyard to open it."

Li Anqi placed the box in the orchid field in the courtyard and then found an extremely long bamboo pole.

Li Anqi stood under the eaves and looked back at Anshu and Zhilan, who were standing side by side with him. He saw that they were looking at him nervously.

Li Anqi carefully pried open the bamboo pole.

Several dark, black rats suddenly scurried out of the box.

"Mom!"

"It's a mouse!"

Liu Yunqiuyue and Li Anshu screamed in surprise, and even Zhilan was so frightened that she hissed and stumbled back a few steps.

But Zhilan quickly regained her senses.

"Second Miss and Third Miss, please come inside first. Please don't be frightened."

Li Anqi led Li Anshu into the house, listening to the sounds outside.

Zhilan, along with Liuyun Qiuyue and the maids and servants in the courtyard, said...

"Quickly find someone to catch these rats, don't let a single one escape, and whatever you do, don't let the old lady and the master and mistress see them!"

"Yes."

The men accepted the order: those who were looking for people, and those who were catching mice, were to catch mice.

After a period of commotion.

Zhilan returned with Liuyun and Qiuyue to report back.

"Second Miss," Zhilan bowed.

"Have all the mice been caught?"

"There were four in total, and they were all caught."

Zhilan took a folded piece of paper from her sleeve and handed it to Li Anqi.

"This was found at the bottom of the box. Please take a look, Miss."

Li Anqi opened the paper and saw four large characters written on it: "Reciprocity is the best policy," along with a strange, smiling emoji drawn with a brush.

"hehe."

Upon seeing such endearing emojis, Li Anqi couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Liu Yun said indignantly, "How can Miss still laugh when the eldest young lady treats her like this?"

"Firstly, I laughed because Li Baoqin was too naive and innocent, not like I imagined... Secondly, it was because of Aunt Zhilan."

The usually calm and composed Zhilan is actually afraid of mice.

The more Li Anqi thought about it, the cuter it seemed.

“Aunt Zhilan is dignified and composed. I have never seen her make a mistake before. She is an iron woman who is unshakable. I never expected that she would be exposed to another side of herself by a few rats today.”

Qiuyue laughed along.

Zhilan blushed slightly and spoke in her usual tone.

“Although I am old, I am not fearless. On the contrary, the Second Miss did not panic when she saw those filthy things. This is the demeanor of a person who will achieve great things.”

“You’re only in your early twenties, how are you old? Aren’t you in the prime of your life? I also have things I’m afraid of, it’s just not rats,” Li Anqi said.

When she transmigrated, she was only 21 years old and hadn't graduated from university yet.

“I am an old maid and cannot bear the title of ‘youthful and vibrant’,” Zhilan said.

Li Anqi almost forgot.

In this era, girls can get married at the age of fourteen or fifteen, and once they are over twenty, they are considered "old maids" by people.

After the winter solstice, there were several heavy snowfalls, and the Lunar New Year is just around the corner.

On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, the family had already put up Spring Festival couplets and hung lanterns.

The private school also ended its year-long term, which is equivalent to the modern winter vacation.

Upon hearing that the farmhands of the manor had delivered ten cartloads of New Year's goods at the East Corner Gate, Li Anshu excitedly called everyone to come and see.

These large carts were filled with a variety of animals, including deer, cattle, caged boars, wild boars, gazelles, pheasants, rabbits, silverfish, purple crabs, grasshoppers, as well as dried fruits such as peanuts, hazelnuts, pine nuts, red dates, chestnuts, and longans. The variety of food was dazzling.

Li Anxiu was the one who checked the list of New Year's goods. He was very meticulous in his work, so this was probably not the first time.

"Hey! Weren't there twelve cars last year? How come there are only ten this year?"

Li Anshu couldn't help but ask.

Li Anhua licked his lips, like a hungry little cat.

"Who cares how many cars there are, as long as there's good food."

This novel festive atmosphere was something Li Anqi was experiencing for the first time.

In previous years, she would go back to her hometown to spend the Spring Festival with her relatives.

Thinking of his parents and younger brother in the modern world, Li Anqi suddenly lost interest and went back to his room alone, where he cried silently for a while.

Early the next morning.

When Li Anqi greeted the old lady, he asked permission to go to the mansion, saying he needed to buy some paper, brushes, ink, and inkstones to prepare for the start of the new school year.

The old lady didn't hesitate and quickly agreed.

In this dynasty, unmarried women were not allowed to show their faces in public at will.

This was Li Anqi's first time leaving the mansion since he transmigrated.

Li Anqi sat in a sedan chair carried by four men, lifted the curtain, and looked at the scenery outside.

After the heavy snow, everything is covered in a blanket of white.

There weren't many pedestrians on the road, and some people were shoveling snow in front of their houses.

The buildings along the road were quite different from the magnificent Jingguo Duke's Mansion.

Seeing another blue sedan chair carried by four men ahead, the sedan chair bearers of Li Anqi quickened their pace and soon caught up with the sedan chair in front.

Seeing this, the sedan bearers of the blue sedan quickened their pace and overtook Li Anqi's sedan.

"Second Miss, this is Prince Xiao's sedan chair," Zhilan said.

Li Anqi understood immediately and quickly said to the lead sedan chair bearers, "Slow down."

Unexpectedly, the sedan bearers ignored them and continued to stride forward, overtaking the blue sedan again.

The four sedan bearers in the blue sedan also exerted their strength and overtook it again.

"Don't overtake! Don't overtake! Prince Xiao is ahead!"

Zhilan quickly said to the sedan chair bearers.

"Who cares which prince he is!"

The lead sedan bearers still overtook the blue sedan and sped away.

Li Anqi couldn't vent his anger while inside the sedan chair, and he was also feeling frustrated.

"Aunt Zhilan, who is Prince Xiao? What is his temperament like?" Li Anqi asked.

Zhilan sighed and said, "This Prince Xiao is the eighteenth brother of the current emperor, and his birth mother is the deceased Consort Xian."

"I don't know anything about Prince Xiao's temperament. I only heard that he led troops into battle when he was seventeen years old and was brave and invincible. Later, when the Southern Xia Kingdom rebelled, Prince Xiao led his troops to fight and had an epic love affair with the princess of the Southern Xia Kingdom. The two were in love, but they also loved and hated each other."

"Later, the Southern Xia Kingdom was defeated and surrendered to the court, offering tribute and sending its princess to marry the princess. When the emperor heard about Prince Xiao and the Southern Xia princess, he bestowed the Southern Xia princess upon Prince Xiao as his queen, and it has been four or five years since then."

Li Anqi pondered for a while, then asked Zhilan, "Aunt, what do you think is the best way to deal with these rogue sedan chair bearers?"

"It's not just our household; the sedan chair carriers in the capital are all strong young men who often rely on the power of our household to openly gamble, engage in gang fights, and even cause deaths. But because they come from the powerful Gao family, the local officials dare not come forward to investigate."

Zhilan paused for a moment, then continued, "These servants are disobedient. Second Miss should punish them as appropriate. Firstly, it's to purify and correct oneself, and secondly, it's to let outsiders see it and save face for the other party."

Li Anqi knew that the "other party" Zhilan was referring to was Prince Xiao.