Concubine Survival Guide

The old kindness is like rose water, dripping on Luo Yi until the fragrance of death.

Some love, some hatred... But it will not fade away until death.

The second aunt has been here since Shengyan that day, and has been unable to sleep for two nights, lying on the bed in a dazed state, constantly muttering to herself: "Xi'er, Sheng'er...all gone, gone...all gone..."

The servant girl who was waiting on the side was worried, and was at a loss, and didn't know what happened to the master.I had to ask a doctor to see her, and she said that her worries and thoughts had accumulated into injuries.

At the beginning, Second Aunt released Xiao Xi from the mansion, but she regretted it not long after, now that she doesn't have a caring servant to serve her, it's a bit inconvenient for her to do anything, she can't let go, so she can only do it herself, which adds a lot of risks.

What worried her even more was that she didn't know the truth of what Sheng Yan said, but she would rather believe it or not. After lying on the bed for a long time, she asked the maids to help her up and asked them to prepare incense, paper and ingots. She was going to worship The second young master and the third young master.

It seemed a bit strange to go at this season, but it wasn't so strange that the second aunt suddenly missed the third young master, so the maid ordered her to go down to prepare.Going around the courtyard door, I happened to meet Xing'er who was rushing to the big kitchen. Xing'er glanced at her and felt the uneasiness on her face, so she asked a few words with a smile, and stuffed her with a bag of candied chestnuts.

After walking away with staggered footsteps, Xing'er immediately turned back to Lianxiangju, and went into the back room.

Sheng Yan slightly raised the bridge of her nose, raised the corners of her mouth silently, picked up a pen and wrote a few words, asking her to send it to Sixth Young Master Long Bilian immediately.

On the other side, Long Bilian left Zhu Luan Courtyard alone not long after, and walked towards Lingling Pavilion.In this room, Sheng Yan leaned over a few desks to write a letter, briefly stating that the eldest brother's child is about to be born, and at the end of the year the baby name and first name will be decided... Ask the second brother if he can name him.

The eldest brother said clearly that he wanted to name the child himself, but after thinking about it carefully, Sheng Yan turned around and understood what he meant.The way to contact the second brother, when they parted that day, the second brother told Sheng Yan.It was inconvenient for the eldest brother to write a letter asking him to forward it, fearing that Mrs. Huan would find out, so he used a roundabout way to remind Sheng Yan that he actually wanted Bisheng to name his child.

This small thing, it will go smoothly the wish of the elder brother.

After Sheng Yan wrote the letter to his second brother, he also greeted Fang Ling by the way, rolled up the envelope and stuffed it into a big shortbread.He didn't dare to ask someone from the Long family to deliver this letter. After thinking about it, he came up with the idea to ask Xing'er to buy a box of almond cakes, hide the letter in the cake, and plan to send it to the person who made the fragrant balls. Master there to go.

Another note was written and handed to Xing'er, asking her to hand it over to the old master. Sheng Yan instructed: "The drawing inside is an ingenious design, so don't lose it. This box of almond cookies is a gift from me." His, let the old man eat slowly one by one, remember to tell the old master, just do it according to the note!"

Xing'er made a serious note, took the almond biscuit food box, carefully avoided the eyeliner placed nearby by the old man, and went out of the house.When I returned to Zhuluanyuan, I was holding a bamboo basket in my hand, which contained seven or eight late autumn crabs, which were quite big, like freshly caught river crabs.Behind her were two young servants, carrying a bigger basket with about a dozen more in it.

Sheng Yan took a look, and thought that this girl is getting smarter and smarter, she should be rewarded.

So he came out of the house with great interest, watched her and Xin'er get drunk with white wine on the crabs outside the small kitchen, then rolled up their sleeves to wash them clean, and tied them up one by one.

Standing on the sidelines, Sheng Yan found it interesting, counted nineteen crabs in total, and said, "It's all steamed at night, send three to the fourth brother, fifth brother and sixth brother, four to the elder brother, and four to the second brother." Send three from my aunt, and keep two for me to eat by myself, you two share one."

Xing'er and Xin'er nodded and said yes, now they got busy, put the bundled river crabs in the pot, prepared various seasonings and some side dishes.Eating crabs is of course accompanied by drinking. Sheng Yan likes to drink sweet-scented osmanthus brews, so Xing'er went to the big kitchen and brought back a small jar of sweet-scented osmanthus brews.

Although it is late autumn, the crabs in Yongjia are fatter in late autumn. Sheng Yan and his elder brother missed the early crabs in golden autumn. Today is his first bite of crabs this year, so he seems a little excited.

The young masters in Zhuluanyuan are all fond of this. Xing'er happened to meet an old man who sold crabs, so she bought a big basket of crabs and came back. They also ate too early crabs a few days ago. .Xing'er meant to ask Sheng Yan to keep a few more for herself, but Sheng Yan reckoned that she couldn't eat that much, so she gave them all away to avoid waste.

Before steaming the crabs, Sheng Yan organized people to set up low tables and wicker chairs in the backyard. First let Xing'er make a pot of tea, and then he leisurely read a book and sipped tea while waiting for the crabs to be served.

"The so-called 'Frost Tangerine Sugar Crab is freshly fermented and beautiful, and when you are drunk, everything is fine in life', having crabs and wine is a great joy in life..." Sheng Yan lay on the wicker chair and looked at the sky, sighing with emotion in a low voice, and couldn't help but think of flying in the blue sky The black eagle above.How wonderful it is, I can fly wherever I want with flapping wings, unlike him, who can only focus on wine and crabs tonight.

But before he could smell the scent of crabs, Long Bilian's bookboy suddenly stumbled in, looking for him anxiously, as if something had happened.

"Ten young masters, my master went to Lingling Xuan just now, but for some reason... he was slapped on the ear by the eldest lady, and was dragged back. The slave saw that half of the master's face was swollen... this, this is so Okay?" He said eagerly, with beads of sweat on his forehead.

Sheng Yan let out a "huh" in surprise, got up and went out, not even having time to change his clothes. "Could it be that your master angered the eldest lady? But what's the big deal, the eldest lady will slap the sixth brother, it's too... hey, let's ignore that, have you invited the doctor yet?"

The book boy hurriedly said, "Please! We're still on the way!"

Sheng Yan nodded, then hurried into Long Bilian's yard, and saw a group of servants standing outside the door, chattering about something.

"What are you all standing here for? Go back and do your own work. When the master wakes up, take care of your flesh and blood!" Sheng Yan stood in the middle of the room without a smile on his face, and the servants immediately dispersed. The usual friendly and warm smile froze.

"Okay, let's go! Keep your mouth shut, this is not something you can gossip about!" Sheng Yan raised his tone again, with a majestic expression, and the servants bowed their heads one after another to make way for him.

Before entering the back room, Sheng Yan asked the book boy to stand outside the door and wait for the doctor, and he went in by himself.

Long Bilian's painful moans echoed faintly in the room, very real.Sheng Yan walked in with some guilt, and saw him leaning against the bed with his right face covered, there seemed to be some hazy tears in his eyes.

"Why did you let her do it? Sixth brother, are you okay..." Sheng Yan approached, saw cold water and a cloth towel beside him, soaked it and wrung it dry and handed it to him, "It will be better if you apply it. "

Long Bilian took it with a sigh, put it on his face, and said to him: "I wanted to say it so freely, even if I got scratched, I feel much more at ease now!"

"My dear sixth brother, shouldn't you just say it outright, what about the rhetoric I taught you?!" Sheng Yan muttered, reaching out to break his hand away, "Just show me, Is the beating serious? You are really capable of making the lady so angry that she wants to beat someone!"

"Heh, didn't you tell me to go?" Long Bilian hissed, "How could I not make a direct collision? At the beginning, I really said what you taught me. I just said, When I was a child, I heard that the fifth aunt died in an unusual way. I have kept this heartache in my heart for many years, and I have always wanted to know what the truth is... Recently I met with the second aunt, and I felt that the second aunt knew something but refused to tell. Two Auntie only said, let me ask Da Furen and it will be clear, but Xiao Liu came after hesitation."

"Well, that's not bad." Sheng Yan nodded, and what he said up to here was all right, so he asked, "Will you follow?"

Long Bilian rubbed his face with a wry smile, and said: "After I said this, the lady's face changed, and she asked me what else my second aunt said? I just said, Second aunt didn't say anything else. I said something: the house is restless, and people’s hearts are not old. The Long family has withered over the years, and it is an old fox who is causing trouble..."

Sheng Yan covered her mouth and laughed softly: "Why didn't you hold back, and turned a corner and scolded people?"

"If she wasn't guilty, how could she be so angry?" Long Bilian still felt that his words were being polite, shook his head and said, "At this time, the maid who she rejected twice asked me, Xiao Liu, what do you want to say? What? I deliberately kept silent for a long while before I said, Second Aunt also said that Third Brother’s death was wronged, but it was caused by karmic retribution. scattered, and will haunt the person who harmed him for the rest of his life..."

"Yo, Sixth Brother, you changed the words without authorization again!" Sheng Yan seemed to be complaining, but the corners of his mouth were slightly raised on both sides.

He is very clear about Long Bilian's character, and he is absolutely unwilling to suffer. If someone advances him one foot, he must pay back three feet. This can be seen from their childhood fights.But after so many years, his competitive temperament has subsided a lot, but the stubbornness in his bones has not changed. The eldest lady is the enemy of killing his mother. It's not bad to poison the eldest lady in the shade.

"Then, Da Furen got angry and slapped you?" Da Furen has always been calm and steady, and the city is very deep, Sheng Yan didn't think she would rashly attack Long Bilian.

Long Bilian took down the cloth towel, let Shengyan wet him and then covered his face, he said coldly, "Not yet, after finishing this sentence, she gasped and asked me sharply, I made up these words." Did the second aunt really tell me that it came out? It seems that she still has doubts."

"Well, of course, her body and mind, I bet, must have more hair than yours." Sheng Yan still did not forget to joke at this time, "What did you return to her?"

"I'll just say, that's what my second aunt said to me. Although the original words are much more subtle, but that's what they mean, and I can't hear them wrong. Also, I have a question, why haven't I arrived after all these years?" The anniversary of the fifth aunt's death, everyone in the Long family kept taboo about it, isn't it because the reason for the death of the fifth aunt was so strange that no one dared to tell me?" Long Bilian felt better now, and took the cloth towel Clenched in his hands, he continued: "The face of the eldest lady suddenly became cloudy, and she shook her hands and asked me: Xiao Liu, then you will believe the nonsense of the second aunt and think who has anything to do with the death of the fifth aunt?"

Sheng Yan listened intently, and almost didn't notice that the book boy at the door had already walked in, and he said loudly: "The doctor is right outside the door, master, do you feel better?"

Long Bilian immediately made a look at Sheng Yan, and the two of them tacitly agreed, and they immediately changed the subject.

Because the inner room was darker, he asked the doctor to look outside.The doctor prescribed a prescription for promoting blood circulation and removing blood stasis, and left some ointment for external application. This was the end of the matter, which shows how powerful the lady's slap was.

After seeing off the doctor, Sheng Yan went back to the house and listened to Long Bilian's continuation.

"In this way, you threatened to tell the Elder Master about this matter, and the Elder Madam was finally angry?" After hearing what he said, Sheng Yan felt that the play had exceeded her expectations, so she stood up with a smile Said: "Sixth brother is good to rest, there is no need to worry about the next thing, just wait...to see how the eldest lady and the second aunt... how to bite."

Long Bilian understood it, and he let go of a huge rock in his heart, and the resentment he felt for Wu Yiniang was at least somewhat reduced.

When Sheng Yan returned to Lianxiangju, he heard Xing'er coming up to report the news: "Master, Yan's mother just went out with the eldest lady, and I heard that... like the girl next to Second Aunt, she is holding a paper incense candle. "

"Heh, the eldest lady and the second aunt really have a good understanding. Remember to hang up the second brother and the third brother on the same day." Sheng Yan asked Xing'er to close the door of Lilianxiangju, and told her: "After sending out the crabs later, just plug them in." Lock the door bolt, anyone who knocks on the door will tell me that I have a small ailment and have already fallen asleep... If it is someone sent by the elder, let him wait a little longer before reporting to me."

"Yes!" Xing'er wondered in her heart, where did the master come from, even the person on the other side of the elder dared to refuse the door.

Sheng Yan didn't worry about that at all. When it was time for dinner, he asked them to take out the "eight pieces of crab", split up the crab very comfortably, dipped the crab meat with shredded ginger and vinegar, and put it into the mouth inside.

This meal lasted for an hour.

After clearing away the messy table, Sheng Yan asked Xing'er to let the people outside the door in, and said to him: "I'll change my clothes, and I'll be there now! You too, don't you know please eat first, my lord?" As you get older, you have to eat three meals a day on time!"

The attendant was taken aback by what he said, and seeing that he really wanted to change, he left Lianxiangju.

Sheng Yan dawdled for a while longer before he walked out of the house slowly and headed for the grand master's study.

This time, there was no sound of quarreling in the study, but after Sheng Yan came out, the Elder's expression was still not good.After drinking a cup of ginseng tea, holding the hand of the housekeeper, Uncle Lin, he sat down tremblingly, and uttered a sentence reluctantly: "From tomorrow on, the ten young masters and the eldest young master will be in charge of the Longjia fragrance business together, and all traffic in the south of the Yangtze River will be in charge." Bifei will take care of it, and the two places in the northwest and southwest... will be handed over to... the ten young masters."

Uncle Lin was startled suddenly, glanced at the elder's downcast expression, then nodded respectfully, and went down to pass it on.

Sheng Yan returned to the room calmly, as if he had never been to the master's study tonight, and played with Xiao Si and Xiao Jiu in his arms in the house with a smile on his face, and did not wash up until after the second watch. Xing'er and Xin'er don't need to wait on her anymore.

At the middle of the night, a stone flew in from the window suddenly, Sheng Yan turned over and ran to the bed to see that it was indeed the hidden guard.The shadow that merged into the darkness stretched out a hand and handed him a bundle, which was square and boxy.

Sheng Yan picked it up and sat back beside the bed, opened it and took a closer look, oh, there was a mechanical clock with a square bottom and a dome in the box, it was ticking, and the pendulum was still swinging back and forth.

There is also a food box under this box, the corner of the cigarette holder is high, and when you open it, you can feel the aroma. It turns out to be four fat crabs, and there is a note under it: I am eating crabs against the moon, how about you?

Sheng Yan couldn't help but twitched the corners of his lips, squinted his eyes and put away the food box and the mechanical clock, then picked up the letter he had prepared, turned back, handed it to the dark guard, and said, "This is a letter for your master. In addition... ...Help me pass a message, um, just say... I am eating too, the crab is very similar to you!"

The dark guard scratched his chin, what do you mean a crab looks like a master?But... Let's pass it on as it is.

Sheng Yan closed the window with a smirk, but looked at the box of crabs again and felt embarrassed, "I have eaten a lot tonight, and I will be able to hold on if I eat any more, but if I don't eat... will it spoil tomorrow?" ah?"

After debating for a while, Sheng Yan still took the food box to the kitchen, steamed it in the drawer for a while, mixed a bowl of ginger vinegar, and went back to the room with the food box, deciding to eat all the crabs.

This night, Xiao Si kept wagging his tail and circled the Shengyan, raised his cat's paw and lay on his knees, meowing—crabs, and delicious crabs!

Xiao Jiu helplessly held a carrot on the table, gnawed it to himself, and gave him a blank look—

—Stupid, don’t look at who sent the crabs, the master won’t give you to eat them!