Chapter 58: The Opponent (Part 2)

  On the way back halfway, Liao's maid called Qinghua over. Ronghua returned to the yard and took a look at Feicui's house on purpose.

  Feicui has been even more idle since being scolded by Ronghua last time, and whenever she is free, she would sneak into her small cottage to be lazy. This is actually what Ronghua likes to see, as it's better to raise an idle person than a spy who needs to be guarded against at all times. Muxin quietly approached Feicui's cottage, took a look, and shook his head.

  "Not here." Rong Hua smiled.

  Miss Shi will take at least a cup of tea's time to return from Liao's place, Rong Hua and Jin Xiu went into the warm pavilion to talk.

  Mugwort moved a small bench to the door and fiddled with needles and threads.

  Jinxiu had already whispered: "I've been looking for an opportunity to tell you, Miss, but I just couldn't. Previously, when I went to Madame's place, Madame and Ma Dao were talking, and they didn't guard against us, so I heard everything clearly. That Ma Dao said that our household was originally always fine, it's just that this year something might have gone wrong, which is why we've had one disaster after another."

  As expected, it's about this. Judging from Ma Dao's appearance, she must be used to this kind of thing.

  Jinxiu said: "At first, I was half-believing and half-doubting the mistress's words. The mistress only asked, it's not just one or two years since we moved into this garden, we've been living here for a long time, why would something happen now?"

  "That Madam Ma said after thinking for a long time, has nothing to do with this garden, it's just that the mansion's luck in recent years is really bad. If not for the noble person in the mansion, I'm afraid something big would have happened already, especially on the side of the eldest miss, without this noble person, she wouldn't be able to pass this hurdle."

  It turned out to be somewhat different from what she had expected. She thought that Madam Ma would say that someone's eight characters were not compatible with those of the Fu family.

  After all, she is the young lady who just entered the mansion this year.

  "Madam asked Ma Dao again, 'Who is this noble person?'"

  "The old woman whispered something in the big wife's ear, I listened carefully but couldn't hear anything. The big wife's face looked very bad."

  Rong Hua furrowed his brow.

  Jinxiu looked outside, "However, the maid in Mrs. Da's room said that Ma Dao Po had taken away the birth dates of several young ladies earlier and said she was going to calculate something."

  When Ma Dao saw her for the first time, she looked at her with a strange gaze, gave her a Buddhist rosary and said that her face was very auspicious... Could it be...

  Later, Madam Ma told the mistress that if she could find a place in the garden to build a house, it would be best. Although the mistress did not immediately agree, Madam Ma said she wanted to take a look around the mansion, and the mistress did not stop her.

  That was not entirely rejecting Madam Ma's proposal.

  Jinxiu looked at Ronghua, "Miss, what do you think Ma Dao is doing? I heard that the building of the family temple, the maids in the main room are saying," her voice was even lower, "it's possible that they want to let tenth miss..."

  It was clear that there was a noble person who spoke first, and then the family's humble abode was mentioned. Before that, the elder lady had invited Madam Ma over, but nothing about the tenth young lady had been said yet.

  This won't be the Madam's words, this noble person must go to serve the Buddha in order for the Tao family to pass through their difficulties. If that's how things are done, then it really matches with Yao Hua's actions.

  Jinxiu saw the worry between Ronghua's eyebrows and said, "Miss, shouldn't we also be on our guard?"

  "It's no use trying to guard against it." Yao Hua had already made up her mind who she was going to deal with, and who could change her mind.

  "Miss, maybe we're thinking too much."

  Was she thinking too much? Yanhua had just handed over a large gold ingot to Ma Dao's wife in front of her, and if Yanhua hadn't received any news, why would he come to her side with such a smug look on his face, as if waiting for her to make a fool of herself.

  On the surface, Miss Ten seems to be much more dangerous than her. After all, Miss Ten is the legitimate daughter of the third house, while she is just a concubine's daughter who tries not to make any mistakes, with no backing and no right to speak at all.

  No one understands better than her the truth that fate changes in an instant.

  "Try to get information about Ma Dao's wife from those women." Unfortunately, she was a lady who stayed at home and had no ability to reach out, even if Ma Dao's wife had done something outside, she couldn't grasp the evidence, and empty words would not be believed.

  At that time, no matter what the lady said, she could only agree. Otherwise, if you don't obey your parents, what good will come of it?

  ……

  Yao Hua returned to the house, where Fei Cui was eating melon seeds in the Xiang Zhu room. Chu Xiao went over and replaced Xiang Zhu to attend to Yao Hua, chatting idly with Fei Cui for a few sentences.

  Xiang Zhu wrote a few letters, Yao Hua took a sip of tea and lay down on the soft couch to rest. She ordered the maids, "You don't have to attend to me anymore, all of you can go and take a break!"

  The second young lady had always been gentle with her servants and didn't order them around much, so the maids went off happily to attend to their own tasks.

  Chu Xiao saw off Fei Cui and returned to the house.

  Yao Hua closed her eyes to rest, while Chu Xiao sat beside her with a staff, muttering to herself, "That night it was Fourth Aunt who went to find Eighth Miss, and had Eighth Miss go rescue Third Madam and Princess An Guo. I think Eighth Miss must have also been deceived by someone else's words, fortunately Wu Mu Hou happened to arrive just in time."

  Yao Hua smiled slightly. Where would there be such good luck, if not for considering everything beforehand, could she still wait for others to help? Even if the Marquis of Wu Mu hadn't arrived, the family members in the manor would have, anyway, Eighth Miss would have been safe and sound that night.

  "Miss Ba had nothing else to do these days, except that Xiaotao from Second Master's room came to find Miss Ba once."

  Yao Hua opened her eyes and glanced at Chu Xiao.

  "Feicui said that Xiaotao just sat for a while and then left."

  Miss Ba is someone who wants to get close to Brother Hong and rely on him?

  "Moreover, Eighth Miss and Tenth Miss of the Third House are indeed close."

  No matter how skilled one is at mental arithmetic, if one's fate is not in one's own hands, it will all be for naught.

  Xiao Dao said: "How does Fifth Miss compare to Eighth Miss? You overestimate Eighth Miss."

  Yao Hua finally let out a sigh, "I always feel that they are very similar in some ways, sometimes I even get the wrong impression."

  Two people were talking when Chen's mother entered the yard.

  The maid outside lifted the door curtain, and Chū Xiǎo came out of the house to greet her. Seeing Chen Mama, she hastily paid her respects. Chen Mama looked at Chū Xiǎo's gentle movements and didn't dare speak loudly either, only smiling with narrowed eyes, "Is Second Miss resting?"

  Xiao nodded slightly, "I fell asleep after taking the medicine."

  Madam Chen said, "You've had a hard time these past two days, Miss. You're just recovering from your illness, so you must take good care of yourself." As she spoke, she hastily instructed the maid who had accompanied her to put down the things in her hands and told Xiao that, "These are gifts sent over by Lady Cai of Yi Cheng Hou's estate and Wu Mu Hou's estate."

  At the first light, she took a look at what the maids had put down - a red wooden inlaid shell box and a potted landscape. The potted landscape was covered with a piece of green gauze, making it unclear to see. "Yicheng Marquis's mansion and Wumu Marquis's mansion have both sent gifts."

  Madam Chen smiled with a hint of pride, "Of course, they've all sent gifts." With Second Miss marrying into the Wu Mu Marquis's household, both sons-in-law would have noble titles. How could the Tao family's future be any brighter?

  "Madam Chen pointed at the things and instructed Chun Xiao, 'The things in this box were brought by Wu Mu Houye,' and then pointed at that potted landscape, 'This was specifically given to Miss by Yi Cheng Hou Cai Fu Ren.'"

  Madam Chen finished speaking and got up to attend to other matters. Chu Xiao escorted her out, walking into the courtyard. Madam Chen looked at Chu Xiao with a profound meaning in her eyes, "You're also a lucky one, you've found a good master."

  Chu Xiao was stunned for a moment, and Chen Mama had already walked far away. It wasn't until then that Chu Xiao realized her cheeks were burning hot like embers.

  Chu Xiao returned to the house, and Chen Ma's words made her a bit distracted. Chu Xiao stood in front of the table, staring at the two things, and it wasn't until half a day later that she finally figured out what they were. She couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.

  Take those two things to the inner room and show them to Yaohua immediately.

  Yao Hua heard the sound of Chuxiao entering and opened her eyes. Chuxiao took down the silk from the vase on the table, letting Yao Hua see it, "Second Miss, take a look at this, what is it?"

  Yao Hua looked back and saw a gemstone bonsai on the table, with coral branches made of red coral, emerald and ruby fruits, although small, but extremely delicate.

  Xiao had already been beaming with joy, "This was personally sent by Lady Cai of the Yi Cheng Marquis's manor to Miss, I told you Lady Cai isn't ordinary in her treatment of Miss, just look at how valuable this gift is."

  Yao Hua shifted her gaze from the potted landscape to the red wooden box, "Is that a gift brought by Wu Mu Hou?"

  That was brought by An Guo Gong Cai Liao Shi.

  "Bring it over and let me take a look."

  Xiao brought the box over, and Yuhua opened it to reveal a pair of flowery pearl jade butterfly drop earrings. Compared to the two gifts, the one from the Yi Cheng Marquis Manor was much more valuable.

  Miss, today I also saw that Wu Mu Hou, and at first, I thought the rumors were not necessarily true. But after seeing him today, Wu Mu Hou indeed has a few scary points. Moreover, just now, I heard from someone in the mistress's room that before Wu Mu Hou came, Master was scolding him for not handling the Jianwei General's case well and losing his position. Some things are not suitable for me to say, but I think Miss should also be aware of them. With your body like this, if you were to... what would happen then?

  Yao Hua just smiled faintly, a truth that even a young maid could understand. If Shu Hua had borne children for the Zhao family all these years, she didn't know if she would have already become a discarded chess piece, nor did she know if the household would still be so painstaking in treating her illness.

  Yao Hua closed her eyes again, and Chu Xiao understood and slowly walked out.

  ……

  Jinxiu was also telling Ronghua about Wu Mu Hou's affairs.

  "The people in the big house said so, and it was only when I asked Xiaoxiao that I overheard them talking."

  The Marquis of Wu Mu was scolded and lost his job, but he didn't show any signs of being discouraged. He even had the mood to come and thank him in person. What is going on in the minds of people like this?

  Wow, finally updated!

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