C15

"Come sit down and eat with me!"

I smiled at her and reached for the handkerchief in her hand.

Lu Ping's face immediately revealed an awkward expression, "This … "Your servant doesn't dare!"

As she spoke, Lu Ping took a step back while holding her handkerchief.

"Don't you want to know why I gave two taels of silver to Red Dew?" I looked at Green Pine with a smile.

After a moment's hesitation, she sat down on the edge of the kang opposite me.

"Men, come and get a pair of chopsticks!" I shouted orders to the outside.

"Sigh …"

Hearing that the answer was from his mothers in the outer court, Lu Ping frowned and asked, "Lan Xiang, Lan Zhi, where's Lan Xin?"

"The girls are running the baths." Outside, a mother responded with a smile.

You need three people to go for a bath?

Lu Ping stood up and wanted to take a look, but I pulled her to a seat. Lu Ping couldn't help but feel embarrassed by my actions, but she just sat there looking around incessantly.

Not long later, Mrs Liu came in with a bowl and chopsticks in her hand with a silly smile on her face.

I frowned. When Lu Ping saw that I found it dirty, she was afraid that I would reprimand her. She hurriedly came forward to accept and said, "It's been hard on you, Sister-in-law Liu. I'll have to trouble you to come over to the kitchen." Mother Liu quickly smiled and said, "Lady, your words are too kind." He didn't say anything else and wanted to leave. But seeing that I didn't say anything, he just stood there hesitantly, rubbing his apron with his hand.

"I'll send you off!" Lu Ping stood up, and Mrs Liu quickly imitated Lu Kou's gesture, curtsiing with a blushing face.

After entering the room, Lu Ping didn't dare to sit down. She just stood in front of me with her head lowered.

It was because he thought that he had disobeyed me. I felt displeased in my heart.

"Miss, although Mother Liu is a bit crude, she is a real person. The little girls in our house are all comforted by her as if she is their own daughter. If you teach her some rules, you can be at ease with her by your side."

"En, I understand. Take a seat." I smiled at Lush, but not as heartily as I had promised about the Peach of Spring.

It's just that this time I can't let her have her way. The little girls were young and could be slowly trained, but the mothers could not. It would be hard for a servant woman who didn't understand the rules of the deep courtyard to be taken out as an arm. Besides, the Liu Family was not used to socializing with others. It might not be a good thing for her to be brought up.

Seeing my indifferent expression, Lu Ping knew that I didn't agree to this matter. She sat down and scooped a bowl of porridge for herself before changing the topic. She said that only three people went out this morning. Mama Chen went to pay her respects at her mother's place, and Spring Apricot went out soon after. She came back with Mama Chen, and Spring Willow went to the storehouse to see Mama Cao. "

"Who is this Mama Cao?" I asked, pausing to pick up my chopsticks.

"It's Spring Willow's mother. She served in front of the old lady." Lu Ping replied indifferently.

That's right!

I'm sure Spring Willow was brought in by my grandmother. Spring Apricot, on the other hand, worked for his mother, who was obviously the one sent to spy on him.

It seemed that both my grandmother and mother thought I was weak, so they put the people around me under my nose without any concealment.

Now that I had a better idea of the situation, I stopped asking Lu Ping and put down my bowl and chopsticks. I took a book from the bookcase and leaned it against the pillow to look at it.

Seeing that I had finished eating breakfast, Lu Ping also hurriedly put down her bowl and chopsticks. She didn't put them away but just sat opposite the table on the kang and looked at me eagerly.

I knew that she wanted to ask about the two taels of silver and pretended to focus on reading.

"Miss, you haven't told this servant why you're giving me two taels of silver?" Lu Ping finally couldn't help but ask me. I kept my eyes on the book and asked her absent-mindedly, "Why do you think?"

"Miss, are you afraid of giving away the red dew?"

After hearing her naive words, I couldn't help but laugh.

"Lu Ping, oh Lu Ping, you are so cute and tight! I wonder who will be so fortunate as to marry you in the future. " Lu Ping's face turned red from my words.

"I gave her two taels of silver just to see how she would deal with it. Two taels of silver is not a lot, it's a lot less." If she were to distribute the money to everyone, then it would depend on how she divided it up. If she were to give more to the other servants, then it would mean that although she thought of the future, her eyesight would not be as good as the future, and her mother would see too much gold and silver, so why would the young maids think of her as such? Since she is still young, no one will care about her age, but if Hong Lu gives them more money, then they will definitely think of their elder sister. The more I said, the smoother it became. Lu Ping lowered her head.

If I am unlucky, then it is not wrong to sell her off as a concubine. I have always thought that if one day I can escape from here and find a good home for Lu Ping, but I never thought that Lu Ping would have the same thoughts as Hong Lu. If she sees a rich and unmoved person, then there won't be much left for her.

"Lu Ping, I have something to ask you." I put the book down and tugged at my lapel. I sat up on the kang, and Lina wiped her eyes across my face.

"Miss!" Her voice carried a hint of a nasal tone.

"Do you think it's better to be the concubine of a rich family or the wife of a poor family?" I looked at her seriously.

"This servant is willing to be the manager's mother in the young miss' room." Lu Ping lowered her head and said in a muffled voice, not looking at me.

"Alright, you little hoof. If you're not married, then you're thinking of being the mother in charge!" I laughed and teased her. At that moment, Lu Ping's face reddened. "Miss, you, you, you are really … I was serious with you, yet you still teased me!"

Lu Ping was so anxious to forget the difference between us that for a while you and I got up, and our eyes were red from rubbing.

"Are you sad for Red Dew?" I poured a cup of tea from the large pink teapot on the table and handed it to her.

"Red Dew and I are sisters who grew up together, yours is the green character, your wife's room is yellow character, the old lady's room is red character, we sisters grew up together, although in recent years we have both been big girls, with a lot of work and not much interaction, but we still remember our previous relationship. If you don't want to be exposed to the world now, you are extremely ambitious. If you want to enter the old master's house, what kind of place would that be, and what methods does the madam have, could it be that she doesn't know? " "As the saying goes, 'wealth comes from danger,' but we sisters are sad to see it."

Lu Ping used the handkerchief in her hands to wipe away the tears on her face.

I opened a small drawer on the kang table, took out a handkerchief, and handed it to her.

"Do you blame me?"

When I think about how such a good girl wanted to be my father's concubine without a name, all of this was planned by me. Things that I didn't want to think about usually kept popping up in my mind.

Apart from the fact that she was willing and I was forced, what difference was there between my actions and my mother's?

Lu Ping raised her head and looked at me in surprise. "How can I blame you?" It was her who had thought of something she shouldn't have done! "

Unfolding the handkerchief I gave her, embroidered with two fat and stupid mandarin ducks, Green Pingping broke down laughing.

"Why did the young mistress keep this!"

It was a handkerchief that Lu Ping had made for me when she first started embroidering, and I had mistaken it for two ducks she had embroidered for me.

"Don't worry, I'll definitely protect you." Lu Ping nodded her head with glistening teardrops.