Chapter 72
Knowing that Ge Baoer wanted to harm Xiliu, Lin Yunwan was actually a little worried.
After all, it was a human life. She and Pingye said: "Send a strong woman to watch her secretly, and follow her secretly as soon as she leaves Yuxing Pavilion."
Ping Ye was afraid of scaring Xi Liu, so she told her in advance.
Xiliu said: "Sister Pingye, you don't have to be too cautious, so as not to alarm Aunt Ge. I know what to do. You go back and let Madam rest assured."
If she was so bold and not panicked, nothing bad would happen.
Pingye said, "Then I'll just let my mother-in-law look at you roughly. You can be careful."
Xiliu nodded and returned to Yuxing Pavilion where he met Tongliu.
They didn't just bump into each other casually. Tong Liu held a plate of fruit in his hand and walked over to let her try it. He asked her with a smile: "Wu'er, I see that you have been getting very close to Madam's people recently."
Xiliu was very alert.
Tong Liu then said: "Don't worry, I will never tell Aunt Ge. You know our aunt, she belongs to my wife."
Xiliu smiled and didn't eat her fruit. She just asked, "Do you know how to drink water?"
Tongliu said "Yo" and said: "You have asked the right person, I know how to drink water. Do you still remember that when we first entered the mansion, I told you that when I was a child, I met my brother and my brothers on Zhuangzi. Let’s fish in the river together.”
Xi Liu said, "Can you teach me?"
Tongliu was embarrassed: "How can you teach in this weather? We are maids, so we can't get wet every day. I can teach you how to hold your breath at most."
Xi Liu wants to learn from her.
Ge Baoer was embroidering shoe mats in the house. She was thirsty and wanted to drink water. For a long time, she couldn't see the stream willows. The person who came in to pour water was a maid with clumsy hands and feet, so she shouted loudly: "Wu'er, Wu'er?"
Xi Liu rushed over.
Ge Baoer asked her: "What are you talking about over there?" His eyes were full of doubts.
Xi Liu said: "Auntie, Aunt Zhuqing's girl Tongliu told me that Master Qing is celebrating his birthday."
Ge Baoer smiled: "I know."
She touched the insole in her hand. In just a few months, her son's feet had grown up. This pair of insole was embroidered for her son.
Xi Liu looked at Ge Bao'er and said, "Madam is going to hold a birthday party for the young master, and has invited Mrs. Xia, Aunt Jia and... Mrs. Lin and Young Master Lin to come over."
"What? People from the Lin family are coming too?"
Ge Baoer opened his eyes wide.
God sent me a pillow as soon as I dozed off, what an unexpected surprise!
She put down her needle and thread and asked excitedly: "When will you come? Where will the banquet be held?"
Xiliu said: "...This, this slave has not heard of it yet."
Ge Baoer stopped asking her to pour tea, and pushed her and said, "Go and talk to Tong Liu more and ask all these questions. You don't need to serve me here anymore, so go quickly."
Xi Liu was pushed out of the door and continued talking to Tong Liu.
She inquired about the information, and finally told Tong Liu about how they had just entered the house and were being trained by the mother in charge.
The two were like sisters, holding hands on the porch.
Tong Liu said with a smile: "Several years have passed in the blink of an eye, Wu'er, how much I envied you at that time. With my mother's support, you step by step reached the Yushou Hall to serve the old lady."
She won't say much more about the rest. Now she is reduced to serving Aunt Ge, which is certainly not a very honorable thing.
Xiliu herself was a little lonely. When they were saying goodbye, she said to Tongliu, "You should call me Xiliu from now on."
Tongliu looked at Ge Baoer suspiciously and said cautiously: "Aunt Ge won't you be angry?"
Xi Liu said calmly: "The name was given by Madam. Although I serve Aunt Ge now, I am only half a master. She cannot change the name Madam gave me without authorization."
Tong Liu smiled and patted the back of her hand and said, "Okay, I'll rely on you. I'll call you Xi Liu from now on."
After Xiliu returned from here, Aunt Zhuqing shouted in the house: "Tongliu, come back."
"coming."
Tong Liu trotted in and immediately closed the door.
Zhuqing asked her to sit down and eat the snacks on the table.
Tong Liu was also smart and told everything he saw.
Zhuqing listened for a long time and felt something was wrong, so he whispered to himself: "What are you trying to do!"
Why can't she see it at all?
Tongliu didn't know the inside story, so he said, "Master Qing is celebrating his birthday. Should we also prepare a birthday gift for him?"
Zhu Qing was not interested and said coldly: "See if there is anything suitable and pick one for him."
He also specifically told Tong Liu: "Don't make it too expensive, he won't need it."
After all, Master Changgong is the true son in Madam’s heart!
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"Madam, the Xia family and Master Yi both responded to the letter and said they would come."
Taoye sent in two letters.
Lin Yunwan finished reading the letter and gave instructions about the banquet.
Pingye came in from outside and said in a surprised tone: "Madam, Xiliu is here."
"Why is she here?"
Lin Yunwan was also surprised. She and Xi Liu had told her to pretend that nothing happened, and that Xi Liu shouldn't come over so blatantly at this moment.
"Let her in."
Xi Liu came in with a pair of shoe insoles in her hand and said, "Madam, Aunt Ge sent me here to ask you whether it would be appropriate to give this pair of shoe insoles to Master Qing for his birthday?"
Lin Yunwan took a casual look, it was just an ordinary insole.
Taoye looked at it and was very surprised: "Why do I need to send you over here for such a small matter?"
Who doesn't know this? Everyone in the house doesn't like this illegitimate aunt. If she has any dignity, she should stay in Yuxing Pavilion and don't provoke her anywhere.
But no one does something for no reason.
Lin Yunwan said: "Go back and tell her that she can give it away if she wants."
Xi Liu nodded and left.
Lin Yunwan told Pingye: "Open the window."
Pingye opened the window, Lin Yunwan turned her head and looked out, and sure enough she saw Lu Changgong and Brother Qing coming.
Brother Qing's face turned pale when he saw Xi Liu coming to Lin Yunwan's place.
Is this maid here to complain to her mother?
Lu Changgong pushed Brother Qing's shoulder: "Why don't you leave?"
Brother Qing hurriedly came to his senses and said, "It's nothing." He went in to greet his aunt, because he felt very uncomfortable when he saw Xi Liu and felt guilty when talking to Lin Yunwan.
"M-Mother."
He didn't dare to look up.
Lin Yunwan asked calmly: "What's wrong? Are you feeling uncomfortable?"
Brother Qing shook his head and said, "No."
Seeing that there seemed to be nothing wrong with his aunt's face, he breathed a sigh of relief.
His mother probably doesn't know his life experience yet.
When I was sitting here with my mother again, I must have been absent-minded. It didn't take long for me to find an excuse to leave and find a way to see his mother.
"Mom, I, I'm so scared! I want to tell my father. I'm so afraid that my mother and brother will know."
I was so anxious that I almost cried.
Ge Baoer felt very sorry for his son: "My son, don't be afraid. Mother will handle it. Mother will not let you... your mother know that I am your mother."
Brother Qing lowered his head guiltily: "I'm sorry, mother."
Ge Baoer hugged him tightly, with tears streaming down his face: "Good boy, call me mother again, call me mother again."
"daughter."
Brother Qing also hugged her neck.
Ge Baoer cruelly pulled away his hand, wiped away his tears and said, "Mom knows you are scared. Don't worry, Mom will never let you worry or be afraid again." She reluctantly touched his face and said, "Okay. Celebrate your birthday, have a lively birthday.”
She turned away sadly.
No matter how stupid Brother Qing is, he still knows that something is wrong with her.
What does mother want to do?
He arrived at the birthday party anxiously.
"Brother Qing, why are you so restless?"
Lin Yunwan sat beside him and cared.
Brother Qing raised his head and said distractedly: "No, it's nothing."
He was thinking about his own mother.
Mom is also coming to give him a birthday gift, but where is she? Why haven't you come yet?
