Chapter 886: Family Affairs (Part 2)
On the same morning, at the Sun family.
Qingwen hurried into the bedroom and saw Xiangling sitting in front of the dressing table, holding two hairpins in a dilemma. She stepped forward, snatched one of them, and without saying a word, pinned it on her high bun.
"Today we are wearing that fiery red fox fur coat, so the hairpins should be brighter too. After all, we are going to discuss marriage."
Ruan Rong was originally supposed to be in charge of the marriage arrangement, but she suddenly became pregnant and it was not convenient for her to run around, so all the responsibilities fell on Xiangling.
As Xiangling was taking on such an important responsibility for the first time, she was naturally nervous, so she asked You Erjie to help her.
Xiangling had long been accustomed to Qingwen's taking over the show, and was even happier not to have to worry about it. She pressed the hairpin firmly in front of the mirror and asked, "It's almost time now. Is Sister You ready?"
Qingwen pursed her lips and sneered, "She must have been entangled with the Second Master again this morning. She hadn't gotten up yet when I went over."
After a pause, he lowered his voice a little and said, "There is a big pillow under the body. At first glance, it seems that the baby is older than the concubine."
Xiangling burst out laughing, then quickly covered her mouth and warned shyly: "Don't let Sister You hear this, otherwise..."
"I understand."
Qingwen walked around to Xiangling's side, looked at her carefully for a few seconds, then broke off a small piece of the powder, ground it into powder, and applied it finely on her left cheek.
After applying the makeup, he used an eyebrow pencil to scrape off the loose powder. Seeing that there were no more flaws, he was satisfied and helped Xiangling up. He took the big red fox fur coat and put it on her while muttering, "But you, I don't know if you are really stupid or just pretending to be stupid. With such a great opportunity, don't you want to give Second Master another child?"
Xiangling giggled and whispered something in her ear. Qingwen's face immediately turned red. She punched the fox fur with her backhand and said angrily, "Bah! Who said they wanted to lift me up? You are the only one who keeps talking nonsense here!"
The master and servant were laughing and joking as they finally finished packing. However, there was still no news from You Erjie next door. Not wanting to delay her trip to the Xing family to discuss the marriage, Xiangling decided to go over in person to urge her.
However, Qingwen didn't want to see You Erjie's expression, so she stayed under the pretext of counting the gifts.
But Xiangling, wrapped in a charcoal red fox fur coat, went to You Erjie's room next door, and saw Caixia, who had already prepared her clothes, waiting outside with a helpless look on her face.
"Is Sister You still awake?"
Xiangling was surprised when she saw this: "Didn't we agree yesterday that today..."
Just as he was talking, he heard You Erjie's urgent voice: "It's up, it's up! Sister, wait a moment, I'll clean up... clean up!"
After saying this, there was a charming gasp, as if...
Could it be that the Second Master hasn’t gone out yet?
This shouldn't be the case. In the morning, Second Master clearly...
Caixia, who was standing by, saw her expression changing constantly, and fearing that she had completely misunderstood, she hurriedly explained, "Our aunt is currently practicing some secret method of praying for a child, and I think it will be almost finished."
Xiangling suddenly realized.
When Sun Shaozong first concocted this secret technique of praying for a child, You Erjie had learned it with great interest. Later, Sun Shaozong went south to quell the rebellion, and as a good cook cannot cook without the rice, she naturally stopped learning it.
Until recently, Concubine De in the palace became pregnant with a dragon seed. It was rumored that it was the secret technique of praying for a child that took effect. Only then did You Erjie come back to the cradle and practiced it with even greater efforts.
In addition, she had just been stimulated in the past two days, so it was absolutely a daydream to ask her to give up this sport and set off early.
She had no choice but to wait outside for a long while before she heard You Erjie calling out from inside, asking Caixia to come in and help her get dressed and wash up.
Caixia apologized, pushed the door open with the kettle in her hand, and when she walked around the screen, she saw You Erjie wiping herself roughly with a handkerchief. She hurried forward a few steps and reached out to take the handkerchief.
You Erjie raised her hand to avoid it, pointed at her chest and said, "Untie this thing for me first. It was too tight today and almost suffocated me ."
She was tall and plump, although not as tall as the disfavored Concubine Rong, but she also encountered the obstacle of ups and downs, so every time she practiced, she would wrap herself tightly with cloth strips.
Hearing her say that she was very stuffy, Caixia turned around and untied the cloth strips, three layers inside and three layers outside, and finally freed the pair of fat rabbits. She then hurriedly took out the bellyband to cover them up.
By the time everything was ready, it was already half an hour later.
You Erjie came to the door gracefully, lifted the curtain and walked quickly to the outer room. Seeing Xiangling still waiting outside obediently, she curled her lips secretly, then took Xiangling's arm with an apologetic look on her face, and kept saying sorry.
With Xiangling's temper, she wouldn't bother with her, but she was afraid that if she delayed the time, the Xing family would find fault with her. After all, this was Xiangling's first time taking on such a big responsibility, so she dared not make any mistakes.
You Erjie felt relieved again.
The three of them went to the courtyard. Since they didn't see Qingwen coming out from next door, they sent Caixia to call her into the house.
When Caixia arrived at the next room, she saw Qingwen sitting sideways on the bed, holding a stretcher to her chest with both hands. Her face was filled with inexplicable melancholy and no one knew what she was thinking about.
Caixia originally had only an average relationship with her, and they even had a rift over borrowing money.
But as both of them were recruited by Sun Shaozong, the rift naturally disappeared, and now their friendship is incomparable to that of others.
Therefore, seeing her stupid look, Caixia guessed that she was probably thinking about the old things in Rongguo Mansion again. She sighed in her heart, walked forward and waved her white palm in front of Qingwen's eyes, saying, "You are back to your soul. The concubines are calling you to leave."
Qingwen shuddered, but she felt relieved when she saw Caixia in front of her. She rolled her eyes at her and said angrily, "Your grandmother has been dawdling for so long, and you have the nerve to ask someone to urge me!"
As he said this, he threw the show frame into the dustpan.
But after thinking about it, he felt it was not safe enough, so he caught it again, took it back to his room and hid it in the crack of the closet.
When Qingwen returned to the outer room, she heard Caixia say quietly, "It's time to break up. Now that things have come to this, there's no turning back."
Qingwen knew exactly what she meant, but she forced a smile and said, "I don't understand what you are talking about. I just wanted to find a few old ones to give Sister Ping'er some dowry."
Hearing her insincere words, Caixia took advantage of the situation and put her arms around her slender waist, and then reached into her swollen breasts, and said with a smile: "Just know it in your heart - Second Master raised you with great difficulty, and I can't bear to give you back."
"Pooh~"
Qingwen pushed her away and spat angrily, "Just learn from Aunt You!"
Having said that, she hurried into the inner room and put on some rouge and powder to hide the traces of tears .
When she was about to turn around and leave, Qingwen suddenly straightened up again, leaned sideways to look at the mercury mirror on the dressing table, and saw her facial features and figure reflected in the mercury mirror. The youthfulness in her memory was gone, and it was full of the mature charm of a woman who enjoyed her pleasure.
“I can’t go back…”
