Chapter 154
Mrs. Jiang returned to her room.
Lun Xiang was making the bed and folding the quilt. The length of the wick on the bed was adjusted according to Jiang's preference, so that the light was just right bright and soft.
There is also a soothing soup carefully brewed under the lamp, and the plump longans are as shiny and attractive as amber.
"My slave, go and fetch water for my wife. Please rest in peace, my wife."
He bowed his knees and bowed before retreating.
Mrs. Jiang called her to stop and sat down on the edge of the bed. Then he looked at her beautiful face under the lamp.
"Why haven't you been waiting for me recently?"
Luoxiang suddenly tensed up: "I don't dare!"
Jiang raised her lips and said, "What's so daring about this? I know you've liked me for a long time."
"Madam!" Luoxiang plopped down and knelt down, "I don't dare, I really don't dare! Whenever I made a mistake in my behavior earlier, I would have corrected it a long time ago! Since my wife slapped me in the face last time, I have I’ve never been close to the master again!”
Her face, which was still rosy before, had lost its color now.
Jiang took a sip of soup and said in a low voice: "Get up."
Luo Xiangse climbed up.
Mrs. Jiang looked around at the neatly made bed: "You have always done things properly, which I appreciate. Otherwise, I would not have just asked you to stay and serve.
"Although I have taken charge of you, I don't want you to lose your dignity."
Luoxiang didn't know what to say, so she could only wrangle her hands tightly and bite her lower lip.
"A person like this master can be called a dragon or a phoenix among people. Even though he is thirty-five years old, he is still in his prime, not inferior to young people. Isn't it normal that you like him in your heart?"
Jiang lowered her eyes and put down the bowl, looking around the huge house: "The back house of our Shangshu Mansion is indeed too deserted.
“Even Grandma Du left today.
"From now on, you will be my maid in charge. You will not only take over Grandma Du's affairs, but also be responsible for Grandpa's daily life."
Luoxiang suddenly raised her head, her eyes full of disbelief.
Mrs. Jiang sighed: "As long as you are obedient, you may be a maid in charge now, but in the future you may be a maid or an aunt, it all depends on your destiny."
"Madam, is this true, madam?"
Who doesn't know that this Mrs. Lu is a female King of Hell? In the past few years, there has not been a single maid in the Lu family who has succeeded in becoming the king of hell.
"Do you think I have time to tell lies with you?"
Under the light, Jiang's eyes were deep and deep.
"Don't you think that since the eldest lady returned home, the master has spent less time in the room in the past two days?
"I still miss the old days, when we were the only ones. Even if we really need to add more people, we have to do it.
"What do you think?"
Lun Xiang seemed to have an electric current running through her body, and she immediately knelt down again: "I know this, and I will never dare to have any second thoughts in the future. My wife is my mistress, and I will always follow my wife in my life!"
Jiang raised her lips and said: "The master is resting in the study tonight. Starting tonight, you can go and serve him. When the service is ready, I will treat you later."
"...Thank you, Mrs., for your grace."
Luoxiang's face was flushed, and she went out with her head hanging down.
The lights flickered.
Jiang's eyes also flickered under the lamp, and then turned dark.
……
After Yang Bonong returned, Lu Jie finished washing, lit a burner of incense, wrote a lot of words on paper, looked at it for a long time, then lit the paper and threw it into the spittoon.
Everything is silent outside the window, but people can't help but be lost in the night. The door creaked and Liao Xiang walked in holding tea.
"Slave, this slave is here to serve the master on the order of my wife."
Lu Jie raised his head, his eyebrows wrinkled without trace.
"I rest in the study just to have some peace and quiet, so I don't have to be waited on."
But the maid stood still and refused to leave.
Not only did she not leave, but she looked at herself several times. Instead, she took two steps forward, knelt down and rubbed his legs.
Lu Jie was not even interested in making fun of himself today. When he was about to scold him, a vague exclamation came from somewhere outside the window.
That is to say, too many things happened in the past two days. When he heard this voice, he immediately fell to the ground.
"What happened?"
A servant outside the door reported: "Back to the master, it seems that a night owl came from somewhere. He climbed the wall and knocked over the flower pot."
"Which yard is the cat in?"
The servant paused: "It seems to be in the side courtyard above the southwest corner door."
Southwest corner?
Isn't that where Grandma Du lives?
Lu Jie turned back and glanced at Long Xiang. After a quick change of expression, he returned to the bed and sat down: "Since the wife has asked you to take care of me, you can go and get some bedding."
Luoxiang quickly said yes and walked out in small steps.
Lu Jie immediately opened the window, took a look at the southwest corner, and then ordered the servant: "Go to Mr. Yang and ask how the arrangements for the things that were previously assigned to him are going?"
……
When it was time to go to bed, Lu Jia blew out the lights, leaving no light except for the lanterns on the porch.
There was a glass lamp lit in Babu's bed, but it was not very bright.
But when Yinliu broke in, the wind brought in caused the flames in the lampshade to sway here and there.
"Girl! You are absolutely right. Jiang really wants to silence him!"
Lu Jia leaned on the pillow: "What did Nanny Du say?"
"She didn't say! She didn't say anything! He was so frightened by Mrs. Jiang that he wet his pants, and he couldn't tell her anything when he asked her! But when the servant returned to look for her just now, she was walking towards the well in the southwest corner. Go everywhere!”
"You want to throw yourself into a well?" Lu Jia raised his voice, then sneered, "That's right. If you hang yourself and wipe your neck, how can you frame him?"
Yinliu ran out of breath. After regaining his breath, he stretched out his hand again: "Look at this!"
Lu Jia looked at her palm and saw a familiar jade ring lying in her palm.
Mingxiao immediately said: "Isn't this the girl's silent step? - Where did you find it?!"
"Right by the well!
"I saw her walking towards the well and guessed that she was going to throw herself into the well, so I quickly followed her and first held her down and tied her up. Then I thought that if they wanted to frame the girl, they had to leave the illusion that the girl had been to the well. , so I quietly rushed to the well to look for it, and finally found it! ”
Dawn took a breath and looked at Lu Jia.
Lu Jia paused for a moment and immediately jumped off the bed: "I'll give you a route. You can quietly get Mrs. Du out and hand her over to Chang Fu, the second disciple, and then you can do as I say..."
As she spoke, she let Yinliu come closer and whispered a few words in detail.
After hearing this, Yinliu nodded heavily and disappeared into the night again.
Lu Jia turned around and told Qing He: "In order to prevent anyone from testifying against me, there is probably no one at the southwest foot at the moment, but for safety reasons, you two should go there quickly to find out who is there?"
Qing and He also hurried away.
Lu Jia walked around the room twice, walked to the window, looked in the direction of Lu Jie's study, then closed the window again and called Zhimu.
"As I told you before, you can go and do it now. Remember, come back immediately after you go, and it shouldn't take more than a quarter of an hour."
"My slave understands!"