Chapter 4 It’s hard to get through the corner gate of the Hou Mansion
Li Yaoguang didn't go far. He walked out of the yard in front of the corner gate and found a nearby bluestone to sit by the flower bed.
She had just recovered from a serious illness and was still in a coma. She was really weak after being hungry for so long. She almost used up all her strength to call the door just now. It was obviously not easy to see her aunt now. Li Yaoguang was going to eat something to fill her stomach first. The belly and then the other pictures.
Thinking this, Li Yaoguang opened the food box with trembling hands. When he saw the contents in the food box, Li Yaoguang was silent.
There were two plates, a bowl, and a pair of chopsticks, all made of coarse porcelain. There was a plate of fried, yellowed vegetables, oh no, boiled vegetables. There was a plate of stewed tofu that was slightly oily. It was so white that it didn’t even contain soy sauce. ; The remaining bowl of mediocre corn rice looked in Li Yaoguang's eyes, and then recalled the meals in his memory that he got in his sleep. Li Yaoguang sighed, knowing that this was probably the food for the servants in the house.
Obviously, his aunt had specifically told him, but Fangcao delivered such a meal. Li Yaoguang became more and more worried about his aunt's situation.
Time could not be wasted. For the sake of her health, no matter how bad the food was, Li Yaoguang, who had lived a hard life, did not dislike it at all. She quickly finished the food in the food box and put the things away. She gathered her strength and carried the food box again. Wandering back to the corner door, the black corner door that had just been opened was now closed again.
Li Yaoguang sighed inaudibly, stepped forward and knocked on the door knocker again.
"Mother Zhou, Mother Zhou, please open the door, Mother Zhou..."
Li Yaoguang took pictures for a long time, and then he remembered the familiar harsh voice, "Hey, Miss Cousin, are you really panicking, and now you have nothing to do to embarrass me, an old woman?"
"Mother Zhou, I'm not embarrassing you. Didn't Fangcao bring me food? I've already finished eating, but the bowls are from the house. I can't be greedy and go home, so I sent them back specially. .”
Under the eaves, Li Yaoguang endured the fire and kept saying good-naturedly, but in the end, Mrs. Zhou's impatient sarcasm came from inside.
"It doesn't matter what time it is. At this point, all the doors in the Hou Mansion have already placed their keys. My cousin wants to deliver it, so please hurry up tomorrow."
Just this sentence, no matter how patiently Li Yaoguang knocked on the door, there was no movement inside this iron-like black door.
Li Yaoguang smiled bitterly, and finally understood that time travel is not so easy. Various feelings surged in her heart, but she had no choice but to accept her fate and carry the food box, walking through the dark sky, back to the room she left before.
As an orphan, Li Yaoguang's little body has been living here for more than half a year, and he is very familiar with the surrounding environment.
In the dark, he returned to the courtyard complex under the Hou Mansion where families gathered to give birth. Li Yaoguang dragged his heavy body and fetched half a bucket of water from the well under the jujube tree on one side of the courtyard. He used the cool well water to clean up the dirty food boxes. Li Yaoguang cleaned the bowls and bowls, then washed his hands and face with the water at the bottom of the bucket, put the bowls and bowls back into the food box, and Li Yaoguang carried them back to the hut where he stayed.
Tiredly, he closed the door, plugged the bolt, and put the food box on the red lacquered table at the end of the room. Trying to support his limp hands and feet, Li Yaoguang climbed into bed, pulled the thin quilt on the bed and covered himself, before falling asleep. She also repeatedly warned herself that she had to get up early tomorrow morning so as to avoid people's hearing and comments, and try to shout to open the corner door before everyone got up.
No matter what, I must see my aunt and the others tomorrow to make sure they are okay.
With things on his mind, he didn't sleep well at night. The next morning, before dawn, the worried Li Yaoguang got up.
After holding on to his better health, he went to the well outside to fetch water and quickly washed himself. After that, Li Yaoguang carried the food box and headed for the corner door.
In the faint morning light, it was still the same door, and presumably it was still the same person. Li Yaoguang took a deep breath to encourage himself, stepped forward with firm steps, and knocked on the door again. Dong dong dong, dong dong dong…
She didn't know how long it took, but her hands were numb when she knocked. Finally, a familiar and angry high-pitched voice came from the door.
"Who is it? Knocking on the door so early in the morning, knocking, knocking, knocking on your dead head!"
Li Yaoguang raised her eyebrows, thinking that she had finally spoken out. She was not afraid that the people inside would be impatient, and she did not pay attention to the accusations and scoldings. She thought to herself: "Mother Zhou, yesterday you said it was late, and everywhere in the house was under fire. It’s not convenient for me to come here early in the morning. Why don’t you open the door even though I’m here early?”
Mrs. Zhou, who was wearing clothes and disheveled hair and yawning repeatedly, raised her eyebrows when she heard this. She couldn't help cursing, but she also complained in a suppressed voice.
"Hey, you little bastard, I call you cousin, but you really think of yourself as a serious relative? Bah! But if you fall into poverty, the sixth master of the house will not be able to protect himself. Old lady, am I still afraid of you?"< br>
That's what she said, but when she actually responded, Mrs. Zhou didn't dare to do so.
Even if the third young master is the son of the eldest prince, no matter how favored Aunt Huang is, or if her daughter is the favored person in front of the third young master, the Hou family still needs the face, and Mrs. Zhou is afraid that things will become tense, so she will be patient. Xing Zi raised his voice and replied.
"I'm telling you, Miss Cousin, the person pouring night fragrance hasn't come yet this early in the morning. The kitchen has not opened the door at all. What kind of bowl are you returning? Don't make trouble."
However, Li Yaoguang no longer listened to her deception. Worried that her aunt wanted to see someone, she still knocked on the door, quite stubbornly, and pretended to be an unintentional threat while doing so.
Bang bang bang, bang bang bang... "Mother Zhou, please open the door for me. If Mother Zhou doesn't open the door for me today, I will keep knocking.", bang bang bang, bang bang bang, "I will keep knocking." Knock, keep knocking! It’s really making a big fuss, and it’s hard for Zhou’s mother to keep up with you, right?”
"You!" This bitch's little bitch actually held her hostage! But it was strange that she, a servant, was actually threatened by this.
After all, door-keeping is a painful job, but there are many people in the house who want this job. If she hadn't given birth to an old man in the house, and if the eldest daughter hadn't gained face in front of the third master, she wouldn't have had such a good turn. live.
Anger returned to anger, and hatred returned to hatred. In the end, Mrs. Zhou came forward to open the door with a black face while cursing, tying her belt, and sarcastically mocking everyone she met.
“I didn’t expect that Miss Biao, who doesn’t show off on weekdays, is actually a very powerful person!”
"Haha, what's wrong with Mother Zhou? I'm just afraid that if the dishes are lost in the house, the mothers and sisters in the kitchen will be punished, so I just want to come back. What's wrong with me?"
"Ha! What a coincidence that Miss Cousin opened her mouth." She complained angrily, her eyelids drooping, Mrs. Zhou raised her hand and opened the food box in Li Yaoguang's hand unceremoniously, and saw the dishes inside that Li Yaoguang used as an excuse. Mrs. Zhou was really angry and smiled coldly.
"Hey, this old slave thought they were some kind of expensive bowls, but he didn't know that in this house, all the shameless girls don't use them. They only use rough ones like me. There is no shortage of broken bowls in the house. A lamp, is it such a precious object in the eyes of my cousin? Tsk tsk, it’s rare that my cousin comes from an official family, haha..."
(End of chapter)