The head chef of the Red Mansion was a descendant of the imperial chefs hired by the Jin family at great expense. All the ingredients were the freshest and top-quality, so the taste was naturally excellent. Even the white porridge was thicker and sweeter than what was cooked outside.
certainly……
The prices are also higher than outside, after all, the Red Mansion is all about luxury, and it caters to high-ranking officials and nobles.
Putting everything else aside, the girls in the Grand View Garden alone would be top-tier beauties outside the garden. They are proficient in all the arts, including music, chess, calligraphy, and painting, and have very distinct personalities.
They neither fawn over the powerful nor flaunt their charm, nor are they aloof and pretentious.
They can write poems and lyrics, sing and recite poems, and even compete in playing musical instruments, chess, calligraphy, and painting... They can even accompany ladies and young women to discuss cosmetics, clothing, and jewelry.
This isn't just any girl from the building; she's a close confidante among us, like Bo Ya and Zi Qi...
Jiang Jiaojiao got into the carriage while supporting her pregnant belly, got out while supporting her pregnant belly, and entered the Marquis's mansion while supporting her pregnant belly.
When Jiang Jiaojiao went out the next day.
Rumors are already circulating that Miss Jiang of the Yongchang Marquis's mansion is pregnant. Whose child is it?
The Fifth Prince?
Second Prince?
still……
Jiang Jiaojiao was completely bewildered. What was going on? She had just eaten too much!
She wasn't the only one who ate too much yesterday!
The little crybaby had to be helped by the nanny to walk, and even the little girl Xiangling almost threw up.
Even the Seventh Prince ate quite a bit; if Dao Qing hadn't desperately stopped him, he probably would have had to lean against the wall to walk.
Before Jiang Jiaojiao could even step into the school, she was pulled aside by Xiao Twelve, who looked anxious. Xiao Twelve lowered her voice and asked suspiciously, "What happened? You just ate a meal, how did you get pregnant?"
Could it be that something unspeakable happened after I left yesterday? Did Jiao Jiao succumb to temptation and pounce on the Seventh Prince?
That's way too fast!
Just as Luo Twelve was lost in thought, the 200-pound Thirteenth Young Master suddenly poked his head out from the side, his eyes gleaming with gossip. He eagerly asked, "Yeah! You're moving way too fast, aren't you? You got pregnant in the time it takes to eat a meal?" Then, he urged enthusiastically, "Tell me quickly, whose child is it?"
Jiang Jiaojiao: "..."
Seeing that Jiang Jiaojiao didn't say anything, the Thirteenth Young Master asked again, drooling, "Sister Jiaojiao, is the food at the Red Mansion especially delicious?"
The thirteenth young master was extremely envious. Yesterday, his father kept him there, insisting on asking him what Master Li had taught in class. Little did he know, he had only had a dream before school was over, and he hadn't even had a bite of roast goose yet.
When his father got impatient, he punished him by making him copy books. By the time he finished copying, his sister had already run away. Waaah, why didn't Father ask his sister?
"Why don't we go today?" Luo Shier patted his younger brother's shoulder with a sympathetic look and comforted him, "We'll go as soon as school is over today."
This way, he could avoid being caught red-handed by his father!
Fortunately, she was just a companion to the students. If Jiaojiao wasn't the only girl in the school, she wouldn't bother coming to listen to the teacher's lectures. She would rather spend that time riding horses and practicing spear fighting!
The thirteenth young master nodded hastily in agreement. Just thinking about the scene of being watched by the whole family yesterday made his scalp tingle. If his father hadn't intervened in time, even his grandfather would probably have opened the ancestral hall to hold a ancestral worship ceremony and started a new family genealogy starting with him.
He knew that Mr. Li was the person his grandfather admired most, but the idea of compiling a family genealogy was really too outrageous.
"Jiaojiao..."
"Jiaojiao..."
The Jin family's boys swarmed over like a swarm of bees.
"What's going on? Whose is this?"
Do you feel nauseous right now? Or do you have a strong craving for sour foods?
"I don't like boys, I'd much rather have a niece..."
"Ideally, she should be as well-behaved and cute as Jiaojiao..."
Jiang Jiaojiao's head was about to explode from all the noise from these boys. She quickly raised her hand and said loudly, "I'm not pregnant, I just ate too much."
For a moment, the entire scene became unusually quiet, as if time itself had stopped flowing.
The group exchanged bewildered glances; why did that sentence sound so strange?
Oh well, it's good that she's not pregnant.
After all, Jiaojiao is still so young, and pregnancy and childbirth are extremely painful and uncomfortable things! They don't want Jiaojiao to suffer such torment too early.
If only the Seventh Prince could get pregnant.
Jin Shi jumped out in a fit of rage. The moment he heard the news, he had already decided where to bury that man.
Upon learning that the news was false, he wanted to bury the person who smeared Jiao Jiao's reputation. "I must find out who ruined Jiao Jiao's reputation, and I will kill him!"
Jin Shiqi crossed his arms and sneered, "Killing someone means paying with your life. Let's just throw money at them! Stand on a high place and throw them down, smash them as hard as you can!"
The Jin family lacks everything, except money!
"From now on, Jiaojiao will need someone to follow and protect her wherever she goes. Let's take turns, one person for each day. We absolutely cannot let any bad man with ill intentions get close to Jiaojiao!"
"Eleventh Brother is absolutely right!"
"How about we build a house made of pure gold for the Seventh Prince and hide him inside? No one will be able to find him. That way, Jiaojiao can get married later."
"..."
As Jiang Jiaojiao listened to her brothers' increasingly outrageous remarks, she raised her hand to stop them, only to find that everyone was chattering away, offering suggestions, and she couldn't hear a word they said.
So she stood up and called out loudly, "The master is here—"
Before the words were finished, a series of hurried footsteps were heard.
Swish—
swish swish —
In the blink of an eye, figures rushed into the classroom like lightning, leaped onto their seats, and sat up straight.
Seeing this, Jiang Jiaojiao walked into the school at a leisurely pace, a sly smile on her face, and said softly, "Hehe, I just misread it."
"You lot! You're still too young! The master had a long talk with his son yesterday, he must have been talking all night, how could he possibly have arrived so early! Hahahaha..."
Jiang Jiaojiao laughed loudly with a smug look on her face.
However, the others did not laugh out loud; their expressions were somewhat strange, as if they wanted to laugh but dared not.
Just then, Mr. Li's "kind" voice suddenly came from behind Jiang Jiaojiao: "Oh... has your article been finished?"
Upon hearing the sound, Jiang Jiaojiao, with lightning speed, leaped to her seat like a nimble rabbit.
Looking up, her gaze met a pair of deep, dark eyes, and she couldn't help but feel a jolt in her heart. She swallowed hard and thought to herself, "Why...why is he here...and so early...?"
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