Two days later, Eleventh Lady's good life began.

She couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

To be honest, her dates had never been on schedule, and she was worried about it. Unexpectedly, things took a turn for the better, and she suddenly felt very happy.

Mother Tao reminded her: "Who are you going to let be your concubine?"

Eleventh Lady was stunned for a moment.

After getting married, she felt that Xu Lingyi was not a man who valued beauty. In addition, they were already husband and wife, and there were three concubines living next door... She did not feel that Xu Lingyi had to have a concubine.

When Mother Tao saw that Shiyi Niang didn't say anything, she thought she was unhappy. She hurriedly whispered in her ear: "No matter how old she is, she is still a servant in your house. Whether she lives or dies, whether she is lifted or pressed, it all depends on your words. I think Dongqing and Amber are both suitable. Madam should also consider it!"

holly?

How to mention her!

Eleventh Lady was very surprised.

Mother Tao explained with a smile: "I saw that Dongqing was still unmarried at this age, so I thought..."

Eleventh Lady hurriedly shook her head: "No, no. She has served me since she was a child, and I want to pick a good one for her."

Mother Tao didn't quite believe it, but she couldn't say much about the matter. She repeated a few words of advice and then left.

Is it necessary to prepare a common room?

Eleventh Lady feels very tricky.

The main reason is that there is no trustworthy person to discuss it with. I don’t know if this is the rule of the Xu family or Mother Tao’s personal assumption?

She decided to see Xu Lingyi's attitude first.

But she couldn't bring herself to tell Xu Lingyi about her physical condition.

After thinking about it, he asked Mother Tao to go and talk to her.

When she returned to the room at night, Xu Lingyi was no different from usual. When he saw her reading, he asked her where she was at.

Eleventh Lady didn't know whether Mother Tao had spoken to him or not. She smiled and said a few words to him, and then Xu Lingyi went to sleep first.

She asked Mother Tao the next day, "What did the Marquis say?"

"Just say you know!" Mother Tao's expression seemed a little confused.

Since the protagonist has no objection, the supporting characters don’t have to worry about it!

Eleventh Lady sent Mother Tao away.

The matter of the concubine was left there.

The lady-in-waiting looked at Shiyi Niang and asked her how she was every day. She was a little disappointed when she saw that Shiyi Niang was not doing anything. She said, "Didn't they say that they were doing well?"

Mother Du laughed softly, "It's not that fast. Besides, she's still young, so it's not easy."

"I'm old now, and I don't know what will happen tomorrow." The old lady was a little disappointed, "I don't know if I can see it."

"I plan to serve you for another thirty years." Mother Du said with a smile, "I haven't accepted my old age yet, but you have!"

"Thirty years!" The lady laughed when she heard it: "You are planning to make me live like a monster!"

"An old person in the family is like a treasure." Mother Du smiled and helped the old lady to comb her hair. "The fourth lady is still young, you have to help take care of her for a few years! When you have a grandson in the future, there will be more things to do. How can these young people understand these things!"

"That's true." The lady smiled confidently, "I can't say anything else, but I'm best at taking care of children..."

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By October, the emperor issued the imperial edict and distributed winter clothes, but Qiao Lianfang's condition did not improve.

Eleventh Lady called her maid Xiuzhen to ask about it, and she only said that she couldn't sleep at night and was hot and cold. She also specially invited Liu Yizheng from the Imperial Hospital to examine her.

Doctor Liu prescribed a dose of Yangxin Decoction.

Eleventh Lady looked at the prescription and asked Doctor Liu to come for a follow-up visit every five days. Then she asked Mother Tao to send the patient away and sent a maid to take the prescription to the outer courtyard to arrange for the medicine to be dispensed.

Xu Lingyi just came back and asked, "Who's feeling unwell?"

"Aunt Qiao." Eleventh Lady smiled, "I specially invited Doctor Liu to come for a consultation. He prescribed Yangxin Decoction. I saw that they were all medicines that replenish qi and spleen, and calm the mind and nerves, so I asked the maid to get the medicine."

Xu Lingyi nodded and went to see Qiao Lianfang.

Eleventh Lady followed along.

She lived in the middle courtyard on the east side, with a small black lacquered door on the west end. There were three main rooms with side rooms, three side rooms on the east and north, and corridors on all sides. There was a hibiscus tree next to the steps of the main room, which was full of buds. There was a small flowerbed in the courtyard. Because it was autumn, all kinds of hibiscus and azaleas were blooming.

Seeing Xu Lingyi and Shiyi Niang coming, the two maids standing in front of the curtain, one ran in to report, and the other ran over to greet them. When they entered the room, Qiao Lianfang, supported by Xiu Yuan, had already come out to greet them.

"My Lord, Madam." She was pale and had lost a lot of weight. Her originally slender figure had become as slender as a willow.

Xu Lingyi was obviously surprised.

"Why are you so sick?"

Qiao Lianfang smiled bitterly: "It's all my fault. I didn't close the window when I was reading in the middle of the night. I made the Marquis and the Madam worry about me." But her beautiful eyes were fixed on Xu Lingyi, and she was unwilling to leave for a moment.

Eleventh Lady had seen many such situations when she was handling cases, and she immediately understood what was going on.

She suddenly understood why Qiao Lianfang was fooled...

I was married to her legally and I didn't have any hope, let alone her being a concubine... When people can't find their place, they are most likely to fall into the abyss.

Eleventh Lady couldn't help but sigh slightly.

Xu Lingyi didn't seem to feel much, or maybe he had seen so many looks like this and was used to it...

He said a few words lightly, such as "have a good rest and be careful in the future", and then went to the lady's place with Eleventh Lady.

During this period, everyone had dinner together. The lady was in a good mood and it gradually became a routine.

After dinner, everyone went to the west room to drink tea.

The lady asked Shiyi Niang, "How many days do you plan to stay there?"

Eleventh Lady smiled and said, "If mother agrees, I would like to go back and stay for four days."

She had asked Mother Tao about it. The third wife went back and stayed for four days, Yuanniang went back and stayed for six days, and the fifth wife went back and stayed for twelve days.

The lady nodded slightly and said, "Then go back and stay for six days! My wife is still sick, you can go back and take care of her."

Eleventh Lady responded "yes" gratefully.

I was in a good mood in the evening and read a book while leaning forward.

Seeing that she had returned to normal, Xu Lingyi smiled and went to sleep.

Two days later, Luo Zhenxing came to take her back to her parents' home.

She left Amber at home, took Binju and Zhuxiang with her, said goodbye to the lady, and returned to Gongxian Hutong.

Si Niang and Wu Niang had been waiting in the house for a long time. They went to see the eldest wife and presented her with shoes and socks. The eldest grandmother and several others surrounded Shiyi Niang and took her back to her original room. The maid opened the boxes and took out the bedding and utensils brought from the Xu Mansion to set up the house. Bin Ju helped Shiyi Niang clean her face and change her clothes, and then sat and talked with the eldest grandmother, Si Niang, and Wu Niang. Mother Hang came to report that the banquet had been arranged, and everyone moved to the eldest grandmother's yard to have lunch. Shiyi Niang went back to the room to rest, and the eldest grandmother arranged Si Niang and Wu Niang to take a nap in the place where Wu Niang used to live. In the afternoon, I got up to see the eldest wife. Everyone sat around the bed. The eldest grandmother and Si Niang gave advice to the pregnant Wu Niang. Shiyi Niang listened with a smile on her face and liked this home feeling very much.

The eldest wife's spirits were obviously much better, so a banquet was held in her room in the evening.

After dinner, Si Niang and Wu Niang went home, and the eldest lady sent Shiyi Niang back to her residence.

Bin Ju directed the maids to pour water and boil soup, and helped Eleven take a bath and change clothes.

"It's been only a month, but I feel like this place is too small and inconvenient to get around!"

Eleventh Lady laughed: "It is easy to go from frugality to luxury, but it is difficult to go from luxury to frugality."

"Then let's not embarrass ourselves!" Bin Ju smiled and made the bed for Shiyi Niang, "Serve the Marquis well and stay in Xu's house."

"Oh?" Eleventh Lady smiled, "You want to stay in the Xu Mansion!"

Bin Ju nodded: "At least we don't have to worry about being chased away or sold out for no reason."

Eleventh Lady smiled slightly.

She feels the same way.

All the previous worries and fears have settled down like dust, and from now on, joy, anger, sorrow and happiness are just trivial matters that have nothing to do with life and death.

She lay in bed contentedly: "Finally I don't have to get up at midnight!"

Bin Ju and the others covered their mouths and laughed.

As a result, I woke up at Chou time the next day.

The biological clock has been adjusted.

Eleventh Lady smiled as she looked at the dark tent ceiling. She thought of Dong Qing. She wondered how she was doing in the Goldfish Alley in the west of the city. Wan Yi Zong's eldest son Wan Daxian looked good. She wondered if they would like each other. If Dong Qing got married, she would have to buy something for her.

Thinking of this, I thought of my empty cash box!

When will it be filled...

I fell asleep while thinking about random things, and woke up at three o'clock in the morning. I hurriedly got up to greet the first wife.

The eldest grandmother had prepared breakfast long ago, and when she saw Eleventh Lady, she teased her, "It's still more comfortable to sleep in your mother's bed, right?"

Eleventh Lady smiled and said, "Of course."

After breakfast, we just talked and chatted.

Eleventh Lady took out the needle and thread to do it.

The grandmother saw a child wearing a big red cloak, and beside the immortal with a staff were three deer with different expressions. She pulled them and looked at them for a long time: "Look at your skillful hands, the deer are about to run out."

Eleventh Lady smiled and said, "This is embroidered for Fifth Sister. If Eldest Sister thinks it looks good, I will make one for Princess Danyang as well. She asked me to do a few pieces of embroidery for her unborn nephew a few days ago."

The grandmother whispered, "Just make a few small shoes and socks for the children. You are not someone who works in the sewing room of their house."

"We still have the Madam Tai in our house!" Eleventh Lady said with a smile, "The old lady is looking forward to having a grandson!"

"When are you going to have one?" The grandmother looked at her with a smile.

Eleventh Lady blushed slightly: "It's not the right time yet! We have to wait until Brother Zhun is older."

After hearing this, the eldest lady's eyes dimmed slightly. She said that the pears were sweet these days, so she had to send someone to West Street to buy some for Eleventh Lady to taste.

Eleventh Lady knew that she was trying to change the subject, so she followed her lead and said, "Sister-in-law, please buy some fresh lotus roots so that we can make glutinous rice and lotus roots."

The grandmother nodded repeatedly. She smiled and said, "Not only lotus roots, but also some old corns. We will roast them and eat them."

Speaking of food, everyone became happy. The eldest lady gave Xinglin five silver coins and asked her to send someone to buy some food. In the afternoon, she steamed glutinous rice and cooked osmanthus and hawthorn syrups. Everyone picked what they liked and poured it on the glutinous rice and lotus root to eat.

For a moment, the house was filled with laughter and joy.

The next day, Wu Niang was specially brought back. They roasted corn and asked people to buy mutton head, pork elbow and crystal stew. In the evening, Qian Ming came to pick up Wu Niang. Luo Zhenxing invited Qian Ming to have a drink and left at dusk. He came again the next day. It was very lively. The first wife even asked the eldest grandmother with difficulty: "Buy the crystal stew from Chunxilou."

Luo Zhenxing laughed: "Mother likes Fifth Uncle the most now."

The eldest wife forced a smile on her stiff face.

Qian Ming pretended to be arrogant: "Of course. Where can you find a son-in-law as talented and handsome as me?"

It made everyone laugh.

Eleventh Lady couldn't help but sigh.

It is truly rare for Qian Ming to be able to achieve what he has now.

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