Fortunately, Yu Jiao was there. She said to Madam Mu Er, "Master Mu Er is very thoughtful. We are really sorry to bother you this time."
"Stop saying these polite words. You came all the way from Changkui. It's us who are troubling you." Madam Mu said with a smile, "You two sisters should have a good rest after dinner. I will come back tomorrow."
Yu Jiao and Yu Fuling escorted Madam Mu out of the room. The maid brought in tea and snacks. "Miss Yu, dinner will take a while. These are the snacks that the kitchen just made. Eat some to fill your stomach first."
Yu Jiao thanked him and said, "You don't have to wait in the room, just go and do what you need to do."
The two maids responded and went out of the room.
Yu Fuling finally relaxed, picked up the tea on the table, tilted her head back and drank it, then slumped down in the chair and said, "Finally I can breathe loudly. I almost suffocated to death."
Yu Jiao put away the luggage they brought with them and laughed, "Who insisted on coming along?"
Yu Fuling came over to help her straighten her clothes and whispered, "This Mu Mansion is too grand. The maids all look like noble ladies. I don't even know how to stand on the ground. Aren't you panicking?"
"There's nothing to be nervous about. We're invited here to treat patients, not to live under someone else's roof. You don't need to put pressure on yourself." Yu Jiao understood Yu Fuling's restraint and confusion. In her previous life, she was used to big scenes. The families who asked her grandfather to treat their illnesses all had very strong backgrounds. Having been with her grandfather since she was a child, she had seen a lot and naturally didn't think it was a big deal. Besides, to be honest, the Mu family was still far behind those aristocratic families.
Yu Fuling snuggled up to her and said, "It's good to go out with you and see the world. I have to learn more from you. I hope I can stand in front of Madam Mu Er like you and not be scared."
Yu Jiao went to the table, pinched a piece of cake, took a bite, and said with a smile, "You don't need to learn. You'll get used to it after seeing it more often."
Yu Fuling also picked up the snack and stuffed it into her mouth. As she ate, she said, "What chance do I have? This is probably the richest place I can enter in my lifetime."
Yu Jiao chuckled, "You never know, maybe one day we can go into the Imperial City to treat illnesses!"
"You are so bold. The imperial city is not a place that people like us can go." Yu Fuling didn't even dare to think about what Yu Jiao said.
The two of them drank tea and ate a lot of snacks. When it was getting dark, the maid brought in the food, which filled the entire table and was very sumptuous.
The aroma of the food is so delicious that it makes people salivate at the sight of it.
The two maids assigned by Madam Mu wanted to serve the dishes at the table, but Yu Jiao asked them to go downstairs and eat by themselves. The maids noticed that they did not seem to like being served, so they bowed politely and went downstairs.
The Mu family prepared a sumptuous meal, but Yu Jiao and Yu Fuling could not eat much, so most of the dishes on the table were left untouched. Yu Fuling added two bowls of rice, and only put down her chopsticks when she was so full that she could not eat any more.
Only after they had finished eating did the maid come into the room and remove the dishes.
After the maid took away the leftovers, Yu Fuling whispered to Yu Jiao, "They won't throw these away, will they? It would be such a shame if they did."
Yu Jiao didn't say anything. They had different backgrounds and resources. If Yu Fuling was born in such a family, she wouldn't feel sorry for these leftovers.
A maid came in and said, "The two young ladies' brothers live in Yinfeng Courtyard. The young lady wants to go and talk to them. The second lady asked me to take you there."
Yu Fuling wanted to go, as she felt uneasy in this huge and unfamiliar Mu Mansion. She wanted to go and talk to her younger brother.
Seeing that it was already dark outside, Yu Jiao said, "Let's go tomorrow. After such a long journey, Fifth Brother and the others must be tired. Let them rest early."
After hearing what she said, Yu Fuling also nodded.
"Miss, do you want to wash up?" the maid asked again.
Yu Jiao responded, and the maid went outside. Not long after, a servant came with a bathtub, placed it in the cubicle, and filled it with hot water.
After taking a bath, Yu Jiao and Yu Fuling lay down on the bed to rest.
Yu Fuling was not very sleepy. She was very excited about what she saw and heard in Qingzhou Prefecture, and she pulled Yu Jiao aside to talk.
Yu Jiao chatted with her in a casual manner, but the scenes she dreamed of in the carriage during the day emerged in her mind again. Her slender five fingers were clenched tightly together in the quilt.
She clearly had a second life, but she didn't drink Meng Po's soup and didn't lose her memory, so she couldn't be free.
Yu Fuling was still talking to herself and didn't hear any response from Yu Jiao for a long time. She got up and saw that Yu Jiao's face was facing the outside, her eyes were closed, and she had actually fallen asleep.
Yu Fuling smiled, and felt that she was too talkative. She carefully leaned over to extinguish the candle on the bedside, then lay down again and gradually fell asleep.
Yu Jiao was awakened by the sound of falling rain. It was already daybreak outside. She got out of bed and pushed open the lattice door. The whole courtyard was shrouded in drizzling rain and fog. The crabapple tree in the courtyard was swaying in the wind. The smell of grass and trees wet with rain could be smelled in her breath.
A maid knocked on the door. "Miss Yu, are you awake?"
Yu Jiao put on her outer dress and opened the door. A cool breeze blew in. The maid held a copper basin and said hurriedly, "Miss Yu, please go into the room quickly. Be careful not to catch a cold."
Yu Fuling heard the noise, quickly put on her clothes, and walked out from behind the screen.
"Ladies, please wash up first. I'll ask the kitchen to bring breakfast over." The maid placed the copper basin filled with water for washing faces on the dressing rack and went out of the corridor holding an umbrella.
Soon, they came back with food in a lunch box. After Yu Jiao and Yu Fuling had breakfast, the rain outside was lighter than before.
Yu Jiao was leaning on the soft couch by the window reading a book. When she came here, she took a miscellaneous book from Yu Qizhe's room. She had originally intended to take it with her on the road, but now it was just right to kill time.
Yu Fu was very bored. She spread a pancake on the couch for a while and said to Yu Jiao, "Let's go find my younger brother. I have nothing to do in this room. I am really bored."
Yu Jiao closed the book and told her maid that she wanted to go to Yinfeng Courtyard. The maid held an umbrella and led Yu Jiao and her to Yinfeng Courtyard.
As they walked along the way, they passed by a bamboo forest. Yu Jiao felt that Yinfeng Courtyard was very remote. Perhaps it was because Yu Qizhe and his companions were all outsiders, and they were afraid of offending the women in the Mu family mansion, so they made this arrangement.
There were several servants serving in the courtyard. The maid stepped forward and said, "This is Miss Yu, the younger sister of several young masters in the courtyard."
The servant hurriedly greeted them and invited Yu Jiao and others into the courtyard.
When they reached the corridor, the maid folded the umbrella, and the servant led Yu Jiao and the others to Yu Jinshu's room, saying, "After breakfast, the gentlemen are all studying in their rooms. The second young master Yu lives in the room on the left, and to the right are the third young master Yu, the fourth young master Yu, and the fifth young master Yu."
Yu Jinshu heard the noise outside the door, opened it, and saw Yu Jiao and the other person. He asked, "What are you doing here?"
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