Yu Jiao responded, "Please help me cover it up, Second Sister. I'll be back soon."
Liu Yaoyu raised her hand to help her cover the felt hat tightly on her head and said, "The maid's clothes are thin, I'd better get you a cloak, you'd better be careful not to catch a cold."
Yu Jiao's pretty face was wrapped in a white felt hat, making her look even more delicate. She shook her head and said, "Second sister, I'm not cold. Please go back to the house."
If she wore a cloak, the servant guarding the backyard gate would be able to tell her identity at a glance. Yu Jiao was anxious and didn't want to cause any trouble.
The cold wind blew on my face, feeling like a knife scraping against it.
Liu Yaoyu stamped her feet and said, "Wait a minute. I'll get you a hand warmer. You can hide it in the medical box and take it out to warm your hands."
Without waiting for Yu Jiao to speak, Liu Yaoyu turned around and hurried back to the yard. She was so anxious that she even forgot to call the maid to get it.
Yu Jiao waited for a while, and Liu Yaoyu came out with two hand warmers and stuffed them into Yu Jiao's medical box. With cold air coming out of her mouth, she said, "I'll add charcoal to the hand warmers. Go out the back door, and you and Bai Lu can hold one each to warm yourselves. Fortunately, our mansion is not far from Annan Marquis's mansion, otherwise you would be frozen to death if you walked over there in such a cold day."
Yu Jiao smiled and said, "Second sister, I'm not that fragile. Please go back."
Liu Yaoyu watched Yu Jiao leave. Looking at her frail figure, her willow-shaped brows furrowed in worry. Why did such a cold wind blow out of nowhere? What would happen if it snowed again?
Yu Jiao carried the medical box and went through the back garden with Bai Lu. Although they met several servants along the way, no one asked them any questions. When they passed the door of the old lady's Baoshou Hall, Yu Jiao subconsciously lowered her head and hid behind Bai Lu.
Arriving at the back door without any danger, Yu Jiao raised her hand and pulled at her felt hat, with most of her face hidden behind it. The doorman recognized Bai Lu and knew that she was the first-class maid who served the Third Young Miss personally. Seeing that Yu Jiao was dressed as a maid, he asked Bai Lu, "Are you a servant in the Third Young Miss's courtyard? It's so cold, why are you going out at this time?"
Bai Lu said calmly, "Today the weather suddenly turned cold, and the Third Miss asked me to get some medicine for the old lady."
The servant looked at the medical box in Yu Jiao's hand, his eyes lingered on her delicate fingers for a moment, then opened the side door and said, "It's so cold, sisters, you must be busy. Go quickly."
Yu Jiao lowered her head and followed Bai Lu out of the back door. Just as she breathed a sigh of relief, the servant behind her suddenly spoke again, "Wait a minute, sisters. I have a cloak here. It was given to me by the old lady a few years ago because she was afraid that I would freeze my hands and feet guarding the door in winter. Although it is a bit old, it can keep you warm. Take it with you, sisters, and don't freeze yourself."
Bai Lu turned around and took the cloak with slightly worn fur from the servant, said thank you, and quickly left with Yu Jiao holding the cloak.
After they walked away, Bai Lu put the cloak on Yu Jiao, took out a hand warmer from the medical box, and the two of them walked quickly towards the Annan Marquis Mansion.
The gatekeeper then closed the two wooden doors and went to Baoshou Hall.
After taking the prescription prescribed by Yu Jiao for many days in a row, plus daily fumigation and moxibustion, Mrs. Liu has been in much better spirits in recent days. Even the cough that always plagues her in winter has not recurred.
Her mind was clear and she rarely felt groggy anymore. Old Madam Liu rarely lay in bed during the day. She was sitting in the room talking with Mother Liu when she heard the maid say that Wei San, who was guarding the back door, was here to report something, so she asked the maid to call him in.
"Have a cup of hot ginger tea to warm yourself up." Old Mrs. Liu was always kind and gentle. She said, "The weather has changed. You who are guarding the gate outside will be the most vulnerable to the cold. Put on more clothes."
Wei San took the ginger tea handed over by the maid and said gratefully, "The old lady is very considerate of us servants. The steward bought us cotton-padded jackets early in the morning, so we didn't get cold."
"That's good." Old Mrs. Liu is a vegetarian and a Buddhist. She is not like the mistresses in other mansions who treat others as human beings.
Wei San drank a cup of ginger tea and felt warm all over. He said respectfully, "Just now, the maid in Miss San's courtyard went to the back door and said she was going to get some medicine for you. I opened the back door and let them out."
Mother Liu looked puzzled and asked, "Didn't Miss San say that you wanted to change the prescription you were taking now?"
Old Madam Liu roughly guessed what was going on. She asked, "Only the maid from the Third Girl's Courtyard left the house?"
Wei San said under the penetrating gaze of Old Lady Liu, "I recognized one of the sisters as Bai Lu, the personal servant of Miss San. Although the other one is dressed as a maid, I saw that her hands are delicate and white, and she doesn't look like... a maid who is used to doing rough work."
"It should be the third girl, right?" Old Madam Liu said in a gentle voice.
Wei San knelt on the ground and apologized, "I guessed that it might be Miss San, but I still let her go. Please punish me, Madam."
Madam Liu smiled and said, "Get up. The eldest lady has detained the third girl and does not allow her to leave the house, but I have never said this. You left my courtyard, so it is not wrong."
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