Gu Yunran rubbed her brows with a headache. She had already torn her relationship with the Lu family. There was no point in wasting time like this. She couldn't just sit there and wait for death.
"Zhuye, bring me a pen and paper."
"Yes." Zhuye didn't ask any more questions. She went out to get the pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and stood in front of the desk to grind them. Gu Yunran lay on the table and wrote.
"Madam, Aunt Xia is here."
Yuling came in to report. Gu Yunran put down the pen in his hand, put away the half-written letter, put it in the drawer, and said to the outside: "Let her in."
Xia Qiuju is five months pregnant and her belly is visible. She supports her waist with one hand and puts the other hand on Xiangcao's arm. She looks a little clumsy when walking.
"Zhuye, bring a chair for Aunt Xia." Gu Yunran instructed, and she also said considerately, "Put a soft cushion underneath and a rush mat on top."
It is midsummer now and the weather is so hot that it makes people breathless. The clothes that are close to Qiuju's back are slightly wet.
"Madam is such a caring person, why didn't Fourth Master know how to cherish her before?" Qiuju sighed.
Gu Yunran asked Zhuye to serve two glasses of mung bean iced tea, stirring it gently with a spoon without saying anything. Qiuju knew that Gu Yunran didn't want to mention Lu Qingzhou again. She took a sip of the tea and said with a smile, "Madam, why is this mung bean tea so cool? It makes me feel cold all over."
Gu Yunran put down the teacup and looked at Qiuju: "Iced."
"No wonder," Qiuju said with a smile, "but this ice is always difficult to make. I wonder if Madam has any ideas?"
She paused and continued, "If I could get more, I could open a shop during this hot summer and make some money."
Gu Yunran pursed her lips and said nothing.
Qiuju's face turned red as she spoke, as if she shouldn't have made such a request to Gu Yunran, and it seemed a bit embarrassing for the lady.
"Madam, just pretend I didn't say anything." Qiuju sighed, "The Fourth Master has been drinking to drown his sorrows lately and has ignored everything in the mansion."
"My period is getting shorter and shorter, and the food is getting worse and worse. I don't mind it, but I'm worried that after the baby is born, there won't even be enough milk for it to drink. So I want to make some preparations while I can still move."
Qiuju's eyes became red as she spoke, but she was too stubborn to let the tears fall.
Gu Yunran frowned slightly. She had expected the Lu family's situation, but she didn't expect Lu Qingzhou to be so useless and only knew how to drown his sorrows in alcohol.
He doesn't even care about his wife and children.
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