Chapter 6 Mother and Daughter's Conspiracy
Luo Fu managed to finish the sachet in the afternoon of the next day.
It's a mountain cherry blossom style, but the stitching is a bit thick, so the flowers don't look that pretty.
But the flowers are fragrant and smell very nice.
Love was very satisfied. This was the best sachet she had ever embroidered.
She placed the sachet neatly into a square wooden box and handed it to Shanglu.
Shang Lu took it and said with a smile: "My son-in-law sent someone to wait for me early in the morning, and now I finally got it."
Honeysuckle pushed her: "Why don't you send it over quickly? The son-in-law will be waiting anxiously. He might come in person again, and then our girl won't be able to sleep well again."
In order to catch up on the work, Love has indeed not taken a nap today. Now, except for her coat, she is lying on the bed.
Honeysuckle smiled and lowered the bed curtains.
Shanglu went to the front yard with the box containing the sachet.
She walked hurriedly and just as she turned the corner of the hanging flower gate, she ran into a group of people.
They are Madam Cui and the eldest daughter Luo Zhen.
The mother and daughter had just returned home, accompanied by a group of maids.
Shang Lu quickly bowed and saluted: "Madam, Miss."
Cui was not tall, but she was wealthy and had an air of majesty. Her face looked haggard from traveling back and forth, and she had no intention of paying attention to the maidservant beside the concubine.
Luo Zhen's face was equally haggard. He supported Cui Shi and walked a few steps forward. Suddenly, he stopped and asked Shang Lu, "What are you holding in your hand? What are you going to do?"
Shang Lu dared not refuse to answer: "My dear Miss, this is our daughter's return gift to Master Pei. I was just about to deliver it to the person sent by Master Pei."
Luo Zhen's face darkened.
She cursed in her heart, what a little bitch, she turned a deaf ear to her words, and even when she was not allowed to flirt with Pei Ji, she became even more aggressive!
Luo Zhen's heart seemed to be filled with poison, but she didn't show it on her face. She just said calmly, "Go."
Shang Lu responded, bowed again, lowered his head and walked forward.
Cui looked at her daughter and said, "Since you are determined, don't let these two people mess around any more."
Luo Zhen said: "My daughter understands."
She called her trusted maid and whispered a few instructions to her.
The maid also hurried forward.
She trotted to the front yard the other way.
The wife's companion, Zhou Fujia, was in the front yard directing the servants to bring the gifts brought back from Qingzhou to the mansion.
The maid walked over, pulled her aside and said a few words to her.
Zhou Fujia nodded immediately: "Don't worry, young lady, I won't let that little hoof give the things away!"
She walked back and lingered for a while, then saw Shang Lu coming over and stopped her: "Aren't you the head maidservant beside the second lady? Why are you running to the front yard?"
As the wife's companion, Zhou Fujia also has some rights as a housekeeper. Shang Lu hurriedly explained with a smile.
Upon hearing this, Zhou Fujia's face darkened and she sternly said, "How outrageous! Aren't there any rules for passing messages and things? And he's a stranger! Madam has only been away from home for a few days, and you're so unruly! The second young lady doesn't care about her reputation, and the eldest young lady still has dignity!"
Shang Lu was startled at first, and then he looked unhappy when he heard her harsh words: "Master Pei is already engaged to our daughter, so he is not considered an outsider. Sister Zhou, please be careful with your words!"
Zhou Fujia sneered, "According to you, you can do whatever you want just because you're engaged. You can give me the token of love today, hold hands tomorrow, and we'll be together the day after tomorrow, right? I didn't realize that you, a maidservant, have the talent of a housekeeper. I think the mistress of the Luo Mansion shouldn't be the wife, but you!"
"You..." Shang Lu's lips turned pale with anger. "I've already met the madam and the eldest daughter, and the eldest daughter agreed!"
Zhou Fujia said, "That's because the older girl is good-tempered. I'm not so easy to talk to! There's no order without rules. Just do what you have to do. Otherwise, how can the mistress manage the household? You're just a maid after all. Do you still need someone to teach you?"
There is no rule in the mansion to pass things outside.
But on weekdays, when sending things in, they had to pass through the servants guarding several gates in the front yard, and then be handed to the back house, and then passed by the gatekeepers to the master's yard.
Shang Lu knew that she couldn't get out, so he had to swallow his anger and go back. He handed the square box to the maid at the door and stuffed some money into her, asking her to send the things out properly.
The old woman agreed, but then she placed the square box on the table in Luo Zhen's room.
Cui leaned on the soft couch and pinched her temples: "You can imitate handwriting, right? Write a letter and hand it over."
Luo Zhen understood what she meant.
Without calling anyone in, he walked to the desk, ground ink, picked up the pen, and soon finished writing the letter. He blew on it, folded it, and put it in a wooden box envelope carved with a carp pattern.
She was about to ask someone to deliver the letter.
Cui couldn't help but sit up and said, "Zhen'er, once you send this letter, everything will change. Mother has one last question for you. Have you really thought it through?"
Luo Zhen didn't hesitate at all: "My daughter has thought clearly! The dream is so vivid, and it lasted for several days. This must be the gods and Buddhas protecting her. I will definitely not let them down!"
The first thing Luo Zhen did when he went to Qingzhou was to tell Cui about the dream and he was determined to get a marriage exchange.
At first, Cui was just like Luo Yuanshan, both surprised and angry.
In order to allow his daughter to enter the palace and be selected as a concubine, he invited a retired nanny from the palace to live in the house when she was three years old and raised her according to the manners of a palace concubine.
My daughter is also a very ambitious person. She has been determined to enter the palace and become a queen since she was young.
They worked hard for more than ten years for this, but when they were about to enter the palace, their daughter gave up more than ten years of hard work because of a dream, and instead had to marry a local captain!
She even suspected at one point that her daughter was possessed by a nightmare and had contracted an evil disease.
But the daughter was in a clear mind and other than that, there was no sign of being possessed by evil spirits. It was not convenient for her to invite anyone to see her at her eldest brother's birthday party.
What made her change her mind was that at the banquet, a guest from the capital vaguely mentioned that the current emperor had a brain disease and was a cruel murderer.
She suddenly remembered what her father had said.
At that time, her father was still alive. On his birthday, she returned to Qingzhou to celebrate with him. People from the capital also came. After the banquet, the family chatted casually, and her father did say that the emperor, who was still a prince at the time, had a brain disease.
But she didn't care.
Now that long-lost memories were coming back, combined with her daughter's nightmare, she suddenly became frightened.
He hurried back before his brother's birthday party was over, just to complete the marriage arrangement for his daughter.
Seeing that her daughter was still as resolute as ever, Cui Shi's hesitation dissipated. She sent someone in to hand the letter to the small flag sent by Pei Ji, and then said, "Go and call the master back. I have something to tell him."
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