Xue Zhi's face lit up with joy, thinking that Zheng Xiu felt sorry for him and asked the maid to bring him hot tea. He took the teacup, smiled and took two sips.
Ruizhu also smiled, her eyes full of romance. She had a charming look and used to serve Xue Qin. Later, when Princess Guihe saw that she had grown up to be like this, she transferred her away.
Zheng Xiu raised her eyes by the bed and saw that it was Xue Zhi and the maid who were talking and laughing.
After a closer look, the maid was Ruizhu given by Princess Guihe.
She pushed the window and threw the notebook in her hand out.
She threw it at Xue Zhi. Xue Zhi was hit on the head, but it didn't hurt. He just asked her in a daze: "What's wrong?"
Zheng Xiu snorted coldly and closed the window again.
"Didn't the Madam ask you to serve me tea?" Xue Zhi asked Ruizhu. Why do you look even angrier?
Ruizhu bit her lip and said, "I saw that it was cold outside and was worried about the Second Master's injury, so I served you tea myself."
"What a big deal!" Xue Zhi put the teacup back on the tray in Ruizhu's hand as if his hand was burned, and reprimanded her in a bad tone, "Don't act on your own! What can a maid do without the Madam's order!"
Ruizhu's tears rolled in her eyes, and she looked quite pitiful.
Xue Zhi seemed to be blind to it, and waved his hand impatiently, "Go down quickly, don't stand in front of me!"
Ruizhu held back her tears, bowed, and quickly retreated.
Bai Zhu watched everything from the side, and soon went back to tell Ming Hui and Fen Ge.
Fen Ge spat with disdain: "Bah, vixen! She has so many dirty ideas, it's our Second Master's fault that he doesn't even look at her!"
Ming Hui said: "Okay, let's just say this to ourselves, don't let Madam tell her and dirty her ears. Let's keep an eye on Rui Zhu in the future, and never let her do anything out of line again."
Fen Ge and Bai Zhu nodded solemnly.
After Zheng Xiu threw the book away, she sulked in the room. Fortunately, Ming Hui also noticed something was wrong and quickly came into the room.
"Madam, would you like to try some of the plum blossom goat milk cake that Fen Ge has just researched?"
Zheng Xiu didn't have much appetite, but it was boring to be alone, so she nodded.
Ming Hui asked Bai Zhu to present it.
Goat milk tends to have a fishy smell, but the fragrance of plum blossoms just covers up the fishy smell in the pastry. When the pastry enters the mouth, it can only taste the milk flavor and the fragrance of plum blossoms. Moreover, the pure white pastry is dotted with pink and white plum blossoms, which makes people happy just by looking at it.
After eating a dessert, Zheng Xiu felt better.
Minghui then tried to persuade her kindly, "Madam, it's very stuffy inside with the charcoal brazier smoking. You'd better ask me to open the window."
Zheng Xiu put down the cakes and said, "Don't open it. It's an eyesore."
Minghui naturally knew what she meant by an eyesore, so she helped Xue Zhi explain, "Just now Ruizhu took the initiative to bring hot tea to the Second Master, and the Second Master thought it was your instruction, so he drank it."
"Really?" Zheng Xiu raised her eyebrows.
Minghui said, "I dare not lie to you, Madam. After you closed the window, the Second Master chased Ruizhu away. Now Ruizhu is hiding in the side room and crying."
Zhengxiu snorted, "What a smart Ruizhu."
Minghui thought for a moment and said, "I have something to say about Ruizhu. Please forgive me for my presumption."
Zhengxiu let her continue, and she continued, "Ruizhu looks dishonest. She used to serve the prince. I heard that she was picked out because she offended the princess. Now she is placed in our courtyard. I think she has not calmed down. You should be more careful." It's not her fault for what she said today. Ruizhu is really too dishonest. Today, she took advantage of the quarrel between the Second Master and the old lady to serve her hot tea. Who knows what she will do next time. The Second Master could glare at her and chase her away today, but next time... it's hard to say.
Zheng Xiu didn't like Princess Guihe to extend her hand to her courtyard, but Princess Guihe was in charge of the imperial gift, and Haoyetang was indeed short of manpower, so Princess Guihe's previous release of people here could be said to be aboveboard. Zheng Xiu never thought that Princess Guihe would let in such a young, beautiful, and dishonest maid.
In view of Princess Guihe's dislike for her, she would never think that Princess Guihe did it unintentionally.
It's easy to drive Ruizhu away, but you have to have a reputation - after all, she is on Princess Guihe's side.
Zheng Xiu thought about it, and came up with an idea. She opened the window and waved to Xue Zhi who was still standing outside the window drinking the wind. "Come in first."
Xue Zhi said happily, "Hey," and immediately went back to the room.
"Ah Xiu, are you not angry anymore?" Xue Zhi sat back on the kang excitedly.
Zheng Xiu glanced at him, "Who said I'm not angry anymore?"
Xue Zhi scratched his head, not understanding why she called him in.
Zheng Xiu said again: "The maid who just served you tea made the decision without my order. What do you think we should do?"
"You decide to take a maid by yourself, and you still need to ask me..." Xue Zhi immediately changed his words when he found that Zheng Xiu's face was getting uglier and uglier. "The maid overstepped her authority, acted beyond her authority, and looked down on others. Naturally, she should be punished."
Zheng Xiu turned to Ming Hui and said: "Did you hear that? The second master is angry and said he would punish Ruizhu. Why don't you bring her up?"
Ming Hui smiled secretly, responded and turned to go out. Soon, she and Fen Ge brought Ruizhu up.
Ruizhu hid in the ear room and cried for a long time, her eyes were red like a rabbit. I don't know what happened yet.
Zheng Xiu said coldly: "Ruizhu, you have been in Haoye Hall for some time. During this period, you have received the monthly salary of the head maid, but the work has been shared by Minghui and others. I think I have treated you well." Although she deliberately excluded Ruizhu, the meaning of these words changed when they came to Zheng Xiu's mouth. "But look at what you did today! You dared to offend the Second Master!"
Ruizhu was speechless, staring with a pair of red eyes, "Your servant, your servant..."
Zheng Xiu waved her hands and said impatiently: "Don't make excuses, don't you see that the Second Master is still angry." Then she glanced at Xue Zhi indifferently.
Xue Zhi understood what she meant and immediately pretended to be angry, saying with a dark face: "You ignorant girl, you dare to offend your master! I think you don't want to stay in the mansion of Duke Qing!"
Ruizhu never thought that she gave the second master a cup of hot tea, but not only did she not win his favor, she was scolded and now she was brought to the public for punishment.
But facing the furious Xue Zhi, she could not say any more excuses.
Zheng Xiu said again: "You are from Changfeng Garden, I can't punish you. But since you have annoyed the Second Master, go back to Changfeng Garden to receive the punishment."
Ruizhu's tears rolled down her cheeks and she knelt down: "Madam, I know I was wrong, please forgive me this time!"
Zheng Xiu said innocently: "Why should I forgive you? I'm not angry, it's you who made the Second Master angry, what are you begging me to do?" Ruizhu
knelt down to Xue Zhi again, "Second Master, please forgive me for being confused for a moment." As she said that, she pulled Xue Zhi's clothes.
Xue Zhi was not stupid either. He had made his wife even angrier because he drank a cup of tea from the maid. Now that he finally had the chance to atone for his crime, he naturally had to seize it. He lifted his legs to avoid it, frowning and saying, "Why should I show you mercy? I think you have violated a taboo today, so why don't you just go back to Changfeng Garden! Do you want me to use the guards to drag you away?"
"Let's talk it over, why use the guards?" Zheng Xiu glanced at Minghui, "Why don't you send Ruizhu back?"
Minghui responded and made a face at Fen Ge, who then called the maids who were doing rough work in the yard and dragged Ruizhu away directly.
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