When Wen Ye woke up, it was almost noon.
Facts have proved that staying up late to study is not advisable.
At this moment, she even wanted to become a nun, stay away from the world of luxury and have no desires.
Wen Ye lay on the bed for a while before calling for someone to come in.
After washing up, Taozhi asked, "Madam, what would you like to eat for lunch?"
Wen Ye sighed and said slowly: "Let's have a vegetarian banquet. From today on, I want to cultivate my body and mind for a while."
Her expression revealed a trace of tranquility, as if she was really trying to attain enlightenment.
Taozhi was stunned and asked, "All vegetarian?"
What is the lady playing?
Wen Ye nodded seriously: "Yes."
Taozhi saw that she didn't seem to be joking, so she asked, "Do you want to change the soup too?"
Wen Ye likes shredded pork and egg soup very much recently. She asks the kitchen to make a bowl of it every two days. Today, the kitchen just happened to prepare it.
Hearing Taozhi's question, Wen Ye's face was tangled, but she finally gave up and said, "Change."
"Oh, right." Wen Ye suddenly remembered, looked at her and asked, "Did I buy a pair of wooden fish in the West Market before?"
Taozhi nodded: "Yes, I put it in the box in the warehouse for you."
Wen Ye: “Find it out.”
Taozhi didn't understand and asked, "Madam, what do you want the wooden fish for?"
Wen Ye: "Calm down."
Taozhi was a little scared when she saw Wen Ye like this. Why did he suddenly think of striking the wooden fish out of the blue?
As far as she knew, only monks in temples and nuns in nunneries beat the wooden fish.
However, she had no choice but to go to the warehouse and look for it since her ladyship asked her to do so.
Wen Ye liked to go shopping in the West Market. Every time he went there, he would find a lot of strange and weird things. Gradually, he had accumulated several boxes of them.
Taozhi searched for a long time before finding a pair. On the way back, she met Xu Yuejia who came from the front yard.
Wen Ye walked out of the inner room and the food was already on the table.
Glancing at the man sitting at the dining table, Wen Ye frowned: "My dear, are you not having lunch?"
She called this meal lunch, but in fact it was long past her usual lunch time.
Xu Yuejia glanced at it and raised her eyes: "You don't have a good appetite today?"
Wen Ye sat over and said, "It is like this, my dear. I have decided to be a vegetarian for a while. I have eaten too much meat and fish recently and I am a little sick of it."
Xu Yuejia: "What about the wooden fish?"
Wen Ye: "Because I suddenly found that I have a good affinity with Buddhism."
Xu Yuejia suddenly asked: "When did you have such a sudden realization?"
Wen Ye replied honestly: "After waking up this morning."
Wen Ye looked at the man with a look of longing, "My dear, you can also try knocking it, it will help to cultivate your body and mind."
Not to mention Xu Yuejia, she has now lost interest in several entertainment activities such as dialogue and playing cards.
Xu Yuejia was silent.
After lunch, Wen Ye took the wooden fish and went to the west study to knock it.
Xu Yuejia left for a short while.
Wen Ye sat on the couch, crossed his legs and beat the wooden fish.
After Xu Yuejia came back, he continued to copy legal books at his desk.
After an unknown amount of time, Wen Ye stopped striking the wooden fish, closed his eyes, and looked at the man working at the desk not far away. The bright sunlight seemed to cast a layer of gold on his shoulders.
Bright and attractive.
Wen Ye used to think that only the temperature would have a big difference between morning and night, but today she discovered that the difference between Xu Yuejia's day and night seemed to be even greater.
A white and tender rabbit grew out from under the wolf skin.
After a moment, Wen Ye sighed deeply and finally spoke: "My dear."
Hearing this, Xu Yuejia looked up at her and asked, "What's the matter?"
After eating a belly full of grass for lunch and beating the wooden fish for nearly an hour, Wen Ye felt hungry.
Young people recover quickly.
Wen Ye stared at Xu Yuejia's face and decided to take back what he had said before, and changed his words: "I think the meat soup is still drinkable."
Xu Yuejia said nothing.
Wen Ye asked again, "My dear, haven't you learned this yet?"
Xu Yuejia: "......Yeah."
Wen Ye sighed, it seemed like she couldn't get rid of her identity as a teacher.
As the number of posts to the West Courtyard decreased, Wen Ye's "illness" gradually healed.
Two days before the Mid-Autumn Festival, Lu sent someone to the West Courtyard early in the morning to ask Wen Ye to go to the Main Courtyard after breakfast.
When Wen Ye came over, Mrs. Lu was checking the gift list.
Although the Duke's Mansion is a wealthy family, they still have to prepare the necessary gifts during the holidays.
Maintaining relationships depends on these festivals.
The reason why Wen Ye was called over was because Lu wanted to ask carefully whether there was anyone in the Wen family who needed to avoid certain foods.
The gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival are nothing more than moon cakes and wine. The only thing to pay attention to is the filling of the moon cakes. For example, walnuts cannot appear in the Duke's Mansion, and neither Xu Jingrong nor Xu Yuxuan can eat them.
Just in case, Lu forbad his subordinates from buying walnuts.
If you want to eat, eat outside and come back.
Wen Ye's previous experience was purely accidental because no one told her.
"No, I don't have any dietary restrictions." Wen Ye said, "I think what my sister-in-law prepared is very good."
Lu was relieved and said, "As long as you feel good about it."
Because I care, I take it seriously.
Lu closed the gift list, raised her head, glanced at Wen Ye's face, and suddenly frowned: "Have you really been sick these days?"
As the Mid-Autumn Festival approaches, Mrs. Lu is extremely busy. In addition to visiting relatives and dealing with shops and farms in various places, the bills that have been handed in since the autumn harvest have never stopped.
We should show some respect to those who manage the accounts and shops for the Duke's Mansion on festivals like Mid-Autumn Festival.
Only by giving appropriate benefits can their loyalty be guaranteed.
Not only did Mrs. Lu have to take care of the Duke's Mansion, she also had a lot of dowry shops of her own, and she was busy until late every day.
If she counted carefully, it seemed that she hadn't seen Wen Ye for five or six days.
How could you be so exhausted in just five or six days?
"Have you looked at the account book?" Lu thought for a moment and made this guess.
Maybe it was because she looked in the mirror every day that Wen Ye didn't feel any changes in herself. After she touched her face and heard Lu's second question, she subconsciously said, "No."
Although there has been constant speculation in the West Courtyard in recent days, it has not had much impact on Wen Ye.
The triple salary plus performance bonus during special periods is not for nothing.
Over the past year, the abacus skills of the two sisters Liu Ya and Liu Xin have improved significantly, and Wen Ye is very pleased about this.
Upon hearing this, Lu glanced at the abacus beside her, not knowing what to say for a moment.
After a long pause, she spoke again: "Why do I see that you look a little tired?"
At the end, he added, "It feels like I haven't had a good night's sleep in a long time."
Wen Ye paused.
It seems that she has been staying up late a lot recently.
After all, spiritual satisfaction could not overcome physical fatigue.
Lu continued, "Don't stay in the house all the time. Even if you can't leave the house, you can walk around the house."
The scenery inside the mansion is no worse than outside.
Mrs. Lu didn't think there was anything wrong. She thought it was because Wen Ye stayed in the house for too long in the past few days.
Wen Ye agreed immediately.
It's time to take a break. You can't just take advantage of being a teacher to enslave students.
Xu Yuejia can't always take a break.
Wen Ye was still thinking that once she recovered from the illness, she would go to see her hot spring manor.
Of course not now. She had to wait until the Mid-Autumn Festival was over and the weather got a little cooler. Before the end of the year, she planned to take Lu with her to soak in the hot springs and recuperate.
Since he had decided to take a break for a while, Wen Ye naturally rejected Xu Yuejia's offer to "study" in the evening.
She stepped back a little and said, "My dear, please don't be greedy."
Xu Yuejia's eyes swept down from her face inch by inch, paused at her neck for a moment, raised his eyes and asked: "What is my identity tonight?"
Wen Ye: “…”
Are you addicted to it?
"I went to the main hospital today, and my sister-in-law asked me if I hadn't slept well recently and why I looked so tired."
Wen Ye looked at the man, his eyes revealing a serious look as he said, "So, today we will neither learn new knowledge nor review old knowledge."
Xu Yuejia stared at her quietly for a long time, and seemed to finally be sure that she was not lying, then he lay down beside her almost calmly.
"Oh, right." Wen Ye remembered something, "I plan to take my sister-in-law to a hot spring in a few days."
Before Xu Yuejia could digest this sentence, Wen Ye said again: "Sister-in-law has already agreed."
After waiting for a while, Wen Ye raised her eyes and asked, "Why don't you have any reaction, my dear?"
Xu Yuejia: “Yeah.”
Wen Ye: “…”
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wen Ye put the plan of soaking in hot springs on the agenda. It is said that one of the hot springs gifted by the emperor is a medicinal spring, and Wen Ye plans to take Lu to soak in it.
This medicinal spring not only soothes the mind, but also has the effect of nourishing the body.
After hearing this, Mrs. Lu said, "It's such a big hot spring, it would be a waste for just the two of us to go there. Why don't we ask your mother to come along?"
Wen Ye thought for a moment and replied, "Then should I write a letter to my mother?"
After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the younger sister also returned to the Wen Mansion from the palace. Wen Ye believed that if Shen came, she would definitely bring the younger sister with her.
Lu had long wanted to sit down with Shen and get to know her better.
Their previous encounters were all about the marriage of Xu Yuejia and Wen Ye. Both of them were very reserved. Lu didn't know much about Shen. In her impression, she seemed to be no different from an ordinary lady from an aristocratic family.
The letter was delivered to the Wen Mansion in the afternoon of the next day.
The Shen family has also been busy recently. Although the Wen family is not as powerful as the Duke's Mansion, after years of management, their in-laws are also complicated and not much easier than the Lu family.
The only thing that is better than before is that there is no marriage going on in the mansion at the moment and the children are still young, so this trouble can be avoided for the time being.
To be honest, Shen was subconsciously somewhat resistant to Wen Ye's letter.
In the past, when she was still in the mansion, I could still control her by relying on my status as her "mother".
And now, it is clear that she has found a new supporter.
But she couldn't let Nanny Han hold the letter all the time, so Shen sighed and finally took the letter.
The letter was not long, and Shen finished reading it quickly. When she read the end, her eyes were filled with surprise.
"Take a hot spring bath?" After Shen muttered, she subconsciously read the letter and the envelope carefully, front and back.
After making sure there was no other place to hide the code, he asked again: "What is Wen Si planning?"
Nanny Han was standing next to Shen, and Shen was not on guard against her when she read the letter, so Nanny Han could roughly see the contents of the letter.
She pondered and guessed, "Madam, the fifth lady came back from the palace yesterday."
Shen had been so busy these past two days that she almost forgot about it. When she read the letter again this time, she felt inexplicably relieved: "Wen Si wants me to take Xiao Wu with me."
Nanny Han nodded and said, "In my humble opinion, since the fourth young lady wants to pay her respects, you should accept it. Forget about the other things. This is a manor gifted by the emperor himself."
Shen held the letter in her hand, thought for a moment, and said, "Send someone to the eldest young master's wife's courtyard and tell her that I have something to ask her."
Before taking a hot spring bath, you need to arrange your home first.
Fortunately, both of her daughters-in-law had married, so Shen was not worried.
Things on Lu's side are more complicated. Although he will only be away for three or four days, there are still many things that need to be taken care of.
Wen Ye took the freshly-paid salary and bought some things for Xu Yuejia.
Wen Ye only found out not long ago that an imperial decree like hers also came with a salary.
It is equivalent to an additional pension for her every month.
We will set off to the hot springs outside Beijing tomorrow, so Wen Ye went out specially today.
When she came back, she happened to see Xu Yuejia who was helping her organize the script to take to the manor.
You won't need to bring many if you're only going for a few days; two or three will be enough.
Xu Yuejia heard the noise behind her and said with her back turned, "I've selected a few for you. You can choose from them later."
Wen Ye said, "My dear, turn around."
Xu Yuejia didn't understand what was going on, but she still turned around obediently.
Wen Ye held up the food box that she had been carrying on her back and brought it to him, saying, "I bought this especially for you, my dear. It's a delicious snack."
Xu Yuejia looked at her quietly: "Do you think I am Xuan'er?"
Wen Ye popped his eyes out from above the food box and said, "I didn't buy it for Xuan'er."
Xu Yuejia didn't say anything, but fortunately Wen Ye could feel that his mood was getting better.
So she continued, "I spent all my first salary on buying snacks for my husband."
Xu Yuejia opened the lunch box and looked at the sweet-scented osmanthus cake inside. She paused for a moment, raised her eyes and asked, "Were you cheated?"
Wen Ye didn't respond: "What?"
Xu Yuejia took out a piece and handed it over naturally, saying, "Which shop sells sweet-scented osmanthus cake? Twenty taels of silver per piece."
Wen Ye: “…”
You really don't understand romance.
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