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After packing his things, he came to say goodbye to me in the morning. I teased him with a smile: "This is the first 77 hours after Chief Steward Zhou gets married. Why don't we set a date of the 8th? You can also accompany your wife."

The two maids behind me were blushing as they chatted with each other. The man's body swayed and he replied, embarrassed, "This is my daughter's holiday. It is enough for me to have my younger sister to accompany me."

Six days later, the atmosphere of the Seventh Festival was getting increasingly thick. The people in my mother's courtyard were all alone. My courtyard was pressed down by the strict and solemn Lu Kui. However, my grandmother's courtyard was the first to become lively.

Unlike the usual orderly and noisy grandma's courtyard, the sight of young wives and girls coming and going through the door, and the twenty to thirty young girls holding hands and talking, had turned the courtyard into a bustling scene of laughter and celebration. At the door, a smiling little girl wearing crescent crepe and red hair tied with a rope knocked on the curtain for me, "Miss, you've come!"

"What's your name?"

The little girl was only about my shoulder height, with a sharp white face and apricot eyes like water.

"Servant Bai Fang." The little girl bashfully pursed her lips into a smile, then kneeled down and bowed to me.

"Where did you work before?"

Grandmother liked pretty girls, so all sorts of ways to walk in Grandmother's yard always had their own characteristics. Even the worse ones only had the appearance of a middle-aged man.

"Your servant is new." The girl's long eyelashes flickered in her drooping eyes, making her look especially bashful.

It looks like I came in with the new girls in my house, but most of them were about seven or eight years old, while my grandmother had left them around ten years old.

Grandmother wants to be sensible, and I want loyalty.

"Take this and play with it!" I took an agate bead ring from the pouch at my waist and handed it to her.

Recently, I was learning how to make connections with Lan Lingyun, so I asked her mother to buy a few different colored beads from outside.

"No, no, no!" Not only did he not accept it, he even took a few steps back as if he was scared by me. The little girl quickly waved her hands and said, "This servant cannot take it!"

"Why not?" This is the first time I've been rejected because I offered something to a servant.

"Miss, you're here. Why aren't you going in?" Just as I was teasing the little girl, Hong Chang came in from behind the door, and pulled me in: "The sun is so high out, be careful or you might get caught in the sun!"

Glancing at the young maid's grateful gaze from behind me, I pouted and was pulled into the house by Hong Chang.

On the kang near the window, there was an entire piece of silk. The whole thing was piled up on the windowsill with all kinds of different colors. The maidservants next to me were all holding boxes of jewelry or some random colored clothes.

"Miss, this way!" Hong Chang led me deeper into the room, from time to time, the sounds of girls chatting and laughing could be heard, extremely cheerful.

Grandmother sat on a small table by the door, watching as the maidservants poured out clothes and materials from the closet. The cicada was like a feather, and the brocade was splendid and luxurious, and its texture was exquisite. The brocade was complicated, and it was constantly being taken out of the closet, passed by Mother Du, and handed to Grandmother Du before deciding whether to put it away or to reward her grandma.

"Sit down and see if there's anything you like." Grandmother laughed as she pulled me to sit beside her. "Next time, I won't be able to cut meat!"

"Old lady, little miss has yet to eat!" Seeing that Grandmother wanted to keep me, Hong Chang looked at me and smiled.

I was moved and hurriedly nodded my head. "That's right. I originally wanted to have a meal with you, but who would have thought that you would only give me a cold stool to sit on!"

"Then go quickly!" Grandmother laughed and pushed me away. "I asked them to leave some food for you. Come back and pick it after you finish eating." With a playful wink, Grandmother whispered into my ear, "I've kept all the good stuff for you!"

When we reached the east side, Hong Chang ordered the servants and mothers to serve me food. Without saying a word, she stood in front of me and helped me serve the soup and cloth vegetables, looking extremely respectful, as if she was working hard in front of her grandmother.

"Ouch!" I quickly got up and pulled her to sit in front of me. "Big sister is really ashamed of me, if you don't sit down, I won't be able to eat in peace! If you have any orders, just say them. Although I don't dare to say that I'm satisfied with them, I will definitely do them honestly for you! "

Hong Chang was also a straightforward person, she laughed and said straight out: "If it were my own matter, I would not have said that. Even though it's the Double Seventh Festival, and we old granny took out the things to reward us for the sake of everyone's happiness, but we servants don't need the good stuff in the old granny's closet! Just now, the jade belt in the old lady's hands was worth at least fifty taels of silver. It was enough to buy ten pieces of fine jadeite cotton cloth. I just persuaded the old lady and she said, 'It's mine, why are you being so stingy?' and the old lady often asked me to find things in the past few days, some in the storehouse, some not in the storehouse, and the last time I asked, I said it was a year ago when I gave it to the young lady. How about I bring it back, and the old lady said, 'I was going to give it to her anyway, so there's no need to bring it back to her.' This servant was puzzled, "Could it be that Miss has some kind of loss in her shop that requires the old lady to take her things to make up for it?" "But when I went out to ask around, I was told that your shop is extremely well-managed. I just wanted to ask what exactly was going on …"

There was an old saying that it was because Qi Xi had packed up her clothes and accessories, but she had asked about something and said it was for me. No matter how I looked at it, it sounded like she was choosing a dowry for her grandson!

"Has anything happened to the old lady recently?"

Normally, people would take three to five years to get married, but why was my grandmother in such a hurry?

Was there something wrong with his body?

"It's this monster!" Hong Chang laughed bitterly: A few days ago, the Old Granny said that her waist was sore and her back was sore, and her eyes were heavy. Recently, she has been sleeping soundly, and everyday, she would wake up early to listen to Mother Du reciting the items in her private storage.

Hearing Hong Chang's words, I secretly sighed, it seems that Grandmother truly thinks highly of this marriage.

"Elder sister, don't worry. Grandmother will be fine. She'll be fine in a few days." I rubbed the rim of my teacup with my thumb, but I felt guilty.

Grandmother's heart is very much looking forward to my lively marrying people and having children to lead a normal life of a woman!

"Miss, you … If you have anything to say, please don't hide it from us! " Hong Chang lowered her head and started crying, she hurriedly wiped her face with her sleeves, and after suppressing it with great difficulty, her voice returned to its original coldness: "This servant is originally a little servant girl in the warehouse, it's all because of the old lady that I became a big maid, even the old master and wife have some dignity, if it's because we were not careful, the old lady, she … "Those of us who serve by the side, even if we die with them, we won't be able to figure it out …"

Hong Chang and her group shed tears, she was dressed in a bright red outfit, and in a moment her sleeves were all wet, but the servant girl kept biting her lower lip, not letting herself show any signs of being choked with emotions.

Normally, I would only feel that this maid had starry eyes and a cold attitude. She wasn't as smart or as beautiful or considerate as the red jade. I didn't expect her to be so heartless.

I can't help but admire my grandmother for being so adept at knowing how to use people.

"Don't worry, sister!" I took a handkerchief from my sleeve and handed it to her. "I will never hide anything from my sister. The old lady is not preparing for something behind her back. She is taking care of it for me."

"Do it for you?" Hong Chang hesitated: "Could it be that you really want to marry the young master of the Jiang Clan?"

Little gongzi?

I felt a chill in my heart.

The guy from the Jiang Clan should already be 15 years old!

But why did Hong Chang not agree with his words?

"But what's wrong with him?" I mimicked my grandmother and raised my eyebrows. I held a cup of tea in my hand and pretended to taste it.

"Nothing." Hong Chang gave a bright smile: Just that I thought young miss would be different?

"Why am I different?"

"Because even though young miss is young, she is swift and decisive. The few of us secretly praise young miss, so we thought that …"

Do you think that just because I have my own opinions in doing things, I can break through the custom of having my parents order me to be a matchmaker since ancient times?

I am not a submissive person from the bottom of my heart.

In my previous life, I chose to elope to escape my mother's arrangement, but I was too young to yield. In this life, I have mental means that I did not have in my previous life, and I have no reason to yield!

Even the servants found out that I was different from before. I was afraid that my mother wouldn't notice it anymore. It was a good thing that he had taken care of matters at home. Even if he had torn off all decorum with his mother and only took care of his family matters, he would not have caused any big trouble. He was just short of settling King Qi's affairs properly, then he would be able to get a clear understanding of everything that had happened in his past life!

"You're right!" I smiled at her. "I'm afraid that elder sister will have to say a few good words for me when the time comes."

After we finished eating, Hong Chang and I went back to the inner room one after the other. Grandmother had already picked out her clothes, and sat on the brick bed with Mother Du while chatting and drinking tea, as though she was buried under a pile of embroidered flowers.

Do you like what I chose for you?" Grandmother pulled my hand. Her eyes were shining like a little girl dressed up like a child. "This Heaven Water Jade makes a top, this red one makes a horse face dress, and this one made a wide sleeved shirt with white moonlight …

Then she gave me more than ten sets of clothes!

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry as I pulled at the pile of fabric on my legs. "Last year's skirt already exposed the back of my feet, so you did so much for me. Next year, I might not even be able to wear it!"

"Ah?" Last year's clothes were already short? " Grandmother seemed to have only heard the first part of my sentence. She somewhat reprimanded me, "Why didn't you come and tell me about your clothes? "The material in my warehouse is old. Tomorrow, I will ask your mother Du to go to the East Street and pick out some fresh ones for you!"

It was not that the style was new, but that the color was not bright!

Grandmother was an old lady. The few bright colors and soft materials in the library were probably all dug out by me.

I could only smile apologetically at Hong Chang.