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I suddenly remembered that last night, Lan Lingyun brought in a plate of Cloud Piece Cake, as if she was talking about a gift from Liu Xiu Niang in the embroidery room.

The only way to make this Cloud Piece Cake was at the Fragrance Market on East Main Street. It was so sweet and light, but it would take five hundred pieces of paper to get one packet.

Just this bag of pastries alone would require Liu Xiu Niang to live frugally for more than half a year.

I patted the back of Lan's hand and smiled at her, indicating that I understood.

Lan Qing took two steps back and said no more.

I smiled at the bean cake. "Can you read?"

Pea Pie was a very shy little boy. Half his face peeked out from behind Paddy Boy, and he stared at me with his eyes and his lips pursed.

Paddy Boy looked back to coax the bean cake and said, "Come on! Miss is asking you a question! Say it! "

Pancake remained silent and only nodded.

I asked, "Can't he speak?"

Paddy Boy patted the top of his bean cake like an adult and sighed, "Pea cakes are so nice to listen to. Just like Huang Ying, it's because Niu Xiaojian and co. always laugh at him, so he doesn't dare to talk like a stranger."

As long as I met her eyes, she immediately withdrew her eyes and hid behind Paddy Boy without saying a word. From the look of him, I knew that Paddy was right. This kid must be very afraid of living.

I smiled without a care. Lan Ling refilled my new tea cup, drank a mouthful, and continued to ask Rice Boy, "Do you think it's better to go back to the Lu family to work for your father-in-law, or do you want to find a job in this courtyard?"

"Then... "Of course it's because I have a good job."

Scarecrow hung his head again, regaining his cautious reverence.

I smiled and pointed to the tofu behind him. "It doesn't matter if you stay or not, I definitely won't let the tofu remain by Second Young Master's side."

Paddy Boy's face changed greatly as he raised his head to look at me in a daze.

"Second Young Master is still young and can't take care of himself, how can he get a child like this back? However, since he could not read the bean cake, he could go to the Eldest Young Master's place and help with the small task of brewing tea and grinding ink. "You should stay by the Second Young Master's side. In a few days, the Second Young Master will be going to the Eldest Young Master's place to study. You and the bean cake can still meet frequently."

Paddy Boy turned his worry into joy, pulling the bean cake behind him, and was about to kowtow to me and Jiayi, but no matter what he said, the bean cake wouldn't come out from behind him, so he just let it go.

Let the mothers go out with the beancurd and the scarecrows to eat with Niu Xiaojian, and I discussed with Jiayi about changing the name of his servant. Jiayi said, "Just like my brother, I will praise him a little, and let Lanxi lead him to wash his hands and wash his face, and to change his clothes that had been stained from the kudu."

Lan Li and I were the only two people left in the room. I teased Lan Li, "If you continue to help me while I'm still in danger, this entire courtyard of mine will become the Yutang!"

The Yutang, a charity led by the yamen, specialized in accepting widows and lonely people who had no one to rely on.

Lan Lingyun smiled. Knowing that I was teasing her, she changed the topic. "Miss, why don't you give him two fruit boxes? They aren't anything valuable. Wouldn't it be better if one was given to Manager Niu and his wife, and the other to his biological father?"

I shook my head. "If we do that, it will be bad! The gift box itself wasn't worth much, but it meant that he wanted to tell Manager Niu and his wife that Niu Xiaohu was in front of them, praising them wholeheartedly for the kindness they had shown to his nephew. "However, if we were to reward his biological father with another one, the two of us would not be able to help but feel aggrieved. If you add on the fact that our own son is not elected, Little Tiger will not have the face to return to his uncle's home anymore."

Lan Li was a perceptive person, and after I pointed her out, she immediately understood the gist of it. She smiled and replied, "This servant will prepare five of them. I'm afraid that Eldest Young Master might not think of them."

I smiled and nodded. "You can go to Manager Niu's place personally and send the rest of the people as much as you want. Also, privately, just give Liu Xiu Niang 5 taels of silver and tell her that I think their bean cake is not bad and that I will keep it. However, I am afraid that the monthly allowance is no more than the other children's."

Lan Li is my close elder sister, she personally went to deliver the gift, which shows how much I value Manager Niu.

The bean cake was afraid of strangers and would not be able to adapt in a short period of time. It was just raising a random person in the letter courtyard. If they received the same monthly allowance as the servants, not only would it be unjustifiable for them, but the children would also feel a sense of injustice. It would not be good for the bean cake.

Lan Ling answered them one by one and immediately called for people to come in, giving the instructions.

After I finished talking with Lan Li, Lan Xi accompanied Jia Yi in. He was looking around for his new playmates. Smiling, I beckoned him to me, placed him on the kang beside me, and gave him some pastries.

After a while, the mothers came back with the three children. Paddy Boy greeted me with his hands holding the bean cake. Picking up Paddy Boy, he greeted me.

It was as pleasant as an oriole out of a valley.

On a closer look, the child was also good-looking, especially his eyes, which looked like they were painted with paint.

I wondered what kind of beauty my mother must be to have such a porcelain child.

As I sat on the couch, I listened to Lan Li give the three children a rough account of the family rules, and then she told them, "You don't have to work as servants for now, there will be a teacher who will teach you the rules. "During this period of time, all of you must be obedient and not run around …"

Because the bean cake is afraid of birth, for the time being cannot leave the rice plant, so first with the rice plant, we live together in the courtyard of the family righteousness.

After saying this, it was about time to pay respects to his grandmother. Thinking that he should let his grandmother take a look at these children, he tidied up and led the group into his grandmother's yard.

Unexpectedly, when he met Jia Yi and his two newly selected servants in his grandmother's courtyard, the two groups formed a group and came over to show his grandmother.

Grandmother took the reading glasses, looked at this and that, asked this and that, and praised them all except for the beancurd.

"Taking advantage of the lack of attention, I explained the matter of the bean cake to my family letter, and pointed it out to him. My family letter promised me, saying: 'Wealth can help the whole world, while poverty can help the poor.' That is very reasonable!"

Aunt Wang stood at the side, looking happily at the room full of children. When she saw me looking at her, she even gave me a smile.

The room was in chaos as I snuck over to Aunt Wang's side and whispered to her, "Miss Mei is very good at my place. Is it okay if she isn't here?"

Aunt Wang smiled and nodded. "I normally don't have much to do, but I came over to say a few words to the old lady. It didn't matter if Mei Niang was here or not! And she used to shout that she wanted to find something for you to do, and now she's done with it! "

It's rare for me to see Aunt Wang so relaxed and playful, so I couldn't help but smile along with her.

When Aunt Mo arrived with her parents and saw everyone in the room, she couldn't help but be shocked. She carefully looked over the servants for her two sons. Other than being dissatisfied with the bean cake, she didn't make any mistakes.

After saying a few lines of jokes, everyone in the room started to laugh. Even the children who had just been selected relaxed a lot, and with a curling of the lips, they caused the small family head to pull at the corner of his grandmother's clothes, and said in a childish voice: "Grandmother! Grandmother! I want an attendant too! "

Grandmother hugged him and pointed at his nose, saying, "You want it? Wait a few years, and ask your sister for permission to go! "

I stood by Aunt Wang's side, smiled, and nodded to Jiazhi.

After the meal, everyone chatted for a while before dispersing. I led the five children that I just selected and took a detour to Jiayi's courtyard, sending all of them in.

When the letter came from home, he was already quite old and was an extremely well-behaved child. He didn't arrange to teach his mother, and there weren't many women in the house. Since he couldn't spare anyone, he might as well have his mother teach him.

Zhou Baumu was already pretty much recovered. He greeted me through the curtain. After hearing that the family had chosen a servant, he said that he had been idling around all day and volunteered to help with the training.

I smiled as I accepted the tea from Hundred Wood's wife and said, "How can you use a cow-like knife to kill a chicken? "You are the manager beside me, and I only want you to teach me the rules of a child. You wish!"

Everyone laughed when they heard this. The Hundred Wood Family laughed and said, "It's all because of young miss!"

I smiled as I looked at the Hundred Wood Family and asked, "It has been almost four months, right? "Why can't I tell at all?"

Mother Zhou smiled and said, "Miss, how could you know!? "Some women get pregnant and their stomachs get bigger and faster, while some women …"

Before Mama Zhou could finish, she was interrupted by Bai Mu.

I smiled and didn't mind her words of "take good care of your body" and "recover as soon as possible" before supporting Lan Li by the hand as we walked out of the courtyard.

It was already dark. No matter if it was the servants or those who came out to see me off, they were all holding lanterns. Suddenly, I saw a black shadow jump over from afar.

Lan Ling gave a cry of surprise and was about to direct her mother to take a closer look.

I hastily stopped him and said, "I'm fine! You are mistaken! Isn't that the cat in the garden? "

Lan Ling was skeptical. I shook my head slightly at her.

A moment ago, the light flickered, and I saw a flash of light beneath the man's feet. It was a piece of white jade sewn under the boot and at the heel that caused this phenomenon.

The white jade sewn on the heel was a symbol of the emperor's recognition, a symbol of the family of meritorious deeds.

This kind of jade pendant was often given to the son of Heaven, the favorite servant of the Emperor, and the doctor of the Imperial Hospital.

As the eldest grandson of the Huang Family, Huang Lang was qualified to inherit the Huang Family's honor.

Other than him, there was nothing else that stood beside the tree in the dark.

Lan Ling's face was full of suspicion. Seeing how certain I was, he decided to drop the subject.

When I returned to the courtyard, I first sent my family back to the western wing. After all, they were only five years old, and I knew that I would soon have playmates. I kept asking when I could bring them into the courtyard, then asking for all kinds of toys, and saying that I wanted to find Big Sister Lu Kou to sew them up with a new cub.

I poured him a cup of tea and said, "I'm afraid it will take you some time to get free, sister Green Buccaneer!"

It wasn't early in the morning, and although the family was still young, I didn't want to stay any longer. I only instructed the maidservants to take good care of the young master before returning to my usual lying down in the east wing.

Lan Lingyun hurried over to help me wash up. When I was bored, I casually asked her about the history of the bean cake.

Lan Ling chuckled twice, and said, "Miss, you really have asked this question!" The history of this toddler is comparable to a play! "

I reached out and took the mask from her hand. I wiped my face and asked, "Is there anything else in it?"

"It's said that back then, his father was an extremely handsome and talented youngster, but because his family was very poor and he never married, he followed his sister — — Liu Xiuniang — to stay in our family and usually helps buy things to move things, push carts, and the like."

"It was said that one winter, when his father woke up early in the morning and went to fetch coal with the coal truck, he saw a girl at the foot of the city wall. She was dressed in dirty and tattered clothes, and she was lying at the foot of the city wall."

The White City was one of the Nine Edge City. The wealthy merchants and merchants were extremely wealthy, while the commoners were poor to the point of making noises. Every year, he would freeze to death and starve to death. It was no wonder that the beggar had fallen at the foot of the wall.

"It's only right that this Pea Cake Daddy should have some luck with the flowers. Other people all advised him that it wouldn't be good luck to bring such a woman home, and he couldn't even see her face clearly. What if she's an ugly woman!?" "But the father insisted that she was still warm and would definitely be able to save her life, so he pulled a cart and brought the mother home."

I also felt that it was not much different from the words I used to read.

Every man had to be extremely handsome. If she was a daughter, she had to have a beauty that could topple empires.

Whether it was the young master, Hongzhuang, or the village woman, the spring breeze blew into his arms, imprinting itself on his heart like a bright moon, whether he was Xi Shi or Pan An, none of them could compare to the one in his heart.

Pea Pie Dad pulled that girl home and wiped her face clean. She's really a beauty, to be able to fall in love with her with a single glance and give her medical treatment with all her money. When she recovered, she followed him and even gave birth to a bean cake.

I took a sip of my tea and smiled.

Although it was a cliché story, having a reunion ending made one smile in the heart.

However, there was one doubtful point.

"Didn't you say that the mother of the bean cake is a beggar? It's just a frostbite, why would they need to spend all their money to cure it? "

Lan Yi smiled shyly, bent down to pour some water for me, and said, "I can't hide anything from you! The mother said that she used to be a girl in a brothel, but because her mother forced her to pick up a guest, she didn't want to, so she ran away, only to be caught by her mother's people and brought back, tormented and wounded. Mother saw that she breathed in more and breathed out less and feared that she would not live, so she threw her into the unmarked cemetery. "

"Later, when she had recovered her breath, she crawled out of the pile of dead people. Because it was too cold, it fell under the city. "