"I shouldn't have gone out with him in the middle of the night." Zhong Ning whispered.
Xia Mochu knelt down next to Zhong Ning responsibly, and said to Mrs. Zhong: "Auntie, this matter is all my fault. I climbed the wall to find Ning Ning. If you want to blame, blame me."
After hearing Xia Mochu's words, Zhong Ning nodded her head like a catfish: "Yes, yes, mother, if you want to punish him, punish him."
Mrs. Zhong took a sip of cold boiled water, looked at the two children in front of her and said softly: "It's too cold outside, I just asked you to come in to warm up, what are you doing out here?"
Su Yan had already told her about this in private before, saying that Xia Mochu was reliable, let Mrs. Zhong take a look first, and don't rush to deny it.
Mrs. Zhong trusted Su Yan's judgment, and when she went to treat the plague, she could also see that Xia Mochu was a good person, so she kept pretending not to know about it. But today, Mrs. Zhong saw the two children getting along very close, and felt that she should talk to Zhong Ning about this matter.
Zhong Ning was taken aback: "You won't hit me?"
Mrs. Zhong ignored Zhong Ning, and said to Xia Mochu: "If you want to come in the future, you should come during the daytime, and don't jump over the wall in the middle of the night."
Mrs. Zhong's words obviously meant that she agreed with the two of them to be together. Xia Mochu smiled from ear to ear as if picking up gold, and his mouth was full: "Thank you mother, ah, no, thank you aunt."
Looking at Xia Mochu, a smile appeared on the corner of Madam Zhong's mouth: "It's so late, you should go back first, and come back tomorrow if you want to play with Ning'er."
Although she didn't kiss Zhong Ning, Xia Mochu couldn't be happier with Mrs. Zhong's consent, and went home shaking her head, happy like a pug.
Just when Zhong Ning thought she had escaped, Zhong Ning's voice made Zhong Ning shudder: "Zhong Ning, come with me."
New Year's Day.
Because of what happened yesterday, Su Yan and Chu Yan didn't go to pay New Year greetings to King Jing, and they didn't get up until the Seventh Prince came to send a message to Chu Yan.
Chu Yan went to the study room, Su Yan changed into lotus-colored clothes, sat in front of the makeup mirror and lightly applied light powder, and then took the steps of a butterfly playing peony, and wore Dongzhu earrings.
Su Yan took a look in the mirror, felt that the earrings were too flamboyant, and changed to a pair of red gold earrings inlaid with red treasures, which was considered satisfactory.
Caixia looked at the person in the mirror and suggested: "Concubine Shizi, the color on your lips is a bit bright, do you want to use a lighter lip balm?"
As soon as Cai Xia finished speaking, Yun Zhui came in from outside and said, "Sister Cai Xia, someone is looking for you outside."
Su Yan glanced out through the window, it turned out to be Cheng Ye, the son of the steward of Prince Jing's Mansion.
Cheng Ye's family has long since left their humble status, and now he is working as a small steward in the palace. He is quite shrewd and capable. If there is no accident, he will be the one who will take over the steward of Prince Jing's residence in the future.
Not long after Su Yan got married, Cheng Ye met Caixia by chance once and went out to buy pastries for Su Yan. Since then, she has been thinking about it. From time to time, she would come to give Caixia some food. I don't know when I saw the right thing, butler Cheng also agreed to this marriage, and now only Su Yan, a serious master, nodded.
Looking away, Su Yan smiled at Caixia: "Go."
Caixia let out a sigh, and adjusted the bead flowers on her temples in front of the mirror before going out.
As soon as Cai Xia went out, Liu Xiang and Yun Zhui stood by the window and looked out, and Yun Quan also looked lively.
Su Yan didn't care about these girls, picked out a box of lip balm and put it on on her own, trying seven or eight colors before she was satisfied.
Cai Xia also came back at this time, and Su Yan asked her as soon as she entered the room: "What does Cheng Ye want you for?"
Caixia lowered her head in embarrassment, her voice was three minutes lower than usual: "Ms. Cheng cooked dumplings with three delicacies stuffing, and he brought me a plate."
Caixia loves to eat dumplings with fresh ingredients. The fact that the Cheng family can miss Caixia also shows how much they value Caixia.
Su Yan felt relieved, and asked again: "What about the dumplings?"
Caixia didn't speak, just pointed to the wing room where she lived.
Su Yan smiled and said: "You are allowed to eat the dumplings before you come back, otherwise you will not live up to others' wishes."
Caixia shook her head shyly and said with a smile: "My servant is not hungry, it would be delicious to fry it in oil at noon."
Su Yan hummed, and then fiddled with the steps on her head in front of the mirror for a while, then suddenly pushed the other three maidservants out, raised her head and asked Caixia, "Cheng Yeke said when will he come to propose marriage?"
Cai Xia was taken aback by Su Yan's question: "The servant girl is just a servant, so it's not so expensive, it's already a great blessing to marry into Cheng's family, there is no need to propose marriage."
Su Yan interrupted Caixia, and told her earnestly: "Our daughter's family is all rich and precious, so why don't you mention marriage, it's a blessing for their Cheng family to marry you."
Although Cai Xia is just a maid, her appearance and manner are much better than that of ordinary girls from wealthy families. From Su Yan's point of view, the Cheng family would be regarded as a high climber if they could marry Caixia.
Cai Xia pursed her lips and remained silent, not daring to respond to Su Yan's words. From her expression, Su Yan could tell that she really felt that it was a high priority for her to marry into the Cheng family.
Su Yan turned around and looked at Cai Xia, "What's wrong?"
Caixia lowered her head and said: "My maidservant is of lowly status, and she will return to lowly status after giving birth to a child. The Cheng family does not dislike the status of maidservant, maidservant is already satisfied, how dare she ask for anything else."
Hearing what Caixia said, Su Yan immediately got up and took Caixia's deed of sale out of the cage and handed it to Caixia: "After the new year, you go to the government to change your registration, and you are not allowed to despise yourself in the future."
Caixia didn't dare to answer, her face turned pale and she knelt down in front of Su Yan and explained repeatedly: "Don't get me wrong, that's not what I said just now, I dare not."
Seeing Caixia's sincere and frightened appearance, Su Yan knelt down and stuffed the deed of selling herself into Caixia's hand, and said softly: "I know, this is what I meant. Actually, I prepared this deed early in the morning, and I planned to just I will give you this deed when someone from the Cheng family comes to propose marriage. If I had known that you thought so, I would have given you this long ago."
Cai Xia was so moved that tears filled her eyes, she knelt on the ground and didn't know what to say to thank her, but in the end she choked up and said a word: "My servant will definitely serve Shizifei well in the future, and I will live up to your kindness to my servant. "
This was the first time Caixia cried since she followed Su Yan.
"Why are you crying?" Su Yan wiped Caixia's tears with a handkerchief: "In the future, you and Cheng Ye will live a good life, so that you can live up to me."
After Chu Yan came back after such a time, Cai Xia immediately wiped away her tears when she heard the noise outside, and retreated to the outer room holding the deed of sale.
Before entering the room, Chu Yan heard the sound of weeping and crying. Now when he entered the room and saw Cai Xia, he asked Su Yan, "What's wrong?"
Su Yan talked about what happened just now, and said, "I've changed my mind a bit now, the Cheng family really don't take Cai Xia seriously, and they haven't come to propose marriage for so long."
Chu Yan said clearly: "Cheng Steward mentioned this matter to me, and I thought you disagreed, so I never let go."
Su Yan narrowed her eyes and looked at Chu Yan. She had finally found the culprit: "I don't agree with the two of you who are in love with each other."
"I think you use her to serve you very well. If she is married, who will serve you." Chu Yan spoke with confidence.
This is indeed a problem, Su Yan thought for a while and said: "If she is married, she can stay in my yard and be a lady in charge. Besides, isn't there a shortage of a nanny in my yard? Or just wait After Caixia gets married, let her be her."
Seventeen-year-old nanny? Chu Yan originally thought that Su Yan was joking, but when he looked up, he met Su Yan's extremely serious expression. To this, Chu Yan only said five words: "As long as you are happy."
As long as Su Yan is happy, let alone seventeen, he doesn't care even if she gets a seven-year-old child to be a nanny.