Ancient embroidery is really an extremely high art. A small mandarin duck pattern has to be embroidered five layers back and forth. Although Nie Sangyu's technique was his, Ji Man also felt very tired. He was already dizzy after embroidering two handkerchiefs. When he looked up, it was almost noon.
Sure enough, her stomach was growling, but Clover hadn't come back yet. Ji Man put down his bandage and stood at the door for a while, the smell of food from the kitchen had already wafted over.
The breakfast was still given to Alfalfa. Compared to Nie Sangyu, a chicken, Alfalfa was even more skinny, not at all like a maid brought out by a wealthy family. I don't know if I was so thin before, or because I was hungry in the past two months.
"Master..." Clover finally came back, and as soon as she stepped into the courtyard, she saw Ji Man standing at the door. She was not as afraid of her as she was a few days ago, and just came over with a food box in her hands: "Servant, bring back the lunch." gone."
Ji Man smiled, and sat back at the table. Clover took out the food and said, "Your servant seems to be late. I waited at the kitchen door for a long time, but Mrs. Zhao didn't let my servant in. When I let you in , that’s all there is.”
A bowl of rice, a stack of green vegetables, a stack of string beans, not even shredded pork. Ji Man raised his eyebrows slightly: "How poor is the Hou Mansion?"
Clover was not very upset, turned around and closed the door, and carefully took out a package of things from the cabinet under the bed.
"The servant knows that the master has no meat and refuses to eat. The slave servant tore up half of yesterday's chicken and left it untouched. It is clean. I think the master can still eat some meat today."
The little girl's eyes were bright, she held the lotus leaf chicken and carefully opened it, but unexpectedly, a big hole was rotted in the lotus leaf.
A mouse jumped out of the wrapped lotus-leaf chicken, squeaked, jumped off Clover's hands and back, and burrowed into the cabinet under the bed.
"Ah!" Clover screamed in fright, her little face was pale, and she jumped aside after losing the lotus leaf chicken, her face was terrified, and her body kept shaking.
The lotus leaf chicken that was eaten by the mice was only half a skeleton, Jiman looked at it and sighed. This Nie Sangyu is too miserable.
"How could there be mice..." Clover leaned against the wall in fear, looking at the lotus leaf chicken on the ground, almost crying out of distress.
Ji Man is not afraid of this, he lived in the basement when he was drifting north, and he has never seen any cockroaches or mice.
Standing up, he picked up the lotus leaf chicken, stuffed it back into the cabinet under the bed to sell the spoils, then sat in front of the two dishes of vegetarian dishes, and said helplessly: "Eat it first, it's better than nothing. You will take the embroidered handkerchief I embroidered later." Take it to Grandma Liu and tell her that I want to have dinner."
"Your servant obeys." Seeing that the cabinet was closed, Clover relaxed a little, and stood next to Ji Man in embarrassment.
Ji Man ate half of it, and left the rest for Clover, and asked by the way: "Who is in charge of the house now?"
Clover answered while eating: "The steward Qian has been in charge."
"No." Nie Sangyu shook his head: "I mean who is in charge of the food and clothing of the aunts and concubines in the backyard?"
Clover said: "It used to be Master Ling, but now the new lady is here, it should be the new lady."
When Nie Sangyu was Mrs. Hou, Lord Hou thought she was not stable enough, so he gave the power in the mansion to Qi Siling, who was always dignified and virtuous. The book didn't describe how the aunt and concubines lived, and she couldn't go out now, so she couldn't do anything about it.
Turning his mind around, Ji Man's eyes fell on Nie Sangyu's clothes.
"Clover, do you want to eat something delicious?" Ji Man asked with a smile.
Clover looked at her suspiciously, then nodded lightly: "What does master want to do?"
Ji Man hooked his hands at her, Clover listened to her for a while, and his face changed slightly: "Master, these... these are your favorite..."
"Your master likes meat the most now." Ji Man patted her on the shoulder and said, "You have everything when you're alive. I've figured it out. I don't want to compete with them for anything, but at least let the two of us eat enough." Is it rice?"
Clover was silent for a while, then nodded.
There are specialized doctors in the Hou's mansion, and Clover happens to know one of them, a young doctor surnamed Li. When Ji Man asked her what was going on, Clover only replied hastily that they were innocent and just friends.
In such a hurry to explain, her little face was still flushed, Ji Man understood and didn't want to embarrass her. As long as there is a way to sell some of Nie Sangyu's clothes and accessories.
So in the afternoon, Ji Man lay on the bed and pretended to be sick, and Clover went to report to Grandma Liu, begging her to see Dr. Li.
The status of concubines is low, and they can't afford senior doctors. When Grandma Liu saw the embroidered handkerchief that Clover handed over, she was not in any trouble, and went to call someone for them.
"Sickness, what do you tell Ben Hou?" Mo Yuhou leaned against the door, looked at Liu Mama, and said calmly: "As long as she doesn't play tricks to harm others, you don't need to report other things to Ben Hou. "
"Your servant is reckless." Liu mama saluted and planned to leave.
"Wait." Ning Yuxuan remembered something and called her to stop.