Mo Yuhou was taken aback for a moment, but he didn't expect this answer: "A dog?"
"Yes, my concubine raised it when I was a child, and I kept it for four years." Ji Man straightened his clothes and sat up, his eyes cleared up: "I really like that dog, but it's a pity that he ran away with a bitch in the end."
Ning Yuxuan raised his eyebrows: "A dog is worth your tears? Still dreaming of calling names all the time?"
And the name is too much like a person.
Ji Man nodded seriously: "After four years of raising it, even if you finally know it's not worth it, you should still cry for the stupidity and stupidity of the past. After crying, you don't expect it to come back."
Ning Yuxuan leaned aside and looked deeply at her face: "Nie Sangyu, do you think I'm stupid?"
Ji Man raised his head and smiled: "Master Hou, if you have the ability, go find a man named Xu Xi and see if he has anything to do with Sang Yu? You can't rely on your status as a concubine. I dreamed and cried twice, you have to decide Mulberry elm comes out of seven, right?"
Mo Yuhou pursed his lips and sneered. This woman is really bold, thinking that he can't do anything to her without evidence
... Although the current situation really can't help her.
Taking a deep breath, Ning Yuxuan felt that it was better to stay away from her, so as not to be angry with herself all the time.
So at night, he slept in the room next to Jiman, and Jiman brought Ning Errong over to prepare for a thought class.
"Errong..." Ji Manyu said earnestly.
Ning Errong shivered, and pulled his hand away from her: "What do you want to say, just say it."
Ji Man gave her a resentful look: "Do you think I'm going to eat you or something? I want to tell you what you should do as a woman and the precautions when dealing with men and mother-in-law."
"Huh?" Ning Errong was interested, and quickly poured a cup of tea into Ji Man's hand: "Say what you say."
Ji Man spread out a piece of rice paper, drew three circles on it, and said solemnly: "From the moment you get married, you will live in a tripod. One corner is yourself, one is your mother-in-law, and the other is you. Your husband."
Er Rong nodded, with the shyness of a daughter on her face.
"First of all, for your husband, you can't be too obedient. Although it is said that you are married and obey your husband, you have to listen to him in major matters, but in small matters, you must have your own opinions, be generous and decent, and properly reject the other party's advice. Courtship. No matter how good the meat is offered to him, men don’t know how to cherish it, understand? This is playing hard to get.”
Jiman drew a wavy line between the two circles, representing the father-in-law and his wife.
Er Rong blushed, murmured twice but didn't say anything, but nodded hesitantly.
Ji Man continued with a smile: "As long as there is a mother-in-law in a family, then you have to work hard to run it well. Do you know why Wen Wan is not loved by the old lady?"
"Because she is not the daughter-in-law chosen by the old lady." Er Rong said.
"This is one of the reasons. Another reason is that she has committed too many taboos."
Ji Man helped the glasses that didn't exist on the bridge of his nose, straightened his back and said: "Master Hou was raised by the old lady through hard work, if you want to be a good wife of the Hou's mansion, you can't let the old lady feel that you are robbing him of your son , you must treat the old lady better than the Lord Hou, and you must never be intimate in front of the old lady. A woman's jealousy does not distinguish between ages, especially the mother's friendship with her son since childhood. Once you let The old lady thinks that you love her so much that you have already abandoned her, so the life of a daughter-in-law will not be easy."
Errong suddenly realized: "So that's the case, but Wen Wan also has something good to do. Isn't the old lady trying to make things difficult for her on purpose?"
"The reason for making things difficult is because she committed a taboo earlier. Since she has already swallowed her anger, why not bear it for a while? You can't argue with the elders about who is right and who is wrong. It won't do any good if you win." Ji Man said: "Wen If Wan really loves Master Hou, she should treat the old lady like her own mother and repay her kindness, so there is no difficulty in bearing it."
Er Rong raised his chin and began to think about the wife of the Nie family. It is said that she is not an easy master to deal with. She needs to learn more.
"There is also a very important point, which is to let the mother-in-law feel that you are very good to her son. This is the essence." Ji Man said: "Sang... I have done very well before, except for some big things that make me noisy , I bring soup and water to Lord Hou every day, and I embroider every season's clothes by myself, even if Lord Hou doesn't appreciate it. But even if I'm so good, he doesn't appreciate it, so the old lady loves me very much, understand?"
With bright eyes, Er Rong nodded vigorously: "Understood!"
After a pause, he said, "Can you write it down for me?"
Ji Man shook his head: "This kind of thing needs to be understood, and it will be a disaster if it is written down for others to see. Take your time to think about it."
"Okay." Er Rong stretched out his hand to take the rice paper on the table, muttering in his mouth, he began to recall what Ji Man had just said.
Ji Man sat on the side for a while, and finally said: "Errong, when you go back, please help me apologize for your brother."
"Ah?" Ning Errong looked at her with wide eyes: "You also slapped my brother?"
Ji Man coughed dryly: "No, he took off the mask today, I took a second look, he seems to be angry."
"..."
Ning Errong opened his mouth wide and remained motionless.
Ji Man reached out and poked her: "Don't be so nervous, your brother is not a big girl, so he can't be seen by others?"
"No..." Ning Errong slowly closed his chin, and his expression regained his composure: "My brother didn't use a mask when he was a child, but after standing up, no matter whether he was attending a banquet or going out on the street, he was always stared at by people. I made a mask and put it on. I haven’t taken it off for a long time.”
Ji Man nodded. The man's appearance is too beautiful, which is indeed not a good thing. Fortunately, he has a high status, otherwise he would have been sold to which brothel.
"But it won't make you angry if you look at it twice." Ning Errong said curiously, "I'll ask him what's going on later?"
"Okay, after all, they are relatives, so it's best not to misunderstand." Ji Man nodded.
So the little princess went back to her room full of knowledge about being a wife tonight, passed by Ning Mingjie's room, and knocked on his door.
Ning Mingjie's face was still not very good-looking, even the mask couldn't stop it. Ning Errong smiled and said: "Brother, Sang Yu asked me to say sorry to you, you are so beautiful, she just took a second look, it wasn't on purpose."
After silently looking at his sister in front of him for a long time, he only raised the corner of his mouth: "Got it."
"Then I'll go back first." Ning Errong happily returned to the room with the rice paper in his arms.
The river was turbulent and the evening wind was gentle. The two boats did not plan to dock at night, so they found a stable river and went all the way south. Ning Mingjie stood at the door of the room for a long time, feeling a little pain in his head.
He has been dreaming of Wen Wan for no reason these two days, and he doesn't know why. But he didn't have any unreasonable thoughts about her. Instead, he could see Nie Sangyu every day when he opened his eyes...
There was always a voice reminding him that something was wrong, the person was wrong, which made him a little irritable.
What is right and what is wrong? He has always acted according to his heart, who can decide his right or wrong
With a cold snort, Ning Mingjie brushed away the voice in his head, closed the door, and went to sleep.
The next day, the two boats arrived at a quaint town with walls made of loess, which looked very poor. When the boat docked, a court lady came to inform everyone, changed into the simplest clothes she brought, and called the emperor "Master" and the noble concubine "Madame", and she would live in this ancient town for a few days.
Ji Man felt that the emperor had a wide range of interests and hobbies. After eating enough of the big fish and meat along the road, he knew how to change his taste.
"Master, how about this one?" Licorice took a white skirt, a simple style, which should be worn by ordinary people, but the material is better than coarse cloth.
"Yeah." Ji Man nodded, and Licorice and Lamp Wick helped her change her clothes. She combed an ordinary woman's bun and only wore a wooden hairpin.
After dressing up, Licorice and Wick didn't speak for a long time.
"What's wrong?" Ji Man looked at their strange eyes: "Is it strange?"
Dim Wick said, "Master, do you want to wear a veil?"
It's said that it's an ordinary dress, wearing a veil is a bit nondescript, right? Ji Man turned his head to look in the mirror.
The young woman in the mirror is beautiful, but she is dressed plainly. She doesn't apply makeup on her face, but her lips are bright red. Looking at her beautiful eyes, Ji Man reminds her of Pan Jinlian.
It's not about Pan Jinlian's virtuous nature, but that Youmei is hidden under her simplicity, and she wants people to strip her of her simplicity and love her. Academically speaking, it is the beauty of asceticism.
The corner of Ji Man's mouth twitched, Nie Sangyu's face was really a bit of a disaster, why didn't he notice it before, it seemed to be getting more and more beautiful.
Taking the veil for comparison, Ji Man covered his face: "Let's just keep your head down and follow along. Wearing a veil is even worse."
The two maids felt a little uneasy. When they were wearing gorgeous clothes, everyone was gorgeous anyway, and the master was not too beautiful. But as soon as she changed into plain clothes and got rid of makeup, she would become a big hit among this group of imperial relatives.
Mo Yuhou's impatient voice came from outside: "Are you alright?"
"Okay." Ji Man sighed, holding up her skirt and opening the door.
The person at the door looked up at her, Ji Man smiled slightly and gave him a wink: "Master Hou, does this concubine look good?"
Ning Yuxuan was a little distracted, and turned his eyes away in a little embarrassment: "It's too ostentatious."
"Huh?" Ji Man looked down at her skirt, which had no decoration at all, and then touched the wooden hairpin on her head: "Where is it showing off?"
"Face." Ning Yuxuan stepped past her into the room, found her face scarf and put it on for her.
Ji Man blinked innocently, her phoenix eyes sparkling. Covering the lower half of the face is equivalent to not covering it, but it looks more ostentatious.
Mo Yuhou stared at her for a while, then pulled off the veil helplessly: "Let's go, just follow me."
"Yes." Obediently agreed, Ji Man followed him off the boat with his hands down.