Chapter 84 Zhang Cuihua: There is something strange about the young lady!
Corner Tower Street.
Before nightfall, Zhang Cuihua returned home carrying large and small bags.
When she opened the door, she saw Liu Huixiang had already put the food on the table and was sitting at the table waiting for her to come back.
"Miss, you've got your stuff back!"
Zhang Cuihua closed the door and put the large and small packages on the table. She glanced at the food on the table and said with a smile, "Miss, didn't you prepare a portion for Mr. Su tonight?"
"You...you shut up!" Liu Huixiang's pretty face turned red. She glared at her and then ignored her. She gently opened the packages, big and small, one by one.
There are fresh seasonal fruits, a variety of delicious pastries, dried fruit preserves, and finally a small pot of fine wine.
She fetched clean plates, took out half of each item, and put them on the table to cook.
The remaining fruits and pastries were repacked, and she explained casually, "These will be saved for when we settle the accounts in the evening."
Zhang Cuihua did not suspect anything, but was very happy. She smiled and said, "Being able to eat is a blessing. Miss is just too thin. You should eat more."
"Am I skinny? Some people say I'm chubby!"
The scene of last night appeared in front of Liu Huixiang's eyes, and these words came from Su Xian's mouth.
Of course, there was a second half to this sentence that she was embarrassed to say, which was: "But they all grew in the right place."
Zhang Cuihua was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and asked thoughtfully, "Who said that?"
"No... no, I was talking nonsense..." Liu Huixiang's heart sank, thinking that the only person she could see on a daily basis was Zhang Cuihua, but it was obvious that these words did not come from Zhang Cuihua.
"Oh." Zhang Cuihua looked suspicious, but didn't ask any more questions.
After dinner.
After bathing and washing up.
Liu Huixiang personally carried the packages of various sizes back to her boudoir, and Zhang Cuihua followed behind with a foot basin in her hand.
She put the foot basin on the ground, then sat aside waiting for Liu Huixiang to remove her makeup. According to her usual habit, Liu Huixiang removed her makeup first and then washed her feet.
"Wash your feet first, and then take off your makeup after you finish the accounts."
Liu Huixiang walked to the small stool in front of the foot basin, sat down with her skirt lifted up, lifted her skirt, took off her embroidered shoes, and then untied her long "foot clothes".
Two jade-carved feet were revealed to the public and gently placed into the steaming foot-washing water.
Zhang Cuihua was stunned for a moment, but without thinking too much, she smiled and said, "Okay." while massaging her mistress's feet.
After washing her feet, Zhang Cuihua just walked out of the door with the foot basin, and Liu Huixiang followed her out. Zhang Cuihua asked curiously, "Miss, what are you doing?"
"Go to the study and get the four treasures of the study."
"oh."
Zhang Cuihua nodded and went straight to pour the foot washing water.
The lady tonight was strange in every way, but when I thought about it carefully, I couldn't tell what was strange about her...
After Liu Huixiang packed up her study, she came to her boudoir from the study, and suddenly saw Zhang Cuihua sitting at the small round table in the room, smiling at her.
Zhang Cuihua saw that her young lady was a little confused, so she couldn't help but smile and said, "The night is long, why don't I accompany the young lady? If a big rat appears, I can catch it to prevent the young lady from being fertilized."
Cuihua meant well, but how could she let her stay... Liu Huixiang remained calm and went into the house without closing the door.
After placing the four treasures of the study on the table, she said, "Cuihua, you have worked hard all day, and you must be tired. You should go back and rest early. You don't have to accompany me."
"No, I'm not tired. I'd better stay and accompany the young lady to stay up late." Zhang Cuihua insisted.
Liu Huixiang's face suddenly darkened, she turned aside and said quietly, "It's a quiet night, I just want to be alone and don't want to be disturbed."
“Miss …” Zhang Cuihua opened her mouth, but finally stood up and said, “Okay, but if you need anything, just call me and I’ll be here right away.”
"Go ahead."
“…”
Zhang Cuihua looked back every few steps as she walked out the door.
At this time, Liu Huixiang still maintained a gloomy expression with her head turned sideways.
When she heard the sounds of opening and closing the door outside, she immediately moved as swiftly as a rabbit, ran to the door with great agility like a girl of fifteen or sixteen, closed the door as quickly as possible, and then pulled the bolt.
She leaned against the wall and patted Wei'an's chest, then she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then he deftly arranged the four treasures of the study, cakes, fruits, wine, etc.
After finishing all these, she went to the dressing table and carefully touched up her makeup.
After everything was settled, she returned to the table and sat down, resting her chin on her hand, turning her head and staring blankly at the tightly fitted ceiling.
…
next door.
The time goes back half an hour.
After Su Xian came back from the yamen, he instructed Yang Zhilan to boil water for bath.
Yang Zhilan has strong learning and hands-on abilities. As for the matter of boiling water, except for the first time when she almost set the house on fire , there have been no problems since then.
All Su Xian needs to do is give an order and she can boil a pot of boiling water for a bath.
After taking a bath and tying his hair, Su Xian changed into a new set of Confucian clothes he had bought on the way back from the yamen today. He felt refreshed and his energy and spirit reached its peak.
In the bedroom, Su Xian asked Yang Zhilan, who was holding a bronze mirror as a "mirror frame": "How about it, am I more handsome than yesterday?"
Yang Zhilan's eyes, which had always been calm, moved slightly, and she turned her head away inadvertently, then said in a calm tone without any emotion: "Yes!"
"That's good!"
Su Xian smiled happily, turned around, and climbed up the wooden ladder against the wall with his hands and feet, and ordered Yang Zhilan, "Come and hold the ladder."
Yang Zhilan put down the bronze mirror, walked forward silently, and placed her hands steadily on the wooden ladder.
Su Xian climbed up to the beam in one breath. In order not to dirty his clothes, he had put clean old clothes on the beam and at the hole, so he sat directly on the beam.
Then he lowered his head, looked at Yang Zhilan who was still holding the ladder, and said, "Zhilan, can you turn your back?"
Yang Zhilan turned around silently.
Su Xian was satisfied then. He stuck his head into the cave and looked down. He saw only darkness.
When Su Xian came back last night, he covered the curtains in Liu Huixiang's boudoir, so no light could come in.
Su Xian was not in a hurry. He just reached his hand into the cave entrance and knocked gently three times on the wall next to the cave entrance. Although the dull sound was not very loud, it could be heard if one listened carefully in this quiet night.
This was the secret code agreed upon by Su Xian and Liu Huixiang last night.
next door.
Liu Huixiang, who was daydreaming with her chin in her hands, heard a dull knocking sound on the wall. She immediately ran to the wall with a smile and used a wooden pole to push the plank open, allowing the light from inside the house to shine through the gap and illuminate Su Xian's sight.
This was Liu Huixiang's response, indicating that there was no one in the room and she could come over.
"It's done!"
Su Xian was overjoyed and immediately used his hands and feet to get into the hole.
However, he had just climbed halfway when he pulled his head back and looked at Yang Zhilan who was facing away from him and said, "Don't eavesdrop."
Without waiting for Yang Zhilan's reply, Su Xian once again put his head into the hole and crawled over.
