Rebirth of the High Gate Mistress

Chapter 279 No overnight stay

 Li Xiang took Jiao Xing's hand and entered the house. When he saw a chopping board on the table outside, with the dough on it, Li Xiang smiled and guessed: "You are making longevity noodles, right?"

Jiao Xing smiled and nodded.

Li Xiang rolled up his sleeves again and said with a smile: "I'm the best at making this, so I'll make it for you."

The girl Xiaomei made the tea and was carrying it in. She walked up to Jiao Xing in surprise and reminded her in a low voice: "Let the slave do this."

Jiao Xing smiled and said: "It's okay, he has done this before, just let him go."

 Xiaomei flattened her mouth helplessly, put down the tea cup, and silently retreated.

There were only two people left in the room. Jiao Xing brought the basin, held Li Xiang's sleeves and said angrily, "I just got a lot of snow water on my hands. Let's wash them first before doing that."

Li Xiang obediently dipped his hand in the warm water, grinned at Jiao Xing and said with a smile: "Hurry up and put the plum blossoms I brought back in a moment."

Jiao Xing smiled and nodded. Li Xiang washed and dried his hands, returned to the chopping board, and began to roll out the dough decently.

Jiao Xing sat aside and planted plum blossoms.

Jiao Xing is just an aunt, so the courtyard is not equipped with a small kitchen. All food and drinks are delivered from the main courtyard on time. Today they were going to cook birthday noodles. She and Xiaomei just set up a small pot on the stove outside. The water in the pot was already boiling. After Li Xiang cut the noodles, he put them into the pot.

The heat spread when the two met, reflecting the blush on Li Xiang's handsome face: "From now on, we can be together for a long time."

Across the white steam coming out of the pot, Jiao Xing nodded towards Li Xiang, with a hint of moisture in her eyes.

Maid Xiaomei was hiding in the lower room, chatting happily with the two rough ladies in the yard.

Jiao Xing is just a concubine. According to the rules of the house, there are only two servants in this small courtyard. Xiaomei has served Jiao Xing since she was at Zhuangzi. Naturally, she hopes that Jiao Xing will win after she is promoted to aunt. Jun Qingyan, this old lady Zhao was originally just a low-class rough woman from Xianglinyuan, but now she suddenly has an aunt, so she naturally hopes that her master will gain face.

Today, they finally got to see Li Xiang come to see their aunt. Both of them were overjoyed. Aunt Zhao smacked her lips and said, "I thought it had been so long since Aunt Xing came back and the third master didn't come over. I'm afraid he had forgotten her." .”

Xiaomei replied: "If I really forgot, how could I bring my aunt back?"

Mammy Zhao smiled and said: "You are just a child. It is the madam's intention to bring my aunt back, not the third master's."

Xiaomei retorted: "If the third master has no feelings for my aunt at all, how can the lady take her back?"

Aunt Zhao saw that Xiaomei was still ignorant, so she stopped talking to her about the matter. She only told her, "Stay with my aunt and give her some guidance. You must be more obedient and please the third master." Only if we can please Third Master, will our life be easy in the future."

 Seeing Xiao Meimu’s dumb look, Aunt Zhao poked Xiao Mei and said, “How did you see the third master and my aunt in there just now?”

 Xiaomei recalled Li Xiang's behavior that surprised him just now, and naturally couldn't tell what the situation of the two of them was like. He could only tell Aunt Zhao everything about the two of them getting along.

After hearing this, Aunt Zhao could not reflect on the situation between the two of them. Xiaomei glanced at Aunt Zhao's tightened eyebrows and asked, "Look, Auntie, the Third Master must have an aunt in his heart. "

The legitimate son of a noble man can do such a deliberate thing to please his aunt, and it seems that he really cares about her. But thinking that this aunt had been back for so long, Li Xiang just came over to take a look. When they met, he was not in a hurry to make love, and it didn't look like he was sincere.

Mama Zhao can’t understand it either.

She looked at the dark sky outside and said to Xiaomei, "Let's prepare hot water first." Xiaomei was a naive person and asked in confusion after hearing this: "Why prepare hot water?"

Mama Zhao murmured in reply: "If the hot water can be used tonight, it means that the third master still cares about our aunt. If it can't be used."

Mama Zhao sighed lightly and said: "It means that my aunt is just a general person in the eyes of the third master."

In the main room of the Xianglin Garden Sculpture Gallery, Pingyang, who had just been taken care of by the maid and had taken a bath, was sitting in front of the water chestnut mirror, his face gloomy.

Yuzhu made the bed, glanced at the clock on the wall, and tried to persuade her: "It's already this hour. I'm afraid I won't be able to come back. Princess, please rest first."

 Ping Yangyuan also expected that Li Xiang would rest at Jiao Xing's place tonight. Even if she was the official wife, it was human nature for her husband to occasionally spend the night in his concubine's room. But tonight Li Xiang really didn't come back, and she felt extremely sad.

“Yuzhu, do you think I shouldn’t bring Jiao Xing back?” Ping Yang sat blankly on the little Wuzi, lowering his head and murmured.

Yuzhu looked at the lost look of the little princess who had been doted on by thousands of beauties since she was a child. She felt heartbroken but had no choice but to do so. But the matter has come to this, Yuzhu has no choice but to choose something nice to solve Pingyang.

"Aunt Xing has been back for a long time. Today is just because of her birthday. My uncle has only been here for one night. Why do you need to worry about this?"

"Now that I'm talking, haven't I promised you a long time ago that apart from this Aunt Xing, he will not let any other women in from now on? I think my uncle is only indifferent to Aunt Xing, and he will have no interest in her from now on. Concubine, you are not alone in my uncle’s favor.”

After hearing Yuzhu’s advice, Pingyang felt better, but he still couldn’t let go.

With tears in her eyes, she said with a faint cry: "Today I realized that sharing my husband with others is such a difficult feeling."

At this moment, Lan Tian hurried in from outside and said cheerfully: "Princess, my uncle is back."

As soon as Pingyang heard this, he stood up and was so surprised that he was speechless for a moment.

Yuzhu was also happy, and You Zi couldn't believe it, so she hurriedly asked: "My uncle is really back?"

Lantian smiled and nodded: "We're already at the door."

Just as he was talking, Li Xiang had already entered the room. He looked up and saw the master and servant looking at him with surprised expressions. He subconsciously lowered his head and glanced at himself, then raised his head again and asked, "What are you doing?" Do you even look at me like this?"

Pingyang cried and laughed, and threw herself into her husband's arms.

Yuzhu and Lantian smiled at each other and quietly retreated.

"I thought you wouldn't come back?" Pingyang sniffed, half coquettishly and half aggrieved in her husband's arms.

Li Xiang smiled and said: "Just take a look, you didn't want me to go over and see her. If I knew you cared so much, I wouldn't have gone over."

Pingyang raised his head from Li Xiang's arms and said shyly, "That's not what I meant."

 (End of this chapter)