It's autumn now, and the chrysanthemums in the capital are just in bloom. In Baoxiali in front of the main house of Baofengyuan, there are three layers of flower cages on one wall. Snow, Yaotai jade phoenix, clusters of colorful, really beautiful.
Ye Mian felt that the room was stuffy, so he asked people to put dinner there. After the autumn wind passed, the fragrance of flowers was faint, which could relieve some boredom.
Ye Mian was sitting in front of the pear blossom table, drinking lotus root soup one mouthful at a time. Yicui, sent by the Qiu family, took off his bracelet and rolled up his sleeves to pick crabs for him. Now the autumn crabs are yellow and fat. When eating, a few crabs can pick out a plate full of white meat and gold paste without much effort.
Ye Mian dipped in ginger vinegar and ate in small bites. Seeing that he was not in high spirits, Yinong asked him with a smile, "Fourth young master, would you like some rice wine with it? Although this crab is good, it is a cold food after all. It is good for the spleen and stomach if it is so warm. "
Ye Mian glanced at her, "Didn't my mother tell you to watch me and not allow me to drink secretly in the yard?"
Yinong smiled and said: "It's not a problem, Fourth Young Master can use it at ease."
Ye Mian was a little happier and nodded.
Yinong ordered the girl on the side to fetch wine, and gave him a few chopsticks for his favorite dishes tonight, seeing that he had a poor appetite, and he ate very little, shook his head and ordered the maid to go to the kitchen to prepare some Delicious assortment of savory and sweet desserts.
With such little food, he must be clamoring for hunger again at night.
Ye Mian watched coldly, only smiled in his heart, but didn't speak.
The two maids his mother arranged for him are extremely powerful. Both of them are not born in the family, but bought from a tooth shop outside. They have been in the Qiu family's courtyard since they were young. , Yinong is even more in charge of the business of the Qiu family's outside shop, back to his previous life, he is definitely a bone of a bone in the workplace.
Ye Mian glanced at Bao Nian, who was standing with a wooden face, and sighed helplessly. His rank was several times higher than those silly girls in his yard.
These two people were arranged by the Qiu family. They are his mother's eyeliner. The Baofeng Courtyard waits up and down. They are not willing to get close to the two of them. , came in to receive a first-class title, and then did the first-class work confidently, ordering all the servants in the yard around, but they couldn't find anything wrong.
Baoxue and Baohe were demoted to the third class by the Qiu family, and they were supposed to do some rough work in the yard, but Ye Mian protected him selfishly, but Yi Nong and Yi Cui didn't stop them, they just didn't let them get close to him, But he assigned them the most delicate work, so Ye Mian not only couldn't say anything, but also had to think of her as a good one.
The most interesting thing is that he thought that the two of them would run to the main courtyard twice in three days, but they never went to Qiu's place to chew their tongues, and only kept everything in this Baofeng courtyard. with.
Being so intimidated is more frightening than the two of them going to sue the sky.
However, although Ye Mian felt a little grudge against these two girls, he didn't look down on them, especially this Yi Nong, listening to Bao Nian's gossip, his shameless father had taken a fancy to the little girl, his mother didn't He was on guard, but he was unwilling to assign this good girl to someone in a muddleheaded way, so he took this opportunity to transfer her to Baofengyuan. In this way, Ye Shilang didn't dare to ask his son to serve him no matter how shameless he was people.
Ye Mian was very surprised when he heard Baonian say that. Although his father was a bit older, he was the best-looking one among all the sunset reds. Otherwise, it would be impossible to give birth to a Duanhua son. Li is arty, writing and reciting poems, which is very capable of bluffing people. The girls in Ye's mansion who are kind of thoughtful don't dare to rush to his elder brother, and they all pay attention to his father.
This Yi Nong is very ambitious.
Good eyesight, that bad old man is annoying.
Now Yinong is taking care of Ye Mian's yard tent for Baoxue, so she reminds Ye Mian with a smile, "Second Miss will leave the cabinet in two days, although Fourth Young Master has asked someone to give Second Miss a good face Adding makeup, according to the rules, the silver in the press box of the brother is also indispensable, I don't know how much we Baofengyuan will take, so the servants can go to change the silver in advance."
"Ah, yes," Ye Mian raised his head and patted his head, "If you don't remind me, I'll forget."
"No hurry, it will be quick to go to the accountant's house to exchange." Yinong smiled and said, "Fourth Young Master, do you want me to report how much each yard has been added? You might as well have a reference."
"No need," Ye Mian wiped his mouth with a brocade handkerchief, and ordered, "You go and change it for 800 taels and add it to her."
Yi Nong and the maids around her were all shocked.
After Yi Nong was stunned for a moment, he carefully reminded: "This eight hundred taels is not a small amount." Yin Nong looked around and whispered: "Except for the houses, yards and fields, the madam only gave the second young lady two thousand taels." Two dowry silver."
"No problem." Ye Mian waved his hand.
After a woman here gets married, she will live on the dowry for half her life. Even if her life is good, her husband's family treats her kindly. These silvers are also her confidence to stand in that mansion. The eight hundred taels are more important to her than to him. many.
This time even Bao Nian who was on the side couldn't listen anymore, and sighed: "The fourth young master is planning to make us drink the northwest wind next month? You don't want to see how many coins are left in our money box."
"All the expenses in our yard are as usual. I'll go get some money and come back. What are you worried about?" Ye Mian smiled after speaking, and said: "In the future, you will also get married from my yard. I won't lose you."
The faces of the maidservants were flushed, and Bao Nian angrily said, "What nonsense is the fourth young master talking about!"
Ye Mian teased them a few words, but he was not worried. Now that he is getting older, he spends more and more on various favors, and he is in danger of "fiscal deficit" at any time. Last time he did it for his mother. After receiving the birthday gift, he still made up for it with the silver taels he snatched from his father. If he reaches out this time, his father will definitely give it to him, but he will definitely not give him any good words.
Ye Mian was not halfway through the meal here, and was complaining about his father in his heart, but he saw the motto next to Ye Shilang was brought in by Feng Jin.
You Ming bowed politely to Ye Mian, and said anxiously: "Fourth young master, the king of Rongnan County came to visit suddenly, and he is already in the main hall, the master is accompanying him, let me call you over."
Ye Mian choked a mouthful of vegetarian soup in his throat, coughing upside down, several servant girls hurriedly patted him on the back, Yi Nong knew You Ming very well, pointed at him and scolded sharply: "You can't speak slowly, hurry three Huo Si! Didn't you see that the fourth young master had something in his mouth? Why don't you serve the master like this on weekdays!"
You Ming was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat.
Ye Mian recovered from coughing, and said hoarsely: "It's okay, don't blame him." Even if he didn't have soup in his mouth just now, he would still be choking on his own saliva.
What is this man here for? Find him to settle accounts? Ye Mian regretted it endlessly, she should have knocked on the door of the princess mansion just now, it was very passive to be approached by someone like this.
Ye Mian asked Bao Nian to straighten his clothes again, and then went to the main hall.
When he entered, Zhuang Jue was wearing a black robe and was sitting on the upper seat drinking tea, his face was expressionless, while his father smiled ingratiatingly and was talking to him.
Ye Mian walked in quickly, Ye Shilang frowned, and lightly reprimanded: "What's the hurry, you don't look like you're walking, it makes people laugh."
Ye Mian hurriedly settled there, but Zhuang Jue stood up over there, and said with a rare respect on his face: "This king is taking the liberty of visiting to have a few words with your son, so I won't bother Ye Shilang."
Ye Shilang, the master, was "expelled" by the guests, he was stunned for a while, and then smiled: "Okay, okay, I wonder if King Rongnan County has had a meal at this time, not for a while."
"Go to my place," Ye Mian hurriedly said, "I'm using half of it at my place. There are autumn crabs in the kitchen. Although they are not expensive, they are in season, and they are very fresh and plump."
"That's very good," Zhuang Jue said, nodded to Ye Shilang again, then slightly raised his head to signal Ye Mian to lead the way.
Ye Mian didn't know what he was guilty of at this time, and didn't dare to look at Ye Shilang's face, so he lowered his head and led Zhuang Jue out of the main hall.
Ye Shilang looked at them from behind, and after the figures of the two disappeared from the stone shadow wall, he frowned suddenly, and ordered the motto beside him, "Go, send someone to the eldest young lady to ask, the eldest young master is here today The letter said when will you come back?"
You Ming hurriedly ran out.
Ye Mian took Zhuang Jue directly to Baoxia in Baofeng Courtyard, and hurriedly opened a table again. Yicui didn't dare to neglect, so she personally led someone to watch in the kitchen. In Baoxia, mosquito-repelling spices were placed everywhere, and several lamps were lit before Ye Mian ordered him to go down and stand by at a distance.
The two of them didn't speak, Ye Mian didn't know what Zhuang Jue was thinking, but he was buying time for himself, writing the draft over and over again, trying to win at the starting line tonight.
Ye Mian's heart was flustered, but his hands were not idle, he was peeling the crab meat carefully with a delicate silver pick.
Zhuang Jue tilted his head and stared at his hand for a moment. The crab with round navel was golden and full in color, which made Ye Mian's already slender fingers more white as jade, and the kung fu on his hand was even more neat. The fresh crab meat and golden crab paste were picked out and placed in two small blue-glazed dishes.
Zhuang Jue couldn't help being surprised that this man was eating at his place, and no matter how much he liked the dishes, as long as he was far away, he didn't bother to reach out to eat them. Xia Neijian didn't show him in front of his eyes, so he just pretended not to see them.
Why do you know how to do these servant jobs in your own mansion.
Little did he know that Ye Mian in his previous life was a master at eating crabs and shrimps.
Ye Mian put down another plate of ginger vinegar, and pushed the plate of crab meat and crab paste to Zhuang Sui's eyes.
Zhuang Jue was taken aback for a moment, never expecting that he would have a day to serve him.
Ye Mian looked at him with a flattering smile, his eyes were curved like the moon, shining brightly under the candlelight, even more beautiful than the one hanging in the sky outside the window.
Zhuang Jue looked at him and raised his eyebrows.
Ye Mian chuckled, "Why don't you eat? Brother~"