Chapter 56

TRANSLATED BY MYPEN_22

In a short while, Xu Yuanjiao came back with a child in her arms, who looked about a week old, a chubby white child, like a glutinous rice ball, very pleasing to the eye.

When Hua Ling saw the child, his eyes went straight and he wanted to hug him but couldn't bear to do so.

Xu Yuanjiao said, "Excuse me, gentlemen, but I wonder where you live now?"

Qu Liujing said the name of the inn.

Xu Yuanjiao said, "Since Aunt Fu still needs to administer needles every day, why don't you stay at the house?"

This was exactly what Yan Shi wanted, so he only pretended to excuse himself and agreed.

Xu Yuanjiao ordered the servants to prepare a room for Yan Shi and the others, but Hua Ling could not help but look at the boy and ask, "Is this Master Zheng's son? How old is he?"

Xu Yuanjiao smiled "Yun'er was born last year and has just celebrated his first birthday."

Hua Ling was delighted, "So his name is Yun'er." With that, he waved his hand to tease the young master.

Yan Shi suddenly said, "I heard that Master Zheng has another son, I wonder if he is in the house?"

Xu Yuanjiao turned the young master upwards, " He went away to study more than a year ago and has not yet returned."

Yan Shi nodded and said, "Master Zheng is so ill, why has the youngest not returned?"

Xu Yuanjiao sighed, "I have sent someone to look for him, but cousin brother has gone somewhere and no news has come until now." There was quite a bit of resentment in her words.

Yan Shi did not say anything else, and they talked for a while about Zheng Lin's condition, when a servant came in with boiled medicine.

"Give me the medicine." Xu Yuanjiao half picked Zheng Lin up from the bed, tucked a pillow behind him, and then sat on the edge of the bed, feeding him medicine spoonful by spoonful, occasionally using a handkerchief to wipe the medicine stains that dripped down from the corners of his mouth.

After Zheng Lin had taken the medicine, he was fine and now he only needed to take the medicine regularly and give him an injection once a day to recover, so Xu Yuanjiao let them make themselves at home while she carried the young master out.

When Yan Shi and Hua Ling returned to their room, a servant came to serve tea. Yan Shi pretended not to notice and said, "Miss Cousin is really intelligent and capable, but I don't know if she has a husband.

The maid said, "Miss Cousin is not married, so you should ask Master and Madam about such a matter. But now the master is ill and the lady is in the Buddhist temple."

Yan Shi was handsome, and his hands and feet were full of nobility, so this little maid was not very old and had never seen such a person in her life, but when she learned that she had to serve Yan Shi in the past few days, she really raised her eyebrows among the other maids and received a lot of envy. When maids like them reach the age of majority, they will be given a servant at their master's discretion. No one wants to be a servant for the rest of their lives, so now that she has seen Yan Shi, she think that it would be good if she could go out with him, so she is happy to be attentive in front of him and talk to him more.

Hua Ling saw that the maid's eyes were darting towards Yan Shi's body, and his stomach was bulging with anger, but he could only stand aside and pretend not to see it, trying to play the role of a medicine boy.

Yan Shi glanced at the young Wangfei, whose mouth was pouting, and shook his head with a smile, then said to the maid, "Madam is really devoted to Buddha, so I guess she must be very kind."

The maid shook her head, "I don't know, I've never met her since I entered the house."

"Oh?" Yan Shi picked up the cup and blew on it, "Is the girl new to the house?"

Hua Ling saw Yan Shi trying to put the cup down, so he reached out and took the cup in his hand and put it on the table again to increase his presence.

The maid took a look at Hua Ling, but did not take him seriously, he was just a good looking medicine boy. The maid added, "I've been in the house for just a year, but before I joined the house, Madam had already spent her days in the Buddha Hall. Besides, I am not the only one, except for a few old people, all the servants in this house only entered the house a year ago."

Yan Shi said, "If the wife has been worshipping Buddha all day, then the young master has been taken care of by Miss Cousin? Miss Cousin is really very virtuous."

The maid echoed, "I heard from the old people in the house that Miss Cousin has been in the house since she was a child.

She grew up in this house. Now that the master is seriously ill, the madam is not going out for Buddhist rituals, and the young master is away on a study tour, the whole household is counting on Miss Cousin.

"How old was Miss Cousin when she entered the house?" Yan Shi asked.

The maid shook her head "I don't know, I know this from the mouths of some old people, but I don't know anything else."

Seeing that there was nothing more he could ask, Yan Shi spoke to her again and dismissed her.

After making sure the maid had closed the door and left, Yan Shi took the young princess's hand and pulled him to himself, pinching his face "What? Are you angry?"

"No." He said no, but his mouth was pouting higher and higher.

"Still saying no." Yan Shi squeezed his mouth together, "Why is it puckered up so high? Did you get stung by a bee? Which bee didn't sleep in this winter, but came to find trouble with my princess."

Hua Ling could no longer control his snort of joy, then he pretended to look stern, "Brother, that maid is not looking at you with good intentions."

Yan Shi laughed "What she thinks is not our business, you just remember that my heart for you will not change."

Hua Ling was happy to be spoken to, and sat down again to talk to Yan Shi with a smile on his face.

The lunch was brought by the servants, and Yan Shi and Qu Liujing ate together. When the evening came, a servant came to invite them, saying that the madam wanted to invite them for a meal.

This was a good idea, and Yan Shi was planning to think of a way to meet the madam, when she came to call them herself.

Yan Shi followed the servant to a room where dishes had already been laid out in the middle of the room.

Although she was half an old woman, she still had her charm, and her manner was very refined.

Yan Shi sat down at the table, and Hua Ling was about to sit down after her when he suddenly remembered his own status and had to stand aside sullenly. Yan Shi said, "My medicine boy has been spoiled by me since he was a child, and he can't afford to go hungry, so I wonder if you could give him something to eat first?" In a large household, it is important that the master and servant do not share the same table, so if this meal had been prepared by Yan Shi, it would have been fine, but Yan Shi was a guest at the moment, so this was all he could get for Hua Ling.

Mrs. Zheng smiled, "I've been negligent." She ordered her maid to take Hua Ling to another room and prepare some food for him.