jdhmnovel Chapter 186 Luo'er enters Pei Mansion, Nan Jia is critically ill?
Chapter 186 Luo'er enters Pei Mansion, Nan Jia is critically ill?
Aunt Deng's old face turned red.
Sometimes, even an old man like me who has experienced the world of love can't help but feel uncomfortable when her daughter talks.
Madam Deng quickly added, "It's said that after the master brought the girl back that day, he favored Concubine Liu that night, and didn't care that you hadn't returned home that day and your whereabouts were unknown. In the master's heart, you were still unimportant..."
Que'er snorted, "Our girl doesn't care about him!"
Li Qingluo patted Que'er's hand.
"What's Chun Zai Tang's attitude?"
Madam Deng said, "I heard that the Madam was so furious that she smashed everything in the house. But she couldn't do anything about it because the Master had assigned a whole room of servants to Madam Liu, as if he was deliberately trying to antagonize the Madam."
Li Qingluo: "Did you find out clearly? Did you drink pregnancy-maintaining medicine or contraceptive soup afterwards?"
Madam Deng smiled and said, "Master, please watch Madam Liu drink this medicine to maintain pregnancy."
Li Qingluo: "That's good. Keep a close eye on them and don't let my dear mother do anything to kill my siblings."
"Madam Liu is young and healthy. If she's lucky, she'll definitely give birth to a baby next year. If she wants, having more would be even better."
"When I have more brothers and sisters, I, as a father, will be of no use to me..."
Li Qingluo reached out and snapped off the withered wintersweet beside him.
Pei Mansion.
Li Qingluo rested for two days and prepared to go to Pei Mansion to see Nan Jia.
Yesterday, Princess Nanping went to the General's Mansion to visit Li Qingluo, and the two agreed to meet in front of Pei's Mansion today.
Because if Li Qingluo visited by herself, she herself would not be sure whether the Pei Mansion would allow the Li family members to enter the Pei family gate.
"Sister Luo'er!"
Princess Nanping arrived a little late. She jumped off the carriage and ran to Li Qingluo, lifted the curtain and smiled.
Naturally, the Peiguo Mansion would not stop a princess, and soon the inner house received the news, and someone came out respectfully to lead the two of them in.
The size of Duke Pei's mansion was so huge that even Princess Nanping was astonished.
"It's indeed a century-old aristocratic family. Look at the grandeur and the scale of this mansion... Wow, it looks much more impressive than our princess's mansion."
Nanping walked ahead with her hands behind her back. Suddenly remembering something, she turned to Li Qingluo and said, "It's better than your general's mansion. Yours is just deserted. There are more people here now. The first time I went there, it was deserted gardens everywhere. It really scared me!"
The servant next to her immediately stared at Li Qingluo a few more times, as if he had already known her identity.
Li Qingluo: "..."
Nanping, have you forgotten why I called you here today?
She smiled slightly, and Princess Nanping seemed to have just remembered and immediately covered her mouth.
"Haha. Hahaha... Sister Luo'er, look at the plum garden over at Duke Pei's mansion. It's so beautiful! There are even little birds there!"
Li Qingluo was helplessly dragged to the Plum Garden by Nanping again.
As soon as I entered, I bumped into a few girls. Judging from their clothes, they must be the girls from Pei Guogong's mansion.
Seeing someone breaking in, a woman started to scold: "How dare you! How dare you break in here? Get out! Can't you see I'm here?"
The girls in Peiguogong's mansion are very special.
They are the most special family in the entire Jinling City.
The direct line of Pei Guogong's mansion consists of three branches, and each branch has several courtyards.
There are several girls in each courtyard.
By this calculation, there are more than a dozen unmarried girls in Peiguo Mansion.
Therefore, although the Peiguo Mansion is very large, it is still a bit crowded, yet extremely lively.
But they all live in seclusion and rarely appear at any family banquets.
Just like the young men in the Peiguogong Mansion, except for the current Peiguogong who is still serving as an official in the court and has some fame, the other masters of each family and courtyard, in total, only have a few of them in the most inconspicuous positions in the court, doing the most inconspicuous things.
Those young men who are not in the court, such as Pei Sanlang, rarely appear in front of the world.
In the entire Pei Mansion, except for Pei Nanjia who has been going out more frequently in recent times, the rest of the girls in the Pei family have never been seen by Nanping.
So there were rumors that the Pei family's daughters were too ordinary-looking and not presentable at all, so the Pei family locked them up at home and did not allow them to go out and see the world.
Even those daughters of the Pei family who were married out would stay at home and rarely go out, not liking to interact with others.
So when Princess Nanping heard yesterday that Li Qingluo was coming to Duke Pei's mansion, she immediately agreed to come with great enthusiasm.
"The girls of the Pei family are so mysterious. I want to go and see if all of them, except Nan Jia, are boring and mediocre!"
I just didn't expect to be scolded by the young lady of the Pei family as soon as I arrived at the Pei Mansion.
Nanping immediately put her hands on her hips and shouted back, "I am Princess Nanping! Today I came to visit Pei Twelve Niang from your Second House, Second Courtyard. I was just passing by this plum garden. I didn't expect that your Pei family would treat guests like this!?"
When they heard that it was a princess, the girls in front of them looked at each other in surprise.
"Are you here to visit Twelve Lady? She's been claiming to be ill for a while, but she actually has a friend? And a princess at that."
The other party's unfriendly gaze moved around Nanping, and then turned to Li Qingluo.
"Which one are you?"
Li Qingluo heard Nan Jia talk about her childhood.
So I never thought at the beginning that there would be many friendly girls in the Pei family.
Li Qingluo's tone was naturally stern: "If our identities were in doubt, your Pei family wouldn't have let us in. If we were disturbing you just now, we should have left immediately. Why are you being so aggressive?"
The other party's face looked unhappy.
Finally, the girl in the red cloak stood up.
Her tone was polite: "I am Pei Si Niang. I didn't know your identities just now, so I offended you a lot. I hope you can understand."
"After all, we rarely have outsiders visiting the Peiguo Mansion on weekdays, and only masters like us can enter the plum garden. Servants are not allowed to come here casually on weekdays."
Another girl followed up and said, "Yeah, how could we know that they were here to see Twelve Lady? We thought it was some ignorant servant girl who had barged in."
"That's right. Even if you're a princess, you can't be unreasonable..."
Nan Ping was so angry that she couldn't be polite anymore: "When did this princess become unreasonable? Besides, what's so precious about this broken plum forest? You just haven't seen anything good, so you treat this place as a forbidden area!"
"You're still a slave, have you ever seen a slave like us dressed so luxuriously? You have dog eyes!"
Nanping was not afraid of offending anyone. After saying this, he pulled Li Qingluo away angrily.
Li Qingluo turned around and saw several girls, led by Pei Si Niang, staring at the direction they were leaving with sinister eyes...
"These girls from Duke Pei's mansion really made me wait in vain. They are all so mean-spirited, just like Pan Li, who is annoying. No wonder they can't go out, otherwise they would make enemies everywhere."
Li Qingluo shook his head and smiled.
"Don't be angry, there are more people coming up ahead."
Before I even got to Nanjia, I met one group of people after another.
But the one who came this time was the maidservant beside the wife of Duke Pei.
On behalf of Lady Pei, she came over to say a few polite words, asking Princess Nanping to have more fun in the Duke's Mansion and that she would not disturb the little girls' interest.
She also told Nanping to let them know if she encountered any unpleasant things, and that the Peiguo Mansion would definitely deal with it severely.
Nanping naturally became rude on the spot.
"The Duke's wife is a reasonable person, but I will not bother her today, lest I, who grew up in the northwest and don't know the rules and have a bad temper, say something unpleasant."
"The princess originally came here just to see Sister Nanjia today."
"But unfortunately, I have offended several girls in your mansion. I didn't know that the plum garden is a forbidden area in the mansion. Outsiders like us are not allowed to go near it. Otherwise, I will be scolded by the servants."
I didn't expect that Nanping would be so sarcastic.
This made Li Qingluo, who was standing by, couldn't help but chuckle with her hands covering her lips.
But it’s hard to say what Mrs. Pei’s attitude would be after hearing these words.
The head maid remained calm and respectfully escorted Li Qingluo and the other two to the outside of the second room.
Then he hurried back to the main courtyard of the eldest house and came to the presence of Lady Pei, Duke of Pei, and repeated what Princess Nanping had just said.
When Lady Pei heard this, her expression changed.
"Who offended the princess in the Plum Garden? They are so ignorant of the rules. I must have spoiled them too much!"
The maid replied, "Yes...it's the Fourth Miss, and the Fifth Miss, the Sixth Miss, and the Eighth Miss."
Madam Pei Guogong raised her eyebrows instantly: "Why is it Si Niang? She has always been the most cautious person. She must have been led this way by Wu Niang and the others today! Go and call Si Niang over to me first."
Li Qingluo and Nanping were finally taken to the second room and second courtyard, and met Nanjia in Nanping's small courtyard.
Nan Jia was indeed very ill and had lost a lot of weight.
This scared both Princess Nanping and Li Qingluo.
How long has it been since we last met at the Princess's Mansion?
"You are here."
When Pei Nanjia saw Li Qingluo and Princess Nanping, a smile appeared on his pale face.
"I'm sorry I couldn't go to the stables on the 17th. I heard there was a rebellion outside the city, and I was worried for a long time. Now that I see you two are safe and sound, I'm relieved."
Li Qingluo put away his dazed look and walked over quickly.
"Don't worry about us. Tell me, what happened to you? What disease is so serious?"
"Have you seen the doctor? What did the doctor say?"
"Which doctor did you invite?"
Nan Ping's eyes were also red. She came over and hugged Nan Jia: "Sister Nan Jia, I will get you an imperial physician. When I get back later, I will ask my mother to go to the palace to ask the imperial physician to come and see you!"
Pei Nanjia shook her head: "I'm fine. I just accidentally got a little poisoned. My father has already asked His Majesty for mercy and invited the imperial physician to come back and take a look."
Nan Jia said this with a smile on her face, as if she was not affected by the poison at all.
But there was blue under her eyes, her complexion was dark, and her cheeks were sunken.
He is completely different from before, how can this be okay?
Li Qingluo asked directly, "Nan Jia, is your poisoning related to Qing Yangzi?"