Title: The Drear in the Spring Boudoir
Chapter: 059 out of 513 – Barbecue, wine, and winter (2)
Right now, she wasn’t an unmarried girl. She was already married to Marquis Moyu. Although she was only a concubine, it wouldn’t be appropriate for her to interact with a strange man, right?
Although she didn’t have a clear understanding of this era’s rules, her intuition told her that the sooner she left, the better.
“Sangyu, do you rember my older brother?” While biting on a at skewer, Errong said, “You even t him once when you were both very young at a palace banquet. Afterwards, you even said that my older brother’s face resembled a piece of white jade more than Marquis Moyu’s.”
That palace banquet had occurred ten years ago, but Nie Sangyu had still rembered it and ntioned it to Ning Errong later on when they beca friends. However, Ji Man didn’t have the slightly impression of this eting. Looking at Ning Mingjie’s blank expression, he probably didn’t rember that eting either.
“We could be considered relatives. Let’s all eat at skewers together.” Ning Errong magnanimously patted a stool next to herself and Ning Mingjie naturally sat down. It would have been unnecessarily tiring to keep standing.
Ji Man looked at her hands and said with a smile, “How about letting the servants grill the food for you? My hands are too dirty and I should go back to wash them.”
Ning Mingjie understood that she was doing this to avoid arousing suspicion. Just as he was about to nod his head in agreent, Ning Errong casually said, “It’s such a long walk back. I’ll have Baizhi bring over water for you! Dearest older sister, grill two more skewers for . The ones grilled by you are the tastiest.”
Ji Man didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. This girl simply didn’t have any understanding about avoiding actions that might arouse suspicion. She was treating them as a group of carefree people that hadn’t reached adulthood yet.
But seeing Errong acting cutely spoiled like this, she really couldn’t continue to insist on leaving. She could only have Muxu stand near them, so that they could be considered under the public’s eyes. Then, she continued grilling at for this little ancestor.
“They’ve all been saying that you had changed a lot. It’s true.” While Ning Errong ate, her little mouth didn’t stop talking, “In the past, you only cared about my cousin and wouldn’t have had the leisurely mood to make sothing like this.”
Ji Man silently smiled. As she finished grilling each batch of at and vegetables, she would place them onto small plates and hand them over to the two siblings.
Ning Mingjie had already eaten dinner and wasn’t too hungry, but the gluttonous bug in his stomach had been lured out. He took the small plates and wasn’t polite. He even sent the servants to bring over fine wine.
The cold wind whistled by and the courtyard naturally wasn’t as warm as inside. But, Ning Errong was sticking her tongue out to cool down from eating the spicy food and wasn’t hiding her hands inside her sleeves anymore. Ning Mingjie actually felt very satisfied to feel the cold wind while he was drink wine and eating grilled at. Nie Sangyu’s idea of cutting the at into small pieces actually made the at much tastier than when the entire slab of at was grilled.
And so, after Ning Mingjie had eaten and drank enough to be satisfied, he felt that Nie Sangyu was actually a very good woman. At the very least, the at that she had grilled was very tasty.
With this one incident, the plot quietly changed. Ning Mingjie didn’t go to the garden and coincidentally et the female lead. Instead, the first thing that crashed into his eyes was a pair of slender white hands that efficiently turned over grilled at.
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While Ji Man peacefully stayed in her courtyard during the next two days, Mu Shuiqing got over the worse of her cold and was no longer feverish. Today, she was able to get out of her bed and could be considered to have gotten past the most difficult point in her recovery.
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No one in the household ntioned the matter of Nie Sangyu grilling at with Marquis Jingwen’s two children. So much so that when Ning Errong ntioned this matter to old mada, old mada had been tempted and wanted her to cook this food for her to try.
But, Ji Man didn’t recomnd for old mada to eat this type of food. After all, it wasn’t good for older people to eat oily foods.
After eating this type of food only one ti, old mada would occasionally continue thinking about eating grilled at, until she gave in and had the kitchen servants grill so at for her.
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Originally, Ji Man hadn’t been close to Ning Mingjie. But now, whenever he saw her, he would always faintly smile at her. Ji Man felt that this man was too easily won over. It had only taken one al of grilled at for him to treat her familiarly.
Miss Shui had also co to the residence to report this month’s revenue and expenses. She had also brought good news. Palace servants had co to the store and said they wanted a supply for the palace. This was monuntally good news.
Ji Man made a resolute decision. She wrote down the thod to make cold cream and taught it to Miss Shui. She wanted her to secretly teach the palace servants how to manufacture cold cream and handed Miss Shui the entire responsibility. With this change, the production volu would increase and it would also make it easier for cold cream to be exported out of the capital and be sold throughout the country.
Muxu saw the large pile of banknotes that Miss Shui had brought and deeply inhaled, “Master!”
The profits from one month of business would be enough for them to not have to worry about food and clothes for several years.
“The financial prospects of following , it’s pretty good isn’t it?” Ji Man brightly smiled. She was extrely satisfied. She stretched her hand out, took a banknote worth fifty silver teals from the pile, and generously gave it to Muxu. “Go and buy yourself two good outfits. Your master will set aside money for your dowry. I guarantee that you’ll have a good life by following .”
Holding the banknote, Muxu didn’t know how to respond for a long ti until her eyes suddenly turned red.
“Hey! Everything is fine. Don’t cry. Otherwise, I’ll take back the banknote.” Ji Man showed a fierce expression to scare her. But, Muxu unexpectedly kneeled down to kowtow her. “This servant will definitely rember Master’s benevolence. And won’t... betray you again.”
Ji Man didn’t carefully think over Muxu’s words as she expressed her loyalty. While smiling, she helped Muxu stand up and said, “Look at you. It’s just fifty silver taels. There’s no need for you to be so touched. I heard that Doctor Li’s mother is very sick. If you want to visit her, how about I give you the day off so you can go see her?”
“It’s.... his mother. Why does this have anything to do with this servant? Why would this servant visit her?!” Muxu was so anxious that she stamped her feet. Her face turned red and she ran out of the courtyard.
Ji Man found her response amusing. How could she not know about the young girl’s feelings?
After Ji Man stored away the rest of the banknotes into her wardrobe, she took a deep breath. She felt that her good days weren’t far away!
Translator Ramblings: What do you think Muxu ant by, “betray you again”? Ji Man is one of my favorite characters, but I think she suffers from overconfidence when it cos to the characters that were originally ntioned in the novel.
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