The Red Mansion: From a Small Pawn to a Leader

Chapter 492 Gossip
The kitchen was filled with cooks and old women standing outside, talking quietly and looking at the door of the kitchen.

Amber came out and scolded those people: "What are you looking at? You have no manners at all!"

The cooks and maids disappeared in an instant.

Amber turned and walked back.

I saw Xiangling sitting in front of the stove, putting a piece of firewood into the fire.

Li Hu stood by the stove holding a pair of chopsticks and a coarse linen apron tied around his waist.

Amber smiled and took out a handkerchief from her pocket. She walked to Li Hu and wiped the sweat off his forehead. She smiled and said, "It's almost done."

After hearing this, Li Hu hurriedly opened the lid of the big iron pot, and white steam rose out, along with a fragrant smell.

"It smells so good!" Xiangling stood up.

Li Hu blew a breath and looked at the noodles cooking in the iron pot. Then he took chopsticks and stirred the noodles in the pot. It was fragrant and steaming.

This is the only cooking skill he has ever mastered in his two lifetimes.

Except for last year when he was not at home, Li Hu would personally make a bowl of longevity noodles for Lin Daiyu every birthday.

Similarly, when Li Hu’s birthday comes, Lin Daiyu will also make longevity noodles for him.

Soon, a bowl of fragrant longevity noodles came out of the pot, along with two poached eggs and a little chopped green onions.

Xiangling's eyes lit up and she opened her mouth: "It smells so good!"

"What a greedy girl!" Amber nodded at her with a smile.

Li Hu put the bowl of longevity noodles into the food box himself and closed the lid. He then said to Xiangling, "This is longevity noodles made especially for your wife. If you want to eat it, I will serve it to you in two days."

Xiangling swallowed and nodded sensibly.

Amber smiled secretly, what a silly girl. In all these years, she had never seen Li Hu letting other people eat his penis.

"Let's go." Li Hu took off his apron and walked out with the lunch box.

Li Hu walked into the backyard carrying a lunch box and heard laughter in the living room. He walked in and saw that it was Xue Baoqin.

As soon as they saw Li Hu coming in, Lin Daiyu, Xue Baochai and Xue Baoqin stood up together.

Xue Baoqin came forward, bowed, and said, "Brother-in-law Lin."

Li Hu smiled and nodded: "How is your mother?"

Xue Baoqin smiled and replied, "Okay. Brother-in-law Lin is thinking of you." Then she said to Lin Daiyu, "Mother feels much better after eating the white ginseng that Sister Lin sent. Brother said that when he finishes his work in the military camp, he will come and kowtow to Sister Lin in person."

Lin Daiyu smiled and said, "It's good that it works. After you finish it, I will send someone to deliver it to your mother. Tell your brother to just kowtow and do his job well to win honor for the Duke."

Xue Baoqin knelt down and said, "Yes."

Li Hu brought out the bowl of steaming longevity noodles and handed a pair of chopsticks to Lin Daiyu: "Eat quickly."

Lin Daiyu said "hmm", took the chopsticks, sat down again, and started eating in small bites.

Looking at the bowl of steaming longevity noodles, Xue Baochai's eyes were full of envy. On her birthday, Li Hu gave her a set of jewelry. Although it was valuable and gorgeous, it pales in comparison to this bowl of longevity noodles!

A group of people watched Lin Daiyu eat noodles, which made her feel a little embarrassed. She drank a sip of the soup and then started eating with big mouthfuls.

Li Hu took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, saying with a smile: "Eat slowly, there are no outsiders here."

Longevity noodles are just for good luck, not too much.

After eating the longevity noodles, Lin Daiyu started chatting with Xue Baochai and Xue Baoqin.

Only then did Li Hu realize that Mrs. Wang was ill again, and her condition was even more serious than last time. Rongguo Mansion had already prepared all of Mrs. Wang's clothes and shoes for her future life.

No wonder none of the three sisters from the Jia family came!
A trace of doubt flashed across Li Hu's eyes. Could it be that the Supreme Emperor had done it? Poisoned Lady Wang, summoned Jia Zheng and Wang Ziteng back to the capital, and then died suddenly on the way to the capital like in the original novel? He shouldn't be so hasty to do it, right? ! As he was talking, Feng came in with a gift list.

Feng: "Master and Madam, the Xia family of Guihua in Xi'an has sent someone to present gifts and pay their respects." As she spoke, she presented the gift list.

Xia family?

Li Hu took it and glanced at it. It was bleeding! It seemed that the Xia family had already heard the news from the Ministry of Revenue. The Ministry of Revenue was full of bastards who dared to accept any money!
Lin Daiyu was the wife of the Duke of Lu. Just like Jia's mother's birthday, the Ministry of Rites had to send her a gold and jade ruyi, four pieces of colorful satin, four gold and jade rings, and five hundred taels of silver according to the regulations.

After a little inquiry, I found out that today is Lin Daiyu's birthday.

Thinking of this, Li Hu looked at Xue Baochai and asked, "Has Xia Jingui come here to make trouble again?"

Xue Baochai shook her head slightly: "No. I heard that Xia Jingui's mother is ill and is seriously ill."

Li Hu nodded and handed the gift list to Feng: "Tell Uncle San to send it out."

Feng: “Yes.” She answered and turned and walked out.

Just as Feng walked out, Nanny Wang came in with an envelope and bowed slightly to Li Hu: "Master, this is from Ni Er, saying that Master asked him to find out something."

Is it such a coincidence? The Xia family had just come to give gifts when Ni Er brought the news.

Li Hu took the letter, opened the seal and read it, and immediately took a breath of cold air. He really made Xue the fool cuckold, twice! This Xia San is a talent! Isn't this the slave bullying the master! If this gets out, there is no need for interrogation, just lingchi! And that Baochan, riding a wooden donkey and lingchi!

And Xia Jingui's mother, who accidentally discovered the scandal, was so angry that her old illness flared up and she was about to die!

Li Hu sighed, sympathizing with Xia Jingui's mother but also a little confused. What are the three of them going to do? A threesome?! This is too open!
Lin Daiyu spoke: "What's the matter?" As she spoke, she glanced at the letter.

Li Hu was so frightened that he hurriedly covered his hands. He couldn't let such a dirty thing pollute Lin Daiyu's eyes.

Lin Daiyu looked at him in surprise.

Li Hu coughed, folded the letter, put it into his sleeve, and said, "Nothing, Ni Er helped me find out some things, they are all nonsense, I won't tell you." At this point, he hurriedly changed the subject, "Oh, by the way, I haven't seen Miss Shi for a while."

Lin Daiyu looked at him and replied, "At the end of the month, someone will go to the Baolinghou Mansion to look for a date. Yun girl will have a husband soon, so she may not be able to come here in the future."

Li Hu: "Oh? Which one?"

Lin Daiyu was silent for a moment, "Zhenguogong Mansion."

Li Hu: "Zhenguogong Mansion, Niu Ben? He can be Yun girl's father."

Lin Daiyu said angrily: "What nonsense are you talking about! He is the brother of the Duke of Zhenguo."

Li Hu nodded. Niu Jizong had only died a few months ago, and the Zhenguo Mansion was still in mourning. Logically, they shouldn't do such a thing at this time. It should be the intention of the palace. However, Jia Jing could see through this method at a glance. Perhaps, the palace just wanted to prevent the Jia family and the Shi family from marrying again.

This time, historians are betting on both sides!
In addition, the historians were standing against him. If they wanted to remove the one under the emperor, Niu Ben, the commander of the imperial guards, would be a big obstacle and must be removed.

Li Hu has always believed in a saying: If you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again in the spring breeze!

It looks like Shi Xiangyun is going to be a widow, most likely a widow of a wealthy family! The Zhenguogong Mansion has a three-year mourning period.

Alas, poor girl!

Li Hu shook his head.

At this moment, Nanny Wang hurried in again: "Master, General Wang is here. He said he has something urgent to do and is waiting outside the courtyard gate."

Li Hu stood up and said to Lin Daiyu, "Let Baoqin eat before going back." After that, he walked out.

Lin Daiyu also stood up: "Let's talk in the warm room."

As soon as he saw Li Hu coming out, Wang Daniu immediately came over and whispered, "Liu Er just received news that the intelligence network of the Northern Pacification Division was wiped out by the Niangan Division, and Prince Kang was also imprisoned in Prince Kang's Mansion."

(End of this chapter)