Traveling through famine years, peasant girls hold space in their hands to store food

"Miss."

Xu Miaolan looked at the angry maid beside her, frowned, and signaled her with her eyes to restrain herself.

Then he knocked on the door.

"Come in."

Madam Xu's cold voice sounded, and when Xu Miaolan walked in, she could still clearly hear her elder sister's sarcastic sneer.

"Xu Miaolan, if you are such a lowly person, please don't affect me, or you will be in trouble."

Xu Miaolan bowed respectfully to Madam Xu and her elder sister at this time: "If your elder sister is afraid of being influenced by Miaolan, then you can persuade father and mother not to let Miaolan do such a lowly thing."

"You..." The eldest daughter of the Xu family didn't expect that she, who had always been submissive, would refute.

Madam Xu slammed her palm heavily on the table.

"You are so presumptuous. You'd better think carefully about what you can and cannot say."

Having said that, Madam Xu stood up and left the private room with her daughter and the maid.

Watching her stepmother walk away, Xu Miaolan suddenly collapsed to the ground, tears silently falling from the corners of her eyes. The maid came forward to persuade her.

"Don't be sad, miss. Let's go back first. Auntie is waiting for us to go back and boil medicine."

After Xu Miaolan heard her aunt's words, she calmed down, let out a breath, took the maid's hand and stood up, wiped her eyes with an embroidered handkerchief, asked the maid to tidy up her dress, and after checking that there was nothing wrong, she turned around and led the maid out of the private room.

Moments after the master and servant left, Mo Er appeared in the private room.

He just glanced coldly at Xu Miaolan who was leaving downstairs, then turned around and disappeared into the room.

At this time in Prince Chen's Mansion, Lu Qingqing and Xia Yun came to Chu Haochen's study and brought him lunch. He was so busy that he didn't even come out to eat lunch, so Lu Qingqing had to bring it to him.

"Qing'er, you're here."

Lu Qingqing glanced at him and said angrily: "If I don't come, you won't have to have lunch."

Chu Haochen put down the official business in his hands, slowly stood up, walked to the table, lifted the hem of his robe and sat down.

Looking at the food on the table, I knew that these were all made by Qing'er herself. "Qing'er, you have worked hard."

As he was speaking, Mo Er knocked on the study door. Xia Yun's eyes flickered slightly. He stood behind his master holding a food box and looked towards the door.

Mo Er, dressed in black, walked into the study with an upright posture. When he saw the master and the princess in the room, he bowed and saluted.

"I greet my master and my queen."

Lu Qingqing glanced at Mo Er, and at this time Chu Haochen asked him if there was anything wrong?

"Master, I just went to the teahouse with Madam Xu. It seems that the concubine of the Xu family was forced by Madam Xu and her husband to... to establish a relationship with Prince Chen's Mansion. She resorted to this desperate measure just to get the princess to allow the master to take... a concubine."

Hearing Mo Er's words, Chu Haochen slammed the table with a "bang", and the soup in the bowl spilled out. Lu Qingqing frowned and muttered unhappily.

"You're a headless bastard, so you're going to vent your anger on the food I worked so hard to prepare?"

Xia Yun on the side smiled secretly. Only then did Mo Er notice Xia Yun in the room, and the light in his eyes immediately lit up.

He didn't come back to his senses until he heard his master coughing lightly and apologizing to the princess.

"It seems that the concubine of the Xu family is not having a good time in the palace... and Madam Xu and the eldest daughter of the Xu family seem to be plotting against the emperor."

Chu Haochen's face darkened. Lu Qingqing, who was standing beside him, frowned and said unhappily that the emperor and empress were already being targeted before they even got married.

Chu Haochen held her hand and comforted her softly.

"In that case, then give her a man and see what Madam Xu can do."

Lu Qingqing looked at Chu Haochen in confusion, wondering who the man he was talking about was.

"Mo Er heard that there will be a poetry gathering in Chaoyu Tower this afternoon. I think Chen Lanhui and the eldest daughter of the Xu family will not miss this opportunity. You go..."

Chu Haochen's words made Lu Qingqing's eyes light up, and she almost clapped. She joked that if Chu Haochen was in the back house, it would be hard to find an opponent!

Chu Haochen reached out and tapped her forehead: "You're still teasing your husband. Isn't this just venting your anger for you?"

As he spoke, Mo Er leaned over and left the study, but he did not forget to glance at Xia Yun before leaving.

Lu Qingqing had just noticed the two people's little actions, and then she coughed lightly and asked Xia Yun to leave first.

Xia Yun bowed respectfully, then walked out with the food box.

"It seems like it's time to add some festive atmosphere to your residence."

Chu Haochen asked her puzzledly, "Is Qing'er pregnant again?" Seeing Chu Haochen's hand caressing her belly, Lu Qingqing slapped him with a dark face.

"What nonsense are you talking about? Eat quickly."

Chu Haochen laughed foolishly and muttered: It seems he is not working hard enough.

Lu Qingqing glared at him with a stern face, turned her head and focused on her meal without paying any attention to him.

However, Chu Haochen, with a smile on his face, made up his mind and picked up the braised pork in front of him and put it into Lu Qingqing's bowl.

"Qing'er, eat more. You've lost weight recently."

Lu Qingqing stroked her round cheeks, blinking her eyes as if to ask Chu Haochen if he was blind? She had lost weight...

Mo Er was waiting outside the far door of his master's study. He was leaning against the wall listening to the noise in the yard, with a blade of grass in his mouth.

When he heard the sound of the door, the corners of his lips curled up slightly, and Xia Yun's footsteps were getting closer and closer.

Mo Er immediately appeared in front of her.

"Ah! You scared me to death."

Xia Yun frowned and patted his chest lightly.

Mo Er grinned foolishly and said that he could wait for him in the kitchen after dinner, as he had something to say. After he finished speaking, he took out a silver hairpin that he had prepared long ago from his bosom and stuffed it into Xia Yun's hand, then disappeared in front of the distant door.

Xia Yun stamped his feet and looked at the disappearing Mo Er, complaining in a low voice: "This guy is really weird and doesn't even speak clearly..."

As she was speaking, Xia Yun saw from afar that the servant in the yard was looking at her strangely. His expression suddenly became unnatural, and he walked towards the kitchen muttering to himself.

After lunch, Lu Qingqing and her husband went back to their respective tasks. They would be leaving the capital soon as there were still some things they needed to sort out.

In the afternoon, Xia Bing from the shop came to Prince Chen's Mansion. This time she came not only to deliver the shop's profits, but also to ask her master about the fact that there were not many goods left in the shop's warehouse.

"Xia Bing, take these back to the shop later. These patterns will be enough for you to use for a long time. There are also some children's clothing in the patterns this time. Ask the embroiderer to make it more delicate. But make sure it is comfortable to choose, as children's skin is delicate."

Lu Qingqing explained everything one by one, and then took out more than twenty boxes of skin care products from the space, asking Xia Bing to take them back to the shop when she left.

Thinking about it, Qingli had made a lot of fruit soaps in the space before, so she took them out and gave them all to Xia Bing, along with a few sets of head coverings.

They were all made according to what she and Qingli thought of, and the materials also came from the space.