The Little Lucky Girl

Because he was eating alone and the food was provided by her, in order to prevent Captain Jin from retaliating, Ming Youyou strongly requested Jia Yi to rinse his mouth after eating and checked again carefully to make sure there was no trace of anything before she left with satisfaction.

There were a few rice dumplings in the gift box. Ming Youyou originally planned to keep them for herself and eat them slowly, but seeing that Zheng Huan and the others had been very busy copying books recently, she decided to give them three more so that they could broaden their horizons.

Lu Tai and Feng Xu really didn't recognize it. They took a look at it curiously and asked, "What is this? Is this a new food you made?"

Zheng Huan asked in confusion: "Is this called Zongzi?"

Ming Youyou was surprised, "You actually knew that?"

Zheng Huan smiled and said, "The Imperial Concubine Yun in the palace is from Qi. She would prepare this for dinner every Dragon Boat Festival. When she was in a good mood, she would also entertain other concubines. I had this when I was a child and went to a banquet with my aunt."

"Have you ever eaten bitter rice dumplings?"

Zheng Huan recalled and couldn't help laughing: "I haven't eaten it, but the Sixth Prince must have eaten it. He cried and had a big tantrum at the time."

"Noble Concubine Yun said that the royal family of Da Qi has a tradition of eating bitter rice dumplings, which is to warn their descendants not to forget danger when they are safe and not to forget worries when they are happy, and not to indulge in comfort too much."

"Hey, then why does Brother Jia also eat bitter rice dumplings?" Ming Youyou told what happened just now.

"Isn't this hard to understand?" Feng Xu said, "He is Xiao Ningyi's personal guard. It must be that Xiao Ningyi himself didn't want to eat, so he asked someone around him to eat for him."

He opened his own zongzi, took a bite and said, "Why is mine different from theirs?"

"Why are they given meat dumplings but not mine?" he said angrily, "You are so biased. No, I want to change it."

Ming Youyou said angrily: "Look carefully, this is red dates. Didn't you say you wanted to replenish your blood? I picked this especially for you."

Feng Xu was finally satisfied. He grumbled as he ate, "I lost so much blood. Eating dates alone is not enough. I have to drink chicken soup for a few days. This is what Doctor Gu said."

He encountered a leech when he went to the fields yesterday. He watched a small insect cling to his leg and then grow bigger. He was so scared that he started crying without caring about anything else.

Lu Tai looked down on him and said, "Doctor Gu was talking to the granddaughter-in-law of my great uncle's family who had just given birth. Why do you want to follow him and do the confinement?"

Having said that, Lu Taizhenghuan still handed the recently copied book to Ming Youyou and said, "You are going to the county town tomorrow, so please help us change the money and buy a chicken."

Ming Youyou nodded. Lord Tao sent a message saying that the female teacher who was going to teach her painting had arrived.

In fact, after she finished drawing the curved plow, she didn't really want to go to the county government office. The weather was so hot and she was too lazy to move.

But the system said that there might be more good things that need to be drawn in the future. If there are more complicated patterns, her current level will not be enough.

Ming Youyou sighed, and had to put on a bamboo hat that was much bigger than her head, hung a few herbal tea tubes around her waist, and set off with a clanging sound.

When Mrs. Tao saw her like this, she burst into laughter and said, "Are you going to treat yourself as a mushroom?"

She held Ming Youyou's hand and walked towards the guest house, saying as she walked: "This lady is my sister, the fifth child in the family. She is not in good health. You must not make her angry, understand?"

Ming Youyou nodded, "I will definitely be good."

"You don't have to be so obedient." Madam Tao coughed twice and said, "Did you see the old lady standing next to my sister? She is not a good person. If you can make her angry, I will roast meat for you when I come back."

Ming Youyou was a little confused, "Aren't you the most powerful person in this county government? Do you really need others to help you vent your anger?"

Mrs. Tao sighed, "You don't understand. She is from her husband's family. If we do something directly, it will not sound good if it gets out. And there is also the "Wang family rules" hat. There are some things we really can't do anything about."

When they reached the gate of the courtyard, Ming Youyou saw many people walking around nearby. Whether in the capital or here, she had never seen so many servants in Lord Tao's house.

"See?" Mrs. Tao whispered, "These are all brought by the Wang family. They control this courtyard like an iron barrel. Even the owner like me has to wait for permission to enter or leave."

"You are sisters, why are they on guard against you?"

"She's afraid that we'll persuade Wu Niang to remarry," Mrs. Tao said angrily. "Her mother-in-law hopes that Wu Niang will stay with her son for the rest of her life, and then earn a chastity memorial arch for her Wang family after she dies."

Ming Youyou's eyes widened. "How can they be so mean? Ask Lord Tao to call the yamen runners and we'll drive them all out. If we don't have enough people, I'll go back to the village and call for more."

Mrs. Tao was amused. "If it were that simple, we would have taken action long ago. But as long as Wu Niang is still the daughter-in-law of the Wang family, it would be unreasonable for us to do so. It might even affect the reputation of our Han family girl. It is because of this that Wu Niang has endured until now."

Seeing the child's face wrinkled in distress, Mrs. Tao finally responded and said, "Look at me, I was so angry that I didn't want to talk to you about this."

"Anyway, you just need to be smart and try to comfort Wu Niang more when you have nothing to do to make her happier." As they talked, the two of them walked in.

"Hello, sir," Ming Youyou bowed obediently and looked at the woman in the room curiously.

She looked a lot like Mrs. Tao and seemed gentle, but somehow Ming Youyou was a little scared and felt that she would be a very strict teacher.

Han Wuniang smiled and said, "Please sit down." She pointed at the brush and ink on the table and said, "Draw something for me to see."

If you were to explain what Youyou is best at drawing right now, it would definitely be drawing plows.

She originally wanted to show off her skills, but when she saw the old lady next to her staring at her with a stern face, she rolled her eyes and said, "Can I draw a person?"

Mrs. Tao immediately understood what she meant. "Sure, of course. You can paint whoever you want in this room."

"Then please, old lady, stand up straight."

"What nonsense are you talking about? The nanny is still young," Mrs. Tao said with a smile.

She then said to Li Ma, "This child's paintings are very special. You will see them later."

I won’t scare you to death.

Ming Youyou was acting very arrogantly. When Li Ma stood there for a long time and tried to move, she shouted at her to stop.

Nanny Li didn't know her background, and seeing that Madam Tao was very affectionate towards the child, she didn't know what to say.

After all, she was a servant. Apart from being able to manipulate things by taking advantage of the so-called "rules of the Wang family", she didn't dare to offend the county magistrate's wife too much in other aspects. She had to stand there stiffly for an hour.