The next day, Princess Anle, Princess Pingxi Xu Yanzhen, and Su Ciyue from the Taifu family sent their visiting cards early, saying that they were here to visit Lu Ningshuang, their good sister.

Baizhi helped Lu Ningshuang wash and dress, while Fuling cleaned the house with light movements.

Bai Zhi also mentioned that the three young ladies would come to visit in the afternoon.

"Miss Xie can't come. She has returned to her hometown with her family to worship their ancestors. I'm afraid she won't be back until after the Lantern Festival.

Miss, you just got sick yesterday, I'm afraid you don't have the energy to deal with the three ladies, do you want me to reject the invitation?"

Lu Ningshuang picked out a red coral plum blossom hairpin from her dressing table and handed it to Bai Zhi. The bright plum blossoms suddenly blossomed on her hair, making her look even more cool and elegant.

"Don't refuse. I'm just feeling bored, so it would be nice to have them chat with me for a while.

As for Aunt Zhang, she asked her to prepare a list of the foods that her three sisters liked and disliked and send it to the two cooks in the small kitchen, asking them to make their signature snacks.

The leftovers can be distributed to the servants in the courtyard. Just one piece of Fuling can feed ten people."

Fuling, who was gently sweeping the Thirteen Li Nu double-sided embroidered screen with a feather duster, turned her head instantly, patted her chest, and smiled with her eyes narrowed into slits.

"Thank you, my lady! I will never let any food go to waste! Never!"

Bai Zhi shook her head and joked, "You're lucky you're following the young lady. With your appetite, if you were following other masters outside, you would have been sent away long ago."

Fuling scurried behind Lu Ningshuang and promised the fairy-like figure in the mirror:

"So, Fuling will be with Miss for the rest of her life!"

Lu Ningshuang waved to Fuling and said, "Squat down a little."

Fuling half squatted obediently.

Lu Ningshuang touched her newly-made bun and tied a mink hair band from the drawer on it. The capable maid suddenly turned into a soft girl.

Lu Ningshuang pinched her smooth face again and said jokingly:

"Lu Jin is coming back soon. What should I do if I don't have meat to eat secretly? Hmm?"

Although Lu Jin was out on a field trip, the items in his daily ration were still prepared and then pocketed by Fuling.

Lu Jin: Awooo! Why are you trying to snatch it from me?

"that……"

Fuling hunched his shoulders and smiled awkwardly, his big watery eyes rolling around.

"How did you know, young lady?"

"I am sick, not dead," Lu Ningshuang had only said half a sentence when the two maids shouted anxiously:

“Miss, hurry up, bah!

Don’t say unlucky words casually! "

"Well, phew!"

Lu Ningshuang frowned and said with difficulty some words that she thought were a bit dirty. Bai Zhi Fuling burst into laughter after hearing them.

"Okay, Fuling, I'm going to punish you by asking you to find me a bottle of poison. It doesn't matter what kind of poison it is."

"Miss, you don't want to..."

"You think too much."

"I promise to complete the task!"

Breakfast consisted of bird's nest almond porridge, fried dough sticks, noodle soup with shredded chicken, fish dumplings, and three-fresh spring rolls.

Lu Ningshuang gets tired of anything she eats easily, so in order to coax her to eat more, the three meals a day are relatively rich.

She only ate a mouthful of porridge, a fried dough stick, and two chopsticks of noodles, and gave the rest to the two maids.

Bai Zhi brought the medicine over and wanted to watch her drink it, but she urged her to move the boxes.

"Miss, you must remember to take your medicine!"

Before leaving, Bai Zhi looked back repeatedly. Lu Ningshuang agreed and turned around to pour it into the pine bonsai.

Then he closed his eyes and took a nap on the couch.

"Be gentle, don't break anything, and don't disturb the young lady."

A quarter of an hour later, Bai Zhi directed the servants in the yard to move the two large boxes that Lu Ningshuang had specifically requested to the tea room.

Lu Ningshuang opened her eyes and got down from the couch. The two boxes were carved from huanghuali wood. They were neither inlaid nor gilded. They were the most inconspicuous boxes in the warehouse.

Baizhi opened the lock and opened the lid.

One box of colorful things, the other box of jewels.

The colorful items are mainly textiles, such as handkerchiefs, sachets, headbands, hairbands, silk round fans and so on.

A small number of them were bought by others as gifts for Miss Lu Er, but most of them were hand-embroidered by young ladies from various families, and some were embroidered with the owner's exclusive mark.

Once released, half of the noble ladies in the city would lose their reputation. It was fortunate that Lu Er was a girl.

The jewels and gems are mainly gold and silver treasures, such as pure gold nine-linked rings, jade pendants, hairpins, bracelets, necklaces, rings, handbags made of filigree craft, and flutes made by contemporary masters.

Lu Ningshuang asked Bai Zhi to take a golden hook with a handle and rummage through the contents like she was cooking.

"Miss, please tell me what you are looking for.

All the gifts are recorded in the account book, you said I must know it."

Seeing that she had been busy for a long time and found nothing, and instead smashed a lot of things in the box, Bai Zhi couldn't help but ask.

Lu Ningshuang leaned half of her body forward, and the golden hook in her hand broke another gilded silver bag, muttering:

"I remember there were some junk I stole from my sister. How come I didn't find it?"

Bai Zhi was speechless. You stole more than one or two things from the young lady.

"The things that the young lady sent me have been put in another small box. Tell me what you want and I will go find it."

Lu Ningshuang recalled:

"It should have been embroidered by my sister herself. It's not finished yet. Its characteristic is that it's particularly ugly."

"I have a handkerchief with two chrysanthemum branches. Is that what you want?"

"A double-branched chrysanthemum handkerchief, what is that?"

Bai Zhi hesitated and said:

“I guess the young lady was planning to embroider a pair of lotus flowers, but she is not very good at needlework.

But the young lady was only seven years old at the time, so it was understandable, and it was definitely not intended to mock you."

Lu Ningshuang was walking around the boxes, swinging the Jiang Shuo family's jade pendant with a pán chi pattern in her hand.

“Okay, take out all the things my sister made and put them where they are easy to reach, I might need them.

The rest are classified and stored in the treasure box. "

He picked up a jade pendant with lotus and deer pattern and played with it, then asked Baizhi to take the box away.

Today is the second day of the Chinese New Year and it is snowing lightly.

Cuizhu, the first-class maid in Haitang Courtyard, came to ask if everyone wanted to accompany her for a reunion dinner, but Lu Ningshuang refused with her hands covering her lips.

"I will go and pay my respects to Mother in person tomorrow morning."

Cuizhu looked worried, "Second Miss, your health..."

"Ahem," Lu Ningshuang waved her hand and smiled, "It's not a good idea to stay in the room all the time. I can still walk around a mansion.

Tell mom to prepare my favorite food for me. I plan to go there for breakfast, and I won’t agree if I’m not included.”

"The second young lady's filial piety has touched me. Don't worry, my lady loves you the most.

But you still have to take care of your body, your health is the most important thing."

"I know."

"The slaves retire."

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