Blissful Days After Widowhood - Chapter 324

Mrs. Wang went to the inner room where she found Gu Yin lying on the bed neatly dressed. She was covered with a quilt, and there was a satisfied smile on her face. 

Thinking back to the appearance of her eldest son like a shy little daughter-in-law just now, Mrs. Wang always felt that something was wrong. 

Wu Qingyi walked out of the backyard quickly, and when the cold wind blew, the temperature on his face dropped. 

In the study in the front yard, his servant had fallen asleep waiting.

He didn’t call him and went to the clean room to take a bath. 

When he entered the house with a wet body, the servant sitting on the low stool rubbed his eyes and woke up. 

“I’ll help wash the general’s face with water,” the boy said, and was about to light the lamp. 

“No need!” Wu Qingyi immediately shouted to stop, and then explained, “I have bathed.” 

“General, you always like to bathe in cold water, and use hot water to wipe your face comfortably!” 

“I really don’t need it.” Wu Qingyi held the person down, “I really don’t need it, I won’t need it now.” 

The little servant didn’t say anything more, but thought it was strange.

Was the general’s face inlaid with gold?

 …… 

Gu Yin slept until it was bright and woke up. 

After waking up, her temples were aching, she rubbed the acupoints and got up, only to find that she was holding a mask in the other hand. A silver mask belonging to Wu Qingyi. 

She recalled carefully, but her memory was only till Mrs. Wang helped remove her slippers to soak her feet after returning home. 

She got up in the same room, and Mrs. Wang came in and said with a smile, “The most diligent person in our family has become a slacker today! Wu’an and Xiao Ye both came to see you in the morning, and you didn’t wake up at all. How much did you drink?” 

Gu Yin smiled embarrassedly, “I really didn’t drink much yesterday, but I tasted a little bit of everything. Maybe I drank a lot, so I got drunk later.” 

Gu Yin handed the mask to Mrs Wang. “Qingyi’s mask has fallen, help me give it to him.” 

Mrs. Wang said, “Today is the day of the court. He left home early. When he comes back in the evening, you can give it to him yourself.” 

After saying that, Mrs. Wang asked someone to bring the hangover soup and let her drink it before taking a shower.

By the time Gu Yin finished bathing, half of the morning had passed. 

Mrs. Wang said that already informed Manager Zhou. Gu Yin thought that Second Madam Wen and the others drank more than she did, so they shouldn’t be coming over in the morning, so she simply gave herself a half-day leave. 

Later, Mrs. Wang asked someone to re-prepare a morning meal, and Gu Yin sat beside Mrs. Wang. 

Mrs. Wang hadn’t been so dependent on her for a long time. Seeing her pinching her brows from time to time, she asked the maid to stand behind her and massage her, while she helped Gu Yin with snacks and porridge. 

Wu Zhong watched from the side, and said with humor, “Da Ya is an adult, old lady, but you still want to feed her?!”

Her daughter-in-law just drank a little wine and had a headache, but she was so careful. He never enjoyed that kind of treatment. 

Mrs. Wang said, “I’m happy, why do you care?” 

Gu Yin nodded and said, “I’m also happy to let my mother feed me.” 

Then she pointed to the dim sum on the table, opened her mouth, and Mrs. Wang was really feeding the dim sum into her mouth. 

After feeding her, Mrs Wang changed her pair of chopsticks again, took a snack and brought it to Wu Zhong’s mouth, and then said, “Eat, don’t you want me to feed you?” 

“When did I say that?” Wu Zhong blushed, but still took Mrs. Wang’s hand and ate the snack. 

After breakfast, Gu Yin asked about the situation at home. 

In the past, she had been busy with the opening of the third floor, and she really didn’t take care of the family’s affairs. So it was no wonder that some people speculated that the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were incompatible. 

“I am home, so nothing happened. We purchased the New Year’s goods, and the New Year’s new clothes for you are almost ready,” Mrs. Wang said, but then frowned. 

Gu Yin knew there was something going on when she saw her like that, so she asked, “Don’t lie to me, mother. I’m all done with my work, let’s discuss if we have some issues.”. Wang said, “With that old woman, I pulled out a long list of people and kicked them out in one go. But our family still has 70 or 80 servants… I have been busy with this recently, and I have asked some of them who wanted to go to reunite with their family, and sent off a doze So there are still 60 or 70 people left.” There were only so many people, and most of them had their own affairs to be busy with. They were not the ones who were idle in the mansion. Moreover, Wu Zhong and Wu Qingyi also had a group of their own confidants. 

In the past, there were many females in the palace, so there were mostly maids. Among the sixty or seventy people, there were thirty or forty maids alone. 

Wu Zhong and Wu Qingyi did not need maids to serve them, so those people could only serve Gu Yin and Mrs. Wang. 

If that was spread evenly, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law would have twenty maids each. 

“Oh, they are all pitiful people.” Mrs. Wang said softly, “I have already asked. These girls have their own difficulties and they were all sold by their families. The original master of the palace bought them from Renyazi. They only do the work of serving people, and they have no other strengths, so everyone is very delicate, and if this was released, there may be something wrong.” 

That was really difficult. 

As they were talking, they heard a lot of footsteps outside.