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

In an inconspicuous old courtyard in the capital.

"Master, Prince Chen just went to Prince Rui's Mansion."

I saw a well-dressed man in black kneeling on one knee in a dark room, looking back into the inner room. The thick gauze curtain inside blocked his sight, making it difficult to see the expressions of the people inside.

"Well, keep an eye on me and report anything in time, and be careful not to let them find out."

A cold male voice came from behind the gauze curtain.

"Yes! Master, I resign!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the man in black disappeared from the room. The man behind the gauze curtain was seen slowly getting up and sitting up from the couch. The slightly open skirt on his chest just exposed the fair complexion underneath.

"master……"

The charming girl with bare shoulders clung to the man's shoulder, her red lips came close to the man's ear, and she teased the man's hair and sensitive ear skin as she spoke.

"Business matters, do you understand?"

The man in rich clothes lifted the girl's chin and looked directly at her with a pair of sharp eyes, as if he wanted to look into her heart, unmoved by the teasing just now.

The girl stepped aside and rolled up the quilt on the bed to cover her body. She nodded firmly with eyes in her eyes:

"Master, when has the slave family ever let you down, but...you said that after things are done, will your words still count?"

The man sneered noncommittally, stood up and gathered his robe, stood up slowly, lifted the gauze curtain and walked towards the window. Looking at the dead branches in the yard swaying in the wind, the corners of his lips curled up. A faint smile.

At this time in Lu Mansion, Lu Qingqing had been vomiting wildly since she returned to her room, which frightened the two maids and they didn't know what to do. At this time, the door in the courtyard rang.

"What's going on, little junior sister?"

Lu Qingqing, who heard the commotion, slowly turned her head, pushed away Biyun who was waiting in front of her, and looked at the door. She saw Bai Moxuan wearing a snow satin brocade robe slowly walking towards her, with a touch of worry on his face.

"Hand out your hand, let me take a look!" Bai Moxuan's cold voice sounded, and he grabbed her right wrist without allowing her to refute.

When Lu Qingqing saw it was Senior Brother, she immediately raised her smile, but before it lasted for a while, an unnatural and panicked look appeared on her frightened face: "Senior Brother, I'm fine..."

She couldn't break free from her elder brother's hand. Looking at his elder brother, whose expression was getting worse and worse, she looked like a child who had done something wrong, lowering her head and peeking in her eyes.

"Hmph! Is this okay? Is it a good thing that Chu Haochen did?"

Bai Moxuan let go of her hand, his eyebrows furrowed tightly, and the indifferent expression on his face made Lu Qingqing instantly feel guilty.

"Elder brother, listen to me, this is what happened..."

Lu Qingqing winked at the two maids next to her, and they leaned over and exited the room knowingly.

Bai Moxuan's face didn't look much better after listening to her explanation. He just sighed helplessly and reached out to poke her forehead.

There was a hint of worry in his eyes.

"You! Why are you so confused? Does he know? You can't work any more today, otherwise the pregnancy will not be guaranteed!"

Lu Qingqing nodded in agreement after hearing what the senior brother said, saying that there might have been too many things going on in the past two days...

She also knew that the eldest brother was really worried about her and could only listen to his murmurs. Then she asked about her mother's health and took out the pills she had prepared for her and asked the eldest brother to bring them to her when he returned. .

"Okay, I can't stay long this time. I came here secretly to see you today. I'm going back soon. I'll see you again when I have the opportunity. I still have time to go back and see my mother. She's been talking about you all day long."

Bai Moxuan's words made her nose sore and her eyes filled with mist.

"Elder brother...I will tell my mother to take care of herself and wait until I go back to see her."

Bai Moxuan reluctantly comforted her, then stood up and said before leaving that someone would come to the house tomorrow to deliver something, and it was him and his mother who would deliver it.

"Ah? My mother gave it to me?"

Before she could continue to ask, Bai Moxuan raised his eyebrows and said, "She will know what it is tomorrow."

Looking at the back of Lu Qingqing who was running away, tears fell down in despair.

Xia Yun happened to walk in at this time, saw his master standing at the table crying, and quickly took two steps to come closer.

"Master, what's wrong with you? But what's wrong with you?"

Seeing Xia Yunshan sizing her up, Lu Qingqing took out her embroidered handkerchief and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

"Nothing, your master, I'm hungry, can you..."

Before she could finish her sentence, Xia Yun burst out laughing: "Master, you actually scared me. Don't worry, Biyun has already gone to the kitchen just now. I'm just afraid that Master is hungry."

As the master and servant talked, Biyun walked in with white fungus soup.

"You two are still considerate, well...Master, I'm already a little hungry."

Biyun chuckled and walked to the table carrying the tray: "I'm just afraid that the master is hungry, so this white fungus soup has already been warmed on the stove."

Xia Yun smiled and picked up the spoon and handed it to his master. The two of them breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that their master's appetite was much better recently than before.

In the past few days, several people were worried. They vomited after eating and always lost their appetite. Seeing their master losing weight, they were at their wits' end.

"Master, what do you want to eat? Can I cook it for you in the small kitchen in the yard?" Biyun asked.

Lu Qingqing quickly drank the whole white fungus soup, thinking about Biyun's words just now, and nodded gently.

“I happen to have the ingredients in my space, so I don’t need to cook it often, I can just cook it once or twice occasionally.”

She was also afraid that her grandmother and the others would find some clues, and she didn't know how busy Chu Haochen had been these past two days.

Since Huiniang and Tian'er left, Bao'er has been learning some pharmacology from her every day, and Ziyue and several maids have taken turns to guide her in Kung Fu.

Several people praised the girl as a prodigy in martial arts who could master everything at a glance.

She caressed her belly and raised the corners of her lips slightly. The two maids looked at their master in a daze again. They chuckled and picked up the sewing basket, came to the master's side, and began to sew some small clothes and quilts for the baby.

Seeing the two maids busy and serious, Lu Qingqing turned around, reached out and picked up the sewn brocade quilt, and looked at it carefully.

"Master, this is a quilt made for my little master. Can you take a look at it?"

Biyun put down the embroidery work in her hands and asked her master.

"Your craftsmanship is truly unparalleled! But on par with those embroiderers in the shop, staying with the master as a maid is really an inconvenience."

She said as she looked at the dense stitches on the quilt.

"This slave is unyielding. It is my blessing to be able to stay with my master. My master cannot drive this slave away. I will still want to help my master take care of his little master in the future!"

Xia Yun next to him also nodded repeatedly.