kvmb Chapter 177
Chapter 177
Su Zhizhou's face darkened and he asked in a deep voice, "How did you do it?" He was about to throw the teacup in his hand at the maid, but suddenly he seemed to remember something and turned to look at Minister Lu and Miss Lu.
Minister Lu seemed not to notice Su Zhizhou's gaze, and continued to sip tea and eat food as if nothing had happened.
The maid was so frightened that she immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Please spare my life, Master, please spare my life, Miss, please spare my life..."
Seeing that the porcelain plate that was supposed to hit Guo Xin was actually thrown at Su Zhizhou, Lu Jinshu stared at the maid on the ground, and after a moment, he said, "How did you do it? Have you forgotten the rules of your family?"
Guo Xin watched the little maid kneeling on the ground start to tremble after hearing Lu Jinshu's words, and the sound of her forehead hitting the ground became louder.
She looked at the little maid on the ground, and saw that no one at the table spoke for the little maid. She saw the maid's forehead turn from blue to purple, and finally she couldn't bear it.
"I don't think this maid has done anything wrong, so let's just let it go."
Lu Jinshu looked at Guo Xin, put down his chopsticks, snorted coldly and said, "Miss Guo is really kind-hearted. Who knows whether the maid did it on purpose or accidentally? But if you want to let the maid go, forget it."
Guo Xin looked down at the maid kneeling on the ground, carefully recalling the original scene. It seemed that the maid had deliberately rushed towards her, but she dodged out of instinct.
The balance in his heart swayed, but he still said, "You should go out first. You are disturbing our quiet meal here."
The maid kowtowed repeatedly to express her gratitude and carefully picked up the broken pieces of porcelain plate on the ground. Before leaving, she glanced at Lu Jinshu's face again and only retreated after seeing that he had no reaction.
For a moment, the only sound in the private room was the bubbling of the hot pot.
Guo Xin had been paying attention to the maid's eyes and movements. Seeing that she looked at Lu Jinshu many times, and thinking of Lu Jinshu's words just now, she understood that the maid was ordered by him to smash the porcelain plate at her.
But if the maid had thrown the porcelain plate in the direction she did, it would only have hurt her ankle. However, she was only meeting the daughter of the Lu family for the first time, so how could she anger this young lady?
While thinking about it, I heard Lu Jinshu say, "I heard that Miss Guo was favored by the Sixth Prince because of her cooking skills, so I was very curious and followed her. But who would have thought that the maid was so blind and ruined everyone's fun."
The Sixth Prince? It was because of him that the daughter of the Lu family was so hostile to her.
"When it comes to cooking, I am only good at novelty, but I cannot compare to the old masters in the palace. Besides, the hot pot in front of me can be considered as my own, after all, the secret recipes and dishes were all developed by me."
Lu Jinshu: "Everyone says hot pot is novel, but now I see it's not really novel at all. How can it be..."
Before he finished speaking, Minister Lu said, "The meal is almost finished now. You two girls can continue chatting. I will go and discuss official business with Magistrate Su first."
Su Zhizhou echoed: "That's right."
But he felt that something was wrong with the scene. The girl in front of him was the general's granddaughter, who had not yet been officially included in the family tree, but had already been loved by many parties. One of them was the daughter of the aristocratic family Lu, and the other was sitting next to her, her uncle who was the Minister of War.
If he continued to stay here, it might bring disaster to the fish pond. Now that Minister Lu had spoken, he naturally had to leave quickly.
Seeing the two of them leave, Lu Jinshu smiled again and said, "Why don't you go with them to discuss political affairs? You are a rare think tank in Dazhao. If you don't go, wouldn't it be a waste of your talent? Or is the strategy you offered someone else's strategy?"
Seeing that Lu Jinshu had been chasing him, Guo Xin sighed and said, "If this is the case, I would be guilty of deceiving the emperor. Why would I risk my life?"
After a pause, he looked at Lu Jinshu and said leisurely, "But it seems that I just met Miss Jinshu for the first time. I wonder why you have been holding on to me? Is it because of a person?"
After saying that, he looked at Lu Jinshu with interest, without any sign of annoyance caused by the entanglement on his face.
Lu Jinshu, who had always been aggressive, fell silent when she saw Guo Xin like this. Her years of education made her realize that this problem was not as simple as it seemed.
After closing his eyes and waking up, he said gently, "Why would I embarrass Miss Guo? I'm just curious about what life is like for a female hero in Dazhao. How is it different from us women who are raised in seclusion?"
Guo Xin looked at Lu Jinshu and was somewhat surprised. The rich young lady in front of him was not at all like the extremely willful young lady raised by a noble family as described in the books of his previous life.
Although he lost his mind a little at first, he was able to react instantly when he was asked questions. He also remembered what Lu Jinshu boasted about himself when they met just now. Now it seems that he does have some talent.
Guo Xin raised his eyebrows and looked at her: "How am I different from you? This may be worth your time to discover. Maybe we are different, or maybe we are the same."
Lu Jinshu was stunned, then suddenly smiled: "I do know one difference. You are the granddaughter of the general, but you grew up in a farmer's family as a child, and you were a girl who never bound your feet."
Su Jin behind him immediately looked at Guo Xin worriedly. In Dazhao, women who did not bind their feet were regarded as inferior, and only women who needed to work would not bind their feet.
Gradually, whether a woman bound her feet became a symbol of noble status. Many families would marry their daughters off to wealthy families in the future, and would bind their feet regardless of whether they had to work or not.
Recently, she often follows her master, so she is able to know such private matters of her master.
The master suffered a lot when he was young, and now he has finally found his family and is enjoying some blessings in this life. How can he be laughed at just because of a mere big foot?
So regardless of his status and breaking the rules, he stood up, looked at Lu Jinshu firmly and said, "I don't know where you heard this rumor from, whether it's true or false, you can't look down on women who haven't bound their feet."
"Although they did not bind their feet, they were able to walk through every field in the mountains and feel the changes in the mountains and rivers. Those women who bound their feet were trapped by their noble status and lost the opportunity to feel the vastness of the world."
Guo Xin closed his mouth, which had just opened, with the corners of his mouth raised, and looked at Su Jin with some surprise.
"Tsk, you're just a servant, and your feet must not be bound. Naturally, I'm defending those of you who don't have bound feet." Lu Jinshu looked at Su Jin without scolding him, but his tone became weaker and weaker.
Then he looked at Guo Xin and said, "No matter whether you have bound feet or not, you are not officially recognized as a member of the General's Mansion."
The double entendre seemed to remind Guo Xin of something.