Daily life of the mistress

Chapter 183: Debt Collection at the Marquis' Mansion

Lu Lingjun was fiddling with an abacus in his own yard.
    The maids sat around her, embroidering clothes, tending to flowers and plants, or fanning her.

    "Why does our Master Cheng seem to be acting weird?" Xiao Wei said.

    "What's strange about that?"

    "Don't you think he is particularly concerned about his cousin's affairs?" Xiao Wei raised her head with a gossipy look on her face.

    "I feel the same way!" Xiao Tao said, "Look, last time, my cousin called him and Miss Huihui beggars, but he didn't get angry. He even came to the rescue of my cousin."

    "No way," Xiao Rui shook her head and said seriously, "I think the Second Master is kind-hearted and doesn't care about Miss Cousin. Look at him taking the initiative to help today. Which master would do such a thing?"

    "If he is kind and enthusiastic, why doesn't he help you fetch water? Help you with the chores!"

    "That's right. Last time you went to the outer courtyard to pass on a message, I didn't even bother to invite you for tea!"

    Xiao Rui blushed, "How can I compare with my cousin!"

    "Why not? According to what you said, I can help my cousin deliver things, but I can't help you fetch water!"

    "If it were you, I would ask Second Master why he was so enthusiastic but didn't help our Xiao Rui!"

    "That's right, I'll ask you later."

    "You are so bad!" Xiao Rui couldn't argue with a group of people. She blushed and went to Lu Lingjun to complain, shaking her arm, "Madam, look at them!"

    Lu Lingjun, who was fiddling with the abacus beads at the side, smiled softly, "That's enough, you talkative girls. If you keep talking, Xiaorui will make my abacus beads go crazy, and then there will be no one to help me recount the accounts."

    As soon as she finished speaking, the maids around her all laughed.

    Xiao Rui pouted, "Madam, you are also bad, you bully others too!"

    When a group of people were talking and laughing, the nanny came to report.

    "Madam, someone is outside asking for a debt!"

    "Debt collection? Whose debt?" Lu Lingjun stopped smiling and looked at the nanny strangely.

    "It's someone from the gambling house. They said it's a debt to our mansion! They're here to ask us for money!"

    "Who owes the money?" Lu Lingjun became more and more curious as he listened.

    "The man who is on the hook is called Du Tai. He said his sister is the most favored concubine in the Ningyang Marquis's mansion! All the debts are on Concubine Du's head!"

    Lu Lingyun: "......"

    Small lotus courtyard.

    Du Ruo had a rare two days of free time.

    Her brother didn't look for her again, and she had been getting very close to Cheng Yunshuo these days.

    Every night, she would act like a spoiled child and ask Cheng Yunshuo to feed her and give her water. Cheng Yunshuo would always say a few words about why she never grew up, and then he would go along with her and spoil her.

    Du Ruoke likes to hear Cheng Yunshuo say that she will never grow up.

    It felt like being held in his palm.