Rebirth: Pampered by the Lord
Chapter 823 - Chapter 823: Chapter 823 Situtu Qinger

Chapter 823: Chapter 823 Situtu Qinger

A group of people came over, holding lanterns and making a ruckus.

Situ Qinger knew it was Situ Yongjie who had come over, but pretended not to see and continued ordering the maids to knock hard on the gates.

“Qinger, it’s the dead of night; why aren’t you asleep? What are you doing here?” Behind her, the angry voice of Situ Yongjie reached her ears.

Only then did Situ Qinger turn around, with a somewhat surprised look as if she really had just seen Situ Yongjie for the first time: “Father, why have you come?”

“Have the nerve to ask, isn’t it because you woke me up?” Every day in the late night he had to get up early for the morning court, and while he was lying on the bed, just about to fall asleep, he vaguely heard noisy disturbances, so he got out of bed and brought the servants along to find out what was going on.

“Father, your daughter only did this out of necessity.”

“Then explain, what necessity?”

“It’s all because eldest sister is stingy to death, she wouldn’t even buy rose petals that I’ve always used since I was little. I came here to talk to her about it. Who knew that after knocking for so long, there’d be no reaction from inside? I was worried that something had happened to her. Otherwise, with such a loud knocking, it’s impossible not to hear.” Situ Qinger said, pretending to be concerned.

“Wasted, you being a lady of a respectable family, making a fuss over a few rose petals, what kind of behavior is this?” Situ Yongjie first scolded her, then worriedly asked, “You’re saying there was no response inside?”

“Indeed, father was awoken from so far away, yet not a single person from Qingyuo Pavilion has come out. Who knows what has happened to them?”

Upon hearing this, Situ Yongjie also felt that something was amiss, and was about to order the servants to continue knocking when–

“Creak!”

The door opened without warning.

Xuexue, wearing only a thin undergarment with her hair in disarray, appeared, her voice filled with sleepy irritation: “Will you ever be done, after knocking for so long, you still knock? You might as well tear down Qingyuo Pavilion’s gate, to save me from having to get up to attend to you.”

“Eldest sister?” Situ Qinger was startled for a moment. Wasn’t it said that she wasn’t in the residence and had gone out?

“Second sister, is your brain broken? In the middle of the night, instead of sleeping, you come here to scream and wail, what for?”

“Oh! I ran out of rose petals for my bath, so I came to ask you about it!” Disappointed, Situ Qinger quickly tried to revive her spirits as she replied.

Xuexue glanced at Situ Yongjie: “Father, you have to manage your second daughter. She is becoming more and more unreasonable, not to mention the expensive price of rose petals, which can’t be used for bathing every day. Moreover, it’s late at night; to bathe at this time is simply torturous.”

Situ Yongjie also thought it made sense and said: “Qinger, listen to your elder sister, don’t bathe so late at night, just make do for one evening.”

Yes, dames bathing was quite a production, for there wasn’t a designated place to bathe, but only a very large wooden tub that needed to be placed inside the boudoir, shielded by a folding screen, and then servants would pour hot water into the tub bucket by bucket.

It took about half a tub of water to start bathing.

As the hostess bathes, maids would have to keep adding hot water.

And the large wooden tub for bathing would require several servants to lift and carry it.

Hence, a lady’s bathing was indeed a major event that entailed much ado.

Not having caught Xuexue in a fault, Situ Qinger was not in the mood to pester any longer, so she simply took her maids and left.

Xuexue: “Father, you should also go back to rest early, you have morning court tomorrow!”

Situ Yongjie: “Alright! You head to sleep earlier too.”