"The second master is not there?"

At the door of Xia Yu Pavilion, Mama Dong carried a carved food box and asked the maid who guarded the door softly.

The maid said respectfully: "Back to Mama, this time the second master went to the front yard, it should be in the study, and the second lady is alone." ”

After speaking, the maid looked left and right, stepped forward half a step, approached Mama Dong's ear, and said softly: "The second master and the second lady quarreled again, I faintly heard the sound of the second master throwing things, and the second lady's crying." ”

Mama Dong nodded, "Can the aunts inside stop?"

The maid shook her head slightly, "The second master just used a girl yesterday, no, the slave maid said it wrong, it was Aunt Xin, the second master said that Xiyuan couldn't live, so he asked Aunt Xin to live in the west wing of the second lady's East Garden, and the other aunts were also ready to move when they saw it." ”

The old lady still had a faint smile on her face, and raised her hand to stuff a piece of broken silver to the maid.

"Alright, you're doing a good job, just staring. ”

The maid took it happily and was blessed, "Mama Xie." ”

"Okay, I'll go to the study in the front yard to find the second master. ”

Xiao Erye's study planted a canna, a few days ago it was only up to a person's calf, after a rain, it suddenly soared, and now it is half a person high.

Xiao Erye sat in the chair in the study, staring at a piece of paper in his hand with a gloomy face.

"Second master?"

The little guy showed his head outside the window.

"The little one saw Mama Dong coming over here, it looks like she came to find you, do you want to see you?"

Second Master Xiao pondered for a moment, nodded, folded the paper in his hand and put it in the drawer, turned his head and took an account book and flipped it up.

"Second master, Mama Dong is here. ”

"Come in, please. ”

Seeing Mama Dong enter the door, Second Master Xiao put down the upside-down account book in his hand and stood up with a peaceful expression.

"Why do you have time to come? Come in and sit. ”

"Second master, are you busy, the old slave didn't disturb your business, right?"

Mama Dong smiled lovingly.

The smile on Second Master Xiao's face was a little sincere, "How come?" I welcome Mama here to wait." ”

Mama Dong smiled and bowed, "The second master is polite, and the old slave is grateful." ”

As he spoke, he put the food box in his hand on the carved table on the side.

"You have been busy for a while, the old lady can't see you, so she has been thinking about your body, I heard that you are in the house today, specially asked the small kitchen to make a few small dishes you love to eat, while the big kitchen has not yet been cooked, ask me to bring it over, make up for you. ”

Second Master Xiao sat on the side of the small few and nodded, "Tell my mother to bother, Mama Lao will take a trip." ”

The little maid brought tea and served a cup on the side.

"Sit down and have a cup of tea. ”

"Don't dare, don't dare, how dare the old slave trespass. ”

As she spoke, Mama Dong took out the side dishes in the food box, the porcelain plate of mandala flowers is the unique color of Songbai Yuan, a plate of stir-fried duck gizzards, a plate of braised tripe, a plate of pine flower mandarin fish, and a plate of seasonal green leafy vegetables.

It is indeed Xiao Erye's preference.

Second Master Xiao looked at the purple mandala flowers on the plate, his expression moved slightly, and he looked at Mama Dong and said: "Mama, although you didn't watch me grow up, but since you were by your mother's side, you have helped me a lot, I remember it, Mama, you are my aunt, my aunt, what is there between us, you just sit down and accompany me to have a meal, chat a few words, okay?"

Mama Dong's expression showed a slight hesitation.

Second Master Xiao added, "Please, Mama." ”

"Well, the old slave will trespass on it once today. ”

Second Master Xiao said happily: "I know that Mama is good to me, come, bring another pair of dishes and chopsticks." ”

Mama Dong was on the other side of the small table and sat emptyly.

The little guy quickly brought up the dishes and chopsticks, blue and white porcelain, thin and transparent, and valuable and valuable.

Xiao Erye picked up the bowl and chopsticks sent by Mama Dong, pointed at the two blooming mandala flowers at the bottom of the bowl with chopsticks, and asked with a smile: "Mama, since I was a child, I have seen that the porcelain in my mother's yard uses this color, and I still don't know what kind of flower it is?"

Mama Dong smiled and said, "Speaking of this, the old slave also made a joke." ”

"What's wrong?"

"When the old slave first came, he thought it was a tweed tweed, which made the old lady laugh so much, but the eldest lady solved the old slave's confusion, this is a mandala flower. ”

"Eldest lady, sister-in-law?" Second Master Xiao looked at her quietly.

Mama Dong nodded, "When the old slave was a child, he learned some fur medicine skills from the barefoot doctor in the village, and he could only treat people, and he didn't understand these poisonous things at all. ”

Second Master Xiao nodded, "Sister-in-law is very knowledgeable, and I have never heard of any mandala." ”

"The old slave heard that the eldest lady's maiden home Hezhou, there is a small island, the island is rich in mandalas, every household grows this flower, not to mention this purple, pink, red, green any color, different colors of the flower belt toxicity is not the same, the people on the island will refine this mandala, can refine a large pot of flowers into a small ball, the toxicity is great. ”

Second Master Xiao was silent.

Mama Dong coughed lightly in embarrassment, "Second master, I'm sorry, the old slave is studying medicine, and when he talks about this herb, he can't stop." ”

"It's okay, I've followed you for a long time, if you don't say it, I think it's a trumpet flower. ”

Second Master Xiao smiled kindly, looking like a Confucian businessman.

"Mama, I recently met an old slave in our house, who was poor, he asked me about a person in the house, saying that he owed him silver, and he never paid it back, I listened to the person he inquired about a little familiar, I don't know if Mama has heard of it?"

Mama Dong looked at him seriously, "Tell me, the old slave has been in the house for more than ten years, and in the face of the old lady, I know a lot of old people." ”

"He said that he was called Mrs. Rong, and he meant it as if this Mrs. Rong used to serve in my eldest brother's yard before. ”

Mama Dong looked aware, her eyebrows stretched, "She, it's a coincidence, the old slave really knows." Mrs. Rong, we call her Mama Rong, she turned out to be the nurse of the eldest lady, who watched the eldest lady grow up, and later married into our Xiao family,"

"Oh, that's what happened, no wonder, I just feel familiar, but I can't remember which one?"

Second Master Xiao took a bite of tripe and asked casually: "Why did she leave the Xiao family later?" Our Xiao family is not the unconscionable patron, even if she is old, she will be given her a pension. ”

"Oh, this old slave didn't know, she was in a hurry at that time, and the old slave had a good relationship with her, and she didn't come to say hello before leaving, and suddenly returned to her hometown. ”

Mama Dong took a sip of tea, "This Mama Rong, I grew up on that island when I was a child, and I only came out of the island when I got married, and my life was also bitter, and my husband treated her badly, the family was poor, and beat her, and she also took her dowry to raise prostitutes, and her mother-in-law not only didn't care, but also asked her to take out her dowry to marry daughters-in-law for other sons, and if she didn't listen, she would be beaten, alas, pitiful." ”

"Mama, you eat. ”

Xiao Erye pointed to the plate of pine flower mandarin fish, "This fish is good and tender." ”

"Hey, hey, Second Master Xie. ”

Mama Dong implicitly pinched a pair of chopsticks and tasted it.

Second Master Xiao also grabbed a pair of chopsticks, "What about later?"

Mama Dong hurriedly put down her chopsticks.

Later, she died suddenly for some reason, and her mother-in-law and brother-in-law snatched her dowry and divided it, she happened to have just given birth to a son at that time, and she took her son away in a fit of anger, and she was also lucky, so she went to the eldest lady's house to be a nurse. ”

Second Master Xiao raised his eyebrows, "Is there such a thing?"

Mama Dong nodded, "Yes, in this world, the wicked are in charge, but ah, people are doing it, the sky is watching, and it is also retribution, Mama Rong's husband's family doesn't know what evil she has done, there are six or seven sons in the family, and one of Mama Rong's daughters-in-law gave birth to a son and took it away, and the rest of the daughters-in-law, let alone sons, even didn't give birth to a daughter, and the family has been extinct ever since." ”