Time flows quietly.

Four months have passed in the blink of an eye.

Early in the morning, the dumb aunt got up early as usual, and after freshening up, she was going to Wanji.

Before leaving, Liu Xue suddenly shouted: "Little sister-in-law, you have to wash my hair before you go, my head is itching badly." ”

The dumb aunt put a hat on her head, grabbed a large embroidered cloth bag and left, "How about the evening, I made an appointment with a pregnant woman today, she came from a long way, and the family has no money, so it is not easy, so it can't be delayed-Xue'er is the most obedient-"

Xue'er pouted: "I'm busy every day - I'm busy to death!"

Qiao's mother carried a plate of hot steamed buns, "Oh girl, you eat and then leave, didn't you say that it is important to eat breakfast, but you often don't care about eating yourself-you said that you are always so busy in order to make money, but you don't dare to exhaust your body-"

The dumb aunt hurriedly laughed: "Okay, okay, can't I eat one-" Reached out and grabbed two small steamed buns from the plate, and stuffed them into her mouth as she strode forward.

Just trotted away in a hurry.

Liu Xue rolled her eyes: "It's okay if my sister-in-law doesn't love Brother Wan, now I don't even care about Xue'er, I don't love it-"

Bai Chen touched Liu Xue's head, "Auntie help you wash it-"

The two of them washed their hair under the plum tree, Bai Chen rubbed his hair while drenching his hair, and saw that Qiao's mother was busy taking care of the two children, the children learned to walk, and they were more naughty than before.

Fu'er staggered over and reached out to carry the basin.

Bai Chen raised his slap to scare, Fu'er cried, twisted his fleshy steps and walked away.

Bai Chen's anger puffed up, "You said that your family is true, in the past, every time I came, I always saw that everything in your house had a beginning and an end neatly, the master can be gracious and powerful, and the subordinates can strictly abide by the rules. But now, how long has my sister been gone, and you have become like this! Look at your sister-in-law, a child daughter-in-law, who is becoming more and more unruly, running out of the house all day long, showing up to see what kind of illness and making money, does it be that the livelihood in such a big mansion has to be supported by her little woman to earn money? And you, the upright young lady, there are not many girls waiting for you, but you have to endure the itchy scalp like this-"

Liu Xue twisted her neck: "Auntie, don't you just wash my hair, why do you have so many complaints? The little sister-in-law is not easy, you don't see that she works so hard to earn money every day——"

"If you are a woman, you should keep the way of women. Especially a woman from a big family like us, she should not go out of the door, and your lord is really able to pretend to close his eyes and not see! You said that your sister-in-law ran out every day, but it was someone from the Liu family who lost it!"

Liu Xue really doesn't like to listen to it: "Sister-in-law, didn't she wear a hat, she took a carriage when she went out, who could see her face, besides, she had already promised her father, and she did it, she didn't go to the doctor, and only saw a doctor and delivered the baby in Wanji." At the beginning, no one really wanted to go to their store to give birth, since the Wu family lady at the west gate gave birth at home and died, and Wang Sanlang's daughter-in-law in Dongcheng gave birth to triplets because she was sent to Wanji, no, the people in the whole Lingzhou Mansion were sensational, and now many people are willing to go to Wanji to give birth, and even several servants of the government are willing to find a sister-in-law to see a doctor and deliver the baby. Unless those brains who have problems here, they hold on to prejudice and don't let go, hmph, so it's not their sisters who suffer in the end. ”

Liu Xue said and raised her finger to point at the door of her head.

Angry, Bai Chen raised his hand and slapped her hand down: "Uneducated child! I'm really worried that if you follow her like this, how can you marry in the future, and which family will marry such an uneducated woman as you!"

was so angry that Liu Xue simply shook off Bai Chen's hand and didn't let her help wash her hair.

Bai Chen was even more angry, and was just about to start a gentle and frugal teaching to this niece, when a maid entered the corner courtyard, "Auntie, okay, our second aunt and wife please come over." ”

Bai Chen's face was strange when he saw this girl, but the second aunt was too invited, there must be something, so he hurriedly wiped Liu Xue's wet hair, "Xue'er will stand in the sun first and ask the sun to bask in the sun, and I will come back immediately to help you comb it." ”

Liu Xue snorted, "You can go, I don't have to worry about you." ”

Bai Chen turned his head and glared at her: "You wait-come back and take you to your master, I don't believe that he can see his daughter lose her education at a young age." After saying that, he got up and hurried to the middle courtyard.

The flowers and trees in the middle courtyard are flourishing, the yard is full of flowers, the fragrance is fragrant, entering the courtyard door makes people feel comfortable all over, Bai Chen couldn't help but take a deep breath, remembering his own yard in Qingzhou Mansion, there is also such a big yard, there is also such a garden, the flowers in the garden are far more precious than the rare and precious in front of them, now I think about it is really like a dream, but unfortunately I can't go back, she can't help but feel sad, and I am afraid that people will see it, so I endured the discomfort and entered the main house.

The second aunt in the house sat upright and looked at Bai Chen with a smile.

She didn't even get up to greet her, but just watched Bai Chen enter the door, and then motioned for Yahuan to move an embroidery stool over.

Bai Chen's family had never suffered such contempt since she entered the door of this Liu Mansion, and she was suddenly a little annoyed in her heart, but she was well cultivated and did not reveal it.

"Sister-" The second aunt smiled too much, watching Yahuan hand a cup of tea to Bai Chen's hand, and then slowly spoke, "Invite my sister here today, I really have something to discuss with my sister." My sister is a real person, and I'm also a straightforward person, so I said it directly, and asked my sister not to be surprised-"

Bai Chen was shocked in his heart, this second aunt has always been a well-mannered and generous person, what happened today?

"My sister has been in our house for three months, and in these three months, the food, clothing, housing and transportation of your group of nine people are exactly the same as our family, and you dare not be contemptuous in the slightest. If you want to talk about the relationship between my sister and our house, it is a flesh and blood relative, not to mention when our eldest wife was alive, now the eldest lady is gone, but we don't dare to snub her own sister's family. It's just that sister, you don't know, now our family is really struggling to make a living, and it looks like how rich it looks on the outside, but in fact, it's already empty. ”

Bai Chen's family has been in charge of the family when she was in the Bai family, although she is not very good at managing it, but she also knows the depth of the taste, she observed coldly, the furnishings in the second aunt's house are not as simple as when her sister was alive, the same Boshan furnace burns with green clay incense, the same exquisite dim sum in the bleeding glazed porcelain plate to build a delicate small tower mountain, the same embroidered satin bedside curtain, and then look at the second aunt's body, light white nine purple thick bottom skirt, light blue nine purple thick jacket, a plum blossom-shaped white jade hanging on the chest, earrings, headdress, Bracelets and rings, should be eaten and worn, and the degree of clothing is not lost to the former sister.

Thinking of the scene of the corner courtyard again, it seems that I don't have to worry about food and clothing, but compared with the front of me, it is still shabby.

She sighed in her heart, that dumb aunt is also a stupid child, and the power of the family has been handed over to this one, although this second aunt looks very peaceful and does things generously and fairly, but where is it more useful than holding the power in her own hands.

The second aunt in front of me suddenly invited herself, and she cried poor when she opened her mouth, what was the intention?

Bai Chen suddenly felt a little nervous, and his heart was very empty. I have a hunch that people are going to say something.

Sure enough, the second aunt coughed too much, "Sister, it's been four months since you came, and in these four months, the nine of you, plus a few people who have been allocated to your lord to serve, your expenses and silver, the dumb aunt she only gave three months, and now she owes it for a month, and we won't mention what you already owe, after all, you are a close relative, I can only quietly fill this hole for you with my own money." It's just that how to live in the future, I have to ask my sister to say something clear, and my sister has a plan in my heart. As for the dumb aunt, I don't know if she forgot to pay the money for you on a monthly basis, or if she was really struggling to earn money and didn't have enough money—"

Bai Chen was stunned, "What kind of money? Why didn't you say that the dumb aunt didn't hand it over......?"

The second aunt nodded: "That's right, you live in the house, and the dumb aunt pays you for all the food and clothing, and she asked me not to let you know." It's just that when she can pay the money, we can talk about everything, but now it's suddenly broken, and I can't ask her, so I can only ask my sister to discuss a way. ”

Bai Chen's face was pale, and he muttered: "She, she actually quietly paid for the food expenses for our family-she-she-she ran out early every morning to earn money, and she didn't even have time to eat a good bite of breakfast-she ......"

Saying that, he got up, "I understand, don't be embarrassed, the livelihood in the house is difficult, and we can't support the extra population of our family in vain. I'll talk to my lord about it. ”

The second aunt didn't stop her, and got up to send her off.

Bai Chen walked out of the corner courtyard, his body was trembling, and he went straight to find her husband Bai Yulin. Since entering Liufu, she has lived in the corner courtyard, and her body has slowly improved under the care of her dumb aunt, but she is too lazy to move in with Bai Yulin, away from him and those troublesome aunts and wives, she feels pure in her heart.

Bai Yulin lived in a separate courtyard next to the study, which was used as a guest residence by the Liu family.

Bai Chen pushed the door in, and ran into the third aunt's hand in her waist, and scolded in mid-air: "Chengtian's family is this tofu, green vegetables, and green vegetables and tofu, and the intestines are so bad that you don't want to come out of a big man's family-look at your unproductive appearance, you have no money to spend and steal my jewelry and take it out, that's my mother's dowry!"

It was Bai Yulin who was scolded, he squatted on the threshold, with a helpless look, "Noisy and noisy, you know how to complain all day long, since you are a white resident who eats people under the fence, you will live obediently - as long as you survive this time, wait for the court to rehabilitate our father, and then we can go back to our own home, don't you still wear gold and silver to eat and drink when you go back?"

"Go back?" the third aunt took a sip, "You have relied on your father to eat all your life, and now that he has fallen, you are not angry, and you still expect a dead father to earn you glory and wealth again?"

Bai Yulin suddenly stood up and slapped the third aunt in the face.

The next scene is naturally a wolf crying and a ghost howling for a long time.

Bai Chen stood at the door and watched this scene quietly, no longer entered the door, turned around and left sullenly.

A girl had already followed and saw this scene, turned around and ran back to the middle courtyard to see the second aunt.

"It's okay, let this eldest lady of the Bai family, who doesn't touch the spring water with her ten fingers, pampered and pampered, and doesn't know that it is not easy to make a living in the world, she thinks that their family is comfortable in our house, and it is all because of the master's affection for her dead sister? Hmph, now she should understand that it is the dumb aunt who is quietly supporting her behind her back, she is good, she eats and drinks every day and looks at this and that is not pleasing to the eye - purely full of food and support. ”

After dinner, the dumb aunt came to the middle courtyard to say goodbye.

The second aunt took the dumb aunt's hand, "I gave her a little color today, and she happened to bump into her husband and aunts arguing for their livelihood." I guess she will look at you much more pleasing to the eye in the future. ”

The dumb aunt smiled playfully: "Thank you second aunt for hugging me upset." No wonder I came back today and she greeted me at the door, and brought me food with her own hands, staring at me and asking me to eat a big bowl of rice in one go, and said that I had lost weight during this time, and should have a good rest, I was wondering, why did she suddenly treat me so well, is the sun coming out of the stove. ”

The second aunt smiled too happily: "Bad girl, this mouth is very bad! But people are indeed cheap embryos, so Bai Chen thinks that our master still has a lot of kinship for them, these days I am more and more unaccustomed to your behavior, and I actually arrange behind my back every day, if it weren't for Qian'er to hear me, I would have been in the dark- In fact, she didn't want to think about it, what a good relative, this person died and the tea was cold early, if it weren't for the kindness of our master, plus you are bent on taking in this family here, to put it mildly, I wouldn't have raised them for nothing in the first place. ”

The dumb aunt hurriedly saluted the second aunt, "Thank you second aunt for giving me this face." In fact, I am also planning, if the affairs of the Bai family continue to drag on like this, I should let this family find something to do by themselves, and I can't always let others support them. ”

The second aunt was too difficult: "Those nine people are all raised by Jin Zun and Yugui, which one do you think can earn money to support themselves?"

The dumb aunt smiled: "This aunt can rest assured, when the mountains and rivers are exhausted, no matter what frame he has, he will put it down." ”

The second aunt was too sure to see the dumb aunt smiling, and she was relieved: "The fifth aunt is too old, I have to take care of her diet and daily life, and the eighth aunt is also just pregnant, and the ninth aunt is getting worse and worse, so there are more and more things in the house that need me to be distracted day by day, and I sometimes can't do my best here, you have to take care of yourself more." ”

The dumb aunt nodded: "After conditioning, the sixth aunt and the seventh aunt's body are much better." I'm afraid that in the future, the lord's children will be born one after another, and you, the second aunt in charge, will be busy. It's just that Aunt Jiu is too sick, I will quietly give you a thorough understanding, I'm afraid it won't get better. ”

The second aunt was too frightened, "Is it really so heavy?" Alas, it's a pity that it's young." ”

The dumb aunt frowned: "I tried my best." This disease has been incured in a different era, in a society where medicine is very developed. It is an incurable disease. Let's hide it from everyone first, especially don't let Aunt Jiu know about it herself. I want to find a way to configure some medicine to help her delay, and if she can live one more day, she can spend one more day with Brother Bao. ”’

The second aunt wiped her tears, "I will be satisfied with what she likes to eat, what she wears, and what she likes to use." ”

The dumb girl nodded: "That's all we can do." ”