Steward Liu personally sent the tenant couple to the gate of Liufu, watching them turn around the door of the tethered horse stake and disappear in the vast wind and snow, Steward Liu turned around and entered the door, his rich face showed a meaningful smile, looked up at the confused snow line in the sky, when his eyes fell, he saw that the fat doorman at the door was looking at his figure and distracted, he coughed, with a straight face, and walked towards the corner gate with a straight face.

"Steward Liu, Steward Liu, please stay-," the fat man came up attentively and tried to pull his sleeve, but Steward Liu dodged away with a disgusted face, "Monkey cub, don't come up if you have nothing to do, you have something to say!"

"That, those two people just now, are they really relatives in our house?"

The fat man looked panicked, and at first he made it hard for the couple. He was begged to go in and pass the word out, but he refused, and when they insisted on breaking in, he humiliated him severely.

Who knew that Mr. Xie would intercede for them, and then the house officially received them, as soon as they entered, it was several hours, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that something was wrong, this would not really be any relatives in the house, the emperor has three poor relatives, there are so many aunts and aunts, in case it is the aunt's mother's family who offends, and the aunt's wife is blowing the pillow in the ear of the lord, and he can't eat and has to go around.

Steward Liu smiled and flicked his hand, "Go, what kind of relative, called Hanako to come to the door to fight the autumn wind, understand?"

Steward Liu's status is noble, and he is unwilling to talk more with these watchdogs who are lower than himself, so he has already entered the door after dropping his words.

The fat man was dumbfounded for a moment, and then laughed, this is good, it is not an important relative, he is relieved. Next time they dare to come, they will still make it difficult and block it!

As soon as the family of three walked over the horse tie pile, the tenants couldn't walk, coughing vigorously in the wind, and couldn't change their breath for a long time, their faces turned blue and purple, and they couldn't get up from the ground.

The woman patted her chest in a panic, touched her heart, and when he finally gasped, the woman cried and carried him on her back, after all, the woman's body was thin, even if the man was tortured by the disease and was not very strong for a long time, she was still very struggling, stumbling and trotting on the snow.

"Let's go to the infirmary, we can't drag it any longer. ”

"No—" the man struggled, "I won't die for a while, so go home first, and use the two taels of silver to buy rice, cook and eat, and the dumb man hasn't eaten all day." ”

Tears flowed in the woman's eyes, she pinched the small cloth bag containing silver vigorously, only she knew, there was only one tael of silver in it, originally Mrs. Liufu said to give two taels, and when she went out, Steward Liu only gave one tael, and without waiting for her to ask the reason, Steward Liu's smiling face twitched with a shrewd light, "The person died and gave you two taels, and now you have seen it, the person has woken up." It stands to reason that you can't give these two or two, but our house has always been kind-hearted, so you can burn high incense. ”

In order not to burden her husband's illness any more, she hid this from her husband. Even if he knew, what could he do, he just added a dark breath to his stomach in vain.

She was glad that she had received a tael of silver, but she was also distressed for the one or two pieces of silver that had been missing, and she must have been deducted by the housekeeper, but even if she knew that she had been deducted, what could she do? Can a person of their status still have the opportunity to sue the eldest lady again? Alas, if she had not been deducted, she would have taken the tael of silver to her husband to the hospital.

When the three of them rushed to the door of their humble house with a body of snow, they found that the thatched hut that had been crumbling was gone, and the wind was blowing and the snow was heavy, and it was overwhelmed and collapsed.

The woman looked at the ruins and wept.

The tenants struggled to stand up, not wanting them to cry, saying that it was really lucky, we were not in it and collapsed, which means that God does not want to watch us stay here and freeze and starve to death, let's go, we can only leave here and go outside to beg for a living.

The wife pinched the silver tael and cried, regretting that she had gone to say goodbye to her daughter, but who knew that as soon as she went, she was frightened by the news that her daughter was going to die, and forgot to say important things. Now that she is leaving, where will her daughter go to find her parents and family in the future? She is dumb and cannot speak or listen.

Tian Tenant shook his head, "Dumb aunt, we saw it, she is fine, as long as she lives well, we can rest assured, even if we die outside, we can rest assured." ”

The family knelt in front of the door of the broken thatched house and kowtowed, and then helped them out.

This way, he actually stepped on the wind and snow to leave the ground of Lingzhou Mansion.

In the evening, the snow showed no sign of stopping, but it was getting heavier and heavier.

In Mrs. Liu's house, a table of dinner has just been set out, and the maids and servants have come to eat with a few young ladies in a ring, and everyone sits down in the order of the eldest and youngest. The maid stood quietly behind her and waited. Only the young Eighth Miss Liu Xue is ignorant and has always been lively, she smiled and raised her little face, stared at the girl in a crimson shirt opposite her and asked, "Sister Ying, do your hands still hurt?"

Everyone was stunned by the question.

The girl called Sister Ying was also thirteen or fourteen years old, with a melon seed face, big eyes, pink cheeks, bright eyes and bright teeth, very beautiful, she swallowed a mouthful of rice, emptied her throat and replied to Miss Eight: "Why do my hands hurt?"

The eighth lady Liu Xue and Liu Ying, who ranked the fifth, are both born to the eldest lady of Liufu, and the rest of the sisters were born by the wives of each aunt, although everyone is ranked according to their age, according to the clan rules, they all call Liu Chen's mother, and their own relatives can only be called aunts, but who doesn't understand intimacy in everyone's hearts, usually respectful in front of this eldest wife, in fact, I still feel that the woman who gave birth to herself kisses some.

Miss Eight is innocent and ignorant, this Liu Ying relies on herself to be born to Mrs. Zhengfang, and looks down on other sisters everywhere, as long as everyone appears together, such as this dinner table with three meals a day, she has to hold a young lady's shelf, and she doesn't care much about the sisters next to her.

She didn't understand what her sister was asking, but Liu Yan, the fourth young lady on the side, understood, and she suddenly covered her mouth and giggled.

The Chen family on the front glanced at Liu Yan, and was about to cough as a warning, when the door curtain moved, Mama Li hurriedly came in, and hurriedly owed a bow, "Madam, there is movement over there of Aunt Nine, I'm afraid I'm going to give birth-"

Chen just scooped up a spoonful of soup, smelled his hand and shook, the soup spilled, but the loss of consciousness was only a momentary thing, she quickly recovered to her original state, steadily held the spoon into her mouth to send soup, until she slowly sent a mouthful of soup into her throat and swallowed, then wiped her lips and glanced at the window, "The melon is ripe, it will be born when the time comes, but why hasn't this old man come back?" she seemed to be talking to herself, rinsed her mouth, and slowly stood up, "Is the midwife here?" ”

Mother Li was very simply: "Wang Liu's arrived at noon, and he is waiting for it with enough energy, but this doctor, do you still invite Mr. Xie?"

Liu Chen groaned slightly, and raised his voice: "No, no need Mr. Xie, last time the eighth aunt's wife had a difficult birth, the master said, Mr. Xie is good at internal medicine, this woman's birth, he doesn't seem to be good at it, let's change to Jirentang, I heard that the new doctor Jin there is a gynecology master." ”

Li's mother left in a hurry.

Chen was distracted over there, and the girls here became bolder.

Liu Ying's eyes widened slightly, "What are you laughing at?"

She was asking Liu Yan.

But Liu Yan didn't look at her, only looked at Miss Eight, and smiled, "Early yesterday morning, someone slapped Brother Wan's child daughter-in-law in the garden, and it was not enough to relieve hatred, so she was pressed on the Taihu Lake Stone and kowtowed five times, Eighth Sister, are you worried that Sister Ying'er will swell her wrist if she hits someone and flashes her hand? I have a good idea to boil a pot of green tea soup with the snow water of dog days, soak your hands in it when it cools, and soak it for half an hour, and everything will disappear." ”

Lao Ba Liu Xue only clapped her hands when she heard it, and felt that this Sister Yan was smart.

Liu Ying on the side had already turned white with anger, but she was clumsy when she was angry, and she didn't know how to counterattack others, so she simply glared at the fourth child, "Hmph, you don't have to worry about breaking your wrist, you are worried about what kind of family the master will choose for you to marry this time, in case of bad luck, the husband is a dumb or a fool, hehe, we can have one more mute brother-in-law." ”

This knife can be regarded as poking Liu Yan's soft underbelly, she is ashamed and angry, the girl's lifelong affairs are all decided by her parents, where is there room for them to talk more, the girl herself can't say more than half a word, otherwise she will be laughed out of her big teeth. And what's worse is that daughters like her generally can't marry good families, and most of them are used to fill houses for those half-old men. Liu Ying said this to her face, and said it so harshly, it was really equivalent to slapping her face.

The other sisters only took advantage of the good show, and none of them came out to help solve the siege.

Liu Yan was angry, and it was not easy to fight back, so he put down his chopsticks, and said to Chen Shifu that he had eaten well and said goodbye. As soon as I went out of the door, I covered my face and cried, I didn't dare to cry, I lowered my head and sobbed while running forward, I saw the door of my boudoir, and I thought that if I asked my mother to see it, it must be another lesson to ask and learn, scolding her for not being angry, and hating her life when she was finished. Liu Yan was annoyed when she thought of this, so she simply threw off the girl ring she followed, and walked to the backyard alone, walking and walking to the place where the people lived, just about to turn back, and saw the door of the corner courtyard open, and suddenly remembered the child daughter-in-law who caused everyone's quarrel at the dinner table just now, I heard that she lived here, just go in and take a look, I don't know if the torture continues, is she still in a coma or is she dead?

Liu Yan was wearing embroidered soft-soled shoes, plus her body was slender and she walked lightly and silently, and when she stepped up the steps and stood at the door, no one came out of the house.

She lifted the corner of the curtain and peeked, and there was a person sleeping on the kang, and her face was the little mute that her father married for the fool Liu Wan two months ago.

The little mute was not dead, he seemed to be asleep, his complexion was quiet, his complexion was normal, except for the dark wound on his forehead, he did not look like a dead man.

A person attracted Liu Yan's attention, it was a teenage girl, dressed as a girl, with a green coat and a dark cloth skirt, this clothing showed that she was the identity of the master's close service.

She was eating.

A white porcelain bowl and a long-handled spoon, she hurriedly scooped up a spoon, sneaked a glance at the person on the pillow, and suddenly opened her mouth to feed it into her own mouth. Take another look and take another sneak bite. It was probably too hot, and she gulped it as she blew wildly.

Liu Yan almost laughed out loud, it seems that she is a girl who has not eaten enough for a long time, she doesn't know what to eat, and she looks so ugly?

"Little grandma, little mute, you can sleep peacefully, it's better to sleep and never wake up, just die like this-this is the bird's nest stewed for you in the kitchen, where are you blessed to be worthy of enjoying this precious thing, or orchids will eat it for you-well, bird's nest is delicious, I heard that it is a good thing for a great nourishment, well, good, good-" said to himself while eating, and actually ate it.

Liu Yan was dumbfounded, she looked stupid.

If she hadn't seen this scene with her own eyes, she wouldn't have believed it would be true, this, isn't this clearly the following crime, the slave bullying the master?

The orchid ate a bowl of bird's nest cleanly, poured a little water and washed the bowl, put the empty bowl upside down on the table, smiled at the person sleeping on the pillow, and sighed, "When the little hooves of the orchid grass come back and ask, I will tell her, I have fed the bird's nest to the little grandmother to eat, the little grandmother is really appetizing, there is not a spoonful left, I have eaten it all." Hee-hee-hee-"

She suddenly turned around and grimaced at the door.

was so shocked that Liu Yan's jaw almost fell to the ground.

She pursed her lips and smiled, the master is weak, and the slave will inevitably kick his nose in the face, this is a matter of you stepping on me and I will press you, she has seen a lot of her father's wives and concubines since she was a child, and she can't afford to provoke the idle things here, so she hurried away when no one turned around.

Orchid didn't know, just when she turned around to brush the dishes, the dumb aunt on the pillow gently opened her eyes, and two clear eyes quietly looked at her back.