Qin Jinchun looked at Zhu Lou indifferently.

This strange young coachman is not only sneaky in his actions, but also in words. Qingmei just asked him why he was here, if he didn't have a ghost in his heart, just tell the truth, he refused to answer directly, and sacrificed the master of the second room, Qin Bo, to come back to oppress people, as if he decided that Qin Jinchun didn't dare to ask any more, and there was a faint contempt in his words.

Also, he was obviously nervous before, and when he heard someone call him, he was scared. When he found out that it was Qin Jinchun and Qingmei's master and servant, he immediately breathed a sigh of relief, probably because he was sure that she, the fourth girl, could not pose any threat to him? This feeling of being underestimated really made Qin Jinchun unhappy.

Although Qin Jinchun was not very favored at home in the past, she was also a concubine, and her mother Xiao Xue loved her very much. Except for her grandmother Xue and father Qin Bofu who don't pay much attention to her, and her eldest sister Qin Jinyi who looks down on her when she is young, she still has the status and dignity she deserves at home, and no one dares to blatantly snub her.

And now, with Qin Jinyi's worth plummeting, the market is declining, and her marriage is difficult, and Qin Jinchun herself has the blue eyes of the crown princess, and is friendly with the long house and the third room, and her status in the family is no longer what it used to be. After her grandmother was injured, she still followed her mother Xiao Xue to help the housekeeper, and no one dared to be rude in front of her. At this point, there are still people who dare to despise her in words, it is estimated that only the eldest sister Qin Jinyi is the eldest sister, right? Even the big girl who has to be used by Qin Jinyi's side does not dare to be contemptuous.

But Qin Jinyi is the eldest lady from the second room, and she has been loved by her grandmother Xue and father Qin Bofu for many years, and she thinks she has the confidence to look down on the little sister born by her mother. And what is the basis of this coachman?

Qin Jinchun said to Zhu Lou with a calm face: "Are you the person who was newly transferred from your grandmother Zhuangzi? Who are you Laozi?" With such arrogance, could it be that some old servant or the son of a steward with a head and a face? But with such a background, how could he only be a coachman?

Zhu Lou smiled: "The fourth girl, don't ask, you don't know." It is true that I am a person on Mrs. Zhuangzi, but I am not a servant of your family. ”

Qin Jinchun sneered: "I see, then you must not have learned the rules well, so you came up on an errand." Which one told you to go out? There has never been a precedent for our family to take an ignorant new servant out of the house. You're sneaking around here just now, could it be a bad idea?!"

Zhu Lou frowned and said, "Fourth girl, what you said is too ugly. Where am I sneaky? The steward told me to see if the uncle was going back, so that he could get the car in place. Because I didn't know anyone, and I saw that there was no one guarding the gate, I went to see if there was anyone in the courtyard. How can I see that I just have a bad idea? The fourth girl can't be wronged!"

Qin Jinchun saw that he was rude, and he didn't say much, only let Qingmei raise his voice to call people. After a while, a mother-in-law who was guarding the fire in the next room ran over, received Qin Jinchun's order, and went to the carriage yard to call someone.

The housekeeper who went out with the second room today was born in Qin Bofu's side, and he was also in his thirties and forties. He had not seen his acquaintances and relatives in the Chengenhou Mansion for a long time, and the weather was too cold, so he hid in the gatehouse to roast the fire, and had a drink with someone by the way, chatting about family life or something. This chat, I forgot the time, Leng might as well hear someone say that Qin Jinchun called him, he hurriedly jumped up, coughed, and went to the smell of wine, before he dared to run over and listen to the instructions.

Qin Jinchun pointed to Zhu Lou and asked him: "This coachman was just sneaking around outside Kurong Hall, I came out to bump into him and asked him what he was doing here, but he refused to answer, but said that you asked him to come." Let me ask you, did you send him to ask his father if he was ready to leave for home? Don't you know that he just came from his grandmother Zhuangzi, and he is not a servant of the world, not only does he not know the people in this house, but he also does not understand the rules and etiquette? You just brought people out? Fortunately, he came to his own house, and if he went to someone else's house, he would do the same, and the face of our second room would be lost!"

The steward was taken aback, and recognized that Zhu Lou was a new coachman, because he was considered a person from Mrs. Xue's family, so everyone else was polite to him. But this kind of politeness is also limited, now that Qin Jinchun is accountable, the steward immediately became angry at Zhu Lou: "What are you doing here?" I told you a long time ago, if you want to walk around, just move around the carriage yard or the gatehouse, and don't go near the second gate." What kind of place is Kurong Hall? Is that a place you can get close to?! My instructions, if you don't listen to it, forget it, the fourth girl asks you, and you dare to push it?! I think you have eaten the bear's heart and leopard gall!" He kicked Zhu Lou, and a trace of anger flashed on Zhu Lou's face, but he still endured it.

The steward smiled at Qin Jinchun again: "Fourth girl, the little one doesn't dare to hide it, it's definitely not the little one who asked him to come to Kurong Hall, the little one dares to swear! Otherwise, he had only come up from Zhuangzi not long ago, and he had not even learned all the rules of etiquette, so how could he go out to meet people? This kid was very vulgar and didn't understand anything, but he drove quite steadily. Because his wife was once called by the eldest girl's yard, and they were from the tenant family of the wife who married the Zhuangzi, everyone else treated them politely, and they didn't think that this bastard had no rules!"

Qin Jinchun was stunned, and couldn't help but turn his head to look at Zhu Lou: "Oh? His wife used to be from the eldest sister's courtyard? I don't know which one?"

Zhu Lou's face showed a vigilant expression, and he stared at the steward a little nervously. The latter was unaware of it, and replied with a smile: "The Zhu Lou family used to do some chores in the eldest girl's yard, and there was no fixed errand. Because the eldest girl thinks she is careful and will wait for people, she will be transferred into the courtyard. She has only been in the house for ten days, but she has already memorized the rules, and she is a hundred times stronger than her man. It's a pity that it's not a blessing, I heard that I was sick before, and I was sent back to the village to recuperate. But the eldest girl has already spoken, saying that when she is well, she will be transferred back to the house and be a housekeeper. ”

She is now helping her mother take care of the house, why didn't she know that a daughter-in-law was sent away due to illness?

Qin Jinchun's expression was a little weird, she glanced at Zhu Lou again, and suddenly said to the steward: "This person doesn't understand the rules very much, I'm worried that he will not behave properly in the long room, which will bring the reputation of our second room." You go to find someone and ask them carefully, where has this person been, what has he said to people, but don't really have anything wrong. If there is something wrong with the search, don't alarm the others, and when my father and brother come out and we get home, I will naturally discuss with my mother what to do with him. Until then, you have to keep an eye on the person, and don't let him take advantage of the loophole, or escape, or pass the word to the person. Otherwise, my wife is afraid that she will complain again. ”

The steward understands that the eldest grandmother and the fourth girl want to take the opportunity to clean the wife's hands? Those important positions cannot be easily moved. A coachman can still move.

Zhu Lou was taken away by the steward, and his brows were furrowed. He looked back at Qin Jinchun more than once, and he couldn't believe it at all that his exploration plan had been ruined by the four girls who were passing by! Now that the steward was staring at him tightly, even he claimed that he was going to go to the thatched house, and the steward would send a small servant to follow, so he had no chance to spread the message at all. What will he do when he returns to the second room after a while? Should he flee back to Zhuangzi first? But if he escapes like this, I am afraid that it will not be so easy to go back to the second room.

Maybe the fourth girl was just angry and wanted to teach him a lesson, but in fact she didn't find anything. However, Zhu Lou didn't dare to be too arbitrary, his task was not trivial, the eldest girl had repeatedly instructed that the fourth girl could not find out the clues. Thinking of this, he faintly regretted it. Knowing that this was the case, he politely answered Qin Jinchun's question. The answer is not tight, the key is not to let the fourth girl Qin Jinchun be suspicious! Unfortunately, he heard his wife talk a lot of old things about the fourth girl on weekdays, and he despised her in his heart, but he didn't expect to be unlucky.

Zhu Lou's heart was uneasy, but Qin Jinchun's heart was also beating faster. She thought she might have found some clues. Sure enough, by the time Qin Bofu got into his own carriage and was about to go home drunkenly with the support of his concubine Qin Xun, Qingmei had already heard a lot of useful news from the housekeeper and the maid in the long house, and reported it to Qin Jinchun.

Qin Jinchun sat in the carriage and quietly listened to Qingmei's narration.

Not to mention that Zhu Lou is anything else, it is completely unexpected to be able to come to Chengenhou Mansion for a family banquet with his master as a coachman today. The coachman who was originally the most useful in the second room suddenly asked for sick leave, and by the way, he recommended Zhu Lou to the steward, and he took him with him when he was nowhere to find someone. And when Qin Bofu, Qin Jinchun and Qin Xun's father, daughter, sister and brother were sitting in the Kurong Hall, this Zhu Lou was first in the carriage and horse yard, chatting with the coachmen and grooms of the long house, and then went to the gatehouse to take a turn, and then on the grounds of "going out to breathe", they wandered around in the front yard, chatted with the servants of the long room from time to time, and even helped Qin Jian's little maid Yanyu who passed by to carry a birthday gift, which was sent from outside, and carried it all the way into the second gate before turning around.

Zhu Lou shouldn't have been close to the Yimen and the outer study and guest room, but he had been to all of them, and even entered the second door, until he was stopped by Qin Jinchun and Qingmei's master and servant.

After Qin Jinchun listened, he was silent. When she got home, she settled her father and brothers, and then rushed to the east wing of the main courtyard, which was the place where she and her mother Xiao Xue were usually directors, and looked for the roster of servants at home. Now it is the end of the year, and the servants in the family will make new clothes and prepare the reward for the New Year, and there will definitely be an latest version of the list of male and female servants, and even the changes in the comings and goings of the servants will be explained.

She soon saw Zhu Lou's name on the list, followed by his wife Zhu Lou's family, marking the age and the origin of the Xue family's marriage to the son of Zhuangzi's tenant family, but did not mention the situation of Zhu Lou's wife.

Qin Jinchun took a pen and paper, wrote down the names of all the girls' mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law in Qin Jinyi's courtyard, and called Qingmei: "You take this list and go to the courtyard of the eldest sister, if there is one, you will order it all in person, and see if the Zhu Lou family is not there, what he looks like, and how old he is." If you find out that she was born with big eyes, a small red mole at the corner of her mouth, about twenty years old, and her mother's surname is Luo, she will report me immediately. Even if she is not there, you have to find out where she has gone and what she has done when she was in the house!"

Qingmei took the list in response, a little puzzled: "What is the girl doing when you ask about these?"

Qin Jinchun sneered: "Someone wants to make trouble and stretch out his hand where he shouldn't be stretching out, and I can only stomp on her paws with a knife!".