Qi's gaze was far away, with a little melancholy, "Our third master, although he will be very grateful to me for telling him about the bastard things He did, but he doesn't have a good impression of me." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info This trick is actually to kill a thousand enemies and injure eight hundred, if it weren't for Brother Xiao'er, I wouldn't have done it. ”

"Although the He family's usury is disgraceful, the fault is much lighter than stealing the Shen family's dowry. The latter is directly damaging the interests of the big house, if I say it, it is to provoke the relationship between the big house and the third room, and the two sides are not pleased, so I can't say it. ”

Bai Ling was still puzzled, and boldly asked, "Then why did you tell the eldest lady about this?"

Qi didn't answer, but came to a pot of lively peonies, "The flower room is really good, look at how beautiful the peonies just sent are." As he spoke, he picked up small scissors and clicked to cut off a half-open peony.

The peony is a precious variety, and it was finally raised to half-open in the cold winter wax moon, but it was cut off by Qi's scissors, and Bailing looked very distressed.

Qi Shi glanced at her and said with a smile: "Distressed?"

Bailing said: "This flower is for you, you look at her and smell her is her blessing, cut it and feel happy, then she has done her duty, there is nothing to feel sorry for." ”

Qi Shi stretched out his hand and tapped her smooth head, "Clever ghost, obviously distressed enough, and said so many nice things to coax me." ”

Bai Ling smiled and said, "It is also the duty of a slave to make you happy. ”

Qi put the flower under his nose and sniffed it, and sighed: "If nothing happens to the Shen family, Qin Yuanniang will be the real lady of the sky, and the wealth and glory are inexhaustible, but it's a pity...... She's not going to have a good life. is like this half-opened peony, although her status is noble and her appearance is gradually revealed, she is delicate, and a little external force can destroy her. ”

"What I told her about the He family, I did have the intention of letting her climb the He family. But more than that, I also want to help her. Qi's voice was a little light, "If I don't tell her, the Shen family's dowry will be swallowed up by the old lady and the He family sooner or later, and then she will lose the last bit of support." With no family, no status, no more money, all that awaits her is a desperate future. ”

"It's too difficult for a woman to settle down in this world, I remind her, and it can be regarded as repaying the Shen family's care for me back then. As for whether she can keep this inheritance, it depends on her own ability and creation. ”

Bai Ling said angrily: "Madame is really benevolent. ”

A little maid knocked on the door outside to ask about lunch, and Bai Ling went out to deal with it.

"Am I benevolent?" Qi stared at the peony in the room, a touch of self-deprecation appeared on his face.

Outside the window, a thick cloud hung high in the sky, dimming the skylight. A few leaves swirled under the eaves, and the winter sky was bleak and cold.

Dongmei and Cui'er entered the house from the outside, Gray Wen took the food box from the two of them, and Qiu Ju hurriedly closed the door, blocking the cold wind and snow outside.

"Why did you come back so late, isn't the road easy to walk?" Qiu Ju turned around to help Gray Wen, "Is the food cold, take it to heat it up when it's cold." ”

Qiu Ju held the plate in her hand, looked down at the dishes, and frowned, "Why is today's meal so bland?"

Dongmei, who was roasting the fire next to the charcoal basin, heard the words: "Don't mention it, I went a little later than usual today, but when I arrived, everyone in each room was waiting there." The big kitchen didn't cook! Thank God we were able to eat, and I was worried that I wouldn't be able to eat the next meal. ”

Qiu Ju couldn't believe it, "How can this be?"

Dongmei snorted from her nose, "Now the house is in a mess, the people in the kitchen are not in the kitchen, the people who guard the door are not guarding the door, the people who sweep the floor are not sweeping the floor, and you can't find anyone anywhere." I can't eat today, and I don't know what will happen tomorrow. ”

Qiu Ju stopped her, "Talking nonsense again." ”

Dongmei shut up stupidly.

Qin E and Qin Yan had been sitting next to them and listening to them, Qin Yan asked, "Sister, the house won't be like this, right?"

Although she is young, she also knows that she must be in order to run the house, otherwise she will invite trouble.

Qin E smiled: "Don't worry, it's not messy, someone will worry about it." ”

There are many people to worry about, and the old lady is the first.

"I used to only be lazy when you were lazy, so I really didn't have the ability. The Qi clan has only been throwing their hands for a while, and the house is a mess managed by you! Unexpectedly, they can't even eat!"

He hung his head and sobbed and cried.

"Cry, cry, cry, you know to cry when something happens!" the old lady's heart ached, "Why don't you hurry up and think of a way to let the Qi family come out and take care of things." ”

He lifted his face from his handkerchief, his face was sallow, and a string of fire bubbles were bubbling at the corners of his mouth, describing him as very haggard. "I've been looking for her a long time ago, she's lying in bed and complaining about her illness, and I can't help it, I can't drag her out of bed, right?"

The old lady slapped the table angrily, and was about to get angry, when she saw her red and swollen eyes, and the words that came to her mouth softened again.

"How are you, how are you...... It's not like you haven't managed your house before, so why didn't you get to this point?"

He couldn't say that she was bitter in her heart, her mind was full of letters from Qin Jian recently, and she had no time to care about it. By the time I found out that something was wrong, there was already a mess.

The old lady hung her chest, coughed, and raised her arm slightly. However, the hand that should have been stretched out to help her did not appear, she looked around blankly, and only saw a maid, and then remembered that Mama Lin was sent by her to tidy up the big kitchen, and Mama Wei went to check everywhere.

The old lady's stiff arm reached out to pick up the teacup, and the tea was cold and bitter as soon as she entered her mouth. The old lady was so angry that she slammed the cup on the coffee table, "The tea is cold, and I don't know how to change it." The maid confessed, took the tea tremblingly, and came back with a hot cup.

The old lady tasted it, and felt that it was too hot, and the taste was not right.

Lin and Wei were not around, so it was inconvenient for her everywhere, and then she looked up at He Shi, who was still sobbing and touching tears, and the anger that had just barely suppressed came up again.

"Don't cry, what's the use of crying at me, go back and sort things out, it's not a few days before the New Year, do you think that everyone can't eat during the New Year?"

He was a spirit, and he didn't dare to say anything in front of the old lady Tie Qing's face, and left silently.

The old lady fell back on the couch and rubbed her brows one by one.

Mama Lin came back, and the old lady was very kind and happy to see her, and asked anxiously, "How is it?"

Mama Lin's smile is always so calm and gentle, which makes people feel relaxed, "It's all asked, it's an accident." The master of the big kitchen went out to buy and looked at a few fresh cinnamon fish. As a result, I quarreled with the fishmonger over the price and failed to return on time. The master didn't come back, and the kitchen lacked the backbone, and the people who cooked were messed up, which delayed the meal. ”

The old lady sighed, "It's good if it's an accident." Isn't there a special person in charge of the purchase? You tell the master to go out less if he has nothing to do, and don't do this kind of thing again. ”

Mama Lin sighed in her heart, and said for a long time that the old lady didn't grasp the point of the problem at all. Why did the old lady quarrel over the price? Why did the master who specially procured the master have to go out in person? Why did the master master go out in a mess when the master was not there? The old lady didn't even bother to ask these most direct questions, let alone those extraneous sounds.

Mama Lin knew that it was useless to talk to the old lady, so she smiled and said, "I'll come back to report to you first, I haven't seen the third lady yet, I'll go and report to her." ”

The old lady nodded with satisfaction: "Go ahead." ”

Mama Lin smiled knowingly, the old lady has never been ambiguous in terms of enjoying honor.