Chapter 044: Don't be surnamed Qin
"The two ladies are well, and the girls are well. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info" As soon as she entered the bright room of Dongxuan Pavilion, Zhou Yu bent down and saluted.
Old Madam Wu was still sitting still, but Lin didn't dare to sit anymore, she stood up and greeted with a smile: "Concubine, the snow is heavy and the weather is cold, how can you personally pass the word?"
Qin Su also stood up at this time, avoiding Zhou Yu's salute, and there was a flash of joy in his slightly drooping eyes.
Zhou Yu came too coincidentally, so coincidentally that it made her feel unreal.
She glanced out of the curtain without a trace, but saw Zhu Xiu standing with her head down, as if she didn't know anything about the things in the house.
Zhu Xiu's mother, Ping's sister-in-law, used to be very good friends with Zhou Yu back then.
It was more than ten years ago, the Zhou family and the Ping family were very close to each other in the house, and then I don't know why, Zhou Yu begged to leave the house and enter the village, and the Ping sister-in-law gradually broke off contact, until she returned to the Qin Mansion some time ago, and the two families moved around again.
Qin Su didn't know about these things, but Ah Li inquired about them from Qin Wang. Qin Wang has been in Zhuangzi for nearly twenty years, and he doesn't know much about the current situation in the house, and that's all the valuable news Ah Li has heard.
For Qin Su, it was enough.
Sister-in-law Ping is now in the laundry room, in charge of washing the hostess's clothes, not big or small is a housekeeper, one of the three daughters is Zhu Xiu, the other is called Ah Hong, in charge of the tea stove in the gatehouse of the East Courtyard, and there is also A Lu, who is now working in the big kitchen of the East Courtyard.
In his previous life, Qin Su once sneered at these servants and regarded them as nothing, until he went to the hidden hall to realize that these seemingly inconspicuous servants were sometimes far more powerful, rich, and powerful than undesirable masters, and their energy should not be underestimated.
In this life, she will never make the same mistake again.
“…… Mrs. Tai said that things are dead, and people are the most important. The girl was fortunate to have escaped a catastrophe, which was the favor of God and the shadow of the ancestors of the Qin family. It's just that she is young, and she is afraid that she will not be able to bear such a blessing, so she still has to live quietly in the room. Mrs. Tai also said that the old diseases on the girl's legs also need to be recuperated......"
Zhou Yu said slowly, her voice was neither high nor low, but it clearly resounded throughout the main room.
Old Madam Wu stood in front of the chair, lowered her head and eyes, her face was plain, and she was still sad and joyful.
She knew that this was Mrs. Tai's explanation of the three rare books, so that they could no longer continue to search for books.
She didn't really mind.
Mrs. Tai is right, books are dead things after all, how can they be compared to the Xue family with the surname of the crown family? As long as you can talk to the Xue family, what are the few rare books?
Since these three rare volumes are gone, then the Xue family, Mrs. Tai should be relieved.
Thinking like this, Old Madam Wu even felt slightly happy.
It was the Lin family, whose face was gloomy by these words.
She didn't pay attention to the matter of rare books. What she minded was that Mrs. Tai actually pointed out Qin Su's "old illness".
This is a subtle accusation that she treats her concubine harshly, and she feels wronged.
She lowered her head, and the hand hanging down her sleeve unconsciously flexed several times, as if she was about to crush something.
Everyone thought she was deliberate, including the dead Qin Shizhang.
But she wasn't.
She was just too busy to forget about it, and when she remembered it, seven-year-old Qin Su had been kneeling in the ancestral hall for two whole days, and she had been hungry for two days.
But so what? Even Mrs. Tai knew about the kneeling punishment, she just forgot about it for a while, how could Qin Su's knee injury be entirely blamed on her? Obviously, those servant women were not careful and did not come to remind her of this mistress.
As for the fact that the girl's knee injury has not been treated for a long time, Lin also feels that it has nothing to do with him.
Who is she? She is the head of a house, with a medium feed in her hand, and how many things do she have to send every day? More than 100 people in the whole family will come to her to eat, drink, and chew, and ask her, where can she remember the wound on the knee of a maid in the outer room?
Lin stood with her eyebrows lowered, embarrassment and embarrassment alternately floating in her heart, as if she had been blamed on her face, and all kinds of emotions churned, making her breathless.
It's just a maid in the outer room, but I don't know what luck I had, I actually got the eyes of Mrs. Wu, and now even Mrs. Tai is alarmed.
The hand in Lin's sleeve flexed several times in a row, as if this was the only way to crush all those emotions and swallow them into his stomach.
However, Mrs. Tai's words were not finished.
Lin Shi felt Zhou Yu's gaze, which was calm and indifferent, staring at her.
Her head hung down, and her heart was inexplicably up and down.
“…… Mrs. Tai still has one more matter for Mrs. Dongyuan to deal with. Zhou Yu's voice sounded again, and every word was very clear: "Lianyun Grange is now short of manpower, Mrs. Tai said that the tea shop Qin Zhong's family is honest and capable, so go to the grange to help farm the land." Mrs. Tai also said that she would return to Qin Zhong's original surname, and she would call Liu Zhong back in the future, and the descendants of the Liu family would also return to their original surname and no longer have the surname Qin. ”
When she finished speaking calmly, she stood with her sleeves folded and said no more.
However, when she heard her words in Lin's ears, it was like a thunderbolt, which made her raise her head suddenly.
Qin Zhong, no, it's Liu Zhong's family, and they are going to be taken to the Grange?
Why?
Lin almost couldn't believe his ears, he looked straight at Zhou Yu, he forgot to even cover it up, his eyes widened, his face turned red in an instant, and quickly turned pale.
This Liu Zhong family is Ah Dou's family, and they are also the helpers of the Lin family over the years. Liu Zhong is in charge of the tea shop, and his son Liu Zhuang works as a partner in the rice shop, and will be promoted to be a steward in a few years.
This is the manpower carefully laid out by the Lin family, and the family has been very obedient and has helped the Lin family a lot over the years. But as soon as Mrs. Tai opened her mouth, she drove people to the grange, how could the Lin family not be surprised?
Old Madam Wu was also a little moved.
Although she doesn't care about things, she doesn't completely stay out of them. Liu Zhong is a person from the Lin family, and even more so from the Eastern Courtyard, is Mrs. Tai's arrangement aimed at the Lin family, or the Eastern Courtyard?
Looking at the dejected Lin family on the side, Old Madam Wu was silent for a moment, and asked lightly: "Concubine, Liu Zhong's family is managing their shop well, why did they send it to the Grange, can you tell me clearly?"
Lin immediately glanced at Old Madam Wu gratefully.
These words really touched her heart.
Whether Ah Dou's escape is true or not, it is no harm to the Lin family, and it is even more convenient for her to control Liu Zhong's family, so that they have to be a hundred times more loyal.
With such a useful chess piece, the Lin family couldn't bear to abandon it.
After listening to Mrs. Wu's question, Concubine Zhou's expression was a little embarrassed, and after a moment of silence, she took two steps forward and whispered a few words in Mrs. Wu's ear.
Old Madam Wu's expression was still flat at first, but after hearing this, her face changed slightly, and her eyes flashed with astonishment.
The Cheng family was implicated?
She really couldn't imagine that these three rare books were related to the Cheng family.