This is tying himself to the same boat as Wang. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Qi Nian didn't know what she was thinking, but it was this interest that allowed her to look up to the Wang family, after all, in this world, the relationship between personal interests is much more reliable than that ethereal friendship.

Her face became more and more lowered, and she said softly: "What the mother said is very true, how dare her daughter talk nonsense." Although there are many women and children in our family, it is normal for him not to know the laws of the court too much, but the second brother accompanies his mother all the year round, and he is full of sage books, how can he be like the third sister, and he sincerely looks at his mother's jokes and doesn't mention them?" She deliberately paused, admiring Zhou's angry but still withholding distorted face, and said slowly: "The laws of Weiyang State stipulate that the Shinong industrial and commercial class is strict, and the rules and regulations cannot be crossed, and violators should be convicted of violating the national law. ”

Zhou's face changed, and he immediately knew what she meant.

Weiyang State is the head of the five countries of Donglin, Xichen, Nanzhao and Beimo, and has the most extensive land and has been majestic for decades, and naturally governs the country strictly from top to bottom and manages it well. And in the first emperor promulgated the 352 articles of the national law, at that time, from the ministers and doctors to the subjects and the common people, all of them recited the rolling melons and ripe, and even the children in the most remote mountain villages compiled the national law into a song and passed it on by word of mouth, which shows how deeply rooted the national law is in the hearts of the people. Now, after nearly a hundred years of two generations of kings, although there are always people who rely on power and disregard the laws of the country, the foundation is too deep to be shaken, but gradually formed a situation where the court turns a blind eye to the violation of some inconsequential laws.

For example, the rules and regulations for food and beverages.

Although the Qi family is the richest man on the same side and his ancestors have also been Beijing officials, the merchants are rich but not expensive, and the rules that need to be followed are even stricter. There has long been a etiquette law: "There are many people who are precious, nine out of ninety for the meal of the Son of Heaven, nine out of sixty princes, nine out of thirty princes, nine out of twenty scholars, and nineteen for merchants." ”

Now looking at the dazzling array of 22 dishes on this table, you will know what is trespass and what is the law of the country.

When Zhou was still an unmarried daughter, she was just an unfavored concubine born by an unfavored aunt in the Guogong Mansion in Changle City, and she was despised by her mother and sister since she was a child, and she stumbled to adulthood. Around that time, life was not satisfactory, and since she married into the Qi Mansion and took charge of all the affairs in the mansion, she was extravagant and extravagant, treating money as dung for her own free spending. Fortunately, the Qi Mansion has a huge family business, and Qi Junliang is focused on the outside business, and he doesn't care much about the inner house, so he goes with her.

However, no more than 19 dishes can be served on the table on the diet of the common people, which is indeed the law of the country. Although these innocuous laws have not been strictly controlled in recent years, they are contrary to national law, and this is a real ironclad thing.

"My mother has been in charge of the house all the year round, and there are some people who can't take care of it, which really can't blame my mother's negligence. It must be that the servants below are not doing their jobs well, and they want to make our Qi Mansion suffer a great disaster, so as to take advantage of her wolf ambitions in order to achieve her ulterior purposes. Qi Nian was innocent enough, and a pair of water-cut eyes looked at Aunt Qi who was full of resentment behind Zhou, and suddenly said, "Did you say, Aunt Qi?"

Aunt Qi is good to be her loyal servant, and she can work hard for the tiger if Mrs. wants to rectify whom, today she just relied on the prestige of Mrs. to clean up this fourth lady who has no foundation in the Qi family as usual, but she didn't expect Leng Buding to be charged with a bully, although it is unwarranted, but the entire Qi family has so many pairs of eyes staring at it, and it is not a good end. Fortunately, Madame's slight means saved her from this difficulty, but the Liangzi with the fourth lady was also completely settled. She was thinking angrily about how to give advice to her wife to avenge today's revenge, but she never thought that this tricky fourth lady suddenly named her again, which made her tremble and stunned, and she didn't know what to say for a while.

She was still confused and at a loss, but she only heard the stern order of the Zhou family like thunder: "Aunt Qi, I asked you to prepare for the family banquet well, you are so ignorant of inspection! Have you forgotten the rules of the Qi Mansion in the past? You are so old that you still need the fourth lady to remind you, I don't think you have to serve by my side anymore, and when I return to my master, I will definitely drive you foolish old thing out of the Qi Mansion!"

Aunt Qi is such a shrewd person, although she still doesn't know why Mrs. suddenly blames herself, but she also directly "pounced" and knelt on the ground, calling herself confused and misleading, crying and begging Mrs. for forgiveness, and counting how many years of loyalty she has been a slave in Qi Mansion, but she sings and does it so well, where is she half old and confused.

Qi Nian watched the master and servant act like this with cold eyes, and he didn't know what they were thinking in his heart. After all, the country of Weiyang is a vast country, and the number of merchants is completely constrained by such an inconsequential law, and the Qi Mansion is a wealthy businessman, and it is understandable to be greedy for more than a few dishes. This loophole is already quite chicken, but the Zhou family is not single-handedly covering the sky in the Qi Mansion, she must care about Qi Junliang's opinion of her. If no one picks out the fault of such a line, it is fine, but as long as someone mentions it, it must be shirked cleanly. This is why Qi Nian sent Aunt Qi over, and the Zhou family used this shield easily.

"I'm still stunned to do something, why don't you order someone to take down the food!" Zhou Shi had a straight face, but he didn't see a little anger, he only put the bowl in his hand on the table heavily, and said coldly: "I think you are a first-time offender today and let you go this time, if there is a next time, I will not be spared!"

Aunt Qi trembled and led the maids to spread all the cold dishes in the banquet, and after a while, the dining room was quiet again.

Both the Lin and Wang clans breathed a sigh of relief. After all, according to the Zhou family's domineering power, it is unknown if they really want to force them to eat this ice banquet. Wang couldn't help but cast a thoughtful glance at the fourth young lady who was still childish and still sitting in the last seat, but the other party smiled as if he had already known.

After withdrawing from the banquet, Zhou didn't say anything more, just said that everything was dispersed, and left in a hurry.

To make her so impatient, Qi Ming, who should have been to persuade Qi Shu, had not returned to the table for a long time, worried that his brother and sister would make some trouble. Moreover, although Zhou's personality is vicious and can't come to the stage, she has lost her youthful spirit after all, and people can be more or less calm when they are middle-aged. Today, she underestimated that Qi Nian was not clever enough to set up a set, but eating this trench will definitely grow wiser, and in the past, I am afraid that there were many traps waiting for Qi Nian to jump down.

At this time, it was already afternoon, and everyone sat in the dining room for noon but didn't even drink saliva.

Qi Nian walked back unhurriedly with shallots, the scorching summer sun was very scorching, but she seemed to be unconscious, letting the hot sun pour on her delicate face.

She has to be vigilant to herself all the time, since she can live, she must live well, and never survive any longer, it is better to live than a beast and be humiliated and trampled on.

The light onion followed behind her with a pale face, silently clenched the handkerchief in his hand, and when he came to see her, he was intimate and affectionate.

Back in the courtyard, a few girls greeted her, and they couldn't help but be very surprised to learn that the young lady's lunch had not been used, but they were all quite sensible and didn't ask much, only asked Qianhe to get some pastries to pad her stomach first, and then told the cook to make a lunch for the young lady.

It took a lot of busy work to settle down, Qi Nian twisted a piece of snow-white cloud cake between his onion-like fingers and tasted it, it was very sweet and delicious, so he smiled and beckoned to the shallot: "You should be hungry too, come and taste it, this thing is really good." ”

Shallot walked over with his head lowered uneasily, but knelt straight in front of Qi Nian. The girls were all startled, and Qianling exclaimed, "Sister shallots, what are you doing?" said that she was about to step forward to help her up, but her twin sister Qianzhi saw that Qi Nian's face did not change and was still smiling, so she quickly grabbed the impulsive sister and shook her head slightly. Qian Ling was not stupid after all, and after understanding Qian Zhi's eyes, she stopped in time and stood aside with her.

Qi Nian slowly finished eating the pastries in his hand and picked up the handkerchief to wipe his hands, then he looked at the big girl kneeling in front of him with fixed eyes, and said softly: "Light onion, are you kneeling for your useless mother, or for yourself?"

Hearing this, the shallots couldn't help but tremble, and said in their hearts that these four young ladies were really pretending to be pigs and eating tigers on weekdays, but fortunately, they didn't have the confused thoughts of the past, otherwise what would happen in the future, it is really unknown.

"Fourth Miss, although my mother came to our yard as a housekeeper mother a few days ago as instructed by the master, the inner courtyard is still managed by Mrs. after all, no matter what you do, what you say, it should be Mrs. in charge, how can we, as slaves, have half of the room for beaks. Xu is sad words were confided, and the tears in the shallow onion eyes rolled outward, and she sobbed in a low voice: "My mother is also old, her eyes are shallow, her ears are soft, and she is timid, and she can't help but be coerced and tempted by others. Even if she is confused and has done something that is sorry for Miss, please Miss for our sake's sake...... I hope that Miss will be merciful and let her go this time!"

Shallot is indeed a smart girl, at least a little more cautious and far-sighted than her mother Aunt Qian. Aunt Qian relied on the fact that she was an old servant of the Qi Mansion for many years, so she could take Qiao in front of Qi Nian, the fourth young lady who was born without a mother and raised in the countryside since childhood, if it weren't for Qi Junliang personally ordering her to serve the fourth young lady, I'm afraid she wouldn't even be willing to ask her daughter to send her here.