The cicada shrimp and the little girl in the needlework room, Bi Tao, hid in the corner behind the needlework and chatted happily, and a large tree and a large rose separated this place from the courtyard of the needlework room, and there were a few sparrows chirping in the trees. Bi Tao saw the cicada shrimp pick up the slingshot and squint one eye to look at the tree, but in the blink of an eye, she shot down two sparrows. Bi Tao has looked at it several times, and every time she sees a pair of eyes, her eyes are round.

The cicada shrimp jumped up, ran over to pick up the two sparrows, and when he saw Bi Tao's expression, he couldn't help but laugh and said, "The water tiger is powerful." ”

The long round flesh of the peach, a pair of apricot eyes always smiles, and it looks very cute: "Cicada shrimp, you are already very powerful, what do you want to do!um..."

Dried beige, compared with the peach, some thin cicada shrimp smirked.

Seeing that she was happy, Bi Tao asked anxiously: "You are all so good at kung fu, well, why is the marriage of Mrs. ...... ...... all."

The cicada shrimp smiled, plucking the feathers of the sparrow, and sighed similarly: "I don't know the specifics. I heard from the master that the sixth uncle of our house used to be a general guarding the border, and he killed a lot of Xidu people, so I was afraid that they would retaliate. On the day we got married, do you remember, how dangerous it was that day, thanks to our eighth uncle, who changed his wife, it was not a single shot. ”

Bi Tao was so frightened that she trembled, and hurriedly lowered her head and sewed two stitches, and the cicada shrimp looked at the handkerchief in her hand, which was embroidered with a green peach, and the stitches were fine and couldn't help but say with envy: "My mother died early, and I went to work in the field with my father when I was a child, and no one taught me needlework." ”

Bi Tao couldn't help laughing: "Do you want to learn? I'll teach you." It's much easier than archery and horseback riding. As he spoke, he looked around and saw that there was no one. Leaned over and said, "The fourth prince has never been able to learn." ”

Cicada Shrimp laughed, shook his head and said, "You're so difficult." As he spoke, he skewered the two sparrows and the previously beaten sparrows into two skewers and roasted them on a small stove. After a while, the aroma overflowed, and Bi Tao couldn't help but swallow her saliva.

The cicada shrimp sprinkled some salt on it and handed it over.

Bi Tao bent her eyes, carefully tore a small piece of breast meat, blew it twice, and handed it to the cicada shrimp. The cicada shrimp ate it in her hand. Bi Tao sighed, and then pulled a piece and put it in her mouth: "It's okay for you guys, come with Mrs. Shizi." It's not like us, it's always like a stepmother......"

Bi Tao's white and tender face turned red, and she bit her lip in panic and looked at the cicada shrimp carefully. The cicada shrimp shaved her little nose with a smile: "You have to be careful in the future." Your prince may still be kind and reasonable. Our lady can just ......" said and glanced around and then turned her head and said, "Master said that it is better to offend a gentleman than a villain." Your prince is a gentleman, our lady... Huh..."

Bi Tao swallowed and thought to herself, "You don't know. Our son is not a gentleman. ”

Cicada shrimp saw her so frightened that her face turned white. Hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Don't be afraid, whoever asks you to work, you will do it." That is, it is hard, but it is not tiring. I heard Song Huanhuan say..."

Cicada Shrimp seemed to be considering whether he could say this, and after a pause, he continued: "With such a large Guogong Mansion, where can only such a few dowries be managed, even if there is really one day for our wife to take care of it, we will also use some of you." You just have to work hard and don't mess with your wife. There's nothing wrong with that. ”

Bi Tao was stunned for a moment, and said with a sneer: "This, now this inner courtyard, isn't it for Mrs. Shizi?"

Cicada Shrimp couldn't help laughing loudly, and thought to herself: "Bi Tao is just a third-class little girl, she really doesn't understand anything." ”

Bi Tao looked at the expression of the cicada shrimp, her face turned red, and she lowered her head and stopped talking. Cicada shrimp persuaded: "I don't understand such a thing, I heard Song Huanhuan say that the Duchess of the Kingdom is just trying to embarrass the wife of the prince." So you see that Madame doesn't care much about the affairs of the inner courtyard at all, and if she is wrong, the Duchess of Guo should jump out and say that Mrs. Shizi is wrong. ”

Bi Tao hesitated: "But it doesn't matter, then, isn't it more wrong?"

Cicada shrimp smiled: "Then it's not our lady's business, first, she just got married, which family do you see is the new daughter-in-law in charge? Second, isn't there still those who are in charge of things in front? Alas, the Duchess of the Kingdom does not know our Lady of the Prince. She didn't know how many things there were in a day, restaurants all over the world, silk villages, and military quartermasters...... You know An Ge, he and those apprentices are all our lady's people, and they are all famous figures in the country. This is still visible, and there are many things that can't be seen and can't be said, and she doesn't care about these things in the Guogong Mansion at all. ”

Bi Tao couldn't help but open her mouth wide, and secretly thought: "What does it mean to be invisible, not to be said? Could it be that Mrs. Shizi is still a straw coward who kills people and oversells goods?"

Cicada shrimp said again: "That is, your wife, in front of her eyes, in such a big place as the Guogong Mansion, you take this inner courtyard so seriously." I once heard my wife mention it, and she said that the Duchess told her to take care of it, and she took care of it. If you want to take it back yourself, just take it, you don't need to be so ghostly. But ......"

Bi Tao's eyes shrank, glanced around, and leaned over like this cicada shrimp, and the cicada shrimp said in a low voice: "My master said that Madame wants to get something new recently, and I heard that she is discussing it with Princess An's sister-in-law." ”

Saying that, the cicada shrimp straightened up suddenly, and said with a triumphant smile: "All in all, Mrs. Shizi is not an ordinary busy, Song Huanhuan said that this country mansion does not give her care, she is happy to be idle." The food and clothing in her small courtyard are all up to her, and the prince gives all his income to his wife. But if the inner courtyard is in charge of Mrs. Shizi, and Mrs. is so busy, nine times out of ten, she will find a reliable chief steward, and then find two more inner and outer stewards. Check the accounts at the end of the year, don't let a few grandmothers, the girl will come to her for a mouthful of food, and a foot of notice will be in front of her. ”

Bi Tao clutched the handkerchief in her hand, swallowed her saliva and said, "Aren't Song Huan and Song Steward ready-made!"

Cicada Shrimp sneered: "Why are you so stupid." Song Huanhuan and Steward Song are the right-hand men of Madame, do you know where they came from? Who is the original person under Princess Yi, who is Princess Yi? That is the current mother, and she is used to manage the inner courtyard? Tsk, that is too wasteful. ”

Bi Tao didn't care about eating sparrows, so she moved the small bench forward and leaned forward: "Then, where does the lady plan to pick people from?"

Cicada shrimp nodded her forehead and said, "Of course it's in the house, you think, I don't know the situation here, and the people below can't all be replaced." Naturally, the people in the house are the most suitable now. ”

Bi Tao nodded hurriedly: "Yes, too." ”

Cicada Shrimp shook it: "That's what I said, anyway, it hasn't been decided to be managed by Mrs. yet." You'll know when it's settled, otherwise it's just a joke between the two of us. ”

Bi Tao said anxiously: "How is this a joke, isn't it Mrs. who is in charge now." ”

The cicada shrimp stretched out a palm: "The head is the same, the Mid-Autumn Festival is coming." As he spoke, he pressed a finger: "Next is the winter coat, and then the four ladies are going to go out of the cabinet, Laba, Xiao Nian, worship ancestors....... you say, as long as there is a bad one, the Duchess can take back the right of the housekeeper." Our lady was not happy to take care of it, and she simply didn't care about it when she had to worry about so many things. If you think about the people below, they are still making trouble from above, it doesn't matter, maybe what's going on!"

Bi Tao sighed softly and lowered her head. Cicada shrimp said: "Madam said, there is no one who can control the general manager below, she has no time to pay attention to so many things." ”

Bi Tao hesitated: "In the first few months, Madame didn't even want to do this little effort?"

Cicada Shrimp shook his head: "If you know what our lady is in charge of, hehe...... Never mind. Let's put it this way, what's the benefit of her being in charge of the inner courtyard? No matter what, you still dare to give her a face?"

Bi Tao's head shook like a rattle: "Don't dare, don't dare." ”

Cicada Shrimp ignored her, stretched his fist forward, smashed his fist on the green brick, and said with a smile: "Which one dare, I will split him with the first one." ”

Bi Tao shrank her neck in fright, nodded hurriedly and said, "I really don't dare, I really don't dare." I thought to myself: "That's right, they have everything in the courtyard, and they come over occasionally to ask for something, and no one dares to slack off." I'm afraid that Mrs. Shizi is finding fault, it turns out that this is the reason. ”

The two were talking, and Xiaohong's voice sounded in the courtyard in front of them: "Cicada shrimp, cicada shrimp, dead girl, where did you die to play, as soon as you arrive at work, you will disappear." ”

The cicada shrimp stuck out his tongue: "This domineering stinky crab stares at me every day." Seeing Bi Tao looking at herself, she explained with a smile: "Her original name was Shi Jiahong, which is our local crab name. The girl's name was too long, so she was called Xiaohong. If she hadn't given her such a name, I wouldn't have called it a shrimp name. Hmph!" said the two of them as they picked up the rose with a bamboo pole.

As soon as the two of them showed their heads, Xiaohong turned to the backyard, saw the cicada shrimp and took a step forward, punched over, the cicada shrimp hurriedly turned his head, dodged the punch, and stabbed the end of the bamboo pole in his hand towards Xiaohong's chest. Bi Tao covered her mouth in fright and stepped back. The cicada shrimp hurriedly retracted the bamboo pole and swept it forward, pushing Bi Tao into Xiaohong's arms. Xiaohong didn't dare to hit Bi Tao, so she had to hug her and stand firm. The cicada shrimp laughed out loud and said to Bi Tao: "Rough hair, if you take a few steps back, you will fall into the rose bush and stab you to death!"

Bi Tao watched her and the two of them go out all the way, patted her chest and hurriedly walked to the main courtyard. Just turned around the garden and saw the little girl in the big kitchen, Yang Mei, carrying a food box and walking towards the kitchen, Bi Tao hurriedly beckoned: "You call my mother to come out, I just embroidered a handkerchief for her." ”

Bi Tao's mother, Chen Song's house, is the steward of the big kitchen, where does Yang Mei dare to be lazy, she nodded busily and said, "Sister Bi Tao, you wait a while." I'll call her out. (To be continued......)