"Whew~~ It's so cold!"

The little maid Huifen struggled to get up from the warm quilt, while soaking the cold air, she shivered and put on her clothes, and kept muttering: "It's so cold this day, it's not yet November, and the snow is falling, and the water outside is dripping into ice." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info ouch, it's not warm in the room, look at my jacket is about to freeze into ice lumps. ”

"It's really cold this year," Huixiang and others in the same room also echoed, leaving the bed with great affection, dressing, freshening up, and preparing to start the day's work.

"Alas, it's impossible to get cold, but it's also a little cold in our house, so many people only give a charcoal basin, and the charcoal is also less, and the fire is extinguished in less than half the night, and the whole house is cold and windy."

Huifen put on cold cotton shoes, glanced at the charcoal basin that had long been extinguished in front of the kang, and couldn't help complaining: "It's better to be in the house, don't talk about it, at least it won't be frozen." ”

And this unlucky Qi family is really down, and they can't even give up a pot of charcoal.

"Dead little hooves, chewing their tongues again?" Xia He came in from outside, and happened to hear Huifen's words, and scolded in a low voice: "I didn't say that I would go to serve the eldest grandmother when I got up early in the morning, but I had the time to gossip here?" ”

Huifen hurriedly surrounded her and accompanied her smiling face: "Sister Xia He, I, I'm not wronged for our grandmother, stay at home and be good, why don't you have to come here to suffer-"

"Phew, the more you talk about it, the more energetic you get? The master is also what you can approve? Xia He glanced at her and continued to lecture: "I tell you plainly, there are still a few of you, don't say this kind of thing again." Now the eldest grandmother is the eldest grandmother of the Qi family, we are the slaves and maids of the Qi family, how can we talk about the truth of the master's family? This is the first and last time, if anyone dares to talk nonsense in the future, I will tell Mother Feng directly, please Mother Feng teach you the rules! ”

After saying something, the few little maids present all lowered their heads, and no one dared to say another word.

Seeing this, Xia He softened his tone again, and sighed: "You guys should be content, the Qi family is not as good as in the past, and now the whole family is cutting back." Even a noble person like the county lord of Qinghe, there were only four big maids and four second-class maids left by his side, and the others were all abolished. Our grandmother is a daughter-in-law, and she must not cross her mother-in-law, and it is already too much for the grandmother to leave you, and you don't say that you are grateful to the grandmother, but you are still chewing your tongue here. ”

Saying that, Xia He couldn't help but accentuate his tone, "Grandma kept you before, but for the sake of your being well-behaved, she paid for your own private money to support you." But if you don't know the rules, you don't have a doorkeeper on your lips, and you get into trouble for the big grandma, you, you, you-"

Xia He pointed at a few third-class maids with his fingers, and said coldly: "Don't blame the eldest grandmother for being merciless and sending you all out!" ”

How many of the maids sent out have a good end?

No matter how hard the Qi family is, it is better than ordinary wealthy people, Huifen and the other little maids know that they are afraid, and they all respond, and their little faces are no longer the previous complaints and unwillingness, and they hold their breath one by one, and they are well-behaved like quails and go out of their seats, and they each do their own errands.

Huifen was reprimanded once, although she felt scared, but she felt a little uncomfortable, and came to the big kitchen listlessly, and said to the fire girl: "Our grandmother is going to wash, I'll get hot water!" ”

The fire girl hurriedly nodded: "Yes, grandma's water will be available soon, and please wait for a while." ”

Huifen nodded, and casually looked around the kitchen, her eyes swept over the smoky kitchen, and finally landed on a row of small casseroles stewed on the stove.

Her eyes widened suddenly, her finger pointed to a casserole that had not yet been covered, and said in a trembling voice, "That's, that's a blood swallow?" "Yesterday, the eldest grandmother ordered her to take two pieces of fine blood swallows from the private treasury and send them to the kitchen, and stewed some bird's nest porridge for the county lord of Qinghe.

Subsequently, when Huifen came to fetch the porridge, she always felt that there was something wrong with the number of blood swallows in the porridge, and it seemed to be much less.

Seeing the porridge stewed on the stove at this time, a somewhat bizarre idea flashed through Huifen's mind.

However, she still didn't want to think too much about it, and asked tentatively, "This is stewed for the county lord?" ”

The fat black cook standing in front of the stove had a touch of unnaturalness on her face, and smiled stiffly, "No, it's not, it's bird's nest porridge stewed for the eldest princess." What, the eldest princess has to eat a cup every day, and everyone in the house knows it. ”

As she spoke, the cook moved quietly and blocked the casserole with her body.

Huifen always felt that something was wrong, obviously two days ago, Feng's mother also said that the head of Qinghe County had reduced the family's use, and some unnecessary tonic medicines for the eldest princess had also been abolished. If she remembers correctly, it seems that this bird's nest porridge is also among those tonics.

Huifen was pondering, a little girl ran outside, panting and dropping a sentence: "Our girl wants to bathe, order me to get hot water, oops, what a coincidence, these hot water is just right, let's take it!" ”

The fire girl was in a hurry, and was about to speak, but the little girl was very cool, greeted her companions, and directly picked up the two big copper kettles on the stove and walked out.

"Hey, that's our big grandma's water!"

Huifen came back to her senses, but found that the stove was empty, so she hurriedly chased out.

The two little maids didn't reply, and shouted: "Then wait a little longer, isn't it just a pot of hot water, and the grandmother is also fighting with our girl?" ”

Huifen was choked, what is 'fighting', this is obviously their grandmother's hot water. Also, how can a girl's family take a bath in the morning?

The fire girl was worried, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Sister, don't worry, the fire on the stove is very strong, I will boil water for the eldest grandmother." Wait. ”

Huifen held back the fire in her heart, and muttered angrily: "Not in a hurry? Can I not be in a hurry? Our grandmother still has to go to the county lord to say goodbye, and if you miss the hour, can you afford it? ”

Of course she can't afford it, but the problem is that the Qi family has such a kitchen, and there are only a few stoves for boiling water, and the masters of the family are all exquisite people, and the continuous boiling of water for twelve hours a day cannot meet the needs of the master.

Especially in the morning, the masters are in a hurry, all of them are in a hurry, every day for hot water, those little maids who come to carry water don't know how many times to make trouble, and later, except for the eldest princess and the county lord of Qinghe, no one dares to grab the water, other people's, those little maids see the hot water and grab it, if the two sides encounter, it is a fight.

The eldest grandmother has just returned home, and the maid in her yard doesn't know the situation in the kitchen, and it is normal for someone to be robbed.

The fire girl apologized repeatedly, and while boiling water, she told Huifen about some things in the house (of course, in the kitchen) without a trace.

Huifen was speechless, "It's like this?" "There are no rules at all, the Qi family is also a national mansion, how can it become as unruly as a nouveau riche after a few months.

The fire girl looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "This is also a helpless thing, it turns out that in the Guogong Mansion, the eldest princess, Mrs. Yuan, Mrs. Qing, and the county lord's courtyard all have small kitchens, and there is no need for hot water or anything like a big kitchen." Now it's ...... "The whole family is crowded into one house, and it's inevitable that the pot and spoon will touch the edge of the pot."

Hui Fen sighed, once again deeply understanding the fact that the Qi family had fallen. After a moment of silence, she asked again, "Which girl's side is that?" "Being preempted by others, Huifen doesn't blame others, who makes herself slow. But who the other party is, she has a number in her heart.

The fire girl's eyes flickered, and she peeked at the busy cooks and stewards in the kitchen, and whispered: "Sister is a kind person, and I am willing to be friends with people like you." So that my sister knows that the little maid's name is Bottle, and she is a person from the yard of Miss Hui. ”

Lady Hui? Qi Huizhi, the eldest daughter of the Dongfu Ning family?

Huifen silently wrote down the name in her heart, and then asked the fire girl about the house.

After a while, the hot water was boiled, Huifen remembered Feng's mother's explanation, and felt that the fire girl was a usable person, so she quietly stuffed her with a purse.

The fire girl was overjoyed, hurriedly hid the purse in her sleeve, and then helped Huifen carry water very diligently, and said in her mouth: "Sister, don't worry, grandma will use water again in the future, and my sister will just come to me." ”

Huifen responded with a smile, put on a veil, and rushed to the Agarwood Courtyard with a large pot of hot water.

When I returned to the courtyard, there was a light on the edge of the sky, and the lights in the main room came on.

Huifen didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly sent hot water in.

"Why is it so late?" Xia Zhi took the copper kettle and reprimanded her in a low voice.

Huifen felt aggrieved, but she also knew how to speak, and on the pretext of replying to the matter, she told her about the Qi family affairs that she inquired about from the fire girl.

She didn't defend herself, but she carefully explained the chaotic situation of the Qi family's kitchen, Xia Zhi was smart, and she understood it immediately, and she reached out and poked Huifen's forehead funny, and scolded with a smile: "Little clever ghost!" Okay, I'm not to blame you for this incident, let's go down. ”

Huifen was poked a little painfully, but she was very happy, Sister Xia Zhi is a person that grandma values, if she can make friends with Sister Xia Zhi, her life will be much better in the future.

In the bedroom, Gu Jialuo got up on time, and several first-class maids such as Zisu and Ziye served her to dress and make up.

Gu Jialuo changed into an apricot-red padded jacket and sat in front of the dressing table, Zi Su held a white jade half-moon comb and gently helped her comb her hair.

Mother Feng lifted the curtain and walked in, bowed down and stood in front of her, and said in a low voice: "I have inquired about the affairs of the owners of the Qi family. ”

Gu Jialuo bowed slightly, pointed to the drum pier beside him, and said, "Mom, sit down and talk." ”

Feng's mother thanked her, sat on the drum pier, and said slowly: "The house where the Qi family lives now is a big mansion in Qijin, which is divided into east and west roads, with a garden in the middle, and the people of the East Mansion live on the East Road, and the West Mansion is on the West Road.

The eldest princess lives in the courtyard in the middle of the East Road, still named 'Chunhui Hall', Mrs. Yuan lives in the Weirui Courtyard in front of the Chunhui Hall, and the second Mrs. Qing lives in the Huaiyuan on the west side of the Weirui Courtyard. Speaking of the second Mrs. Qing, she is also involved in an old matter of the Qi family......"

PS: Thank you Ssu for the little pink.,Unconsciously,Half of the year has passed.,Guys have a very good Spring Festival this time.,(*^__^*) Hehe-hee...... (To be continued.) )