But he said that the Qian family instructed Mother Li here, and after the walk, Mother Li sent a few proud maids to the courtyards of the young masters and aunts of each girl to explain that Mrs. Li was going to Bodhi Temple tomorrow.

Qian took a walk, sat on the table in the living room, on which were pushed a few thin booklets, Qian stood next to a middle-aged man in his forties, the man was wearing a round-necked smock, with a scarf and a hat on his head, looking at his appearance, extremely ordinary, with a handful of goatees. Standing there with low eyebrows, like a statue, this man in his forties is named Li Ye, is the foreign affairs housekeeper of the Li Mansion, in charge of the accounts of the Li family's seven or eight shops, Li Ye entered the Lin family when he was seven or eight years old, he was an orphan who had no father and no mother, and was sold by his uncle to the housekeeper, step by step from the small house sweeping the floor to the housekeeper, I don't know how many blood and tears he has experienced.

Qian carefully flipped through the booklet, occasionally picked up a pen and wrote and drew on a blank piece of paper.

After a while, the booklet was finished, and Qian lowered his head and said a few words to Li Ye, and Li Ye replied respectfully.

"Steward Ye has worked hard in the past few years, especially in the capital, we are now in Yangcheng, and it is even more tiring for you to run here every month." Qian closed the booklet, and asked the girl to give the stool to Li Ye, Li Ye thanked the rules and sat down and said: "It's all taught by the wife, and the villain follows the instructions of the wife, telling the people below to do things well and abide by their duties." It was also my wife who lifted me, what is this hard work! ”

The Li family has not been in Yangcheng, the old lady died two years ago, Li Rong had to keep filial piety for three years, naturally could not stay in the capital, the family came back from the capital, simply Yangcheng is not far from the capital, it is only two days away by water, a few shops in the capital have left a few reliable people to take care of, let the steward go to Yangcheng every month, today is the day when the steward came to send the account book, last night the steward Li has arrived, hastily took a bath, and the next morning he dressed neatly and came to Qian's account book shop.

"Steward Ye doesn't have to be modest, I am most assured of your ability, when I first got married, I didn't understand it in the account books, Steward Ye also pointed me out a lot, there has been no problem in the account books in the past few years, ordinary people don't have the ability of Ye Steward, you taught them all very well with your boys." Qian smiled and groaned, and told the girl to make tea for Steward Ye.

Steward Ye hurriedly took the tea, thanked him and said with trepidation: "Mrs. has lifted me, I just did everything I could do well." If I can't do even this simple idea, I won't have the face to meet my wife. ”

Qian smiled: "Steward Ye's temper has always been like this." After a pause, he said: "I want to ask Ye Zhangshi to stay in Yangcheng these days, I have a new shop here, and the person in charge is a young man who is motivated, but not stable enough, I hope that the person in charge can teach him for a few days, if he can be half stable, I don't have to worry about it."

Li Ye has been crawling and rolling for most of his life, and after listening to Qian's words, where can he not understand, most of the people around his wife who can bother his wife to say it herself. Hurriedly smiled: "Since my wife looks up to me, the villain is better to be respectful than to obey his fate."

Qian said a few more words to Li Ye, then let him go down and let the maid personally send him out.

Here, Mother Li saw that Steward Ye was gone, took a bowl of pear soup and walked to the house, handed it to the Qian family and said with a smile: "I have already instructed the masters of each courtyard." Mother Li paused and glanced at Qian's and said, "It's just Aunt Zhu, and I don't know what Mrs. is planning." I haven't called the maid to deliver the message yet. ”

Aunt Zhu is pregnant with a child, and her belly is already pregnant, so it is obviously inconvenient to go out by car.

Qian took a sip of tea and said with a smile: "Aunt Zhu is pregnant, so naturally she should recuperate in the house."

Mother Li nodded when she was instructed, and after serving the Qian family, she went to make arrangements.

The masters in the courtyards here have all received the news, so naturally they have their own preparations, so they will not show it for the time being.

After Lin Xi finished watering the flowers, she sent breakfast to the third girl, and when she came back, she went to her own room to take out a needle and thread to do, she was faintly looking forward to something in her heart, and she didn't know if there would be a result when she asked the young man yesterday, and she didn't know if it would be a result, and it didn't pass a day, and she already felt uncomfortable.

Taking a deep breath and finding that he couldn't even embroider a flower, Lin Xi put down the needle and thread in his hand and put it into the cabinet. Sitting on the bed and thinking about it, looking at the pot of flowers raised on the table, his eyes did not blink, as if he had become a sculpture.

"Bao'er, are you stunned?" Lan Cao entered the house, saw Lin Xi sitting motionless on the bed, and went up to shake her. Seeing that she had just woken up from a dream and glanced at her, Lancao had never seen Bao'er like this, and she didn't know what to say for a while, so she paused and said, "Are you still thinking about the dream just now?"

"Lancao, I feel a little uncomfortable." Lin Xi held Lancao's hand, remembering all the past, she only felt that the corners of her eyes were sour, she was not a person who loved to cry, but she just wanted to cry happily, she held her face with both hands, let the tears fall all over her face, whimpering and crying came intermittently, sounding like there were endless grievances.

Lancao touched Lin Xi's head and comforted: "Okay, I know you have grievances, but there will be few people who are not wronged when we are slaves, but no matter how you live, you still have to live, forget all those unpleasant things, don't remember them anymore." Wait for others to see it, maybe you don't know what to say. ”

took a handkerchief and gave it to Lin Xi: "Oh, quickly write and wipe your tears, let's go out for a walk."

Lin Xi took the handkerchief, wiped his tears and said, "Thank you for being willing to hear about the grievances, it won't be like this next time." After that, he wiped his face, but he was embarrassed to return the handkerchief and whispered: "This handkerchief is dirty, I will wash it and give it to you."

Lan Cao waved her hand indifferently and said, "It's okay, it's all for you, you can help me embroider a few patterns."

Lancao took Lin Xi's hand and said as he walked: "Now that the lotus flowers are all blooming, it's time to enjoy the flowers."

The two held hands and before they walked out of the door, they saw Mother Qian and another maid walking towards the third girl's house.

"The third girl doesn't like to be disturbed the most after breakfast, what's the matter with Mother Qian going to find the third girl at this time?"

"What's the matter with Mrs. Xu?" Lin Xi said casually.

Lan Cao was stunned for a moment and patted her head and said, "Then let's go back, maybe someone will call us later, if we go out and run around and be seen, maybe we will be scolded again."