Chapter 42: Apology
"Jin'er, it's good that you have a sense of proportion, and your mother will definitely support you. It's just that you are also in the face of the third room today, you have to beware of them looking for you to be angry, if there is anything, so that people must come and tell the mother, the mother will not do anything else, this will protect her children, it will still be done. ”
Mei's gentle face and the perseverance in his eyes made Ji Nianjin more and more convinced in his heart.
Mother is such a good person, she must protect her mother.
"Mother, don't worry, I know. Later, when I go back, there must be someone waiting for me in the hibiscus courtyard, and if my guess is correct, that person must have come to apologize. ”
Ji Nianjin smiled slyly, causing Mei Shi to lightly tap her forehead.
"I know, if that's the case, then you can go back first, and come back at dinner, so that you can tell your mother what your 'results' are today."
Ji Nianjin nodded, and came out of Qingxin Garden, Bai Lan put a hot stove into her hand, and comfortably made her take a deep breath.
All the way back to the hibiscus courtyard unhurriedly, as soon as he entered the courtyard gate, Bai Zhi greeted him.
"Girl, the fourth girl has been here for a while, and she said that she has something to tell the girl, and this will be waiting for the girl in the middle."
Bai Zhi's face was a little worried, this girl was disturbed and scared by the past, but if the four girls came to the Hibiscus Courtyard, it would be no good thing, this was something that the entire Hibiscus Courtyard and even the Fu'an Hou Mansion knew before.
"Well, okay, Bailan, you will go to the small kitchen later, and ask someone to make me a bowl of custard, remember, don't ask how fast, you try to stay in the kitchen for a while, if it's still like last time, no one pays attention to you, you don't have to worry, if you get it, you personally hold it and send it in."
Ji Nianjin commanded.
Bai Lan nodded, and turned briskly to go to the small kitchen.
"Bai Zhi, let's go in, no matter what movement is in the house later, you will stay outside, and find a way to let the girls and ladies in our yard hear, remember?"
Ji Nianjin turned around and ordered Bai Zhi again, Bai Zhi nodded, the two walked to the door, Bai Zhi opened the curtain, Ji Nianjin closed his face, and then raised his legs and stepped in.
In the main room, Ji Nianyan was sitting at the round table, drinking tea, beside her big maid Hongyan, a master and a servant were quiet and did not speak.
"Fourth sister, I'm sorry, I'm late, I don't know if you're waiting for me here, why don't you let people go to Qingxin Garden to say something, I'll come back early."
Ji Nianjin said with a smile, she reached out and untied her crane, handed it to Bai Zhi, and sat at the table with the stove in her arms.
"Bai Zhi, go and make a new pot of tea, my father got the Yi'an Tieguanyin from the Jinchang Mansion a few days ago, so I'll brew that."
Bai Zhi agreed, lifted the curtain and went out.
"Fourth sister, listen to Bai Zhi, do you have something to tell me?"
Ji Nianjin asked.
"Second sister, you are really busy, and you are here to apologize. My mother said that I shouldn't have robbed your carriage, so you used a car that did not match your identity to go to your grandfather's house, and lost the face of the Fu'an Hou Mansion. My mother scolded me for this and asked me to apologize to my sister. ”
Ji Nianyan put down the cup in his hand, stared at Ji Nianjin without blinking, and said.
Her words made Ji Nianjin sneer in her heart, obviously she was here to apologize, but in fact she came to see the joke.
It is true that Ji Nianyan used her carriage, but she was the one who lost the face of the Hou Mansion of Fu'an, who made her not know what to do, and wanted to use those two carriages that did not match her identity.
This is what Ji Nianyan wants to tell her, if it was her former self, she would definitely be flustered now, and she didn't know what to do.
Ji Nianjin didn't speak, she poured herself a cup of tea, smelling the fragrance in the cup, this is the best Huizhou white tea, which she often drinks every day.
Blowing the hot air, taking a small sip, and then putting down the Ru kiln white porcelain cup printed with Begonia Spring Sleep, raised his head, and looked straight at Ji Nianyan.
The fourth sister's words don't sound like they're here to apologize. I don't know, I thought I was here to ask the teacher, I can't afford it, if you need to, my sister can come to my sister first to apologize.
The mother-in-law who was in charge of the carriage and horse was derelict in her duties, and she dared to arrange the fourth sister, and she didn't know when she was on duty, so she didn't understand the rules, and her sister didn't report to the third aunt in advance, so she was sent away, and the fourth sister and the third aunt didn't blame me for being troublesome, right?
But I saw that when I returned home, there was a new mother-in-law, and I don't know if this subordinate will be so ignorant, and I feel that we are all easy to bully.
Now the third aunt is in charge of the affairs of the house, such a subordinate really needs to check it well, at least when my mother was in charge, there has never been such a thing as today, fourth sister, what do you say? ”
Ji Nianjin's eyes wandered, and Ji Nianyan, who was only watching, was a little overwhelmed.
"Hmph, that mother-in-law should be beaten and then thrown out of the house, second sister, it's all provoked by those villains, don't believe it, I said it last time, in this house, we are the identity of serious descendants, and we should be of one heart."
Ji Nianyan reached out and held Ji Nianjian's hand on the side of the table, looking urgent.
"I know, I know very well in my heart, fourth sister, you don't have to apologize to me for this matter, someone is deliberately making it bad to embarrass me, but you know, I have always been transparent in the house, so it is not worth anything, how can I be embarrassed to let the third aunt scold you, and let you come to apologize to me."
Ji Nianjin held Ji Nianyan's hand with her backhand, and patted it at the end, indicating that she didn't care about this.
"That's good, second sister, my mother is worried that there will always be some people in this house who don't understand their identities and do some foolish things, so they don't have to let outsiders see the jokes, it's good that the second sister understands this."
Ji Nianyan took out his hand, pretended to pick up the tea on the table, took a sip, was a little cold, and frowned.
"Look at me, I've patronized and talked to you, I haven't even left a maid to call, Bai Zhi is really, let her make a tea, this will not come back. By the way, I also asked Bai Lan to go to the small kitchen to ask for a bowl of custard, and went out for a trip, this will be a little hungry, do you want the fourth sister to use some too? ”
Ji Nianjin smiled slightly, as if she remembered something, stood up, walked to the door, lifted the curtain herself, and shouted outside:
"Who is waiting outside, go and see if Bai Zhi and Bai Lan are back, the four girls can come to apologize to me, it's extremely inappropriate, I can't let the four girls even drink hot tea."
A little maid answered outside, and a mother-in-law replied to go to the small kitchen to have a look, in short, everyone in the hibiscus yard seemed to be busy in the yard, and there would be a lot of responses.
Ji Nianjin lowered the curtain and sat down at the table again, smiling apologetically at Ji Nianyan.
"I'm sorry, fourth sister, it's a mess in my yard, it's all because I'm not strict with discipline, I don't have to snub the fourth sister, the fourth sister won't mind."
Ji Nianyan was about to say something, when the door curtain was picked up from the outside.
"Let the girl wait for a long time, this custard slave went to the small kitchen early in the morning to ask for it, but the mother-in-law and girls in the kitchen... Ah, it turns out that the four girls are also there, and the slave Bailan has seen the four girls. ”
Bai Lan lowered her head, holding the tray in her hand, a bowl of white porcelain bowls with a lid in the tray, and then put the tray down, talking in her mouth, and when she raised her head inadvertently, she found that Ji Nianyan was sitting at the table, and hurriedly leaned over to salute, slightly uneasy.
"Why did you go for so long?"
Ji Nianjin stretched out her hand and lifted the lid herself, the egg custard was made of good milk, steamed and slippery, but it had long since lost its heat.
"Why is it cold? How can you eat this? Bailan, didn't you find out? ”
Ji Nianjin's face was unhappy, and she closed the lid again.
"If you go back to the girl, you really don't blame the slave and maid, when the slave and maid get it, that's how it is. asked the mother cow in the small kitchen to heat it up again, but was told that there were not enough people, and there was still a lot of work to be done in the kitchen, so she asked the slave to think of a way by herself. But what can the slave and maid do, there is no place to heat it in our yard, and I am afraid that the girl will be in a hurry, so I have to bring it back. The slave and maid did not do their job well, and asked the girl to punish her. ”
Bai Lan was aggrieved, knelt straight, lowered her head, and didn't say a word more.