17.017 It's better to pull three than four
The fourth wife's inexplicable outburst made Su Keyun in a fog, and the messy clutter at her feet made her feel like pins and needles. She raised her eyes to look at the maidens standing in the room, but they were all bowed and pleasing to the eyes, and they were as calm as ever. Su Ke smiled bitterly, if they were not blind and deaf, then the only explanation was to take it for granted.
It seems that Mrs. Four's hobby is smashing things.
At this time, there was a sound of footsteps outside the house, the girl by the door lifted the curtain, and a woman wearing a willow leaf green gown walked in quickly. Blue and black eyebrows, hanging eyes, no powder but a different taste.
Su Ke didn't know her identity, but instinctively gave way to two steps back.
After seeing Su Ke, the woman just glanced at it briefly, then walked to the fourth wife's side, and said with some reproach: "Why are you smashing things again, are you distressed, and you will be said to be careless." ”
"I just have money, I want to smash as much as I want." The fourth lady kept dropping big tears while saying cruel words, and her pink lips pursed slightly, interpreting a pampered eldest lady to the fullest.
The woman frowned, "I'm talking angrily again, how much have you smashed back and forth, do you think your dowry can still stop you from tossing?" The woman's tone was not serious, but her words were in place. The fourth lady didn't know if she thought of her dowry, and there was a bit of a silent posture in the cry. The woman sighed heavily, turned to look at Su Ke, "The third lady of the girl is new here?" Haven't seen it before. ”
Su Ke hurriedly bowed, "I am the little steward who is newly filled in the warehouse to distribute things, my name is Su Ke." ”
The woman's eyes lit up slightly, "Oh, it's the Kerr girl they talked about." She nudged Mrs. Four's shoulder, "It's Fury's niece." ”
The fourth wife's crying red eyes suddenly raised, as if she had found something new, stared at Su Ke carefully, and suddenly burst into a smile, "Furui looks like that, his niece is actually a fairy, how can anyone believe this." ”
said that other people's uncles were ugly in front of others, but Su Ke was a fake relative after all, and he didn't think anything of it. But looking at the situation before and after, most of the situation of the fourth wife walking on thin ice in the mansion should be caused by herself.
The woman next to her also felt that the fourth wife was a little excessive, "The niece is standing here, what is the wife talking nonsense." ”
Mrs. Fourth doesn't care, "Why can't you say the obvious facts." Let her walk around the house and see if everyone in the house is the same as I said. It's just that I said it, even if they don't say it to their faces, they chew their tongues behind their backs. Su Ke, if it's about you, do you want people to talk about you in person or behind your back? ”
Su Ke's face twitched, "I hope I won't be talked about." ”
The fourth wife and the woman were stunned for a moment, and then there was a smile on the corner of their mouths, but the fourth wife's was more obvious.
"Don't worry about Miss Kerr, our wife is such a temper." The woman eased the atmosphere, and seeing that Su Ke didn't seem to be moving, she immediately introduced herself.
It turned out to be the aunt of the fourth master, Zhu Yingfang.
Su Ke guessed the identity of this woman, but when she first entered the Hou Mansion, there were too many people and things to remember, Su Ke was very afraid that she would be confused, in case she called the wrong one, it would not be good to hurt everyone's face. Now that she knows that she is Aunt Ying, and she is quite intimate with Mrs. Fourth in her words and actions, Su Ke matches her identity in her heart.
Aunt Ying was originally the fourth wife's dowry maid, who was both a confidant and a left and right hand. The affairs of the upper and lower courtyards can be hidden from the fourth wife, but they can't hide it from her. Later, the fourth wife was angry and had a small birth and hurt her vitality, and the doctor said that it was difficult to conceive again, and the fourth wife had already seen the fourth master's concern for the girl around her, and she sent the person over after being sad.
It is said that the fourth master likes Aunt Ying very much, and he goes there every night when he first closes the room, but Aunt Ying is always cold. The fourth master was bored with himself for a while, and it didn't take long for him to raise an outer room outside. Aunt Ying was not favored, and she didn't tie anyone, so she simply turned her head and went back to the fourth wife to take care of things. With the identity of an aunt, it is much more convenient to get things done than before.
But it is still a heart disease without children, and the more difficult thing is the one outside, for four or five years, there is no movement at all.
The fourth wife thought about it, and asked someone to look for a good girl outside, and finally got one a year ago, which is now Aunt Yang.
Aunt Yang is just a girl when she enters the house, and whenever the fourth master goes home, the fourth wife will let Aunt Yang go up to serve. It was logical to come and go, and within two months the good news came out. The fourth wife hurriedly raised her identity, and even took care of her belly, hoping to get a man in one fell swoop, and the fourth room was also counted.
Now Aunt Yang's belly is eight months old.
It's just that I heard that Aunt Yang became popular two months ago, and the child was almost not saved.
Just now, the third wife said that the fourth wife was in a hurry to borrow red ginseng, which was a matter of "human life".
Su Ke was spinning these trivialities in his mind, piecing them together, and he had already understood the approximate situation.
At this time, Aunt Ying returned to business, "Why did Miss Ke'er come here?" ”
Su Ke was succinct, "The old lady wants to use red ginseng. ”
Hearing the word red ginseng, Aunt Ying's face instantly changed a little color, she turned around and looked at the fourth wife, and before she could open her mouth, the fourth lady began to speak freely again, "She is just waiting for this opportunity, waiting for the old lady to use it or the Hou Ye to use it, she can buckle the big hat on my head." said that I have big eyes and big hearts, and my mother's family is so rich that she still has to worry about the things in the house. Now I can't take it out, and I am in harmony with her. Why did the old lady think of using red ginseng, it must be her ......"
"again." Aunt Ying cut off the fourth wife's words and winked again. It means that Su Ke is still here.
The fourth wife disagreed, "She is in charge of the treasury of the public middle school, and she is naturally a person in the third room." They don't orchestrate me yet, I still care about this tongue and a half. ”
Aunt Ying's face became not very good-looking, and she had just clearly mentioned the fourth wife, saying that Su Ke was Fury's niece. Furui is not relied on now, and he is still a careless person with Hou Ye, so Su Ke is likely to be also unreliable. In the Hou Mansion, even if you don't entrap someone, at least don't offend someone. Mrs. Four's temperament and mouth have already provoked a lot, do you want to add another one?
"We know the matter, and we'll go directly to the old lady to reply later." Aunt Ying made a gesture to give it away, "Miss Ke'er, let's go back first." ”
Before Su Ke came, he saw that the third wife was determined to win, and knew that the fourth wife couldn't take out anything to return it, so she didn't want to stay longer after she got the words, so she bent her knees and got up and exited the house. It's just that as soon as she got off the porch, Aunt Ying chased her out, and her arm naturally hooked Su Ke's arm, looking like she was going to send her out of the yard all the way.
Su Ke paused, raised his eyes and met Aunt Ying's sight, and his mind was unbalanced. She leaned over and pulled her arm back, smiled bently, but tried not to move her mouth and said, "There are people from the third wife's side in this courtyard, let them see it, and I can't be alone." ”
Aunt Ying was actually waiting for the last four words, and when it arrived, her heart was put down.
"Then don't embarrass the girl." Aunt Ying stood up straight, her eyes swept left and right silently, and she asked in a voice like a mosquito: "Why does the old lady suddenly want to use red ginseng, does the girl know what it is for?" ”
Su Ke instantly remembered Wushuang. Sure enough, only the parties concerned can understand the twists and turns. Wushuang said something as if she didn't want to use her to bring the words to anyone. Just because she doesn't understand doesn't mean others can't. Pretending to be someone else's hand either takes into account the faces of both parties, or it is difficult to speak.
A red ginseng involved three parties, and Su Ke was really curious.
"The fourth wife and the third wife are not on good terms, how can they ask the third wife to borrow something?" Su Ke sold it.
Aunt Ying looked at Su Ke quietly, her eyes turned back and forth a few times, and her mind also turned a few times. She looked around and made a small talk, "Our wife's temper will not borrow something unless she has to?" Two months ago, Aunt Yang in this hospital almost had a miscarriage, and the imperial doctor prescribed medicine to use ginseng, and our wife happened to run out here, and we didn't dare to delay, so we had to go to the third wife to borrow the middle school. The third lady promised well, and immediately sent someone to send ginseng, but she never thought that it was a red ginseng the size of a baby's fist. Our wife didn't dare to use it, but the third wife said that the whole family had this root, and we couldn't find anything else if we didn't need it. Here, Aunt Yang's child is waiting for the insurance fetus, and the person sent out to buy it has not returned, so our wife has no choice but to put red ginseng into the medicine. I originally planned to ask my mother's family to look around in the future, but I couldn't find the same red ginseng for two months. ”
In the past two years, there has been a war in the north, and there are fewer and fewer ginseng in the northeast, and even if there are them, they are all close to the palace, and it is indeed not easy to find one or two good ginseng outside. But to say that such a big Hou Mansion can't find a single ginseng, Su Ke doesn't believe it.
The fourth wife probably didn't believe it, but the third wife pressed it and didn't give it, and the fourth wife couldn't help it. I knew that if I used red ginseng, I jumped into a trap dug by others, and I had to jump down in times of crisis. The red ginseng saved the child, but the fourth wife couldn't fill the hole in the public middle school.
Now that the third wife finally waited for the old lady to use red ginseng, she would naturally move the fourth lady out, saying that at that time, people's lives were at stake, how could they not borrow it. The old lady doesn't like the fourth lady, and the fourth lady just has all kinds of reasons, and it is estimated that the old lady's partiality cannot be said. At that time, the old lady wants to preach and establish rules, but she will only suppress the fourth lady and make her head even more unable to raise her head in the house.
It's hard enough to live like this.
However, since the old lady asked Su Ke to pass the word, it means that she already knows the whereabouts of the red ginseng and has a countermeasure. As for whether Sifang can comprehend it, he won't do Su Ke's business.
"I only know that Scholar Fang's wife is sick."