Chapter VIII

Hongqu followed Yan Zhaohua back to Qingque Center, thinking that Yan Zhaohua would say something to her, but Yan Zhaohua only asked her to take the tableware to the kitchen to clean it, and then return it to the small warehouse.

Yan Zhaohua picked out a book to read in the small study behind the bead curtain, Qingzhu was grinding ink for her on the side, Hongqu didn't want to go in and disturb, after all, Yan Zhaohua felt a little unstable about her in the past two days, and didn't want to deliberately come to her to annoy people, but today, if she didn't ask clearly, it was estimated that she wouldn't even be able to sleep at night.

Hongqu opened the bead curtain, Qingzhu raised his eyes to look at her, but Yan Zhaohua did not react, standing in front of the bookshelf, holding a book in his hand and looking at it, Hongqu Ai Ai, walked to Qingzhu's side, and gently bumped her with his shoulder, Qingzhu turned his head and glared at Hongqu, Hongqu glared back at Qingzhu strongly, pointed outside, which meant to let Qingzhu go out, and then snatched the ink strip in Qingzhu's hand, and grinded it in the inkstone according to Qingzhu's previous actions.

Although Qingzhu was brought to Yan Zhaohua's side, after all, she hadn't explicitly said that she would come back, she was still a borrowed maid in the utility room, naturally she was not as good as Hongqu, who was a first-class maid, and she didn't have the right to speak in front of her, not to mention that the young lady knew that Hongqu came in, and she didn't squeak, so Qingzhu had to go out.

After Qingzhu left the small study, Hongqu was nervously grinding for Yan Zhaohua, Yan Zhaohua chose the book and turned around, glanced at the inkstone under her hand, and said softly:

"It's light."

Hongqu was stunned, looked down at the ink in the inkstone, she only cared about adding water before, and didn't pay attention to the shade of ink, in fact, where did she know what shade, she only knew that she just drew a scoop with a gourd, Yan Zhaohua sat down behind the bookcase, turned the pages of the book, still as steady as Mount Tai, and didn't want to say anything more to Hongqu.

Hongqu bit her lip, rolled her eyes, pulled out the hairpin given by Yan Zhaohua on her head, put it in the palms of her hands, and then walked to Yan Zhaohua and knelt down, raised her hands above her head, Yan Zhaohua then turned her attention to her and asked:

"What's wrong?"

Hongqu only felt a little tinnitus, knowing that the next words might not be said, but she still couldn't help it, after all, there seemed to be a big pie in front of her, if she asked clearly, maybe this pie really fell on her head, when she was doing things before, she had already thought about it, as long as the eldest lady could implement the matter between her and Hou Ye, she didn't care whether she did things for her wife in the past, she would definitely tell the true face of the wife to the eldest lady and the dish, and be loyal to the eldest lady in the future.

After all, the wife only gave her a little money, but what the eldest lady did today was obviously to promote her to be the aunt in the house.

A first-class maid, in the final analysis, is just a maid, even if the aunt is lowly, but in the end she is a master, Hongqu feels that the best luck in her life seems to be coming.

"Such a valuable gift, the slave didn't dare to accept it, so I came to return it to Miss."

Although he was excited, he still had to be calmer on the surface, Hongqu said in a low voice.

Yan Zhaohua was indifferent, and said 'hmm', and then continued to read, saying while reading: "There is nothing precious or not valuable, but it just adds joy to you." ”

Hongqu's nervous heart was blocked in his throat, and after swallowing his saliva, he asked:

"No, I don't know where the slave and maid are happy, where does the joy come from?"

The corners of Yan Zhaohua's mouth hooked, put down the book in his hand, reached out and helped Hongqu's hand, and let Hongqu stand up and speak, but he didn't say it clearly, and said ambiguously:

"It's hard for me to say this, the so-called great joy, you better realize it yourself. But there is one thing I want to say earlier, no matter what kind of creation you have in the future, you can drink water, but don't forget me, the well digger. ”

Although Yan Zhaohua didn't say it explicitly, but these obvious words made Hongqu's heart completely convinced, the eldest lady is what it means, let her drink water and not forget to dig the well, doesn't it mean to make her an aunt, and not forget the kindness of the eldest lady, how can she not understand this, that is to say, her Hongqu is about to fly on the branches, and she can't become a phoenix, at least she can be a canary, this is a good opportunity that many girls in the house dream of, and she was immediately moved and knelt down to kowtow to Yan Zhaohua:

"Miss, great grace, slaves and maids dare not forget."

Yan Zhaohua turned his head and glanced at her, waved his hand softly, and said lightly:

"Get up, let Qingzhu come in and grind."

Hongqu was full of joy, at this time her heart was like an exploding flower, where would she eat the vinegar of this little girl Qingzhu again, immediately nodded again and again, happily wiped the thin sweat on her face, and then opened the bead curtain and went out, but what Hongqu didn't know was that Yan Zhaohua's eyes were not staring at her back, but at the carved fishbone window in the adjacent corridor, an imperceptible black shadow, and the corner of Yan Zhaohua's mouth showed a sneer.

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It was night, the main courtyard of Changning Houfu was brightly lit, Changning was waiting for guests in the study, and Xie was waiting for him in the room.

"What? Did this really say that? ”

Xie Shi was wearing a silk robe, and when he heard the Wang family's report on the return of the spies, he suddenly didn't control his feelings, and said angrily.

"Yes, Xiu'er hasn't inquired once or twice, don't dare to spread rumors, she heard the eldest lady and Hongqu say this with her own ears, and the eldest lady also gave Hongqu a particularly valuable hairpin, when Hongqu went out, her face smiled like a flower, is this still fake?"

Wang was instructed by the Xie family to send someone to visit the Qingque House, and someone talked back and forth at night, Xie was already worried about this matter, and now after listening to Yan Zhaohua and Hongqu's 'conspiracy', she was even more angry, she did not show anger in front of Changning Hou, but it did not mean that she really did not have anger.

Originally, I wanted Hongqu to stare at Yan Zhaohua, but I didn't expect this girl to be restless, she actually wanted to eat swan meat □□, and moved her mind to this, and she really didn't know how many catties and taels she weighed. There is also that Yan Zhaohua, she said that it was a little strange in the past two days, and she didn't know what she had discovered, and she actually wanted to use such a means to deal with her, this was to plot against Hongqu, so that Hongqu would turn to her subordinates to do things for her, hum, wishful thinking is really loud, really when she is a paper paste?

Wang looked at Xie Shi so angry that his fists turned white, and then he stepped forward to listen to the instructions, Xie Shi said a few words in Wang's ear, Wang Shi nodded and left, leaving Xie Shi alone to stand under the lamp, with a fierce light in his eyes.

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Two days later, Hongqu was almost dragged back to Qingqueju, and along the way attracted many slaves to stop and watch, Qingzhu ran into the study in a panic, as if he was frightened, and his face turned pale.

"Miss, Hongqu she...... broke one of his wife's vases in the main courtyard, and was scolded by his wife with a cane for twenty, which seemed to be dying. ”

Yan Zhaohua was painting, and after listening to Qingzhu's words, he didn't raise his head, but only nodded and said, "Well, I know." Go and ask Dr. Lin to come over and take a look for her. ”

Qingzhu looked at her own young lady, although she felt that the young lady heard the news and reacted too calmly, but she didn't dare to delay when she heard the news, so she went out after saluting, and there were noisy voices outside the courtyard, and the maids were talking about how miserable Hongqu was.

Hongqu is for Yan Zhaohua to send the copied Buddhist scriptures to the main courtyard in front of the shrine to worship, Xie for the Buddha, Yan Zhaohua sometimes for Xie to copy the scriptures, this is a common thing, Hongqu sent this scripture is not the first time, Xie is afraid that this time is really angry.

Yan Zhaohua put the pen away, a piece of bluegrass was painted like this, the twelve-year-old wrist strength is always not enough, the painting has its shape, but there is no god, Yan Zhaohua picked up the rice paper and blew the ink, sighed and said:

"Not satisfactory."

After a while, Qingzhu ran in again and said to Yan Zhaohua:

"Miss, Miss, Dr. Lin went to see it, and said that Hongqu was afraid that it would be bad, and the lower half of his body would not be able to stop bleeding...... What do you say? ”

Yan Zhaohua heard that Hongqu was 'going to be bad', frowned slightly, and said in his heart that Xie was really ruthless, but she didn't feel guilty about Hongqu's girl, this girl was not a good person, for some petty profits, she was childless in her life, although she was not the mastermind behind the scenes, but in the final analysis, she deserved it, Xie wanted to put Hongqu by her side, there was no reason for her to be muffled, since Hongqu died, then what did she keep her for? I just didn't know that Xie killed the person he personally sent to her, and felt that he was taking revenge on Yan Zhaohua, Yan Zhaohua didn't understand what Xie Shi's psychology was, he could only say that women's jealousy was too terrible, and Hongqu was naturally a victim of Xie's jealousy.

"What can I do? It is the wife who is in charge of the house, Hongqu has done something wrong, and the wife should be punished, is it possible that we still have to question the wife? went back to Steward Zhang, asked him to go back to his wife, asked for the identity deed of Hongqu, and sent her back to her hometown in the countryside to recuperate, and then Steward Zhang will naturally deal with it, so we don't have to bother. ”

Qingzhu looked at her young lady like this, and felt a little cold in her heart, although she didn't like Hongqu, but after all, it was a life, and the maid's life was cheap, and there was a little bit of empathy in it.

Yan Zhaohua saw her like this, where would she not guess her thoughts, Qingzhu and Dye Xiang are the people she will reuse in the future, these two maids are very pure and good, if they don't explain the situation to them today, maybe they really think of themselves as ruthless and unrighteous people.

Yan Zhaohua put down the painting in his hand, walked out of the bookcase, and came to Qingzhu, she was one year younger than Qingzhu and Dye Xiang, but she was not short, a pair of cut eyes stared at Qingzhu for a while, and then reached out and pulled Qingzhu to the inner room, Qingzhu changed from the original cold and frightened to curiosity.

I saw Yan Zhaohua bring Qingzhu to the bed, pointed to a quilt on the bed, and said to Qingzhu:

"These days, you sleep in my room at night, do you know why I only cover the skin and don't let the quilt fit closely?"

Qingzhu remembered that in the past few nights, Yan Zhaohua was indeed like this, and asked her to take out the skin from the cupboard every night and put it in the cupboard in the morning, but Qingzhu didn't understand why the eldest lady did this.

Yan Zhaohua walked to the side of the bed, pulled the futon with lotus-colored silver mud makeup and satin, sent it to the tip of Qingzhu's nose and sniffed it, and said:

"The spices on this are poisonous, this bedding was changed for me by my wife at the behest of Hongqu, do you think I am unkind to her, then I will sue you today, Hongqu is trying to harm my life, she wants to harm my life, should I just stand still and let her harm? Now that she has been punished by my wife, although I am also responsible, I don't think I am wrong, I have no sympathy for a person who wants to kill me, do you understand? ”

Qingzhu didn't expect Yan Zhaohua to explain to her like this, just like when she was a child, she spoke without any mustard, and spoke without concealment, Qingzhu was also very shocked by the truth that Yan Zhaohua said, she really didn't know that Hongqu was going to kill Miss, although she was kind, she was not indistinguishable from right and wrong, and immediately knelt down for Yan Zhaohua and said:

"The slave and maid understand, thank you Miss for telling the slave and maid these things, from now on, the slave and maid will never dare to question the young lady again."

Yan Zhaohua helped Qingzhu up and said softly:

"It's good to get it, now...... Come with me and witness. ”