22. To each his own mind
The ten-year-old girl, who has the face to get along with a child, was beaten by a child, and no one believes it, but she deserves it!
Mama Mai narrowed her eyes, and she couldn't sympathize at all.
The days in the border city are very ordinary, and there are not many agarwood jobs, but there are so many every day. The night before yesterday, I prepared the clothes that Grandpa Guo was going to wear on the second day, put them in the inner room, brought hot water towels in the morning, and then put the food delivered neatly, waited for Grandpa Guo to eat by himself, sent people to the door, and it was over.
As for the rest of the day, except for the noon thunder to deliver food boxes to the camp outside the city, nothing else matters!
Uh, well! Actually, there are-
Agarwood has been here for so many days, Mama Mai looks at Agarwood is a chartered person, although she always does things slowly, but she can act properly, and there is nothing wrong with it...... That's enough.
Mama Mai has her own calculations in her heart, the two of them are old, and their eyes are a little dazzling when they look at things, and they are really a little powerless to do things in the house. Now it's good, there is an agarwood girl, and there is a hint from the grandfather of the country, Mama Mai is also a wonderful person, since she threw the family account books to Agarwood without any nostalgia, and sat on the side, looking at the place that Agarwood didn't understand, and watched Agarwood go from stumbling to being skilled, and completely got started.
Agarwood sat in the small study opened up in the backyard, looking at the thick pile of account books on the table, looking focused.
The Shen family has a big business, and there are many industrial shops and granges in the family. Otherwise, how can the food and drink expenses in the house be so calm.
Looking at the dense rows and rows on the account book, Agarwood rubbed her eyes, looked up at Mama Mai who was resting with her eyes closed on the soft couch in the west of the room, exhaled softly, and lowered her head again.
She is not a good person, she knows how important the account book is, in the Jingli Guogong Mansion, the key ledger of the back house is applied, but it is firmly held in the palm of his wife's hand, and only a few henchmen help her on weekdays, and the authority in her hands is not willing to go out at all, but when she arrives at Mama Mai, she is handed over to her without blinking.
Mama Mai is a gentle-hearted person, at first I thought she was not very literate, so she pointed to the account book and taught her one by one, a little impatient, even if there is something I don't understand, I also told her over and over again, that kind of intention, only made Agarwood feel that if she doesn't learn well, she is sorry for Mama Mai's intentions.
In fact, she didn't dare to tell her grandmother that she was literate, and when she followed the old beggar to run all over the world, the old beggar had to disappear for a while from time to time, and he was impatient to say more, leaving only a note for Agarwood, but how old was Agarwood at that time, and it was too late to be literate! Of course, I don't understand it. She didn't know what to do, she didn't know the place, so she had to stay where she was and wait day by day, waiting for the old beggar to come back.
But after waiting for a month, she stayed in the mountains and forests, not daring to come out, for fear that someone would arrest her if she burned the house, so she didn't dare to run around.
During this time, agarwood learned to catch snakes and burn them, and also learned to catch pheasants and roast them...... She learned a lot, and in the end it was easy to wait for the old beggar to come back, but she was disgraced, and the old beggar beat her up angrily.
Then, without saying a word, she took out a book out of nowhere and told her to learn fifty words a day, and if she could not learn, she would not be allowed to eat, she would not be allowed to sleep, and she would be beaten. As the years passed, she recognized more and more words......
It's just that she can't say this to Mama Mai, she can only hold back her strength in her heart and try to do what she is doing well, so that Mama can worry less.
The room was quiet, and in vain there was a rush of footsteps outside getting closer and closer, Mama Mai frowned slightly, opened her eyes and looked at the door, and Agarwood also looked up.
A girl dressed in an emerald green bichime trotted in all the way, snorting and dressed roughly, and saluted the two people in the room, her face flushed, but she tried her best to slow down her breath, and replied:
"Mama, agarwood girl, someone from Beijing. said that it was ordered by his wife, and brought some things to the master. β
Send something to the master? Still in hand? Is this -- the sun is coming out in the west? What does she know that she can use?
Mama Mai heard the slight grin on the corner of her mouth, a trace of mockery quickly crossed her eyes, and she sat up slowly, her tone was still the same as usual, and asked, "Did anyone welcome in?" What are you sending? β
The girl lowered her head and replied respectfully in her voice: "Hui Mama, people, people don't need to be welcomed, they came in by themselves, and the things they sent were just a box, and the slaves and maids didn't know what was in them." β
Mama Mai smiled meaningfully, only noticed the first half of the sentence, and asked with a smile: "Why don't you welcome it, but you didn't serve well, and you made people angry, didn't you?" β
The girl trembled when she heard this, her heart jumped suddenly, she raised her eyes boldly and glanced at it, and saw that the selling grandmother was smiling and not angry, so she took a deep breath and replied quickly:
"No, yes, it's the porter who doesn't recognize the person, saying that he can't believe it with their mouths, and asks them to wait for a while, and report it to the house, but the leading grandmother outside is not happy, and immediately puts down her face, saying that the porter is deliberately negligent, and does not put the wife in his eyes, and is not willing to wait any longer, so he wants to break into the inside, and the porter wants to stop, the grandmother has a big mouth and scolds at the gate, and what she says is the words of the disrespectful wife here in our border city, and she is about to make trouble, and it happens that someone in the house sees it from afar, recognized the grandmother, reported to the porter, and did not dare to stop it, so he invited the person brought by the grandmother into the house......"
The girl's voice is crisp, and every word is clear, and it is difficult to understand it.
Agarwood had already gotten up, walked to Mama Mai's side, and gently patted her on the back.
Although the expression on his face was wooden, his voice was shallow and worried, and he persuaded:
"Mama, don't be angry, it's not good for your body."
Mama Mai took a deep breath, and then slowly spit it out, feeling that her chest was not so stuffy, so she patted Agarwood's hand lovingly, and when she turned her head, she regained her face and said to the girl slowly:
"Okay, I know, seeing that it's not early, it's time to prepare dinner, talk to the kitchen, prepare a few tables of tables, people are coming from afar, eat a good meal first, rest for a night, don't bother with this little thing, I'm not gone today, everything will wait for them to rest, it's not a long time, don't rush to this moment." You serve well, be respectful, that's the person next to your wife, it matters! β
The girl who was green than the armor quietly breathed a sigh of relief, bowed and saluted,
"Yes, the slave and maid remember, if the mother has no instructions, the slave and maid will retire."
Mama Mai nodded, still smiling on her face, and said slowly:
"No, you can go."
"Yes!"
Seeing the little girl's back disappear outside the door, Agarwood retracted her gaze, looked at Mama Mai's sinking face, and pursed her lips worriedly.
Mama Mai glanced at Agarwood's face, and suddenly laughed out loud, and Agarwood frowned strangely.
"Mama, aren't you angry?"
I was so angry just now!
Mama Mai smiled and said:
"Angry, someone greeted us in the face like this, and it was so loud, how could Mama not be angry."
Agarwood is puzzled, "can ......" look like it, but it doesn't look like it!
Mama Mai took the agarwood into her arms and said slowly: "Are you all brainless fools around you as a wife?" They are afraid that their hearts are like this, grandma told you, the master and his wife have been married for so many years, how can they take care of the affairs of the master outside, and now, they come to such a position coldly, and they are still arrogant, and their nostrils are facing the sky, if there is nothing greasy, grandma will not believe it. β
Agarwood asked very respectfully: "What does the lady want to do?" β
Mama Mai pursed her lips disdainfully, and said: "Where do I know this, it's not a good thing to be left and right, as for what they are for, don't worry, you won't know when you see each other tomorrow." β
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The night was as deep and cool as water, and in the guest room in the West Wing, the candle flame flickered, shining a dark shadow.
In the inner room, on the edge of the round table, two figures stood in a row.
Mama Kong took the hand of the woman opposite and said gently:
ββ¦β¦ You're going to be angry! Such an opportunity is not easy to come by, since Mrs. has picked you, she must be very relieved of you, so she is entrusted with a heavy responsibility, a man like you, hey-I won't say, you can see it yourself, it is a rare home, although it is to be a roommate, but it is also temporary, and the days to come are still long! If a man's heart is warmed, he will be good to you, and if you are pregnant again, then a good day will come............"
The woman, who was about fifteen or sixteen years old, hung her head and blushed with shame, and did not say a word, but her ears were pricked up, showing that she was listening very attentively.
Mama Kong's eyes were full of admiration and looked at the woman, from top to bottom, with a bee waist and hips, and a face like a peach blossom, which man doesn't love such a woman?
Hey, my wife doesn't know what to think, arranging such a stunner for her own man, although Grandpa Guo has never let go of his mouth in the past, but he is not afraid of 10,000, just in case, in case Grandpa Guo responds! It's not like lifting a stone to shoot yourself in the foot.
Alas, she is just a slave, she can't guess the master's thoughts, it's just that, it's just to concentrate on the things that his wife has to do, and it's not her turn to take care of the others, right?
Thinking so in my heart, my eyes shook to the face of the woman opposite, such a character, what will happen in the future, it's really hard to say, women's grace is on men, with such a talent, maybe it will soar into the sky! It's better to make friends first!
After pondering over and over again, Mama Kong's smile became stronger, and the smiling woman's face was full of red clouds, biting her red lips, and twisting and whispering:
"Thank you for your teachings, if the red branch is in the future, if it is...... One day, I will never forget the grace of my grandmother's teachings. β
"Hey, heyβwhere did the girl say?"
There was a trace of satisfaction in Mama Kong's eyes, but she said with a smile:
"What is our relationship? It's not that a mother and daughter are like a mother and daughter, I can only hope that the girl is good. The girl is a blessed one, in the future...... This blessing is still great! Your grandma is right, now the master is only one son, and the master is in the prime of life, and there is a lack of a flower around him. The girl has to take care of her body, backwards, backwards...... The girl's good days are long! β
Mama Kong's words were meaningful, and the red branch she said was shy and expectant, a man like Grandpa Guo, like a celestial man, she never dared to be delusional, but now, now it is different, it is the wife who gave her the opportunity by herself, and it is the wife who does not want the grandpa of the country first, so ......,
The red branch pulled the handkerchief, the red lips were bitten, a man like Ye, his wife didn't know what to do, and he didn't take Ye to heart at all, and he ...... In the future, there will be no need for a wife, with her, she feels sorry for her master, and she must treat her well......
Mama Kong drank a cup of tea, squinted at the red branch, a trace of light crossed her eyes, pursed her lips and smiled, and said no more.