The early spring in Jinling has always been relatively cold, in the courtyard of the Yifeng of the Chu family, the peach trees planted have just drawn their buds, the window in the main house of the courtyard is open, and a pretty yellow figure sits in front of the window, looking down at the book in his hand, wearing a simple hosta on his head.

"Miss, the second lady, they're here." A twelve or thirteen-year-old maid lifted the curtain and walked in, Chu Yiyao slowly closed the book, and said in a very light tone, "Bao Chan, how many times have you said it, this is not the ancestral house of the Chu family, and there is no second lady." ”

"Yes, the carriage of the second lady of the Chu family has arrived." Bao Chan hurriedly changed her words, the eldest lady's temper was becoming more and more elusive, "Is the young lady going out to see?" ”

"Can the yard be placed for them?" Chu Yiyao stood up, Bao Chan came over to move the chair for her, and her whole body looked like she was just a teenage girl, but she was quite old when she spoke.

"Miss, isn't that too biased in the Treasure Pavilion?" Bao Chan hesitated for a moment and said, Chu Yiyao turned his head and glanced at her coldly, a hint of mockery flashed on his immature face, "It's good to send you to serve Second Lady Chu." ”

Bao Chan knelt down in fright, "Miss, Bao Chan doesn't mean that, Bao Chan just thinks that the Treasure Pavilion is for them to live, and they will say that Miss is not." ”

"If they are not satisfied, they will live outside, Jinling is full of good houses and mansions." As soon as Chu Yiyao finished speaking, the curtain was lifted again, and a mother and a maid walked in, and the mother saw Bao Chan kneeling on the ground and said softly, "Bao Chan, the second lady Chu and the three young ladies are here, you go to help the young grandmother, just say that the young lady is very lazy." ”

Waiting for Bao Chan to go out, the mother glared at Chu Yiyao, "What did Bao Chan do wrong, you have to say that." ”

"Nurse!" Chu Yiyao shouted helplessly, looking at the young nurse in front of her, and the maid Bao Bao, who had grown up with her since she was a child, a month ago, she suddenly woke up, but found that everything had returned to half a year after the death of her eldest brother.

It seems that she just had a nightmare, no matter how painful and miserable the dream is, she is awake now, it is not true, but the news that the second aunt was going to bring her three daughters to Jinling twenty days ago came, Chu Yiyao could no longer deceive herself, it was a past life that she had indeed experienced, more than half a year after the death of the eldest brother, the second uncle who came to the Chu family to help finally took his wife and three children.

Live again, how could she Chu Yiyao let the Chu family fall into the hands of the second uncle, and then be divided and made wedding clothes for others.

"Bao Chan, she has the temperament of this Muna." Mother Qian persuaded bitterly, "You can't ask her to grow up all at once, this girl will be good to you with all her thoughts." ”

"You have to learn to open your mind, if you are not smart, can you not learn well in your life?" Chu Yiyao walked to the side of the bed and leaned down, thinking about her good and doing bad things with good intentions, who was she going to blame.

Mother Qian covered her with a quilt, "Baohui, you stay and take care of Miss." After speaking, he closed the window, and the room was a little darker, Bao Wei didn't speak, just gently pressed her legs for her, and after a long time, Chu Yiyao opened her eyes, "What about the second young master?" ”

"The second young master went out early in the morning." A trace of worry flashed in Chu Yiyao's eyes, the current Chu family is still inseparable from the second uncle, the second brother is not successful, Ying Zhu is still so young, after the death of the eldest brother, the major stewards just watched the Chu family lose their hearts for a while, and each had their own thoughts, and they couldn't wait to dismantle the Chu family and take their own benefits.

Chu Yiyao didn't ask again, she closed her eyes again, she must let the second brother be able to continue the family business left by her father like the eldest brother, even if she can't, at least she must be able to stabilize those old foxes, and she must not let the second uncle embezzle the business house that her father and mother have worked hard to create all their lives.

Bao Hui pressed it for a while and saw that the young lady was asleep, so she gently pulled down the curtain and walked to the outer room, where the peacock who was packing up greeted her and asked in a low voice, "Miss is asleep?" ”

Bao Wei nodded, and Peacock sighed, "It's okay, how can Miss have slept peacefully these days." Even the young lady who was serving around them all felt that the young lady's temper was getting more and more unbearable, although the eldest young master didn't say anything about the news of the young master's death, they all knew how sad she was.

It didn't take long for the noise outside, and the peacock and Bao Hui, who were doing needlework in the outer room, hurriedly went out to see, and the second wife of Chu, Xiao Shi, walked towards this side with a few people, and her voice was particularly bright, as if she was saying to the people behind her, "Our family will put down the business in Huizhou and come to help you, you are good, just give us a house like this, you say that Yiyao is in charge, I want to see how she explains." ”

Xiao Shi came to the door with so many people, and Bao Wei stopped her, "Miss is taking a nap, please come back later." ”

"Why is this Yiyao more and more ignorant of the rules, nephew, how do you teach your sister-in-law as an eldest sister-in-law." Qiao Cong'an stood behind her and didn't step forward, she glanced at Bao Hui, it must be Yiyao who said not to disturb, and said with a smile, "Sister-in-law, she has always been sensible, and she doesn't need to be taught by her nephew and daughter-in-law." ”

"If the elders come to greet them, they are also called sensible, I really don't know how the sister-in-law teaches the children." Xiao said disdainfully, but because of the image, he couldn't break in, and the death of Bao Wei and Peacock was not to give them a chance.

"I don't need the second aunt to judge how my mother teaches her children, it's noisy here at noon, you don't have to do things!" The curtain in the inner room was pulled open with the sound, Chu Yiyao walked out and looked at the few Chu family mothers-in-law who followed Xiao with a cold face, and those mothers-in-law quickly retreated when they heard this, and only Qiao Cong'an and them were left behind Xiao Shi.

"The Treasure Pavilion has been cleaned up, and the second aunt and three cousins can move in at any time." There were still her three precious daughters standing behind Xiao, Chu Yiyao glanced at the youngest, Chu Miaolan touched her eyes, and shrank behind her sister timidly.

Removing a trace of disgust from the bottom of her eyes, Chu Yiyao looked up at Xiao, "Second aunt, this noisy shouldn't be for such a small matter." ”

"How can we live in the Treasure Pavilion so much, I said Yiyao, we came all the way from Huizhou to help you, you will give us this place to live, and I will forget about the second aunt, your sisters and sisters can't stand it." Xiao Shi looked around the room, "I think that Mingxu Pavilion is good, so let's do it." ”

"Since the second aunt is not used to living, then Yiyao will arrange a restaurant outside for you, and go back to Huizhou for a few days to play in Jinling, the second uncle will help us like this, we will not forget, and we will definitely be good to the second uncle." In their previous lives, as soon as they arrived at the Chu family, they went out to greet them as if they were guests, and arranged the best courtyard for them to live in, and they still complained a lot at that time.

As soon as Xiao Shi heard her say this, his face suddenly turned cold, and he turned back to Qiao Cong'an and said, "You don't care about being a sister-in-law?" ”

"Second aunt, the Mingxu courtyard you want to live in was built by my father for my mother before, and I didn't live anymore after my mother left, I am saying that this Chu Mansion is so big, how can the Treasure Pavilion be biased, second aunt, we live in such a courtyard, and we will definitely not deliberately neglect you, if you are really not used to living, then it is better to find a satisfactory place to live outside, after all, it is better to live in a comfortable place." Qiao Cong'an spoke much softer, looking at Xiao Shi with a smile, he felt comfortable when he heard it at first, and when he thought about it, what he said to Chu Yiyao was what he meant.

"That's much worse than the Chu family in Huizhou." Chu Miaofei behind Xiao said with a little disgust.

"But it's not, come on, bring these young ladies of the Chu family over to clean up." Qiao Cong'an smiled, and sent someone to take the Xiao family and them over, but the Xiao family just couldn't get angry anymore, Chu Yiyao couldn't get in here, Qiao Cong'an came back directly from Tai Chi, and read that she didn't know how to be polite, and took the baby daughters to the Treasure Pavilion.

The people dispersed, Yifeng Courtyard was quiet again, Qiao Cong'an walked in, reached out and touched Chu Yiyao's forehead, and said angrily, "Just wear this out, you are not afraid of catching a cold." ”

"It's thick inside." Chu Yiyao flipped over the collar and showed her, because she was slender, she couldn't see it with a thick jacket inside, and she was only wearing thin clothes when she looked at her from the outside, and she was very weak.

"Ghost girl!" Qiao Cong'an knocked her head, "There is no shortage of things that should be added to the Treasure Pavilion." ”

Chu Yiyao nodded, "There will be no less and no more, sister-in-law, don't worry, the second aunt didn't marry her three baby daughters to this Jinling, she won't go back." "The Chu family in Huizhou is naturally bigger than Jinling, but what kind of place is Huizhou, if you buy a big mansion in Jinling, you can buy three of them in Huizhou, Chu Yiyao wants them to live outside with backbone, and out of sight is clean.

After sending off her sister-in-law, Chu Yiyao called Bao Chan back, asked her to go out to inquire where the second young master was, and instead entered the study of the eldest brother Chu Duxing, if the second brother couldn't change it for a while, she had to stabilize the group of old foxes first.

Since childhood, she has learned these things with her mother, including those years in the Yan family, Chu Yiyao believes that she can also afford these things, what's wrong with the woman, when her mother followed her father to Jinling, wasn't she also a weak woman.

moved all the books about the Chu family's transactions and goods over the years back to Yifeng Courtyard, and Chu Yiyao asked the peacock to clean up the wing room on the side of the outer room as a study.

Bao Chan came back quickly, saying that someone saw the carriage of the Chu family downstairs by the Crescent River in the city, and also saw the second young master's personal servant.

Chu Yiyao glanced up at the sky, and said a daytime, "Bao Chan, go prepare the carriage, let's go pick up the second young master and go home." ”