Qilan Garden, the mansion of the Duke of Weiguo, is the place where the housewives of the past generations take care of housekeeping every day and discuss matters with the stewards. Since Zhihua cheered up, he would come here every morning to take care of housekeeping.

The people have already been cleaned by Shen Ze, and those who remain are honest and obedient people, Zhihua is very easy to take over, the only fly in the ointment is that the maid is in short supply, there are only three young masters in the former mansion who have not yet married, and the lack of maids is not a big deal, but now there is a serious hostess in the backyard, and these little servants can only be transferred to the front yard, and for a while, the backyard is a little short of manpower.

Zhihua obeyed Dou Mama's advice, bought a batch of duty-worthy maids from the hands of the people, and selected some innocent people from the place where the government specially sells criminal slaves, and honestly used the trained subordinates to break them up, and those who had learned the rules each brought a group of novices, and worked hard for several days, and finally re-propped up the backyard of the Guogong Mansion.

The steward of the kitchen is Mother Zhang, who was left by Shen Ze, and it was thanks to this loyal old woman that she was able to save Shen Bin's life from Xiao Fei's hands. Because of this origin, coupled with the fact that she is very interesting, she is not proud of her new mother, and she is respectful, so Zhihua also reciprocates her and relies on her very much.

At this moment, Zhang's mother was taking the kitchen account book after the princess had checked it with both hands, and answered a few unclear points she had just asked, one by one, very frankly.

Zhihua nodded with satisfaction, and was about to speak, when she suddenly heard someone outside the door announce: "Concubine Qiyu, Mama Du from the Eldest Princess's Mansion is visiting, and she is now waiting in the side hall." ”

Zhihua didn't care, thinking that the other party had brought a letter for Minyi, so she didn't hurry to finish the task of the stewards today, and then moved to the side hall.

Mama Du here has been waiting for a long time. The county lord disappeared early this morning, leaving only a letter, and the eldest princess was so anxious that she almost fainted. She was ordered to come to the Weiguo Mansion to find the county lord, and the eldest princess went to the Jiang family in person. Mama Du calculated that it was unlikely that the county lord would go to Jiang's house, and eighty percent would choose to come to the princess. Therefore, the more she waited in the side hall, the more anxious she became.

Just when she almost couldn't wait anymore and went directly into the backyard to find someone, Zhihua finally came late.

After hastily finishing the salute, the anxious Mama Du got straight to the point and asked directly: "May I ask if the county lord of my family is here for the princess?" She sneaked out last night, our princess's mansion is now full of people, if the county lord is in your mansion, please persuade her to return with the slave maid, in order to calm the heart of Her Royal Highness the princess. ”

"What? Minyi ran away from home? Zhihua was taken aback and stood up in a gaffe.

Mama Du looked at her carefully, and when she saw that the other party didn't seem to be fake, her heart was half cold. She didn't answer Zhihua's question, but confirmed again without giving up: "Is it true that the county lord didn't come to you?" ”

Zhihua nodded seriously, "If she were with me, I would never help her hide it." If Mama can trust me, you can tell me the ins and outs carefully, and with my understanding of the county lord, I may be able to help you think of where she is at this time. ”

Mama Du hesitated. After carefully weighing it for a long time, he thought that the top priority was to find the county lord, so he no longer had any scruples and opened the conversation. "This is the day before you get married, the county lord came to put makeup on you and talked about it......" She talked about Minyi making trouble about being Mrs. Jiang's daughter-in-law, and honestly confessed that she begged Mama Dou to hide it for her, but she saved the part where the eldest princess troubled Mrs. Jiang and explained the matter.

After listening to this, Zhihua glanced at Mama Dou deeply, pondered for a moment, and shook her head resolutely: "No! Based on what I know about Minyi, if it is really as you said, then the reason why she ran out must be because she can't wait for me to respond, so she will never go anywhere else, but only come to me. And she didn't come now, which means that she ran away from home for another reason. If Mama Du doesn't want to find the county lord, just hide it. I can't help you with anything. After saying that, she didn't ask any more questions, and just served tea to the guests.

Of course, Mama Du didn't dare to leave like this, her face turned blue and white, and finally gritted her teeth and spit out the hidden thing.

"What do you say? You found my aunt yesterday? Zhihua was shocked, remembering that her aunt had been innocently humiliated, and her heart felt distressed. Thinking about the reaction of the eldest princess after Minyi's disappearance, her face changed, and she asked sharply, "Where is Her Royal Highness the eldest princess now?" Did you go to Jiang's house in person? ”

Facing her gaze that shot straight at her like a sharp arrow, Mama Du couldn't help but feel a little weak and bowed her head silently.

Seeing her such an attitude, how could Zhihua not understand. "Someone, go and call the porter to prepare the carriage! Fast! She shouted in a panic, leaving Mama Du and walking out. Mama Dou stretched out her hand to stop it, opening her mouth to persuade her, but she pushed her away fiercely and shouted angrily: "Get out!" This concubine will settle accounts with you when she comes back! ”

Under the anger, she finally put on the posture of the princess, but with a cold look, she taught Mama Dou to have the awe that she could only have when facing the queen mother in the past. Looking at the back that was not angry and arrogant, Mama Dou shook her head and smiled bitterly, and didn't dare to stop it.

When Zhihua arrived at Jiang's house, he saw that at the gate, the two sides were facing each other. On one side is a whole team of guards led by the eldest princess, who wants to search the mansion with great momentum; On one side are Jiang Wu, who has tiger eyes, and his wife, who is holding a long whip to reveal his true colors, although the group of family members behind him are not as good as each other, their momentum is not weak at all.

The scene was tense, the more the masters on both sides talked, the more angry they became, and seeing that they were about to give an order to fight, Zhihua hurriedly shouted: "Stop!" "Straight into the middle.

Glancing at her uncle and aunt soothingly, she turned to face the eldest princess in anger, and her momentum was not weaker than the other party: "Dare to ask Your Highness, why did you break into my uncle's mansion?" ”

"Princess Shizi, Mama Du went to you, right? Why ask knowingly? "The eldest princess has long been overwhelmed by worry and anger, and whoever dares to stop her from finding her daughter is her enemy. Even in the face of her daughter's only friend, she can't put on a good face.

"Does Your Highness want to make such a fuss known to everyone? Don't you care about her reputation? Zhihua took a deep breath, leaned closer to the princess, and lowered her voice.

"This palace is just catching a fugitive slave!" The eldest princess regained her clarity a little, and said in a disguised voice, but the expression on her face softened.

"How could the Jiang family take in the fugitive slaves in the princess's mansion? According to Concubine Ben's humble opinion, this is just a misunderstanding, and she asked His Royal Highness to let the guards withdraw their weapons and enter the mansion for a while. ”

For the sake of her daughter's reputation, the eldest princess had to go down the steps she threw and raised her hand to signal the guards to put away their attacking posture.

She persuaded her side, but Jiang Wu was not happy. "Just to catch a fugitive slave, Her Royal Highness the eldest princess surrounded my Jiang family early in the morning, and I, Jiang Wu, lost my official position, but I didn't lose my backbone! If you have anything to say, let's go to your majesty and say, if you don't give an explanation today, Your Highness doesn't want to step into my Jiang family! (To be continued.) )