The next day, Li Yuxue retreated from the high fever and finally woke up.

"Mom, what time is it?" As soon as she opened her eyes, Li's mother's old face full of concern came into view.

"It's three o'clock, miss, how do you feel? Is it better? ”

"What? It's all so late? Hurry up and prepare the carriage, Zhang Gongzi must be in a hurry. Li Yuxue felt that she had just slept for a while, and she didn't notice that she slept until the next day.

Zhang's mother hurriedly stopped the young lady's action of getting out of bed in a hurry: "Miss, you and Zhang Gongzi made an appointment yesterday." You've been asleep all day. ”

"What do you say? How could I sleep so long? Why don't you wake me up? The long-awaited meeting passed inexplicably, and Li Yuxue almost wanted to go crazy.

"Miss, you had a high fever yesterday, how could the old slave wake you up?" Mother Li is really aggrieved beyond words. The young lady was sick, and the first lady blamed her for not serving her well; She worked hard and waited for Miss to have a fever, but the first thing Miss did when she woke up was to complain that she didn't wake herself up. This position of housekeeper mother is really not so easy to do.

Li Yuxue, who only has her fiancé in her heart, how could she take Li's mother's little grievance to heart, and asked, "Then did you send someone to inform Zhang Gongzi that I was sick?" Did it make him wait all day? ”

Speaking of this, Li's mother was really derelict in her duties, she replied vaguely: "There were too many things yesterday, the old slave only cared about serving the sick lady, and forgot ......about it for a while" Seeing that the young lady's willow eyebrows were upside down, she was about to have a seizure, and Li's mother hurriedly added: "Zhang Gongzi was not angry, and he sent someone to visit the young lady in the afternoon." The old slave had already explained that the young lady missed the appointment because she was sick, and presumably he wouldn't mind. By the way, the person sent by Zhang Gongzi also sent a letter written by him to the young lady. ”

Li Yuxue took the letter handed by Li's mother and glared at her: "For the sake of my mother's advanced age and greatly reduced memory, forget it this time." Next time, if it happens again, Mom should go home and raise it. After that, he didn't look at Li's mother's pale face, and opened the letter and read it by himself.

In just one page, Li Yuxue's face changed several times when she read it, from the expectation and apprehension when she opened the letter, to the sweetness and happiness at the beginning, and then gradually became solemn, and at the end of reading, she seemed to have lost all her strength, and she could no longer hold the letter paper in her hand, let go of her fingers, and let it fall to the ground.

Mother Li saw that Miss's expression changed several times, and finally froze on a crying expression, and carefully called softly: "Miss? ”

Li Yuxue looked at her with a voice, her eyes gradually glowing with a devouring ghost, and she raised her hand to slap Li's mother in the face: "It's all you useless old thing!" I'm sick for such a big thing, and I won't send someone to inform Zhang Gongzi in time! If Zhang Gongzi had learned about this earlier, how could he have waited for me at Jingxin Nunnery? You dog minion don't know how much trouble you've caused me for your momentary negligence! ”

The more Li Yuxue spoke, the more hateful she became, and a slap was no longer enough to express her resentment. She stood up and looked for all the porcelain in the room that could be smashed, and smashed her head and face at Mother Li.

Mother Li was shocked, and she couldn't imagine that a little mistake would actually kill herself. She didn't care that the ground was covered with broken porcelain, and immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "Miss Kaig!" Miss spare your life! The old slave deserves to die, and he is innocent of death, please take care of her body, it's not worth making a big deal about a despicable person like the old slave. ”

When Li Yuxue heard this, she finally stopped smashing things. As if she had heard some funny joke, she burst out laughing: "Hehe, take care? Why should I take care? For whom to take care of? Isn't it just right for a daughter like me to humiliate my father and mother and get married by relying on her dead skin and face-upside down? He is now as cheap as Lu Zhixiang. People are determined for life, what should I do to take care of my body? Directly die like Lu Zhihua to fulfill them, maybe it can get him a little gratitude, hehehe......"

Mother Li was stunned, in just one day's work, this son Zhang actually hooked up with Miss Lu Jiaer? No wonder Miss was so angry. Mother Li stepped forward on her knees, hugged Miss's legs, and said with distress: "Miss, don't do this...... All the mistakes are the old slave's fault, miss, if you have any anger, just sprinkle it on the old slave, and feel comfortable when you spill the anger, the old slave is really uncomfortable when he sees you like this now......"

I have to say that if I can do the position of the housekeeper mother, I know the temperament of the master well. Li's mother's tearful performance successfully extinguished the anger in Li Yuxue's heart against her.

Li Yuxue gently broke away from her hand, walked to the edge of the bed and sat down, her face frustrated. "So far, only Mother Li really feels sorry for me...... Clean up the room and step back, I'm going to be alone. ”

Li's mother hurriedly opened the door and called the maid to clean up the room.

Although Miss has calmed down now and is no longer violent, Mother Li knows that if she doesn't arouse Miss's fighting spirit and let her feel sorry for herself like this, sooner or later she will plant the root cause of this qiē on her own negligence. If Miss wants to clean herself up, it is as simple as stepping on an ant to death, and if she really waits until that time, Mother Li will be doomed. Dealing with the injuries on her head casually, Mother Li put down the bandages and racked her brains to think about how to make Miss Lu Jia's second miss all the spearheads.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the serving lady to eat, she took the first step tentatively.

"Miss, you have just recovered from a serious illness, so you should eat more." Seeing that the young lady drank two mouthfuls of porridge at will, she waved her hand to signal the maids to withdraw the meal, and Li's mother had a distressed expression on her face.

Li Yuxue's face was blank: "I can't eat it." ”

Now there are only two of them in the room, and Mother Li no longer has any scruples, and said from the bottom of her heart: "Miss, the old slave is also a person who has come over, and I know that you don't have a taste in your heart." But look at it, which big family in Beijing is not a group of wives and concubines? The farmer who is shaving in the field has two spare money in his hand and still thinks about taking a concubine, this kind of thing, you should have been mentally prepared for this kind of thing. According to the old slave's eyes, this is fine now. If you think about it, this man is a virtuous man, the concubine of the family, whether you want to or not, he will be brought back sooner or later. And he, the second lady of the Lu family, is actually much better for you than a person who doesn't know the roots. You know best how many catties and taels this Miss Lu Er has, as far as she is now obedient to your words, how can she turn out the palm of your hand in the future? What's more, her reputation is not better than yours, and in this regard, you don't have to worry about being compared to a concubine. If Zhang Gongzi doesn't take a fancy to her today, but the concubine of another family, the old slave says something disrespectful, with your current reputation in Beijing, if you meet this kind of opponent, you can't stand up in front of her at all! In this way, what position do you have in your husband's family? ”

Li Yuxue was a little moved: "That's right. But before I passed the door, he began to mention the matter of taking a concubine, didn't he slap me in the face openly? I ended up in today's situation for him, but if you look at him now, how can you feel a trace of guilt? In the final analysis, she is still unwilling to give everything she has, but what she has gained is not the beautiful result she imagined.

"Miss, you can just say this in front of the old slave, but you can't say a word in front of outsiders! Why doesn't Zhang Gongzi have affection for you? He agreed to Miss Lu's resignation without saying a word, and forced his mother to promise to marry you, have you forgotten this? What he said just now, if Zhang Gongzi heard it, how chilling would he be? You are still young and don't understand the mind of a man. The old slave said to you, this man, his heart is like a big house, with many, many rooms. The parents lived in the ancestral hall representing the clan, and the status was unshakable, needless to say; The wife lives in the main house, and the remaining vacant rooms will be filled with women in addition to relatives and friends. These women may not all be his concubines, but as long as the man has their room in his heart, they are the enemies of the wife. The quality of the house is the favor of men, and the better the house these women live in, the more dilapidated the main house where the wife lives. A qualified housewife must not only manage the affairs of the family, but also the back house in a man's heart. But to be able to do this, it is only qualified. Only by building a bright, spacious, and magnificent main house in the hearts of men, and letting other women live in the firewood house, can it be considered a success. ”

After saying this in one breath, Li's mother was a little dry. She poured herself a cup of tea, and after drinking it all, she continued: "Now whether Miss Tong agrees with Miss Lu Er's entry into the door, she has already lived in the room in Zhang Gongzi's heart, the more fierce your objection, the more you will add bricks and tiles to her house, and when she really enters the door in the future, maybe her house will be about the same size as your main house." Miss, you can't do such a foolish thing. ”

Li Yuxue listened attentively. This kind of remarks of Li's mother is the first time she has heard of it since she was a child. But after thinking about it carefully, I found that every sentence is very reasonable, and it is really a pearl of words. After a long groan, after digesting these words, she humbly asked Li's mother for advice: "Then according to my mother's opinion, what should I do?" ”

The young lady finally has the fighting spirit, and Li's mother's crisis is lifted. She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart, drank another cup of tea, and then began to teach the young lady in detail the experience of the battle in the back house.

After some painstaking training by Li's mother, Li Yuxue seems to have been reborn, and she no longer has the decadent appearance of being disheartened before. Looking at the almost crumpled piece of letter paper in her hand, she raised a smile of unknown meaning: "Lu Zhixiang, let's see ...... while we go."