The next morning, before dawn, there was a knock at the door of Lihe Temple. The mother-in-law who guarded the door yawned and cursed the disturbing dreamer as she took out the key and went to unlock it. When I opened the door, I saw that it was the big girl Bai Lan of Qiuhua Courtyard who knocked on the door, and she was immediately so frightened that she fell asleep, and after seeing the smiling lady behind Bai Lan, the woman quickly nodded and opened the door of the courtyard to welcome the eldest lady in.

The one on duty at night is the eldest girl Xingshuang, Wang's mother is old, and the eldest lady is sympathetic to her and does not let her stay up late, and is only responsible for serving during the day. Xingshuang, who had been on duty for several nights in a row, was at the moment when she was most sleepy, and was napping on the table in the outer room. The sound of the doorkeeper opening the door and the footsteps of the eldest lady did not wake her up.

No one came out to report, Zhihua didn't care, and lost a look at Bai Lan, Bai Lan immediately understood, and reported loudly: "Mrs. Qiqi, the eldest lady is here to serve the sick!" Bai Lan shouted at the top of her voice, not only waking up Xingshuang, but also the eldest lady in the inner room. However, the eldest lady did not get up, but only commanded Xingshuang: "What's the matter?" You go and see, and let her wait outside. With that, he closed his eyes and fell asleep again.

Xingshuang got up and opened the door, saluted the eldest lady, and then whispered the eldest lady's instructions. Zhihua saw the thick blue on her eyes, and said pityingly, "Miss Xingshuang, you haven't closed your eyes for several nights, right?" I'm here to serve the sick, so you go down and rest, and I'll serve you here, so you don't have to worry. Nodding gratefully to the eldest lady, Xingshuang didn't say anything, and bowed directly.

The eldest lady only felt that she had just fallen asleep with her eyes closed, and was woken up by a loud sound of endorsement, and she was disturbed by her dreams one after another, which made her irritable and yelled: "Who is reading?" Shut up! It's noisy. The sound of reading stopped, and after a while, Zhihua heard the sound and walked into the inner room: "Madame is awake?" Bailan, go outside and fetch water to freshen up Madame. ”

The eldest lady was drowsy, and after the roar, it was quiet outside, and she fell asleep again, and she didn't hear what Zhihua said when she walked in later, so she was interrupted from her dream again—a cold handkerchief suddenly covered her face, making her wake up and scream, and instinctively waved her hand, only to hear a "snap" sound, as if she had hit someone. Seeing that Miss was beaten, Bai Lan also screamed: "Miss! How are you? She looked panicked, and the basin of water in her hand fell down in fright, and a basin of water fell directly on the eldest lady's bed!

The eldest lady had just taken away the cold veil on her face that seemed to be soaked in well water, and before she could see where she had hit, a basin of well water poured over her, and poured her heart cold! Early morning is the coldest time of the day, even if it is early summer, this basin of well water poured over, the eldest lady is shivering, unable to say a complete sentence in her mouth, can only stare at the pair of master and servant in front of her. If the gaze can kill, the two people in front of them will be overshadowed by the eldest lady in an instant.

Zhihua covered her face with her hands, as if she didn't notice that her maid poured water on the eldest lady's bed, hanging her head and crying, the maid who caused the accident seemed to have forgotten what disaster she had just caused, and only cared about the distressed miss: "Miss, does it hurt?" Slave, let's take you to Mother Han's to apply medicine. We'll come back in a moment and wait for the eldest lady to get up. After speaking, she directly stepped forward to help Zhihua up, and the master and servant walked away like this, forgetting the eldest lady who was shivering from the cold on the bed.

The thin quilt soaked in well water is as heavy as a thousand pounds, and the eldest lady can't speak now, how can she still have the strength to lift the quilt? The hatred for the eldest daughter has reached its peak, and the eldest lady secretly swears that she will repay what she has received in the past few days! The eldest lady on the bed relied on this hatred to hold on to wait for someone to come to the rescue, just when she thought she was about to freeze to death, there was finally a timid voice from the little maid outside: "Madam, the eldest lady said that you seem to be awake, she is still wearing medicine and it is inconvenient to come to serve you, do you want the slave to come in and serve?" "She is only a second-class maid, and she can't enter the inner room on weekdays without a summons from her master, so she only asks in the outhouse. The eldest lady gathered all her strength before squeezing out two words, "Enter...... Come on". Fortunately, the room was quiet, and although her voice was very small, the little maid heard it clearly, and then walked in. Seeing that the eldest lady's bed was wet, the maid did not have a look of surprise on her face, but quietly helped the eldest lady, wrapped her in a clean blanket first, and then found a dry dress to serve her to change. At this time, another second-class maid's voice came, "Madam, the ginger soup and hot water ordered by the eldest lady have been prepared, do you want to bathe now?" Zhihua just wanted to teach her a lesson, and she didn't want to take her life, so she had already helped her arrange a qiē outside. It's a pity that the eldest lady didn't appreciate it, and only regarded this as a remedy that she should do.

After drinking ginger soup and taking a hot bath, the eldest lady finally relieved herself. "Where's the eldest lady? Tell her to come and kneel for me! At this time, Wang's mother had already gotten up on an errand, and she was very angry at what the eldest lady had done.

As soon as the menacing Mother Wang walked out of the room, she saw the eldest lady sitting on the stone table in the small garden of Lihe Courtyard with breakfast. This situation was like pouring a bucket of oil directly into Wang's mother's already high anger, and the anger surged straight to her head, and she was furious on the spot: "The eldest lady actually has the face to have breakfast here!" After that, he rushed up and knocked all the cups and chopsticks to the ground.

Zhihua was not angry, but said lightly: "Come on, send this mother Wang to the old lady, and ask the old lady what to do with the next offense!" "The eldest old lady in the Lu Mansion is now going to follow Zhihua, how dare the people of this Lihe Courtyard disobey the order? Immediately, two rough mothers-in-law came out, blocked Wang's mother's mouth and dragged them away.

Just now, after Zhihua came out of the eldest lady's inner room, she did not return to Qiuhua Courtyard, but told Bai Lan to fetch medicine. Bai Lan cried all the way away, and when she came back from the Qiuhua Courtyard, the rumors of the Lu Mansion that the eldest lady beat her sick stepdaughter early in the morning had spread all over the corner. Now there is another mother Wang who has committed the following crimes, no matter what everyone thinks in their hearts, they all say that the eldest lady is really pitiful, she got up early in the morning to serve the sick, and was not only slapped by the eldest lady, but also humiliated by an old slave. With the acquiescence of the old lady, the rumors spread out at an alarming speed.

The old lady's matter with the big girl has always been the same as the wooden fish, knocking and moving. This time, the eldest lady asked the eldest daughter to serve the sick, and she got the news early in the morning, but the eldest girl didn't come to her, so she stood by and watched. Now he takes the initiative to spread the rumors, in fact, it is for himself. Anyway, she, who is not a serious mother-in-law, tosses her daughter-in-law to the point of falling ill, this kind of thing is always not good to hear, and now after the reputation of the eldest daughter-in-law spreads, she is the mother-in-law's repair of this kind of daughter-in-law, which is a matter of applause for everyone. The fate of Wang's mother can also be imagined, after summoning all the people in the Lu Mansion, Liu's mother announced in public that she had committed the evil act of bullying the eldest lady, and in the eyes of the people or schadenfreude, or the rabbit died and the fox was sad, Wang's mother was humiliated by the removal of her pants and was really beaten forty boards.