Yalan Xuan had already become a pot of porridge, and the shouts of the maids could be heard from afar. Xia Xue'er looked at the maid who ran out and ran in a hurry, no one cared about her, and hurriedly reached out to grab a maid running by beside her, and asked, "What's wrong?" Where is my mother now? ”

The maid saw that the person who was holding her was Xia Xue'er, and suddenly grabbed Xia Xue'er's arm like a life-saving straw, knelt down with a plop, and cried with tears: "Third Miss, think of a way to save Madame!" Madame is badly injured! ”

Xia Xue'er looked at the maid's expression, and her heart became more and more nervous, and she hurriedly said: "Don't be in a hurry, take me to take a look!" ”

The maid hurriedly got up and led the way, and turned around the courtyard to the backyard. As soon as she turned into the backyard, there was a crackling sound of wood burning into Xia Xue'er's ears, and when she looked up, there was billowing black smoke rising up! The maids, the servants, the guards, the basins, the buckets, and the scoops, the scene was very chaotic.

Xia Xue'er searched everywhere, but there was no trace of Mrs. Xia.

"Mother!"

"In the East Wing."

As soon as the maid finished speaking, Xia Xue'er left her and ran quickly towards the east wing.

I hope my mother is safe!

Pushing open the door suddenly, I saw Mama Gui sitting on the couch with red eyes, Xia Xue'er approached worriedly to see that Mrs. Xia was lying on the couch, her face was pale, and she had lost consciousness. There are multiple abrasions on the forehead, cheeks, and back of the hands, and blood seeps out, which is particularly eye-catching.

Mama Gui saw that Xia Xue'er was in a hurry, so she briefly explained the reason for the incident.

"What? Mouse! ”

"The small building is the place where the lady reads and writes, and there are no melons and fruits and snacks, and there are people who clean them every day, and the old slave somehow gets into the mice. According to the maid who first discovered the fire, there were dozens of very large rats on the small building! ”

"Huge?" Xia Xue'er first muttered to herself, and then asked, "Have you caught one or two?" ”

"The fire scattered and ran for their lives, and everyone was too busy putting out the fires to take care of the rats."

Xia Xue'er looked at her mother's scarred appearance, tears welled up in her heart in an instant, and she tried to blink her eyes to prevent it from rushing out of her sockets. He sighed lightly and said, "I'm afraid that this matter is not accidental but man-made." Then he asked, "Has the old lady been here?" ”

"As soon as I found out about the fire, I sent someone to invite it, maybe I was busy, so I haven't shown up so far."

What is called cold, this is called cold!

Xia Xue'er took a deep breath to calm her mind and continued to ask, "Did you send someone to ask for a doctor?" ”

"Qing'er has been there for a while, and she should be there in a while."

I waited anxiously for a while, but no one came, but Mrs. Xia's breath became weaker and weaker, like a kite with a broken string, and there was a risk of losing her breath at any time.

Xia Xue'er stood up and wanted to go out to check if the doctor was coming, but ran into Qing'er who ran back crying. Xia Xue'er saw Qing'er coming back alone, grabbed her arms and asked, "Where is the doctor?" ”

Qing'er cried aggrievedly: "The guard at the door said that there was no order from the old lady to prevent Yalan Xuan and the people who listened to Yuxuan from stepping out of the gate!" ”

"How can it be!"

Xia Xue'er was furious, such a big thing happened, and as a respected old lady in the Xia Mansion, she turned a blind eye to it like this, and even the doctor didn't let her invite! This is a matter of human life!

It happened that at this time, Shuang'er stepped into the door with a white jade bottle, and first saluted Xia Xue'er,

Xia Xue'er took the ointment, opened it to check, it was actually an ordinary bottle of plaster, held the bottle and looked at Shuang'er, suppressed the anger in her chest, and asked, "What does the old lady mean by this?" Can't even ask a doctor for my mother's injury? Can only use this inferior ointment? ”

"The third lady is angry, I'm just in charge of delivering things, don't dare to speculate on the old lady's thoughts."

Xia Xue'er looked at Shuang'er's expression that had nothing to do with me, and she was even more annoyed. Not to mention that she has always regarded Shuang'er as a friend before, and she is three points better to her than others, and now that her mother has suffered an accident, shouldn't she have more condolences and worries? Besides, it was no one else lying on the couch, but a lady who was respected in the house and treated them well, was she so stingy with even a little sincere greeting?

"Okay, thank the old lady for me!" Xia Xue'er gritted her teeth and said, then she threw the medicine out of the door and commanded loudly: "Qing'er Hong'er, carry your wife, let's go!" ”

Seeing that Xia Xue'er personally sent the medicine bottle sent by the old lady was still out of the door, everyone in the house was stunned, only Mama Gui listened to the order and stood up silently to clean up Madame's things.

"Where are you going?!"

Suddenly, a majestic voice came, Shuang'er unhurriedly let go, the old lady was standing behind her, her eyes swept everyone in the room with anger, and then her eyes focused on Xia Xue'er, and she wanted to use her eyes to cut her rebellious granddaughter with a thousand knives!

Xia Xue'er did not have the slightest fear, and her stubborn gaze at the old woman was also full of anger.

"What, the three girls can't even salute now?"

Hearing this, Xia Xue'er slightly Buddha and said coldly: "I've seen the old lady." ”

Yes, she called her an old lady, not a grandmother. When the old lady saw this, her body was stunned for a moment, but then she regained her indifference, but her eyes were a little more dissatisfied.

"Where are you going? Doesn't the ointment of the old body work? ”

"Thank you for the old woman's ointment, it's just that the treatment pays attention to the right medicine, and it is useless, your old favor and my mother and I are too weak, I can't stand it!"

"You!" When the old lady heard this, she couldn't help but think, and raised her hand and slapped Xia Xue'er in the face with a big ear scraper. The strength was so great that Xia Xue'er's fair cheeks immediately became red and swollen, and it was obvious that the five fingers were mountainous.

However, Xia Xue'er didn't dodge, she suffered this slap stiffly, not only did she not cry out in pain, but she didn't shed tears, she just stretched out her hand and touched the beaten cheek, and then said coldly and calmly: "The old lady beat and scolded, and scolded, please give way." ”

"Without my order, you will definitely not be able to get out of Xia Mansion by half a step!"

Xia Xue'er smiled coldly, used it in the palm of her hand, and smashed the Taihu Lake stone behind the old lady with just one palm, then withdrew her palm, looked at the old lady and said, "Then you can only try it." ”

Seeing this scene, everyone was stunned, no one expected that Xia Xue'er would have the ability to break Taihu Lake Stone in the air! The old lady took a deep breath in disbelief, for more than ten years, she had never found out that her granddaughter knew martial arts! I could only look at Xia Xue'er in a daze and tell the girl to clean up her things.

When she came back to her senses, Qing'er had already stepped out of the door with Mrs. Xia Xue'er and Mama Gui and the others, and was about to go out of the backyard.

The old lady had never been so disobedient, she was really angry, and she trembled and pointed to the backs of several people and shouted: "You little rabbit cub who has been stabbed with a thousand knives, you are really the same as your mother Zhao Yulan, you are all rebellious goods!" ”

When Xia Xue'er heard this, she stood still and turned around suddenly, staring at the old lady with the same anger and replied: "You keep shouting Zhao Yulan, she has been married to the Xia Mansion for nearly thirty years, and she has been working hard every day in and out of the mansion, have you ever complained?"

As a daughter-in-law, she serves you wholeheartedly, for your requests, whether reasonable or rude, she always obeys unconditionally, and all the grievances are carried by herself, has she ever disobeyed you once?

As a wife, she regards her husband as more important than herself, worries about him in everything, sweeps away her husband's worries, and allows her husband to devote himself to his career.

And you, as a mother-in-law, only think about passing on the ancestry, and just a few years after your mother entered the door, she began to stuff women into your father's room. Did you consider your mother's feelings when you did this?

This time when your father left home, you only listened to slander and blindly blamed your mother, but did you notice that she gave birth to a lot of flowers overnight? Have you ever thought about how much suffering she has in her heart that can't be discharged? Father can escape and relax, but she is a woman, in the face of hundreds of people in the family and big and small things, where can she escape? ”

The old lady has always been high-spirited and likes to live on people, listening to Xia Xue'er say that Zhao Yulan is so noble, like an angry little daughter-in-law, her heart is not slippery, and she said in a big voice: "You don't want to play tricks with me, since the old lady passed away, I am the person in charge of this family, and I also looked up to her when she let Zhao Yulan take charge of the middle feed, and she gave her face!" Now, as a matter of course, I take her back from power! ”

Xia Xue'er asked, "So you don't want to save you when you die?" Let others abuse my mother? ”

The old lady rolled her eyes, sneered, and replied disappreciatively: "Why don't you save yourself when you see death, don't say it so ugly." I can't be angry that you two have ruined the reputation of Xia Mansion for a hundred years, and it is natural to punish you! ”

Hearing this, Xia Xue'er was so angry that she almost suffocated to death in one breath! She has always been forbearing, and now it is time to endure it anymore, it is not something she has done, why should she carry this black cauldron?

"Say we've ruined the reputation of Xia Mansion? What did our mother and mother do to make you really see it and seize the handle? ”

The old lady opened her mouth, but found that she had nothing to say, she really didn't have any ironclad evidence, everything was just hearsay. She couldn't help but wonder if it was really because she was old, her mind was dull, and her ears were soft.

Seeing the old lady hesitating, Xia Xue'er threw down the last sentence: "Since you keep saying that we are rebellious, then I will really be rebellious today!" This family can't accommodate our mother and daughter, so let's give up the one thing here, go back to the Zhao family in Jiangnan, and never get along with your Xia family from now on! ”

"Wait!"

As soon as she heard that she had returned to the Zhao family in Jiangnan, the old lady immediately spoke out to stop her, and she felt faintly uneasy in her heart.

The ancestors of the Zhao family were the princes and kings of the dominant side, and although there were no princes in the current dynasty, and no one in the clan served in the court, the Zhao family, which was rich and rivaled the country, still had a strong appeal, and it was a jealous and respected existence of the royal family.

The marriage between the Xia and Zhao families was originally set by the old lady of the Zhao family and the old lady of the Xia family, and Zhao Yulan had not yet been born when the marriage contract was made. When the old lady of the Xia family was ordered to inspect the south of the Yangtze River, he met by chance with the old lady of the Zhao family, the two hit it off at first sight, talked very happily, and met after three rounds of wine, if the young lady of the Zhao family gave birth to a baby girl, the two families became in-laws. At that time, the Xia family was not as smooth sailing as it is now, and it was a high climb to be able to marry the world-famous Zhao family! Zhao Yulan is the only girl in the Zhao family's generation, and she is also a concubine, the Xia family was worried that the Zhao family would not be able to fulfill their promises and denied this marriage, after all, it was only a verbal agreement after drinking, and there was no evidence.

After the two families got married, the Zhao family gave the Xia family a lot of support, especially in the money and silver etiquette. With such a good family as the Zhao family, the Xia family can gain a firm foothold in various relationships, and be appreciated by the emperor.

Only the old lady herself knows best in her heart that the emperor can give the Xia family so many rewards, only four out of ten points are really appreciative of the Xia family's children, and the remaining six points are just to appease and curry favor with the Zhao family in Jiangnan, it can be said that the Zhao family is an indispensable stone ladder in the process of the Xia family's advancement.

If they are allowed to go back in such anger, it will definitely attract the dissatisfaction and even resentment of the Zhao family, and Zhao Yulan still has injuries on her face now, according to Mrs. Zhao's love for her only daughter, seeing her daughter like this, her Xia family is not asking for hardship?

Therefore, hearing Xia Xue'er say that she wanted to take Zhao Yulan back to Zhao's house, how could the old lady not be nervous, how could she not be worried!

"Jiangnan is thousands of miles away, not to mention the long distance, how can Yulan have a good rest under the fatigue of the carriage and horses? If you want to go back to your grandmother's house for a few days, it's not too late to wait until your mother's injuries are healed! ”

Xia Xue'er saw that the old lady's face suddenly changed, and her brows furrowed, of course she didn't know the strangeness, and she didn't know what the old lady was thinking, but it could also be seen that the old lady was still afraid of the Zhao family in Jiangnan.

So he straightened up and said, "I can't even invite a doctor here, I think it would be better to go back to my grandfather's house to help my mother recuperate." ”

"Isn't it just a doctor, please! Who said you can't please! Then he commanded loudly: "Shuang'er, hurry up and bring the best doctor in the city to heal Magnolia!" ”

"Wait", as soon as Shuang'er took two steps, Xia Xue'er stopped her voice: "It's not that I'm suspicious, it's just that this person is separated from his belly, and I don't worry about other doctors, so I ask you to go to Rende Medical Center and ask Dr. Zhang to come." ”

Shuang'er didn't rush to act after hearing this, but only hesitantly turned her head to look at the old lady, and saw that she nodded before she went as instructed.