"Did the eldest lady wake up?"

Linglong walked into the Rong Courtyard, and saw that the Dai Po was about to dry the clothes with a wooden basin, and she was the only one in the huge Rong Yuan, in addition to taking care of his wife, she was alone in cleaning the yard, tidying up the room, and washing and washing. Xingyu will also help, but she still has to wait for Linglong, and Rong Yuan still has to rely on her mother-in-law.

"The eldest lady got up, and now she is sitting in front of the window looking at the flowers, and the slave maid hangs her clothes and goes in to wait."

Linglong didn't speak, tiptoed into the room, Feng Shi was very sensitive to sound, and a little loud movement would stimulate her.

The curtain of Xiangfei bamboo is half-lifted, and outside the window is a crape myrtle, after cutting the plantain, Linglong did it himself, moved from the big garden, some have bloomed, faint purple, the stars are densely turned, a ball of balls, the wind blows the trees, and the flowers make shadows.

Feng Shi sat in front of the window, looking at the crape myrtle, her gaze was unfocused, sloppy and dull.

Linglong saw an empty bowl on Nanmu's small table, she touched it with her hand, and there was still residual warmth on the bowl.

She didn't want to disturb her mother, so she walked out of the house with a bowl, and met the substitute mother-in-law who had returned from drying her clothes under the porch.

"What's in this bowl?" Linglong asked.

"Back to the fifth lady, the Huixiang girl in the second wife's house brought the eldest lady wine-stuffed osmanthus balls, and the eldest lady ate them very sweetly."

As she spoke, she looked at the wooden basin in her hand, raised her head only once, and then avoided her eyes again.

Linglong saw her eyes flickering, so she asked, "It's time to send Baihui Xiang again, didn't Huixiang ask?" ”

"I asked, and the slave said that the fifth lady disliked the taste and didn't let her use it."

Linglong nodded, and said to the mother-in-law: "The female doctor said that day, the eldest wife's illness is taboo in the diet, this time it is wine-brewed osmanthus balls, next time the second wife will let people send snacks over, you have to ask me first, don't give the eldest lady to eat directly, if the eldest lady is a little inappropriate, you can't be responsible, remember?" ”

"The slave and maid have written it down, and the slave and maid will not be next time."

Linglong said again: "Rong Yuan is all taken care of by you alone, I know you can't be busy, from this month onwards, I will give you a subsidy of one or two from my own monthly routine, how hard you are." ”

The mother-in-law was stunned for a while, and the fifth lady only had three taels of silver per month, and she even had to give her another tael. Miss Five is different from Miss Three, no one gives her a supplement.

"Fifth Miss, slaves can't be wanted"

Linglong smiled: "This is what you should take, the eldest lady has been sitting for a while, you can go and take a look." ”

Back in the courtyard, Xingyu asked anxiously: "Miss, that generation of mother-in-law clearly has something to hide from us, why don't you ask her again?" ”

Linglong took a sip of herbal tea and said lightly: "If you ask her, she won't say anything, you go and inquire, who else is in the mother-in-law's family." ”

Although Linglong is not powerful in the house, Xingyu is also familiar with those inferior maids in the house, these people also have no status in the house, and they are not exclusive to the newcomer Xingyu. is also waiting for the young lady, Xingyu is better than the maid next to the third lady, even if it is a third-class maid in the third lady's garden, her nostrils are raised to the sky, I am afraid that others will not know that they are from the Lotus Garden.

The next day, Xingyu inquired: "Miss, guess what, the son of the acting mother-in-law was originally running errands in the Zhending Zhuangzi, and he was suddenly transferred to the capital in the past few days, and he is working as a partner in the gold shop at this time." ”

The Jin family has many shops, restaurants, and gold shops.

I see, Linglong roughly understood.

She asked Xingyu to call her mother-in-law over and get straight to the point: "I heard that your son has been transferred to the capital, it's really a happy event, and your mother and son will have a good time to take care of them in the future." ”

The substitute mother-in-law was taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down: "Fifth Miss, don't get me wrong, although the second wife transferred my son over, she didn't let the slave maid help her do things." ”

Linglong snorted, and said, "Your son is working as a partner in the gold shop at this time, this errand is good." It's just that I remember that everyone in the Jin family who can do things in the gold shop and the silver number is a child of the family. Steward Li's youngest son seems to be just a buddy at this moment. ”

The acting mother-in-law felt a sigh in her heart, although she and her son were both working in the Jin family, they were not born in the family. She has no status in the house, and she has no connections, otherwise the unfortunate errand of serving the eldest lady will not be her turn. Her son's errand in Zhending Zhuangzi was something she had to ask for with a lot of effort. The errand of the gold shop is not the same, dealing with gold goods all day long, it is difficult to guarantee which hands and feet are not clean and do the wrong thing, so they will only use the family to give birth, one to insurance, and the other is that Lao Tzu Niang is in the Jin family, and he can't run away if something happens.

Linglong didn't say anything anymore and let the mother-in-law go back to Rongyuan. She knew that Song Xiuzhu couldn't wait.

Song Xiuzhu originally wanted her mother to die every year, but now it seems that she doesn't want to wait. Her return and Jin Yuan's family affairs made Song Xiuzhu not want to wait for the rabbit anymore, she was going to make a move.

In the afternoon, good news came, and Sun Sanniang came to see a doctor.

Sun Sanniang is doing things safely, and people like her will not come again if they don't find out what happened.

Linglong guessed correctly, Sun Sanniang really had news to bring her.

Because she touched the soft shop here last time at Sun Sanniang, this time Song Xiuzhu did not come forward in person, and only asked Mrs. Zhang and a few maids to accompany Sun Sanniang over.

Sun Sanniang still had a cold face, and said to Mrs. Zhang: "My own people have to wait outside Rongyuan, and I also bother you to avoid it, my way of seeing a doctor is different from others." ”

Mrs. Zhang glanced at Linglong, and then led people out. Linglong also asked Xingyu and Dai Pozi to help Feng go back to the house.

She asked, "The matter of Baihuixiang, can the third lady find out that something is wrong?" ”

Sun Sanniang took out a piece of tissue paper from her sleeve, and saw that there were many small characters densely written on it, all of which were flower names.

Linglong asked, "Are these the hundred kinds of flowers that are needed to make incense?" ”

Sun Sanniang nodded.

Linglong looked at the paper again and asked, "Think of the piece of fragrant cake I gave to the third lady, there are several flowers in it that are different from the ones on this paper." ”

Sun Sanniang's eyes showed approval, she looked at the girl in front of her again, but twelve or thirteen years old, petite and exquisite, her face was obviously childish, but her eyes were as calm as water.

"Miss Fifth is right, there is less Huilan here, and there are more Shi Miao Hong and Dian Kui, this Shi Miao Red and Dian Kui are not poisonous, but if you encounter nine herbs, there will be poison, and it is a coincidence, there are nine herbs in the hundred flowers."

Linglong poured tea for Sun Sanniang with her own hands and asked, "So what?" Please also ask the three ladies to teach. ”

Sun Sanniang took a sip of tea and said softly: "At the beginning, there was nothing, but over time, people will have illusions and slowly go crazy." ”