The main room behind the house was quiet, and the maids and servants were tiptoeing in and out, lightly.

The two little maids scrubbed the tables and chairs in the flower hall, laughing softly.

"Via, where have you been today?" A maid asked, "At that time, Mother Yao came to us for questioning, but she didn't wait for you." ”

The little bottle, who was wringing the water, said in a panic: "I don't dare to do anything, it's just, oh, I'm going to the thatched house, yes, I'm going to the thatched house." Speaking of this, the person suddenly calmed down: "At that time, I suddenly had a stomachache, and I didn't have time to tell you, so I went to the thatched house." ”

The little maid is not someone else, it is Cui'er who was assigned to Xinglan Courtyard as a rough maid with the vial, only to hear Cui'er sigh: "Alas, when do you say that we are the head, do you want to do some rough work of sprinkling and cleaning all our lives?" My old lady also said that I should save some more money for a month, so that I can buy a dowry in the future, but you look at the amount of money we have a month, and when will we be able to save a dowry. ”

"It would have been nice to do things in the eldest lady's courtyard at the beginning, I heard Yao's mother say this morning that the eldest lady came to ask for the monthly money of Xinglan Courtyard yesterday, saying that although there are few people serving in Xinglan Courtyard, they are serving two masters, and they have to do more things, and they need to pay more monthly money. Yao's mother originally planned to give Cai Lu and Cai Yin the monthly money of the two second-class maids, but the eldest lady was not happy, so she asked for the same monthly money according to the number of monthly money in the second lady's courtyard, I asked Cai Lu in the morning how much monthly money the eldest lady gave her, and she also pretended to be stupid and stunned for me, hum, I thought I didn't know, she must have taken more than the second-class maid's monthly money. Cui'er said as she threw the handkerchief in her hand into the basin, and she ignored the splash of water. Still sulking.

"We can't blush as much money as she takes, the eldest lady doesn't like us, dislikes us and rudely kicks us out. What can we do? We are not like Jasmine and Mai Dong, the smart society found a way out early, and there was no green picking to please the master, so we had to do some rough work of sprinkling and sweeping. The vial gritted his teeth.

Cui'er thought of the situation at the vial's family, and sighed: "I'm fine, but your monthly money still has to be taken back to buy medicine for your mother, although it is also a rough maid in Xinglan Courtyard." But the eldest lady doesn't care about us, they are easy to talk to, and the amount of our monthly money is as much as it goes to our pockets. But the main house is different, if you don't buy something for the housekeepers, they will be able to find work for us. ”

The vial rubbed the table and chair vigorously, one at a time. It was like the legs of the table were going to be broken.

Cui'er didn't hear back. With another sigh, he picked up his handkerchief again and began to do things.

After cleaning the flower hall, cleaning the inside and out, and cleaning the tables and chairs, Cui'er and the small bottle came to the yard with the dirty water they wiped, and just about to pour the dirty water into the corner, they heard the surprised voice of the little maid at the door.

"Miss, Madame is taking a nap right now. It will take almost a stick of incense to wake up, so you can come back later. The little maid persuaded with a bitter face. looked at Jiang Quinoa timidly.

Jiang Qu smiled softly at her and said, "Open the door, I'm not here to find my mother." ”

The little maid looked behind her, and looked infinitely forward to Mother Yao at this time, like the heavenly soldiers and generals in the play, to suddenly appear behind her and help her deal with the eldest lady.

The door of the main courtyard was not closed tightly, and from the slightly open slit, Jiang Quinoa saw the figure of the vial flashing by, she was no longer entangled with the little maid guarding the door, and rushed in as soon as she pushed it open.

The pot fell to the ground, and the vial looked at the person who suddenly appeared in front of her in a daze, and her eyes bulged out.

Cui'er hurriedly knelt down and saluted, she was still very stunned by Jiang Quinoa, and when she saw that the vial was still standing stupidly, she pulled her clothes and asked her to kneel down quickly.

"Why are you here?" After waking up, the words in my mind blurted out all of a sudden, and it was too late for the vial to cover its mouth.

Jiang Qu squinted his eyes and looked at her, and sneered, "Why can't I be here?" Or, where should I be if I'm not here? ”

The movement in the yard alarmed Yao's mother in the house, she came out with a straight face and was about to reprimand the ignorant maid, when she saw Jiang Quinoa standing in the yard, her eyelids jumped, and her brain began to hurt.

"Oh, my eldest lady, why are you here at this hour? Come into the house and sit down, Madame will wake up in a while. Yao's mother lowered her voice and said.

Jiang Quinoa nodded at her, but did not move his feet.

"Mom, I'll tell my mother later, I'll borrow this vial." Jiang Quino's eyes fell on the vial, and he didn't let her say this, and the vial's face instantly turned white.

Yao's mother heard that she was just borrowing a maid to use, which was not a big deal, and said with a smile: "This girl in the small bottle is doing some rough work in the main room, if Xinglan Courtyard can't be cleaned, I will arrange for her to go to Xinglan Courtyard to help clean it in the morning and evening, and the eldest lady thinks it is feasible?" ”

"Not really, I'm going to borrow the vial now." Jiang Quinoa nodded outside, and immediately two stout mothers-in-law came in, and without saying a word, they covered the mouth of the vial and took her away, not giving her a chance to shout and defend her grievances at all.

Mother Yao looked at the backs of the two mothers-in-law in surprise and asked, "Miss, why do I look at these two mothers-in-law with some eyes." ”

The people have been taken away, and Jiang Quinoa no longer stays, and said as he walked outside: "They are not the mother-in-law of our house, I borrowed them from outside." When my mother wakes up, you tell my mother, I have taken the vial to the firewood room, and if you want to find us, we will go to the firewood room. I heard that these two mothers-in-law are very good, and a cup of tea can make people recruit anything, and I don't know if it's true, so my mother can come and see it with my mother later. ”

Yao's mother froze in place, watching Jiang Quinoa and them take people away, and after a while, she asked, "Cui'er, what did the eldest lady say, why don't I understand?" She understood what every word Jiang Qu said, but she didn't understand it when they were put together. How can you bring people to the firewood room in a good way?

The firewood room is a place to punish and imprison servants and subordinates who have made mistakes.

All the way out of the main house to the firewood room, Jiang Quinoa and the two mothers-in-law did not hide it. In this way, he dragged the vial, which was already frightened and paralyzed, to the firewood room. People on the road automatically hid aside when they saw Jiang Quinoa coming, and they whispered guesses here, but they couldn't catch the slightest clue. I don't know how the vial could crash into Jiang Quinoa's hand speechlessly.

In the main room, Liu woke up and asked sleepily, "What time is it?" ”

No one answered for a long time, she was stunned for a moment, got up and looked around the house but didn't see Yao's mother, and couldn't help but call loudly.

The maid at the door heard Liu's voice and hurriedly came in to serve. replied: "The eldest lady is here, and Mother Yao is going to serve." ”

As soon as I woke up, I heard the news of Jiang Quinoa, which was very angry for Liu's wake-up. It was just to add insult to injury, and she said with a frosty face: "What is she doing again?" Didn't you agree to let her out of the house? ”

The little maid didn't know how to reply, but fortunately, at this time, Yao's mother came in, and the little maid saluted. Don't wait to get up yet. I heard Yao's mother panic and said: "Madame, hurry up and take a look, the eldest lady doesn't know what to do, she took the two face-stolen mothers-in-law into the inner house, and just came in and took the vial away." ”

Liu Shi was jumped when he heard this, hammered the bed board, and said hatefully: "It's overturned the sky, she is trying to make trouble in the house, right, where is she." Go get her for me. ”

Where did Yao's mother dare to catch Jiang Quinoa, the two mothers-in-law she brought over were not easy to mess with. Coupled with Jiang Quinoa, the eldest lady who is not stingy, who dares to rush forward?

Yao's mother hesitated and didn't answer, and Liu also knew what she was worried about, so she got up and said, "Hurry up and wait for me to get dressed, and take me to see." ”

Hearing that Jiang Quinoa brought people to the firewood room, Liu couldn't help but scold two more sentences.

"It's better for Miss to stay outside, it's dirty inside, be careful of staining your eyes." The mother-in-law said to Jiang Qu with a smile, and shouted to the servant woman who was secretly looking here not far away: "What are you doing standing stupidly, why don't you hurry up and move a stool for the young lady to sit on." ”

Seeing that the lively servant woman was stunned by the yelling, she hurriedly went back to the house and moved a square stool, wiped the stool with her sleeve, and said, "There is only such a stool here, Miss should not dislike it." ”

Jiang Quinoa saw that the stool was quite clean, so he sat down.

The servant woman bent over on the side, Jiang Quinoa didn't let her go, and she didn't dare to move.

"What are you doing here? What to do, what to do. The mother-in-law impatiently drove the servant away, and the servant looked at Jiang Quinoa, and when she saw that she didn't speak, she hurriedly bowed down and left, and she didn't dare to come here to watch the excitement.

Jiang Quinoa counted the time, and it was almost time to go to the appointment, and I didn't know what was going on outside.

"Go and get busy, don't delay the affairs of the son." Jiang Quinoa said.

When the mother-in-law heard her mention the prince, her eyes lit up, her attitude became more respectful, and she turned around and entered the firewood room.

Not long after, there was a sound of the vial shouting and cursing from the firewood room, Jiang Quinoa frowned again and again, and before she could get up, the voice suddenly stopped, and then there was a whining sound, it should be that the vial's mouth was blocked by something.

Jiang Quinoa leaned on the pillar under the porch, looked up at the sky, and felt no sorrow or joy in his heart for a while. She never knew that one day she would do such a thing, if she didn't even dare to listen to these things in her previous life, she started over again, changed her mentality and attitude, and the things she encountered were completely different.

It's really different.

"Squeak" The door of the firewood room behind him was opened, and a mother-in-law came out panting, and said respectfully: "Miss, it's all recruited." ”

"Mama is really good." Jiang Quinoa praised sincerely, if it weren't for these two good players, but as far as she, Jiang Chun and the others, they were still looking at each other, and they didn't know where to start.

The mother-in-law said a few words modestly and bowed out of the way.

Jiang Quinoa stood up, and before he could take a step, he heard a series of footsteps behind him, thinking that his mother should wake up at about this time.

It was indeed the Liu family who came in, followed by the second gatekeeper and Jiang Xi and others.

"Where's the vial?" Liu glanced at the mother-in-law beside Jiang Quinoa and asked loudly.

Jiang Quinoa pointed to the firewood room and said, "Inside." My mother came just in time, and I was about to go in, why don't we go together? ”

Liu was about to get angry, but he heard Jiang Qu say: "Mother, let's come in and listen before deciding." ”

Seeing her determined, Liu Shi began to hesitate in her heart, she didn't seem to be untargeted.

"Mother Yao and Steward Liu should also come in and listen." Jiang Quinoa nodded clearly, and after speaking, he took the lead in the firewood room.

The firewood room was dimly lit, the floor was dirty, firewood was piled up in the corner, and there was a dilapidated spinning wheel and some mess.

The vial was lying on the ground, her hair was messy, her body was messy, and her body was covered with dust, and when she heard the sound of footsteps, she looked up and saw Liu's excited whining, and her mother-in-law stood in front of her, and the light that had just lit up in her eyes suddenly went out, and all that was left was fear.

"Will you tell the truth?" Jiang asked Quino.

The mother-in-law is very confident, "Miss can only ask if she has something to say, and the old slave has the means to make her answer honestly." ”

Jiang Quinoa was immediately relieved, what came out of the palace was different, and the confidence to speak was not ordinary.

"Tell yourself, who are you out to deliver the news to? How many times have you sent the message? What did you pass on to others? Jiang asked Quinoa.

The mother-in-law pulled the sweat towel in her mouth from the vial, and she was just about to beg for mercy at Liu, but the mother-in-law kicked on her, and she didn't necessarily exert much strength, only to hear her scream and curl up in a ball.

Liu Shi heard something strange from Jiang Quino's questioning, and his brows tightened at this time, but he didn't stop rashly.

The mother-in-law sneered twice and asked, "Are you honest this time?" ”

After all, Xiaoxin is just a teenage little girl, and she has not been sold into the house for a long time, when she has been tortured like this, her heart has already collapsed, and she thought that Liu's they would be saved when they came, and now no one stopped Jiang Quinoa, she also knew that she might not be able to escape today, thinking of these two mothers-in-law threatening her with her family, she cried: "I said, I said." ”

"Tell me, who was the person you connected with yesterday?" Jiang asked Quino.

The vial cried and said: "I don't know who that person is, I just listen to it every day, as long as he shouts at the corner gate, I will go out and stop him, and he will tell me to get some news, when he will come to get it, and he will come to me every time." ”

It's quite cautious, Jiang Qu thought for a while and asked, "Then when did you start doing things for them?" Or were you originally sent by them? ”

Crying made the snot flow out, and now the hands and feet are tied, the face is messy, and the vial can't be wiped off, and he replied: "Then Miss Hui Chun'er drove us out, Mai Dong and Jasmine spent two months of monthly money to do a little bit, and they all reassigned the work, or work in the room of the second lady and the eldest young master, we don't know how to envy." Cui'er and I are helpless, and the maid in the main room is full, I want to go home and ask my father and mother to help me get an idea, see if I can do it too, or stay up like this first. As soon as I got out of the house, the merchant came over, he first set me close, and then inquired about the house, I was in a bad mood, so I complained twice, he listened to me complain all the way, and gave me a bag of sugar and two handkerchiefs when he arrived at my house. When I went home, I met him again, my family was poor, my mother was sick, and the money for medicine was a lot every month, and he asked me if I wanted to make a lot of money, and I was also angry, so I thought that the eldest lady was not good to me anyway, so I told the news to that person. The vial cried bitterly.

Liu stood aside and trembled with anger.

"How much silver did you give?" Jiang asked Quino.

The vial shook his mouth and shouted, "A tael of silver, give me a tael of silver!" (To be continued......)