Na Qingyi smiled: "Who is Mom, where do you need to report?" ”

So he pulled Qin's mother and went in directly.

Xiao Gu stood in the courtyard and waited, looking dumbfounded, but it made the little girls around her relax, although they didn't dare to talk to her rashly, but some people winked at her and smiled.

Xiao Gu stood and waited for a while, and another second-class maid came out and called her, "The eldest lady has something to ask you?" ”

The steps are made of exquisite stone bricks, but they have fallen into disrepair, and slippery moss grows in the cracks.

The distance between the main room and the back room is too close, and the screen window of the front door is black and green, so the doors and windows in the room are simply half open, making it appear more open and clean.

There is a rosewood cabinet against the wall on the east side, there are dense and exquisite carvings on the board wall, and the tables and chairs on one side are covered with a layer of half-old brocade elastic ink cover, which looks like a picture of Hunan water from a distance, but it is also washed slightly white. In front of the window, a sweet white porcelain plum vase, obliquely inserted a few red plums, bright red like a fire burning, bringing vitality to this simple room.

The eldest lady Ruyao sat on the ruyi couch, and also pulled Qin's mother to sit opposite, chatting about something, seeing Xiao Gu coming in, with a slight smile, the beautiful appearance was reflected in the whole room, and there was a kind of warm warmth that made people forget the vulgar.

"Are you Xiao Gu? I'm sorry for you to come here. ”

Seeing her salute, Ruyao did not pretend to pick up the teacup to fiddle, but immediately called, and as soon as she smiled slightly, the big girl Qingyi on the side grabbed a handful of copper coins from the lacquer box and rewarded her.

One of the three second-class maids on the side held a towel and tea, and the other two opened the food box and cloth vegetables, and they made it in an orderly manner.

Mother Qin cheered up, but she still felt a little guilty, "There was something wrong in the big kitchen today, and I delayed lunch, so I went to Zhenweixuan outside to buy it, Sister Yao, you can bear with me, and I will use some." ”

Ruyao was good-tempered and didn't care, "Mom is serious, and I am not alone in neglecting something at home, so it's good to change my taste rarely." ”

Bi He on the side was straightforward, and interjected with a smile: "Mom doesn't have to care, the rest of the whole house must be sent to us, it's all this meal, don't you still want to eat dragon liver and phoenix brain?" ”、

Ruyao sat upright like a yi, her eyes didn't sweep her, Bihe finished speaking in one go, and she also had a tacit understanding with her own young lady, "This mouth of the slave is really the source of trouble, you don't need to persuade Miss again, Sister Qingyi doesn't need to scold her, I will go down and receive the punishment myself." ”

As he spoke, he bowed his knees and retreated.

Mother Qin's eyes darkened when she heard this, but she was not angry, "In the past few years, I haven't been able to take care of Sister Yao'er, because I am too useless." ”

"Where did my mother come from, since my mother passed away, the world has long been used to seeing the cold, only a few of you old people often take care of it, you usually have difficulties, I am too late to be grateful, how can I bear to cause trouble to you?"

Ruyao shook her hand and looked into her eyes, and although she spoke plainly, she was very sincere.

Mother Qin also had tears in her eyes when she thought of the old master who had passed away, but she didn't want to cry, she just smiled and comforted: "When the pioneer lady was here, she often said: The blade of the sword comes from the sharpening, and the fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold. Sister Yao has also endured these two years for the time being, and when you get out of the pavilion, it will be a serious and elegant lady of the mansion, and when the time comes, she will raise her eyebrows and exhale, and let this group of villains who tend to be inflammatory! ”

When it comes to the worst, it's already gritting teeth.

Ruyao was originally born by Dafang Yuan with Zhang's maid, her biological mother died soon after, and Mrs. Zhang only had one son under her knees, so she raised her by her side, love like a treasure, not only gave her all the treatment of her eldest daughter, but also opened an ancestral hall for her, changed the genealogy of the concubine, and counted her as her own birth. The living director of the Zhang family, Ru Yao is the noble eldest lady of the Shen Mansion, and after she died prematurely, things changed.

First of all, there were rumors in the clan, saying that the Zhang family had a son who was in-law, and he had to use the daughter born by the slave to make a pair of "good" words, but in fact, he wanted to overpower the Wang family, which was simply a bad difference.

Another old lady reprimanded Ruyao in person when she was in May or Seven, "Wearing mourning clothes and being a demon and delicate, I don't even put my mother-in-law in my eyes", and the maid in Ruyao's room realized that the plain white mourning clothes sent by the needlework man were changed a few times out of thin air, and the waist and skirt were pinched out, and the upper body looked particularly slim. Ruyao's eldest maid Qingquan stepped forward to confess, but somehow she tripped up the Wang family who was pregnant with Liujia, and the old marquis was furious, and was instigated by the wind on the pillow, and put the master and servant several people into the ancestral hall to kneel and think, and Qingquan was heavily punished with forty rods, and there was a lack of water and food for three days, and he was actually hurt to death.

Next, Ruyao, who was less than ten years old, found that her daily life was full of thorns. The servants of the Shen Mansion no longer took her seriously, perfunctory and even sarcastic, all the dining utensils in the courtyard became more and more sluggish and in arrears, and after three years of filial piety, she was even moved out of the main courtyard and sent to this most remote courtyard in the name of Chongke.

Ruyao was extremely calm at a young age, and quietly endured all this, but the ensuing thunderous blow made her almost fall into despair-

Zhang's own son-in-law, Guang Cheng, actually scolded her for being "born of a cheap maid and pretending to be a concubine" in front of all the clan relatives, and invited an uncle from her mother's family to erase Ruyao's name from Zhang's name.

It was pouring rain that day, and the cloudy sky seemed to be crying, so Ruyao sat on the ground, looking blankly at her mother's tablet.

Mother Qin still remembers her clear and mournful eyes.

Thinking of these old things, Qin's mother's heart was sore and painful - the son and daughter left by the young lady, Brother Cheng was raised by the old lady when he was a child, and he heard a lot of slanderous rumors with ulterior motives since he was a child, and he was very estranged from his biological mother, and he didn't go to worship his mother's spiritual position all year round; And Sister Yao, whom she loves so much, is now being bullied to such an extent, and she can only grab her wrist and persuade her to endure it for another two years!

In two years, Sister Yao will be eighteen, and then she will be able to get out of the cabinet, and the Zhang family has set a family affair for her before her death, which is prestigious and appropriate, and then it will be bitter and sweet!

Both of them fell into deep thought, only the sound of the maid fiddling with the dishes and chopsticks was very clear, and at this moment, a crisp and indulgent sweet laughter came from outside the door-

"Sister Yao hasn't eaten yet? What delicacies are you eating, so time-consuming and laborious? ”

As soon as they heard this laughter, the faces of the second-class maids darkened.

It's Rucan, this delicate girl!

With a gust of wind rushing in, Rucan broke in proudly surrounded by four maids, and her people couldn't help but push and shove, and lifted Xiao Gu who was standing not far from the door.

Rucan didn't even look at Xiao Gu, and sneered at Sang and scolded Huai: "Good dogs don't get in the way!" Where did the come from so short-sighted! I think I'm the eldest lady or something, and I don't look in the mirror to see if I'm worthy! ”