In the morning, the housekeepers and ladies of the second room were gone, the courtyard was quiet, Wang Xi's family took the box and went up the steps, and saw the two little girls dozing off at the door of the main room, their heads were like chickens pecking rice, Wang Xi's family called softly: "Two sisters"

One of them barely raised his eyelids and said vaguely: "Aunt Wang is here, and Mrs. is resting."

At this time, the eldest girl Su Lan was doing needlework in the hall, and when she heard the door talking, she lifted the curtain and came out, and laughed quietly: "It turned out to be Aunt Wang, who should I be, come at noon, the sun is big outside, sit in the house quickly, and drink herbal tea." ”

Let's say, let Wang Xi's family into the hall, there are ice basins placed in the four corners of the room, scattered a trace of coolness, Wang Xi's family into this room suddenly felt cool, take a look, the hall is open and bright, there are no extra objects, the cage is missing, thinking that the second wife will not put things on the bright side, and look at the east.

Su Lan understood, and said unnaturally on her face: "The wife is asleep in the west room, the eldest lady sits first, and I let the little girl pour tea." ”

Let's say, go out to support the little girl at the door, and say, "Pour tea for Aunt Wang." ”

Su Lan's nervous expression made Wang Xijia look at it.

Su Lan instructed the maid to pour tea, turned around, and sat and talked with Wang Xi's family, Su Lan said: "Auntie, come over on a hot day, something?" ”

Wang Xijia put the ebony gold-painted lotus box he was holding in his arms on the table, opened it, and said: "This is fifty taels of silver, which is given by our wife to the second wife to make a coil, keep the spare flowers on the road, a little heart." ”

Su Lan didn't push back, took it with a smile, and said, "Cheng San's love, our wife will wake up in a while, and I'll go back to Mrs." ”

Wang Xijia asked how the things were prepared for the departure that day, and Su Lan spoke a little hesitantly, and said, "There is nothing either, just a few broken boxes and put them in the east room." ”

After chatting for a while, Su Lan said: "These little hooves, why hasn't the tea come up yet, the eldest lady is sitting, I'll urge you." ”

Let's say, lift the curtain and go out of the hall, Wang Xi watched her go to the small kitchen through the window.

Quickly stood up, went to the west room, walked to the door, the curtain was closed in the west room, and suddenly, a voice came from inside: "Yun'er, when did you come?" Wang Xijia was frightened, listened quietly and was silent again, his heart was in his stomach, this is the second wife talking in her sleep.

Wang Xijia's footsteps stagnated, and when he thought about it, it was not right, the second wife rested in the West House, on a hot day, the boxes and cages all over the ground, looking at the stuffiness, he turned back and walked to the east.

Afraid that Su Lan would come back, he took a few steps and gently pushed open the east lattice door, and saw the cages all over the ground, the door of the east room was open, and the cage was also all of a sudden, the inner room was narrow, and it could not be placed, and it was stacked high.

At this time, Wang Xijia listened to Su Lan talking to the little maid in the courtyard, and when he looked up, he saw Su Lan hurriedly walking through the courtyard towards the upper room with a tea tray from the window, and hurriedly came out.

As soon as she went out, Su Lan came in and said with a smile: "Auntie is in a hurry, these little girls are lazy." ”

Wang Xijia had something in his heart, so he reluctantly sat down and drank a cup of tea, and after a few perfunctory words, he said goodbye and hurriedly went back.

Su Lan sent it to the steps and said affectionately: "Aunt Wang is going well." ”

Turning back into the west room, Wu sat on the kang and drank tea leisurely, Chen Shengjia stood aside, and said with a smug smile: "This time it's done." ”

Wu's faint smile crossed the corner of his lips and said, "Tell your subordinates to take out the boxes and things, and you can take people to put the empty boxes in the warehouse, so as not to put them in this weird heat." ”

After dusk, the third wife's personal maid Yinshuang pretended to be idle, and went to the courtyard of the fourth room to find the fourth wife's little girl named Huan'er, as if she had no intention of telling this, and told her not to say it, and she didn't know whether it was true or false by hearsay.

As soon as Yinshuang left, Huan'er hurriedly walked to the fourth wife's main room, the fourth wife, Ma Shi, opened the clothes that the maid had brought back, picked up the corner of a turmeric satin embroidered eight-group flower jacket skirt and trembled, and looked at the following is a long body gown with ochre red treasure and cloud brocade, pouted dissatisfied, and said: "Just like these two things, the Shen family is really not as good as a year, and it is becoming more and more unlikely, only two of the four pieces were given, and the rest will be sent down in the next year, and even this must be deducted." ”

Huan'er lifted the curtain and walked in at this time, and answered: "Our house has two pieces per person, but the third girl's wife in the second room has made six pieces, and they are all high-quality and precious palace brocade materials." ”

When the fourth lady heard this, she glanced at the girl and asked, "What you said is true?" Where did you listen? ”

Huan'er was instructed by Yinshuang to say that she couldn't tell the truth, so she lied and said: "The people in the embroidery workshop said it, I don't believe the wife to ask." ”

Ma Shi stood up and said angrily: "There are such things, the second room is also bold, I have to ask carefully."

Let's say, regardless of decency, I personally helped the girl to the embroidery room.

At this time, the clothes in the house were almost haired, and the clothes of the mother-in-law on duty at the door were not collared, and the Wei family had just sat down to rest and drink saliva, when they saw that the fourth lady had a bad face, she walked into the door quickly, went straight to her, and asked in a loud voice: "The Wei family, let you take care of the needlework, is to lift you, you are a slave can also learn to look at the eyebrows and eyes, and watch people cook." ”

Although these four wives are not very careful, but after all, they are masters, and the Wei family does not dare to offend, so they hurriedly squat down and salute, and said: "The slave and maid ask for peace to the fourth wife, I don't know who the fourth wife listened to and said what she said, Mrs. Shengming is the master of the slave and maid, and the slave and maid dare not offend the masters by borrowing the courage of the slave and the maid." ”

The fourth lady was still angry, and saw that the needlework in the room made people come around, so she did not give up, and shouted loudly: "You evaluate the theory, a concubine in the second room gets six clothes, how can I say that she is also the mother of the house, and she is not as good as a concubine, I can't stay in this house anymore, is there still a place for me to stand in the dignified Shen Mansion?" Even you minions have bullied me, and the Shen family has no rules. ”

When everyone heard this, they even blamed them, and they all knelt down and said: "Mrs. is wronged, how dare the slave and maid be disrespectful to the wife, the wife only says one or two, and the slave and maid will die clearly." ”

The fourth lady was so angry that she trembled all over, and she didn't sit down, seeing that everyone was still acquainted, she was a little angry and said: "Then let me ask you, why did the third girl make six clothes, and they are all good materials, but I, the mother of the house, only got two, is this not your gang of slaves and maids." ”

Mrs. Wei only figured out what was going on, and kowtowed upwards and said: "Madam, such a big thing, it is a slave maid who has done the master's, and the silver allocated from above has a number, and the slave and maid can't fill it out of their own pockets, which was originally ordered by the second wife, let each person in the second room make six sets of clothes, a piece of hundreds of taels of silver, that is what the slave can afford, that is, the slave intends to please the second room, and there is no such large amount of silver." ”

When the fourth wife heard this, she was so angry that she fainted, and said with trembling lips: "Hundreds of clothes and one piece, dare to love the Shen family is a mountain of gold and silver, and I can't help but hollow it out, okay, I'll find the old lady to comment." ”

This was noisy, and it happened that a mother-in-law in the big wife's house came to pick up clothes for a mother-in-law who was on the second door at night, and the mother-in-law took leave today, listened to it, ran back to the big room, and said when she entered the door: "Mrs., Mrs., there is a quarrel." “

The eldest lady and the personal girl Dong Mei were talking about the third wife, and Dong Mei said: "The third lady coaxed the old lady to be happy, and the old lady must have handed over the housekeeping to the third lady." ”

The eldest lady felt uncomfortable, and said gloomily: "The second child will always come back one day, let's make trouble."

As she was talking, the old woman crashed in and shouted, "Madame, go and see." ”

Zhou frowned, the old woman couldn't figure it out, so she said, "Who made a fuss?" ”

The old woman took a breath and said calmly: "It's the fourth wife who made trouble in the sewing room, I heard that each person in the second room made six pieces of clothes, and the fourth wife only got two, isn't this making trouble." ”

This Zhou's is not as stupid as the fourth wife, his brain turned, no, the second brother and sister have been housekeepers for many years, they have always been fair, and the people in the house have a good reputation, and there has never been a big difference, even if they are greedy for money, they will not be open, they will do things behind their backs, people don't know ghosts, and the accounts are flat, so there is nothing to do.

He said, "I'll take a look." ”

Say it, I walked towards the needlework room, and when I entered the door, I saw that the fourth wife was talking about this, and she was on fire in her belly, and she had nowhere to send it, and she was attacking a slave.

The eldest lady smiled before speaking, and stepped forward and said affectionately: "Fourth brother and sister, I was looking for you and said that you came here." ”

The fourth wife saw that her sister-in-law Zhou was coming, found one end, and hurriedly pulled Zhou to talk about the cause and effect, and Zhou added some words.

The fourth lady had no intentions, and as soon as the eldest lady turned on the fire, she pedaled and walked to the old lady's upper room, and the eldest lady pretended to shout in the back: "Fourth brother and sister, where are you going?" ”

In the west, the main house of the small cross-courtyard where Shen Wanzhen lived was blocked, and there was no sunlight early, Shen Wanzhen ordered to embroider chrysanthemum palm lamps, and the bead curtain shook 'bang', and Qiao Shan ran in.

Xiuju scolded with a smile: "This little hoof, even walking with the wind, will marry in the future, it's okay not to have a mother-in-law, if there is a mother-in-law to detain, some will suffer." ”

Qiao Shan didn't have time to talk to her, and said to Shen Wanzhen: "Master, the fourth wife quarreled in the needlework room, and the eldest lady got the letter and hurried to persuade her." ”

Wanzhen has been in the Shen Mansion for three years, and she has long been surprised, and said in a flat tone: "What's the matter?" ”

"I heard it's because of the girl."

"For me? This is strange, I will recruit who to provoke whom, and pull it in vain."

"The fourth wife said that this time the autumn shirt was issued, and the girl got six, but she only got two pieces for the housemaster's mother, saying that our wife took advantage of the convenience of the head of the house to occupy more, and she wanted to go to the old lady to comment."

When the autumn clothes were delivered, Wanzhen was also strange, and asked the person in the sewing room, saying that the wife ordered, make a few more pieces this year, and Shen Wanzhen didn't take it seriously, the Shen family has four sets of clothes all year round, regardless of the master and slave each quarter, and it has not been on the body last year, and it has been sent down again this year, and many clothes are pressed to the bottom of the box.

Mother-in-law's work has always been difficult to think about, I'm afraid this matter is not so simple, the six sets of clothes are all high-quality palace woven clothes, which is contrary to her status as a concubine, Wu's approach, obviously attracting the fourth wife into the urn,

After a while, I don't know who shouted outside: "The old lady is here in the second room."

Wanzhen hurriedly took the maid and went to the room.