"Another scholarly family? There are too many of them. We, a small merchant and official family, can actually afford to use people from scholarly families as slaves. - What a big face. Fang Yuniang remembered that Ou Yangniang said that the Long family was a "scholarly family", and she didn't know whether Lu Dao insulted the word "scholarly" or the word "family", so she was secretly funny in her heart.

When Xiaoqing heard Mrs. Du speak like this, her face turned red, and she stammered and rushed to remedy, "Mrs. Du, it's all Sister Xiaomiao." Our family is just an ordinary Zhuang family, that is, after reading books for a few days, I know a few words, and I dare not call it a 'scholarly family', which is really an insult to the four words 'scholarly family'. Slaves and maidservants cannot afford to be treated. As he spoke, he hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed to Fang Yuniang a few times, which was regarded as an apology.

Xiao Miao snorted in his nose, and he didn't like Xiaoqing's style. - The Du family is just the same family as their Xiao family, she knelt down, but she lost all the people in their Xiao family, and she had to talk to her wife when she went back......

Fang Yuniang was very uncomfortable when she saw Xiaoqing's style, but she couldn't find a mistake, frowned slightly for a while, put down the hand warmer in her hand, and said lightly: "I know the way." Go out and wait. So he sent them both to stand under the cloister of the outhouse.

At this time, it was the cold winter wax moon, and the cold wind in Chang'an City was like a knife, cold and biting.

Each house had a brazier in the house, or set up a hot kang and burned it hot.

Xiao Miao and Xiao Qing stood in the corridor for a while, and soon they were shivering from the cold.

Xiao Miao has always been accustomed to living a rich life in the Xiao family, and when she came out with Xiao Shiji, she also took a car, and there was a hand stove and a warm basin in the car, and she had never frozen. She was only eleven or twelve years old, and she was the age when she began to love beauty, and she refused to dress bloated in winter, only wearing a padded short shirt and a thicker ribbed skirt. She doesn't wear padded skirts, because the skirts are too heavy, and they look dull and unsightly. When she was in Xiao's house, she usually drove the little maid out of the house to run errands and deliver letters, and she really had no choice but to put on a thick cloak when she wanted to go out of the room. Recently, Madame gave her a lynx cloak, which became her winter specialty.

Unfortunately, she was in a hurry today, and she didn't have time to put on the blue-gray lynx cloak. Now standing at the tuyere, the cold wind kept drilling into her neck, freezing so much that she was about to stiffen, and in her heart, she scolded Mrs. Du, who didn't know how to be compassionate to her subordinates, to death.

Xiao Miao is used to living a hard life, and now that she has come to the Xiao family, it is like coming from hell to heaven, and she cherishes her hard-won good life very much. In addition, her mother also kept telling her to do a good job, she was young, she was wearing a warm thick short shirt, a heavy cotton skirt, and she could still resist the cold wind, but her hands were blown by the wind and froze a little, and she was only worried that she couldn't grind the ink and lay the paper for a while.

Fang Yuniang returned to the back room, and her face was also very ugly.

Du Xiancheng, who was waiting there, asked, "How are these two maids?" ”

Fang Yuniang shook her head, "I don't know what Sister Daolong thinks." A maid is the little seedling who helped Xiao Ruisheng cover that day. A maid is too beautiful. It is impossible for this kind of person to be a maid in our house. ”

Du Xiancheng's brows twisted.

Fang Yuniang glanced at him, and said with a smile: "But because Brother Ji is still young, it's fine." The eldest maid is already eleven or twelve years old, and the youngest is only six years old, half a year older than her brother. Let's not rush, let's wait and see. Saying that, he gently pushed Du Xiancheng, "Didn't you say that if you and your brother grow up, we won't marry our daughter?" ”

Du Xiancheng snorted, "Brother Ji'er is not angry by himself, or he is raised crookedly, it is two different things." As he spoke, he walked back and forth in the room for a few steps, looked up and said, "I want to send my brother and my two little guys, what do you think?" ”

Of course Fang Yuniang agreed. In any case, Xiao Shiji is her future son-in-law, and whether Xiao Shiji can succeed or not is related to the happiness of her daughter's life.

"Then I'll do it right away." Du Xiancheng is a man of action, and immediately went out to find his trusted steward, and asked him to find two small servants to come over, he must know the roots, and the family is in the Du family, the kind of person who has a deed of sale.

When the steward of the Du family saw the old man speak, of course he quickly obeyed, and soon found two strong little servants from the few subordinates of the Du family whose entire family was sold into slavery by the Du family.

One is seven years old, the other is eight years old, he is honest and honest, he looks tall and big, but he looks like a follower.

Du Xiancheng was very satisfied. You don't have to be too smart, people who are too smart like to be smart, and it's often these people who do bad things. Whether it's a too smart guy or a too smart maid, they will instigate the master to do something out of the ordinary.

These two little guys are obviously the kind of people who will only obey orders.

Xiao Shiji is extremely smart, these two little guys, I don't know if he will take a fancy to him.

Du Xiancheng hesitated again, touched his chin with one hand, and was silent.

The steward on the side saw Du Xiancheng's appearance and pondered: "Master, although these two little guys look a little rough and stupid, they still have their hearts and eyes, and they know everything. ”

Du Xiancheng nodded, "That's not bad." Let them try it with their brother first, and if it doesn't work, we'll change it. ”

Xiao Shiji went to see Du Hengshuang with a gift, but saw her lying on the kang table asleep, with a face like a red apple and long eyelashes like crow's wings, covering her round and bright eyes.

"Young Master Xiao is here." Ou Yangniang opened the curtain and walked in, and saw Xiao Shiji standing in front of the kang, smiling at her sleeping eldest lady.

Xiao Shihe turned around and made a "shhh" to Ou Yangniang

gesture to tell her not to disturb Du Hengshuang's sleep.

Ou Yangniang smiled, talked a few words to Xiao Shiji, and let him go.

When Xiao Shiji went home, he not only brought the Du family's return gift, but also two small servants.

got the excitement of the little maid, so that Xiao Shihe had no time to take care of his two depressed maids.

Xiao Miao's mouth was raised high, holding her body, and she occupied the entire charcoal basin in the carriage, and it took a long time to recover.

Although Xiaoqing was wearing a thick cotton jacket, she couldn't resist standing at the cloister entrance of the Du family for almost half an hour, but Xiao Miao was holding a charcoal basin to keep warm, so she was pushed aside.

Xiao Qing didn't dare to fight with Xiao Miao, so she had to shrink in the corner of the car, and when Xiao Shihe lifted the curtain and came in, Xiao Qing immediately showed a crying expression to him.

Xiao Shiji didn't look at it, and shouted to the coachman in front of him: "Hurry home!" Aunt Du gave me a pot of eight-treasure duck soup, which should be taken back while it was hot. ”

Xiaoqing kept looking at Xiao Shiji with this kind of look, expecting him to ask in person, "What's wrong with you?" She can quietly cry about today's events......

Xiao Shiji turned around and saw Xiaoqing's appearance, his brows immediately furrowed, and asked, "Why are you crying?" Do you dare not like to go to Du's house? Forget it, I'll go back and talk to my mother and let you go to another place on an errand. - People who don't like the Du family can't be on an errand in my room. ”