"Mother, Shen Tianshu has really been getting more and more excessive!" Shen Yunyao snorted angrily and said, "We couldn't help it before, but now that my cousin doesn't need to take medicine, why should my mother put up with her?" ”

Xu Shi has been accustomed to Shen Tianshu's prescriptions during this time, and when he encounters her, no matter how angry he is, he subconsciously feels that he should compromise.

At this time, she was broken by Shen Yunyao's words, and she suddenly realized.

"I'm really sick." Xu Shi dropped the list in his hand, "Send her the list back!" All year round, during the New Year's holidays, when have I shortened her things, and who will I show them like this? Since she has a lot of money, let her pay for it herself! ”

Yan Niangzi got the order, and immediately went down with the list, went to Shuangtang Courtyard with great dignity, and directly threw a handful of the list on Mama Yang's face and said: "Madame said, there is no shortage of big girl's things in the family, but the big girl's share of making clothes and jewelry this year has been used up, since the big girl has a lot of money, let's go out by herself!" ”

After she finished speaking, she glanced at Mama Yang defiantly, turned around and left proudly.

"Let the girl make a few more clothes and a few new pieces of jewelry, which were specially ordered by the old slave when the master asked someone to send an invitation, and now Xu not only did not give money, but also called someone to drop the list on the old slave's face, saying this kind of thing. The old slave followed his wife to marry into the Shen family, for so many years, even the old man and the girl were very polite to the old slave......

"And the one surnamed Yan, who is a dog next to Xu's side, really treats himself as a dish! The old slave didn't let her daughter enter Shuangtang Courtyard before, she had been holding her breath, and she was actually waiting here! ”

Mama Yang was so angry that she leaned on Minghui, and after a while, she got up again and said, "No, the old slave has to go to the master to evaluate this reason." ”

"Mama, don't worry." Shen Tianshu thought that Mama Yang would just vent a few words, but she didn't expect that she was in a hurry, so she opened her mouth to stop people, "If you are still angry, go out for a walk and help me send a piece of material to Ping Niang." ”

Mama Yang was also angry just now, but now that she was stopped, she also knew that she was impulsive just now, but she didn't understand why Shen Tianshu suddenly wanted to send something to Ping Niang.

Shen Tianshu walked to the desk, took a pen and wrote a few words on the paper, dried it and sandwiched it in a piece of cloth, handed it to Mama Yang and said: "This piece of material is very bright, the third sister must look good when she wears it, you take it to Ping Niang, let her make a dress for the third sister." ”

Mama Yang was confused, but she knew that Xu was pretending to be sick in the past few days, and Shen Zhonglei had not lost his temper, and he basically lived in Pingniang's Hospital.

Shen Tianshu asked her to send the clothes, it must be that the drunkard did not mean to drink, so he didn't dare to delay, and immediately sent it honestly.

After reading the note, Ping Niang burned the note in front of Mama Yang, accepted the material and said: "Thank you for your concern, this material is indeed excellent, I will definitely make a dress for the third girl." ”

In the evening, Shen Zhonglei came back from the yamen, and when he entered the door, he didn't see Ping Niang coming out to greet him as usual, only a little maid was playing a curtain at the door.

The little maid has little strength and is short, so she can't open the curtain, and she knows how to help Shen Zhonglei untie her cloak and take off her coat.

"Go, go!" Shen Zhonglei asked impatiently, "What about Ping Niangren?" ”

I only heard the sound of ping-pong from the back room, Ping Niang rolled up her sleeves, and came out of the house with her personal maid Chunlan with a panicked face.

"Why did you come back so early, master?" She hurriedly stepped forward to help Shen Zhonglei change his clothes.

"It's still early when it's dark?" Shen Zhonglei frowned and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

"It's really ......" Ping Niang turned her head to look out, and sure enough, it was dark, "The concubine took people to look for things in the house, and forgot the time, it's really undeserved." ”

Shen Zhonglei turned his head, and sure enough, he saw that the cages in the house were all open, and there was no place to stay.

"What are you looking for?"

Ping Niang lowered her head a little flustered, and said with a dry smile: "What treasure can the concubine have, but she suddenly remembered a piece of clothing, but she couldn't find it......"

Such an obvious lie, Shen Zhonglei naturally saw through it at a glance.

He glanced at Ping Niang, got up, walked into the house with his hands behind his back, and saw more than a dozen silver ingots of all sizes on the table, the large ones were twenty or fifty taels, and the small ones were fifty taels of silver, and the bits and pieces added up to an estimated two hundred taels of silver.

"That's what you're talking about looking for clothes?" Shen Zhonglei asked with a calm face, he was not harsh on his family, but he didn't like others to lie to him the most.

"Master forgiveness." Ping Niang bent her knees and knelt directly in front of Shen Zhonglei, "The concubine didn't mean to hide it from the master, it's just that there have been so many things in the family recently, and the master's mood has not been very good, and the concubine doesn't want to cause something for this little thing, and then make the master angry......"

"Do you think I'm happy right now?" Shen Zhonglei's tone was full of impatience.

Ping Niang hesitated again and again, and finally got stuck before Shen Zhonglei was about to get angry, and finally whispered helplessly: "Master, the eldest girl sent someone to borrow some silver from the concubine first, and said that when the year is down, the rent from all over the place will be returned to the concubine."

"This is not a big deal, not to mention that the eldest girl is just temporarily dismantled, and it will be returned soon, even if it is not returned, the concubine body can't watch the eldest girl have no money. It's just that the concubine usually hides the silver in the winter, and it's not easy to find it......"

"What is Shu'er doing with so much money all of a sudden?"

Shen Zhonglei was puzzled, the usual food and clothing were all public accounts in the house, and the shops, fields and Zhuangzi left by the Liu family to her would also be sent over with silver every year, how could she be short of silver?

"The lord didn't help the eldest girl last year, and used the land rent saved in previous years and the filial piety silver sent by Zhuangzi to buy Zhuangzi and fields for the eldest girl in Jiangsu and Zhejiang. "Now at the end of the year, the labor cost of making clothes and jewelry is more expensive than usual, the materials are better, and the construction period is still in a hurry, adding up to a few hundred taels of silver. This is still the eldest girl who took out the jewelry left by the first lady and renovated it, and only made a set of heads!

"The eldest girl is short of money, and it is not easy to take credit with the store, let alone go out to pawn things, so she can only find a concubine to borrow and respond to emergencies first."

"I asked her to make clothes and jewelry, naturally she went to the family's account, where can she raise her own ......" Shen Zhonglei said when he saw Ping Niang lower her head, and remembered what she said before, there have been too many things at home recently, and I don't want to cause trouble again, and there is something I don't understand in my heart.

Seeing Shen Zhonglei suddenly get up and stride out, Ping Niang hurriedly hugged his legs.

"Master, if you go to be angry with your wife for this matter, it will really be a painstaking task for the sake of the peace of the family, and the blind girl would rather be wronged!"