Chapter XI

immediately turned his head and threw himself down in front of the old lady, crying, "Old lady, please save your mother......"

"Son, you get up first. I've sent someone to get a doctor, and your mother will be fine. Mama Su stepped forward to help Cui Qing up, but Cui Qing broke free, and only hugged the old lady's leg and cried, "Please have mercy on us, don't kick us out......"

"Mama Zhao, quickly help the person to the side room to lie down." Zhao hurriedly ordered, "Let a few maids lead the two girls to freshen up first, and then bring them to the side room." ”

Hearing this, Cui Qing's drooping face showed a triumphant smile.

In the end, she was still young, and she thought that things were simple, thinking that the Zhao family would let her live in the mansion, and in the future, she would be able to get glory, wealth, fine clothes and jade food at her fingertips.

Wan'an Tang finally returned to calm after a period of busyness, the old lady leaned on the soft collapse a little tiredly, and Mama Su was rubbing her temples to soothe her.

"How's it going over there?"

"Madame is watching over there, don't worry, it's not a big deal. The doctor said that Mrs. Cui was just a little weak, so she just needed to take care of herself. Mama Su replied in a low voice, "Madame asked people to clean up the guest room on the east side, and now Mrs. Cui and them have been resettled." ”

Seeing that the old lady's face was not very good-looking, Mama Su said again, "Sister Yun went to Jiaxi Garden early this morning, and I heard that the two little girls were leading the maids to play hide and seek in the courtyard." ”

"This is how it should be among sisters." The old lady replied softly, and slowly closed her eyes and fell asleep.

Seeing that the old lady was asleep, Mama Su carefully covered her with a quilt to avoid getting cold, and then led the maids in the room out of the room.

There are not many people in Shangshu's mansion, and the feed is controlled by the Zhao family, and when there is an undecided idea, he will ask the old lady for advice, and there is no contradiction between the concubines, and the family is happy.

Now that there is one more Xu Jiayi, all the masters in the house love her, and they will send a copy to her if they have any good things, lest they wronged her.

Especially the old lady, who can't wait to hold people in her hands.

The master's family is like this, even if Xu Jiayi has no mother now, the people in the house dare not treat Xu Jiayi slowly.

It is because Xu Jiayi's life in Shangshu Mansion is more arbitrary than the days when she was detained by the Wang family in Xu Mansion in the past.

There were a few relatives in the house, and Wang Yunxiu talked to Xu Jiayi about it as soon as she came to Jiaxi Garden this morning. If it weren't for Xu Jiayi's recent bad mood and didn't want to move, if it was in the past, I was afraid that I would have to go to Wan'an Hall to take a look at the excitement.

When the Zhao family came in, Xu Jiayi was facing the flower rope pattern in Wang Yunxiu's hand with a sad face, and when she saw the Zhao family coming, she smiled and called "uncle" sweetly.

"Mother." Wang Yunxiu handed the flower rope to the maid behind him and came up.

Touching the heads of the two little girls standing in front of him, the depression in Zhao's heart dissipated a little.

Xu Jiayi looked up at Zhao and saw that her face was a little unhappy, "Auntie, have you had breakfast?" My cousin and I are preparing to have breakfast, and if you don't have it, you just happen to have some together. ”

"That's a good feeling," Zhao replied with a smile and nodded.

Mama Zhao saw that Zhao's face was better, and she was slightly relieved.

That Cui thought that he was covering up well enough, but he didn't know that the doctor saw the truth as soon as he checked the pulse, and he had a name of "physical weakness" on his face, but he secretly explained to her outside the door that there was nothing wrong with the one lying inside, and he didn't faint at all.

Madame knew that although she didn't say anything on the surface, she had been keeping a straight face all the way from Wan'an Hall.

A housewife was toyed with by a country woman from Yunzhou, and no one could help but be angry.

Fortunately, there are still two pistachios, the girl and the cousin.

The meal was quickly served, and the breakfast meal was relatively simple, with only small flower rolls and minced pork and green vegetable porridge. Despite this, Xu Jiayi and Wang Yunxiu still ate with relish.

Seeing Xu Jiayi's satisfied appearance, Zhao's mood gradually cleared, and while carefully wiping the mouths and hands of the two children, he asked people to add some pickles for them to eat.

"Eat slowly, it's not enough for the kitchen to do it."

Wang Yunxiu pinched the spoon and put it in his mouth for a pause, then raised his head to look at Zhao, "Mother, why don't you eat?" ”

"Just eat." Zhao bent his lips and smiled, and asked Mama Su to put the prepared food over and accompany the two little girls to use some.

After breakfast, Zhao was going back to the main house to deal with things, because he was looking for Wang Yunxiu to teach his grandmother recently, so that Wang Yunxiu would also follow Zhao's side, so that the two sides could meet each other and run in to see if it was suitable.

Xu Jiayi personally sent Zhao and Wang Yunxiu to the door, thinking that she would send them to the gate of the courtyard and come back, but before she stepped out of the door, she saw Zhao stop her and touched her head, "The weather has become cold in the past two days, so your body should not catch a cold again, and then you will cry and refuse to drink bitter medicine." ”

At last, he said to the maid beside him, "Take good care of the girl." ”

"Yes, the slaves and maidservants saved it."

"Don't worry, aunt, I'm good to serve these maids," Xu Jiayi hurriedly spoke for the maids, "Especially Sister Xiangqiao, everything is arranged thoughtfully, but there are some nagging ......."

Xiangqiao snickered and teased, "Girl, is this annoying the slave?" ”

"Then where can I be, where do I dare to dislike you."

"Alright, you can go back to your room and stay there." Zhao touched Xu Jiayi's head and coaxed, then turned his head to Xiangqiao and said, "I see that although there are a lot of maids in Jiaxi Garden, you are the only one who is waiting by your side, and I will find a tooth woman to come over in two days, and you will also come to pick one for your girl." ”

"Thank you, ma'am." The joy in Xiangqiao's eyes was almost overflowing, she was originally worried about the girl's days in Shangshu Mansion, but now that she had Madame's words, she was naturally happy.

Xiangqiao happily sent Zhao and Wang Yunxiu away, and then went back to the room to guard Xu Jiayi.

Seeing Xiangqiao come in, Xu Jiayi sat at the table with her hands on the table and held her head, frowning slightly, "The eldest aunt seems to be a little unhappy, is it because of the relatives who came today?" ”

"Uncle doesn't like them?"

Although Xiangqiao was happy that Xu Jiayi knew what she saw, she didn't say much on her face, and silently instructed the little maids to clean up the jobs on the table.

"It's really boring," Seeing that no one answered her words, Xu Jiayi pursed her lips a little helplessly, "I haven't seen my grandfather for a long time, and I don't know what he's been busy with recently, I haven't come to see Yiyi for several days." ”

"The lord is busy with affairs, and in a few days it will be the day of rest, and the girl will be able to see the lord."

Xu Jiayi frowned slightly, folded her fingers and calculated, her brows furrowed even tighter, "Then it will take four days." ”

Wang Hongsheng, as the secretary of the household department, is in charge of a country's finances, and is deeply favored by the emperor, so naturally some people want to win him over.

It's a pity that Wang Hongsheng maintains an attitude in the face of these forces, to put it a little cheesily, that is, dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, let them wear out their mouths, Wang Hongsheng can also happily express his position.

And the position in his mouth, that is, everything is up to the emperor.

Whatever the emperor says, he will do what he is the head of the household.

As the saying goes, reaching out and not hitting smiling people, although Wang Hongsheng did not stand in line, as long as he thought it was right, he would definitely stick to it.

Therefore, it is often seen in the court that he is still on his side on a certain matter, arguing with reason, and when it is time to discuss the next matter, he runs to the other party's camp and speaks sharply and aggressively to them, so that they are speechless.

And his two sons were also influenced by Wang Hongsheng, and several of them were in their own league in the court.

It is because all forces love and hate this family.

The truth about the death of Wang Wanwan, the daughter of Shangshufu, who knew the inside story, was tacitly waiting to see the aftermath of Shangshufu.

Sure enough, not long after Wang Wanwan's funeral, Xu Mingda's already arrived director of the Ministry of Rites flew away, and he was directly demoted back to the governor of the Ministry of Rites.

Not only that, in the past, Xu Mingda relied on the relationship of the Hubu Shangshu Mansion to gain a firm foothold in the Ministry of Rites, and even if those people were dissatisfied with him, they had to maintain the relationship on the surface.

Now that there is no Hubu Shangshu Mansion to do the back mountain, the true faces of those colleagues are revealed, and they have been taking things against Xu Mingda for three days, plus Xu Mingda is stubborn and self-serving, and his official position has been reduced again and again, and he has been miserable in the Ministry of Rites.

However, the two brothers Wang Mingyuan and Wang Mingyu said that their father was still too kind.

If they were them, they would definitely make Xu Mingda pay an even more painful price!

I originally wanted to express my opinion to my father, but I didn't expect to be scolded by Wang Hongsheng instead, and then forced to make an ideological report for about half an hour according to the sentence "The gentleman is righteous, and the villain is profitable", Wang Hongsheng finally relented so that they could go back.

Wang Mingyuan and Wang Mingyu, two brothers and sisters, were tired and paralyzed and supported each other to walk outside the study, and before they stepped out of the door of the study, they heard Wang Hongsheng's voice sound from behind them.

"Wait!"

Wang Mingyu couldn't help but shake his body, squinted his eyes and glanced at his brother, seeing that Wang Mingyuan was also looking miserable, his heart was a little balanced, and he turned around and pretended to be energetic, "Father, is there anything else?" ”

"I heard from the porter that there seems to be an invitation from Jiaqing Bofu today?"

Wang Mingyu blinked his eyes and was a little dazed, he had never heard of such a thing when he came back from duty today, so he subconsciously looked at his brother's body.

"It seems that there is such a thing," Wang Mingyuan replied after thinking for a moment.

Before coming to the study, he first went back to the main house, as if he had heard Zhao talk about it, and asked him if he wanted to go to this banquet, after a pause, Wang Mingyuan added, "Half a month later is Mrs. Mu's sixtieth birthday, and Uncle Jiaqing intends to do it." ”