In the evening, on the most prosperous section of Yanjing East Street, there are servants at the gate of a wide house who are stepping on a ladder to hang white cloth, obviously there is a funeral in this house. When everyone passing by in front of the door caught a glimpse of this scene, they all walked briskly, and faintly heard bursts of heart-rending children's cries coming from the courtyard.

Following the voice, I found that it was a little girl about four or five years old who was forcibly dragged by a group of servants. The little girl cried and struggled desperately in the opposite direction, but she could not break free, and gradually disappeared around the corner......

And the direction in which the little girl struggled was the mourning hall set up in the house for the newly mourned.

Looking at the little girl who was taken away, several servants and maids in the mourning hall were relieved. In the mourning hall, two maids wearing filial piety clothes knelt on the left and right, and one of the round-faced little maids kneeling on the left took a deep breath, added some paper money to the brazier, and whispered, "It can be regarded as sending the eldest girl back." ”

"Yes," the other little maid answered in a low voice, "although the eldest girl in our family is young, but the noise is too tormenting, I just went up to stop it, you see, I have been caught several times on my hands." ”

The round-faced little maid next to Wen Yan glanced sideways at the shocking blood marks on her arm, and couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, but her mouth was persuading, "Okay, you can say a few words." The lady went, and the eldest girl was sad and made a fuss, which was understandable. ”

"I understand this truth, but it's a pity that the eldest girl has no mother at such a young age, and there will be no one to support her in the future."

"That's what you say, Madame's maiden family is Shangshu Mansion, and those people in Shangshu Mansion are easy to provoke?" The little maid looked left and right, lowered her voice and said, "When they get the letter, I'm afraid they will make a fuss." ”

"It's okay to make a fuss, this Xu family made a fortune by relying on his wife, but now he is angry with his wife for the sake of an outer room, can Lord Shangshu let go of the old man and the old lady?" The round-faced little maid muttered angrily, "I heard that Sister Xiangqiao is out of the house, I'm afraid I'm going to Shangshu Mansion to complain." ”

Another little maid gritted her teeth and said, "It's just an outer room, and people have already made trouble in the house before they enter the house, what a scourge!" What a pathetic lady......"

"The eldest girl is the master, even if the woman and child enter the house, they are not as noble as the girl. What's more, the eldest girl's maternal grandfather and uncle, all of them are dragons and phoenixes among people, and they are in important positions. That is, the lady didn't understand for a while, if she invited these people to come over, see if the lord dared to move the mind of bringing people back. ”

"Who's to say it isn't?"

"That's enough, you guys don't talk about it." As soon as an older servant woman approached, she heard the voices of the two little maids, and rebuked in a low voice, "Madame treated us well in the past, and now that we are still here, you dare to discuss the rights and wrongs of your master in such a vain manner." Keep your mouth shut for me, and keep a good watch for my wife. ”

Hearing this, everyone glanced at each other, and their eyes fell on the woman in the coffin, only to feel numb, obediently silenced, and kept a solemn look for Mrs. Xu's spirit.

Mrs. Xu died today, and the Xu family invited many doctors who shook their heads to say that they could not do anything, and Mrs. Xu's husband Xu Mingda stayed with Mrs. Xu for a long time before accepting Mrs. Xu's death.

Xu Mingda was afraid that someone from his uncle's family would anger him, so he immediately hid out of the house. Mrs. Xu had no choice but to send someone to buy funeral supplies and handle her daughter-in-law's funeral. Mrs. Xu's body is still quite strong, she has fainted several times in just a few hours, and even her hair is much whiter.

A servant woman hurriedly came, stopped in front of an old lady Xu, and before she could salute, she heard the old lady say anxiously, "Butler, it's all done?" ”

"Yes," replied the butler, "I have already instructed the servants to go to the funeral early tomorrow morning, as the old lady said." The mourning hall has been built, and the girl who will keep the spirit has been decided. The eldest girl had made a fuss in the mourning hall first, and now she has taken her back to the room to rest. The cooks, vegetables and fruits needed for the funeral banquet have also been ordered. ”

Mrs. Xu died at the time of Shen, and then asked the doctor to buy funeral supplies to build a mourning hall, so it was delayed, and it was already late at this time, and then went to report the funeral for fear of affecting the rest of the nobles, so according to the old lady, I will report the funeral tomorrow. Although he felt that going to the funeral early in the morning was easy to make the nobles feel unlucky.

The old lady nodded, and then asked, "What about the master?" ”

"The master packed up some things, went out when he was young, and never came back." The housekeeper said it tactfully, but there was a bit of dislike for this master in his eyes.

Because his wife died, he didn't dare to face it and ran away secretly, which is really contemptible. But that's right, it's not easy to be able to make a child in the outer room.

"Bastard!" The old lady couldn't help but scold, pointed to the maid beside her, and ordered, "You go and call someone back for me, he thinks he can just hide out if there is such a big incident at home?!" ”

The maid opened her mouth a little embarrassed and swallowed her words again, she was just a slave, how could she know where the master was?!

But now that the old lady is angry, how dare she talk back.

Mama Cui, who was waiting beside the old lady, saw that the little maid wanted to speak and stopped, and quietly walked to her side and whispered a few words, and the little maid relaxed her face when she landed, thanked Mama Cui and hurried out of the house.

After the housekeeper retreated, the old lady raised her hand and rubbed her eyebrows, only to feel that her head hurt badly.

Mama Cui sent all the maids in the room out, quietly walked behind the old lady, and carefully pinched her shoulders to relax.

The old lady's expression relaxed, and she sighed silently, as if talking to herself, "You said that the child outside should be brought back?" ”

Mama Cui's eyebrows jumped, and she secretly said why did the old lady mention this matter again, but she lowered her eyes and didn't hear it.

"There are so many concubines in the house, why can't they give birth to a leader! If there was a brother, things wouldn't have gotten like this......"

Mama Cui pulled her lips, "The master is still young, and he always ......"

Before he finished speaking, he heard a commotion outside. The old lady frowned slightly and was a little displeased, and just wanted to scold twice, but she heard a familiar voice faintly, and her face couldn't help but change.

A servant woman ran in in a panic outside the door, "The people from the Hubu Shangshu Mansion are here." ”

"How is it so fast?" The old lady couldn't help but be startled, and walked quickly to the second door. The servant woman followed closely and cautiously looked at the old lady's expression, "When Lord Shangshu came just now, the slave and maid looked behind him at Xiangqiao, who was serving beside the lady. ”

The old lady's footsteps paused slightly, and she secretly scolded "cheap", and her heart was even more frightened, and her feet couldn't help but speed up. That girl was originally a dowry from Shangshu Mansion, who knows what Xiangqiao's cheap maid would say in front of Wang Hongsheng!