Chapter Forty-Eight: Charcoal
The sky slowly got cold for a while, Su Liluo was already served by the slave maid and put on thick clothes, and had to wear a thick cloak when he went out, Liuzhu was ordered to knock on the door of the housekeeper's mother, and the grandmother saw Liuzhu, her attitude was neither lukewarm nor hot, and Liuzhu was not angry, and said with a smile: "Mama, it's cold, I'll get the example in the eldest lady's room, it's time to burn charcoal, right?" ”
Mama nodded and replied: "The rules in the eldest lady's room have already been prepared, No, the charcoal is there, you can move there." Liuzhu looked at a basket of charcoal in the corner of the wall, and was a little embarrassed: "Mama, please send someone to help me send it over, I can't afford to carry it alone." ”
Liuzhu looked at her little arms and legs, and it was a difficult thing to move a basket of charcoal from here back to the young lady's courtyard, and her face was a little tangled.
The housekeeper snorted lightly, "Since you can't move, why don't you bring one more person?" I'm very busy right now, but I don't have that much spare time to help you deliver it. Mama left these words and twisted her body to go out, leaving only Liuzhu alone to look at the basket of charcoal and sigh helplessly.
Liuzhu had no choice, so she had to pull the charcoal out of the door with half a hug and half a drag, and happened to meet a little girl, seeing that Liuzhu was embarrassed, she helped her hug her for a while, and when she arrived outside Su Liluo's yard, she put the basket on the ground, and whispered: "Sister Liuzhu, you quickly call someone to move, Miss's yard is not something I can go into." ”
Liuzhu nodded and thanked: "Thank you so much today, I'll call someone now, please help me guard." ”
Liuzhu moved quickly, followed by an old woman, and the little girl saw Liuzhu bring people over from a distance, and didn't stay long, so she left before they arrived.
Liuzhu had to ask the old lady to move the charcoal back first, and then find a chance to thank her later.
The charcoal moved back to the house, because of the cold weather, the grandmother took out the stove, lit the fire, threw a few pieces of charcoal into the furnace, after a while, the house was smoky and burning, a few maids and women choked and coughed, Su Liluo suddenly smelled a choking smell, his eyes were uncomfortable, and he burst into tears, "cough cough, flowing beads, what's going on?" Su Liluo looked at a lot of white smoke coming out of the curtain, and walked over to ask.
Liuzhu and her mother-in-law had already put out the charcoal fire with tea, and when they saw Su Li falling out, they immediately helped her sit down, opened the window to ventilate, and then stood and replied: "Miss, the slave maid went to get the charcoal fire just now, and it smoked as soon as it was burned, and the slave and maid didn't know what was going on." ”
It happened that Mama Chang was holding a bowl of bird's nest porridge, and when she saw the master and servant in the room looking at each other, she asked suspiciously, "Miss, what's wrong?" How did the window open? It's very cold this day, Miss be careful of catching a cold, and close the window quickly. ”
"Mama, it's really choking in this house, let's open the window first to breathe." Su Lili now feels that his throat and eyes are much more comfortable, and his nose is not full of choking breath.
Seeing a basket of black charcoal on the ground, and a trace of white smoke coming from the stove, Mama Chang put the bird's nest porridge on the table, half-squatted and pinched a piece of charcoal fire and looked at it carefully, and said: "Miss, which non-long-eyed slave sent this charcoal, how can Miss use such inferior charcoal." ”
Su Liluo's eyes were confused, and Mama Chang explained it to her in detail, and she realized that the charcoal fire with white smoke was generally used by the subordinates, such as the charcoal used by the powerful maid and woman beside the young lady was better than this.
Su Liluo's eyes stared at the charcoal fire, obscure, and after a while, he whispered: "Liuzhu, you go and ask what is going on with this charcoal." ”
Liuzhu should be, and went out in a blink of an eye, after a pillar of incense, Liuzhu stood respectfully and replied: "Miss, the housekeeper said that there is a shortage of money in the house this year, and the same is true in other young ladies' rooms, and she did not deliberately target Miss." ”
"Really?" Su Liluo glanced at Liuzhu lightly, she trembled, and said again after a while: "Miss, there is something that the slave maid doesn't know whether to say or not?" ”
"What's the point, did you hear something else?" Su Liluo knew in his heart, and there was some helplessness in his eyes, it must be a good trick played by his stepmother.
Liuzhu paused before continuing: "The slave maid inquired separately, and the lady sent all the shares of the high-grade charcoal fire to the Songhe Courtyard......
"So that's the case, then we can't help the grievances of being granddaughters, or is the grandmother's body important, what about the mother?" There was a sneer in Su Liluo's eyes, she didn't believe it, Yao Ruoshui, as the head of the house, would treat herself badly, then she would be a housewife in vain.
"Madame's housekeeper, naturally it's not so bad, the second and fourth ladies live in the main courtyard of Madame, presumably ......" Liuzhu thought about it and told Su Liluo everything she heard one by one.
"I see, it's really a good thing to have a mother, presumably the third sister is also an aunt's foil, and it will not be worse than mine." Su Liluo said a few words coldly, Liuzhu looked at her face and didn't know if the young lady was angry or didn't care?
"It should be, miss, or the slave maid will think of a way again, and beg the housekeeper to ......" Before Liuzhu finished speaking, he was interrupted by Su Liluo.
"Okay, this housekeeper is not our person, why bother to let people see jokes, these days, silver is the most important." Su Liluo lowered his eyes, looked at the basket of charcoal fire on the ground, waved his hand for a while, and said, "Take it down, you can't smoke people for warmth." ”
Liuzhu was also uncomfortable in her heart, and asked her mother-in-law to hold the charcoal fire with a white face, Chang Mama lifted the lid of the porridge and persuaded: "Miss, don't be angry, your body is important, it's just a little charcoal, use a bowl of bird's nest porridge, this is what Mama stared at in the kitchen." ”
Su Liluo looked at the steaming bird's nest porridge, and the corners of his mouth curled into a wine vortex, "It's better to be grandma." ”
Su Liluo ate very well, but the speed was not slow, after a while, a small bowl of bird's nest porridge was used up by her, Chang Mama finished cleaning up the bowls and spoons, closed the doors and windows tightly, and left Su Liluo quietly.
Su Liluo frowned tightly, and pondered: "I only realized that silver is a good thing at the end of the day, it seems that I have to find a way to make more money, otherwise I can't even afford to use a basket of good charcoal." Su Liluo turned his head to take a look and found that the corner of the table contained the military book she took out from the ancestral hall last time.
She walked to the table in three or two steps, flipped through the military book at will, her hand suddenly stopped on the middle pages, as if she had found something, her expression was not as casual as before, she bowed her waist, and the whole person was about to lie on the table.
After a closer look, she found that there was indeed something wrong with those pages of the military book, Su Liluo looked at some lines on it, as well as the name of the place, she stared at it tightly, and muttered: "Why does it look so familiar, what does this look like?" …… It's a map. ”
Su Liluo exclaimed, tore off the pages lightly, spread them on the table, shuffled the order, arranged them according to the diagram line, and after putting them away, he thought quietly and whispered in disbelief: "I can't get a treasure map, right?" Afraid that others would hear it, Su Liluo covered his mouth, looked around, and saw that she was the only one in the house, so he relieved himself.