Chapter 55: Keeping Each Other Contained
Originally, in Yanfuzhong, today's pattern, because Yan Minglan was seriously ill, Aunt Zhang and Aunt Liu began to compete openly and secretly, and they did not relax for a moment, Yan Minglan was also happy to do so, the two of them each restrained each other, and saved her from annoying.
And since Yan Minglan's condition began to improve some time ago, the two have really been separated for a while.
As a result, because the marriage date between Yan Minglan and the third prince is approaching, the brain circuits of Aunt Zhang and Aunt Liu are very coincidentally on the same line, and she feels that she has no skills after marrying the third prince, and she will definitely not be able to take care of the Yan family, so she must choose someone again when she is the housewife.
One of the two has begun to take charge of affairs, and the other thinks that the other party is as stupid as a pig, and neither of them will obey anyone.
As a result, the actions of the two became more and more obvious, and they became more and more exaggerated, hoping to get all the housekeeping rights after Yan Minglan got married, and pressed each other.
Of course, the smell of gunpowder between the two is very strong, and there is a lot of mess in the two places, you come and go, but in the end, it is left to Yan Minglan, who is now the housekeeper, to deal with.
Yan Minglan was gradually dissatisfied with this, thinking that she needed to do something to change the status quo.
Because of the affairs in the house, coupled with some occasional problems in her position, these two things can be called big things for people, which made Yan Minglan a little out of breath and seemed to be busy, and she temporarily put down her attention to Qiao Tianshuo's side.
Only in the dead of night, Qiao Tianshuo would occasionally appear in her mind, and he accompanied her in his mind to feel the loneliness of the night.
What is he doing?
Yan Minglan sketched a figure in her mind and slowly closed her eyes.
this day.
The weather is fine, there is a cool breeze over the sleeves, the high hanging golden crow is not dazzling at all, and the sun is warm on people, making people lazy and don't want to move.
It's a pity that Yan Minglan couldn't enjoy this kind of laziness, and after being suppressed for a long time, she felt that she was going to be annoyed by these people in the Yan family.
Today is Yan Minglan's hard-won rest day, and she was disturbed again very disappointed, and a maid reported, Yan Ruoxi and Yan Ling'er made a moth again.
"Miss, Miss, Miss, there's an accident there!" The maid hurried in.
"Take me to see it."
Yan Minglan followed the maid who came to the long house to report to the scene of the mess.
Amber also hurriedly came over, for fear that her young lady would be bullied by these people.
As soon as Yan Minglan arrived at the scene, he saw Yan Ruoxi's hand covering the left side of her face, and when Yan Minglan looked at it from the angle, she could just see the full appearance of the palm print from the slit of her hand, which was not ingenious.
Yan Minglan thought in her heart.
Yan Ling'er's strength is really useful.
Yan Minglan took the opportunity to look at Yan Ling'er, the initiator, and on the way here, she listened to the maid and said: "The second miss and the third miss suddenly met, without warning, when the third miss wanted to walk over, the second miss slapped the third miss, and the slave maid was in a hurry when she first came, and she didn't understand the reason." ”
Looking at the current situation, there is a good chance that what the maid who led the way said is true.
Yan Ruoxi looked around, and Ling Ling asked everyone, "Who can tell me why this is a quarrel?" ”
Yan Ruoxi didn't make a sound, she did a good job, she just hung her head and sobbed lowly, dropping tears drop by drop, that look was really sad for the hearer and tearful for the listener.
Before Yan Ling'er could speak, she blurted out as a matter of course: "The third sister just didn't give way to me, so I did it." As a younger sister, don't you even have this kind of self-awareness? ”
Yan Ruoxi listened to it next to her and immediately defended: "Nonsense, it's obvious that you are deliberately blocking my way, eldest sister, if you don't believe it, you can ask the girls who were guarding here before, they all see it in their eyes." ”
Yan Minglan looked at the girls who were mentioned by Yan Ruoxi, and those people testified for Yan Ruoxi one after another, saying that Yan Ling'er suddenly stopped the third lady from beating people for no reason.
"Before the two of them could speak, the third miss was suddenly beaten by the second miss." A handsome maid dressed in a slave costume stepped forward and replied.
The maids in the back nodded in agreement.
"Yes, yes, yes."
"That's it."
What was originally a small and remote place suddenly became noisy and continuous, and the sounds came and went.
If it weren't for the fact that the situation and occasion were not suitable, Yan Minglan would have wanted to applaud Yan Ruoxi's methods.
Yan Ruoxi also knew that Yan Ling'er had always been a brainless person, so as long as Yan Ruoxi pretended to be weak and pitiful to deceive the sympathy of these maids, and let them testify for herself, a "weakling", she could simply deal with a small role like Yan Ling'er.
Yan Ruoxi heard that kind of slave testified to herself, and lowered her eyelids to hide the obvious contempt and ridicule in her eyes.
Yan Ling'er wants to fight with herself, but she really can't help herself to find death, her enemy has always been only Yan Minglan, and Yan Ling'er has not yet let her be qualified to put it in her eyes.
Yan Ling'er retorted with a scream, pointing at those slaves and scolding, "Cheap slave! Have you been bought by Yan Ruoxi! Definitely! ”
Yan Ling'er does not have the dignified and graceful demeanor that a woman should have.
Yan Ling'er's scream was thin and high-pitched, and it was noisy and gave people a headache.
Following the trend, Yan Minglan asked Yan Ling'er to hold her, and said the punishment plainly: "The second lady mutilated her sister for no reason, and when she thought of the first offense, she was sentenced to ten days in the ancestral hall to copy scriptures. ”
Yan Minglan deliberately glanced at the two maids beside Yan Ling'er who were anxious about Yan Ling'er, and warned the two: "I will check it myself in ten days, no one is allowed to replace the second lady, if there is anyone who disobeys the order, he will be punished at the lightest, and he will be driven out of the Yan Mansion at the worst, can you understand?" ”
"Yes, Miss." The two maids replied in a panic.
Yan Ruoxi was very dissatisfied with the punishment given by Yan Minglan for this kind of petty fight, she felt that she was despised, she felt that this kind of thing that was beneficial to her should make as much trouble as possible, but she clearly knew that Yan Minglan could not listen to herself for no reason.
So as soon as she went back, she didn't even apply the ointment, and took the initiative to find Aunt Liu non-stop, and was very aggrieved to show her red and swollen face, and said: "Mother, Yan Ling'er deliberately slapped her daughter, this must be trying to slap the face of our mother." ”
Yan Ruoxi knew very well that Aunt Liu was incompatible with Aunt Zhang, and she only needed an opportunity to completely break out, and Aunt Liu had always loved face the most.
Aunt Liu turned her head to look at the hideous and scary scars on her face, the slap seemed to hit her in the heart, her expression changed instantly, and she gritted her teeth a little and said, "Aunt Zhang, you are really good!" It's too much of a bully! ”
Aunt Liu's plump chest rose and fell violently a few times, and it took a long time to calm down, she took out the jewelry box and threw an ointment to Yan Ruoxi, and said with hatred: "You take care of me, take care of your face, and my mother will rely on you to find a good husband." I've taught you so many methods, you have to be more aggressive, don't be pressed and beaten by that idiot Yan Ling'er all the time. ”
"Yes, my daughter knows, and she must remember it in the future, and her mother can rest assured."
Yan Ruoxi knew that the goal must have been achieved, so she immediately answered Aunt Liu's words, and went back to her room and began to wait for news.
Yan Ruoxi only vaguely knew that Aunt Liu was preparing for a big event.
What could it be? Yan Ruoxi thought expectantly, her eyes shining brightly.
After Yan Ruoxi left, Aunt Liu entered the small study in the courtyard.
In that not very wide space, a set of bookshelves, desks and some decorations were set up and slightly crowded, and the maid set up the paper, ink, pen and inkstone, and stood motionless and respectfully behind Aunt Liu waiting for her orders.
Aunt Liu wandered back and forth in another small space under the study, typing the manuscript in her heart, and then came to the desk to copy it.
"Cousin, how are you doing? Xiaomei thinks that it is time to start working in the near future, and the Yan Mansion only needs to pay a little attention to the cunning and sinister Yan Minglan and the high-ranking and powerful elders, and the rest of the people are not worried. If it is successful, please brother must break Yan Minglan and a few people into ten thousand pieces, they are bullying Ruoxi and Yan Ling'er today, and they really don't give us face to the Hai family at all. ”
"I think you can start with the business of Yanfu first, hire people to make trouble step by step, disintegrate step by step, secretly buy shops, etc., and wait until a certain time, you can send a few armed people to visit Xiaomei into Yanfu, control Yanfu with Xiaomei, and help you annex Yanfu, so that the Hai family will definitely increase in strength, and Xiaomei only needs the right of the master and mother of Yanfu, what does my cousin think?"
Aunt Liu told all the complaints that had happened recently, and then she spit out the plan she envisioned unhurriedly.
I hope that she can get more help because of this, especially if she wants to take revenge and take revenge on the top and bottom of this Yan Mansion, whether it was past or now, as long as she has bullied herself and Ruoxi's mother and daughter, there will be no good results.
While imagining the scene of being in charge of the Yan Mansion in the future, Aunt Liu put a few pieces of letter paper full of writing into the envelope, sealed them with wax, handed them to the personal maidservant, and instructed her: "Be careful to send it to my relatives' mansion, it must be delivered, and don't let people have any clues, especially to bypass the other end of the long house." ”
"Yes, auntie, the slave will go down and do it." The personal maid who was standing with her head hanging behind her, took the envelope, did not dare to glance at it, hid the letter in her sleeve, and bowed her waist to withdraw.
Inside the long room.
Elegant flower hall.
The jade carving carved by the mutton fat jade seal is white and flawless, and the living dragon is vivid; The screen placed next to the main seat is embroidered with pictures of ladies, lifelike, elegant and noble; On the coffee table was a small pocket vase, usually filled with seasonal flowers, but now a few pale yellow chrysanthemums in full bloom.
Yan Minglan took a sip of tea and looked down at the kneeling maid who was kneeling, this maid was the spy she specially placed in the third room.
"What happened to the third room?"
Yan Minglan knew that in the third room, there were only a few things to guess.
"Back to the eldest lady, Aunt Liu's side, she wrote a letter and sent someone back to her cousin Hai's house. Because the slave and maid were a little far away, they were afraid of being discovered, so they did not dare to approach at will, and only saw a little of the content. The slave is useless, please forgive the eldest lady. ”
"What do you see? Say, I won't punish you. Yan Minglan raised some interest.