Fortunately, the stewed soup was left for a long time, and the soup was warm, otherwise, the soup would fall down with a head and face, and it would be as simple as being frightened, and it is estimated that people would be disfigured.

Cui Mengfu didn't expect that just talking and laughing, the old ancestor would be furious, not only scolded, but also splashed it with soup, and shook it for a while, as if he was convinced that he was taught a lesson by the old ancestor who had always hurt him a lot, and immediately cried "woo".

"Ancestor, Xiaofu is young, innocent, and sometimes open-mouthed, but it is definitely not intentional, just a joke for yourself, you must not be really angry, dissipate your anger." Seeing that something was wrong with his own sister, Cui Mengzhen hurriedly played a round, and after persuading Mrs. Cui, she turned her head and said to Cui Jing:

"Third uncle, you have a lot of adults, Xiaofu is young and ignorant, you have a lot of old adults, don't worry about her as a child, I'm here to compensate you on behalf of Fumei."

Falsely accusing people of innocence, this is a great insult, as a woman from a famous family and a scholarly family, she should not say such brainless words, and the most basic etiquette is also lost, Cui Mengfu does not know how to say, even if it is a famous family, the status of women is not high, and if she says something like that now, her status in the future will be even lower.

At least, for a long time, the old lady will not spoil her.

Cui Jing's face is a little better, he was originally very angry, but after his niece said this, it is not easy to care, his family is speechless for a while, so he can't ask the teacher to ask for the guilt, and Xiaofu is still a child, and he also calls himself the third uncle, he is not sensible to be small, but he can't be angry when he is big.

"It's all my own family, I joked for a while, don't take it seriously, how can the third uncle take it seriously, okay, mother, don't be angry, let's reveal this matter."

Not only did he not pursue it, but he also persuaded Mrs. Cui not to be angry, showing the demeanor that an adult should have.

Mrs. Cui's face also softened a little, and she turned her head and said with a serious face: "The state has national laws, and the family has family rules, and if you do something wrong, you will be punished, Xiaozhen." ”

"Ancestor, you command."

"Take Xiaofu down, change into clothes, be grounded for three days, this month's monthly money will be halved, you can't step out of the boudoir for half a step, and you will bring her meals every day." Mrs. Cui gave a punishment.

"Yes, Ancestor." Cui Meng really knew that this was the lightest punishment, if Cui Jing hadn't helped to intercede, it would definitely not have been so light, and after he hurriedly pulled his sister to salute Cui Jing again, he pulled her down.

Mrs. Cui glanced at it with her eyes, and said with a serious face: "No one should joke about this kind of thing in the future, otherwise I will never spare it, and no one can say what happened just now, otherwise I will wait for the family law directly, understand." ”

"Yes, Ancestor."

"Yes, old lady." Everyone present hurriedly responded.

A good family banquet, the atmosphere suddenly became a little solemn.

"Hey, why is it so quiet, it seems that I heard someone crying just now, which one is crying." Just after the end, Cui Mengyao walked back, and saw that the atmosphere was a little dull, so she couldn't help but ask curiously.

Those brothers and sisters lowered their heads one by one, silent, and Mrs. Cui asked with concern, "Xiao Yao, you are okay, right?" ”

"It's fine, just eating something that is broken." Cui Mengyao didn't know what happened to Lu Dao, sat back in her place with a smile on her face, and then asked strangely: "Hey, what about Mengzhen and Mengfu, they finished eating so quickly?" ”

A clever cousin smiled and said, "Xiaofu is a little uncomfortable, and Sister Zhen has accompanied her back to her room." ”

"Oh, that's right."

"Something bad? Hmph, those Tian Shenu in the kitchen, if you don't beat them for a day, your bones will be gone, Qiu Ju, you will go and beat those Tian Shenu in a while, let them be careful. ”

Qiu Ju hurriedly responded: "Yes, old lady." ”

Cui Jing had the heart to reveal this matter, and said with a smile: "Come on, come on, there are so many dishes left, eat more, otherwise you will lose the old lady's heart." ”

Driven by Cui Jing, everyone began to eat and drink with laughter again, but when something like that happened, everyone was a little bit worried in their hearts, and the atmosphere was not as lively as just now, just after eating for a while, at the suggestion of the old lady, this family banquet was not even an event, and it ended early.

Anticlimactic.

Before the end, Cui Jing found an opportunity to ask Cui Mengyao: "Xiao Yao, I heard that you still owe Xiao Wan silver, what's the matter, is the monthly money not enough?" How much worse, dad here. ”

Xiao Yao was taken aback, but immediately smiled and said: "Dad, it's okay, the monthly money is enough, what I owe to Sister Wan is just a rare thing that my daughter likes, and I don't have enough money to borrow some from her for a while, and I can pay it back soon, so you can rest assured." ”

Cui Jing nodded, he was very confident in his daughter.

After the dismissal, the filial son Cui Jing personally helped his mother back to the room, and then accompanied by the old loyal slave Cui Afu, walked back to his room, before opening the door, he smelled the fragrance of dried flowers, opened the door to see, his new concubine from the official palace had ordered someone to prepare a large bathroom, ready hot water to wait for him.

can marry into the Cui family of Qinghe, even if it is a concubine, it is also a beautiful woman who is one in a thousand, looking at this beautiful concubine who is charming and white, white and tender enough to be her daughter, Cui Sanye waved his hand to drive Cui Afu away, grinned, changed his majestic appearance in front of the subordinates, divided the beautiful concubine who wanted to refuse and welcome by two, and peeled the beautiful concubine who wanted to refuse to welcome back into a "little white sheep", and then hugged it, and both of them soaked in the specially ordered king-size bath tub, and had a mandarin duck playing in the water

"Master, drink tea" About half an hour later, Cui Afu, the old loyal slave, saw Cui Jing, who was a little tired but satisfied, walked into the study, and immediately served a cup of ginseng tea, so that his teacher could replenish his vitality.

When he went home, he could find a concubine to enjoy, but he was a slave, but he didn't have that treatment, Cui Afu knew that after Cui Jing finished bathing, he would definitely go to the study to deal with chores, for example, when he was not at home, there were no relatives and friends to visit him, or relatives or colleagues had correspondence with him, so he went to the study in advance to summarize and sort it out.

Cui Jing took two sips of tea, regained his breath, and then said slowly: "When I was not at home, did I exchange any letters?" ”

"Back to the master, there are two of your protégés who want to visit you through Qinghe, and when they see that you are not there, they leave the etiquette and leave, and then there are three letters to you."

"Oh, who sent it?"

"There are two letters sent by relatives who have abducted Jiumenzi, if they are not bad, they are all letters asking for a future, and one is sent by the nephew of the master."

Cui Jing asked curiously, "Oh, which nephew?" ”

The Cui family has a big business, and Cui Jing doesn't remember how many nephews he has.

"The one who did the assassination history in Yangzhou."

"Oh, first look at his letter, and see what he wrote to me."

"Yes, sir." Cui Afu picked out the letter written by Cui Tingshi, tore open a gap, took out the letter paper, handed it to Cui Jing, and then quietly retreated to the corner of the wall, looking at his nose and nose, as if the old monk was in a fixed state, not moving or speaking, waiting for his master's orders.

Cui Jing's face was originally very calm, and sometimes he would lightly soothe his eyebrows, but soon, his face became more and more serious, and his face became iron blue at the end.

"Ah Fu!" Cui Jing suddenly screamed, startling Cui Afu who was standing in the corner.

"Master"

It's really rare for my master to lose his temper like this.

"Go, go quickly, check Miss's every move in the past two months, check as much detail as possible, remember, don't alarm the people in the house."

"Yes, sir." Cui Afu listened to Cui Jing's solemn words, and did not dare to be the slightest slack, and hurriedly ran out of the city to investigate after receiving the order.

When Ah Fu walked out, Cui Jing picked up the letter and read it again, shook his head, and said to himself: "What to do, what to do, this girl, she won't really do something stupid, if she really does, then that"

Cui Jing couldn't sit still anymore, and was so anxious that he walked around the study alone.

After waiting anxiously for about half an hour, Cui Afu finally came back with good news.

"Sir, this"

"It doesn't hurt to be straight." Cui Jing's heart tightened, and he had a faint bad premonition, but he said calmly.

Cui Afu hesitated for a moment, but still whispered: "Master, Miss is a little inappropriate in the past two months, there are fewer people on the street, I don't participate in the flower party, the monthly money doesn't seem to be enough to spend, I owe about two or three hundred taels to other young masters and young ladies, and the villain inquired that in the past two months, Miss has sent all the monthly money to one person."

"This person, is it Liu Yuan in Yangzhou?" Cui Jing interrupted him suddenly and asked anxiously.

"Master, it turns out that you already know the Tao." Cui Afu asked in surprise.

Cui Jing secretly screamed in his heart, and said quietly: "Find a reason, call Chun'er here, remember, don't alarm Miss." ”

"Yes, sir." Cui Afu answered, didn't care about saluting, and ran out quickly.

What to do, what to do, Cui Jing was in a hurry in the study, and the nephew of the official in Yangzhou secretly reminded that he saw Cui Mengyao's personal love thing hanging on Liu Yuan's body, in addition to praising Liu Yuan in the letter, he jokingly said, Is a good thing coming? As soon as he saw this letter, Cui Jing immediately remembered that when Liu Yuan left Cui's mansion, he saw that Liu Yuan was wearing a jade pendant that was somewhat similar to his daughter's love jade pendant, and now that he thinks about it, it is really suspicious.

According to her own knowledge of the situation, when Cui Mengyao went to the province, she once visited Liu Yuan, this is what she said, and then said how interesting Liu Yuan was, how exquisite the ornaments he made, and then one was the shopkeeper, and he made a few wonderful pairs, and he stumped so many so-called talents, etc., I didn't care at the time, but now it seems that it is probably the foreshadowing laid at that time, Cui Jing patted his thigh: No wonder, Liu Yuan stayed in Cui's mansion that night, and he was going to arrange a prostitute to serve Liu Yuan at night, Cui Mengyao said no.

Usually my daughter never cares about these trivial matters, and she is ashamed to talk about a woman's family, but she just said that she doesn't need to arrange it for him, and she doesn't care about anyone else's, so why do you care about him?

Cui Jing suddenly had an urge to bite Liu Yuan to death, one possibility was that his daughter was jealous and didn't let Liu Yuan touch other women, and the worst possibility was that his daughter served the wolf by herself, so naturally she didn't need to find a woman to serve him, and now when she thinks of Cui Mengyao's reaction at dinner tonight, if you count the days, there is a chance that it will be the latter.

God, no wonder the jewelry that was given to the old lady worth thousands of taels was worth a few hundred taels, it turned out that there was such a relationship, by the way, by the way, I persuaded my mother not to reward so many expensive things to her daughter, the old lady said no, usually there is a reward, but the precious daughter refused to accept it, this

"Master, Chun'er brought it." When Cui Jing was still thinking nonsense, the voice of the old loyal slave Cui Afu came from outside the door.

"Let her in, you go outside and keep guard, don't let people come close."

"Yes, sir."

Soon, Chun'er walked in a little cringe, her tongue was a little knotted and said, "Master Sansan, what do you have to call the slave maid?" ”

I heard that there is a master who likes to bud his maid in the study or something, Chun'er is still a virgin now, and she looks quite delicate, and she is called to this kind of place in the middle of the night, so it's no wonder if she's not afraid.

But she couldn't resist.

"On the day of the old lady's birthday banquet, did the young lady secretly see Liu Yuan?" Cui Jing said with a majestic face.

"This" Chun'er hesitated for a while, Cui Mengyao said that this matter cannot be leaked, besides, when that came out, didn't the third master bump into it, how much did the noble man forget? Why do you still ask?

Chun'er didn't know what to say, Cui Jing thought that Chun'er was going to negotiate with Liu Yuan, and Cui Mengyao was waiting outside at most, after all, one was a high-ranking young lady of the family, and the other was a low-ranking small businessman, the gap between the two was simply the difference between cloud and mud, with the nobility of her daughter, the master would go to a small room to meet a small businessman?

That's impossible.

Cui Jing said angrily: "Hurry up, or I will marry you to the broken tooth six who pours the night fragrance." ”

"Don't, third master, I said, I said, miss, Miss secretly went to the guest room to see Liu Yuan." Thinking of the disgusting appearance of the inverted night fragrance and the broken tooth six, Chun'er was immediately so frightened that she couldn't care about anything.

And so it was.

"That Meng Yao sent all the monthly money to Liu Yuan, that is, because of the events of the day?" Cui Jing hesitated for a moment, and changed the original thought that the two of them had nothing to do with each other into another harmless statement.

First, I read the books of the sages, and I can't say anything too vulgar, and secondly, the protagonist is my own heart, liver, and pearl, and I can't apply that kind of words to my daughter.

Chun'er thought that her lord knew that Cui Mengyao owed a huge debt, and when she thought that her monthly money would also be handed over to Miss, a master and a servant lived a tight life, because she couldn't make up the money and didn't even go to her favorite flower party, now that the lord knows that she said, that's great, the third master will have a daughter, and he will definitely help her, for his monthly money, Chun'er suddenly knelt down and cried:

"Third master, you are a young lady, you can help Miss."

It's okay not to say it, when Chun'er said this, Cui Jing almost vomited blood, thinking that her daughter really had Liu Yuan's seed in her belly, and Chun'er was afraid now, so she let herself save her daughter.

"Hurry up, get out of here, roll as far as you want." Cui Jing suddenly flew up and kicked Chun'er to the ground at once, so frightened that Chun'er's face turned pale, and she couldn't care about the pain, she struggled and ran out quickly, she didn't understand, why did the third master suddenly be so angry, isn't it just a little silver, you are a daughter, and you are reluctant?

But she is just a subordinate person, how dare she ask anything, thirty-six plans, go for the best plan.

"Take care of Miss, or I'll pick you off." I could still smell the roar of the third master of the Cui family from afar.

Cui Jing kept pacing back and forth in the study with his hands behind his back, his brows were furrowed from time to time, his face was pitying, hideous, and gritted his teeth for a while, as if his face had changed, which was wonderful.

After pacing back and forth several times, thousands of thoughts alternated in my mind from time to time, thinking about it, and suddenly thought that Liu Yuan's wife not only dared to eat swan meat with a toad, but also ran away after eating and wiping her mouth, and coaxed her daughter to take the monthly upside down sticker every month, I was really angry, my Cui Jing's daughter, the dignified Miss of the Qinghe Cui family, still needs to take money to paste the man? The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, and I couldn't help kicking a mahogany case in the study to the ground, making a loud "bang".

"Master, master, you're fine, right?" Smelling something unusual, Cui Afu, the old loyal slave outside, rushed in at once, for fear that something would happen to Cui Jing.

Cui Jing took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and pretended to be plain and said, "Take the lantern in front of you and lead the way, and discuss something with the old lady." ”

Wood has become firewood, rice has become cooking, the matter has come to this point, it is useless to say anything, it is better to discuss with the old lady, how to save the reputation of the Cui family, how to save Yao'er's life, if she had more children and daughters, she would have been thrown into the well a long time ago, but she was still waiting for her daughter to give birth to a son to succeed, so that her house would not be cut off from the incense.

"Yes, sir." Cui Afu wanted to say that it was too late and the old lady was resting, but when he saw that his master was very abnormal, he didn't say anything.

Soon, when the subordinates and maids were sent out of the room, and there were only two mothers and children in the room, Cui Jing suddenly knelt down, "popped" and slapped himself twice, crying bitterly and said: "Mother, there is no way for the child to teach, please show mercy to the old man and save Yao'er"

At this time, Liu Yuan, who was far away in Yangzhou, was facing the sketches of those workshops, and was ready to deal with those printing troubles, half ringing, throwing down the pen, rubbing his eyes, and saying to himself: "It's not that the left eye is blessed, the right eye is woe, why the eyelids of my left eye and right eye are jumping non-stop, strange." ”

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