The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Chu Hanlu's casual words made Song Jingui and Chu Hanyue ask her to the bottom of it. Although some things are reasonable, the more they listen, the more cold they become, and they finally understand that she has the lowest status among the ladies of the Li Mansion, not to mention that she may not have the means and means to compete for favor with the rest. This does not include the maids in the house who have good looks and figures.

At the same time, Chu Hantian, who ran outside, supported a pillar by the corridor with the palm of his right hand, and his eyes were staring at Xiao Cui, who was sitting on the fence eating big red dates, and smiled: "You are the best-looking girl I have ever seen." Please, how old are you? "Xiao Cui, who is a little scheming, if it weren't for the fact that she is the fifth lady's younger brother, she wouldn't bother to take care of him. She didn't have the luxury of being an aunt, she always thought that her promotion channel to Lu Shang was inevitably too narrow, and she didn't have any future, so she had to think about another way to get ahead, that is, to become the housekeeper.

"Fifteen, what's wrong?" Raising his head is to pretend to be a picture of Xiao Cui who doesn't understand anything, and he said it without beating around the bush.

"I'm a year older than you. You say, is this a coincidence arranged by God for us? Chu Hantian's eyes were fixed on her predecessor who was already flat and bulging, but the expression on his face showed an unnatural smile, wanting to tease her verbally, and he wanted to rub oil and take advantage of it.

Xiaocui, who is at least three years older than the actual age of the other party, saw that the other party's eyes were not good, and she did not make a sound. Chu Hantian compared to her, it was a contest between a minor and an adult. Even if he is proficient in eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling, it doesn't mean that he is very scheming, after all, he has not been cultivated in such a large courtyard.

Xiao Cui, who has been in the Li Mansion for so long. It's long been not those poor families outside, and the girls who don't have any knowledge. She has seen a lot of good things, and she can be casually blinded by a flamboyant baby with a few words of rhetoric? Even if it is not this kind of empty talk, the other party takes out some real "bait", and it may not be able to really impress and lure her.

Chu Hantian, who was oily and powdery, wanted to use his hands to ruffle her hair further. Unexpectedly, Xiaocui stood up suddenly, and blamed herself: "Oh, damn, damn, I forgot to go to Steward Zhu to get what Mrs. got from." As soon as the words fell, she hurried out of the room. Xiaocui thinks that it is to make you visible, you can't eat, and your heart is itching to kill you.

Chu Hantian, who didn't know whether it was true or not, smelled the smell of fragrant wind, and was fascinated by it with half-open and half-closed eyes. He turned his left hand, looked at the direction she ran in a lewd smile, and said to himself: "Little Nizi, you can't escape from the palm of your hand." I'll have to get you done sooner or later. With his hands behind his back, he hummed a little song alone, and slowly returned to the second sister's room.

"Great young master. Are you willing to come back? The scenery outside must be more beautiful than the people outside! Chu Hanyue, who couldn't help but sneer at his little brother, was dead, he went outside just to hook up with that maid.

Chu Hanlu, who suddenly stood up. Afraid that his younger brother, who did not learn and did not know how to learn, would harm Xiaocui, he asked eagerly, "What happened to Xiaocui?" The second sister reminds you, don't mess around, after all, this is not your home. ”

A nonchalant Chu Hantian, sitting on a chair with his buttocks, said crookedly: "This blue sky is white." What can I do with her? Even if you really want to do anything to her, it will be night! ”

Chu Hanlu, whose face showed anger, raised his right hand and pointed at him, and said seriously: "Little brother, why are you messing around outside." I don't care. But if you dare to mess around with me, you can't. If you can't end it with something, don't say I didn't warn you beforehand. At that time, instead of not saving you, I will not be able to save you. ”

Seeing that his second sister was really angry, Chu Hantian put away his cynical smile and said to her favor: "Rabbits don't eat grass by the nest." Your little brother and I naturally won't attack the maid next to the second sister. ”

"The best." Chu Hanlu, who had not long entered the door, could feel some suffocating atmosphere in the mansion all the time. Especially when she heard the two maids tell her how Su Meiniang treated the slave and maid who committed the crime as a person, and completely treated the slave and maid as a beast and beat her to death, and how Lin Ruoxi beat the matchmaker who came to tell the second son to cry and call her mother, miserable, and the fourth lady was punished by her for kneeling, and so on.

Chu Hanlu, who is timid and has palpitations, naturally does not want to be harmed by others, and does not want her little brother to be in the hands of others and unable to do anything. If he stood on Zhao Tianer's side, he was destined to be hostile to Lin Ruoxi and Qiuyue. In addition, Chu Hanlu faintly felt that Su Meiniang, who was on the same side as herself, didn't like her either. She feels that she is struggling to protect herself in the house, for fear that she will be involved in right and wrong, and she dares to make some right and wrong there?

In the past half a pillar of incense, Xiao Cui who walked in with a bag of things in her arms put the things she brought back from Zhu Biao on the square table in front of her mother, and replied: "There are all silver and gold bills in one or two. There are 20 silver bills and 10 gold bills, all of which are used by the master mother to reward people during the New Year. ”

Chu Hanlu, who didn't ask her how many other rooms there were, nodded with satisfaction, opened the veil, first took out a gold coin and handed it to Xiao Cui's hand, and said with a smile: "I will reward you." Xiao Cui, who took over the hand, was naturally very happy to thank her mother for her gift, after all, it was the first time in her life that she had taken so much money. I knew very well that one gold coin was ten taels of silver.

Then, according to the fact that Xiaohong was one level lower than Xiaocui, Chu Hanlu took out five silver bills and asked him to call Xiaohong again to reward her. Xiaohong is also the first time to receive such a heavy reward, so she is grateful and also knelt down to thank the master, after all, a maid of her own level is generally not qualified to receive the direct gift of the mastermother, even if it is stained with everyone's light, it will not be too much, and this kind of good thing is generally taken by the first- and second-class senior maids. Based on this alone, it is not difficult to explain the motivation of the middle- and lower-level maids in the house who want to climb up because they want to sharpen their heads.

Subsequently, Chu Hanlu gave five gold bills to his mother, two gold bills to his eldest sister, and fifteen silver bills to his younger brother, but he only had two gold bills left, which could be regarded as a souvenir. (To be continued......)