After this major event, Liang Hui was very convinced of Chu Junlan, and it was better for the master to choose the third lady as the lady in charge than to hand over the affairs of the middle feed to an aunt again.

Liang Hui hurriedly went to get the pair of cards, account books and keys, and presented them to Chu Junlan with respectful hands: "Third Miss." ”

Chu Junlan took it and said with a smile: "Thank you Steward Liang." ”

Although there are no superfluous words, you can call him a housekeeper, which still makes Liang Hui's heart very iron, and his waist is bent lower: "The small one is according to the orders of the third lady." ”

Chu Junlan smiled, turned around and said, "While it's not too late, let the grandmothers in charge of the family come to the main hall to talk." ”

"Yes." Liang Hui nodded and walked down quickly to arrange.

Chu Junlan turned around and said to Chu Cailiang: "Father either comes to listen, or he can guide his daughter." ”

"No, my father can trust you." Chu Cailiang just said that he could trust Chu Junlan, so he naturally would not go back on his word, so he called Aunt Sun, Aunt Su, Chu Yunjiao, Chu Peishan and Chu Huayun.

"Let's go, let's go back too, so as not to get in the way here."

Chu Cailiang seriously complimented Chu Junlan, but the rest of the people didn't want to listen. Why can she, Chu Junlan, be in charge here, and they are in the way here?

Chu Yunjiao said with a smile: "Father, my daughter has never seen the world, I want to follow the third sister to take a look and learn to learn." ”

"Yes, father." Chu Peishan also nodded, although she didn't have so many ideas, but seeing what Chu Yunjiao did, she wanted to follow suit, for fear that she would be left behind.

Chu Cailiang felt that it didn't matter, they were all his own daughters, and they would all be housekeepers when they left the cabinet in the future, if they had left it in the past, he would have ordered it a long time ago, but now, his first consideration was Chu Junlan's likes and dislikes.

Chu Cailiang looked at Chu Junlan inquiringly: "Sister Lan, what do you say?" ”

Chu Junlan said indifferently: "Be happy with the sisters." ”

"Then you can stay, learn more from your third sister's side, and don't make trouble." Chu Cailiang told Yi Yuanju, and then turned around and went to the inner house.

Aunt Sun and Aunt Su immediately followed, courteous and attentive.

Chu Junlan arrived in the front hall and sat down in the middle seat, Chu Yunjiao and Chu Peishan saw that she was the first to sit so comfortably, pursed their lips, and felt a little unhappy in their hearts, but Chu Junlan's identity is different from before, there was such a big change in the family, the two of them did not dare to make a mistake, so they also sat down separately.

The maidservant served tea diligently.

Chu Junlan didn't eat tea, she lowered her eyes and gently tapped the table with her fingertips, which was her habitual action when thinking.

But after a while, several mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law came, and everyone did not dare to make a noise, and seeing that the third lady did not speak, they also stood in their respective places.

Liang Hui was the last, and stood at the end of the crowd with the two stewards of the outer courtyard.

There was silence in the room, and pigeons could be heard fluttering outside the window.

Chu Junlan lowered his eyes and said: "Now that there is an accident in the house, everyone has heard about it, no matter what happens to the Chu family, what we have to live is to go back and tell our subordinates, just perform their duties and do their jobs, and the changes in the family have little to do with you." ”

"Yes." The people responded in unison.

Chu Junlan said again: "You are all in charge of various matters, how the original division of labor in the mansion is, how to divide the labor now, how many people are under your command, what are the names, what each person is specifically managed, you will arrange it when you go back, make a list and hand it to Steward Liang, and Steward Liang will hand it over to me for review." If there is a problem with any stall in the future, I will only ask you who are in charge of this stall. ”

"Yes." The people answered again.

"Therefore, the division of labor was not clear in the past, but this time I will go back to everyone, such as the person who manages the kitchen, who is in charge of pots and pans, who is in charge of purchasing, if there is a problem with purchasing, I will only talk to the person who buys."

"Yes."

"In addition, I am very busy, and I will not listen to you every hour of the day, but in the past, every afternoon to the future, it is a time to reply. If there is an emergency, the unity of the outer courtyard will go back to Steward Liang, and the unity of the inner house has asked Mother Qin, if Steward Liang and Mother Qin can't call the shots here, they will ask me. You teach the people below to have a standard for their behavior, and not to report to the higher levels casually. ”

"Yes, the slaves know."

Chu Junlan thought for a while, and then told Liang Hui: "Steward Liang, please inform the nursing courtyard in the mansion when you go back, and tell me the time of their patrol." Qin's mother is too, and the inner house must also arrange for the mother-in-law to patrol the yard at night, and it is not allowed to eat, drink and gamble, and no one is allowed to do anything to steal chickens and dogs in the middle of the night. ”

"Yes, Miss Three."

Chu Junlan smiled, stood up and said: "You are all old people of the Chu family, my father is no longer an official, but the family will not fall, you concentrate on errands, and the benefits will not be less." ”

Thinking that the person in front of him would be the princess of the Gongding Palace, or even the next princess of Gongding, all the servants and maids replied a little louder: "The slaves and maids all listen to the orders of the third lady!" ”

Chu Junlan waved his hand and let people go down.

The whole process was crisp and neat, so neat that Chu Yunjiao and Chu Peishan's tea dispersed before they finished eating.

Chu Junlan saw that everyone was gone, so he also planned to leave.

Chu Yunjiao came back to her senses and hurriedly grabbed Chu Junlan's arm: "Is the third sister going back?" Big brother is better? My sister also wants to see my eldest brother. ”

Chu Junlan curled the corners of his mouth casually, but there was no smile in his eyes: "The eldest brother is still in a coma at this time, it is better for the fifth sister to come another day." ”

Chu Yunjiao was rejected so bluntly, and her face was a little unbearable, but she still remembered what the Sun family secretly told her, if she wanted to enter the palace, she could only have a good relationship with Chu Junlan at the moment, and strive to be a wife in the future.

It was she who said with a smile on her face: "Then I'll send the third sister back." ”

Chu Junlan smiled: "If you are willing to move around, feel free." ”

If something goes wrong, there must be a demon, Chu Yunjiao was not close to her before, she didn't think that with Chu Yunjiao's temperament, she would take the initiative to get close to her because of the current changes in her family, and the last time she came to show goodwill, she also had a plan.

Chu Yunjiao couldn't hold it on her face, but she didn't want to give up, so she just smiled and held Chu Junlan's arm, and walked towards the guest house with a smile.

Chu Peishan scratched her head and pouted at the backs of Chu Yunjiao and Chu Junlan. Now, she doesn't understand these things in the house more and more.

Chu Yunjiao kept sending Chu Junlan to the back door of the guest house, and then reluctantly said goodbye to her, and walked away step by step. Chu Junlan looked at her lowering her figure like this, although she had doubts, she didn't take it to heart.

When she returned to her room, Xiao Xu finished eating the chicken soup and was standing by the bookshelf in the side room looking through a medical book to pass the time, and when she came back, she pursed her lips and smiled.

Chu Junlan smiled back: "I've kept you waiting, my father just handed over the family pair of cards to me, and I came back after seeing the stewards." ”

Xiao Xu nodded: "You have worked hard." ”

"It's not hard, my father said that I should practice in advance, so as not to go to your house in the future and have no way to start, but in my opinion, Princess Zhang is not a person who can hand over the power in her hands, and most of them don't need me to be in charge."

Xiao Xu smiled: "Don't worry, there is always a chance." ”

Seeing Xiao Xu's face calmly say such ambitious words, Chu Junlan felt that he might not know enough about him before, this person may not be as clear as it seems on the surface, but this is also normal, he is a person after all, and only he knows the suffering he has suffered in the palace over the years.

In the middle of the night, Chu Huating regained his consciousness, and after Xiao Xu went back, Chu Junlan stayed by Chu Huating's bedside, and when he saw that he finally woke up, he really breathed a long sigh.

"Big brother, you're too risky. This time it was lucky that you didn't hurt your inner abdomen, but if you did, what should you do? What's more, how can you be so sure that the emperor will definitely save you? ”

Chu Huating had already subsided from the fever, the wound was scorchingly painful, and he only felt that he had no strength in addition to this, seeing Chu Junlan scolding with a stiff face, he just smiled comfortingly: "At that time, there was no choice, not to mention that I was fine." ”

Chu Junlan brought him a spoonful of warm water and fed it to him.

Chu Huating drank a bowl of water, his throat was much more comfortable, and just as he was about to ask, Chu Junlan told him the situation at home concisely.

After Chu Huating heard what Ma Yan and Aunt Wang were doing and what happened to them, he was silent for a long time before saying, "They also deserve it." ”

"Yes. Chu Mengying and Chu Huazhang will be sold tomorrow. I'm going to buy them back tomorrow. ”

Chu Huating was a little surprised, and then said with a smile: "It's okay, after all, they are also the Chu family, if they are slaves and maids, but you will be the princess in the future, it is inevitable that people will say that you are cold-blooded, and it is not bad to use some silver to eliminate future troubles." ”

"It's more than that." Chu Junlan said in a low voice, "I made a deal with Aunt Wang, I promised to buy a pair of her children, and she told me about my mother back then. Chu Junlan informed Chu Huating of Aunt Wang's words.

Chu Huating's face became extremely ugly.

Seeing him like this, Chu Junlan regretted a little: "If I knew earlier, I would have told my eldest brother later." It doesn't make you so angry. ”

"No, you're right to tell me. If the cause of death of the mother is related to Master Chu...... I won't let him go easily. ”

Seeing that a knowledgeable person like Chu Huating had even changed his title, Chu Junlan sighed and said, "Big brother rest assured, I will find a way to see Yi Yuhai, as long as things happen, there will inevitably be traces, as long as we don't give up, we will definitely be able to find out." ”

Chu Huating bowed his head, but his eyes were unprecedentedly resolute.

At noon the next day, on a wooden platform in the bazaar that sells housekeepers and slaves, a middle-aged man in an earthy yellow overcoat struck a gong and circled around the platform, pointing to the men, women and children who carried the straw sticks.

"It's sold, it's sold, these are all slaves sold by big families, and there are two people who used to be young ladies and young masters, take them home to call, you can also have fun, don't miss it if you want to!"

When the words fell, there were a few gongs that shook people's hearts.