Chapter 40: The Old Man
Zhao glanced at Mama Zhao and didn't pay much attention to it. The girls of the Su family also have to read two women's trainings, and it is not a big deal for Bai Qiao to know a few words.
"It's just a book, and it's not a big deal."
The Su family and the Zhao family are in-laws, and the Su family can't be separated from the Zhao family because of Bai Qiao's personal identity, so they will definitely not teach Bai Qiao too many things.
But Bai Qiao's return is indeed strange. She didn't send a letter to the Su family, how could the Su family let Bai Qiao come back? Is there something going on here? The contents of the boxes looked like brand new materials.
"Do you want to send a letter to the Su family to ask?" Mama Zhao suggested that they were now in front of a black face, and it was always uneasy not to ask.
Zhao thought for a while and snorted: "Qingrou hasn't been back to her parents' house for a long time, so she should be homesick too." ”
Qingrou is the younger sister-in-law of the Zhao family and the girl married by the Su family.
When Mama Zhao heard this, she immediately smiled and said, "Yes, Madame is careful." "The Bai family is separated from the Su family by one layer, so it's better to let the girl of the Su family go back to her parents' house and ask, the family can say anything!
Zhao nodded, that's the reason.
"Then let Sister Qiao live in Mr. Ge's yard first. Those people have been transferred? ”
Grandma Sun nodded hurriedly: "Just a few people, the old slave has already arranged for them to pass." There are also people in the mothers-in-law who arranged to go, and they will pick up time to report whatever they say. ”
Zhao nodded.
"If you want to give her everything, the food treatment should be the same as Sister Jin'er."
"Yes, it's all according to Miss. I've told the people in the house that nothing will go wrong. Mama Zhao replied.
"Well, take care of it." Zhao was relieved.
Bai Qiao was woken up, and when he woke up, he was sweating.
Xia Shuang shook the fan lightly: "Miss is sweating all over, let's take a bath first?" ”
"Well, when is it?" Bai Qiao nodded, got up and got out of bed. In the end, it was summer heat, and the summer shirt was wet.
"It's past noon, and the food has been delivered from the kitchen, and it's been warm in the kitchen." Xia Shuang said as she went to the cabinet and took a goose yellow embroidered peony skirt.
The bath room is behind the inner chamber and is blocked by a carved rosewood screen.
After bathing, I changed into clothes, and I wrung my hair and combed it all up. The white neck was as white as jade, Bai Qiao took the fan and shook it, it was finally much cooler.
"The soup of sour plums was brought from the kitchen, saying that it was the most relieving of the heat, do you want to drink it?" Qiu Yue came in from outside and brought a bowl of soup in her hand.
"Okay."
"I know that Miss is afraid of heat, and when she is in the Su family, she likes to eat a bowl of ice porridge in the afternoon." Qiu Yue smiled and brought the sour plum soup over and handed it to Bai Qiao.
The soup is sweet and sour, and it is indeed cooler than anything else. Xu is the soup is filled with ice, and it tastes exceptionally comfortable.
"The grandmothers around Mrs. Xian have arrived, do you want to see Miss now?" Seeing Bai Qiao drink the soup, Xia Shuang held her breath and asked softly.
After drinking half a bowl of soup, Bai Qiao said, "Let them in." ”
"Yes, the servant will call it." Xia Shuang ran out.
When Xia Shuang returned, Bai Qiao had already finished drinking the soup and was sitting on the main seat of the small hall.
"Miss." Xia Shuang raised her eyelids and took a quick look at Bai Qiao, and then stood behind Bai Qiao.
There were two mothers-in-law standing in the hall. The two mothers-in-law are full of wind and frost, and they are full of ravines, and they know that they are not doing well by looking at their appearances. The maid next to my mother must be about the same age as my mother, and she is only in her thirties this year, and she already looks like an old woman.
Over the years, it has not only smoothed the edges and corners, but also trapped their hearts.
"Old slave red cotton."
"Old slave Red Maple."
"Greetings to the eldest lady!" The two of them kowtowed in unison, and their movements were surprisingly consistent.
"Mama, please."
The gentle and cold voice is like the wind blowing in the ears, without a trace of emotion.
Red Maple and Red Cotton got up and looked forward.
The girl sitting at the top of the hall was as gentle as jade, not angry.
The two thought that the first time they hadn't seen each other for these years would turn into a scene of hugging and crying, they never expected that the eldest lady who was sent to the Su family to raise waste would appear in front of them with such a posture.
Nearly ten years of life seem to have seen a glimmer of hope. At first glance, they didn't feel it when they heard that the eldest lady asked them to go back to serve, but now they suddenly became sad, and their old eyes turned red, and they shed tears.
"After many years, the grandmothers are not doing well, and so am I." Bai Qiao was the first to speak, with a slight smile on his lips, as if he was telling something that had nothing to do with him.
The red cotton and red maple hung their heads, and the sadness of these years came to my heart, not a taste.
"Now that I'm back, would you like to come back?"
This coming back does not refer to people, but to the heart.
Kapok and Red Maple naturally understand, but they are no longer as sharp as they used to be, and they are afraid that they can't do anything at the moment. The Zhao family had already pinched the Bai family in the palm of their hands, and they couldn't allow them to snatch it back.
"If the eldest lady is still willing to use us, we are naturally willing to come back. The lady is gone, and the eldest lady is the master of the old slaves. Cotton Tree smiled bitterly, knelt on the ground and kowtowed again.
"The old slave is the same as the red cotton." Red Maple said with red eyes.
"Qiuyue, is there still sour plum soup?"
"And a few bowls, Miss!" Qiu Yue came in, smiling.
"Serve a bowl to the two grandmothers."
"Yes, the servant is going now!" Qiu Yue responded, turned around and ran out, and it didn't take long to bring two bowls of sour plum soup.
The sour plum soup is a summer soup that can only be drunk by the masters of the house, and it is the recipe of the Bai family when it is in its prime, and it is rare to find a thousand gold.
"The old slave doesn't dare." Kapok hurriedly waved his hand.
"You are my mother's people, and I deserve respect. This bowl of soup is just a bowl of soup, you must not dare or not. Bai Qiao said.
When the two heard this, they took the soup bowl.
After drinking the soup and saying some words, Bai Qiao learned that the two grandmothers were married to the slaves born in the Bai family, and the status of the slaves was not high, and the slaves married by the red cotton were the horsemen of the house. Hongfeng married a handyman in the house.
"He was a good drinker, and when he drank too much, he had some arguments with the old slaves, and often went to the wine shops on the street to pay on credit. Over the years, the old slave has also gotten used to it. The red cotton wool said, there was no life, only numbness.
Red Maple pursed her lips with red eyes.
This lady of the Bai family, Zhao, how she fed them medicine and sent them to the collapse of low-level slaves at that time, they will never forget it in their lives. It's a bloody scar that once uncovered. These years have passed without people and ghosts, and only they know it. Sometimes I want to strangle him with a rope in the middle of the night, but I can't give up my young children!
Bai Qiao listened quietly, without interrupting or asking. It's just a wound they've hidden. The second-class maid of the first lady should be equipped with a guard with some ability in the house, and she would never be able to marry such a slave.