In the wide courtyard, a large number of ginkgo trees are planted, and it is the new year, and the branches are bare, sporadically bubbling with a touch of fresh green.

On the side of the northwest courtyard wall, a strong mother-in-law was pressing a thin little girl ring and was moving.

It's another slap in the face, and it's a needle prick.

This is an idle matter, Qi Yunshu didn't want to care about it, but listening to the words of Mama Fu, she knew that the little girl who was being abused was the one who spilled the hot soup on her at the banquet yesterday.

At that time, Zhao Jing stepped forward and blocked the hot soup for her, but then it became a mess, she was anxious about Zhao Jing's injury, and she didn't bother to ask about her situation.

I didn't expect to meet it suddenly, but it was a coincidence!

Her eyebrows jumped, she broke away, Zhao Jing took her hand and leaned forward.

There was a lot of noise inside, but no one noticed the two of them.

"You, speak quickly! Otherwise, I will go back and show that Madame will sell you to the hook fence outside, and let you be ridden by thousands of people, riding and riding, and ...... people."

These words were ruthless, Qi Yunshu couldn't listen to them anymore through a circle of bushes, but she was ruthless when she thought that Zhao Jing was tossed like that because of the magpie's mistake!

But at this time, what she didn't expect was that Zhao Jing, who had always taught her to protect herself, couldn't help it first, and when she moved, she kicked a stone somehow, and made a disturbance that alarmed Mama Fu in the courtyard.

Zhao Jing simply didn't dodge and walked out, and said in a deep voice: "What are you doing?" ”

"Ah, young master. We...... The old slave is the mother who manages the people in the backyard, the magpie made a mistake yesterday, and the old slave obeyed the arrangement of the lady to discipline her! ”

Mama Fu is an old qualification in the house, and she is naturally not afraid of Zhao Jing, the nominal young master who has just returned to the house, but because of the support of the old lady, there is still respect on the surface.

She also saw Qi Yunshu while looking at Zhao Jing, so she didn't hide, and pulled a handful of privet leaves and slowly walked out.

did not ignore the disdain in Mama Fu's eyes and the surprise on the magpie's half-sideways face......

Well, she hoped she was mistaken, but no, the magpie did have a suspicious smile on his face when he saw them coming.

It seems that her helper has arrived!

Qi Yunshu didn't know why she thought so at first, but when she heard Zhao Jing and Mama Fu's negotiation, she suddenly woke up, Zhao Jing actually saved the magpie.

Zhao Jingjing was so inward-looking, solemn and majestic that she couldn't even speak, and then watched as Xiaoru took away the magpie with the girl Huan Xiaoru who followed behind them.

Walking out of the distance, Zhao Jing suddenly turned around and told Mama Fu with an expressionless face: "Oh, you are in charge, right, Mama Liu is back, and she is still serving in Yuqing Courtyard!" ”

Mama Fu responded loudly, and she was unwilling to do so in the meantime!

Qi Yunshu suppressed the curiosity in her heart, and watched Zhao Jing ask Xiaoru to take the magpie back to Yuqing Courtyard and give her medicine.

Qi Yunshu couldn't understand this operation, at least in her eyes, Zhao Jing was not a person who repaid grievances with virtue.

If he did it, then there must be a reason for him.

didn't wait for her to guess for long, Zhao Jing took the initiative to confess to her.

"I want to know who told her to splash you with hot soup!"

Qi Yunshu raised her eyebrows: "She was beaten like that by Mama Fu and insisted that she was careless, can we ask out?" ”

Zhao Jing said confidently: "Some people eat hard but not soft, and some people are just the opposite, eat soft but not hard!" Maybe the magpie is such a person! ”

Qi Yunshu spread her hands, noncommittal.

Anyway, she had counted that there were a total of six subordinates in the entire Yuqing Courtyard.

A doorkeeper Yu Pozi, two rough maidens who sweep the courtyard pool. plus two second-class maid rings who serve closely, and a first-class grandmother.

The courtyard is not big, six rooms, the yard is very large, it is full of pear blossoms, it has not yet bloomed at this time, the trunk is bare, and it sways in the warm and cold wind in early spring.

These people were all arranged in the Yuqing Courtyard earlier, and they wanted to know who it was, so she didn't have anyone to trust.

Today, Zhao Jing said that she was very happy, and she wanted to transfer Mama Liu and Qingzhi in.

In this huge backyard, they must have their own people, otherwise it will be difficult to move an inch! There is no need to discuss this matter, the old lady has already agreed, and she can just take it in after a while.

Zhao Jingti's sentence just now was just to inform Mama Fu, not to get her consent.

So Qi Yunshu has no opinion on the magpie staying here.

At present, they are not their own people, and it doesn't matter if there is one more outsider.

She only worries about letting Zhao Jing arrange to pick up Qingzhi and Mama Liu, and whether the letter of resignation that Zhao Jing asked Qi Yancai and Liu Sanyuan to forward to the second prince yesterday has been delivered safely.

The second prince is a cloud-like existence, and ordinary people like them should not be easily provoked.

Zhao Jing replied one by one, saying that the old lady was very trustworthy, and the carriage sent to pick up people had already set off, and I was afraid that this Qingzhi and Mama Liu should have arrived.

As for the agreement with the second prince, the old lady also attached more importance to it than them, not only brought the two letters of apology written by him and the fourth uncle, but also wrote down the reason himself.

"Seong is not blessed if he loses his horse!" Zhao Jing didn't want to go in the first place, but at this time, pointing to the injury on his back, it really fell quiet.

Qi Yunshu smiled, in fact, it didn't matter if she didn't go to the second prince's courtyard or not, she just wanted to ask the second prince face to face, if he was the one who made the scald ointment, or that the person who made the ointment was someone else.

And she also wanted to take this opportunity to go to the hot spring village that the old lady gave her to take a walk, which was her dowry, although it was easy to come, but it was also extremely precious!

But after all, it is Zhao Jing's body that is important.

He is like this now, and these thoughts can only be said later.

As the couple was talking, they heard footsteps in the courtyard, and then two surprised calls sounded: "Young Master, Young Grandma!" ”

"Master!"

This is Mama Liu and Qingzhi entering the house.

A smile flashed on Qi Yunshu's face, and she immediately stepped forward to take their hands excitedly, and patted them gently: "You guys are here, you have worked hard all the way!" ”

The two of them are not busy, but they have lived in that house for the past two days, and they only remember the two masters, and they can't sleep well or eat well.

Qi Yunshu glanced at them, summoned the other six people in the courtyard over and asked them to introduce themselves to each other, and then pointed to Mama Liu and Qingzhi and said:

"Now that the two of you have arrived, our Yuqing Courtyard will be for the two of you......"

She deliberately intercepted her words halfway without speaking, and then locked the faces of Mama Du and the two second-class maids.

I saw that Ru'er and Guo'er didn't show anything, but Mama Du was obviously blushing, with a little unwillingness on her face.

"Young grandma said this, Yuqing Courtyard has always been managed by old slaves, and they are new to it, I'm afraid they are not familiar with it!"

Qi Yunshu saw her face to face and relaxed slightly.

What she is afraid of is not someone who is as outspoken as Mama Du, but someone like the second maid of Apple who can clearly see the emotion in her eyes but can hold back her unassuming.

It's notoriously easy to deal with when you say it so directly.

"What does Mama Du mean?" She pretended not to understand her hints.

"The old slave is saying...... This courtyard was taken care of by the old slave by the lady, I'm afraid...... I'm afraid it won't be the turn of the newcomer Mama Liu. ”

In order to fight for her own rights and interests, Mama Liu straightened her neck and made an appearance that she wanted to fight to the end.

Qi Yunshu smiled, became less and less worried, and slapped her hand and said: "What Mama Du said is reasonable, then it is better for you to take care of it with Mama Liu, I am afraid that I will be tired of you both of you!" ”

Mama Du glanced at the small courtyard, straightened her back and said, "But where the palm is big, why do you need two people!" ”

Qi Yunshu saw that she was so stubborn, and she had no intention of laughing anymore, but at this time, Mama Liu spoke up, saying that she was indeed a newcomer and was not familiar with the situation in the house, since Mama Du was willing to work hard to take care of the two masters, then it was up to her!

This matter was stopped, but Qi Yunshu glanced at Mama Du meaningfully before letting her out.

Mama Du shivered coldly, but when she reacted, she saw that the hostess of the courtyard was smiling as bright as a flower, where was there any gloomy expression?

It's just that she's thinking too much!

Qi Yunshu continued to distribute the three maid rings under his hand: "Qingzhi used to serve in my room, and everything is still as usual!" ”

Hearing her say this, the two second-class girls actually breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and they both said that they obeyed her arrangement!

Qi Yunshu frowned, intuition that these two people were tired, but it was a pity that although she had lived for two lives, she had little experience in house fighting, and she couldn't see through it at this time.

The sweepers and gatekeepers remained the same, but when they were ordered to the back, Qi Yunshu found that there was a magpie standing in the middle.

She wore a plain maid ring shirt, and when she saw Qi Yunshu coming over, she knelt down and kowtowed: "Young grandma, the slave is sorry for you, but please forgive the slave and the maid for the sake of the slave and maid's ignorance and unintentionality, and the slave and the maid will definitely repay you by being a cow and a horse in the future." ”

This sounded very beautiful, but Qi Yunshu didn't take it to heart, and asked calmly, "What do you want?" ”

"Slave maid...... The slave maid used to be a second-class maid in the Fushou Courtyard of the main courtyard, but now she can't go back, so she just asks the young grandmother to take in the slave maid! ”

"You go back to the house and rest first, and everything will wait until you get well!"

Seeing that she was kneeling there and staggering, Qi Yunshu didn't want to pay attention to her for the time being.

"Young grandmother......" The magpie wanted to ask again, but was stopped by Zhao Jing with a look, she immediately shrank her neck in fright, got up, and limped back to the room.

Qi Yunshu turned to look at Zhao Jing, and smiled when he saw that he was recovering well: "I allowed you to save her life, but it doesn't mean that I forgive her!" ”

She's not that generous!

Zhao Jing didn't say anything, just asked her if she wanted to go out for a walk!

Qi Yunshu looked at the sky, time really flew by, just busy in the yard, and an afternoon passed.

"It's time for dinner in a moment, where are you going?"

The Zhao Mansion is relatively free in that except for the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, each courtyard eats in each courtyard on weekdays.

Basically, the masters who are more faceless have small kitchens in the yards, but generally the collective meals are made in the large kitchen, and the good meals are delivered directly according to the portions.

So you have to step on the meal, you can't miss it.

Zhao Jing directly reached out to grab her waist and took her out: "It's okay, let Mama Liu take it and put it on the stove to heat it up!" ”

He also said that let Qingzhi go out for a walk with them, so that he would be familiar with the surroundings of this small courtyard, and he would not get lost if he went out to deliver something in the future.

"That's a great idea!" Qi Yunshu was happy.

You must know that the green branches she brought are the existence of a living map.

As long as she has walked the road, there is nothing wrong, and what she has not walked can be identified by looking at the direction!

When the group of three walked out of the Yuqing Courtyard and passed by the labyrinth garden carved in stone, Qi Yunshu stood on tiptoe and looked at it for a while, thinking in his heart when he was free to take the green branch in and take it around.

Who knew that Zhao Jing directly took them in.

Qi Yunshu opened his mouth to stop it, but Zhao Jing turned his head with a knowing look, as if to say Lady, don't you want to go in and have a look?

Qi Yunshu blinked and followed.

After a few steps along the marble-paved path, you will come to a pile of rockeries.

A piece of Taihu Lake stone, strange stone stacking, or hollow carving, or stacking stacked scenery, has a unique interest.

It turns out that this labyrinth garden is mainly rockeries, with different shapes and many stacks, so each place looks the same, and it also forms a maze trend.

Qi Yunshu was about to take a closer look, when the tips of his ears suddenly moved, and a familiar voice came.

She was startled, and immediately pulled Zhao Jing and Qingzhi, and the three of them hid in a narrow rockery cave.