The nurse was silent. I had to look at Zhong Lingyu.

Looking forward to what Zhong Lingyu can do

Zhong Lingyu has been very smart since she was a child, and Zhong Deping likes it very much. Quietly asked a famous teacher to teach carefully in knowledge, and often took her to listen behind her when she went out to talk about business.

Zhong Lingyu also lived up to her father's high expectations, lived up to her intelligence, and made a lot of contributions to the family's business. After the separation, the big house became more and more prosperous in business, far exceeding the second and third rooms, and a small half of them were due to her.

Of course, it's not a good thing for a woman to be too capable these days, Zhong Deping was worried about criticism from others, so he once issued a gag order. These skills of hers, except for those close to people, outsiders do not know, that is, Mrs. Zhong and the people in the second and third rooms, and they only know that Zhong Lingyu is very capable and can take care of the house for her mother, and the rest is not clear.

Sure enough, Zhong Lingyu's face was not panicked. She calmly picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and then asked Zhou: "I asked Uncle An to keep the Sun family's cousin, how is it now?" ”

Speaking of this, Zhou's expression suddenly softened a lot: "Sun Gongzi originally planned to go back today, but I heard that Miss You were going to take him to the tea garden to have a look, so I stayed." Now I'm still reading in the guest house. ”

Zhong Lingyu nodded and said, "You tell him that I am going to the tea garden soon, and I will wait for him at the gate for a while, and I will not come back tonight, and I will stay on the Zhuangzi over there for one night, and let him prepare." ”

"Yes." Zhou responded.

The nurse thought about it more: "Girl, will you attract gossip when you go to the tea garden with Sun Gongzi like this?" ”

The maids and mothers-in-law in the house also nodded in agreement.

As soon as Zhong Deping was buried today, Zhong Lingyu went to the tea garden with the son outside, and stayed there for the night, and was known, but I don't know what it was said to be. Now the second room is waiting to catch Zhong Lingyu's pigtails. Didn't the young lady run into the muzzle of their guns in doing so? When the time comes, Mrs. Zhong will use this as an excuse to let Zhong Lingyu be grounded, will the tea garden all fall into the hands of the second master?

Zhong Lingyu smiled slightly: "Why am I going with Sun Gongzi?" Naturally, Ming'er is going with him~ I'm too busy with business, how can I have time to accompany Sun Gongzi to go shopping~"

As soon as Zhong Lingyu said this, everyone understood.

Zhong Lingyu looked at Zhou: "You will go to the guest house in a while, and after informing Sun Gongzi, you will go to Mama Wu to sit down and chat with her." ”

She blew the tea leaves floating on the teacup in her hand, and her tone slowed down: "The two families haven't moved for decades, and the Sun family definitely doesn't know about the situation of our family." The cousin of the Sun family is also a scholar, and he didn't think to inquire about the twists and turns in these inner houses. I heard from the elders of the family that when my grandfather wanted to remarry his step-grandmother, my grandfather was strongly opposed. Later, my grandfather insisted on marrying, and threatened to let the Sun family not mind the Zhong family's affairs, and the two families broke off contact. Now that my grandfather has passed away, my father is gone, the big house is weak, the second room is aggressive, and now we are forced to hand over the tea garden just after the funeral, and we are pitiful orphans and widows. ”

She put down the teacup: "You treat these things as gossip and tell Mama Wu slowly, and I implore her to look at my deceased father's face, go to the old lady in the second room to sit down, please be safe, all the courtesies, and take care of our orphans and widows." She raised her eyes that were as bright as black jade and stared straight at Zhou, her eyes full of deep meaning, "What do I mean, do you understand?" ”

Zhou is also a thoughtful person, Zhong Lingyu said it so clearly, where is she still unclear? Mama Wu is a person sent by the old lady of the Sun family. And who is the old lady? That's the general judge of the Fuling County Ya, and the sixth-grade official of the court. In the past, the Zhong family had no relationship with the Sun family, and the big house could not borrow the power of the Sun family. This time Zhong Deping died, Zhong Lingyu specially sent someone to Fuling County to take a trip to inform the Sun family of the matter. When Mrs. Zhong and the people in the second and third rooms also made sarcastic remarks, saying that the Sun family was an official eunuch, where could they look down on the Zhong family? Besides, now that the Zhong family is no longer even Zhong Deping, the relationship with the Sun family is naturally getting farther and farther away, so it's strange that people care about you.

But he didn't want the uncle and old lady of the Sun family to be very face-saving, not only did he send someone to come, but the person who came was also the second son of the Sun family, Sun Xuewen, plus a very decent companion next to the old lady, Mama Wu.

Thinking of this, Zhou admired Zhong Lingyu more and more.

Thinking about it, Miss must have known the dilemma faced by the big house after the death of the eldest master, so she took precautions and took the road of the Sun family in advance to find a backer for herself.

She nodded like garlic: "Understood, slave maid understands." Miss rest assured, the slave will definitely grasp the proportions of this. ”

When Zhou said this, Zhong Lingyu knew that she understood what she meant. She nodded and said, "Okay, you can go." ”

Zhou bowed, bowed and withdrew.

Zhong Lingyu called Xiaogu again: "Go to the young master's side, see if he can clean up." Then he told him to go to the guest house and go out with his cousin. I went to the gate and waited for them in the carriage. ”

Xiaogu answered.

The nurse also knew that the matter was important at this time, so it was not good to stop Zhong Lingyu again, so she picked out a thick warm-colored cloak, put a drape on her head, and instructed: "The spring is cold, and the humidity in the mountains is heavy, so Miss must pay attention to keeping warm, and you must be careful." ”

"Nurse rest assured." Zhong Lingyu shook the nurse's hand, turned around and walked out.

Her personal maids Chunli, Solstice, Xiaogu and Yuxia hurriedly followed with their luggage. The nurse stayed behind to look after the house.

Zhuang doesn't care about anything, and someone at home has to take care of it.

Spring is a continuous drizzle, there is rarely a downpour, today this rain is coming strangely, but I don't want to come and go very fast, only this tea effort, the rain stopped again. Zhong Lingyu walked along the corridor, faster and faster, as if she wanted to avoid something.

Suddenly, there was a rush of footsteps from the other end of the corridor, and then an old woman wearing a dark earth-colored jacket appeared at the end. Her face was full of anxiety, and her eyes were looking this way. When he saw Zhong Lingyu, he was immediately overjoyed, and he ran straight to this side with his feet, and shouted in his mouth: "Miss, wait......"

Zhong Lingyu stopped and waited for her to come over, with a helpless look in her eyes.

This old mother is Mama Yi in the courtyard of the second lady.

Mama Yi thought that she was in a hurry, and when she stopped, she was a little panting, her chest rose and fell rapidly, and she gasped for a while before she spoke: "Miss, when the second master came back just now, he learned that the old lady was sick, and sent the old slave to invite you over." ”

As she spoke, she glanced at Zhong Lingyu, then at a few maids, and asked, "Where are you going?" ”

"I'm about to go to the tea garden~" Zhong Lingyu said, his face was still as gentle as usual, and he couldn't see any emotion.

"Fortunately, the old slave came by chance and met the young lady on the road." Mama Yi smiled, "That's fine, there's no need to delay the hour, the old slave will wait for the young lady to go to the old lady's side." The eldest lady doesn't have to worry, the eldest lady and the second young master and the third young master will have someone else to inform them. ”

Chunli and the other maids pouted invisibly behind them.

Mrs. Zhong, they had seen each other before the funeral this morning, and they looked good. After all, Zhong Deping is not her biological son, and even if she dies young, she can't see how sad she is. She doesn't need to be on the keeping spirit, and she doesn't need to worry about funeral matters, and she stays in the house all day long, where is she suddenly sick enough to summon the grandchildren of the house to serve in front of her?

This is obviously a trick that the second room came up with, to prevent his own young lady from going to the tea garden.

They couldn't help but look at Zhong Lingyu worriedly.

I saw Zhong Lingyu with an anxious face, as if she was really concerned, and asked Mama Yi with concern, "What is grandmother's illness?" But does it matter? Did you pass it on? ”

"Because of the old man's business, the old lady can't eat well and can't sleep during this time. Today's funeral, the old lady didn't listen to persuasion, and insisted on standing under the corridor for a while. The young lady also knew that although it was almost spring, it was cold. I thought it was the wind blowing at that time, and I yelled at this time that I had a headache. Mama Yi said, "I have just sent someone to invite Lang Zhong, I think it has come for a while." ”

Zhong Lingyu nodded, turned his head and said to the maids: "Chunli and Yuxia will go with me to the old lady, Xia Zhi will go to the door to ask the coachman to unload the carriage, Xiaogu will go to the guest house where the cousin of the Sun family lives, and tell him that he and Ming'er and Zhi'er, and say that grandmother is sick and will not go to the tea garden first."