Chapter 43: Mixed Eyes (3)
Yuzhu hasn't raised her head since she knelt down and bowed her head, and Ren Qiaomei didn't see her squeak and beg for mercy after talking for a long time.
Qi Shi couldn't say Qiao Mei, and went straight to Yuzhu to get angry: "You! Why don't you recruit it truthfully? Who framed me with you?! ”
There was a moment of silence in the hall.
Xu Pozi looked at the eyes of the masters and pushed the rain bamboo, but unexpectedly, she unconsciously turned over and fell to the ground, and there was a blood stain on the corner of her mouth. Mrs. Xu was so frightened that she almost screamed, and trembled her hands to probe her breath.
The timid maid immediately turned her head away, and Zhou immediately grabbed Qiao Mei and asked her not to look at it, and Qi's hands were trembling slightly.
The master of a big family often punishes his subordinates by saying something about beating and killing, but if he really sees a dead person, it is terrible, and the Jingguo Mansion is of course no exception.
Patting Zhou's hand to signal that she was okay, Qiao Mei poked her head out to see, and Mrs. Xu sobbed her head and pleaded guilty: "Ladies and girls, stop your anger!" A few days ago, this Yuzhu girl came to me to embroider the flower gold thread sachet, and she also took a bag of pink pearls and said that the fourth girl ordered to embroider on it...... Even the iris in the sachet was picked by her, but the slave didn't know what was strange! ”
"The sachet is here, please take a look at the second lady to see if it's in your beads." Bai Yue took the delicately embroidered sachet and handed it over, "It's just that our girls have always used sachets and handkerchiefs sewn by slaves, but they have never invited the embroidery girls in the house to come." ”
Mrs. Xu nodded again and again after hearing this: "Yes, it is indeed the first time that the slave maid has heard from the fourth girl." ”
"When I didn't find Qingqing for the moon worship, her usual handkerchiefs, purses, and socks were all prepared by Mama Lin, but she was asked to replace the moon embroidery later." Zhou also nodded and spoke.
Qi said: "Does this mean that someone is going to frame the people around Sister Mei'er?" She touched the pink pearls on the stamens and knew that these were indeed those given to her by the second master.
Qiao Mei looked at Zhou's winking at her, Zhou understood, and got up with Qiao Mei, but before she could speak, the handmaid of the Qi family outside pulled the curtain and came in and whispered: "Madam, girl, grandpa is here!" ”
Saying that, a tall and straight figure walked in behind him, Jing Guogong looked like a scholar and polite, but the momentum of the military general was like a rainbow, and just a glance at the past made the Qi family sweat coldly.
He said in an open voice, "What should I do, but a string of hand beads of the South China Sea," he said, waving his hand for the attendant to take out the silver ingot, "why make such a big deal about worthless things?" If it shocks my family, it will be a big deal. ”
Qiao Mei put down the original sharpness on her face, and smiled sweetly at him, her father has always been like this, believing in herself unconditionally.
"What's more, it's a shame for my brother and sister to mistake Yumu for a pearl, you still have to let everyone in the house know about it......" Jing Guogong has always been straightforward when he speaks, and he doesn't give half of Qi's face.
As he spoke, the guards who followed behind Jing Guogong dragged Yuzhu's body down. Qi Shi listened to his words, gritted his teeth in anger, and said that she was wrong to blame Qiao Mei, and on the other hand, she said that she couldn't tell whether the pearl was real or fake, was this trying to belittle their second room?
The silver presented by the guards was a hundred taels, and Qi looked at it and pinched it tightly, with jealousy and hatred in his eyes, one hundred taels! She has to hesitate to buy a hairpin on weekdays!
Jing Guogong didn't care what she was thinking, stretched out his hand to help Zhou, and walked out of the front hall with Qiao Mei.
The sun was shining outside, and immediately there were servants who held an umbrella to shade them, Jing Guogong took the light plum branch umbrella in Qingyun's hand, and did not shy away in front of the subordinates, and went straight to Zhou's umbrella for her.
Looking back, Qiao Mei chuckled, and raised her hand to signal her maidservants to follow her around the path back to Fuxiu Courtyard.
Bai Qing and Bai Yue are Qiao Mei's first-class maids, and they are different from other maids in Fuxiu Courtyard, they have a partial house to live in.
As soon as he came back, Qiao Mei went to see the worship first, and the side room was cleaned up neatly and properly. Qiao Mei rarely comes here, and even the two of them revolve around Qiao Mei during the day, and they don't often stay here except for going to bed at night.
The small side room was divided into two, with a bed on the left and right sides, and Qiao Mei saw the worship as soon as he came in. She was lying on the bed with her eyes closed, and a little girl in front of the bed was pinching a cold towel for her forehead, and as soon as she turned her head and saw Qiao Mei, she hurriedly got up and saluted.
"Aunt, girl......" This girl is not outstanding, and she wears a double bun like other low-class maids, and only a thick sea hangs down in front of her forehead, which looks a little wooden.
Qiao Mei glanced at her twice, her eyes were sheng, she should be a girl from the outer courtyard, and she asked, "How is the worship?" ”
Mu Ling lowered her head and said, "Return, back to the words of the fourth girl, Sister Bai Qing has a high fever, and she has been lying down and talking nonsense before......"
Frowning, Qiao Mei said, "Why didn't you invite the doctor?" Mu Ling hung her head and her eyes flickered, and she didn't know how to reply.
Qiao Mei immediately understood that the servants in the house could not invite medical officers and doctors, and they could not invite them, and the famous families paid more attention to these, but now where can human life compare to these worldliness.
Immediately, she pulled the jade pendant she often wore around her waist and handed it to Mu Ling, "You go to the nearby medical center now and invite someone to come, if the porter wants to stop you, just say that it was for me." ”
"Yes, yes, thank you, four girls!" Mu Ling raised her head happily, took the jade pendant and took two steps, she came back with a red face, and said seriously, "The slave maid is the maid who prunes the branches in the garden, and the slave maid is very good to the sister of the court, so the fourth girl can rest assured, the slave and the maid will definitely not run away with your jade......"
After saying that, she saluted and ran away. Qiao Mei couldn't cry or laugh a little, she could rest assured that she would give her personal things, it must be because Bai Yue didn't have any surprise when she saw her, and she was willing to take care of Bai Qing in person, so she must be an acquaintance.
His cheeks were red and swollen on the bed, his ears were hot, his forehead was dripping with sweat, and he was unstable in his sleep. Qiao Mei touched her forehead in the past, it was amazingly hot, so she went to twist the veil, and Bai Yue stopped her, and said, "Girl, how can I let you come to this matter, slave maid come." ”
Qiao Mei took some steps back and got up, watching Bai Yue neatly change wet wipes and cover the quilt for Bai Qing, she said: "You will stay here to take care of Bai Qing for the past two days, you two have a good time, and I am not very relieved that others are waiting for me." ”
Pulling the hand of the futon, Bai Yue was stunned for a moment before saying, "Girl...... How many girls would you like to mention? The slave maid looked at the five girls and the six girls, and the big maids around them were all four or five......" She stopped suddenly, a little annoyed, "The slave and maid don't like to live around the girl too much, but I'm afraid that I won't be able to serve you well with all my heart......"
Qiao Mei was a little surprised, she didn't expect her to say this. In fact, although Qiao Meng had more than a dozen maids of all sizes around her, it was forcibly allocated to her by the Qi family, firstly, to urge her to practice the piano and learn to paint; The second is to let Qiao Meng have the style of a princess.
And the source of the group of maids and wives around Qiao Yu is that she was born lively and active, and now that she is getting older and older, Qu wants to hold her more, and even the dowry grandmother around her is placed by her side.