"Mother, this can't be helped, if there is a real shortage of manpower in the Wansheng Courtyard, you can go to your father to ask for it, how can you go to the mother's courtyard to ask for someone?" Although Bihua and Zhengwu are silent and seem to be honest, they still don't have the people in her hospital who used to serve her mother to rest assured.

"It's all a family, if even the two subordinates are so clearly divided between you and me, it really seems to be a raw part." Lu Shi smiled kindly.

Sima Daiyu also echoed it, but Sima Guansheng was helpless and could only reluctantly agree.

Such a happy scene really feels like a family who loves each other.

The news of the county lord's visit soon spread out, and Mother Wen learned the news from the mouths of the maids, so she hurriedly left the work in her hand and hurried back to Liuying Pavilion to ventilate the news.

At this moment, Zhong Xiaoniang had already had dinner and was urging Sima Daiyuan to make incense under the dim light.

"Grandma, have you figured it out?" Zhong Xiaoniang took a small butterfly and sniffed in front of her nose, and asked calmly.

Sima Daiyuan fiddled with the dishes on the table, and asked suspiciously, "What do you want to figure out?" ”

"As long as you promise not to read the barefoot doctor anymore, my mother will do her best to ensure that you don't have to marry into the Yu family."

"You can't marry Brother Liyue, it's the same for anyone you marry." Mourning is greater than dying, and now it seems that she doesn't even have the mood to oppose the marriage with Yu Mochu.

"You ......" Zhong Xiaoniang hated that iron could not become steel, and she wanted to stop talking.

Sima Daiyuan suddenly put down the plate in her hand, took off the imitation silver hairpin from her head, and sighed: "It's a pity that the fox is cheaper." With that, she bent the silver hairpin and threw it out the door.

Although this silver hairpin is not Sima Guansheng's, it is very similar to Sima Guansheng's. In order to dispel her doubts, Sima Guansheng specially asked a craftsman to make it for her.

At this moment, for her, seeing this silver hairpin was as disgusting as eating a fly.

Zhong Xiaoniang pondered her words carefully for a long time before asking, "Fox Meizi?" Are you saying that the barefoot doctor already has a match? ”

"What kind of marriage match, it's just fornication, deceiving me to sneak in and seduce Brother Liyue, it's really disgusting." Sima Daiyuan said with spit flying, and her anger was overflowing.

When Zhong Xiaoniang heard this, she secretly rejoiced in her heart.

If you can match the marriage of the barefoot doctor quickly, maybe your wife can change her mind, which is really beautiful! She muttered to herself.

"Which girl is that fox? Do you know who your last name is? ”

When Sima Daiyuan heard this, she couldn't help but sneer, "Hehe! Which girl, of course, is a good girl in our Sima Mansion! The surname is Sima, and the name is Guan Sheng. ”

Sima Daiyuan's words were like thunder on dry land, which surprised Zhong Xiaoniang, she was dumbfounded, and the plate in her hand also slipped on the desk in shock.

She looked at Sima Daiyuan in disbelief and frowned slightly, "What did you say?" Guan Sheng and ...... This...... How can it be? ”

"......" Sima Daiyu raised her head, glanced at her, and did not say anything.

"Since ......"

Zhong Xiaoniang was about to say something, but was interrupted by Mother Wen, who came in a hurry.

Mother Wen saluted and said, "Zhong Xiaoniang, be well!" Big girl, well! ”

"Okay, there are not so many rules in your own turf. What's the urgency of such a hurry? ”

Mother Wen walked to Zhong Xiaoniang's side, squatted down and whispered, "The second girl is back." ”

Hearing that Sima Guansheng was back, Sima Daiyuan didn't react at all, and was pounding spices with an expressionless face. If it had been before, the two sisters had not seen each other for so long, she would have rushed to Lichun Pavilion as soon as possible, talked with Sima Guansheng at night, ate and slept together.

Zhong Xiaoniang glanced at Sima Daiyuan and asked, "When did it happen?" ”

"In the evening, I'm listening to the Snow Pavilion having dinner right now."

"Humph! This prodigal hoof is really clinging to the backer of the Lu family. Zhong Xiaoniang washed off the spices on her hands, got up and sat down on the soft couch, and picked up the warm tea on the table.

Mother Wen walked up to her and said in a low voice: "There are also the county lord of the Yongzhou royal family and the only son of the county lord who returned to Luoyang with her. The county lord also brought his son to visit the Tingxue Pavilion and gave him a generous gift. ”

When Zhong Xiaoniang heard this, she almost choked to death with the tea poured into her throat, "Ahem...... What the? Princess? Which one is this singing? ”

"Listening to those maids, it was said that the county lord praised the second girl endlessly. His son is in the year of the weak crown, and he is the first place in the first class of this year's palace examination. I came to the door in person today, I am afraid that I want to marry the second girl as his son and bride. ”

When Zhong Xiaoniang heard this, she was angry, and slapped the teacup in her hand on the table, and the tea splashed all over the case.

She rose to her feet in anger and wandered around the room with her waist crossed.

Such a fast son-in-law riding the dragon will be picked up by this cheap hoof. If she is really allowed to climb this high gate, and my sister-in-law marries the son of a little county magistrate, then I will not be treated by my husband even more in the future?

Mother Wen saw that Zhong Xiaoniang was in such a hurry, and hurriedly comforted: "Zhong Xiaoniang, what the slave woman just said is just the maids and wives talking behind their backs, and the truth may not be true." ”

Zhong Xiaoniang lowered her voice and said: "Even if it is not so, it must be very important to be able to escort that cheap hoof back to Luoyang from Yongzhou." You can inquire tomorrow and see what that cheap hoof has to do with that county lord. ”

"Yes, the slave woman wrote it down!" Mother Wen responded and stepped forward to clean up the tea stains on the desk.

Zhong Xiaoniang looked at Sima Daiyuan, who was concentrating on the spices, her eyes rolling in her sockets, as if she was thinking about something.

In the middle of the ring, she returned to the desk and knelt down, pretending to mix spices, and pretending to ask casually: "Sister, what you just said is true?" ”

"Did I say anything? I didn't squeak! ”

"It's just that the cheap hoof and the barefoot doctor are fornicating, isn't it angry?"

"I hope it's all angry talk, I hope it's just that I'm thinking too much, I hope it's my blind eye and poor hearing." Sima Daiyuan roared in an angry tone, and her originally calm face was full of anger.

When Zhong Xiaoniang heard this, a smug sneer flashed on her face. For her, this is nothing short of a great thing.

Sima Guansheng finished his dinner and didn't stay in Tingxue Pavilion for long, so he returned to Lichun Pavilion early on the grounds of greeting the old lady.

It is also reasonable to travel once and bring gifts to her loved ones, and she certainly will not forget this. Even if she is not willing to give some people's share, she is still ready after all, because the lesson of the last time made her understand that the sharp edge may not end up well, and sometimes it is still necessary to keep quiet and gradual progress.

At this moment, she was carefully distributing the gifts she had brought back.

She took out a few Shu brocades from the large pile of things on the desk, which were the Shu brocades she bought for the boss's words in the cloth village. She carefully compared and selected, and finally selected two, one is the plum bamboo rain silk brocade with yellow as the positive color, and the other is the butterfly dance flower bush rain silk brocade with peach pink as the positive color.

"Rushuang, you sent these two Shu brocades to Aunt Zhong and the eldest girl, seeing that it is almost summer, make the best use of everything, just enough to make two summer clothes." She summoned Rushuang and handed the two pieces of cloth to Rushuang.

Rushuang hugged the cloth and withdrew.

She opened a brocade-topped box again, glanced at the box, and handed it to Mother Ling beside her, "Mother Ling, this pair of luminous cups is for my father, it is fragile, you put it away carefully." When my father returns, I will deliver it to him myself. ”

Ling's mother took the brocade box and carefully held it and walked to the back room.

Then, she picked out some cloth and Yongzhou specialties, and called Bihua to say: "Bihua, these things are for my mother, my fourth sister and my younger brother Yongshuo." You and Zhengwu send it over! ”

Bihua responded, went out with her things, and called Zhengwu, who was waiting in front of the corridor, to go to Tingxue Pavilion together.

After all, Bihua and Zhengwu were the subordinates of the Lu family's house, and she thought that it would be more appropriate for the Lu family to say that they would change hands and serve them.

She found a lot of food and asked another rough maid to send it to Sima Daining. Sima Daining's mouth was born to eat, and she can be regarded as what she likes.

In the end, she found out the gifts prepared for the old lady, and went to Qilanxuan with Ling's mother to report the old lady's safety.

Liuying Pavilion, Zhong Xiaoniang's residence.

Mei'er of Liuying Pavilion led Rushuang who was holding a cloth into the house.

Ru Shuang bowed and saluted, and said softly: "Zhong Xiaoniang, be well!" This is the Shu brocade that my girl specially brought from Yongzhou to the little lady and the girl. ”

Zhong Xiaoniang sat on the couch, her feet were resting on a basin of steaming water, and there were some flower petals floating on the surface of the water. A maid knelt beside her, as if massaging her feet.

Seeing this scene, Ru Shuang muttered secretly in her heart: This is really a fairy-like day, it seems that the maid of this Liuying Pavilion is not easy to be, I am really glad that I can be assigned to the second girl's courtyard.

When Zhong Xiaoniang heard this, she glanced at Ru Shuang with disdain, and said coldly: "Leave it there!" ”

Mother Wen, who was waiting next to her with the candied fruit, originally wanted to put down the candied fruit in her hand and stepped forward to pick up the cloth in Rushuang's hand. But Zhong Xiaoniang threw her an expression of opening her eyes and frowning, and she immediately understood to stop.

Ru Shuang was stunned for a moment, raised her head in embarrassment, glanced around, found a table, and put down the cloth, "Zhong Xiaoniang, the cloth is on the table, if there is no other sending, the slave will go back to her life." With that, she wanted to get out of the room.

Who knows, Zhong Xiaoniang suddenly spoke, "I heard that the one who came back with your girl today, what other county lord?" ”

"Slaves don't know!" Ru Shuang understands that no matter what Zhong Xiaoniang's intentions are, 'I don't know' is the best answer for all kinds of trials.

"I heard that your girl has a sweetheart?"

"Slaves don't know!"

When Zhong Xiaoniang heard this, her eyes widened angrily, and she couldn't wait to rush over and slap Rushuang.

"I don't know if I ask three questions, I'm as stupid as a deer and pig, go back!"

"Slave and maid retire!" Rushuang trembled and replied, bowing out of the room.

"The water is cold, let's withdraw!"

After speaking, Mother Wen handed the towel to the maid kneeling beside her, and the maid gently wiped her feet clean. She stepped on the embroidered shoes next to her and walked to the side of the desk, stroking the two Shu brocades on the table. Then he grabbed the cloth with his fingertips, and his sharp nails scraped the silk threads on the Shu brocade out of the cloth, making a gentle sneering sound.