Chapter 144: Luring the Snake Out of the Hole (1)
Seeing that Da Han was still sobbing lowly, Gu Yutang gently wiped the tears from the corners of Da Han's eyes with a handkerchief he carried, and persuaded again.
"Da Han, don't cry. If you cry and your eyes are swollen, your eyes will not be able to see clearly, and it will be difficult to recognize people. Don't worry, since you are the maid serving in my house, I will not let you suffer this anger in vain. ”
Hearing Gu Yutang say this, Da Han gradually stopped crying, raised his head and glanced at Gu Yutang, his eyes were still filled with tears, and he grabbed Gu Yutang's hand tightly.
"Girl, now that Mrs. You is in the house, she is an elder, and the girl is a junior, so we can't afford to offend her easily. And Da Han himself is not angry, and he has lost the girl's face in vain, and the girl doesn't have to be angry with the elders for someone like Da Han! ”
Da Han is an innocent person, always thinking that more things are better than less things, and endure the calm for a while.
It's okay to endure it once, but if you endure it a second or third time, others will only think that they are easy to bully, and they will bully you even more, and in the end you can only succumb to the oppression of others, making it difficult for you to sleep. Others just grasp your fearful, timid, and cowardly nature, so they dare to bully you unscrupulously.
She Gu Yutang is not that kind of person, although she is not a troublemaker, but she is not afraid of things, since others have the ability to bully her maid, if she does not return it with a tooth for a tooth, it will only make others think that the third girl of the Gu family has a soft personality and is easy to bully.
In this way, not only You Shi dared to bully her, I am afraid that even those maids, mothers-in-law, and little maids dare to rely on the master behind them and not take themselves in their eyes.
"Da Han, you just stay in the house honestly! You are not allowed to go anywhere, and when Ah Hua invites Dr. Qin over and bandages the wound on your face, you are accompanying Ah Hua to the big kitchen to find me. As soon as Gu Yutang's words fell, he grabbed a biscuit from the plate and quickly walked out of the house.
In the autumn moon courtyard, when night falls, the dark sky is sprinkled with sparkling stars, which is very bright and beautiful. Because the house was unusually hot, Liang instructed Qin's mother to put dinner under the grape trellis in the yard.
In July and August, it is the season when the grapes are ripe, and the vine in the yard is also full of grapes, including crystal clear grapes and black grapes with the fragrance of roses.
Liang smelled the fragrance of grapes in the courtyard, and used the chicken noodles and pork ribs lotus root soup sent from the small kitchen, Liang glanced at the bowl of chicken noodles that were not big or small, and said that it was chicken noodles, but Liang picked them with chopsticks and found that the chicken noodles were only a shallow layer on the noodles. The pork ribs and lotus root were hot, and Liang used it for most of the day, and the soup was almost dry, and finally a few ribs floated out.
Liang used a small half bowl of shredded chicken noodles, but he really had no appetite, put down his chopsticks, and said to Qin's mother beside him: "Qin's mother, has there been a change of stewardship in this big kitchen?" Why is today's dinner so bad, are you here to fool people? ”
Mother Qin didn't dare to deceive the Liang family, so she had to tell the truth.
"Madam, it's not that the big kitchen has changed the housekeeper, and when I went to get dinner, the mother-in-law in the big kitchen was complaining. Mrs. You just came over today, so she asked someone to make a few tables of noodles and sent them to her, because Mrs. You is the younger sister-in-law of Feng Lao'an, and the people below dare not be lazy, so they have to ask someone to make a few tables of tables and send them over. ”
"It turned out that the You family came over, so I said why is the back room noisy today? There is such a mother-in-law in the Qi family's stall, no wonder she wants to hide from Punpu to give birth. Liang said, picked up Biluochun beside him, and drank half a sip gently.
"Ma'am, you don't know. When I went to get dinner, I met the three girls, the big cold girl who was serving next to the three girls was beaten by the grandmother next to Mrs. You's wife, Fang Cai was silently eating wine with a few mothers-in-law in the big kitchen, and the three girls went to the big kitchen, and they overturned the table without saying a word. ”
As she spoke, Mother Qin instructed the girl below to take a watermelon and go to the well to town.
When Liang heard this, he immediately put down the teacup in his hand, frowned and asked, "What is going on?" Why did Sister Tang fight with those mothers-in-law? Is there any news from the hall?"
Seeing that Liang was in a hurry, Qin's mother immediately replied: "Madam, the old slave heard from the mother-in-law who was waiting in the big kitchen that when the Da Han girl next to the third girl went to get dinner this evening, the grandmother next to Mrs. You saw that there was chicken in the third girl's dinner, so she thought about changing it with the big Han girl, but the big cold girl refused, so the mother slapped the big Han girl, and the whole big kitchen saw it. ”
Immediately afterwards, Qin's mother said again: "Madam, when the old slave came back, I saw that Mama Liang, who was serving beside the old lady, also followed, and I think the old lady should also know." ”
Sister Tang is protected by the Lin family, even if the You family says anything, she can't get around the Lin family. For the sake of a plate of chicken and the younger generations, you really dare to say that you are elders?
When Liang heard this, his frowning brows finally relaxed, and he picked up the tea beside him, but he didn't eat it for a long time.
"Two days ago, the second master sent some moon cakes from Chengjiang to Fuxiangzhai, you pick up a few good ones, pack them in a food box, and send them to the third girl. She was angry with this, but she was afraid that she would feel uncomfortable in her heart. After you send it over, tell the third girl again, she is a girl from the long house, and I and her grandmother will be on top of her if something happens, so let her just relax. ”
After Liang finished speaking, Qin's mother instructed the maid below to do it.
After the Liang family had dinner, they were helped by Qin's mother and Xinghuang to the inner room to rest. After retiring the maid who was waiting in the inner room, and asked Xinghuang to carefully inspect the corners of the doors and windows, Liang sat on the soft couch before he dared to say: "The Mingxi that Huang Yu said in his mouth, how did you investigate?" Can the people in the outer courtyard ask them one by one?"
Xinghuang and Qin's mother glanced at each other, and then Xinghuang took a step ahead of Qin's mother.
"Madam, there is indeed a little maid named Mingxi who is waiting in the outer courtyard, but when I went out to buy ten days ago, the person disappeared, and the steward of the outer courtyard has sent out several waves of people to look for it, but they have not been found. The steward planned to report to the government with Cai, but after saying it several times, Cai said that there was no need to alarm the government for this trivial matter, and this matter was delayed."
"Madam, I have already asked the maid who lives with Mingxi, they haven't seen her before Mingxi disappeared. However, during that time, Mingxi was generous and invited them to the wine store for a few meals. It cost a few taels of silver, all of which were given by that Mingxi. Those mothers-in-law thought that Mingxi was on good terms with some man, and gave her money to spend. Mother Qin looked at Liang and said word by word.
Fang Cai's mother Qin and Xinghuang both said a lot, but no one picked it up and said it mattered.
The Liang family picked up a few important words from their Feng words, Mingxi is the maid who served in the outer courtyard, and she signed a contract with the Gu Mansion, and now she is missing, Cai's wife, as the housekeeper's wife, even if she doesn't ask someone to go out to look for it, she should report to the official.
Now that she doesn't let people find her, she doesn't allow anyone to report to the official, could it be that she knows something? I'm afraid that after reporting to the official, the government will find clues, and her housekeeper's wife can't hold her face.