After Ma Ci and Mrs. Zhao came out of the back room, Swift withdrew from the maid who was waiting in the house, and instructed the maid to stay in front of the house and not let anyone in.

Opened the layers of bead curtains hanging outside the blue gauze cabinet, and Yuyan walked in with a freshly brewed Lao Junmei in the pantry, and saw Feng Lao'an holding his chin with his hand, as if he was still thinking about it.

Yuyan didn't dare to come forward to disturb, and put the tea cup on the high table next to Feng Lao'an's person, and was about to withdraw, but was stopped by Feng Lao'an.

"Swift, stay! I have a few words I'd like to ask you! Feng Lao'an said, pointing to the stool and chair placed on the side, and motioned for Swift to move the stool and chair to sit on.

Yuyan sat on the stool carefully, and then dared to raise her head and glance at Feng Laoanren, and when she saw that the old lady was also looking at herself, she immediately lowered her head, not daring to look at Feng Laoanren again.

Yuyan beat a drum in her heart, and secretly said in her heart: The old lady left her down, could it be because the old lady wanted Aunt Hong to take care of the house?

But the old lady has already discussed with Ma's steward, and Zhao's mother has discussed it again and again, and left her down, could it be that the old lady wants to tell herself what she means?

"I don't know if the old lady left the slave and maid down, did she want to ask the slave and maid something? The slave must know everything, and the words are endless. Swift didn't dare to assert, so she asked anyway.

Feng Lao'an looked at Yuyan with a panicked look, losing her usual composure, thinking that it was her own look and words that scared her.

Busy changed his gentle expression, with a faint smile, and asked, "Swift, do you think I'm a hard-hearted person?" Rokuro's daughter-in-law is still sick on the couch now, so I thought about choosing a girl from the family to come out again and fill the house for Rokuro in the future.

But it's hard to do it! Which girl from a good family is willing to marry her baby girl who has been raised for more than ten years and marry someone else to fill the house? ”

When Feng Lao'an spoke, he carefully observed the swift's every move.

Swift also knows some powerful relationships in her heart, these things are the master's own private affairs, she is a maid who was bought into the house to serve, where is she qualified to talk about the master's own private affairs?

Although she has served by Feng Lao'an's side for many years, she has also been promoted and favored by Feng Lao'an's people, so she can have her current status in the mansion.

No matter what Feng Lao'an does, for her, it is right and irrefutable.

Thinking like this in her heart, Yuyan said slowly: "The old lady is doing this just for the sake of our second room in the future. The long room and the fourth room have been prosperous over the years, and the third room and our people are thinner.

Although the third room is close to us, the old lady and the old lady of the third room are old friends for many years, but after all, the third room is in one place with the fourth room, and the fourth room is attached to the fourth room. ”

Feng Lao'an didn't expect that Swift, a little girl who usually looks inconspicuous, would understand so many truths here.

If you want your family to prosper, it is nothing more than a prosperous family! Liulang's side, plus Aunt Hong, there are only two people who are waiting, and now Cai's has been lying on the couch for many days, seeing that it is going to be done, and there is only Brother Sheng'er under his knees.

Could it be that the future of the second room will depend on Brother Sheng'er, the only seedling?

If Brother Sheng dies young in the future, there will be no successor to their second room. When the time comes, if the world mentions the Gu family, they will only think of the Gu family in Chengjiang and the Gu family in Shiping, where will they think of their Pupu Gu family?

Feng Laoan, for the sake of the future of the second room, picked a steproom for Gu Lihua a few days ago, and saved Aunt Hong's concubine room from being the first to board.

After a while, the swift instructed the little maid to put the white porcelain vase with plum on the multi-treasure shelf in the blue gauze cupboard, and the white porcelain vase with half a person high was placed next to the soft couch where Feng Lao'an was resting.

Feng Lao'an sat on the couch and glanced at the plum blossoms inserted in the half-human tall white porcelain vase, the flowers were ready to bloom, and after they were in full bloom, they would definitely be able to put them for a few days.

I got closer and smelled it, and I smelled an extremely light plum fragrance, which was neither flushing nor smelling strange.

After smelling it for a long time, I only felt comfortable all over my body, and even the drowsiness was dispelled.

Feng Lao'an was curious in her heart, when did the maid who was waiting in her house appear a skillful and eye-sighted maid, and was about to ask the swift.

Swift turned her head and said.

"Old lady, those plum trees are cut by the three girls in the plum forest in the back garden, because the three girls heard that the old lady loves plum blossoms very much, if you cut some plum blossoms, I am afraid that I will thank you in a few days, and I will call someone to go into the plum forest to cut it.

The third girl said that if you cut some flower bones, it will take some time until it blooms. Once fully bloomed, it can be left on for a few days. ”

As she spoke, Swift personally held a cup of tea and rested it on the high table beside her.

"The third girl also said that when the plum blossoms are still flower bones, there is a faint fragrance of plums, and the old lady can sleep more peacefully with the fragrance of plums."

Feng Lao'an smelled the faint plum fragrance of the tea that the swift rested on the top of the high table, thinking that the girl in the tea room had added plum petals to it, opened the tea cup, blew the floating color of the tea, and drank half a sip gently.

After the aftertaste, Feng Lao'an felt that the plum fragrance was very light, not like kneading the petals of plum blossoms in the tea leaves, but like using the dew on the plum blossoms to make the water used to make this tea.

Seeing Feng Lao'an drink all the tea in the teacup, Yuyan smiled on the side and said.

"The third girl is really like a god! The third girl said that if she added some morning dew on the plum to the kettle where the tea was boiling, the old lady would drink a few more sips. Unexpectedly, the old lady not only drank a few more sips, but even drank a cup of tea. ”

Hearing what Yuyan said, Feng Lao'an also smiled faintly, and then asked, "What about Sister Tang?" Did you send her back?"

"Old lady, the third girl has been back for a long time. After helping the girls cook the bowl of water with Lamei morning dew in the pantry, Mrs. Lin sent Mama Liang to pick her up. ”

As soon as Swift's words fell, she heard the voice of a little maid outside the house, it was the maid who was waiting in Cai's house, and she came to ask to see Feng Lao'an.

Yuyan didn't dare to make a decision, raised her head and glanced at Feng Lao'an's side, and asked Feng Lao'an's meaning, "Old lady, this girl, do you see it or not?"

"Since I came from Cai's house, I'm gone. Later, you call a little girl, let her take the girl to the pantry to drink a few teas, take a few dollars to reward her, and send her back! Remember to tell her to take care of Cai's carefully, and not to be slacking off for a moment. ”

As Feng Lao'an spoke, a feeling of guilt flashed in his eyes, but in an instant, he disappeared without a trace in her eyes.

After all, Cai's is the daughter-in-law she chose for Gu Lihua at the beginning, and now she is seriously ill in bed, and she, as a mother-in-law, didn't take a few looks, after all, it was a little unreasonable.

In the evening, in the courtyard of Ruiyue.

Cai dragged his weak body and leaned against the soft couch under the window. Wearing a few thick brocade quilts on his body, holding a gilded soup woman in his arms, his face was very pale, even so pale that he couldn't see a trace of blood, and he was powerless to explain the things of the mother-in-law below.

As soon as dinner was over, Cai's instructed someone to call Gu Lihua's mother who was waiting in the study and the maid who was serving the pen and ink together.

"You are all serving in the master's study, the master was sick a few days ago, and his body is not yet well, so he needs more snacks from you. The wind and dew are heavy at night, remember to burn a charcoal basin in the house, so that when the old man falls asleep at night, he will not catch a cold. ”

As soon as Cai's instructions were finished, the maids and women kneeling at the bottom all replied 'yes' in unison.

Suddenly, Qiuhua, who was waiting beside Cai, hurriedly walked in from outside. looked a little flustered, as if there was something important and wanted to give Cai's attention.

A few days ago, after the old lady of the Cai family heard that Cai's illness, she specially brought her son and daughter-in-law to come to see her, and when she saw that her daughter had lost weight like this, Mrs. Cai was distressed, and specially left the maid who was waiting by her side to take care of her.

Leaving Qiuhua, a girl from the Cai family, in the Gu Mansion, is to hope that she can take good care of the Cai family.

The second is to keep an eye on the Gu Mansion, if the Gu Mansion wants to wait for the Cai family to die, he must report back as soon as possible, and the Cai family will definitely call someone to make trouble in the Gu Mansion.

Cai's is Gu Lihua's three books and six ceremonies, and the wife of the head of the family who carries the sedan chair to marry the entry, if he dies of illness, Gu Fu must be filial piety for three years. Three years later, when it came to filling the house.

Qiu Hua glanced at Cai, then carried Cai to the back room, closed the door of the back room, and then said slowly.

"Madam, it's terrible. The old man called Ma Ci and Mrs. Zhao to go to the study two days ago, as if they were discussing the matter of letting Aunt Hong take the wife and replace the wife's housekeeper. The lord also specially instructed Ma Ci to come to you to ask for the key to the card. ”

When Cai heard this, his face did not show much surprise.

Instead, he muttered, "I should have expected these things." I don't know how many days I can last with a body like this, and I can rest assured that I have decided on the candidate for the housekeeper's wife earlier. ”

Qiuhua heard Cai's words say this, and was dumbfounded on the spot.

The old lady called her to come to serve her wife, not to watch her status in the Gu family, and to be set aside step by step. That Aunt Hong is just a concubine, and the wife is the housekeeper of the Gu family, and the wife is still alive now, pushing an aunt out to take care of the house, I don't know what the Gu family thinks?

Qiuhua was unhappy for Cai's in his heart, and he couldn't help it on the spot.

"Madam, you are a girl from our Cai family, the old lady married you to the Gu family, not to watch you being bullied by others. That Aunt Hong is just a foot-washing maid in your house, but after being favored by Gu Lihua for a few days, she dares to press on your head, how can you bear it, madam?

You must teach a good lesson to relieve your anger! ”

Teach Aunt Hong? With her current body, can she still go to the ring with Aunt Hong?

Gu Lihua stood on Aunt Hong's side, and when she was very fond of her, she couldn't get along with her, she couldn't get along with Gu Lihua.

She is like this now, why bother to please Gu Lihua's displeasure?

"Qiuhua, you just came, you don't know these situations in our house. Although Aunt Hong is a concubine, she is a good person, if she can give birth to a son and a half daughter for Liulang and prosper the Gu family, she is the housekeeper's wife, and she can do it. The old lady has been waiting for her second grandson for so many years. ”

The Cai family has been married to the Gu family for many years, and Mrs. Feng wishes that she would give birth to three or four sons, so that the Gu family can prosper.

It's a pity that she didn't fight for herself, and finally gave birth to Brother Sheng, but she raised Brother Sheng in her grandfather's house. In the end, even Gu Lihua's heart, she couldn't hold it.

She didn't want to blame Aunt Hong or Gu Lihua, or Feng Laoan, she fell to today's end because she was not angry.

Hearing Cai's words, Qiu Hua knew that his wife actually thought like this, but how could his wife think like this? How could a girl from the Cai family be pressed under her feet by a maid who was born as a foot-washing maid?

Qiu Hua was puzzled, and said: "Madam, when the old lady first brought you to the Gu family, she was reluctant to come to the Gu family, worried that you were angry with your mother-in-law and husband in the Gu family. The old lady has given you all her companions for your sake.

You are the eldest wife of the Gu family, even if those aunts give birth to children, they can still be raised in your name. The old lady feels sorry for her wife, she hasn't eaten well for a few days, and her wife should cheer up for the sake of the old lady! ”

Qiuhua said it, and seeing that Cai's was still unmoved, he was angry and anxious, and he didn't know what to do?

Suddenly, Qiuhua thought of Brother Sheng.

Brother Sheng is born to his wife, if after his wife dies, Brother Sheng is still young, wouldn't he be tortured by the step-room. Brother Sheng'er's career in the imperial examination will not be affected by the house-filling steproom.

"Madam, even if you don't think about yourself, you should think about Brother Sheng! Aunt Hong is not Brother Sheng's biological mother, if you are not there, can Aunt Hong take good care of the child who is not her own?

Besides, Brother Sheng is still a son-in-law, and he will inherit the second room of the Gu family in the future. How can Aunt Hong not be afraid?"

Hearing Qiuhua talk about Brother Sheng, Cai's was dumb for a moment. Yes! Now that Brother Sheng is still young, if after she leaves, Liulang marries his step-room and comes back, won't Brother Sheng be left out in the cold?

Brother Sheng is her heart, even if she dies, he wants to protect her.

Seeing that Cai Shi was in deep thought, Qiu Hua sighed secretly, and ordered the little maid who was waiting outside the house to bring Rui'er, the maid who had gone to Feng Lao'an's house before, over.

Ruil was clearly frightened, and before she could enter the house, the person began to tremble. I didn't dare to raise my head to look at anyone, I only dared to walk with my head down.

"Madam, this is the maid who went to Old Madam Feng's house to report the news, Rui'er! The slave maid has already sent someone to inquire, this Rui'er was sent by Mrs. Feng to serve in your house, and she often privately presented what happened in our courtyard to Mrs. Feng.

When she came back, the slave maid looked around at her, and let a few mothers-in-law hold her down. ”

Qiuhua pointed to Rui'er, who was kneeling on the ground, and explained to Cai.