In the back cover room, because the day of Qi's delivery is approaching.

After Feng Cheng left, Feng Lao'an was not worried about Qi going out alone, so he specially instructed the mother-in-law who was serving Qi to stay in the house and wait for childbirth.

It's just that the back cover room was not a place for serious people, it was the utility room where she stacked the cages, and the windows were sealed in the past.

After the Qi family moved in, Feng Lao'an asked people to remove the wooden strips nailed to the window, but the house was empty for a long time, and the house was less angry, so it was not a way to let the Qi family stay in the house.

One is to add some vitality to the house, and the other is to let the Qi family have something to do, take care of these flowers in the house, and pass the time.

After a while, Mrs. Li, who took care of the flower room in the second room, personally moved the tea plum and hosta flowers ordered by Feng Lao'an, and after putting the flowers outside the house, Mrs. Li walked into the house with a smile, ready to ask Feng Lao'an for a reward, "Old lady, the hosta flowers and tea plums that Mrs. asked us to move over have arrived, and the hosta flowers are now in full bloom, but the tea and plum are still some bones, and it is not yet time to bloom." ”

Feng Lao'an walked outside the house with the help of Zijuan, and saw two rows of six pots of flowers outside. The three pots of hosta flowers, now it is the time to bloom, have turned into white flower balls, which are very beautiful.

The last three pots are tea plums, which are not yet in the open season, but they are all full of bones, and the green leaves next to them are also a beautiful scenery.

Feng Lao'an was satisfied, so he asked Zijuan beside him to reward Mrs. Li with twenty taels of silver, "The work in the flower room is complicated, dirty and tired, you can take down this silver and share it with them!" Whether it's to make some clothes or go for a drink, it's up to you. ”

"Old Mrs. Xie reward, Old Madam Xie reward." Mrs. Li smiled and took the silver handed by Miss Zijuan, and then quickly put it into the purse she was carrying, and went down with the maids from the other flower houses.

After seeing Mrs. Li leave, Zijuan took out the scissors from the house and handed them to Feng Lao'anren, "What did the old lady give her so much silver?" Twenty taels of silver, I am afraid that she can only get so much silver if she has been a florist for half her life. The old lady still expects her to give it to others?"

Feng Lao'an took the scissors handed by Zijuan, and then took care of the three pots of hosta flowers that bloomed very well, and cut off the dead branches and rotten leaves hidden in the middle of the flowers, "She is the housekeeper of the flower room, and she is the person who serves in the outer courtyard, and it is rare to come into the inner courtyard to serve once." The outer courtyard is now Cai's world, if she says one, others will not dare to say two, I gave the mother-in-law a few taels of silver, but also to let her know that the person in charge of the inner courtyard is still me. ”

Feng Lao'an cut off one dead branch after another, and continued: "I don't expect her to give the silver to others, but I said these words, and when she works in the flower room in the future, she can also talk about my kindness to the other little maids who serve in the flower room." The left and right are just a few taels of silver, so give them out! ”

At this time, a little maid wearing a blue-green bikini walked in from outside carrying a red lacquered wood food box, and after saluting in a regular manner, she said: "Old lady, Mrs. Lin from the Fangcai Hall asked Mama Liang to send a box of mangosteen over, saying that the weather is hot these days, and you can also go to the fire by eating a few chilled mangosteens." ”

Zijuan took the food box, Feng Lao'an had already put down the scissors in his hand, and asked the little maid, "Where is Mama Liang?" Why don't you invite her in and sit down?"

The little maid replied truthfully: "The slave maid was going to pull Mama Liang in to sit, but Mama Liang said that there was still something in the hall, so she was in a hurry to go back and deal with it, and the slave and maid couldn't keep it, please punish the old lady!" So saying, the little maid fell to her knees.

"Forget it, since people have the heart to leave, you can't keep it." Feng Lao'an said, gave Zijuan beside him a look, and asked Zijuan to help the little girl kneeling in front of him up, and rewarded a few taels of silver.

Feng Lao'an asked Zijuan to clean up the six pots of flowers outside, and then he entered the house, and then saw Gu Liu's wife Cai walking in in a hurry, and after saluting Feng Lao'an, he found a stool and chair, sat on it and didn't take a breath, and said like a cannon: "Mother, I heard that the old lady of the Yang family invited the fifth master of the Yang family to go to Chengjiang again, and someone met the fifth master of the Yang family on the street of Chengjiang. ”

"How is this possible? The fifth master of the Yang family has always been by Mrs. Yang's side, and he usually doesn't go out easily, so why did he go to Chengjiang now? Didn't Yang Ying ask him to go down and help her get an idea?" When Feng Lao'an was talking, there was already a waiting little maid in the house who poured new tea for Feng Lao'an and Cai's respectively.

"As soon as I heard the news, I came back and told my mother. Now that the fifth master of the Yang family has gone to Chengjiang, it seems that the Yang family is ready to support the sister-in-law, I heard that the eldest brother is already preparing to welcome the outer room into the house, but the sister-in-law has been stopping. Cai hurriedly took a few breaths and drank half a cup of tea before saying.

"What is the identity of that outer room? Do you also want to enter our Gu family? It's just that there is already a child in the outer room, and he is still a boy, since it is the descendant of our Gu family, we can't let him be left behind, it is better to take it back earlier, so as not to learn the character of the outer room in the future. ”

Feng Lao'an glanced at the direction of the hall outside the window, and said, "It's just that the person over there doesn't want to go back and wants to stay out of the matter, but how is this possible?" Your eldest brother and sister-in-law's marriage was still nodded by her at the beginning, and now that she wants to separate, it is natural for her to go back and deal with it. ”

"Mother, don't talk about it, our side is close to the hall, if these words reach the ears of the Lin family, maybe it will make the Lin family unhappy, and we should be resented in our hearts." As soon as Cai's words fell, he drank another cup of tea.

Suddenly, Zijuan leaned into Feng Lao'anren's ear and said, "Old lady, the second lady is coming in the direction of our side, and there are a few little maids behind her carrying boxes, as if they are going to visit Mrs. Qi." ”

"Liang, why did she want to come to the back cover room to see Xiao Qi? I didn't see her a few days ago, but now that I'm here, I'm afraid that I have something to ask for. Feng Lao'an held a cup of tea in his hand, but he didn't lift it up after all.

"I don't know, do you want the slave maid to go to the corridor to block the second wife, saying that the old lady is talking to Mrs. Qi in the room, and let the second lady come back another day?" Zijuan couldn't make up her mind about such a thing, so she naturally wanted to come and ask Feng Lao'an.

"I blocked her today, and if I can't keep her, I'll come back tomorrow. Since she has something to ask for, I'll hear what she's asking me for?" Feng Lao'an was helped up by the Cai family next to him and went to the Qi family's house.

In Qi's house, Feng Lao'an had already asked people to move the six pots of flowers outside the house and put them in the upper wind outlet, and the whole house was full of floral fragrance at the moment, which smelled very good. She also asked people to wash the mangosteens sent by the Lin family and put them on the high table next to the bamboo chair for hospitality.

Gu Yutang also followed the Liang family this time, and half an hour ago, the Liang family went to her house and specially brought her over to meet Feng Lao'an.

Because she had already received the news that the fifth master of the Yang family had arrived in Chengjiang, Gu Lichi, the second master of the Gu family, wanted her to come back with the Lin family as soon as possible, so she specially called Gu Yutang to go to see Feng Lao'an and let Feng Lao'an go and talk to the Lin family again.