Chapter 11: Punishment
The nurse had already taken away the wine jug in Wuyu's arms and hid it, although she knew that it would be useless, but it was better than letting the lady see the third lady holding the wine jug in her arms.
If you see your daughter holding a wine jug in her arms, I am afraid that no one can tolerate it, not to mention the third lady who is regarded as a treasure by Mrs. The nurse dare not imagine how Mrs. will be angry.
In order to cover up the smell of alcohol in the house, the nurse increased the incense, and soon the house was fragrant. Mrs. Hou trotted into the house, smelled the rich scent of smoke, and couldn't help frowning. When her daughter is sick, the smell in the house is so heavy, it must be bad for her health. Mrs. Hou pointed to the incense burner in the corner and ordered: "Extinguish the incense, open the doors and windows, leave two people to serve, and everyone else go out." ”
The nurse watched nervously as Mrs. Hou walked to the bedside and silently withdrew from the room. Chun Tao and Xia Lan looked at each other, their hearts were beating drums, and when they saw the nurse go out, they secretly cursed, "Old fox, leave them to bear the thunderous wrath of Madame." ”
Sure enough, Mrs. Hou smelled a faint smell of wine on Wuyu's body, although the nurse and the maid bathed her with fragrant pancreas, but the smell of wine on her body still could not be covered.
Thinking that the nurse and the maids were trying to deceive her, Mrs. Hou turned cold at the moment, turned her head to look at Chun Tao and Xia Lan who were bowing their heads, and asked coldly: "Who is looking for the wine for the third lady?" Who ignored the third lady's illness and tried to confuse Mrs. Ben with incense, and recruited from the truth? ”
The two girls were so frightened that they fell to their knees, Chun Tao cried and begged for mercy, "Madame, forgive me, and the slave doesn't know who picked up the third lady to drink and found her wine." As for the incense in the house... The nurse was afraid that her wife would be angry, so she asked the slaves and maids to smoke more incense and smoke the wine in the house. The slave really didn't have the intention to harm the third lady, Mrs. spared her life. ”
The two girls had already begun to tremble, they thought that Madame would be angry, but they didn't expect Madame to be so angry. Although she just had a cold face and didn't have too many expressions, Chun Tao and Xia Lan still felt the cold air emanating from her body.
Mrs. Hou closed her eyes, opened her eyes again, and her emotions seemed to have been suppressed, she looked at Chun Tao and Xia Lan, raised her hand and said, "Get up, take good care of Yu'er." Since you are on an errand in Yuanyuan Pavilion, you should understand that the owner of this Yuanyuan Pavilion is not allowed to have a half-point difference, and it is not an example. ”
When the two girls heard this, they hurriedly kowtowed, "Thank you, madam, the slaves and maids will serve the third lady wholeheartedly in the future." ”
Mrs. Hou took Chun Tao and Xia Lan to open the doors and windows, cleaned up the house, and the doctor also invited at this time. There is no one in the city who doesn't know that the third lady of Ding'an Hou's Mansion is the heart of Lord Hou and Mrs. Hou, and the doctor didn't talk nonsense with Mrs. Hou when he entered the house, and ran directly to the bed, took the handkerchief handed by the maid and put it on the wrist of the little man on the bed, and began to check the pulse through the handkerchief.
Mrs. Hou watched from the sidelines, although she was anxious, she also knew that she couldn't disturb the doctor's pulse, so she had to wait patiently.
The doctor withdrew his hand, and as soon as he stood up, Mrs. Hou greeted him and asked, "Doctor, how is my daughter, is it serious?" ”
Mrs. Guanhou looked anxious and concerned, and the doctor said secretly: "The rumors from the outside world are indeed true! ”
The doctor looked at him, twisted his beard and said with a smile: "Mrs. Hou doesn't need to worry, Miss Guifu just drank more wine, and she caught a cold when she thought about it, so she started a high fever." The old man prescribes a side prescription, and the young lady will be fine after a few days. It's just that the young lady is still young, and drinking too much will damage the body, so it is better to pay attention to it in the future. ”
Hearing that her daughter's illness was not very serious, Mrs. Hou breathed a sigh of relief. Nodding again and again, he guided the doctor out of the inner room, came to the bookcase in the outer room and said, "Then please trouble the doctor to prescribe medicine." ”
Turning around, he found Chun Tao and Xia Lan and ordered, "You two take the prescription to the housekeeper Uncle Lin, and ask him to catch the medicine quickly." ”
After speaking, he turned to look at the doctor, and laughed dryly, "Actually, how can my daughter let her drink when she is so young, Xu is the little girl is curious, and blames me for usually spoiling her too much, and even the people with her are a little indulgent to her, no, I have tasted the bitterness." ”
The doctor is also a smart person, and he knew what Mrs. Hou meant, so he relieved her, "Madame, rest assured, although the old man is a grass man, he also knows that his daughter's family has a valuable reputation and will not talk nonsense." ”
When Mrs. Hou saw that the doctor was frank, she also smiled and revealed the matter, and ordered her subordinates to send the doctor out of the house. The room was quiet, and after checking that everything was safe, she was sleeping quite peacefully, Mrs. Hou touched her forehead distressedly, and when she turned around and walked out, she seemed to have a cold face again.
When I came to the ear room, I broke up the people, leaving the nurse alone. Madame Hou sat on the throne and looked at her without saying a word. The nurse lowered her head weakly, wondering how Mrs. Hou would punish her.
For a long time, when the nurse couldn't hold back and wanted to kneel down and beg for mercy, Mrs. Hou sighed heavily, "I originally thought you were an old man who came with me from Taifu's mansion, and I don't have to worry about handing over Yu'er to you to take care of." But now? If there are too many, Mrs. Ben won't say anything, Mom Zhang, you go to the account room to find Uncle Lin to pay two hundred taels of silver, return to your hometown to reunite with your children, and go to your old age peacefully. ”
Zhang's mother is actually only in her early fifties, but they all know it, and Zhang's mother choked up and said, "Madame is merciful, it was the old slave who disappointed you." In the future, I hope that Mrs. will pay more attention to her own body, and the old slave will not have this blessing to serve Mrs. and the little masters anymore. ”
Mrs. Hou looked at her again, but finally didn't say anything more, stood up and walked out. Zhang's mother suddenly sat down in the chair, she was on an errand in Yuanyuan Pavilion with a monthly silver of five taels, and only housekeepers in the whole house had such treatment. What's more, she can also smooth a few old clothes and even old jewelry in Yuanyuan Pavilion. She is an old man who grew up serving Mrs. Hou, and now she is the nurse of the Hou Mansion's daughter, it is conceivable that when she returns to her hometown when she is old, she will definitely be able to get a large amount of pension silver from the Hou Mansion, and she can go back in style.
It's good now, she has to be buried by her family when she goes back like this, and she loses all her face, thinking about it, she doesn't even have the strength to breathe.
The disease was completely completed for half a month, the eldest maid of Yuanyuan Pavilion Xianghui was fined three months' monthly money, the second-class maid Chuntao Xialan was fined for one month, and the other rough envoys who sprinkled and swept were fined one or two silver, and only the nurse was sent away.
At the same time, everyone also understands a truth, the higher the position in Yuanyuan Pavilion, the heavier the risk often bears.
The entire subordinates of the Yuanyuan Pavilion have been punished, and Mrs. Hou feels that she can't be allowed to be so idle anymore. As a result, the following days were full of arrangements.