"Sir, I can explain it---"

"What do you explain? Explain that although you didn't abuse Qing girl, you secretly ignored her, regardless of her, there were piles of old mothers and girls waiting in Rumei's house, but Ruqing only had two servants waiting, and they were still old and young. The more Fang Jinglan spoke, the more angry he became, and the more disappointed he became when he looked at Li's gaze, "You also kept saying that you didn't abuse Qing Yatou, and treated Qing Yatou as your own daughter, you treated her like this?" You've disappointed me. ”

"I, I'm ---" Li Shi was speechless, the matter was greatly unexpected by her, which caught her off guard, it shouldn't be like this, it's obviously all good, why, how did it evolve like this?

Li knew Fang Jinglan's temper, although she listened to Ruqing's words last night and didn't pursue it again, it was estimated that she would come to visit Ruqing early this morning, and she also specially instructed the girls in the house to be gentle and not to wake Ruqing up. After Fang Jinglan came, he also asked the girls to delay calling her, in that way, he would definitely lose his temper after waiting for a long time, and then she persuaded her with good words on the side, proving that she was still very protective of Ruqing--- but how could things greatly exceed her expectations?

Fang Jinglan was willing to listen to her explanation again, turned his head, and saw the clothes on Ruqing's body again, he was even more angry, pointed to the worn sleeves of Ruqing's cuffs, and said to Li Shi repeatedly: "Come and see, have I wronged you?" Well? Have I wronged you? The voice gradually increased, and Li closed his eyes, angry and hateful in his heart.

"What kind of clothes is this? Come and see, the edges of the corners of the clothes are worn out, and the fourth lady of the dignified Fangfu is not even as good as a girl. Fortunately, I was able to see that if I went outside in this dress, others would think that I was either too poor to open the pot, or I was abusing my daughter---"

"I, I have made high-quality clothes for Qing Ya, every time she wears clothes to meet guests, they are not as beautiful as ---" Liu's mother coughed heavily behind her, and she realized that she had said the wrong thing again in a hurry.

Sure enough, I saw Fang Jinglan looking at Li's eyes with disappointment and impatience, he let go of her heavily, ignoring her who staggered back, and said sadly: "It turns out that you have been abusing Qing girl like this." In front of outsiders, you dress her well, but when no one is around, you give her these clothes to wear, and even the girl is reluctant to give a few more, you, why are you so ruthless? ”

Li Shi was speechless, angry and angry, and finally became angry, "But, but I didn't beat her and scolded her---"

Ruqing was frightened by the actions of the adults, and cried loudly, pulling Fang Jinglan's clothes and shaking them gently, "Daddy, don't be angry, it's all your daughter who is not good and makes you angry." Don't be angry, I've heard others say that if you're angry, you'll get wrinkles. Daddy is so handsome, but it doesn't look good if he has wrinkles. ”

Fang Jinglan listened to Ruqing's milky and implied words of concern, his bones were almost soft, he squatted down, and looked at Ruqing's big black and white eyes, seeing that her face was full of fear and uneasiness, and there were two undried tears on her pink and tender face, which was indescribably pity.

From birth to the present, Fang Jinglan has never hugged his daughter so closely as today, but she feels that this little daughter has a soft body, and she was born like the Zhu family, with beautiful eyebrows, red lips and white teeth, a puffy red apple face, big eyes sparkling, indescribably cute and cute. Although he is not as clever and sensible as Shan, he is extremely smart, but he is also beautiful and cute.

Fang Jinglan suddenly felt very guilty, feeling that he was really not a good father, and he devoted himself to cultivating Rushan, but he forgot that Ruqing was also his biological daughter. His daughter has suffered so many grievances, and he doesn't know anything, if he hadn't seen Rumei bullying her with his own eyes, and then he had doubts, he came to find out early in the morning, otherwise this little daughter doesn't know how much she will be snubbed and how much dumb she will suffer.

Ruqing observed Fang Jinglan's expression and knew that the goal had been achieved, so she was ready to stop her hand, stretched out two little tender girls, patted Fang Jinglan's face gently, and said, "Daddy is not angry, my mother is busy going in and out every day, and it is normal to ignore her daughter a little." Even the third sister is the same. Daddy, don't be angry with your mother, my mother made a lot of new clothes for her daughter, and I blamed me for wearing the clothes that I usually do needlework, so that my father misunderstood my mother. Then he glared at Mrs. Shen complainingly, "I also want to blame Mother Shen, I don't take other clothes, I want to take this dress and wear it with me, now it's okay, let Daddy misunderstand Mother." ”

Mrs. Shen hurriedly knelt down and said that the slave and maid should die.

Fang Jinglan was still a little puzzled, but seeing that Mrs. Shen's clothes were no better than those of the rough mother-in-law, she had no idea, so she picked up Ruqing's soft body and softened her tone as much as possible, "Come, take your father to your room to have a look." ”

When Li Shi heard this, he almost fainted, it seemed that Fang Jinglan had made up his mind to uphold justice for Ruqing.

Ruqing was also stunned, and the development of things was greatly unexpected by her, she thought that if she really let this cheap dad give her a head, then she and the Li family must have a grudge, so she hurriedly said: "Daddy, the so-called concubine is different, you are so fanfare for your daughter, wouldn't it be a mess of the rules?" ”

Fang Jinglan was stunned, staring at Ruqing in surprise, as if he didn't know this daughter.

Ruqing lowered her head and said in a low voice: "Daddy, I really can't blame my mother for being partial, but it's actually ---"

"If there is any unspeakable addiction, tell the Father, and the Father will make decisions for you." Fang Jinglan's gaze swept coldly over the Li family, and the latter's face turned pale, but his expression was annoyed.

Snorting heavily, Fang Jinglan deliberately said loudly to Ruqing: "You don't have to be afraid of anyone, as long as you are still a father for a day, no one will dare to bully you." ”

Ruqing bit her fingers, as if she was difficult to speak, and couldn't stand Fang Jinglan's repeated questioning, so she told the truth, "I also had a girl's mother in the house before, but, it's just, it's just that --- later"

Ruqing's face was difficult, as if he was worried about something, Fang Jinglan urged again and again, and he always swallowed and vomited, which made Fang Jinglan even more angry, and felt that the Li family was extremely hateful.

At this time, Mrs. Shen, who had not spoken, suddenly knelt forward, kowtowed to Fang Jinglan and said: "Master, the girl is afraid of the feelings of her elders and sisters, so she doesn't dare to tell the truth, so it's better for the slave to tell the master the facts." ”

Li Shi was shocked, as if she had just discovered the existence of Mrs. Shen, she thought about it carefully and thought about it, and felt that this mother-in-law was a little familiar, but she couldn't remember it for a while, and looked at Mrs. Shen carefully, but saw a large black scar on her forehead, which was extremely hideous, so she turned her head away in disgust. endured the feeling of nausea, and looked at the mother-in-law carefully, although she knelt there, she was neither humble nor arrogant, her eyes were calm, and she was not panicked when she looked at her, and she was not panicked, and then she straightened up and said slowly: "Actually, although the wife has neglected the four girls, it is not as serious as the old man said." If you really want to count it, my wife can be regarded as a good mother-in-law. The four girls are here with their wives, and they are doing well. The lord really wronged his wife. ”

Li Shi breathed a sigh of relief, and suddenly looked at Mrs. Shen, and the next moment straightened his chest, glaring at Fang Jinglan with a look of anger.

Shen Pozi continued: "In the past, the girl's house was also full of maids and slaves, and these people are used to seeing high and low, and when they see that the girl is a concubine and is not favored, they all have different hearts, and they are not satisfied with waiting for the girl. They saw that Aunt Zhang and the second girl were very favored by the master, so they all took refuge in Aunt Zhang, causing the second girl to raise these little hooves who were in Cao Ying's heart, and they couldn't beat them, scolded and worried about their wives, and they didn't know how much they were angry. ”

Fang Jinglan's face was extremely difficult to see, he was ashamed and ashamed, his eyes glanced at Li again, and Li's face turned green.

Mrs. Shen continued, "But fortunately, my wife still found out about these little hooves who were not dedicated to serving her master, and they all went to the mansion as soon as she was ruthless. Only the useless old woman and me were left, and a little girl Linglong. ”

Li sighed again, feeling that the weather was getting worse and worse, hot for a while and cold for a while.

Although Mrs. Shen did not explicitly accuse Fang Jinglan of ignoring her daughter and not treating her equally, she was also faceless, and only then did she ask hatefully: "After Mrs. sent these minions, she didn't buy more manpower for Qing Yatou, yes or no?" Without waiting for Mrs. Shen to answer, she looked at the Li family again, sneered, and said, "I guess my wife will say that there are many things in the house, so I forgot about it, yes or no?" ”

Li froze, her face pale, she really wanted to answer like this.

Mother Liu saw that the Li family was falling behind, and was secretly anxious, seeing that Fang Jinglan's face was not good, she couldn't care about anything else, she stepped forward and bowed her waist to speak for the Li family, but Ruqing had already stepped forward and pulled Fang Jinglan's sleeve and said, "Daddy, you can blame your mother for this." Mrs. also pointed out a few subordinates to her daughter before, but her daughter was fed up with the anger of those subordinates before, and felt that the subordinates were not many people. So he politely rejected his mother's kindness. It just so happened that at that time, I heard Liu's mother say that the expenditure in the house was getting bigger and bigger, and my daughter thought, anyway, I don't need so many people alone, so I can save it. ”

Fang Jinglan's brows continued to rise, his eyes swept towards Liu's mother like a sharp blade, and shouted, "What do you mean that expenses are getting bigger and bigger? In addition to the exchange of favors in this time, are there any other places where you have overspended? ”

Mother Liu's face was ugly, and she said in a low voice: "It's about the masters, and the old woman, as a subordinate, doesn't dare to say anything." ”

"Don't make a fool of yourself in front of me, and recruit me from the truth."

Liu's mother was still hesitating, and when she got Li's hint, she was overjoyed, but her face was silent, and she hurriedly bowed and said: "The old woman followed the wife to lock up the affairs of the cook, and the expenses in this house, the old woman was closed her eyes and recited like a stream, and the eldest son, the third son and the second girl in the house were indeed greatly overspent last month." Mrs. takes care of housework, and knows the truth of spending money like water and pushing sand, and every account and every expenditure in the house is calculated very accurately, although Fangfu is still a well-established family, but it is indeed not a rich family, so Mrs. has been careful and does not dare to squander indiscriminately, and Mrs. Nai He is the head of the house. But there are many things that are beyond our power. Mother Liu spoke like pouring beans, paused, didn't give Fang Jinglan a chance to speak, and continued to report last month's expenses like a few treasures.

Ruqing was greatly amazed in her heart when she heard it, and felt that this Mother Liu was really not simple, she knew how to turn defeat into victory and use her strength to fight. And she said that the expenses of the people in the house were very clever in playing with words, Mrs. Fang, Ruzhen, Zhili, Zhiyi, Li, Zhu's mother and daughter, and then Rumei and Ruqing, the total amount of money spent by each person was clearly stated. When it was the turn of Zhang's mother and son, they did not say it separately, but directly counted the total cost, so that compared to other expenses, the cost of Zhang's mother and son was simply astronomical.

Fang Jinglan frowned when he heard this, although he didn't pay attention to the general affairs, but he was not a dull reader who was dead on books and didn't understand current affairs, after listening to Liu's mother's report, he also felt that Zhang's expenses were indeed greatly overspending, but he thought that the Li family and the Zhang family had always been incompatible, and it was estimated that it was exaggerated.

Mother Liu is worthy of being the mother-in-law who came out of the senior house, Fang Jinglan frowned, knowing what the problem was, and immediately ordered Sixia to take out the account book of the previous month.

Sixia acted quickly, and after a while, she took out the thick account book and handed it to Liu's mother. Mother Liu took it, and handed the bills of each master to Fang Jinglan one by one, "Master, please look, this is the old lady's expense." This is the eldest girl's, this is the eldest young master's, this is ---"

I don't know who made this account, the various expenses are listed very clearly, Fang Jinglan can see it at a glance, from the old lady Fang to Ruqing, the expenses are written very clearly. But knowing honesty and being kind, the list of expenses of the three Zhang family is sprinkled several times.

Fang Jinglan's first feeling was anger, then an old face that couldn't be hung up, and finally a burst of anger. He himself is also a concubine, and the cost of this concubine is higher than that of his concubine, which is unreasonable and unreasonable.

Li watched coldly, saw that it was almost over, and made eye contact with Liu's mother, and Liu's mother was busy again: "Master, there are bills here." ”