Ye Hanyue pursed her lips, her eyes moved, and she was too lazy to take care of this Wu mother.

She has not encountered this kind of thorny thing in the past few days, although she persuaded herself to open some, maybe she would go home in a few days, but it sounded angry.

finally got the steamed cake, and Ye Hanyue left the kitchen without saying a word.

"Look, the dog fights the human power is this virtue, fortunately, the eldest lady is not bad, otherwise we will not have a good life."

"Who's to say it's not."

The servants in the kitchen whispered secretly, but Ye Hanyue was in a hurry and didn't hear anything.

"Miss, the steamed cake is ready." Ye Hanyue ran back from the kitchen all the way, she was not really afraid that Shu Qingci would punish her, but that Shu Qingci was now in charge of all the subordinates of the Shu family, she didn't want Shu Qingci to be tolerant of her every time because she was Xiaoyue, and the subordinates in the house were already jealous of her, and if she went on like this, someone would have to set off firecrackers whenever she died.

Shu Qingci was painting in the room, the cuffs on her wrists were pulled up, revealing her thin white arms, her wrists were slightly raised, and a brush lightly touched the words in front of her.

She spoke, but the pen did not stop.

"Xiaoyue, let's put the steamed cake there first, come and take a look, how is my painting?"

Ye Hanyue glanced at the steamed cake that she had been waiting for in her hand, her eyes dimmed for a moment, and then she obediently put it on the table, and then walked to Shu Qingci's side, and glanced at the painting that Shu Qingci was working on.

Shu Qingci painted a picture of mandarin ducks playing in the water, but the background she painted was not in spring, but in autumn when the leaves were falling.

The dead wood that has long been exhausted, the yellow leaves flying all over the sky, the cold wind is bleak, and a pair of mandarin ducks are swimming in the water.

Ye Hanyue finished looking at the painting, and then looked at Shu Qingci in astonishment.

"Miss, is it because the mandarin ducks are not playing in the water properly under the beautiful scenery? Why do you look a bit like Lao Yan flying apart? ”

Ye Hanyue likes painting the most, although the painting in front of her is good, but the artistic conception is too sad.

She wondered if it could be Shu Qingci's unresolved feelings for that Gongpuhe?

Shu Qingci filled in a few more strokes on the painting, and then put down the pen in his hand.

She put down her wide sleeves, walked to the table and sat down, and then said: "In a few days it will be the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, Daddy has been busy helping the little prince prepare gifts for the Queen Mother these days, and I am very anxious, I just thought about it, and I couldn't think of what to give to the Queen Mother for a while.

Ye Hanyue looked at the smile on Shu Qingci's face, she was speechless for a while, she really didn't have anything to say about her, painting is to see everyone's state of mind, her temperament can't make this kind of bleak painting, she is not optimistic.

However, she will not say it explicitly.

"Miss thinks it's appropriate." Answered. Ye Hanyue suddenly thought that Fang Cai Shu Qingci seemed to mention Huangfu Xiu, so she continued to ask: "Miss, why did the little prince prepare a gift to find our master?" Wouldn't it be more thoughtful for him to prepare himself? ”

Shu Qingci hooked his lips and smiled, then sniffed the steamed cake on the table, and said: "Who called our family an imperial businessman, but all the good things that can be found in this capital, my father can find most of them, but ......"

She first said with a look of pride, and then her face changed again, revealing a little sadness.

"It's not so much the gift that is difficult at the moment, but the fact that I don't know what to give. According to the meaning of the little prince, this gift must be in line with the queen mother's mind. ”

Ye Hanyue lowered her eyes and thought deeply, feeling that Huangfu Xiu seemed to have a deep meaning when she came to the Shu family to ask for a gift this time, although the Shu family was one of the best imperial businessmen in the capital, but if the three princes wanted to prepare their own birthday gifts, it could not be said that they could not prepare better than the Shu family.

He deliberately found the Shu family, would it mean something else?

As soon as Ye Hanyue thought deeply, her brows wrinkled unconsciously, and all this was seen by Shu Qingci.

She chuckled, didn't call her, picked up the steamed cake and took a bite of it.

Since Qinglan Pavilion knew about the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, Tianyunju would naturally not fall, and as soon as Shu Churou heard what the maid said, she immediately went to the courtyard of the second aunt.

"Mother, my daughter heard that her father has been busy helping the little prince prepare the queen mother's birthday gift these days, is this true?"

As soon as Shu Churou stepped into the second aunt's room, she remembered to ask.

The second aunt was sitting on the soft couch at this time, she glanced at Shu Churou lightly, then lowered her eyes, and said slowly with a thoughtful expression:

"Naturally, it's true, your father has often lost his temper with his subordinates these days, and most of them are not in a hurry because of this."

"That mother ...... about this" When Shu Churou first heard about this, she felt that this was a chance for God to give her and her mother to turn over, but she didn't know how her mother planned it.

The second aunt looked up at her, "Weiniang knows what you mean, don't worry, I have already asked your grandfather to send someone to inquire about this matter, and I will talk about it when I have news later." ”

"Mother has a plan." Shu Churou walked up to the second aunt and sat down, "Mother, if we help Daddy choose a gift that the Queen Mother likes this time, Daddy may not be able to care about the previous things, Mother, you can supervise your grandfather a lot." ”

The second aunt looked calm and nodded.

In the afternoon of the same day, the second aunt went back to her parents' house in person, and after she came back from her parents' house, she called Shu Churou to her room again.

Shu Churou hurriedly came, and when she saw the second aunt's anxious face, she thought something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "Mother, you are so anxious to call your daughter, but something happened?"

The second aunt didn't know what she was thinking, she came back to her senses when she heard Shu Churou's voice, she got up and pulled Shu Churou to the couch and sat down, and then said softly: "Rou'er, your grandfather has inquired clearly, the Queen Mother likes calligraphy and painting the most on weekdays, and she is thinking about it for her mother, or go buy a pair of good calligraphy and paintings for your father."

"That's good." Shu Churou had an eyebrow when she heard about the birthday ceremony, her face was happy, and she immediately got up and wanted to take the second aunt to buy a painting, but the second aunt stopped her.

"Rou'er, wait, I haven't finished talking about it yet." The second aunt pressed Shu Churou onto the soft couch again, and then said again with a somewhat embarrassed face: "Rou'er, you also know that your father doesn't like to be a mother on weekdays, and these days for Shu Qing's porcelain, your father looks horizontally and vertically because his mother is not happy, isn't this ...... My mother has not had enough money recently, and I'm afraid I need you to pay some silver to buy this calligraphy and painting. ”

As the aunt of the Shu family, she has to care about her daughter asking for silver when she lives to this age, and the second aunt feels that her face is really panicked, if it was before, she could go directly to the account room to pay some silver, even if Master Shu saw it, he would not say much.

But now that she has been lifted, she is spending such a large sum of money, I am afraid that she will have to be whipped again.

Shu Churou looked at the second aunt and hesitated for a moment before replying, "Cheng, my mother wants my daughter to get it later, but in the future, my mother will return to power, and I will have to return it to my daughter." ”

She had a smile on her face, and there was a bit of joking in her words.

"Also, my mother will pay you back twice," the second aunt breathed a sigh of relief, she was really afraid that her daughter would not pay the silver, recently neither of them was treated by Master Shu, and this silver was naturally a little tight, but fortunately, her daughter was quite reasonable.

Shu Churou laughed, and then asked, "Then can the mother think of where to go to find this calligraphy and painting?"

She looked at the second aunt and saw that she didn't seem to have thought about it, so she added: "Mother, the Queen Mother's birthday gift must have special calligraphy and painting, otherwise, if we can't choose the Queen Mother's eyes, I'm afraid it will be self-defeating."

Mentioning that this was self-defeating, Shu Churou gritted her teeth a little, Shu Qingci went to Qingyunju to mock her last time, but now it is like a spell, and it will appear in her dreams day and night.

If this shame is not reported, she will not be able to sleep well for a day.

Moreover, Shu Qingci also slapped her personal maid Xiaolan, she punished Xiaolan for anything bad, and rewarded her with fifty slaps, which was undoubtedly not a slap in her face.

What's more, Xiaolan's appearance was ruined because of these fifty slaps, and now she has been sent out of the Shu family, Shu Qingci's move is equivalent to cutting off her right arm, and she will be avenged even if she dies.

The second aunt nodded, she had already planned in her own heart, and now that she has silver in her hand, she doesn't have to worry about not being able to buy good calligraphy and paintings, but it's just ......

Do you have to talk to the master about this matter before you do it, or do it first?

The second aunt was worried in her heart, she was worried that if she took it upon herself to spend money to buy calligraphy and paintings, she would not be able to look down on Master Shu when she looked back, and she might have to complain again, especially the whip last time, and her momentum of being the housewife's killing and decisiveness in the past had already been defeated.

Shu Churou didn't hear the second aunt's reply, and when she looked up, she saw what the second aunt was thinking with an unknown expression.

"Mother, what's wrong with this?" In normal times, this kind of thing doesn't need her to tell her at all, her mother's means are far above her.

The second aunt looked at Shu Churou and asked, "Do you say that you should inform your father about this matter first or ......?"

"Of course not." As soon as Shu Churou heard this, she immediately interrupted the second aunt's words, "Mother, this matter has to be done first, and then when Daddy is in a hurry, we will send the calligraphy and painting over, so that this matter can be effective." ”

If it weren't for the fact that there was really no way, how could her father be willing to use the calligraphy and painting chosen by their mother, he could do it himself, that is, the more anxious he was, the appearance of this calligraphy and painting seemed surprising.

Shu Churou had her own thoughts, and when the second aunt heard what she said, she also felt reasonable, so in the afternoon of the same day, she led Shu Churou out of Shufu together and went to the street to find calligraphy and painting.

Early in the morning of the second day, as soon as Master Shu got up, the second aunt entered Anhe Courtyard with a cup of winter melon soup that cleared the fire.

"Why are you here?"