Chapter 5: Charcoal

The next day, Qin Wan still got up before dawn, and at the same time, he went to Yashanju with a porcelain vase in both hands.

After four or five days in a row, when Qin Bang went to Yashanju to knock on the door as usual on this day, the wooden door opened before the door lock was unlocked.

is still the woman who opened the door before, she is Mama Jiang who has been waiting by Mrs. Qin's side.

The moment Mama Jiang saw Qin Wan, she was stunned and asked softly, "Are you?" "Look at this girl is dressed decently, the clothes are also brocade, it is the dress of the young lady, but the eyes are very raw.

Qin Wan's face was just the right amount of panic when she was discovered, she curtsied and saluted, and said timidly: "Mama, I'm Qin Wan, I haven't been in the Prime Minister's Mansion for a long time......

If you want to talk about it further, Mama Jiang nodded clearly, "It's the second miss." With a pleasant smile on his face, he glanced Qin Wan up and down, and asked, "It's the second lady who collects the morning plum dew for the old lady these days, right?" ”

Qin Wan nodded and whispered, "I know that grandmother likes to use morning flower dew to make tea, so I went to pick some." ”

Among the people of the later generation, they all knew Mrs. Qin's preferences, but none of them refused to get up so early in this big winter day to collect flower dew.

Mama Jiang had a pleased smile on her face, "Meng Dong, it's cold, Second Miss, come into the house with me to warm up, the old lady is about to get up." ”

"Nope." Qin Wan shook his head and said, "I won't disturb my grandmother's rest." ”

Without saying anything, he put the flower dew in his hand into Mama Jiang's hand, and ran away with his head down.

"Second Miss."

Mama Jiang shouted twice behind her, and when she saw that she had run away, she stopped shouting and turned around and entered the door.

After boiling the flower dew collected by Qin Wan and making tea, he looked at the time when Mrs. Qin should also wake up, so she went to the room.

The room where Mrs. Qin lived was neat and simple, with an incense burner on a table made of birch, and green smoke curling with sandalwood burning in it. Old Mrs. Qin was lying on the red pine bed, she opened her eyes when she heard the movement, and Mama Jiang helped her up.

When dressing Old Lady Qin, Mama Jiang asked, "Old lady, do you remember the person I told you about picking dew every day?" ”

Old Lady Qin said, "Do you know who it is?" ”

Mama Jiang nodded: "It's the second young lady who just came back." ”

Old Mrs. Qin was stunned: "Bang'er? ”

Mama Jiang said: "It's her, I got up early today and waited at the door, if I hadn't found out, the second lady would have to be this nameless Bodhisattva." ”

Old Lady Qin hurriedly said, "What about her?" "In the end, blood is thicker than water, even if Old Lady Qin has no feelings for Qin Wan's granddaughter, it is inevitable that she will want to see her at this time.

Mama Jiang said: "It's already gone, I asked her to come into the house to see you, but she didn't want to, it seems that she has unspeakable hardships." ”

"What can a child do?" Old Lady Qin's face suddenly became unhappy, "Don't you remember what she said when Bang'er came back to me?" ”

The old lady Qin said that she was the Rong family.

Qin Wan's biological mother is a little girl next to Rong's side, turning her back on her master's position, Rong's naturally complaining about their mother and son, Qin Wan's news that she was found back, Rong had already sent someone to inform Mrs. Qin, Rong said at the time that she had grown up begging on the street since she was a child, and the atmosphere of the market was too heavy, so she inevitably bumped into the old lady, collided with the Buddhist hall and then brought Qin Wan to ask for peace after learning the rules.

Anyone can hear the perfunctory meaning of Rong's words.

Old Lady Qin knew that the Rong family had always had a grudge in her heart, and even if she heard it, she went with her.

Jiang Mama said: "In this way, the eldest lady doesn't want the second lady to come to see the old lady, I'm afraid that the second lady's filial piety has been secretly hidden from the eldest lady. ”

"No matter how she lived before she came to the Prime Minister's Mansion, but in the end, the bloodline of the Qin family." Old Lady Qin said: "The Wei family has already found Bang'er at the cost of her life, she is dead, if the Rong family can't let go of the past grievances, it will be her fault." ”

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When he came back from Yashanju, Qin Wan had been sitting in his room and waiting.

Seeing Mama Zhang come back with a smile on her face, it seems that she went to Rong's place to ask for a reward.

"Mama Zhang." Qin Wan walked out of the room, stopped Mama Zhang, who was about to go back to the house, and said, "It's too cold this day, I want to raise the stove in the house." ”

"What?" Mama Zhang looked back in shock, suspecting that she had misheard, "Didn't I tell you early in the morning?" The house saves money, and the charcoal distributed by our Bihe Courtyard every month was used up as early as two days when you came, and at this time you asked me for charcoal? Where can I get it for you? Can I give birth to you? ”

The two little girls who were sweeping in the yard stood aside and watched the excitement.

Qin Wan said: "But, your room is obviously burning charcoal every day, why do you have it, but I don't?" ”

"I ......" Mama Zhang was a little speechless when she asked this, she was harsh on Qin Wan's uses, all of which were quietly used on herself, although there was not much.

Of course, charcoal fires are no exception.

Soon, Mama Zhang found a reason for herself: "I bought the charcoal in my room with my own salary, if the second lady really feels cold, it is better to take some money out of her pocket, and I will go outside to buy it for you." ”

Mama Zhang stretched out her hand to Qin Wan and looked at Qin Wan triumphantly, a beggar begging along the street, what kind of money can he have?

"If you can't take it out, the second lady shouldn't embarrass me anymore, if you feel cold, stay in the house and don't go anywhere, lest you go out and suffer the wind and cold, and you have to faint for a few hours." glanced up and down at Qin Wan: "The beggar's body, the life of the young lady." ”

The two little girls who watched the play lowered their heads and laughed.

Qin Wan said: "Since there is no charcoal fire, there should always be a pot of hot water in the room, right?" As he spoke, he looked back at the two smiling little girls.

One of the girls said: "At this hour, the hot water prepared in the kitchen has already been distributed to the rest of the courtyards, and the second lady wants hot water too late, why don't you wait for lunch and prepare it for you?" ”

"Presumptuous!"

Coldly, there was a sharp scolding sound behind him, and Bihe Yuan looked up and down at the source of the sound, and couldn't help but be startled.

"Mama Jiang." Mama Zhang, as an old man in the house, recognized the person at once, although she didn't know when she came, but obviously she saw the scene of the Bihe Courtyard in Fangcai.

Mama Jiang walked up to the little girl who had just spoken with a calm face, raised her hand and gave a slap, and said angrily: "What does the master ask you to do, and you dare not do it as a girl who serves people?" Is this how you serve your master? What about the rules of the Prime Minister's House? Have you all eaten it?! ”

The little girl's cheeks were red and swollen in an instant, and she quickly knelt down and begged for mercy: "The slave doesn't dare." ”