Mrs. Zhang herself didn't want to be related to the Zhou family's mother and daughter, but Xiao Man was bent on revenge on the Zhou family's mother and daughter, so after finding out Mrs. Zhang's intentions, Xiao Man was a lot more relaxed.

"Mrs. Zhang, don't worry, I'm just teaching them a little lesson, so that they won't have trouble with you in the future." Saying that, Xiao Man looked at each other and said sincerely: "Madam, you are very much like a friend of mine, I really want to help you." ”

Seeing this, Mrs. Zhang hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Okay, it's just the county lord, you must pay attention to proportion." I don't want to be associated with them, but I don't want to hurt them......"

Things have come to this point, but Mrs. Zhang still doesn't want to hurt the mother and daughter of the Zhou family, with such a mind and bearing, Xiaoman feels that she can't learn it, of course, she doesn't want to learn either.

I don't offend people if they don't offend me, but if the other party takes the initiative to offend and complacently uses himself as a tool, then Xiaoman can't forgive the other party!

"Madame, don't worry." Xiao Man raised the corners of his lips, smiled at Mrs. Zhang, changed the topic, and said, "The embroidery course taught in the house is about to start, I wonder if Mrs. Zhang is interested in coming to see it recently?" ”

"Really?" Speaking of these things, Mrs. Zhang's mood was obviously much better, she opened her eyes slightly in surprise, and couldn't hide her joy; "Do I need anything to prepare? Or do I need to do something in advance? When can I go? ”

Looking at the other party's excited and slightly flustered appearance, Xiao Man smiled, his eyebrows and eyes crooked: "It is tentatively scheduled for the third day after the Lantern Festival, as long as you are interested in coming, Madame, you only need to find someone to inform you in advance, so that I can come back from the suburbs." ”

Hearing this, Mrs. Zhang pursed her lower lip a little embarrassed, and said carefully: "Won't this be too troublesome for the county lord?" ...... on the outskirts."

"It's okay, I'll go home from time to time, so it's not troublesome."

"In that case, that's great!"

In the face of what she likes, Mrs. Zhang is not pushing, but responding very happily. She smiled, and her curved eyes could see a few fine wrinkles at the end of her eyes, but this did not affect Mrs. Zhang's appearance at all, but added a bit of the temperament of a thousand sails to the other party.

Seeing that the sky was getting darker, Xiaoman said goodbye to Mrs. Zhang and rode back to the county lord's mansion.

Everyone's embroidery has been brought back, Lu Li, Xiaoxue and three or four embroidery girls are standing in the open space of the backyard, starting to select embroidery, so that they can select people who can stay and continue to study in time.

The backyard is brightly lit, and the ground is full of embroidery, and the formation is very large.

Xiaoman and Jade just entered the backyard, what they saw was the scene of everyone standing together to choose embroidery, Xiaoxue and several other embroiderers surrounded Lu Li, stretched out their fingers and pointed to the embroidery on the ground, talking and laughing, the atmosphere was very harmonious.

It's just that Xiao Man is quite dissatisfied with the fact that Xiao Xue and Lu are very close to each other, and from time to time she has some physical contact with Lu Li because of the laughter of leaning forward and back, and what is even more excessive is that looking at it from Xiao Man's point of view, it seems that the two of them are hugging each other tightly, which makes her quite awkward.

"Madame, look at them like that!" Jade also looked angry, and said bluntly: "The girl who hasn't been out of the cabinet yet, she is so close to other men, she has no sense of proportion and decency!" ”

Jade, who became more and more angry the more she spoke, snorted, and made a gesture to step forward directly to pull Xiaoxue away.

But fortunately, Xiaoman reflected in time, hurriedly drank the jade, and then took three steps and two steps to catch up, she grabbed the other party's arm, frowned and persuaded in a low voice: "I'm very busy now, don't make trouble for me!" ”

"But—" Jade couldn't breathe.

Xiao Man shook his head and interrupted, with a serious face: "That's just what we look at from behind, besides, don't you still believe what kind of person Lu Li is?" Alright, don't worry about it, let's go first. “

According to her understanding of Lu Li, the other party would never do such a thing no matter what.

Even if Jade was unwilling, she had to sigh and compromise: "Okay then." ”

Xiao Man smiled, "Okay, there are still a lot of things waiting for us to do, don't be unhappy." ”

Just in the interval between the two talking, Lu Li keenly spotted Xiao Man, he turned around with a smile, trotted closer, and said with a smile: "Back?" How's it going, did the conversation with Mrs. Zhang go well? What kind of thoughts does she have? ”

"Everything is going well, I'll tell you later." Xiao Man also looked up and smiled, as if nothing had happened.

Lu Li didn't notice the slightest abnormality of Xiao Man, only took the other party's hand, smiled and brought people to those embroideries, and said with a smile: "Look at these embroideries, they are really strange and funny." ”

As he spoke, Xiao Man looked in the direction of the other party's fingers, and saw that these things on the ground were all strange, except for the fact that he could see that he had made something out of the embroidery cloth with embroidery thread, and the rest could not see anything.

Black, white, embroidery threads mixed together, nothing at all, and some who can't embroider their names, but have to make a unique mark......

There are all kinds of them.

Xiao Man couldn't help but laugh when he saw it, and asked casually: "Could it be that these people are embroidering like this today?" Among these embroideries, there is not even a decent outline, how can you continue to learn in the future? ”

It stands to reason that these people came from various mansions, even if they didn't know Donglan's embroidery before, they should be able to do some needlework, so that the time of a stick of incense will not pass, and they won't even embroider their own names well.

"Mrs. Hui, these are not selected yet, although they all look ugly, but as long as you choose carefully, you can still find good embroidery." Xiaoxue pinned her hair casually and said with a smile.

Xiao Man nodded, and was about to speak, when he suddenly heard the jade behind him muttering: "What are you pretending, as if you know everything, it's really annoying." ”

"Ahem." Xiao Man coughed lightly, then looked sideways at Jade, and said in a deep voice with some displeasure: "Jade, you go to the kitchen to see if dinner is ready, by the way, I am boiling some hot water, I want to take a bath at night." ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Jade was stunned, but even Lu Li, Xiaoxue and others present were stunned.

You must know that Jade has been with Xiaoman for so many years, and she is a personal maid, even in Shangjing, she has never done such rough work as boiling water, but now Xiaoman asked her to boil bath water in front of so many people...... In this way, Jade will be busy in the kitchen for at least an hour or so.

"Madam......" Jade was aggrieved again, and felt that she couldn't get over it, so she couldn't help but purse her mouth and call Xiaoman in a low voice.

didn't think that Xiao Man's tone was even harder: "Go quickly!" ”

Jade bit her lower lip, her eyes turned red in an instant, she glanced at the people who were looking at her, especially when she saw Xiaoxue who was smiling and looking at her, Jade felt that her face was hot, the tip of her nose was sour, and she was almost about to cry.

However, even so, in the face of Xiao Man with a serious face, Jade had to owe her body, forcibly suppressed all her emotions, and lowered her head and responded: "Yes, the slave will go and boil water." ”

Seeing Jade running away with her head down, Xiao Man was also a little sad in her heart, but if she didn't teach Jade a lesson at this time, she might have to make even bigger mistakes in the future. You know, the disaster comes from the mouth, if you let Jade continue to be so unscrupulous, I'm afraid something will really happen.

But fortunately, Jade was standing behind her, and her voice was so small that no one else should hear it, Xiao Man thought to himself.

"Madam, the Jade Maiden has never done such menial work, otherwise I will help her, shall I?" Xiao Xuehu's proposal.

Xiao Man raised his eyes when he heard this, and coldly refused: "No, you pick your embroidery, finish it as soon as possible, and wait for me to check it." ”

After speaking, Xiao Man turned around and walked in the direction of the inner courtyard bedroom alone, his steps were fast and fast, his face was tense, and his head was very messy, and he didn't know if it was because he punished Jade, or because of what Xiao Xue said just now, or because of the suspicious scene he saw when he first entered the mansion.

All kinds of scenes and sounds lingered in Xiao Man's mind, she frowned, and almost ran in the direction of the bedroom.

"Xiaoman!"

Suddenly, a call stopped Xiao Man, who was constantly speeding up, and she hesitated for a moment before putting away all the emotions on her face, and turned around with a smile, "What, is there something wrong?" ”

"What's wrong with you?" Lu Li caught up, took a few breaths, and looked at the other party with a frown, "What did Jade do wrong just now, you punished her in front of so many people, isn't it a little too faceless to give her?" ”

Although the other party is a minion, but the slave is also a human being, not to mention that he has been with Xiaoman for so many years of jade, this girl has been a little straightforward in the past, sometimes she has no mouth, Xiaoman is not to blame, and today ......

Xiao Man turned his face away, lowered his eyes, and his voice was low, "Jade is disrespectful, and he should be punished, otherwise if he makes a big mistake in the future, it will be too late to regret it." ”

"Wasn't it okay when you came back?" Lu Li became more and more puzzled.

"Lu Li, this matter has nothing to do with you, don't ask." Xiao Man raised his head and met the other party's eyes, and said seriously: "I'm a little tired, I want to go back and rest for a while, you go and help Xiaoxue and them choose embroidery first, I'll come later." ”

After speaking, Xiao Man turned around and left again.

Looking at the other party's slightly thin back, Lu Li stood in place and watched for a long time, always frowning, full of doubts.

"Grandpa Guo?"

A slightly familiar voice sounded, Lu Li withdrew from his thoughts, turned to look at the comer, and saw Xiaoxue standing not far from him, looking at him with a smile, revealing two cute tiger teeth, seeing that he turned around, Xiaoxue hurriedly said: "Grandpa Guo, is Madam okay?" ”

Lu Li coughed lightly, "It's okay." “

"Madame is fine, I thought Madame was angry with Sister Jade." Xiaoxue breathed a sigh of relief and raised her lips again and smiled.