"Girl, as you expected, as soon as we left, the eldest lady went back to Taohuazhai under the pretext of being pregnant, leaving only a maid to wait for the old lady in the Millennium House."

Hexiang walked in and reported.

Su Huaining smiled, "Well, very good, since the eldest aunt is doing this, then you go to the second room and tell the second aunt, she doesn't have to come over the day after tomorrow, just send an experienced old woman over." ”

Zhao can use the excuse of pregnancy not to serve the sick, then Zhou can also use this excuse to avoid serving the old lady.

The fetus in Zhou's womb, Zhou and the second master attach great importance to it, let Zhou serve the old lady, even if the old lady can't move or speak, I'm afraid it will inevitably make things difficult for Zhou.

Therefore, the best way is to let the Zhou family not show up, send an old woman to replace her, and not let people outside have an excuse to say that she is unfilial.

Even the big man didn't dare to say anything.

The Zhao family has done this, the eldest lord can still blame the Zhou family, the state officials can set fires, and the people are not allowed to light the lamps?

Hexiang immediately went to the second room to deliver the letter, and the Zhou family was raising a baby on the outskirts of the city, but if there was something at home, the housekeeper in the second room would send someone to inform her.

After Zhou learned that the old lady was sick, he was also worried that the old lady would let her go back to serve the sick, and spent a whole day in the house anxiously, until the sun was about to set, and he received news from Su Huaining.

Zhou exhaled instantly, in a good mood, and said to his daughter who was sitting next to him embroidering the dowry, "Yan'er, don't go the day after tomorrow, stay at home to accompany your mother, let's just send a few more maids over." ”

The next day, early in the morning, Su Huaining asked Mrs. Li to go to the Millennium House to inquire about the news.

Mrs. Li went, and didn't come back until almost noon, and reported to Su Huaining, "The old slave saw the third lady take the nine girls into the millennium house, but in less than half an hour, the nine girls came out, and then, they never appeared. ”

It's noon, it's almost lunch, and it doesn't show up at this time, so it won't appear again.

Su Huaining nodded, rewarded Mrs. Li with a red seal, and said, "Fortunately, you go down first, if there is something, I will summon you." ”

"Unfortunately and bitterly, this is what an old slave should do." Mrs. Li smiled, took Feng Hong into her arms, and then, owing her body, she retreated.

After Mrs. Li left the house, she thought about it, took out ten copper plates from Feng Hong, put them in her sleeve, and then went to the Millennium House.

When I arrived at the gate of the Millennium Residence, I happened to meet a maid who was sweeping the yard and was about to go to the big kitchen to get food, so Mrs. Li pulled her aside, stuffed ten cents into the maid's hand, and said, "If there is something in the Millennium Residence, you secretly tell the old woman, and the old woman will not lose you." ”

The maid also knew Mrs. Li, and in the past, when she went to the Jade Pavilion to secretly deliver news to Wutong, she had met Mrs. Li a few times.

She looked nervously left and right, and when she saw that there was no one, she quickly put away the copper plate and said, "Mrs. Li, I know, you go back quickly, the province will be seen." ”

With that, the maid hurried away.

Mrs. Li was like a nobody, and swayed back to the Jade Pavilion.

In the evening, the maid came with the news, saying that after Guo sorted out the account book, he saw that there was no silver in the account, so he forced Gan Pozi to take out the old lady's treasury key.

Guo took a grandmother and a rough mother-in-law into the old lady's treasury and rummaged through them.