Chapter 61: Deliberately making things difficult
Mai Xiaohuan is not really afraid of death, but in the face of a noble son like Zhou Yue who is high up and does not take others in his eyes, she knows that the struggle is futile. Anyway, she can't do it, what she doesn't want to do, Mai Xiaohuan would rather die happily than be enslaved by others for a lifetime, she has already died once, what else is she afraid of!
"You can stay at Qi Ningshan's side in the morning, and come to Yifeng Garden in the afternoon to clean my study and living room. When I leave you, I will be free. ”
The sisters looked at Zhou Yue in surprise, the style of painting changed so quickly that even Mai Xiaohuan was not calm, her eyes were full of doubts.
"Why, I'm not satisfied." Zhou Yue looked at Mai Xiaohuan with a smile, as if as long as she dared to say the word "no", the scene just now might be staged again.
Mai Xiaofang was afraid that her sister would be stubborn again, so she happily agreed before her. Mai Xiaohuan knew that Zhou Yue could make such a promise, and she should be content, she endured the pain and nodded.
Seeing that they were very interesting, Zhou Yue laughed twice and pointed at Mai Xiaohuan and asked, "What's your name?" ”
"My sister's name is Mai Xiaohuan." Mai Xiaofang helped her sister up, wanting to wait for Zhou Yue to ask and help her go back to rest.
"This name is not good, I will call you Mai Xiaobai in the future! What do you think! ”
Say it yourself! How could Childe let her go so easily! Xiao Quanzi and Xiao Fuzi secretly wiped the sweat from their foreheads, moved to Zhou Yue, cheered for their son-in-law, and waited to see Mai Xiaohuan's liveliness.
"Whatever." Mai Xiaohuan said in a slightly hoarse voice, he can't control what he wants, and he doesn't dare to care, calling Xiaobad is better than those insulting nicknames.
It's boring, why don't you quarrel with yourself, Zhou Yue waved his hand boringly, Xiaoquanzi wanted to tell Mai Xiaohuan to leave while the son was happy! In case the son is unhappy for a while, no one dares to guarantee whether he will regret it.
As soon as he walked out a few steps, Mai Xiaohuan paused, turned back to Zhou Yue and asked, "We have to go home in a few days...... I hope that Yue Gongzi can promise to give a few days off. ”
Daring to make conditions with himself, Zhou Yue kicked on the embroidery pier in front of him, and the embroidery pier slowly rolled in the hall. Zhou Yue hated and thought that he really didn't give her the wrong name, this stinky girl was too bad, she took a step back, she actually dared to chase two steps forward.
Mai Xiaohuan explained in a hoarse voice: "When we came, the county lord promised to give two days of vacation every month...... In six days after three months, we can go home to see our parents once. Now it's three months away...... If we don't go back, my mother will definitely go to the entrance of the village every day. ”
She turned out to be a small village girl, not to mention that Xiaoquanzi and Xiaofuzi didn't believe it, Zhou Yue didn't expect Mai Xiaohuan's true identity to be like this. He glared at Xiao Fuzi, your news collection is good! They didn't even know their true identities before they dared to report it.
I thought that the reason why she was so bold was that in addition to relying on Qu Zhiyi's father-in-law, her family background must not be wrong, otherwise how could she have the confidence to go against herself! Unexpectedly, she has no backers, and her family is the lowest people. She is like this, and she dares to confront herself, where does this confidence come from!
Don't let her go back! Appear to be too impersonal; Accurate! is always led by a little girl, it is not his own style at all, Zhou Yue frowned and thought about countermeasures.
Mai Xiaofang continued with a bitter face: "The last time we went home, the eldest lady was bullying my mother, Yue Gongzi, please do well, let us go back!" We're really worried about our family! ”
I really couldn't think of a reason to refuse, and Zhou Yue, who was very unhappy, put forward a condition, asking the two of them to come back, even if they stayed up late, they had to do the work they had left over the past few days from the beginning. If you know that they are lazy, the penalty is doubled.
In the future, the sisters don't dare to think about it anymore, can they get a bargain by working under Zhou Yue's nose? He is so stingy, where does he look like a man, and he also gives himself a nickname, and he also gives him a - just call him Zhou Xiaoqi. Although Mai Xiaohuan didn't dare to shout blatantly, the next time he was bullied by him again, it would be good to recite it silently in his heart three hundred times to get angry!
The wound on Mai Xiaohuan's neck took seven or eight days to gradually fade, and with the homework he had pulled down before, Mai Xiaohuan didn't dare to think about how he should face the county lord and Master Ren.
Zhou Yue only gave Mai Xiaohuan three days off, and urged her to work on the fourth day. I wanted to clean the study, but Yifeng Yuan didn't even prepare a rag and a broom to sweep the floor, and the maid who led the way set a time for the two of them to finish and turned around and left, without mentioning the matter of tools.
"Nothing, let us both plaster and sweep the floor with our hands!" Mai Xiaofang crossed her waist and muttered, the maids of Yifeng Garden are too capable of bullying people.
This may not be the idea of the maid of Yifeng Garden! Damn Zhou Xiaoqi, looking sanctimonious, a sunny big boy, is actually a black wolf, no stomach, and a bad guy with a bad temper. Except for a good face, Mai Xiaohuan didn't find that he had other advantages.
After checking around the study, Mai Xiaohuan asked the second sister to bring a basin of water, and after the envoy left, she started to tear apart the thin quilt spread in the middle on the couch on the side of the wall, tear off the white side, and re-pave the remaining part.
If you want to be difficult for yourself, let him pay a price, when Mai Xiaofang came back, the rag was already on the table, and her sister was squatting on the ground and tying the torn cloth to a wooden stick. After she finished her work, she straightened up and shouted "start work".
After the sisters cleaned the study, they moved to the living room, and Zhou Yue, who wanted to see their jokes, and the people around him didn't understand where Mai Xiaohuan's hand got the things from.
"Where did you get the things you got from?" Zhou Yue sat alone at the table playing with his left and right hands, and Xiao Quanzi asked questions instead of the master.
Mai Xiaohuan's face was not red and her heart was not beating: "We brought it by ourselves, Yue Gongzi rest assured, this cloth is very clean." "Can it not be clean? When I took it off the quilt, it was snow-white.
"You're doing a good job today, and you know you've brought tools with you." Zhou Yue had already asked Xiaofuzi to go back to the study to check, the brocade cushion on the chair had not been moved, and there was a lot of everything on the couch. He lifted the bottom layer and checked it, and there was really nothing missing.
After tossing for a long time, after returning to the small courtyard where he lived, Mai Xiaohuan threw the rags and mops he brought back into the fire after he lit the fire.
As long as there is no evidence of the crime, as long as Xiaofuzi does not find any clues today, he can deny the past, Mai Xiaohuan told the second sister that if you go to Yifeng Garden tomorrow, remember to bring your own tools.
The next day, Mai Xiaohuan went to the county lord's study with the book, the county lord of Evian didn't expect her to come over, her lips squirmed for a long time, she didn't say a word, she looked around for Mama Wang, that was her own backbone.
Mama Wang is also quite entangled, Mai Xiaohuan offended Yue Gongzi, it stands to reason that she should have been kicked out of the Lotus Courtyard a long time ago, they didn't expect Zhou Yue to let Mai Xiaohuan go, let her come back to continue to accompany the county lord to study, and was assigned to clean the study heavily.
What does Yue Gongzi mean by this? Is it for the two of them, or for Mai Xiaofang...... That girl has a vitality and frankness that everyone else doesn't have. She is long, pretty, and clean, and if the young Yue Gongzi looks at her and wants to give her a grace......
If that's the case, I really can't be too harsh on their sisters, Mama Wang sighed, raised her chin, and motioned for Mai Xiaohuan to sit back.
The lord of Evian didn't say anything, but his alienation from Mai Xiaohuan became more and more obvious in his demeanor, and the vigilance in his eyes was also obvious. In the face of all this, it would be false to say that Mai Xiaohuan was not sad, if there was no Zhou Yue involved, she would really like to leave here and go home now.
Just when everything that happens now is a tempering for himself, I hope that the sooner Zhou returns to Beijing, the day he leaves the Lotus Courtyard, it will also be the time for him to go home, I believe that at that time, even if he wants to stay with the county lord, he will not agree.
I just don't know if this matter will cause trouble for my father-in-law and Brother Qu, but I hope that the county lord will not be dissatisfied with the county guard and his father-in-law because he offended Zhou Yue.
Speaking of which, these changes and accidents are all due to Zhou Yue, a hateful stingy ghost. This stingy bastard doesn't make sense at all, the saying that being rich is willful is tailor-made for this kind of person. I hope that one day he can also be treated by himself today, no, let him be ten times worse than himself, a hundred times worse.
Knowing that the probability of this kind of thing happening is very small, Mai Xiaohuan still can't help but pray like this, if someone asks her who she hates the most, Zhou Yue can now be ranked in front of the eldest mother Wu and grandma.
There is no other reason, because Zhou Yue keeps making trouble for himself and causing problems. After class, after returning to the courtyard for dinner, when the sisters brought all the cleaning tools to the study to prepare for cleaning, they were told by Xiaoquanzi that their task today was to clean all the cabinets in the study and the top of the Duobao Pavilion. However, it is forbidden to step on the chairs and tables in the study, and it is not allowed to bring outside stools or wooden piers into the study. Because Yue Gongzi doesn't want others to move his things casually, he hates the things outside that are not clean.
If anyone still told Mai Xiaohuan at this time that Zhou Yue did not deliberately make things difficult for himself or target himself, Mai Xiaohuan promised not to kill him.
Such a harsh requirement may be a task that cannot be completed for those maids of large families or maids of the palace. But for the Mai sisters, who grew up in the mountains and made climbing trees and mountains commonplace, it was not difficult at all.
The two sisters discussed it at the head, and Mai Xiaohuan moistened the rag in the copper basin and screwed it until it didn't drip water, and Mai Xiaofang squatted down. In Xiaoquanzi's shocked expression that her eyes almost popped out, and she could stuff a peach into her mouth, Mai Xiaohuan lifted the hem of her skirt and straddled the second sister's shoulder.
The height of this combination is just enough to reach the top of the cabinet, and the two of them are quick with their hands and feet, and they quickly completed the task assigned by Zhou Yue. Mai Xiaohuan was not polite, and after finishing the work, he took the second sister back to his yard.
She said to herself, hold on a little longer, stay up for another day, and then she can take a leave of absence and go home.