Jiao Ruzhi stared at Jiao Yuzhen, although she felt that her body seemed to tremble under Jiao Yuzhen's fierce gaze, but she blamed all this on her own cold weather, so she didn't care about Jiao Yuzhen's words, but instructed her maids: "The subordinates can't open the stove privately at night, if you do this, you will break the rules, then I will punish you with a small punishment, and punish you for not eating for seven days, and drag her down." ”

"Wait." Seeing that the maids were going to drag Jin Er down, Jiao Yuzhen stepped forward and called out to the maids, "Eldest sister, if you don't eat for seven days, you will not be frozen to death in the firewood room, but you will also starve to death, don't you want Jin Er's life, eldest sister?" ”

"It's just a slave, and it's not as good as a dog......"

"Dogs?" Jiao Yuzhen hooked the corners of her lips and looked at Jiao Ruzhi with a sneer, "Although I don't dare to say the position of the concubine, but the eldest sister is also the eldest daughter of Taifu, and she should also be literate and reasonable, then she must have heard the saying that 'the dog is thin and the master is ashamed', if the eldest sister really wants to starve Jin'er to death, I am afraid that if this matter spreads, the people will laugh at our Jiao Taifu's mansion for being mean, and even the maid will starve to death." Once such a rumor spreads, my father is afraid that he will blame the eldest sister. ”

"Jin'er is your maid, if you are hungry and thin, you are the master who is ashamed." Jiao Ruzhi didn't seem to accept Jiao Yuzhen's set, she replied so confidently.

Jiao Ruzhi's answer was expected by Jiao Yuzhen, she smiled and nodded: "What the eldest sister said is very right, since the eldest sister knows that Jin'er is her sister's maid, then I still don't bother the eldest sister to discipline her, and ask the eldest sister to return her to me." ”

"I didn't expect you, a little slut, to be beaten more and more clever by me, digging a trap and waiting for me to jump." Jiao Ruzhi can be regarded as reacting, she feels that for the first time she has faced this sister who is often pressed and beaten by herself, I don't know why, in this cold winter night, she actually felt that the thin girl in front of her could give her an invisible pressure.

"Eldest sister, usually how we make trouble is just a quarrel between sisters, and outsiders know that they just say that my sister is disrespectful to my sister, and my sister doesn't like my sister. But if his sister's maid starved to death, then it was the introduction of my father's ridicule. Jiao Yuzhen took another step forward, stood in front of Jiao Ruzhi, and looked closely at Jiao Ruzhi's eyes through the dim light of the lantern in the hand of the maid on the side.

"Miss...... It's snowing again......" A maid in blue and white clothes spoke softly on the side, she was Jiao Ruzhi's close-knit maid Lan'er, who had always been very smart and clever.

Jiao Ruzhi raised his head to look at the falling snow, and then glanced at the wound on Jiao Yuzhen's forehead that was bandaged with a handkerchief at random, and then turned around: "It's better to go back to sleep on such a cold day." ”

"Sister, I wish the eldest sister a good dream." Gently blessed himself, Jiao Yuzhen turned around and helped Jin Er up, "Let you be wronged." ”

"No...... Kim Er is fine. Jin Er covered her increasingly red and swollen forehead, and looked at the spilled food on the ground with tears in her eyes, "It's Jin Er who is not careful, if I am careful, I will not be discovered by the eldest lady." ”

"She knows that I didn't come back with my aunt's carriage today, so I will definitely miss dinner time when I come back, maybe someone has already arranged for someone to guard the kitchen, no matter how careful you are, you will still be seen by them." Jiao Yuzhen leaned down and picked up the half-bowled rice, although there was no vegetables and meat on top, but fortunately, most of the bowl of rice was not dirty, and it was still edible, otherwise she would be hungry today.

"Miss, this meal ......"

"It's okay, it's just a hurried meal." Jiao Yuzhen picked up most of the bowl of rice, wiped off some of the mud and sand on the edges, and then looked at the sky where it was snowing again, "I like winter, the ground is full of ice, and it's very clean, otherwise my bowl of rice won't be rice, but muddy rice." ”

"It's useless to be golden, next time...... Jin Er may be able to keep some buns. ”

"No, that's fine." Jiao Yuzhen also picked up the chopsticks on the ground, and wanted to wipe them with his sleeve, but remembered that he was still dirty, "Jin'er, boil some water for me, I want to bathe and change clothes, as for the clothes...... Prepare me a green jade plain white. If the eldest sister still dares me to do rough work, I will ask her not to do to others what she does not want to be done. ”