Chapter 203: The So-called Loyal Maid (3)

Huo Yi raised his eyes and looked at the three people in front of him. He nodded slightly. Chunying felt a burst of joy in her heart, but for the sake of insurance, she still asked: "Miss Cousin, don't just nod?" What did the old lady say? ”

Ju'er interjected: "The old lady listened to Miss's words, and promised to call someone to inquire about Young Master Gu's place early in the morning, and told Miss not to worry." It's late tonight, maybe tomorrow the old lady will summon her aunt to come over for questioning! ”

Aunt Qing hurriedly said to Huo Yi: "Don't worry, I know what to say." Huo Yi still nodded slightly, Chun Ying saw that she seemed to be a little out of strength, so she helped Ju'er to help her to sit on the chair, Aunt Qing personally poured a cup of hot tea, although Shi'er was a little reluctant, but still remembered the duties of Yahuan, and sent a wet towel to wipe her face and wake up.

Huo Yi took a sip of tea, as if he had regained his strength: "I've never been so scared, I'm just worried that it will show clues, but my grandmother seems to believe it, and just blames me...... Some gaffes...... Fortunately, she was not suspicious. After that, he looked at Chunying with blank eyes: "What happens next?" ”

Now it's up to you? Chunying felt funny in her heart, and said lightly: "For the time being, let Aunt Qing mention the agreement in front of the old lady, so that the old lady knows in her heart, and it is enough." Didn't Miss Cousin say that Gu Gongzi was going to go to Huo Er's house with his father in the near future to propose marriage? Just wait a minute. Anyway, you and the third young master don't have a formal marriage contract. The people outside the house have only heard the rumors, and they don't have a good letter, as long as the second master responds, the old lady can't object, right? "With this play in front of the old lady tonight, even if Mrs. An mentions Miss Biao's private correspondence with the outside of the house, the old lady will not believe her. Chunying didn't care too much about whether Huo Yi could marry Langjun as she wished, and just hoped that herself, Shi'er and the others could be safe and sound.

Huo Yi nodded stunnedly, but he couldn't let go of his worries: "Grandmother...... And my uncle, who has been thinking that I will marry my third cousin, if I hide from them and make another family matter...... I'm afraid that both of them will be angry...... In the future, the Huo family and her younger brother ......" She bit her lip and didn't say any more.

Chunying secretly slandered herself, she wanted to borrow other people's power, but she didn't want to marry someone else's son, where in the world was there such a cheap thing?

Shi'er also snorted coldly on the side: "Miss Biao has a good calculation!" I want to marry my sweetheart again, and I want our Hou Mansion to support your Huo family, it's too greedy, right?! ”

Huo Yi blushed, lowered her head in shame, and Ju'er gritted her teeth and said, "You girl, how many ugly things did you say tonight!" Are there any rules?! ”

Shi'er pouted: "I don't have rules?" Do you have it? Joke! Let's not talk about Miss, just mention your Dong'er, tonight it has come to this point, even if the other people in the courtyard don't know what's going on, they should hear the movement, but Dong'er hasn't come, who knows where she went and who she was fooling around with! ”

Ju'er was so angry that her face turned blue: "You dare to say this kind of thing in front of Miss?!" Dong'er is sick and resting in the room, you don't want to pour dirty water on her! ”

As soon as Chunying, Shi'er and Aunt Qing heard this. With a strange face, Shi'er rushed out quickly, went to Dong'er's room for a turn, and then came back and said proudly: "You are lying!" Where's anyone in her house?! ”

Aunt Qing said solemnly to Huo Yi when she heard this: "Miss, eighty percent of it is Dong'er's secret!" Then he turned to Ju'er and shouted, "Don't you invite it honestly!" Where did Dong'er go?! Shi'er once heard her complain to you that Miss married Nanqi to Steward Zhou, but arranged for her to marry, and said that she was unwilling to leave the capital, didn't she?! ”

Ju'er was taken aback, and hurriedly knelt down and said, "Auntie, Dong'er won't do such a thing!" ”

"Just say if she said that!"

Ju'er's eyes were red, and she choked up and nodded: "Yes, yes, but that's just a joke, she is just playing tricks for a while, so she will say stupid things in a daze, but she will never do it to tell her uncle's wife, the reputation of a bad lady!" Not to mention anything else, her family is in our house, if she really does this, isn't she afraid that her old son will beat her to death?! ”

Aunt Qing stomped her feet and said, "She has this idea. It's time to beat it to death! When did Mademoiselle treat her badly? Because she couldn't marry a steward, she dared to think about it?! ”

Ju'er cried: "Where does Dong'er dare to have such delusions? It's just that I heard her talk about it on weekdays, she has been used to living a good life in the south since she was a child, and when she entered Beijing, she has the same brocade clothes and food, and besides, her parents occupy a good errand in the old house, and she is the only girl, and she is spoiled, and she only hopes that she will be able to make a career in the future. She originally thought that the young lady married into this Hou Mansion, the family was right, and she was a relative, and the third cousin young master had a good temperament, and the young lady had always been considerate, and the young lady would definitely be able to live well, and she herself had a settlement. But the young lady was thinking about the young master of the Gu family...... The situation of the Gu family, those of us who have followed the young lady since childhood, are all well known, although the Gu family's family background is not bad, but they pay attention to diligence and thrift, the Gu family's wife has to cook for her husband and children to eat, there are few servants in the family, the young lady has been pampered since childhood, and when she enters the door of his house, she doesn't know how to suffer! ”

Shi'er said coldly beside him: "I'm afraid it's more than that, right?" If Miss Biao becomes the third young grandmother of our family, Miss Dong'er may be able to make the third young master a little in the future, otherwise she can marry the housekeeper in the house, and the scenery is beautiful...... I don't know if the Gu family's son looks down on her? ”

Aunt Qing interjected expressionlessly: "The Gu family has rules. When the child is over forty years old and has no children, he is allowed to take a concubine. ”

Shi'er squeezed her eyes at Chunying, Chunying couldn't help laughing and quietly twisted her.

Ju'er bit her lip, lowered her head and choked, "Dong'er...... The original intention was also for the sake of Miss, I originally thought her words were reasonable, but marriage events, such as people drinking water, cold and warm self-knowing, we are girls, we can't go against Miss's will, so I persuaded her several times, and she didn't mention it again. Speaking of this, she glanced at Shi'er with a little resentment, cried and crawled to Huo Yi's feet, kowtowed, and said, "Miss, please be clear!" Ju'er has been waiting for you since she was a child, don't you know what kind of person she is? It's okay to complain a few times, think carefully...... It's inevitable, but she's never done it against you! It is impossible to betray the master! Don't listen to a few gossips and condemn Dong'er! There are also many people in this courtyard, only a few of them are from our own family, and some people may have heard the rumors. I don't know if I say it. ”

Shi'er couldn't hold it back, and sneered: "You mean I'm talking nonsense? Good! Let's not be verbose, just ask you, where did Dong'er go in the middle of the night now? You just said she was sick and staying in the house, but she was clearly not there! And what does this mean?! ”

Ju'er was stunned, and she couldn't answer, and she couldn't help but secretly complain about Dong'er in her heart, and she went out without telling anyone!

Huo Yi's expression was still in shock, she had never thought about it. The girl closest to her will betray herself, if this is true, then who else can she trust?! Her hands trembled slightly.

Aunt Qing's heart ached, so she asked Ju'er: "How much do you know about Dong'er's whereabouts?!" Don't speak up yet! ”

Ju'er cried and said: "The slave really doesn't know, early this morning, Dong'er said that her body is not good, I heard that Zhang Fulin's family on the second door knows some pharmacology, and the people in this house will ask her for medicine if they have a common headache and brain fever, so they told me that they would also ask for a pill, so I let her go." I have something to do all day today, and I don't care about looking for her, and after dinner, I saw that there was no light in her house, but when she had already taken medicine and went back to the house to sleep, I never thought that she would not come back until now......"

It sounds reasonable, but Chunying knows in her heart that Dong'er's suspicion is almost ninety-nine, and Zhang Fulin's family on the second door does know some pharmacology, and occasionally dispenses medicine for the girls in the house to treat spring ringworm and summer prickly heat or something, but ......

Without waiting for Chunying to speak, Shi'er had already preemptively said: "Yo, what a coincidence!" Aunt Zhang's goddaughter, isn't it Sister Lilac in front of his wife?! ”

Ju'er's face turned pale, and her eyes were full of disbelief: "This ...... How is this possible...... How could she ......"

Aunt Qing said angrily: "I didn't expect our family to raise a white-eyed wolf!" What are you waiting for? Quickly get the person back and ask for clarification! ”

Chun Ying hurriedly said: "Auntie, this matter can't be publicized!" Isn't it suspicious to make a fuss for no reason? The young lady is about to hide it! After thinking about it, he said, "There is never a girl who doesn't go home at night, and she either stays with her wife or hides." After all, she is a member of the Huo family, and she can't escape. Miss Cousin and Aunt Cousin want to look for her, and they should be cautious, so as not to let her say things that should not be said. ”

Huo Yi and Aunt Qing both turned pale and gradually calmed down. There was silence for a while. Aunt Qing forcefully took off a white jade bracelet on her wrist, the bracelet fell to the ground, made a bang, and was broken into three pieces by her foot in a blink of an eye. She raised her eyes and said lightly: "Dong'er, that girl, actually broke my most beloved bracelet, take her back and be punished!" ”

Huo Yi gritted his teeth and didn't say anything. Ju'er cried bitterly and kowtowed to her: "The slave and maid thank Miss for Dong'er's grace, and Aunt Xie is graceful." ”

Chunying blinked, a little confused, she originally thought that Aunt Qing was planning to give Dong'er a casual charge, just like the wife punished Qing'er before, beat her up and then kicked her out of the house, but looking at Ju'er's attitude, it was not like it. But if you think about it carefully, just breaking my aunt's bracelet is not a big crime, if you deal with it lightly, you only need to kneel for two hours or take a few feet, and deal with it severely, that is, drive her out. In terms of Dong'er's crime of betraying the Lord's informant, this kind of punishment can't be lighter, although there are factors that Miss Biao and Aunt Qing are both soft-hearted women, on the other hand, they are probably worried that if they are pressed too hard, Dong'er will reveal the master's secret, right?

Shi'er seemed a little dissatisfied, and stepped forward to speak, but Chun Ying hurriedly pulled her and made a gesture, suggesting that the two should quit, although Shi'er was unwilling, she could only give up.

Chunying then smiled and said to Huo Yi and Aunt Qing: "Miss Cousin and Aunt Qing want to deal with their own girls, and Shi'er and I will retreat first, but it is hard to dew at night, please rest early." ”

Aunt Qing nodded, she hurriedly dragged Shi'er out, and when she walked away, she could still hear Ju'er's choking.

Back in the room, Shi'er sat down on his own bed and stared at Chunying with his eyes. Chunying calmly closed the door, washed her face, coughed her mouth, cleaned her hands, took off her shoes, and climbed onto the bed before she glanced back.

As soon as the two looked at each other, Shi'er finally couldn't help laughing, and Chunying also laughed. Shi'er pounded the bed and said, "It's so refreshing!" Tonight was worth it! ”

Chunying smiled: "Okay, I know you are holding your breath in your heart, but don't go too far, they are the masters after all." ”

Shi'er pursed his lips, hugged the pillow and recalled, the more he thought about it, the happier he became, and he laughed for a long time before he calmed down, but he was a little worried: "They have passed the test, right?" Will it retaliate against us later? ”

Chunying thought for a while, shook her head and said, "Whatever!" Haven't we all figured it out? Just be careful these days, don't let them grab the handle, and ask the little girls to do the work in the room! If you don't see any good signs, let's pretend to be sick and go home! ”

Shi'er nodded heavily, and sighed again: "Aunt Qing usually looks like a good person who recites Buddha, but in fact, she is ruthless enough, and that bracelet is a good Hetian jade!" Say step on it! And Miss Cousin, how many years has Dong'er been waiting for her? Say give up, give up! Let's be careful. ”

Chunying didn't say a word, changed out of the bijia and skirt and fell asleep.

In fact, from the standpoint of Miss Huo Yi, it is indeed not easy for her. Her parents died early, her uncle was a hard-nosed Qinggao, and her younger brother was too young, although her grandmother and uncle treated her well, she always wanted to pair her with the third young master. Mrs. An has been plotting against the Huo family's property, and the Huo family still has a lot of property in the hands of the Hou Mansion, and when she usually sees Huo Yi, she is also cold and indifferent. If Huo Yi really marries into the Hou Mansion, with such a mother-in-law, I don't know how she will die! She just wants to work hard for herself to get out of an unhappy marriage and pursue happiness, which is understandable. As far as she is a daughter, it is normal to ignore the thoughts of the girls around her. What lady isn't like that? Even if it's Sister Lin, it's just good with Zijuan, and she doesn't get close to Snow Goose.

However, understanding is understanding, Chunying still can't like her. It's okay for Miss Cousin to pursue happiness, but could she be more secretive? Think it through? Can you care more about the people around you? Even if it's for your own safety, you can't ignore the thoughts of the close-quarters, right? How can there be so many faithful maids in the world? If you want to achieve your goals, you must have the corresponding wisdom and means!

Chunying yawned, rolled over, and fell asleep.