Chapter 218: Harmonious Time (II)

The day Huo Yi left the Hou Mansion. Early in the morning, Chunying received a notice and came to the upper room. The maids-in-law and daughters-in-law waiting in the courtyard were arranged on both sides according to their ranks, and even the rough maids and mothers-in-law who had never been qualified to enter the house were present, bowing their heads and listening to orders, and couldn't help but quietly look at the furnishings in the house. It's a pity that Huo Yi's luggage has been packed, and only the items that originally belonged to the Hou Mansion are left in the room, which looks a little deserted, which makes them feel a little disappointed.

Huo Yi, accompanied by Aunt Qing and Ju'er, sat on the circle chair in the center of the room, bowed her head and gently wiped her tears. Seeing that everyone had arrived, she said softly: "I'm leaving today, and I've worked hard for you in the past few years." ”

Chunying and Shi'er glanced at each other, and bowed down: "Miss Biao is serious, and the slaves and maids dare not be." Others chimed in.

Huo Yi got up and walked to Nuan Yu first: "Although the girl has only been here for a few months, she has taken good care of me everywhere. I would like to thank you, girl. After saying that, Nuan Yu returned a big gift, saying "don't dare".

Chunying is wondering, is Miss Table commending employees one by one? saw Huo Yi turn to her. Busy straightened his face.

Huo Yi wanted to speak and stopped, but finally sighed slightly, and said: "In the past, I was young and ignorant, and I had many offends, but now I know that I am wrong, please don't be surprised." The girl has helped me a lot in the past three years, and I will never forget this kindness. He also bowed.

Chunying was a little surprised, it was the first time she had encountered such a scene, so she learned from Nuan Yu and humbly replied: "Miss Biao is serious, and the slave doesn't dare to be a slave." ”

Huo Yi smiled faintly and lowered his head: "I know that you are a person with ideas, and some things are underestimated by saying them, so I won't say anything more, I just hope that your wishes will come true in the future." ”

Chunying was happy in her heart, and she was a little more willing when she returned the gift.

Then Huo Yi turned to Shi'er again: "You girl is a hearted girl, I offended you in the past, you haven't been angry with me anymore in the past few months, it's considered peace, how about it?" ”

Shi'er opened his mouth and smiled a little embarrassedly: "How can Miss Biao say that......" Seeing Nuan Yu coming over, she hurriedly put away her smile and bowed respectfully: "Slaves don't dare to be." After a pause, he added: "The slave has never been angry with Miss Cousin. ”

Huo Yi smiled and turned to Sang Er again. However, he did not salute again, but only expressed his gratitude. And so on, when the old lady sent someone to invite her, she had already thanked all the attendants in the courtyard, and everyone was a little flattered when they saw that she clearly called out everyone's names, and remembered their positions and backgrounds, and they had a high opinion of this young lady.

On behalf of Huo Yi, Aunt Qing sent a gift to everyone as a souvenir. Chunying got a pair of delicate gold flowers inlaid with rubies, and then Shi'er got a pair of shrimp bracelets inlaid with pearls, knowing that these should be the dowries given by the daughters to the old servants to "press the bottom of the box", and thanked everyone, so I thought in my heart, whether to stay for collection, or sell it for a start-up fund? After hesitating for a while, I decided to put it away for the time being, and talk about it when I needed the money urgently.

The old lady sent someone to urge again, Huo Yi looked around with a little reluctance, and then took Ju'er out of the courtyard and went to her grandmother to say goodbye to the relatives of the Marquis of Qingguo. Aunt Qing and the others who stayed in the courtyard said goodbye to the others. There is a particularly good girl-in-law. Knowing that I won't have the opportunity to see each other often in the future, I held my hands and cried. Among the people present, especially Xinghong cried the most, but she was crying not because she was going to be separated from her friends, but because she was crying that she had lost a good errand, because Huo Yi refused to recommend her to be the third young master's close girl, and she refused to obey Huo Yi's arrangement, as a result, in the latest round of personnel changes in the Hou Mansion, she was assigned to the tea room without an errand, she was sad for her fate, and she cried even more sadly when she heard the familiar girl tell her to play in a certain courtyard when she was free.

Chunying naturally didn't care about the little girl's thoughts, she was busy parting with gifts. The friendship between the girls is also simple to express, but it is just one or two colors of needlework and thread, all of which are made by themselves, just to express their hearts. And because Aunt Qing has some relationship with her mother, Chunying specially made a jacket for her, and added an additional hand-copied silk copy of the "Diamond Sutra".

Aunt Qing touched the cover of the scriptures, looked at the fine needlework on the jacket, and sighed: "Good boy, you are a caring good boy, but unfortunately you are too brainless, I had the intention to arrange a good future for you, but you always refused." In the future, I don't know how much suffering I will have to endure outside! That's it, if there is any trouble in the future, I live in Huofu, you just have to come to me. ”

Chunying quietly wiped a handful of sweat and responded with a dry smile. When I turned my back on my face, I drooped down my face and felt very weak.

The mother-in-law on the second gate came to take Miss Watch's salute, Chunying and Shi'er followed all the way to make sure that there was nothing missing, and watched the little girls outside the second gate load the car, and Aunt Qing counted back and forth three or four times before nodding.

The old lady, Mrs. An's and a young lady of the Hou Mansion hugged Huo Yi and walked towards the second gate, and the eldest and youngest grandmother Jing also rushed back, as long as the Liang family was a little bored and followed behind.

The old lady held her granddaughter's hand all the way, and shed tears again, Huo Yi comforted her for a long time, and promised to come back often in the future to greet her, so that the old lady felt better. Huo Yi said a lot of things to An Shi again, saying that he was ignorant in the past, which made his aunt angry, asked his aunt to forgive him, and thanked his aunt for taking care of him in the past few years.

She said it sincerely, even An's eyes were red when she heard it, thinking that the last time she defended herself in front of the Liang family, she was still a courtesy, and she felt that this child was not her daughter-in-law anyway, so there was really no need to be too harsh, she had always been respectful to herself. And for the property handed over to her own hands, she never took the initiative to ask, it was very good, and her perception was much better, and she said with a pleasant face that if she was wronged in her husband's house in the future, she would return to the Hou Mansion, and her grandmother, uncle and aunt would be the master for her.

Zhang, who came to pick up his niece, heard this, and his face was a little unpleasant; Huo Yi paused on his hand and pretended not to hear; The old lady was in front of everyone, and she didn't want to reprimand her daughter-in-law for a trivial matter. I had to urge my granddaughter to get into the sedan chair.

Huo Yi left the Hou Mansion like this, Chunying sent the second door, returned to the inner courtyard, the old lady cried again, and was persuaded by everyone to calm down, only then did she remember the people waiting around her granddaughter, and told them to go home for a day of rest and go on a new errand. When Chunying heard this, her heart was relieved, and she was busy kowtowing with everyone to thank her.

Chunying returned to her room in the courtyard, packed her luggage, and waited for her to go home temporarily before the paperwork was handed over to the government. After laying her baggage, she took another look at the room where she had lived for several years, and suddenly felt unreal.

Is she leaving the Hou Mansion? Is she finally free? Why does she feel like she's in a dream? Her long-cherished wish for many years is about to come true, but she is a little abrupt.

Shi'er pushed her: "What are you in a daze?" Reluctant? ”

Chunying smiled: "It's not, it's just ...... It always feels like I'm dreaming...... I'm going to be able to get out of the house? ”

Shi'er smiled: "Are you confused? Didn't the old lady call the housekeeper to do the paperwork? Naturally, I can get out of the house! After that, he sighed again: "If I had known that our Wang family would have today, I would have chosen to leave the house just like you at that time!" Now I'm going back to Huanhuaxuan, on an errand with those little hooves, don't talk about you, I also hope that I'm dreaming! ”

Chun Ying smiled for a while before she said, "You are the old man of Huanhuaxuan, and you often deal with the people in that courtyard, what are you afraid of?" What's more, most of the people who used to be good with Manru have been cleaned out, but a few new people, especially Lixia, look at it is not a fuel-efficient lamp, you have to be more vigilant, don't talk nonsense, offend people, after a year or two, find a reason to come out. ”

Shi'er nodded and blinked again: "Don't worry, that girl in Lixia has the ability again." In terms of qualifications, I can't go beyond me! What's more, I looked at her coldly and felt that she was stronger than Manru, so I didn't care about it carefully, at least she wouldn't hurt people behind her back, and that was enough. If I don't take that aunt's place, she won't deal with me! ”

Chunying thought about it, so she put her mind at ease and continued to pack her luggage, during which a few more girls came to say goodbye to them, and Yinhuan and Little Lotus came to her with their burdens, planning to go out of the house with her.

There are not many girls who left the house today, and they are the people waiting next to Miss Biao, so the guards at the second gate did not search more, and only slightly doubled their burdens and let them out. When Chunying and the others walked in the direction of the gate, they happened to meet Mrs. Guan leading a group of daughters-in-law in, said hello to her, and learned that they were going to add people to Yingyue Hall, so they casually said a few words of greeting, and then said goodbye to each other. It was only after leaving the house and separating from the silver ring little lotus that Chun Ying suddenly remembered that the daughter-in-law who was following the last of the team was very familiar, but it was a bit like Chen'er, did she finally find a chance to go back to the house to wait?

But this has nothing to do with herself, Chunying thought that she had finally left the Hou Mansion, took a deep breath, left all the affairs of the Hou Mansion behind, and strode in the direction of her home.

The days of going home are very leisurely, Chunying can sleep for four hours every day, no longer have to get up early to make porridge, supervise the work of the little girl, assign tasks for a day, and do not have to worry about doing wrong things and being scolded and beaten, and the mood is extremely happy. She finished the housework quickly, and she also had the leisure time to accompany her brother to write his homework and teach him to prepare for tomorrow's lesson. In addition, she doesn't even get a needle and thread, except for going out to buy vegetables, and she doesn't deal with other children.

Lu Yougui did not comment on her behavior, but Lu's mother was a little anxious: "You girl, if you don't have an errand, people will become lazy!" What are you messing with your brother?! Go back to the house and embroider the dowry! ”

Chunying pouted: "What kind of dowry is embroidered?!" I don't want to get married so soon! After that, he winked at Hu Fei on the side: "Brother Xiaofei, did you say?" ”

Hu Fei was looking at Xiaohu painting red, touched his nose when he heard the words, and said to Lu's mother with a smile: "Don't worry about this, now that the eight characters haven't been skimmed, her girl's family will definitely be shy when she talks about this kind of thing." ”

Mother Lu sighed: "I'm just afraid that she will be lazy and used to it, and if she marries someone in the future, she will be disliked by her husband's family!" Lu Yougui walked out of the door with his hands behind his back, and also nodded: "That's right, Lao Mu also told me that the second elder of his family was born smart, and the daughter-in-law he will marry in the future should also be virtuous." Chun'er practice cooking and needlework at home! ”

Chunying only felt very bored, so she let Xiaohu continue to write, while she carried the bench to the side to pick vegetables.

Hu Fei looked left and right, and said with a smile: "According to me, Aunt Lu doesn't seem to have much work here, I was drinking with Brother Lu a few days ago, and he said that Sister-in-law Lu has been very busy recently, in addition to taking care of housework and watching the children, and the people nearby heard that she came from a big family, so they specially sent their daughter over and asked her to teach." Sister-in-law Lu is not easy to push, but she is so busy that she can't sleep well. Chunying is also idle at home, why don't you go over and help? ”

Chunying became a little interested: "Please teach my sister?" What to teach? ”

"It's just some housekeepers' knowledge, personal contacts, etc., the maids of large families have seen the world, and they are better at housekeepers than small jasper. The family was also afraid that their daughter would not be happy with her mother-in-law after she got married. Hu Fei leaned next to Chunying and whispered, "Although there is no silver, there is a bundle of repairs, I heard that I pulled half a cart of standard cloth." ”

Chunying is a little excited, and half a car of standard cloth is worth at least a dozen taels, maybe it's a new source of wealth? She is also a maidservant from a large family, and she has also done the work of training little girls in the Hou Mansion, and it is naturally not a problem to teach a few little girls, this business does not require much capital, but it is quite easy.

She hurriedly said to her parents: "Sounds good, I'll help in the past, I can help my sister take care of the children, and I can also help her teach others!" ”

Lu Yougui glanced at Hu Fei and said with a straight face: "Nonsense! Your sister is married, so she can teach people, and you are a girl's family, teaching other girls, isn't it a joke?! ”

Chunying was disappointed, and her heart was extremely upset. I don't want to convince my father anymore, she really wants to be married to someone else by him!

Hu Fei lowered his head and watched Xiaohu write, a glimmer of unknown light flashed in his eyes.

That's when there was a knock on the door. Chunying opened the door and saw that it was Shi'er, and was a little surprised: "Why did you come?" ”

Shi'er quickly grabbed her hand and asked eagerly, "Chun'er, have you heard?" ”

Chun Ying was stunned: "What? ”

"The son of the Gu family was just released from his foreign post, and after Miss Biao got married, she was about to leave Beijing!"