Since the day of the fight, I went to the Hou Mansion once. Chunying settled down. The second old lady was quite protective of her in front of the people of the Hou Mansion, and she did not change her attitude afterwards, she still trusted and valued her, which shows that she has really gained a firm foothold in this East Mansion, and she no longer has to worry that the people of the Hou Mansion will manipulate her life events. Next, she just needs to do her duty, tie up the hostesses of the East Mansion, wait for the right time, and then ask to leave the house, and then find an excuse such as "flattering parents" to get the family out, and everything will be fine.

Chunying is relieved, but some people are unwilling.

The Li family lives in the vicinity, there is a family study, which is specially used for the children of the clan or close relatives to study, the fourth young master of the East Mansion Li Dun has just turned fifteen years old this year, with his father outside, has not left his homework, after returning to Beijing, because he could not find a good gentleman for a while, he was personally dotted by his mother Zhuo and sent to the family school. One day he came home from school. After changing his clothes, he went to his grandmother's place to say goodbye. The second old lady ordered him to practice calligraphy, and he went to the big case in the compartment to open a study room according to his words, and when he saw Chunying coming to deliver tea, he whispered: "Sister, please stay." ”

Chun Ying was puzzled, stopped, and asked, "What does the fourth young master command?" ”

Li Dun wanted to speak and stopped, and glanced at the girl who sent the pen to wash next to him, and the girl looked at Chunying. Chunying was worried that calling people away would lead to gossip, so she said to her, "You go and get one of the soft cushions on the chair outside and give it to the fourth young master." The girl went, and she could still see the situation in the compartment through Duobaoge, and Chunying took the opportunity to say to Li Dun: "The fourth young master has something to say." ”

Li Dun said with some embarrassment: "When I was in school today, I actually saw the third brother. He asked me about my sister and how she got to our house. My sister is the person in front of my grandmother, how can I talk nonsense to the outside world? I...... I had to say that I didn't know anything, but I was afraid that I would delay my sister's business. ”

Chun Ying was a little annoyed in her heart, sneered slightly, and said to him, "What can I do?" It's just that I did rough work in the Third Young Master's Courtyard for more than half a year when I was a child, and I don't understand why the Third Young Master asked me about it. The fourth young master did a good job, this is what everyone's children do, how can he talk about the girls in the family outside? It's just that the third young master is the elder brother in the end, and it's not good to refute his face, so the fourth young master shouldn't hear it. ”

Li Dun was even more difficult: "But he wants me to come back and inquire, and explain that he will ask me again......"

Chunying smiled: "Brothers, do you have it?" Although the younger brother is not to blame, he should also point out his mistakes. The school is a place to study, and if you don't concentrate on your hard work there, you are already wrong, and you are even more wrong when you talk about the private affairs of the inner courtyard of the family. Fourth young master, don't mess around with others, just study your homework well. If the third young master comes to you again, you can refute him with reason, as long as he knows some etiquette, he is embarrassed to say more. ”

Li Dun nodded in response: "I know, thank you sister for teaching me." "I also made a special move.

Chunying has always liked the very polite brother and sister of Dongfu, so she returned the salute with a smile and went outside. The girl just now sent the mat in, and Li Dun practiced Xiaokai seriously.

It's just that Chun Ying couldn't help but be angry in her heart, thinking that the third young master was too abrasive, could she be guilty of this? If you have the ability, come to her directly! What's the point of starting from my brother?! I'm afraid that if he refutes it this time, he will still think of coming to him to ask him to understand, and don't think that she will give him a good face when the time comes!

The next day, the second and third ladies came to talk to the fourth lady, and laughed in front of the second old lady. The former also specially called Chunying over, and looked at it for a long time before he smiled: "I heard about it a while ago, and I can't think of it again!" Sure enough, you are a blessed man, but unfortunately I got the news late, otherwise I would have asked you to go to my house! My wife was disrespectful and went against her grandmother's will, but now she can be regarded as a lesson! That day, my grandmother called my wife to train her for most of the day! ”

Chunying quickly glanced at the second old lady, and when she saw her sitting on the upper seat, she frowned slightly, so she smiled and said to the second lady Yijun: "Although the second lady is talking for me, it's just that the wife is your mother-in-law after all, how can you say that the other elders are not in front of the elders?" Second Miss, please be cautious. ”

Yijun swept away the excitement and put away his smile: "You, why have you become boring?" I'm not talking nonsense. ”

The twelve-year-old fourth lady Yajun held the tea bowl, glanced at her, pursed her lips slightly, turned her head to the second old lady and said, "Grandmother, didn't you say that you want someone to copy a hundred copies of the Diamond Sutra and scatter people?" Now that I've practiced the hairpin, I'm trying to copy the scriptures, but my grandmother asked me to copy a copy too, right? I want to pray for my grandmother, father, mother, and brother. ”

The second old lady smiled lovingly: "Good boy, it's rare that you have this heart." I just prepared here, only Chunying is the only one to help copy, and I am trying to find your brother to copy a copy, and you are willing to help, it is really good. He ordered Chunying to prepare pen, ink, paper, and inkstone.

Chunying went with a smile, Yijun was a little embarrassed, and she was afraid that she would be dragged to copy the scriptures, so she dragged the third lady to cherish you. I just made an excuse and ran away. The second old lady sighed: "There is no good housewife in Xifu, and everything is not the same." The girl is so old, don't you even have a way to teach the rules? Ya'er, don't learn from your sisters. ”

Yajun hurriedly responded: "I won't!" I haven't been able to play with my second sister since I was a child, and just now she called Sister Chunying to stare at her face, I wanted to talk, but I just thought that she was a sister, so I didn't say anything. The people around my grandmother are naturally more noble than other girls, who is not respectful, how can she be so rude? Thanks to Sister Chunying's good temper! ”

Chunying said with a smile: "Although the fourth young lady is a joke, the slave can't afford it." The second miss is the master after all. At this time, the posture should be lowered to make the superior like.

"Who is she? If she never speaks ill of her own mother in someone else's house, how can people respond to her?! Yajun turned to the second old lady and said coquettishly, "Grandmother, you said that your granddaughter did something wrong?" ”

The second old lady smiled: "You did a good job, but when you meet your sisters in the future, you should be polite." He said to Chunying again: "Don't be too self-contemptuous, you are my person, you are looked down upon, and I have no face." It's good that the rules are good. When you're outside, you have to show some prestige, don't underestimate it. ”

Chunying's heart was settled, and she responded with a smile.

I don't know if it's because the second and third young ladies mentioned their experience in Dongfu after they went back, and the next day, it was the turn of the third young master, Li You, to come.

He flattered the second old lady for a long time, and his eyes swept to Chunying from time to time, and several times he took advantage of people's attention to give her a look, and Chunying couldn't see it. Seeing this, Li You was secretly annoyed. Seeing that Chunying was going out with her things, she took the opportunity to say goodbye and chased after her all the way, and when she reached the corner of the corridor, she stepped forward and asked, "Stop!" Don't you see me?! ”

Chun Ying slid out half a step, avoiding his outstretched hand, turned around and smiled: "It turned out to be the third young master?" I'm sorry, but the slave and maid are walking in front and I don't see you coming from behind. Are you leaving? "Eyes quickly swept around, very good, the position they were standing in was the corner of the corridor outside the east wing, the fourth young master was writing on the bookcase in front of the window of the room, looking over and seeing them, I was not afraid that she would suffer.

Li You said angrily: "What are you pretending to be okay here?!" I gave you a few looks, and I didn't believe you didn't see it! ”

Chunying looked surprised: "I really didn't see it?" What do you give me? Why don't you just say it? ”

Li You secretly gritted his teeth: "Okay, you learned to pretend?!" I lied to me that you were sick and dying, and I even prepared a reward, but I didn't expect you to suddenly change and become a person from Dongfu, which is really a good means! ”

"I don't understand what the third young master is saying." Chunying looked innocent, "I was indeed sick last winter, but now I'm already well?" How did he lie to you? I'm just a girl, not so delicate, is it possible to raise it for a few months? ”

Li You was stunned, and felt that he really couldn't tell whether she was really sick or fake at that time, but Mei Xiang had seen it with her own eyes, Mei Xiang had been waiting for her since she was a child, and it was impossible to lie, that is, this girl was fated? Thinking of this, he slowed down his tone: "Forget it, that's all over, I don't care about you, it's just ...... I obviously said that I would arrange your errand, why did you come to Dongfu by yourself?! ”

Chun Ying sighed: "Third Young Master, although you always say that you will arrange it." You will arrange, but you ask yourself, my family is all wife's wife, and you, as a son, will you really refute your mother's face and call us back? My wife is not having a good time in the house now, is it? Let people know that even her son doesn't take her words seriously, what kind of face do you have? ”

Li You was dumbfounded, he was indeed concerned about this, so he didn't take action for a long time, but he was unwilling to admit that he had broken his trust in a girl: "It's just a little bit of waiting, it's only been half a year, you can't wait?!" ”

Chun Ying sneered in her heart and said, "Third Young Master, you said it lightly. We are a family of four, the old and the young, I also had an illness, and there is no serious errand in the village, because it is a past, even the monthly silver and rice are according to the lowest level, just rely on savings to live, sooner or later have to sit and eat empty. You don't know that the year of the monkey will only fall on us, so I saw that Dongfu was going to pick someone, so I came over. Actually, you don't have anywhere to arrange for me to go, so why do you have to hold on to it?! ”

The third young master blushed: "It turns out that this is the reason, I was negligent, you are in trouble, why don't you come to me?" ”

Chunying began to get impatient: "I'm in the village, it's a cold day, I may not be able to see you after running so far, I dare to ask you for silver?!" What have become of me?! I have hands and feet, I can support my family on my own, and seriously, now that everyone is good, you don't have to bother! ”

The third young master was unhappy when he heard this: "What do you mean by this?" I have the heart to lift you up, are you impatient?! It's really a dog biting Lu Dongbin! You are all over the house and ask, which girl have I ever been so attentive to?! For the sake of you being familiar with Brother Nian, I plan to give you to him after his family is rehabilitated. Later, I saw that things were difficult in his family (read liao), you are old again, and I kindly let you go. Later, when I saw that the person was useless, I specially asked Mei Xiang to tell you that I would find a good family for you in the future. It's good for you to treat all my good intentions as donkey liver and lungs! ”

Chun Ying sneered: "What you say is even more confusing!" Even if it is the common people outside, there is no daughter of the Xu San family! You're going to give me to this person today, and you're going to send me to that person tomorrow, and they're all concubines, so you're too underestimated, right?! Young Master Zhou is a righteous gentleman, don't think of him crookedly! Besides, you ordered me to clean his house at that time, so how did I become familiar with him?! Third young master, you are a young master, a person who should study seriously and do great things, why do you entangle my little girl's marriage all day long?! If you are really my master, it would be fine, but I have been a rough maid in your yard for less than a year, at home for a year, and waited for Miss Huo Jiabiao for three or four years, and now I have entered the East Mansion. When did my marriage become your business?! ”

Li You's face was red and white for a while, he naturally knew that Chunying was no longer under his control, but after Chunying entered the mansion, he was the first to wait, and he had always been in touch, and he subconsciously still had the idea of "she is his girl".

Chunying caught a glimpse of the fourth young master getting up and walking this way, so she said lightly to the third young master: "Third young master, don't worry, my family has already told me about my family, and the dowry has been accepted, just wait for the man to come back and get married." You really don't have to bother anymore! Don't even scare me with words at every turn, saying that if I don't listen to you, I will do what my father and mother will be. I'm on an errand in the second old lady's house now, and what you say is known to others, and others still think you want to do bad things to the elders of your family! ”

"You damn girl!" Li You was angry for a while, "Now that you have climbed the high branches, you don't care about the old master?!" ”

"Third brother!" Fourth Young Master Li Dun shouted at his cousin, frowning and staring at him, "The third brother came to see my grandmother today, and he didn't come to see me, but stopped my sister in my grandmother's house, what do you want to do?!" ”

Chun Ying saluted him: "Fourth Young Master." And he stood quietly by the side.

Li You knew that he was out of shape, and turned his head a little uncomfortably: "I just saw that this girl was rude and reprimanded a few words." ”

"Third brother is confused!" Li Dun had a hint of disdain in his eyes, "Sister Chunying is the eldest girl in front of my grandmother, and even my mother treats her very politely, you are good, you stopped people for no reason, and you trained for a long time, so you don't take my grandmother in your eyes!" Even in your own home, there is no reason to call the sister next to your grandmother to reprimand, how can you dare to be so presumptuous when you come to my house?! Before I returned to Beijing, I heard that the third brother was very pampered at home, did not like to study, and did not invite his husband to teach. Now that I have seen it, I know that the rumors are true. The third brother is not rude to be a younger brother, it is really ...... You are going to attack the lord in the future, if your uncle is too busy with business, it is better to ask a gentleman to teach! ”

This is simply to say that Li You has no tutor, Chun Ying applauded in her heart, and she liked this fourth young master even more. And Li You's face was flushed, and he smiled for a long time before he smiled: "The fourth brother is really good at laughing." It's just a girl, you are enthusiastic, and you stand up for her. ”

Chun Ying caught a glimpse of a group of people walking slowly outside the courtyard, led by the second wife Zhuo, and saw that the fourth young master was so angry by the third young master's words that his face was flushed, so he said coldly to the latter: "The third young master is not sorry to say this!" I really treat everyone in the world as a bad person! You are the future Hou Ye, you don't have to read and reason, and no one will say anything about you. Our fourth young master is a good boy who is serious, don't bluff him with these bastard words! The fourth young master is the most filial to the old lady, so he will respect me a little bit, but anyone who knows the number of etiquette has no face to find fault with these. If you have free time, what are you doing here? Why don't you go and serve for a few days with the old lady? Is it good to do your filial piety? I'm hanging out all day long, and I'm messing around in school, and now I still want to arrange good people?! ”

"Which one is orchestrating the good guys?" The second wife, Zhuo, came over, saw the three of them saluting her, nodded, and asked her son first, "Your sister Chunying just said that your brother is arranging good people, who are they arranged?" ”

Li Dun secretly glanced at his cousin, Li You's eyes flickered, and Chun Ying smiled at Zhuo's family: "The old lady is still chattering, the wife is here, please come into the house." The old lady is in the warm pavilion. ”

Zhuo Shi smiled and nodded: "I have something to discuss with her old man." Brother Dun, come with me to your grandmother. I've been busy for the past two days, and I haven't asked you about your homework, so I'm not lazy, right? "If you pull your son, you're leaving.

Li You stumbled and called out in a low voice: "Auntie." She turned around: "Brother Yu is really a rare guest." It's just that in the middle of the day, you're too idle. I had the heart to advise your mother, such a big son, since she herself has a weak heart, she should find a good gentleman to teach, what will become of such wasted time! He ignored it and took his son away. Chun Ying curled the corners of her mouth and followed, leaving Li You standing alone, embarrassed.

In the evening, Chun Ying received a pair of white jade bracelets from the little girl sent by the Zhuo family, and said: "Mrs. said that my sister was diligent and diligent on an errand, so she specially rewarded her." ”

Chunying thought about it secretly, and felt that the second wife should be praising her, but she should also express it, so she accepted the bracelet, gave the little girl dozens of money, went back to the house to show the second old lady, and went to the second wife to thank her.

The main room was brightly lit, as if discussing business, Chun Ying saluted, stood on the side and waited, and looked up to see an acquaintance standing in the room, it was Zhao San's sister-in-law, and Aunt Xu stood aside with a solemn face.

Zhuo Shi was looking at an account book, and after a while, he said lightly: "Your village has paid five hundred and eighty-three taels of land rent, which is enough, but the three hundred and seventy-nine taels and five cents of silver obtained from trading with Nanyuan...... What's going on? ”

Chunying was taken aback. Isn't it a secret that Li Jiazhuang and Nanyuan did this transaction? The owner's family obviously doesn't know, why did Zhao San's sister-in-law report it?! It won't implicate your own parents?。.。