One, two, three...... Zhao Yuanniang's small body sat upright on the kang in the main room, picking up Buddha beans with great reverence.

"Amitabha, the Buddha blesses his wife's body Kangtai!"

Every time she picked up a Buddha bean, the little girl whispered a Buddha name. The voice is not small, at least Mrs. Zhao outside the screen can hear it.

"Madam, the old slave has made it clear," Mrs. Zhao's companion Wu Xueliang's family trotted in from the outside, and he didn't care about wiping the sweat on his face, so he leaned beside Mrs. Zhao and whispered: "It was the Li family in Haicheng who came to guard the capital and brought a letter to the master, the third master of the Li family." I don't know what was said in the letter, the old man was very angry, so Steward Zhao quickly called the second young master! ”

"Haicheng Li family?" Mrs. Zhao was holding a string of quaint Buddha beads in her hand, and when she heard this, her half-squinted eyes opened suddenly, and she looked at Wu Xueliang's family with a little doubt, "Li family? How does it sound familiar to me...... By the way, Lord Li, the servant of the Chengxi Alley Minister, seems to be the Li family in Haicheng, right? I heard Liu Yuanwai's wife mention that this Master Li is the eldest in the family, could it be that his brother is looking for our master?! ”

"Madam, the Li family—" Wu Xueliang's family peeked at the little figure behind the screen, and said in a low voice, "...... Mrs. Li, the biological mother of the second young grandmother, is from the Li family in Haicheng. Oh, by the way, Mrs. remembered correctly, Li Shilang in Chengxi Lane is the uncle of the second young grandmother, and the person who wrote to the master today is the third uncle who stayed in his hometown! ”

"......" Mrs. Zhao's eyes flashed, and she was surprised, how could she forget this stubble.

"Actually, it's no wonder that my wife can't remember, usually the second young grandmother rarely mentions her mother's relatives, not to mention the late Mrs. Li's maiden family, which is a serious relative of the Qingyuan Wang family, and she is not close to the second young grandmother!"

Wu Xueliang saw that Mrs. Zhao didn't squeak, so he accompanied the smiling face to make excuses for the master. When the title of "Second Young Grandma" was mentioned, her eyes were full of contempt. Hmph, an abandoned woman who goes down to the court, even if her mother's family has someone to support her? Even if he reluctantly returned to the house, he was not a dou who couldn't be helped, and he just occupied the position of the second young grandmother of the Zhao family in vain.

Mother? Behind the screen, Yuan Niang's hand counting Buddha beans paused, and the fleshy little hand twisted the flat beans restlessly, and the figure she missed day and night appeared in her mind. Mother, are you good at Zhuangzi alone, is there anyone around you to take care of you?

Yuan Niang thought of her cowardly mother being kicked out of the house by her father, lonely and uncared for, her immature little face was full of sorrow and sourness beyond this age, and her big round eyes were filled with mist.

Quietly wiping the tears from the corners of her eyes with the back of her hand, Yuan Niang put the Buddha beans that had been rubbed for a long time into the basket, and continued to repeat the simple and monotonous picking up Buddha beans. Mrs. said that picking up Buddha beans is to pick up blessings, so she has to pick up a lot, strive to collect a lot of blessings, and beg the Buddha to bless her mother and relatives to come home as soon as possible.

Mother is back, and Mama Zhao is also back, so Aunt Su will be more restrained, and she doesn't dare to ignore herself blatantly like now.

Forty-five, forty-six, forty-seven...... The little hand slowly picked out the blessing beans from the cloth bag, recited a Buddha name reverently, and then put them one by one in the basket on the kang table, Zhao Yuanniang's expression had returned to the original calm, only a pair of small ingot-like ears twitched from time to time.

"What did the master say?"

Mrs. Zhao put the Buddha beads on her wrist, picked up the teacup in her hand, and asked unhurriedly.

"The master was very angry, and he heard that the letter of the master of the in-laws was written very politely, and the shopkeeper who sent the letter also got the explanation of the head of the family, and kept saying that the Li family was sorry for our Zhao family, and married off the daughter who was not taught well, which not only lost the face of the Wang family, but also mistook our Zhao family. Also, he also said that if the second young grandmother commits any of the seven rules, please ask Master Zhao not to only care about face, and deal with it as you want! ”

Mrs. Wu Xueliang's family picked up the teacup, so she took a fan from the girl on the side, bowed down and stood behind Mrs. Zhao, and gently fanned the wind.

"What about Lord Li's family, do you have any reaction?"

Compared with the Confucian merchant Li Changshu, Mrs. Zhao paid more attention to the attitude of Li Changbo, an important minister of the imperial court. Well, if Li Shilang is also standing behind her second daughter-in-law, then it is safer for her to think about what to do next.

"Li Shilang? The old slave heard that only Uncle Li Chang wrote to the master this time to 'apologize', and Li Shilang seemed to have gone to the southeastern provinces to assess the officials, and it is estimated that he will not be able to return to Beijing until next month. Master Li's wife, Cui Gongren, is not in Beijing, I heard that she made an old illness and went to the hot spring Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city to recuperate, and she just left two days ago, so she will come back at the end of the month. ”

Although Wu Xueliang's family is the housekeeper's mother-in-law, her man helps his wife take care of the dowry shop, walks on the street every day, and is very familiar with some gossip and gossip in the market.

"Well, I know, you go to the outer courtyard to watch a little, when the second young master comes out of the study, you immediately call him to see me!"

Hearing this, the gloom between Mrs. Zhao's eyebrows was much lighter, and she pondered for a moment and commanded.

"Hey! The old slave is going! ”

As he spoke, Wu Xueliang's Ma Yu'er turned around and left the main house.

Behind the screen, there was a faint smile on Yuan Niang's white and tender little face - is my mother's uncle finally going to help my mother? Woo, that's great, Mama Zhao persuaded her mother so many times, asking her to walk around with her grandfather's house and her late grandmother's house more, but her mother always didn't listen. Without her mother's backer, even a third-class girl in the house dared to bully their mother and daughter. Now that my mother's uncle has come forward, will my mother be able to come back soon?

Like Yuan Niang, there were other people at the scene who listened carefully to the conversation of the people in the house. Mrs. Zhao sent Wu Xueliang's house down, leaning on the pillow casually and being stunned, under the window outside the house, a sixteen or seventeen-year-old girl quietly left the yard.

"What? The second young master was reprimanded by the master, and it was because of the Wang family? ”

The one who spoke was a delicate woman about twenty years old, a pair of willow eyebrows twisted into twists at the moment, and her watery soft eyes were shining with a sharp cold light.

"Back to my aunt and grandmother, I heard that it was the uncle of the second young grandmother who wrote a letter, asking the master why he exiled the second young grandmother to the farm, which of the seven out of seven rules he committed, and also said that the Zhao family 'spoiled the concubine and killed the wife', and there is no distinction between the concubines and the concubines!"

It was none other than the third-class coarse girl in Mrs. Zhao's yard who stood in front of Aunt Su with her head down. The little girl rubbed the corners of her clothes with both hands, her eyes were staring at the tips of her shoes, and she was a little nervous in the face of the second young master's favorite concubine.

"Well, I see, you're doing a good job, go down!"

When Aunt Su heard the phrase "spoil the concubine and kill the wife", her tangled eyebrows and heart jumped, and then returned to normal, she raised her hand lightly, and motioned to the personal girl next to her to send people out.

"Auntie, it seems that the Wang family went to the farm but was not honest, do you want us to send someone over and take her-"

The girl standing on the other side of Aunt Su, after seeing that there were no outsiders in the house, whispered in Aunt Su's ear. As she spoke, her slender palms rose diagonally towards her in a knife gesture.

"No," Aunt Su of course understood what the personal girl meant, she shook her head unacceptably, with obvious disdain on her face: "Hmph, I don't think it's that the Wang family is dishonest, but that the old woman Zhao is restless again, and the last time she was the one who sent a letter to her mother's family with the Wang family, and it was easy for me to suppress it." This time I left the house, and it was more convenient for Mrs. Zhao to file a complaint.

Let's not rush for now, let's see what the second young master says. If the Li family is forced to be in a hurry, and the old master and the second young master are forced to back down, it is not too late to send someone to Zhuangzi. By the way, last time Mrs. Fang came back and said that the lady in charge of Qingyuan Villa was very shrewd, if she was fine, you could have a relationship with her first......"