The old lady put down the tea bowl and walked to the little maid, who was still young and trembled by the old lady's coveted gaze, until he handed the bird cage to the old lady with shaking hands, and immediately saluted and ran away.

The birdcage was small, and the emerald green bird flying in the cage was no bigger than a child's fist, and the old lady looked at it for a long time and was satisfied.

"Didn't eat, did you?" The old lady turned her head and looked at Wang Baidao lovingly.

Wang Bai was flattered and shook his head: "My son was picking birds, and I heard that the third brother had entered the city and rushed back immediately." ”

The old man nodded and said with a smile: "Then I'll go catch a few worms for it and find some honey." ”

As he spoke, he walked out with the birdcage, only took two steps and then turned around, picked up an apple on the fruit bowl, and said to everyone with a kind smile: "I almost forgot, this one also loves to eat." ”

Wang Bai: "......"

Everyone: "......"

It wasn't until Wang Bai walked out of Songling Courtyard with a bird cage and humming a little song that everyone came back to their senses.

"Ahem." Wang Bai clenched his right hand into a fist, pressed against his upper lip and faked a cough. Thinking that his embarrassed appearance just now was seen by his younger siblings and juniors, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

At this time, another man entered the courtyard and came to the main hall. This time, it was a weak woman holding a girl about ten years old.

Wang Bai had just lost face, and he was feeling embarrassed, and the atmosphere in the hall was strange, so he deliberately walked over and patted the shoulder of the third master, Wang Dong, squeezed his eyebrows, and joked with a smile: "Third brother, look at you just came back, and the concubine has come to the door, hahahaha......"

Wang Dong frowned, looked out, and the Liu family heard this. There was a fierce look in his eyes, and he stared straight at Aunt Cui outside.

Aunt Cui is still wearing a plain gown today, and there are few jewelry on her body. But it seems that she is weak and beautiful.

Aunt Cui stopped in front of the hall and did not enter the house. Only under the porch, he knelt down and kowtowed to Sun to say goodbye.

Sun had just been angry with Wang Hong, and he came to his senses. The resentment in my heart was not able to find a place to vent, and when I saw Aunt Cui at this time, she naturally didn't have a good face, so she immediately sank her face and shouted: "Didn't you say that the five girls were sick and couldn't even hold the pen to write a coat for the ancestors and ancestors?" What are you bringing her here for? This is the main hall of Songling Hospital, what is your identity? Who's allowed you to stand here! Get out of this yard for me! ”

The latter sentence she wanted to say to Mrs. Wang just now, but unfortunately her husband is a wife, and even if Mrs. Wang is messing around again on this occasion when her children and grandchildren are in the hall. She also had no way to say it. At this time, Aunt Cui vented out, but her heart was not as depressed as she was just now.

Aunt Cui never looked up, and when she heard Sun's words, she trembled in fright, and said tremblingly: "The concubine heard that the master and the lady were back, so she brought the fifth lady to greet the old lady and the lady." The concubine knew that her status was low, and she didn't dare to enter the house, so she only kowtowed to the lord and his wife outside and left. ”

As he spoke, he bent down and kowtowed respectfully in the direction of Wang Dong and Liu.

Seeing that Aunt Cui was beaten by the Sun family as soon as she came, the Liu family couldn't even enter the main hall, and the sense of crisis and sourness in her heart finally subsided a little because of Aunt Cui's sudden appearance. I saw that she really just kowtowed honestly and never raised her face. I didn't even dare to sneak a glance at Wang Dong, and I couldn't help but be satisfied.

Aunt Cui finished kowtowing, slowly stood up, lowered her head and said softly: "The concubine has a low status. But Miss Five is a serious young lady. The old lady also asked the old lady to allow her to enter the hall to kowtow to her parents for the sake of the fifth lady, who had not seen her father and mother for a long time, and was fully filial. ”

Sanniang secretly raised her eyebrows when she heard this, and looked at Aunt Cui. Seeing that she was standing in an orderly manner, she didn't make the slightest move to attract the attention of the third master, and she didn't even raise her head, thinking of what she said just now, she was really a good concubine who kept her duty.

But she remembered what Mama Cui had heard, and Mama Cui's strength to peel off her skin and bones every time she mentioned it, Sanniang's heart was slightly smacked.

Aunt Cui was born in Hefeng Courtyard and was the most trusted big girl by her mother's Zhao side.

Among the maids brought from her mother's family in the Zhao family's courtyard, Aunt Cui has no advantage, although she married with the Zhao family, she is not the son of the Zhao family. I heard Mama Zhao say that this Aunt Cui was bought back by the Zhao family on the street back then.

Zhao went out in a carriage and met Aunt Cui, who was about to be sold to the land of fireworks by her uncle.

Aunt Cui originally followed his uncle quietly, and his uncle didn't tie her up when he saw that she was well-behaved, perhaps when he was at home, he thought that he had done his niece's ideological work. Who knew that when she arrived at a crowded place on the main street, Aunt Cui suddenly rushed out and touched her head against the wall to seek death. His uncle didn't notice it, he didn't hold it, and he was dumbfounded to see her blood spilled all over the wall and the ground, and in an instant her face was covered with blood and fell in a pool of blood, seeing that her breath was weak and she was about to die.

Pedestrians on the road watched one after another, and the person who knew about it told the story on the spot. It turned out that this girl's name was Cui Juan'er, and her family lived in Fushou Lane, Xiangluo Street, south of the city. This uncle and aunt dumped all the rough work at home to this little girl who was only five years old on weekdays, but often made her unable to warm and fed, and beat and scolded him on weekdays.

That's it, Cui Juan'er endured it all without saying a word. But I didn't expect that my uncle's family was so wolf-hearted and deprived of conscience, because they wanted to save more dowry for their son so that they could marry Zhang Ruhua, the daughter of the butcher's family of Zhang Ji Butcher's Shop on Xicheng East Street, and started the idea of selling their niece for silver.

If it is sold to ordinary people's homes to do a small job, it is fine, but this uncle is greedy for the extra silver from the lady of the green red mansion, and wants to send his niece and nephew into the fire pit. Alas! No wonder Cui Juan'er is looking for death.

The pedestrians on the road pointed and discussed, all filled with righteous indignation. Someone also stopped the uncle of the Cui family, who was about to take advantage of the chaos to escape, and wanted to escort him to the official.

At that time, he was sitting in the carriage, and Zhao, who couldn't pass by because he was being taken by the crowd, was very sympathetic to Cui Juan'er in the mouth of this person after hearing this. secretly opened the curtain and looked out, but just happened to see Cui Juan'er, who everyone thought was out of breath, opened her eyes slowly, and her hands moved.

Zhao was stunned for a moment, and then ignored Mama's obstruction and shouted to the coachman to save people, and lifted the curtain and got out of the carriage by himself. After that, Cui Juan'er was sent to a nearby hospital just a few steps away, and was miraculously saved. The doctor said that this Cui Juan'er had a big life, and although the injury on her head looked serious, it didn't really hurt the roots.

The story after that is very logical, Cui Juaner dragged her weak sick body with a head of gauze, and immediately kowtowed to Zhao's family, and wanted to make her a cow and a horse to repay her kindness.

The onlookers nodded one after another, and this is also a good story, kind young lady, you can accept this poor girl, she will be loyal to you. Some people also shook their heads, but it was a pity that it was not a handsome young man who rescued people, which made people have a lot less thoughts. The Zhao family had difficulty riding a tiger, so they had to sell Cui Juan'er on the spot.

Although Cui Juan'er's uncle escaped because his niece did not die, he was stared at by the enthusiastic crowd, why would he refuse to take the silver at this time? immediately signed a deed of sale with Zhao for Cui Juaner.

Since then, Cui Juaner has become Zhao's personal maid.

At that time, when Sanniang heard this story, she admired this Aunt Cui's scheming very much, and knew that this person was not only forbearing, scheming, but also ruthless.

She first knew that she paralyzed her uncle's family, making her uncle think that she would obediently follow her to the Cuihong Mansion, so she relaxed her guard against her, and she was able to move freely.

Then she picked a place with a large flow of people, a neighborhood in the crowd who knew their family background, and a hospital not far away to perform the drama of "a lonely woman who is unbearable to be abused, and commits suicide on the street to protect her chastity". Presumably, she was able to control the wound on her head to the extent that although it looked serious, it would not be fatal, and she studied and practiced for a long time. Who can be so decisive as an ordinary person, and be so cruel to himself?

In the end, she also knew that she immediately said that she wanted to repay the favor to the Zhao family, and used the power of public opinion to force the Zhao family to accept her, a desperate orphan girl.

And then she succeeded, and this series of calculations was interlocked, and it was never accidental. With such a scheming, Sanniang paid for herself, even she couldn't do better than Cui Juan'er.

It's just such a scheming woman who can still be ruthless to herself, how can the Zhao family control it?

After Cui Juan'er followed the Zhao family, everyone in the Zhao Mansion thought that the Zhao family had picked up a big bargain. Cui Juan'er is diligent, sensible and understanding, she can figure out the master's intentions to do anything, she is praised and not arrogant, and she is very friendly to other maids, and she will never shirk when she can help, so that even those maids who are jealous of her coming up behind can't hate her.

After that, she naturally sat on the Zhao family's dowry maid and followed the Zhao family to marry into the Wang family.

Cui Juan'er was still diligent after following the Zhao family to the Wang family, and at this time, she was indispensable to the Zhao family.

At that time, there were four dowry maids who came with the Zhao family, and among them, there were naturally those who were restless because they saw the handsome and promising male protagonist and carried the Zhao family to Wang Dong's side, but Cui Juaner never went to Wang Dong when Zhao was not there. Even if Wang Dong asks someone to change her clothes, she will avoid suspicion and let others go up to serve.

The newlywed Yan'er of the Zhao family naturally couldn't stand the idea of the maids beating their husbands. Therefore, two of the four dowry maids went, and in the end, only Cui Juan'er and her mother Liu's daughter Furui were left, and since then, Zhao has trusted Cui Juan'er more and reused her, and everything is not hidden from her. ()