Chapter 23: Humbleness

Xia Meizhen noticed that Young Master Dai's hands were covered with a layer of black mud, and she suddenly felt sick to her stomach and wanted to vomit. The maidservants around him seemed to be accustomed to Dai Xiaobao's appearance, and they took the opportunity to wipe his left and right hands in turn, but Dai Xiaobao did not resist again.

Xia Meizhen was looking frightened, and a female voice came from the oblique stab:

"What are you doing here? Carefully pass the illness to the young master! ”。

Xia Meizhen heard the sound and looked over, and saw that it was green, and at this time she was dragging a big broom, looking at the yard with one eye and looking at herself with the other.

"If you can come here, I can come too." Xia Meizhen glanced at her, said, and then turned around and left.

Luwu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but he still didn't say anything, only stomped his feet angrily, and then turned around and ran.

Two days later, Xia Meizhen officially came to Zhaohui Courtyard on duty.

As soon as the time came, Xia Meizhen got up to prepare, she first washed up, then cleaned the house, and then went to the back garden, picked a few delicate dahlias, and wanted to take them to Young Master Qi's house to insert bottles.

In the Chaohui Courtyard at the time of Mao, there were already maids cleaning the yard, except for the lights in the main hall, the rest was dark, and Xia Meizhen knew that the master of this courtyard had not gotten up yet.

Xia Meizhen found the big girl Furong and asked for a bottle with a thin mouth and a long neck to put the dahlias, and when she came out, she heard the sound of reading from the wing room to the south, the voice was elegant and immature, but the confidence was enough.

Xia Meizhen stopped and listened for a moment, but because it was Chinese, she couldn't understand it, so she had to give up.

"You've read a book?" Hibiscus, who was carrying a basin of water, came out of the inner room and happened to see Xia Meizhen in a daze, so she asked suspiciously.

"I've read a little bit, and I've almost forgotten it now." "My grandfather was an eighteen-year-old boy in Weiying, so he had some books at home. ”

Furong is the oldest girl in Chaohui Academy, she looks round and cute, maybe because she follows a master who can only read, and she is also very kind, and she has a good relationship with the girls under her hand, and she takes care of Xia Meizhen, a girl who has just arrived.

Xia Meizhen felt that this person was very easy to get along with.

"It's time for breakfast, I still have some things, remember to leave me one, remember to bring braised pork." Fleur said, carrying the water and hurriedly leaving.

"Okay." Xia Meizhen responded with a smile and watched Furong go out of the yard, but she herself turned around outside the window of the landlord and listened to the young man reading inside:

“…… Zilu asked the government, and Zi said: First, work. Please benefit, say: tireless. Zhong Gong is the Ji family, asking about politics, and the son said: There is a division first, forgive small mistakes, and raise talents. Said: How do you know the talents? Said: Juer knows. Don't you know, what do people give? ……”

Listening to the voice, Xia Meizhen secretly looked into the window, and through the bead curtain, she saw a thin young man sitting at the head of the case, his facial features were unremarkable, his skin was slightly dark, probably in the development period, there were four or five pimples on his face, and when he heard the sound of the door opening, he only glanced up faintly, and then continued to read.

This is really a studious child, and if you put it in modern times, it must be a scholar-level figure.

The door creaked open from the outside, and a well-dressed woman entered.

Her appearance is similar to Dai Qi's eight points, her skin is dull, her face is dull, and her short air bangs make her face a lot rounder, slightly covering her sharp eyes.

Xia Meizhen guessed that this was Dai Qi's mother, Aunt Zhu.

Aunt Zhu stood on the floor cover, glanced at her son, who was still studying, and said shallowly:

"Young master, it's time for breakfast."

The status of the aunt is only a little better than that of the maid, so the Zhu family is not qualified to call Dai Qi's name, let alone call him as a son.

The ancient class system, where men were superior to women, was really terrible.

Xia Meizhen was afraid that she would see her, so she hurriedly walked away.

A bowl of pickled radish, a bowl of fried vegetables, and a bowl of porridge are the breakfast of the third-class maid of Chaohui Courtyard, because she remembered Furong's commission, Xia Meizhen hurriedly finished breakfast, and went to the table where the big girl ate and fetched food for Furong.

The kitchen housekeeper's mother seemed to take special care of Furong, and the food for her had already been left, two pieces of fried tofu, two pieces of braised pork, and some fried vegetables, which were buckled in a large bowl and placed separately in the cupboard.

Xia Meizhen only glanced at it, and saw that the green vegetables in the bowl were not too oily, and they looked old, and the braised pork had been stuffy for a long time, and it was also dry. However, she didn't have the right to instruct the master in the kitchen how to cook, so she thanked the housekeeper's mother and went out with the food box.

As soon as she arrived at the door, Furong hurriedly came in and said, "Hurry up, mothers, the young master has been beaten, you go and persuade him!" ”

Hearing the sound and coaxing, everyone in the originally lively small dining room ran out, Xia Meizhen was a little curious, and said in her heart, shouldn't it be that Aunt Chu who beat Young Master Qi? I kept chasing after him, and before I got closer, I heard Aunt Chu shouting sharply: "I am a lowly identity, and I am also your mother, even if you can't call me, but you can't change this fact!" Then I can decide your future for you! ”

The girl in the Chaohui courtyard knelt on the ground, pleading for Dai Qi, and Furong was even more out of breath, crying: "Madame, don't scold, the young master is also for your good, please, please don't fight." He knelt at Aunt Chu's feet and tugged at the hem of her skirt.

Xia Meizhen, who was crowded behind the people, half-squatted on the ground, and quietly looked up to see a bright red slap mark on Dai Qi's face, which showed that Aunt Chu was not light.

Aunt Chu made a fuss twice, and then was persuaded by everyone to go to the house, Dai Qi looked at her back blankly for a moment, and then went to the study to read.

It only stopped here, and there was a commotion in the back girl's room, saying everything, Xia Meizhen went late, and she squeezed in it and listened to half of it. It turned out that in the early years, Mrs. Dai mentioned to the master that she wanted to succeed Dai Qi as her son-in-law, but Aunt Chu was such a son, so she naturally disagreed, but Young Master Qi was a hundred willing to succeed, and the mother and son naturally made trouble if they didn't agree.

So some people said that Young Master Qi was ruthless, he only cared about climbing to a high place, and he didn't want to think about what would happen to Aunt Chu without his son, and some people said that this person went to a high place and the water flowed to the ground, who wouldn't want to have the opportunity to become a son-in-law, this has something to do with being ruthless? Some people also said that Aunt Chu and Young Master Qi made such a fuss every once in a while, didn't they just give Mrs. Dai a chance? She is just an aunt, and it is not wise to bully the young master and not give it to the lady of the main room, but I am afraid that the future will be even more difficult......

After this day, the atmosphere of Chaohui Temple was noticeably different.

After lunch, Dai Qi took a nap and went to the study to read again, as if nothing had happened in the morning. At this time, Xia Meizhen had nothing to do, and was about to go to the dormitory when a voice stopped her. It's Fleur.

"Meizhen, you go to the teahouse to make some tea, the young master said that the tea just now is not to taste." She stood in the doorway, wiping the sweat from her sideburns with a handkerchief. If you are fat, you will be afraid of heat.

Xia Meizhen nodded, raised her feet and went to the tea room. The Dai family started with tea, and the tea room is fully set up, and there is a spaciousness that other families do not have.