Chapter 88: Counterattack (2)

Ming Fei sat with a sore back. I couldn't help but sigh secretly, this is the involvement of Hongguoguo. Chen Shi clearly wanted to take Ming posture as a fight, and wanted to pull them to accompany the slaughter. I don't know how Mingzi provoked the Chen family?

Finally, the chubby figure of the internal steward Zhang Niangzi appeared at the door, and said with a smile: "Madam, the steward Hu has led people to talk back, are you starting to ask now?" ”

Chen bowed slightly: "Let them talk back outside the curtain." ”

It turned out that she was going to prepare winter clothes for the people of Cai's mansion this time, and she actually asked the shopkeepers of several shops dealing in cloth and cotton to come at the same time, and asked to shop around for the price in person. She looked at the samples, and listened to the shopkeepers outside the curtain read a long list of advertising words, and finally decided on one, but there and the shopkeeper broke the price one by one copper coins through the curtain.

Before I knew it, more than half an hour had passed.

Chen rubbed his waist several times in the middle, Yu Pozi turned back to look at the ladies intermittently, only to see that Mingyu had already fallen asleep on Ming Fei's body, Ming Pei also yawned with a delicate mouth, although Mingzi was still sitting upright, but his face was full of contempt and annoyance, only Ming Fei pricked up his ears and listened with relish. I couldn't help but sigh secretly.

Chen finally finalized the price, and after the steward took the shopkeeper out, and there were no outsiders, she spoke: "I have already negotiated the price, and now the four of you sisters have calculated, how much will it cost to prepare winter clothes at home this year?" ”

Mingyu opened her mouth and her face was red, she didn't know anything, and Chen didn't embarrass her, she only asked Zhou's mother to take her back to sleep, and told her not to get cold; Ming Pei could make up a number, but Chen threw it aside carelessly; Ming Fei had already divided the levels according to the age level of men and women according to the registered population of the Cai family in her heart, calculated the number of sets, and came up with the number, but because Mingzi's attitude today was too unusual, she didn't say it, she just pushed it and thought about it again, just waiting to see Mingzi's performance.

Mingzi had a smile on the corner of her mouth, touched her fingertips complacently, and opened her mouth to say: "There are a total of one hundred and twenty-three people in the family, and each person needs two sets of cotton clothes for a total of four catties of cotton, and three zhang six of the cloth...... Therefore, a total of one hundred and two taels of silver are needed. ”

Ming Fei was surprised, Ming Zi's calculation was not different from her's. Mingzi looked at Chen proudly, and then glanced at Ming Fei.

Chen's face was expressionless, and he turned back to ask Ming Fei noncommittally: "Have you calculated it?" ”

Ming Fei thought about it all the time, and finally decided to pretend to be a fool. Then he said embarrassedly: "My daughter is ashamed, she calculated that she had thirty taels of silver more than the fourth sister's, and she forgot to distinguish between men and women who are fat and thin." ”

Chen nodded, not disappointed, as if Ming Fei's miscalculation was in her expectation.

Mingzi bit Chen's and didn't let go: "Mother, is the daughter right?" ”

Chen smiled slightly: "That's right." You have grown a lot during this time, and the lord and I praised you, saying that you are the only one who reads, writes, paints, paints and plays the piano, and now it seems that your housekeeper is even more capable. In this case, Ming** will follow your third sister to help me do things. ”

scolded Ming Pei again: "You are not much younger than your fourth sister, and you don't know anything!" If you are more angry, I can teach you to do something else earlier, and you will not have to say that I favor one over the other all day. Learn more with your fourth sister when you're fine! ”

Ming Fei's heart jumped, it seemed that Chen was going to make Mingpei and Mingzi face each other, and he lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes at the moment, making a very ashamed look.

Mingpei was swept in public, so angry that she couldn't do it, she looked at Mingzi with her eyes, and when she saw Mingzi's smug face, she couldn't help but be more angry. I just think it's all Mingzi who harms her.

Chen said: "You all follow Mingzi to learn how to settle accounts." Talking about being tired, he went into the back room to rest, leaving only a few girls to look at each other.

Mingpei immediately fired at Mingzi: "Why did you suddenly become so powerful?" ”

Mingzi glanced at her contemptuously, ignored her at all, stood up and walked out.

Ming Fei didn't care about herself, and immediately sorted out her things and wanted to go back to the Embroidery Courtyard, Ming Pei hurriedly chased her out and grabbed her: "Third sister, did you deliberately let her just now?" ”

Ming Fei smiled and shook her head: "No, I am indeed inferior to the fourth sister." She has no feelings for these two girls at all, as long as they don't provoke her, Mingyu and Cai Guangting, they like to bite each other, and they have nothing to do with her, so naturally they can't have any thoughts of calming people.

Mingpei resolutely disagreed: "Impossible! Even if she is usually good at reading and is a good female celebrity, it is because she stays up late every day and does not sleep hard to barely catch up with you. If she's as busy as you are, she'll be about the same as me. You haven't been right with your mother's housekeeper for so long, she hasn't been exposed to these things at all, and she doesn't even know how many people in our family there are, how can it be right at one time? She must have a ghost! ”

Maybe she usually remembered it? It's just that you and I don't know. Ming Fei reassured her, "But either way it was the result of her efforts." You live in the same courtyard, and you happen to be studying with her. It's always good to have more skills. With that, he pulled away Mingpei's hand and walked away.

Ming Pei bit her handkerchief and stood there for a while, and walked towards the courtyard of the fourth aunt with a snort. Seeing the fourth aunt, he rushed over and hugged the fourth aunt's neck and cried: "Auntie wants to be angry for me......"

The fourth aunt has always been defeated recently, and the more she looks at the mirror, the more she feels that she is really old, so she is a little lazy, and at this moment she sees her daughter crying aggrieved, and she barely cheers up to wipe her tears: "What's wrong with you?" A few days ago, you were making a fuss about learning housekeeping from your wife. Didn't your father already tell his wife? I heard that Madame called you all over just now, isn't it for this? ”

Mingpei bit the clothes on her shoulder and cried, "What are you still saying! Madame called us all over and told us to calculate how much silver it would cost to add winter clothes to our house. But all the limelight was stolen by Mingzi alone, and even the third sister was not as accurate as her. I was scolded by my wife in front of everyone again! Every sentence is that I am not as good as her! ”

The fourth aunt held her forehead and sighed: "That's because you yourself are not promising, how can you complain about others?" Don't follow Mingzi, we can't afford to learn her temper. ”

Mingpei cried: "It's not! She doesn't even know the number of heads in our family, let alone made a single dress, how can she be so accurate? There are clearly ghosts! And the lady didn't say that if she was right, she could follow the third sister to learn housekeeping, so it can be seen that she immediately relieved when she was right. Eccentricity, this is eccentricity! She cheats, cheats! Woo - Madame is so eccentric! Daddy is also eccentric! I don't dare to compare with the third sister, but she is also a concubine, and there is a black-hearted mother and brother above, why does she always ride on my head? Always say I'm stupid, I'm not stupid, it's that she's too cunning. ”

The fourth aunt secretly thought that if this was the case, then this problem would be serious. In the past, Mingzi was favored, and Mingpei couldn't compare with her, but now Mingzi still wants to press Mingpei, but it can't be done, so she put on her shoes and rushed out to find Chen.

Seeing this, her personal maid Xiao Ai hurriedly grabbed her. Persuaded: "Auntie, if you go out to make trouble like this, if Mrs. asks you where the evidence is?" So what can you say? ”

When the fourth aunt heard this, it really made sense, so she asked Xiao Ai: "Then what do you say?" "Xiao Ai has always been her dog-headed military advisor, and occasionally she can come up with some good ideas.

Xiao Ai complained a little that she left all the good opportunities to Jiao Xing, and refused to leave them to herself, and she was a little Na Qiao at the moment: "The slave doesn't know what to do, I just know that you can't go like this." Maybe I will be scolded by my wife. ”

The fourth aunt saw through her intentions and sneered: "You don't know? You don't know and dare to speak? You think I don't know you... [This chapter is not finished, please click on the next page to continue reading!] ］