Chapter 47: Preparing a Gift
The old lady agreed to Mengxi's request to leave the house, and the eldest lady felt that it was unreasonable when she heard it, so she hurriedly got up and spoke out to dissuade her.
After listening to what the eldest lady said, the old lady said secretly: I also understand this reason, but when Jun'er is well, it is the day she goes to the court, and it is impossible to take her out of the house, she is not at fault but she is going to be forced to leave the court, and the Xiao family has ruined her innocence. Daughter-in-law, how do you know my painstaking efforts?
After pondering for a long time, the old lady said in a flat but unquestionable tone:
"Jun'er is served by Hongyu, it's not in the way, Xi'er fainted yesterday, I think it's boring in the house, it's good to go out for a walk, if the daughter-in-law is not at ease, send more maids and mothers-in-law to follow, and always mention it."
When the eldest lord and the eldest lady heard this, they knew that it would be useless to say more, so the eldest lady looked at Mengxi with a gloomy face and signaled her to refuse the matter.
For the eyes of the eldest lady, Mengxi of course understood what she meant, jokes, and asked her to refuse, that was not in vain for a long time, Mengxi pretended not to understand what the eldest lady meant, and briskly stepped forward to the old lady:
"Granddaughter-in-law Xie Taijun is complete, and granddaughter-in-law will go back to prepare and retire first"
Ignoring the eldest lady's instantly cold gaze, she said goodbye to everyone indifferently, and walked out slowly with Hongzhu. Since she has done everything she can, she can't win the favor of the second master and the eldest wife, and she can't change the fate of her going to the court, so it's better not to do it from the beginning, whether the second master and the eldest lady treat her well or badly, what can she do, she only lives the days when she laughs and watches the clouds roll up.
Seeing that Mengxi ignored her hints, the eldest lady was suddenly so angry that she gritted her teeth secretly: "Li Mengxi, let's go, I don't believe that you can turn the world over in this Xiao Mansion, let's play slowly."
The hand hidden under the sleeve trembled, turned back to the chair and sat down, and his face was back to normal.
Uncle Xiao Qing and third master Xiao Yun looked at the back of Mengxi leaving, and said secretly: The old lady really worships this second grandmother to the sky, so that her life can be better.
Hongzhu helped the second grandmother out of the gate, only to soften down, and found that she had just broken out in a cold sweat:
"The second grandmother is really a little abrupt today, looking at the eldest lady's face today, I'm afraid that the second grandmother will not have a better life in the future"
Hongzhu really can't stand their second grandmother, it's really not a moment of peace, the clear-eyed person knows at a glance that the second master and the eldest lady don't favor this grandmother, she should stay in the house and serve the second master well, thinking about pleasing the second master and mother-in-law, how can this demon moth come out, go back to Xiaoxiang Courtyard, the second master will have a seizure, only suffer them who are slaves, such a master, can't ask for the slightest bit of goodness, see the world and worry about it, so coldly said to the second grandmother.
Mengxi knew that she was worried about herself, and just now she felt that her hand holding her was trembling, knowing that she was frightened, and she didn't blame her for being rude to herself, but just helped her hand and got on the sedan chair, Hongzhu put down the sedan curtain, ordered to get up the sedan chair, and walked towards Xiao Xiangyuan.
The eldest lady returned to her courtyard from the old lady, picked up the tea set on the table and smashed it all the way, and Baozhu and Ziyue persuaded on the side:
"This slut, how can she still have me as a mother-in-law in her eyes, she can't think of me if she has good things, so she doesn't send them over, she even pretends not to understand my eyes, it's really getting more and more lawless"
"Mrs. is angry, the slave and maid look at her arrogance today, I don't think she is a scheming person, Mrs. slowly picks her wrong, listening to the people in the second master's house, the second master does not spoil her at all, since she accepted the red jade, she stayed in the red jade house every day, yesterday she fainted, the second master didn't go over to take a look, want to come to us to deal with her, the second master will not interfere, the eldest lady is a noble person, and she can't hurt her body for this idea."
Ziyue said as she motioned for the little maid to clean up the smashed teacups on the ground.
When the eldest lady heard Ziyue say that the second master did not spoil the second grandmother, the anger in her heart disappeared, and she said in her heart: What if the old lady spoils you, how long can the old lady live? Little slut, what if you want to tie Jun'er up in your house and give Jun'er a room? It's not that I don't go to your house.
"Ziyue, tell the housekeeper Xiao An, the house is getting tighter and tighter now, the requirements in the second grandmother's house, except for the second master's, everything that is not too important is not urgent, let him watch and deal with it."
When Mengxi returned to Xiaoxiang Courtyard, the aunts were already waiting, Mengxi came all the way to the hall and sat down, let the aunts come in and ask for peace, passed the meal, and had a meal under the service of the aunt, removed the table, sat down again, and served tea again, Mengxi looked at the four aunts standing on both sides and said:
"Who is in charge of the money and property in our courtyard now?"
"Back to the second grandmother, these are temporarily managed by the concubine, and the accounts of the past two days have been sorted out, thinking about the two days to be handed over to the second grandmother," Aunt Wang stepped forward and said.
"No, you can keep in charge."
Everyone was shocked, thinking to themselves which one these two grandmothers were singing? As soon as Mengxi opened her mouth just now, everyone knew that the second grandmother wanted to take power, and the eldest aunt listened to Mengxi's words, and secretly asked if the second grandmother was angry that she had not handed over the power for a long time, so she hurriedly stepped forward and said.
"The second grandmother killed the concubine, it used to be because there was no master mother in this courtyard, the second master saw the concubine enter the door at the earliest, so let the concubine take care of it, and now, the master mother has entered, these should have been taken over by the master mother, but the first concubine wanted to clean up the accounts and hand them in, and the second because the second master was sick, the second grandmother has been taking care of the second master, and has not been idle, so it has been delayed for a few days, and now the second grandmother has time, and she should take over."
The eldest aunt said, viciously glanced at the red jade standing on the side, and said in her heart, the second master has this to serve, the second grandmother will pour out her hand, for the red jade, these four aunts are all the same jealousy in their hearts, how the second grandmother says that they are the main mother, they are incomparable, even if they work together to get the second grandmother out, they can't be the main mother, but the red jade is different, she is just a room, and now she dominates the second master every day, that is to take away their favor, I heard that the second master has been staying in the red jade room every day these days, these days, They had already transferred their jealousy towards the second grandmother to Hongyu, especially Aunt Li, who couldn't wait to tear and crumple that delicate face to see how she seduced the second master.
"This matter is not in a hurry, the eldest aunt continues to take care of it, I asked about this matter, thinking that tomorrow the uncle will leave the house, we should have prepared some gifts to send over, I don't know this kind of thing, there was a practice in the courtyard before?"
"Second grandmother, there is no convention here, it is all sent according to the second master's will, it is nothing more than some cotton satin and the like"
"If you want to say that in this cotton section, Yun Mian, Su Mian, and Gong Satin are the best, I don't know if there are these in our hospital?"
"Second grandmother, the palace satin was originally there, and it was rewarded by the noble concubine in the palace, but the last time the cousin came, she said that she liked the palace satin the most, and the second master ordered the concubine to find it out and send it over."
The eldest aunt glanced at the second grandmother as she spoke.