Jin Chao dressed and sat on the big kang near the window, leaning on the big pillow, and under his body was a cushion with gold silk embroidered cloud crane pattern. After a while, light footsteps were heard.

When she looked up, she saw a black head crawling on the ground, combed in a bun, clean and without any ornaments. Qingpu's voice was very steady and clear: "Slave Qingpu to meet Miss." ”

She stayed in the Ji family when she was a child, Qingpu always stood behind her, she had practiced martial arts, and she was taller than ordinary women, very powerful. She wanted a bird's nest on the tree, she wanted a bunch of beautiful locust flowers, and they were all green pus who climbed up the tree to help her pick them. She doesn't talk much, and she's not a smart person, but she's loyal and treats her very well.

Qingpu should be eighteen years old this year, which is long past the age suitable for marriage.

Jin Chao got off the kang and bent down to help her up. Qingpu is still what she remembers, but she has lost a lot of weight, her face is not as good-looking as before, her skin is sallow, she took Qingpu's hand, Qingpu was a little shocked, the master and the servant are different from each other, how could the young lady pull her hand!

Jin Chao didn't want her to pull it back, but looked at the crisscrossing lines of her palms and asked her, "How did you get this?" ”

Qingpu trembled for a moment, and whispered: "The slave maid chopped wood in the small kitchen, and it was only a small injury." ”

Jin Chao frowned, she hadn't chopped firewood, if she was just chopping firewood, how could she make it like this!

She looked straight at Qingpu's face and asked her, "Did Gu Lan treat you badly?" ”

Qingpu replied: "No, it's just that the slave maid has practiced martial arts, so she wants the slave and maid to chop wood with their hands instead of an axe." The slave maid can still do it, the young lady's daughter's body, the slave's hands are rough, don't hurt the young lady. ”

Jin Chao remembered that when she was in the Ji family, Qingpu also took her to climb trees and catch birds, and later was found and sued by other maids, and her grandmother punished her for kneeling outside the door for two days. Jin Chao took the muffins, mung bean cakes, and sugar candy he ate in his arms for her, and Qingpu ate them in the palm of her hand, and licked every bit of pastry crumbs.

She suddenly felt a pain in her heart, and her voice became weaker: "Do you blame me for sending you down?" ”

Qingpu smiled and shook his head: "Back then, Miss saved the life of the slave maid, the life of the slave and the maid was Miss's, what did the young lady want the slave to do, the slave and the maid would do it, how could I blame you." ”

Jin Chao didn't relax when he heard this, although Qingpu is still the same Qingpu, but after all, the two are not intimate before, too, how can they not hold grudges. She only likes Qingpu to be able to hate her less, so she can slowly compensate her.

Jin Chao thought for a while before he said: "In the future, you will still come back to serve me closely, and the monthly rules will be according to the second-class maid, and everything else will be compared to the first-class maid...... Would you like to? ”

Qingpu knelt down and kowtowed, and said, "The slave maid can come back to serve the young lady, naturally happy!" "Her father was a gardener of the Ji family, her mother died early, her father loved to drink, often drunk, and he beat and scolded her more than once Qingpu was almost killed, and his whole body was bruised, it was that time, the young Jin Dynasty saved her, but it was a sentence of kung fu, and she has been loyal to her since then.

Qingpu's face moved slightly, and she hesitated for a moment, she suddenly whispered: "Miss, the slave maid has been in Cuixuan Courtyard for a year, and some things can still be understood...... You should beware of Miss Two. ”

Jin Chao saw that her face was serious, but he smiled and said, "I know, you have only been here for a short time, so let's go down and rest first." ”

Anyway, Qingpu is still sincerely loyal to her.

After Qingpu left, Jin Chao sat quietly on the big kang and thought about the maid beside him, and if even the maid around her was not loyal to him, then the road behind her would be difficult to walk. Jin Chao wanted to clean up the maids around him first, and she definitely couldn't ask for incense.

How could she not see clearly what happened just now, the hot water brought by Liuxiang can blister the skin, how can it be used for her washing. Under her nose, Liuxiang didn't know how to restrain herself, and Caifu didn't dare to defend herself when she was bullied! How did you choose this maid back then?

The origin of the incense may need to be more clarified. Maybe someone should find a look.

Except for Liuxiang, Caifu is good, and it can be used to exercise, but Bai Yun is not smart enough, and the other two girls are too young......

Jin Chao was thinking about this, and Bai Yun came to see her mother.

Jin Chao's spirit was shocked, it must be about the register, and she really wanted to know what she had and how much she had in her family.

Tong's mother wore a little more oil and gold hairpin today, looking beaming, holding a booklet with cyan moire in her hand.

“…… It took a day for the young lady to point out everything. ”

Jin Chao took the booklet and read it, and couldn't help but be secretly embarrassed when he read it. She knew that she had a lot of things when she was young, but she didn't expect there to be so many. Antique calligraphy and paintings, household items, vases and utensils, gold and silver jewelry, the number is dazzling.

Five bats offer longevity a pair of twelve golden hairpins, four pairs of gem-inlaid silver filigree buns, seven pairs of jade bracelets, two boxes of yellow prehnite stones, and five boxes of gold and silver treasures...... 10 pieces of blue and white porcelain, 4 pieces of red porcelain, 7 pieces of cloisonné, and 8 pieces of white porcelain......

In the same way, one by one, her property actually has 10,000 taels of silver, which is worth a year's income of the Gu family.

Most of them were brought back by her from the Ji family or sent by her grandmother every month, and the Ji family has a big business, and there is no shortage of these.

Tong's mother smiled and continued: "Seeing that it is about to reach the end of the year, it will be the second lady's gift soon after the New Year's pass, and you can also prepare some gifts for giving and rewarding." The slave and maid looked at the silver nude with moire prints, several pairs of red gold carved hairpins, Duan inkstone and Chengni inkstone...... What do you think? ”

Another month is the end of the year, when the time to visit relatives and friends to give gifts is indispensable, not to mention that she has already passed the marriage, but has not yet decided on the marriage, her mother must want her to go more noble home. Not to mention anything else, the Ji family, the Yongyang Bo family, the Song family who live in Sili Hutong, and the Dingguo Gong Fan family and the Gu family's ancestral family in Luoxian Hutong, they are all going to go.

However, Tong's mother's words reminded her of one thing.

The New Year is approaching, and her brother Gu Jinrong should also come back.

Father felt that it was not good to raise Gu Jinrong at home after all, he was the only man in the family, everyone doted on him, I was afraid that he would be drowned, and after he was eight years old, he was sent to Qifang Hutong to study, where there were two respected old bachelors of the Hanlin Academy who started classes, and many disciples of the Shixun family went to Qifang Hutong to study, and even the two sons-in-law of Zhenwei Hou Shizi and Dingguo Gong were all there.

Jin Chao thought of Gu Jinrong, so he asked Tong's mother: "Since it's coming to the end of the year, when will the eldest young master come back?" ”

Tong's mother smiled and said, "...... said that within three or five days, Mrs. asked Jingfangzhai next to Juliu Pavilion to clean up and live when the eldest young master came back. The slave and maid prepared two inkstones, and the young lady could give them to the eldest young master. ”

Jin Chao nodded and said, "You have a heart." "I thought in my heart that it might not be good to send an inkstone, since Gu Jinrong is studying in Qifang Hutong, then I must have seen a lot of good inkstones, although her few square inkstones are of high quality, but they are not famous after all.

She actually didn't know Gu Jinrong, she lived in the Ji family before she was nine years old, and the two sisters and brothers met only at the end of the year and the Mid-Autumn Festival, and they couldn't say a few words, and when she returned to the Gu family, Gu Jinrong moved to Qifang Hutong to study, and only came back at the end of the year. Thinking about it now, my impression of Gu Jinrong is very vague. I don't know what this brother likes, she likes it.

Jin Chao instructed Tong's mother: "Go and ask Mother Xu beside her mother, she must know the eldest young master very well, what he likes and dislikes, and what habits he has on weekdays, ask clearly." ”

Tong's mother promised, and Jin Chao thought of the origin of Liuxiang again, beckoned her to come closer, and whispered, "Other...... Find a girl you can trust, go and find out the origin of Liuxiang, don't leak the news. ”

Tong's mother was a little surprised: "...... Miss means ......" Before she finished speaking, she immediately changed her words again, "The slave is too talkative, what Miss tells must be done, and the slightest rumor will not leak out." ”

She is a sensible person, Jin Chao is still quite satisfied with Tong's mother, and because she is a mother's person, she trusts three points. However, after all, Tong's mother is a servant woman in the inner courtyard, and it is probably inconvenient to inquire about the outer courtyard and even other places in Shi'an.

Liuxiang said that she had a brother who worked as a miscellaneous ...... in the Yu family

It would be great if I could find out her brother.

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