Chapter 8: A Little Trouble
Su Mei and the others knelt down, but no one took the initiative to accuse, and after the initial panic, they were a little unimpressed.
"Young lady, I..." Su Mei covered her cheeks with tears in her eyes to speak.
"I'll talk about it later." Qi Yue interrupted her, with a little impatience, "It's a disturbing dream early in the morning, Ah Hao comes in to comb his hair, Ah Ru prepares breakfast..."
So he went back into the house, and dried them up.
Su Mei bit her lower lip, her face was ashamed and angry, and she looked at Aru again.
Since the slap, Aru has been standing aside without speaking, and when he saw her look over, he turned around and left.
"What are you proud of..."Su Mei bit her lip and whispered, twisting the handkerchief in her hand fiercely, "Kneel and kneel, if you don't say anything black and white, I won't get up yet." ”
Qi Yue sat in front of the dresser, just in time to see the courtyard, and saw that the group of girls knelt obediently at the beginning, and after a while, they staggered to and fro, obviously rarely or for a long time have not suffered such a crime.
“… Originally, she was in front of the old lady like us, her old son was in charge of the carriage and horses, and it took a lot of work to send her to the old lady's courtyard, and she was courteous like a dog in front of her sister...."Ah Hao said, biting the head rope in his mouth, and beating Qi Yue's hair three times, "... The old lady is gone, she was assigned to the second lady's room, I don't know how to mix, and she went to the new aunt's room, this kind of rootless grass-like behavior, she was even promoted, and filled in the second-class girl in the aunt's room, and her tail was raised to the sky....madam, do you forget, the aunt's room is not qualified to match the big girl... She thought she could be on an equal footing with Sister Aru... I don't want to think about it, but it's in my aunt's room, or an aunt brought in from the outer room..."
Qi Yue only laughed when he heard it, he didn't expect that this maid team had so many twists and turns, so how complicated the personnel in this aristocratic family were.
This Dingxi Hou is an upstart, or now that the Great Xia Dynasty has not been established for a long time, basically the Manchu Dynasty is an upstart.
The first generation of Dingxi Hou is the founding of the country, followed the founding emperor to fight in the north and south, the father and son two generations earned this glorious family business, and now it is the third generation who grew up in the honey pot, after the old marquis is gone, the eldest son Chang Rong took the title, married the daughter of the Xie family of the capital family, and gave birth to the eldest son Chang Yuncheng, eighteen years ago Xie died of illness, the continuation of the room is the little sister of the Xie family, that is, the Dingxi Hou lady who is now the right family, in order to distinguish from the first lady, known as the little Xie family.
"Huh? Is it the sister-in-law who married her brother-in-law? Qi Yue looked back in surprise.
"Young lady, don't move." Ah Hao was sticking a hairpin on her head and said hurriedly.
"Don't take this with you, don't go out, feel more comfortable at home." Qi Yue pulled her hand down, smiled, and asked excitedly, "Tell me about this sister-in-law's marriage to her brother-in-law."
Ah Hao was about to say something, but Ah Ru came in with food, and when he heard this, he coughed.
"Young lady, it's time to eat." She said, glaring at Ah Hao again.
Ah Hao was very familiar with this look, and knew that he had said too many words and said the wrong thing again, so he stuck out his tongue and hurriedly followed the meal to stop the conversation.
The rice I ate was still radish pickles, millet porridge, dead noodles, cakes....
"Let's make pancakes next time, this dead noodle is heartburn." Qi Yue said.
Aru's face was a little ashamed.
"It's the slave who is blunt." She said.
"I'll go to the kitchen in a moment and ask how to do it." Ah Hao added on the side.
Qi Yue raised his eyes to look at the two of them.
"Oh." She suddenly said, "You two can't cook?" ”
No wonder this meal really doesn't have the feeling of an ancient wealthy family.
Hearing this, Ah Ru and Ah Hao laughed a little, they are the maids who accompany the housewife, and they are not cooks, how can they learn this.
Qi Yue also smiled.
"Don't ask, I'll do it." She said, standing up and walking out.
"Young lady, you have too little to eat, let's eat some more." Ah Hao looked at the rice porridge that had only moved a few bites, and hurriedly persuaded him.
"Don't rush, I'll eat later." Qi Yue waved his hand and said, stepping out of the door.
The two didn't know what she was going to do, so they had to keep along.
Su Mei and the others, who were kneeling in the courtyard here, heard the movement and looked up and saw Qi Yue coming out, and immediately knelt up straight, making a look of grievance and pride, but unexpectedly, the young lady who had only finished dressing up at three o'clock in the sun didn't look at them, and entered the kitchen in a few steps.
"Sister Sumei, if she doesn't call us up, she will keep kneeling?" A maid asked in a low voice.
Su Mei's lips were bitten, looking at the kitchen over there, the three masters and servants didn't know what to do, and there was a faint laughter.
"Kneel, what are you afraid of?" She sneered and replied to the girl, "In the past, when she had majesty, she was worse than her subordinates, but now she is not as good as a subordinate person, but I want to see what she can pose." ”
Although this young lady has been in Dingxihou Mansion for five years, two of them have followed the old lady, and it is not that these girls in the family can see each other, and then they have been locked up in the courtyard and disappeared in the past three years, and everyone is not familiar with the temperament.
"Sister Su Mei, you used to be in the old lady's house, and you are very familiar with the young lady, right? What's her temper? A girl asked in a low voice, "Let's follow you, so we can understand and have a sense of proportion in our hearts." ”
Oh my God, it's just a kneeling, and that's crispy? Su Mei squinted at this girl, and she will be a fourth-class girl for the rest of her life.
"Speaking of this young lady." She smiled with a little disdain, "When the old lady was here, I really loved her in every way, it wasn't that I was talking nonsense, I didn't have any hypocrisy, but the three young ladies in our family were all behind, if it weren't for outsiders not knowing, no one could guess that she was actually picked up from outside, and it was clearly an old girl who was a close relative..."
"It was the young lady who saved the old lady's life...", a girl whispered.
"Saved?" Su Mei cut her voice and pursed her lips, "What life can a fourteen or fifteen-year-old beggar girl save?" I don't know what means, so that the old lady is confused, and she just brings it in to raise it, just as a kitten and a puppy, and even pointed it out to the son, who is our son? ”
She was so angry that she couldn't stand anymore, and her face didn't hurt anymore, so she let go of her hand and shook the handkerchief.
"Sister Su Mei, she doesn't deserve to be known by everyone, isn't it time to say now, tell me quickly, her temper is a bastard or a mud?" The girl next to her hurriedly reminded.
Su Mei then turned back to the topic.
"I can't even mention this, as long as I mention it, I'm so angry that my liver hurts, don't even think about what Mrs. is angry, our wife was seriously ill at that time, and it definitely has something to do with this..."She stroked her chest and whispered, "Speaking of her, the orphan of her father and mother, without the discipline of her father and mother, she eats hundreds of meals, wears hundreds of clothes, and mixes in front of the temple all day long to grab food with a group of chickens and dogs. Not to mention that I didn't even dare to raise my head when I saw Mrs. Miss, even in front of us girls, she was like a grasshopper, she could be shocked all the time, and she had no temperament, no temperament, oh my God. I can't mention this again, why should I kneel to her! What a thing she's in! ”
She was about to get up as she spoke, but fortunately the girl next to her held her down.
"Whether she used to be a thing or not, now she is in this position in our house..."The girl smiled and held out two fingers at her and shook them.
The old lady in the mansion of the Hou Mansion in Dingxi is respected, and now that the old lady is gone, it is the eldest lady of the Hou Ye, and then there is the eldest daughter-in-law of the righteous and obedient son-in-law, the status of the eldest lady of the main house, the young ladies in the family are not comparable, and the concubines of the Hou Ye are even more backward.
"The position is that position, and it depends on who is on it." Su Mei snorted.
"It's quite hilarious."
The young lady's voice sounded, and a group of girls kneeling for a tea party were shocked to realize that the three people in the kitchen had come out.
"Young lady, slave maid..." Su Mei had no grievances on her face at this time, replaced by undisguised anger, and opened her mouth to speak.
"If you're so happy, let's talk about it for a while." Qi Yue smiled and waved his hand, and his footsteps did not stop and went straight into the house.
Su Mei was so angry that she almost looked up.
"Thread." She turned around and shouted behind her.
The rough girl who knelt at the end immediately knelt down and moved over.
"What does my sister command?" She asked.
"Get up and go." Su Mei said.
The rough girl didn't care about anything, she was impatient to kneel early, anyway, when the time came, she asked someone to stand up, and immediately stood up and turned her head and ran.
"Go and tell the mother in the hospital, if my aunt and grandmother come to me and take care of me, Su Mei can't leave the young lady's lesson." Su Mei didn't expect this girl to run away without saying a word or being polite, and hurriedly shouted and shouted slowly.
Fortunately, the girl didn't have any other skills, so she was still good at finding a backer to sue or something, and she disappeared in response.
Su Mei's voice was not loud or small, and the people in the room could hear it clearly.
"Young lady, she's gone to ask for help." Ah Hao stood at the door and shouted, "It's so bold that he ran away without permission." ”
Qi Yue was washing his hands in the basin of water that Ah Ru had brought and smiled when he heard this.
"I thought I had gone early, but now I'm going, it's real." She smiled and said to Ah Ru as she continued, "After a while, the noodles will be made, and I will make sugar cakes for you to eat." ”
"How dare you work young lady." Aru said with a worried face, "It's because we don't serve well.."
"Gee, don't talk about that." Qi Yue took the handkerchief and wiped her hands, Ah Ru went to pour water, Ah Hao was still standing at the door and watching, so she walked to the dresser by herself and pulled away the hand balm that Ah Ru gave her that day.
As soon as I finished wiping my hands, I heard Ah Hao shouting.
"It's coming, so soon." She said, with a little trepidation on her face, while looking out, "Oh, it's Mother Zhou...."
Hearing this, Ah Ru couldn't help but glance at Qi Yue, who was still in front of the dresser.
Qi Yue was still looking around.
"Where did it come from?" She asked casually.
"It's Madame who is in charge of the storeroom..."
The people who are in charge of the treasury, the people who are in charge of logistics, and the people who are in charge of finance, are all close to the leaders, and their natural status is not ordinary, Qi Yue nodded, put down the things in his hand and looked out, and saw a woman standing outside the door, followed by two or three women.
The woman was in her forties, dressed in a brown armor with a dark blue underneath, her hair neatly combed, her face round, and her facial features kind.
"What are you little hooves doing here early in the morning?" She looked at Su Mei and the others at a glance and asked, "Your aunt and grandmother are cleaning up the yard, and no one cares about a group of little girls running around, and you are getting bigger and bigger now..."
When Su Mei and the others saw her coming, they showed surprises and disbelief on their faces.
"Mommy, Mommy." Su Mei knelt down and came to her, crying and prostrating, and raised her head high so that the red marks and scratches on her face could be seen clearly, "I bumped into the young lady.."