Chapter XVI: Visitation

What does this mean, how could people like Mother Su not understand.

"Palm." The smile on her face suddenly disappeared, and she raised her thin eyebrows and said.

The women immediately knelt down, and whether they were talking or watching the excitement, they all began to slap themselves in the face, and the crackling sound sounded messily and crisply.

"Mother Su, this is not good, it was originally because of me, as the saying goes, those who don't know are not to blame, such a punishment, it seems that I am careful." Qi Yue said with a smile.

"Let's stop." Mother Su said again, her face guilty, "I don't recognize the young lady, it seems that the old eyes are dizzy and useless, you guys, you will leave here today, and you are not allowed to step into the inner courtyard in the future." ”

This might as well be slapped in the face, and several women immediately cried and begged to kowtow and drive them out of the inner courtyard, which cut off the family's way of life.

"Su's mother is too serious." Qi Yue said with a smile, "Don't be like this, there are all families, businesses, old and young, tigers are still napping, people are inevitably negligent, I have also been trained, Su's mother looks at my face, spare them." ”

"Young lady is magnanimous." Mother Su sighed and said, glaring at the women again, "Don't thank the young lady yet, the things that don't have long eyes." ”

The women knelt and kowtowed to Qi Yue to thank them.

"So I'll go first, Mother Su hurry up." Qi Yue asked them to get up and said to Su's mother with a smile.

Su's mother immediately followed closely, and it wasn't until Qi Yue said to stay, and walked away with the girl Ah Hao shaking her fan and smiling, she stood up straight, and there was no smile on her face.

"Get up." She looked at the women who were still kneeling there and said.

The women all got up, and one of them was about to complain.

"Alright, I'm not deaf yet, I hear it." Mother Su glanced at her and said lightly, "If you don't have that guts, don't say that rampant thing..."

The women listened to her with their heads bowed, and no one dared to speak.

"Let's go down." Mother Su stopped talking and waved her hand with a little impatience.

The women didn't dare to say a word, got up and hurriedly retreated.

"It turns out that Sister Zhou is not dazzled." Mother Su looked up again at the direction where Qi Yue went, there was no longer a figure of the master and servant, she muttered, her eyes were slightly condensed, "What I said today is more than what I have said in the past five years, and it is so good, it seems that the young lady's illness is going to be cured..."

She groaned for a moment, then reached out and gently brushed her sideburns.

"Let's go see if the eldest lady has finished eating? Is Master Hou still in the house or has he gone to the study? Su's mother turned her head and said.

The little girl behind her left in response.

What does Su's mother think here, Qi Yue didn't care, she thought about Fang Cai's matter, and asked Ah a good number of rules by the way, which she thought was quite interesting.

β€œ... According to what you say, I have the most status in this mansion except for the eldest lady? She asked with a smile.

Although those mothers-in-law can't hide their contempt for her, they kneel and kneel, and they don't dare to fight back, kowtow to apologize and thank you or something, but they are well-behaved, they don't care about looking down on them in their hearts, but there are rules to follow in their actions, this is really a bit contradictory, could it be that this is the inertia of the ancient dignity and inferiority?

"Young lady, do you still need to ask?" Ah Hao looked at her and said, thinking that this question was too stupid, "You are the young lady, the prince is going to be the lord, you are naturally the lady of the marquis, and you are the master of the Dingxi Hou Mansion." ”

"Then young lady, young masters or something..."Qi Yue asked again.

"You're the eldest sister-in-law." Ah Hao couldn't help but want to roll his eyes.

The eldest sister-in-law is like a mother, Qi Yue oh oh oh understood twice, shaking the little fan while laughing.

"So in this inner courtyard, I'm the second-in-command?" She said to herself, "But the second-in-command has always been in an awkward position, and it is not a good position..... so I have to ask this Mother Su for cards when I go out?" ”

She thought of something and asked.

"Of course not." Ah Hao said, a little crying and laughing, "You just talk to the eldest lady, how can a subordinate dare to care about your going out." ”

"Madame?" Qi Yue frowned and nodded, and did not speak again.

Entering the courtyard, the two were still a little uneasy, thinking about Aru.

β€œβ€¦ Aru's father died two years ago, only one younger brother, their family rented a house in the back alley outside the house to live, said that although they can't see Sister Aru from time to time, it is also good to be close to her, I used to follow the old lady, the old lady remembered that she was sold since she was a child, and it was easy for the family to forget the flesh and blood when she sold her daughter, and she was allowed to go out to see it during the New Year's holidays, but since we moved into Qiutong Courtyard, it was difficult for Sister Aru to go out, when the father died, if it wasn't for the last begging to go to the eldest lady, I was afraid that I wouldn't even see the last look..." Ah Hao sat on the small machine and said.

Qi Yue sighed, thought for a moment, and stood up.

"Let's go see her and see if there's anything we can do to help." She said.

Ah Hao was thinking about going, and stood up in surprise when he heard this.

"But I'll go by myself, young lady, you're a precious womanβ€”" she shook her head again.

A golden body? What is the price of a beggar girl, Qi Yue couldn't help but laugh.

"After all, you are a child's family, what is the use in case something happens, besides, I am a doctor... I am your master and your parent, and I don't care who cares. She said in her mouth, made up her mind, turned around and went to the house to carry the medicine box, and said that she would leave.

Ah Hao had to lead the way.

"I have to go and tell the eldest lady first." She reminded.

I don't know what will happen to meet this Mrs. Hou...

Judging from the fragmentary information I have received these days, I am afraid that my mother-in-law does not like her very much...

Qi Yue's thoughts were complicated and a little curious, but things were unexpected by her, she didn't even enter her mother-in-law's courtyard gate, and it was Su's mother who had just met her standing at the door to greet her.

"Master Hou is taking a nap inside, the young lady might as well come back later, if you have anything to say, just say to the old slave, don't work and go back and forth." Mother Su said with a smile.

Qi Yue couldn't ask for it and breathed a sigh of relief.

"Aru has been with me for so many years, I'm still not at ease, I'll take a look, it's not far, it's in our back alley, I'll come back when I go." She laughed.

"Oh, where did Aruna girl get the blessing to receive this, the young lady wants to kill her." Su's mother said hurriedly.

Qi Yue just smiled.

"Mom, give the eldest lady a reply for me." She said, but she didn't answer again, and didn't say more than half a word.

Mother Su was slightly stunned, she is the master, she is a subordinate, she can talk to the eldest lady about it, but there is no need to say more to herself, just send it away with a sentence....

"I want a few people at the door to follow..."She smiled and nodded, her heart was complicated, since Mrs. Hou went, she had become accustomed to the fact that there was only one master she served in this mansion, enjoying the flattery of the maids and sisters-in-law, the courtesy of the aunts, ladies and young masters, and she was used to forgetting that there was actually a woman in this mansion who could talk to her so politely....

Qi Yue, who had already turned around, didn't reply, and shook her with a small fan, signaling that she didn't need to.

Su's mother looked at her back and stood for a moment before turning around and going in.

The Rong'an courtyard was quiet, and the sleepy eyes of the few little girls standing under the porch were rolling but they didn't dare to close them at all.

Su's mother lifted the curtain and went in by herself.

There was no Hou Ye in the room, only Xie kneeling in front of the small Buddha statue beside him to chant scriptures, and a big girl next to him was burning incense.

Mother Su stood and waited until Xie put down the Buddhist beads, and she immediately stepped forward to help.

"It's very fast, a few days after beating chickens and scolding dogs, I started to walk through the alleys." Xie Shi sat down on the big kang on the side, took the tea brought by the girl, took a sip, and said lightly, "Let her go, go wherever she likes, let's see what tricks we can come out of." ”

Su's mother replied.

"Master Hou left the study, met Aunt Zhou's little girl on the way, and went to Aunt Zhou without knowing what to say." She said.

Xie sneered.

"Look, it's starting to jump, right?" She said, putting down the tea in her hand, "Didn't Aunt Zhu want to lift the girl in the house?" Go tell her to open her face. ”

Su's mother replied.

Xie leaned on the pillow and exhaled.

"How can one person be enough, only when there are more people can they sing, and the singing is lively." She said slowly, closing her eyes.

Su's mother and the girl helped her take off her shoes, served her to lie down and tiptoed out.

Here, Qi Yue and Ah Hao's master and servant didn't go back, and went straight through two or three courtyards to the back door, where three or four mothers-in-law were sitting at the door laughing.

"Which yard is the girl? On whose orders did you go out? What to do when you go out? The mother-in-law asked lazily.

"Akito-in." Ah Hao said, handing over Qi Yue's pair of cards.

"That's not right, it's not the pair of cards on Su's mother's side..."The mother-in-law is illiterate, only recognizes the color, "Where is this color?" ”

The mother-in-law next to her came over.

"Vermilion... Oh my mother...."She shouted, glaring at Ah Hao and Qi Yue, and finally her eyes fell on Qi Yue.

The woman in front of her combed her high sideburns and wore a goose yellow floral gauze white dress, describing her beautiful figure as graceful.

Qi Yue smiled at her.

"Less... Few.. Madam? The mother-in-law's eyes widened in disbelief.

Qi Yue nodded with a smile.

"I'm going out, my girl Aru's family is not very good, just now Su's mother has already taken the right card and sent it out, I'm not at ease, I'll take a look after dinner." She said.

The four mothers-in-law in front of him are still in a sluggish state.

"Maybe gone?" Ah Hao asked.

"Yes, yes, young lady, let's go, go and call a car for you." The mother-in-law came back to their senses, opened the door, opened the door, and talked nonsense.

"No, it's in the back alley, just a few steps away." Qi Yue smiled and stepped out of the door.

Watching the master and servant go out, the mother-in-law looked at each other for a moment.

"God, the young lady actually went out..."

"It's really alive..."

"Look at the complexion, it's even better than it was at the beginning..."

"After drinking Meng Po soup, the old lady personally sent it back, that's the ghost fairy, right?"

"Then the young lady is going to take charge of the house for the old lady?"