The old lady was interrupted by Wu Yuan like this, and seemed to remember who Chun Tao was.

"Is that the maid who hid your mother's trip to the capital last time? The maid who was locked up in the firewood room? ”

"Isn't that her? If you want me to say, such a maid is too bold, she dares to hide it and not tell the master of the family, last time fortunately, your mother didn't have an accident, if something happens, this girl can't be beaten to death. Cui Shi hurriedly dissuaded Wu Yuan, "Such a maid can't stay by your side, Yuan Niang, you are young, you should keep a loyal and honest maid by your side, and if there is something to do, you can inform all of us, a maid like Chun Tao would not dare to stay by your side." If it weren't for the fact that she was your mother's personal maid, she would have been kicked out of the Wu family a long time ago. ”

"Grandmother, second aunt, you misunderstand Chun Tao, the reason why Chun Tao did that was personally told by my mother, and she swore an oath, otherwise she would not dare to do that if she was given dozens of guts. Chun Tao has always served my mother closely, and since I was born, Chun Tao has always served me, I can also trust her, our middle court is now she in charge of those trivial things, and she is more authoritative in front of the next person, and I am used to her serving. After my mother went to Qiongzhou, she was the one I was familiar with, so it was better to be her, if my grandmother and second aunt were not at ease, I could also assign a maid later. Grandmother, what do you say, your granddaughter has never opened her mouth to your grandmother, isn't she just a subordinate, grandmother, you can agree. Wu Yuan said coquettishly on the lap of the old lady of the Wu family.

"Okay, okay, it's all up to you. Whoever you like is the housekeeper of the courtyard, let whoever you like, it is your own courtyard after all, and you can't let our Yuan Niang lose her prestige in front of the subordinates. That's it, get up quickly, go back to rest early after dinner, and go to school early tomorrow morning. The old lady of the Wu family was coaxed by Wu Yuan's coquettish little daughter, so she could only agree.

Seeing this, Cui Shi didn't say much, and waved his handkerchief to let the three maids retreat.

Cui Shi smiled and said to the old lady: "Mother, you see, our Yuan Niang is old and has her own ideas. If the subordinates don't listen to the call, Yuan Niang, you must tell the second aunt, and the second aunt will help you teach them a lesson. In a few days, I will choose a few good little maids to serve in your house, you are all going to school, it is not good to serve without a personal maid, the girl of your third aunt's family, your sister Yijin has several personal maids to serve, you are the eldest daughter of our Wu family, and you can't miss the personal maid to serve, everything must be matched, and the style of an eldest daughter is. ”

Seeing this, Wu Yuan couldn't excuse himself, nodded and said to Cui's with a smile: "Yes, then thank you for your trouble." ”

She didn't want a personal maid to serve, but what the second aunt said also made sense, according to the rules, she should indeed have all the manpower. It's just that she followed Old Man Sun to study medicine, and it was inconvenient for her to take her subordinates to the broken courtyard.

Wu Yuan thought that he would only find a way to get rid of these subordinates when he went to Old Man Sun's courtyard in the future, after all, those poisonous herbs made people know. The elders of the Wu family knew that she was studying medicine, but they didn't know that she was studying the secret medicine that had been passed down from the court of the previous dynasty. Many things from the previous dynasty are still taboo in this dynasty.

After finishing dinner in Sanfutang, Wu Yuan said goodbye to everyone and returned to the middle courtyard with his servants.

Chun Tao saw Wu Yuan and his party from a distance, and hurriedly greeted him, "Miss, you're back." ”

After Wu Yuan entered the house, he said to Chun Tao with a smile: "I have already told my grandmother, and my grandmother has also agreed that you will be the housekeeper of the middle court, Aunt Chun Tao, in the future, the trivial matters of the middle court will be handed over to you, I think you have to choose a few trustworthy people and put them in my house." The housekeeper in the courtyard and the mother-in-law have to be screened, and the second aunt said that she would arrange a few personal maids for me to serve in the middle courtyard in a few days, I thought, some things should not be known to too many people, just take my medical studies as an example, the next person sometimes knows more mistakes. ”

Chun Tao thought that it was indeed not appropriate to publicize the matter of studying medicine, it would hinder the reputation of the girl's family, and it seemed that the people in the courtyard would have to be rectified.

Wu Yuan entered the house, looked at the neat stack of account books, and shouted a headache, so many account books want to see the Year of the Monkey and Ma Yue, so he can only read it bit by bit.

Seeing Wu Yuan's nerve-wracking appearance, Chun Tao pursed her lips and snickered, and said, "Miss, in fact, you don't have to be so troublesome, I think you can discuss with Mr. Li in the future, and after teaching the daily compulsory courses, I will teach you arithmetic for an hour every day." Step by step, look at it slowly. ”

When Wu Yuan heard it, it was really a good idea, there were ready-made teachers who didn't ask for advice, and he was still gnawing on books here, which was really stupid. At that moment, I decided to propose to Mr. Li Qing to start teaching arithmetic after class tomorrow.

Wu Yuan slowly flipped through it, and saw that the account book was really jerky and difficult to understand, and asked Chun Tao to take out the title deed of the shop in the middle courtyard, and the whole stack was stored in a small suitcase, Wu Yuan counted the title deeds, a full fifty, and couldn't help but smack her tongue, she knew that the Wu family was rich, but she didn't know that the private treasury of the middle courtyard was so rich.

Chun Tao smiled and said to Wu Yuan: "These don't include the marriage of the eldest grandmother." When the eldest grandmother married into the Wu family, she was ten miles of red makeup, and she carried eighty boxes, if it weren't for your mother's fear of being too ostentatious, the uncle of the Zhuang family was only afraid of adding it, your uncle loved your mother the most, for fear that your mother would come to the Wu family and be wronged, so there were many deeds to marry the shop. ”

As she spoke, Chun Tao took out the key that Zhuang gave her for safekeeping, opened the box pressed at the bottom, and took out a small box from it.

After Wu Yuan opened it with the key, he saw that the carved box was full of deed tickets, as well as the private seal of the Zhuang family.

"Miss, you have put away the key, this thing can't be lost." Chun Tao firmly tied a red rope to the key, and said carefully, "The middle courtyard has always been the residence of the long house, and it is the center of the Wu family, now the uncle and grandmother are not there, the second master is in charge, I have to say a heart-wrenching word, miss, you have to arrange these things early, the second grandmother is not a good talker, we have spread among the people, saying that it came from the second room, the second grandmother is already preparing to let the second room live in the middle courtyard, after all, the middle courtyard is the residence of the heir of the Wu family." Listening to Mama Zhu of Sanfutang, the second grandmother had gone to Sanfutang to beg the old lady several times for this matter, but the old lady never answered. If the second grandmother really wants to live in the middle courtyard, miss, you have to think about how to pack these things up. ”

It was the first time Wu Yuan had heard of such a thing, although she knew that Cui's was a shrewd person, but the second aunt was also kind to her on weekdays, and she had always been very elder-like.

She thought, the second aunt is also from the official lady, so she shouldn't be so embarrassed, maybe there is no one in the Wu family's house now, and the people are just chewing their tongues among themselves.

Wu Yuan didn't take Chun Tao's words to heart, but just said lightly, "I know." ”

Chun Tao withdrew from the house, and Wu Yuan took the medical book given by Old Man Sun and looked at it on the Luohan bed, and fell asleep in a daze.