was stirred up by the topic of playing chess, and Mama Leng had been hanging there for a long time, until the chessboard was put on the table, He Angelica and Mrs. Su quietly played a stick of incense for a while, and she was asked by her mother-in-law to "concentrate on playing chess", so she didn't care about talking to Mama Leng at all. What is admirable is that Mama Leng is well-bred and patient, and she knelt on the ground from beginning to end, waiting silently.

Of course, "good cultivation" is just He Angelica's personal assumption, the actual situation is that Mama Leng knows Mrs. Su's temper deeply, no matter what chess and cards she plays, even fighting paintings, fighting grass, and fighting crickets, she likes to win or lose. If you win, you will be happy, if you lose, you will be unhappy on the one hand, and on the other hand, you will pull the other party to continue to fight until Mrs. She has won a big victory.

This is probably the reason why Mrs. Su can "have few opponents in the palace", and Meng Xuan is busy and busy with business, and Mrs. Su can't keep him if she wants to keep him playing chess, which is probably the reason why only Meng Xuan plays chess and wins Mrs. Meng in the Meng Mansion.

Mama Leng thought in her heart, when Mrs. Su won a game and was in the best mood, she would report to her the evil deeds of Grandma Seven and avenge her grievances, so as to ensure that she could succeed. But Mama Leng is illiterate, she doesn't know anything about the rules of Go, and she doesn't know that chess players can control the rhythm.

After only playing a stick of incense, He Angelica figured out Mrs. Su's chess path, although there are some merits, but he is definitely not a master. If she is really the "first person in the Meng family", it must be because the level of the Meng family is generally low.

"Mama, I didn't hear what you just said, can you say it again?" He Angelica turned his head to look at Mama Leng.

Mama Leng knelt up straight and said with a smile: "The master plays Go, how quiet and beautiful he is, how dare I speak and disturb the master's interest." If Grandma Seven blames me for losing for a while, the old slave can't afford to bear it. Let's wait until this game is over. Outside of the words, it has been decided that Mrs. Su has won.

He Angelica said with a smile: "Then please stand up and wait, otherwise your knees will be sore." ”

"Grandma don't bother, I'll wait on my knees." Mama Leng thanked her. She took the "mourning route", and speaking on her knees was more effective than speaking while standing.

In fact, she herself has no grudge against the new grandmother of the seventh house, and it is the first time she even meets, but five out of ten people who were sent out of the garden by the seventh grandmother that day are very familiar with her. Several grandmothers and the mothers of the maids such as Lu Yuan are all old courtiers who have been in the Meng family for decades, and the seventh grandmother said that they would take it, served their rice bowls, and hurt their faces, which can be said to be a public anger.

Those people carried gifts and wrapped in purses, and they all came to Mama Leng to talk about the item, and finally Mama Leng summed up, since Grandma Leng is an unreasonable person, then everyone doesn't have to ask her to intercede, just wait until Mrs. comes back, and go to Mrs. to plead!

The opportunity is coming, the news of the wife's return to the house has just reached the ears, followed by the news that the wife asked several grandmothers to go to Xiangyun Garden to play cards, and then I heard that the seventh grandmother was late to play cards and was punished by the wife. Such a good opportunity, of course, Mama Leng would not miss it, so she rushed to poke out this matter in front of his wife.

Now wait for the opportunity for my wife to win chess and be happy, tell me about the expulsion of nearly 20 subordinates in the "Three Gardens", ask for the grace of the master, and give another chance to stay. Grandma Seven is a new daughter-in-law, and the first thing she wants to do is to make a good impression in front of her strange mother-in-law, and she will definitely not hold on to the trivial matters of a few subordinates, so that Mrs. thinks she is willful, snarky, and intolerant. If the parties have nothing to say, Mrs. Su will definitely agree.

This is Mama Leng's wishful thinking, she thinks that the abacus is playing loudly, and she is already laughing in her heart, just waiting for her wife to win the chess, just waiting to win the chess......

Half an hour later, Mama Leng, who was still kneeling on the ground, couldn't laugh out loud - why did it take so long to play a game of chess?

Mama Leng knelt up straight, looking at the chessboard on the table, there were many squares horizontally and vertically, as long as they were covered with those black and white chess pieces, it must be over, right? Mama Leng had hope in her heart, and when she saw that the chessboard was almost full, Grandma Seven played another blackspot, and then she smiled and collected the white pieces on the chessboard, and took away a large handful, and emptied the chessboard, which undoubtedly showed that ...... That game is not over yet!

As the chess game deepened, it became more and more brain-draining, and Mrs. Su had to think about it for half a day every time; He Angelica was not slow to play and did not deliberately delay time, but when it was time for her chess to close the net, she would eat white seeds from time to time and make more battlefields.

An hour later, Mama Leng couldn't kneel anymore, her legs and feet had always been inconvenient, and she had been frozen by the bluestone slab for an hour, and she might not be able to hurt at night.

Mrs. Su's pair of red phoenix eyes stared at the chessboard with good eyes, and she looked like she was in a game of chess.

The fourth grandmother Liu sitting behind Mrs. Su is a newcomer like He Angelica, although she has the intention to give Mama Leng a step down, and the two sides have a good relationship, so that they can get back to her dowry girl as soon as possible, but Liu has already made a mistake, for fear that making a noise will disturb her mother-in-law's train of thought, and provoke her mother-in-law's suspicion, so she doesn't dare to say a word.

The Shang family and the Lu family have a little bit of a big holiday with Mama Leng, first, they want to see Mama Leng eat deflated, and secondly, they want to watch the fire from the other side, to see how this cowardly and delicate seventh brother and sister copes. The news of the seven-room dispatch of nineteen maids and grandmothers has already spread like news at home, not only the Shang family and the others know, but even Mrs. Su, who went to listen to the play outside the house, may have heard about it. Now they all pretend not to know, and naturally have their own plans in their hearts.

He Angelica persuaded her to stand up and wait again, and this time, Mama Leng hurriedly thanked her and got up tremblingly. She regretted it in her heart, knowing that it was such a chore, she should not accept the old goods of the "Three Gardens".

She also knows the details of those people, they are simply absent from work for many years, taking wages for nothing, and sometimes eating wine and gambling in the garden. However, the seventh master is all messing with them, who cares. In the past few years, there have only been a slight downsizing, and Mrs. has not paid attention to this problem. Those people are all tigers in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king, and he is about to become a fine man.

"Smack!" A chess piece slapped crisply on the chessboard, startling Mama Leng for a moment.

After watching the chess, Shang and the others looked at each other, is this......

This girl actually won her mother-in-law!

She dared to win her mother-in-law! Alas, Shang and the others sighed in their hearts, they were really young and ignorant, they won a game of chess for the first time, don't they know how to respect their elders. After playing for more than an hour, he won the mother-in-law "with difficulty", and it seems that his chess skills are not good. Don't they have the ability to win against their mother-in-law's chess? It's not that they can't, it's that they don't want to. He Angelica is a little clever when he wins chess, and it is great wisdom when they lose chess. As a daughter-in-law, there is a deep knowledge in this.

Mama Leng can't read chess, but she can understand the master's face. Mrs. Su's gaping nostrils and unclosed pale lips showed that she did not look like a winner. Sure enough, Mrs. Su held her breath and said, "I also have a chance to win, don't be complacent, I'll win it back immediately!" ”

Mrs. Su lost, so it is not suitable to talk about the public case of the nineteen subordinates now, but Mama Leng knelt on the ground and trembled when she stood now.

Thinking of waiting for Mrs. to win chess again, she would have to stand empty for another hour or two, Mama Leng trembled even more, so she said the matter regardless of thirty-seven twenty-one: "Madame Rongyu, the day before yesterday, the seventh grandmother sent a total of nineteen maids and grandmothers in the three gardens to the old slave, and said that if the family has a child, he will find another master, and the one bought from the human tooth will be sold again, in short, the seventh grandmother will not want it." Those people wept endlessly, shouting that they were wronged, and the old slave couldn't bear to rearrange the errands for the nineteen people—the slaves brought out by the master must have made a big mistake, and they won't accept it in other courtyards. So the old slave wanted to say a favor in front of his wife and give those people a chance to turn over. ”

Originally, Mama Leng wanted to complain to Grandma Seven in tears first, and then plead with Mrs. Leng instead, but now Mama Leng just wants to make a quick decision and deal with the favors of those mothers-in-law in the past. As for the results, it's not her concern, anyway, she's just a lobbyist, and if things don't work out, it won't affect her.

In the gap between the maid's chess pieces, Mrs. Su touched the tea in her hand and cooled, and she was unhappy, and hummed: "I just came home, don't tell me these things." She glanced at Shang, "It's not for you to act as an agent, why don't you mediate and mediate from the middle?" ”

Shang smiled dryly: "The seventh brother and sister don't think it's good, how can I have a reason to force it back to her, or my mother-in-law will listen to the seventh brother and sister, will you let those people serve her again?" ”

This question is a trap, if He Angelica wants to say that she is unwilling, then she has to say the crimes of those subordinates, and it is obviously not enough to be "absent from work". If He Angelica was forced by the situation to take back those maids, then what she did the day before yesterday would be regarded as unreasonable and rumored to be a laughing stock. It's a dilemma.

"Madam, the chess is ready." The maid reminded.

"Come again!"

Mrs. Su rolled up her sleeves, with a posture of wanting to do a big job, and she was not humble enough to give in to the problem of first hand and then hand, and "snapped" to occupy a few gold-edged silver horns, and played five sons in a row, which was equivalent to He Angelica letting her make five moves. It didn't even go through He Angelica's consent, which is really shameless.

He Angelica gave up his life to accompany the gentleman, and if her mother-in-law wanted to play chess, she would accompany her to the end. Playing chess needs to be quiet, and the short conversation ended, and Mama Leng had to continue to wait.

Because He Angelica was hungry, the second game didn't last long, and he easily won in half an hour. She turned her head to look at Mama Leng for the first time, and smiled apologetically: "Let Mama run away in vain, I can't talk about the favor of those people." ”

"Grandma Seven has just become their master, do you want to be more tolerant and give them another chance?" Mama Leng smiled stiffly and pleaded.

He Angelica shook his head with a smile, then turned his head and asked Mrs. Su's maid where the tearoom was, and then went to the tearoom. After a while, the maid divided the black and white chess pieces, and He Angelica came back with a pot of Lu'an melon slices and two plates of loose dim sum.

Her move won the favor of everyone, including the Shang family, because everyone was thirsty and hungry. Mrs. Su concentrated on playing chess, her mouth was dry, and the tea in her hand was cold after being changed twice. The Shang family didn't want the maid to serve tea, so they could only sit and accompany their mother-in-law to share weal and woe.

A few cups of yellow tea soup were poured out, and Mrs. Su also smelled the fragrance, drank three cups in one go, sighed comfortably, and put a piece of dim sum in her mouth, planning to fight the third round again, so that the seventh daughter-in-law could see her superior chess skills and perseverance. Seeing this, Mama Leng really didn't want to stay for a long time, and finally consulted: "Seventh Grandma really can't forgive those people for missing work?" Absenteeism once and a cold face dismissed the person, which has never happened at home. ”

"Mother-in-law, wait a minute." He Angelica stopped Mrs. Su from getting down. Mrs. Su held at least ten white seeds in her hand, and it seemed that she was going to be cheeky again, asking He Angelica to let her have ten sons first, which was really the same virtue as her son Meng Ying.

Mrs. Su raised her eyes and asked casually, "Is it really just one absence?" That doesn't hurt much. ”

Mama Leng was overjoyed and felt that there was a door.

He Angelica ignored their topic, and said with a smile: "What's the fun of playing chess in the air, let's bet on one or two taels of silver when playing cards." Why don't you make a bet with me in this game? ”

"Take a gamble?" Mrs. Su raised her eyebrows, "It sounds strange and fresh, and you can bet on chess?" ”

"Yes, add a bet," He Angelica nodded, "There is motivation when there is a bet, and you can play chess to double your strength." In order to further convince Mrs. Su, she put forward more enticing conditions, "I will let my mother-in-law have fifteen sons." ”

Fifteen sons?! Shang and the others all looked incredulous, thinking that He Angelica was too arrogant. Let the fifteen firsts, even if she goes down with the pig's head, she will lose it all!

"What's the stake?"

"If I win, I will have the right to govern the three gardens, and even if the three gardens are separated from the Meng family, I will have the final say in the employment of people. If my mother-in-law wins, I will call you home tomorrow and ask him to play chess with my mother-in-law until my mother-in-law wins. ”

“…… Okay, bet. ”