These words reminded Shu. However, the affairs of the next person have to go through the housekeeper's eldest wife, and she really can't be the master.

She looked at Xia Zhengqian.

At the mention of this, Xia Zhengqian's face sank, and he said to Shu Shi: "You call Ya Pozi to come, and we will pick a few people ourselves." Qingdai and the money they spent on the buyers, I went to tell the eldest brother. I don't believe that they have put their eyes and ears around us, and they have the face to disagree with this. ”

"It's also useless to me, I can't even tell whether my subordinates are loyal or traitorous." Shu lowered his head in shame.

It is the responsibility of the master mother to manage her subordinates well.

"Hmph, the old lady and the second brother and sister-in-law are such powerful people, maybe they have their eyes and ears around them, let alone us?" Xia Zhengqian said.

These words comforted Shu's family, and her face looked much better: "Don't say it, it's true." ”

"Then I'll go over." Xia Zhengqian stood up.

Xia Jin also went back to his yard.

Qingdai has never come back since she called to ventilate the news. Qinghao probably got the letter, knowing that Qingdai had climbed another high branch, and suddenly lost her backbone, and stayed in the cloister in the courtyard fidgeting, and when she heard Xia Jin coming back, she hurriedly greeted her: "Girl." ”

Xia Jin glanced at her, answered with a snort, went up the steps, went directly into the room, took off his coat and lay on the bed.

Her body is weak, and she is really tired after tossing for a long time today.

Artemisia put down her tent and went out lightly. Sitting on the stool in the outhouse, he continued to be in a daze.

Xia Jin lay down for a while, and then fell asleep in a daze. When she opened her eyes again, she lifted the tent and saw that it was already dark.

"Girl, are you awake?" Hearing the movement, a maid walked in with a lamp, but it was mint.

"Where's Artemisia annua?" Xia Jin sat up and asked.

The smile on Mint's face froze, and he whispered, "When you were sleeping, Mrs. brought someone to send Artemisia annua to the big lady's courtyard." My wife also sent two maids that I had just bought. They're now in the lower room, waiting for you to take a name. ”

Xia Jin nodded, took his clothes and put them on, and got out of bed. Seeing that Mint was stunned and didn't know what to do, he said, "Hand over a bowl of tea." ”

"Girl, here comes tea." Calamus walked in, a tray of tea in her hand, and a gargle next to it.

Placing the tray on the table in front of the bed, she smiled, "The basin is outside, I'll bring it in." He turned around and took the basin again.

Xia Jin rinsed his mouth and cleaned his face, and Calamus had already put the rice on the table outside.

Xia Jin looked at the dishes on the table that were not sumptuous but very much in line with his taste, and asked without raising his head: "Calamus, you are so clever, why were you just a second-class maid before?" And you also know that our three rooms have no power or power in Xia Mansion, and I myself are often bullied, and I don't know what bad people we will marry in the future. You follow me, but you don't have much future. If you want to go to the eldest lady's yard and look for Artemisia annua or Indigo, maybe they can help you think of a way. ”

Calamus saw that Qingdai and Artemisia had left, and knew that her opportunity had come, so she served Xia Jin wholeheartedly, wanting to make a good impression, and was waiting for Xia Jin to praise her, but she didn't expect Xia Jin to say this, she was so frightened that she knelt on the ground with a "bang": "Girl, the slave maid doesn't go to the big lady's courtyard, the slave maid just wants to serve the girl, and has no second thoughts." ”

Seeing this, Mint also knelt down, but remained silent.

Xia Jin scooped up a spoonful of soup and drank it slowly, then said, "Why?" How good it is to be an errand in the big lady's courtyard, everywhere you go, you can see the scenery, the house is up and down, and there are a lot of rewards you want to get. ”

Calamus shook her head, knelt there and was silent for a long time before she said, "My sister was originally an errand boy in the eldest lady's courtyard, and later ...... Later, Zhou Kang, the son of Mama Wan, took a fancy to him and begged the eldest wife, who allowed this family business. ”

She raised her head, her eyes were cold, her lips were pursed, and her thin body revealed a stubbornness: "The girl may not know that Zhou Kang was idle all day long, eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling; Not only that, but he also likes to beat women. He had originally married a daughter-in-law, but he was beaten and abused all day long and hanged. My sister didn't want to, so he called someone to trouble my parents, my father was called by Zhou Kang and broke his leg, and my mother was demoted from the needlework room to the pulp washing room. My sister was not convinced, so she went to the eldest lady, but the next day, someone found my sister's body in the well, and only said that she accidentally fell into the well and drowned......"

Tears fell from her eyes, but she choked up and forced her own cry.

Xia Jinyuan saw that Calamus was diligent, and was afraid that she would have the same dissent as Qingdai, so he tried her with words, but he didn't want Calamus to say such a thing. Whether Irisus lied or not, and whether the sadness she is now is pretending, Xia Jin, who was specially trained in her previous life, can naturally see it.

Although he didn't believe in the iris very much, Xia Jin still apologized: "I'm sorry, I didn't know your family was like this." ”

Calamus couldn't speak for a while, only shook her head desperately, and it took a while to calm down and say, "It's not the girl's fault. After something like Qingdai, the girl can still keep me and Mint by her side, and the slave and maid are too late to thank the girl, where is there any complaint? The girl can rest assured, the slave maid only wants to serve a good girl now, and she has monthly money to support her parents, and she will never do anything like Qingdai. My parents are still in the house, and I don't want my parents to be poked in the back. ”

The meaning of Calamus's words, Xia Jin naturally understood. The next people, especially the children of the family, have been instilled with the idea of loyalty to the master since they were young, and now Qingdai has turned his back on even the weakest three rooms in the Xia Mansion, and helped the big house to do things, and the reputation of the master is not good. She and her parents will be pointed at for a long time to come, and the eldest lady may not reuse such a person. Qing Dai probably didn't think of these when she chose to carry the master.

This is also the reason why Xia Jin did not take any revenge against Qingdai.

Xia Jin stretched out his hand and helped him: "I believe in you, you get up." But in his heart, he thought that he should remind Shu's family to bring calamus and mint to the third room.

"Thank you, girl." Calamus kowtowed respectfully, and then got up from the ground, "I'm afraid the food is cold, so the slave maid will take it to the kitchen and ask someone to eat it hot." ”

"No, you don't." Although it was cold, I just talked for a while, this dish is just not hot, but it is not yet cold to the point where it is uneatable.

Xia Jin had just eaten here, and Shu's maid Bai Zhi came over with a lantern, and when she saw that Xia Jin had woken up and eaten, she said, "Mrs. sent a slave to see the girl, saying that if the girl woke up, Mrs. would come to see you in a while." ”

"I'd better go over." Xia Jin also wanted to know what kind of family business Mrs. Xia had ordered for her.

(My father-in-law was critically ill and hospitalized, and he was so busy during this time.) The manuscript is saved and sent in the manuscript box. So the comment area can't respond in time, please forgive me.

Thank you Yunyan, 202052, Nuo Feifei, Qinghedge, Hua Yurong, Cai Ling oo for the reward and Ningning 71's PK ticket, thank you for your collection and recommendation votes! ）