The butler came back with a rabbit the next afternoon: "Madam, you have been rewarded for your good deeds, and this must have been given to you by Wong Tai Sin." There's another rabbit today, and it's not dead yet. ”

"It's a little guy, and it doesn't necessarily have enough to eat for itself when it hunts every day, so if you give it to us, it won't have anything to eat."

"Madam, don't worry, Qi Zhong said, those weasels are in those caves in Xishan, I have asked Qi Zhong to send a basket into the water today, and if someone goes to Zhujia Village in the future, they will take it over and put it down."

"Well, you've worked hard, go and rest, now that you're older, if you feel tired, you can tell them to do it, you just arrange it."

"Mrs. Xie is compassionate, the old slave is in good health, and there is no problem in serving Young Master Bao to get married."

The housekeeper has never been married in his life, and it turned out that finding Jingsu was the support for him to live, and now Dabao has become his spiritual pillar, and his heart is full of Dabao,.

After the beginning of autumn, it rained for several days in a row, and the water in the river also increased, and Zhu Xiuwu went to the reservoir every day to keep an eye on it, and the water was full. Qi Ning's hanging heart can be put down.

In the afternoon of this day, Handong came.

"Oh, my Handong boss is here, and he knows to come and see me." Qi Ning deliberately stared blankly.

"Girl." Han Dong didn't care, put down the jar of watermelon sauce in his hand with a smile, stretched out his hands to Dabao and said, "Young Master Bao, do you want me?" ”

"No, huh." Dabao turned his head away with a snort. Dabao has been closest to Handong since he was a child, and Handong has come to see him once or twice a month after he got married. This time he didn't come back for more than a month, and Dabao was angry.

"Look, if you don't come back, Dabao is angry." Qi Ning picked up Dabao and stuffed it into Handong's arms. Dabao is still awkward and doesn't look at Handong.

"Hey, how can I miss you, I think Dabao can't eat for several days, and my mother-in-law will bring me here if I'm not busy today." Han Dong sat down with Dabao in his arms and took out a bamboo dragonfly from his sleeve: "Look, what did I bring to our young master Bao." ”

"Yes." Dabao didn't get angry when he saw something, so he kissed Handong and took the bamboo dragonfly and squatted on the ground to play.

"How are you?" Qi Ning looked at Han Dong's stomach and asked.

"It's been more than a month." Han Dong was not shy and said with a big grin.

"Really? Great, oops, I shouldn't have let you hold Dabao just now. ”

"It's okay, my mother-in-law said she couldn't say it for three months, but I'll tell you it's okay." Han Dong smiled and picked up the teacup to drink.

"It's not light or heavy, you can't drink tea when you're pregnant, go make some jujube tea in Xia." Qi Ning snatched the teacup in Han Dong's hand and instructed Han Xia, who was watering the flowers in the yard.

"I forgot, we don't drink tea at home, so my mother-in-law didn't tell me." Handong playfully sticks out his tongue.

"You, you're all mothers, and you're still like a child." Qi Ning touched Han Dong's head and said with feeling. Back then, the yellow and thin Handong with a bag and a bun seemed to be yesterday.

"Girl." Han Dong also seemed to remember the beginning, lying on Qi Ning's lap and sprinkling coquettishly. No matter how others change their words, Han Dong insists on calling Miss Qi Ning, and Zhao also said her in private, but she just doesn't change, she thinks it's better to call the girl kind.

Hanxia looked at the two of them enviously.

"Come here, I'll hug you too." Qi Ning smiled and joked with Xia Dao.

"Madame......" Hanxia turned her face shyly.

"Don't look at your sister Handong, who is now five or six, she was about the same age as you at the beginning, and I will treat you all as my own sister-in-law, and I will find you a good mother-in-law in the future."

"Ma'am." Hanxia couldn't stand it anymore and covered her face and ran out.

"I sometimes look at the two of them and think of you when you were a child, when you were busy running before and after running every day. At that time, our family was not like now, and you and Tie Niu suffered a lot with me. Qi Ning touched Han Dong's head with pity.

"What did the girl say, it was not nice to say, if we had a good life with other masters now, you and Tie Niu, my mother said that my sister would not be able to do this." Han Dong raised his head and looked at Qi Ning with some sadness.

"You see, you're pregnant. I'm going to make you cry, so let's go to the kitchen and see if there's anything delicious and eat it at night. Qi Ning stood up and took Han Dong's hand and went to the kitchen. The two of them laughed and made a few favorite dishes, and instructed the housekeeper to send someone to bring a message to Handong's mother-in-law, leaving Handong to eat dinner before arranging a car to send her back.

On this day, Qi Ning was watching ants in the courtyard with Dabao, and came in with a huff: "Madam, that Mrs. Xiao is here, she has eaten in the private room, and she doesn't pay the bill, if you don't let the stone call you over, the stone will let me come and tell you." ”

Qi Ning stood up: "You look at Dabao." After speaking, she went back to the house, took out the dragon-shaped jade pendant given to her by the emperor at the beginning, put it in her sleeve, and went to the private room on the second floor.

Shi was standing outside the private room, and when he saw Qi Ning coming up, he pointed to the second private room. Qi Ning nodded and pushed the door in.

A woman of about forty who wore gold and silver, and looked very wealthy, sat upright, and two girls stood behind her. Seeing Qi Ning coming in, he didn't make a sound, arrogantly picked up the teacup and pretended to drink tea.

"Mrs. Xiao, right, what are you looking for me again and again?" Seeing her like this, Qi Ning asked in an unkind tone.

"Presumptuous, I don't salute when I see our wife." The girl behind Mrs. Xiao scolded loudly.

"It is said that the person who comes is a guest, and it is not impossible for me to salute. But if you want to find something, I hope you will wipe your eyes and come again. Qi Ning sat straight across from Mrs. Xiao.

"I heard that you bought the recipe for our restaurant, and you also gave you the recipe for brewing?" Mrs. Xiao put down the teacup and held her head high, looking down at Qi Ning with her eyes down.

"Just say what you mean, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you."

"Bold, a vulgar village girl, but relying on your husband's Jun is a fourth-grade military attaché, it is your blessing that Mrs. Ben is willing to talk to you." Mrs. Xiao blushed angrily and slapped the table hard.

"I think it's you who are bold, and if you want to find something, you don't have to inquire first. What kind of thing are you! Military attachés and civil officials are all officials of the imperial court, and they are not for you to use to shake off your prestige. If I am still the emperor's fourth lady, why don't you kneel down and salute when you see me. Qi Ning looked at Mrs. Xiao out of the corner of her eyes unhurriedly.

"Before I came to Qing'an, I was already named Mrs. Sipin, we are at most equal, I am the aunt of the current emperor, the royal relatives of the Eight Classics, do you dare to let me kneel for you, are you not afraid of treating you with death?" Mrs. Xiao did seal the four grades, but no one on Qing'an's side knew about it yet.

"Now I'll let you kneel, do you kneel or not?" Qi Ning stood up and took out the jade pendant in his sleeve and held it high.

"Don't scare people with any raush, where to get a broken jade pendant, dare me to kneel."

"Keep your dog's eyes wide and look carefully, this is a dragon-shaped jade pendant given to me by the emperor himself. Do you dare to say that it is a broken jade pendant, and you are not afraid of being copied all over the house? Qi Ning stretched out her hand in front of Mrs. Xiao's face.

"The courtiers don't know, the courtiers are wrong." Mrs. Xiao was so frightened that she knelt down, and the two foxes and fake tiger girls also knelt down in a panic.

"Seeing this jade pendant is like seeing the emperor, Mrs. Xiao, your Xiao family is full of doors and your mother's family has a few heads, is it enough to cut them?" Qi Ning smiled with murderous intent.

"I beg Madame to spare my life, I was joking with Madame just now. Please don't take it seriously. Mrs. Xiao slammed her head on the wooden floor one after another.

"Joke, Mrs. Xiao is a good tutor, is this how your mother and Lord Xiao taught you to joke? Don't worry, I will definitely ask Xiao Yunsheng for a favor at that time, so that he will not be implicated. Qi Ning picked up the jade pendant, sat down leisurely and looked at the three people who knocked on the floor.

"Before, you sent your mother-in-law to call me, but I didn't bother to take care of you, didn't you clean up your face?" Qi Ning picked up Mrs. Xiao's head with her toes.

"I just came here and didn't know the way, and I wanted to invite my wife over for tea and flowers. Madame misunderstood. "Mrs. Xiao has lived for forty years and has not been insulted like this, and her hatred is dripping with blood, but now her family's life is in Qi Ning's hands, if Qi Ning adds oil and vinegar to the government, the Xiao family and her mother's family will be unlucky. Today, she came to hide from her master, if she let the master know that she provoked the goods without her words, he would definitely not spare her.

"Now that I've put away the jade pendant, let you kneel to me, you can't kneel?"

"Kneel, kneel, Mrs. was enshrined earlier than me, and she was kind to the Xiao family, and helped us earn so much silver, even if Mrs. didn't have an order, I knelt down." Mrs. Xiao laughed more ugly than she cried.

"Okay, even if you kneel me tonight, thank you, get out. In the future, it will be in my hands, but it will not be so easy. Qi Ning didn't want to entangle with her more, after all, there were still Xiao Yunsheng and Lord Xiao there, and he couldn't help but save some face for them.

"Yes, yes, thank you, Madame, for a lot. I'll just go. Mrs. Xiao hurriedly got up and was about to leave.

"Stop." Qi Ning said.

"What else does Madame command?" Mrs. Xiao gritted her teeth and asked as gently as possible.

"Close the bill and roll out."

"Yes, yes, Chu Yun checks out. The little woman took her leave, and the lady remained. Mrs. Xiao ran out as if she was being pushed to her knees.

A girl took out a silver ingot of five taels and gently placed it on the table. trembling and looking for her master.