Zhuang Jue responded to Zhuang Qi's request, added more manpower, and quietly went to look for it, and looked around the entire mansion, inside and out, but there was no one.

In the evening, Zhuang Jue came to Jinghua to thank him and said that maybe someone had left the house. Coincidentally, when she met Zhu'er, she also came to ask, so Zhuang Qi explained the truth to her clearly, and asked Zhu'er not to tell the old lady.

This night, Zhuang Yu accompanied him until midnight, and later the county lord sent a resurrection lantern to pick him up.

The next day, the prefectures came to Shouzhong to wake up in the morning.

Because Cao came late, he saw Zhuang Qi at the head of the door, and saw that he was only with three joys, and he was a little strange, so he said: "What's wrong today, are you not in good health?" Why don't you see anyone? ”

The Cao family should not have known that Huiyuan was not there, because Zhuang Qi instructed Zhuang Jue to find Huiyuan not to disturb everyone in the mansion.

Zhuang Qi only bowed sideways, and smiled and agreed.

When I got inside, I asked for peace, and the Cao family wanted to show the old lady about Huiyuan and Uncle Dongfu, and the seven turns and eight turns were about to talk about Huiyuan, and the bamboo next to the old lady coughed a few times, and waved his hand to signal Cao not to say any more.

Seeing this, Cao thought that the old lady was not in a good mood, so he gave up.

After waking up in the morning, the various mansions were circuited, Cao Shi stopped slightly and wanted to blow the wind to Zhu'er, Zhu'er listened to what Yu Qi and others said all night, and he already had an idea in his heart, and he couldn't get rid of it by trying his best to find a gap. Because he saw Mei'er carrying tea out, Cao Shi pulled her aside.

The Cao family also respects the girls in front of the old lady on weekdays, and speaks politely.

I saw Cao Shi say: "Girl, what's wrong with the old lady today?" ”

Mei'er was stunned for a moment, and smiled deliberately: "I'm happy for the second master." ”

Cao Shi smiled on his face, and his heart was poisoned: "Long rotten hooves." He said: "I want to say something happy to the old lady, I'm afraid that it will be bad, just now the girl in Zhu'er is still waving at me, isn't the old lady unhappy?" ”

Mei'er's eyes flickered, her snort frowned slightly, and she said, "Yo, when the second wife said this, how did I know that I am not the golden hook worm in the old lady's stomach." ”

Cao Shi thought that Mei'er intended to embarrass her, so he said: "Girl, I don't treat you as a bad person on weekdays, and this is too prevaricating to say this." Didn't I help you make the old lady happy? ”

Seeing that Cao's was a little angry, Mei'er deliberately pulled her lightly, and only said in the corner: "Mrs., you know me, I am dedicated to the old lady, and I don't care about anyone." It's too late for our wife to share the burden for us. ”

Cao said: "That's it, then I'll tell you......"

Suddenly, a basin of water was poured into it and poured on the potted flowers and plants under the porch, which startled Cao Shi and the others. Cao was about to speak, but when he turned his head to look, he saw Zhu'er holding a basin, smiling and groaning.

Mei'er was afraid that it would not be good for outsiders to see her, so she said goodbye to the Cao family and went in again.

Cao's heart is not dead, and he wants to win over Zhu'er, but Zhu'er said: "Mrs., the old lady has passed breakfast, do you want to eat it together?" ”

Cao's shape of wanting to speak and stopping shrank back, his mind heavy and unwilling, but he couldn't help but leave.

After leaving Shouzhongju and turning the corner, he walked to Jinghua Xie, and he didn't enter outside the courtyard, so Guiyuan knocked on the door a few times. Suddenly, the parrot replied, "Come on, come on", Gui Yuan was amused, and Cao couldn't help but be like her.

After a while, I saw Zisu coming out of the inside, because I saw the Cao family, I was about to turn around and go in.

Where could the Cao family tolerate such a non-etiquette person, and took the lead and stepped into the courtyard quickly.

Cao Shi raised his chin and said to Zisu: "Yo, girl, what's the matter, seeing me is like seeing a tiger." I wronged the girl before, and I paid for it, and the girl was still angry with me like this, and no one inside or outside me wanted to see me. ”

Zisu is arrogant, and he doesn't want to rub shoulders with the people in the house too much from beginning to end. One was humiliated because of this, and the other was a young lady who was born in a beautiful door, and now she is broken here, and her face can't be stopped.

Zisu also knows, but if he overdoes everything, it will bring bad results to Yu Qi.

I saw Cao Shi again: "Where is the girl staying with the old lady for breakfast, I'll take a look." So he glanced at the flowers and plants in the yard, and said with a smile: "I have a few pots of peonies there, look at your yard list, if you don't dislike it, I will ask Guiyuan and them to move a few pots for you." ”

Zi Sufu responded with a smile: "Mrs. has a heart." Our girl wasn't there, and I couldn't talk much, for fear of bumping into my wife. Just now my wife said this, I don't think I'm really stingy, and it falls on our girl, but it doesn't make our girl bear a bad reputation. Our girl said that the peony is good, too rich. Our girls like beautiful and elegant flowers and plants, and besides, our girls' bodies are getting better day by day, and overly prosperous flowers and plants are hindered by good health. ”

After Cao's listen, Zhizi scolded her, but she really didn't refute it, she was organized, even if she scolded people, she didn't use dirty words.

Cao Shi smiled: "Yo, the girl has only been a few days, just our girl, our girl, you were so loyal earlier, I won't let you go." It's a shame on me. ”

Zisu smiled knowingly.

Cao Shi glanced inside and said, "Miss Huiyuan is not here?" ”

When Zisu heard this, he was disgusted, thinking that the Cao family must have come to joke. I don't want to answer her.

Cao's family walked inside, and Zisu greeted him, his body slightly sideways, with the meaning of blocking the way. Cao Shi was humiliated, so he "hummed" and turned his head away.

Out of the mirror, Hua Xie walked through the gate of the Zhongfu mansion, walked to the road back to Beifu, and said to Guiyuan beside him: "It's really shameless." ”

Gui Yuan echoed: "Mrs. don't be angry, that girl is a girl, she has urinated in the hall." ”

Cao Shi actually laughed after hearing this.

So, Cao Shi returned to the house, thought about it unwillingly, and did his best in the morning, but was blocked in every way. According to her temperament, she gave the girls a few ear scrapers to eat early.

Because he saw Zhuang Ying and the girl playing outside, he suddenly thought of Zhuang Ying and stopped him. Zhuang Ying came in.

Cao Shi asked her: "Let me ask you, you go to the mirror on weekdays, and those girls treat you like this?" ”

Zhuang Ying was puzzled.

Cao Shi poked her forehead impatiently, and said again and again, "Tut-tut", and said, "Wood is more agile than you." ”

Zhuang Ying was afraid that her mother would be angry, so she snorted: "How can my wife ask me to reply?" ”

Cao said: "You can do whatever people treat you, and you don't dare to say it if you don't ask you to kill people and set fires." ”

Zhuang Ying said: "Where do you dare not say, I don't know what my wife is asking about how to treat the law." ”

Cao Shi poked another finger and said, "It's really over, Miss Biqi, you are still a basket of eggs!" I saved my heart before I told you, what about your second sister? ”

Zhuang Ying replied: "The second sister went out of the house and told me not to tell my wife." After finishing speaking, he quickly covered his mouth.

It's good that Cao didn't listen, but when he heard it, he was furious, and said, "Okay, you have a deep sisterhood, what else I don't know?" I'll tell you three girls, don't give Jinghua a thank you for the damage of those wild cats. Say, where did your second sister go? ”

was originally going to ask about Jinghua Xie, but now his heart is all tied to his daughter.

Zhuang Ying couldn't hold it, so she could only bow her head and reply: "Kui Gatehouse." ”

Kui Gate Tower is a miscellaneous opera garden in Beijing, where literati and border guests like to gather the most. That Zhuang Tou didn't know who said that Su Yuan often went to that place, so he had the idea of going with him, and he didn't know what he thought in his heart, he just wanted to go, and that's it.

After his birthday, he invited Guo An, and when he came out, he quietly pulled Zhuang Ying aside and said that she was going out to buy some fancy fabrics, and asked her not to tell Cao's family. Zhuang Ying said that he wanted to go with him, where was Zhuang Qi willing to give it, he only said that he had to bypass Kui Menlou to buy things, and he would go in to take a look, saying that it was the place where the man stopped, and he would tell her when he came back to see what was fresh.

Zhuang Ying's nature is different from Zhuang Xuan, Zhuang Ying is quiet and wise, Zhuang Ying's appearance is exposed, and the sisters have two polar temperaments, one weak and one strong, and this is the truth. Seeing this, Zhuang Ying had no choice but to give up. also promised to help hide from the Cao family.

Zhuang Qian went so far.

At noon, Cao finished the business at hand, and sent someone to ask if the second girl had come back, and the girl came back for half a day and said that it was not. Cao scolded the girl, didn't eat snacks at noon, and called the two big girls, Guiyuan and Yuyuan, to go out of the house together and go to Kuimen Tower to find Zhuang Qi.

Gui Yuan could speak, and hurried up to Cao Shi and said, "Madam, I'll just go, that place is dirty, so as not to stain your shoes with mud." ”

Cao Shi took a sip and sneered: "You go?" You don't know your aunt's temper? ”

Guiyuan was slapped and didn't dare to speak. But no, Zhuang Xuan is the mold of the Cao family, and it is not good to provoke that aunt. I just want to show my loyalty.

In this way, the three masters and servants of the Cao family called the carriage in the house to the carriage outside the Kuimen Building.

I got out of the car at the turnaround and saw the noise of the street, which was quite annoying. Cao Shi dropped his skirt, stroked his back spoon and high temples, and shook it slowly to Kui Gate Tower.

Outside the gatehouse, the hooves of the cars and horses sounded, and the people who carried the baskets and carried the burdens, and the people who shouted and sold were endless. At the head of the door, there were people who were not covered by clothes, and there were people in ragged piles, and there were squatting in that place, and a few people shaking their heads and talking in this place. There are also squinted eyes looking at Cao's.

Standing under the door, I saw a wooden shelf sign with some notices of activities written on it.

Cao Shi smiled coldly, and said to the two girls of Guiyuan and Yuyuan: "It's okay to put it on the table?" Tell Boss Mei and Boss Meng where to put their faces. ”

Yuyuan wanted to flatter, and said: "How can you compare with our house, it's just some begging outside." My wife can't go in, so I can go in. ”

Cao said: "You come often? ”

Yuyuan made a mistake, so quickly shut up. This man has entered the door. Further inside is a large open courtyard, looking at the surrounding two-story buildings, to see where there are people. Set up a table in the distance, "Shangliang Mountain" was being performed on the stage, and the audience in the audience clapped and shouted, which was extremely rude. Because of Cao's dress, anyone who blocked it was slightly out of the way.

Cao looked around for a while and saw that all of them were men, and there were no women. I wanted to go upstairs and see that the ladder was also full of people, so I moved a few steps and forgot it, so I was in a bad mood and walked out.

Seeing this, Guiyuan turned his head to the mouth of the ladder, and turned back and said, "Madam, I'll go!" ”

Gui Yuan pushed away the people who were blocking the ladder with both hands, and went upstairs with a sloppy hand.

Cao Shi saw this, the mood was slightly better, so he went out with Yuyuan, and when he went out of the door, he saw a few people who came to ask for kindness, Yuyuan was about to be driven away, Cao's backhand stopped, looked at those children, and didn't even say anything else, and raised his hand to Yuyuan.

Yu Yuan recognized, found a few money, and counted and counted.

Cao Shi was very impatient, grabbed Yuyuan's hand, smiled Yingying and gave them one by one, but covered his face and nose.

The children got the money and went to rejoice.

Cao Shi looked at it, and there was a sour feeling in his heart. At this moment, Guiyuan ran out of it and told him that he hadn't seen Zhuang Xuan. Cao Shi was not at ease, and asked again if he saw the truth, Guiyuan repeatedly said that he had seen it inside and out, and he really didn't see it. So, Cao had no choice but to give up and go home.

Coincidentally, the moment he turned around, the tip of Cao's eyes saw a figure, and it was not real.

Guiyuan Yuyuan looked at Cao's eyes, and saw a middle-aged man and a woman not far from the street holding a young woman, and the young woman had her back to Cao and the others, struggling away.

Cao Shi said silently: "Look who is that?" ”

Gui Yuan and Yu Yuan glanced at each other, and their eyes lit up with a sneering look.