Su Zhaoning let a fourth-class maid leave the house, which was originally something that Mrs. Wu didn't need to be informed.

But in just a few days, the matter was privately spread out of shape.

"Have you heard, something happened to the white fang in the ancestor's kitchen."

"What's the matter?"

"Something like that."

This latter sentence was like a drop of water falling into an oil pot, and it quickly caused a boiling reaction in the entire Dingyuan Marquis Mansion.

Not only did the subordinates discuss this matter, but even rumors came in front of the masters.

Nan Qichen and Nan Wanwan complained in private: "Sister, I see that Su Zhaoning is a little unreliable. You can't let her show you the right person. ”

Nan Wanwan was naturally on Su Zhaoning's side, and she taught her younger brother: "How many times have you said it, you have to call your sister-in-law." ”

"I don't even want to shout brother, let alone this sister-in-law." Nan Qichen didn't care at all, he moved the stool closer to Nan Wanwan, and spoke next to her, "Sister, I'll tell you the truth." She dealt with a broken bamboo, and here she dealt with a fourth-class maid. ”

"If this continues, the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion doesn't know how many grievances will be added by her." Nan Qichen said it very well, and even the tone of his voice was deliberately lowered and slowed down, as if there was really a terrible demon in the house.

Nan Wanwan didn't care about the pranks of children like Nan Qichen at all. She stood up, unwilling to sit next to her brother.

She walked to the desk in the room, and while cleaning up the drawing paper on the table, she replied: "Pozhu's death has nothing to do with my sister-in-law at all. Steward Li, who was instructed by her grandmother, betrayed her, and Ya Po did not go through the hands of her sister-in-law. In the end, he broke the bamboo and died, but on the way out of Beijing, he just fell into the water. What does this have to do with sister-in-law? ”

"What kind of fourth-class maid is in the house, that's a leave, where is the loss of life?" When Nan Wanwan said this, she couldn't help frowning, and asked Nan Qichen with a displeased expression, "Who is chewing this tongue in front of you?" Breaking the axe is a first-class maid just mentioned, and now she is so restless? ”

"It's not like a broken axe." Nan Qichen was immediately fooled, and said without telling himself, "There are not only two maids in the master's room. ”

"It's restless. The old ones don't know how to be good role models. Nan Wanwan inserted the rolled scroll into the painting tube on the ground.

Nan Qichen had no intention of staying on his subordinates for more, he continued to turn the topic back to Su Zhaoning: "Sister, I'll tell you the truth." Then Su Zhaoning can't do it. ”

"Nonsense. You play. Nan Wanwan didn't believe her brother in a word.

At this time, Nan Qichen's complaint failed. But something happened.

Su Zhaoning has been married into the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion for a month, and he was originally going to hand over the account books a long time ago.

But at first, Steward Li didn't cooperate, and later, although he cooperated on the surface, Su Zhaoning himself fell ill again.

This procrastination has come to this day.

The thick stack of ledgers was held by the two maids and walked towards Su Zhaoning.

Steward Li bowed down next to Su Zhaoning and introduced: "There are a total of eighteen account books in the house. Eight of them were the housekeepers, namely the kitchen compradors, the medicinal herb compradors, the supplies compradors and the ...... The ten books are the properties of the Hou Mansion outside, which are Zhuangzi, Shop and Garden......"

The two maids had already walked in front of Su Zhaoning, and just as they were putting down the account book, another little maid at the door appeared with a tray.

"Madame, tea, please." The little maid looked at Su Zhaoning's eyes full of fear, and even the hand serving the tea trembled a little.

Su Zhaoning's eyes fell on the table next to him, and motioned for the little maid to put down the cup.

But the little girl didn't know if she was too nervous or something, and her left foot suddenly stepped on the heel of her right foot. The tea poured straight forward.

"Madame, be careful!" Steward Li hurriedly stepped forward, and he completely protected Su Zhaoning in his Kobe.

It's just that because of the sudden situation, Steward Li suddenly leaned forward and swept the two stacks of high ledgers to the ground.

Two of them happened to be open, pounced on the wet ground.

"Ledger!" Steward Li nervously picked up the two ledgers, but the water marks on the ledgers were obvious, and the handwriting was already blurred.

"Why are you so careless!" Steward Li raised his voice and scolded the little maid who brought tea.

The little maid hurriedly pounced and fell to her knees, and kept kowtowing to plead guilty.

Su Zhaoning glanced at the account book in Steward Li's hand and said, "The account book is already wet, so I can only trouble Steward Li to transcribe it again." ”

"As for you, although you are indeed careless, for your mother's sake, today's matter will be forgiven for the time being." Su Zhaoning looked at the trembling little maid again.

The little maid looked shocked, as if she had no idea that she would be forgiven like this.

It wasn't until the two maids who had entered the door with books before softly reminded her that the little maid hurriedly stood up and went out to get tools to clean up the mess on the ground.

When the little maid went out, Steward Li flattered Su Zhaoning with a smile: "Madame is really a good memory." In a short period of time, the relationships between the people under him were all remembered. ”

Su Zhaoning raised his hand and took out an undamaged account book, and replied indifferently: "It's just that I've met with her mother a few more times." ”

Listening to Su Zhaoning's words, the maids waiting next to them couldn't help but glance at each other.

Out of this accounting room, new rumors began to heat up among the subordinates.

Mrs. Chen had just come back from setting up a meal for Mrs. Wu, and before she could enter the kitchen, she was pulled back.

An old woman guarding the courtyard door took Mrs. Chen's hand and called enthusiastically: "Old sister, I have finally waited for you." Do you remember that more than 20 years ago, you and I went to Liangzhou Courtyard together. ”

Mrs. Chen is a little inexplicable, who still remembers the events of more than 20 years ago.

Moreover, this old woman looks older than herself, and this Sister Sheng really makes her a little unbearable.

No matter what Mrs. Chen thought in her heart, the other party held her tightly and didn't want to let go.

The old woman guarding the door knew that Mrs. Chen couldn't think of it nine times out of ten, so she tried to explain the matter in more detail: "At that time, Mrs. Xianhou happened to be just getting started. The first marquis took the first marquis to live in the Liangzhou Courtyard. Sister Chen, we are the ones who are going to serve together. You can't forget it. ”

"What's the matter, what's the matter with you?" Mrs. Chen gently pushed down the other party's hand on her arm, and then asked with some vigilance.

The old woman forcibly dragged Mrs. Chen behind a tree in the yard, and then took out a small crumpled cloth bag from her arms.

The cloth bag was opened in three layers and three layers outside, and inside was a small silver nude.

"Sister Chen, I know you don't like this bit of silver. But for the sake of our relationship twenty years ago, you have to help me with this. The old woman desperately stuffed the small silver naked child into Mrs. Chen's hand.

She said while forcibly stuffing: "Sister Chen, you see that at my age, I am still guarding the outer courtyard, I really can't stand it." You can go and say a few kind words in front of Madame, so that I can go to a more relaxed place. If nothing else, it's better to go to the Shoushulou instead. ”

Mrs. Chen didn't expect such a thing.

She was not a housekeeper in the big kitchen of the Dingyuan Marquis Mansion for a year or two. Indeed, over the years, some people have stuffed silver coins and asked her for help.

But that's all inside the kitchen, for example, the maids are not qualified to order food, they are all cooked in one pot in the big kitchen.

Some times when she was unwell, a maid with plenty of money came to stuff Chen Pozi with money and things, hoping that she could do something extra for herself.

These are all things that can be done in the kitchen. With this kind of person, Mrs. Chen is a kitchen steward, where is the ability!

Even if it is Steward Li, it is impossible to say that one is one!

Mrs. Chen resolutely pushed the silver naked man back, and decisively refused: "Where do I have such a ability!" ”

"Sister Chen, you don't treat me as your own." The old woman said everything in a hurry, "Who in the house doesn't know now, you are Madame's cronies." You made a meritorious contribution to the matter of breaking the bamboo at the beginning, so even if your family Pinyin made a mistake, Mrs. let it go lightly. ”

"If you change someone else, you don't have such ability!" The old woman was unwilling to help herself because she only thought that Mrs. Chen, so she said a lot of words without holding.

When Mrs. Chen heard this, she knew that her daughter had done something wrong again. She didn't care what the old woman said or thought, so she directly pushed the other party away and went to the room to find her daughter.

Before she arrived in the room, Mrs. Chen ran into someone again.

"Steward Chen is capable now." Steward Li stood on the road and looked at Mrs. Chen with a sinister smile when he saw Mrs. Chen coming.

Mrs. Chen felt that the place where she was swept by his gaze was like being crawled by a poisonous snake.

"Steward Li has tormented my wife and son." Mrs. Chen said busily.

"Steward Chen should not be modest. You're a celebrity in front of Madame now. There was some undisguised sarcasm in Steward Li's words.

Mrs. Chen had no choice but to frankly analyze herself and said, "Steward Li doesn't want to make fun of my wife." Others don't know, you don't know what kind of wrong thing I have done, planted in the hands of my wife. ”

"Be a celebrity in front of her, I'm afraid the old woman won't be able to do it." When Mrs. Chen mentioned Su Zhaoning, there was hatred on her face.

Steward Li heard this and looked at Mrs. Chen. When he came into contact with the dissatisfaction and hatred in Mrs. Chen's eyes, the smile on the corner of his mouth became even stronger.

It's just that the smile still makes Mrs. Chen feel uncomfortable.

"Alright. I'm just here to remind you of this. If this continues, you will really not be able to stay in the entire Dingyuan Marquis Mansion. The masters won't do anything to you, but the spittle of others will drown you. When Steward Li said this, he still had a smile on his face.

Mrs. Chen immediately whispered to him: "Steward Li help me." Twenty-five years ago, we had a time when we served the first marquis together. I also asked Steward Li to take care of the original friendship. ”