The more Jing'an Hou thought about it, the more angry he became, he looked at the Liu family and said, "From now on, all the expenses of the Orchid Garden will be reduced to the minimum standard in the mansion. Then there is the fact that the subordinates in the Orchid Garden, leaving five people to do the daily cleaning work, and you can do the rest of the work. ”

"Yes, Master Hou!" Finally got the power of the house, and the Liu family nodded to Jing Anhou and responded happily.

"Woo woo......, aunt ......" Ling Junbao was in the nurse's arms, crying with snot and tears, he stretched out his short arm and asked Liu to hug him.

Children are like this, it's okay to say when they fall asleep, but once they wake up, they can't find their own mother, and they will cry non-stop. After Ling Junbao woke up in his own room, he couldn't find Liu's family, and he couldn't stop crying, and the nurse had no choice, so she carried him to the main hall.

Seeing his heart and soul baby, Liu Shi was crying breathlessly, glanced at Jing Anhou, saw him nodding, walked quickly to the nurse, took Ling Junbao from his arms, and coaxed: "Bao'er don't cry, if you cry again, Daddy will be angry." ”

Ling Junbao had reached the age where he could understand words, he listened to Liu's words, looked at Jing Anhou's face, sniffed, and the tears in his big eyes gradually stopped.

"Master Hou, look at it, the little man in Liu's arms can be imagined with you. In order not to confuse the bloodline of our Hou Mansion, Master Hou, you must not be deceived by the Liu family! ”

"Sister, why are you doing this? Bao'er's appearance is almost the same as that carved out of a mold by Hou Ye, and my sister advises you to stop talking nonsense with your eyes open. Save it and spread it, so that our Hou Mansion can add a joke! ”

It is nothing more than what the Liu family said, as soon as the discerning people saw Ling Junbao's small appearance, none of them dared to say that Ling Junbao was not the species of Jing'anhou. The nose, eyes, and mouth, as Liu said, are simply a copy of Jing'anhou.

The Ning family also knew it in her own heart, but she just wanted to discredit the Liu family, so that she could be disgusted by Jing'an Hou with her.

The problem is that in the current situation, Ning's calculation seems to have been wrong.

Because Jing Anhou didn't take what she said to heart at all.

Ning was so angry in her heart, the more she looked at it, the more she felt that Ling Junbao in Liu's arms was an eyesore.

As a result, evil was born to the guts, and Ning no longer begged Jing'an Hou to forgive herself, she knelt upright, kowtowed to Jing Anhou, and said: "The concubine respectfully obeys the will of the Hou Ye, and without the Hou Ye's communication, she will never leave the inner courtyard without permission and come to the front yard." ”

Jing Anhou frowned, and the rapid change in Ning's attitude made him a little stunned.

Although he thought so in his heart, however, Jing Anhou said: "It's good to know, retreat!" ”

"Yes." Standing up from the ground, when the Ning clan passed by the Liu clan, his lowered eyes glanced at Ling Junbao in the Liu clan's arms, intentionally or unintentionally.

Receiving Ning's gaze as if he had not intended to look at it, Liu couldn't help but tighten his arms a little while holding Ling Junbao's arms.

As if he was afraid that the baby son in his arms would be snatched away by the Ning family.

Liu's nervousness, Ning's full view, the corners of her mouth slightly hooked up a meaningful arc, walked out of the main hall, and returned to Lanyuan with the support of the big girl magpie and cuckoo.

Entering the Orchid Garden, the magpie and the cuckoo were two girls, serving Ning's and lying on the soft couch.

The magpie sat sideways under Ning's soft couch, and gently massaged Ning's legs with both hands. The cuckoo found medicinal wine, and said to Ning Shi in front of the bed: "Master, bear with me, the slave will help you scrub and bandage the wound on your forehead with medicinal wine." ”

Ning closed his eyes and nodded "um".

"Hiss......" When the cuckoo wiped the wound on Ning's forehead that was smashed by Jing Anhou with a teacup, Ning's brows furrowed slightly, and his mouth made a low pain.

Seeing this scene, the movements of the cuckoo's hands became lighter and lighter.

"You've been following Aunt Ben for five years, haven't you?" After the cuckoo finished wiping Ning's wound and bandaging it, Ning asked in a light voice.

The magpie and the cuckoo glanced at each other, and replied to the Ning family in unison: "The slave magpie (cuckoo) has served the master in the Orchid Garden, until the summer of this year, for five years. The hearts of the magpies and cuckoos were a little uneasy, and they were afraid to hear what Ning was going to ask.

As a result, there are some things that you can avoid if you are not afraid.

Ning's voice began, "In the past five years, what has Aunt Ben done to the two of you?" ”

"The master treats the slave and the maid to be reinvented." The answer of the magpie and the cuckoo was exactly the same.

At this time, it doesn't mean that if they want to retreat, they can retreat. Because, the lives of the two of them were picked up by the woman lying on the couch five years ago in the pile of refugees who flowed into the ruined temple in Beijing.

If it weren't for the woman in front of them, the two of them, most of them would have starved to death on the way to escape from the famine, just like their families, and turned into a pile of bones.

In the past five years, they have been reprimanded and beaten and scolded. But, in general, they are well fed, warmly dressed, and no longer have to be driven around by the officers and soldiers outside the capital with the fleeing people.

'The grace of a drop of water is reciprocated by a spring. ’

They hadn't read much, but when they were young, they heard the elders in the village often mention this sentence.

Since then, that sentence seems to have been imprinted in the hearts of the two of them.

Ning Shi was very satisfied with the magpie and the cuckoo's answer, she slowly opened her eyes, moved her body up, leaned on the big pillow behind her, and said with a lonely expression: "Aunt Ben doesn't dare to say how good a master she is, but at least in the more than ten years that Aunt Ben has been in charge of the family, she has never killed any subordinate at will." You say, is Aunt Ben right? ”

"My master is right." The magpie and the cuckoo nodded in response.

With a sigh, Ning continued: "But, what happened to Aunt Ben in the end? Ning said this, and she didn't need magpies, cuckoos, and two girls to answer, her slender willow eyebrows, and Wei Ning together, "Aunt Ben is in charge of a big family, even if there is no credit, but there is hard work!" ”

"But what did Master Hou do to Aunt Ben? Without his acquiescence, could Aunt Ben have the courage to treat Ling Wushuang's cheap girl harshly for more than ten years? Let's just talk about these Chen sesame rotten grains, Aunt Ben won't mention it first, but now your second miss has married into the Qi Wangfu and become the concubine of the King of Qi. Hou Ye doesn't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, and he has to save some face for Aunt Ben, just a few dowries, so that he will wipe out everything that Aunt Ben has done for more than ten years. ”

The more Ning said, the more resentment and dissatisfaction welled up in his voice, "More than half a month ago, I first asked the Liu family to take care of the affairs of the house instead of Aunt Ben, and today, I directly let the Liu family take over the power of the house's internal affairs, which is not enough, I ordered to reduce all the expenses of Aunt Ben in Lanyuan, and I also wanted to let Aunt Ben's subordinates who were used to calling Liu's cooking." You say, is Master Hou too ruthless and unrighteous to Aunt Ben? ”

The magpie and cuckoo did not respond, they only listened with their ears. They knew Ning's question, and they didn't need them to answer.

is also right, Ning's "sparse uproar" said, one is that he wants to find someone, and he pours the saliva in his heart; The other is to use these things she said to make the magpie and the cuckoo hold grievances for her from the bottom of their hearts, in order to achieve the purpose she is going to say next.

Sweeping the magpie and the cuckoo glanced at each other, Ning's voice was calm, and he said, "Aunt Ben wants you to help do something, are you willing to accept Aunt Ben?" Aunt Ben said it in advance, if this matter is done secretly, nothing will happen, and if something happens, you will have to take it on yourself with your life. ”

Speaking of this, Ning's tone was a little more gentle than what he had just said, "Are you willing to accept Aunt Ben?" Although it is a question, as long as those who hear it listen attentively, it is not difficult to hear that there is a sense of intolerance in the tone of Ning's words.

"Master, say it, and the slave and the cuckoo will do it." With the acquiescence of the cuckoo, the magpie made a promise to the Ning family on behalf of the two of them, "If the incident of the East Window really happens, the slave and the cuckoo will definitely not involve the master." ”

Ning sat up, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, pulled the arms of the magpie and the cuckoo, and sat down beside her, "You two are a good one, seeing that you are getting older day by day, when the matter is completed, Aunt Ben will give you a good family in Zhuangzi, and marry you." At that time, you don't have to be a waiter girl anymore, you can live your own lively little life with each other. ”

Slap it and give it a sweet date, what Ning did was to catch it.

"Thank you for being considerate to the slave!" The magpie and the cuckoo both got up from the couch, looked respectful, and bowed to Ning.

"Okay, you sit down with Aunt Ben, and Aunt Ben will talk to you carefully about how to behave."

Ning reached out and patted the position on his side, called the magpie, and the two cuckoos sat down beside her.

The master's order, as a girl, has no right to say no.

The magpie and the cuckoo nodded, and sat down beside Ning again. Calm down and listen to the plan that came out of Ning's mouth.

After listening to the first sentence, the expressions on the faces of the magpie and the cuckoo became stunned.

They didn't expect the Ning clan to let them do such a hurtful thing. However, a promise had already been made, and the two of them could not refuse at the moment.

So the two of them adjusted the expressions on their faces and continued to listen to Ning's whisper. As for the magpie, the two cuckoos reacted after listening to her words, and there was no superfluous look on Ning's face.

Any normal person, hearing what she is saying now, more or less, will show the same expression on the faces of the magpie and the cuckoo.

Fortunately, these two girls did not disappoint her. Otherwise, she would not have spared them.

Going back on her word and playing tricks on her is not something that anyone can do to her Ning Fangfei.

There is no turning back from the bow, and the matter has already been spoken, so it must be carried out according to the plan.

After Ning finished the last sentence, he asked the magpie and the cuckoo, "Have you heard what Aunt Ben said clearly?" ”

"Back to the master, the slave and maid heard clearly." Magpies and cuckoos both responded.

"Well, that's good. Remember, when the day comes, there is only success and no failure! ”

"Yes, master!"

On the side of the main hall, after the Ning family left, Jing Anhou waved his hand directly, and asked the Liu family mother and daughter to retreat with Ling Junbao, while he sat quietly in the main hall alone and thought about his own affairs.

If Jing Anhou can think of something, it is not Ling Wushuang's deceased mother and Ling Wushuang's outstanding daughter. He was a little delusional, if there was no marriage from the emperor back then, and there was no bed-warming concubine pointed out to him by his old mother, then what kind of happy and happy life would he, his wife, and their daughters live?

As he thought in his heart, Jing Anhou's slightly sickly and dull face gave birth to a little vitality.

And back to the Liu family in his own courtyard, he was a little uneasy. With the power of the house, she should have been happy for a few days, but now, she has a heavy heart and an unspeakable panic.

"Auntie, what's wrong with you?" instructed the nurse to take Ling Junbao back to his own room, and Ling Yushan sat on the couch with the Liu family and wanted to talk about a series of things that happened today. When she pondered the words and was about to open her mouth, she found that Liu was absent-minded, with a few corners of her head on her head, and her eyes did not blink. So, the words in her mouth turned around and asked Liu.

Liu was in his own thoughts, and when he heard Ling Yushan's call, he responded in a trance: "What's wrong?" Does Shan'er have something to tell her aunt? ”

Ling Yushan was speechless for a while, she couldn't understand why the Liu family had been absent-minded since she left the main hall. He sat closer to Liu's side and said, "Auntie, Shan'er saw that you have been in a trance and absent-minded since you came out of the main hall, what is the reason?" ”

"Isn't my aunt thinking too much?" Liu Shi didn't look at Ling Yushan, but his eyes were slight, and he opened his mouth and said casually.

She didn't know if she was talking about it to herself or Ling Yushan.

Ling Yushan's eyebrows frowned slightly, she was puzzled, and asked Xiang Liu's again: "Auntie, why didn't Shan'er understand what you said?" ”

Liu Shi was much more sane this time, she looked at Ling Yushan with a very serious look in her eyes, and said, "Shan'er, aunt always feels that something seems to happen in the past two days. And it's for our Bao'er. ”

"Auntie, is she thinking too much? Who in our Hou Mansion doesn't know that Bao'er is the lifeblood of Daddy, who dares to think about Bao'er? Ling Yushan comforted Liu.

"No, when Gang Lanyuan left the main hall, she looked at Bao'er in her aunt's arms, and there was a taste in her eyes that people couldn't say. How so? My aunt just thinks that she seems to have some bad idea for our Bao'er! The Liu family told Ling Yushan about what she was thinking about along the way from the main hall to her own courtyard.

Ling Yushan is a thoughtful person, hearing what the Liu family said, she lowered her head and pondered, and said to the Liu family: "Otherwise, my aunt told Bao'er's nurse not to take Bao'er near Lanyuan as much as possible, let alone let the people of Lanyuan get close to Bao'er, so that Bao'er's safety will not go wrong." ”

"Well, do as you say. Let's take precautions against Orchid Garden, lest Shi Bao'er have a mistake, and my aunt is afraid that she won't be able to live! Liu nodded and said to Ling Yuyan in a heavy tone.

Ling Yushan smiled slightly and said, "What is my aunt talking nonsense?" What is dead and not dead, not alive. My aunt wants to live a long life, so it's good to watch our Bao'er marry a wife and give birth to a little grandchild for you. Ling Yushan's words made Liu's mood feel a lot better, and she said to Ling Yushan: "You girl's family, this son is not ashamed, talking and talking, it is all about Bao'er marrying a wife and having children!" ”

"Huh! Shan'er, this isn't to make you laugh! ”

Ling Yushan's pretty face flushed, and she said in a coquettish voice towards the Liu family.

"Judging from the spectacle of the world that has happened today, your eldest sister must not be a simple one. My aunt doesn't ask for anything else, just ask God to bless you and Bao'er well. Therefore, in the days to come, you will walk around with your eldest sister more and have a good relationship with her, which will be indispensable for you and Bao'er to take the road in the future. ”

"Shan'er listens to her aunt." Ling Yushan listened to Liu's words and nodded very meekly.

"Now the power of the family is in the hands of my aunt, as long as Lan Yuan's doesn't toss any moths out, my aunt won't be embarrassed by her. After a while, my aunt will mention your marriage in front of your father, so that he can see which minister's son in the court has not yet decided to marry, and with the exact news, my aunt will beg your father to talk to the other party and set the marriage for you. ”

"My aunt is in charge."

Ling Yushan replied like this, but in fact, she was struggling in her heart. A beautiful heart of her daughter's family, she didn't know when, had been promised to the suave King Qi.

However, just like what she thought in her heart before, the relationship between her and the King of Qi is shallow, how shallow.

"Auntie, from this matter, Shan'er thinks that the eldest sister did she deliberately pretend to be so useless before? and her legs, obviously sitting in a wheelchair for more than ten years, even when occasionally walking on her own, the unfavorable cords on her legs and feet, we can see it clearly. But after one night, suddenly, the eldest sister's legs and feet were fine, and the daughter felt so mysterious. ”

Liu glanced out of the door, and then said to Ling Yushan with a solemn expression: "Your eldest sister's character, has it not been pretended for more than ten years, from what happened during this time, my aunt can definitely say that she did it on purpose." As for why she wants to be like that, my aunt doesn't know, and those who know are afraid that your eldest sister is herself. When Liu said this, his words paused.

After a while, she continued: "However, the leg disease is definitely not pretended by your eldest sister, when your eldest sister and the little practitioners of Lanyuan went out to play together, when they came back, they were carried into the house with a door panel. No matter how much a person can pretend, he will not be in a wheelchair for many years, don't you say? Besides, your eldest sister has been sitting in a wheelchair for nearly ten years, and adults can't get through it, let alone your eldest sister when she was a child. Therefore, nine times out of ten, your eldest sister's leg disease is inseparable from the fact that she is a goddess. ”

"Auntie, after you said this, I want to come to the eldest sister's leg disease, which was automatically recovered after a night's sleep last night." Ling Yushan's eyebrows frowned slightly, and she said to Liu Shi in a shallow voice.

"That's right." Liu nodded in response.