Zhuangfu "Linglong Ju", at this time it is already afternoon, and the sun is just right. Relief of residual jaw boils

Chunju sat under the porch outside the door, basking in the sun while doing needlework. Miss went to the Ruixiang Prince's Mansion today, and seeing that she hadn't come back until noon, she must have stayed in the Prince's Mansion for lunch. Originally, when the young lady went out, she took Xiao Mo out with her, but Xiao Mo came back first, which scared her.

Miss had an accident last night Xiao Mo also came back by herself, although Miss didn't say anything, but she had been with Miss for so long, and she could guess that she was in a very bad mood, and there seemed to be traces of crying in the corners of her eyes, she refused to say, and she couldn't be forced to ask if she was a maid, Chunju sighed secretly, Miss has also experienced wind and waves, and now that she has returned to the capital, everything is developing for the better. The seventh brother saw that he had a bright future, and his wife's illness had improved, and the old man had a change of heart towards his wife...... Miss, don't make any mistakes!

She nervously asked Xiao Mo, and the girl smiled and gestured, probably meaning that the young lady sent her to the shop in the capital to send the account book she had read a few days ago, and Xiao Cheng took her to the prince's mansion, and Chunju was relieved.

In the past three years, under the care of the young lady, the shop has become bigger and bigger, especially when the prince of Ruixiang left Qiyang Town for more than half a year, the imperial court suddenly issued a holy decree, and Wushuang Kingdom and Wuyang Kingdom opened trade, and Qiyang Town became more prosperous and lively. And the large empty houses built in the field that Miss bought in the east of the town half a year ago have finally come in handy, the guys who used to laugh at Miss throwing silver into the sea are all dumbfounded, those empty houses are full of goods shipped from the newly built dock in the blink of an eye, the brocade of the unequaled country, embroidery, tea, and the porcelain of Tang Mingguo, and the fresh gadgets of Nanyang countries, the treasure knife of Wuyang Kingdom, famous horses, for a time Qiyang Town has become a kaleidoscope of this world, dazzling, and lively.

They soon had their own wharf, their own fleet, their own trading house, their business has gradually penetrated into the country, the business house has opened to the bustling downtown of the capital, but because the lady is low-key, has not mentioned the name of the dealer, over time, people only know that the "three girls" but gradually forget her real surname. The Zhuang Mansion in the capital is even more in the dark, and the second lady Liu's minions, Liu Fatzi, have long been subdued by the young lady, and then followed the young lady to do better and better business, and naturally will not provide true news to the Liu family, so the Liu family has no doubt that they are left to fend for themselves, and they never ask, and they have not even sent money once in the past five years.

Chunju was doing needlework, while thinking about these past events, a careless needle pricked herself, her fingertips hurt slightly, and she came back to her senses. Holding her fingers in her mouth and pouting gently, she seemed to hear the sound of rummaging through the back room, and couldn't help frowning. The voice came from Mrs.'s house, Liu Er went to Aunt Chen's house to borrow a trick, just went out, Xiao Mo has never done housework, only will follow Miss every inch, her responsibility is to protect Miss's safety, Miss is not at home, she is a big idler, she is definitely not in the house, even in the house will not go to Mrs. casually, Mrs. is used to taking a nap in the afternoon, just fall asleep and will not wake up for an hour.

Chunju suddenly became vigilant, quietly stood up, dipped her fingers in the saliva and soaked the paper on the window, and then looked inside. On the low couch in the room, the lady was sleeping soundly on her side, motionless, and there was a person in the room who was sneakily rummaging around the room, Chunju frowned secretly, this person turned out to be Zhang's mother.

Mama Zhang is a servant in the outhouse, and she is not qualified to enter the inner room casually, and she definitely doesn't look like she wants to serve her wife. After a while, Zhang's mother patted the placket of her clothes and tiptoed out of the room. As soon as there was a dozen curtains in the inner room, Zhang's mother was stunned, and Chunju stood at the door and looked at her with a smile.

"Mom Zhang, where are you going?"

Zhang's mother's expression was a little flustered, but after all, she was an elderly person, and she spent more time in the house than Chunju, relying on her old qualifications, plus the support of the second lady, so she immediately glared at Chunju and scolded: "Miss Chunju, it's not that the old body said you, how can the people serving around this lady leave casually? Just now, the lady woke up in the house and asked for water to drink, but there was no one in the house, and no one came back when she shouted to you, so she had to go in and serve. It stands to reason that Madame's inner room is a place where I can go in casually?"

She hit a rake backwards, and the villain Chunju was not. Zhang's mother urged Chunju again: "Why don't you go in and serve Madame." ”

If it was five years ago, Chunju might have swallowed her anger and was frightened by her momentum, but now it is different from the past, Chunju has seen a lot of the world with Zhuang Meiyan doing business, not to mention an old maidservant, even high-ranking officials and nobles have seen a lot, how can they be frightened by her few false words. Chunju smiled: "I was doing needlework under the porch and embroidering a purse for Miss, but I didn't hear Madame's voice." ”

Mama Zhang came in from the back door, so she didn't notice that Chunju was under the porch, she put on a straight face and said, "Mrs. Xu is voice is not too loud." ”

Chunju smiled again: "Sister Liu'er just served Madame and drank a bowl of ginseng soup, but in a quarter of an hour, how could Madame get thirsty so quickly?"

After all, Zhang's mother is a person who has done something wrong, so she couldn't help but stand up, and finally her face sank, and said: "You have to reason with your wife about this matter, you are stealing and playing tricks, and you are playing while your wife is resting, and there is not even a person in the house who takes care of you, but you have to argue strongly, what kind of rule is this." That is, the old man has a good temper, if you say it to the second lady, you will have a meal, and you will have to send it out. You should be more careful in the future, and I won't talk about today's things with the second lady. ”

Chunju smiled half-heartedly, and didn't argue with her, she became more and more proud, and she left behind her a little caution in her heart, relying on the old and selling the old.

"The second lady told me to come over to help the third lady, one is that she is young and ignorant, and the other is that she has been in the countryside for a long time, and she is a person with a weak personality, but I am afraid that you girls and slaves will bully the master, because I think I am old and stable, so I want to come and take care of it. If there was no order from the second lady, how could the old man dare to enter the lady's room casually regardless of the rules. Liu'er, let's go to the yard to play again, I think it's the same, where can you see these many scenery in the countryside, and I'll talk about her when I turn around. Now Madame is about to wake up, and your little hoof is not going in to wait. ”

After some scolding, Mama Zhang's righteous words repeatedly mentioned the second lady, as if she had become the director of "Linglong Ju".

Chunju's smile was even stronger, with a hint of teasing, Zhang's mother vaguely felt that something was wrong, she turned her head suddenly, and was suddenly startled - Zhuang Meiyan didn't know when she was standing behind her, her face was cold, and she didn't say a word.

After all, Zhang's mother had a weak heart, accompanied by a smiling face, and saluted: "When will the third miss come back?" ”

"Yo, Miss, why are your clothes wet, why don't you let the maid accompany you when you go out, this makes outsiders laugh at our Zhuang Mansion for not understanding the rules, let the eldest lady go out alone and don't even have a person to serve, Third Miss, you haven't left the cabinet yet, this is not good for your reputation! ”

Zhuang Meiyan played in the water on the pavilion of the Ruixiang Prince's Mansion first, wetting her clothes, and now her sleeves are half-dry, and she has a lot of dust, which looks really embarrassing. Chunju stepped forward and looked at her cheeks with some doubt, although the swelling had been reduced by applying medicine, but after all, there were red marks, but Chunju didn't ask anything, just helped her sit down on the chair.

"Third Miss, the old body still has to go to Steward Liu to receive our money for this month, so I will go down first. Zhang's mother said.

She turned around and wanted to leave, but Zhuang Meiyan said, "Mother Zhang stays." ”

Her voice was clear and powerful, faintly revealing a bit of majesty, Zhang's mother was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt that today's young lady seemed to be a little different from five years ago.

"Third Miss, if there is anything, let's wait for the old body to come back with the money, the account office has come to urge several times, and the old body is not empty. Mother Zhang didn't take her despised third lady in her eyes, and still walked to the door by herself.

Suddenly there was a flower in front of her, and there was a figure standing in front of her like a ghost, blocking her way. Zhang's mother was stunned, and when she looked up, she saw that the person was Xiao Mo, a dumb girl in the third lady's house, Xiao Mo's expression was cold and her face was not good. Zhang's mother said displeasedly: "You don't go to serve Miss, what are you doing standing here?" It's like wood, and there is no eye at all. ”

She stretched out her hand to push Xiao Mo away, but Xiao Mo was motionless, she was shocked by Xiao Mo's internal force, took two steps back and fell to the ground.

At this time, Zhuang Meiyan had already changed into a set of moon-white homely casual clothes under the service of Chunju, sat on the chair calmly, picked up the new tea that had just been brewed, blew off the floating stems, and took a sip slowly. Zhuang Meiyan glanced at Mama Zhang, who was humming on the ground, sneered in her heart, and said: "Mama Zhang, didn't I say that you should stay? Why are you in such a hurry? Even if you go to get the money, the silver can't run, and you can just ask Chunju to do these little things, you are also old, Erniang asked you to come to my house, and it was not called by the old mother, but I think that you are older, and some things are good to rely on." ”

These words entered Zhang's mother's heart, and she was very useful.

"Since you are older, you should know the rules, abide by your duty, and don't do anything that goes beyond the norm. Even though the girls in the house are young and ignorant, if you do something wrong, you should go back and forth to me, you should beat and scold, I will develop myself, when will it be your turn to call the shots?" Zhuang Meiyan raised her eyebrows, and her voice gradually became stern.

Zhang's mother didn't expect that the third lady spoke mildly at first, and then every word was like a whip on her, making her face red and white for a while, and ashamed. She unwillingly defended: "The old body is dedicated to the sake of the third lady, and now since the third miss blames the old lady for being troublesome, the old body might as well quit his life from the second lady and go home to support the elderly." ”

Zhuang Meiyan saw that Zhang's mother relied on the old and sold the old, and moved out of the second lady to press her, and she sneered more and more in her heart. She has been low-key in the three days since she entered the house, and everyone in the house saw that she was still the same as before, with a warm face and a cold heart, and looked at her with the same good temperament. This view will be changed for everyone from today onwards.

Zhuang Meiyan didn't laugh angrily at this time, pointed at Zhang's mother and smiled at Chunju: "You see, it turned out to be for my good, do you still need me to talk to her in person?"

Chunju took a step forward knowingly, stood in front of Mama Zhang, and said: "Since you said the word rules in front of Miss, then everything has to be said according to the rules, you are just a subordinate of the outhouse, can you casually go into the lady's room and look around because you are old?"

Mother Zhang hated the root of her teeth, and said with a horizontal eyebrow: "Don't chew the root of your tongue with your little hoof, it's obvious that you didn't serve me well, but it wasn't me." Could it be that when I passed by there and heard my lady screaming in a straight voice several times that no one was paying attention, I could take a detour with peace of mind? I entered the house and was not familiar with it, and Madame wanted this and that, so naturally I could only look for it according to his old man's instructions. ”

Zhang's mother knew that Mrs. was not clear in her mind, and even if she confronted her, she couldn't tell why, so she had no fear.

Chunju said with disdain on her face: "If you look for it, you will find it, but you can't carry it." ”

When Mama Zhang heard this, her expression changed greatly, and she was uncertain. Zhuang Meiyan sat silent with a smile, her eyes were deep, like a cat playing with mice, hiding her murderous intentions.

"Mother Zhang, the slave takes the master's belongings privately, the light one is expelled from the mansion, and the heavy one can be questioned by the official. You're also an old man, so I'm going to teach you that?"

"Yo! What's going on? Who made Miss Third angry? He wanted to drive people out and ask the officials. I heard the shouting from afar, and those who didn't know thought that this was a family that didn't know anything about it was reprimanding the maid, and those who knew would think that when our Zhuang Mansion changed the rules, and they would rise up to practice people. ”

The second lady Liu walked into the door, and glanced at Zhang's mother, who was kneeling on the ground, and was already a little ownerless, and said idle words in her mouth. is not light or heavy, but secretly pointed out that Zhuang Meiyan is "practicing people", she buttoned this big hat to Zhuang Meiyan's head without asking the reason, obviously trying to take advantage of the situation to bully people.

When Zhang's mother saw Liu come in, she immediately felt confident.

"Mom Zhang, I asked you to take care of the third lady inside and outside in this house, what did you do?" Liu scolded softly, and at the same time gave Mama Zhang a look.

Mama Zhang's eyes were closed, her face showed an extremely aggrieved look, and the tears came quickly, and she cried in an instant, and said: "Second lady, old and old, useless, staying in this house is also an eyesore, beg the second lady to send me out quickly, everyone will be quiet!"

Chunju smiled and immediately replied: "You finally said the truth, but it's not that we want to drive you away, it's you who want to leave." ”

One sentence forced Zhang's mother's tears back, not only Zhang's mother was stunned, but even Liu's was stunned, and her grease-smeared face suddenly changed color, and she scolded: "I'm talking to your master, what are you slaves talking about?"

Zhuang Meiyan, who had been silent, put down the teacup and said in a deep voice: "Well said! To be a man, you should know your identity!" Aunt Liu!"

At first, Liu thought that Zhuang Meiyan was afraid that he was going to scold his maid for being talkative, but who knew that he actually talked about himself in a circle, and changed his name and called himself "aunt". Liu's anger was not in one place, a pair of apricot eyes were round, she saw Zhuang Meiyan sitting still, not afraid of herself at all, her eyes were solemn, and her momentum was awe-inspiring. It was only then that she realized that five years had passed, and this girl had changed.

"What's wrong with the girl, is it possible that you want to take out the posture of the young lady and even drive me out of the mansion as an elder?" Liu frowned and said, "I also kindly persuaded the girl a few words, our Zhuang Mansion has always been generous and benevolent, but don't let your own temperament come for some trivial things, but it is not the reputation of the young lady alone that will be harmed, but the face of our Zhuang Mansion." ”

The warning meaning of these words is very strong, and Zhuang Meiyan will not be unable to hear the off-string sound.

She smiled slightly and said, "How does my aunt know that I am coming here?"

Zhuang Meiyan didn't mean to drive Zhang's mother out of the mansion, but when she saw her arrogance, she wanted to teach her a lesson, but who knew that her accomplices actually went to recruit the Liu family to point fingers, which was really "self-inflicted, not to live". She doesn't want to provoke right and wrong, but she will never be afraid of right and wrong.

Zhuang Meiyan glanced at Xiao Mo, who flashed in front of Zhang's mother, grabbed her collar and shook it vigorously, only to hear a crisp sound, a golden hairpin inlaid with plum blossoms fell out of Zhang's mother's clothes, and Zhang's mother's face was flushed.

When she first came, Zhuang Meiyan deliberately asked Liu Er to open her mother's jewelry box in front of Zhang's mother, and the greed in Zhang's mother's eyes naturally did not escape Zhuang Meiyan's eyes. Therefore, when she heard the dispute between Zhuang Meiyan and Zhang's mother, she immediately knew Zhang's mother's intention to sneak into her mother's room, and then she tried a few words, Zhang's mother looked panicked, and Zhuang Meiyan immediately knew it. Let Xiao Mo search her body on the spot because she was afraid that she would bite back afterwards.

The evidence is conclusive, and the atmosphere in the room is even more tense. Zhang's mother looked at Liu with a gloomy face and glared at her viciously.

"It's really hard to guard against thieves! Someone! Drag her out to hit the twenty boards and drive her out of the mansion!"

"Second lady spare your life! Second lady, the old maid is wronged...... Third Miss, you have wronged the old maid!" "Mother Zhang begged bitterly, the tears falling at this time were real, not adulterated at all.

Liu took two maids and dragged Zhang's mother's hand, trying to get her out, but Zhang's mother had a big waist and a lot of strength, so she refused to leave, and the two maids couldn't control her for a while, and the noise became more and more serious.

This is Liu Er coming in from the back hall, lying behind Zhuang Meiyan's ear and whispering a few words, Zhuang Meiyan bowed slightly, and said: "Busy! Auntie doesn't have to be angry, since she is now a person in my house, I will send her, and I won't bother Auntie." ”

Liu Shi laughed angrily and said, "Listen, what the girl said is not a foolish thing? I was angry for the girl, but it became mine." Then leave it to you, let the girl deal with it. ”

Liu Shi motioned for her maid to let go, she knew that if Zhang's mother used the means of sprinkling, these young ladies in the boudoir would definitely not be cured, and she was happy to see a joke.

Zhang's mother naturally refused to show weakness, cried and wiped her tears, and said: "Third Miss, this hairpin was given to me by Mrs., saying that it was because the plum blossoms were not good-looking, so I took it to the jewelry shop on the street and destroyed it to make another pendant for Miss to wear." What the old maid said is true, if you take it privately, Mrs. has a lot of jewelry, why not take more, or take a bigger one, pick up the smallest one, if the lady really doesn't believe it, wait for Mrs. to wake up and ask. ”

This kind of trick has been done before, when Zhuang Meiyan was young, some dishonest maids and old mothers stole their mother's private body, and occasionally were touched by Chunju, they would justify that it was Mrs. who asked them to take it, if they confronted their mother, their mother was confused, and they coaxed a few words, but it would make the fake come true, and they could snatch things away openly. Zhuang Meiyan and Chunju don't know how much anger and tears they shed because of this.

Now that Mama Zhang's old trick is repeated, Zhuang Meiyan suddenly became angry, and sneered in her heart: "You are cutting off your own life, don't blame me for being ruthless." ”

"I don't want to mention this for the time being, I have another thing to ask you. Zhuang Meiyan said pleasantly.

Seeing that Zhuang Mei's face was softened, Mother Zhang thought that she had a plan, slowly stopped crying, knelt on the ground and replied, "What do you have to say about the third miss?"

"Have you ever withdrawn the money from your account this month?"

Zhuang Meiyan suddenly asked this question, which made Zhang's mother confused. Zhang Mahu said suspiciously: "I haven't received it yet, the old maid was going to go, but who knew that it passed by the lady's house......"

Zhuang Meiyan knew that she was going to pull out that string of topics again, so she immediately cut it off: "So you haven't received it?"

"Yes!" Zhang's mother was uncertain, she didn't know what was wrong, she lay on the ground and didn't dare to breathe, and she wondered if she had any loopholes. Before, she despised this third lady very much and didn't take it to heart, but now that she thinks about many things in the past two days, if they are seriously investigated, they will be unfavorable to her, and she suddenly sweats.

Zhuang Meiyan did not relax, and asked again: "Liu Er went to the account room just now and asked, saying that there are less than ten taels of silver left in my room this month, what is going on?"

According to the example, Zhuang Meiyan lives here with Mrs. Miss and Son, plus three big maids, five little maids, and one old mother, and the total amount of money should be more than 30 taels, but now there are less than 10 taels left on the account, which is obviously a problem.

Zhang's mother lowered her head and replied, "Miss and Mrs. came back to live, and some things always had to go out to comprador work, so the expenses on the books went out." ”

The rule of the Zhuang government is that the regular money of all parties is paid on a monthly basis, and if there is some personal money, it is the unified comprador of the government, and it is deducted from the regular money, which has always been the case, and it is not special.

At this point, it should be the end of the question. Zhuang Meiyan also nodded with satisfaction, and suddenly said, "What did you buy for these twenty taels of silver?"

Zhang's mother replied: "Madame, Miss still has the rouge gouache used by the girls in the room, and according to the custom, spring has arrived, and the three girls brought over by Miss have each bought a new set of clothes, and there are some bits and pieces of expenses, and the old maid can't remember." ”

Zhuang Meiyan pondered for a moment and said: "I see, rouge gouache we use the 'Peach Blossom House' goods, and the price can't add up to five taels of silver, as for Chunju's clothes, the material is ordinary silk, and the finished clothes made of them don't need one or two taels of silver, and these together don't need ten taels of silver, I don't know what else to use." ”

Zhang's mother couldn't say why, and finally couldn't prevaricate: "The things were bought in the account, and the old maid didn't know the price." ”

Zhuang Meiyan was waiting for her words, she frowned and said: "What you said is also right, you reported this amount, but the account room is responsible for buying it." In this way, Liu'er, Xiao Mo, you go and bring the people in the account room here. ”

Liu Er answered, and immediately took Xiao Mo out of the door.

Zhuang Meiyan only raised a smile and looked at Liu at this time, since she entered the house, she had never given this woman a kind word, and she didn't even give her a seat, which made Liu very embarrassed and gloomy. It was only because he didn't know Zhuang Meiyan's plans that Liu looked at it patiently.

Zhuang Meiyan looked at Liu and said with a smile: "I don't know what happened when my aunt came to me?" Chunju, don't you hurry up and show your aunt a seat." ”

Chunju brought a stool to Liu, Liu's complexion changed and changed, and finally she calmed down, and said with a smile: "What's wrong with the third girl today? It's just a few taels of silver, as for being angry with the minions? ”

Seeing that Zhuang Mei's face was more serious, Liu had already quietly instructed a big girl beside her to let her inform the account room. After all, she is still in charge of this family, how can she come by this girl!

For her ridicule, Zhuang Meiyan just laughed it off. And Zhang's mother didn't get Zhuang Meiyan's permission, so she could only kneel in place in fear, beads of sweat continued to flow down her forehead, her eyes rolled wildly, and from time to time she secretly glanced at Zhuang Meiyan, and looked at Liu as if asking for help.

The room was quiet for about a quarter of an hour, and there was some commotion outside. Xiao Mo carried a mother-in-law about forty years old and pushed her into the house. The woman seemed to have been beaten, her nose was blue and her face was swollen, and Liu couldn't help but be taken aback.

Liu Er stepped into the house, raised the account book in her hand, and said with an indifferent smile: "The third girl expected nothing wrong at all, the rouge gouache we used was actually recorded as fifteen taels on the book, and those clothes were also recorded as ten taels. These two items alone are three times the market price, not to mention the others. ”

Seeing that Liu Er actually took out all the account books, Liu was even more dumbfounded, she was shocked by this thunderous method, and she didn't know how to respond for a while.

Liu Er handed the account book to Zhuang Meiyan, Zhuang Meiyan glanced at it a few times, and laughed "poof".

"Oh, a few months ago, there was also the expenditure of the seventh brother's pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and the seventh brother worked hard day and night in the country, and he never even returned to the house, how did this item come about. Besides, an ordinary wolf actually costs five taels of silver, could it be that the pen is made of silver?"

"That's more, auntie, a set of red gauze curtains in your house costs eight taels of silver. But the curtain made of red yarn was the cheapest, and a tael of silver could buy a horse, and ten beds were enough. ”

"Mother Liu, what kind of algorithm are your accounts, don't you just watch the ladies and ladies in the house don't understand the prices in the outside market, so you just memorize them randomly?" Zhuang Meiyan threw the account book on the ground, and his face was solemn.

The woman who was thrown on the ground by Xiao Mo was Mother Liu, and she was also a little flustered, the key was that Zhuang Meiyan was too familiar with the market, and she knew the price when she took out a random piece, so she didn't even have a chance to explain. Mother Liu secretly glanced at her master Liu, but didn't dare to say anything.

"Well said!"

With a cheer, everyone in the room knelt down.

"Father!"

"Sir!"

Zhuang Yan Yuan looked at his daughter with a smile, clapped his hands and said, "That's right! Yan Er knows a lot of ways to manage money at a young age, and she has really grown up!"

Liu Shi was closest to the master, and immediately came over to hold the master's arm, and said with a smile: "But isn't it? I've been listening to this for a long time, and I'm still confused in some places." I really didn't expect this slave to dare to fool the master, it was really hard to leave them. Although Mother Liu was the companion I brought over, she really couldn't spare her for such a mess. Strictly speaking, it should be sent to the official for investigation, but our Zhuang Mansion has always treated people with generosity and benevolence, and the ugliness of the family should not be publicized, and sending the official to the official may damage the reputation of the house. Why don't you beat each of these people with twenty boards and drive them out of the mansion, sir, do you think this matter should be handled like this?"

The words are reasonable and well-founded, and the water does not leak, which not only shows that she is fair, but also fulfills the dignity of the dealer, and at the same time protects Liu Ma and Zhang Ma without leaving a trace.

Zhuang Yanyuan nodded and said, "The affairs of the house have always been your decision, so it's up to you." ”

Liu Shi made a look, and the maids immediately stepped forward to put Liu Ma and Zhang Ma out, because the master had already spoken, and the two of them knew that their general situation was gone, and they didn't even have the strength to struggle, so they let it be disposed of.

Liu smiled again: "Master, now my body is not as good as in previous years, my spirit is not good, and I often can't take care of some things, now the third girl is shrewd and capable, it is better to let her take care of the account room, and help me." What do you think?"

Zhuang Meiyan knew that the Liu family had been operating in the mansion for many years, and it was impossible to overthrow her by such a trivial matter. She smiled and excused herself: "Erniang's housekeeper is well organized, and if there is a mistake in the account, it is also a villain, how does she know?"

Zhuang Yuan stroked his beard and said: "Yan'er, since your second mother said so, don't shirk, and the account room will be handed over to you to take care of in the future." ”

Since the father spoke, Zhuang Meiyan had no choice but to bless: "Yes, my daughter is doing her best." ”

At this time, there was a voice from her mother in the house, and Liu Er wanted to go in to serve, but Zhuang Yanyuan walked in first. Zhuang Meiyan was about to go in, but Liu Er gently tugged at her sleeve and signaled her not to go in.

Liu covered his mouth and smiled, and said, "Third girl, don't go in." The lord and the lady are husband and wife, let them get together. ”

Although Zhuang Meiyan is a woman in the boudoir, after all, she is old, and she also knows a thing or two about men and women, and her face is quietly red.

Liu Shi said again: "Third girl, the previous thing was that I was confused and used the wrong person. I'll want the three girls to take care of it in the future!"

The words were very stammering, but Zhuang Meiyan saw a trace of hatred from her eyes, she smiled indifferently, and said with her jaw: "Yan'er doesn't understand anything, and she will have to teach Erniang more in the future!"

Liu exchanged a few words with her, and hurriedly led the maids away.

In the back room, the sound of my father reading.

"Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the river island, fair lady, gentleman. ”

Zhuang Meiyan felt a little comforted in her heart, and she asked Liu Er to take Xiao Mo to the account room to take over. Liu Er has been working with her for the past few years, and the accounts are not a problem, so it is only appropriate to hand it over to her.

After Liu Er left, Zhuang Meiyan returned to her room, suddenly remembered something, and whispered a few words to Chunju.

Chunju was stunned for a moment and said, "Miss, this is a lot of silver." ”

"Silver, you call Xiucai to spend it casually, even this sweat and blood BMW is not allowed to enter the borders of the peerless country. ”

Chunju was confused, looking at Zhuang Meiyan with a solemn face, she could only nod and walk out of the house with doubts.

Zhuang Meiyan breathed a sigh of relief, and solved these villains, which can be regarded as a quiet one. She didn't want to have much to do, but when people rode up, she was no longer the cowardly little girl she was five years ago, how could she sit still!

At this moment, she felt a little tired and her head hurt, so she lay down on the couch. She wet half of her sleeves in the Ruixiang Prince's Mansion in the morning, did not change them in time, walked and saw the wind, plus these trivial matters, she actually contracted the wind cold and became ill.

I invited a few doctors to come and see, and some people said that it was "accidental wind and cold", and some people said that it was "unadaptable". After taking a few pills, it didn't get better, Zhuang Meiyan only felt that his body was weak, and he only lay on the couch for more than ten days, Chunju and the others were so anxious that they looked for famous doctors everywhere.

Somehow the matter was known to the prince of Ruixiang, he asked Jiang Yutang to come over to diagnose Zhuang Meiyan's pulse, Jiang Yutang returned to the capital three years ago and entered the Ruixiang Palace, becoming Duanmu Hao's exclusive doctor. After Jiang Yutang looked at the pulse, he said that he was "a hundred knots of thoughts", so he only let him recuperate quietly, and he didn't prescribe any medicine.

After another two days, Zhuang Meiyan felt that her body seemed to be better, and she felt upset when she was lying in the house, so she asked Chunju to accompany her to the yard to relax.

After lying in the house for more than ten days, the twilight of spring has quietly passed, and the scene of flowers in full bloom in the garden has disappeared, replaced by a lush green in the garden, and the pothos vines on the rockery are climbing longer and longer, almost covering all the rocks.

Zhuang Meiyan looked at the flowers in the garden, and sighed that time was ruthless, and someone behind him smiled lightly and said, "My sister is already well." ”

Zhuang Meiyan turned her head when she heard this, and the person who came was wearing a honey-red juan gauze gold silk embroidered long skirt, wearing a hollow orchid bead hairpin on her head, her eyes were like paint, her willow eyebrows were thin, her body was slender, and she had the appearance of a delicate and invincible beauty. Although this person is not familiar with Zhuang Meiyan, she can be regarded as recognizable, she is Zuo Siru, the daughter of Prime Minister Zuo. Zuo Siru didn't come alone, but the man who appeared in the garden with her was Duanmu Hao, the prince of Ruixiang.

Duanmu Hao walked behind, looking at her with a smile at the moment, although he didn't say a word, his eyes were gentle, and everything was silent.

Duanmu Hao has passed the year of establishment, he married at the age of eighteen, and married the princess Ji Mingyue, the princess of Tang Mingguo, Ji Mingyue was frail and sickly, and he did not have children for ten years after the wedding. Duanmu Hao has a deep affection for his wife, and has always refused to accept the side concubine, and later the emperor issued a decree to give him the daughter of the left prime minister to marry, and a side princess has been added to the Ruixiang prince's mansion, and it has been more than two years.

Zuo Siru took her hand and talked to her very enthusiastically. They exchanged two words, and Zuo Siru suddenly turned his head and smiled at Duanmu Hao: "Lord Wang, Ru'er hasn't been to visit Sister Meiyu of the Zhuang family for a long time, I heard that she is also back today, and I also asked Lord Wang to allow our sisters to get together." ”

Duanmu Hao bowed slightly, and Zuo Siru secretly pinched the back of Zhuang Meiyan's hand when he left, and smiled at her with deep meaning, which made Zhuang Meiyan a little inexplicable. When she turned her head again, Chunju's girl didn't know where she went, and only Duanmu Hao was facing her under the shade of the willows in the garden.

Duanmu Hao said faintly: "You have lost weight. ”

Zhuang Meiyan's heart suddenly tightened, and even her breathing was a little short, she tried her best to calm her mind, and she said in a low voice: "Xie Wang Ye remembers, Meiyan only occasionally feels cold, and it is good to recuperate for a few days." ”

"Two days ago, Yutang cut off your pulse, but prescribed me a prescription. Duanmu Hao's eyes were warm, and the doting in his eyes seemed to melt people completely, and he said softly: "To untie the bell, you still need to tie the bell, and you still need to solve the love thread." ”

The sunlight poured into her eyes through the gap between the willow flutters, intertwining into one piece, so bright that people couldn't open their eyes, as if they were dizzy with sudden happiness. A dream from many years ago suddenly came back to life, and she couldn't tell what was true and what was false. Zhuang Meiyan suddenly felt a little miserable.

She heard the man say softly again: "Meiyan, I just came to ask you a question, is Duanmu Hao your medicine guide?"

The sun is so strong today!

It's so bright that it feels like the world is spinning!

In the main room of Zhuangfu, Liu was lying on the couch, his face was a little sleepy and his spirit was sluggish. Next to her sat her daughter Zhuang Meiyu.

"Mother, you just let that girl mess around? Sister Meiyi hasn't married yet? It's not okay to let this stinky girl go on so rampant! Last time she went to Changxin Hou Ye's mansion to make a fuss, Mrs. Tai gave a strict order, clearly saying that she couldn't pass on the position of Hou Ye to Shi Fan. She leaned on the big tree of Ruixiang again, and she didn't know how proud she would be in the future. She took great pains to hide it from us, and we didn't hear anything about it beforehand. ”

Liu gritted his teeth and said: "Outsiders just don't use it, and Mother Liu and I have some years, and she actually helped let that girl coax me." I thought her brother was a safe person, but who knew that he hadn't revealed such a big news in the past few years, and he was obviously helping the girl hide it. ”

On the one hand, Liu Meiyan exposed her embezzlement of public funds from the government, and on the other hand, she also felt that Liu's mother was a little untrustworthy.

"Mother, is that it?" Zhuang Meiyu sighed unwillingly.

Liu's eyes flashed with murderous intent, and said: "Let her be proud for a few days, she is just a girl's family, and she will marry sooner or later." ”

Zhuang Meiyu will not be her daughter, she realized in her heart, and said: "Mother means to find a mother-in-law for her to marry as soon as possible, but I heard that the prince seems to be a little interesting to her, in case--"

At this time, a maid came in and said, "The princess is here to meet the eldest lady." ”

Zhuang Meiyu was surprised: "Why did she come over?"

She and Zuo Siru are both friends and rivals, and now they are married and have much less contact than before, so they were naturally surprised to hear of her visit. Liu's eyes lit up, and he said gloomily: "If the prince marries this girl, the first thing to worry about is not our mother and daughter, but someone else." ”

Zhuang Meiyu understood and nodded slightly.

After all, Zuo Siru is the side princess, and neither the Liu family nor Zhuang Meiyu dare to slack off, so they hurriedly went out to greet her.

The unrivaled country inn.

A young man in a black tight-fitting suit broke into the backyard, raised his face to look at the towering trees, and said in a loud voice: "His Royal Highness the Prince, His Royal Highness the Prince, that princess is here again, clamoring to see you, and ......"

The man stopped talking.

A lazy voice sounded from the tree, "What did she say?"

"She said that you didn't believe what you said, that you promised her a purebred sweat and blood horse, but you haven't even seen it until now. ”

Xiao Xuanchen sat on the thick branch, his back against the big tree, and his two good-looking long legs stretched out comfortably, free and uninhibited. He still didn't mind Princess Qing's comments about him, laughed, and said, "Since that's the case, then she shouldn't see me." ”

"Langnu. Xiao Xuanchen suddenly called the man, "Is it true that you can't get a sweaty BMW?"

"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince, we don't want to alarm the people of the Wanyan family, we just trade privately, but the horse dealers all say that the sweaty BMW in Wuyang has been bought by some people at a high price recently, and they can't find a purebred good horse in a short time. ”

"Sold out! What a big deal!" Xiao Xuanchen's eyes flashed with a layer of tender affection.

"Your Highness, it's not impossible to get a bloody horse, the lord of the country has a dedicated horse farm, and he has several precious bloody horses, if you--"

"No, you go down first. Xiao Xuanchen categorically rejected his proposal.

The young man didn't understand the prince's intentions, he walked out of the courtyard in a bit of a daze, and before he went out, he glanced up at the prince in confusion, Xiao Xuanchen was muttering to himself, repeating: "Did you do it right? You are angry? You are angry!

The young man shrugged his shoulders and smiled softly when he saw his Royal Highness the Crown Prince saying something confusing.

It's been a long time since the prince has laughed like this!