As soon as Fan'er heard Qingwen's words, she knew that she was teaching herself to be good, she was a maid in the house, and the rest didn't know, if she didn't even know how to please people, then she would only be worthy of rushing to Zhuangzi to do rough work.

So he said gratefully: "Thank you Sister Qingwen for your guidance, Fan'er knows how to do it." ”

Qingwen entered Baoyu's house, saw that only the autumn musk moon was there, and the attacker must have accompanied Baoyu to the Mid-Autumn Festival banquet in the two mansions, musk moon was eating moon cakes, and when she saw Qingwen coming, she beckoned her to eat together, Qingwen refused, so she sat next to her and embroidered her own rabbit, and Qiuwen saw Qingwen come in, snorted from her nose, and did not raise her head, so she continued to lower her head and embroider her own handkerchief, Qingwen naturally could not paste it, and the two ignored each other, and each embroidered their own things.

Although Qingwen ignored Qiu Wen, she was also very puzzled why Qiu Wen was always targeting herself recently, not to mention not saying hello when she met, and sneering at herself in front of Baoyu, one morning, Qingwen found that the washing water that the fan poured for herself was actually full of dust, this kind of thing naturally could not be done by the little girl fan, the little girl had never done this before, not to mention that she had been obedient to herself recently, so it was naturally impossible to do such a thing.

There is no one else early in the morning, this kind of disgusting thing, naturally only Qiu Wen can do it, and only she can do it, and then this kind of thing happened a few times, and finally Qingwen said in front of Mama Li, Mama Li trained the maids in the whole yard, and this matter is over.

However, Qingwen didn't feel that Qiu Wen targeted her less, but became more, just more subtle and imperceptible.

Outside the window, "Mrs. and the second master are back, the slave and maid congratulate the wife, Mrs. Hexi, the eldest lady of the wife is now a virtuous concubine, and it is also possible to add a concubine in the future, and when the eldest lady gives birth to a little prince, Mrs. You will be the grandmother of the prince." Congratulations, Mrs. Hexi. Fan Er said with a happy face.

Mrs. Wang saw that this little girl was only eight or nine years old, speaking clearly and fluently, and her appearance was also joyful, and she just happened to talk about her heart, and said with great joy: "You congratulated me, I will naturally make you happy, Xuefu, reward this sweet little girl with a penny, and let her buy candy to eat." “

Xuefu touched a tael of silver from her purse and handed it to Fan'er, Fan'er didn't expect that she just said a few nice words, and she got a penny, and her monthly money on weekdays was only half a penny, so she was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked her: "Thank you, Mrs., thank you, Mrs. for the reward." “

Then he got out of the way and hurriedly ran to the front of the house to open the curtain for Mrs. Wang and her party. Stand at the door and wait.

After the maids served tea to Mrs. Wang and Baoyu, Mrs. Wang asked them to retreat, and then in addition to the autumn patterns that were going to be on tonight, Mama Li asked the other maids to go back to rest, and Qingwen was in a mood up and down today, so she also went to bed early.

On the second day, Qingwen had just gotten up, when she saw a fan come in with water, and after pouring the washing water, she said happily: "Sister Qingwen, I was rewarded with one or two silver from my wife yesterday, and I thank my sister for this half of the money, and I hope my sister will accept it." As he spoke, he handed over a string of money.

Qingwen knows that a little girl like her is difficult to get a reward several times a year, and she now has three or four hundred taels of silver in her money box, where can she ask for this.

So he picked up the handkerchief, dipped water in the corner of her eyes, and said, "My sister has money, I don't want your money, you can keep it yourself." Then he threw a veil and began to wash his face.

"But A-Niang said, if you receive the favor of others, you have to repay the favor, otherwise others will look down on us even more, Sister Qingwen, do you also look down on me and my mother? He refused to accept my money," said the fan pitifully.

Qingwen saw that she was talking strangely, so she asked, "I don't have your silver, because I have a lot of silver myself, besides, I am also a maid of Jiafu, why should I look down on you." “

"Because my mother and I are subordinates from Lai's mother, although we are on an errand in our house now, there are always people who look down on us, Sister Qingwen, will you look down on me?" Fan Er said seriously.

Qingwen heard Fan'er say that they were also Lai's mother's subordinates before, so she hurriedly asked Fan'er: "You lived in Lai's mother's subordinate room at that time?" “

Fan Er thought about it carefully and said, "Sister Qingwen, my mother and I lived in the back room of the main house where Lai's mother lived. We lived together for several years, until my mother took me to marry my father, and we didn't go to Jiafu."

When Qingwen heard this, she was a little disappointed, but she was still unwilling to ask: "Then do you know anyone, or are your relatives who were also on an errand at Lai's mother's house?" “

Fan'er thought about it seriously and said, "It doesn't seem to be a problem, Sister Qingwen, do you have anything wrong?" Qingwen thought that since Fan'er and her mother were subordinates of Lai's mother's family, and had worked in Lai's mother's family for several years, she must know a lot of people from Lai's mother's family, and maybe there were people she was looking for.

So he said to Fan'er that he asked her mother to do errands, and she would go to her mother at noon, and asked her to tell his mother that helping herself with this favor would be much more useful than giving herself money.

Fan'er thought about it and felt that it made sense, so he agreed, and ran back to tell his mother. At noon, Qingwen had lunch and went to find her mother.

Fan'er and her mother are the embroidery girls in the Rongguo Mansion, and a master like her is specially responsible for the clothes of the ladies and wives, and the clothes of the big girls like Qingwen are all made by some embroidery girls who have just entered the house, or the maids who are specially allocated to the needlework room in the house.

Qingwen went to the sewing room, saw Fan Er and a woman standing at the door, thinking that the woman was Fan Er's mother, Qing Wen knew that the mother of this Fan was in her thirties, but she didn't expect her to look so young, only twenty-seven or eight, and her figure was not like other women who had children in the house, either haggard and terrible, or the waist was bulging like a blow, but looked slender and slender, although the clothes on her body were not expensive materials, but they were also delicate and elegant, no wonder she died with her husband and children, Fan'er's stepfather is also willing to marry her, Fan'er's mother's original surname is Zhao, after marrying Fan'er's stepfather, because Fan'er's stepfather is also surnamed Zhao, the government called her Zhao Niangzi.

Qingwen hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile: "Thank you Zhao Niangzi, you have waited here for a long time for my business." ”

Zhao Niangzi smiled and said: "Miss Qingwen is polite, I just finished eating and came out, and I saw you coming, Miss Qingwen came to me, but what do you want the slave family to help embroider?" ”

Qingwen smiled and said to Zhao Niangzi: "It's windy here, please Zhao Niangzi move, let's go to the front corridor and talk slowly." ”

When Mrs. Zhao saw Qingwen say this, she had nothing to do, so she went to the corridor with Qingwen, and ordered her daughter Shen'er to go to her embroidery room to get a pot of tea.

Walking to the corridor, the two sat down, and Mrs. Zhao asked, "I don't know why Miss Qingwen is looking for me?" ”

Qingwen said: "I have one thing today, I need the help of the lady, and I ask the lady to give me advice." ”

"Miss Qingwen might as well say it if you have something to say." Zhao Niangzi said. "Then I'll be blunt, I don't know if Mrs. Zhao lived in Mama Lai's house before?" Qingwen saw that Zhao Niangzi's face changed, and hurriedly explained: "Zhao Niangzi, don't misunderstand, I used to be from Lai Mama's family, and later Lai Mama gave me to the ancestors in the mansion, and I just entered the Jia Mansion." After listening to Qingwen, Mrs. Zhao's face improved a little.

Seeing this, Qingwen continued: "I want to ask the lady to help me find some people today? “

"Girl, it's okay, since we're all from over there, naturally no one dislikes anyone, and we should help each other." Zhao Niangzi said kindly.

"Then I'll say it directly, I don't know if Zhao Niangzi can know the people who lived in the next people's house in Lai Mama's house, especially in the year when there were many displaced people in the capital, Zhao Niangzi knew who lived in Lai Mama's house that year. I heard that the lady had lived in Lai's house for several years, and I think I knew a lot of people. If Mrs. Zhao can help me with this, Qingwen will be grateful. “

"What happened to me at the time, it turned out that I was just asking someone, Miss Qingwen is serious, those of us who came to Jiafu with the grandmother's house outside are ridiculed by people on weekdays, and if we have difficulties, we should naturally help each other."

Zhao Niangzi saw that it was just such a trivial matter, so she put her heart at ease and said it. "But coincidentally, the eldest sister of my man's family lived there that year, and it was her matchmaker that I met my man. However, after the funeral of the family next door to her, my eldest sister begged the man of my family to help her come to Jiafu to do the work, I don't know if she can help the girl. When Qingwen heard this, she remembered that there was a lonely young widow in her cousin's house, and that woman was born thin, and when she was young, she and her cousin peeked at her from the door.

Thinking about the eldest sister of Zhao Niang's husband, she was the woman back then. This woman lived next door back then, and she only thought about leaving after the funeral, so she must have known something.

"I don't know where the lady's eldest sister is on an errand now, and I hope the lady will tell her." Qingwen hurriedly said.

Lady Zhao covered her mouth and smiled: "But it's a coincidence, my eldest sister is now in the same courtyard as the girl." She is Mrs. Zhao who is responsible for cleaning in your yard. “

Qingwen didn't expect that she had gone around in a big circle, and the person she was looking for was Mrs. Zhao, who lived under the same roof as her.

It just so happened that Fan'er also brought tea at this time, Qingwen didn't want too many people to know about this matter, and Zhao Niangzi probably felt that Qingwen spent so much effort to find an old person back then, and privately felt that this matter was not simple, and it inevitably involved her daughter, and she didn't tell Fan'er what she meant.

After drinking tea, Qingwen chatted with Zhao Niangzi about the embroidery patterns, thanked Zhao Niangzi, and went back to work.