The curtain opened, Li Shoude jumped out of the carriage, walked up to Li Rulan with a smile on his face and nodded.

"Rulan, you can be considered here, I waited at home for a long time today and didn't see you coming, and I thought you wouldn't come."

Looking at the direction facing Li Rulan and the others, Li Shoude asked with some doubts: "Rulan, why are you taking the child to this way, this is not the way back to our house, our family is over there!" ”

Li Shoude stretched out his hand and pointed in a direction, it was the Li Mansion.

Li Rulan's expression was still cold, "The threshold of the Li Mansion is too high, I don't think I can get in." ”

"That's it!" Xiao Niannian crossed his hands on his waist and snorted and said, "There are people there who don't welcome us, we won't go!" ”

Li Shoude was a little inexplicable, but he still said with a smile: "How can it be Rulan, it's too late for me to be happy that you can go home, how can someone not welcome it?" Come, come, get in the carriage, and I'll take you home myself. ”

"No need." Li Rulan took Xiao Niannian and turned around and left.

"Wait!" Li Shoude shouted, "Rulan, what's wrong with you? Is something happening? Why are you so angry. Father is still waiting for you at home, won't you go back to see it? ”

Li Rulan said without looking back: "You better go back and ask your good lady." ”

The servant girl who came out to ridicule them was the personal maid of Li Shoude's wife Zhang, and Li Rulan recognized it.

The maidservant also recognized her, and deliberately came out to humiliate, she must have been instructed by the Zhang family.

Looking at Li Rulan's figure gradually moving away, Li Shoude was angry and anxious.

He kept his voice low yesterday, and finally persuaded Li Rulan to go back to Li Mansion to take care of his father, and live for a while by the way.

Taking advantage of this time, he was sure that Li Rulan would re-admit the Li family, and then help him match with Xu Xianling, and then his brothel would be able to open.

The plan was good, but I didn't expect it to be mixed up by Zhang's family.

Li Shoude was so angry that he didn't even sit in the carriage, and walked back to Li's mansion in a hurry.

When the porter's servant saw that the old man was coming back in a menacing manner, he trotted to open the door.

Li Shoude raised his feet and stepped over the threshold, flicked his sleeves and was about to walk forward, when he suddenly paused and looked at the servant next to him.

The servant was so frightened that he didn't dare to raise his head, and asked worriedly, "What's wrong with you, old man?" ”

Li Shoude's eyes were sharp, and he asked in a deep voice: "Did a mother and son come just now?" ”

The servant stammered a little and said, "Yes, a mother and son have been here." But when they learned that the old man was not at home, they waited at the door for a while and then went back. ”

Li Shoude greeted the porter before going out, if Li Rulan came to the door, he must respectfully invite him to come to the house to entertain him, and then hurry to find him and go back to the house.

Now that he saw the servant's weak-hearted appearance, he knew that he didn't do what he ordered, and he must have done something bad to make Li Rulan's mother and daughter angry.

But he had no intention of punishing the servant at this time, because he knew that the real culprit was in the inner court.

Zhang, the mother of the Li family, was sitting in the room, selecting the cloth patterns that had just been sent by the silk village.

The girls held trays in their hands, and each tray had a piece of pattern in it, and as long as Zhang nodded, he stayed in the main courtyard.

There were also two women standing beside Zhang, one pinching her legs and the other rubbing her shoulders.

The two are Li Shoude's concubines, Aunt Chen and Aunt Sun, who are waiting for the main mother Zhang while looking at the tricks sent by them, waiting for Zhang to get a piece of the pie after picking.

"Ouch!" At this moment, Zhang suddenly exclaimed and kicked out.

"Where are your dog's eyes? It all pinched me and hurt, what a! ”

Aunt Chen only cared about the pattern of the cloth, and didn't pay attention to the strength of her hand, pinching Zhang's leg painfully, and Zhang's angry kick kicked her to the ground.

Aunt Sun was terrified when she watched from the side, and she didn't dare to slack off, concentrating on pinching Zhang's shoulder.

Aunt Chen didn't care about being kicked and hurt, so she quickly climbed forward and apologized to Zhang.

"It's me who is careless, it's me who is wrong, Madame is angry, Madame is angry!"

Zhang kicked Chen's chest again, "Get out of here!" Don't even think about asking for the material sent today! ”

Aunt Chen's face turned pale when she heard this, but she didn't dare to say anything more, and withdrew with tears.

Before leaving, she took another look at the gorgeous and expensive fabrics, and her heart was sour.

These materials were ordered by Li Shoude to be sent over and used to make spring clothes for the people in the house.

I had already said that I would make a dress for the young ladies and boys in the house.

When the time comes, everyone can wear fashionable new clothes to attend the spring banquet held by the Zhao family.

The Zhao family is the most famous family in Qingzhou City, and a spring banquet is held every March. It is intended to gather the young ladies of some large families in the city to know each other, which is equivalent to a blind date.

Aunt Chen wanted the cloth not for herself, but for her two children.

Her children are now of marriageable age, and if they wore last year's old clothes to the spring feast, they would definitely be looked down upon.

Aunt Chen's appearance is mediocre, and she was originally Zhang's dowry girl. After Zhang's pregnancy, she was pointed out to Li Shoude as a bedside, and later she gave birth to a son and a daughter before she was raised as an aunt in the house.

Zhang's head has been pressed on her head, she can't resist, she can't move, she can only silently accept everything arranged by Zhang's.

Looking at Chen's figure crying and running away, Zhang rolled his eyes angrily.

She has been angry these days, her daughter Li Yulian went to her grandfather's house and did not return for a long time, and her sister-in-law Li Ruyan was angry with her at home all day long.

These are not the most annoying, the most annoying thing is that Li Shoude didn't know what kind of wind he had smoked recently, and he suddenly became enthusiastic about Li Rulan.

The last time Li Rulan entered the mansion, Li Shoude was more respectful to her than his own mother, and asked Li Rulan to come to the mansion to live for a few days.

She and Li Shoude are cousins, and Li Shoude's mother, Lin, is her aunt.

The Lin family looked at Li Rulan unpleasantly, she naturally shared the same breath with the Lin family, and made things difficult for Li Rulan everywhere.

Although Li Shoude greeted her, saying that Li Rulan is not what she used to be, and she has a big backer behind her.

But she looked at it like that, if she really had a big backer, how could Li Rulan still wear the kind of coarse linen clothes that even the servants of the Li family didn't wear.

What's more, she didn't make it particularly difficult, she asked the servants to open the door, and asked the maids to greet her, but they didn't come in by themselves, no wonder she did.

Li Shoude hurriedly walked into Zhang's courtyard, and as soon as he entered, he bumped into Aunt Chen, who was bowing her head and crying.

Seeing her crying and crying and looking aggrieved, Li Shoude frowned and asked, "Feng Niang, what's wrong with you?" Bullied by the eldest lady? ”