The two of them walked along the stone path in the courtyard, and did not sit in the only pavilion in the courtyard.

The main reason is that it is too cold, the gazebo is obviously built for the summer shade, there is a grape trellis on one side, the sunshine time here is long, it is very suitable for grape growth, so some people will plant a grape in the yard, and you can watch, and you can taste, killing two birds with one stone.

The two of them walked through the middle courtyard to the backyard, and Wang Qingyue took Qian Yan directly to her boudoir.

Before, they were all in the middle courtyard, where there was a flower hall specially used to receive guests, and Wang Qingyue was usually there to deal with the trivial affairs of the family.

She only stayed for two hours last time, so she didn't have a chance to come to the backyard and went back.

Speaking of which, it was not the right time for Qian Yan to come last time, just in time for the shop managers to report the accounts at the end of the month, so Wang Qingyue would be very busy.

At that time, it was quite embarrassing to see her busy and sit next to her, so Qian Yan left early, not wanting to cause trouble.

Now that I think about it, I didn't say anything in advance and went straight to the door, and the stewards over there were waiting, so I couldn't send her away and just entertain her.

It's different today, Wang Qingyue didn't have anything to do this morning, and the two of them talked very easily.

The two of them talked a lot today, talking about some interesting things in life, talking about the people they met before, and they felt as if they had endless words.

Especially Qian Yan, she felt that if it weren't for the time and space, she would want to introduce her brother to her, if there was such a sister-in-law, it would not be bad, and she would get along, it is estimated that there would be no mother-in-law and daughter-in-law problem, because her mother has the same preferences as her.

She couldn't help but say some things about her brothers, of course, she would change the time and place a little.

The other party listened very happily and kept laughing, especially when she said that the second brother especially likes to bully her, and she has to tease her every time, and then she is chased and beaten by her father and eldest brother, and the envy on her face is simply too obvious.

"If only I had a brother, he would definitely protect me." She whispered.

Qian Yan patted her arm and comforted: "You have a younger brother, he will grow up soon, I see that Feng is very stable at a young age, and his future is limitless, so you just wait for him to protect you in the future." ”

Wang Qingyue was also very happy to hear her praise her brother, after all, her younger brother can be said to have been brought up by her, and she was praised for her honor.

At this time, a yellow fat cat ran into the house, and her eyes lit up, "Qingyue, you also have a cat, I also have a yellow cat like you, but it is a little younger than it, how old is it, what is its name?" ”

Wang Qingyue picked up the cat that ran to her lap and kept rubbing, "It's three years old this year, it's called hydrangea, it's from my uncle's house, it's very obedient, and it will run over as soon as it is called."

Next time you come over, bring your cat too, the two of them can play together, what's the name of your cat? ”

Qian Yan nodded and said: "Okay, my cat is rich, just three months old, more than three laps smaller than it, the hydrangea is really chubby, at least a dozen pounds." ”

At first glance, you can know that the food and drink are good, and this name is quite in line with its size.

When Wang Qingyue heard the name Qian, she couldn't help but laugh again, "Why did you give it such a name, then if you raise another one, wouldn't it be called powerful?" ”

Qian Yan shook her head seriously, "That's not it, if I raise another one, it will be called rich or rich, I am very single-minded." ”

"Hahaha...... Don't say such a serious thing, I'm going to die laughing......"

Tilt Yan raised her eyebrows, is the smile so low?

The two of them were chatting when they heard a commotion outside.

Wang Qingyue suppressed a smile and frowned slightly.

Since she was in charge of the house, except for the first two years when there were concubines or subordinates who disobeyed the discipline, no one dared to make trouble in her courtyard for many years.

Qian Yan's ears are good, she has already heard the sound, it should have been in another courtyard before, the sound was a little far away, and now it is outside the main courtyard.

Listening to the voice outside, it was sharp and artificial, it should be the royal father's concubine's room.

The man kept shouting to see the eldest lady, and when he was stopped, he yelled at the gate of the courtyard.

It sounds like her child is sick, so it's okay to ask people to ask for a doctor, and I don't know why it came to Wang Qingyue.

Wang Qingyue apologized to Qian Yan, and then raised her voice to ask someone to bring the other party in.

After a while, a woman in an emerald jacket and skirt rushed in, the woman was about to be in her twenties, and she was about to kneel down towards Wang Qingyue directly after coming in.

Fortunately, the two maids were quick and stopped at once.

Wang Qingyue's face sank instantly, although the status of the concubine room is not high now, and the concubine is bought and sold, even if she has a child, she is only half of the family.

But after all, it is her father's concubine, even if she is a concubine, it is a little unreasonable for the other party to kneel for her.

What's more, she still has friends visiting here, and her appearance is simply shameless for her.

"Aunt Chen, what are you making trouble about? Didn't you see that I have a guest here, this is really rude! ”

Aunt Chen saw that she couldn't kneel, so she had to straighten up and cry to Wang Qingyue: "Miss, Miss, you can do well, ask Yu'er for a doctor!" Yu'er has been suffering from the wind and cold for a whole morning, and I am afraid that it will not be possible if there is no doctor to come to diagnose and treat her......"

Wang Qingyue's eyes turned cold, and she said in a deep voice: "You just let people go and invite them directly, why bother to come to me in one fell swoop!" ”

Although she is a strict housekeeper, she has explained this kind of thing.

If someone in the family is sick, they don't need to report to her at all, just let people go directly to the doctor, and after the doctor treats the disease and prescribes medicine, how much money is needed can go directly to the public account, and the stewards below know it.

This Aunt Chen is also an old man in the family, it is impossible not to know this rule, and I don't know what it is for coming here today.

She made such a fuss, as if she couldn't ask for a doctor without going through the people in the house.

Wang Qingyue subconsciously glanced at Qian Yan, this was her first friend, and she didn't want the other party to misunderstand her.

Seeing her coming, Qian Yan smiled at her.

Of course she didn't misunderstand Wang Qingyue, she was not a little girl who didn't know the world, this Aunt Chen didn't have the anxiety of the child getting sick at all, it was all calculation.

I used to shout outside the yard, but the voice was really contrived, not at all like a mother who was in a hurry for her children.

After coming in, he glanced at her side first, first looked at her and then looked at it with contempt, and then knelt down in front of Wang Qingyue, this acting skill is really clumsy.

"Miss, I asked people to invite, but the old doctor Liang, who we are used to, is not in the hospital at all, and the doctor in the Chengdong Huichun Hall said that there are too many patients and does not agree to visit at all."

Wang Qingyue took a deep breath before saying, "Then what can you do if you come to me?" I don't want to send someone to ask for a doctor, can I send someone to someone else's doctor to come? ”

Aunt Chen was asked for a while, and then she rolled her eyes before saying, "This ...... The slave family is ...... I just want to ask the eldest lady to send a carriage, that is, to send a carriage to send Yu'er to the hospital......"

This look is made up, and Wang Qingyue didn't bother to bother with her, afraid that her sister-in-law would really have something, so she instructed the internal steward who had just come in with Aunt Chen to prepare a carriage and send Wang Huaiyu to the hospital.

Qian Yan raised her eyebrows, directly unfolded her divine sense, and leaned towards a small courtyard behind.

Several yards were explored, but instead of seeing a child who looked like a sick person lying on the bed, I saw two little girls of six or seven years old chasing and fighting in the yard.

I don't know which one is Wang Huaiyu, this Aunt Chen doesn't look like a stupid person, she would tell such an obvious lie, and I don't know why.

After making such a fuss, I really asked a doctor for her to come over to see, the child is playing well, isn't it unpleasant for herself.

This Wang Qingyue's father, Wang Tongju, should be a five-grade official, saying that it is not big or big, but after all, it is not from that kind of big family, and the royal father really relied on his own efforts and was admitted by himself, so the Wang family was only raised from his generation, and it was only a family of cultivation and study before.

So there is not much family background at all, or the royal father married Wang Qingyue's mother as his wife after being admitted to the Juren, the queen mother's family is a famous rich gentry in Yunzhou, and it is a great thing for her daughter to marry Juren, which is already an official.

The mother's family directly gave a lot of dowry, including a lot of money-making shops, even now, the king's father's monthly silver is only enough for him to entertain outside, it can be said that the expenses of the Wang family are now from those shops.

If it weren't for the queen mother's personality being too weak, with her dowry, she wouldn't have been ridden on the head by the concubines, after all, the flowers they ate were her dowry, and she could be very tough.

This is also the real reason why Wang Tongju is willing to let Wang Qingyue be the housekeeper, if it is all the property of the Wang family, do you see if he will agree to this daughter housekeeper who will marry out sooner or later.

Even if he is willing, the clansmen of the Wang family will not be happy, and there will definitely be slight remarks, after all, the current clan concept is very important, and the patriarch or clan elder is very lenient, this is the reality.

Wang Qingyue had already asked people to prepare the car, but Aunt Chen did not leave, but watched her and stopped.

Wang Qingyue frowned and asked suspiciously, "Aunt Chen, what else do you have to do?" If you have nothing to do, hurry up and take your third sister to see a doctor. ”

Aunt Chen said with some twists: "This doctor needs a consultation fee...... Yu'er is too thin to get sick often, slave thought...... I want to prescribe some medicine for her body by the way......"

Wang Qingyue's eyes flashed with a hint of clarity, it turned out that she still wanted money, and thought that she had some new trick to toss this time.

However, she let herself lose face in front of her friends, and she must have to settle this account with her after this account.

She glanced at her lightly, and said to the housekeeper: "You take Aunt Chen to the account office to withdraw five taels of silver." ”

"Yes, Aunt Chen, please go to the middle courtyard with the old slave." The inner steward bent over.

"Miss Xie!" Aunt Chen's eyes lit up when she heard the five taels of silver, and she almost couldn't control her expression, so she hurriedly thanked her and turned around and followed the internal steward.

Qian Yan was a little speechless, she had been doing it for a long time just to ask for money?

She looked at Wang Qingyue and said, "Don't you let people go to see if your third sister is really sick?" ”

Wang Qingyue chuckled and said, "She is not happy, it is normal to have such a mother, and her health is not good."

You don't know, Aunt Chen took great pains to get money from me, let her daughter eat cold food today and make her stomach upset, and tomorrow she will open the window to sleep and suffer from the cold, Huaiyu can grow so big, it really depends on God's blessing. ”

Qian Yan raised her eyebrows, "You know that you are still used to her like this, isn't she even worse?" ”

Wang Qingyue: "Do you know why she is so dead and asking for money?" ”

Tilt Yan shook her head and looked at her with a puzzled expression.

Wang Qingyue: "She is trying to redeem her sister, I heard that her sister is newly widowed, because she has no children and is tortured by her mother-in-law every day."

Her mother-in-law wanted to bring people back, but the mother-in-law said that she would have to give thirty taels of silver before she could return home, otherwise she would be a person from her family and a ghost from her family in death.

Because their family asked for a dowry but didn't give a dowry, they were already at a loss to their in-laws' side, and they couldn't forcibly bring people back, so they could only raise money.

Aunt Chen told my father about this, but my father had never saved any money at all, and he was a special face-saving person, so he asked me to ask for money to redeem my concubine's sister, which would definitely not be possible, so Aunt Chen had to figure out a way by herself.

It can be said that all kinds of methods have been tried, and the clothes and jewelry are conventional, and they will not be added to her at will, so she moved her attention to her daughter.

Huaiyu was born in less than a month, and when she was a child, she didn't take advantage of her poor health to compete for favor, and my father was still a little concerned at first, and he was tired after a long time.

Now that she is using her daughter to earn money for her sister's life, I don't know whether to sympathize with her daughter's misfortune or to praise her sisterhood. ”

After listening to this, Qian Yan also sighed: "Her daughter is indeed unlucky. ”

Meeting such a mother is also a previous life without cultivation, what a sin this must have been made, and I met such a mother in this life.

"Then you are kind enough, knowing that she is like this, you give her back the money."

Wang Qingyue waved her hand and said: "Although Aunt Chen thinks a lot, she is the only one in my father's concubine room who is not hostile to our mother-in-law.

Other concubines are different, before I was a housekeeper, my brother fell into the water twice, that is, my housekeeper also ate a few times in the first two years, and almost died.

Although I found out the culprit and was betrayed by my father, the ones left behind are more thoughtful, and there are those who pry others to make them bad.

It's just that the other party did it secretly, and I don't have any evidence, so I can't let my father deal with them, so I can only let people pay more attention to them.

Over the years, the others have more or less shown their feet, and Aunt Chen is the same as always, so I haven't been too her. ”

(End of chapter)