Du Baoyi suddenly became worried.

All the noblewomen in the capital or women who can afford to use girls, except for those with ulterior motives, no one will use girls who are more beautiful than their masters, and there are even people who pick ugly ones.

One is to avoid hooking the husband's heart, and the other is to set off his "beauty".

Don't say anything else, the four big girls around my mother, all of them are mediocre and boring, and my father always frowns when he sees it.

The one who looks a little better, no matter how loyal and capable she is, has already been sent away by her with all kinds of excuses.

Even her noble and conceited and intelligent aunt, although the four big palace maids around her can be regarded as beauties, they are all far worse than her, like the stars are compared to the moon.

Dare to use Xu Xiaoqin, a beautiful and proficient girl in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, can Ye be an ordinary person?

Unless her beauty and talent are far superior to Xu Xiaoqin!

Or did she treat Xu Xiaoqin as a room girl from the beginning?

It's impossible, my mother said, she has been married for many years and has not given birth, her father is still an only son, and she refuses to take a concubine for her husband, how can she be willing to raise a beautiful girl to block herself?

Later, she "kindly" let Xu Xiaoqin enter Beijing with the concubine papers, but she was just jealous and hateful to block her mother!

"No, mother, listen to me, let's abandon our prejudices first, and if we want to clean her up in the future, it's not like pinching an ant to death!

Now only from Xu Xiaoqin can we know the true face of the Ye family.

Otherwise, even if you send someone back to Dujiazhuang, you may not be able to ask how much of the truth, and who knows more and more clearly than the personal girl?

Let's go see Xu Xiaoqin now, don't go to her house, she refuses to tell the truth because she is scared, and there are many people who are very disturbing.

We went to wait for her in the small pavilion next to the lotus pond, which was cool and empty, so we didn't have to worry about being heard.

But my father is not at home, and I am worried that she will not come, and she may not be telling the truth when she comes.

Dad was worried that we would harm her, and I heard that there were a lot of powerful guards over there before leaving, and I guess he also told her not to go out of the yard.

If she really refuses to come, although we can forcibly take people away, it will definitely be very troublesome, and maybe there will be conflicts, and it will not be good to spread the word.

So if you can't come hard, you have to reassure her that she is willing to come. ”

She is a person with big schemes, and she can't ruin her reputation for a mere concubine.

"So what do you say you should do?"

As soon as she thought of showing favor to a cheap concubine, Lu Qingniang was very unwilling, but she also knew that her daughter was right, so she didn't object again.

"Ruyi is kind and sweet, I'll teach her how to speak, let her pass the word, and then bring a few pieces of material and a few pieces of jewelry you don't want to give her a reward, so that Xu can rest easy.

Then put melon and fruit herbal tea in the pavilion, and she had to appease her before she was willing to tell the truth.

Doesn't she know how to paint? Let her draw Ye and the outer room girl, so that we can also know what they really look like, so as not to be kept in the dark!

Mother, I think, maybe the Ye family is not as we imagined, it's right to be careful, I have to really figure it out before I can rest assured. ”

So, after two quarters of an hour, Xiaoqin came to the gazebo tremblingly.

I was secretly glad in my heart, fortunately the old man was not here, she was not dressed up carefully, and the weather was hot, because this was just a homely appearance.

The clothes are either moon white or light blue, very elegant, and the jewelry only has a pearl hairpin and a mutton fat jade bracelet, and there is no fat powder on the face.

She wasn't actually bought by the materials and jewelry, nor was she deceived by the girl's rhetoric called Ruyi.

She was worried that she would completely annoy Mrs. Hou and the county lord, no matter how good the lord was, he couldn't protect them all the time.

She also truly understood that in the face of the absolute strong, all the means and scheming and resistance had no effect, and she could only be honest and obedient, and the Lu family was not a lady.

So regardless of the thin summer clothes, he knelt on the blue brick ground and kowtowed respectfully.

Ruyi hurriedly pulled her up, arranged her skirt for her, and helped her sit down.

Said gently and gently: "Auntie, don't be nervous, Madame and the county lord are looking forward to the Hou Ye going home as soon as possible, so I want to know about Dujiazhuang." ”

After saying that, he poured a bowl of herbal tea and put it in front of her and retreated, leaving only the three of them in the pavilion.

Xiaoqin didn't know that now the old man spoiled their mother and son openly, and the food and clothing were the best.

Her plain-looking clothes are not simple at all, but they look fresh and soft by the lotus pond in the hot summer, which is very elegant and suitable for the scene.

Make her beauty blessed by the golden finger even more touching, I see pity.

Not only Du Baoyi was vigilant, but Lu Qingniang was also a little jealous.

No wonder Hou Ye has to be coaxed to stay in her house now, this Xu Xiaoqin is really an eyesore!

At her daughter's suggestion, she calmed down and squeezed out a smile that she thought was very kind:

"Aunt Xu, don't worry, I really just want to ask about some situations, come, have a cup of herbal tea."

Xiaoqin was relieved instead.

Also, if Mrs. Hou and the county lord really want to harm her while the old man is not at home, where can they be so polite? Just do it.

And the mother's analysis is right, before the Ye family herself gave birth to a son, it is absolutely impossible to kill their mother and son.

She simply took a few sips of herbal tea obediently, and praised sincerely: "This herbal tea tastes so good, Mrs. Xie Hou!" ”

"Then what kind of person do you tell me about the Ye family?"

Xiao Qin raised her head suddenly, stunned, didn't she want to ask about the Du clan?

How could Mrs. Hou ask Madame, no, Ye!

But she didn't dare to hide it in the slightest, anyway, she was also trying to survive, not to betray her wife.

No, it's not a betrayal, Madame is generous and virtuous, and there are no ulterior secrets, just tell the truth.

As for whether Mrs. Hou and the county lord like to listen to it, there is no way, anyway, she doesn't dare to say a lie.

So Xiaoqin said it all.

When she was a child, her family was average and she could barely make ends meet, but when her brother became ill, her father and mother had to sell her for silver.

She was only ten years old that year, and she was beautiful and cute, and she thought she could have a good place, but she was quite conceited.

But in the middle of the night, I heard Yazi say to his wife that the girl of the Xu family might as well sell it to the Qinglou and get double the silver.

Although she was young, she also knew that Qinglou was not a good thing, so she cried and begged Yazi not to sell herself to Qinglou.

Where will Yazi listen, and the next day he called several people from Qinglou to look at each other, but there was no deal because the asking price was too high.

After repeated this, Yazi was anxious, and discussed with his wife to simply reduce the price, she was desperate.

At this time, Ye brought someone to buy a girl, and originally wanted to buy a bigger one that could do things directly, but when he saw her crying eyes, he felt compassion.

Renyazi took the opportunity to refuse to give in to the price, so the Ye family spent a lot of money to buy her and take it back.

After going back, she didn't think she was too young to serve people, not only patiently taught her the rules and etiquette to dress up, but also was willing to learn when she saw that she was very perceptive, and also taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

(End of chapter)