Geng Xingchen's momentum was violent, and the moment he met Qiao's mother, he was like a puffer fish with a punctured stomach, and he instantly deflated.

She couldn't help but take a few steps back, wanting to turn back to Geng Xingshuang, but she felt that this was not good, so she stiffened her neck and said bluntly as if she was reciting words: "Mother Qiao, Xianglan has been called to the main courtyard for a morning, is everything done?" There's still a lot of work waiting for her in my house, so I'd better let her go back first, and if the work here isn't done, I'll let her come over tomorrow. ”

She spoke very quickly, and when she said this, she seemed to be lacking confidence at the beginning, and she was full of momentum at the end.

Qiao's mother was a little surprised, Mrs. Bo called the maids around her three granddaughters in the morning, although the excuse used was that there was something in the main courtyard for them to do, but this was really just an excuse, after all, it would be a lot less trouble to call people out for this reason.

But neither Mrs. Bo, nor Mrs. Wu, who obeyed Mrs. Bo's orders to do this, and the two big maids Luxuan, did not think about hiding this matter, because they knew that this matter could not be concealed at all.

But now, the sixth girl didn't seem to know that Xianglan was taken away by Ya Po, but ran over to lead people with a straight face?

Did the six girls do it on purpose? Or do you really not know?

Qiao's mother was thinking about it, when she saw the fifth girl follow her into the yard.

"This pomegranate should be tightly skinned!"

The pomegranate guarding the courtyard was still napping little by little, and Geng Xingshuang walked through the courtyard gate unimpeded and walked in, which made Qiao's mother, who suddenly felt a little bad in her heart, temporarily transformed the anxiety in her heart into the anger of pomegranate's dereliction of duty.

As if she hadn't seen Geng Xingshuang, she walked up to Pomegranate with a straight face, stretched out her hand and grabbed Pomegranate's round little face, and scolded: "You dead girl, let you guard the door, you are dozing here, wait for me to give Mrs. Bo, I can't see it...... Got you out! ”

She originally wanted to say that she would also let Yu Yapo take it away and sell it, but when the words came to her mouth, she still changed her words.

"Mom, what are you doing? Could it be that my sixth sister and I are thieves from somewhere, or the thieves who are harmful, we need my mother to guard against them like this, it is indeed wrong for Pomegranate to doze off when guarding the door, but our family is still a Bofu now, and my mother is the mother in charge next to Mrs. Bo, is it so rude to reprimand the subordinates?

If my grandmother found out, I was afraid that my grandmother would think that my mother had lost her dignity and punish her, and then my fifth sister and I would not be able to intercede for my mother. ”

Pomegranate was scolded and pulled by Qiao's mother, and that little sleepiness had long since flown away.

"Mother Qiao, the slave didn't mean it, it was really last night'......"

"What's the noise out there?"

An old stern voice came from inside the room, interrupting Pomegranate's explanation.

Mother Qiao glared at Pomegranate, and walked quickly to the door to report, "Madam, it's the fifth and sixth girls who are here!" ”

The room was quiet for a moment, and Geng Xingshuang curled the corners of his mouth slightly.

Her step-grandmother, after so many years, has not changed her temperament of wanting to hide in advance, although she knows in her heart that no matter how she hides, she still has to face it in the end.

She didn't urge, and neither did Geng Xingchen.

"Let them in!"

In less than half a tea time, Xia's instructions came from the house.

When Geng Xingshuang went in, Xia sat in front of the dresser, and Lu Wu helped her comb her hair, looking like she was woken up by them during the lunch break.

"Fifth girl, sixth girl, Madame's lunch break hasn't arrived yet, and now that I'm up, I'm going to have a headache this afternoon."

Lu Wu looked worried, and looked at Geng Xingshuang and Geng Xingchen helplessly.

"Actually...... We didn't look for our grandmother, we knew that our grandmother had to take a lunch break every day, how could she be so ignorant? We're looking for Mama Joe and Luwu you. ”

Geng Xingshuang smiled brightly, "But since grandmother called us in, as a granddaughter, we naturally have to obey our fate." ”

Geng Xingchen nodded again and again, "Fifth Sister and I were originally not going to go into the house to disturb our grandmother, but Mother Qiao was scolding and beating outside, which disturbed my grandmother's tranquility, and we really can't be blamed." ”

She was more straightforward than Geng Xingshuang, and Qiao's mother, who followed them into the house, had an ugly face, she obviously bumped into Geng Xingchen who was about to enter the door, but Geng Xingchen had indeed not entered the house at that time, and she was really speechless at this time.

Lu Wu was dumbfounded by Geng Xingshuang and the others, but fortunately, she had neatly pulled a simple round bun for Xia's family, paused slightly, and then inserted a simple plum blossom silver hairpin into the bun, and there was no other ornament.

"You're here to ask for half a roll and pandan?"

Xia Shi turned around and looked at Geng Xingchen with sharp eyes.

Geng Xingchen moved his steps, and he couldn't help but want to retreat when his own grandmother saw her, but Bai Zhi was standing behind her, the master and servant were very close, if she retreated like this, she would definitely bump into Bai Zhi behind, she couldn't help it, and nodded under Xia's gaze.

"Yes."

She could do this, which was already beyond Geng Xingshuang's expectations.

"Grandmother, I don't know where Banjuan and Pandan are now?"

Geng Xingshuang knew that the Xia family deliberately ignored herself, but she didn't care about this, over the years, the Xia family has repeatedly done some things that damaged the second room of the big house, and even deceived her father and mother to send her second brother to Licai Academy in a way that her father couldn't refuse.

Since then, the four of them don't care so much about many things in this house, as long as it doesn't harm their interests, it's just a matter of watching the excitement.

If it weren't for the grandfather's still existence, the father would have taken them to live alone.

"You don't know?"

Xia didn't believe that Geng Xingshuang didn't know that half of the volume was sold by her, she had already felt that the big house was gradually out of her control in the past two years, but she didn't have a powerful means to control them now.

Eight years ago, when Geng Shuhuai, the eldest son of the eldest house, was going to study at Licai Academy, she persuaded her uncle to ask her three sons to pay 500 taels of silver to ask for medicine for her uncle on the grounds that he was seriously ill and needed money to buy good medicine.

At that time, Geng Wen and Ruan's were indeed deceived in the past, because they didn't have so much cash in their hands, they directly embezzled Geng Shuhuai's bundle fee, but later I don't know why the matter was revealed, Dafang knew that the uncle was pretending to be sick, and the money was actually handed over by Ruan's to the second room to get through the relationship, so that Geng Cheng was promoted two levels from the positive seventh grade to the sixth grade.

This incident almost made Dafang crazy, and Geng Shuhuai left home directly and went to Suzhou, and only came back once a year during the Chinese New Year.

Later, I don't know how the big house operates, when they haven't noticed it, the outside has been spreading how the big house is filial, for the uncle's illness, embezzled the eldest son's shackles, but in the end it was found that the uncle was just an ordinary wind and cold, and the total cost of silver was only one or two dollars.

Since then, the reputation of Anpingbo Mansion in the outside world is like the plaque of Anpingbo, which may be taken down from the door at any time.

As Mrs. Bo, there are many opportunities to be guests outside, but whenever she wants to explain, she is always looked at with the look of "we all understand, explanation is a cover-up", which makes her depressed.

Therefore, the caustic image of Xia's calculating stepson has remained to this day and has not been eliminated.

And the reputation of filial piety of the Geng family's room also spread, which made the Xia family and the second room almost like a fish in their throats, and the second room's wife Yao tried her best to "refute the rumors", but the effect was also very limited.

And An Pingbo himself seems to feel ashamed of his eldest son, in the competition between Mrs. Bo and Dafang, he will be biased towards Dafang on the surface, but Geng Xingshuang understands in his heart that this bias is not because of guilt, but because of interests, pure monetary interests.