Lu Zhiyin didn't show his joy, but asked a little worriedly: "Then, is it okay for me to come to 'Qixiang' to work?" ”

Qin Xun said: "If you want to do things, I can only arrange for you to start with counter work, are you willing?" ”

Lu Zhiyin nodded: "Naturally, you should start from scratch." ”

Unexpectedly, this person actually agreed, and Qin Xun was a little suspicious of his true purpose.

"Wages are the same as ordinary work, do you know?" Qin Xun said again.

After getting Lu Zhiyin's nod again, Qin Xun could only say, "Let's talk about it in detail when the matter of the store is settled!" ”

Lu Zhiyin said goodbye very insightfully.

Qin Yan was doing needlework in the house, and the maid Xiaocai came in with a pot of water, and hurriedly closed the door, and then put the kettle on the charcoal stove.

Glancing at Qin Yan, who was indifferent, Xiaocai frowned, and said, "Old lady, we haven't sent this month's case yet, and I don't know how this eldest lady is in charge?" ”

Qin Yan is only seventeen, but she has already been called an old lady, but her heart is like ashes, and she doesn't care about these titles at all.

Now the housekeeper is the eldest daughter-in-law of the Xie family, and she respects Qin Yan on the surface, but in fact, she is harsh and sloppy.

But whoever called Qin Yan didn't fight or rob, so he became even more invisible, and anyone could bully him.

Qin Yan didn't seem to hear the complaints, and still sat by the stove with her head bowed and embroidered.

Xiao Cai was dissatisfied, and slammed the rag in her hand on the table, making a sound, and Qin Yan had to look up at her.

Knowing that Xiaocai was suffering and angry with her, Qin Yan couldn't bear to criticize Xiaocai, so she smiled gently: "If you don't have it, save a little, but you don't lack this moment and a half of effort." ”

But Qin Yan's kindness Xiaocai didn't appreciate it, she pointed to the charcoal basin and said: "This is the last point of charcoal, just this point, or the black charcoal used by the people in other yards, where is the silver silk charcoal and fragrant charcoal used by the masters?" ”

Qin Yan was also annoyed, this maid was brought by her from the Qin family in Dancheng, and to put it bluntly, she was the person sent by the Qin family's housewife to monitor her. But because Qin Yan was not loved by the old lady of the Xie family, so Xiaocai also lived such a lonely life.

Therefore, she relied on being Mrs. Qin's person, and seeing that Qin Yan was soft and easy to speak, this Xiaocai's temper turned out to be bigger day by day, and many times, she still needed Qin Yan to coax her.

"Can my master compare with others?" Qin Yan was also a little unhappy, and choked back a small color.

Xiaocai is a subordinate after all, if Qin Yan is good at talking, she will kick her nose in the face. But once Qin Yan is unhappy, she still has to soften.

"The slave maid is also distressed by the old lady, you see, on such a cold day, you have to bother to do embroidery every day, basically there is no time to spare. The light in our house is not good, and if this continues, the slave is worried that the old lady's eyes will be spent. ”

Seeing Xiaocai borrowing the slope to get off the donkey, Qin Yan immediately smiled and said: "The swaddling clothes made by the eldest lady's grandson can be regarded as our heart. ”

"No matter what you say, it's also her mother-in-law, how can you make needlework for her?"

Qin Yan smiled and lowered her head, but her eyes gradually turned red.

She is a mother-in-law, but who in the Xie family treats her as a person?

Don't talk about others, even the maid in front of you doesn't take herself seriously, and she doesn't even have the same heart as herself.

When she first came, the old lady was still fresh, although Qin Yan did not have outstanding appearance and figure, after all, she was young and came with a large dowry. Although, these dowries actually went directly into the old lady's private treasury, Qin Yan was empty-handed, and she didn't even have the money to send her subordinates.

A woman without a dowry is destined to be bullied in her in-law's family, not to mention, since a month of marriage, the old lady has never stepped into this courtyard again.

In addition, her father had an accident, and her mother-in-law's wife came to Kyoto, but she did not send a post to see her, and she never called her back to her parents' house once; On the contrary, Xiaocai can go out and walk around from time to time.

With the death of Qin Xiongfei, Qin Yan's life has become even more difficult, and this winter, even charcoal has begun to be deducted, not to mention clothes and food.

What's more, the daughters-in-law of the family said that Qin Yan's embroidery skills were good, and they asked her to help make some female reds, and Qin Yan also agreed one by one.

So, she began to be red day and night, and her eyes were indeed as Xiaocai said, a little flowery.

The more Xiaocai thought about it, the more angry she became, and the fire that had just come down unconsciously came up again.

"It's nothing to make some clothes, embroidered handkerchiefs, and sachets for them, but why does the married aunt want you to make an embroidered screen? also said that her daughter was going to get married, and she wanted an embroidered screen with the scenery of Dancheng, which could not be done in a day or two, so why did the old lady agree? ”

"If I don't agree, what should I give as a gift?" Qin Yan suppressed the anger, but there was still a hidden unhappiness in the eyes that looked at Xiao Cai.

Xiaocai pursed her lips and thought: Your temper can only be directed at me, and you have the ability to send it to those Xie family members?

"A slave and maid are subordinates, naturally they just obey orders, how can they have the ability to make ideas for the old lady? Even if it is the kindness of the slave and maid, the old lady can't see it, and I am a donkey's liver and lungs. ”

Xiao Cai said a lot of such words that were neither yin nor yang, Qin Yan was used to hearing them, but she still felt sad and uncomfortable in her heart.

Every time, it was Qin Yan who died down, she didn't want to offend the only maid who could talk, and besides, if she had a stiff quarrel with her dowry maid, she would just add some jokes to the Xie family.

Seeing that she stopped talking, Xiaocai was actually a little proud, and the corners of her mouth were slightly hooked, which was a mockery.

At this moment, there was a knock on the courtyard door, and the master and servant in the house looked at each other in surprise.

Qin Yan looked outside and confirmed that someone was knocking on the courtyard door, so she said to Xiao Cai: "Go and see who it is?" ”

Xiaocai's eyes rolled and said with a smile: "I think about it, I'm afraid it's the moon case that is here." ”

After speaking, Xiaocai trotted out and opened the door, but it turned out to be Mother Jiao, who was next to the eldest wife of the Xie family.

Unprecedentedly, Jiao's mother actually smiled and said kindly to Xiaocai: "Miss Xiaocai, the old lady is here, right?" I gave the old lady a new dress, come, let me go in and let the old lady put it on and try it on, see if it fits? ”

Xiaocai saw Jiao's mother followed by two maids, each holding a tray in her hand.

Qin Yan sat upright and didn't move, looking at the clothes and jewelry placed along the edge of the kang, and felt that there was something wrong.

She didn't smile as Jiao's mother thought, but looked at Jiao's mother quietly: "Jiao's mother, what does this mean?" ”

Jiao's mother was a little embarrassed on her face, but she still smiled: "Yesterday, the old lady's sister-in-law handed over the post, saying that she was going to come to the house today to send a New Year's gift, and said that she wanted to see the old lady and talk to the old lady!" ”

Qin Yan didn't react for a while, and pointed her finger at herself: "My sister-in-law? ”

Seeing Jiao's mother nodding, Qin Yan blurted out: "How can I have a sister-in-law?" ”

As soon as these words came out, the room was silent.

Xiaocai reacted, looked at Jiao's mother with shame on her face, and hurriedly walked to Qin Yan's side, and said in her ear: "It's the wife of the eldest young master, the eldest young grandmother of our Qin family's fourth room!" ”