Chapter Ninety-Eight: The Hour
"Best wishes Mom!" Zheng Tiezhu's family was shocked, that was Mrs. Hou's right-hand man, how dare she ask Zhu's mother for something. Hurriedly shook his head: "This can't be done, this can't be done." I can't do it. ”
"You go." Jia Xuan said: "Tell her that I asked you to do things, and she can still embarrass you." ”
Zheng Tiezhu's family naturally knew that Mother Zhu would listen to Miss Xuan's instructions. But these people are used to being trained by Zhu's mother, and they have long been accustomed to the fear of Zhu's mother's might.
But she didn't want to listen to Miss Xuan's words. So after sending Miss Xuan back to the courtyard where she was resting, she beat a drum in her heart, secretly thinking about what kind of wording should be used after seeing Zhu's mother.
Zheng Tiezhu's family was about to leave, when she heard Miss Xuan call her and whispered a few words.
Jia Xuan mentioned the name of the big girl who was not doing things well, and said in a low voice: "You told Mother Zhu that from the time I opened the bedroom door to the time I walked out of the yard, I didn't see her shadow." Then I went to Mrs. Fang's residence, but she didn't come. I have been at Mrs. Fang's place for a while, and she came in a hurry, and I don't know where she was doing before, her clothes and hair are messy. ”
With the current situation of the Hou Mansion, we have to take a head out and deal with it harshly to set an example. Otherwise, if there are such cheating and slippery people, they will be lazy, and the people next to them will be even more careless about doing things. If everyone doesn't do their own errands behind their backs, then the Hou Mansion will collapse quickly.
Zheng Tiezhu's family worked hard to memorize Miss Xuan's words word by word, and trotted to find her mother.
Sure enough, as Jia Xuan expected, after waking up the next morning, the big girl who didn't have to do things was gone. She didn't ask where she went, or she was sent to the suburban Zhuangzi overnight, or she had already asked her family to take it back.
The disappearance of the big girl really made the house behave again.
Not to mention the outer courtyard, in the inner house alone, the maids and women are not as lazy as the day before, and they dare not procrastinate in the work they should have, and everywhere begins to return to the orderly appearance of before.
Jia Xuan received more than a dozen bottles of wound medicine from Zhu's mother last night. She took out one of the bottles and laid it down on the table after breakfast in the morning.
After getting up today, she had already sent a little maid to tell Zhu's mother that she would let Zheng Tiezhu's family serve closely in the Hou Mansion in the past few days.
Although Mother Zhu didn't understand why Miss Xuan just took a fancy to a rough mother-in-law, she understood that Miss Xuan was a very thoughtful person, so she didn't ask too much. Just replaced all the little maids who kept vigil last night, and selected two second-class maids and two other third-class maids who did a good job to serve at Miss Xuan's place.
Jia Xuan asked one of the third-class maids to send the ointment to Cuixiang.
The maid hesitated a little: "Girl, this time should be when Aunt Liu is meeting the other two aunts in the same hospital, I am afraid it is not appropriate to go over now." ”
Jia Xuan smiled.
It seems that this Aunt Liu has a status in the family, and everyone in the Manhou Mansion knows about it.
"What's not appropriate? Could it be that an aunt of Uncle Shizi can control when I do something? Jia Xuan said solemnly, and then asked: "Why doesn't the eldest grandmother care about Aunt Liu, and let Aunt Liu behave like this." ”
The maid said: "Originally, they all had to come to greet grandma every day, and then when they returned to their own yard, Aunt Liu asked the other two to go to her." ......She paused, covered up those pickled things, and continued: "Later, grandma's heart was depressed, and her body was not very good, so she saved their daily greetings. Aunt Liu directly manages the two of them every day. Grandma felt that this was also for her worries, so she naturally acquiesced. ”
The consequence of acquiescence is to make Aunt Liu more and more rampant.
However, this is the affairs of the Hou Mansion, and it is the affairs of the prince's inner house, Jia Xuan can't take care of it, just know a little bit of the details, so as not to know anything when he investigates the case in the future.
When the maid took the ointment away and sent it to Cuixiang, Jia Xuan called Zheng Tiezhu's family to take a look at the places where flowers and plants were planted in various parts of the house.
It's just been a short time since it's fully lit, and the air is fresh and pleasant. Walking around the house and watching the greenery around you is not interesting.
Jia Xuan asked Zheng Tiezhu's family: "That Cuixiang said that she often picks some flowers for Aunt Liu, where do she usually pick them?" ”
"Naturally, it's to the flower room." Zheng Tiezhu's family said: "Or sometimes I look at the flowers in the flower garden, and I can cut some of them." ”
"Most of the time in the flower room?" Jia Xuan asked, and after receiving an affirmative answer, he went to that place.
The temperature in the flower room is suitable, which is more conducive to the growth of plants. All kinds of flowers are in full bloom, and the surrounding area is fragrant, and occasionally butterflies and bees can be seen shuttling among them, and insects are climbing on the flower stems, in the soil and on the ground.
It was still early in the morning, but the gardeners had been working hard for a long time, and there were beads of sweat on their heads, or they were taking care of the flowers and plants, or they were removing insects, or they were pulling out the weeds that grew quietly, and none of them were idle.
Jia Xuan saw a person pruning the flower branches that were a little messy, and asked him: "When does Cuixiang come to cut flowers on weekdays?" ”
He hurriedly stopped and said hello, "One or two hours earlier than now, I have to put the flowers in the bottle before Aunt Liu meets the two aunts, if it's too late, it won't work." ”
"Then the other yards have about the same time to cut the flowers?"
"Not necessarily." He said: "For example, the Hou Ye and Mrs. have to change flowers every day in the house, but they are not tight about the time, and sometimes they will ask Mother Zhu to come and choose, so the time is uncertain." The prince and grandmother may not change every day, but the time is quite fixed, about the same as Aunt Liu's. ”
"Is the person who comes over there to get flowers the same every time?" Jia Xuan asked: "Since the time is similar, have the people over there ever been with Cuixiang?" ”
"Nature is not the same person. I haven't been here with Cuixiang, after all, the grandmother's residence is far away from Aunt Liu, and if Cuixiang is with the people over there, it will take a detour and delay the effort. ”
Jia Xuan nodded thoughtfully.
When she walked out of the flower room, she told Zheng Tiezhu's family: "You can go to Zhu's mother now and ask her for a list of all the names of all the florists, followed by everyone's working hours and schedules." ”
Zheng Tiezhu's family left in response.
Jia Xuan was thinking to himself, and saw that the third-class maid named Qinghong who was going to deliver the ointment was panting and running, and said busily: "You slow down, I'm not in such a hurry, don't fall." ”
Qinghong ran to her, breathless and said: "When I came back, I met someone sent from the front and front yards, saying that the officials of Jingzhao Mansion had arrived, and asked the girl to come over." ”