He said to the old lady Lu in an unhappy tone: "Mother, when has this been, you are still rippling one by one, you have been lying in bed for all these days, how has she ever come to see you once?" On the contrary, it is Lian'er, who waits outside the house before dawn every day, serving you with tea and water, and you still don't give her a good look! ”

"It's because it's at this time that she is needed the most!"

Seeing the confused look on Lu Shangxuan's face, Old Madam Lu had no choice but to explain patiently: "Now the amount of food and drink in the mansion is several times less than in the past, isn't it because there is no silver tael in the account, and if the large amount of dowry on Ripple can be taken out, won't it solve our urgent need?" ”

Lu Shangxuan suddenly realized, and the brows that had been frowning all the time also relaxed.

"Mother means that I want to use this reason to force Lian Niang to hand over her dowry?"

"What is the meaning of force, we are a family," Mrs. Lu smiled proudly, looking confident, "Ripples have always been dead set on you, as long as you say a few soft words to her and make her happy for a few more days, won't you be able to solve the dilemma of not having silver taels?" ”

If it had been the past, Lu Shangxuan would have nodded a long time ago.

It's just that after experiencing some things that happened during this time, he always feels that the current Dou Ripples are faintly unpredictable.

In other words, Lu Shangxuan was not completely sure that he would be able to coax Dou Lianyi to hand over the dowry.

However, he did not inform Mrs. Lu of the thoughts in his heart, but smiled reluctantly, and responded: "My son knows, just do it." ”

"Go ahead."

Old Madam Lu waved her hand and motioned for Lu Shangxuan to retreat, and then lay back on the bed tiredly again.

At this time, in the housekeeper's courtyard, the chief housekeeper Chen Xiyuan was sitting on a chair and was angry at the people kneeling in the room.

"Are you all trash? I can't even do the little thing of serving the master, so it's better to get out of the county king's mansion as soon as possible! ”

"It's not good to let you cook some Chinese medicine," Chen Xiyuan pointed at the maid who had just been scolded viciously, and when he saw that she didn't dare to raise her head, he glared at the other maid again, and scolded loudly: "Did you send the bird's nest you sent to the old lady today?" If you don't do any work all day, will you idlers be raised in the county king's mansion? ”

The subordinates below are only submissive, and none of them dare to touch the moldy head of the big butler at such a time to speak.

"Get out, get out of here!"

After Chen Xiyuan vented the grievances he had just suffered from Mrs. Lu, he irritated and drove those subordinates out of the house.

It's just that he didn't know that the second housekeeper Fang De was staring at this place not far from the house, and when he saw a maid crying and walking towards him, he rolled his eyes and called her over.

The maid hurriedly wiped away her tears, lowered her head and followed Fang De behind a willow tree.

"Second butler."

"What's your name, why are you crying like this, if you are found by the masters, you will be deducted from your monthly money."

Fang De has always been much more lenient than Chen Xiyuan in treating his subordinates, so even if he is only a second housekeeper, he is far more popular in the hearts of his subordinates than the big housekeeper.

"Back to the second housekeeper, the slave maid is called Xia Cao, and she serves the old lady."

Fang De frowned slightly and asked, "I remember that it was Chun Xi who served the old lady before, why did you change it?" ”

"Sister Chunxi has asked for leave to go back to her hometown to visit relatives these days, and the big housekeeper asked me to take Sister Chunxi's place first."

"Then why did you just come out of the big butler's house, and all of you were downcast?"

Xia Cao's face was a little angry, and when she saw that there was no one around, she complained in a low voice: "The big housekeeper doesn't know what's wrong, after coming out of the old lady, he lost his temper and called each of us to scold." ”

Hearing this, Fang De immediately asked, "Then do you know what happened in the old lady's room?" ”

Xia Cao replied in a somewhat uncertain tone: "At that time, we were all kicked out of the house, but I vaguely heard a few words from the house, such as "There is no silver tael, and we need to save flowers." ”

"Got it," Fang De nodded thoughtfully, and said to her with warm concern: "You didn't have the habit of serving the old lady in the past, and now you suddenly take the place of Chunxi, it is inevitable that something will go wrong, and the big housekeeper scolds you for your own good, don't take it to heart." ”

Hearing this, Xia Cao blushed a little embarrassedly, and whispered, "Got it, second housekeeper." ”

Compared with the anxiety on Mrs. Lu's side, Dou Lianyi's life in the county king's mansion at this time can be said to be smooth.

After all, Qin Mu just didn't do business with the Junwang Mansion, and he didn't say that he wouldn't continue to cooperate with Dou Lianyi, and the few deeds he personally signed at that time are still locked in a small grid.

"Young lady."

Bai Zhi took the freshly stewed blood swallow and put it on the table, and when she turned her head, she saw Dou Lianyi sitting by the window and pruning the lilies with silver scissors.

"Hmm."

Dou Lianyi responded, stared at the lily in front of him and asked, "Did Fu Qing send it there too?" ”

"Yuzhu has already been sent over, young lady, don't worry, Fu Qing's current eating and drinking is not bad at all."

Hearing this, Dou Lianyi just hooked the corners of his mouth and didn't say anything.

On the contrary, Bai Zhi seemed to have something on her mind, and she wanted to speak and stopped, which made Dou Lianyi sigh and said: "If there is something to say, why bother to be so spitting." ”

Bai Zhi hesitated for a moment, and finally stepped forward and whispered: "In the past few days, the second lady has been running to the old lady's house, and she waited outside early in the morning to go in and serve, but the old lady never let her in once. ”

"Oh? Did Xiao Liuzi tell you? ”

"Yes," Bai Zhi nodded, and seeing that Dou Lianyi didn't mean to blame her for being troublesome, she continued: "And he also learned from the second housekeeper that the old lady has often lost her temper in the house in recent days, and has scolded several people and cried. ”

"It's probably because I can't eat the blood swallow."

Dou Lianyi thought about it, and quickly understood the joints.

It seems that Lu Lianzhi really lifted a stone to shoot herself in the foot this time.

After she joked casually, seeing that Bai Zhi was still a little dazed, she put down the silver scissors and explained to her: "The old lady is used to living a life of fine clothes and fine food, but now she has to watch her eating and drinking consumption reduced by half, and this kind of disaster is still caused by her adopted daughter who brought it up, do you think she can not be congested?" ”

"So the old lady didn't want to see the second lady, and she poured all her anger on those of us who were subordinates."

Although Bai Zhi was a little angry, she also felt a little fortunate inexplicably.

Fortunately, she and Yuzhu followed the young lady and had never been mistreated.

(End of chapter)