But what is Yuan Jie? It's like a crawling meat worm that doesn't trample to death, but a disgusting person who twists and twists, and eats up the flowers and leaves you planted. If you step on it, sticky juice will flow out and stick to the soles of your shoes. Maybe she can't even be called a villain, she doesn't even have the self-knowledge that a villain should have, so she should be called a rotten person.

Seeing that Yuanxi didn't speak, Ling'er asked, "Third Miss, what do you want?"

Yuan Xi said in a low voice: "I was thinking about a kind of lynching in our Great Chu Kingdom, once a slave committed the crime of betraying his master, and the master asked someone to cut his body a few times, and ordered the doctor to treat his wounds, and when the wounds healed, the wounds were torn apart, re-medicated, and the cycle repeated." ”

Ling'er shuddered, she also hated the Zheng family in her heart, but she didn't expect the third lady to hate it so viciously. She didn't know what to say for a while, so she said lightly: "Isn't that wound forever healed?"

Liu Tianbao listened for a while, and suddenly laughed. Ling'er was at a loss for a while, Liu Tianbao restrained her smile and said, "Miss Ling'er didn't understand what Miss Third meant. ”

Ling'er was stunned for a moment, looked at Yuan Xi in surprise, and saw Yuan Xi full of approval, so she asked, "What are you talking about? I'm confused, isn't what Miss said to make Aunt Zheng be punished?"

Liu Tianbao said with a smile: "Tearing the wound is to punish the prisoner, but letting the wound heal is for the next tear." That is to say, this time to let the fourth lady regain her freedom is to make her fall even worse next time. It seems that Aunt Zheng can get her wish for the time being. ”

Ling Er's eyes couldn't help but widen: "So, you want to intercede for the fourth young lady?"

"We can't talk about pleading, it's just that we can do our own business and take her with us. ”

The ancestral hall of the house is located directly in front of the West Cross Courtyard, where incense candles are lit all year round, and the smell of sandalwood fills the air. Around the ancestral hall, a row of green pines and cypresses are closely planted, surrounding the ancestral hall, so it is cool all year round, and it is even more cloudy in winter.

Yuan Jie was shrunk in an ear room next to the ancestral hall, the ear room used to be a tea room, when the clan elder was still young, the men of the Wei family would also talk about business and family matters in the ancestral hall, but in the clan elder's generation, the heirs were thin, and the cousins and cousins were really not successful. Over time, this teahouse was abandoned.

In Wei Dongshu's generation, the ear room became the best place for confinement, and the people built a hardboard bed out of planks and bricks for the punished masters to rest.

Yuan Xi knocked on the door, and Yuan Jie's voice came from inside: "Who?"

"Fourth sister, it's me, the third sister. Yuan Xi pursed his lips and smiled silently with Ling'er.

"What are you doing here? Look at my jokes? I know you have a pawnshop, isn't it just a pawnshop? You can't come here to show off, right?" Yuan Jie said angrily.

Yuan Xi smiled secretly in his heart and asked, "I want to see you, are you still used to living here, do you have anything you want to eat and play?"

In the past, it was just that the food in Aunt Zheng's room was not delicious, but she could bear it, after all, she could often go to Yuanjia's room to eat. But now that he is locked up and confined in confinement, not only does he not have anything to eat, but even keeping warm has become an unsolvable problem. Yuan Jie was silent for a moment, no longer as domineering as before. "Do you know the 'Shangge'? They made very good kidney bean rolls, and my mother was so tired that she was afraid that I wouldn't be sweet enough, so she put a lot of honey in them. But I don't like to be too tired, so I didn't eat a bite. ”

Shangge is a famous teahouse in the capital, and the dim sum made by this is a must in the capital, and even the emperor and queen mother have tasted it. The fly in the ointment is that although the dim sum in the upper pavilion tastes good, it is expensive, and a plate of pea yellow can be sold for two taels of silver. The children of the prince go to the pavilion to drink tea, but they only have to serve three or five kinds of snacks, let alone ordinary people. After all, the annual salary of an ordinary official family is only about 100 taels, if there is no greed and selflessness, it is a problem to feed a family of dozens of people in the capital, where to go to the cabinet?

Ling Er sneered in her heart, saying this, it seems that only the dishes in the upper cabinet are worthy of her taste. But in a place like Shangge, where can Aunt Zheng's financial resources go? The lord does not allow the mansion to spend money lavishly, even Yuan Xi and Yuan Jia, a young lady and an eldest lady, only go to the upper cabinet to buy one or two things to try on her birthday, so she is nothing? So he smiled and said: "What's so difficult about this? When the old man releases the fourth young lady, the fourth young lady will go to the upper cabinet to eat enough." ”

Yuan Jie didn't answer, thinking that she knew that she really didn't have enough money to eat in the upper pavilion. Yuan Xi took five taels of silver from his purse and handed it to Ling'er: "You go to the pavilion and buy a plate of kidney bean rolls for the fourth sister." ”

Ling'er saw that Yuanxi's shot was five taels, and she was a little reluctant, in an era when twenty taels of silver was enough for ordinary people to spend a year, it was really not cost-effective to buy a plate of snacks for a nasty ghost with five taels of silver. "Miss......"

"Go. Yuan Xi commanded lightly. Ling'er was so hateful that she left the ancestral hall. Yuan Xi's mind Ling Er will not understand, she is already a person who has died once, and the life she has earned is used for revenge, no matter how much silver she has, it is not as happy as making her enemies suffer, and besides, these five taels of silver will not be spent too unjustly.

As soon as Yuan Jie heard that Yuan Xi was going to buy her kidney bean rolls, her attitude suddenly softened: "How embarrassing this is, third sister." ”

This sentence of the third sister has no weight, and Yuan Xi also understands in her heart that she just looked at the face of the five taels of silver kidney bean rolls, so she called the third sister against her will. Yuan Xi sneered: "If you really don't want to go, I'll go to my aunt's place to get the silver back in a while." ”

"Hmph, why are you like this......" Yuan Jie's sudden coquettishness made Yuan Xi's ears numb. Yuan Xi added a few sentences: "Just kidding." ”

Yuan Jie didn't have anything to say to Yuan Xi, but she had to reach out to pick up other people's things for a while, and she was too cold to Yuan Xi, so she had nothing to say: "Third sister, are you too tired to open a pawnshop?" In fact, you are very good like this, you can earn money by yourself, and we can only keep the monthly money. ”

"Actually, I can't make much, but thanks to the care of others, I earned twenty-five taels of silver, and I don't know how to do it in the future. "Yuan Xi told a lie, she can tell anyone through it, even Yuan Jia, but she can't tell the truth to Yuan Jie. In fact, Boss Zhao's string of East Pearls alone has already earned more than a thousand taels. Although the pawnshop is not a big business, the profit should not be underestimated.

"Twenty-five taels? Yuan Jie's lack of confidence revealed a burst of envy. Twenty-five taels, five taels more than her mother's monthly routine for half a year. She laughed for a while: "When it comes to my birthday, the third sister has to give me a gift." ”

"I can give you a gift now, and I'll go and beg the old lady in a moment to let you out, and you can wait." There was no trace of emotion in Wonxi's voice, as if he was a strange messenger. After speaking, she wrapped her cloak tightly and stepped out of the ancestral hall.

Half an hour later, it was the time for dinner in the old lady's house, when Yuan Xi arrived, the old lady was sitting with Aunt Yu eating fruit and chatting, and when Yuan Xi came in, Aunt Yu smiled and said, "Old lady, our little owner is here." ”

As soon as the old lady turned her head, she saw that Yuan Xi was wearing a big red jacket, white fluff flying on the neckline, two red velvet flowers mixed with gold threads on her head, and a moire golden hairpin, which looked particularly energetic. The old lady smiled and beckoned, and Won-hee got into the old lady's arms.

"This little face is cold, it's frozen, right?" The old lady's palm was warm, and she rubbed Yuanxi's cheeks twice.

Yuan Xi nodded: "My granddaughter went to the ancestral hall just now. ”

"I heard that now I have my own business, and I have spent a lot of money, five taels of silver, just to buy a plate of kidney bean rolls for the four girls. Although the old lady complained, she still cherished more, and kept warming Yuan Xi's cold hand tightly.

Aunt Yu saw that Yuanxi didn't answer, so she relieved the siege and said: "Old lady, you know your granddaughter, seeing that the four girls are pitiful, her heart is soft, and she will buy whatever the four girls want." ”

The old lady stroked Yuan Xi's sideburns, smiled and asked, "Are you stupid or not? You can buy whatever she wants? Why does she want to eat and don't care if her mother wants it? She has worked hard to earn money, and she just throws it out for nothing? The four girls are ghostly and ghostly, but if it is expensive and good, she will not let her mother spend money, and she is afraid that she will be blamed, so she just needs to find a few sisters to ask for it." ”

Yuan Xi smiled: "If it's normal, I'm reluctant, it's not that the fourth sister has been locked up for several days, she wants to eat, so I bought it for her." ”

The old lady glanced at Aunt Yu and said with relief: "My baby girl, just like her mother back then." He hugged Yuan Xi again and said softly: "Don't be extravagant in the future." ”

Yuan Xi pursed his lips and pretended to be angry: "I originally had something for you, but I didn't dare to take it out when I told you to say it." ”

Aunt Yu smiled: "Old lady, this granddaughter is not distressed in vain, it seems that there is a gift for you." Three girls, take it out quickly, and let your aunt open her eyes too. ”

Yuan Xi pursed his lips, took out a flat box from his purse from his sleeve, and held it in front of the old lady with both hands: "Here you go." He took out a long small box and sent it to Aunt Yu: "Auntie, this is for you." ”

Aunt Yu was stunned: "Yo, I still have my share here, it's hard for the third girl to still remember me." ”

In the old lady's box is a pair of black jade bracelets, the color is thick and extremely moist, and in Aunt Yu's box is a double-strand white hosta, and the hairpin head is two entwined flowers. The old lady lowered her eyelids slightly, and said to Aunt Yu with a smile: "This gift is not for nothing, this little girl must have something to ask us." ”

Aunt Yu played with the hairpin and said with a smile: "No matter what happens, the old lady can't be difficult, I just take it for nothing." ”

"Anyway, what's the matter?" the old lady put on a bracelet to show Aunt Yu, the old lady had a fair complexion, and she looked more and more noble with the ink color, Aunt Yu smiled and said that it was good-looking, and also turned her head to look at Yuan Xi.