Bondage

After returning home from the Lan family, Jiang Jing became ill.

Song Wan asked Heng Wu to send him medicine and food a few times, and after asking the doctor and knowing that there was no problem, she never took care of it again, and she always had to figure things out on her own.

After Lin Jiayue lived in peace for a few days, Song Wan finally found out what the thin paper she had given to the women in each courtyard was for.

"I heard that five or six people have been sold out, and a few others have been expelled from the house."

Hengzhi frowned, with a worried expression on her face: "Miss, there has never been a precedent in the Hou's mansion for a hundred years of selling off servants, and now Aunt Lin has introduced a rotation system, which has caused many people to not know what to do. , Listening to Mrs. Liang's intentions, it's already messed up, but the masters of the courtyards don't know yet."

"Sell servants?"

Song Wan frowned, her words were puzzled.

Such as the Songjiang Second Mansion, a family of calligraphy, calligraphy and poetry, would never have sold and served generations of masters and servants in the mansion if the foundation of their ancestors had not been exhausted.

"Lin Jiayue's move, does Madam know about it?"

"I probably don't know."

Hengzhi said: "The madam gave her the tooth card, and now she is holding the madam's tooth card to pretend to be a tiger, and all the servants will follow. And selling the servants did not happen in a day, the thin paper that Aunt Lin gave before, It is used to judge people's pros and cons, and servants who are judged as inferior will be sold."

"There are so many disagreements between those women in charge, and now they are going crazy to eliminate dissidents."

"Everyone at the bottom is in danger, and those in charge are busy arranging their own people. Chaos happens frequently. It's not convenient for Aunt Lin to go around on weekdays, so she can only be coaxed by those women."

"I heard from Si'er in Huanxi's room that the most low-level rough envoys, women and little girls, have become very bad now. They dare not make trouble in the open, but they use all kinds of dirty and messy things in secret."

Song Wan lowered his eyes and frowned in thought.

The aristocratic family never sells out the servants, and there is indeed a reason to show their generosity and generosity, but more importantly, these people cannot and cannot be moved.

Even the hairpin tassels from a prosperous and prosperous state must have some ambiguous things that cannot be shared with others.If officials and officials are involved, the imperial court will inspect the situation above, and the enemy will watch over it, let alone act recklessly.Moreover, although Concubine Jiang's temper could not be called domineering, the word publicity is not enough to describe it. I don't know how many concubines have been offended by such a temperament.

And even the fifth prince was the target...

If someone with a heart takes the servants of the Hou's mansion and fabricates one or two empty frames and anecdotes about shady things, it will really be a catastrophe.

In just a short moment, Song Wan thought a lot.

After a while, she murmured: "I thought that she would stir up some wind and rain, but I didn't expect that she would always pull out the bottom line and take the key points every time."

"Miss, if Aunt Lin goes crazy like this, she will definitely hurt you."

Song Wandao: "From the day I married into the Hou's Mansion, whether I want to or not, I have to live and die with the Hou's Mansion. The Hou Mansion honors me, and the Hou Mansion hurts me, so why not get involved?"

"Besides, I pushed the power of the family to Lin Jiayue, and I thought that today would come, but I didn't expect it to come so fast, so people were caught off guard."

With his chin stuck in boredom, Song Wan frowned, thinking about what to do next.

Originally, she had thought of some countermeasures, but Lin Jiayue's unexpected move was really amazing.

If she wasn't the clan's wife of the Hou Mansion, she would have applauded and applauded.

"No, nothing can be done."

Song Wan's tone was slightly distasteful: "Heng Zhi, you should let the wind out tomorrow, and tell the reason why Lord Hou stayed in Jinxiang Bo's mansion for half a month, and why Madam gave the tooth card to Aunt Lin, so that she has the full power to manage the family. go out."

"In addition, I would like to say that the old lady has not recovered from her serious illness. I feel uneasy, and decided to move into the small Buddhist hall to fast for half a month from today to pray for the old lady."

"Hengwu, go and clean up the Long Xiangzhai, you will move in with me tonight, as for the main courtyard of Lanting..."

"Seal it up, no one will care."

She can't afford to be provoked, but she can always hide.

Lin Jiayue made mistakes first, and Mother Jiang gave her tooth cards later. She lived in a corner and ignored everything when the Hou Mansion handled things like this.Although it sounds a bit useless, those people will give three points of tolerance when they chew their tongues, so as not to hurt the reputation of the Song family girl.

Now she no longer cares about her reputation, as long as she doesn't drag down her father, brother, aunt, and sisters in the clan.

After Song Wan finished speaking, she hurriedly let Zhao Mama, Heng Wu and others move into Longxiangzhai, and confessed that she did not see anyone in the mansion after entering.

In the next few days, I really felt at ease copying Buddhist scriptures and praying for the protection of the Buddha for the old lady.

Aunt Zhou came to beg Song Wan many times, but she couldn't find anyone. She had no choice but to go to Lin Jiayue, and wanted to find out what kind of person the Chen family was.

Lin Jiayue assured her that Mr. Chen was a gentle gentleman, and he was definitely not an idle kid. Although Aunt Zhou was still worried, she had nothing to do but agree to the marriage.

When Song Wan heard the news, he only sighed that if Jiang Jing would improve himself in the future, he might not be able to live a better life, so he let it go.

She hid in Longxiangzhai for more than ten days, and Mrs. Jiang's waking hours became less and less. Jiang's mother was worried that the servants would not take good care of her, so she stayed in Fuhetang every day in plain clothes, for fear that something might happen to her.

Now among the three generations of mistresses, one is seriously ill, the other takes care of patients all day long, and the other hides from the world, the whole Hou Mansion has really become Lin Jiayue's world.She was so busy every day that she didn't touch the ground, she was dismissed by servants, and sold by salesmen, but in half a month, there were nearly a hundred people missing.

Song Wan was bored watching the "Altar Sutra", while Heng Zhi was helping her make tea and ink, and it was quite interesting to accompany it with the cicadas singing outside the window.

Vanilla hurried in with a bowl of iced lily and snow lotus soup. As soon as she put it down, she said anxiously: "Miss, the house is in complete chaos."

"The servant who was sent out yesterday was the granddaughter of Mother You."

Song Wan didn't remember who this Nanny You was for a moment, so she asked casually.

Xiang Cao lowered her voice and said: "Mother You was originally a dowry in the old lady's room. I heard from the servants in the mansion that Old Hou had contracted smallpox when he was young. It was Mother You who carried Old Master Hou to the suburban Zhuangzi alone. I took care of it for 27 days."

"It's just a pity that the old Hou Ye recovered, but Mother You contracted an illness. In order not to bring the disease back to the Hou Mansion, after she sent the old Hou Ye out of the manor, she burned herself and Zhuang Zi clean."

"The old lady thought of the kindness of Mammy You, so she valued her son very much. Mammy You's son grew up with the old Hou Ye, served the old Hou Ye all his life, and then went with the old Hou Ye with his wife. At the border, the couple has never returned since then."

"Nurse You's son is only a silly girl, that girl is not very smart, she is a fool."

"But the old lady has been raising them all these years, and she has given the silly sister a job as a fish watcher in the big kitchen. She only feeds fresh fish that are not killed in the feeding house every day. Who knows that the mess is so messy now, someone To actually do this job of feeding fish and counting fish, to persuade Aunt Lin to sell the silly sister out..."