The Maid's Strategy in the Red Chamber

翠柳

The meaning in Tanchun's words is almost the same as saying that Xueyan is a thief. Xueyan is very angry, but she knows very well in her heart that she must not confront the other party with her current status.Otherwise, not only would he not be able to get a bargain, but it would also cause Daiyu to be talked about.

Jiamu half closed her eyes and said nothing, Yingchun opened her mouth as if she wanted to say something, but she still didn't make a sound, Xichun was smiling and playing rope with the little girl, as if she didn't care about these things.

Xueyan silently took several deep breaths before suppressing the anger in her heart, and then replied neither humble nor overbearing: "Third Miss is serious, no matter how courageous this servant is, I will not dare to do such a thing. After all, you and the eldest wife are both We meet every day. If I really did something that I shouldn’t do, who can I hide from? As for why your things are different from the second girl’s, although the eldest lady didn’t say it clearly, the servant girl guessed a thing or two. I don’t know. Will the third girl be willing to listen to the foolish opinion of the servant?"

Tanchun said with a cold face: "You just talk about it." His eyes were still full of dissatisfaction and hostility, obviously thinking that Xueyan was lying.

Xueyan didn't care much about her attitude, so she just smiled and said: "My servant reckons that only the second girl has the most things, and you and the fourth girl should have the same things. As for the reason? It's easy to guess, it's nothing more than It's just four words 'there is a difference between closeness and distance'."

As soon as these words came out, Tanchun, who was on the verge of rage, froze instantly, and his face turned pale.

Seeing this, Xueyan smiled lightly and said: "Of course, this is just a little knowledge of the servant, if the girl doesn't believe it, you can ask the eldest wife face to face, the servant is here anyway, so I can't run away."

She was respectful on the face, but there were still thorns in her words, which made Tanchun, who had always been proud and arrogant, a little dissatisfied, but she still couldn't say anything.After all, Xueyan was not her maid firstly, and secondly, this time it was the eldest wife's errand, so she couldn't be too tit-for-tat.

But after all, Tanchun is a "rose" with thorns all over his body, and he still can't help mocking Xueyan: "You often work for the eldest wife, and those who don't know think you are her old man's maid."

Xueyan replied calmly: "Miss, you can joke. The servant just happened to run a few times for the eldest lady, and you met him by accident. Fortunately, my girl didn't doubt my loyalty, otherwise the servant would have jumped into the Yellow River It can't be cleaned either."

After speaking, I found an excuse to say goodbye.

When she got out of Jiamu's yard, Xueyan still felt depressed. She didn't expect to get a reward if she gave something, but it's strange that she felt better when she was suspected and accused for no reason.

When she reached the gate of Zhuquanyuan, Xueyan took a few deep breaths, touched the pearl ring on her hand, and smiled a little.

When she got to the room, Mammy Liu had just finished her lecture, and she and Daiyu were sitting around a round table drinking tea and snacks.

Seeing her come back, Grandma Liu teased Daiyu with a smile: "Cao Cao Cao Cao is here, isn't he coming back?" Then she turned to Xue Yan and said, "Your girl is afraid that you will be wronged by the eldest wife, so she always misses you. "

Xue Yan's heart warmed up, after all, there are still people who care about her.She raised her smiling face and said, "Didn't the eldest lady send some servants away a while ago?"

?The new maids and mother-in-law have not been trained well, the eldest wife thinks that they don't know how to comb their hair, so she praised the maidservant for the beautiful bun she made, so she asked the maidservant to comb her hair into a bun and teach the little maidservants by the way. "

As he spoke, he offered the box in his hand to Daiyu: "The eldest lady asked her servants to bring it back to the girl. The girls in the mansion also have it. This is for you."

Daiyu opened the box with a smile, and Xueyan saw that there was a pair of silk bracelets more than Yingchun's, and there was a pair of pearl hairpins that were almost exactly the same as the one worn by Chen Xiaoxu in the [-] TV series. Mrs. Xing must also be a jade fan...

Zijuan next to him saw the pearl hairpin on Xueyan's head, and joked: "This hairpin on your head is not a new reward from the eldest wife, right? The eldest wife is really generous, and she rewards you twice every three days."

How could this sour tone be exactly the same as Tanchun's?

Xue Yan replied with a smile: "This time the hairpin is not for nothing, and the servant does not want to accept it. The eldest lady has arranged a very difficult job for the servant." Then she told Mrs. Xing's request.

Then he said helplessly: "The eldest lady said that apart from the girls, there are really not many literate maids in this mansion. She is embarrassed to disturb the powerful arms of the master like Miss Yuanyang and Sister Zijuan. It is nothing more than It's just that the servant is in charge of the girl's sewing and eating, and she has some free time, so she entrusts this job to the servant. The eldest lady said that she will discuss it with you in person tomorrow, and the servant sees that you have more jewelry than the second girl. , presumably this is to bribe you in advance."

When she said this, she lowered her posture so that Zijuan had nothing to say.The most important thing is that Daiyu replied very happily: "It seems that

It's really a good thing for a servant girl to be able to do it. It doesn't matter that Xueyan won the reward, even I, the master, can get more good things.You don't care about asking you to learn to recognize a few more words on weekdays, but now you regret it? "

"Regret, I'm so regretful. No, this time I have to follow Sister Xueyan to learn a few more words. This time, it's all right. If there are similar good things in the future, maybe it will be the turn of the slave." It's over." Cui Liu pouted.

The people around laughed, and Zhu Mei even pointed her nose and said, "You can pull it down, unless you practice ten years of dog crawling, will the eldest lady be able to catch it?" The maids all laughed.

Cui Liu thumped Zhu Mei's shoulder angrily, but Dai Yu comforted her with a straight face: "Don't be too discouraged, this word can be practiced if it's not good, if you want to, you can practice with Xueyan for two or three years." I can take it out."

Hearing this, Cui Liu stuck out her tongue: "The slave girl just said that, the girl should spare me. Sister Xueyan wakes up half an hour early every day to practice calligraphy. In the past, it was okay when the weather was warmer. It's getting colder, and the servants can't get up so early."

Madam Zheng squinted at her: "Look at how promising you are, and you want to find a good job but don't want to suffer. How can there be so many good things in the world? You only know the rewards that Xueyan gets, and you don't look at how much she has done behind her back." Kung fu! To do anything, talent is important, but if you don't put in hard work, it's hard to be great."

Nanny Liu also nodded in agreement: "That's very true."

The two nuns both spoke, Cui Liu and the others did not dare to refute, so they had to hold their breath to listen.

They just clicked a few sentences, whether they can listen to it or not depends on themselves.

To Xueyan's surprise, she got up early the next morning and put on her clothes. She was just about to go to the small kitchen to boil water. When she opened the door, she saw Cui Liu standing at the door with a big copper pot. When she saw her, she showed a smile. giggle.