The Lady of the Farm in the Red Mansion

That Mrs. Liu was a shrewd person. When she heard that Sister Feng was going to eat in the side hall of Zhuijin Building, she picked out two dishes that she was going to send to Xiuyan, and added a bowl of small meat and a bowl of meat. Da Huan greeted the old woman to send it.

After sending them off, a young woman who was arranging vegetables approached Sister-in-law Liu and complained: "Nowadays, the price of vegetables is getting more and more expensive every day. Let's take this jerk as an example. Now it has risen to five cents a piece." It's just that there are not enough decent eggs, they can only be used as toppings, and now there is such a person added out of thin air, the food of the serious master can't be reduced, and the boss doesn't give us any more, this life in the kitchen is really real Every day is worse than every day!"

"Keep your voice down, don't let other people listen to it, it doesn't matter if you add this one, I have my own reasons, and I won't hurt your interests!" So the woman quietly retreated.

After a while, someone came to reward Sister-in-law Liu with a string of money and said: "Grandma said that the lunch at noon is very appetizing, and this string of money is for you to buy wine!"

Sister-in-law Liu is very grateful, and after the man left, everyone gathered around to congratulate Sister-in-law Liu, and Sister-in-law Liu said triumphantly: "This is called watching people order dishes. If I hadn't replaced the meal in time, I wouldn't have rewarded you." It’s a board game, you all learn a little bit!”

So he pinned the bunch of money in his waist, not at all intending to buy wine for everyone, everyone was unhappy, whispering to each other, whispering timidly, Sister-in-law Liu said: "You don't know the difficulty of this kitchen, and now it's added A mouthful of people, seeing that Ming'er's jerk eggs are short again, but the old lady likes to eat steamed jerk eggs again recently, the string of money rewarded by **milk is just enough for me to buy fifty more jerk eggs as toppings, what? And that spare money for drinking and eating!"

Who doesn't know about Liu's sister-in-law and her cousin and niece stealing dogs in private, it's just that everyone can't hold the evidence of her two crimes and it's not easy to explode.

In the afternoon, Mrs. Hu went back to the inn to discuss with her husband, Xing Zhong, about the property purchase.

After dinner, Xiuyan wanted to take a bath, but she was a newcomer, and the way was blocked, and the little girl was also newly bought, so she must have no idea, so Xiuyan went to ask Nanny Zhou, and she saw that Nanny Zhou was lying on the tree. On the rocking chair under the big elm tree, she was rocking while eating melon seeds. The afterglow of the setting sun shone on her slightly fat cheeks, revealing a trace of cautious seriousness.

Xiuyan moved a bit, stepped forward, and called softly, "Nurse Zhou!"

Nanny Zhou didn't seem to hear it, she still closed her eyes and meditated, Xiuyan called out softly again, and Nanny Zhou couldn't help but said: "I'm not deaf, I heard it! Tell me something!"

"Nurse Zhou, where is the tea room? It's hot and I'm sweating profusely. I want to fetch water for a bath!"

Nanny Zhou smiled coldly and said: "The tea room is next to the kitchen. Our place is far away from the kitchen. It's getting late now. I'm afraid it will be dark if I walk halfway and come back before I have time. Let me point out some Dao'er, I'm afraid the girl doesn't have the guts to go, and the little girl beside you is probably even more useless!"

Nanny Zhou stared at the little girl with frighteningly sharp eyes. Xiuyan saw the little girl holding her clothes and shrinking behind her. She didn't look like a little girl who was ordered around, but she was clearly a little sister who wanted someone to protect her. However, Xiuyan didn't intend to order her around. The courtyard at the back of the Zhuijin Building was already deserted, and it would be more lively if there was one more person to accompany her. A little stuck.

Xiuyan took the little girl's hand and said, "I'll go with her, so I won't be afraid if I have a companion on the way!"

Nanny Zhou didn't bother to care about them, she continued to rock her chair happily, pointed to a dark stone alleyway and said casually: "Go to Luogang from the narrow alley over there, turn right through Luogang, and go straight for a while Go to the Fengyao Bridge, go up the bridge, and then go to the Zhulan Banqiao area. When you reach the Hengwuyuan area, go through the back of Hengwuyuan until you walk to the north gate. You can almost see a board room, which is tea. room!"

At this moment, the little girl couldn't count with her fingers, her brows were wrinkled like a hill, but Xiuyan remembered it, and she took the little girl's hand and left.

"It's not easy to walk in that area, be careful of slipping and falling into the pool! This black light can fall down without a trace!" Nanny Zhou kindly reminded.

When they walked to Luogang, they felt that it was gloomy, the water was murmuring below, the harbor was wet and slippery, the master and servant had to entangle each other to make it through, and then there was a flat land, they took advantage of the daylight, He ran over quickly, got on the Fengyao Bridge, walked across the Zhulan Banqiao, and came to a courtyard, the gate was closed, and he couldn't see the scene inside through a white wall, only smelling the strange grass fairy The scent of vines.

Xiuyan heard from Sister Feng that this Hengwu Courtyard was the residence of Xue Baochai, Mrs. Wang's niece and aunt. Because their family had gone back to their hometown in Suzhou, the place was vacant and no one lived there.

Xiuyan and the others only watched for a while, then passed through the back of the house, and when they came to the north gate, they saw a blue-gray board room. They rushed up, but saw an old woman on crutches dropping a key. Yandao: "Mommy, let's fetch hot water!"

The old lady raised her eyebrows and said, "Which girl are you from? I don't think I've seen them before!"

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Before Xiuyan could finish speaking, the old woman hurriedly said: "I don't care which house you are from, it's already past the time for serving tea, if you want hot water, it will be early tomorrow!" As soon as they were hung up, the iron chain rattled, and Xiuyan and the others were so frightened by that posture that they backed up a few steps.

Then the old woman continued to chase people away: "Old woman, I have bad eyesight, please clear it up for me. My crutches don't have eyes, so poke your feet and think you're unlucky. We're stuck guarding this boiler for 24 hours, and every little bastard just wants to keep himself clean, and doesn't understand us old women with missing legs and blind eyes!" The old woman leaned on the bluestone slab on the ground with iron crutches while scolding!

"Hey! Sister-in-law Li, who are you scolding? I heard your old man getting angry from all the way!" Two girls in brightly dressed women came over carrying a big wooden barrel.

Sister-in-law Li knew that it was Qiu Wen and Bi Hen who were coming just by hearing the sound, so she rushed to meet her, her eyesight and legs were not limping, and she said with a smile: "You two girls are here to carry water at such a late hour! "

"Who says it's not? Our Niu Xin's father insisted on taking a bath at the moment. We all persuaded that the key to the tea room may have been unlocked at the moment, but he insisted on the two of us coming and taking a look. No, the two of us Hurry up and finally come here, and I heard Aunt Li scolding people from a distance, so she must be scolding us!"

"Miss, you didn't hear me right. It's not like you don't know that I'm the most easy-going character!"

"It must be that ignorant little girl who made Aunt Li angry."

"Who says it's not? When you meet two people who carry water without a bucket, think that I'm from a philanthropic hall. The former second girl's girl plays chess and doesn't carry a bucket when she comes to fetch water. I can't afford to offend her." Yes, I borrowed a bucket from her, and I haven't returned it yet. I always think about that bucket in my heart, and want to send someone to get it back, but I'm afraid of her temper, so I can only wait for her diary When I got up, I sent it back! I haven’t settled down in my heart for the past few days, I don’t want this little girl to follow suit, I just taught them a few words, and I never scolded anyone!”

Xiuyan's little girl opened her mouth to reveal their identities, but Xiuyan gently shook her head at her, and the little girl didn't say anything.

When Bihen Qiuwen heard this, she almost couldn't hold back her laughter, Qiuwen said: "Isn't it just a bucket? It's too much for Sister-in-law Liu to be so concerned about it! I'll go get it back for you in a few days." Already!"

"If that's the case, then the girl is really the old woman's reborn parents. The old woman has nothing to repay her, so she can only kowtow to the girl here!"

Qiuwen Bihen finally couldn't hold it anymore, hugging each other and laughing so hard that she couldn't straighten her waist, her stomach hurt from laughing, and finally Bihen supported her waist and said: "Oh, I can't laugh anymore, if sister-in-law really wants to repay I'll trouble my sister-in-law to reopen the door, let us fetch water and go back so we can do business with our ox-hearted master!"

"It's true that the hot water is gone, but since the girl has opened her mouth, my wife, I will turn on the stove again to boil the water for the girl alone!" As he spoke, he quickly opened the door and heated the water again, fanning the fire while saying "It's hot in this room, the two girls sit outside the door, it will be ready in a while!" Qiuwen Muskyue only glanced at Xiuyan and the others, and then sat on the wooden bench at the side to play with grass.

The little girl wanted to speak out again, Xiuyan took her hand and said softly: "Let's go back!"