What does this mean? How could people like Mother Su not understand it?
"Zhang Zui." The smile on her face suddenly disappeared, and she raised her thin eyebrows and said.
The women immediately knelt down, and both those who had just spoken and those who were watching the fun began to slap themselves in the face, and the crackling sounds were messy but clear.
"Mother Su, this is not good. It was originally my fault. As the saying goes, those who don't know are not to blame. Such a punishment seems to make me care about everything." Qi Yue said with a smile.
"Stop it." Su's mother said again, with a guilty look on her face, "I don't recognize the young lady. It seems that her old eyes are too dim to be used anymore. You guys are leaving here today. You are not allowed to step into the inner courtyard in the future."
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This was worse than a slap in the face. Several women immediately cried, begged, kowtowed, and were driven out of the inner courtyard. This would have cut off the family's livelihood.
"Mother Su is too serious." Qi Yue said with a smile, "Don't be like this. We all have families, businesses, old and young, and the tiger is still taking a nap. It is inevitable for people to be negligent. I have also beaten and trained you.
Mother Su, please spare them for my sake."
"Young Madam is so magnanimous." Mother Su sighed, while glaring at the women, "Why don't you thank Young Madam quickly, you are so short-sighted."
The women knelt and kowtowed to Qi Yue to express their thanks.
"Then I'll leave first. Mother Su, go get busy." Qi Yue asked them to get up and said to Mother Su with a smile.
Su's mother immediately followed her. It wasn't until Qi Yue said she would stay and walked away with the girl Ah Hao, waving her fan and smiling, that she stood up straight, the smile on her face completely gone.
"Get up." She looked at the women still kneeling there and said.
The women all got up in a hurry, and one of them wanted to complain.
"Okay, I'm not deaf yet, I heard everything." Mother Su glanced at her and said calmly, "If you don't have the guts, don't say such arrogant words..."
The women lowered their heads to listen to her, and no one dared to speak.
"Go down." Su's mother stopped talking and waved her hand with a bit of impatience.
The women stood up and hurriedly backed away without daring to say a word.
"It turns out that Sister Zhou is not dazzled." Su's mother looked up again and looked at the direction where Qi Yue was leaving. The master and servant could no longer be seen there. She murmured, her eyes slightly condensed, "Today's side said
There are more than the total number of people in the past five years, and to put it this way, it seems that the young lady’s illness is about to be cured..."
She pondered for a moment, then stretched out her hand to lightly lick her hair.
"Let's see if the eldest lady has finished her meal. Is the Marquis still in the house or has he gone to the study?" Su's mother turned around and said.
The little girl behind him left in response.
Qi Yue didn't care what Su's mother thought. She was thinking about what happened just now, and asked Ah Hao some rules, which she found quite interesting.
"...According to what you said, besides the eldest lady, I have the highest status in this mansion?" she asked with a smile.
Although the women just now could not hide their contempt for her, they knelt down when asked and did not dare to fight back when she was beaten. They kowtowed to apologize and thanked her and so on. They did not care about looking down on her in their hearts, but they still followed the rules in their actions. This
It's really a bit contradictory. Could it be that this is the inertia of status in ancient times?
"Young Madam, do you still need to ask?" Ah Hao looked at her and said, feeling that the question was too silly, "You are the Young Madam, the Crown Prince is going to be a nobleman, so naturally you are the Marquis's wife, from the Dingxi Marquis' Mansion.
Owner."
"What about ladies, young masters, etc..." Qi Yue asked again.
"You are the eldest sister-in-law." Ah Hao couldn't help but want to roll her eyes.
A sister-in-law is like a mother. Qi Yue made two clear statements, waving her little fan and smiling.
"So in this inner courtyard, I am the second in command?" She said to herself, "But the second in command has always been in an awkward position, and it is not a good position... Then I have to ask Mother Su for help when I go out.
Cards?”
She thought of something and asked again.
"Of course not." Ah Hao said, somewhat dumbfounded, "Just tell the eldest lady, how can a servant dare to interfere with your going out."
"Madam?" Qi Yue frowned and nodded without saying anything.
After entering the courtyard, the two of them were still a little uneasy, thinking about Aru.
"...Aru's parents died two years ago, and they only have one younger brother. The family rented a house in a back alley outside the house. They said that even though they couldn't see Sister Aru all the time, it felt better to be closer to her. In the past,
Following the old lady, the old lady thought that she had been sold since she was a child. Finally, her family was not that kind of person who forgot her flesh and blood after selling her daughter. She was allowed to go out during the holidays, but since we moved into Qiutong Courtyard, Sister Aru
It would be difficult to go out. When my parents died, if I hadn't begged the eldest lady for the last time, I might not have even seen her for the last time..." Ah Hao sat on the small machine and said.
Qi Yue sighed, thought for a moment, and stood up.
"Let's go check on her and see if there's anything we can do to help," she said.
Ah Hao was just thinking about going, when he heard this and stood up in surprise.
"However, I'd better go by myself. Young Madam, you have a precious body..." She shook her head again.
A body worth more than gold? Why should a beggar girl be worth more? Qi Yue couldn't help but laugh.
"After all, you are a family of children. What's the use if something happens? Besides, I'm a doctor... I'm your master, your parent. I don't care who cares." She said in her mouth, made up her mind, and turned around.
I carried a medical kit in the house and left immediately.
Ah Hao had no choice but to lead the way.
"You have to go and tell the eldest lady first..." she reminded.
I wonder what will happen if I meet this Madam Marquis...
Judging from the fragmentary information obtained these days, I am afraid that "my" mother-in-law does not like her very much...
Qi Yue's thoughts were complicated and a little curious, but what happened was beyond her expectation. She didn't even enter her mother-in-law's courtyard. Standing at the door to greet her was Mama Su, whom she had just met.
"The Marquis is taking a nap inside. Madam, why don't you come back later. If you have anything to say, please tell me. Madam, please stop working and walk back and forth." Mother Su said with a smile.
Qi Yue couldn't get what she asked for and breathed a sigh of relief.
"A'ru has been with me for so many years, but I still feel uneasy. I'll go take a look. It's not far away. It's in our back alley. I'll come back as soon as I go." She said with a smile.
"Hey, how did that girl Aru get the good fortune to receive this? The young lady is going to kill her." Su's mother said hurriedly.
Qi Yue just smiled.
"Mom, please reply to the eldest lady for me." She said, but she didn't answer or say another word.
Mother Su was slightly startled. She was the master and she was a servant. She could talk to the eldest lady about the affair, but there was no need to say more to herself. She just dismissed it with one sentence...
"I need a few people at the door to follow..." She smiled and nodded, feeling mixed in her heart. Since Mrs. Hou left, she has become accustomed to having only one master in this house. She enjoys the flattery of the maids and women. Uncle
She was so used to the polite treatment of young masters and ladies that she forgot that there was actually a woman in this house who could talk to her in such a rude manner...
Qi Yue, who had already turned around, shook her fan with a small fan without looking back, indicating that she didn't need to.
Mother Su stood looking at her back for a moment, then turned around and went in.
Rongan Courtyard was quiet, and the little girls standing in the corridor had sleepy eyes, but they did not dare to close them at all.
Mother Su lifted the curtain herself and went in.
There was no Marquis in the room, only Ms. Xie was kneeling in front of a small Buddha statue and chanting sutras, and a big girl beside her was burning incense.
Mother Su stood and waited until Mr. Xie put down the beads, and she immediately stepped forward to help him.
"It's pretty fast. Within a few days of beating chickens and scolding dogs, I started walking around the streets." Ms. Xie sat down on the big kang nearby, took a sip of the tea brought by the girl, and said lightly, "Let's
She can go wherever she likes, and let's see what tricks she can come up with."
Mother Su responded yes.
"The Marquis left the study and met Aunt Zhou's little girl on the way. He didn't know what he said and went to Aunt Zhou's place," she said.
Mr. Xie sneered.
"Look, are you starting to dance?" she said, putting down the tea in her hand, "Didn't Aunt Zhu want to promote that girl in the room? Go and tell her to give that girl some face."
Mother Su responded yes.
Mr. Xie leaned on the pillow and exhaled.
"How can one person be enough? The more people there are, the more people can sing. The singing will be lively." She said slowly and closed her eyes.
Mother Su and the girl helped her take off her shoes, helped her lie down and tiptoed out.
Here, Qi Yue and Ah Hao's master and servant did not go back, but walked straight through two or three courtyards to the back door. There were three or four women sitting at the door talking and laughing.
"Which courtyard does the girl belong to? Who ordered her to go out? What are she doing when she goes out?" the mother-in-law asked lazily.
"From Qiutongyuan," Ah Hao said, handing over Qi Yue's pair of cards.
"This is wrong, it's not the right card from Mother Su's side..." The mother-in-law was illiterate and could only recognize colors, "Where does this color come from?"
The woman next to me came over.
"Purple...Oh my mother..." She shouted, staring at Ah Hao and Qi Yue, and finally her eyes fell on Qi Yue.
The woman in front of her has high sideburns and is wearing a light yellow floral gauze dress and a long white skirt. She has a graceful figure.
Qi Yue smiled at her.
"Ma'am...Mrs..?" The mother-in-law's eyes widened in disbelief.
Qi Yue nodded with a smile.
"I'm going out. My girl A'ru's family is not very well. Just now, Su's mother has taken a pair of cards and sent them out. I'm not worried. After dinner, everything is fine, so I'll take a look." She said.
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The four women in front of them were still in a daze.
"Maybe he left?" Ah Hao asked.
"Yes, yes, Madam, please go ahead and call a car for you..." The ladies turned around and opened the door, talking in a flurry of words.
"No, it's just in the back alley, just a few steps away." Qi Yue smiled and walked out the door.
Watching the master and servant go out, the ladies looked at each other for a moment.
"Oh my god, the young lady actually went out..."
"I really came back to life..."
"Look at your complexion, it's even better than before..."
"After drinking Meng Po soup, the old lady personally sent it back. Isn't it a ghost fairy?"
"Then the young lady wants to run the house for the old lady?" (To be continued)
