Chapter 7 Yu Ze

Li Tian hurriedly nodded and motioned to bring her in. Yuye stepped forward to open the curtain. Hu San's daughter-in-law's indigo dress, and there was no bright color on her head. When she entered the door, she fell to the ground and kowtowed several times. Mother Xiong waited for her to kowtow her head and hurried forward to help her up. Li Tian's upper body leaned forward slightly and said politely, "Mama, you're welcome. Just now the porridge was extremely good. OK, M Mother, it's troublesome."

"As long as the five ladies like it, as long as they like it!" Hu's third daughter-in-law rubbed her hands on the apron and bowed nervously and restrained repeatedly: "I heard that the fifth lady is back. I am very happy, old lady... I heard that the old lady was gone that morning, maidservant..." Hu third daughter-in-in-law picked up the apron and wanted to wipe the tears on her face. The apron was not so long, so she had to pull her long sleeves and put it on her face. He wiped horizontally and vertically: "The maidservant thought of kowtowing in front of the old lady's spirit. The maidservant is a bitch and dare not go. The whole family kowtowed in the yard and made paper for the old lady. They knew that the old lady did not like this, but the maidservant...servant...servant..." Hu's third daughter-in-law couldn't go on crying.

Li Tian was sad. Hu's third daughter-in-law was an old man in her grandmother's hands. She was honest, hard-working, and made good dishes. A few years ago, her child bled heavily. It was her grandmother who sent someone to invite for her and sent her ten taels of silver and two 50-year-old ginseng to her. Then she was pulled back from the ghost door. My grandmother took good care of the old man used by my grandmother.

"Your mother-in-law and I both know that it is normal to live, old, sick and die. Grandma walks peacefully, and there is no need to be sad." Li Tian persuaded in a low voice. Mother Xiong pulled out her veil and handed it to Hu's daughter-in-law and advised, "Don't cry. If you cry again, the fifth lady can't stand it." Hu's third daughter-in-law nodded repeatedly, sobbed a few times, and choked for a while before saying: "What does the fifth lady want to eat... Just tell me that I will go to the East City to buy clams at dawn, and..."

"Can't do this!" Li Tian quickly waved his hand. This is the Duke of Yongguo Mansion. If Mrs. Yang knew, she would not be sad. She was afraid that Hu's daughter-in-law would be in security. Li Tian looked at Mother Xiong. Mother Xiong lowered her eyes and motioned to know. She took Hu San's daughter-in-law out and turned out of the flower door. Then she whispered, "You are a real person. , your intention, the fifth lady is clear, but now the Duke of this house is the eldest master, and the wife is the eldest lady, who was it at that time? You have to hide your heart. There is naturally an example on the tea and rice in Qingtongyuan. Don't go beyond the rules, just quietly make the five women's food clean, salty and delicious.

Hu's third daughter-in-law is not stupid. She understood it at a little and nodded quickly and said, "Thank you for your advice. I know. Don't worry, I'll cook the fifth lady's food by myself. It's clean and delicious. It's guaranteed." Mother Xiong showed a gentle smile and stuffed a purse from her sleeve into Hu's third daughter-in-law's hand and said, "This is a reward from the fifth lady. Take it back and buy candy for the child. Do you and the fifth lady still want to be polite? Take it. If anything happens, go to Ma Dalang's house in the back street to find Mother Wen.

"Mother Wen is back?" Hu's third daughter-in-law was surprised. Mother Xiong led Hu's daughter-in-law out and replied, "I'm back, and I will stay at my eldest son's house in the future."

Mother Xiong and Hu San's daughter-in-law went out of the door. Li Tian stood up and stretched her arm and asked, "Has Yue Niang come back?"

"I came back a long time ago." Without waiting for Qingzhi to reply, Yue Niang answered by herself and came out of the curtain from the east wing. Yue Niang was thirty-four or 45 years old. Her eyes were extremely bright and as straight as a white poplar. Without waiting for Li Tian to ask, she said first, "It has been arranged. The easternmost room of the Dizang Hall has been rented on the side of Fayun Temple, and there is a corner door next to it. From the corner door to the yard, she will walk. A quarter of an hour, your little step is slow, and you have to walk for a quarter of an hour.

"Do you sleep in the east wing?" Li Tian walked to the door of the east wing, raised the curtain and looked at it and asked. Yue Niang said, "This yard is so good that it has been empty for many years. Really, I don't know how many battles you have fought in this capital. Where has no one died?"

"It's all as you know, how can it be cheaper for us?"

"That's right," Yue Niang dusted her skirt and said, "Qiu Niang lives in the east cross courtyard in front of me. I'm going to look for Qiu Niang to talk. I've seen this yard before and after. Don't worry about it."

Mother Xiong came in to meet Yue Niang, let Yue Niang sideways, followed Li Tian into the west wing, sat on the kang sideways, and whispered, "Mother Wen came back yesterday afternoon. She has seen three or four people. Don't worry, the fifth lady."

"Well," Li Tian answered. Mother Wen is the son of the Duke of Yongguo Mansion and the most useful wife of Mrs. Ning before her death. Before Mrs. Ning died, she sent her family to Mrs. Lin. Mrs. Mrs. Lin was removed from her family, wrote a letter of refuge, and changed from her family to Li. Tian's righteous servant, Mother Wen's two sons first learned to do business outside, and now they are in charge of several small businesses done by Li Tian in private. Mother Wen received money from Mrs. Lin and secretly took care of the old man used by Mrs. Ning.

"Has the lady sent someone here?" Li Tian turned the topic and asked, and Mother Xiong curled her lips: "Since we came in, except for a few probes to peek, no one has seen a thread. Alas, the Duke of Yongguo also counted people in the capital in those years. How did they fail to this? Look at this, it's not as good as that small family.

"This is better. You don't know the situation in this house. Grandma... How cruel her hand is, so she left an empty shelf. Over the years, it has not been easy for her to support this family with a dowry. In addition to drinking, the eldest uncle knows how to cause trouble all day long in the second and third room, and one of them is patronizes money to his small family. It's okay to stand on the bank and watch the bustle, but we'd better catch fire from time to time. We'd better not break the river with them. When we get married next year, we can just leave a face with each other.

"That's true," Mother Xiong responded cheerfully, "Let's only keep this acre of land. You've been tired for three or four days. Take a rest quickly." With that, he stood up and asked Yingluo and others to come in and wait for Li Tian to clean up.

Li Tiantong changed her hair and changed her clothes. As soon as she was crooked in **, Yingluo motioned Qingzhi and others to go out first. She sat sideways on the bed and asked in a low voice, "Five Lady, you asked me to go to the library last night, and I asked for those books today. No one has been arranged in that place... Do you want to hand in a letter? Or have you arranged it all?

"No," Li Tian looked at Yingluo with a slight smile in her eyes. Yingluo was the eldest daughter chosen by her grandmother. She was loyal, reliable, steady and careful, and had a good character. She often couldn't react to these little tricks, but her grandmother said that the eldest daughter of the head should be the best. She agreed with this very much.

"Do you also think there is any mystery in that library?"

"Five ladies never do useless things."

"Even you think there is a mystery in the library, so they should think so. If the silver tickets, land deeds and so on are sandwiched in books one by one..." Li Tian suddenly realized with a sarcastic smile at the corners of her mouth: "So that's right. Thousands of books in the library need to be turned over one by one... They have to be tired. What is it like?

"They are so tired that they don't have time to think about anything else. There are nearly 10,000 books in the library, which is enough for them to go to grandma's funeral day and night. We also have to take a breath. If you are tired these days, you can take a rest quickly." Li Tian ordered in a warm voice, and Yingluo answered, stood up to wait for Li Tian to sleep, turned off the light, put down the curtain and went out gently.

In the main courtyard of the Duke of Yongguo Mansion, Mrs. Yang, Zhou's waitress, used the meal and was planning to return to dinner with her husband. She only listened to Mrs. Yang's instructions and said, "Go and see if the flower list of the fifth sister has been sent."

Zhou had to answer and take the flower list sent by Mother Xiong and handed it up. Mrs. Yang stared at the list for a long time, twisted her eyebrows and nodded the list and shouted, "Four teaching grandmothers, two rough maids, two big girls and two little girls, twice as much as the third sister. She is so pompous. !” Zhou glanced at her and lowered his hand without saying a word.

Mrs. Yang raised the list with two fingers in front of her and stared intently. The evil woman emptied the Yongguo Mansion. If it hadn't been for her, the Yongguo Mansion would have been so far... Mrs. Yang raised her hand to hold the hateful chest and tried to breathe. How stage the Yongguo Mansion was in those years... When Yuerong married, she carried the dowry 40 They all wanted to cry loudly!

Zhou looked at her mother-in-law's angry face and pale, and paused for a moment before whispering, "Mother Xiong, who sent this list, said that since the fifth sister has returned, she has to follow the rules of our house. How many months are there in the third sister's yard and how many months there are in the fifth sister?"

"Is there only a monthly life? Fortunately, you are still from everyone. How much money is it every month? Seven things to open the door, which one is not money? Mrs. Yang scolded sharply. Zhou lowered her head and wrong teeth and didn't intend to speak again. Mrs. Yang said a lot of miscellaneous words. Seeing Zhou's wooden man, she waved her hand impatiently and said, "Ok, Dalang should have come back long ago. Why are you not going back to wait? What are you doing here?"

Zhou withdrew and turned several times in a row. Seeing that there was no one around, he crossed his waist with one hand and stroked his chest with one hand, gasping for breath.

"Grandma is patient. Which daughter-in-law didn't survive like this? In those years..." Mother Xiao, Zhou's wet nurse, softly advised.

"I know, I don't need your advice, I'm just a smooth breath." Zhou took several deep breaths and exhaled deeply. Thinking of what happened in the morning, she couldn't help but smile and said, "She ate other people's head in the morning and took it out on me. Let her go, and I'll take it as... that."

"As long as grandma understands." Mother Xiao was relieved. Zhou took a few deep breaths and muttered as she walked back and muttered, "I'm afraid. There are more than a dozen people in this family, and she is going to knock on me to take the dowry and silver to patch it. She took her dowry to patch it up, and I also admitted it. She wants me to take the silver, but there is no door!"

"Grandma is a sensible person. It's the same. Grandma can't give birth to uncle because of this."

"Don't worry," Zhou smiled sweetly: "If it hadn't been for him to treat me so well... Alas, as long as he treats me well, that old woman, I won't ignore her!"