Chapter 17 Blackmail 3

"It's cold here. Let the third lady go in and see the snow. You can take this stove first, and I'll get it for the fifth lady!" Yin Hua enthusiastically stuffed a half-old red copper hand stove into Li Yunshang's arms, and then took another hand stove for Li Tian.

"The third sister came here to see the snow. I have walked through this yard several times, and it's the best place to see the snow here." Li Tian waved across the yard. Li Yunshang held a warm hand stove and suddenly felt much better. She turned along the porch and stood beside Li Tian. She looked up for a moment, and suddenly said, "I've been looking at the snow. Auntie asked you to go there and said that it was about cutting New Year's clothes."

"Then let's go there quickly." Li Tian smiled quickly. Li Yunshang shook her head and smiled and said, "I came to practice the piano with Mr. Shui. My mother asked me to bring a word by the way. She won't send the little girl away in such heavy snow. Go quickly."

Li Tian frowned slightly and asked her to go alone. What's the matter with this? People like Yongguo Mansion have rules and regulations for everything. They don't know what will happen again. Li Tian sighed secretly, changed a gray-and-cloth silk cotton cloak, took Mother Xiong and Qingzhi, and went out to the council hall.

In the council chamber, Mrs. Yang sat on the front couch. Her daughter-in-law Zhou stood in the corner of the left couch. The second wife Xu and the third wife Liu sat side by side in the left armchair. Li Tian came in and went to the cloak and handed it to Qingzhi. Mrs. Xu looked up and down at Li Tian up and down prescrupulously. Mrs. Liu looked at her eyes with inquiry. Non-stop, Mrs. Yang glanced at Xu and Liu with disgust, and then glanced at Li Tian with more disgust. Zhou greeted Li Tian with her eyes, subconsciously glanced at her mother-in-law and lowered her head again.

Li Tian saluted and stood on the right side of the bed with his hands down.

"Sit down." Mrs. Yang's voice was undisguised bored. Li Tian bowed her knees slightly and sat respectfully in the middle chair on the right.

"Yo! Is this the rule of the old lady of Ningyuan Houfu? Do you still have our elders in your eyes? Ah? If you don't come, if you don't come, it's good to come. If there is no gift, will you sit down with a golden knife? Which company has the rule for juniors to sit in front of their elders? Is there any filial piety? The eldest daughter-in-law is still standing!" The second wife, Xu, stared at Li Tian and said meanly. Li Tian glanced at her blankly and turned to look at Mrs. Yang, but Mrs. Yang picked up the cup and drank tea with her eyelids down!

"I don't understand what the second aunt said. My surname is Li, and I am the eldest daughter of the fourth room of the Duke of Yongguo Mansion. What does the rules of the old lady of Ningyuan Marquis's mansion mentioned by the second aunt have anything to do with our family? Is my second aunt waiting for me? I don't know which mother-in-law sent to summon her niece? Qingzhi, go back and check our yard first. If you find such things that bully the Lord, you can directly beat the board and sell them! If it hadn't been for our yard, you would have reported to your aunt that there would never have been such a bully slave in the house. Li Tian's voice is soft and peaceful, but her words are like a sharp knife.

Qingzhi simply answered. It was Li Yunshang, the third lady, who sent the message. Mrs. Yang's face turned green. She put down the cup heavily and shouted, "Okay!" Li Tian closed her mouth in response. At this moment, she didn't want to provoke any more right and wrong. Zhou looked at Li Tian in surprise and glanced at her mother-in-law's green face. Her eyebrows moved excitedly, and she hurriedly lowered her head with restrained her breath.

The third wife Liu looked at Xu gloatingly, and Xu kept patting the table angrily: "It's reversed! Are there any elders in this eye? Ah? Is there anything else?"

"Respect yourself!" This time, Mrs. Yang blocked Xu back without waiting for Li Tian to speak: "Ok, there is still business!"

The second wife Xu was still a little afraid of Mrs. Yang and didn't dare to make any more noise. She just fired the knife at Li Tian fiercely.

"I called you to talk about the New Year's clothes," Mrs. Yang simply said bluntly: "Our house is not as rich and noble as your grandmother. The clothes of these four seasons are regular. Now the girls in your courtyard are more than twice as many as those of their sisters, not to mention the use of firewood and charcoal, but the clothes of these four seasons In this way, it is difficult for me to convince the public.

Li Tian raised her eyebrows and thought about what she was about to say. The third wife Liu smiled and said, "If you don't want such a big shop, you don't want it. Your sister-in-law still talks about a few clothes, and she is not afraid of other people's jokes."

"Eat the inside and outside, take the Li family's bowl, eat the Li family's rice, and give the shop to others!" As soon as Mrs. Xu heard this, she was angry and simply jumped her feet and scolded. Zhou looked at Li Tian sympathetically. Li Tian turned her head and looked at Mrs. Liu San and said with sudden concern: "It is said that the Sifang Hall will reconve the house and prepare to receive envoys for the New Year from tomorrow. I heard that the third uncle received a special envoy. This is approaching the New Year. It's really hard. Mother."

Mrs. Liu San was stunned: "The fifth sister also knows that she cares about your third uncle."

"Mother Xiong has a distant nephew who is also working in the Sifang Hall. He happened to be in class with his third uncle and heard what he said about this." Li Tian met Liu's eyes, but there was a faint chill in her soft tone. In the past few months, the Sifang Hall has given rewards and private points. One person has sent two or three hundred taels of silver. All these silvers have been hidden in private without saying a word.

Mrs Liu San's face changed slightly. She subconsciously glanced at Mrs. Yang, laughed a few times, turned her head out, and refused to say a polite answer. Zhou looked at Li Tian in surprise and Mrs. Liu San, and secretly made up his mind.

Mrs Yang was still sad about Li Tian's compensation for the shop, but she didn't notice Mrs. Liu San's sudden retreat. Mrs. Xu Er cursed happily and didn't even hear what Li Tian said clearly.

Li Tian saw that Mrs. Liu San turned her head and closed her mouth, looking for Mrs. Xu's words. She looked at Mrs. Yang and said, "These people are left to me by my grandmother's love. If I want to cut them, I can't give up any of them. But if I don't cut them, it will embarrass my aunt. There are rules in the house, and my aunt loves me again. , can't break the rules, or, this is the same as the monthly routine, all according to the regulations in the house. When the sisters' yard has four seasons of clothes a year, my aunt sent the silk thread to my yard and asked them to piece together and cut their own clothes.

Mrs Yang stared at Li Tian fiercely. She took a fancy to Li Tian's maids, which was hundreds of times better than Li Yunshang's girl. She wanted to wait for her to open the seams and ask for Li Yunshang to use it close to her body for two years, and it would be a rare arm to get married in the future. This girl doesn't take people's eyes! Mrs. Yang suddenly became angry and turned her head to look at Mrs. Xu Er and asked, "Didn't you just say something? Say it quickly if you have something to say."

Mrs. Xu Er shouted and scolded happily. She felt comfortable. After listening to Mrs. Yang's words, she was stunned for a moment before she reacting. She raised her hand and lit Li Tian and said, "I heard that there is a woman surnamed Shui in your yard who can play the piano and ask her to come and serve your fourth sister. Your fourth sister wants A woman who can play the piano followed.

Li Tian didn't look at Mrs. Xu. She only tilted her head and stared at Mrs. Yang for a long time. The smile on her face could not tell whether it was sarcastic or funny: "Mr. Shui was originally a piano worship in the palace. When I was a child, she taught me the piano for several years. My grandmother asked me to worship her as an elder for the rest of my life. Since my aunt wanted to ask her sister in the palace to teach her. It's also a good thing for my sister to play the piano, but I have to talk about Shuxuan first. Mr. Shui's Shuxuan is a little more expensive than other offerings. Each person has 5,000 taels of silver a year. When my aunt prepares the silver, I will ask Mr. Shui again.

Mrs Yang's face suddenly turned red, and Li Tian's fingers kept shaking.

"Bah! Do you mean offering is offering? What kind of thing do you think you are? You didn't rob money like that!" Mrs. Xu began to jump and scold again. Li Tian frowned boredly. She hated such a shrew who could only swear. One day, she rushed to no one and had to let Yue Niang stuff her mouth of horse dung!

"My aunt is busy now, so I won't bother my aunt much, and my niece has left." Li Tian simply got up and bent her knees to leave. Zhou looked at Li Tian warmly and respectfully and moved back and forth excitedly. This fifth sister is so attractive! Is her offering so valuable? This slapped mother-in-law has to be angry for ten days and a half months! What does it mean that she said to Mrs. Third? Why is the third wife afraid of becoming like that? This is an important matter. You have to inquire about it quickly.

Li Tian came out and walked a long way before she sighed. Mother Xiong looked at Li Tian and said, "Don't be like them. Alas, how did this Yongguo Mansion become like this?"

"Well, how can you pay attention to these little things? M Mother asked someone to prepare the car. I have to go to Fanlou. It's time to move outside. Li Tian ordered as she walked to Qingtongyuan. Mother Xiong agreed and went straight out from the side door to call a car. Li Tian returned to Qingtongyuan to change her clothes and took Yue Niang into the car to Fanlou.

Zhou came out of Mrs. Yang's room very late. She quickly picked it up with Mother Xiao and handed her a hand stove to her. Zhou held the hand stove and asked curiously, "Have you found out?"

"Well," Mama Xiao looked with a smile on her face. She looked left and right and whispered to the Zhou family, "I found Mother Bear beside the Fifth Lady. Mother Xiong is really good and very cheerful. She told me in 1510. It's the same thing. Grandma has to keep her mouth. Don't let your wife know about this."

"I know, say it quickly!"

"M Mother Xiong's distant nephew is in the same class as our third master in the Sifang Hall. He said that in the past few months, he has been rewarded with profits, and one person has got two or three hundred taels of silver!"

"So much?! I haven't paid a penny for the three rooms!"

"I still handed it in, not to mention the money, they didn't even miss a word!" Mother Xiao curled her lips and said, "In this house, there are really few fools!"

"Hmm!" Zhou bit his lips and walked slowly, but his mind turned quickly.